four thirty pm in moscow these are iraqi headlines france becomes the first state to recognize libya's rebels overthrown trees government and plans to exchange massacres its fueling fears the country may soon see foreign military intervention . it's feared violence could escalate further in libya russia imposing sanctions against gadhafi regime banning the export of weapons and military equipment. and libya in never to be on the agenda as the vice president of the united states meets with the russian leadership and opposition in moscow boosting trade ties is also

one joe biden's list as he joined blood in europe on day two of his visit. and more thoughts now on libya as r.t. hears from britain's former ambassador to the country oliver miles says global reaction such as the un's travel ban on khadafi is questionable stay with us. today i'm talking to all of the miles he's a former british ambassador snippy we're going to be talking about the situation in the country at the moment the rest response to it and how it might sound cold out of all thank you very much for talking to see 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 the flies a these claims that we've heard stats gadhafi has chemical weapons and i'll say this talk around the world of military intervention. well there is a parallel but i think there are some important differences and look on the one i think i'd focus on this 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 go to school of international trade away and they got full agreement in the security council you know most support for a resolution which didn't refer of the war to military action or anything of that point so it's not it's not an old close parallel 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 seems that it well i think that's a bit much actually i mean the british press take that view the british press of which going on about you know the meeting in the desert between tony blair and you could have finished really good meeting that doesn't lead to the 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 deals 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 some of them when i say we it's not the west or britain or europe it's everybody everybody china taiwan russia indonesia brazil you name it they're all there everybody's i'm quite right too and we've recently seen a diplomatic mission to benghazi that's ends in the capture of an s.s. team is the u.k. actively trying to engage with the records well i hope so i mean don't speak too much about that it was so-called i think it's rather embarrassing i don't think it would produce diplomacy at its best to be frank i have said that from 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 i'm going to be plenty of situations indeed

it's in a way paolo the situation in afghanistan which we should be talking to the people who are fighting against libya we are not fighting against anybody but we should be talking to the different parties we are talking to good office people william hague said the other day that he personally was on the telephone the commission of the libyan foreign minister was one of get out get off it's close supporters. and i think we've also got to reach out to the others it's difficult for people who firstly because tripoli work wonders to do it of course a little bit will put a spoke in it would have a count and secondly because the situation is still very disorganized really there isn't a military command structure of there isn't a political structure the beginnings of political trouble but no 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 in legal or just an act illegal i'm sure it was illegal under libyan law or yes i mean i'm the most people's law it's illegal to land

a helicopter in the middle of somebody else's country full of armed men yes i think it 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 the french 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 any writing 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 that will be others as well probably but turkey has already shown its hand so 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 rather innocent for an 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 limited to be effective and she aircraft defenses of libya well. i guess libya is absolutely full of i'm here across missiles but must be hundreds of thousands will they be accumulating them for the last forty years how many of them actually would go off and think of the trigger as not would matter i don't suppose they know that and so but they're all over the place so eliminating them would be a big job so in fact the no fly zone does constancy some for 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 low fly zone because gadhafi has enough force and the fear is that he wasn't used effectively and that the rebels would have no option to explain that would be a humanitarian disaster well that's all possible but it hasn't happened yet and what's happened so far is that you have forces made a rather pathetic showing two of the the aircraft promptly defected to malta a row of them on their own side. we've heard reports of bombing all of

them seem to have missed whatever they were meant to hit and apparently you think well who knows who knows and the stories of attacks right from the beginning of the conflict in libya have been stories of attacks on 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 where you couldn't leave your 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 don't believe it really i think is disproportionate for that when i want to talk about a new 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. that's a different matter i'm most of the chances do you think that if nato and other

countries don't ok the u.s. and the u.k. go ahead there anyway i think most unlikely most of likely it will be a big job and we are already pretty heavily involved both and we we've got a lot on our plate with afghanistan the americans are popping off on their plate with iraq and afghanistan i think it's most likely you can never completely rule is the exact but i don't see it and let's talk a bit about that because relationship directly with the u.k. we have this a lot of libya's oil wealth is invested through london there's a sense of not being friends and but could they be used as a bargaining chip with gadhafi 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 to security council and i think it was the right thing to do a man who thought this you know this decision for the security council i think when you start to look at the small print of the decision making straight from not very helpful for example. one of our ministers liam fox said last week i think he was

quite right that the best solution to this problem would be for gadhafi to leave well if if one takes that you why does the u.n. poll some more work says that no country can accept that and that wherever he goes he's going to be subject to prosecution surely we should have said that. if you look very carefully at the u.n. resolution you find that in the small print was a cause which says that this ban on travel can actually be lifted by the security council in appropriate patient 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's going to happen if he decides to go go he'll. what we should have done is offer him a free ticket to the bob way one way so you're saying that even though everybody seems to want him to leave gadhafi is now actually tracked and well of course the africans for example and i don't know whether it's the african pretty obvious place to think or 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 you'll probably be allowed to do so another thing that has been in the press

a lot recently is concerning to the deaf and sons who were educated in british universities which in turn received generous donations from them do you think that will prompt the u.k. to now look more closely at who is allowed to come and study in this country and how they're being funded 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 or in fact i have no real basis for what i'm going to say but i'll say it anyway knowing what i do or say for this law mr lifestyle or. how full his life has been in his curriculum vitae so far i simply don't understand how you could possibly have spread to all three or four years for acquiring a genuine doctrine of true economic which often was one of our prestige universities together dr availability 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 a lot as well economics to resign which he started and i applaud him for it i think it's the honorable thing to do what clearly noted most are not give you have 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 been to libya and talked about cooperation between the on this movie economics of libya 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 from everywhere else. i would back off there i said from russia they would back off from algeria or back off from saudi arabia they would back off from china they would where would it stop where would it stop now 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 of all of 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 is he says he doubts i think there's a there's a strong current of freedom and liberation opening up flowing from egypt and tunisia 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 not my money pays people demonstrate for but it's also done by loyalty and it's very difficult to distinguish and to 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 would be very difficult very difficult for both the u.k.

and for the rest of the world. of course he'll be in a weak position but if 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 it's better to shoot it dead or not shoot it at all because of my heart. and your gleeful problem will have come i'm afraid that's the 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 when are they going to be lifted or it will be frozen forever in which case presumably that means the world does without libyan oil why why should we why should the world be 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.

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period. french becomes the first state to recognize libya's rebels as the country's government and plans to exchange and that's it has its fueling fears the country may soon see foreign military intervention. it's feared violence could escalate further in libya russia's imposing sanctions against gadhafi regime banning the export of weapons and military hardware. into libya is inevitably on the agenda as the u.s. vice president meets the russian leadership and opposition in moscow to boosting trade ties also on joe biden's agenda as he joins a lot of your putin on day two of his visit. more news coming your way in less than

fifteen minutes after the sports update with kate partridge stay with us. hello welcome to the sports news with me outrage and fear of sports headlines after shops as our garden at plaza stands in there right now as we look mighty close to our readers and skoll welcome atlanta the second day in the cage of playoffs. while higher is ok in the totem pole going for a goal is a draw with ac milan to secure a place in the champions league quarter finals ashoka consequently i. am flying a flag the russian props to scott is in it and spots that face tough test in the europa league last sixteen. for the european football to come but first i stocky where western champions look a mighty full host huge underdogs dinamo riga in the second clash with their best of seven playoff series again post outlands leading one nil off of their previous encounter in some petersburg on wednesday the alice double team claimed

a solid wind of the final score for two as a method three goals in the last ten minutes. to overcome a two goal deficit against their rivals in the series i know however atlatl be looking to bring home at least one win in two straight away games. and want a shock from wednesday as regular season champions took seats out in advance of the supporters who seem to feed into matter like i suppose the home side went ahead just four minutes even tried to see if one could run off the next low full back to lead by three goals to one way through the second period in the spot on off nights of twice in his possession put on the back of. a tunnel between the stature of the two small line mates to mess up. the last beat defending champions at vastly to it over time did nothing to cause more important goal for the business is. moving to european football where tottenham and shall co went through to the

quarter finals of the champions league on wednesday night spurs held on for an illness draw against syria at leaders ac milan at white hart lane which was enough to see them progress one nil on aggregate following peter crouch his first leg strike much to the delight of manager harry redknapp. if you just leave two years ago you'll be lost in the generally good of crazy i mean it's been a fantastic achievement from the players. just far in a competition so far and we've enjoyed every minute of it and we do have the big year we won a group would be a similarity to game concede a goal. to clean sheets from its advantage. they came from behind to beat the lengthier three wands of requests portsea wow good as. the spanish side ahead that's two goals from jettison the far bank either side the money i got from it strike and cheer the genocide to reach the last eight. i didn't hear valencia got the open 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 the equaliser before half time and things turned dramatically the second half we scored to make it two one and it became clear that the lancer had to take again and once again when did to man i don't know yet who made some very good saves in the end it was a deserved win for us and a nice game. and it's the turn of the europa league this thursday night sweats ayscough a take on porto in the first leg of their last sixteen clash however the army men have an awful record against their portuguese opponents and with a bill that has which of them properly. slowly but surely since car beginning to get back to full fitness top of their long winter break however they face arguably biggest test yet of a new season as beatty khan f.c. porto and head coach knows his side has a massive task ahead of them your. portal porto have a really good attack and we can't just concentrate all our efforts on marking

falcao because 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 you would for me so it's kind of my first match of venue season over the weekend against the mass in petersburg of the armenians head coach will probably have to do with science on toss it as a serbian winger is suffering from damaged ankle ligaments russian club will have to make sure they are on top form in defense porto possess the competition's top score and falcao has netted seven goals in this season's europa league you will march fourth but when you have seen both the matches the porto lost this season against benfica and the second leg against severe they were difficult to play against and they don't have a lot of weaknesses and we have to make sure we played a high tempo if this is the only way i can see us having 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 a b. as boys they have one of the youngest head coaches in europe boys is already being

touted as the new horsey monino is just thirty three years old or so it is pave roads to make it proof of a quarter finals of course as 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 as a neat 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 where they will be fresh. it promises to be an intriguing encounter but to have a favorite to win this is europa league going head to head thankfully for both the players and the fans the temperature on perth 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 going to face a tough test again supporters cite one of the top teams remaining in this year's europa league or portuguese team have never lost

a match to be an even handed never concede a goal in the process and that's something that. will have to put right have begun have any hope of qualifying for the next round dougherty in moscow. and there are also two other russian clubs aiming to put one foot in the last stage of the europa league with sparta and cement travelling to the netherlands for their matches head to our sedan to face i.x. the moscow side undefeated this year and love to continue and run spacek manageable larry carr they will probably go for two thirds of this away game to strike a balance and should be fit after missing three straight games with the slight lead injury. depending on champions and it's how they clash at f.c. twenty eight as we heard the dutch club beat another russian side rubin in the previous round but the st petersburg side have injury worries with four legs under who had off field as and for the near destroyed all hands even coach lee china's letty with only fifteen senior players to choose from. turns those three games are

on eight size taking place this thursday elsewhere five time european champions liverpool goes of course east side braga manchester city travel to the ukrainian capital to say continent i fear and russian manager you show me says his players have to be on top of their game. and usually try to shuffle our squad we must produce strong points and i think we should also try to use our suffering to will against manchester city everyone of us should try to play better. meanwhile in the english premier league on wednesday branding and moved out of the drop zone with a one one draw at everton but i'm going to believe two shown both as your midway through the first half for johnny hiding it netted the equaliser just before half time the blues an hour out of the bottom three a real goal difference ever turned up tonight. rickets and india have become the first team to qualify for the knockout stage of the world cup after a five week victory over the netherlands but the top with

a group india were chasing one hundred ninety victory duca put them on their way becoming the first man to reach two thousand world cup runs with the trick of boundaries in the states though it's out the twenty seven british court by bradley kruger but he was injured on sixty nine of that last minute following. a minor passing clots followed but things did india to victory by five wickets for the north coast fifty one. to the n.b.a.'s sacramento slipped to their forty seventh loss of the season as they went down one hundred six to one hundred two to orlando it was a neck and neck affair in california at the marcus cousins top scoring with a career high twenty nine points and seven rebounds for sacramento but i don't recall you nailed a triple or land a five point lead with forty seconds left lose the head then had a chance to send the game into overtime even ist is three pointer and six hundred

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