civilization in your opinion that they might have been incited from outside. i think we can safely discard foreign involvement as a factor these purely internal affairs after they began however other countries definitely became concerned about what was happening 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 gold medal eric several times he was little the president of american the time you were they also maintain contact with general omar suleiman the root of the of the u.s. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of maintaining contact with his counterpart

in egypt in all the channels were immediately activated by the rules even former diplomats who were well connected in cairo flew over to egypt to help the embassy there why did the united states abandon mubarak so quickly for him 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 gets 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 were democratic not islamic there were no islamic slogans no green flags all people wanted was to put an end to corruption and to. now normal economic growth to develop them the

primary protest the gates the regime and 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 ben at least regime engine is e.s.q. so they were looking for a way out of this predicament 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 woman 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 all so i know i'm not embarrassing you when i say snowy for much what do you mean it diverts attention from israel israel too

is now facing serious problems due to the riots for instance they've opened the refound crossing over in fact it was opened some time ago they just closed during the crisis so now israel doesn't know what the new egyptian leadership will do whether they'll maintain the gaza blockade only sin aside 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 i'm sure islamic groups will take part in a box we have to differentiate between a minute that we shouldn't paint everybody with the same black stick to 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 development 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 but of 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 i want to just choose to sincerely mary and rose up close and still everybody is wondering if there's uprisings may islamicized the region or instead of democratizing it. needed to run into them we should go if know who i don't think that's you possible should know let's look at what brought about the riots when many people believe that all arab states sooner or later end up having an anti colonial revolution not so those revolutions and not just anti colonial directed against or for a tarion race. also we probably underestimated the way new technology thinks in arab countries why did the rights happen in tunis here in egypt because these are the most advanced arab countries the international television and mobile phones

helped 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 use that so it's a domino effect i think so yes. they also mention that this at present the israeli palestinian settlement do you think that new forces may emerge in the middle east and that i haven't a be able to dominate the region. it is hard to say what is going to happen at the moment so 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 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 and despite numerous un security council resolutions and president obama's cairo speech israel kept building new settlements in the west

bank and east jerusalem sabotaging all attempts to 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 will 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 choose and that's why they want the status quo they want to preserve the current state of affairs. one of a 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. lesson 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 when you do discontented people especially young people 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 metairie a square and in similar places in other arab countries this is something we have to take into account thank you very much for this interview. wealthy british style stock.

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global calls for the violence to end in libya as hundreds died during a week of protests and there were rumors that. trouble. later made a t.v. appearance saying he was still in the country. russia is among several other nations racing to get their people out to safety special planes are being sent to the troubled country to ensure foreign workers don't get caught up in the cautious . and the hundreds preparing for their final walk martian surface before starting their long journey back home where the volunteers are half way through the five hundred project which they're spending in isolation. to test the

psychological impact of space travel. back in fifteen minutes with more of those stories but first. ports. so there's still a lot of activity and despite the freezing temperatures. great football fans are in. the europa league. plus amazing hockey highlights all that coming up. welcome to the sports an artsy comments to you live from the russian capital with the room on call for first as always the headline. called all the bahrain grand prix is false because the government protests in the gulf kingdom. while continental target says sky it's become the first russian seeds or least the last

sixteen of the year wrongfully and then the other big week of european football. the playoffs are just a day away a look at heads at that conference quarterfinals was delayed just highlights from the continental hockey. and that was start with the big story in formula one where the bahrain grand prix has been called off because of anti-government protests in the gulf kingdom the race was used to stage the march the thirteenth that would have opened the new formula one season but the event had been in doubt for more than a week because of civil unrest instead the twenty eleven campaign will begin in a stretch on march the twenty seventh the race could still be rescheduled but organizers say there's 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 due to take place there on march the third has been the schedule to start on the eighth in barcelona. football now and says scarlett can become the

first russian seemed to reach the last sixteen of the europa league when they host . on tuesday and as richard dunne reports the muscovite side are firm favors to go through having won the first leg one nil in greece last week. so this car have 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 and it's his goal a week ago and some more nicky gives the argument a clear advantage going into tuesday's return leg movie theater in the fourth and 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 as boring 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 for both father love and crystal

kick on the back in contention after missing out on last week's trip to greece working out a lot more for a board to bargain to love and consider the honda both back training with the first team and that is obviously given as 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 a 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 says his team just has to get on with it and the move to the world 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. to make matters worse for the visitors and 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 under u.a.e. for. relations teams can be called on if the temperature plunges below minus fifty 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 integrated mean 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 will 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 bits of cold and turn up to the stadium however the greeks will certainly have a job on their hands to try and make the last sixteen against a 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 rubina played very europa league match absolutely freezing conditions or should be any problem with this much going ahead. in 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 ante moscow. sell the side from the mediterranean climates are expected to struggle with the moscow cold but will be trying to turn their trip to russia into a productive one the visitors have a mountain to climb and find so over a hole there one nil first leg deficit they need to score at least twice in moscow something they haven't done so far in this tournaments if you're travelling fans will be cheering for them and choose the night though and hope that their squad composed of sixteen different nationalities can get past this tie. move into the english f.a. cup for now where premier league strugglers west ham have thrashed championship side burnley five one setting up a quarter final clash against stoke thomas hitzlsperger made

a triumphant return from the injured list after opening the score twenty three minutes into the press have one nil is the way it stayed before the break but carlton cole put that side beyond any doubt by scoring two goals in the space of two minutes. after a restart german thomas hitzlsperger was instrumental again and they are mark after setting up a corner for winston reid was scored his first for the team and then a defense error helped burnley get one back through j rodrigo's but it was west ham with the last word as for it sears made a nice solo effort right there to make five one the final score. and hears the rest of the draw for the sixth round manchester city or some villa will take on everett's and or reading birmingham will need balls and and in the take of that size premier league leaders manchester united will face either title rivals arsenal or league one type lars late in the orient so those matches will be played on the twelfth and thirteenth of march. to tennis now where the men's tournament is

underway in dubai number three seats almost birdie cruised for his first round opponent jeremy charedi with a six two six three victory and hour and six minutes was all the czech needed to overcome the frenchman who did manage to break in the beginning of the second set the next round will see birdie take on the winner open another person match it's been russia's sneak in call and spain's get together maul garcia lopez. number five c.v. became the first surprise exit of the a.t.p. dubai championship the creation was up against ukraine's sergei boot the son of a great soviet pole vaulter showed he could be on the way to becoming just. as his father but the wind probably left mixed emotions for buka who took the first set six one however lubitsch decided to retire in the second citing leg injury. and finally to ice hockey where the last games of the kontinental hockey league's

regular season concluded on sunday in a moment we'll get the highlights of that final week but first let's take a look at the playoff size where it sixteen teams are on the hunt for the guarin cup currently held by of course western conference champ. will host a russian outfit who have applied to the playoffs for the first time well deny moscow open their campaign against the latvian in the russian capital travel north to play the star studded scots st petersburg and find that in most of the region sidelocks placed over style while the eastern conference will see regular season champs add on gore's start against nifty make it seem the last of the same stage last year you live while you converse you grab travel to london to find the time to. travel to kazakhstan's a place bodies so the playoffs begin on wednesday with the final series taking place in mid april. so the stakes are about to be raised when the playoffs get

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to find out what's been dragging the indices down. live from our studios in moscow this is our thanks for joining us now world leaders are calling on libyan authorities to end of the surging violence as anti-government protests continue across the country well they've been. it is a major world oil producer and the unrest has caused prices to rocket demonstrators and security forces clashed in the capital tripoli protesters calling for an end to the forty one year rule of colonel gadhafi hundreds have been killed and over eight thousand injured after a week of reports of airstrikes by libyan jets on monday rumors spread that the libyan leader had fled the trouble but gadhafi later made a brief and defiant t.v. appearance saying he was still in.