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many as a guide on how to carry out a revolution through nonviolent means it's often referred to as the bible of calo gravel oceans dr sharp looking at how revolutions and fall in the arab world do you see it as transition from dictatorship to democracy. in the streets is. the sense of bringing down the old system the old it's or the system and it doesn't seem to you that people there are trading one form of oppression for another they're often happens. that happens and it's a good set to bring down a person. but it's not citizens so they have to be very careful what we think the egyptians were and very careful what they have now is their military brutally cracking down on protesters we hear about all kinds of abuses islamists are gaining power in the country my question is this what kind of democracy could the current

state of affairs in egypt possibly create. removes made a mistake they should never get the bird condition given the power over to the army and then i'll resign never stoops. because that's it i mean it's been the aging of repression and egypt for decades and they're not going to change overnight it's unclear what their strategy is i don't know i do that the two of them today said what their pricing is and all. that it's a different kind of situation than the predominately store movement well they did start out as a largely nonviolent popular uprising but we see what it turned into could it be that your concept of nonviolent uprisings is kind of over do you in this day and age i mean look at the arab world it's a bloody mess you get bloody mess is going you get people standing up.

and saying we want a change because. feeling like to be told we don't love you anymore you're going to be the center you go and they will use whatever means of controlling repression and killing and intimidation they can muster and when to not be surprised that so uprisings like that can't be nonviolent in principle they can if they go into many many more will die. divines is not the solution to people dying many married people couldn't run for presidency and civil wars and international military intervention in the face of number. as in syria for example when an admitted that if they go into a civil war for an intervention in syria many many many more will die he said to critics of the syrian opposition absolutely refuses to talk to the government don't

you think it deepens the crisis adds to the violence what they're doing there in refusing to negotiate because negotiations are aware that the government do pressure governments to use to get the resisters not to resist but you could go with the dictatorship you have to go through it but that situation basically rules out nonviolent struggle that you were talking about it provokes while it is causing the regime use what i don't see maybe. so people should be dying in the name of revolution is that what you're saying you seem to have. something only a boy means. quite to the contrary oh no i just see a bloody mess instead of the idea makes nonviolence surge that you are writing about in the book let me ask you this the us nato have set a precedent with the military intervention in libya could it do you think it

creates a situation in syria where radical elements among the syrian opposition are more inclined to provoke these sorties in order to invite an intervention i think you're going to get a military intervention that is very dangerous and. maybe and some syrians have been doing that that's very unfortunate because that will not help that we're not being a democracy that will be a victory by the outside no thanks for being assuming you get rid of the old regime . be heavily influenced by the powers that intervene u.s. france or whoever else that they will have a major say we're kind of a government happens in this on the part of the syrian people but you think should be is that what happened in libya yes in your opinion what's in it for the u.s. when it decides to meddle in foreign revolutions in foreign affairs you know that

as well or better than i do you know. i'm not talking about the response a wire let's talk about it why opinion is u.s. government should not be intervening in military in the name of separation democracy because if it doesn't work in a concert by their objective what about nonmilitary means it seems they're using all kinds of means nonmilitary means a service should be used by the us government but by the people of that country to get rid of it and so a lot of people are getting the sense that washington is more into establishing friendly regimes rather than democracies if we take libya for example people there are afraid to speak up right now i mean we have reporters on the ground and they have to blur people's faces all the time because people are afraid of being seen the leadership there is about to introduce sharia law as the basis for their new laws which is pretty much incompatible with democratic values so libya pretty much

looks like an example of how instead of a supposed transition to democracy people are getting pretty much the opposite you know i think the be is a different case because that's a case where the. change was not brought down by the revolution foreign forces combined into civil war or down the gadhafi regime that's an example of the government to no longer serve the world on a slightly different note occupy wall street a very peaceful movement by all standards do you find them effective you know. you know. people. are annoyed with. the stream limited political control they have. the extreme this distribution of. people making the expression of their opinions.

symbolism does not change the distribution of wealth in a country so you're saying no change is possible through that kind of nonviolent action yes or. change opinions maybe but this is not sufficient let's get back to the arab world people there seem to be getting more and more convinced that nonviolence doesn't get them anywhere either do you think change can be brought about only through revolution. but what kind of change exactly i'm glad you brought that out because it seems the way it is now is people take to the streets with genuine aspirations but those who take advantage of those uprisings end up stepping on people's rights as well as they are pretty assessors had change can be from dictatorship to nude. many many years ago. but then. i mean it's

inevitable but no means the kind of action that you choose to use to determine what kind of result you get is very clear that that requires extreme care and extreme good judgment and clear thinking and strong to prevent that from happening i see a contradiction between this idealist view of a nonviolent revolution and a reality you know someone said and i don't remember who it was but it goes any revolution is started by idealists carried out by fanatics and taken advantage of by bastards around the world. but not in the revolution somewhere different in your work can you outline the steps that would make a revolution happen but what i think was overlooked is life after

a revolution and in most cases it is a set tale you like to be concerned about that. i didn't overlook it because in concluding pages because they say. it warns about that it's sort of the solution to what to do that correctly it warns about but that warning of yours is being largely ignored don't you think i believe that it's a problem that's why we've got more work going on thank you very much for the interview but it's been a pleasure. this is our time. to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many we are one that won't we breathe the we hope. to me the american dream

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crisis with tough new fiscal rules that critics say when it comes to watching the pennies the e.u. itself sets a bad example. for the moment all those stories and fifteen minutes from now in the meantime unions next with the sport. could have you with us business for today plenty of head over the next ten minutes or so including the story. top of the world leader no messi is named for all of the year for no place again to third street. king legend returns to are still in style netting the winner in an f.a. cup tie against leeds. in gear a we go back in time for a look at when he met both the twenty eleven european truck driving championships

in the eastern russian city. it is becoming almost predictable now but all the more remarkable for a clear no messi has been named fifth world player of the year for a third successive time the result of the sort of money in zurich almost a given following yet another stunning season for the twenty four year old art to me and messi had been up against barcelona team. maestro cristiana rinaldo along with winning this punish the league spanish super cup you waifish super cup the club world cup last year messi was named man of the match and garcia's champions league final victory over a month chest united to boot a great night for f.c. barcelona all in all pep guardiola also clinched the coach of the your. stuff now it's been a dream return for a theory already and arsenal colors the club's record goalscorer adding to his legend by netting the winner in an f.a. cup time with leeds just days after joining the side on loan from the new york red

bulls the thirty four year old coming off the bench to make all the difference at the emirates who last played for the going to show five years ago leaving only ten minutes to adopt fully to be action the striker receiving a pinpoint. pos from alex song in the area to seal the final one nil result and put arson bangers man into the fourth bra and over the top where they'll take on the last until. the effort was only two hundred twenty seven goals for arsenal adding to his record strike rate for the moment i spoke. up brings us to boss people where it's all going to plan for him key in the european wide v t v league the moscow region side staying top of the table thanks to a one sided win over lothian i fed vs riga richard from port fleet took up a seat for this one. coming off the back of two straight defeats khimki would turn in to get two thousand and twelve back on trying as they took on the latvian i am

fit to be reagan they were competing in the v t v league which sees eighteen teams from around eastern europe competing against each other in two groups came key came into being counted on top of the group and they looked to turn in to stay there as they got off to a good stance with alex asia trying proving to be a particular handful for the visitors and going into the half time break aside from just outside moscow but ready opened up a commanding lead as bay would go into the intermission thirty three twenty one advantage team key continued to dominate in the third as base stretch play lead to an imposing nineteen going into the final quarter riga did try to rally but they were left with far too much to do as him key were able to turn on the style dam a strange as by ease to a seventy seven points to fifty four when this is

a pretty good win for us especially we entered two thousand and twelve with two defeats so it was a little bit difficult for us does this mean to come for them especially because they have a structure again very tough especially on the road so this this thing it is a gives us a great car kids it's great to have fun you know remember sometimes that this is a game and we're wherever fun is something we don't know life so you know it was exciting to see some of the young guys step up and make some great plays and for what our team a lot and it's a much needed win for him key to manage to snap pair two game losing streak would bitch picture e bay continue to dominate the b.g.p. leagues group a as bay now move to an impressive ten and one record richard pombo we don't see the moscow region ok let's stay on the hardwood where in the n.b.a. the new orleans hornets finally snapped their six game losing streak beating the denver. gets on the road the opening period well it was a tight affair with the hosts ending at just the point ahead twenty seven twenty

six thanks to danny little eleanor his effort here but in the second quarter the visitors would begin to pull away finding themselves eight points to the good by half time the third would follow a similar pattern new orleans scoring the nuggets by some points. scoring for the hornets with twenty one point chris kaman also instrumental with twenty for the eventual winners ninety four eighty one how it ended up in colorado. but even steve stricker ha started the new u.s. p.g.a. tour season with aplomb the american golfer topping the tournaments of champions in hawaii stricker started the final round with a solid five stroke lead almost squandered the early on thankfully for the wisconsin native his rivals couldn't take advantage stricker hurting the eighteenth hole to close with a sixty eight. to seal a three shot victory the forty four year old finishing ahead of second place martin

lard's webb simpson on the finding champion jonathan byrd were joint third four strokes stricker himself was left to celebrate his twelfth career when the victory in the debut event helping him also move on to a number five world record where i think i was so patient you know frustrated but patient and i told myself if i can get a couple back before the turn i'll be all right and that birdie had a. you know calming down quite a bit and. i played really steady today i was proud. so proud the way a part of it but you know proud the way that. we and the bullets in this hour by taking a look back at one of russia's smaller unusual motor sport events of twenty eleven the smolensk leg of the truck driving european championships. in reported in august the big brush auction was not for the faint hearted. power and speed all in one these trucks gear up to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour and could

have done even faster if they hadn't been restricted. of the european truck racing jumper ships this mines between the two year old track designed by famous formula one architect paramount to get posting the sports elite for the second straight time for the fifth leg of the two thousand and eleven european championships. the reigning champion until noble third in proved to be the fastest driver during saturday school vacation and start the race once from full position although this season's leader you can harm was quick to would take this one year and lead the way to fourteen let actions soon turned into a duel between the two with the spanish fire while i'm melting the german ice in a thrilling finale abutted taking the vantage of a slight mistake by hand and snatching victory in the dying seconds of the race i was trying to portray. to see if they make

a mistake at the end i happy he made them say yeah i was there a short break so the drivers could recover and so could the trucks they were back on the track for race two which according to the competition regulations so the top eight start in their birth order a perfect opportunity to shine but those would fail in the first event of the day germany's mark was strike most keen to take his chance and win while russia's biggest hope in the sport alexander who of finished both races in the ninth place pretty disappointing for the thirty nine year old could claim his first victory in spain earlier this year but far from fulfilled his potential in front of his home crowd. i would say performing on home soil is a bit harder for me it's about the other dress. pons ability you want to produce your best make your fans happy and i also try to share my time with the fans who

want a photo with me or sign a poster so it cuts both ways however there were still two more racist scheduled for sunday so still time to set the record straight the key event of the day race three turned out to be the decider of your hand hard to believe and claimed a confident victory well above third and failed to finish his second race in the roof due to technical problems two hundred two in a syllable eat and clean overall victory at the russian stage of the european championships just like he did last year it's a very good place from a last year i have had letters of this and i have to make a big step in the chimney a lot. i'm very happy this morning and this is how it stood when it came to race for the week with the winner decided to prove to be a true good for the spectators it looked like drivers had lost their inhibitions and live there are drugs gill said look scores amongst themselves something the

russian fans of the sport will look forward to witnessing again in two thousand and twelve robert but in your own party central russia. great stuff and that is all your sports world weather is next year and twenty four hour party. if they shoot something inappropriate from the public they can easily be shot by the casualties of war ok. i wish they would have never happened but it has happened

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