welcome back if he does join us this is our q live from moscow and here's a look at the top stories british and these accuse a government of great misjudgment over the selling of weapons to arab regimes now using them against their own people the u.k. sold over three hundred million dollars worth of weapons to colonel gadhafi shortly before we leave you know uprising again. a priest in finland finds himself under attack for speaking out against tension terrorised over mark and his terrilyn supporters in helsinki finland shelters an extremist islamist web site maher makes

statements about terror attacks in russia. and breaking the news breaking the budget u.s. networks count the cost of covering disasters and war but still find the millions needed to pay their star anchors some outlets have spanned most of their annual budget in just a few months and. well despite public criticism at home over its participation of the bombing of libya britain continues massing its forces as i were active as john ruiz told r.t. lore and it the government will not withdraw from the conflict before the coalition reshapes a political map of the region here's more of his thoughts. today i'm talking to john reese he's very active in the stop the war coalition that position is that the british ministry should not have got involved in intervention in libya john rees thank you very much for talking to r.t.

now the government says that the ad strikes prevented a massacre in benghazi why are you right and they're wrong well i think the longer term effects would be even worse than the effects might have been on benghazi but i don't actually accept the government's argument about benghazi either if you look at the guardian reports on the day before the airstrikes took place from benghazi it's clear that the rebels in benghazi stopped to get a piece of this before he got to be on the suburbs and i think it would have been impossible for a force of maybe tens of thousands of soldiers to take in a city of a million people so i don't accept that that was a sufficient justification for the war in the first place i also think there is some evidence again report in the guardian newspaper that he actually moved into place so you could take shelter from possible air attacks so far from producing the effect that the government said it would produce the opposite effect so your

position is just stand back leave well alone and let them sort themselves out well i certainly think that when a revolution takes place in the country it's the business of the people in that country to conduct the revolution and my point about the western intervention would be this i don't think that they did intervene in order to assist a revolutionary process i think they intervened in order to get control over evolutionary process and we begin to see now in the weeks since the western intervention but there are pro western figures emerging as the dominant figures within the. ministration often they're the same people who only yesterday were in the pit after the regime who were feeling very happily with the west for the last decade so i think that they're shaping and molding the benghazi uprising in ways which are compatible with the interests of the western powers whereas. richard a rebellion certainly wasn't what damaged you think western this type of western evolvement does to regional uprising how does it corrupts the original purpose of it well i think it's very very clear in the in the libyan case that there are

people now coming to the fore who were trained in the west have links with the west have links with the west and security services who wouldn't have come to the top had the west not intervene there was a democratic structure in benghazi the transitional national council was a party represented by twenty local council beneath it but when the western powers intervene the people who become selected to become the leadership of it are people who have the ear of the west therefore the whole democratic process of representing the libyan people become distorted there are people who know the ear of the west who are the authorities the people who can broker the peals over movie intervention in the people who can broker the deal that's taking place with qatar about the sale of oil the whole principle of a popular democratic revolution becomes corroded corrupted and demeaned by the intervention of the western powers and what did you experience in the region what's your feeling about the sort of sentiment that may prevail on the streets now i

think is a very very powerful impulse both to have a democratic society but also i think the roots of the revolutions are to do with the rejection of the near liberal economics which let's face it mubarak dictatorship was a very strongly associated with the neo liberal economic policy privatizing state industry and i think a lot of the fire in the engine of the egyptian revolution was to do with a rejection of that and we can see by the massive strike quietus taken place actually in the two days before barack. massively expanded since then but this is a very very big issue for many millions of egyptians we know that the u.g. govern the union into music. it was at the heart of the revolution which overthrew . and we know that economic in. economic questions were central to the beginning of the revolution and i believe will be central to the future of it as well so

democracy yes but a rejection of near liberalism and also i think a very deep dissatisfaction with the alliance between the dictators in the region and the western powers and the state of israel so i think that in all three registers political democracy economic challenge to merely produce them challenge to the imperial structure of the region we're going to see very very profound developments and you mentioned iraq and a lot of people are comparing this to iraq and afghanistan but this this is a bit different isn't it i mean after all these are strikes do support what was essentially initially a popular uprising yes but as i say it was an intervention not to save the revolution but to subvert the revolution. and it's as well here is also to remember an important element of the history in iraq especially actually from the first gulf war because there were no foes on with no fly zones were imposed on northern and southern iraq just after the coalition had defeated saddam hussein they allowed

saddam hussein's helicopters to fly under the cover of the no fly zone to put down the rising of the marsh arabs in the size it's not inconceivable actually that if they come to a cease fire if they come to some kind of settlement they will allow gadhafi to put down the remnants of a rebellion here as well so the fact that we're fighting gadhafi you know doesn't preclude that it didn't in iraq the fact that a no fly zone by well being used against the rebels in the future and could this turn into an out there in iraq and afghanistan people are warning that it could among them the turkish prime minister i mean that there doesn't seem to be any such thing anymore as a sort of quick and clean it out operation well the difficulty is here that the coalition forces are actually jammed up by the political developments surrounding this. intervention there obviously very very concerned about full scale military intervention on the ground so in that sense i think the antiwar opinion both here and in the united states has prevented

a full scale invasion so far but as any military analyst will tell you you can't win a ground war simply with air power and they are obviously winning it and that's why there's all this talk about a stalemate that a stalemate is very hard to resolve without. without the deployment of pro troops i sincerely hope that that doesn't happen it would be a massive. situation if that were to be the case but if it doesn't happen then i think we are looking at a very very messy situation which may lead to the partition of libya may lead to a prolonged civil war actually if the west are kept out funnily enough the market over sooner. the war in iraq there's a huge public outcry you know hundreds of thousands of people out on the streets demonstrating against public opinion is increasingly against this war in libya but do you think the main thing that the government has learned from iraq is how to sell a war to the public you know i think it's learned not to commit itself to

a war very quickly see i mean it was obvious that there was going to salute a massive ground invasion i mean i think as it came after the invasion of afghanistan it was absolutely clear what was going to what was going to happen i think the public opinion is actually calibrated to the degree of military involvement of them over the back of what is avoiding a ground war i think it's reflected in the opinion polls of people against what's happening but they don't see it on the same scale as the iraq war which indeed it is and yet i think if there were any sign that there was going to be a serious problem and of ground troops in libya you would have an absolutely massive response part is we can see from the opinion polls. there is a majority against the and into. but there are very large number of parent knows that would alter very very quickly if there were talk of a ground war i think what role do you think the media plays and he gets in i think an intervention i think the main difficulty with the media is that it doesn't have

a sense of history not even over a very short period actually and so it's trapped within what happens today the trouble is you can never understand what happens today unless you understand what happened yesterday in the previous week in the previous year in the previous that play and so it's the struggle to recall exactly those put exactly the point of course that they played on pm to the children and billions of pounds practically every western corporation involved in the oil. is in libya he was feted in the academic institutions and others in this country and this is very very important to recall if we want to have some it's torkel sense about what we might be doing in the region and finally and briefly read you see this going in there in the short to medium term very difficult to tell i think it is growing and going through a stalemate it's very difficult to see how he could actually hold down the entire population of the east of the of the country and it's also very difficult to see

when the current circumstances. the rebels are progress and can take can take tripoli and i don't believe that the western intervention will fundamentally resolve this in a way what he's doing is it's kind of institutionalizing to make them permanent. a situation of civil conflict rather than resolving it so i hope that the comes a point where the rebellion because he says actually this western prevention hasn't helped it's hasn't done what we thought it would do it hasn't say civilian life is actually causing civilian casualties it's actually using weaponry which injury and real health provider actions to come out it hasn't decisively alter the balance against. happy we would be better perhaps they might begin to think five million resources within the revolution itself is much progress and that would be a big turnaround it would be trucking up all the people now who are in the

leadership of the benghazi rebellion who are pro western who are old gadhafi hands and very long links with the west and that's quite hard to imagine as well so i think the western intervention has made an incredible mess which will last for a long time in libya calories thank you very much. disarming saddam hussein. of iraqi citizens. this event brings further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever. again over embassy in kabul. chance to launch occupied afghanistan. now

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going to battle in every match that a prince will remember us and. they may tell season is approaching its conclusion but the red stars are already involving themselves in exhibition matches first they faced in poland away and in a week to a skinny mexico fans never gets a day off the tour will face fell between russia and canada and international tournament will take place weight after that not much rest but it's clear the players love what they do. m.h.l. is getting to a higher level we're going to play big teams and who represents only had to play against canada is always something special i like it and i think the league is taking the right steps in promotion. still make a outfit left corporate will join the k. shell next season and their junior team has become the thirty second squad in them a challenge it's clear them to lead is picking up steam with expansion very much that buzzword could their focus against some of these players making their mark

when the winter olympics roll into sochi in twenty fourteen same but out of. shock spin or over in the footballing world unceasing either. getting their champions league last eight campaigns off to a flying start not seen many were expecting what happened in milan but in this league. having five inch or so the home side if you were in front of the knights of the german i produced an extraordinary second themselves well the driving seat for a semi final straw to do on the royal netting braces and what was definitely shock is most memorable leaping on the continent today. on top of the stream t.v. season in the terminal it sold out over after four. ryall madrid another bitter pill for a spurs fans to swallow was the former arsenal striker a month you'll go on the scoresheet twice. a late goal by cristiana rinaldo meaning tottenham have it all to do in the return leg next week the fourteenth

minute sending off of peter crouch for a second yellow a major talking point in the game as well. if you could. just be friends if you could overlook. it. you defend. when you are losing already when you have to is is who will reinforce the job. to keep it one you want to consume as such you nearly gone but eventually you know they can let me. go now the fun continues later tonight in the european cup with two more games favorites barcelona take on shakhtar donetsk while it's an all english faceoff at stamford bridge with chelsea hosting manchester united the visitors taping through the training field and shoot it with fives wayne rooney who is suffering from a should not though he will play this evening alex ferguson has

a depleted defense to pick from with jonny evans expected to start in the back four possibly alongside rio ferdinand who returns to the squad after being sidelined for two months with a calf injury. prone to bobby scott at full strength the choose from to be a drogba is expected to keep his base while joining him up front could be either fernando torres who still with article since his move from liverpool in january or nicolas anelka the frenchman has a strong case for starting having scored seven times in the champions league this season alone. an intriguing battle that we saw the new camp were tough living in barcelona and shock next to a lot of folks head and shoulders above the rest of this season the times and will enter the tie as big favorites but shots are fresh off a confident last sixteen win over rumah. and for the last time not the place that in spain. it's change off the top for sure life is limited overs cricket squad

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spot since two thousand and four are now looking at a possible sixth seed in the east after a confident win over last night new york connecting on an impressive fifteen out of twenty seven three points attempts chauncey billups using a team with any trade off as a shield to get a good look for a hefty seventy one forty seven lead in the second tier of the anthony their star not long wins party making five from seven a very deep african looking at seventy four to forty seven one hundred thirty one one eighty when means when it's time to head to philadelphia and become the six see if they beat the sixers back to the cards. under the sun the doings of abu dhabi finally were seen come as young stars are undergoing trial by fire at the desert challenge edward nickel live on crew in certain place with the compactor eight hundred car going off in fifteenth sandwiched between russia tiles a driver because not soft but yet another russian made of its speed he is moving in

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