more 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 him with the president of tunisia and then they moved very very quickly on libya what was happening in libya that was actually terrible in any case in the name of human rights they kind of attacked libya the same with syria you know it's kind of it's very it's a protest movement it's democratic change and reform which are very worthwhile motives to support but there is another agenda there 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 they 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 under the no fly zone of resolution 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 in the little or nothing of libya is a different situation altogether thank so much for the risk the much greater the dangers are much greater because intervention in syria how would you describe it whether you're talking about a buffer zone or you talk american military or humanitarian causal as a french foreign minister does it still adds up to the same thing as the invasion of another country and syria would resist that are wrong to get involved actively get involved it's hard to take the fall back position i think is to support. certain activities inside syria which are calculated and then the downfall of the

assad government and this replacement by. government will be formed presumably from exiles from the agitating against the prison would take take over in your book the unmaking of the middle east you chronicle the lawn and lead a history of western invasions in arab lands with all the efforts by the u.n. and arab league the dayton row of arab league is the threat of foreign military invasion for syria is in the past right or not yet of course is still a possibility of course as to the possible to put their border rather do because it's so risky for intervention would be service be however it was done would be to kind of maintain the support for what's happening inside syria on the side of the opposition and their 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 leave because national transitional council or iraqi national congress rocky national congress was almost a fiction the leader of no support inside iraq whatsoever he lived outside iraq for a long long time and he was pumped up 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 lives of the libyan transitional council as you know basically would affect us from the governing tripoli jump ship but when it got too hot they took a uniform and began with the benghazi and then the transitional national council for all of whom we didn't know we knew someone from all the places we can't say the syrian national council is largely composed of the mixture of people who have their roots who are inside syria but the dominant i think by exiles. who's been in paris

for a long time like read one. who's based in washington has very very close ties with the state department you know what kind of clout what part of holder these people have inside syria are they 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 that simple as that so it's kind of part of the campaign against syria of which that that that now the live part is now the libyan government is now part elections at various levels are down 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. proto breakdown inside the country and could lead to a regional war so in this context let's see if this is given

a few months and see how the process works for russia does have. a base of popular 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 for media neglects the damage 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 homs hospital because any verification of that it's a claim made on the basis of online 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 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 figures were they coming from there's anyone 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 expression of that figure where they go. a few days later. who is the un human rights commissioner for the security council and said five thousand and the figure echoes around the world and i think it lodges in the popular imagination is five thousand people being killed by the syrian government by the security forces by enough for whatever reason fact i don't think is 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 dis 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 picked up arms. how many civilians have been killed by 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 ok 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 and all of sudden the policy was reversed instantly like turkey did a sharp right hand i think the turkish government seemed to think that the syrian government for the protest movement got up and running and i think the turkey gobbler calculated that any question of time before the syrian government goes and therefore i think it want to put it want to be riding the wave ok put on the crystal the way the course of the wave of reform and change in the middle east and to be seen as a leader of this movement. turkey maybe fifteen but the fact is that. syria as i said. this is not libya if anyone in the future of us like across our borders to cause an earthquake in this region so the stakes for everyone including turkey in this situation a very very high for turkey made this decision that i think that affable go therefore we support the opposition therefore we put we support the syrian national

council by dint of space and istanbul therefore we support free syrian army do you think that was a wrong decision in doing so they have antagonized iran they have antagonized iraq . because now iraq has come out quite strongly in support of syria and of course to live in these governments by his boss has also been very very critical of turkey so the change in foreign policy has kind of that dump the zero problem policy and what they've done that is create problems now if if if our side goes ok then so we're tough but if if if if he doesn't somehow manage to ride this out. you know.

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hello there welcome to the sport and these are the headlines title setback manchester united suffer a shock three nil defeat to newcastle in the english premier league. plus federal wins his nineteenth match in a row with the top seeds make the quarter finals of the cattle open and double vision world road race champion mark cavendish set his sights on glory at the tour de france and then picks in twenty twelve. months united hopes of retaining their premier league title have suffered another setback after losing three nil to newcastle for the night magpies ahead with his fifteenth goal of the season last night and that was followed by striving. for a late own goal from the phil jones gave the home side the win and united second

consecutive defeat they remain three points behind leaders manchester city and in the other gang bolton moved off the bottom of the table after covering from a goal down to win the one everton goalkeeper tim howard scored the first with a freak long clearance before david and gold and gary cahill got the others so this is how it effects the table united missing the chance to go level on points and city they're at the top one new castle state but in the point behind liverpool. while the other end goal to move off the bottom and are a point from say the but it is very congested blackburn prop up the table under just behind we can with only three points separating the bottom five teams. now over the last couple of years the russian premier league has attracted a growing number of foreign place in the monk them a spot on moscow's aiden mcgeady he settled into a new way of life since his move from scotland and as part of our look back at twenty eleven here's how he was getting on at the start of this season. fifteen in

russia just about a year now believe the start of august you came last last year how's your russian experience being so far now over always been good i've enjoyed. i've enjoyed the saw but the for way of life or here obviously takes a lot back then your stuff but. i've enjoyed this will fall and obviously the football was the main thing the football has been going reasonably well with. the know what say also the difficult part is so i'm figuring into a way for here in the language what i'm getting slightly better about as well not so there's going to say are you taking lessons oh i had one lesson codebase going off that might but in this well one and a half but i was just as good because i'm a mother and every single day what's your typical day here at spartak moscow quesada as you may think the bonus is you come in for ten o'clock in the morning normally and then you see the doctor you get with and you think oh these boxes in her your shoe and i while using her body as

a chain eleven and. after that you know i will stay at the base toss and tell you where you can go. most for both a good life obviously you believe a team can finally fulfil what they've been trying to do for years now and when the championship when you start the season that was of year when it seemed. you know that the baby started the the championship was really really well but i mean it was to say no because going out on and of unbeaten games you know the spot which i'm sure up to christmas and then basically you know second call for second place has gotten a little princess and so i think it's over so it's a very very young squad we have here. you know i think overall before we have the proof that the just the that and the practice you could have really gone to your pick of clubs why did you choose russia in the first place for me it was the chance to go. to complain about. troy took it over to tom bowman to say no i'll stay so to show you because i think it was thing for me to to so i'll move on

it's best for everyone but do you miss the old firm you are the thrill of the the huge game in glasgow of course some things are a must the game you know what i see on t.v. and i want to call me. the best thing a football through for no for me it was probably you know a sunny afternoon at parkhead saw there often a pocket. and it doesn't get much better now but i just finally. on a lighter note is there anything you miss about it's about scotland and home you know they're the deep fried mars bars are they i am very deep fried or state of table as of the branch other big five miles will ever of course as well as those home comforts you must share just i think the main thing that even ice is has been a we just are not going to see a parent show friends but. that's always a part of life there must you know they are it's a fashion show up since the. go much over here and the russian cuisine isn't great for me thanks so much for your time i'm pretty sure that's right so all right yes.

spotted aiden mcgeady settling into life in moscow now tennis and defending champion roger federer has become the latest top seed to advance into the quarterfinals of the season opening event in cattle the world number three has knocked out russia's new high level in the first round and face living in qualifying. the swiss master rarely ever troubled by guys lesser known opponent is federer dominated left right and center to win in an hour flat sixty six three the final score and the step in italy will try and put an end to as nineteen match winning streak in the quarter finals. also through to the last stages top seed rafael nadal the spaniard showing off his somewhat slow start to the torment of blitz german qualifier then he's putting out. the so breakpoint he faced armoring twenty's the sixty sixty when standing in the way next his russian seventy. because but. while it was

a hard day's work and two frenchmen joe were free to stronger and. number three seed to tsonga was up against italy flavio trip to poland and salvaged a couple of set points in the first set before taking it on a closely contested tie break i kept piling on the pressure though early in the second set of world number six held firm courtesy of the one hand held off the match for the next match seven six six three the way finished next is spanish. we were saved. after rushing away from a lot of. well known face seeded fourth in cattle are needed almost two and a half hours to outmuscle germany's best bet is ranked outside the top three hundred in the world that stretch month lease to the limit in this gruelling encounter the german battling back from a set down to force a decider which eventually he lost seventy five three places detroit city in the

quarter fought. i. basketball now more misery has been hate on the russian i need jersey nets ne n.b.a. they skated to their six consecutive defeat in seven games so far this season it was a close first half at the boston celtics t.d. garden stadium with the visiting nets taking a one point lead before the big intermission rookie marcion brooks once again to you man as he poured in a team high seventeen points but the home side pulled off a sterling third calls a scoring twenty nine for new jersey could only manage twelve paul pierce inflicting the biggest damage and would finish the game with a leading twenty four as the celtics held on to an eighty nine point seven two big three day often arrived after losing the three matches of the season. and other news pretty cyclist mark cavendish believes he can succeed at both this year's tour de france and the olympics which will be held just six days later the reigning

world road race champion was enjoying a photo shoot with his new team sky just named the twenty three man squad for the twenty twelve season also in it is that of the star rider bradley wiggins who was sitting on the right there on the sprint is green jersey last year's tour de france and hopes to repeat that success but also things you have something left in the tank for the lympics road race in london which is being held less than a week after the tour has ended. it is impossible the water will be different you know where i mean figure it's going to be told it's going to take some real structured training and some real structured record everything is going after work absolutely perfect. where it is physically possible moved from a time to the i'm funny there is a familiar face back at the top of the standings and the dakar rally is the nine time when it had a handful reclaim the overall lead after the fourth day of the two week race in south america the frenchman clocked the fastest time on the day as the for.

challenge is on the wife and. his nearest rival really is south africa six minutes from a champion hanging. on the day behind. while on the bike spain's defending champion. france lead the way to finish just by to finish by just minutes ahead of. eight minutes in the general classification by friday is aiming for their fourth title while that crash that involved receiving. his title hopes. so that's the sport for the moment set the weather is coming up next we'll have that.

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haul prices jump again that's the easy moves closer to an iran oil embargo and made mounting concern about how the measures might because shell in the west. thousands remain behind bars in libya for failing to switch sides at the supposedly time of the transition to democracy reveals quadrants of infighting among the former rebels . plus the increasing number of german voters fed up with cash crises and controversy without putting their colors to the last of the new pilot party. around the clock you're watching our table. the e.u.

says it's ready to ban imports of iranian crude and will consider whether to do so by the end of the month when prices are already witnessing another spike in response to that they test heated exchange between iran and the u.s. and for a key trade route in the persian gulf but it comes after iran threatened to block the trade channel in the persian gulf. the u.s. sanctions its exports and latest bill signed by president obama on monday so iran. at the risk commentator on the east affairs thinks the sanctions will soon bunch on the west. the oil prices now have increased this comes at a time where birth europe and the year worse are witnessing a very very dire economic situation economic problems both in the us and europe and this latest step taken against iran will only of course said the president for increasing economic problems for the west in general escalation once served.