if you spread radioactive materials all over somebody's backyard that you've got a problem. hungry for the full stomach we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers r t. eight thirty pm thursday night care in moscow this is the r.t. news channel these are our top stories france becomes the first state to recognize libya's rebels as the country's government plans to exchange citizens killing physical and makes him see foreign military intervention. in time and street violence escalate further in libya russia's imposing sanctions against the daffy's regime banning the export of weapons military equipment. and libya's never

intended to as america's vice president leads the russian leadership on opposition here in moscow boosting trade ties is also on joe biden's list as he joins but in a protest on the second day as. well more thoughts about libya now as r.t. has from former ambassador to the country oliver miles says global reaction such as the un's travel ban on gadhafi is highly questionable. 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 old oliver miles 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 he 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 and look the one i think i'd focus on is is that the although there's been some. rather bellicose talk from both london and washington and perish. the what they've actually done there's no actual security council straightaway and they've 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 seems that well i think that's a bit much actually i mean the british press take that view the british press are always going on about you know the meeting in the desert between tony blair and i think and it's true they did meet in 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 deals with libya so there's nothing specially british about it it's the world has me doing business with libya and in my opinion quite right too because after all libya has all which we need the world market needs and 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 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 sends in the capture of an s.f. team is the u.k. actively trying to engage with the rebels well i hope so i mean i don't speak too much about that it was so because i think it's rather embarrassing i do think it was british diplomacy at its best to be frank so that for 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 mean it will be plenty of situations indeed it's in a way paolo the situation in afghanistan where we should be talking to the people we're fighting against but in libya we cannot fight against anybody but we should be talking to the different parties we are talking to people william hague said the other day that he personally would on the telephone the promotion of the libyan foreign minister was one of the good of his close 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 bit will put a spoke and we would have a count and secondly because the situation is still very disorganized the there isn't a military command structure of there isn't a political structure for the killings and for the know nothing what 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 that

illegal or 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 on men yes i think 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 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 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 that will be others as well probably but turkey has already shown its hand so to speak i think that the 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 the no fly. which

sounds rather innocent for even to mention 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've eliminated the effective anti-aircraft defenses of libya well i guess libya is absolutely for venti across missiles going to be hundreds and thousands of they've been accumulating them for the last forty years how many of them actually would go off if they pull the trigger as well not so 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 and as i say does constancy some form of military intervention oh absolutely yes no no not a pause and i think it's just proportionate for the moment because why do you have a no fly zone because gadhafi has an air force and the fear is that he weren't used effectively and that the rebels would have no option to expand the would be 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 promptly defected to malta rather than bomb 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 we're going to be in stories of attacks on civilian populations and i don't know of a single authenticated case i think we've all probably had the experience i don't myself believe your correspondents are telephoning anyone they can find in libya and the story you get from everybody is all 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 homes 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 at the moment to talk about only of lies and that's why both the british and the americans have been talking about being ready and there's nothing wrong with telling your military to be ready

for a continued. that's that's a different matter and what are the chances do you think that if nato and other countries don't say ok the u.s. and the u.k. go ahead anyway i think most of like most likely it will be drawn and we're already pretty heavily involved both and we we've got enough on our plate with afghanistan the americans of course enough on their plate with iraq and afghanistan i think it's most unlikely you can never completely rule these things out but i don't see it and let's talk a bit about libya's relationship directly with the u.k. we hear this a lot of libya's oil wealth is invested through london there's a sense of now being friends and 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 on happy 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 one who thought because you know the decision for the security council i think when you start with the small print of the decision

making frankly 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 that you know why does the u.n. poll some more work says that no country can accept it and that wherever he goes he's going to be subject to prosecution surely we should have said that what if if you look very carefully at the u.n. resolution you find that in the small print was a clause which says that this ban on travel can actually be lifted by the security council in the appropriate patients so you know if it 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 pretty good for the barber a one way so you're saying that even though everybody seems to want him to leave because afi is now actually trapped in a well of course the african most for example and i don't know whether it's the african prince the obvious place to think of will necessarily follow the u.n.

rules 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 sons who are actually cases in prisons 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 the lifestyle. how full his life has been because its curriculum details so far i simply don't understand how you could possibly have spread to three or four years full time acquiring a genuine doctorate from scripture we can all talk with 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 fiction so that's i think a good reason for the director of a plumbing school economics to resign which he's done and i applaud him for it i think it's the honorable thing to do what clearly you have no no or most unlikely having a direct hand in the business but it's a 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 i mean 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 which would have links with 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. they would look back of their i said from russia they would back off from algeria they would back off from saudi arabia they would back off for china they would where

would it stop or 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 that 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 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 on why he's able to keep so many people demonstrating for him in the streets of tripoli i'm afraid i can't really answer specifics and it's not my money he pays people to demonstrate for but it's also done a lot and it's very difficult to distinguish the two because i think 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 if he's in a weak position he'll probably lash out in some unpleasant degrees way i mean it's like. you know if you're hunting about it's better to bed all marching to the top because if it's and you're going for a problem i'm going to come i'm afraid that's that's that's the situation we will end up with unless unless you go so it's very difficult to see. what are we going to do about these sanctions when are they going to be lifted or is it 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 be without libyan or we need the oil they need the money they i say the libyan people need the money of course i can see why i could have it was not to be stopped but. in the long term freezing libya out

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life on the go. video on demand on t.v.'s my old costs and. now with the palm of your. question on. the top stories from our t.v. france becomes the first state to recognize libya's rebels as the country's government and plans to exchange ambassadors is fueling fears the country may soon see fall of military intervention. history of violence could escalate further in the be of meantime russia is imposing sanctions against colonel gadhafi is regime banning the export of weapons and military equipment. and libya is inevitably on the agenda as america's vice president meets the russian leadership and opposition here in moscow boosting trade ties also joe biden's list is enjoys but even opposed to the second day of his visit. i'm kevin i don't know about the news in full in

fifteen minutes here on our table it's a busy sporting night cake scored a round of the day's action next. hello malcolm to the sports and here in stories making the headlines. aftershocks is our garden at casa standin there right and there's a lot more to post and i regret install welcome to atlanta you second day with a truck playoffs. ball flying the flag rushing to taste out of the needs and spots based tough justice in the europa league last sixteen disposed a night. ari's game manager red not says talking progress isn't possible dream off to his side which the champions league quarter finals along with shaka. all european football's a convert first to ice hockey where western champions lucky for hosting underdogs in america in the second clash of their best of seven playoff series all star are

again leading one nil after their previous encounter in some petersburg dust up atlanta leads three one is the biggest brought forward alexander mcqueen i have netted eight more in seventeen minutes five minutes later let's see if they get off the equaliser then in the beginning of the second period. the visitors in front and the other includes increase this disadvantage three one while elsewhere jaroslav a powerhouse looking with new thought eager to change their second grade in a row that russia pensions are riga and sports on the three two to the well i meant with. some let's say that's a very upset and there was gold on the. wall of the shock on wednesday as regular season champion says that some of the surprise fortunes of these sentiments unlike anything close to home side went ahead just four minutes into the sea and on the run off but that's a leg full back to lead by three goals to one midway through the second period than a spot on offer that's a twice companies in the us. that's one of the traits

of the true story line of the night. lions beat defending champions at past three two in overtime the d.n.c. brought the all important goal for the visitors. moving to european football and taste our take on porto in the first leg of their last sixteen flashed in the europa league this thursday night however the army men have an awful record against their portuguese opponents and with the build up which of them caught the eight. but surely says carr beginning to get back to poor fitness some of their long winter break however they face arguably their biggest test yet of a new season. porto and head coach knows his side has a massive task ahead of them your thoughts like a porker 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 or our task will

be to limit their attacking opportunities and make sure we are tied in defense. of the board. first match of a new season over the weekend begins the mass in petersburg of the armenians head coach will probably have to do with time zone toss it as the serbian wingers suffering from damage and begin to hence russian club will have to make sure they're on top form and depends also possess the competition's top store in power cow has netted seven goals in this season's europa league you will much. 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 for us but we have to make sure we played a high tempo this is the only way i can see us getting a result. meanwhile porter come into the clash board by the fire of the ten points clear of the top of their domestic championship also in under heavy as boys they have one of the youngest head coaches in europe boys whose rating touted has been new horse the money is just thirty three years old or so it is paved roads 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 for you know. 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 there's a need but i don't think that will have a bearing on thursday's game in quantum also the fact that serious her artists returning from their winter break won't be an issue in the country but they will be fresh. it promises to be an intriguing counter for two of the favorites to win this year's europa league going head to head off thankfully for both the players and the fans the temperature on purpose 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 car going to face a tough test again supporters side who are one of the top teams remaining in this year's europa league or portuguese team have never lost a match to be an even and a never conceded a goal in the process and not something that. would have to put right if they can

have any hope of qualifying for the next round richard d'arcy. and there are also two other russian clubs a means but one foot in the last eight of the europa league and cities travelling to the netherlands for them arches spots like head to amsterdam to face i.x. the moscow side undefeated this year left until the one spot that manager valarie karpen will probably go for two forwards in this away game to strike a balance and should be face after missing three straight games with a side leg injury. while the pending russian champions in eight have a clash of twenty as we heard the dutch club meets another russian side repeat in the previous rounds at the st petersburg side how the injury worries for example caught off the field is set against the mac and the dimia bistrot all out even trying to split and maybe fifteen players to choose from. those three games are on eight side is taking place this thursday match to city travel to the ukrainian capital to take on tonight here tonight as russian manager at u.t.

showmen says his players for have to be on top of their game. but usually try to shuffle our squad we must be prepared to produce strong points but i think we should also try to use our best signing to really against manchester city everyone who wants to try to play bitterly campbell. and elsewhere five time european champions live a call go to a portuguese side braga captain steven gerrard has been ruled out because of a growing injury and he also has defensive worries with martin kelly fabia radio out for months with hamstring injuries i get is missing the cost problem the coach admitted liverpool face a difficult game but the reds are on a thirteen game unbeaten run in europe to seek to secure their place in the quarterfinals but we try our best not to lose a goal. the same for every team i think it's very difficult to score a goal with either of the ball. put it there's a better life for that the more possession you are of the bear charge of

a score and those are all it's all about what you do with the ball and. i feel more creative with the. position them of a charter school. their name out on a manager harry redknapp lauded his side's dream progress after they reached the champions league quarterfinals along with german side shelter spurs held on for a nail in their old brought home to syria our leaders ac milan which was enough to see them go through one elaborate years following peter crouch his first leg strike obviously two years ago you'd be lost mainly jan because we'd beautiful crazy i mean we've been it's been a friend just to get even from the players. dr drew has just gone to competitions really far and we've enjoyed every minute of it and we deserved to be year we won a group we'd be eighty million over two games really concede a goal draw. to green shoot some reason for just human army washout they came from behind to be valid three rounds regressed to one hundred s. we got our cost back up but the spanish side ahead two guards from jefferson far

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