international support for your problems committed by both the colonel's loyalists and rebels urging the new leadership to restore order and security. also this hour germany attempts to calm fears over greece's potential default by urging members of the euro zone to stick together the stormy skies are looming over europe as debt stricken italy turns to the orient for help. i'll be back with more developments more stories for you in less than fifteen minutes from now the meantime the uprisings that turned the arab world into an ever turbulent place have also put thousands of guns into the hands of civilians as new leaders struggle to restore security and safety in the country's concern grows at the circulation of weapons could pose further threats to the population has been speaking to a former u.n. expert on how the challenging task of disarming civilians could work 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 get them back it's about to recall the most of the guns that were looted albania in the nine hundred ninety s. are still missing. in the hands of criminals as much as in the hands of terrorists . start off by being legally married legally sold with at some point the guns that cause the problems and. in the case of libya the concerns as you know that

a lot of the rebels were until fairly recently also regarded as being in the with al qaida in some cases so there are some orders to what they might do with. you know going to station called to call courage or the market which is always taking an interest in what happens in libya and once you get support for the revolution of any sort. of control of some of the individuals within it now prior to the uprising russia was one of the main suppliers of this 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 moral record to the west to the east and just not all for the 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

out so 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 whatever reason to support the libyan uprising even though the same countries did go to the security council and get a resolution which in part 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 contraceptive reaction to talking about apart from russia who was supplying weapons to get out i think most countries most many countries as i mean i know for example a shipment of pistols from barrettes are in the city because it went through multi they made a mistake in the paperwork and it was worth nine million euros i mean there's 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 and they were sold radar and this kind of thing high tech kits to the regime so yes there's been a whole range of supplies from needy all the usual suspects if you like now also what sort of want to just be talking about and how dangerous it is and your perspective the problem with the straight world why does it every year we make more guns that are destroyed every year the total number of weapons on the planet is increasing. quite significantly i know you are i think there are probably something like ten times more guns a maiden or destroyed every year because united nations doesn't like asians and culprits trying to get guns out of circulation by buybacks by procedures various. grams but they're not be followed by the power that everyone still makes comes out i will always been 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 based very fancy i don't fall right the young and so it's almost like having an i pod find american teenager and every young person wants to have it his own kalashnikov and i wondering whether you can really talk about any serious fight against arms trafficking when you have a cultural 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 a sort of the company must have been you know and there's a i will know most of the union saying i'm told to go home without a gun which you know if there's the problem certainly for a young man i mean one of the problems that up. with the child soldiers with all of those but you know 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 a gun and they haven't 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 by imposing minimum standards and there is a conference in new york next year to ten years of discussions on the north 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 true if you have problems there was a famous. byzantine clergyman called said to go to the new onset of gold give me chastity but not you know it's going to go up and feel the same way but they need to control the home straight but they don't. want to put want to control their own their own business now regardless of what you're saying about get off this

track record rather than here in support of human are they have to admit that prior to this uprising lead there was a sort of an island of stability and they're relatively good live in africa which is a pretty turbulent continent. everything that is happening there and if all that flood of what kind it's flowing around what sort of implications it could have for the arab rest of the region it has implications certainly for the magreb because it's at 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 choosing this over and on the basis of weapons you get from this turmoil in libya yes i agree with you one of the troubles is that. you knew where you could have a society where the gun is king if you have as if it's vigils with respect to the rule of law so the four we have to have trust you know police forces there's never enough police for them to control

a population by force so we have to be policed by consent. countries which policed by consent generally speaking have a less gun crime come for us which are about which i'm up so pleased but it's also true that we have a harsh 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 because they don't have any trust in someone else looking after them they don't trust the police to them to them and that's where the problem starts so unless the libyan transitional national council can very quickly establish a trusted. impartial independent police force and that because main cities particularly there will be a temptation on people to keep guns for their own defense when the means is a temptation to use a gun for something which you shouldn't be used what sort of measures do you think

believe that torch has daily been to three inches taken out here decreases the. percentage of guns but then the population i mean maybe buying them out there or offering some sort of surrender campaign or find buying guns back is a city that says there's no good i mean i've been bold and several sort of buy about complaints but they're not just credited when there's one occasion i was working i want to browse a hole in the congo congo ghost twenty years ago and i forget the price but we were paying seventy five dollars shopping. when the problems on the other side of the congo river you could buy the fifty books so people were actually bringing guns for the country became a sort of business because a business this is sort of the get the bounty so they've been tried different ways around this by saying well as a community as a child there was a bit of age if you could as a weapon sort of for us we'll build you when you shelter or you put station on 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 people tend to think when kosovo just failed totally it was a very very expensive campaign and that was it was embarrassing you know and everyone looked like a look at it like an idiot in the end it's it was easier not to get guns out of circulation but to control a nomination because i'm going to sion is happy it's bulky and you can have more success and there's no point having a gun if you're going i'm going to so many ways to try to i mean this and there's the key to controlling lawson's weapons if they can get out of a notion of the dumb gun there's no going to them now i have another question i'm not sure whether you can comment on that but if it's just my personal observation. this uprising began back in march it was primarily driven by they say young people like teenagers and young men in the twenty's who went to the frontlines almost for the fun of it but the pictures right now i'm getting from tripoli show very

different sort of troubles there is a middle aged man who seem to be a far more professional than they're handling the warmest. how did that shift happen i think first of all you know i mean i'm on the ground for the main. 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 go 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 the recent allegations or theories that some countries may be. illegally selling arms to rebel us i know that the french have admitted dropping weapons to some rebel groups southwest of separately which is on the face but it's

a breach of the security council resolution which one can only pull. when a permanent member of the security council goes wrong frothing resolution they vote for i think it's a very proud show but you know real the real world is sometimes not a last place to be in. a british foreign secretary back and he century said that 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 at the time but yes it's about thing when the united nations system is not for. it and for its and i want to warehouse paintings by going to spread to the nothing else which is the best system we have and i think it's very unfortunate what a member state of the security council then ignores the resolutions they voted for us. thank you very much pleasure.

a missile defense pact that will now formally authorize the deployment of u.s. missile interceptors. in may washington and. libyan transitional forces have given residents of the. two days to leave. international crimes committed by both the. rebels. to restore order and security. to the. allegations they were providing health officials. and also reporting the. potential. members of the eurozone to stick

together. for the moment on those developments and other stories in fifteen minutes he was going on in the world of sport with. thanks for joining us 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 brownstein crown of the season a new york city. on the ice to postpone 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 the on the way with in chechnya. but let's begin our flushing meadows where novak djokovic chose 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 and then tell a different story this time around though the spaniard managing to break djokovic in the opening game but it was one of his few highlights to serve maintaining a stunning level of quality throughout the first six season final topsy joke of its taking the open 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 establishing a commanding five one lead but twenty four year old finishing off managed with a poor winner down the line to claim his fourth round slam crawlin. six two six four six seven six two on the final score. joker quite simply on top of this do you. think champion. you when you play when you play that well you're must enjoy i mean you must bring your smile in your face because it's all going well it's all going on your side so. you're focused you're trying to take one foot out of time. and winning so yeah i'm going to have more fun now you know the matches over. here in this sort of races in the past. now. never. you know what i've already.

knowing that i'm on the way. some student meanwhile has already been celebrating her women's singles title that first grand slam trophy of her career the silverware on sunday courtesy of a shop window with three time champion serena with. its back to new a fifth champion's league season gets going tonight one of two sides involved in european football's premier club competition is an eight there in cyprus to face up well that russian visitors favorites to take the win against the team regarded as the middle of the group but they need to ensure that clash having lost their first to miss the game in almost four months off the weekend. will also have to do with. in the cypriot capital the russian international after breaking a bone in his foot. also in the same group porto shakhtar donetsk chelsea will be aiming to get off to

a winning start at home to leverkusen. will fancy their chances in the other group the group efflux wide open hosting arsenal. facing more say this time the match of the day go on doggedly taking place in group h. where. champions barcelona. two bottle while underdogs victoria pleasant. will be hoping they aren't just there to make up the numbers in the same group. to the russian game no week twenty three wrapped up on monday with a single match up the in-form beating at two on in the chechen capital grozny less seen it true re-opening the visitors are calling twenty eight minutes in converting from the spot but this time it was a judge who is being felt in the area turco level modish four minutes later. allowed to much space to convert the pain point for. the break but were not to be

denied the winner coming from montreal ray in the fifty third minute a costly miscue from the turk defender the ivory and make no mistake the us consolidate its spot in the table. rashad maintain their one hundred percent record after european championships david blatt side seeing off donia in their last group stage game in a few mania typed in country on the night with russia winning by single baskets captain sure gave 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 final. let's turn our attention to the n.f.l. now where brave each turned in an all inspiring performance in monday's opening clash the two time super bowl m.v.p. throwing for four touched on to help his new england patriots see off miami in their first match of the season the teams tied at seven

a piece in the second one really got caught finding titan rob gronkowski the quarterback showing at least signal calling skills in the third as well really changing the play on the line a long way as well for her to get open for it touched on that made it twenty one fourteen the two connected again with brady locked in his own end zone welker time . the n.f.l. record by taking about pos a full ninety nine yards for a touched on one for the thirty year old highlight reel about the dolphins did pull one bucket reggie bush called a touched on postulates in the fourth but had mothered little thirty eight twenty four the final search for anyone. 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 kosky from time the n.f.l. taking record sixty four yard beltre darren mcfadden figured heavily in denver's

defensive game plan but still find time to go wild defensively to broncos start one of my baby injuring his calm string while making this offer meaning quarterback jason campbell that sneaking to the ends of unsecure at twenty three twenty two the raiders are. one of baseball's all time great sluggers has been hit with buffery charges after a domestic dispute with his wife the retired money ramirez arrested after an incident in his miami home ramires his wife juliana find with swelling on her face on a small groups on the back of her head exploding that fell to the police what two thousand and four world series m.v.p. ramírez he denies the assault stating in states where wife put her head by accident when they were arguing that dominican republic native retired from baseball april after testing positive for performance and unsafe drugs. and finally the fourth kontinental hockey league season has gotten on the way the initial faceoff postponed following last week's tragic car crash which so all of the luck if you

die a disaster of epic proportions but the sport must go on robert for dion watch saskia tico new boys ukra on day one. this is the toughest chance the young league has ever had to live through that and through this four season in death. players remembered in some way or tribute to their friends at the community theater slowly who were killed in a plane crash last wednesday and brief oleksandr played for 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. here a man led by their new coach should get off to

a first and furious start. just two minutes into the game. produced a mussar piece move to open the scoring one. you grew up pushed forward some good chances to level but it was the hosts he scored again. questioning here to give cisco a two nil lead seconds from the first intermission cisco didn't losing their grip in the second period sedition netting the third late in a powerplay three nil he certainly looking like a wipe out for you graf. over the visitors didn't give up a couple of ball play gills brought them back into the game three two. over it wasn't enough to change the outcome and sis guster the new season with a win. with both sides clearly playing in the name of their brothers in hockey will

never touch the ice again. course. the sun the sun the fog so to them all the time thinking about it. every day and the sun for us our lives the best way to honor and to. solicit to enjoy the game especially in the trunk of a step closer. to mine and i know the way to be. taught about the game love the game play is to love every single day of eternity in a way i can honestly say so please to be. proud of what i'm doing and enjoy the game as much as he does so he did and. yes mr. try to get. over it but in your own

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us and romania sign a missile defense pact. the agreement will formally authorize the deployment of american ballistic missile interceptors on the romanian soil i'll be back with more on washington in just a few moments. libyan rebels continue attack the few remaining strongholds of colonel gadhafi under a shield of nato air strikes the country's transitional forces are given residents of the seas there is two days to leave before threatened. the stormy seas in europe over a shaky economy germany attempts to calm fears over greece's potential default by urging members of the eurozone to stick together as this and he turns to be or answer to help our top stories this hour and business international stock markets the spikes in europe's debt problems i'll have more on that.