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fear they faced. and remember every second of this nightmare. it will remain in their memories and hearts forever. and it seemed so. innocent but. a little angel when augustine. hello and welcome to our teens the weekly on karen taraji with the week's top stories turkistan military intervention in syria gets the cold shoulder with the new u.n. peace envoy arguing any such interference but make it cease fire and. possible.

a chorus of support for iran's peaceful nuclear program as the country destroys any notion it's been politically isolated the west with its hosting of a massive international summer and. the war of the wealthy but our mortgage successfully backed legal attempts by a london based tycoon by the speed of soft skin to cut off a slice of this multibillion dollar fortune. and the republicans freshly nominated presidential candidate mitt romney promises a hardline stance against russia but faces criticism for flip flopping on major issues. next we discuss the upcoming u.s. presidential election and the troubles with america's political system was also andrew levine. we're sitting down with an author professor of philosophy and currently

a senior scholar at the institute for policy studies and your living thank you very much for joining me you contributed to a book it's titled hopeless barack obama and the politics of allusion what was the allusion in your opinion and how did it get hopeless well obama of course campaigned on the idea of hope and the possibility of change but he was skillful in turning himself into something like a rorschach figure which anyone could see whatever they wanted to see the changes were not certainly ruptures with the past. and they dashed at the expectations of virtually every constituency that supported him because they envisioned. transformations of american domestic and foreign policy that were far more far reaching than what obama actually. even attempted let alone

achieved as far as foreign policy you're writing that president obama's wars could come back to bite him even the ones he didn't start but which you argue are his by now he pledged to withdraw from iraq and afghanistan he says that's what he doing in what way could they bite him well they could all fall apart. in effect the united states lost both of those wars even before obama assumed office but the imperative that obama faced which was also the imperative that george bush faced in his final years was not to lose face i'd like you to expend a little bit on afghanistan you argue that ghana standing particular certainly into the face saving operation for the president how is he handling that. well to the extent that he can develop a consensus in the political class in the united states to get out as soon as possible which seems to be happening not particularly through his own initiatives

he will get out but unless that develops he is going to happen is going to have to be a continued presence there of some sort which is going to continue to wreak murder and mayhem and not to achieve any of the official objectives that the united states put forward in entering into that conflict in the first place if that explodes then obama will look bad because the united states will look weak and it will look to it will look defeated and that will and that's not a recipe for success for someone who is parked on an electoral campaign aside from the wars already on the u.s. plate you wrote that by far the biggest bullet for president obama to dodge is a war against iran do you think it might actually happen i mean experts even he was government say so crazy idea. well it looks now like obama has dodged that bullet

at least until november by basically by but by by unlawful israel with our arms what do you think about the president's approach with regards to iran when he's trying to cater to to everybody in a way to the israelis by saying that he would be ready to go to war and to everybody else by saying that he actually doesn't like the drums of war and there is still a chance for diplomacy to work i think the result is that although he may be have succeeded in avoiding the war between now and the election and maybe even afterwards one could hope the rationale for the war remains intact and so the past so the danger that some events could transpire which would lead to which would reignite the danger and maybe even lead to what to look at the eruption of the war remains real and obama hasn't effectively addressed that issue i think this is an instance of a general problem with obama's presidency and it's partly why it's very hard for

anyone any of obama's supporters to come up with any reason for. it and for supporting him especially for supporting him enthusiastically in the upcoming election other than that the alternative is so much worse. because whatever he's accomplished that could not on balance be. given up. plus it's always in cumbered by negatives that are very nearly cancel cancel out the benefits the contenders for the republican nomination they have a pretty scary rhetoric when it comes to foreign affairs everyone minus ron paul they don't seem to have words political solution in their would capillary right and yet you called president obama the most hawkish of the lot why well he's the most hawkish of the lot with respect to some issues there not with respect to to all

issues his position on afghanistan. is at least momentarily probably more hawkish than that of mitt romney they they. they have all of them said that now is the time to get out and obama has the steward of the empire can't say that and so he also said that well i gradually gradually to get out there's a gradual. but that's different from getting out now which was what even though gingrich search on a different note related to domestic politics i want to ask you about the occupy wall street movement and where you think it's heading these people took to the streets to protest the culture of revolving doors in washington the cozy relationship between corporations and politicians of a limited contributions to political campaigns which maybe see as

legalized corruption do you think their voices were heard yes general defiantly diffuse cultural sense i don't think the. wall street banks to us are cultural heroes anymore the way that they were the way that they used to be in terms of policy making what in terms of policy making probably not. with this administration so far but there was a backlash the took create a forum and that went to a kind of awakening kind of consciousness raising and where that goes now as the spring is coming to new forms of struggle are likely to emerge and how that will interact with the political campaign which he has to respond to which i mean fortunately of the union address for example he would say that you know there is a need to keep the last reading that it needs to be better regulated so you don't

say all those words you can so you can say that and then he can go right out and not keep wall street and soon americans will face a choice between mitt romney most possibly and barack obama candidates from two parties democrat and republican you wrote that romney's and i quote here awfulness will win the election for the democrats i want to ask you about the two party system and the horse race that established the fact that we do you think america. have that much of a choice when electing a president it's sort of like. coke and pepsi and the level of entire doubt of the exist in the places where those things are manufactured and marketed at the level of underlying political vision or underlying political orientation there isn't that much difference and romney would probably be perfectly happy doing what obama does we have

a media which is so thoroughly controlled and all the institutions that manufacture opinion are so pervasive and our electoral system has become basically like an advertising it's become sales promotions there are brands and there are people trying to sell different products one of two products to a product and it's. a pressure that's not all it's not so much the pressure that's hard to resist it's a pressure that most people or most people aren't even aware that there is an alternative and can't be measured but i wanted to ask is there a chance for third products to sort of somehow get into this well historically that only seems to happen to some small extent when the third party product is backed by a huge amount of money when ross perot was running for president and. the greens can't do that and they're not going to have in one thousand nine hundred two very that was in one thousand nine hundred ninety two you know you know according

to. one of the latest gallup polls a record number of americans forty percent of americans identify themselves as independents that ever happened and they don't have their candidate. right we have a very profound disconnect between what people want in any recognized meaningful and recognizable sense of the term and what the political process offers in the way of all of alternatives by the way that the party system has evolved especially in recent years that makes it it and by its. indefensible jurisprudence which has made it increasingly possible for. corporations and for very rich people effectively to control the political process and under those circumstances it doesn't matter that much what people want or even

that much how involved people are thank you very much thank you dr living. thank you. download the official. language stream quality and enjoy your favorites. quiet to watch on t.v. . any time. family. was an upscale.

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the. if lines in motion would be so much brighter if you knew about sums from funds to pressure. from stone totty don't come. week's top stories on our turkey's stab at military intervention in syria gets the cold shoulder with the new u.n. peace envoy arguing any such interference with make a cease fire impossible. a course of support for iran's peaceful nuclear program as the country a destroys any notion it's been politically isolated by the u.s.

with its hosting of a massive international song like. the republicans freshly nominated presidential candidate mitt romney promises a hard line stance against russia faces criticism for flip flopping on major issues . and the war of the well thing. successfully beats back legal attempts by london based tried buddies fitted salty to cut off a slice of his multibillion dollar fortune. or news in fifteen minutes up next it's sports with kate. hello welcome to the latest court on an action packed sunday and the headlines. fighting form a producer makes it to interiors tesco with warner like krasnodar to go with it up point a top spot in the russian premier league. while spalding jenson button starts from

pole for the first time in three years as the belgian grand prix gets underway this fall and there was a pileup on lap one. and going for three to williams hours passed rushing to qatar in a car about on a good day for the top seeds at the u.s. open. but first a football and says overcame their shock of midweek europa league exit by bouncing back to win one millette close into to keep up the pressure on the top two in the russian premier league only our teenage wing the akhmed looser score is secondly go in as many games to ensure and then its next the sides. to within a point of the meet and rush of the of a city but as its key provided in this one and the army men have now won their last four much is to keep up the pressure on the joint leaders. what they must know what's in there not taking on cue banners before komisarek not entertain. not so much those spots not in the capitals of they want us out of their terror activity and use their remarkable start to the season going joint top with the need to

author a two one when it rubin is he killed in dallas sold puts the visitors ahead thirty minutes in the chance trying to get fourteen on a pinpoint cross from the shelf did find an equaliser midway through the second for salomon wrong done with the finish but it's not a mathematician snatch the winner in the dying minutes to put to wreck level on points with disney's rubinstein force and those that had saw the tory but at the same time off after too late looking. or else. alexei's of a gulf struck struck a light on to help ten month old salvage a one one draw at home to rough stuff like i'm glad not open for the visitors early on was to capitalizing on a defensive slip up. but the bosnian was denied a double missing penalty. was sent off. to give up something levelled from

a set piece with three minutes to go. second both to two points behind the real story. and in the last game on saturday i won here came back to draw one wanted time to call in their mid table battle how the if you cannot tell which had struck for this doesn't late in the first half because it was too but the mash riskin levelled with a header of his own with twenty minutes to go through the. ninth the line he had ten. when everything liverpool hosting also in the first of three top flight games with both sides looking for their first victory of the season and the full have handed their debut to on loan way all madrid may feel that new. while also off hoping to score their first goal of the campaign the lights are newcastle and today it's aston villa who have lost their two games answer alex ferguson celebrates his one hundredth premier league game in charge of manchester united with a trip to promote it's not. what i thought the west bromwich third of the two know

when it's time to everton ten miles one of the twice full back to door to two ahead of the sunderland states second so yes to win a league game under under something they conceded equaliser to the north one the result andy carroll set up to goal before going off injured as west ham seek full of three nil in the london derby peter crouch netted a late level in stoke two two draw at wigan while champions manchester city are up to full south an unconvincing three one win at home to q.p.r. and they admit stalling for improvement. would not. be in terms of performances at this moment in time but would you like this problem start by the point stall that would go on the table if problems start scoring goals. would like to keep clean sheets we haven't done that we. probably paid the penalty today for not killing the game off formula one now and the race is underway at the belgian grand prix where mclaren's jenson button started on pole for the first time in three years he was fastest in qualifying at the spar circuit and the britain is leading the race with

the driver's fast approaching the half way stage but a lot of big names have crashed that including standing very different on the lawn so the spaniard will finish a race outside the points for the first time this season lewis hamilton pastor maldonado sergio perez and roman road shop also out after a pileup on the first lap. right on to tennis now and it was sweet revenge for serena williams as the fourth seed beat russia's you've got that in a car but to reach the fourth round of the u.s. open mcgarvey is ranked forty second in the world have not the american after the australian open but williams made sure that wasn't going to repeat beating the left six four six love to reach the last sixteen the thirty year old world next i don't see the czech and there. will be another russian military like. was there. last. but again not one so. whether we learned something i don't know i really watching that is that. i'm

punishing myself. and i did. well meanwhile second seed agnieszka around scores also into round for the polish star overcame a lady i could beat in a scrappy match that saw nine breaks of serve six three seven five was the score that will next play italy is reverting she. found one player in a rich vein of form and unique cover german reached the summit finals at wimbledon earlier this summer and this time sealed eight straight set win all go of it so from the back of. one of the men's draw roger federer needed just two hours to get past the mound over let's go a no nonsense straight certain win for the top seed as the swiss maintains his home program forty six title. and the man who beat federer to take gold at the olympics andy murray is also through it though he needed almost twice as long to defeat anything on a low five despite having beaten him six times before very labored to an eventual four set victory. athletics now defending champion oscar pistorius has set

a new world record in the two hundred meters at the paralympics in england the south african who also competed at the london olympic shaved more than half a second off the previous best this initiative in a time of twenty one point three seconds and the paralympics sprinter has also defended his one hundred m. four hundred meter titles and his new two hundred meter mark is one of many records that has been set at these games raising the question how much of his progress the future improvements in technology and how much is spent in that truth ability with more on that from london is from casa red. south africa's oscar pistorius is or go to the most famous paralympian in the world the sprinter became the first man in history to participate in both events of the summer games following his exams at the sides of the earlier this summer pistorius is achievements has brought him to debates whether paralympians good suit outperform their able bodied counterparts as the purse that six knology advances each year. stickpin takes care of the russian

paralympic team's prosthetic limb stock and contrary to the critics he believes that technology has little to do with the actual improvements of results. of course the manufacturers of all this equipment are competing between each other always trying to improve something but i want to stress it's in the end everything depends on the athletes and then mooney represents the african nation of gone at the paralympics has come a long way in sports starting with the amputee football at home and now road cycling in london and he probably knows better than anyone that state of the art technology comes a distant second to strength of character youth how yesterday best. implement always been modified. and the athlete or herself is not able to put forward it will do you if you never succeed at least so it it's all about pace of your own

determination does it clean integrity initiate if she had intelligence given back. and we need oscar pistorius prove to his fellow athletes with disabilities that competing at the able bodied the olympics is not an unachievable dream naturally they cannot do without artificial limbs but one thing's certain paralympians are the driving force behind the advancement of per static products. so what's in store for the future of technology for people with disabilities are we ever going to see a so-called blade runner the one hundred meters faster than the same bolt well the answer to that is still not sure prosthetics manufacturers have already made a huge technological leap in large part thanks to the efforts and courage of paralympic athlete ramon coffer of artsy london. and finally on the first weekend

in september the russian capital celebrates moscow day with fun and entertainment across the city however this year muscovites have the chance to witness a slightly more extreme show as michael craft explains. at this year's moscow day celebrations muscovites and the city's guests which treated to an impromptu performance by russia's top just drivers fans were allowed to get up close and personal as the drivers convened in moscow's famous luzhniki sports complex to show off their skills. we're very happy that we're being invited to such events because it brings our sport to the masses many don't know what drifting is on the boats and often associated with illegal activities but there's nothing like that it's fast beautiful and a lot of fun. for many of us the notion of ripping up asphalt with a total powered speed machine is consigned to video games we're hitting restarts can become a habit switch to reality and one realizes the adrenaline and danger that comes

with maneuvering between concrete blocks at high speeds it's also a ship down memory lane for the drivers being able to burn rubber on what is otherwise just a simple car park what with most if not all just competitions held in large arenas nowadays. it's great to be back on such a course because now we compete on very wise areas without concrete walls or the like and also spectators are often far removed from the action but i'm all for more old school venues where spectators can literally feel the adrenaline rush it's also a mini preparation for the upcoming russian just final which will be held on the eighth and ninth of september right here in moscow so even though some drivers may well be keeping an eye on that event today it was all about showboating and having fun. moscow. that's all this was there's.

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