really you believe this in science. from. the future. to the afternoon here in moscow you with. now the headlines and british m.p.'s accuse the government all the grave the judgment and the selling of weapons to our brave now using them against their own people the u.k. sold over three hundred million dollars worth of weapons. shortly before the libyan uprising. a priest in finland finds himself under attack for speaking out against chechen terrorists but his supporters in helsinki finland shelters an extremist

islamist website where you write off make statements about terror attacks in russia . trying to break the news of breaking the budget u.s. networks count the cost of covering disasters and war but still. some outlets have spent most of their annual budget in just a few months of. public criticism at home over its participation of the bombing of libya britain continues massing its forces antiwar activist told our laura that the government will not withdraw from the conflict before the coalition reshapes the political map of the region for more insight on that just stay with us. today i'm talking to john reese he's very active in the stop the war coalition that position is that the british military should not have got involved in intervention

in libya john reese thank you very much for talking to r.t. now the government says that the airstrikes prevented a massacre in benghazi why are you right and there are well i think the longer term effects would be even worse than the facts 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 yesterday took place from benghazi it's clear that the rebels in benghazi stop gadhafi. before he got beyond the suburbs and i think it would have been impossible for a force of maybe tens of thousands of soldiers to have taken the 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 the 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 one revolution take place in the country it's no business of the people in that country to conduct a revolution and my point about the western intervention would be this i don't think that they did intervene in order to assist a revolution 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 that there are pro western figures emerging as the dominant figures within the beginning ministration often they're the same people who only yesterday were in the capacity regime who were feeling very happily with the west for the last decade so i think that they are shaping and molding the uprising in ways which are compatible with the interests of the western powers whereas. regional rebellion certainly wasn't what damage do you think western this type of western involvement does to

a 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 body represented by twenty local council pretty thick 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 they're the people who know the ear of the west who are the authorities the people who can broker the people's over military intervention the people to 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 prevails 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 a rejection of the mere liberal economics which let's face it more barack was very strongly associated with a neo liberal economic policy privatizing state industry and i think a lot of the the fire in the engine of the egyptian revolution was to do with the rejection of that and we can see by the massive strike waiters taking place actually two days before dark well but massively expanded since then but this is a very very big issue for many millions of egyptians we know that the u.g. people to the union introduce you. heart of the revolution which overthrew the end we know that economic and. cannot make questions were central to the beginning of

that revolution i believe will be central to the future of it as well so democracy yes but a rejection of mere liberalism and also i think. the persistence faction with the alliance between the dictators in the region the western powers and the state of israel so i think that in all three registers political democracy economic challenge to merely produce a 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 is a bit different isn't it i mean after all these astronauts do support what was essentially initially a popular uprising yes but as i say it was an intervention not to save revolution but to subvert revolution and 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 women though five of those 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 now doesn't preclude that it didn't in iraq the fact that a no fly zone by will be 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 go among them the turkish prime minister i mean 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 stalemate now the stalemate is very hard to resolve without. without a ground troops i sincerely hope that that doesn't happen it would be a massive curation of a 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 you might have been over sooner. it is 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 no i think it's learned not to commit itself to war very quickly i mean it was obvious that there was going to salute a massive ground invasion i mean apart from the other claim after the invasion of afghanistan 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 fact is avoiding a ground war i think is reflected in the opinion polls of paper against what's happening but i 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 deployment of ground troops in libya you would have about salute the massive response part is we can see from the opinion polls there is a majority against the interim. but there are very large number of don't know that would alter very very quickly if there were talk of

a ground war i think what role do you think the media plays in you just summarizing and 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 happened today unless you understand what happened yesterday in the previous week in the previous year in the previous decade and so it's the struggle to recall exactly those points because they played them to the tune of billions of pounds practically every huge western corporation in call for the oil fields even in libya he was fatally academic institutions and others in this country and this is very very important to recall if we want to have some it's terrible sense about what we might be doing in the region and finally and briefly where do you see this going in there in the short to medium term very difficult to tell i think it is grinding down to a stalemate it's very difficult to see how you could actually hold down the entire

population of the east of the country and it's also very difficult to see how under current circumstances. the rebels in benghazi and control can take tripoli and i don't believe that the western intervention go fundamentally resolved in a way what is do you think it's kind of institutionalizing of making permanent. a situation of civil conflict rather than resolving it so i hope that the comes a problem where he. says actually this was prevention hasn't helped it's hasn't done what we thought it would do it hasn't saved civilian life is actually causing civilian casualties is actually using weaponry with injury and. health for generations to come and it hasn't decisively halted the balance against against. we would be better perhaps they might begin to think of five million resources within

the revolution itself which might progress and that would be a big turnaround it would be trickling out all the people now who are in the leadership of the benghazi rebellion who are pro western who are older taffy 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 can we thank you very much. disarming saddam hussein. target iraqi citizens. this event brings further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever. play nice again over embassy in kabul. cameras too much occupied afghanistan.

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wins on the trot in the n.b.a. at the expense of toronto. and standing darn sure like a cricketer kumar sangakkara follows ricky ponting as late leaving his post as captain following the world. twenty eleven their current cup lineup is complete elive joining atlanta in the kontinental hockey league decider following the slenderest of wins over mesler might need a course on tuesday eight goals flew injury in game six and. otherwise attempt to lose scoring taking sought the series. on teapot showing how to seize the moment the fifty that. goal in the forty six minute meeting itself because charges will stay puts in with the final series against the well rested long faces off. thank you charles younger brother meanwhile the minor hockey league continues to make strides on the ice at larger crowds cross atlantic tours and european

expansion just some of the by products of an action packed season to constantine top reports. there is a second here in example time for group knows no bounds the attendance evidence of this group eighty one percent this is noon and it seems to be just the beginning with a leader a cool idea. as chairman of board the league is aiming for yet lofty goals in the. league's young but has already become a major international tournament with players from russia other russia. but amateurs main objective is to develop young guns for the future keeping the social impacts in mind i became a world champion when i was twenty three so these guys have great opportunities to get on the national teams roasters the red stars an all star team of a michelle players have already toured around north america five matches were held they won four of them the trip the first and most important step in cooperating with other countries reporting. whether it lead to participate in different

ornaments and to find new ways for collaboration this is a new level for us meaning it's a known under management and of course our youth is going to battle in every match so the opponents will remember us. the m.h.l. 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 must kuwait skinny jays spectacle fans never get tired of the tour will face fell between russia and canada and international tournament will take least wait after their not much rest but it's clear the players love what they did. the m.h.l. is getting to a higher level we're going to play big teams and to represent so early and to play against canada is always something special i like it and i think the league is taking the right steps and promotions are going to slow ricky outfit live corporate will join take a chill next season and their junior team has become the thirty second squad in the

m.h.l. it's clearly on the league is picking up steam with expansion very much that buzzword who'd their focus against some of these players making their mark on the winter olympics roll into sochi in twenty four team because aim but out of. shock still or over in the footballing world on tuesday night there. getting their champions league last eight campaigns off to a flying start soon many were expecting what happened in milan but in this league. hitting five inch or so the home side if you were in front of the knights of the german i could produce an extraordinary second themselves well the driving seat for a semi final straw is a. whole netting braces and what was definitely shall his most memorable evening on the continent to date. on problem stream t.v. season in the terminal it sold out over offer for. real madrid another bitter pill first to swallow was the former arsenal striker

a month. on the scoresheet twice. a late goal by christiana rinaldo meaning tottenham have it all to do in the return leg next to the fourteenth minute sending off of peter crouch for a second yellow a major talking point after the game was well. if you could. just be friends if you could have an advantage in the. you defriended different are different when you are losing already and you have to use is impossible possible job itself or we can. keep it one you want to concede is such a nearly gone by me but eventually you know they can. do better the third go now the fun continues later tonight in the european cup with two more games favorites barcelona take on shots are the nets while it's an all english faceoff at stamford bridge with chelsea hosting manchester united the visitors tipping through

the training field and shoes that were fired wayne rooney who is suffering from a should not though he will play deceiving 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 all the scot at full strength the trees from didier drogba is expected to keep his base while joining him up front could be either fernando torres who still without a call since his move from liverpool in january for nicolas anelka but frenchman has a strong case for starting having scored seven times in the champions league this season alone. an intriguing battle awaits us the new comp or a tough looking barcelona shocked the next a lot of arsenal know how to look head and shoulders above the rest of the season the times and will enter the tie as a big favorite spots shocks are fresh off a confident last sixteen win over rumah. and fuck the last time of the place that

in spain. it's change at the top for sure like it's a limited overs cricket squad following last saturday's loss to india in the world cup final kumar sangakkara relieving himself of skipper duties after amassing a record of twenty seven wins fourteen losses up the crease the thirty three rule remains test for now though honest lofty goal goal in mind. i always said my my god that's always a school hundreds as many as i can i think have about twenty four now if i can get past thirty quickly that would be great for me to get to ten thousand runs in both forms of the game. as quickly as possible and i think the goals that you know as good as everyone should set themselves because you know at the end of the day you need you need to make plain calm if you can that's the biggest thing and while winning if you can achieve these individual goals it's a bonus right from cricket to basketball where the n.b.a.

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