the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause report on r.g.p. . if . international news now live from the russian capital twenty four hours a day this is going to happen with the top stories now there's a priest in finland who spoke out against an internationally wanted criminal is being questioned by printing self to broadcast the story is accused of inciting religious hatred after describing the model of as a terrorist even though the chechen warlord is behind the moscow metro an airport bombings. as the u.k. france itself to the forefront of protecting libyan citizens normally because in

london the furious the country sold millions of dollars of weapons to colonel gadhafi before the unrest if there is one is egypt and bahrain bought homes from britain and later saw one of the uprisings. in moscow hands over new foils the wall swords the plane crash that killed poland's president kaczynski and ninety five others in western russia last april investigation into the tragedy that strained relations between the two countries is still underway. with more news for you in the senate fifteen minutes from now in the meantime despite public criticism of home everett's participation of the bombing of libya britain continues massing its forces and the war activist john rees tells r.t. that a likely stalemate in the conflict would open the door for grown troops starts in our interview next. 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 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 even 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 over 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 playing a 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 one revolution take place in the country is 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 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 but there are pro western figures emerging as the dominant figures we're going to begin to get ministration often they're the same people who only yesterday were in the khadafi regime who were feeling very happily with the west for the last decade or so i think that they are shaping and molding the rising 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

wrestling 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 beneath it but when the western powers intervene the people who become selected to become the leadership of it are people who have the gear 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 peals 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 the rejection of the nearly abril economics which let's face it the mubarak was very strongly associated with the 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 diet and we can see by the the massive strike weight has taken place actually in the two days before the bar fell but massively expanded since then but this is a very very big issue for many millions of egyptians we know that there are huge uncouple to the union in tunis here. at the heart of the revolution which overthrew the and we know that economic and. phenomenal 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 western powers and the state of israel so i think that in all three registers political democracy economic challenge to merely a pulitzer 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 you 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 important element of the history in iraq especially actually from the first gulf war because there were no photos 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 no doesn't preclude that it didn't in iraq the fact that a no fly zone my well being used against the rebels in the future could this turn into an out there iraq and afghanistan people are warning that it could go along and 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 a full scale military intervention on the ground so in that sense i think the

antiwar penya 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 that a stalemate is very hard to resolve without. without the support of ground troops i sincerely hope that that doesn't happen it would be a massive appear ation 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 fairly enough it might have been over sooner. 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 you know i think it's learned not to commit itself to a war very quickly i mean it was obvious that there was going to salute the massive ground invasion i mean the answer came 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 the moment and the fact book is avoiding a ground war i think is reflected in the opinion polls that people are 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 deployment of ground troops in libya you would have an absolutely massive response partly as 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 egypt and i think an intervention like this 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 exactly the point of course that they played on him to the tune of billions of pounds practically every western corporation involved in the oil fields 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 torkel 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 gadhafi 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 bent grass and can take can take tripoli and i don't believe that the western intervention will fundamentally resolve this in either way what he's doing is it's kind of institutionalizing or making 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 was the engine hasn't helped it's hasn't done what we thought it would do it hasn't saved civilian lives is actually causing civilian casualties actually using weaponry which injury. will help prevent the russians to come and it hasn't decisively alter the balance against. the. happy we would be practical perhaps they might begin to think over time the resources within the revolution itself if not months after that would be

put to a radical new truck to guide all the people now who are in the leadership of the benghazi rebellion who are pro western who are old gadhafi hands some 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 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 for ever.

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which. should be hotels shirts and. maybe her to marry collection. made. believe was a movie. promise. bookstores this priest in finland who spoke out against an internationally wanted criminal has been questioned by police. the story. is accused of inciting religious hatred after describing as a terrorist even though the chechen warlord is behind the. scenes. to the forefront of protecting libyan citizens lawmakers in london a furious the country sold millions of dollars of weapons to people before the unrest in libya as well as egypt and bahrain. and later rising.

into the plane crash that killed potence president kaczynski and ninety five others in western russia last april investigation into the tragedy that strained relations between the two countries is still under way. and i'll have more news for in less than fifteen minutes from now in the meantime we've got the latest in the world of sports. hello and thanks for joining us for the school subject we begin with a look at our top stories. get close to ruining into malone's hopes of a second straight champions league title while the action continues tonight with two more games in london and barcelona. the latest from the playoffs was a lot to live with a little wars to qualify for the good finals. and we profile the side

which is a lot will meet in that series surprise package of long cruised into the garden club decider at the expense of morning now and contenders. and let's start with the champions league of course where people record finals is now underway in london with chelsea hosting manchester united at stamford bridge and certainly a repeat of the two thousand and eight final along by united so london is looking for revenge in this one once these second fixtures sees barcelona take on shot two of the nets get home in spain to schools and both matches millvale and it's very early in both of them calls. meanwhile real madrid and shall keep all their champions league called finals off to a flying start on tuesday not too many were expecting what happened in milan but this league around is up solid he'll let through a few minutes without the net with five in reply and gazed hilda's into him along with themselves well in the driving seat for a seventy final spot. elsworth old man's dream debut season looks all but the ball

dropping by real madrid not a bitter pill for spurs fans to swallow it was the. other guy you all go to school she was the fourteenth minute sending awful for you to crouch for the second yellow and major talking point after the game. but if you could refuse. just a difference if you have an event it's. good if it isn't when you are losing already if you have to work is is impossible impossible job is a self that we can join the. performance first off just to keep it one new author conceded such a nearly gone primate in maine but eventually you know they can. do about the food go stay with a bull and it's one hundred eighteen world cup in russia maybe seven years away barbie preliminary work is already happening at least one of comes together in the organizers prime minister was an airport and pointed out to them the biggest

problems they face. and you will the most important issues are construction of this fundamental task for the twenty eighteen world cup organizing committee in cities like moscow since it is bookstore two and because it's all understandable was going on with the students there but you know in the region some local authorities together with the organizing committee should choose grounds which correspond to the thief requirements and also the design of the student should be executed with a concentration of that organizing committee. and as russia anticipates another big sports event of the twenty fourteen winter olympics the international olympic committee has added six new events to the games program those include the men's and women's ski half pipe women's ski jumping by outlaw mixed relate team because skating al they lose team really all the all sports all premier in sochi indicating the olympic moments recent trend of evolving more and more extreme style disciplines something the i.o.c. president librettos off. of there will be in complete games

a success. i would say twelve to twenty four because these are this was a practice themselves. this is important because we want. to give the love of the olympics and from the very beginning continue with i'm going to continue to have those and finish with seniors. now that he has a garden cup lineup is complete now with celebrity alive joining up landing the kontinental hockey league decider following tuesday's narrow win over me. a girl's flowing during game six in the forest but another was to pick a low scoring game so out of the series thought by dinner and sick of showing how to seize the moment the fifteen year veteran that's in the still girl in the forty six male has meaning it's vicious love because charges are staying put and athol where the final series with the well rested up in law and kicks off on friday. as saying with occasional finals this season we witnessed the wonderful

transformation of the lawn from the moscow region r.t. now takes a closer look at the cape charles cinderella where the first team to reach the finals during these playoffs constantin both up with reports. and officially became the surprise because of nuclear of when we ramped up here first ever title the western conference grown but being far from being satisfied with there we going carbon is the one big ones can region say the really warms. we can stop and know when you step on the guinness you don't stop you continue to pull through until the very end it's a little because of hard work with many good experienced players and everyone else a great coaching staff. rewind to the start of the season though another one to worry team going nowhere fast a new coach was brought in a change that has certainly paid dividends. or was it a loose and having been fired from spartak moscow pulling in falling out with star goaltender dominic hush it sold

a fifty two year old chair to join up with one where he had previously worked for two seasons in two thousand and five and two thousand and six this is what he said shortly after his latest move to be working in russia for several years. to get at least to the second round of the playoffs to win a title with a client. that should be near the top several strong players to go all the way. canst their vision of a number of big names who held for the improve the team's fortunes for most part i defenseman jaroslav option is one of them a season was very much like there's a clean man play and. everything's around. and i came here to this train ride one. line up and i saw how such a group so many players at land finished fourth in their conference and for a similar start in the first knockout round they won four two overall and they have gave up one can assume

a confidence to pull through in their seven match two wheeler with scott st petersburg it seemed who were considered hot three were its land were trailing in a serious three one three straight wins fired them into the semifinals the magician and were in the rule and then counted against the western conference regular season winner as the committee was much more straightforward leading to three nothing seriously look at d.-day edged closer to me which is in a row but i plan to do them in the stakes match the two to prove once and for all that he was the two deserved a million going cup final sport the fifty can of coach of the all conquering soviet and russian sides at leeds and ninety's even port. in the dressing room to see how lou a meeting like this they're prolific scorer and captain sergei my second cherishes details on those missing can wait for us would include we will have a few days off and we'll save our emotions for the finals i think we were more excited after showing ganske on the seventh match that means it's becoming harder and harder to bear the pressure but we're there and that's all that matters in the

decisive serious. you life the front drops in on friday and a final what you want the most exciting kitchell season yet would simply be the cherry on top his name on the team. and finally let's go have back to full address that way cause they have russian prime a lead through up some less than memorable results for the favorites plenty of goals though and here they all were and the goals go lower section. i. can't believe. that.

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. live. and i was have a very brief look at tonight's champions league thanks says. barcelona have taken shots or done yet scott already won the lopped off the iniesta school there but in the second minute off play even while the biggest clash of the night and the week probably is still goal is to chelsea hosting premier league rivals manchester united at stamford bridge there and that's all the latest in sports for the all coming up shortly here and are to use the world wide of unavailable update you on

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