that's the case we go to the grand imperial college told us that. you can a let's go to those little civility to go. read this and the colonel was neutral as used to retreat. welcome back here's a quick look at the top stories here on our team russia is imposing weapons sanctions on the gadhafi regime as a violence reaches a new critical levels for the rebels and pro-government forces still battling it out meanwhile nato and e.u. ministers are meeting to discuss the crisis in a potential no fly zone despite deep opposition among the libyans and no decision from the u.n. . discussions about what to do with libya are hard to avoid as the u.s. vice president meets with russian leaders in moscow among other topics joe biden

hopes to woo support for possible american military involvement. and congressional hearings on the radicalization of america's most lambs prepared to start in the u.s. there are fears that it's little more than a religious were shunned critics worry that people are being a singled out based solely on their faith. but more thoughts on libya now as our team hears from britain's former ambassador to the country oliver miles says global reaction such as the u.n. struggle ban on gadhafi is highly questionable about interview is next. today i'm talking to all of the miles who's a former british ambassador to libya we're going to be talking about the situation in the country at the moment the west's response to it and how it might sound cold all of it well thank you very much for talking to r.t. now isn't the west's response to the situation in libya dangerously close to what

we saw before the invasion of iraq i'm thinking of this proposed no fly zone these claims that we've heard that gadhafi has chemical weapons and also this talk around the world of military intervention. well there is a parallel but i think there are some important differences i look on the one i think i'd focus on is that the although there's been some. rather bellicose talk from both london and washington and paris. the what they've actually done is total security council straightaway and they got full agreement in the security council unanimous support for a resolution which didn't refer to war to military action or anything of that kind so it's not. part of i don't think so many persons at least partially responsible for what's going on in libya and what we saw in egypt previously after all london did support these regimes for as long as it seemed to fix well i think that's

a bit much actually i mean the british press take that view of the british press of which going on about you know the meeting in the desert between tony blair and gadhafi and it's true they did meet of the desert and they did a deal and it was a very useful deal for us but after all sarkozy and berlusconi and condi rice and mr putin and everybody else have all done deal with libya so there's nothing especially british about it it's the world has been doing business with libya and in my opinion quite right too because after all libya has all which we need the world market needs that libya needs from the world practically everything else from from airplanes to grains and something and when i say we it's not the west or britain or europe which everybody everybody china taiwan russia indonesia brazil you name it they're all there everybody is i'm quite right too and we've recently seen a diplomatic mission to benghazi that sends in the capture of an s.s. team is the u.k. actively trying to engage with the rebels well i hope so i mean don't speak too

much about that it was so good i think it's rather embarrassing i do think we're pretty close you know it's best to be frank i have said that to the british media as well but yes we should be talking to the rebels i think it's. it's a difficult thing to do it's not unique to be plenty of situations indeed in a way perilous situation in afghanistan which we should be talking to the people who are fighting against libya we are not fighting it's anybody but we should be talking to the different parties we are talking to good of his people william hague said the other day that he personally was on the telephone commuter commission of the libyan foreign minister who has been one of the kind of its closest supporters . and i think we've also got to reach out to the others it's difficult people who firstly because tripoli won't want us to do it of course a little they will put a smoking would have a count and secondly because the situation is still very disorganized there isn't a military command structure and there isn't a political structure there's the beginnings of

a political structure but know nothing purports to be a state yet we now know that that s.a.'s mission was approved by foreign secretary william hague was the sending of that team of soldiers illegal or just an act illegal i'm sure it was illegal under libyan law or yes i mean i'm the most people's no it's illegal to land a helicopter in the middle of somebody else's country full of armed men yes i think it would it certainly was illegal but on the other hand there's a lot going on any of the moment that you might describe is illegal that's the nature of a civil conflict isn't it and we talked about the person of france going to the u.n. security council how likely is it do you think that nato will approve some kind of military intervention in libya and if they don't think that the u.k. and the u.s. will go in anyway as things are at the moment i think it's most unlikely. particularly because turkey which is an important member of nato is dead against intervention. i think it will be others as well probably but turkey has already

shown its hands up to speak i think that. as a matter of fact i don't believe anyone at the moment is really pushing for military intervention. there's been a lot of talk of a no fly zone and people are gradually coming to realize that a no fly. which sounds a rather innocent form of intervention actually involves a lot of military intervention because the first thing you have to do if you have a no fly zone is make sure that you are limiting the effective anti aircraft defenses of libya well i guess libya is absolutely for vent here across themselves but must be hundreds of thousands of baby accumulating them for the last forty years how many of them actually would go off if they pulled the trigger is another matter i don't suppose they know that themselves but they're all over the place so eliminating them would be a big job so in fact a no fly zone does constitute some form of military intervention oh absolutely yes no no not at all and i think it's just proportionate for the moment because why do you have a no fly zone because gadhafi has enough force and the fear is that he might use

the effectively and the the rebels would have no option to it and there would be a humanitarian disaster well that's all possible but it hasn't happened yet what's happened so far is that the air force has made a rather pathetic showing two of the aircraft probably defected to malta are all of them on their own side we've heard reports of bombing all the bombs seem to have missed whatever they were meant to hit deliberately you think well who knows who knows. stories of attacks right from the beginning of the conflict and there would have been stories of attacks civilian populations but i don't know of a single authenticated case i think we've all probably had the experience i don't myself the media correspondents are telephoning anyone they can find in libya and the story you get from everybody is we're right here where i am the same shooting and it sounds nasty but i'm not going outside to look and yes i have heard stories of bombs but none of them in my area that seems to be the general picture so i do

believe it really i think is disproportionate for the moment to talk about a no fly zone and that's why both the british and americans have been talking about being ready and there's nothing wrong with telling your military to be ready for a continued. but that's a different matter what are the chances do you think that if nato and other countries don't take a u.s. and the u.k. go ahead there anyway i think most unlike most likely it will be a big job and we are already pretty heavily involved both i mean we we've got enough in our plate with afghanistan the americans are going off on their plate with iraq and afghanistan. i think it's most likely you can never completely rule these exact but i don't see it but let's talk a bit about libya's relationship directly with the u.k. we hear that a lot of libya's oil wealth is invested through london those assets is now being frozen but could they be used as a call going chip but could i think i suspect from what i've heard so far that it's a blunt instrument and i'm one of the things i'm unhappy about is that although as

i said at the beginning i'm glad that we were at the security council and i think it was the right thing to do and we thought this you know this decision from the security council i think when you start to look at the small print of the decision it's actually not very helpful for example. one of our ministers liam fox said last week and i think he was quite right that the best solution to this problem would be for gadhafi to leave well if if one takes you why does the u.n. pass a law which says that no country can accept him wherever he goes he's going to be subject to prosecution surely we should have said that well if if you look very carefully at the un resolution you find that in the small print the calls which says that this ban on travel can actually be lifted by the security council in appropriate cation so you know if gadhafi was to write an application in triplicate and send it into the new york after a lot of time the lawyers might come up with a solution but that's not what will happen if he decides to go he'll go what we should have done is offer him a free ticket to them bob way

a long way so you're saying that even though everybody seems to want him to leave gadhafi is now actually tracked in libya well of course the africans for example and i don't know whether it's the african police the obvious place to think of will necessarily follow the u.n. rules if if he arrives with a bag of gold and says i want to stay in your country will probably be allowed to do so another thing that has been in the press a lot recently is concerning to the death his sons who were educated in precious universities or it's in turn received generous donations from them do you think that that will prompt the u.k. to now look more closely at who was allowed to come and study in this country and how they're being. i sincerely hope not. i'm really worried about the media reaction to this particular case and what is worrying to me is that. although i can't be sure in fact i have no real basis for what i'm going to say but i'll say it anyway knowing what i do have safe lifestyle. for his life has

been his and his curriculum details so far i simply don't understand how he could possibly have spent two or three or four years full time acquiring a genuine doctorate at the london school of economics which after all is one of our prestige universities to get a doctorate at the elysee is no joke i'm not saying he's not clever enough he may well be clever enough but how did he do it in the time i just don't believe it so i think it's fishy so that's i think a good reason for the director of the lunchroom economics from design which is dumb and i applaud him for it i think they want to think through what clearly had no most are not really had any direct hand in the business but it's his responsibility however he then went on to say that he apologized for a wrong judgment and that he'd been to libya and talked about cooperation between the london school of economics of libby and i don't agree with that at all i think he was quite right to do that and he shouldn't apologize for it i'm worried that other british universities and other universities around the world would have had links with libya may now feel that they have to back off they shouldn't because the

logic of that is they would back off not just from libya but from everywhere else they would back off their eye set for russia they would back off from algeria they would back off from saudi arabia they would back off from china they would where would it stop where would it stop i think it's in everybody's interest but britain for example let's stick with britain for a moment should be teaching students from all over the world it's in everybody's advantage our advantage their advantage i hope it doesn't stop to think that colonel gadhafi has the support of the majority of his people and the loyalty of the army as he says he does. i think that those are the there's a strong current of freedom and. liberation opening up flowing from egypt continues here which libyans of course feel very close to and i think there's a strong feeling that we've had enough and that gadhafi has got to go but how wide that goes and why he's able to keep so many people demonstrating for him in the

streets of tripoli or i'm afraid i can't really answer to some extent it's done by money pays people demonstrate for but it's also done my loyalty and it's very difficult to distinguish the two gadhafi continues to cling on to power what do you think what's happened to the u.k.'s relationship with libya if you did manage to stay as leader i think it will be very difficult very difficult for both for the u.k. and for the rest of the world of course he'll be in a weak position but he's in a weak position he'll probably lash out in some unpleasant dangerous way i mean it's like. you know if you're hunting about. dead or not treated at all because even half true to it then you really got a problem on your hands and i'm afraid that's that's that's the situation we will end up with unless unless we go so it's very difficult to see what. what are we going to do about these sanctions whether they're going to be lifted or is going to be frozen forever in which case presumably that means the world does without libyan

oil why why should we why should the world without libyan oil we need the oil they need the money they say the libyan people need the money of course i can see why gadhafi has got to be stopped but. in the long term freezing libya out is cruel wrong. on the last thank you very much thank you. discovery. communicate with you want to. test yourself and become free to. see what nature can give you on oxy.

for the. we've got. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. as imposing a welcome sanctions on the gadhafi regime as the violence reaches new critical levels between rebels and the pro-government forces meanwhile nato and the new ministers are meeting to discuss the crisis and a potential no fly zone that's despite deep opposition among libyans and no decision from the u.n. . discussions about what to do with libya are hard to avoid as the u.s. vice president meets russian leaders in moscow among other topics joe biden hopes to boost support for possible american military involvement. and as congressional hearings on the radicalization of america's muslims prepare to start in the u.s.

there are fears that it's little more than a religious which critics worry that people are being a singled out is based soley on their faith. my time for all the latest in sports with andrew gradually had been your champions league football last night so naive as they wrote will be so so cricket matches for the russian contingent there yeah right there tessa to scarface portuguese side porch i was spot at moscow and is in a tough tough games in the netherlands i've got all the details in my. hello they are watching the sport and this is what is coming up. happy harry spurs reached the quarter finals of the champions league along with german side childcare . while russian clubs here scarred uneaten spartak face tough test in europa league. and have been sharks in the k h l defeat to regular season champions

advantage and cup holders ackbar in the latest round of the playoffs. start the football they were tottenham and shelter are the latest scenes through to the champions league quarter final spurs holding on for a near will draw against city our leaders ac milan at white hart lane enough to progress one nil on aggregate and into the light of manager harry redknapp a view to see two years ago you're the last great champions league beautiful crazy i mean it's been it's been a fantastic achievement from the players. just for in a competition so far and we've enjoyed every minute of it and we do have to be here we won a group we'd be ac milan over two games we didn't concede a goal. two clean sheets i mean it's a fantastic achievement shall be meanwhile came from behind to be valencia three one to regret when i get the car to costa have put the spanish side ahead to go from the park than either side of the other end of each right made sure the germans reach the last step. but it's your balance

a good field so we had nothing to lose and try to put some pressure on them and it was certainly very important for us to jefferson scored through callers a before half time and things turned dramatically the second half we scored to make it two one and it became clear that financier had to take again and once again when did so many who made some very good saves in the end it was a deserved week for us and tonight's game. so it is the turn of the europa league tonight and tears will take on porto in the first leg of their last sixteen clash however the army men have an awful record against their portuguese opponents but the build up is rigid found poor flicks. but surely serious car beginning to get back to poor fitness something of a long winter break however they face arguably biggest test yet of a new season. and head coach early on its roots he knows his side has a massive task ahead of them. like a port to have

a really good attack and we can't just concentrate all our efforts on marking falcao as they have other players who are just as dangerous our task will be to limit their attacking opportunities and make sure we are tight in defense. which says can watch the first match of a new season over the weekend begins in some petersburg of the arguments head coach will probably have to do with toss it as a certain wing is suffering from damage angle ligaments russian club will have to make sure bell on top form in defense porto possessor competition's top scorer in power has netted seven goals and this season's europa league much but when you have seen both the matches the porto lost this season against benfica and the second leg against severe they were difficult side to play against and they don't have a lot of weaknesses and we have to make sure we played a high tempo this is the only way i can see us getting a result. meanwhile ports are coming to clash point by the fire of a ten points clear of the top of their domestic championship also in under five

years bourse they have one of the youngest head coaches in europe boss is already being touted as the new horse and i mean you know it's just thirty three years old porto attempt is favorites to make it through to the quarter finals supporters' manager is wary of a serious car side who haven't lost a home game in this competition in over five years. i don't think with favorites to go through to the next round see a scar a very good side they may have lost recently in the russian super cup doesn't eat but they don't think that will have a bearing on thursday's game also the fact that serious car just returning from their winter break won't be an issue in the country but they will be fresh it promises to. be an intriguing encounter of two of our favorites to win this year's europa league going head to head thankfully for both the players and the fans the temperature on per the evening is going to be around freezing point and not minus twenty which was the case when rubin played twenty here around a month ago says are going to face

a tough test again supporters' side one of the top teams remaining in this year's europa league or portuguese team have never lost a match to be an even had a never conceded a goal in the process and that's something that. will have to put right a vegan have any hope of qualifying for the next round richard d'arcy. now there are also two other russian clubs aiming to put one foot in the last state police spark back and zinni travelling to the netherlands for their matches head to amsterdam to face i.x. moscow side are undefeated this year would love that run to continue manager of any carping would probably go for two forwards in this game a strike of elitism should be fit after missing three straight games with a leg injury while defending russian champions any to have a clash with f.c. twenty thirty club beat another russian side through been in the previous round in the previous round but the same petersburg side have injuries there with ford alexander who could of i'm going to feel. that in an all out cochin-china split and having only fifteen senior players to choose from. those three games are my ties

taking place on thursday elsewhere thought i'd time european champions liverpool go to portuguese side braga lunch the city travel to the ukrainian capital to take on an army kiev and on his russian manager duty shimon says these days when the top of their game is. usually trying to shuffle our squad we must be prepared produce strong points but i think we should also try to use our best side to really against manchester city everyone who wants to try to plead bitterly cam. to english teams were in action in the premier league last night birmingham moving out of the drop zone with a one one draw away at everton taking the lead through body fuelled midway through the first article heading or got the just before half time firming and now out of the bottom three but only on goal difference well over three but tonight. i'm talking now in a shock in the playoffs regular season champions haven't guard suffering surprise forty defeat i met in the course in their last eight clash haven't got the top

seeds and hopes to be eight and gave them a quarter final series that put themselves in the lead just four minutes including seed and but rather the lead by three goals to one midway through the second half. and i think. the nice paul one back of a guard still in the second before not completed a hat trick on the fruity school of the light and that. elsewhere celebrate life the defending champions as far as their reads even over time let it be and because getting the all important go to visit it's time later did a lot of mighty to scar will be looking to extend their lead in their respective ties against an armory and at last the. other news now and india have become the first team to qualify for the knockout stages of cricket world cup a five victory over the netherlands putting them top of their group india were chasing one hundred ninety victory and such and goal could put them on their way of becoming the first

man to reach two thousand world cup runs without haptic a boundaries in the fifth day but he was out for twenty seven zero after being brutally caught by kruger but had put india on sixty nine with that loss to open but in the city where i might have batting collapse did follow but yuvraj singh his did india play to victory but not the fifty one india in the four games well and evidence of lost every match so far. a look at action from the n.b.a. now we're struggling sacramento came close to forcing overtime but lost yet again this time to orlando it was a neck and neck affair in california the marcus cousins top scoring with a career high twenty nine points and seven rebounds for sacramento but to call gloop nailed a triple people orlando a five point lead with forty seconds left by luther head then had a chance to send the game into an extra frame but he missed his three pointer and he finished one hundred six two hundred saying to the magic sacramento falling to death or the seven loss of the less than perfect season. finally we reported

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