these are the images the world is seeing from the streets of canada after. trying to corporations rule today. two thirty pm in moscow these are your r.t. outlines libyan protesters reportedly reject an offer from colonel moammar gadhafi to go in exchange for his and his family's safety and despite major media tends to undermine the leader's reputation gadhafi still has huge support on the ground. global pressure on libya mounts with you what on the verge of allowing a no fly zone in the u.s. officially saying it may get involved militarily but also germany's new interior minister says there's no place for islam in his country as the idea of

a multicultural europe takes another beating. it took some rebuilding but chechnya is ready for a friendly football match with brazilian sports stars as they bring their world class skills to the ones of all the world public. and russia scrambles to keep its tiger population alive in nationwide efforts to stop the armors from dwindling to extinction. next a leading global peace expert gives his insights r.t. about the arab world's turbulence and the international role in stabilizing it stay with us. the heels of the regime change in tunisia came popular protest movements throughout the region but more on the ascent other events making headlines joining me as deputy director sell the russia and eurasia center of the carnegie endowment matthew and john skate hello and thank you very much for joining us tonight john scheme so how do you view these polish greats when you least well i think it

remains to be seen how much power actually shifts what we know is that some of the longstanding got the word terry and 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 along whether another strongman comes into power to replace. couldn't egypt for example or gadhafi in libya we can't really say at this point it looks like a civil war in libya 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 to predict what 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 i think it's wrong 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 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 anti-americanism anti israel feeling i don't think they generally view themselves as being on line 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 the us school to let food guide about. it's a good question i think. i think there are

a lot of people in washington i don't 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 was almost interesting how after each one you know after tunisia after egypt after libya everybody seemed to say well this is it stops here you know the monarchs are safe maybe the dictators will go with 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 it's going to keep changing when everything is said and done when the dust settles who is the biggest the real paula 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 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 story a leader in the arab world you could imagine it coming out of this scenario actually strengthened in some ways maybe being a leader of a new bloc within the middle east a sort of new orientation of you know more popular democracies or just more popular you know government so i could see that but i predict what will these leave us policy in the region well you know israel has played a very careful hand certainly and with the events in egypt they are very concerned about the billeted of the peace treaty which is really. it's central to who has real security so that they don't have to fight on multiple fronts at once i think the united states of course is fully supportive of that person active there have been those who call for now being the time to reinvigorate the peace process that 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 some 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 in 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 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 hamas but why would they allow them to negotiate they will do things to torpedo this because usually you think it was kind of the right thing to engage hamas some 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 the question is with what do you say but i think that's where you know russia and united states and israel in particular actually i would say russia and israel i mean this is a time when you have a million plus one russian speakers in israel including i would go a lieberman foreign minister here we should have a much more substantial bylaw 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 are potentially very useful mr johnson written extensively on the so-called values gap in u.s. well show 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 with 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 chess game in the world where there are spheres of influence the united states controls some things russia controls some things trying to control it so i think you know the united states has a very different ideological approach to the very same questions of geopolitics which is very much about well you know our country is moving towards greater freedom our countries you know prospering economically 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 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 is not effective political opposition you know they care about restrictions on freedom of speech and you know lack of access to effective legal processes you know to protect private property and so on and then of course corruption like 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 and 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 but you're saying that the u.s. and russia are at all it's all for domestic policy. 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 cannot get how we can appreciate that such a tone can prove counterproductive in russia. and 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 united states clearly has an interest in succeeding in our counterinsurgency operation to prevent future and i don't have an attack and that's basically what the 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 lab and seized tons of illegal drugs that would have ended up in russia in europe you know harming people just the difference in

interpretation and start a 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 independent and if that happens it may be too late to have a court system i don't think that will be the end of the world but there is 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 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 way up i'm sorry john scahill right clinton recently made a strong statement the u.s. is losing the information war attention national media outlets naming our a team there when it's 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 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 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 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 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 one side of the u.s. secretary of state friends are. trucks if thank you very much mr jones good for insults. and great for the fulsome we've got it for. the biggest issues get

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libyan protesters reportedly reject an offer from colonel moammar gadhafi to go in exchange for his and his family's safety and despite major media attempts to undermine the leader's reputation could offer he still has huge support on the ground. global pressure on libya abounds with the us on the verge of a loudmouth no fly zone and the u.s. officially saying it may get militarily involved. also germany's new interior minister says there's no place for islam in his country as the idea of a multicultural europe takes another battering. and russia scrambling to keep its tiger population alive and nationwide efforts to stop the window into extinction.

and it took some rebuilding but chechnya is ready for a friendly football match with brazilian sports stars as they bring their world class skills to the once volatile republic. and you're a farmer joins us now with all the latest from the world of sports. and you tell us more about this game in grozny which resilience are said to be suiting up for the match. well with a short team she has been printed just yet but names being bandied around include the likes of caca i am right now they got more on this story in a moment plus the latest on tonight's champion's league. a low death thanks for watching the sport and these are the headlines all star game brazilian world cup winners arrive in chechnya an exhibition match ahead of the new russian season. plus dramatic recovery percy banks is back to me three for

the champions league showdown with barcelona. full steam ahead local received codes the kick says the side against anomalies as the k h l quarter finals get on the way . first an all star game of football is going to take place in chechnya this evening with brazilian players past and present sets a line up against teams that will be captained by chechen leader with amazon pedia of who could play alongside new manager ruud hall it really is a coup for the region could be a of was instrumental in bringing holy terek and says players from brazil's two thousand and two world cup winning squad turning up respect to chechnya who play for free adding he had recently helped victims of the floods in rio de janeiro the talent on show for football fans to see terry gross in the stadium former soviet and russian stars will play pretty grozny well right now though is expected to feature for brazil along with carlos who recently signed for russian side angie big

eight happening just a few days before the start of the new russian football season now apart from that matches the last sixteen of the champions league tonight and arsenal have received a double pushed ahead of their second leg clash with barcelona striker robin van persie and fabregas both looking likely to play at the nou camp they were put through their paces at the club's training ground on monday arsenal have a two one lead from the first leg but it was thought van persie would miss the return trip to the new camp after suffering a needed three in the carling cup final at the end of last month however a rapid recovery means he's in the squad along with captain says he's back after straining one hundred although alex song and theo walcott miss out on the trip to spain through injury as the gunners hope to avenge last season's quarter final defeat to the catalans. so many games that we've shown we have we have potential and we have the present we want to do with things for the blog and

tomorrow is an obviously. stupid exam for four for all of us as a demon individually everyone will show we want to show or. we are on the. bus ticket we're due for the team to come to have a good great game meanwhile barcelona are missing both first choice then for defend this p.k. suspended and captain paul yalit with a knee injury manager pep guardiola has a bad back himself he was due to go to hospital on monday night treatment to this but he is expected on the touchline this evening and says arsenal will be a tough test despite also beating him in the final in two thousand and six in the season. one fine. long term. but it's. not. something.

i also want to say shakhtar donetsk will play roma in ukraine and aiming to make the quarter finals for the first time shakhtar on the first leg in italy three two and a draw tonight would be good enough to see them through something they must feel it's possible they've never been beaten at the donbass arena since moving there in august two thousand and nine. meanwhile chelsea made sure they're still in with a chance of retaining the english premier league title with a three one win over blackpool last night and that moved them to within nine points of leaders manchester united with a game in hand with frank lampard scoring twice part of team mate john terry datable into the blackpool got a late consolation for jason pontin chelsea remain for the table now but still have to play manchester united at old trafford while blackpool are just two points of relegation. other football news german champions by munich will part company with coach louis van hollen at the end of the season the announcement follows the club's

latest threw and defeat at hanover on saturday it was their second straight loss and stores and slipped down to fifth place in the league with a very inside also bad out of their domestic cup competition earlier this month on how to steer them to a domestic double last season and was voted coach of the year in june the thing his feet but club bosses day they have differing views on how bind should develop strategically so the dutchman will leave his post a year really. this. battle decision has to make a. difficult decision for them to call is not easy to keep. but it's a very difficult question to. go to ice hockey now action regimes and playoffs and see even with the western conference semifinals getting underway in euro savile and simply the top seed last night see the surprise package in armorica latvian showed their mettle by dispatching nearly favorites in

a moscow in the opening round but the automotive coach says his side was the stronger team elsewhere kate sheltering teams guard atlanta artists we can pass a part that. was used in conference semifinals take place on wednesday defending champions and bars. for. both teams yet to lose during this postseason a regular season is evident guards will play metta the magnitogorsk have been guarding the last side and move into the next round after friends left in the seventh grade on home ice so the second round of the playoffs getting underway in a couple of hours time enough to scar bars and celebrate your life cruised through to the last day let's take a look at the rest in cup quarter final with our highlights from the thirty rock. liz. lemon live live

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a little longer time proceedings were seventy seven zero with a with three minutes to go but it was also a car go after that and they finally won it i think five seven seven. so that is the sport for the moment and that's it for me i'm back to more of it here in a couple of hours with more sports. we'll. review the latest in science and technology from around the world. we've got the future of coverage.

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