last woman to keep 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 not some version the latest box from the bush point mr david cameron wants for me to establish a no fly zone over libya has been rejected by many in the international community among its aunts and russia they say it gives them selves to determine the fate and the future is how we have in london was to go ahead and close this messiah so it would essentially be committing itself to shooting down its cost that's over now there are coming to the british troops deployed in the they are they're all being with the humanitarian situation but they're going to sense if they can be used to take over that chemical weapon stockpiles in the city because one city does fearful that gadhafi might use the stockpiles against his own people will secure consummation of both egypt and america that to you is still true this is going up

in the minutes mean you see not far from libya so there are concerns of a 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 to impose a no fly zone in this case libya in two thousand and three it was iraq it's looking very dangerous those looking quite possible that they will launch such an attack with or without u.n. approval so we're looking at almost a repeat of what happened in iraq and indeed as a result the launch of the side but not every country's getting that treatment and libya is not the only effort. a nation in turmoil somalia'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. your oil here anybody screaming and yelling about all those people last week there were killed in the ivory coast. i

guess cocoa wasn't that 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 of the staple 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 the or 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. true american military occupation of iraq really.

help. the revolutionaries throughout the middle east made under american and european government shouldn't look for backing. up to a million marched in london for 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 inside 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. and political experts. says foreign powers have already launched

a military campaign in the bear mirroring events leading to the two thousand and three iraq invasion. foreign intervention can only exasperate the problem in libya it cannot help in any way and as a matter of fact foreign intervention has already begun the french the united states and the british have already sent so-called humanitarian aid to benghazi but they've also sent military advisors and special forces this means that your operations have already begun we are seeing a similar scenario of what happened to iraq we're seeing talks about sanctions false reports that have been used to justify the no fly zones about aerial strikes on protesters and civilians this is the same scenario as iraq in fact they're starting to talk about chemical weapons in libya it was in two thousand and three that the united states and britain want to fight gadhafi as someone who gave up his weapons of mass destruction now they're doing about face in claiming that colonel

gadhafi has chemical weapons you know this is another book they're creating to justify their foreign policy in regards to libya in fact it's very ironic that the united states called on protesters in egypt and the regime to talk things out but in libya we have a whole different story because of oil interests or black gold as some may call it . political acts but talking to us from. the us is losing the global information rules so such secretary of state hillary clinton that she lost a congressional committee for extra cash to spread the u.s. propaganda through new media contends that existing private channels are no good enough to handle the job and named as rivals all just zero china's c.c.-t.v. and altie where she watches shout it from me when i joined live my ghana teacher can was in washington for as well as a guy and so madam clinton was pretty harsh towards us media all the shea.

well you hear here is what we have learned from hillary clinton's statement we're officially at war information war that's according to us our chrissake we by we i mean english language non us run media which provide alternative views on wold news views which often run in contrast to the coverage of events by the us mainstream media hillary clinton was the founding the department budget in front of the us foreign policy priorities committing congress she says a major reason the state department needs money is because quote we are in an information war and we are losing that war choice and among those media who are winning that war hillary clinton named r t she basically says the u.s. should step up propaganda effort and get back quote in the game of doing what we do best here is more mars billions we are engaged in an information war you know during the cold war we did

a great job in getting america's message out after the berlin wall fell we said ok fine enough for that you know we've done it we're done and unfortunately we are paying a big price for it and our our private media cannot fill that gap in fact our private media particularly cultural programming often works at counter purposes to what we truly are as americans and what our values are i remember having an afghan general tell me that the only thing he thought about americans is that all the men wrestled in the women walked around a bikini's because the only t.v. ever saw was baywatch and worldwide wrestling so if we are in an information war and we are losing that war i'll be very blunt in my assessment al jazeera is winning. the chinese have opened up a global english language and multi language television network the russians have opened up an english language network i've seen it in a few countries and it's quite instructive. so good why did she choose to talk

about this information who are now. well you'll be if you think about it some five years ago western media outlets including b.b.c. and c.n.n. basically had a monopoly in the coverage of wald news things have changed a lot since then more and more viewers of cross the walled tune into various foreign media to get a fresh take on the events our t.v. presence on you tube for example is a real hit almost three hundred million views. something like three million r.t.s. cost and growing viewership is already an indication to many that the days of media monopoly are over and people demand multi-polar thinking al-jazeera coverage of the unrest in the middle east and in north africa has outdone the u.s. presentation of the fence while many are happy to see this emerging media variety of the head of the u.s. agency that manages the country's government run international broadcasting has

basically called those who are in media enemies i'm talking about walter isaacson's last year's infamous pitch to get more funding for his agency which among other media outlets runs out of america back then he said we can't allow ourselves to be communicated by our enemies he said you've got to watch it today iran's press t.v. venice well us tell a story and of course china while later he backtracked on the on this statement though and said he was misunderstood just a little more on isaacson's department which is called broadcasting board of governors it has a budget of seven hundred fifteen million dollars that's way more than the budget of russia today r.t. iran's press t.v. venice wallace telos or combined so maybe money does not fully make up for global media clout isaacson statement last year sent a pretty hostile message to foreign media trying to trying to provide a fresh perspective on world news but but this once they start to have state hillary clinton basically confirmed it saying that the u.s.

is at war at an information war with foreign media in. town and washington thank you very much indeed. and don't forget there are plenty more stories for you to explore in our website home all the latest news and features a look now at what's wind for you at the moment. so it seems to be a case of functions side for john galliano but the designer is just on trial and songs after being struck from all over alleged under semitic remarks sending shock waves not just through the design of what. mosque is getting its own disneyland the capital's famous gorky park is getting a facelift worth billions of dollars with a reminder of ramada trip or should leave behind the project.

for some who suffer chronic heart disease a transplant may be their own only but with the lack of donors in russia doctors have pioneered a new treatment which reverses cogic damage giving hope to thousands on the waiting list of some of the met with some of their patients for whom the surgery became lifesaving. it's a smile that comes straight from the heart almost died from heart failure two decades ago but these visits are cardiology ward for regular check out. look at her she's just a picture of health by now she's been living with a new heart longer than with her own. dr carey to operate on natasha twenty one years ago on 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 a new 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 this patient not to it already proved a real life changer you already where 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 the surgery pulls that day four years off with just eighteen serious carried out this procedure is far from being routine yet the successful recovery of all the patients has already given to many on the transplant waiting list a change of heart reconstructive stint julie has many advantages there were heart transplant patients don't have to endure an agonizing and far from guaranteed wait for a donor organ the chances of successful recovery a higher but like heart transplant this procedure has one major setback the gap between those who need it and those who get it is still disheartening to hear. or to in moscow. let's now have a look at some other international news stories making headlines around the world.

which has confirmed here but servicemen have a big killed and two wounded in a shooting out front for the gunman opened fire on a bus carrying the military personnel while it was parked outside the building following the shooting a twenty one year old suspect from course was arrested by german police u.s. president barack obama said he was saddened and outraged by that time he promised the u.s. would. investigating the shootings. suspected al qaeda guns that have assassinated pakistan's only christian government minister outside his mother's home ability been threatened by islamist militants in the past for speaking out against the country's strict perversions is the second assassination of a high profile opponent of the death penalty for blasphemy against islam in the past two months after a governor was killed by a border guard has also been center stage since november when a court sentenced a mother of four to death after neighbors claimed should insults the prophet

muhammad. nato has issued an apology after the meeting its forces in north east afghanistan killed nine children on tuesday local officials said the victims were all boys aged twelve and under who were gathering firewood when they were hit by an airstrike the coalition attributes the killings miscommunication of information about the location of alleged militants. thousands of people living in council holding a rally media to protest a planned trade deal between the country and the. government against signing any deal that would increase the cost of drugs in terms of thousands of people treatment traitors marched through the streets of central new delhi before holding a meeting. indian politics. a loss leader of the us is saw me hell go to trial has

been celebrating his eightieth birthday it's been awarded with russia's president dmitry medvedev the st andrew medal for his work is so obviously to so many people is name is synonymous with the end of the cold war the reunification of germany and liberalism and his economic and political reforms pave the way for democracy in russia the best known of the perestroika was intended to revive the country without destroying the bases of socialism is initiatives also sought to end state censorship and allow free speech received the nobel peace prize in nineteen nineteen year later how about a coup started a chain of events which led to the collapse of the soviet union and gorbachev departure despite being admired in the west critics say launched his country into a destructive and chaotic reform the effects of which are still being felt today. so official that now i just spoke to the former soviet leader about his legacy and his interview is coming up next.

well mr gorbachev it's so great to have you with us today. to see you again. mr gorbachev you're turning eighty did you 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 eighty 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 integrated. 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 entitle to self-determination that's why we should have made them sovereign states. when you started the perestroika could you imagine the scale of the changes to calm. people i think i did 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 shelves 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 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. i think. so let's talk about foreign policy twenty five years ago he started the process of disarmament between the soviet union and the united states today president obama and medvedev are making further steps to get rid of nuclear arsenals do you think it will 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 you 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 here 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. 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 and to be frank with you another thing i wish i had these days is good head. well i wish you good health and many more years happy birthday to you and thank you very much.

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