welcome back here's a recap of the main stories we're covering today r t the head of the arab league heads to syria to demand an end to the government's violent crackdown on protesters there all this follows the e.u. announcing a new sanctions against the regime but critics say the ban on oil imports serves the interests of european companies rather than those of the syrian people. space prepares for a fresh wave of protests ahead of a crucial senate vote on how big the budget deficit a move that many fear will lead to social cuts meanwhile the european side for bad calls for greater financial integration within the eurozone as the only solution to

the crisis. and the partners of rallies against social are just as he's railed forty years ago during the recent protests against the same issue members of the black panthers movement say they are frustrated that the problems in israel have only gotten worse. well turning our attention to libya now where rebels are reportedly reached a deal to ensure one of the remaining strongholds of colonel gadhafi without fighting well more insight into what's happening in libya our interview is coming up next. you understand why rosemary hall is the professor of middle east policy studies at city university in london rosemary thanks has been the r.t. so how well has the international community handled the libyan crisis will you make a distinction between the nato members some of whom are extremely proud of what's been achieved so far in libya and the broader international community who are

adjusting to developments in libya and deciding to be on the side of the future so not every government around the world has yet recognized and accepted thing you national transitional council as the government so did they do the right thing to begin with i think the u.n. responded to an emergency the arab league made a plea for some sort of intervention to save the citizens of benghazi from massacre but only over the last several months probably all realized the extent to which britain and france in particular nato in general basically entered the war determined that the under gadhafi side when there seems to be an assumption that the new government of libya will be automatically pro western the old or contracts will just be renewed but is that really going to be the case do you think i'm not sure that. the new libyan government will be pro-west there are three or four

signals so far that they're very firmly nationalist for example is that they're not extraditing any libyan including abdel baset i'm a guy he who was convicted of the lockerbie bombing and the americans wanted. he's now close to death and living in tripoli and the national transitional council says that's where he stays the other signals are that they're talking about yes it would be nice to have u.n. help. caring for elections but no we don't want international observers there drawing the line where they think it should be drawn between what's their business and what international help is useful for this is a good thing i think it's essential for the survival of the next new libyan government that they do seem to be more libyan than a tool of the west to the west realize that you think how dangerous is this kind of

scramble for influence it's a good question how do western players realize that they are a kind of liability i think only with difficulty they realize this they assume that they've got the best interests of not only themselves but libyans to heart and can be an amicable ritually beneficial understanding reached what yeah they talk about democracy in a way that suggests they can only see the western version of british government certainly has been very keen to stress that this will not be another iraq and that they've learned those lessons but you think that's really the case have they really learned those lessons it seems that every political generation every generation of politicians thinks that they can achieve things that the previous one didn't until they try. they won't say any different so cameron and how cosy took a massive gamble that they could pull something off in libya that would contrast with the disaster that was the intervention in iraq and you know have president

sarkozy talking as though this is a template for future interventions whoa maybe put the cost in resources in manpower in struggle that is to come i mean there will have to be massive support in humanitarian terms in the near term there will be more fighting it is taking casualties and there's a lot of rebuilding to do and reconciliation between the. factions and therefore it's not over and done with in terms of commitment of western. time energy and resources how much potential is there for this to turn into another iraq is it on the right course now of course it's a cliche to say it but you know the comparisons can only be taken so far with iraq that libya is a very different place and some calculations have to do with the fact that it

seemed simpler to intervene in libya it was a small population spread out mostly along the coast with long exposed roads in between the main towns and cities that presented targets that nato aerial intervention looked capable of exploiting to good effect on the ground. hard to say. what we hear about. various people from the m i six type sector but certainly special forces as a as and so on operating on the ground. this is very much. a kind of proxy war which must be extremely exciting and exhilarating at some level to be involved so it's more likely seems to me that in that sense the appetite for further interventions will exist as opposed to this is

the template for. the triumph of humanitarianism over. warfare what about the national transitional council they've promised that within eighteen months they'll have a new constitution and elections is that possible well the lesson from. the other revolutions in the region and in egypt is that there is good reasons to delay elections if you think you can organize sensible heroin and different contra. competing political parties if you have more time so it rather depends were the people are going to vote as they did in iraq in the initial elections on name recognition or on sectarian loyalties in this case possibly in libya on tribal loyalties all rural urban divide. and name recognition rather than choosing between different party platforms but an inclusive

assembly to devise and choose and approve a constitution may not be such a bad thing the u.k. government is already sending ass's that they've run for a reason but is that a little bit naive given what happened in iraq with a lot of money going missing i think it's essential if you've invested in the national transitional council you certainly have to hand over the money to them you can't then say but we don't trust you to spend it correctly because then you are verging on doing what the americans did in iraq which is saying we could do we can organize iraq better than the iraqis do you trust them to make a fool of doing it i think there's going to be retribution i think there's going to be continued conflict in neighborhoods in. out lying regions of the country i think it's going to take a long time for the libyans to find their way to a completely different path look at duffy invented was

a very peculiar system it was supposed to be democracy for the masses with grassroots assemblies making the decisions it was nothing of the kind it was a dictatorship and those around the colonel operated out of fear as much as greed trying to suck up to him lots of people were implicated where do you draw the line who was too bad to be forgiven who needs prosecuting and really being very. is justice or will it be kind of like none of us justice is about inclusiveness and building together now the libyans need to work all of that out in the meantime they've got to pay salaries to get the basic tasks of life including policing and the court system operating if during that period they are challenge to sign contracts with international

companies and have to make decisions which end up reinforcing the role of the state in the commercial sector in the economy and include inducements from those companies to secure the contracts against the competition then we're back into the danger zone that this will not be a wholly transparent and run corrupt regime. the jury's out western leaders have stressed to the rebels the need to avoid revenge attacks and the need for tolerance yet they've also said that nato airstrikes will continue for as long as gadhafi is a threat. messages well i know from my experience of. conversations with arabs and different parts of the arab world over many years that they never take the statements of the west at face value they always assume the hit agenda and they positively expect. double standards so on

this particular occasion it suits the rebels as well as the nato powers to fudge the truth about who's on the side of right and who's doing all the killing and what the consequences are but will this lead to revenge attacks already within the rebels rounding up sub-saharan black africans accusing them of being lonesome rates that is appalling and there will be questions for the future of the economy how much i turn around labor do they need. even the egyptians who were working for the libyans before the revolution have had rough treatment and have gone home planet us people from east asia who've been in the same bind and you're seeing a version of racism and prejudice coming out against anybody who is black on suspicion that gadhafi recruited mercenaries from sub-saharan africa but. the

truth is a mixture of things yes some mercenaries how witting how understanding they were of what they got involved in one doesn't know but that a lot of innocents are getting caught up in this absolutely but that is the nature of war and so despite what sarkozy and cameron and anybody else may wish to do to dress this up as a glorious rescue of the ordinary people against a vicious dictator in fact it's war and bad things happen in war thank you. for the full story we've got it for us the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on r.t. .

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players in argentina the head of the arab league heads to syria to demand an end to the government's violent crackdown on protesters there all this follows the e.u. announcing its new sanctions against the regime but critics say the ban on the oil imports serves the interests of european companies rather than those of the syrian people. spain prepares for a fresh wave of protests ahead of a crucial senate vote on capping the budget deficit is a move that many fear will lead to social cuts when all the european central bank calls for greater financial insulation and within the euro zone as the only solution to the prices. and the pioneers of rallies against social injustice in israel forty years ago joined the recent protests against the same issue members of

the black panthers movement say they are frustrated the problems that israel have only gotten worse. now the sports update review i hear it's nail biting time for russia football fans what's happening it certainly is a nervy time it's euro twenty twelve qualifying tonight in russia verses are that nobody wants to lose this one test all. the rest of the sport. thanks for joining us this is sport it's a we have got plenty ahead this tuesday afternoon here in central moscow including . irish tennis rush either win which would all but ensure dick alcatraz charges on automatic qualifying spots at next year's european football championships. court dates on the sea a cover a chunk of that makes it into only her second ever grand slam quarter final

a meeting with serena williams now awaits in new york. and causing a splash russian are chimps still chained claims the highest score in competition history on the way to winning the final world series cliff diving events of this season. let's start with football where a crowd of seventy thousand fans are set to watch russia on the republic of ireland go for broke in moscow tonight victory for the home side would go a large way to ensuring russia qualify for their third straight european championships a few notable absentee so from take out the cat squad first choice goalkeeper eager i can feel misses the clash after picking up an injury in a recent club game the side central midfield a rock that is eager at the niece of he's also why through suspension but a plethora of big names are on board including former chelsea when you reach your cough arsenal's andre are shaaban russia currently set two points ahead of ours and

i'm still talking about a dozen men whose glue for ireland even when they go under twenty one thousand. two hundred percent always difficult to play against but we've been through can also run tried to do what we did there as well. and the. irish are coming off an ill draw against slovakia at the weekend visitors and to securing a tough in contrast pollution the stadium where defeat could bring their qualifying hopes to an end arlen's with a fully fit squad to choose from all those sports like moscow man even mcgeady is still struggling with an i.q. injury. groupy slovakia could move to joint top of the table when they host armenia in leena the armenians ansel's though haven't given up on the play off routes while macedonia host pointless and. r.t.e. also caught up with arlen dangerman mcgeady we asked the winger if he was looking forward to having an international cup in russia on the same pitch where the former

celtic monarch is this trade. of course especially when it is where one can sort is about behaving. of course of the group. but whether. russell slower. or you know international smiles and you know everyone should be. told what was off the park so. go someone for to tell us now where the quarterfinals of this year's us open will feature a perv russians could see it isn't all of them after being ousted by world number one coraline was near me because it's over looked to be midway through the class set leading for one in the second but was the r.p. isn't the world's best for nothing that day who had suffered back to back opening round defeats in toronto and cincinnati right before the event showing her mettle not to mention fitness to take a second on the time let's see. but the odds

weren't in alice to see a public chunk of those favor when she took on francesca schiavone in the last sixteen russian losing to the italian veteran in their previous three grand slam meetings choice your all those pulling in that right on a five seven six three six four scoreline so. probably not the sole russian levy's with a chance to take the title it's. public record with next hurdle through the williams is looking very very good on a evanovich only able to stay in the game against the overall favorite losing three six four twenty nine you all saw off probably in three sets in there previously only career. novak djokovic who sort of a charge made grand slam history by setting up a clash with one another it is the first time in the open era that two serbs will face off in the quarterfinals of a nature joke which briefly cts off guard in the u.k.

set of his last sixteen encounter against the on. aleksandr will pull off world number one recruits however it was smooth sailing from the second set on a seven six six four six two out of the twenty four year old a two zero lead over upcoming food sort of h. in head to head meeting this. roger federer will be sleeping in this morning after his much a one man i only started at midnight new york time the fed express in no mood to wait around dominating the argentine six one six two six games to love. to wilfrid some good meanwhile halted surging local fun favorite mardy fish in an epic five setter that twenty six will seizing the initiative early on by saving three points in the you know which took the next two sets before a frantic rally by the frenchman celio kim song. six four six seven three six six

four six two. russia have finished top of their group out the european basketball championships in lithuania the two thousand and seven winners making it five from five in the preliminary stage their latest success a one point win over previously unbeaten sabine year on monday david plotz men starting their sixty five sixty four victory courtesy of a certain one is shot right the buzzer was they were through to the second stage. let's talk call for it webb simpson completed an amazing rally to take the second event of the p.g.a. fed ex cup playoffs that tocchet by championship the american securing his second win on the p.g.a. tour by edging reading to play off a windy day at t.p.c. boston but that's did not stop simpson from enjoying some smooth sailing and once for this birdie only firing up the twenty six year old really had a bogey resulting in the extra hole with both birdie do it again but meant to move

the seventeenth when really misfired on a birdie putts. allowing simpson to close out the tournament since and pocketing some one point four million dollars bill to becomes number one in the fed ex cup stop giving him a clear shot up its ten million dollars bike. with lennox where the russian national team of arrived back home from their most successful world championships ever those same competitors though already looking towards the future with the contents of the twenty thirteen world finals which will take place in moscow no underway the russian athletes with plenty of added on luggage coming back from asia having to nine go for silver and six bronze medals but hold good enough to in second place behind the united states and finish with a dozen girls. try finally the cliff diving season has ended with the red bull world series gruhn finale in place and ukraine russia's arch him still chunka wrapping up his campaign in some style notching up his soul stage for three of the

year with the highest score ever in the sport's history. gerberas seat to this world feelings that's why the sports news tejas can petition the red blue world series keeps thrilling all across the planet to discover new locations because they're taking events for the final stage of the season thirteen my players made their way to the swells near the castle one of ukraine's main places of interest only pretty sure of the black sea. and the bowing their men gary who entered the event as the newly crowned champion for stage wins in a row seeing the briton retain his world juggled two weeks ago in boston and the man who sits second in the world standings russia still we've been over there doing

siege and was looking to claim their first event when it was the. the lead up to the first three rounds of the can petition. execution putting the burnished native ahead of puns and then to the ones the top six now left to do battle in the shadow of the castle grill and return to once again unleashing he's a seen the pack the so-called triple quad although it was still the show at sunday's event demonstrating one of the hardest dives this sport has ever seen it become stand a good blend and treat the russian entering the water with his head held high the outcome clear before the judges had even showed their scores at first took place to podium finish of the season with a twenty seven year old and fourth of his career i ever turned out to be more than just a win suit claiming the high still to score become petition has ever seen better

sort of place not my first win but it's definitely the most precious one for me i'm second in the overall standings but here i've proved to be detached and it's a very happy moment for me while i was. preparing for my dives it was kind of strange knowing that the pressure of the series was off everyone else is fighting for places and and i was just taken as an individual competition after winning the first two stages this year nine time world champion harlan the good kid who was forced to leave the competition due to injury but he's now recovered meaning with twenty twelve season he's gearing up to be one of the most thrilling on record. the workweek diving series twenty eleven have just come to announce with all the best efforts of the sport even taking their own arse but the point is that each of those take one in this and this will rising competition can

be safely called an outstanding sportsman over a thousand on r.t. crane. really fascinating shots there a lot is the sport for now. is back in two hours' time with more and i'll say goodbye.

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