party members. and curbing gang violence is now one of the top priorities for britain's leaders analysts say the root causes need tackling first with deep seated poverty and abusive families drawing teens to street crime. the developments in the arab world and north africa have once again drawn international focus towards its impact on the mideast regional politics expert dr germ assault gives our to his outlook for twenty twelve. thank you jeremy for joining us here on r.t. my pleasure as well as call put it when it comes to the middle east there west talks idealistically and acts brutally if it's true if you agree with this what should be done what can be done to prevent syria from falling into these patterns look at what's been happening in the middle east and the policies the western governments of followed since the beginning of this year they have always had the

the noble motive we're doing this for this very very good reason but we don't have to be terribly skeptical or cynical to understand that actually behind the noble motive is self-interest if we look at what happened in egypt the west backed mubarak right to the very last and then was no longer possible to back him when it was indefensible they dumped him and with the same with the president of tunisia and then they moved very very quickly on libya what was happening in libya that was so absolutely terrible in many cases in the name of human rights they kind of attacked libya the same with syria you know it's kind of it it's a protest movement it's democratic change and reform which are very worthwhile motives to support but there is another agenda here which has to do with broader global and regional strategies what has the libyan scenario failed in syria will the western powers change their tactics i think that libya with the template for

syria kind of went to the u.n. they got the no fly zone was lucian and that opened up libya to aerial attack and i think they thought that they could repeat this in syria but it didn't prove to be possible largely because of russia actually because russia made it plain that it would not support another no fly and no fly zone of a solution in the security council so this left the government of britain france and the u.s. in particular with you know they had to work out what policy they were going to pursue you know still think they would like. to intervene in syria but they realize it's not so and is little or nothing as libya is a different situation altogether thanks so much for the risks are much greater the dangers are much greater because intervention in syria how do you describe that whether you're talking about a buffer zone or you talk american military or humanitarian causal as the french foreign minister does it still at the same thing the invasion of another country and syria would resist that around the get involved actively get involved it's hard to take the fallback position i think is to support. certain activities inside

syria which are calculated in the downfall of the assad government and its replacement by. government will be formed presumably from the exiles and agitate against of the prison would take take over in your book the unmaking of the middle east you chronicled alone and bloody history of western invasions in arab lands with all the efforts by the u.n. and arab league didn't row of arab league is the threat of foreign military invasion for syria is in the past right now or not of course is still a possibility of course as to the possibility of the party rather do because it's so risky for intervention would be so risky however it was done would be to kind of maintain the support for what's happening inside syria on the part of the opposition and the calculation would be that sooner or later these precious if they maintained will result in the collapse of the assad government well as compare

syria with the lead and iraq to what extent the syrian national council similar to libya's national transitional council or iraqi national congress rocky national congress was almost a fiction the leader and no support inside iraq whatsoever he lived outside iraq for a long long time and he was pumped up right because they wanted to create this exiled body called the iraqi national congress so there was an iraqi voice in the propaganda war against saddam hussein the libyan situation the leaves of the libyan transitional council as you know basically were defectors from the government tripoli they jump ship when it got too hot and they took it really for me with the benghazi and then the transitional national council form of whom we didn't know we knew someone from all the places we can't can't say the syrian national council is largely composed of what's

a mixture of people who have their roots who are inside syria but the dominant i think by exiles abroad hungover you know has been in paris for a long time why would one. who's based in washington and has very very close ties with the state department you know what kind of clout what kind of hold are these people have inside syria i would say not much. you know so there are similarities between these councils and of course you know that the transitional national council or national transitional council in libya. recognize the syrian national council as a legitimate representative the syrian people it's not this is simple as that so it's kind of part of the campaign against syria of which that that that now the lead part is now the libyan government is now part elections at various levels are currently on to go in in syria with more had so what do you think will bashar al assad remain in power as a result and we have a very very dangerous situation in syria which could have exploded into

a very very nasty. probably breakdown inside the country and could lead a regional war. in this conflict let's see if this you give me a few months and see how the process works for bashar does have. a base of support so i don't think you could say that the party would be doomed the moment they call free elections that could do well why do you think human rights watch talks and foreign media neglect the damage done done by militant groups in syria it's somewhat of a mystery to me it's a mystery and the city has made some pretty. provocative claims in with regard to syria one of them is that i think it was military people dressing up as doctors in hope hospital because any verification of that claim made on the basis of on the same people. and similar claims have been made by other human rights organizations human rights watch the. u.n.

human rights council its committee is all one way it's all about what the government is doing and making very very extreme claims the government's response to the death of two hundred fifty six children for example. four thousand five thousand of dart there is no desegregation which is what the critical reader would want you know you see these because were they coming from doesn't even know how many people have been killed in syria so far in its report. the human rights council report said four thousand but there was no explosion of africa where they go. a few days later lovely pillai the un human rights commissioner priest of the security council and so far for. the figure it goes around the world and i think it lodges in the popular imagination is five thousand people being killed by the syrian government about security forces by and for whatever whereas in fact i don't

think it's any doubt at all that a large number of military of civilians have been killed by armed gangs about of it but by factors so what we actually need to do is to aggregate these figures like how many people have been killed by the syrian army how many of them were innocent entirely innocent how many of them were men who pick up arms. how many civilians have been killed by armed gangs so forth and so on you need to break the whole thing down but these figures are not broken down since we are in turkey let's talk about turkey a little bit turkey definitely wants to be associated with the changes in this region to be seen as a leading play in this movement so may turkey use this moment to its advantage turkey before the policy for the last seven years of creating zero zero problems on the borders. and that meant kind of dealing with iran dealing with syria and turkey

and syria had a rather complicated relationship over many many years. and so these problems were resolved and they did lead to very good stable balance relationships with syria and with iran in particular are all sudden the policy was was reversed instantly but turkey did a sharp right hand turn i think the turkish government seem to think that the syrian government for the protest movement has got up and running and i think the calculated that's only a question of time before the syrian government goes and therefore i think it was put to be it wanted to be riding a wave ok put itself on the crest of the wave the quest of the wave of reform and change in the middle a sin to be seen as the leader of this movement so to make decisions but the fact is that. syria's as i just said. this is not libya if anyone if each of us like across the board has to quake in this region so the

stakes for everyone including turkey in this situation is very very high but turkey made his decision that i think that affable go therefore we support the opposition therefore we support the syrian national council but of space and istanbul therefore we support free syrian army do you think that was a wrong decision in doing so they have antagonize iran the events agonized iraq because now iraq is come out quite strongly in support of syria and of course the lebanese government by hizbollah has also been very very critical of turkey so the change in foreign policy has kind of the dump of zero problem policy and what they've done act is create problems now if if if assad goes ok then so we're tough but if if if he doesn't have somehow managed to ride this out. well there are those is going to be a go on someone's face and they'll have to be a pullback from a position that you had declared and actually is not really terrible any longer

you've got to deal with this government if you like it or not it's turkey being sincere in its intentions saying it wants stability in syria instability in the region the lines are so with with qatar with saudi arabia with the united states with britain and france that's where it is that's what stands and so the rhetoric about humanitarian intervention a buffer zone humanitarian strip has been a kind of simple thing in discussion about syria over the last six months and took along with that but they know the dangers they do of course they know the dangers that if there was a move across the border if turkey somehow we're talking to taking the lead. it would open up a pandora's box. problems you know and. you know. there's no question of intervention but it seems to me there is definitely a big difference over this issue that somehow still bit however might be carried out.

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seated poverty and abusive families drawing teams into street crime. next is the latest sports with enter from. hello there welcome to the sport and these are the headlines three uneasy managed to city beat liverpool cranial to race clear at the top of being leashed premier league. while title rivals manchester united have the chance to get level with a trip to newcastle. and boss the ball kings him off on the beating after a fourteen month winning streak in russia's top flight. but first russia have reached the finals of the under twenty world ice hockey championship speaking hosts canada six five and a real thriller in calgary the russians had been six one up after

a hard truth from you can you please not itself but the hosts then stormed back with four goals in five minutes in the final period to set up a really tense finale however russia managed to hold on and defending champions will now face sweden in the final after they came from you know down to beat finland three two in a shootout. well on to the football where manchester city have beaten liverpool three nil to go three points clear at the top of the english premier league city had lost to sunderland just forty eight hours before this game but put that disappointment behind them with goals from sergio where ya touré and james milner penalty the only blip the sending off of sitting midfielder gareth barry and the seventy minute liverpool were playing without striker luis suarez after deciding not to appeal against his eight match ban for racially abusing manchester united's patrice evra elsewhere spurs the third six points behind city after their one zero win over west brom and sunderland continued to impress under new manager martin

o'neill for the four one victory over struggling wigan but it is city who are leading the way. fight every ball against them but. we were really lucky to get a game and tonight that in that also if you had some problem in the second out we did a good performance a most assured school in the flakes are really game way though obviously it's a most images after one that. i think the lesson above lead from today's. be doing that for no clinical we're going to suffer i think. there's a lot of things aren't in a that really. rick incorrect well it's an arm of its intake on bolton amongst united have the chance to get back on level terms with sitting they travel to newcastle for both sides looking to banks back after disappointing defeats at the

weekend. here with all that you know the clubs like ourselves you know. the big clubs come along and you go get yourself up and ready for and we're looking forward to tomorrow night minority of the back of a disappointing result fancy they'll be more might be fired up for as we are after game be more livable so. one could be a good guy plays in the russian premier league is still enjoying their winter break at the moment so it is an opportunity to look back at the pick of their goals from twenty eleven with a net but wishing for. wow

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and the blues finally and won the league. yeah i think it was about time for me to leave the club but i didn't know at the time that a bit of which was going to come and also. in this time i was not in the good relationship with the coach who was really them i had to leave but i was sorry for sure because after two years i left chelsea won the championship you spearheaded team which played in the champions league so why did you decide to make a move to combine a team which has been just relegated to the owner of the club and the government of the region. especially in a mania for me three times in my house to convince me to come here i think that is fantastic is it i mean the club i was working i was sure is going in the wrong direction because they finish the money and in this moment this club will disappear from football and i think i did the right thing to move in the right time before

they come to bonn and they had five coaches in one year and i was little bit scared about the situation but they said they want to change something and they've even though in the last three games in the road and there was the pressure a little bit last year i know that the owner of the club said. but it's going to be the new federal sort of the bond and he'll trust me do you thing that the world twenty teams can change something in this i'm sure i'm hundred percent sure after the world cup russia will be much better not just in the national team but also in the club competition and they will learn a lot from this and it's good for the country because there will be a new stadium of snow airports new streets new hotels i think it's fantastic for russia that the world cup will be here and i wish after the world cup i'll be russia because that will be the time to be here and i was about manager dan prescott speaking with artie's constantine the top of the in the season now let's switch to tennis and the cats are opened by defending champion roger federer has

brushed aside twenty ten win in a kind of a. it's reached the second round the swiss maestro also beat the russian in last year's final missing period again this time around federer able to breeze through the gate set in a mia twenty two minutes taking it six to have a genco was unable to regain his composure after that poor start with federer taking the first round match sixty six two in just under an hour this was saying to win the cat our title for the fourth time since elsewhere yes she coached polo and a lot he was among those watching sixty. a lot for junior the russian getting a comeback win over felipe overland three also in round one the tally won the open set seven five but all of them began to show the resilience which came eighteen pins motion of the year award the twenty eight year old making a swift turnaround in the second set to close out a five seven six four six two when i was while rafael nadal is

staying on track to become the first spaniard ever to win the katter open the top seed appeared to be heading for a nice and first round victory after winning the set against felipe call schreiber the german veteran however was able to take the second thing down the tempo when the two eventually grind out three set when just over two and a half hours i am we will end with basketball where him ki have suffered their first league defeat in fourteen months in russia's top flight but it was by the now wrist of margins top four so i could see clearly getting a sixty eight points to sixty seven victory in the big league seemed like business as usual for him first as they roared to a fifteen point lead after the first quarter to tally frizzed and leading the charge of getting high sixteen points but the men from south america kept chipping away at the deficit thanks largely to brian rush not to me again high seventy pinky led by four at half time but couldn't hold off

a surge from the visitors the size went back and forth in the final pool to be. it was korea emerged sixty eight sixty seven when you. while the memphis grizzlies rediscovered their role i was really n.b.a. following a thirty point loss against chicago on sunday really gave north you twenty three points to help you so i put away the sacramento kings hat how you sam young another thought a contributor to the home team exasperates adding twenty points off the bench that steal lie and lie and i can explore eighty five sixty forty presents i can go and i think one hundred thirty nine hundred six the final school of texas the canes have now lost four out of the last five after winning the series and i know. that's all we've got time for we've got the weather coming up just.

the u.s. rebuffs the wrongs demand not to bring its aircraft carrier back to the persian gulf while the standoff sparks fears of a looming military disaster also. the us foreign policy is very distinct from the other candidates but republicans also have the feeling that this is something within the general antiwar advocate ron paul comes third in the first caucus to pick a republican presidential nominee with his views being blamed for failing to win over party members. meanwhile the popularity of democratic president barack obama appears to be dwindling even a.