possible is it in your opinion that they might have been incited from outside. i think we can safely discard foreign involvement as a factor in these purely internal affairs after they began however other countries definitely became concerned about what was happening of i was in washington d.c. when the riots in egypt began with meeting with state department officials we had a bilateral meeting on the middle east settlement i saw that my american counterparts were really shocked by the scale to which the events in egypt had escalated and incidentally the cia and other intelligence agencies were quickly criticized for not predicting the possibility of such an rest almost immediately though they became very active president obama called little eric several times he was still president of american the time you were they also maintained contact with general omar suleiman the root of the of the u.s. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff on maintaining contact with his counterparts

in egypt in all the channels were immediately activated with the bullshit on former diplomats who were well connected in cairo flew over to egypt to help the embassy there why did the united states abandon robotics so quickly already and you know this was america's position from the very beginning in his conversations with mubarak president obama strongly recommended that president mubarak step down before september because mubarak said initially he would step down in september that was leaked to the media and reported by several u.s. newspapers to get at the same time it was clear that the u.s. found itself between a rock and a hard place on one hand it had to maintain its image of a country that supports democratic revolutions the riots in egypt democratic not islamic there were no islamic slogans no green flags all people wanted was to put an end to corruption and. who allow normal economic growth to develop from the

primary protest which gates the regime so the us had to maintain its image by supporting the brian says on the other hand they had to do all they could to retain their influence in egypt and other countries the us strongly relied on the barracks regime in egypt and on then at least regime engine is if you will so they were looking for a way out of this predicament we at first they hoped that general suliman would remain in power this was obvious since hillary clinton said that he might be the interim ruler until the election then it turned out that people didn't like him because of his close ties with an american then the military stepped in with the will some say that the united states was actually happy to see unrest in egypt because it diverted attention from israel. you. know this is quite a naive explanation i know it's not you also i know i'm not embarrassing you when i

say snowy for much what do you mean it diverts attention from israel's israel too is now facing serious problems due to the riots for instance they've opened the raf on crossing over in fact it was opened some time ago they just closed injuring the crises so now israel doesn't know what the new egyptian leadership will do whether they'll maintain the gaza blockade only see nice side along the egyptian border. i read an article in the wall street journal that said the military and intelligence communities in israel are in favor of preparing for re occupation of goals and at the same time many experts say that would put israel in a position where a large scale bloody war would be inevitable. so we can't say the situation was instigated by israel or that its purpose was to divert attention from israel this was a social explosion and that's the way we should view it. but this process is slightly different in different countries take bahrain for instance. twenty percent of the

country's population is sunni eighty percent a shia the leadership all sunny shia muslims consider themselves oppressed now they want to be represented in a coalition government they're in talks now and they may find a modus vivendi rain water in other countries the phenomenon is purely social sure islamic groups will take a part in it but we have to differentiate between a minute that we shouldn't paint everybody with the same black stick take the muslim brotherhood in egypt finster it is a movement that now wants to become the political party they already have twenty percent of seats in the moment they're proposing a social program with the movement is actually a combination of different over forces there was a very interesting story in a local newspaper about the muslim brotherhood having a youth wing and a women's women these two groups just hatched themselves from the rest of the party

more than joined the protest is that to mean something and we should not view the world in black and white it is of the very young one who just used a certain area rows of apostles still everybody is wondering if there's uprisings may islamicized the region or instead of democratizing it. you name them we should go with know who i don't think that's possible should know let's look at what brought about the riots when many people believe that all arab states sooner or later and up having an anti colonial revolution were not so good those revolutions are not just anti colonial they're directed against or for a tarion regime as are an american also we probably underestimated the way new technology of francs in arab countries why did the rights happen in tunis here in egypt because these are the most advanced in arab countries and the international television and mobile phone. help organize people there is

a youth group called the april sixth movement in egypt that has approximately seventy thousand members of the movement is internet based if these young people spearheaded the street protests. internet was invented a long time ago why are this uprising is happening now and why are they happening in such close proximity you know you do get the riots in egypt i think happened largely because people saw on television what was happening a jew newseum has put that so it's a domino effect there i think so yes. also mentioned that this at present fact the israeli palestinian settlement do you think that new forces may emerge in the middle east and that they may be able to dominate the region. it is hard to say what is going to happen at the moment we've seen the statements made by the prime minister of the palestinian authority saying he is ready to form

a coalition government with a mass but that is also repercussions and recent events at the same time it helped relieve pressure in the region when the egyptian military which is currently the defacto government announced they would observe all the agreements previously signed including the nine hundred seventy nine treaty with israel. so it's hard to judge the situation right now and i can't give you a direct onset i think it will become clearer after time has passed and in any case i think it might force the israeli leadership to give up their policy of maintaining the status quo in the middle east so far the israeli leadership has been leaning towards preserving the status quo and abandoning the idea of a peaceful settlement despite numerous un security council resolutions and president obama's cairo speech going to israel bill. adding in new settlements in

the west bank and east jerusalem sabotaging all attempts if they go she a should because i think recent events may cause them to reconsider their policy because global trends and not in favor of israel's anik sation policy but in fact they cannot really an exe the west bank or no if they were to annex the west bank israel will cease to be a nation state it will become a state of two nations and they realize that too soon but that's why they want the status quo they want to preserve the current state of affairs. when this series of uprising started some comparing them to the color revolutions in though these two things are very different what lesson can we learn from these uprisings in the arab world will. lessen my we should learn things and never completely calm they like to see always rippling and it's not just the israeli

palestinian conflict or some other conflicts between various arab states discontented people especially young people who can also create waves you put they don't have any prospects for the future so they go out into the streets they staged rallies in most areas square and in similar places in other countries this is something we have to take into account thank you very much for this interview.

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there are global calls for the violence to end in libya as hundreds died during a week of protests there were rumors that the libyan leader had fled the trouble but colonel gadhafi later made a brief t.v. appearance saying he was still in the country. russia is a model several other nations are racing to get their people out to safety special planes are being sent to the troubled country to ensure that foreign workers don't get caught up in the marshes. and the last five hundred who are preparing for their final walk on the bog martian surface before starting their long journey back home the volunteers are halfway through the five hundred twenty day project which they're spending in isolation in a moscow loud retore to test the psychological impact from deep space travel. all

be back in about fifteen minutes time with more on those stories but first john joins us from the sports good morning to you so what do you have in store for us this hour well european football comes to freezing mall scope last some more appropriate sports for this weather i saw look you've got all the latest highlights from the kontinental hockey league all that on the way. well welcome to the sport and artsy coming to you live from moscow with lieberman koester about let's head straight to the headlines. called off the bahrain grand prix the sports call because of antigovernment protests in the gulf kingdom. while continental targets to become the first russian team to reach the last sixteen of the europa league in another big week of european football. and the playoffs are

just a day away a look ahead at the conference quarterfinals plus the latest highlights from the kontinental hockey league. and we'll start with the big story in formula one where the bahrain grand prix has been called off because of antigovernment protests in the gulf kingdom the race was due to be staged on march the thirteenth and would have opened the new formula one season but the event had been endowed for more than a week because of civil unrest instead that's once the eleven campaign will begin in a strain that's what it's seven the race could still be rescheduled but organizers say there is no decision on that just yet the bahrain grand prix has been on the formula one calendar since two thousand and four while the final round of testing that was g to take place there on march the third as their risk kegel to start on the eighth in barcelona. football now and says garlick it's become the first russian seem to reach the last

sixteen of the europa league when they host. on tuesday and as richard van portly reports the muscovite side are firm favorites to go through having won the first leg one nil in greece just last week. so this guy has been irresistible so far in this season's europa league they breezed through their qualification campaign unbeaten winning five and drawing just one game or thomas needs his goal a week ago and someone nicky gives the argument a clear advantage going into tuesday's return leg where we differ in the fourth i thought we played well last week in greece of course we tied in the second half but that is understandable due to our season only just starting however we didn't take all our chances and had we done so this time i would already be over that because we didn't still have a chance just this morning for power will be serious counts home form in this year's competition we are women have won all four games and averaging more than four goals in the process the home side will be strengthened with both father love

and crystal king on the back in contention after missing out on last week's trip to greece working out a lot more for water rather than a love and consume the honda both back training with the first team and that has obviously given us a boost and more options i can't tell you at the moment if either player will start but they are certainly both contention. this will be only serious cause the second game of the new season russian league campaign doesn't get under way into the middle of march nevertheless despite a distinct lack of match practice the armament looked impressive against power class timeouts and could have won by a greater margin than just one goal over lack of match practice isn't ideal head coach of the only school ski says his team just has to get on with it the words to live with will assess skull play as they used to starting the season in february and i think if you ask any player they much prefer when there is a short pre-season and he suddenly starts have to play rather than having to wait the players are more than used to this but then again there is little we can do

about it for to make matters worse for the visitors but also have to contend with the freezing cold that's descended on moscow the last few weeks last week's much here in the capital between rubin and f.c. twente it was touch and go as and when you wait for. relations games can be called on the temperature plunges below minus to be this game is likely to go ahead as scheduled but playing in such conditions certainly won't be easy for the players newcomb moving toward me it's not comfortable for anyone to play in temperatures of minus seventeen of course and it's difficult to not ideal but there's nothing we can do about it we have to play we need to win and that's exactly what we're going to be trying to do at least pollock won't have to deal with a hostile crowd on tuesday as only ten thousand fans are likely to brave the big to co-opt and turn up to the stadium however the greeks will certainly have a job on their own and said to try and make the last sixteen against serious side will stand as firm favorites to do just dance was frankly

a good deal warmer here in moscow than it was this time last week when rubin played very europa league match absolutely freezing conditions or should be any problem of this much going ahead. and a great position to try and reach the last sixteen after a fantastic one nil victory in greece last time arts which is on pole three to answer moscow. so the side from the mediterranean climates are expected to struggle with the moscow cold bots paulk will be trying to turn their trips or russia into a productive one the visitors have a mountain to climb in trying to overhaul the one nil first leg deficit they need to score at least twice in moscow something they haven't done so for investor demands a few travelling fans will be cheering for them when she's the night though and hold that their squad composed of sixteen different nationalities can get past this . move into the english f.a. cup where premier league strugglers west ham have thrashed championship side burnley five one setting up a quarter final clash against stoke it's almost made

a triumphant return from the injured list after opening the score twenty three minutes into the purse half one nail is the way it stayed before the break but carlton cole put that side beyond any doubt by scoring to. goals within a space of two minutes after a restart. now german thomas hitzlsperger was instrumental again on the hour mark after setting up a corner to win some reduced borders first for the scene it depends there are held burnley get one back through j rodrigo but it was west ham with the last word and spread sears made a nice effort there and one of the final score. and here's to the rest of the draw for the six rounds at manchester city or aston villa will take on everton or reading birmingham will be bolton and in the wake of that size premier league leaders manchester united will face either title rivals arsenal or league one high flyers relates an orient and those matches will be played on the

twelfth and thirteenth of march. and find it so i saw here where the last game silva kontinental hockey league's regular season concluded on sunday in a moment we'll get to the highlights of that final week but first let's take a look at the playoffs where sixteen teams are on their hands for the guarin cup currently held by og bars western conference champions local boards will host a russian alps with the novel's who have qualified for the playoffs for the first sign while you know moscow opened their campaign against the latvians are now in the russian capital sparks travel to play star studded scott st petersburg and find that if the region sides place ever stop while the eastern conference will see the regular season champs guard start against nifty it seems they lost at the same stage last year. while newcomers you grew up travel to in the music wars find the way to time gotten caught winners out of bars travel to kazakhstan to face bodies

in the playoffs but you know wednesday with the final series taking place in mid april. so the stakes are about to be raised when the playoffs get on their way but for now let's check out the latest highlights from the kontinental hockey league enjoy. really.

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protesters hold out against police pressure as violence mounts but colonel gadhafi refuses to be prised from power. brushy joins other nations in the race to get their people out to safety. plain it's being dispatched to the troubled country to ensure the innocent. in the fighting clashes in you the latest information the evacuation. and finding their feet in an alien world the mars five hundred crew prepare for their final walk the walk martian surface. and in business the rally in the oil prize since the beginning of the year has given the russian government new options for all they

find out in business in twenty minutes. from our studios in moscow this is r t thanks for joining us now world leaders are calling on libyan authorities to end the surging violence as anti-government protests continue across the country libya is a major world oil producer and the unrest has caused prices to rock it all demonstrators and security forces clashed in the capital tripoli for a second night with protesters calling for an end to the forty one year rule of colonel gadhafi hundreds some of them killed and over a thousand injured after a week of unrest the reports of airstrikes by libyan jets on the monday in the rumor spread that the libyan leader had fled the trouble but gadhafi later made a brief and define.