we're watching out in the headlines for you now a record number of egyptians turned up to cast their votes in the country's first parliamentary elections since the fall of president mubarak comes after ten days of tension and violence that's claimed only twenty lives. a u.n. report accuses the syrian regime of human rights violations but inspectors were refused access to the country using only eyewitness accounts as evidence comes as a massive source says economic sanctions from the arab league. and eastern control. ministers are set to meet over the spiraling debt crisis and

china's influence on europe's economies is growing fast. but with the arab world spending most of this year in turmoil heartiness talks to the director of the transform center for conflict analysis who believes despite the carnage in syria and the turbulent run up to egypt's first democratic elections the signs for the region are still positive. i'm joined by the coal executive director of the transformer center for conflict analysis based in berlin asked me at dr what are we thank you very much for joining me talking about egypt. is long gone but the protests are continuing the violence is continuing but at the moment there is still no condemnation from the west whilst there is a very different approach when it comes to syria and libya for example first of all the mubarak is gone but the regime still the and this explains why the

demonstrations. and the. satisfaction continue the supreme council of the forces there are very wary of elections happening now because they see a alliance that is taking shape between the muslim brotherhood some remnants of the old regime and the supreme council of the armed forces and they're very worried that elections are held now the results of the election would be a victory for this coalition and for that would mean that the revolution would be hijacked the worst i believe understands the complexity of the situation is reactions are very sensitive about any intervention or interference in the from abroad and i think the west especially the united states have learned the lesson of not intervening to prematurely taking one side against the other there is now

a level playing field in egypt the supreme council of the armed forces they have the power of the state behind them the people in. the power of the people behind them it's a very complex situation because. neither the supreme council of the armed forces all the people. homogenized unified. social forces the muslim brotherhood it is an islamist oriented organization and we have cases now in morocco in tunisia or other islamist oriented organizations came to power what does this mean for the west and how me react if this tendency continues and spreads over to egypt also there is a trend of sunni islamic. revival in the region what does this mean for the worst. of course.

regardless of whether it will be islamic government of not in these countries. the new leaders will not be as. close to the west as the old leaders. of the mubarak's and the bin are leads and the good news this is. don't forget that for example if you speak about islamic terrorism one of the reasons that people cite for the rise of islamic terrorism is the suppression of islamist politicians in these countries so when these politicians get involved in politics when they start playing the political game they will be a match for the worst in the sense that there will be lots of challenges they will definitely take a firmer stand when it comes to something look israeli palestinian conflict they would not accept. western interference in domestic affairs but other

than that it can be. a friendly mutually beneficial relationship if the west accepts the choices the people will make in free and democratic elections which is the only thing that the west should do actually mubarak's regime is gone. in egypt that i think switching is going on in libya however president assad's regime is still there in syria despite the melting international pressure there is the arab league now which is imposed this set of sanctions how do you see the situation developing there in syria. syria is even more complex than the case of egypt or tunisia or even libya syria sits in a very complex web of alliances in the region. relationship with iran.

hezbollah. with turkey with the rest of the arab countries with iraq it's almost impossible to envisage the continuation of the regime in syria. as it used to i don't think that it can never be a return to the status quo ante in syria after the recent demonstrations. how will the regime change whether it will be a total collapse of the regime will be a partial transformation of the region. it's still unclear what is clear to me is that the more the violence continues the more we reach a point of no to a far as the regimes. if the situation in syria gets more and more violent and more and more bloodshed is built i don't see how the regime could survive for much longer but at the same time i don't see exactly the way by

which this regime will fall. it's still too early to say but it looks more and more likely that we are heading for a long. possibly violent struggle in syria how big are the chances of. military intervention we're still so far away from such a scenario. libya and syria are two completely different stories when it comes to the feasibility of a military intervention as i said. gadhafi had no real friends. syria. we have usually been serious still has a lot of very powerful friends in the region. also the nature of the way in syria with libya are so different in libya talking about

a very large country with very. sparse population density of the population in libya i think is three or four persons per one square kilometer or syria it's probably a thousand person per square and the military intervention in the way happened in libya would be disastrous as far as civilian casualties are. and it's also not clear whether the west is in a mood to intervene militarily in syria in the same way in. libya. but again. one wouldn't to rule out completely such a scenario especially if the cost benefit analysis shows that without the military intervention more and more civilians would be killed by the regime or that the country would slide into

a violent and bloody civil war there have already been cases of sectarian violence in syria hell be that the chances of the country sliding into a sectarian rift this is this is a major fear for the syrian people and they look at iraq and they say we don't want to repeat in syria what we've seen happening in iraq before so it is of course a measure of risk that. whole country slide into a civil war that will have a six aspect to it. let's just hope that this doesn't turn out to be the case it could possibly be the case. especially again as i said the violence continues it gets to a point of no return there's so much anger violence could be six on dynamics let's hope that it doesn't get to the and somehow before things get to this point of moving and something would happen to allow this regime.

grow while saving its face some which i guess is is very is a very important point as far as the culture of the character of syrians and majority of arabs is concerned saving face is very important there is no clear leader in the west approach on syria at the moment the united states is overstretched so i don't think that the united states would be ready to play that kind of role in syria if such were all. will ever be needed france the old imperial power may want to take the lead but probably that would be totally not more than that. turkey of course can play a major role but it is not possible to imagine the turkey would have its own military intervention in syria without the support of the west and

turkey has no interest in doing that so that's another complication facing the whole scenario of military intervention iran a very powerful stable player it's not been slapped by another set of sanctions but who do the talking i don't think that iran is that strong as the west thinks it is . jeem. the legitimacy of the b.g. . is being awarded. the sanctions it is not clear to me how effective the sanctions will be. probably targeting the top layers of the regime. intended to dissuade iran from developing a nuclear weapon. but many voices which are saying maybe we need to. accepting the fact that iran will be

a nuclear power at one point and we just have to live with it and of course fears coming from israel because of the rhetoric of medina. and of course this fear is justified but on the other hand iran. is a state with. institutions it is not a country that is dominated by just one madman and this is just the. way of. looking at it but of course the rhetoric over it is not helping but at the end of the. complex. scenario and i think that the sanctions. will probably not be effective in terms of changing durand's policy in case iran really has a policy to acquire a nuclear weapon. magine

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technology updated. the diversity of this land on limited. cold. arctic circle r.t. . a record number of egyptians turned up to cost their votes in the country's first parliamentary elections since the fall of president mubarak comes after ten days of tension and violence that's claimed more than two lives. a un report accuses the syrian regime of human rights violations that inspectors were refused access to the country using only eyewitness accounts as evidence comes as damascus also faces new economic sanctions from the view and arab league. east to control as they use financial ministers all said to me turn to the spiraling debt crisis china's influence on europe's economy is growing fast. about it

see what's going on in the world of sports with. hello there nice to have your company and these are the headlines. paul cheese quick check cheerleader and i'm good dear god steps down as president of russia i mean lead side. plus ice in these e.t.s guy get the better of the nominee in the moscow darby in the k.h. l. . while the saints march on in the n.f.l. drew brees the giants so well. start there with news that chechen leader to step down as president of tara grozny football club he says his heavy workload has made it difficult to continue the road he has held since two thousand and four this year he tried to raise the profile of the club hiring in them far and former dutch legend group hall it is coach and celebrated the opening of

a new thirty thousand seat stadium with a game against former greats including marat donna however it has been a disappointing season for the side who are in the bottom half of the russian premier league. lost their last game through email before the three month winter break and it was the weekend which produced sixteen goals in total in the russian premier league in case you missed any now's your chance to catch up it is goes. please please please please. please please. please please. just such. a.

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i will start with football because tributes from coaches players and fans continue to flood in for wilds football manager gary speed he was found dead at his home in england on sunday morning aged forty two in appears to have committed suicide but then you send shock waves throughout the football world and fans of his former clubs where he played have been creating the memorials at their grounds shirts cards and personal messages have been left at leeds ever to newcastle bolton and sheffield united speed also kept him while someone eighty five international caps and then took over as their manager last december leading them to victory in four of their last five matches he's been described as the perfect professional i used to friends and former colleagues. you know if you proceed. to search a long time you know a big part of my life he was. the most professional football of the day about how

good the privilege is made him and at the start of what looked like it but for. me i did it for bulkeley of the. second to normie in the premier league and. now the showing that he was going to do a fantastic job with the welsh national team sure. it's just terrible. not broke in the first team and. he was one of the guys with. the young lads coming to the reserves to give him confidence to feel welcome around the place and. is a real good role models not just because he's a good player on the pitch falls off the pitch. meanwhile the welsh f.a.a. says it has no immediate plans to start searching for a placement for speed as national coach and that a sequel grieving period should take place at respect for his family.

but at this moment in time of course our condolences are with the family anything that we can do to support the family will one point we will look forward but today it's not a pattern night is the quarter finals of the carling cup and poignantly cardiff will play black at the city stadium where speed was in charge of his last game for wales and it will be remembered warmly by fans at the game as well as by blackburn manager steve kane who was a good friend of the former welsh manager in other matches are up against premier league leaders manchester city you haven't won the gunners thirty six years and chelsea liverpool who drew with man city this weekend something that didn't surprise chelsea's assistant manager. which gave us as well the world. impressed not them in the have spent a few quid in the summer also it's a competitive good team very good individual players have a good good squad so i'm not surprised not surprised at all. former england captain

david beckham is weighing up where his future lies but says he'll either stay at l.a. galaxy or move to french club perry sanjay man he's just starting a month long agent with the galaxy and will make a decision on his return the thirty six year old joined the california club in two thousand and seven and after. spells with ac milan helped galaxy lift the m.l.s. cup last week with a one nil win over dynamo beckons five year contract expires on december thirty first and it could sign a new one year extension although he has ruled out interest from. brazil and will only consider france us the former manchester united star is desperate to be in the great britain at next year's olympics in his native london and talks with the ambitious mega rich p.s. he said to be in the state which. in the moscow darby to go in the. western conference is above getting to the second

of the night in the second period alexander told how to put them ahead in the fray despite a lot of pressure the army men held back for their ninth time when of the season the nama who were second in the west to get the puck over the line once but it was ruled out for the use of feet and they just couldn't find a way past goaltender. who made forty say. did a great game a goal. save that first break where the second more of the. looked at the video. was a trick to it so we were a little bit lucky there but it was a very solid difference and sold. things a big q two to do. in the n.f.l. the new orleans saints from a number of home after a forty nine twenty four victory over the new york giants giants quarterback eli manning was poised to give his side billy but his posse was picked off by will

herring in the end zone the fourth straight game in which manning suffered an interception but his counterpart brees was better in the ne seconds of the second quarter small for a four yard school and they would again combine for another touchdown embrase also threw two touchdown passes to jimmy graham the first of which came here just before the half time bright. then after the interval brees decided to go in self and he ran a yards for a rushing touchdown so some not them for braises the saints recorded their fifth grade in a row at the superdome this season giving them a one gangly over atlanta in the n.f.c. south. and that is the sport for now we've got the weather coming up next here on alt.

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