watching r t live from moscow these are the top stories fighting for control of key cities intensifies and leave your blood to me is being blamed for making it look much worse than it is stoking the conflict just to get striking headlines. as cut off these foreign carriers goes under a lot and he acts first warned of the legacy of using frozen assets as a long term political tool. and the young people in italy love to inject fresh blood into the country's leadership but some fear it could mean meeting to the

nationalistic far right. one x r t so he sure announces joined by two mean world affairs academics to ask what the future holds for troubled media an asst neighbors and why foreign nations need to keep out. stephen cohen it's really good to have you back at casuarina out there who will so good to see you again so stephen has come out with a new book out it's called the victims return survivors of the cool life. 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 discussed that u.n. and u.s. could intervene into libya do you think are we seeing echoes 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 to form 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 justinian 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. in the next sure yeah i do think so you're seeing that so for the u.s. to intervene would create a backlash in the region that could harm the possibility of future democracy in

that very unstable and important region being older than. i was somewhat longer with the united states or agreement target and so many countries and their lawyers are very worried. for. trimix the point of american intervention discredits your prerogative to the tyranny of its throne because it appears the tyrant was overthrown with the backing of the united states in the forces in favor of domestic democracy. in addition what we're witnessing in egypt and in the. it's not clear these are pro-democracy movements your views are and. they're sprouting words they want to get rid of a dictator but getting rid of a dictator and really country doesn't mean a certain type of microsleep that's a process in these countries from very difficult orders go democratic culture

american intervention would make it hard one of the point if intervention is necessary should collect the reaction of the united nations and this might not be a bad person because the united nations was created in an effort to maintain peace and to act if there were actual war and violence against local populations so you know there's going to be intervention and i think people who care about this country should insist that this issue at the united nations not in the white house and not it ruffles and you know or i mean chorizo know how decisions are made toys that really 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 despots and 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

a good game in the united states of support for democracy but 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 new thinking to use a term that was popular in this country in order to develop a relationship that would emphasize economic development which is going to be critical because so many 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 more civil political you look at the situation general lessons are referring for what's going on right now in the arab world well i think the lesson is that you are witnessing people who have been suppressed and repressed for decades who are disgusted and fed up with the cronyism the corruption the suppression of not necessarily

democracy with people's ability to lead their own lives and an anger about the joblessness but i do think that 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's a sense all you know democracy has carved 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 other countries 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 new dominoes the young men who couldn't get a license and who was disgusted by the corruption and lived in software on fire and suddenly you have. people witnessing this and then finally you had the ability to communicate to social networks or not to be treated lightly people were able to see if you could get rid of a dictator in one country it could happen out of the problem of the united states where we're just coming from there's a lot of the questions being drawn in the. war of course and because you know there's a lot of innocent and i would be a laundry maybe it's the first it's a long journey and for the second people think of the revolution as a historian. react badly to the generalization in egypt for example when the markets go under the regime was still there the military regime going to govern the country that's not a revolution it's regime change at the moment it's

a leader change i don't know what's going to happen in the. change we misuse the word revolution when we talk about it just going forward so there's a lot of misperception going the other thing that's the wrong of us in the united states i think is that the united states should do something word to shepherd you know silver shepherd like a former guide says flock of sheep or it was cattle to the core the idea that ignited state separate things countries because of course russia remember always ends badly in this country to make it on the road i'm going to make it all of the united states doesn't understand the situation but there is a danger of a political involvement and god which would be of which 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. reachin the 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. terrorists who have been i 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 or great lives israel and iran and also well 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 for israel and a concern that it will lose allies the fact that you had mubarak has its i mean israel's main ally has caused many supporters of israel concerned i think you will see a region which is not going to be anti israeli but 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 the world there are achieving something you can see there's nothing we speak more crime with an inch of the earth from countries other is more cooperation in afghanistan or the pretty. good i think that was an allusion to the children of course and start treating the agreement to

reduce nuclear weapons part i've just written a long manuscript about this and i came to a conclusion that the research was not only are we would or insurance trainable. underlying disagreements created really a new cold war after liking rumi your point of going to war on the wrong doing issues for example why was the reset even necessary why wasn't there a strategic partnership after all sort of one of the strategic partnership in order to offer your grandfather created with reagan and bush that was watched after nine hundred ninety one. the united states claims putin but that's not a fair explanation of there is no agreement on the part secondly nato expansion is clearly a big issue something is the biggest something for you between america and russia it's even bigger than people understand and i will tell you why the president will certainly russia is a priority from

a sphere of privileged interests in the former soviet republics security because of the political we say we have united states not we say no because no countries are allowed to have a sphere of influence anymore it's an evil what is the expansion of nato it's an expansion of the american sphere of influence abashed expansion into the territory that used to be the sphere of influence of soviet russia so monstrous as to washington why didn't you get this for us and in our backyard and we get none of this is the geo political conflict of our time and there will be. war now there is a solution when nobody is prepared to put it forward in the united states until this problem is solved. you know 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 for decades 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 c.e.o. of this knowledge your sister leadership this is one area where presidents of both some enormous foreign policy gorbachev and reagan were opposed by their own parties but they overcame it is being attacked in moscow from the research obama there but this is where leadership is required but don't forget these guys in the area this problem of nato expansion obama didn't expand nato he did not he inherited this problem it has to be resolved in the group and 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 know and the united states is even saying that ukraine crane should become

a member of nato even though ukraine says it's not interested now these are fundamental conflicts and we already had one more openness in georgia and there could be another country and if i know who'll stephen cohen thank you very much for this interview. would be soon much brighter if you moved some from funds to question. these firms totty don't come. wealthy british soil. that's not on.

the. market long enough to. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on. fighting for control of key cities intensifies and levy about the media's being blamed for making it look much worse than it is stoking the conflict just to get striking headlines. as could obvious foreign cash goes under a lot in here at spurs one of the why you see of using frozen assets as a long term political toll. and young people enable you to ingest fresh blood into the country's leadership but some fear it could mean anything to the nationalistic right. turn off our sports update and raise here and watch it aff way it's faring well this weekend i hear a great performance of the european championships topping the medals table in the

end somewhat encouraging you to alan cumming three news on that bus more twists and turns in the english premier league get to talk about the sport is next. hello there you're watching the sport and these are the headlines the winning starts any possibility praises plays after beating two years guard to lift the russian super cup. plus regular season champs add on god make the last day to take a job playoffs and victory identity in week. one funder struck phoenix leaves at the hands of oklahoma city in a game of missed opportunities in the. first downs and he coached new chinese by letting his praises sides character after they beat c.s.k. moscow one meal to lift the russian super cup substitute alexy on of with the winner in the traditional curtain raiser

a new russian football season the muscovites had far more scoring opportunities throughout this match but let the birdies man found the net on seventy three minutes from now on off to scar a shape to two plays and eight again next month in the quarter final but russian cup before that though both play in the last sixteen of the europa league on the day and sneak in visit f.c. twenty twentieth's f.c. porter. now an england camp scored a hat trick his little stunned league leaders manchester united three one at anfield to see liverpool many instrumental then goals lou suarez the assistant and was the executioner grabbing that hat trick having been and managed to score consolation gold in the growing moments with a visiting side elsewhere jermain defoe school twice and russian international man public chant he got the other in tottenham three three draw against wolves that result leave spurs level on points with fourth place chelsea they play relegation battle is blackpool tonight chelsea themselves are twelve points behind leaders man

united but do have two games in hand the blues have slight fitness diets there over defender david louise and midfielder john obi mikael that didier drug. could be in line for a start but let's go to the kontinental hockey league now where the conference semifinal lineups are now known regular season champions are in guard taking the last spot after winning their deciding game with net in week seven three and that means the regular season when it is will those metal magnitogorsk in game one on wednesday a true heavyweight matchup between the second and third season teams in the east and the other tied a two time defending champion and possible face off against you for. the lives both teams are yet to lose during this postseason having to square their opening round matches against baddies and simply respectively in the western conference automotive gas level face loudly inside an armory get another best of seven series and in the other contests garcia scarse and petersburg take on atlanta and these games will take place tomorrow. let's go to our pine screen lindsay go on quite

a weekend to remember in italy the american skier winning her third title and its many date with victory in the world cup so you p.g.d. twenty six year old already secured a super combined in downhill crown but her hunger to win carried over into the final day she clucked just over one minute twenty one seconds but compared to julie monk who was there in second on his best friend in chief rival rewrite grabbed the final spot on the podium next to the two american so three titles in as many days for the downhill a limpid gold medalist lindsey vonn. marry a man meanwhile once again proved he is a force to be reckoned with in the men's slalom from possibly the ring he got the fourteen world cup victory of his career in a highly charged race. straddling a gate and getting disqualified from the event as he tried to get the better of each of course the links in the croatian also committed the same mistake as his french rival leaving the door open for matt and the thirty one year old took full

advantage of a blistering last run axel back and casper tied for second place followed by on three mile. in other news russia's athletes finished off the european championships in style in paris three more goals for them on the final days they finish top of the medals table up and coming down near clichy claimed the long jump titles these import schools ninety go amazed by just one centimeter and you again yes it's a little of a triumph on the track when the eight hundred meters not was followed by the big three in the women's four by four hundred and two relays so in total over six goals for russia to cause that fifteen medals in all home nation france came in second there or germany managed to total of ten medals. ten is now in russia's davis cup campaign came to an abrupt end this weekend following their shock defeat away to sweden no such problems though for spain is the top ranked nation breathe their way past minnows belgium world number one rafael nadal and company had booked their

quarter final berth on saturday and they were looking to complete a whitewash on sunday an adult who's just returned from injury was it is domineering best against a live iraq as the spanish left me with a top notch forehand down the line to win his match. six four six two do a finish lopez then had the chance to make the overall score five nil in spain but steve darcis gave his all to salvage at least some pride for the home side so you need to tie breaks and all three said grass to celebrate typically the selection when. it came down to the wire for last year's beaten fire in this france in face or three and there you go meltzer had beaten as you'll see him on to tie the match to also stands a german to help balance the french who was up against martin fisher who was ranked outside the top one hundred however she was the faster out of the blocks taking the first set six two charlie did manage to level things going in the second one a tie break anyway and so on to wrap it up in for. the next up

for france and germany who overcame croatia. karlovic in the deciding fifth rubber spain makes plays in the usa the americans were easy going into the weekend against chile argentina faced the fast rising as xander t.v. stunned the czech republic sweden russia are in an intriguing tie with holders serbia. now some action from the n.b.a. where kevin durant's was far from a shooting best but the oklahoma city thunder still legend phoenix suns in overtime for their third green on the trot it was a back and forth match in oklahoma then started time again for the visitors with nine seconds to go to make it one hundred nine each with a chance to pinch their going for oklahoma city but he missed the buzz of beating shot so a lot regret that duran who recorded the season three task is from fourteen attempts but it was even worse because the he top scored for the suns but let's say

a couple of all important free throws in overtime or steve nash also missed the last gasp three points at the host went on to win one hundred nineteen one hundred sixty. now let's catch up with the latest winner on god's p.g.a. tour south africa's rory sabbatini holding on to win the honda classic in florida and i say holding on because he was chased hard by south korean why gang sabatini was five shots ahead of the field at the start of the day but young's thing with all that dan was just a shot behind on the sixteenth here after that magnificent tee shot and he was still within a shot by the last the sweet bunker shot here setting up birdie sabatini they managed to hold his nerve to putting on the eighteenth to save for a one shot. at 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 victory over south africa england winning by just six runs in the end but the day didn't start well for them batting

first captain andrew strauss was out for off the third goal. and kevin pietersen followed just three balls later. ian bell also when she was peterson took three wickets for just three runs of sixteen balls ready bopara and jonathan trott studied the ship bring in by the standard ninety nine england were all at number one hundred seventy one in south africa must of fancy their chances however stuart broad took four wickets in just fifteen runs clean bowling hashim amla there he made forty two in the finale to a south africa chase twelve runs from the last twenty two balls of tea with his remaining but broad strokes the tailend to victory. but it was a huge huge game for us you know after the game we really need to come out and show his character we definitely need to do that. we can do it as much of the light but as you guys are very deep in the field in the logic of the bowlers who clean on the

pump to learn to come out and show what they can do. you know coach well for us it's a woman if we can get both of back to bowling right in one go then going to be hard to beat contrast now the other game on sunday in the go to five we could win over ireland if rush saying the great all round performance claiming five wickets and hitting a half centuries in the finished on two hundred ten five forty six i was in reply to me knocking two hundred seven or that we will end with a shot from the world rally championship for the seventh time defending champion sebastian lo has bounced back from his slow start of the season the frenchman winning in mexico for a fifth straight time i load citron teammates about in all get top the time he was going into the final day but he crashed out early on. and loeb took full advantage winning a stage in hanging on for the title forwards finish. and you are in makin love complete the podium mexico has been is the oval leader still after winning the

first race in sweden last month that though brings up the second and he is nine points a trip. back to the korea. because it was a very good but it was a zero zero do which. was a first. for discard so we didn't know really what will be level of performance so for both of us the photo that we. saw was also the bottom of it just got some positives and that's it for me for the moment i'm back with more sport for you in a couple of. question is that so much as i can wish i wasn't going to be allowed to join battle until the collective bargaining puts america's democracy financials in the line of fire but is this move the red tape rolled back.

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