i'm sorry is a big issue. very well welcome to you this is to live from moscow and warner sushi here are your headlines now major antiwar march outside the nato summit in chicago turns violent and around a dozen. of many more arrested after clashes with police. the violence contagion of spreads further into lebanon deadly street clashes between opponents and supporters of the neighboring regime reach the streets of beirut. made up of mainly new ministers some familiar faces do make their return as.

we speak to peter dale scott canadian poet and former diplomat who zeroes in on u.s. foreign policy. 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 on the same sometimes there is a basis a popular basis for example we have these the two foundations one rip 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 popular it was in the military drills 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 will it and enjoy the same standard of living but the only thing that would 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 the decisions to throw full 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. free would be gone and for the duffy had a great deal of support tribal support but not just private support because of his social programs which. were progressing. so the result. of chaos which to which we don't really see

at this point and so i think it's the holes i'm 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 assumed that we all assume that and it's true that syria doesn't have a very long track record to. 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 serious 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 us interest in the region wouldn't it be better for the u.s. interest for the interest of israel to deal with off a crowd inc but predictable regimes rather than groups that you can absolutely never predict that future actions will have 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 thinker last december before the before the syrian spring and were already training resistance groups and techniques of the street. so that america was

stirring up the pot you know the. american foreign policy is a very bad turn since we called nine eleven the september eleventh two thousand and one attacks and we know for a fact that the cheney who was the vice president the power man in the regime donald rumsfeld the secretary of defense their response to nine eleven immediately the words we have to go after all of these countries that are. area. one of the countries that was back in this is septa. tobar in two thousand and one they named afghanistan but they named a 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 states allied with russia in the soviet union and that it looked like a concerted effort to replace area of 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 would be too confused state to be able to resist so that all of this should be done quickly so it was very sinister a 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 as you're suggesting dangerous to the interests of the real interests of the americans as well i'd like to ask a question about journalism and iraq and 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 whether it's libya or syria russia iran and at least can't go wrong it is very easy and it takes very little time for american journalists to demonize those countries iran there is a very good example of that often was

a good example of my question to you what's 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. own the other corporations so that then there's a rule of advertising. you don't have when we had the vietnam war we had a dream of american journalists in vietnam we 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 the kind of role you're getting a kind of corporate superstructure american society in which the media the financial interests and 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 and 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 interesting and. we did of course in the vietnam era have a very strong powerful and he war movement perhaps the biggest of the world had ever seen up to that time we have nothing like that in america now largely because the pentagon has so carefully strategize how to prevent a war movement from emerging thank you very much for the times thank you. here the reindeer is interesting for the herders. and when it suffers. people do their best to help.

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hello welcome to the latest fourth reason headlines simply the best russia's ice hockey stars return home as world champions after thrashing slovakia six two in helsinki. while roman epic maria sharapova comes from a second floor lap down against the no two dramatically retain the title in drawing head of next week's french open. and the play rock solid all the three top ranked and i want to talk about your straight sets you claim his six title at italian open . but first russia's triumphant ice hockey team have returned to moscow after beating slovakia six two in the world championship final in helsinki to finish the tournament as the only unbeaten side while the team was greeted by dozens of fans that should have met you the airport with many of the players wearing their shirts and gold medals the red machine gave russia their world found in five years and they did it in style with ten wins from ten games at the tournament held in finland

and sweden and they also dedicated their triumph to the late knocking to be our savile side which was tragically killed in a plane crash last september. is so invisible and will forward where we were to play. with people walk over you know mario. in our similarities well or do all this is great success for a russian hockey or this gross or just for all three of. the last three years you know there are already told you about these reports and obviously the art you want to gold and. the right expression of the speaker or russian bumper. while russia were the top seeds and overwhelming favorites but they got off to a wonderful start conceding a goal to catch him then all come about just only ten but. to show me the quietest midway through the ice in the period before the thunder get a jog and let's say that i think that maybe three one german swiftly netted his

second russian ball and then in turn to provide that early into the start up that suit caught up pulled one back by two bucks looking now he made it six later on to wrap up victory and finished as the tournament's most valuable player and later coach was in it with oddly that the north received a call saying congratulations president magnus. voted for the title decider the czech republic clinched the bronze medal strafing of a late bite back from the defending champ and then learned to win the street to. football now and the russian national team has been dealt a blow ahead of the european championships as experience defended the city but results have been ruled out of the tournament the twenty nine year old has gone well has failed to recover in time my long term for my muscle problem he tried to make a comeback at the end of april in the army men's two on dobby when a response like that suffered a recurrence of the injury well it's a big setback for coach to get the county loses a central defender who's been

a russian regular for over a decade. those are very. relieved because you still do much by. we also have to think on solving on the club so we decided together with them. after dinner we will go. well in the meantime chelsea enjoyed a jubilant homecoming after winning the champions league for the first time on sunday by beating by and four three on penalties in munich and i've been to boss took the team around west london as thousands of pounds lined the streets but as a private you lifted the trophy along with the f.a. cup which they still say i want to mix before captain john terry was suspended for the champions league final but was allowed to lift the trophy and he let the celebrations around on a bit i which was also relishing what the team had achieved the russian finally getting his hands on the cup after pumping one and a half million dollars into the club since taking over nine years ago something the fans who saw the shooting. that rubber bridge best things other jugglers club suit

joey jackson thank you. for that the french are logical in chelsea loving every second of the despair holders now more than girls can say joe she's excited you already were started playing should you very much for the. tennis now and reassure up of it produced a stunning comeback in rome to retain her italian open title against french open champion li na a week before that grand slam event starts in paris sharapova went into the final in the fall after winning in stuttgart last month but she lost the first set six four and looked down the night when she trailed four games to love in the second but somehow the russian clawed her way back maintaining her big groundstrokes to eventually take six pool to level the match the same process she forged ahead in the decider after reading off eight games on the trot and not leave it was not to be written off and as the momentum shifted once again the chinese ride from four

one dime to force a time break the best time to lies in the clouds gathered and rain stopped play for two hours however the gold in the team didn't let it upset the rhythm on her return to the clay she picked up where she left off the time break seven five to take the match and the tie. so i don't like e three so when fisher who heads into next week's french open is one of the favorites. but. few swings because of the weather conditions so you start the match and you know you feel like you're playing really well then you stop and 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 which you just have a tiebreaker to play so doesn't really matter what your coaches her no one tells you is just about really focusing on trying or in october the. men's side rafael nadal has just defeated world number one for

a second straight time to come pick his six italian open and a record twenty first masters title the spaniard wanted seven five six three as ever. in the big three. at a much the don't go on as enough points to overtake better into second spot and world rankings. down to the n.b.a. in the san antonio spurs have reached the western conference final offer a four nil series sweep of the l.a. clippers one. hundred eighteen points to ninety nine to complete the whitewash. of the oklahoma city thunder or the l.a. lakers in the western conference final in sunday's other games the miami heat the indiana pacers to tie their best of seven contests. again. however san antonio through and remain unbeaten but they aren't getting carried away. you never know what was going to happen with your team but i can tell you. we've never gone

into a playoff we can you know this is our year. you know we've got a team that can get it done we've never. we go with what we call appropriate fear and. you know you don't you know afraid of people but you still have good concerned appropriate fear about everything and all the things that can happen so there's never a thought that your team is going to win a championship. on the gulf now and belgium's nicobar cole sir is the world match play champion after a win on the final hole against northern ireland's graeme mcdowell well started impressively sinking this part for eagle at the surface and from this point onwards the belgian never found himself behind mcdowell he did sway the match on several occasions including here at the fourteenth when he boarded but he didn't challenge the lead and by the last concern had two points to win it's his second

victory on the european tour and seven hundred thousand dollars the place in the world's top fifty for the first time. in such conditions you know when. you know it's going to be very difficult you know your group you know is one of the most open stories used to be playing into of conditions. it was going to be in this is. you know i'm glad that all that after and it also all went down to the final hole in texas where jason dufner signed a twenty five foot birdie at the eighteenth hole to win the byron nelson championship beating dickey pride by a single shot to claim just over a green dollars in prize money. and finally the martial art of some by one feature at the upcoming london olympics but the sport's organizers believe it has the qualities to be included in the future after attracting a record thirty two countries at the recent european championships here in moscow with more his mother craft anchor. sambo is a russian martial art which was initially tended 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 with the way 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 our own a bit of those it 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 and unload them every year and the popularity of both sports some bull and combat sound was 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's the past many a limp dick event by the number of participants already we have over eight hundred aeration is around the world more than a lot of olympic disciplines so it's only a matter of time before it is seriously considered as an olympic event that 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 hybrid is set to continue mark of genco moscow. and that's all sports days by.

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