and she 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 on that which is point mr david cameron want 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 hit and impose 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 been they are there all being with the humanitarian situation but there are ongoing concerns and they could be used to take over that chemical weapons stockpiles and this because london city does fearful that it doesn't want to see 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 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 spectrally largely the same but not every country is getting that treatment and libya is not the only african nation in turmoil somalia's drop out come. it is being called

a slow genocide but there's little sign of u.s. or european military inputs 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 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 ivory coast. i guess cocoa wasn't that you know 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 are 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 voted on any more countries in the middle east it's a model today's troubled african nations won't want to impose on their puppet government which is still ruling. out american military occupation or you. really

there it's not because of help. the middle east need and american and european government shouldn't look for backing. up to a million marched in london a 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 while the british government puts the military option on the table it sings american official

come to grief. also contribute in a way they're a big divisions within the us administration of the crisis. one thing we have to remember about free he became the leader of libya in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine let's put that in perspective richard nixon was president of the states leonid brezhnev was the general secretary of the soviet communist party and the beatles were still together so this guy is not a knock over there are some people in the neo con war hawk. ranks who would love to really get khadafi but khadafi of course changed his director of intelligence and has been a the cia in tracking the a.q. khan nuclear proliferation network in participating in the cia's rendition and torture program so he's got he's got good friends in the cia. but we have people who remember the one nine hundred eighty s. and would just love to get free i'm afraid that after the. started making this war

talk released wasn't consistent in its message we saw khadafi start to launch offensives and i think this is a problem the united states needs to speak with a single voice bob gates the secretary of defense saying one thing it would take more than planes and we could put on one aircraft carrier to go to the no fly zone and we have hillary clinton waffling on the issue and david cameron of course now looking like a fool because he said something about a no fly zone and now we have the arab league saying they me and two one but the arab league doesn't have a military structure where are they going to get the planes from. the u.s. is losing the global information rules so says secretary of state hillary clinton as she asked a congressional committee for extra time to spread u.s. propaganda through new media clinton said the privately owned american media is not up to the job and name does rivals china's c.c.t.v. and he while revealing that she is of your own explains from washington.

here's what we have learned from hillary clinton's statement we are officially at war information war by we i mean english language non us run media which provide alternative views on world news views which often running contrast to the coverage of events by the u.s. mainstream media story clinton was defending her department budget in congress she says a major reason the state department needs money is because the u.s. is losing the information war and among those media who are winning that war hillary clinton named r t 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 mrs clinton says she's leading an effort to spread u.s. propaganda through new media with twitter feeds in arabic and farsi but on global

stage the u.s. trails when it comes to television she basically said the u.s. should step up propaganda efforts and get back quote and they gave of doing quote what we do best here is more 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 of 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 some five years ago western media

outlets including b.b.c. and c.n.n. basically had a monopoly in the coverage of wall news things have changed a lot since then more and more viewers of crossed 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 parties cost and growing viewership is already an indication to many that the days of media monopoly are over and people demand more people are thinking al-jazeera coverage of the unrest in the middle east and north africa has outdone the u.s. presentation of the events while many are happy to see this emerging media of the. right in the head of a u.s. agency that manages the country's government run international broadcasting has basically called those foreign media enemies i'm talking about walter isaacson's last year's infamous page to get more funding for his agency which among other media outlets one's voice of america back then he said we can't allow ourselves to

be out communicated by our enemies he said you've got to watch it today iran's press t.v. event as well as tell a story and of course china. later he backtracked on those on this statement though and said he was misunderstood just a little more on the eyes of france department which is called broadcasting board of governors it has a budget of seven hundred fifty million dollars that's way more than the budget of russia today r.t. iran's press t.v. venice wallace tell us or combined so maybe ramadi does not fully make up for a global media clown i've written statement last year sent pretty hostile message to foreign media trying to trying to provide a fresh perspective on world news but but this was the effective state hillary clinton basically confirmed it saying that the us is at war at an information war with foreign media. and journalist and filmmaker danny is shocked says the u.s. can no longer hold the monopoly on information. united states feels on the

defensive in part because they can no longer monopolize not only the terms of you know the soroti in these countries but also the terms of the debate there's other information out there there are other points of view and those points of view are profoundly damaging to a country that believes that its point of view is the only point of view should be the only point of view so hillary clinton one day is defending the internet the next day the administration is proposing all kinds of regulations and ways to cut off the internet if possible. you know there's no real commitment to the kind of freedom of diverse speech that we really need if we're going to be a democracy at home and you know a community of nations over issues we can't dictate what people believe anymore.

don't forget you can leave your comments on this story at our website call on what is playing to move for you to explore looking at the moment. it seems to be a case of functional suicide for john galliano as the designing is to start a trial in france after being silent for me do you all of the alleged until you submit to good logs sending shock waves not just through the design of world. that moscow is getting its own disneyland the capital is famous goalkeeping all because guess where facelift by billions of dollars with the ramana brim of a triple threat lay behind the project. for some who suffer chronic heart disease a transplant may be their only hope but with a lack of donors and russian doctors have pioneered

a new treatment which reverses cardiac damage we hope to silence on the waiting list that's on the book i met with some of the patients to whom this symmetry became life savings. it's a smile that comes straight from the heart that's why she almost died from heart failure two decades ago but these only visits a 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. doctor gave each alterative on the tosh a 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 and need to kmiec that give some patients on the analyst waiting least

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. ready 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 the surgery pulls that day four years off with

just eighteen serious carried out this procedure is far from being routine yet this successful recovery of all the patients has already given the many on the transplant waiting list a change of heart reconstruct. to julie has many advantages that were for transplant patients don't have to change your and agonizing and probably shouldn't wait for do you know the chances of successful recovery. but like heart transplant this procedure has one major setback to get between those who need it and do school get it to disheartening huge. or to most of. us know how to look good so international news stories making headlines around the world. that's going to do you a bit service men have been killed and two wounded in a shooting as a prank for airport they're gonna open 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

a german means u.s. president barack obama said he was quote sided and outraged by that time it promised to do us would. that investigation of the shootings. suspected al qaeda gunmen have assassinated pakistan's only christian government minister outside his mother's home. been threatened by islamist militants in the past for speaking out against the country's strict visions is the second the cessation 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 boy to god are you sure has also been a center stage since november when a court sentenced a mother to death after neighbors claimed should insulted the prophet muhammad. nato has issued an apology after admitting its forces in northeast afghanistan killed nine children on tuesday local officials say the victims were all boys aged twelve who were gathering firewood when they were hit by an ass trike the coalition

attributes the killing miscommunication of information about the location of election in attendance. thousands of people. living with a tragedy on cancer holding a rally named did to protest a planned trade deal between country and the european peter says it wants the government against signing any deal that would increase the cost of. denying turns of thousands of people treatment of strangers marched through the streets of central new delhi before holding a meeting in the indian parliament. for the last leader of the us a solidly held go but child has been celebrating his eightieth birthday has been awarded with russia's highest although by president dmitry medvedev the st andrew medal for his work as soviet leader for many people his name is synonymous with the end of the cold war the unification of germany and liberalism his economic and

political reforms pave the way for democracy in russia the birth of the perestroika was intended to revamp the country without destroying the basis of socialism his initiatives also sought to end state censorship and allow free speech received the nobel peace prize in one nine hundred ninety later however who is told of the china violence which led to the collapse of the soviet union and gorbachev departure despite being admired in the west critics say he plunged his country into a destructive and chaotic reform effects which are still being felt today. spoke to the former soviet leader about his legacy as interview is coming up next.

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 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 the 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. sir 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. when you started the perestroika could you imagine the scale of the changes to come. when you pulled 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 truthful. i suppose. 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 as i'm 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. 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 there is always a group of people who realize the challenges of their time they understand what is going on. the world. is a gorbachev to 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 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 hell. well i wish you good health and many more happy birthday to you and thank you very much.

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mission. to the headline. sending military to the. north africa into another disastrous war with. russia and other countries that said games. charnel challenge us secretary of state hillary clinton says the u.s. is losing the global war on its own minds to rivals like. as one of all of you know as america's. top to the child.

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