when you try to for us today this is also you live here in moscow top stories this hour massive austerity cuts in the government's budget policies are blamed for losing control of the streets after four nights of riots in the u.k. . europe's top bank is as a continent suffering is worst financial deal since the second world war as fears grow france could be next in line to news is taught credit rating economists say europeans need to work more on to get themselves out of trouble. and activists in russia are taking matters into their own hands when it comes to catching

paedophiles who escape justice car and sex crimes there was a slam for being inadequate and keeping the threat from the playground. but i'll be back here with another update for in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime as more civilians die in nature and strikes in libya serious questions are being lost over the legality of the intervention. the former editor of the british newspaper the sun who says that libya was a good p.r. stunt for the british government i see shares his insights into the conflict that's coming up next for you in our own city and a nazi. today i'm talking to kelvin mackenzie former at the tell me from newspaper columnist he's spoken out against the military intervention in libya saying that libya is not worth an ounce of prestige blood's called mckenzie that's a very strong position to take i mean the government reckons that strikes prevented a massacre in benghazi so he that's worth a few british soldiers and so it seems well first of all we don't know whether

there was going to be a massacre a big garci this was the p.r. this was the government push this world was cameron's personal space. in the end of the day this is libyans fighting libyans and who are we to say who should be running their country after all when i lost a lot i didn't notice any libyans interfere when the cavaliers and the railheads took place in their evolution or bit 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 have anti aircraft fire ability these little people sitting there with the spotted gun leaning over friends saying you know what that a fairly sophisticated but 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 a beautiful lips we have al qaeda wandering around. how do we know that at the end of the day 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 it was a justification to do what i suspect russia might have gotten under the same circumstances which you said right we're coming in we're taking you out we're bombing the hell out of the place and then there'll be a change of regime and that would have been more justifiable from this libyan rebels gives off to intervene they also may say to intervene do we not that for we have a duty to go in and help the maps no we don't want jus t.

do we bowed to a saw aides 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 while we are out there wandering around the desert there was no justification it was not privy there's 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 are very not same being in any planes what now that made the nation that we pull out and leave the libyans to work could essentially be a bloody thing for war it is a bloody civil war that's what happens in civil wars it isn't the point the reason the 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 will win but they don't need to win riskier than our money what if now that the international community has been

irreparably for them that with him he actually stays in power and well first of all i don't care about the international community and certainly they haven't but you know they don't like him but there's lots of people they don't like i mean why they . 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 have been wiped out why haven't we gone there why don't we go and protect the minority tribe in the zimbabwe water after there's a lot of injustice in the world there may be injustice even in this country who knows but the issue is that there is nothing that could be done the international community is a big fat rials berry and what happens to the politicians is that they look around but i'm so so look at this ratings in the polls and they say do you know what i'm not doing very well here the people who vote for me think i'm an idiot they're going to charge me and say what abou what are one duran north africa wonder around the middle east when we go into saudi arabia where they've banned march is the king

as a bounce there will be severe repercussions for demonstrations and in the east they started firing everybody what are we going to d.m. in why don't we go in everywhere who was your answer to all these questions why don't we go into yemen why don't we go into syria because it's nothing to do with us we have neither the power the firepower nor the will nor as we learned from iraq where one hundred and 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 profit was up with that but that has nothing to do with us 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 gadhafi you know really is where we're a nation trying to relive the old days of the end cameron keep on shouting out where of all the pink bits skull and you know strolling around the middle east you know with out of sight enough without an exit plan we know how to go into these

places we have no idea how to get out u.k. institutions played a big role in rehabilitating the gadhafi regime not they want to go and say that will they go to night said been in that label media now that the media has. turned on him again and how important it it for legitimizing an intervention like this and indeed regime change would be ok you should divide it up into two points first of all the governments whoever they are in this be going on there for forty odd years we have been licking could die off his backside now for four decades whether we supply arms to them or we embrace them like that discussed in case they were blair but actually these people that you know the same time politicians move either way so want to be kissing could off his backside and now we're trying to kick it it's ridiculous so the media do have a role in the role of the media 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 experience and then somebody wakes up a sort of set of words that are trading with problems that. it is pathetic absolutely pathetic but at the same time it every so often the government changes by are and when the government changes for how they view changes power so there's no consistency to my mind actually the media have been pretty good they've been pretty good with 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 idiots like cameron got nothing else to do called decide whether we should be wandering around all spittle in the u.k. or should be wandering around the battlefields of of the middle east but we have to act as well as troops so the media gets caught in

a difficult position its troops are its readers and are the center of our world. the government there idiots and the libyan regime are a disgusting so the media gets caught in a very difficult area and you were the most notorious editor of the u.k.'s most notorious tabloids very kind of you to put it on do you accept that it with tabloid culture is that he that made was like this easier to sell and popularized by the british public. except the first bit. except the the sun did spectacularly undermine excellent editorship i think though that they didn't actually make any difference to government policy i mean you know. the issue about the media is it's like the sea it's always with us you've simply got to put up with it if you're a policymaker and all right there will be a lot of aggravation about libya and there i mean it started off all right we

thought we were going to blow them all out of the water we'd all be home for having every a cup of tea at the ritz bar past four 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 mean i am personally massively hostile to the libyan impression mainly because i saw wire up and in iraq at least things take peculiar turbans which you can't really work out intellectually nor guess. nevertheless. you know i'm very much in favor of our soldiers and so you get told to put the media restrung go i think you're right about that 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 leak so basically they were deciding it as though you and i were having a nice chat another glass of serving your room there said oh yes it would be what

you think given the office he was is a bit of a go yes good idea tom and then they went to write so the million were ignored and people will say that the government various governments not nothing from iraq and afghanistan but do you think what in fact what you learned was how to tell another military intervention no absolutely the issue is quite clear. we didn't want iraq it was lumbered on us by a vainglorious prime minister. cameron is now wandering around in the desert of to brook trying to work out how to get out he would look in the audio to the end of all this but the but the underlying issue is with libya. there have been no deaths on our side just why if i only caught the correction and god forbid we lose ten people or 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 bought but not one single one of our people has as died let apennines the game and the p.r. game or trade politically what does someone like david cameron gain from waging a war in africa a military a war camerons or what was in it for him or for a country he's a pro for he hears unfortunately a professional bleeding. 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 yasir is something mustn't be done it's like when you're about to send off a really stinking knees. and the night before to your boss. don't send that a mile go to bed wake up in the morning reread it just as 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 balmy is he going to be the last as long as blair blair was thirty five at the end of it. my suspicion is that the pressure is just driven by kelvin mackenzie thank you very much. feel. the limits is. just

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market. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my colleagues are the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. is a report. from stores this hour naughty massive austerity cuts in the government's budget policies a plane from losing control of the streets of the four nights of riots in the u.k. . europe's top bankers says the continent suffering from worst financial deal since the second world war as fears grow france could be next in line to lose its top credit rating economists say europeans need to work more to get themselves out of trouble. and activists in russia taking matters into their own hands when it comes to catching paedophiles who escape justice come sex crimes was a slam for being inadequate and keeping the threat from the playground. well more

news from just on the court of an hour from now but in the meantime the sport is next with natasha. hello welcome to the sports update coming to live on our team here are the headlines best eleven russia goes to. his strongest side it's nights from being here in the russian capital. r.t. catches up with. aiden mcgeady as the irish midfielder recovers from an ankle injury. and in more football england's friendly with the netherlands up wildly it's called off because of the riots in london. so russia stick out because as he will pick his best eleven for wednesday's friendly game so betting there's no time to experiment ahead of a fast approaching european qualifiers however that's what will have to do with thousand and eight midfielder picked up an injury during saturday's two nil big

trip table top post says they were also missing two players from his left yvonne the rich from chelsea and into malone's they have stone cottage but this private advocates aldrich's well there's still a strong team and russia will need to play well to prepare for september's european qualifiers against macedonia and group b. jointly this island the match starts at seven pm moscow time. the other tells of the proposal goes to those three dollars to go quarter final matches. the players are. great and will to do something well also if you know what you're going to be people said you know what i mean you know you. know you're never a very good song defensively point. you know over we are still. allowed to play england it's a sow's serve you gave them a good look we have a good relationship with them so we're. going to go to the blue play because it's over it's not the time for experimentation is it really just trying to solidify

your songs never to get playing to get up. to play. there is a baseline of an engine used. for. i believe and we don't want to take any risks now well first of the so for the games were coming up so a single breakthrough was able to be still must be feeling very confident of installing a very good position in the international stuff all games there will be all we have everything about the phone and so we've got now three home games as well so we have to do that because the thread that i have the feeling that an overhaul of the case you can see we were the better side so now we have to continue in the fun for kids to want to question. the greats infringements recently perhaps or something you'd be able to put one's knowledge of how do you explain russia's inability to win for you much as it was last year or so ago i was happy to be on as was the last run again against a guy move and i was dropping there was a very good guy who is there with the players who are not normally the regulars but

they did really well. for starters there's a show that they can do does well. and while russia plans ahead for next month's european qualifier against ireland it's been a tough couple of months for irish aiden mcgeady twenty five year old has missed almost half of spartak moscow as clashes this year due to an ankle injury after being widely regarded as the club's player of the season and mcgeady spoke to our own irishman you know on the. i'm joined here today by republic of ireland and sports like moscow winger aiden mcgeady aiden thanks so much for taking the time to speak to us first things first how is your injury progressing scarcely would be of . about history and obviously bones of a boy hoping for a name once and. push for it on a home study course but most of the script. and just the whole three by play in front of it took three weeks now you've been in russia just about a year now i believe the start of august you came last last year how's your russian experience been so far but always been good of enjoyed. i've enjoyed the saw from

way of way for your obviously fictional but getting your start but. i've enjoyed this will fall and obviously the football was the main thing the football was reasonably well. see also the difficult part is so i'm forgetting the way for here in the language what i'm getting a little bit about is well that's i was going to say are you taking lessons oh i had one lesson that is going off that my brain this wasn't what i want on the heart but i just it's good because i'm out and obviously good dear what's your typical day here it's more like law school quesadillas you may think they want to see. you come in for ten o'clock in the morning normally and then you see the doctor and get within you to call these boxes and have your show and not always and how your body isn't in chino oven and. after you die or a state based or something you know you can call. us so it was a good life obviously you believe the team can finally fulfil what they've been

trying to do for years now and win the championship going to start the season not as of the ones in. the biggest market be the last not the chairmanship was really poor but i mean it was to see american go not only in of one big games you know the spot which i'm sure your classmates and then be certain you know second quarter second place is going away think it's over so it's a very very young squad we have. you know i think overall we are the first of the just to put in a practice you could have really gone to your pick of clubs why did you cheese russia in the first place for me it was it was a chance to go. to complain about all the. try to get an alternative but on the road to say no i'll stay so it's only because i think it's time for me so i move on what is best for everyone not what do you miss the all from your the thrill of the huge game in glasgow or something i watched the game you know what i see on t.v.

and when i'm part call me you know you the best thing in football for no for me it was probably you know a sunny afternoon at pocket so i'll be off in a pocket. no it wasn't here much well i just finally. on a lighter note is there anything you miss about separate scotland and home you know they're the deep fried mars bars are they i am very proud. of people as of watch other people it was well yeah of course as well as those home comforts. i think the main frame eve mass is has been there were just i'm not going this year period sure but still it's always a part of life. we must in order to freshen ships of the. program which is what you should presume as a great for me thanks so much for your time pretty sure i'll. stay with a bland scored held a training session on tuesday only to find out later that they're friendly and if the netherlands was called off because of the landon riots it seems were deeds of

late child at wellesley stadium whence the football association says the decision is regrettable but had to be made after taking advice from the police as the f.a. could not guarantee the safety of either the fans all the players' strike or wayne rooney has even agree on twitter saying quote this is embarrassing for the country stop please. meanwhile italy is friendly with world champions spain is due to keep off as scheduled later today as well as brazil's match against germany instead get and this will be brazil's first official game since the shock copa america defeat the paraguayan in the quarter finals lucas lucas labor is suspended while david lewis has a name in their absence all eyes will be on gunston neymar and balance or both sound as players attract the interest of a number of europe's top clubs recently nineteen year old neymar hoping his team could do better tonight to leave because the disappointment behind. or woman it was a very difficult called america tournament and unfortunately we're. no we're my

state the good experiences we have made it with us try to develop things further in the upcoming games and i have to develop myself to almost. over in tennis andy murray is out of the role just government shell after losing to south african kevin anderson in his opening second round match on tuesday mari's last how the moment knocking out the two time defending champion in straight sets six three six one the final score it's mari's third consecutive opening round loss in american hardcourt most as this year alone surprised the thieves in the indian wells and miami in the spring. so slow. and some may already want to. train really hard to get ready for i've always put very well and. i can get i think go i started really really

doesn't have. been a good thing going for. elsewhere a shock us case a play through to the second stage of the beating german florian meyer but down see the frenchman claiming a six three six two victory to progress into the last thirty two where he will face resilient or much richer. now top golfers are gearing up by the athletic club for this week's p.g.a. championship including former world best tiger woods in atlanta on tuesday the fourth time will warm south of the driving range before teeing off brand are you answer all tiger hasn't won a major since the two thousand and eighteen and so on now with a very open field this year is going to be tough for the thirty five year old who previously taught the wrong things for six hundred twenty three weeks however many believe their id is better for the sport than one man determination including australian adam scott won last week's bridgestone invitational in ohio held by woods long time katie steve williams. the competition

is strong at the moment luke donald played amazingly westwood playing amazing and now we have tiger you know healthy again so this is going to be interesting for everyone to watch because we're also interested in him in what he does and how he plays such a big factor on the game so. you know i think it's a very interesting place to go for an hour. and in some rugby news new zealand prime minister john key hinted the old blacks captain richie mccall could get a knighthood if his team win the whole world cup this year missed the key adding that the final against the neighbors the wall is a dream scenario mccall meanwhile is expected to leave the world's top ranked rugby nations in their first trophy in twenty four as the thirty year old will bounce following the footsteps all the england coach clive woodward was knighted after it's already won the world title back in two thousand and three. that's old school for they are the news headlines are coming up right off of the weather with.

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