thank you very much for finding time to talk to us. speaking of the recent uprisings in north africa and in the arab world how 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 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 and incidentally the cia and other intelligence agencies were quickly criticized for not predicting the possibility of such an rest almost immediately do they became very active president obama called mubarak several times he was still

president mubarak at the time you were they also maintained contact with general omar suleiman the u.s. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff maintain contact with his counterparts in egypt and all the channels were immediately activated even former diplomats who were well connected in cairo flew over to egypt to help the embassy there but you were why did the united states abandon so quickly 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 with 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 riots it on the other hand they had to do all they could to retain influence in egypt and other countries the u.s. 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 woman in 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 a strong. position of the new what do you mange it diverts attention from israel

and israel to 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 during the crisis in the world 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 and all 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 viewings you more would that this process is slightly different in different countries take bahrain for a. trying to percent of the country's population is sunni eighty percent to shia

the leadership all sunni shia muslims consider themselves oppressed now they want to be represented in a coalition government there 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 and they already have twenty percent of seats in the parliament they're 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 hash 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 certain a really horrible rounds of applause and still everybody is wondering if there's uprisings may islam assize the region instead of democratizing it. nood you name them we should go with no ident thing that's possible let's look at what brought about the riots many people believe that all arab states sooner or later and up having an anti colonial revolution will not say those revolutions are not just anti colonial they're directed against or thora tarion regime and. also we probably underestimated the way new technology of frank's arab countries why did the rights happen in june is here in egypt because these are the most advanced arab countries the internet and television and mobile phones helped so 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 these uprisings happening now and why are they happening in such close proximity you use the riots in egypt i think happened largely because people saw on television what was happening in june e.c.s. you split that so it's a dome in effect there don't i think so yes. they also mention that this at present is ransacked 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 a repercussion 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 status quo and abandoning the idea of a peaceful settlement and despite numerous un security council resolutions and president obama's cairo speech is going to israel kept building new settlements in

the west bank and east jerusalem of sabotaging all intensive negotiations 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 will know if they were to annex the west bank or israel will cease to be a nation state or it will become a state of two nations and they realize that and that's why they want the status quo they want to preserve the current state of affairs. mr mcauliffe one of this series of uprising started some comparing them to the color revolutions even though these two things are very different what lesson can we learn from these uprisings in the arab world are showing a 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 who can all say create waves you poorly and 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 arab countries this is something we have to take into account new to us thank you very much for this interview. news.

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a simulated mission to mars they are are on their way back to earth to complete the remainder of their five hundred twenty day experiment in a moscow babytalk. up next all the sports highlights with cake. hello welcome to the sports news for. other stories making headlines comes out the top gets to become the first russian team to reach the last sixteen of the europa league in another big week of european football. while feeling the blues as their domestic season starts as chelsea look to greece that hopes of silverware they can educate in pagan in the champions league. and how much strikes debutant thomas as one of the goal ignites west town say trash bernie five one in the f.a. cup now that to avoid the drop in the premier league. and we start with football

and looking to become the first russian team to reach the last sixteen of the europa league when they host later this tuesday and as richard van cortlandt reports the muscovite side the fun favorites to go through having won the first leg one million grace 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 some more nicky gives the argument a clear advantage going into tuesday's return leg we did it for fun 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 tie would already be over but because we didn't still have a chance just this morning for power will be serious costume 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 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 work harder to love and concede the honda both back training with the first team and that has obviously given us a boost and more options and i can't tell you at the moment if either player will start there certainly both tension. it will be only serious cause the second game of a new season where russian need campaign doesn't get under way into the middle of march nevertheless despite a distinct lack of match practice the armament looked impressive against our class timeouts and could have won by a greater margin than just one goal over lack of much practice isn't ideal head coach me a nice word ski says his team just has to get on with it and 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 to 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 or 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. but you wait for regulations games can be called on to the temperature plunges below minus b. . this game is likely to go ahead as scheduled but playing in such conditions certainly won't be easy for the players newcomer moving new going toward me in great britain 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 paul going have to deal with a hostile crowd on tuesday as only ten thousand fans are likely to brave the bitter cold war and turn up to the stadium however the greeks will certainly have a job on there 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 their europa league match absolutely freezing conditions or should be any problem about 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 out which on porfiry to r.t. moscow. side of the side from the mediterranean climate are expected to struggle with a moscow cold that will be trying to turn the trip to russia into a productive one the business have a mountain time now trying to overhaul the one they'll first a deficit they need to score at least twice in moscow something they haven't done so far in a tournament if you're traveling fans will be cheering for them on tuesday night though hope that their squad composed of sixteen different nationalities get past this time. and meanwhile there are also two first leg ties from the last sixteen of the champions league taking place on tuesday night the chelsea looking to boost their flagging domestic season with european success as they travel to copenhagen

while making that made an appearance in the knockout stage carlo ancelotti has pledged to remain in charge of the police after seeing his side squander a five point lead at the top of the premier league and slipped to fifth twelve points adrift of leaders manchester united and out of a chance. places while on saturday the f.a. cup holders were knocked out of the tournament after losing four three on penalties at home to everton however remains confident his side will get back on track. this is one is not finished or. maybe it could be the best series on the grid come . out of. a memory could be the bushies or maybe could be the worst. i don't know but. wait we judge is not by is still alive and standing in the way of a place in the last eight for chelsea ok big in the team that surprised many in the group stage after

a draw with barcelona wins against russian champions rypien group side palace and i cost the danish league is now on a winter break so a lack of match play could work in the west london sides favor that's despite this confidence is running high and how you can. use some of our players sold off that they think they are a better side than chelsea even so maybe i should talk a little with talk them down a little bit. worse played in this team for the first time i have really lost all the while there are two games. so they think that it is as easy as this so i think that confidence is very very high in the team. and elsewhere french run is that leo will play host to spanish one is at real madrid the visitors are in fine domestic form coming off the back of three straight victories in the league but leon seen here in china have a history on their side they have recorded a draw all better in all of their six previous encounters with rail in this

competition is the french side that put an end to the spanish giants run last year also in the last sixteen so there's a lady and his men may be the favorites while we all know god. you know everyone knows how important is the champions league for the glove for ourself and then to go through so we have to blame. my level. and i do in the game describe their way out so away from home is important so tomorrow when they also described and to get the results moving during this football now and us times thomas hitzlsperger believes his side's f.a. cup victory over burnley can give them the confidence to avoid relegation from the premier league after they triumph five one to set of a quarter final clash against uk but after i'm gone side remain in the league bottom three the german midfielder made his time as david off for a six month injury absence and a trademark thunderbolt after twenty three minutes and then calls him cold look to

be offside to handle the ball and he started playing just after the restart and just two minutes later this classy lot of upright scoop at new ground with three male winston reid then headed in his first goal for the club as the hoops need to be cruising however a shocking defensive except to jay rodriguez consolation for the visitors. i but pretty serious fine high finish wrapped up a comprehensive five one victory and whether west ham and i face liverpool stoke tottenham and much tonight it is a battle to retain the premier league status. and fourth placed on them are also not just tuesday night in piling up that famous champions league victory over us. seven times european champions ac milan with a trip to blackpool in the english premier league the home side have managed only one win in twenty eleven and have slumped to sixteenth collecting just four points from an available twenty seven the last time but will be taught in the midfield road as a four one win in september one thousand nine hundred fifty six. and funny to

basketball and in the n.b.a.'s most talked about transfer commandants and has finally learned where his future lies the small forward is being traded from the denver nuggets to the new york knicks in a move which also sees russian rookie to a famous goal of going the opposite direction but before all the business took place it was showtime in los angeles the all star game once again pitted against each other the west and the east on sunday and once again it was kobe bryant who stole the show the self-proclaimed black man but top scored with thirty seven points and fourteen rebounds to help the west with his impressive actually shorter changelings a style record of forty two point one one to sixty two still good enough to give bryant his record tying fourth time i called le bron james start for the east but his triple double twenty nine points twelve rebounds and ten assists to the top to the west won it hundred forty eight to one hundred forty three and for the latter the trance has been done in very tense to regular business this cheese day night.

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from. the government reaches. and they point to libya with clashes and airstrikes against protesters reported colonel gadhafi did not display in the country and refuses to step down. as leader if you look at the last week the middle east could shatter into pieces the situation is extremely tense we could witness the disintegration of large and generally populated country. president dmitri medvedev warns of decades of turmoil if the protests continue after the government claims to pick up hundreds of russians working in the troubled country. and the political unrest in north africa and the middle east is prompting many people to risk their lives and fleeing to european countries the locals claim immigrants are bringing violence and

instability with them. plus the red planet has seen its last gas for now as a six man crew made their final walk on a mock marshland surface as part of a simulated mission to mars. and in business all prizes climbed to the highest level in more than two years the crisis in libya fuels concerns over supplies we'll have a look at what impact this has on the markets it's like minutes. it's five pm here in moscow this is archie coming to you live with me and he said now i first up this hour anti-government protest in libya have entered a second week as demonstrators demand an end to colonel gadhafi is forty one year rule the longest serving.