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the u.k. with its embassy staff. rising international calling for the rebels to be on. ok. with former u.s. attorney general ramsey clark to discuss the twists. american relations with iran and syria are you watching arts. iran could attack the united states in a much more fearsome way new york could eventually be on iran's hit list us media reports yes renew please come out of the country oppressors and the oppressed thought the killings washington's repeated warnings will carry out the attack american officials have labeled syria and iran as great threats to global security however former u.s. attorney general ramsey clark says the biggest threat to world peace is his own country's military and foreign policy in an exclusive interview with r t the lawyer

and activist says america's next catastrophic mistake will likely be a war with iran my impression is that israel is pressuring. for it before the election. and the obama administration is resisting that without favoring iran in any way but simply as a domestic political matter well the u.s. can't really afford to get involved in another war. but that's not the way it works and when you do crazy things and that's that's why the world sort of moves in fear from strife and there are three palliation that the united states will intervene and i don't think it's obama's choice but i think you see he thinks that if he doesn't act with israel that we can cause an election.

you have to see the american system to know this or to really understand it fully. if he loses this election it's a failure of president. all his major decisions. we primarily affected by how they impact on the coming election so look if you lose that election anything you accomplished and you cough if you think health care and things like that are better than they were far from ideal and far from what and if you have the congress in the second section session he may do the. he struggled against enormous pressures. the pentagon the ability i mean i've watched presidents you further johnson is one of those guys coming from the pentagon who just leave my god they know everything i don't know nothing with respect to syria. while speaking to the united nations security council the syrian ambassador reportedly quoted

a statement that you said nearly twenty two years ago he said quote the u.n. which was established to prevent being encouraged meant of war has become itself the tool for war how do you perceive the circumstances surrounding syria right now and the u.s. and european actions and the campaign for some type of intervention we're sure is. under stream international and some degree domestic pressure and violence for only one reason. it's the same reason it pavers iraq and. afghanistan and libya syria is a part of the effort to eliminate every independent arab government independent of u.s. control i think that's the goal that's not humanitarian response oh my god it's

political i mean look what we did to poor egypt going back to you for actually measuring for the people for. four. brutal regimes. u.s. dominated over the decades you have faced a lot of criticism and have even been labeled by some as a traitor after providing legal defense to a controversial figure such as slobodan milosevic and saddam hussein you have described both of their trials as unfair and flawed and last year the world saw form former libyan leader moammar qaddafi murdered before receiving any trial could was to blame for that crime well don't want. the american people are to blame because they let their government good the american people though i mean this is the is the american government really acting on behalf of public opinion

within the country i mean he would think that if you did have opinion. i mean you know you see the american people allow their government to do it to the u.s. government really consults with what the people want before taking foreign policy measures i wouldn't call it confrontational or manipulation go through nucular public opinion to support his policy whatever it is and war particularly. looking toward military action is pretty important condition the public forum which is. moderate i mean you don't have a minor promotion is the american public. pettine dating concern about what's going on in the world absence of a cation privilege wife and many have labeled iran the new iraq with respect to

the us media coverage of everything the u.s. officials are saying about iran right now just quite similar to what was said about iraq preceding u.s. intervention well the themes for assaulting a foreign country through history of almost always been shown over and over they can you hear bad guys who have done bad things were mean to their people or whatever and only a handful of things that you build up before you intervene in a foreign nation or they've been. sure they're preparing to assault them like you know all of those countries have been victims of us aggression because of us geo political or economic interests and our our foreign policy is over probably driven by. economic power united states that has interests in areas where we intervene they should be for you can call it

a business but it's exploitation if these interventions can happen and former leaders do not face what you say a fair trial what's left of international law if saddam hussein had been like mubarak and done what the united states have told him to do he was as he would been a pleasant personality united states media and would say what nice people what a great guy you know. because he wouldn't do what the united states wanted he had to be taken out as bashar al assad destined for the same treatment president assad is. gentle person there are a lot of people that would really disagree with the statement you just said that president saddam should. want the public addition we british history he left home we worked in and he studied how to take care of people and should medicine and

healing but right now there is no healing really taking care of syria trying to save your country. and that's that's a real business you've got people. and how do you think that's going to play out do you think that because saad government will be able to withstand the mounting pressure i mean there are one hundred thirty seven member states of the u.s. that supported general assembly resolution condemning i sought in endorsing the arab league plan that essentially calls for him to step down for a few one hundred thirty seven nations voted as they did mean for those nations or even to go over there if you really feel that way. the influence of the economic power of the united states. to some degree nato is just total if not most urgent i wouldn't have more direct interest anyway we're going to go along with michael that's what that's about. it's going to be tough very tough.

i don't know whether you make it on you served as u.s. attorney general under president johnson and having said that i want to ask you about some domestic issues when you read legislation such as the national defense authorization act what impression do you get of democracy in america now. where you get i get to impression from reading. it we live in a military dominated society. the people who are going to order. the. terrorism is a threat you know on nine eleven it's clear a level. has been exploited and. sustained and. but. an informed people would never go wrong how is the us political

process changed since you became a part of it not a half a century ago. consistently stronger at the national level and the states have become less powerful what was your biggest disappointment major step up from politics. biggest disappointment for our ministration was the vietnam war it would. shoulders above anything else it was a great tragedy many have compared the the demonstrations and the rallies that that place kind of be about more to the occupy wall street movement what do you think will come out of the occupy movement do you think it will be much of a political or social game changer do you think it will just be at this point a tool to let steam i think you. have an enormous potential.

and you can see any war movement civil rights movement you know you people involved racial no if you're if you're black you know. if it's a war if you're in the war to be drafted or if you're just a passionate. when you finally have a major population hurting so bad for the economy or concerned so much about the justice or injustice of the economy. you reach you. know nine percent they say you know you surely are reaching ninety percent so i think it has enormous potential i think it's got to. traffic study harder trying to do. it on the real masters show fish and fish and more to do. because underlying it is a selfish interest that i want to. take an economy that has

a me true motivation the. promise is no longer and more of the same or. more better and scott thank you very much for your time. as or so votes for president our team looks at the five running for the kremlin top job as a candidate liberal democrats a lot of years of an all state by far which is most boisterous blue politician. on the record at sixty five juvenile street is on his fifth presidential campaign having won ten percent of the votes in two thousand and eight just campaign slogan is little state or it'll be worse cleanse the presidency to hear dr against corruption and drug smuggling in russia vera food and housing prices controversy

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well the latest sport to hear the top stories. saving the day is and they are shouting these russians way to me all friendly with in copenhagen a cigar because my path to euro twenty two hours. while first blood stain on my moscow combine to be good i mean you know over time i think h.r. playoffs that's the way. down but not out in the next couple of loser time to come out and i cast a still reach the quarter finals of basketball's year old league. let's kick off of football where russia remain unbeaten after eleven games after a two no friendly win over denmark in copenhagen that's the guy who got heaped praise on goal scorers ranchero cough and skipper and he played for the dutchman when he was in charge of sunday's japan court records but rocket has been in fine

form recently for both club and country is going to score more goals in the season's champions league but he's been a key player in russia's campaign to qualify for euro two thousand and twelve point also in poland and ukraine and his manager at a national same level as the government was full of praise for the thirty year old globe. and that was a bottom global leak and we played because and we knew that he was cheap and then. start putting the. defender position. he said could make a bow but the problem was in a certain moment that every game we made a mistake despite all those qualities. but he played along as a single see develop better than a midfielder because you play touch all the same if you played great underachieving grab the second just before half time break with a shot from distance which really thomas sorenson should have saved however a former arsenal player looks incredibly impressive private much as he wonders from

the left or right flank and also pops up in the middle on a number of occasions and he really looks a much improved player less player and struggled so much for arsenal this season but i was happy for the team. because it's a difficult period by ocean so. you can play ninety minutes and know you can improve. and you can see what kind of he is well this is a russia second friendly win in a row and they really did look impressive against a strong danish side as they run out sooner winners for the regular gobble of russia's third choice is getting a rare start due to injuries to iraq and fears and it is hard not fear he was delighted first of all clicking a clean sheet and the fact that russia ran out so come through winners and the end . it's hard to judge our opponents but we came out with our own game plan focused only on getting one hundred percent and maintaining a good control of the ball washerwoman have a break of aren't two months so you their preparation is your it. i was more than

capable of causing one or two surprises on the tournament gets under way richard ron paul played r.t. copenhagen. also playing denmark was forward nicklas bendtner a twenty four year old who is currently on loan in the premier league side sunderland house reportedly been eyeing a possible move from arsenal to russia in the summer and was full of praise for the capital of france. i thought that played really well we already knew that because they have played together for such a long time and they did really well in that field and. will be disappointed with the chances that it's gone but they did play quite well and in the areas of the game. they're not worth the only side getting ready for the european championships which are less than one hundred days away from this were played on wednesday night with france's impressive two one win over germany in bringing one of the stand back games following their disasters world cup campaign they have gone undefeated since

september two thousand and ten long gone sides took the game to the germans from the first whistle in the twenty first and it's been an evasion. lomu that netted one group of people without after sixty nine minutes. stoppage time strike germany is merely the consolation. but also in a wednesday night where russia's group play opponents for euro twenty two of greece drew with belgium published by that a goal is draw with portugal and the czechs held the irish in dublin elsewhere england lost three two one time to the netherlands are young robin grabbing the injury time winner after england had come back from two goals down reigning world and european champions spain thrashed venezuela five no the other side the other was a hat trick. that elsewhere on strike it went dempsey was on targets to hand the united states their first ever when i originally clapped and even him a bitch opened from the start and about the last in fact

a brace to help sweden thrash croatia three one euro twenty two all co-host ukraine held on to the israel all the more the most poignant fixture so wales lose one nil at home to costa rica well this was well first match since the death of their manager gary speed in november the midfielder had made his first appearance for wales against costa rica in one nine hundred ninety his sons tommy and it would mascots standing by the side of captain craig bellamy before kick off but it was also i mean it's a pools wells last one moment manager chris coleman said the result but wasn't important. to be difficult for the players be sure on the start they gave us the in . the north and. always if you don't normally prepare for games but. but you know he was aboard a ship tonight is about speeds. moving on to ice hockey now and i also got on the way with the now my moscow plane first blood against an ammo minsk up and coming back when two one and i was i'm here in moscow all this is the first game in

a best of seven series in the western conference quarterfinals beat out but that's the i think the minutes this is going back and forth however it wasn't long before the teams were level novak would equalize the number must take the big game into overtime in the knock off but when our series continues in moscow it's just a night. out in other games sorry to some also for one instant petersburg and there was a goldfish bowl in nizhny novgorod are played at thrashed and i read a seventy three moscow region side that runs for the better stuff about a single goal to nil. basket ball now and despite losing at home to be honest and i cost the next because i have made it through to the quarter finals of the year only the russian side lost sixty three sixty eight in the south eastern republic of pakistan on wednesday and still goes through from group g. often a bunch a loss to him probably armani well in excess new victory would secure them a spot in the last eight but nothing like us here in the white shirts was also determined to win and should and ensure they would finish top of the group and

donna can't help unix cause with nineteen points although his efforts weren't enough for this despite the a fifty two forty six week period tell them weekly only advantage in the quarter finals but the russian side was still able to celebrate despite the loss and about your defeat to employee i'm on the right makes it so progressed. and there is also good news for sport and carry her through to the last eight of the women's year only this is the seventh season in a row the moscow region side have reached this far after they struck fellow russian side in the eighty two sixty seven as well as commons in the cup of. me to ninety three seventy nine in the first game and ideas overcame sparring came and set up a do or die battle back in the moscow region in a decisive third major for a place in the euro league final eight aspirants key to total control from the very

start and had a nine point lead by the end of the opening quarter of same or no we asked us and becky hammon pouring in points however the hosts felt overconfident too early not the end of them managed to get back into the game and level matter as five minutes to go in the second the end of the new age to no fresher than american rebecca bronson leading the or in group side this seesaw game continued in the third the fourth time usually champions pushed the other a had and it was a tourist game from behind however in the decisive frame sporting kate took the lead and never looked back but twenty seven year old olympic champion now we asked us had another match to remember proving how phenomenal form my knitting more than twenty points for a third straight game while hammon and candace degree also hit double digits in points with six timothy's and then here's this so their hopes of traveling to euston will vanish with a two one defeat in the best of three serious. our opponents have

a solid trusting and good coaches they prepared properly for our encounter so it was a tight game we desperately needed the speech to be and we deserved this when i think we never heard of our last game a lot of. that mess thanks. to correlate it with the game. with this when sporting and cape punch their ticket for the euro league deciders for the sound straight season and will be keen to add a few if you're a title in the more year old system who final eight which feeds their party would on march the twenty eight. and anybody learned she. we're going to the n.b.a. now where later sensation jeremy lin has been in fine form again helping the new york knicks to a one hundred twenty points to one hundred three wins and likely in cali as well in scored nineteen points and thirteen assists brought in right carmelo anthony bench

twenty two. synonymous with twenty three points and ten assists on the board for cleveland but it was not enough as the makes a seventeen point deficit to crystal victory one lifeline even admits there's still room for improvement to come off the miami game going i'm focused on is to make sure that my approach is the same in terms of aggressiveness good. do a better job of taking curable. and finally with goals first major of the season the masters just about a month away for world number one tiger woods says jack nicklaus' record of eighteen major titles is well within his reach thirty six words is second best a necklace with fourteen major wins to his name however tiger has been without a tour victory now for over two years while number twenty one will try to break that duck at one hundred traffic event in florida this weekend and goes into the water to back the big steaming second round of feet to nick watney last week's g c match play however woods can't wait to get in swinging at the masters. i'm excited

to have. the full schedule leading up into a top about being healthy enough to prepare and. some of progress i've made and it's scary better each and every week which is good but. ultimately trying four times a year. but i'll try to do. the muscles was near as i can. well for. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future coverage.

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