if. i don't let's have a look at the headlines now here in r.t. . western ukraine marks victory day with a vicious display of nationalism near nazis attacked veterans oyster professions slogans and commemorative st george ribbons from putin's conveying. churchill talks between the u.s. and china have been paying lip service to competition cooperation representatives from both militaries held discussions where america appears unwilling to reduce its massive spending on defense. and nato is accused of negligence or forcibly ignoring

distress calls one of don't be enough in jeans sixty people on board are thought to have died of thirst and hunger spending two weeks grifting in the mediterranean. next door to talks to a british activist about nato involvement in libya and the use of unconventional weapons. i'm talking to kate hudson from the campaign for nuclear disarmament c n d said from the author that the military intervention in libya was a mistake and that it could in fact result in a major civil war in libya kate thanks for talking to us now do you see your prediction is coming true well unfortunately what we were fearing does seem now to be taking place that it hasn't been some kind of quick humanitarian swoop it would be over very rapidly and peace and justice would be miraculously introduced

unfortunately that hasn't happened and we see now from the initial number of countries involved now we have nato involvement we seem to be more entrenched doesn't seem to be any visible end in sight it's now widely recognized. as a civil war and that of course intervention in a civil war is illegal but i think one of the most tragic elements of course is repeated unfortunately now repeated incidents of the interventionist forces actually killing the side. there to support which just really underlines the complexity of the situation the difficulty of the situation and the absolutely the appropriateness of military intervention what would you like to see happen now that surely you wouldn't want to see nato pulling out and leaving the libyans essentially to a bloody civil war well unfortunately i think that would indeed be the most appropriate thing to do it's a complex situation it's clear that rather than what was initially suggested which

was one mad to say to go around killing his people or mass it is now clear that there are two political and military sides and in a complex situation like that it may be very difficult to move towards a negotiated settlement a political settlement but that is what has to be done military means are not a quick. fix and there is no substitute for that detail kind of negotiation facilitated by the international community yes but that has to say place it's going to be hard. place what do we know about the weaponry being used in libya i'm thinking specifically of depleted uranium we've heard prime minister david cameron saying that it's definitely not being used and yet the ministry of defense still says that it's a necessary part of the arsenal yes that's quite an interesting contradiction that has emerged it's led some people to suspect that david cameron didn't really understand what depleted uranium or so in that perhaps he was actually talking

about cluster munitions but there are very serious concerns that depleted uranium munitions are now being used in libya at least uranium is a byproduct of the uranium enrichment process for civil nuclear power it results in a very very heavy metal very dense heavy metal and it's typically used in armor piercing shells that's why it is popular with armies and both the u.s. and the u.k. do still have a policy of using them to preach it uranium munitions the weaponry which britain is currently deploying is not suitable for british. missions there are land based munitions in our case but certainly the united states typically uses depleted uranium munitions on a ten airplanes though most of the gunships which are essentially. plane constructed around a cannon and they thought are thousands of rounds of depleted uranium munitions the

top brass the us top brass that announce that. air gun ships are being used then did you say do you munitions were being used on them yet. we have no confidence in that statement because in the past in the past conflicts where we need. used notably in the first gulf war in bosnia. in one nine hundred ninety nine and subsequently very extensively in iraq on all those occasions they denied the usage of the men it only became evident afterwards they had indeed a new so we do not have confidence in the current assurance that the eight. aren't using depleted uranium and we know the terrible consequences for the health of the environment as a result of depleted uranium usage it's a radioactive weaponry form there is great instance sharp increases of

birth defects of cancers particularly brain cancers lymphomas and so on in iraq and those are the places as a result we've heard time and time again that these airstrikes are designed to protect civilians but even that tension each of the pieces uranium gives the lighter that surely well absolutely because depleted uranium is a weapon of indiscriminate effect because of the impact what happens is that when the share of the round hits its target has explodes and it has what's been described as a kind of aerosol effect of radioactive particles and you can't ever ensure that those particles will only affect military personnel that means that they can indiscriminately affect civilians and that of course is illegal under international law also have a very long term effect because of the radioactive qualities has a negative impact also on the environment so these are illegal under international

law some countries haven't yet recognized that it is indeed you you've seen on the web sites the british government justifies the continued use but it's absolutely unacceptable if you're talking where it's an exceptionally any particular if you're talking about being there to protect the civilians to use a form of weaponry which. impacts on them in so devastating a way it's absolutely shocking this started off in libya as a people's revolution how do you think that the involvement of native napster corrupts the idea of this revolutionary fervor among people well i think it's the legitimacy is the idea of popular sovereignty that's been very much the case in all these uprisings recently it's been very much about ordinary people coming to the fore finding their political voice and saying things to be run differently and

they want people to know through the power of the democratic form they choose and of course if you have foreign powers intervening on one side or the other in that conflict i think it really withdraws the popular sovereignty element sickly when you consider the key countries involved in the intervention that's to say initially of course britain and france both have a long history and tradition of colonial intervention in that region and of course the united states and second world war has a history of military and political intervention in north africa and the middle east so it's a bit like a throwback almost a throwback to previous methods from those countries ways of establishing or reestablishing their involvement and control and that is not a good start for water essentially liberating movements in those countries headed

towards democracy away from all thorough tearing government and what do you make of these shifting intentions by the coalition on libya do you think that the u.n. security council resolution has been absolutely they've gone far far beyond the terms of the un security council resolution one see juggling with words trying to make what they're doing. feets with the terms of the resolution but of course it's transparently not possible to do that and of course as in the case of intervention in the civil war that is illegal under international law and the un resolution to that effect wouldn't make it legal but in fact that that resolution doesn't cater for intervention in a civil war and we've now seen the rebels saying that they're disappointed in the amount of help that nato has offered them what do you make of that well i suppose i imagine. they probably don't have experience of dealing with nato we're dealing

with foreign governments and their their intentions intervention and so on i'm sure that they were hoping military intervention would mean that they would very rapidly meet their military goals which of course has to come to power in their country and establish democracy in whatever their goals are i'm sure they must've felt that it was a much simpler matter and will be very disappointed to know that not only have their own side been killed by the interventionist forces but this is a long increasingly protracted struggle with no easy end in sight and i feel for them in their disappointment but. i'm sorry to say that there is no short quick way of solving this without those very details political negotiations that will have to take place ultimately thanks to a recent government report we now know that the u.k. was selling weapons to get at these regime as little as four months before this trouble starts it's the report says that that was

a misjudgment of the risk that these weapons would be used on civilians do you accept that as a misjudgment well i think that's rather hard to say i don't quite know what's what their intentions were in doing that i don't know if when they sell arms to regimes they have a kind of human rights political democracy into. benchmark against which they measure their sales i'm sure they can't because if they did they wouldn't sell arms to a very large number of countries that are currently to and i'm sure that commercial interests have always come first in those kinds of deals and i very much hope there will be a real reassessment of plan now recently you and four hundred thousand others marched in london against the government how much support did you perceive for your hands of the middle east position at that march to think that public outcry against

this intervention is growing stronger yes obviously most people with everyone is there really protesting about the government cuts but it's not wasted on people not lost on people so much money is being spent on war some one of the points we were making was that if there is not money for education for higher education for libraries for nurseries all these types of things that people are being made and employed saying there's no money why is money always found for war why is it found for nuclear weapons not only in afghanistan but also now libya. be justified and i think the opinion polls very strongly show the majority of people agree with us that there's a. fairly small minority now supporting the government it's already in its intervention in libya. and the majority are not in support of that and that doesn't surprise me at all because i think particularly since what's what

happened in iraq the government should manikins over that and so just on the story about our war aims i think people are much more critical and much more one thing to make their own assessment of these things and of course with the development of the internet a lot of information is there for people to arrive at their own judgment on balance that british people in their majority arrived as a judgment for peace. thank you very much thank you. wealthy british scientists some time to.

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we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around rush. we've got the future of coverage. western ukraine bartz with a vicious display of nationalism and even darts is attacked veterans voiced growth russia's slogans ripped commemorative st george ribbons from people scrambling. to achieve talks between the u.s. and china have been paying lip service to competition and cooperation representatives from both militaries held discussions america piers will introduce its notes of spending on defense. data was accused of negligence also the wrong distress calls but apparently refugees sixty people on board are thought to have died of thirst and hunger after spending two weeks after

a. sports guy with andrew and mouth watering tie and ice hockey is world championship russia canada in the quarter finals that people thought this might be the final actually before the tournament started that russia having been performing well and had a really tough task ahead if they want to go any further in this competition are the details that. hello there you are watching the sporting this is what is coming up in morning cycling pays tribute to the belgian rider back to vail and he was killed during the . quarter final showdown russia will face canada in the last eight of ice hockey world championships. janko other big names to suffer first round defeat be tell you know. but first the world of cycling is in mourning

after the death of belgium lyda vantive vaillant the twenty six year old was killed when he fell off his bike during a descent on stage three of the tour of italy riders will take part in stage four today but will use it to pay tribute. results are not expected to canned and his team that may be allowed to finish first as a mark of respect came off his bike just twelve kilometers from the finish line he came down the price of oil race doctors were on the scene within minutes but said he'd suffered multiple fractures to his skull and they could not save him vaillant had one stage three of the same race last year russia team katyusha were among those leading the tributes present under each meal saying we can only express our sympathies to his family trainers and teammates from tomorrow riding a bike would be much more difficult for everybody. the son of has won the five rings of moscow a rave race for second time he did enough overall victory even though the final

stage was won by an hour at alexander said garth. hasn't entails. a victory day in the russian capital and it was a victory for different sorts on the minds of those who'd me to the final stage of most will stop cycling abound in the most prestigious setting the decisive round of the five rings of moscow race to place in the very heart of the city the garden course a doorway arena usually gridlocked with traffic to clear road was a perfect bell ground for the international field of cyclists eight laps of the total length of one hundred and joy nine kilometers in blazing sunshine the men in the yellow jersey so good for son of began the final stage knowing he did twenty three second advantage over his nearest rival the russian hill really decent victory in the race last year these turn out he steam mates from the dead have had

to share helping your team his lead and claimed the second straight title he had enough to spare there and even though he didn't win the final stage that owner went to another russian aleksandr to see because the amateur rider has had a speech tekel race claiming a photo finish win and the criminal ring stage and surly and underline in his class produced the fastest finishing screen at the sybil waring stage a sitting at the bar was the last meters were very tough i was going to snatch victory right on the finish line just like i did at the kremlin ring stage fortunately it didn't come to a photo finish this time out actually i was doing my best in for large scale as well but i feel much better on flat circuits like here. pulling the best sprinters it was time to owner the main hero of the day. during the rule of my school. series due to the son of a very it's

a great honor for me to do it for my country you can't even imagine the point i'm feeling no thanks to my team mates trusted me and did a great job for me as the race leader we all deserve this. team school. there's only due to the. congratulations to him now after losing to finland russia will play canada in the quarter finals of the ice hockey world championships luckily russia will already through to the quarter final stage but after throwing away two goalie and losing on a shootout they finished fourth in their group and that meant they would face the winners of the other group not to be canada got the better of sweden their three to any other games the czech republic beat germany five two and in the last they played the usa switzerland norway beat france by taking to set up a clash with finland and yet again on monday slovakia lost to denmark for one so

this is the quarter final line up just to make it slightly easier to understand on wednesday the czech republic take on the usa and sweden play germany then on thursday the spin and against norway and the big one russia against canada. let's switch to football where a second patrick in three games for max gets so little for them five last night a move into fifth place in the english premier league which offers europa league football next season got his first after thirty two seconds completing their work and a nice while it's full and did find the net through move and steve sidwell but it was a comprehensive win for liverpool really talk them into fifth place well spurs travel to manchester city tonight and a win would put them three points behind city who currently hold on to the fourth and final champions league spot but will be missing gareth bale for the rest of the season. and seventy nine clean jury against black people and their last match. the russian season is still in its infancy but after eight games it is defending

champions any who are top although only on goal difference from cabana and angie have had a great start all say they scored some great goals too and we can say let's enjoy them all it is still.

now we are less than two weeks away from the start of the french open and the signs aren't looking too good of a genk at the russian joint andy roddick among the big names who crash diet of the first round of the italian open added yang he was up against number fifteen seed banks and throwing some in the first set six dollars second set was i.e. in the balance and still down the janko suffered a break out of the worst possible moment to hand for it is six

o five the and he jumps for the match eventually winning this match point out to japan cap found the net next troitsky will play ukraine alexander vocal a lot. more going home early twenty's and he wrote after his early exit as in the dritte open he was hoping for the best of form and thank you for a man who would be right in their three previous meetings but none of those matches have been i don't play and simone was far more comfortable on the surface the world number nineteen winning the match six three six three and was more than satisfied. with thank you. and there were mixed fortunes for russia's putin re-igniting to try but was forced to withdraw in the second set of the match against ana event of it due to a back injury but it is should be no easy task to pounds murray to the country for six three six one when there. is also a way into the second round. it has not been my cat ever had a tougher time against spain as martin is sanchez but still one in three sets there

and a leader best. also sealed a place in the second round with a six four six four win over last used to be at a however it was the solver it was not his fault unit crash that thirty one year old put it there are. finally let's take a look at the n.b.a. where the playoff conference semifinals are heating up with the oklahoma thunder and miami heat bron james had thirty five points and fourteen rebounds helping miami to a gritty ninety eight ninety win over overtime win over the boston celtics giving miami three one seriously in the conference semifinals in the western conference standings oklahoma thunder through the memphis grizzlies one hundred thirty three points to one hundred twenty three in triple overtime to a page and their seed. so that brings us up to date so we've got more in a couple of hours time next day what it's about. for the feels like we've got it from. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the

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