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a ground operation in libya and experts say it was always part of the program. well in the next hour should say next here on to before you were discussing the possibility of all out war in libya with a british member of parliament one of the few who voted against taking action and that is a say coming next we hear nazi. today i'm talking to jordan baron m.p. who is one of only thirteen members of parliament against the military intervention in libya compared to five hundred fifty seven who voted for john barak thanks for talking to our see now why various against our own number of concerns a number of questions that remain unanswered one we was yet seen to be misleading in the affairs of another person importantly rich muslim country and a record of intervention has not been good in recent years secondly where are the

arabs themselves and put in the no fly zone in. particular given that we've been selling the capability for decades thirdly why does with such a policy lead. be doing something similar in say yemen or bahrain or finally what is the exit strategy we simply don't know if you feel that you achieved something by voting against the intervention was it pointless move it away no it's not a pointless. thing as you see fit that's why i'm here at the end of the day we're here to listen when we are here to listen to the views of government and others but you have to vote as you see fit and now you are a member of a party that is your king currently the increase in coming home was blair's did at the height of its power essentially how do you feel about that now and well they would argue the. conservative party that. they acted within the un do it a un resolution which is a little different to what for example previous government did when they went into iraq. so there is

a legitimate sit there but that doesn't necessarily make it the right decision and i felt it was not the right decision has been previously discussed what do you make of the un security council resolution is it floored well i think we must always remember with these resolutions that not everybody is happy to sign up to them for example brazil russia india china germany all the stand this resolution did not have you know. personal lacking and if it wasn't for the british and french in particular. i don't think there would have been warm as strongly worded as it was but this resolution has then become friends house of state beyond all recognition really hasn't it and i think there are real questions being raised i mean the reason for going in was concerned about the civilians of benghazi it was a humanitarian ticket if you like and that was a valid concern and whether it was a valid justification for intervention is another reason but what seems to becoming apparent is that we now have the no fly zone in effect becoming the air force of the rebel fighters and theoretically this air force can provide cover all the way

to tripoli and i question whether that was within the spirit of the resolution as it was originally defined and how do you feel about what hey can't you pay have done to this resolution well you know at the end of the day i think it was for me anyway the reason the obvious that this was more than just about humanitarian aid i think there was no evidence of regime change about this and so it has not come as a surprise to me what we have seen happen since the resolution was passed so he's coming out of this west you think the government in this country or the u.n. security council as a whole i think you have to analyze probably you know i think they're all party to an ill defined thought through mission which has no clear exit strategy and meanwhile civilian casualties mount. you know there is

a contradiction to this policy one we all value human life but at the end of the day if we are being consistent what we should be doing is talking about a no fly zone for yemen for bahrain you could evolve for the ivory coast. there is an inconsistency in this policy and i certainly think for example that the arabs themselves let's take egypt for example perfectly placed did. for a no fly zone it was in a very good position to put one in and perhaps they should answer a peace map put forward by the african union was rejected by the rebels because it didn't include making death in his family leave libya how much support do you think there is for ousting outside benghazi washington and london i think it's very mixed and i think you can see that by the fact that there are very few ground attack craft fighters being committed by the of the u.n. nation allies and i think that's very telling. i think and there's no shortage of

countries willing to put in front of a craft which would be all that we need to instigate a no fly zone when it comes to ground attack aircraft i think very few nations have put that forward i think that tells its own story as you said earlier this is another military intervention in another muslim country with natural resources have we learned nothing from our past mistakes well you know as you know i voted against the iraq war i voted against afghanistan when we had the opportunity of voting i think you have got to be very careful before you commit troops the battle. you've got to make sure you've got the moral high ground you've got to make sure that it is the measure of last resort where all other avenues of negotiations have been exhausted and i'm not sure we met those criteria when it came to libya as well so i think the lesson still need to be learned and i'm afraid we're repeating past mistakes and you see any progress in terms of learning lessons from the past well i see some progress you will have seen the prime minister has talked to the kuwaiti

parliament and this year you would have seen that the foreign secretary has agreed to review on its britain's arm sales policy after questioning in the foreign affairs select committee these are small positives and i do believe to a certain extent british foreign policy may be at a crossroads in which it's either got to become more ethical or more honest and let's talk about that i mean you say that the prime. made a sweet speech that the parliament if they're great but that was a part of the trip which was essentially to hawk arms around the middle east when the trouble had already started with a serious error in judgment i mean is that is he the right man to lead the country when it comes to the issue of the arms sales i think it is the he'd rather illustrate the work that you know is a bit of a contradiction of british policy at the moment and i think that is being recognized by the government which is why we've had this announcement recently that there is going to be review of arms sales selling arms to

a country for purposes of national purpose i think of our legitimate selling control weapons or crowd control group and so i should say to autocrats and at the same time preach the moccasin so many will smack of a possible plan you can only preach about to my question in my view from the moral high ground you're not just a member of parliament you're also a former soldier what are people saying off the record in westminster do you think the troops will be deployed on the ground was that in fact the plan all along. i don't think it was the plan all along to i think most people would say no that would be a step too far we had assurances right from the beginning there would be new ground troops committed and as far as we're concerned many of us would hold the government to account if it changed its mind but we also had assurances that they were directly targeted at it and that wasn't part of the un security council resolution well it was all they because this is where the if you like the vagueness of the

resolution kicks in because it does talk about enforcing a no fly zone and protecting civilians and using all necessary measures to implement the policy you could theoretically argue that all necessary measures includes attacking the command and control center in tripoli part is the political but i still am of the view that this was about regime change as much as about humanitarian aid but if you could argue that why couldn't you argue that so. ground troops is part of all necessary measures and it seemed such a powerful and and all encompassing for a while because i think the majority of people in this place who voted for the intervention and i respect that you did so warmly assumption that this was about humanitarian aid and nothing more and that it had the legitimacy of the un resolution putting ground troops in i think would clearly go beyond that resolution . as i say you force in northern ireland what's difficulties do you think that troops would face going into the middle of

a civil war i don't think we have to discuss that scenario that hypothetical scenario because i really don't see it happening i think there would be up or in this country if we committed creditor's the u.k. was instrumental in a good athletes rehabilitation do you think that cameron and hague zeal for war in libya in attendance to make up for the fact that the u.k. was complicit with it it tastes but this is a question you have to ask them i can only view the situation as i see it and vote accordingly i mean for all the reasons we've discussed i think this was the wrong intervention i suggest you put that question to the prime minister and the foreign secretary and finally it is this is a war for oil i don't know i think it's more a matter of power i think humanitarian aid is definitely one reason but i think it's also about regime change you know because their friend was becoming unpredictable you have the same scenario in other countries in the middle east whether it's the game in bahrain you could argue syria why aren't we talking about you know intervention or no fly zones there i think it's largely because you know

after wars to a certain extent becoming unpredictable there's not necessarily a man alive of the west despite. approaches and claims to the contrary in the period leading up to the intervention and it was no not going to sara to the rest maybe well maybe i mean i don't think we'll ever know the answer to that question i mean i'm sure the negotiations at various levels. about this matter but all we can do is parliamentarians take a step back acknowledge that there's probably a lot of negotiations we're not aware of put judge the situation on the facts that we have in front of us and all those facts whether it's the fact that we don't have an exit strategy whether we are we're not sure where this policy would lead whether it's the fact that you know once again we're intervening and why couldn't the arabs have done this and they had the capability to do so those are all factors that help me to come to the decision that this was the wrong direction canberra thank you very much.

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hello welcome to the sports and a crunching noise of football and ice hockey and here are the headlines ninety minutes away manchester united rest really in ferdinand ahead of next weekend showdown with chelsea that has shown that in the champions league. qualifier wembley boss i will draw one one with real madrid to reach the champions league final but their opponents by foul. and african challenge russia coach dick advocaat confirmed his side's next will be against cameroon in austria in june. so let's always goggle and manchester united have kicked off again shout that in the second leg of their champions league semifinal at old trafford the home side are looking to hold on to their to go first leg advantage and join barcelona in the final at wembley well united are the hot favorites to meet boss of may the twenty eighth

after last week's dominant display in germany but they've been forced to rest star striker boyd rooney who has a tight hamstring so dimitar berbatov plays as a strike that was michael owen on the bench along with my new video patrice evra and then there's and ryan giggs darren gibson and paul scholes are in a five man midfield real ferdinand also takes a great so sir alex ferguson has made nine changes from the side that lost one of us arsenal as he looks ahead to united's potential premier league title decider against chelsea next sunday. and a special going to the good side still believe they can reach the european final for the first time on tuesday they trained at old trafford where united ireland this season traffickers who have dial power in the former spanish veteran raul castro until are on the bench after a two month break with a damaged nearly government friend or benedict have eight is also returns from the stomach injury and the visitors have a very capable back in mongolia it gives. hope as does the fact they beat into

milan five two this. they are in the previous rounds. so it's also just a couple of minutes played the score is still. awaiting the overall winner in the finest pass alone if you drew one one it's heads around the dress to go through three one and i guess i was running out again don't die in the first leg was alone scored twice off the rail pass me feel ok sent off i think something like comeback looked on the cards went up again looked the vapor trail only in the second half i don't think he's going to be rolled out of the team right christiane around lies for foul a lot of them clicking score through pedro towards your face in the final that requires their ten minutes to make it one one on the night of growth and consolation play out felt aggrieved classical have guardiola was delighted it was up for you see the collision closely i want to congratulate all supporters who came to the stadium tonight this has been really great is no it's not over see they were so supportive despite the heavy rain when you were small so i want to congratulate

we all woodridge for the courage of coming here and playing face to face and to graduate my team to draw instead of play defensively they kept playing football very difficult situations where she blows as one of the materialism so you can go yesterday in the same chair i had said at the referee's job for this game was already done because after what we had seen o'byrne it bears stadium and it was a really sore series for all once again the minister was right when he said right after the first like there was an important chance to make it to the final and is a real source of jay it was truly impossible to make it because as i'm watching you on the shot we were i reports go grab. are looking to overturn a one goal deficit as they host fellow portuguese side benfica in the second like they are final on thursday to make us pass the answers side trail to one after their first they defeat and then seek a stadium of light but to brazilian midfielder away goal could be crucial to their hopes of reaching the final the also least those. have conceded only one of their

nine european games this season so a single goal and a clean sheet at home will see them through to the final in dublin and by the eighteenth most likely face porto in a mother or portuguese match up. yes there will be for them this will be a different match for law and order as we have played it has nothing to do with the ones who played against a number of liverpool because it will be going to portuguese teams so it's a different match and we also know that there is a score to be recovered. meanwhile russia coach together can has confirmed his charges will play cameroon in a friendly next month that match will take place in salzburg austria on june seventh just three days after russia host armenia in a crunch euro twenty twelve qualifier currently russia shares the group the league with slovakia and the republic of ireland but the weirdness of petersburg could give them the vital edge however their form gives lots we desired as they yet to win again this year and they are travelling cope lost to iran in a friendly in february also during as armenia and cats are in march. me was

a beckon maybe england's most outfield player but the midfielder would like another feather in his cap as the former manchester united and real madrid star is aiming to be a part of the great britain squad and next year's summer olympics they can see him here with olympic sponsors turned thirty six on monday and will be a year older when the games return to his native city first time but age isn't worrying the veteran l.a. galaxy midfielder who still wants to play for his country back and was instrumental in bringing the thirtieth olympiad to the english capital and says a coaching position of any kind would also wretches up a side great britain will be entering the olympic football tournament for the first time in forty years however only english players will be flying the flag for team g.b. . well so far the heard that i'm going to be managing the coach who can play and. so we'll see but i would like to be part of it in some way you know or love to be i'd love to be a player in it of course but you know to be just part of that team would be pretty

incredible because you know for a football team to go into the olympics in england. it's a huge thing so yeah i would love to be part of it in some way and play in would be a phone. i saw him now and russia will play denmark as well as the czech republic and finland in the next stage of the i saw the world championships in slovakia denmark making it through to the next round at the expense of latvia in a strange three two winner takes all penalty shootout victory in group d. russia the winner stays locked up in school and he wants conceding eleven goals but a game against lapierre teaching off the regular time it went away the time which also couldn't separate them but in a narrow bison terrorist group she sounds like stuck pigs are not find anything big three hundred pounds out there while in the other game group divas unfold as the czech republic takes placement. come on including games in group c.

norway thrashed women's austria five nil and table top as the usa and i scrape second place sweden and one for the top spots. boxing now and manny pacquiao and shane mosley were greeted by fans as they arrived in las vegas to head of saturday's tabio welterweight title bout at the m.g.m. grand hotel and both fighters told the media fully prepared for the fight hundreds of vocal fans crowded into the lobby of the hotel to catch a glimpse of the filipino eight division world champion and his american challenger as they made their official entrance into the venue and mostly says that in the backyard despite being just a few months for the sport yes first that. is . the this is why. i don't listen to it to myself. it is going to.

be a certain there are not a. now warm weather seems to have finally settled here in the russian capital so what better time for cycling and the traditional five rings of moscow road races here to provide the perfect opportunity the event dates. back to one hundred twenty and has been a fixture on the international calendar since the time of the cemetery it's a five day tournament with the picturesque spiral hills and kremlin providing just part of the backdrop kicking off on thursday the race will build on that today like the way it was a hundred fifty cyclists down some countries have rolled that team it's hard to sell over the favorites after than twice before they also insisted last years were not said go to someone who says those words ago that's again. why i'm very happy to be back here to defend my title but i must say almost everyone in our team could be you know we demand so it isn't of paramount importance who wins the race as long as it's one of our team goals this also. finally six new sports will

be making their debut at university games in the russian city of present twenty thirteen the local tradition of wrestling is one of the first time entries on the program with all that's off takes a look at this loss of those homes home call got. eight hundred kilometers east of moscow the sports center in the asian city of cazan is where local infuser street in bell translating and this is also the place that will host the north jewel bell tristana tournament at the twenty thirteen university games also known as corrosion this sport may be little known to the world outside but it's actually centuries old and has been passed down from generation to generation in the republic of tatarstan where it was on just the capital i can still remember the first time i wrestled i was only five years old when my father gave me the belt and mostly on during the national holiday it was one of the judges and though i lost my first fight it was

made in my heart forever. corrosion is fundamentally similar to other types of wrestling but there is one crucial difference whatever you do don't let go of your opponent's belt and to win throw him on his back or or else. on the judge's decision and in cars on everyone's invited to give it a try. you know school we had great kids from eight and we don't have any demanding tests for those who get to train the only thing that really matters is that both kids and their parents are willing to go all lessons are free of charge this kind of wrestling is one of the highlights of the traditional summer festival called son to you which is celebrated and you live throughout tatarstan and beyond but correct is now also an international sport with world championships being held on a regular basis and while the pipe dream of one to entering the olympic games may be still a long way out of the universe to games are definitely a good start mildred's show for our team. that's all this listen.

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