good to have you here on our t.v. says r t coming to you live from the russian capital twenty four hours a day top stories now this hour nato air strikes are once again hit the libyan capital rebels hope to cash in on the country's rich resources if gadhafi goes and warnings that their actions an overzealous support of nato couldn't fight a chain reaction of something was in the region. it was twenty five years since the chernobyl catastrophe and a possible new radiation deconstructs is attracting increasing concern after the

distress of focus shima showed how vital it is to be prepared for the repeat of a nuclear disaster. and culture clash an infamous russian armed group breached controversy after winning a state award for one of their works they say what they did was artistic protest that critics argue it's nothing more than obscenity and vandalism. that brings up to date for the moment here latinos will be asking one outspoken british journalist why he thinks the country got involved in libya and whether it should have done so in the first place that interview is next on three. today i'm talking to kelvin mackenzie former editor of the sun newspaper columnist he's spoken out against the military intervention in libya saying that maybe it's not worth an ounce of british bloods killed mackenzie that's a very strong position to take i mean the government reckons the airstrikes prevented a massacre in benghazi so he that's worth

a few poems in tsotsi well first of all we don't know whether there was going to be a massacre a big goals of this was the p.r. this was the government push this was cameron's personal speech. in the end of the day that this is libyans fighting libyans and who are we to say who should be running their country through when i lost the will that i didn't notice any of the libyans interfere when the cavaliers and the roundheads took place in a revolution or the as far as i could see there was nobody from tripoli wondering where in the french revolution this is a revolution quite normal the other side of got guns mysteriously they seem to have rocket propelled grenades they seem to. call fire ability these are not people sitting there with the spotted gun leaning over a frame saying your did a fairly sophisticated if you take the other aspect is that the rebels themselves

who i wish well although i feel very unsure about what our relationship with libya is going to be at the end of the lips we have al qaeda. how do we know that at the end of the they don't end up running the damn country we don't know anything about this there is a justification for us doing much more than for no fly zones there is a justification when they blew up a passenger airline over lockerbie killing our people on the ground and killing people for america there was a justification to do what i suspect russia might have done under the same circumstances which you said right we're coming in we're taking you out we're probably in the hell out of the place and then there will be a change of regime and that would have been more justifiable than this but libyan rebels did offer to intervene they also may say to intervene to me not that full have a duty to go in and help the maps we don't want you to do we. saw aid

in a revolution who is trying to grab power to decide what the outcome of that war is going to be i say we have no duty loyal we are out there wondering around the desert there was a justification it was not to be there is no justification i prefer the russian position i prefer the chinese position i prefer the german position all of which is the same as we wish you well and we're not thought any guns and we're not saying being in any planes what now that means you with nation that we could alan leave the libyans to what could essentially be a bloody civil war it is a bloody civil war that's what happens in civil wars there isn't the point the reason that you have the word war involved in civil war is it's not called civil negotiation it is a fight and in the end i expect the rebels they were win but they don't need to win . blubber now money but what if as he's looking increasingly likely kentucky in

fact wins he does outgun the rebels at the main that's what if now that the international community has irreparably fallen out with him he actually stays in power in the first. i don't care about the international community and certainly they have and that you know they don't like him but there's lots of people they don't like i mean why they're after why don't they go in while you were at libya just go down the road a bit to the congo where literally under a thousand people are being barked out why haven't we gone there why don't we go protect the minority tribe be and is involved way there's a lot of injustice in the world and maybe injustice even in this country who knows but the issue is that there is nothing that can be done the international community is a big factor very and what happens to the politicians is that i look around at themselves to look at this their ratings in the polls and they say you know while i'm not doing very well here the people who vote for me think i'm an idiot begin to charge me. what i want to run north africa wonder around the middle east when we go into

saudi arabia where they've banned march is the king as announce there will be severe repercussions for demonstrations and in the east they started firing everybody why don't we go into the main why don't we go in everywhere who was here on the to all these questions why don't we games you have and why don't we yank theri because it's nothing to do with us we have neither the power the thought nor the will nor as we learned from iraq where one hundred eighty of. people died and probably forty billion forty or fifty billion quid went out of our coffers which we could possibly even for that i was up with today but it has nothing to do with this things take time and yet we have still going into libya which by your logic all think has nothing to do that is because we could have been open about the death of a kimberley is where we're in nation trying to relive the old days of the employer with cameron keep on shouting out where of all the pink bits gone you know

strolling around the middle east you know without a sign of without an exit plan we now have to go into these places we had no idea how to get our u.k. institutions played a big role in rehabilitating. regime not so long ago and so therefore they've been labeled media now that the media has turned on him again how important is it for legitimizing an intervention like this and indeed regime change would be i think should divide the upper two points first of all the governments who are there are. going on there for forty odd years we have been licking could go off its backside now for four decades whether we supply arms to them or with embrace them like a disgusting phrase or word blair but actually these people that you know the same time politicians move either way so one of we're kissing could off his backside and

now we're trying to kick it it's ridiculous so the media do have a role and the role of the media. it is to expose that we are trading with dictators now so what does the government say they say we have to deal with the reality the political reality we have to we have to trade with these people and then suddenly wakes up us over to the world so trading with problems that are eighty is pathetic absolutely pathetic but at the same time it every so often the government changes prior and when the government changes for how they view changes pereira so there's no consistency to my mind actually the media have been pretty good they've been pretty good the problem we face now is we're now at war with people and we don't want so we actually have to support our troops we don't have to support ideas like cameron got nothing else to do decide whether we should be wandering around all spittle in the u.k.

or should we wander around the battlefields of. of the middle east but we had to act as we were troops so the media gets caught in a difficult position its troops are its readers and all the center of our world. the government they're idiots and the libyan regime a disgusting so the media gets caught in a very difficult area you were the maid notorious that it's out of the u.k. making a tourist happy oh it's very kind of you to put it why do you rate that so that it with tabloid culture is that thing that made wars like this easier to sell and popularized by the british public. except the first. except that the sun did spectacularly on them are excellent editorship i think that they didn't actually make any difference to government policy i mean you know. the issue about the media is is it is it's like the sea it's always with us you've

simply got to put up with it if you or a policy america and the right there will be there will be a lot of. aggravation about libya and there are i mean it started off the right we thought we were going to blow it blow them all out of the water we'd all be home for having having a cup of tea at the ritz pass for well there we are down there a month later and the whole thing is still going on so the nightmare is is is still to be faced in my view but i don't think it's fair to blame the media for it i realized personally massively hostile to the libyan infraction mainly because i saw why up and in iraq these things take peculiar which you can't really work out intellectually nor guess. nevertheless. you know i'm very much in favor of our soldiers and so. i put the media are stronger i think you're right about that the media stronger because of what happened in iraq i mean that the trouble was that

a million people marched against the iraq war blair blair was not telling his cabinet and the things will be revealed now because he was scared they were going to leave so basically they were deciding it as though you and i were having a nice chat another glass of beer said oh yes wouldn't you think given the office he was is a bit of a go yes good idea at someone then they went to him right so the million were ignored but people say that the government various governments not nothing from iraq and afghanistan but do you think what in fact whitehall learnt was how to tell another chance that's in no absolutely the issue is quite clear. we didn't want iraq it was lumbered on us by a vain glorious prime minister. cameron is now wandering around in the desert of to brook trying to work out how to get out he will look at the idea of the end of all this but the the but the underlying issue is with libya. there have been no deaths on our side just why we've rarely copped

a crash and god forbid we lose ten people all all by the way they use those heat seeking missiles which you can basically just walk in and according to today's papers. if that happened we saw i've been blown out of the sky don't even think about it so the issue is we haven't dropped any blood yeah we've dropped tens of millions of pounds which we haven't gotten but not one single one of the people is as died where that happens the game and the p.r. game which range politically what does someone like david cameron gain from waging a war in africa a military or chemical saw what was in it for him for a country he's a pro for he is unfortunately a professional bleeding heart. and so he's one of those guys who rush around endlessly he's a total political animal by the way rush around endlessly saying something must be done the answer is something mustn't be done it's like when you about to send off

a really stinking knees email in the night before to your boss right. don't send that a mile go to bed wake up in the morning just so i would it was a good idea or not cameron hasn't got that ability basically i think he's gone mad he's gone mad very early he's only been in power a year now barmy is he going to be the last as long as blair blair was thirty five at the end of it all but i thought my suspicion is that the pressure is just. kelvin mackenzie thank you very much. for sure is that so much of me is going to make a lot of people carry on our blog as we five years ago world was coming to grips with the catastrophe unfolding in chernobyl today the same could be said about the

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top stories here nato air strikes have once again hit the libyan capital but while the rebels hope to cash in on their country's rich resources if gadhafi goes there are warnings that their actions an overzealous support of nato could invite a chain reaction of civil wars in the region. it's almost twenty five years since the chernobyl catastrophe and a possible new radiation leak at the site is attracting increasing concern to the distress of how vital it is to be prepared for the repeat of a nuclear disaster. from culture clash an infamous russian all group greets controversy after winning a state award for one of their works saying what they did was artistic protest

critics argue it's nothing more than obscenity and vandalism. so a cracking game in the russian premier league here in moscow with the goal of a world cup winner with details on that another sport is next on r.t. . hello welcome to the sports here's what's coming up. the battle of moscow roberto carlos opens branch of the side are held in an action packed to all draw by ted long time out a. class or it's not called the day and roddick has a kidney removed calling about challenging his side's one zero win over telling. his top of the world to who is to victory at the heritage clincher birthday boy lee westwood skull see you well number one. first of football and reverse psychology

says angie have moved up to six place in the russian premier league despite intel's t.c. by ten man manager less than an hour in a gripping answer here in moscow all fifty seven minutes each of the eleven yellow cards shown on the night will sense elf. all in the penalty area of color stepped up to date with rangi that's the home side he's coached near that i got rich was sacked last week called level within five minutes through alex on back order and then again took the lead through banner and walk but with just two minutes to go the visitors themselves considered it healthy and his balance missing or richard stepped up to fire home still and you're right two places to think now no one spot tonight. probably while that they are erratic is recovering in hospital after having a kidney removed following a bad tackle inside one a win at homestead act on saturday the thirty year old serbian was hurt in a collision with the correct striker said i have the forward picked up a yellow card and since apologized saying he didn't intend to injure the keeper of

manager alex with loss of greece there was no malice in the sack all right it is still in intensive care and doctors say it's too early to know whether he'll be able to play football again. while elsewhere spartak moscow is still looking for a new manager after being turned down by former italy coach marcelo lippi club chairman learned the dunes says he's also approached former line coach lead on how but without success yet spots like the police move off the bottom of the table after a one zero home win i was not to go on sunday bizarrely valeri coppin who resigned as coach last week was in the dugout again but he stayed on as the club general manager was also helping in the search for a new coach anyway netted the winner five minutes into the second half in response i came to thirteenth place and their fans were delighted. and at the other end of the table in the top off a screen or one of the sets off something because you cough became sick petersburg side big time shots or at. least twenty to seventy goals and two quick fire strikes

the last of it in the last minutes of the game to rest i didn't coach to try to spoil it he said he was pleased because of course but he's pleased to school. find out where this gun is the chance to go top themselves as they. hell to her surprise one wonders what louis tong say to do we're open from a corner for the army when. twenty seven minutes but not seen and i recall he put his defense to level just before the hour. started finished his car remain unbeaten . run the table. lower beans when the streak continues because on the side an hour without a victory in four games after being heard for a one one draw i study car abusing and it is nonsense being a head before the break i was a teammate not trippin off today picture his own net to deny his side's three points rubin have now taken eight. hundred table.

only one in england forced by smash to city are chasing a champions league spot and struggle to struggling this monday night however that's a munchie side will be without a taliban and captain calls tevis along with mika richards as they five hundred injuries sixteenth place rovers have got nine league matches without a win and city are winless in their sickly right matches this year but there are points about fifty and i think this game in have. to say f.a. cup final strike his second bottom was intimate and saw the potters ansel's a five points above the relegation zone but still remain with that slight chance of becoming the first if they can't win this and european qualifiers to be relegated in the sciences and a bonus was half the worst away record in the top flight there were when we would see the move out of the drop zone. for more points but through two of the second.

sure if really. dogmatic about it so it is because you don't really want me to but if we do win this way if we win the last two games. and that's enough because i don't know what's going to be. i don't think anybody. i know nobody else knows there's going to be. well over in scotland there was a dramatic end to the old firm on sunday rangers goalkeeper allan mcgregor saves a late penalty to ensure the game against celtic finished goalless a result which keeps the title race lies a victory for second place celtic would have seen them leapfrog rangers and go top of the scottish premier league by two points with a game in hand and they have the chance to in the dying minutes stephen davis was to have fouled and so the stakes and georgie also some rust stepped up to take the spot kick but they pushed the shot wife short finished their well however the hoops can still take the title they will all five of the remaining fixtures. and that's

where much the united will be without a top scorer dimitar berbatov to choose a champions league semifinal first leg at genocide shaka as the bulgarian has a growing strain the devils wanted to start spokesman says he has no other injury concerns ahead of being cancer at the belt and serena. making their first appearance in the european cup semifinal they struggled domestically this season and are tenth of one just make up however new coach rank nick has revived their fortunes and they possibly not top defending champions interland seven three on aggregate in the previous round. me the most important thing is that we concentrate on our own game and we're focused on the way we're supposed to play if you look at the game against him we were one behind after forty five seconds it didn't look good in the team down we've got in a fantastic manner and that's what it's all about it's level matches. now lee westwood is the new world number one the englishman took the top spot after he won

the indonesian masters and donald failed to win in south carolina a good easter for west but he was also celebrating his thirty eight birthday he started the day five shots clear of the field and showed his intent not to let our rights miscast and english placed it in for good in the first hold he did it wobble slightly but by the time he reached the eighteenth had a comfortable lead spine a round of sixty nine one one thousand and overall enough for a three shot victory turn try to id of thailand and more importantly this winning plants also enough to oust martin kaymer out from the world of one scott after which i haven't decided to take the leap off. though it's. really something deliberate about concentrating on the game in the york things that put all that together to try to turn a tournament given a bastion open it's going to come this week it was well they got a lot so have the chance to get the number one spot routine let it slip through his

fingers after losing to rammstein a decade in a playoff at the heritage event in science carolina the american rallied from six shots behind during his final round with great times like this to finish with a seven on the par sixty four match john was twelve under overall the englishman heard another study round of seven c. so it went to a playoff by the time after the first to close that's after static parts the next donald chip off the green failed to find the hole only just. took his second title on the p.g.a. tour. is no stranger to winning as rafael nadal the men's world number one tennis player to explode barcelona open title with victory over thought spaniard david ferrer this wasn't also thirty for the win in a row on friday and the sixth time he's won this title and in the first set you can see why i breezed through it six two. lost last reaching the dark in the monte carlo masters did respond right forty rock in a second but hit back with core straight games to take the match and the twenty

four year old can quite believe how well the high court season is going ahead of the start of next month's. several other places like this is a dream for me. everything they have it on my level. the first. few games but always this very topic and. i was like a little bit in the end of the second set but finally i had. one of the most important i guess for me because here is my. good months so i was very well all that final was more predictable there was a shock for the women's world number one caroline wozniacki losing in straight sets to germany's unseeded yulia gergen is in the final got graeme craig the local favorites to the first set tiebreaker. sails the second big hitting to take

that six three thirty two caps to the end before picking up the winner's check i have a five dollars. if you please to begin lift because it wouldn't stop thirty first time. you could do. my best moment in my carrier so far and then the crowd was amazing there were just cheering for me and standing ovations just amazing standing here on the on the center court in front of that home crowd. and finally the sochi olympic organizing committee have revealed the grounding for the event which will be used at the sporting events in venues and the winter games in twenty fourteen the concept is a traditional patchwork quilt it was the brainchild of sports not a group sport the power is a combination of sixteen designs representing the most famous russian. along with some of the different cultures traditions and groups woke up modern russia. was and

. russia will soon celebrate the beginning of the one thousand countdown to all the games it won't be a simple celebration we are planning an all russian marathon of completes the visual design of the games has to appeal to every russian and as we were thinking about what it should look like we realized it had to stem from tradition you have a novel side to it. and that's all sports news by fire. him.

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