twelve thirty am and moderate twelve thirty pm rather in moscow these iraqi headlights anti-nature demonstrators clashed with police near the summit site in chicago with around a dozen injured more than sixty arrested after one of the city's biggest protest in years turns violent. russia's new government a lot of your putin who returned as president earlier this month due to unveil his team of ministers. victory for the red machine or russia or against the world hockey title after crushing slovakia in the final to win this year's championship undefeated. next start he speaks with peter del scott

a canadian poet and former diplomat. a former diplomat a poet and a prominent antiwar advocate peter dale scott is joining us now on r t thank you very much for your time sir. i'm not sure many americans realize that democracy and freedom have become very toxic and often misused in diplomatic language why do you think such a concept as democracy is being so grossly misused. well i think it's true that specially in the last fifteen twenty years that america has used the slogans of democracy and freedom as a way of expanding their sphere of influence in the world and so you get these color revolutions for example sometimes you can't judge all of them in the same this is sometimes or it is a basis

a popular basis for example we have these. two foundations one democrat one republican doing what the cia used to do putting money into other countries elections that i think is quite inappropriate yes i would like to see more democracy and freedom in the in the world but it has to be talked to this it has to grow out of the country in question and it's not something that you can sort of blast in and then finally you have libya which is a scandal that was done in the name of the libyan spring but that was totally pushed from outside and from the very beginning it was violent it wasn't a popular movement was a military dreams came in with support and training from both sides so we're seeing a lot of social change and some of it is good and some of it is partly good and bad

and some of it i think i think that history is going to judge the libyan saying very. from a very negative assessment of what was that against gadhafi i wasn't libya just this past december and what i hear at heart from many people is that they're waiting in the visage the libyan revolution is that everything in the country will stay the same they will get the same social benefits they really enjoy the same standard of living but the only thing that's what change is that gadhafi would be gone and i think. sometimes that american foreign policy makers suffer from the same degree of idealism do you think it's really idealism or the lack of any serious analysis or consideration on the part of people who make these decisions to throw for us weight behind any particular movement but i think the big difference between british interventions in the third were in american

interventions is that the british at least usually knew the languages of the countries they went into they had a certain degree of knowledge i think american policies are usually dictated by amazing ignorance in the case of libya for example i think that the americans who got involved and the french they did with the idea that everybody hated gadhafi and all you had to do was give a little push to a popular uprising and poof. you would be gone and first. had a great deal of support tribal support not just tribal support because of his social programs which. were progressive. so the result is. a year of chaos in which to which we don't really see an end at this point and so i think it's the whole thing i am hoping that at some

point americans will get sick and tired of these nasty interventions which blow up in their face i mean iraq now i think most americans wish they had never heard of iraq syria is now law and have lines and the united states has been very open about its desire to see bashar assad step down what i would like to ask here is it's assume that we all assume that and it's true that syria doesn't have a very long track record the. political pluralism but this is a country that's long been proud of its religious diversity and tolerance and this is also solid say a measure of democracy it's a yearning for the country to have and already we see syria suffering a great deal from islamic militancy and their recent. explosions in damascus is another example of that my question to you is when you consider pragmatically when

you consider. interest in the region wouldn't it be better for the u.s. interest for the interest of israel to deal with off a chronic but predictable regimes rather than groups that you can absolutely never predict. future actions well i do agree with you i talk about deep politics about the things we don't see in the newspapers but i've read more than one more than one place that u.s. special forces went into syria as early think their last december before the before the syrian spring and were already trained resistance groups and techniques of street resistance so that america was stirring up the pot you know the. american foreign policy has taken

a very bad turn since we called nine eleven the september eleventh two thousand and one attacks. we know for a fact that the cheney who is the vice president the power man in the regime donald rumsfeld the secretary of defense their response to nine eleven immediately words we have to go after all of these countries that are. one of the countries that was back in this is septa. tobar in two thousand and one they named afghanistan but they named their rat iraq was number one afghanistan somalia libya and syria. what do all these countries have in common well i think we have to see that at one point in the past they had been sates allied with russia in the soviet union and that it looked like

a concerted effort to replace. soviet influence with an area of american influence we have a general wesley clark who was in the pentagon in one nine hundred ninety one through two thousand and one and it's he who has told us about there was a plan to go after all these countries which we've now seen being implemented and one of the people who talked about the plan stalker he talked about the window of opportunity now that the soviet union is gone russia will be too confused state to be able to resist so that all of this should be done quickly so it was very sinister play for pure dominance in the world and i don't think there's much popular support in the american people for this it was a group of neo con the say were special clique's. oil companies they had their

interests in global domination and i'm very disappointed that the american people haven't done more to stop this because it's become very dangerous to the world and it's you're suggesting dangerous to the interests of the really interests of the americans as well i'd like to ask a question about journalism and american journalism and particle act what i find very strange is that on one hand that that idea of the tradition of critical thinking is very strong in american journalism but when you are dealing with a country's who is in. just are not allied with the interest of the united states say that it's libya or syria russia iran and at least calgon it is very easy and it takes very little time for american journalists to demonize those countries iran there is a very good example to get off he was a good example my question to you was the problem here is the lie is is it the lack

of critical thinking on the part of american media or probably on the part of the american audience who is taking those things so lightly well i think the problem is not the problem of the journalists but there have been structural changes in the american media that are very relevant here and there's been a lot of concentration of ownership a lot of overlap between the corporations that only lead and the other corporations so that the role of advertising for example if. you don't have the vietnam war we have. american journalists in vietnam who started telling the truth about how badly that war was going we didn't have that in iraq because the journalists were in bed and besides the newspapers had changed so much they weren't interested in playing that kind of role you're getting

a kind of corporate superstructure to american society in which the leader of the financial interests of the defense industry and the oil companies are all part of one huge conglomerate it's very important for the future of the globe to have good communications that means we have to have good journalism and it's a great problem that the american corporate superstructure of the media is less and less amenable to object. and finally from asking. us presidential elections which are just a few months away out so far they have heard very little if any debate on foreign policy issues and my question is whether it is because american people at all or simply don't care about what is being done abroad on that behalf there is

you know in america very long time true tradition of by a bipartisan foreign policy the trouble is that right now american foreign policy ought to be very controversial we're doing things which are way below what traditionally americans. would do so it should be debated but. it's the same big money that contributes to both parties. there are some issues which you are allowed to debate health care is being debated certainly very energetically but the question of whether we should be in afghanistan is not being debated. makes me tear my hair because i feel it should be and we even have a big occupy movement in america even the occupy movement doesn't seem to be very interested and we were told we did of course the vietnam era had

a very strong powerful and he war movement perhaps the biggest of the world ever seen up to that time we have nothing like that in america largely because the pentagon has so carefully strategize how to prevent war movement from emerging thank you very much for the times thank you. move. just so.

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tight nato demonstrators clashed with police near the summit site in chicago with around a dozen injured and more than sixty arrested after one of the city's biggest protests in years turns violent. russia's new government played a mere portion of the return to the presidency for earlier this month due to unveil his team of minister. victory for the red machine rusher against the world hockey title after crushing slovakia to in the final to win the year's championship undefeated. more on russia's triumph at the world ice hockey championships and she joins us next with sports.

hello there thanks for watching and these are the headlines simply the best rushes ice hockey stars return home world champions after thrashing slovakia sixty in helsinki last blow russia defender visited better to ski will miss football's european championships with injury. and romantic comes from a set down fall of down against the tree or italian open title. the first rushes ice hockey team have returned to moscow as world champions of archaea six two in the final in helsinki to finish the tournament as the ne unbeaten side that being greeted by dozens of fans at sheremetyevo airport this morning many of the players wearing their shirts and gold medals they gave russia their third world crown in five years and did it in style with ten wins from ten games at the tournament held in finland and sweden they also dedicated their trying to the late lucky might if jaroslav all side there was tragically killed in a plane crash last year. he's suing his old mill for what they were there for.

over the cold war for your mind your. seat. belts for you all this is great success for a russian hard this grocer goes for all three. lost to your studio there are already told you about these reports came. in one of. the what expressions you feel. about. well russia were the top seeds and overwhelming favorites for the final but they got off to start against the slovaks conceding a goal tuesday you know how in the first minute however rushed them fanned the net six times alexander human getting a brace and four more came from alexander petit jorgen. pavel datsyuk and the tournament m.v.p. again e-mail came coach need to get in or even received a call from president vladimir putin congratulating them on their achievement. well

before that title decider the czech republic clinched the bronze medal staving off a late bite back from the house and defending champions finland to win three two. meanwhile the russian football team have been dealt a blow ahead of the european championships experience defender vassily but it has been ruled out of the injury the twenty nine year old has failed to recover in time from a long term by muscle problem he had tried to make a comeback in april but suffered a recurrence it is a big setback to coach the gaffer carr who loses the central defender who has been a russia regular for over a decade. to squat to much going. over the old served if you can solve a normal club so we decided together with whom. to do. and while africa is still waiting for the arrival of one squad member sporting

midfielder mad it is model of state in portugal to play in sunday's surprise one will defeat the academics in the portuguese cup final the twenty nine year old has been good for the lisbon side this season and earned his first call up for eight years but he's been given an ultimatum by africa he says his model of must be in moscow by monday if he wants to make the squad. i'm not sure which is in deliberation to go. after the game for the doctor so is my will. let me use it is not the word and you know think if you come to more. you can better state not you can better you can stay. meanwhile chelsea have enjoyed a jubilant homecoming after winning the champions league for the first time an open top bus took the team around west london the stars and the fans lined the streets players proudly lifting the trophy after their four three penalty shootout win over by munich less than twenty four hours before captain john terry was suspended for

the final but was making up for it in the celebrations while oh no man i put him over it was also relishing what the team had achieved finally getting his hands on the cup after pumping one and a half billion dollars into the club since taking i've been nine years ago something the fans also appreciated. rubber bridge best things other top club. thank you. for the osbournes your life support and chelsea loving every second of that experiment holderness now more than girls considering chelsea success are you sure. you very much one. of the world wants us to believe this is the first meeting of all. is known as a bit of a fight on the tennis court but a victory over lead to retain her italian open title must go down as one of the greatest ever comebacks after losing the first set six for the russian looked down and that when she trial four games to love in the second somehow she called her way back never giving up on a big grand strokes to eventually take it six four to level the match.

then in the deciding section bravely say match point and forced a tie break after hitting a thunderous winner. but just the sheer rap of getting on top of the class gathered rain stopped play although the russian didn't let it upset her rhythm on her return to the clay she picked up from where she left off and won the tie break seven five for the match an unlikely three set win then fisher wrap of it is her second title of the year and she now heads to next week's french open as one of the favorites. few swings because of the weather conditions so you start the match like you're playing really well then you start then you go off the court you come on and then things just change for some reason you know your opponent starts playing better has time to regroup but this was a situation in which you just have

a tiebreaker to play so doesn't really matter what your coach is there anyone tells you it's just about really focusing on trying very. well without the men's final was disposed until monday top seed and defending champion novak djokovic to take on five time winner rafael nadal in just over an hour's time pictures would see federer as the world number two now in the n.b.a. the san antonio spurs have reached the western conference final after beating the l.a. clippers one hundred two point two ninety nine tim duncan scored twenty one of those for san antonio to close out of four nil series win over the clippers and will face either oklahoma city thunder or the l.a. lakers in the western conference final to sunday's other game miami heat the indiana pacers there to tie their best of seven contests to a pace they will meet again on tuesday the san antonio after through and remain unbeaten but i'm getting carried away. you never know all what's going to happen

with you too broke to tell you. we've never gone into a point of you know this is your your your you know we've got to get it done we've never. we go with what we call appropriate. you know you don't you know afraid of people but you still have good concern of appropriate reasoning and all the things that can happen so you never thought you could win a championship now belgium's nicolas colsaerts is gulfs world match play champion and it all came down to the final hole in spain against northern ireland graeme mcdowell also started impressively sinking this the third. and from this point on in malaga the belgian never found himself in a race mcdowell did square the match on several occasions including here the fourteen twenty birdies. but he could never challenge for the lead and

by the last hole cole sides had two parts to win it's his second victory on the european tour and seven hundred thousand dollars and a place and the world's top fifteen for the first time. it's going to. you know it's going to be very difficult you know you know he's one of the us open series used to be going into of conditions. it was going to be in this is. you know i'm glad that all that often and it all went down to the final hole in the states to jason dufner making a twenty five foot birdie here on the loss to win the bar nelson championship beating taking pride by a single shot to claim just over a million dollars in prize money. lastly the martial art of sound i won't think the upcoming london olympics but the sport does believe it has the qualities to be included in the future and attracted fighters from rec or thirty two countries at the recent european championships in moscow with more his mark. sambo is

a russian martial art which was initially intended to be a merger between the most effective techniques of all the others it has its roots in japanese judo international styles of wrestling plus traditional folk styles of wrestling today there are two main categories sport in combat we're going to win in sambo you have to throw your opponent to the ground and depending on how clinical the attempt is you get points awarded to you in the case of combat sambo that you can also get points for hitting your opponent for knock outs and knock downs just like in traditional boxing another martial arts fighters are categorized by their weight which range from fifty two kilograms to over one hundred kilos the name sambo may sound somewhat exotic but it really has nothing to do with latin dancing it's an acronym for the russian words some of it on a business. which literally translates to self defense without weapons and it was first developed by the soviet army in the late one nine hundred twenty s.

in order to improve soldiers hand to hand combat russia has dominated the sport since its inception in both the women's and men's competitions. every year and the popularity of both sports some ball and convert some boys growing and with it there are more and more people and countries getting involved in. the sport has certainly become internationally renowned and the federations vice president believes it will one day become an olympic event the sambo is so popular nowadays that it surpassed many a limbic event by the number of participants already we have over eight hundred relations around the world more than a lot of olympic disciplines so it's only a matter of time before it is seriously can. as in the limbic event. that would be the sport's biggest achievement but while sambo may not have the accolade of being part of the olympics there's no doubt the growing appeal in the martial arts high bridge is set to continue michael christian moscow. now praises the end of the

sport for my make up whether commitments.