grown to be closer to old mcconnell their release from marco results on some of the snow to your own. local town would result much will never be closer to home a true review if it's only true cintra photo metron. back here with r.t. coming to live from moscow here's a look at the top stories fighting for control of key cities intensifies in libya the media's being blamed for making and look much worse than it is stoking the conflict just to get striking headlines. haskett obvious foreign cash goes under a log and he experts warned of the legacy of using frozen assets as a long term political tool. and young people in italy who look to inject fresh water into the country's leadership but some fear it could mean meaning to the

nationalistic far right. those that have lines that start you so sure now as he discusses the deteriorating situation in libya with two leading academics and world affairs to discuss what future of the troubled nation and the region have in store and why foreign nations need to keep out. stephen it's really good to have you back. on your who will so good to see you again so stephen has come out with a new book out it's called victims return survivors of the cool after star and that's coming out in london next week but will still need to talk about what's going on in the middle east because some shaking is coming out and now it's being seriously. and us could intervene into libya what do you think are we seeing a cause of iraq here i think it's very different than iraq i think iraq was

a moment when the united states in the name of democracy formed democracy by bringing democracy at the tip of a bayonet or with bombs and i think we're seeing the ripple effects of iraq in the region. i'm opposed to u.s. intervention i wish the united nations had more capacity to end violence and bloodshed in countries like libya but i think for the u.s. to intervene would be dangerous because the countries in the region themselves it seems to me as we saw in egypt people in those countries need to take control of their own destiny and i have not followed libyan politics carefully but i think we're at a tipping point in the country where the forces arrayed against gadhafi will oust him in the next for sure but yeah i do think so you're seeing that so for the u.s. to intervene or create a backlash in the region that could harm the possibility of future democracy in that very unstable and important region be older than i it was someone very

limited street it was. so many countries around or. very were or were creamery a point of american intervention. to discredit you know heard of the attorney general. it appears the pirate was overthrown with the backing of the united states in the force and for a domestic democracy. in addition to what we're witnessing in egypt. it's not clear who these reported democracy which are these are. despotic movements they want to get rid of the dictator but getting rid of a dictator from ordinary country doesn't necessarily mean true democracy. in these countries will be very difficult when there is no real democratic culture of american intervention or one other point. if intervention is necessary should be collecting direction of the united nations and this might not be

a bad because the united nations was created in an effort to maintain peace and your fear of. war and violence against corporations you're going to be a rancher people who care about this country should insist that the senate and united nation not in the white males. or any board all know how decisions are made or is that really a matter well but part of the problem in the countries we're watching in the middle east now is that the institutions of democracy have been so guarded and attacked over the last decades by the despots in power that it will take generations to build those institutions but in the same way the u.s. relationship with these countries has been so heavily dependent on military and national security relations that it has distorted our relations and so we talk again in the united states of support for democracy that we've really been

supporting stability in support of oil or in support of other measures so i think we need a new national security. policy or a new thinking to use a term that was popular in this country in order to develop a relationship there would emphasize economic development which is going to be critical because some. any of the protests in the region have to do with economic despair and joblessness and i think support for civic governance not the meddling but just actual changing relationship so it's away from military it's a more civil political place you look at the situation generally what the lessons are for what's going on right now in the arab world well i think the lesson is that you're witnessing people who've been suppressed and repressed for decades who are disgusted and fed up with the cronyism the corruption the suppression of not necessarily democracy put people's ability to lead their own lives and in

anger about the joblessness but i do think the corruption the sense that these leaders were willing to put in their own sons and his family despotism has led to something we rarely see in this world we saw we saw some of it in one thousand nine hundred nine in this part of the world but it's people rising up and seeking their own destiny it's never as simple as that but i do think that that's what we begin with and from there it will get very complicated i think in america i don't know about your country but there is a sense all you know democracy has come no regime change has barely come these dictators have been ousted and what follows will be a measure of international support of non meddling of our country's ability to come together and find the resources i come back again to economic development i really think that's going to be critical in this region because you have millions of young people and that's how it started in tunisia it's like the new dominoes the young man who couldn't get

a license and who was disgusted by the corruption and lived in self-doubt on fire and suddenly you had people witnessing this and then finally you had the ability to communicate the social networks are not to be treated lightly people were able to see if you could. get rid of the dictator in one country it could happen part of the problem in the united states world and just come from we're just a lot of the us and what i'm drawn to the media or the one percent of those it is mostly it isn't that when you're on the journey maybe it's the first step but it's a long journey it's four months for second people so this is the revolution as a historian. react badly to the generalization in egypt for example when the market is going to propitiate was still there and of the three or she would govern the country that's not a revolution it's trying to convert regime change at the moment only leader change i don't know what's going to happen and i'm going to. change we.

talk about desperate for one so there's a lot of misperception and in the other three minutes the warmth of us in the united states i think is there and i just think should be something the word shepherd you know the silver shepherd like a farmer a guy just walk of sheep or it is cattle the idea of the united states has to shepherd brings countries it is a force for us from god always ends badly for these countries to make it on the record or the united states doesn't understand the situation where there is a danger of a political involvement of your god which would be a much i mean there are two things that have arisen in the united states in the last few days one is of course the renewal of democracy promotion this idea that america has the right or the wisdom to impose democracy in other countries and you see a lot of this in the commentary president obama should bring democracy to egypt or bring democracy to tunisia that's not our role we need to get our own act together inside our country but also of course there's

a concern that there will be more terrorist threats and danger in the region just a feeling yes that the instability will fuel terrorist threats well you could argue the opposite that the repression of the possibility of democracy in. these countries has given fuel to terrorists who have been mean have been angry and enraged over these last decades by the u.s. occupation and presence in these countries it's a very tricky time i'm not even talking about the role of israel in the region in the united states there's a great live in iran and also iran i think is in an interesting position because there's iran has become again as it was because of the failed iraq war more powerful in the region and i think or oil and other factors may make it even more powerful with israel in the united states you have a strong support support for israel and a concern that it will lose allies the fact that you had the board because its main

israel's main ally has caused many supporters of israel concerned i think you will see a region which is not going to be empty is really will not be as willing to support agreements that have been so inconsistent with the human rights of palestinians and so inconsistent with the rights of other countries arab countries and in the region but there is great concern among those who feel israel be threatened by the changes two years ago obama sought to reset relations with russia what humans are there to talk about so far world tour achieve something you can see there is nothing we speak in a more quiet voice from each other or from current from the other and more cooperation of perished around there was a good part was going to be operation on around but i think it was an illusion. of course it was going to start treating agreement to reduce nuclear weapons preferred i've just written a long manuscript about this and i will be sure it was not only

a limited experience because the underlying question remains created really. really. should. for example why was the recent even necessary why wasn't there a strategic partnership after all shore or the strategic partnership to the corporate charter your grandfather created with reagan and bush that was watched after mentioning that one. united states planes problem but that's not a fur explanation or ignored. secondly nato expansion is clearly a big issue still think it's the biggest stumbling point between america and russia it's even bigger than people understand and i will tell you why the president made beautiful said russia isn't from a sphere of privileged and from the former soviet security if you want to call it

we say we have united states and. we say no because no countries are allowed to have a sphere of influence and it's an evil what is the expansion of nato it's an expansion of the american sphere of influence rashed expansion into the character henri used to be the sphere of influence of soviet russia so moscow seems to washington why do you get the spirit and in our backyard and we get on this is the geo political conflict over a time when there will be. no war now there is a solution but nobody is prepared for war in the united states. till this problem is solved and they're going to be in a partnership an organization that you know steve speaks is a scholar of russian the soviet union but he doesn't speak about the enormous opposition even this modest reset has confronted in the united states you had again a republican party which forget cade's has supported bipartisan arms control treaties and how many republicans did you finally get seven i think at the most so

the reset is modest i agree with steve's analysis of the ongoing problems but the fact that it's still under fire in america is a failure of both the duty of a solitary sister leadership this is one area where presidents of both. it's an enormous power and foreign policy gorbachev and reagan were opposed by their own parties but they overcame it and made you had a pretty stunning attack in moscow from the research obama there but this is where leadership from don't forget these guys inherited this problem and they don't spend should obama didn't expand they go out and he did not he inherited this problem it has to be resolved and it was a worse by the day remember the united states is still saying that georgia should become a member of nato and saakashvili is saying yes we want to and the united states is even saying that ukraine crane should become a member of nato even though ukraine says it's not interested these are fundamental conflicts and we already had one world with us in georgia and it could be another

country and if i know who is stephen cohen thank you very much for this interview. mine. would be soo much brighter if you moved some from funds to fruition once. these food stamps on t.v. don't come. wealthy british soil most of us moved on to the front. of the. market.

come to find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headline used to mean to cause a report on markets. fighting for control of key cities intensifies in libya but the media is being blamed for making it look much worse than it is stoking the conflict just to get striking headlines. has cut off his foreign cash goes under a walking he asked for its war and the legacy of using frozen assets as a long term political tool. and young people in italy who look to inject fresh blood into the country's leadership but some fear it could mean leaning to the nationalistic far right. they have lines here are to be back at the top of the hour with more updates i mean tom we've got all the latest from the world of sports with under far.

hello good morning thanks for watching the sport and this is what is coming up. winning starts but less he praises his plays are the beat see the scars lift the russians to put. clubs regular season jams out when god made the last day to break a child piles with a big tree over nesting in me. and the triple crown lindsey vonn shines on the slopes of italy to take a third title in his ninety day. any coach leach on the spot i think his praise is size character after being in moscow one nil to lift the russian super cup substitute alexy iron of with a win in the traditional curtain raiser to the new russian football season the muscovites far more scoring opportunities throughout this match with spare lessons many plan the net and seventy three minutes through to starship took place in the

field getting a tour of the quarter final of the russians partly for that though both play in the last sixteen of the europa league on thursday and is the visit f.c. twente take auntie's f.c. palter sixty nine english premier league liverpool moved up to six places after defeating leaders manage to ninety three one at anfield to liverpool man in tremendously in all three goals the squads the system and the execution a grabbing at patrick have even on days managed to score a consolation goal in the dying moments for the visiting side this was a dalglish use third win against united since he was project level back in one thousand nine hundred elsewhere brush an international demand public change dischord himself and this is to your mind with one of his two goals for tottenham is a battle behind and although salvaging a three three draw with the late actor steven fletcher now result leaves spurs level on points with fourth place chelsea they play relegation but there is blackpool tonight chelsea themselves are twelve points but how. and ladies man

united but do have two games in hand the blues have slightly stands over defend their debut luis and midfielder john obi mikel but didier drogba could be in line for a start let's go to the kontinental hockey league now where the conference semifinal lineups are now known regular season champions aren't god taking the last squat after winning their deciding game with lefty to make seven three and that means the regular season when it's them will host most of the maglite of course in game one. a dozen eastern conference a true heavy weight match up between the second and third seeded teams in the east and the other ties the two time defending champions at pars will face off against. the life both teams are yet to lose during this postseason having swept that opening round matches against bodysuit and sabir respectively. and then in the western conference we got lucky that they will play latvian sized in amerigo and another best of seven series the other western conference semifinal is between

scarse and it is that in atlanta those games taking place tomorrow. being lindsey vonn had quite a time to remember in italy the american skier winning her third title in these many days a world cup c.p.g. title being the latest addition to her trade cabinet the twenty six year old already secured a super combined and downhill crown but her hunger will to win carried over into the final day of the event she was clocked just one minute just over one minute and twenty one seconds. just missed the chance to improve on that sign vons best friend and chief rivalry right is in the mix as always grabbing the final spot on the podium next to the two american so three titles in as many days for twenty ten downhill limping gold medalist lindsey baum. marion matt meanwhile once again proved he is a force to be reckoned with in the men's slalom the austrian veteran registering his fourth take overall world cup victory in a highly charged race. teach groaned straddling

a gate and getting disqualified from the event as he tried to get the better of each of costly by the creation they also committing this thing the state of his french rival leaving the door open for matt and the thirty one year old took full advantage of a blistering last run axel beck a known casper tied for second place followed by on three mile. tennis now russia's davis cup campaign came to an abrupt end at the weekend following their shock defeat away to sweden no such problems though for spain is the top ranked nation breached their way past minnows belgium i will number one rafael nadal and company had put their quarter final berth and saturday and they were looking to complete a whitewash in sunday nadar who's just returned from injury was that his domineering best against every rocker's and the spanish left sealed the deal with a top notch forehand down the line so six four six two the way the little lopez then had the chance to make the overall score five nil for spain but steve darcis

gave his all to salvage at least some pride for the home side the team needed type breaks and all three sets improved his celebrated consolation when. it came down to the wire for last year's beaten finest france he faced austria. had beaten jewson on to tie the match so down to jeremy chardy to help them in france the french woman was up against martin fisher who is ranked and side of the top one hundred however fisher was the faster out of the blocks taking the first set six to charlie level matters when second on a tie break and he went on to wrap it up in full. for france and germany he waved again for a share of phillips and beating eva college in the deciding fifth brother spain next play us the americans receiving is very against chile argentina will play fast rise and has expand who stunned the czech republic a great result for them while russia conquers sweden are in from the treatment tie

with holders. but it has been the weekend to get them for russians tennis players but the country's athletes didn't fail to deliver as they top the medals table at the european indoor championships in paris six goals overall for russia the ladies out of three of those on sunday up and coming down here. please should not claim the long journey title beating portugal is not going to spike just one centimeter gani at dinner over triumph in the truck when the eight hundred meters run while get another go thank you to running towards that one the top four hundred eighty three legs out quick look at the medals table russia topping it taking home fifteen medals overall in france paving certain replied gold that night while germany managed to tell you. now the cricket world cup england will be without a batsman kevin pietersen for the rest of the tournament he needs a hernia operation after his side's thrilling picture over south africa england

winning this point your six runs in the end of the day didn't start well for them batting first captain and retransfer desire for the ball and paid to send follow just three balls later. well also when cheekily. took three wickets for just three runs off sixty balls ravi bopara jonathan trott steady the ship really going with a stand of ninety nine. for one hundred seventy one in south africa must the chances however stuart broad took four wickets with just fifty runs clean bowing russian who made fourth into the finale source south african trade twelve runs in the last twenty two wickets remaining groups are off the tail end the victory. was a huge huge game for us you know after the game we really need to come out and show you some character we definitely need to do that. didn't do it as much of the like

the truth is you guys are very deep in the field in the lives of the bowlers you. learn to come out and show what they can use. you know the research woman if you can get but it's actually i'm bowling right in one go going to be hot so to beat the other game on sunday you got a five wicket win over ireland you've seen with a great warm performance claiming five wickets and hitting a half century as india finished on two hundred ten for five of forty six i was in reply to me not of two hundred seventy or light. a final event of a klitschko spans won't be seeing one of the best world's best heavyweights in action next month the i.b.o. and i.d.f. champion is forced to cancel his badge on april thirtieth against terry jones or a but big challenges await the crane in this summer the younger klitschko who will turn thirty five later this month has been nursing a strained abdominal muscle. missing an opportunity to take the three major titles

and the ring magazine belt on the longest reigning champion in the division the parent was originally shades of december eleventh last year imus called off for the same reason they behaving well finally has a chance to take on his fierce rival for those belts. to sum up with both feet there will be a champion and confirming that back in june that on june the twenty fifth or july second. suffering to subside with all the sport for a moment all of it like to run next that it is the school the weather. culture is that so much as in which of course he's right on it and so vehemently joining finally told the collective bargaining puts america's democracy potentials in the line of fire but is this move the red tape rolled back.

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