no rules all of us are good for hitting the ground and very truly the torch was to close coromandel you can the words which will closure which i suggested to go on booklet runs as the colonel was her job as a retreat. quick look at the top stories here they aren't leaving them for testers reportedly rejects an offer from girl could offer to go in exchange for his and his family's safety and despite major media attempts to undermine the leader cut off he still has huge support of the ground. the global pressure on the b. amounts to the un on the verge of allowing a no fly zone of the us officially saying it may get militarily involved. also germany's new interior minister says there is no place for as long as country as the idea of multicultural europe takes another battery. and russia scrambles to

keep its tiger population alive and nationwide efforts to stop the wind linked to extinction. all next the leading global peace expert gives he's inside to archie about the arab world's turbulence and the international row and stabilizing it. on the heels of the regime change in tunisia it came popular protest movements throughout the region but more on these times other events making headlines joining me is deputy director of the russia and eurasia center at the carnegie endowment and matthew and john skate hello thank you very much for joining us there at jones so how do you view these palmers shipped great to east well i think it remains to be seen how much power actually shifts but what we know is that some of the longstanding authoritarian regimes in the middle east are probably going to change

in some way but whether they are 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 of gadhafi in libya we can't really say at this point it looks like a civil war in libya it's very difficult to predict what will happen so i think a power shift maybe is not necessarily in the works definitely great changes and it's very difficult i think to predict what some speculate that the arab middle east awakening was all constrained 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 has been 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 in 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 they're not exactly pro western pro-american slogans there's a lot of kind of you know anti-americanism going to israel feeling that 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 has probably helped to create an atmosphere in which they feel like at least they're not alone in the world to what extent was the u.s. schools flat footed by the bow. 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 and we need to be prepared for it. i don't think anybody expected it on the scale that it was happening it is almost interesting how after each one you

know after two meter after egypt after libya everybody seems to say well this is it stops here you know the monarchs are safe maybe the dictators will go but the kings will stay and as i said before i don't think anyone can predict this and i think this is a very fluid situation that was going to keep changing when everything is said and done when the dust settles who is the biggest. 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 hopeful 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 a 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 bloc within the middle east a sort of new organization of you know more popular democracies are just more popular in our government so i can see. well the sleeve u.s. and israeli policy in the region well you know israel has played a very careful hand certainly you know with the events in egypt they're very concerned about the durability of the peace treaty which is really. essential to israel's 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 a bad perspective there have been those who call for now being the 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 have that feeling of urgency that they need to make progress which is why it succeeded in the late one

nine hundred eighty s. and early one nine hundred ninety s. and 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 and now there are popular uprisings in the streets and it's time for you know if the islamic fundamentalist movement to take advantage of that so why on earth would they allow their palestinian authority colleagues who of course are not part of a mosque but why would they allow them to negotiate they will do things to torpedo those negotiations do you think that's going to have 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 a part of the question is of course what he would say and i think that's where you

know russia and united states and israel in particular actually i would say russian is right i mean this is a time when you have a million plus russian speakers in israel including of your lieberman foreign minister here 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 real results that are going to benefit everyone i'm. 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 was written extensively on the so-called values gap in u.s. watch relations what do you mean here well this is a term i'm not the first person to invent this term it's the idea that basically we see eye to eye of the united states and russia on many many issues economic issues security issues i mean the 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 controls something to try to control something you know in the united states has a very different ideological approach to the very same questions as you politics which is very much about well you know our country is moving towards greater freedom our countries you know prospering economically do 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 effective political opposition you know they hear about restrictions on freedom of speech and you know lack of access to effective legal process he's going

to protect private property and so on and then of course corruption 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 it's a once over domestic policy. but in the light 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 do not get how we can appreciate that such a tone can prove counterproductive in russia. i think actually afghanistan is a good example of 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 the united states clearly has an interest in succeeding in our counterinsurgency operation to prevent future nine eleven attacks and that's basically what an invasion 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 half pack border region heroin and seized tons of the illegal drugs that would have ended up in russia in europe you know harming people does the difference in interpretation and started missile defense to scuttle all this work. i don't think it's going to torpedo 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 and if that happens it may be too late so i don't think that will 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 would be sure. 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 are sort of if 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 and i think the level of trust between our two security establishments goes way beyond mr

jones hillary clinton recently made a strong statement she's sat the u.s. is losing the information war it's international media outlets naming our team of other women does this mean that the u.s. is officially engaged in a media war with the rest of the well. 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 i was in a while or whatever you know media services china 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 because i 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 as 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 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 coming from outside a problem that the u.s. secretary of state friends are instructive thank you very much mr jones keep your insights.

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leave in protest reportedly rejected an offer from colonel gadhafi to go in and change for using the family's safety at the spike major media attempts to undermine the leader that often still has huge support of the ground. the global pressure on levy amounts with a you and on the verge of a law we have no fly zone with us officially saying it may get militarily involved . also germany's new interior minister says there is no place for islam in his country as the idea of multicultural your takes another battery. and russia scrambles to keep its tiger population alive and nationwide efforts to stop when linked to extinction. as the headlines here in our team already use an about

a quarter of an hour's time by the meantime andrew is here with the latest for. the end of telly maybe his feelings now about money in football the brazilian legend believing that big wages are a danger for football with having little allegiance to their clubs these days no no person look at tonight's champions league and about. hello there you're watching the sport and let's start with the headline. gaining ground chelsea defeat blackpool to keep their league title hopes alive. plus a massive recovery arsons one person balances back from injury ahead of the champions league showdown with barcelona. on full steam ahead lokomotiv coach the czech says his side's of favorites against an armory is like a h.l. quarter finals get underway. but first chelsea made sure they are still in with

a chance of retaining their premier league title a three one win over blackpool last night moves them to within nine points of leaders manchester united with a game in hand frank lampard school wise to make john terry gave the blues the lead but it will get a late consolation. chelsea then remain fourth in the table and still play manchester united at old trafford while blackpool i just two points off relegation meanwhile arsenal have received a double boost ahead of their champions league clash with barcelona tonight striker robin van persie and says gas both looking likely to play in the second leg of the last sixteen tie at the new count both for being put through their paces at the club's training ground on monday arsenal had a two one lead from the first leg but it was thought on percy would miss the return trip to the new camp after suffering a knee injury and the carling cup final at the end of last month however a rapid recovery means he's in the squad along with captain says. the straining at

strain although alexandre theo walcott miss out on the trip to spain through injury is the gun is hoped to avenge last season's quarter final defeat to pick at france . so many games are we are we have potential and we are under pressure but we want to deal with things for the club. tomorrow is an obviously. stupid exam for for for all of us as a demon individually everyone will sure we want to sure. they are. busting. for the team to. have a great game anymore barcelona are missing both thirst choice central defenders gerrard p.k. is suspended in captain and we all is out with a knee injury while manager pep guardiola has a bad back in self he was due to go to hospital on monday night for treatment. but he is expected to be on the touchline this evening and says arsenal will be

a tough test despite also beaten down in the final in two thousand and six. one five. one time. but this is. not be. something. that much at the nou camp is one of two taking place on tuesday in the other show the nets will host roma three goals in the space of twelve first half minutes put ukrainian 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 is likely you could say as. their donbass of the lessons moving day in two thousand and nine. elsewhere and football german champions by munich will part company with coach at the end of this season the announcement follows the club's latest three one defeat at hanover on saturday was their second straight loss and

saw them slip down to fifth place in the league very inside also bad out of their domestic cup competition earlier this month and how did steer them to the double last season. should begin in germany for his feet but club bosses say they have differing views on how bind should develop strategically so the dutchman believes his host a year really. that it is decision has to make. a difficult decision for the two it's not easy to keep. and it's a very difficult question to. pele has joined in a debate about plays wages in football with the brazilian legend saying most stars only care about the money and not their club and that could be a danger for the game the three time world cup winner is currently touring asia promoting his former club the new york cosmos they have folded but have been revived and to play major league soccer in two thousand and fourteen pele is author

used to tell reporters what he thinks about the state of the current game the seventeen year old plays desire for big money harming the sport. of the game they were that morning because they go to. the. first. of the day loadable been little bit more. he's got a point now and regimes make a child play offs tonight with the western conference semifinals getting underway and jaroslav all and simply does the top seed might see the surprise package the nama rieger the latvians show that medal by dispatching the early favorites to normal. lucky ones you've got to be jack says his side are the strongest save

elsewhere kate sheltering teams in atlanta this week and prospal. on the eastern conference semifinals they get underway on wednesday double defending champions up against the roof of style about you live both teams to get to these during this postseason regular season when is haven't god will play next and that might need to course i haven't got in the last side to move into the next round up to try and save him extending grace on time. so just in a few hours' time in the second round of the playoffs again and off to school and some about you live courage through to the last night let's take a look let's take a look at the rest of the garden cup quarter final ace and they play each out play off the grand hard.

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pick up. some terrific goals and i expect to be plenty more over the next few days and i will end with a bit of action from the n.b.a. where the chicago bulls have washed up their third straight win beating the new orleans hornets who we were with that day injured playmaker chris paul jarrett jack started instead of paul he suffered concussion on monday his deputy jack would finish with a team high twenty three points but all has been missing on the last as a hornet struggled in terms of assists other balls were more consistent with barrett raised their leading man to guard sanka three points above nine minutes left on the clock the host getting into a couple digit lead for the first time however the hornets remained in the game for a little longer jack tying the savings of seventy seven all of that around winning

minutes to go but it was all chicago after that and finally ronnie biggs by a seven foot seven. saw brings us to the end of a small split in for the moment so we're back with more in two hours time next though it's well. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on r t. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realm. we've done to the future covered.