the. bulk of data this is aussie and these are the weeks main stories. polling stations have closed and the vote counting has begun in syria's referendum on a new constitution which could put an end to fifty years of single party and there was reportedly a high turnout even though it was boycotted by the opposition and. thousands of people have joined in the chain of protests calling for fair elections in russia the activists formed a sixteen kilometer human ring around moscow city center a week before the country chooses its next president. and students and teachers

again march in anger of education cuts in spain as the euro crisis tightens its grip around the med but greece is breathing a sign of really the ulead is finally approved an eleventh hour bailout is to stable default so it's syrians have voted on their future america continues to pressure their sound regime metronet u.s. politician and former presidential advisor to be candid now tells us why he thinks washington should stay away. i. i'm sitting down with patrick buchanan senior adviser to presidents which are next in gerald ford and ronald reagan he ran for the presidency three times he wrote many books and some of his books have really manage seeing titles his latest book is called suicide of a superpower a will america survive to twenty twenty five very pessimistic sir first of all thank you very much for joining me thank you with regards to foreign policy you're

saying one of the ways to prevent that suicide from happening is to dismantle the empire first of all what do you mean by empire or you might call it the american imperium or the american empire. the united states has military bases dating back to the cold war in europe and asia the middle east africa all over the world and we're running a deficit of ten percent of our gross national product and quite frankly we can't afford any longer in my judgment to continue to carry this enormous burden of defending forty or fifty countries around the world and so i think we're going to have to dismantle these bases we're going to have to return back from asia come back from the middle east and south asia and i think we'll have to bring the troops home from europe you were writing and speaking out extensively about the bush era in iraq crusade under the banner of ending terror name in the world do you think

that crusade is still on or the idea that we're going to end tyranny in the world is utterly utopian we never are we've had tyrants from time immemorial and what the united states should do in my judgment in its foreign policies is build a defense establishment strong enough to protect our vital interests and our vital allies and when problems arise whether it's in zimbabwe or somewhere else the people there have got to deal with their own problems. there's no doubt about it that throughout history tyrants have arisen and seized power in one place or another and as long as they don't threaten our vital interests or threaten and kill our people the fact that they rule and or misrule certain countries is none of our business while some of bin laden successor said he supports the war against syria and al-qaeda was reportedly behind the four suicide bombings which killed scores of

syrian officials and soldiers seen damascus and aleppo aleppo doesn't it seem strange that the us is on the same side with the whole kiting syria row it is it does indeed listen the the outside government has been has been ruthless and brutal and suppressing the uprising and the insurgency against it not as brutal as this father was tough as saad who slaughtered twenty thousand people in hama in one nine hundred eighty two when they rose up and it would probably be a good thing if he departed and they had a more democratic government but your point is well taken united states should ask itself not only what is the character of this regime but first question should be do we have a vital interest in who rule syria my answer to that is no secondly if the incumbent government is overthrown who comes to power and syria you have the muslim

brotherhood is trying to overthrow assad you have al-qaeda apparently which is moving in trying to overthrow assad so we've got to ask ourselves is the devil we know preferable to the devil we don't know but in the syrian situation i think the very fact that al qaida has been involved apparently indeed for suicide attacks should tell us that we ought to be wary about overthrowing or. participating in a movement to overthrow assad before we know what's going to replace him as you said it's very hard to tell what's going to happen to syria if more radical forces seize power do you think the u.s. foreign policy might be helping terrorists indirectly i think the united states. american strategists would have to be fools not to see what al-qaeda is doing not

to ask the question if it's good for al qaeda can it be good for us not to look at saddam say he may be a ruthless dictator and what he's doing but what comes after him when he falls i think al qaeda does its best work or it works best when it finds a country that is fundamentally a failed state in yemen somalia afghanistan under the taliban and i think in those conditions that's where al qaida can plan and recruit far better than it can when you have a a regime which is a hard line regime running the situation whether it's secular or whether syria torn apart by civil war and that that's it seems like a good environment for that i think i think that seriously. syria is really a potential disaster in that we could have there a proxy war between the sunni and shia all over that region there already have

sunni coming in from iraq they already have al qaida in there apparently. you could have also a conflict ethnic conflict with the druze in there and the kurds in there as well as arabs and there i think this is why i'm against plunge putting weapons in and aiding the anti assad resistance because an all out war there could be a disaster which leaves a failed state in syria so what about this strategy that the u.s. is now pursuing putting pressure on assad alone. and not addressing the armed groups the fighting armed groups among the opposition as well well i think that's basically the united states has taken sides in this war we've taken sides there just like we've taken sides in libya what should or what should not the u.s. to hear in syria. my policy would if i were and if i were in the white house would

be by and large or a hands off syria in one of your articles you argue that the obama administration doesn't want to war with iran the pentagon u.s. intelligence community they're saying iran does not have a nuclear bomb and hasn't decided whether or not to build a nuclear bomb iran is obviously getting nothing from a war if nobody wants it then why the drums of war why are they so loud there are people that want to war. i mean i do not think no one wants a war you don't have wars unless someone wants it and quite clearly the israeli government would like to see the united states smash iran's nuclear program which they think is creating the conditions where iran could with one leap forward to get a bomb the israeli lobby in the united states would like to see a war they support is really the neoconservatives do many republicans do there are many americans who genuinely believe that if iran they believe iran is moving

toward a weapon and if it is they would favor military action to prevent it there are a number of people that want a war and if there are really vital threat coming from you i don't you see i don't know i don't look iran is not iraq i mean during the cold war with due respect soviet union had thousands of weapons they could have destroyed us in an afternoon and we could have done the same thing i was around during the cuban missile crisis that was genuinely term fine but iran doesn't frighten me and i don't think it should frighten the american people they don't have a bomb they don't have they haven't made a decision to bill one didn't have the means to deliver one and the israelis have three hundred atomic bombs i mean who presents the existential threat to home when else they would rise i visited one of my doctors and we were talking about i hope we don't have a war in iran but now they're talking about an intervention in syria and he said

thank god for the russians they've got some ships out there and the americans won't fool around with the russian ships so the russians are keeping us out and that's wonderful. that's one of my dr but you think that's that's what the american public thinks at the state leaves us out of the out of this it has a lot i don't think the americans that i don't think any american wants to intervene in syria they don't understand. anything about it iran though they got the ayatollah and they got a mounting a job and he will always help out the hawks with some insane statement every couple of months he's going to destroy somebody or other and then the americans say we have to get him what is the danger of such rhetoric the danger of such rhetoric is that it leads to another war in the middle east which i think would be a disaster for my country and i think it would be a disaster for the world economy and i think it be a disaster for the world you know i opposed desert storm back in one nine hundred

ninety one i opposed even going in and clean and said i'm hussein out of kuwait because i said this will only be the first arab american war and i was right i mean if you talk about islamic wars you had the war desert storm you had the war against afghanistan that got the war in iraq the war in libya now they're talking about syria now they're talking about iran. of what benefit has this been to the united states when you see where we were in one thousand nine hundred and where we are today and where china was in one thousand nine hundred and where china is today i am going into any of these countries haven't invaded anybody and they're moving upward as brazil and as our india and what do we do one in all these places i don't think we can you can't replicate the middle west in the middle east. thank you thank you.

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and don't solely. on the bottom of a coffee shop want. polling stations have closed and vote counting has begun in syria's referendum on a new constitution which could put an end to fifty years of single policy route and there was reportedly a high turnout even though it was boycotted by the opposition. thousands of people have joined hands in a chain of protests calling for elections in russia the acts of its form a sixteen kilometer human ring around moscow city center week before the country chooses its next president. and students and teachers again a notch in anger of education cuts in spain as the euro crisis tightens its grip around the med but greece is breathing a sigh of relief as e.u. leaders finally approved an eleventh hour bailout to stave off default. that we can

support with me trays up next. follow the sports analogy goods have a competent again very solid coming up in the bullets a. playoff victory american angela stanford wins the p.g.a. singapore event in style to clinch the title of her career. paolo's apart again after the loss of powell and wins eight for a title after a straight sets win over the gold is in dubai. and welcomed by a goose we speak to the new appointed high coach about his job in the biggest article and totally. but first boxing w.b.

. by their can admits he may have underestimated opponent marco hot after retaining his title with a narrow point victory in germany the judges' decision went into the can stave off to twelve grueling rounds to get the russian has to a very hard and was even on the ropes in round four and seven puts part. cruiserweight world champion failed to land the knockout punch the decision was made which is with booze by fans ringside with the second afterwards he didn't take the fight seriously enough it's the second successful defense of the title who want it all with last year. in football match the city remain top of the english premier league that's after a three male win against struggling goldstraw mara. and sealed the victory while chelsea went forth in the standings following a confident. over bolton the rain wolves manager again with it to all draw

at newcastle awash a strike. scored his second goal in this matter much for one one at q.p.r. . net today brace in west brom's cornell freshman of sunderland but as for the current league leaders speculation is growing take and when that first title in forty four years. there's a belief that we can go into football matches and we're going to. because that's what we've done all season for two thirds of the season it's it's what we've done and that's what's goes where we are we have to show consistency for the final third of the susan if you do so there will be lower order. but it's just important to concentrate on our own game through. what on sunday much sooner to close the gap on the leaders back to two points after winning in for knowledge to one celebrated his

nine hundred. four than with the winning goal there paul scholes also on the scoreboard since then in the meantime fifth place are still playing to a comeback victory against third place top number in north london five to finish in favor of the gunners while in their late game of the day so scored two unanswered goals against swansea. top division sides are preparing to get down to the final part of their premier league action artie's richard not portrayed talk to the new appointed head coach jim had to collect those hearing about the job and the team's most recent signing christopher somebody. what i heard from from the president through my coaching go that it was in the latest hours in the ladies' minutes before the deadline of friday night yesterday and also a couple of his coming in so we have two two people coming in extra it was

a latests latest call of course he is an experienced player is playing really quite a lot of games in the premier league and this is one of the or maybe the best league in the world so you've got a lot of experience i think he brings also a lot of of dynamic and personality and character to the team as well because we are of course looking for the balance. here let's say the mental power tactical power and he's experienced i mean with under shot and you make an attempt to try and sign him function well under him we have frequent contact and well he he was welcome in but we have to see what will happen with him in the future was going back to the needs for the remainder of this season was a good move for him well this is his home and he did very well in the first part of his staying in london i met him several times also over there it was good to see

him and he gave also good name to russian football in general brought yeah it was always good to see good players in russia and one sees come back on it's a level yeah then he can be very useful for us in the who what when wrong and you think over the last year or so with underachieving i don't know if a lot of things went wrong but he started very well in the premier league and it's too far away to give a proper judgment about that but obviously in a team he was in and out then maybe it didn't work out as well as it should be in the last month. we've been named head coach when i make it easier to bring in top name players specifically world class training like. this was hitting at the helm term that will help to attract. might help it might help but at the end the players must be convinced that it's a serious i'm a serious person but the club also is a serious club now i think that's that that helps of course we have

a lot of contacts worldwide but i just don't want to have just on bringing foreign of foreigners foreigners for me for russia and for now and for the future the world cup is coming up and more progress in football we have to emphasize also on the youth education and so i'm not focusing with my name worldwide on big players of course but also in saying slipstream also young promising russian players. let's move to the. time in the kontinental hockey league or the last sixteen players have been defined and there's one attracting the most attention it's so against bars the defending champions will go face to face with the two time garren cup holders in the first round of the. last six if it says regular season when his truck to take on the hugh grant western conference champions center is vert played more school for the other fixtures you can see on

your screen first games will take place on the twenty ninth of february. vasco will move to a career high or fifth in the world ranking stats after winning the dubai tennis championships with a straight sets victory over germany as your logo goes well the pole came into the final as a favorite despite the fact poland had beaten world number four. in the semifinals but it looked like. german one hundred one broke in the first game of the match eventually taking the opener seven five i also play in the second set six four two eight type of career i understood very very happy that you know a person of all that i can play my best tennis from the beginning of the year and you know i was playing great tennis today so i'm just very happy that you know i

could close this mess into. staying with the winter sports where martyrs do cause of lot to claim gold at the world championships colton competition in lake placid the reigning world champion dominated the completion of all four heats and to the final attempt with more than a second half advantage of the chase impact crash could have prevented it from winning the trophy but that didn't happen that. plea to the fifty four. point six seconds germany's bank romel silva losing two seconds to the when it was set foot of new zealand completed the poor do. now down to show of canada has won the last big competition of the twenty twelve snowboard world cup claiming his first career international victory on snow the twenty one year old scored the most number of points with some spectacular displays of skill

in both defending tempered play to finland finished and second while another canadian mess was. left to try to fulfill the the final world stand. and find the gulf where american enjoy stanford has won the l.p.g. singapore than dramatic frowned against three other opponents clinching the faith title of her career alongside koreans and choice that was trying. to compete against the american in the playoffs. became the only one to avoid serious mistakes in the final round and after a short extra i'm settled for a bogey the american go for needed to execute part properly the same how the job was well down though on the day when everyone equal chances to win.

i felt for because you know we've all been in that position and you know i i didn't think i would be there either i say park quite a bit today and i was kind of all over the map so you know i when we started i said you know i'm happy to be here too so then just played from there. well it's all from me and this sport is just for the moment more into as time whether zax good bye. culture is that so much i know in which of course you might want to come to terms of the price of crude remains stubbornly high and consumers feel the pinch the wire energy prices so hard news of the lack of supply and security.

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