it was after you live from moscow the headlines now as the u.k.'s thrusts itself to the forefront of protecting libya's citizens lawmakers in london a few various the countries sold millions of dollars of weapons to colonel gadhafi before the unrest in libya as well as egypt and bahrain. later sold violent uprisings. a priest in finland who spoke out against an internationally wanted criminals says he's being persecuted by the countries of the earth he's he's

accused of inciting religious hatred after describing the book who are not off as a terrorist even though the chechen is behind the bombings on the moscow metro and its biggest airport. out of russia hands over new files to warsaw into the plane crash that killed poland's president and ninety five others in swan against the last april the investigation into the tragedy that strained relations between the two countries is still underway. despite public criticism at home over its participation of the bombing of libya britain continues to massing its forces i'm seen war activist john research tells us here about see that a likely stalemate in the conflict would open the door for round trip starts next right here on alt. 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 reality now the government says that the airstrikes 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 not occurring on benghazi but i don't actually accept the government's argument about benghazi you know 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. 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 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 reporting the guardian newspaper that he actually moved into paying you to 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 the revolution takes 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 they did intervene in order to assist a revolution process i think they intervened in order to get control over aleutian process and we begin to see now in the weeks since the western intervention but there are progress and figures emerging as a dominant because we're going to begin to benghazi administration 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 or so i think that they are shaping and molding the uprising in ways which are compatible with the interest of the western powers whereas. richard little pallium certainly wasn't what damage to think western this type of western involvement does to a regional uprising how does it corrupts the original purpose of

a 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 come to the top of the west not intervene there was a democratic structure in benghazi the transitional national council was a body represented by twenty local council beneath it but when the western powers intervene the people become selected to become the leadership of it are people who have a career of the west therefore the whole democratic process of representing the libyan people become distorted there are people who know the era of the west who are the authorities the people who can broker the deals over move for intervention in the people that can broker the deal that's taking place with qatar got the sale of all 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 this sort of sentiment the need to prevail that mistreats 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 neo liberal economics which let's face it the mubarak was very strongly associated with a 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 the rejection of that and we can see by the massive strike wave has taken place actually in the two days before barack fell 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 here. the heart of the revolution which overthrew. and we know that economic and. anomic 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 near liberalism and also i think a very deep dissatisfaction with the alliance between the dictators in the region of the western powers and the state of israel so i think that in all three registers political democracy economic challenge the near liberalism 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 support a 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 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 you know doesn't preclude as it did 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 the deployment of ground troops i sincerely hope that that doesn't happen it would be a massive curation of the 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 and head of the war in iraq there was 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 that 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 a war very quickly c i mean it was obvious that there was going to be absolutely massive ground invasion coming up with the other came after the invasion of afghanistan there was absolutely clear what was going to what was going to happen i think the public opinion is actually calibrated to agree of military involvement of the moment and the fact is avoiding a ground war i think is reflected in the opinion polls of the 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 an absolutely 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 was that would alter very very quickly if there were talk of a ground war i think what role do you think the media plays any just

a nice thing an intervention i guess 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 and the previous year in the previous decade and so it's the struggle to recall exactly those put exactly those points because if they play our game to the tune of billions of pounds practically every western corporation involved in the oil says it is in libya he was fated to be 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 of the country and it's also very good to see when the current circumstances. the rebels in progress and control can take tripoli and i don't believe that the western intervention girl fundamentally resolved in a way what it's doing is it's kind of institutionalizing of making permanent. a situation of civil conflict rather than resolving it so i hope that the comes a point where. he says actually this with prevention hasn't helped if he hasn't done what we thought he would do he hasn't say civilian life is actually causing civilian casualties it's actually using weaponry which he calls injury and . health for generations to come and it hasn't decisively alter the balance against against. we would be better perhaps they might begin to think of foreign resources within the revolution itself if not months after that would be

a big turnaround of a new truck unite all the people now who are in the leadership of the benghazi rebellion who are pro western who are old capacity hands who ferry 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 thank you very much. disarming saddam hussein. if iraqi citizens. this event brings further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever. to get to see

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so they burn in 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 important away and in a week must kuwait's can enjoy spectacle fans never get tired of the tour all three cells between russia in canada and international tournament will take police right after that not much rest but it's clear the players love what they do and. the m.h.l. is getting to higher level we're going to play big teams and to represent only as a claim against canada is always something special i like it and i think the league is taking the right steps in promotion. outfit left corporate will join dickie shell next season and their junior team has become the thirty second squad in them h l it's clear there and the league is picking up steam with expansion very much that buzzword could therefore count against some of these players making their mark

on the winter olympics roll into sochi in twenty fourteen can same but above. and for the real madrid that champions league quarter finals after flying start on tuesday nights but so many were expecting what happened in milan later on is up sulking left for a first minute over now but not a five hundred like against him. alders inserts a call themselves well in the driving seat for a seventy final spot and do as draw will next in braces in what was definitely a shock as most memorable evening of the consonants a day. meanwhile told him stream debut season looks over. dropping by real madrid another bitter pill for spurs fans to swallow was of course not all snow so i came on i'll defy your god of the school should on. the late strike by our knowledge of meaning so now have it all to do in the return leg next week the fourteenth minute sending off peter crouch for a second yellow a major talking point after the game. so difficult if you. have just

a difference if you have an advantage. you're defending the difference when you're losing already if you have to it is possible reversible joke is a structure we can join the. first of the two feet no one knew of to concede in such you nearly gone blimey chairmen but eventually you know they can. do better food go. and as usual difficult person to it is with two more games later on the ground state favorite spots a lot of take on shots of the nets while it's an all english faceoff at stamford bridge with chelsea has too much daylight said it is the same thing to the training field of cheers there without wayne rooney who was suffering from a sheen knock although the seventy i'll experiment has a diploid of defense to pick from with jonny evans expected to start in the back four possibly alongside rio ferdinand's who returns to the school day after being

sidelined for two months with a cough injury. can launch a lot she has a full strength school to choose from didi as well guys expected to keep his place while joining him up front could be either for another taurus but still without a girl since he has moved from liverpool in january and then you car the frenchman has a strong case for starting having scored seven times in the champions league so far this season. and also an intriguing battle over weight so there's no guarantee where attack loving barcelona and trust of the nets could go for broke busts along the big players in this one but sharks are a fresh off a confidence last sixteen when i was a robot and in fact they'd be barsel the last time they've laid in spain. now say with football and that's when see eighteen world cup in russia maybe seven years away but the preliminary work is already happening at least one of comes together in the organizers prime minister vladimir putin pointed out to them the biggest

problems they face. because it's the thing you want the most importantly shoes the construction of the streets the fundamental task for the twenty eighteen world cup organizing committee in cities like moscow soon put his boots torch and because it's all understandable was going on with the students there but you know in the region some local authorities together with organizing committees should choose grounds which correspond to the for requirements and also the design of the students should be exited with the participation of the organizing committee and i think now it's change at the top for sri lanka's limit that there was cricket scored following last that there's last day in the world cup final kumar sangakkara relieving himself of skipper to tears up the end messing a record of twenty seven when sporting losses have a craze the thirty three year old remains test captain for now though one has lofty goals in mind. i always said my god that's always to score hundreds as many as they can i think i have about twenty four nil if they can get past thirty quickly that

would be great for me to get to get into ours and runs in board forms of the game. as quickly as possible. i think to the goals that you know as cricketers everyone should serve themselves because you know at the end of the you need to make plain calm if you can win that's the biggest thing and by a winning if you can achieve these individual goals it's aboard us. and finally let's head back to football weather said wake of a russian prime any threw up some less than memorable results for the favorites plenty of bills though and here the ole aryan goals goal or i. was. so utterly utterly utterly to make sure we. can.

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