summary of our main stories now here and all to a major antiwar side the nato summit in chicago turns violent with a round of dozen activists injured and many more rested after clashes with police. in the fall of contagion spreads further into lebanon deadly street clashes between opponents and supporters of the neighboring syrian regime reach the streets of beirut. and that may approach and i'm very as a new cabinet made up of mainly new ministers but some familiar faces make a return to. what next here and. we talked to former canadian diplomat

peter dale scott and he focuses on current u.s. foreign policy our special interview next. 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 words 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

says sometimes there is a basis a popular basis for example we have these. 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 or talk 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. military drills came in with support and training from outside 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 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 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 further could actually have a great deal of support tribal support but not just private support because of the 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 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 and 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 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 u.s. interest in the region wouldn't 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 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 has taken 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 is the vice president the power man in the regime donald rumsfeld the secretary of defense their response to the eleven immediately 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 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 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 will 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 car on the say were special plea. 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 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 the countries who is in. just are not aligned with the interest of the united states say that 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 for. you don't have when we had the vietnam war we had. 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 were interested in playing the

role they'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 is less and less amenable to object. and finally from asking about. us presidential elections which are just a few months away as 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 to 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 and it 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 but 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. so for assistance a new job the rates of. the rates of leukemia for example a thirty eight times but. breast cancers more than ten times told cancers fourteen times i would forget the exact details bullish huge numbers

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top stories this hour on r t a major antiwar march outside the nato summit in chicago turns violent with a round a dozen activists injured and many more rested after clashes with police. the violence potential spreads further into lebanon deadly street clashes between opponents and supporters of the neighboring syrian regime which the streets of beirut. and of lot of a pretty novell's a new cabinet made up of mainly new ministers but some familiar faces make a return to. well i'll be back with more news and all those stories in depth in fifteen minutes from now the meantime the sports is next with kate.

hello welcome to the sports nears and here the headlines simply the best russia's ice hockey stars return home as world champions popped up trashing slovakia six two in helsinki. while the king of clay rafael nadal beat top ranked number djokovic in straight sets to play a record six italian open title with a week to go before the french open. and i think victory maria sharapova comes from a set and for love down against the french open champion lee not to dramatically retain the top dog in rome. 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 the team was greeted by dozens of fans achieve the match of the airport with many of the players wearing their shirts and gold medals well the red machine 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 and afterwards they dedicated their triumph to the late lokomotiv yaroslavl side which was tragically killed in a plane crash last september. so invisible will forward their way to played. what it was called when your mind going. in the morning to see if it's mail order well this is great success for a russian hockey or this gross or just for all three of. the last two years you know there are already told you about these reports and obviously the art we want to gold and. the what expression of the speaker or russian dumper. well russia were the top seeds and overwhelming favorites but got off to a wonderful start considering a goal to cap the was there no just a minute said but alexander semin equalized midway through the opening period for

alexander alexei that i think that made it three one zero then swiftly netted his second of russia's fourth and then turned provider early in the third to set up power up so all caught up pulled one back to find two but it's just getting malkin made it six late on to wrap up victory and finish as the tournament's most valuable player. in football now and russia could stick out the cancer's defend the bet as its absence from their euro two thousand and twelve squad is a huge loss but the ducks one praised midfielder as my love has joined the squad despite pressure from his sporting side to stay an extra couple of days in there's been much of an important reports. it was the hottest day of the year in russia so fair that the temperature rising to almost thirty degrees below the deck of the counties feeling the heat morgan most as he has a number of selection dilemma is ahead of him firstly has to figure skate down to twenty three players all user has

a number of questions concerning his teammates defense russia suffered a hammer blow on sunday after the news but experienced defender of silly but it will be ruled out of the euro two thousand and twelve championships after he's failed to recover from a fine dream and head coach to come to kant's will be praying that his side doesn't pick up any more injuries especially defense as it's really both sides problem position it is huge he was a sure stance of the national team who are not blessed with a number of great central defenders. my theory of saying is it's up to the team to try and make up a bit is your loss suggesting the camp is in good spirits at the moment it's only the start and there is a long way to go because even if you manage to perform well then this will certainly help to live to see this move and we will certainly be supporting him all the way over there see these absences. the door for a number of new players. because of injury like the madonna and roman shower on earth would affect the following one place but now both are almost certain to be on

the plane to poland possession is not just all like him deserve to be called up earlier but now due to vassilis injury i have a great chance of making the euros i feel really sorry for massively going on as no one wants to pick up an injury at this time i told you of course there were only twenty four players on the training pitch today as pay pose for their team photo however that number is soon going to write a twenty five with marriage a smile of resisting pressure from his club sporting lisbon to stage a film an advertisement and arriving to join up with the russian national team squad. for latest news on mary's mother. you know problems by him. but he decision to go so those good i mean you must be quite pleased about it to play i want to show the windswept russia. of us but the longer a week to go into at the cat has to name this point it's got to be you raise

a question that plays to became an interest deduction is certainly a failure to secure themselves a spot in the playing to. richard for eternity yes kate. tennis now and rafael nadal has been well number one novak djokovic for the second straight time to capture a record six italian open crowd after a rain delay the final by a day in rome the spaniard won it seven five six three as the serbian made forty one unforced errors including a double fault on the last point to hunt down his forty nine square title along with a record twenty first masters program victory also gives the spaniard enough points to overtake roger federer into second spot in the world rankings. i did your things very well today when i when i had the chance to. hit the forehand i did when i had the bend i think i ran at my movements today was whether it would not serve a happy about my game i'm sure but they were here on this. dream and i.

finished that like our system like this is great but they're impossible. and on sunday maria sharapova produced a stunning comeback to retain her italian open title against french open champion li na the russian went into the final inform after winning in stuttgart last month but lost the first set six four and looked down another twenty trial for games to love in a second but somehow the world number two closer to home way back maintaining her big grand strikes to eventually take it six four to level the match and save the much point in the process oh she forged ahead in the decider. after reading off eight games on the trot but not only was not to be written off as mentally shifted once again the chinese rallied from full one down to force a tie break but then tantalizingly the clouds gathered and rain stopped play for two hours however didn't let it upset her rhythm on her return to the clay she picked up from where she left off winning the break seventy five to take the match

on the title so the russian heads into next week's french open as one of the favorites not only is that the time to. do 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 coach is turning one tells you is this about really focusing and point trying or in october the. gulf now and belgium's nickel i call surrey's the world match play champion after a win on the final hole against northern ireland's graeme mcdowell all calls that started impressively sinking this part for eagle at the sun and from this point on what the belgian never found himself behind the woman down did square the match on several occasions including here at the fourteenth when he blurted out he didn't

challenge for the lead and by the last hole two quotes to win it's his second victory on the european tour and seven hundred thousand dollars and a place in the world's top fifty for the first time. and it also 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 just over a million dollars in prize money. now to the n.b.a. and the san antonio spurs have reached the western conference final after a. four nil series sweep of the l.a. clippers the spurs one their latest game one hundred two points two ninety nine to complete the white wash your face on the oklahoma city thunder well the l.a. lakers in the western conference final and in sunday's other game the miami heat for the indiana pacers to toy their best of seven contests to look nice and i'll meet again on tuesday. and finally there are one hundred days to go until the start

of the paralympic games in london where record audiences are predicted and the russian team are hoping for their best ever medal haul and one course where it has more. with the opening ceremony of paralympic games only one hundred days away the british embassy in the russian capital staged a commemorative event in the ronald mcdonald sports center for kids with disabilities is just one of many such events organized by the u.k.'s diplomatic mission in russia we are working very closely with a parliamentary committee we see them all fun and is a great pleasure i believe specific projects with schools in st petersburg where i open the event recently and we have this event here today and we just want to make sure that we take the opportunity of being the host for the paralympics to work closely with you will federation head the paralympic movement in russia has come a long way from the days when people with disabilities were practically shunned by

society and saw get symes now they're viewed as top athletes and their own rights with some among the favorites to clinch podium places in london while the russians are largely unrivaled in the winter games other nations aren't in the summer paralympic sports do you know some pretty unsettling the competition and some sports is very strong because there are three times more participants than and unfortunately for various reasons fresh is not true present in every offense china will be one of the favorites in london because of the strong government program and of course the hosts who will turn out in huge numbers bounce will do our best you know these young men and women could be russia's medal hopes for the future but artsy young to compete at this year's summer games sporting glory could still lie ahead for them as interest at the paralympic box office continues to grow in. the upcoming sporting extravaganza promising to be one of the best extended history as according to the british that there were over one million tickets have already been

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