it's. possible that now here in moscow top stories this russia is rallying u.n. security council members to demand an end to the violence in syria and prevent the uprising descending into another libyan scenario but is investigating who is really behind the bloodshed and how much is why. the libyan rebels are poised to crush the last pockets of resistance from colonel gadhafi supporters but time running out for the loyalists to lay down arms. israelis of states their biggest ever antigovernment protests against bringing living standards over three hundred thousand people gathered nationwide to get the government to spend more on social

programs instead of settlements and the military. ukraine is turning up the heat on its gas around moscow demanding a previously agreed price is a cost of refusing to make any concessions russia maintains the current contract complies with international requirements and cannot be revised you know. moscow's going to see the celebration this sunday marking its eight hundred sixty full of birthday with an eye opening light show which saw moscow state university is the canvas for a multi-million dollar display. and the military has been taking over red square wrapping up a lot of flight data today with russian and foreign forces marching together. let me back up another update in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime the clock is ticking for colonel gadhafi to surrender to libya's interim government and national transitional council is now widely recognized as the country's legitimate power and next british m.p. barry gardiner who voted against western intervention gives his insight into the

conflict. today i'm talking to barry gardener he's a labor member of parliament and one of the very few m.p.'s against the intervention in libya mr gardiner thanks for talking with you r.t. today now we see that the rebels if we can still call them that have practically taken tripoli and exactly looks like he's lost the fight have you changed your mind about the libyan intervention point is the legitimacy of it and that's what i queried in the beginning i think most people would agree that it was right to intervene on humanitarian grounds to save the people of benghazi that was never the assume it was all and whether nato should then become involved as effectively the stripes it was for the rebel corps and that's what it's been and that of course was

in my view way beyond the grief that the united nations had given and it was wrong it was not should have been about regime change a civil war in libya is something for them it's not something for the rest of the world to intervene how do you wish it could have been different then what would you have done if you'd been in charge i think what we should have seen is we should have seen an intervention by the forces that went in to stop that attack on benghazi to neutralize gadhafi and to make sure that he then did not conduct any aggressive sorties as he had previously been doing but not that they should then become the air on the straight forward for the rebels david cameron said a few days ago that nato would lend support in libya for as long as civilians need protecting what was your reaction to that is that open ended commitment as it sounds. it was very clear in the original un

resolution it was very clear for our prime minister spoke in parliament here that there would be no. occupation force that would be totally wrong one of the things that troubled me all this was this business as to whether there should be troops on the ground and of course that wasn't expressly prohibited by the resolution but but it was something that i think all of us were very concerned about. what we saw as the rebels were going into tripoli the other day certainly the radio programs that were broadcast in the u.k. we would go left go left go left these instructions being yelled out by what were obviously british soldiers british personnel who were leading that advance group now that i think is where we have overstepped the line there's also

now talk of pursing peacekeeping forces on the ground in libya i seen that something you were but you know decimated country with no structures for maintaining order and now is that not the only way i don't believe it is i don't believe that's right we should be staying there effectively to establish the new regime that's not what this was originally but it was about humanitarian protection let me be clear i'm very pleased to see the back of gadhafi a very evil dictator and the sooner he is in front of the international criminal court the better. and i'm very glad that his days are now at an end. i wish the new regime well but i think it's important that they establish their regime that they prove to the international community that they have the capacity not to tear themselves into different factions and to libya as

a strong unified government but that's their responsibility you supported the invasion of iraq back in two thousand and. three why is this different it's very different to the invasion of iraq was because. saddam hussein had refused to reveal as he was obliged to under chapter seven of the united nations resolution whether or not he had got rid of all of the nuclear chemical. biological weapons that we knew he had previously about he refused to do that even as late as february hans blix was saying we do not know whether he still has these he listed a whole load of v.x. nerve gas mustard gas different agents chemical agents so we didn't know and he was not willing to allow. other countries to come to interview the scientists to see the audit trails to know whether he got rid of them or not in that situation it

would have been ludicrous to have had a million strong army that was on the doorstep of iraq simply go away when the resolution fourteen forty one had given iran given him a final opportunity to comply with his ugly game how the world done it then what would have happened if he would have simply rebuilt those programs with impunity knowing that he was absolutely untouchable and the world would not do anything against him we would have then been precipitated to a far more major conflict into the in the middle east between iran and iraq with devastating consequences destruction of the world's oil supplies it was a terrible situation and it was right that we took action that we did now the fact that the united nations didn't sanction it in terms of a second resolution does not change the fact that forty and forty one said it was the final opportunity for him to comply now i'm a parent i have children i know that if i tell my children please come and do the

washing up they don't do it and i said look i've told. once already please couple of question if you have twelve years of that which is what we had with saddam hussein and you then come to the point where you say this is your final chance and he still does not comply then it's important that you take the ultimate sanction after that what about what happens afterwards there in both iraq and afghanistan the real violence began after the dictatorships were toppled do you see that happening in libya i think there is a danger of this and what you saw was certainly in iraq was a complete failure of the occupying powers then to stabilize the situation and they let the the iraqi army keep their weapons but they disbanded the army and they said you must go back to your villages you can keep their weapons this was insanity absolutely insanity and we must not be in

a position where what we've done is created greater instability in libya that is absolutely clear. but nonetheless equally must avoid is becoming an occupation force i think afghanistan is a very good example russia has very bitter experience over cannot stand as does britain of being an occupying power and you start off being a friend of someone and you end up being hated by everyone an occupying force is a very dangerous place to be and you should get out as quickly as you can what's the middle way that some would argue that nato stepping in has made the situation worse is it not their nature his responsibility to stay and clear up the matter you pose the question that really is how do you get to where you want to be and of course the answer is well i wouldn't have started from here but you're right we're now in this situation and therefore we have to do is to ensure that we provide

support for stability without our cells being that stabilizing. military force it must not be that the new government relies on the military of britain and nato in order to maintain power they must be able to do that on their own we can give advice we can give help to help them stabilize the situation but we must not assume that responsibility ourselves governments in theory that the lessons were learned from what happened in iraq given the way that this conflict is being conducted do you believe that it's. always a danger for every government if you and every army to be fighting the last war. what you do is you learn lessons from one conflict which you then take on to the next but usually what you forget is that the context of the situation is different the next time and therefore the lessons that

you've learned from the previous experience may not be appropriate in the conflict that you are now fighting you mentioned the faction inside the national transitional council we now know that some of those factions are religious groups who hope to establish an islamic state in libya how what will the attitude to that thing from nato and from the libyans themselves will they get a voice in this new democracy road it's not for nato or for the else to allow but it's for the people of libya to decide what they want to do it's for them to decide their own future. in this country and. all across the world people have to learn to live. with the fact that we have different religious views different ethical views but nonetheless we have to live together we have to spine some means of sharing a society sharing the country and making it work for all of us i believe the people

of libya are no less capable of doing that than the people of us. of the people of the united kingdom do you think that ultimately natives intervention will cause more trouble in the middle east a region that is after already deeply on stable so i think the most serious i think it will if if if nato stays there as an occupation force but i don't think that is going to happen i think the really troubling conflicts in in the middle east at the moment are within syria i think if you look at bahrain and the way in which saudi arabia went into bahrain to prop up the oligarchy there against the wishes of the people these are the flashpoints in the middle east that still have not burst asunder that is going to. once people have scented revolution once they have seen that freedom and a better life is possible i don't think they will go back under the yoke of the

perkasie barry gardner thank you very much.

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free bunch. of free media. top stories this hour on r.t. russia is running un security council members to demand an end to the violence in syria and prevent the uprising descending into another libyan scenario of parties investigating who is really behind the bloodshed and how much is tight. meanwhile libyan rebels are poised to crush the last pockets of resistance from colonel gadhafi supporters with time running out for the loyalists to lay down arms. and israeli's have staged their biggest ever anti-government protest against their dwindling living standards of three hundred thousand people gathered nationwide to get the government to spend more on social programs instead of settlements and the military. ukraine is turning up the heat on its gas route with moscow demanding

that previously prices a card for refusing to make any concessions russia maintains the current contract complies with international requirements and cannot be revised you know that triggered. by moscow has been a scene of celebration this sunday marking its eight hundred sixty fourth birthday with an eye opening light show storm moscow's state university is the canvas for a multi million dollar display and the military's been taking over red square racking up another five day two with russian and foreign forces marching together. on a c. lighting up the small hold next natasha's with us here on r.t. stay with us. hello welcome to sport here in r.t.l. top stories first icing on the cake russia two girls to their medal tally on the

final day of the world athletics championships with wins in behalf of rowing and women's eight hundred meters. in well you say in bold leads to make it to a world record breaking victory in before by one hundred meters relaid finally battle the battle championships. and also russia completing the rugby world cup for the first ever time this year r.t. caught up with the school before they flew to new zealand. and that's begin with a flyer x. where the world finals concluded on sunday with russia claiming two more girls on the closing date but he has been of a surprise in the odds by beating a world champion caster semenya in the women's eight hundred meters the russian corkey one minute fifty five point eighty seven seconds samantha had to settle also for half a second behind and katie and janet says goodbye to bronze. i have an incredible feeling inside me i can't find any words to express them i'm not tired though my result was fantastic i have three more competitions this season but

i won the most important one the world championships. and learned that you can always see on the top of podium in the women's hamel throwing out a marking seven to seven meters and thirteen centimeters edging betsy hart i love germany by more than meets a chinese burn sushant completed the podium. and jamaica claimed the final gold of the championships in style sets of the only world records of the two men's and women's one hundred meters relay using ball leads in the quarter to a thirty seven point zero four second victory finishing where head of second placed bronze and sinks in levis and. these are both good and hard to believe. that there was some truth to it a. bit of that really you don't see.

in football russia have to be to islands in the euro two hundred twelve qualifying games to guarantee themselves and support in group e. dick advocaat schools held an open training session on sunday two days before the all important match statistics are on russia's side edged. in their first meeting away from home the upcoming moscow clash is a must win game for the visitors as a defeat could deny that will define hopes the hosts are fully fit but. sidelined through suspension russia also plays slovakia on the seventh and eleven. the russian rugby players are looking forward to their first ever world cup match a question based the united states on the fifteenth of september richard vaughan pool for it caught up with the school before they headed to new zealand. the wait is almost over thirty players will fly to new zealand they have spent the last three months training intensively and gaining vital much experience how a birth of

a senior team if the place is club rugby in england he's delighted but russia can finally start to do very talking on the rugby pitch it's going to get over as the you know if the idea of the world cup that's just coming closer by a day last month or so so really was it just a bit of a relief when it's finally come however before they leave they spoke to the media about their hopes and expectations ahead of what will be the greatest moment so far in their sporting careers russia one of the tournaments minnows of the north times and when he just glad to have made it couldn't even dream of it when i was younger yeah playing to russia and play for us at the world stage so i know yeah the last three years he has been dreaming that i travel and literally have a headache or that's the way to get that russia still have a long way to go until they can even think of being able to compete on

a little playing field with the likes of new zealand and australia however the presence of a russian rugby union has defined his country finally made it to the finals will help boost the profile of the sport you see his first term ever we want to play for the rugby world cup is a great achievement for us from the team from rushmore i think it was never before with just such an opportunity to play with the world's most famous and strongest teams of course are going to easy to play with or for sure there may be some of these teams watching the kids for the. professional rugby it's a great experience and russia played their first match of the tournament on september fifteenth against the united states of america. even they are in a group with italy australian. and oil and its game will be american russian coaching staff will be targeting as be looked at become the first debut tunes ever

when the mansion first will come the long form all black legend sean fitzpatrick is doing to see russia have made it to the world camp and he says the whole of new zealand is buzzing ahead of the tournament which kicks off from friday the ninth of september. and civilized than we had a fair last time said new zealand sun since as a nation. as four million people talk about a stadium of four million people and they're looking forward to welcoming the rugby world despite a disappointing tour of united kingdom recently where russians was for games against english club sides of the russian campus heinie and even to be losing four games in new zealand the most important thing is the believe become the first players to represent their country and the third biggest sporting event in the world which frankly if you don't r.t. . the g.p.l. and jorge lorenzo has won the san marino grand prix to staying in passion for this year's title case is still however

a day is the overall latest by finishing third lower and so on his blue yamaha pass the bills a ten season later on first and then held on to win ahead of compadres draws on the base telling him to set plays the rain he's up check so we want to finish with spain in the silliest then he is where also winners in the rest of the cast result that they run so hot stone is a constant thirty five races still to go in twenty eleven is next stop is an era. and finally the most high profile professional athletes usually have a skilful agent to thank for their exposure and big money deals the ice hockey agent association vice president gore has been shedding some light on his profession it was a explains. huge contracts global grand indorsements and thousands of screaming fans the ice hockey all stars of the world really do have it all but despite being phenomenally talented individuals they would have a hard time making such an impact on the biggest stage without someone pulling the

strings behind the scenes you not never expected to become a sports agent but now he's become one of russia's trailblazers in the business he manages such mega stars as you get a molecule in sergei go in charge so there's a which i became an agent by accident i lost my job in one thousand one thousand nine hundred struggling to make ends meet a friend of mine called me one day and said he got word from the new york rangers that a sports agency is pursuing me i didn't come to go on and let those guys pursue my service he's eventually the company's representatives mates with me and i took up the job. we shut off as well aware of the trials and tribulations his clients the daily he himself had a twenty three year playing career in cold spartak moscow after that. i've got some colleagues who never played and they think a hockey about green is not necessary to do their job and i tend to disagree as one must be able to evaluate an athlete's current level of performance and his

potential that's what ultimately determines a player's price and while managing malkin going sharp and other big names would be the top entries on resume no agent would want to miss a transcendent up and coming talent ready to blossom into a star. as it was that i would say i represent a tween forty to fifty players in total including those born in one thousand nine hundred four and one thousand nine hundred five i try to keep in touch with all my clients and go to their matches if possible obviously there's a conflict of interest frequently because i can't attend all my players games at the same time. the competitive big money business can bring out the worst and so major it's with sound going as far as to steal the diamond in the rough other sector around. cost says he experienced those shady dealings first hand and believes a lack of sporting knowledge is driving his colleagues do underhanded tactics years ago. one agent police and lee told me he would take players from me once his

current crop of stars retire this practice is widespread in russia while the united states for instance has a code of conduct which limits such action if an athlete is already represented by one agent and no other agents can recruit him. however it was shut off claims he knows a few american agents who find ways to cheat players out of their hard earned money so that it is just i've never heard of agents taking money from players in russia but it's happened in the states before i knew that andre kostitsyn was a victim of such a scam and he also tried to trick alexander ovechkin and the alexander of since parents are the ones who often choose their child's occasions for the future you should make inquiries about every agent. the players themselves though are much tighter need group and help each other out when the going gets tough molecule among those benefiting from the smooth n.h.l. transition by teaming up with going shark. it was all keane has an easier time

adjusting because going charm was already on the team max talbot and sidney crosby were all sort of clients playing in pittsburgh at the time while he moved into surgeries how to use and stay there for three and a half years so gone char was like a big brother to you gagne for a while he paid the bills help them set up a bank account among other things. seeing your favorite athlete on the list of the richest people in their sport the cover of a new magazine or endorsing a product is the result of a good agent's work but those men like all shut off also clearly have the ability to become greeted by interest of their clients while allowing the players to blossom in their respective leaves. guns gorski our teeth. and that was the latest this fall stay with us for the manias at the top of the hour.