what you heard you live from moscow these are the top stories we've been protesters reportedly we jacked an offer from girl gadhafi to go in exchange for his and his family's safety and despite major media to undermine the leader it often still has few support on the ground. the global pressure on libya mounts with the u.n. on the verge of a wildly and no fly zone and the u.s. official is saying it may get militarily involved. also germany's new interior minister says there is no place for islamism free as the idea of multicultural your

takes another of gatorade. and russia scrambles to keep its tiger population alive and nationwide efforts to stop into extinction. next a leading global peace acts spurred gives his insights about the arab world's turbulence and the international role in stabilizing it. fost on the heels of the regime change in tunisia came paul cuellar protest movements throughout the region but more on the sense other events making headlines joining me instead to direct sell the russia and eurasia center of the carnegie endowment matthew and john skate hello and thank you very much for joining us there at jones so how do you view these palmer's shipped greats and least well i think it remains to be seen how much power actually shifts what we know is that some of the long standing authoritarian regimes in the middle east are probably going to change

in some way but whether they're replaced by the very same military that has been supporting them all along whether another strongman comes into power to replace mubarak in egypt for example or feeling libya we can't really say at this point it looks like a civil war in libya and that's very difficult to predict what will happen so i think a power shift maybe is not necessarily in the works and definitely great changes and it's very difficult i think to predict well some speculate that the arab middle east awakening was orchestrated by washington itself what are your thoughts about that i certainly am not a believer in conspiracy theories but i think it's funny when you listen to people who believe in these theories it makes the united states sound like the most effective global actor in history and i just frankly don't believe that that's possible what i will say is i think it is probably the case as in many changes of power throughout history that the united states and others have helped

to create an environment in which you know those who are coming out on the streets in libya and egypt and tunisia you know feel that they have some international support to be totally honest if you look at the slogans that those people are using and they're not exactly pro western pro-american slogans there's a lot of kind of you know sort of anti-americanism anti israel feeling i don't think they generally view themselves as being aligned with the american camp. they're mostly aligned with their own interests but it is probably true that the united states by talking about values like freedom and you know getting rid of authoritarianism and so on is probably helped to create an atmosphere in which they feel like at least they're not alone in the world to what extent was me who outscored flatfooted by developing. it's a good question i think. i think there are a lot of people in washington i know a lot of people in washington who have been saying this is going to happen for a long time that we need to be prepared for. i don't think anybody expected it on the scale that it has happened it is almost it interesting how after each one you

know after tunisia after egypt after libya everybody seems to say well this is it it stops here you know the monarchs are safe maybe the dictators will go but the king will stay and as i said before i don't think anyone can predict this i think this is a very fluid situation that was it's going to keep changing when everything is said and done when the dust settles who is the biggest the real pollard broker in the region. translation does this help iran for example does this help you know turkey i think the answer is probably yes this is this is helpful to you know any regime which has managed to stay in power despite this kind of disorder in the streets. at the same time it is possible you can you can imagine a scenario where egypt for example despite having endured the transition period it is a very big it is economically significant it is a historical leader in the arab world you could imagine it coming out of this

scenario actually strengthened in some ways maybe being the leader of a new block within the middle east a sort of new organization of you know more popular democracies or just more popular you know government so i could see that happening well greece leave us some cities well policy in the region well you know israel has played a very careful hand certainly and with the events in egypt they're very concerned about the durability of the peace treaty which is really essential to the israel security so that they don't have to fight you know multiple fronts at once i think the united states of course is fully supportive of that perspective there have been those who call for now being a time to reinvigorate the peace process the israeli palestinian peace process and the broader israeli arab peace process i think the unfortunate reality is that the peace process never succeeds when it is driven by urgency from the outside the peace process only succeeds when the parties. on the inside i have that feeling of urgency that they need to progress which is why it succeeded in the late one nine

hundred eighty s. and early one nine hundred ninety s. and then it didn't succeed in the past decade because the parties were in some sense satisfied with where the situation was so i think for example if at this point you know the israelis feel safer just sort of barricaded themselves and protecting themselves it's not a time when they're going to be willing to make sacrifices for peace and on the palestinian side you know hamas for example may feel like it's time has come now there are popular uprisings in the streets and it's time for you know it to be islamic fundamentalist movement to take advantage of that so why on earth would they allow their their palestinian authority colleagues who of course are not part of hamas but why would they allow them to negotiate they will do things to torpedo those negotiations do you think also does the right thing to engage hamas in talks . look i mean i can't tell the russian government what the right thing to do or not for russia would be i mean i would say from the overall perspective of the middle east situation it's useful to have somebody who is able to solve the question as a part of what he stated and i think that's where russia and the united states in

israel and in particular actually i would say russia and israel i mean this is a time when you have a million plus russian speakers in israel including bigger lieberman foreign minister. they should have a much more substantial dialogue on peace process on security issues so that russia can use the influence that it has more effectively to deliver you know we'll results that are going to benefit everyone i'm not sure we're at a point like that right now but that said you know i don't i don't see any great benefit to russia kind of closing the door on its connections in the arab world i think they're potentially very useful mr johnson written extensively on the so-called values gap in u.s. role should relations what do you mean here well this is a term i'm not the first person to admit this term it's the idea that basically we see eye to eye on the united states and russia on many many issues economic issues sick. he issues i mean we but list goes on nuclear security but there's often this

kind of underlying problem which is we come to the same conclusions for very different reasons so russian leaders tend to for example think about a sort of reality politique chess game in the world where there are spheres of influence the united states controls some things russia control something to try to control something you know in the united states has a very different ideological approach to the very same questions of you politics which is very much about well you know our country is moving towards greater freedom our countries you know prospering economically need to people have freedom to participate in the market and so on and that's really a fundamentally different approach to at the end of the day very important questions for both sides and then there's also the domestic side of it which is that americans react very badly to the media coverage that they see of russia where you know people who want to protest are not given the right to protest you know there's not an effective political opposition you know they care about restrictions on freedom of speech and you know lack of access to effective legal process easier

to protect private property and so on and then of course corruption but these are all things that americans react extremely badly to not because there isn't some of this sometimes in the united states and that there isn't some of this in many other countries around the world it's just it makes it very hard for us to behave like full partners when we don't see eye to eye on these kind of basic domestic issues as well you're saying that the u.s. and russia are at all once over domestic policies but in the lives of the nine thousand civilians killed in afghanistan since two thousand and one just recently nine boys under the age of twelve killed by u.s. helicopter gun fire in afghanistan and millions of russians who don't have get high rate can you appreciate that such a time can prove council productive in russia. i think actually afghanistan is a good example where the united states and russia have almost completely shared interests in the following sense i think russia. has a clear interest in stopping the flow of heroin out of afghanistan and stopping the

spread of islamic fundamentalism into other central asian countries which as we know we saw in kyrgyzstan those are not stable governments so they're very vulnerable and i think united states clearly has an interest in succeeding in our counterinsurgency operation to prevent future nine eleven attacks and that's basically what the african basing was about i don't think those two interests are inconsistent i think they're one hundred percent consistent and the best example of that was this far as far as i know for the first time we saw a joint us russian operation boots on the ground special narcotics officers and special forces attacked a and a half pack border region heroin lab and seized tons of illegal drugs that would have ended up in russia in europe you know harming people does the difference in interpretation and started missile defense got a lot of this work. i don't think it's going to paedo everything i think it's it's possible that the parties will not move quickly enough or will not be flexible

enough that they come to an agreement on missile defense before the threat is so real that both sides move forward independent and if that happens it may be too late to have it done so i don't think that would be the end of the world but there's no question that it will make it harder to have established a level of trust that will be necessary to do other things like for example have an agreement on tactical nuclear weapons these would be short range battlefield nuclear weapons that both the russian side and the nato side still have deployed in europe you know twenty years after the end of the cold war something we've probably got to deal with dealing with the frozen conflicts all of these things they're sort of they require the sides to move together in lockstep and that requires trust you know who's going to move first because each side can sit and wait and say well you take care of your side of this and then we'll do our stuff but it requires trust and i think missile defense is clearly the first step if we can get that right then i think the level of trust. there are two security establishments goes way where.

hillary clinton recently made a strong statement she's sat the us is losing the information war it's international media outlets naming our team and their witness does this mean that the u.s. is officially engaged in a new war with the rest of the world. i certainly hope not i mean my my sense of it is you know it's true that the kind of traditional state media worldwide are actually enduring a big challenge from the likes of twitter and facebook you know people have ways of sharing information now that do not require going through any kind of official channels that's the biggest challenge you know whether there's an information war at the level of kind of state supported media between the voice of america and russia today you know saying why are whatever you know media services trying to has you know i think this is almost beside the point because the reality is your average citizen knows where the information is coming from so if they want to listen to a russian perspective they can listen to it they want to listen to an american perspective they can listen to it but mostly i think what citizens want to listen

to and they want to listen to each other and that's why they're using these sort of social networking tools and i don't view that as a threat i view that is basically a positive thing but of course you want to make sure that in the long run everybody has kind of equal access to it because you don't want to have a class of people that has access to information and a class of people who live kind of in the shadows and don't have access to information and when from outside a prospect the u.s. secretary of state friends are instructed thank you very much mr johnson for insight. we hear it because our country out states. that god promised them this elin belongs

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the view metasearch reportedly reject an offer from colonel gadhafi to go in exchange for news of his family's safety and despite major media attempts to undermine the leader of the dolls he still has huge support on the ground and. global pressure on maybe a bounce with a new one on the verge of allowing a no fly zone without the us officially saying it may have militarily involved. also germany's new interior minister says there is no place for islam as conquering as the idea of multicultural your takes another battering. and russia scrambles to keep its tiger population alive and nationwide efforts to stop al gore is dwindling to extinction. those are the headlines here in our some time now for

sports of day and joins us in the studio i guess the major topic for today is for a goal is an answer but before i go into that i should say how many women's studies thank you very much it is a day in russia where we all will buy chocolates and flowers. is correct there's never enough absolutely i don't think it's already arrived and so is the champions league and i would say the best footballing sides are still in barcelona go head to head so long they should be a classic with the gunners boy bosh and good news on the details on that and a much. higher. thanks for watching the sport is what is coming the. gaining ground in chelsea defeat blank called to keep their league title hopes alive. plus dramatic recovery arsons my parents is back from injury ahead of the champions league

showdown with barcelona. on full steam ahead locomotive coach who checks as his side of favorites against an armory is the case quarter finals get underway. but first chelsea have retained their slim hopes of keeping their premier league title a three one win over blackpool last night moves into within nine points of leaders manchester united with a game in hand for a ground card scoring twice after teammate john terry gave the blues the lead blackpool got a late consolation jason chelsea remain fourth in the table but still have to train manchester united at old trafford blackpool and i just two points off relegation meanwhile arsenal have received a double boost ahead of their champions league clash with past alone near the scene striker robin van persie ancestor gas both unlikely to play in the second leg of the last sixteen tie at the nou camp both were being put through their paces at the club's training ground on monday asking do you have

a two one lead from the first leg and it was thought he would miss the trip to the new camp after suffering in ened three in the carling cup final at the end of last month however a rapid recovery means he's in the squad along with barbara gas he's back after straining a hamstring but alex song and theo walcott missed out on the trip to spain through injury as the gunners hope venger last season's caught up on their feet to the catalans. so many games with we have we have potential and we are the person we want to do weird things for a little or two more years and obviously. stupid exam for four for all of us as a demon individually everyone will sure we want to shore oh good they are. it's a blast to go particularly for the d.m. to. have a great game remark barcelona missing both first choice central defenders gerrard p.k. is suspended in captain colors poorly all is out with a knee injury while none of your pet guardiola has

a bad back he was due to go to hospital on monday night for treatment. this but he is expected on the touchline this evening and says arsenal will be a tough test despite also beating them in the final in two thousand and six. one five. but these are problems in the book. but that match at the nou camp is one of two taking place on tuesday and the other nets will host romo three goals in the space of twelve first half minutes could be craning champions in control of the tie in italy and a second leg draw would take them through to the last eight for the first time which might be likely shaped our unbeaten serenus since moving their piece two thousand and nine. elsewhere and football german champions by munich will park company with coach louis van gaal at the end of the season announcement follows the

club's latest three one defeat at hanover on saturday was their second straight loss and saw him slip down to fifth place in the very inside also bad out of their domestic cup competition early this month on how did steer them to a domestic double last season and was both a coach should be given cheering for his feet at club bosses that day they now have differing views on how bind should develop fatigue so the dutchman will leave his post a year early. was. that a decision has to make. a difficult decision for the two it's not easy to keep. but it's a very difficult question to. ice hockey now in action regimes in the playoffs tonight with the western conference semifinals getting underway in euro straddle and same page as the top seeded luck you might see things by surprise

package unama riga latvia show their mettle by dispatching various phenomenological the opening round looking like if limited czech says his side is still the stronger ones that elsewhere k shouldering teams welcome atlanta artists we can pass. an eastern conference semifinal spacewalk on wednesday several defending champions that bars are up against the power you live both seem to get in the during this postseason and regular season is adamant god will play metal magnified course i've been guarding the land side to move into the next round of the trying to make seventy three on home ice it did look like it was going to be an even if only on in this match i haven't got school in time for the. moment event and i think there he went on to add a second later in the game however and i think we kept pace in the period pulling back to goals to end it just three two down but it was all on you that alexander

that is are you buying a brace is a stone from a seventy or your goal of screwed up penalty in the city given to him in what proved to be a consolation but it was ivan god who progressed into the last day. so in just a few hours then the second round of the playoffs will get underway and after school hours and sound about you live cruised through to the last day let's take a look at the rest of the garden cup quarter finals in the playoff round highlights . live live live live

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