meant as a factor these are 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 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 mubarak several times he was still president mubarak at the time they also maintained contact with general omar suleiman the u.s. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff maintained contact with his counterpart in egypt all the channels were immediately activated even former diplomats who were well connected in cairo flew over to egypt to help the embassy there why did the

united states abandon the box 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 rights in egypt would democratic not islamic there were no islamic slogans no green flags all people wanted was to put an end to corruption and to allow normal economic growth to develop. the primary protest was against the regime so the us had to maintain its image by

supporting the bryants it 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 ali's regime in china zia 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 then the military stepped in what will some say that the united states was actually happy to see unrest in egypt because it diverted attention from israel the. issue of the new what do you mean it diverts attention from israel that israel too is now facing serious problems due to the riots for instance they've opened the rafa crossing in fact it was opened some time ago they just closed it 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 eyesight along the egyptian border of you know 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 gold 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 you more would that this process is slightly different in different countries take bahrain for instance trying to percent of the country's population a sunni eighty percent a shia the leadership all sunny shia muslims consider themselves oppressed now they want to be. scented in a coalition government they're in talks now and they may find a modus vivendi in bahrain in other countries the phenomenon is purely social i'm

sure islamic groups will take part in it but we have to differentiate between a minute 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 a political party they already have twenty percent of seats in the parliament they are proposing a social program with the movement is actually a combination of different forces there was a very interesting story in a local newspaper about the muslim brotherhood having a youth wing and a women's when these two groups just hatched themselves from the rest of the party and joined the protest is that to mean something we should not view the world in black and white it is very unwise to sincerely marian roles of a person still everybody is wondering if there is uprisings may islam assize the

region instead of democratizing it. needed to run into them we should go with know who i don't think that's possible 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 not so those revolutions and not just anti colonial they directed against or thora tarion regime. also we probably underestimated the way new technology of francs in arab countries why did the rights happen in june is here in egypt because these are the most advanced arab countries the internet television and mobile phones helped organize people there is a youth group called the april sixth movement in egypt it has approximately seventy thousand members in the movie. it is internet based if these young people spearheaded the street protests well the internet was invented

a long time ago why are these uprisings happening now and why are they happening in such close proximity to the riots in egypt i think happened largely because people saw on television what was happening age newseum has put that so it's a domino effect and i think so yes. but they also mention that this uprising as with 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 of 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 give a direct onset i think it will become clearer after time has passed 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 to israel kept building new settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem sabotaging all attempts if they go she a should 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 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. lesson we should learn things and never completely calm they like the sea was 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. new.

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with the latest from the world of sports and armand it is freezing in moscow today and they're still going to be football that's right european football in fact it is coming to this freezing weather plus we have a more appropriate sport for this weather again the eye which is i saw the latest highlights from the kontinental hockey league all of that is on the way stay right there. hello and welcome to the support of our team come and see a live from moscow with me rome on calls for evan first stop is always the headlines. continental targets say sky aims to become the first russian team to reach the last sixteen of the europa league in another big week of european football. while in the champions league the last sixteen begin their quest to the final with two matches taken place on tuesday. and the playoffs are just

a day away a look ahead at the conference quarterfinals plus the latest highlights from the continental hockey league. and we kick off with football where i say scarlet came to become the first russian seemed to reach the last sixteen of the europa league when they host. and she's day and as richard played reports the muscovite side are firm favors to go through having won the first leg one nail in greece just last week. serious 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 nets his goal a week ago and someone nicky gives the argument a clear advantage going into tuesday's return leg we did 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 the army men 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 because ricky honda back in contention after missing out on last week's trip to greece working out a lot more affordable to bargain to love and consider 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 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 with

a move to the scout players 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 visitors but also have to contend with the freezing cold that descended on moscow the last few weeks last week's much here in the capital between rubin and after twenty it was touch and go as on the u.a.e. for regulations games can be called on if the temperature plunges below minus fifteen this game is likely to go ahead as scheduled but playing in such conditions certainly won't be easy for the players newcomb move. it's not comfortable for anyone to play in temperatures of minus seventeen of course it's difficult to not ideal but there's nothing we can do about it because we have to play we need to win and that's exactly what we will be trying to do at least powell going have to deal with a hostile crowd on tuesday as only ten thousand fans are likely to brave the bitter

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 car side who stands 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 about 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 porfiry to r.t. moscow so the side from the mediterranean climate are expected to struggle with the moscow cold botts powell will be trying to turn their trip to russia into a productive one in the visitors have no magic to climb in trying to overhaul the one no the first leg deficit they need to score at least twice in moscow something they haven't done so far in this tournament if you're traveling fans will be cheering for them and she is the night bell and i hope that there's a lot of those top sixteen different nationalities can get past this side. to the

champions league matches will also be held a little bit later in the day in france and they are hosting josie marine is real madrid while chelsea are in denmark to face copenhagen who qualified for the knockout stage. for the first time the english team are struggling at the moment having lost their f.a. cup encounter against everton on saturday plus the blues premier league title hopes are also diminished somewhat with chelsea currently in fifth pot twelve points behind magister united however carlo ancelotti remains confident that his side will get back on track this season which could turn out to be that seems best yet. there's one who's not finished. maybe it could be the best years of the group come . out of. a memory would be the bushies or maybe it could be the worst. i don't know but wait we treasure is not.

on the way to the last eight for chelsea stance copenhagen the team that surprised many in the group stage after a draw with barcelona and two wins against russian champions all being angry champions cos the danish league is now underwent a break so a lack of competition could be in london spader even so confidence is overflowing at their home camp. this summer while players so that they think they are a better side than shells even so maybe i should talk a little bit talk them down a little bit. who is played in this team for the first time i really lost all they won the two games. so they think that it is as easy as they so i think that confidence is very very high in the team. senates now where the men's tournament is underway in dubai number three seats almost burdick cruz for his first round opponent jeremy charedi with

a six two six three victory an hour and six minutes was all the czech needed to overcome the frenchman who did manage to break at the beginning of the second set the next randle seen burdick take on the winner off another person on match between russia's nicholai dividend goal and spain's good garcia and to collide dividend that. number five seeded became the first surprise exit of the a.t.p. dubai championship the croatian was up against ukraine sergei boot the son of a great saw get pole vaulter who showed he could be on the way to becoming just as great an athlete as his father bought the wind probably left mixed emotions for buka who took the first set six one however decided to retire in the second citing a leg injury. find that i saw a key where the last games of the case shells the 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 eyes were sixteen teams are on their hands for the good and called currently held by al gore's western conference champions local it's equal hold still a russian alkyd who have qualified for the playoffs for the first time while you know moscow opened their campaign against the law. in the russian capital sports travel north to play their star studded scott st petersburg and planned in moscow region side seat place. while the eastern conference will see a regular season champions of on guard start against nifty the team they lost to at the same stage last year saw about your life posi beat it while in new comers hugh grant travelled to money to find that it's time to help others og bar struggles of kazakhstan to face and body is to begin on wednesday with the final series taking place in mid april. so the stakes are about to be raised when the playoffs get underway but for now let's check out the latest highlights from the kontinental hockey league enjoy.

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is three pm in moscow this is coming to you live first up this hour libyans are digging their heels in protest in key cities just spike the violent response from the police as they try to curb the. demonstrations world leaders are rounding on libyan authorities calling for an immediate end to the clashes increasing numbers of protesters are demanding for an end to the forty one year rule of colonel gadhafi hundreds have been killed and over a thousand injured during a week of on grass through the ports of airstrikes from the country's own military on monday rumors spread that the libyan leader had fled the trouble but he later made a brief and defiant t.v. appearance saying he was still in the country one of his sons blamed exiles an outsiders for pushing libya to the brink of civil war and denied that my.