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weekly i'm karen taraji with your week's top stories turkey's sound at military intervention in syria gets the cold shoulder but the new u.n. peace envoy arguing any such interference would make it cease fire and possible. a

chorus of support for iran's peaceful nuclear program as they come. destroys any notion it's been politically isolated by the u.s. with its hosting of a massive international summit. the war of the wealthy but imo but successfully backed legal attempts by a london based tycoon bodies to be self ski to cut off a slice of his multibillion dollar fortune. the republicans freshly nominated presidential candidate mitt romney promises a hard line stance against russia but faces criticism for flip flopping on major it's more on the upcoming u.s. presidential election and the troubles with america's political system as we talk to author 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 illusion what was the illusion 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. if 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 stand in particular certainly into a 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 has worked 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 expert even to me was governments a 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 maybe 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 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 a 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 there with 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. to some issues than 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 obama because the steward of the empire can't say that and so he also said well gradually gradually to get out there's a gradual to go but that's different from getting out now which was what even though gingrich served 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 a cozy relationship between corporations and politicians of a limited contributions to political campaigns which many see as

legalized corruption do you think their voices were heard. in a general defeat really 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 but in terms of policy making probably not at least 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 that which i mean fortunately the union address for example he would say that you know there is a need. the last reading chad that better regulated so you say all those words you

can even say that and then he'll can go right out and not keep wall street in check soon americans will face a choice between mitt romney most possibly and. candidates from two parties democrat and republican you wrote that romney's 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 is established effectively do you think americans 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 but 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 a 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 product to 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 where ross perot was running for president and. the greens can't do that and they're not going to. in one thousand nine hundred two very that was in one thousand nine hundred ninety two 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 effectively wrote 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 four 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 levin. thank you . download the. application. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. . device. any time.

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successfully beats back legal attempts by the london based try. to cut off a slice of his 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 over to kate now with the latest in sports. hello and thank you for joining me for the sport on this busy sunday and these are the top stories. fighting fall off makes it to into as to when one will it cause an adult to go within eight points up top spot in the russian premier league but rock bottom is another lose again. while new guns fired because for those few in some

think of all that and on beaten osnos gold routed with a two no victory at stuttering livable. i'm stalking the flyers jenson button wins a crushing belgian grand prix from pole to get the fourteenth victory off his korea . but first let's kick off with football and tesco have overcome their shock a midweek you regulate exit by bouncing back to win one elect krasnodar to keep up the pressure on the top two in the russian premier league on the out teenage wing the aftermath musette scored his secondly go in as many games then it's that's his side stage but move to within a point of the meet in public russia defend the city better since he was the provider for this one when the army men have now won by last four matches to stay within touching distance of top spot. while there was more misery for rock bottom did i must go as done but rescue side threw away more than goal leads to music again to warn in stoppage time and his form aside for about an hour or so this really is netting the winner for the hosts three minutes into injury time that's

about on the rise to fourth because the things you have picked up from previous events are and chris somehow wasn't off to twenty six minutes while i sponsored in the moscow don't you like to. go on saturday to wreck continue their remarkable start to the season going join top woods of each author a two one win as he kill wooden dollars so it puts the visitors ahead thirteen minutes in the child strikeout nest and pinpoint cross from congressional. i don't really know they did find it equalizes me gracy the second off salamone long gone with the finish but mother made me to ship so much that we're not in the dying minutes to put level on points we think it is a nice well even worse for being they have salvatore because he sent off to to me. while in england lost no school their first league goals in over two hundred ten minutes of this new campaign as they want to know that liverpool to remain unbeaten in the premier league new signing something to fall out of this delicate combines

to break the deadlock off the thirty one minutes and then the german provided for the spaniard in the second half to wrap up victory for the gunners to rise to seventh bottom brendan rodgers makes the joint worst stopper reds manager it seems nine hundred twenty seven while in just over ten minutes new calls will end today aston villa have lost their right winger to games announcer alex ferguson celebrates his one thousand premier league game in charge of manchester united with a trip to cuba just sometimes it. was a very west brawl when third were they to know when it's time to have it said ten months once he twice pulled back to do two two would have to sunderland to stay second yet to win a league game on the under bar south debate conceded a late equaliser to draw at home to norwich was one debutant andy carroll set up two goals before going off injured as west ham beat for them three nil in the london darby peter crouch netted the late levering stokes to draw at wigan champions manchester city are up to fourth off to an unconvincing three one win at home to q.p.r. and they admit still room for improvement. would not. be in terms of performances

at this moment in time but with this problem start by the point stall that we've got almost on the table its problems are part of scoring goals. would like to keep a clean sheet we haven't done. we. probably paid the penalty today for not couldn't agree more. now on to formula one and jenson button has claimed his fourteenth career win and his second of the year following a dominant flight to flying display at the belgian grand prix the riddle catapulted himself into contention for the title after also winning at the curtain raising a strained grand prix in march but it was a day to forget for standing very different on the long as over the spaniard was just one of several big names to crash at the spa circuit lewis hamilton sergio perez and roman grew shopgirl retired after a pileup on the first corner pastor maldonado also bad that early on however reigning champion sebastian vettel came in second ahead of can be right in and around the german was arguably the biggest gainer as the red bull man over to

teammate mark webber into second in the overall standings vettel is now twenty four points behind along so the top. ten is now it is a sweet revenge for some really weird as the four seed rushes katherina mcarthur virtue reached the fourth round of the u.s. open but although he was ranked forty second in the world have not reached the american out of the australian open it's made sure there wasn't going to be a repeat between the left and their six four six love to reach the last sixteen the thirty year old will next play unseeded carrick and there. will be another russian area carrying. the second seed agnieszka about dance there is also into round four the polish star overcame your lady activity in a scrappy match but sore nine breaks of so six three seven five was the final score . italy's roberta vinci. one of the men's draw roger federer needed just two hours to get past the monday that asco a no nonsense straight win for the top seed as the swiss maintains he stunned for

a record six title. and the man who beat federer to take gold at the olympics and even henri is also through although he needed almost twice as long to defeat feliciano lopez despite having beaten him six times before mari labored to an eventual four set victory. after a six now and defending champion oscar. story assessed set a new world record in the two hundred metres at the paralympics in england the south african who also competed at the london olympics shaved more than half a second off the previous best finish in a time of twenty one point three seconds at the paralympics the sprinter is also defending his one hundred and four hundred meter titles his new two hundred metre mark is one of many records that have been set at these games and raising the question how much of this progress to improvements in technology and how much it's going to natural ability to put more on that from london. south africa's oscar pistorius is arguably 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 size of the earlier this summer pistorius is achievements has prompted debates whether paralympians could soon outperform their able bodied counterparts as the purse that six knology advances each year step on 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 garner the paralympics he's come a long way in sports starting with the 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. how us all day best. implement always being. and at least in our heads off is not able to put forward it will. never succeed or at least so it it's all about. determination does it clean integrity initiate chief judge and intelligence given back passion and we need oscar pistorius prove to his fellow athletes with disabilities that competing and be 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 purse 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 a same bolt well the answer to that is still not sure prosthetics manufacturers have already made a huge technological leap and a large part thanks to the efforts and courage of paralympic athlete. artsy lines and. and finally on the first weekend of 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. explains. at this year's moscow day celebrations muscovites and the city's guests which seated to an impromptu performance by russia's top jet drivers fans were allowed to get up close and personal as the drivers convened in moscow's airport complex to show off their skills as are shown yeah 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 all about and often associated

with illegal activities but there's nothing like that it's fast beautiful and a lot of. thought it for many of us the notion of ripping up past gold 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 cheap down memory lane for the drive is 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 rushing up 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. and that's often a sports desk i think. i

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