help. help risings the time the arab world into an avatar beat into place have also put thousands of guns into the hands of civilians and as the new leaders struggle to restore security and safety in their countries concern grows the circulation of weapons could pose a threat to the population spoke to a former u.n. expert on how the challenging talls of disarming civilians could walk out. with all the talk about diplomacy and humanity the power of the gun still remains the primary means of solving international conflicts to discuss the current state of arms trade and arms trafficking we're now joined by the former u.n. expert on those issues brian johnson thomas thank you very much sir for being with us today let's start with libya and in the beginning of the uprising of the revolution whatever you call it there were concerns that those weapons may fall into the hands of terrorists has already happened in your view well of course it

has because it's easier for guns to leave an arsenal and to go. it's about to recalled the most of the guns that were looted albania in the nine hundred ninety just still missing. in the hands of criminals as much as in the hands of terrorists . start off by being legally married and legally sold but at some point the guns the cultural problems and being diverted and the case of libya the concerns as you know a lot of the rebels were until fairly recently also we go that is being in the with al qaida in some cases so there's some more use to what they might do with. you know when i was called to call carriage of the market which is always taking an interest in what happens in libya and once you get support for the revolution of any sort you tend to lose control of some of the individuals within it now prior to the uprising russia was one of the main suppliers of us to libya. but as far as i

know it was not the only one and some of the countries that are now waging a campaign and military campaign against colonel gaddafi are also supplying weapons to his regime quite openly yes because it's interesting isn't it that if you look at the the moral record to the west of these things is not awfully good we seem to him to be. iraq and libya because they've got something we want i don't see anyone having any great desire to go and invade syria and disperse the president also maybe he's got nothing nobody wants so i think that's where the real politic comes into play but yes there was a decision taken for whatever reason to support the libyan uprising even though the same countries did go to the security council and get a resolution which in parts imposed an arms about you they then went a long long way beyond those terms of reference you could argue the bombing

campaign itself was pushing the envelope so what contraception he actually talking about apart from russia who was supplying weapons to all get out i think most countries most many countries as i mean i know for example a shipment of pistols from brass are in italy because it went through most they made a mistake in the paperwork when it was worth nine million euros when you go declare it is not a million euros so there was a huge sort of product about it but they were described i think a sporting weapons what you will sport you do with a pistol but anyway so we know even the italians have been involved certainly the british up sold military systems i don't know whether it was weapons of search and they were sold radar and this kind of thing high tech kits to the regime so yes as with the whole range of supplies from needy all the usual suspects if you know right now oh what sort of want to just be talking about and how dangerous it is in your perspective the program with the straight world why does it every year we

make more guns that are destroyed so every year the total number of weapons on the planet is increasing. quite significantly i don't think there are probably something like ten times more guns are made than are destroyed every year because you got to nations that are like asians and culprits trying to get guns out of circulation by buybacks by various pro. grams but they're not they followed by the poet who also makes combs but i was always being struck by how cheap guns are to make them so so now one thing i noticed when i was in march and the ghaziabad. sort of become they seem very fancy i don't for a day young and so it's almost like having an i pod find american teenager and every other person wants to have it his own kalashnikov i'm now wondering whether you can really talk about any serious fight against arms trafficking when you have

a culture of young people really thinking that having a kalashnikov is really what makes them cool and she this is a problem in so i mean there's i was involved some time ago in the sort of the company most of whom you know and there's a i will know most of the union saying i'm too old to go without the gun which illustrates the problem certainly for a young man i mean one of the problems that are. with the child soldiers with all of them has been it's actually more fun to be a soldier with a gun because you couldn't take what you want whether it's food or the woman you just take it because you've got to go to their homes and it's awfully hard to get these young men up through the decades of war some to come back into civilian life so it's a real problem i mean there are international markets to try and establish what you might call a better organization for the arms trade by imposing minimum standards there is a conference in new york next year to ten years of discussions on and off which will try and organize an arm straight treaty i'm one of the problems at the moment

is that while everyone agree that almost free treat is a good idea to have some control of the home straight it's what goes in the treaty which is creating the problems there was a famous. byzantine clergyman called said to go to the new one said oh god give me chastity but not you know it's going to go up and feel the same way but they need to control the whole strait but they don't. want to put too many controls on their own their own business now regardless of what you're saying about get off this track record rather than here support him and not they have to admit that prior to this uprising lead there was a sort of an island of stability and their relatively good live in africa reaches a pretty turbulent continent. with everything that is happening there and with all that flood of. flowing around what sort of implications that could have for the arab rest of the region it has implications certainly for the magreb because it's

least in terms of criminals they tend not to stay within borders so you know if you tease you to organize a bank robbery in shoot this or in car or on the basis of weapons you get from this turmoil in libya yes i agree with you one of the troubles is that. the only way you could have a society with a gun is. if you have as if it's vigils with respect to the rule of law so therefore we have to have trust you know police forces there's never enough policeman to control a population by force so we have to be policed by consent. countries which policed by consent generally speaking have less gun crime come for us which are about which policed but it's also true that where you have a hard regime the same thing happens but you tend to find the majority of gun crimes half of not because. people who want to hold an illegal

weapon but because they don't have any trust in someone else looking after them they don't trust the police to the power to them and that's where the problem starts so and that's the libyan transitional national council can very quickly establish a trusted. impartial independent police force in there because main cities particularly there will be a temptation on people to keep going. splitter and defense from the marines is a temptation to use a gun for something which you shouldn't be used what sort of measures do you think you believed i thought has been a really been authorities could take an audience here decreases the. percentage of guns but then the population i mean maybe buying them out there or offering some sort of surrender campaign you find by guns by a city that says there's not a good i mean i've been bold and several sort of buy about campaigns for guns one hundred now discredited when there was one occasion i was working in one ambrose of a hole and the congo going to go twenty years ago and i forget the price

but we were paying seventy five dollars shall we say you go well the problem will be the start of the congo river you could buy the fifty books so people are actually bringing guns for the country became a sort of business because a business this is going to them and get the bounty so they then tried different ways around this by saying well as a community as a child there was a bit of age if you could i was away from sort of the forests we'll build you when you shelter or you put station and stuff like that so that seems to work better in some ways i have to say that the problem of getting weapons out of circulation is much more difficult than people tend to think when in kosovo it just felt totally it was a very very expensive company you know it was it was embarrassing to have everyone look like a look at it like maybe if you can do it it is easier not to get guns out of circulation but to control a nomination because i'm going to shoot is happy it's bulky and you can have more success and there's no point having

a gun to go and i mean so many ways to sort of i mean this and there's the key to controlling lawson's weapons if they can get i mean action of the i'm going to is not going to them now i have another question i'm not sure whether you can comment on that by the if it's just my personal observation when the surprising began back in march it was primarily driven by base young people like teenagers a young man in that twenty's while. to the frontlines almost for the fun of it but the pictures we are now getting from tripoli show very different sort of troubles there is a middle aged man who seem to be a far more professional than their handling of boris. how did that shift happen i think first of all you know i mean on the ground for this i mean. sort of watch myself growing old and when you're young you think you're immortal i think what has happened is the revolution has become let's go to the stage where it looks like being successful when you get about what i think all of the people who are in

civilian clothes of the middle age i would guess this is a good officer. of the windows were going to. find i have a question regarding their recent allegations or theories that some countries may be. illegally selling. i know the french have admitted dropping weapons to some rebel groups opposed to accept which is on the face but it's a breach of the security council resolution which one can only deep hole. when a permanent member of the security council goes wrong crossing the resolution they vote for i think it's a very bad show but you know real the real world is sometimes not so last place to be in. a british foreign secretary back in the century said the once the person has no permanent friends and you couldn't interests i think that's true of every country is true of russia it is true of us the truth americans and the french so

people will look to their interests as they see them all the time but yes it's about thing when the united nations system is not for. it and for its own what a word has paintings by going to specter that nothing else which is the best system we have and i think it's very unfortunate what a member state of the security council of then ignore the resolution which they voted for yes. thank you very much pleasure.

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libyan rebels attack the few remaining strongholds of moammar gadhafi under a shield of nato and strikes that have this amnesty international report on crimes committed by colonels loyalists and the opposition. leadership to restore order and security. ukraine question the legality of tools to the nuclear disaster sites in chernobyl i made allegations they were providing on healthy profits to officials but experts say they contaminated land by just a place in new industrial projects. germany attempts to calm fears a bit greece's potential default by urging members of the year is going to stick together with the stormy skies and moving out of the european debt stricken people to the orient help. and he joins me for more on those stories about fifteen minutes time but into sports with the union he's here now to gather the serbian sensation

he just continues to be does that he doesn't you're so right tell you what i was this time last year i kind of remember sitting here speaking about rafael nadal who can stop in well i tell you what novak djokovic is just one his third grand slam title we're going to have a look at how he did it in just the second. thanks for joining us and this is sports that we've got plenty ahead in all this. no joke novak djokovic proves once again why he's top of the men's tennis three pitching his third brown slam crown of the season in new york city. on the ice the postponed called the hockey league season begins five days after its scheduled kickoff following last week's deadly are crushed in your sleep.

and yellow pearls could make further inroads into the top half of the russian premier league table with on the way wins in chechnya. but let's begin our flushing meadows where novak djokovic has had a long weekend to remember the serb becoming only the sixth man ever to win three of the foreground slams on offer in the same year beating rafael nadal in the final of the u.s. open for the fourth straight time the men's final was rain delayed to until monday in new york it was a repeat of last year's decider one then by the doll a different story this time around though the spine you're managing to break djokovic in the opening game but was one of his few highlights the serve maintaining a stunning level of quality throughout the first six straight season final topsy joke about sticking the couple of sets six two six four before rafa fall back in the third forcing a tie break to eventually secure the set but djokovic should return to winning ways

in the fourth to stop wishing a commanding five one lead the twenty four year old finishing off managed with a poor winner down the line to claim his fourth career grand slam crawl in a six two six four six seven six one the final score. joker quite simply on top of this. when you play when you play that well you are you you must enjoy i mean you must be nice bring your smile in your face because you know it's it's all going well it's all going for on your side so. but you're focused you're trying to take one foot out of time and it's and winning again so yeah i'm going to have more fun now when you know the mentions or big brother to be here in this so faces in the past is not going to say children. now especially because he's doing better than never but you know what they've all got

a problem with. knowing that i'm on the way. some stores are meanwhile has already been celebrating her women's singles title the first trophy of her career the silverware on sunday courtesy of a shop window with three time champion. it's. a champions league football season gets going tonight's one of russia's two sides unfold in european football's premier club competitions and eight in cyprus to face up to well their russian visitors favorite to take the win against a team regarded as the minnows all group but the need to enter the clash having lost their first domestic game in almost four months the weekend. will also have to do with our talisman in the cypriot capital the russian international after breaking a bone in its fights. also in the same group or two who shot toward the nets

chelsea will be aiming to get off to winning start at home to fire leverkusen while both sing on valencia will funky their chances in the group e. in group f. looks wide open with. arsenal. facing more say. the much of the day go on doggedly taking place in group h. where reaming champions barcelona. with the law while underdogs victoria pleasant. will be hoping just there to me the numbers in this ng. to the russian game we go were week twenty three wrapped up on monday with a single match up the in-form. two on in the chechen capital grozny. opening the visitors' account twenty eight minutes in converting from the spot after. was adjudged to be felt in the. level.

of four minutes later should say actually turkey levelled modish. daughter to space for the painful process. in this war going enough to break the butts on where to be denied the winner coming from that month for worry in the fifty third minute so costly miscue on knots the result. rashad maintain their one hundred percent record of the european championships david blount sightseeing off must donia in their last group stage game in the few mania tight in country on the night with russia winning by single baskets captain money is three pointer making a difference right off the buzzer so it's not to the knockout stages where serbia await the russians in thursday's quarter finals. ok let's turn to the n.f.l. know where tom brady turned in an all inspiring performance in monday's opening clash the two time super bowl m.v.p. touching for four touchdowns to help his new england patriots see off miami in their first match of the season that teams tied at seven apiece in the second when

brady got hot spine and tight end rob gronkowski the quarterback showing elite signal calling skills in the third as well really changing the play at the line along the way as well for her to get open for a touchdown on the twenty one would be the two connected again with pretty locked in his own end zone welker tying the n.f.l. record by taking the haas a full ninety nine yards for a touchdown but incredible one for the thirty year olds we knew the dolphins did pull one back as reggie bush called a touchdown possibly in the fourth but it mattered little thirty eight twenty four with. the incidents or anyway. that raiders also proving capable road warriors beating denver at mile high marcel restating the party started a long distance effort after the jump for the visitors but it didn't stop sebastian junger a close key from tying the n.f.l. second record sixty four yard beltre darren mcfadden figured heavily in denver's

defense of game time but still find time to go wild defensively to broncos star champ bailey. injuring his home string while making this stop meaning quarterback jason campbell that's sneaking into the engine and security twenty three twenty to the raiders. one of baseball's all time great sluggers has been hit with battery charges after a domestic dispute with his wife the retired money ramirez arrested after an incident in his miami home ramires his wife juliana fine with swelling on her face on a small bruise on the back of her head according to the police report two thousand and four world series m.v.p. ramirez he denies the assault stating in states wife hit her head by accident when they were arguing they dominican republic native retired from baseball april after testing positive for performance and saying drugs. and finally the fourth kontinental hockey league season has gotten on the way the initial faceoff

postponed following last week's tragic crash which saw all of the lucky. die a disaster of epic proportions but the sport must go on robert for dion watch c.s.k. take on you boys ukra on day one. this is the toughest time the young league has ever had to live through the gates and through this four season. players who remembered tribute to their friends at looking like the future slightly more killed in a plane crash last wednesday and briefly. had forth to survive in hospital but best to wait on monday morning. it was sisko and your brother who opened the season in the russian capital. a man led by their new coach. got

off to thurston furious start. just two minutes into the game. produced a mussar piece move to open the scoring one nil. you grew up pushed forward with some good chances to level but it was the host who scored again. the question here to give it to nil it seconds from the first intermission sisko didn't lose their grip in the second period. of netting the third late in a powerplay three nil he's certainly looking like a wipe out for your grub. however the visitors didn't give up a couple of ball played bills brought them back into the game three to fly over it wasn't enough to change the outcome and cis custer the new season with a win. with both sides clearly playing in the name of their brothers in hulky will

never touch the ice again. most of us who have lost close to. lost friends in. the. course of. the sun the sun the thoughts to them all the time thinking about it. every day in the sun for the rest of life. best way to try. to do it serves to turn toward a game especially when i think about stefan so does mine i know the way the. part about the game love the game love to play to love every single day of it and in a way i can honestly say is at least to be. proud of what i'm doing and enjoy the game as much as he does he did and. yes first of all on. we will try to get. robert virginia on our

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rebels continued to attack the few remaining strongholds of the shield of nato air strikes found as honest international news in place of killings and human rights abuses. dead saying for tourists all foreign teams in ukraine debate whether trips to the contaminated area around chernobyl should be resumed amid allegations they were providing officials with on the hunt profits. stormy seas in europe over it shaky economy germany attempts to calm fears of the greece's potential to fold members of the year is aimed to stick together exactly to the aryans for help. and then prisoners' international stock markets bounce back this far into europe is that problems but also markets and in the tread and such and the black i'll have more on that in business in twenty minutes.