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vice president russian leadership and opposition here in moscow. traders joining us on the second day. about libya now as he is next for britain's former ambassador to the country all of them miles told us the global reaction such as the un's travel. 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 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 in the one i think i would focus on is that the although there's been some. rather bellicose talk from both london and washington and paris. the more they've actually done is go to school to council straight away 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. a close 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 when tony blair and i think it's true they did meet and 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 specially 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 or which we need the world market needs that libya needs from the world practically everything else from from airplanes to for grains 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 is i'm quite right too and we've recently seen a diplomatic mission to bring causing that sense in the capture of an s.o.s. team is the u.k. actively trying to engage with the rebels but i hope so i mean don't be too much about that it was so good i think it's rather embarrassing i don't think we're british diplomacy at its best to be frank and i've 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 i'm going to be plenty of situations indeed and in a way paolo the situation in afghanistan which we should be talking to people who are fighting against libya we cannot fight against anybody but we should be talking to the different parties we are talking to get our fish people william hague said the other day that he personally was on the telephone commercial question of the libyan foreign minister who was one of the kind of his closest supporters. and i think we've also got to reach out to the others it's difficult thing to do firstly because tripoli won't want to do is of course a little they will put a spoke in it 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 the beginnings of for trouble 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 illegal or just that illegal

i'm sure it was illegal under libya law or yes i mean an unemotional it was more it's illegal to land a helicopter in the middle of somebody else's country full of armed 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 president of france going to the u.n. security council how likely is it do you think that nato will approve some kinds 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 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 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're eliminated the effective anti aircraft perceptions of libya well. i guess libya is absolutely for vent here across the missiles must be hundreds of thousands of them they've been accumulating them for the last forty years how many of the mixing would go off if they pull the trigger is not a matter i don't suppose they know about themselves but they're all over the place so eliminating them would be a big job so in fact a no fly zone does constancy some form of military intervention oh absolutely i just don't know not at all and i think it's just proportionate for the moment because why do you have a no fly zone because nothing has enough force and the fear is that he weren't used effectively and that the rebels would have no option to expand the 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 the aircraft promptly defected to malta rather than on their own side we've heard reports of bombing or the bomb seemed 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 in libya given 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. believe 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 the moment to talk about live fly zone 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 i'm most of the chances do you think that if nato and other countries don't hate the u.s. and the u.k. anyway i think most likely most on lottery it would be a big job and we are already pretty heavily involved both and we we were not on our plate with afghanistan the americans have got enough on the plate with iraq and afghanistan i think it's most of like you can never completely rule these things out but i don't see it and let's talk a bit about the habeas relationship directly with the u.k. we have this a lot of libya's oil wealth is invested through london those assets have now been frozen but could they be used as a bargaining chip that 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're at the security council and i think it's the right thing to do we've got this you know this decision for the security

council i think when you start to look at the small print of the decision and 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 him 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 of course which says that this ban on travel panic should 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 a one way so you're saying that even though everybody seems to want him to me gadhafi is now actually trapped in the well of course the africans for example and i don't know whether it's the african pretty obvious place to think or were

necessarily follow the u.n. rules if if he arrives with a bag of gold and says i want to stay in your country he'll probably be allowed to do so another thing that has been in the press a lot recently is concerning to after death his sons who were educated in prisons universities which in turn receives 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 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 you know what i do have say for the lifestyle. how full his life has been because of his curriculum details so far i simply don't understand how you can possibly have spread to three or four years full time acquiring a genuine promise of

a long speech when we can all talk with one of our prestige universities to get a doctorate ability 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 numbers going on to resign which he's done and i applaud him for it i think it's the honorable thing to do what you clearly have no no or most likely have any direct hand in the business but it's his responsibility however he then went on to say that he apologized for a run drudge would look he blamed libby talked about cooperation between the london school of economics and 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 know feel that they have to back off they shouldn't because the logic of that is they would back off an order from libya from everywhere else. they would look back off of their i said from russia they would back off from algeria

they would buy off from saudi arabia they would back off from china they would where would it stop or 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 do you 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 there's a 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 on and why he's able to keep so many people coming straight in for him in the streets of tripoli i'm afraid i can't really answer to some extent it's not my money pays people to demonstrate for but it's also my loyalty and it's very

difficult to distinguish the two because i think continues to cling on to power what do you think what 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 and 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 for hunting about it's better to shoot it dead or not shouldn't or because of my heart. then you're going for a problem with him 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 are we going to do about these sanctions when are they going to be lifted or it could be frozen forever in which case presumably that means the world goes without libyan oil why why should we why should the world without leave you know we need the oil they need the money they i say the libyan people need the money of course i can see why that africa's got to be stopped but. in the long term freezing libya out is

cruel. wrong of the mouse thank you very much thank you. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the

world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to look for a shelter on the day. took stories from our chief from becomes the first state to recognize libya's rebels as the country's legitimate government and it's probably just pacifism is fueling fears that foreign military intervention could follow. this international pressure on libya grows as the situation reaches bupropion called levels of violence escalate alongside which russia is imposing sanctions banning the export of any of its weapons or military equipment to perk up his regime. in libya is inevitably on the agenda as america's voice president meets the russian leadership in opposition to moscow because it is also one thing traders to avoid and join in

on the second visit. thirty two forty five here in moscow all the bargain about fifty minutes for the news in full for you after the sport update with a. big march second place no here in moscow at the luzhniki arena oh hi kevin yes that's right so scar's taking on also in the first leg of the last sixteen match in the europa league one of the three russian sides in action tonight the latest and the hope that's next. hello welcome to the sports news thank you for joining me and here are the stories making the headlines. european ambition is to look to end a two game win was wrong as the host also in the last sixteen of the europa league . wants trying to find a russian top cities and spacek who also face a tough test in the last sixteen later this thursday night. and also advantage on a recap both rally from opening series losses to level the western conference

semifinals in the k h l. all the asa could use a comma let's start with european football as a taking on also the luzhniki stadium here in moscow in the first leg of their last sixteen trashing the right. the only relevant thing to end a two game. we must run what ports are considered one of the twins favorites and they currently leading one elf pretty darn on target after seventy minutes meanwhile five time european champions liverpool are top portuguese side draw got captain steven gerrard is out with a growing injury alongside nelson kelly fabio really at the time not that the reds thirteen games can you be drawn in here. and there are also two other russian science aiming to put one foot in the last stage of the europa league with spot seconds and it's travelling to the netherlands for that matches later spots that head to amsterdam to face i.x. moscow's side are undefeated this year after that good run spacek manager valarie coppin will probably go for two fourth in this away game to strike the balance and

should be faced after missing three straight games with a slight leg injury. call the russian travel crash sit tight and say as we heard the dutch club beat another rushes like they did in the previous round but the same piece sides have injury worries with forward alexander who cut off the field itself against a man they may have destroyed for lives leaving cochin-china sweaty with a fifteen zero zero it's accused him. oh well there's so much to city kick off in the ukrainian capital against anomic if his russian manager u.-t. sherman says his players will have to be on top with a game. per usual so we're all trying 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 will against manchester city everyone of us should try to play better than a campbell ocean meanwhile city midfielder james milner is injured and colored series bound after failing a drug test manager roberto mancini as creepy when asked and i will be no pushovers with winners like this second round eight what happened to victory. tomorrow.

would be a difficult game. tomorrow is the only different style of play the second half a much as there are little more you can do. all game because score a goal and when it was possible well me was not a manager harry redknapp lauded his size dream progress after they reached the champions league quarter finals along with genocide shocker spurs held on for a nil nil drop home to syria our latest ac milan which was enough to see them go through one airline i guess falling prey to crashes first strike of you to see two years ago your little australia champions league. crazy i mean it's been a fantastic achievement from the players. has just flown a competition so far and we've enjoyed every minute of it and we deserved a big year we won a group we'd be a similarity to games we didn't concede a goal of june. two green shoots for me to find just human i mean while shopping is

it going to be balanced yet three women dressed for two on aggregate regatta cost and have the spanish side ahead two goals from jefferson five planted by the side of a marriott got run of each strike made sure the german side reached the last eight . so i thought in our western conference leaders locomotives have suffered a dramatic defeat to deny riga to level the series at one apiece after the second flash of the best of seven quarterfinals we gave them three to down in the final period to score three goals stunning the loss of a powerhouse to roll out five three with this serious news today is read after watch atlanta county took a victory from their two straight away games against guns and petersburg stars leading for alexei yashin remains asked you to injury as the moscow wait inside overcame the series open last a solid three one win so one each after the second against next matches will be held on saturday. while there is a shock on wednesday as regular season champions and avocado assets of the surprise

the option defeat thanks mr and mrs bush her side went ahead just for me it's in god's hands and we are. not slowed back to lead by three goals to one midway through the stuff. that he's gotten off and that's twice. the ash that. is a little piece of his hattrick duty still i hate to mess up. elsewhere such a lie as defending champions at basel three two in overtime putting an end to both the all important goal but this it is. striking that andreas kloden is the new leader of the paris nice race after winning the fifth stage the german who won this event eleven years ago now takes the yellow jersey from thomas to get stage five of the race to the sun to the widest on the one hundred ninety three kilometer run the steep slopes of that cold i knew too much believe it against. dropped pace early in the prime cauldron was able to hold off

a limp dick champion sunday sundress in sprint to take the stage victory german alex sanchez on the four seconds in the overall standings going to stage six which is a time trial and is expected to decide the final results. during the reading before you going to buy the ice invalid today tomorrow is a very hard time through the night it was before this was hard to do that already know everything about it all the good enough to know and maybe today when all of a minute i look to morrow evening and all the legs like this is going to have it on through. to the n.b.a. and sacramento slipped to their forty seven's loss of the season as they went down one hundred six two hundred two to orlando it was a neck and neck affair in california up to marcus cousins top scoring with a career high twenty nine points and sudden rebounds sacramento but had to call you

nailed a triple to give the manager the five hundred lead with forty seconds left lose the head and then had a chance to send the game into overtime he missed three points or so finished hundred six hundred two to the magic sacramento forty two loss in the forty seven less than perfect season. and finally the extreme sport of free riding has developed over the past forty years from a past time to well tour and the latest event a black sea resort of sochi attracted experienced riders from all around the world this constant us up off and. the history of free writing starts in the nineteen seventies and it was characterized as skiing steep slopes in well terrain since that nothing has really changed freewriting still needs one track told us no stick to kulik leave john's creative flank choices and the best experienced riders simple feel that the free ride world tour was created in two thousand and seven as a joint competition for skiers and snowboarders and it's the most significant

advance for the sport the writing is a great tool for traveling for traveling the world for having nice expenditures for pushing yourself for being scared sometimes you know it's a great way to get to know yourself rosa khutor is an exotic location just eighty kilometers from the black sea but it's also becoming a mecca for free riders who are searching for the best mountains around the world the terrain is very good the snow is very good and now the infrastructure with the resort. is perfect. i'm convinced there's a big future for reading this is a brand new resort facilities to suit old skill levels and will be a venue for alpine ski runs at the twenty fourteen olympics but despite its infancy the writers already feel comfortable here because of the terrain and fresh powder out in the mountains that identify pressley a planet has always been

a great place for free riding however there had been no facilities but after school leaves were built it's much easier to get to a slope nevertheless i think there are more prospects for free right here than for classical and pick disciplines because there is a lot of snow here and the weather is very unpredictable free riders are becoming trainset or is in winter sports as more and more prefer to climb higher and mountains to get lots of snow and lots of adrenaline the number of top advance is increasing as well as the amount of equipment being sold. in russia true writing is still a can only because what is becoming more popular thanks to growth of the sports world white nevertheless the development of russian waiters is obvious with a doing so should you enough in your sorrow can befall you while at the recent such a stage of the world tour and with this sort of terrain on their doorstep they will have every chance to progress however it's not only about the sport it's about the lifestyle and if you are writing is as having fun with some friends. in the fresh

air. close to the nature. travelling. and stands progressing. the physical but also on the on the mental aspects. it may be hard to explain and understand through writing but when you get to the mountains and witness it with your ice no words are needed in spain but out of our team such it. that's all the sports news for this. hungry for the full stop we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on.

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