control in his country he also said that he was not the president and therefore he could not resign he could not dissolve parliament and he could not amend the constitution now from bush and the latest remarks from the bush point minister david cameron want for nato to establish a no fly zone over libya has been rejected by many in the international community among the sons' and russia they say it should be up to begins themselves to determine the fate and the future it's how we have in london was to go to hit and close this messiah so it would essentially be committing itself to shooting down its cost that flew over now there are coming to the british troops deployed in been trustee they are there with the humanitarian situation but there are ongoing concerns of the use to take over chemical weapon stockpiles and this is because you don't see it it is fearful that gadhafi might use the stockpiles against his own people will say here in conservations and both egypt and america that to you is ships have sailed through the suez canal there in the mediterranean sea not far

from libya so there are concerns of testable american intervention in addition to a possible push when my colleague in london or in it looks at what foreign intervention would mean for libya and we do not in any way rule out the use of military assets we must not tolerate this regime using military force against its own people is this history repeating itself the british government getting the guns on standby as a country crumbles bowing to impose a no fly zone in this case libya in two thousand and three it was iraq it's looking very dangerous news looking quite possible that they will launch such an attack with or without un approval so we're looking at almost a repeat of what happened in iraq and indeed the results spoke to be largely the same but not every country is getting that treatment and libya is not the only african nation in turmoil so. malia's drawn out conflict is being called

a slow genocide but there's little sign of u.s. or european military input and it's a similar story on the other side of the continent there are events unfolding right now in ivory coast where there is also a conflict an armed conflict between rebels and the government but nobody seems to be thinking of that it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya but also for the political implications of the middle east as a whole as we all know the west including my own country britain has got its hands very dirty with the libyan leadership over recent years dirty with black gold libya has the largest proven oil reserves in africa more than three percent of the global toso and there could be a lot more undiscovered the only reason they're interested in. your oil here anybody screaming and yelling about all those people last week they were killed in the arc of repose. i guess cocoa was that that you know of much of

a national priority but in somalia there was precious little help while the body count rose over the years except for one brief but disastrous intervention involving u.s. soldiers immortalized in the movie black hawk down american forces failed at great cost to stabilize the country they left quickly and haven't returned and the lessons were learned when it came to iraq which remains unstable even now with only feeble sheets of that much vaunted democracy allied troops are equally bogged down in afghanistan with no convincing timeline for withdrawal and an ever rising death toll should be clear to an idiot that the mess that's been made in afghanistan the terrible disaster that was caused in iraq really shouldn't be voted on any more countries in the middle east it's a model today's troubled african nations were imposed on their puppet government which is still ruling. out american movie. of iraq really there is not because of

help. revolutionaries throughout the middle east need and american and european government shouldn't look for backing at home either up to a million marched in london even the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three and times have changed this is now austerity britain where starting another war wasn't factored into the budget british troops are already fighting an unpopular war in afghanistan it's highly unlikely the public has the appetite for again getting involved in someone else's struggle battling as they are at home in the face of deep cuts and rising unemployment and it's unlikely to be popular in sight this building the ministry of defense has to slash spending by more than seven and a half billion dollars in the next four years it's an intervention britain would find hard to afford on many levels your and it's r t. and the state to us if you can for the latest analysis on the crisis in there we have got

much more coming up in just a few minutes here on the r.t. news channel. the changes we've through the middle east and north africa u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has called for changes in u.s. foreign policy desperate to influence the emerging political map the future of american involvement abroad at the top of the government's agenda right now is christine takes a look at the changing face of washington's priorities. right. afghanistan iraq egypt. libya. when it comes to u.s. foreign policy this country's hands are not just full they're often tied secretary of state hillary clinton charged with the task of laying out the plan for the future generations of americans including my own have grown up successful and safe because we chose to lead the world and tackling the greatest challenges but now clear signs that the challenges and the times are changing but

a lot of people in this country have come to the conclusion that our policy overhaul has been inconsistent that sometimes we support the bad guys and the bad guys become our enemies. twenty eleven has been a major year with major shifts in prominence and power in northern africa and the middle east. and signs that u.s. global influence may be waning just days before the regime of egyptian president hosni mubarak fell both secretary clinton and cia director leon panetta called it stable until it was. there are also in consistencies on the war in afghanistan in afghanistan integrated military and civilian surges have helped set the stage for our diplomatic surge to support afghan led reconciliation that could end the conflict and put al qaeda on the run but robert want kins a senior u.n.

official just said quote it is fair to say that security in the country is at its lowest point since the departure of the taliban even secretary of defense robert gates said this just last week to a group of cadets at west point in my opinion any futures defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big american land army into asia. or into the middle east or africa. should have his head examined as general macarthur so delicately put it there is also the matter of money u.s. own economy weak and losing leverage to other powers like china and brazil another frustration voiced by lawmakers doesn't make any sense at all for us to be borrowing money from china and giving it to other countries especially giving it back to china. now when it comes to iran there is a clear position given by the state department the denial of human dignity in iran

is an outrage that deserves the condemnation of all who speak out for freedom and justice but in many other regions like behind rain albania and most prominently iraq where many many more people are killed at the hands of u.s. allied governments the silence is deafening. and as the landscape changes daily in libya cracks in the foundation here grow deeper we must maintain firm ties with our allies and enemies must be clearly identified it is a constantly changing position on good versus evil and increasingly diminishing power to influence what's next in washington christine for r.t. . the last leader of the us is so mikhail gorbachev's celebrating his eightieth birthday he's been awarded with russia's highest honor by a president dmitri medvedev the order of singer andrew medal for his work as the soviet leader for many people his name synonymous with the end of the cold war the

reunification of germany and liberalism with his economic and political reforms he paved the way indeed for democracy in russia is best known policy put astroid curage to the country without destroying the bases and socialism is initiatives also led to the consolation of state censorship in the creation of free speech received the nobel peace prize in ninety ninety a year later vogue costar the chain of events that led to the collapse of union the soviet. departure his critics say plunged the country into a destructive and chaotic reform the effects of which are still being felt today the former leader still says russia was in desperate need of change. but that we realized from experience that it was dangerous to wait much longer that we had to take a risk because we couldn't postpone it we needed changes i don't agree when people say that perestroika failed it didn't fail it was disrupted railed stocked but

still perestroika achieved a lot inside russia we had democracy free elections freedom of conscience private property freedom to travel abroad everything. glasnost there was so much openness the entire country was affected the people realized they had finally got some freedom an opportunity to act in foreign affairs we put an end to the cold war we normalized our relationship with the u.s. we reunited germany we didn't send our tanks our troops there all our units in eastern europe stayed where they were you know wasn't always easy many things did not work out the way we planned at the beginning but when we made our first mistakes we didn't really explain to people what was going on and didn't get them involved in all those processes we were self-confident lord but in public politics i don't think we have ever lost a major battle nuclear arsenals were significantly reduced thanks to our efforts during perestroika today when the world is so divided we need to find things that

bring us together for instance the g twenty is a step which brings us closer it's an instrument in the mechanism for handling the hardest and most challenging issues but we need more than that it's a matter of learning to live in a global world. i just remind you can watch the full interview with mikhail gorbachev in about ten minutes time and don't miss our debate show cross talk either it's coming up a bit later when host people of elena's guests discuss. the last solve it leader's legacy internationally is in brief now coming up let me update you see we've got for you in the u.s. air force is confirmed two of its servicemen have been killed and two wounded in a shooting at frankfurt airport a gunman opened fire on a bus carrying military personnel what it was parked outside the building following the shooting a twenty one year old suspect from kosovo was arrested by german police u.s. president barack obama said he was saddened and outraged by the attack he promised the u.s. would quote spare no effort in investigating the shooting. pakistan's minister for

religious minorities has been killed in a gun attack in the country's capital islamabad police say alleged taliban government sprayed the victim's car with bullets in a residential neighborhood shows barbarity was a christian had been threatened by islamist militants in the past for speaking out against the country's harsh blasphemy laws the issue indeed but in the spotlight since november when a court sentenced the mother of four to death after her neighbors complained she insulted the prophet mohammed. doctors here in russia developing a pioneering alternative treatment to heart transplants but with the shortage of organ donations in the country right now this technique is giving hope to thousands of people on surgery waiting lists exulted boyko reports for. it's a smile that comes straight from the heart that almost died from heart failure to decades ago but these she visits a cardiology ward for regular check out. look at her she's just a picture of health by know she's been living with

a new heart longer than with her own. dr miscavige operate on natasha twenty one years ago when a donor organ was here only hope for a live one of the best known cardiac surgeons in russia he performed hundreds of lifesaving transplants but still thinks of the thousands he couldn't do because of the shortage of donor organs nowadays he's pioneering any technique that gives some patients on the analyst waiting list a more definite hope. a heart transplant is not a panacea firstly the supply of donor organs is so short that you can only help a smattering of patients secondly it brings with it a number of complications starting with ethical dilemmas to biological functions that's why finding an alternative treatment that will allow to preserve a host organ is so crucial. the treatment brockport remodelling consists of seven surgeries that together reverse the damage to

a broken heart russian doctor started performing it two years ago and its long term effectiveness is still being tested yet for some like these patients not it already proved a real life changer you already when i was first diagnosed doctors told me i had a year to leave now i have all the reasons to hope that i'll see my little daughter grow up i was told that i may still need a heart transplant in the future but this surgery pulls that day four years off. but just eighteen series carried out this procedure is far from being routine yet this successful recovery of older patients has already given to many on the transplant waiting list a change of heart reconstructive surgery has many advantages that were heart transplant patients don't have to endure and agonizing and far from guaranteed wait for don't know oregon the chances of successful recovery higher but like heart transplant this procedure has been one major setback the gap between those who need

it and those who get it just to disheartening the huge. or to moscow. more about that story a lot about yourself as well along with the stories going the clicks right now that so we've got for you calling for the free world russia pushes for other nations with nuclear arsenals to start their own arms reduction programs more about online . news that moscow is getting it so this new land the capital gokey partner is is getting a facelift with billions of dollars with roman abramovich reportedly got the project i'm the one going for it. dot com.

well as we just heard the last leader of the soviet union has been celebrating his eightieth birthday next that his interview with our two sophie shevardnadze she spoke to him about his legacy.

well mr gorbachev it's so great to have you with us today good to see you again well mr gorbachev you're turning eighty to ever think the world will look like this on your eightieth birthday. it's not easy to surprise people like me those who lived to see their eightieth birthday have seen a lot in life is a lot we should thank god for giving us so many years and because it easy you already know a lot you've experienced many things i can view life in a primitive way that is a laugh a safer today compared to the late eighty's. if we look at the middle east for example in most countries where people took to the streets demanding resignation of their leaders these leaders have been in power for twenty or thirty years it is unbelievable mubarak has ruled egypt for twenty nine years for gadhafi we are all confused about the actual date when his rule began so i think we were right when we said there should be a limit otherwise people got tired of the same leaders in addition after ten years

or so you get nepotism leaders become too preoccupied to take care of the things that are really important that's why we decided that the maximum term for the general secretary the chairman of the council of ministers and others would be ten years after ten years they had to step down. he often say that what you regret most is that disintegration of the soviet union do you think that it could exist in two thousand and eleven what it would have been like today had it not disintegrated. it could exist even longer it should have become a union of sovereign states with the communist regime. being a union of sovereign states means that each sovereign state has the right to make its own choice the conditions we were in required that we practice what the constitution said and the constitutions of the soviet republics said they were states entitled to self-determination that's why we should have made them sovereign states. that. when you started the perestroika could you imagine the scale of

the changes to calm. people i think i do not completely but it is dangerous to start a storm in our country. if you lose control you may get into a lot of trouble to show biz reforms basically failed reforms failed we realized from experience that it was dangerous to wait much longer that we had to take a risk but we couldn't we needed changes. what. you were saying that you didn't quite understand the scale of it all when did you finally get a clear realization that there was no return to the past. i don't agree when people say that perestroika failed it didn't fail it was disrupted railed stopped but still perestroika achieved a lot inside russia we had democracy free elections freedom of conscience private

property freedom to travel abroad everything. there was so much openness the entire country was affected people realized they had finally got some freedom and opportunity to act in foreign affairs we put an end to the cold war we normalized our relationship with the u.s. we reunited germany we didn't send our tanks our troops there all our units in eastern europe stayed where they were truthful. i suppose. so let's talk about foreign policy twenty five years ago you started the process of disarmament between the soviet union and the united states today president obama and there's environmental further steps to get rid of nuclear arsenals do you think we'll ever come to a world without nuclear weapons. we must do it and i believe that sooner or later we will get there but to get there we have to put the world back in order first nuclear arsenals were significantly reduced thanks to our efforts

during perestroika today when the world is so divided we need to find things that bring us together for instance the g. twenty is a step which brings us closer it's an instrument election ism for handling the hardest and most challenging issues but we need more than that it's a matter of learning to live in a global world. which some people consider you the number one politician of the twentieth century. always remember when you were number one there's a great responsibility that comes with that actually though you can't give a single politician credit for everything so there is always a group of people who realize the challenges of their time they understand what is going on. in the world. of too many people you played a major role in many important events the unification of germany the end of the cold war perestroika some people say that you were the one who brought down the soviet union he were awarded the nobel peace prize some say that you were at the

last really a liberal of our time what do you think is your most important legacy. i think it is the fact that the world is no longer divided that it is mostly free from ideological antagonism this is perhaps the most important thing this creates conditions for further progress. people abroad love you and respect you a lot while russian seven different opinions about what do you make of that fact that you are more appreciated abroad than in russia. i think it's normal after all i worked in russia and many things started here it wasn't always easy many things did not work out the way we planned at the beginning when we made our first mistakes we didn't really explain to people what was going on and didn't get them involved in all those processes we were self-confident but in public politics i don't think we have ever lost a major battle here eighty the whole world is celebrating your birthday at the end

of march in london few people can say i made this world a better place but you can say that about yourself your children grandchildren great grandchildren what do you lack. there are a few things i didn't have time to do and i regret it. you know i miss my wife who was my best friend and i lost her in this fierce battle it's hard you can't forget about things like that sometimes i look at people with a lot of money and they may have many wives many women but we were different we were very close to me and to be frank with you another thing i wish i had these days is good health well i wish you good health and many more years happy birthday to you and thank you very much.

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forty five gold dot com. you're watching the r.t. news channel the global raul castro from moscow but these are all top stories at co of a rack as the u.k. considers military intervention in libya there are fears the ongoing violence in north africa could trigger another disastrous campaign russia and other foreign governments who said they're against moves which involve the use of international military force. as washington seeks to shake up its foreign policy members of congress question the u.s. government's ability to back the right candidate in north africa in the middle east the u.s. secretary of state admitted to struggles to successfully balance its interests in foreign affairs. and the last leader of the soviet union celebrates his eightieth birthday was the man behind the cancellation of state censorship and the promotion

of free speech but some accuse him of paving the way for destructive chaotic before . the people of l. is guest next discuss the legacy of the father of russian democracy and how he's seen both in his own country and across the atlantic crosstalk coming right up. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle as he turns eighty male got a bunch of salacious each season loved abroad in lowe's the home as glasgow some paris.