or men of the foreign affairs committee of russia federation culson also presidential envoy to africa it's great to have you with us thank you for having me here so we'll start from the latest news and maybe out in the country has been swept with violent protests and government crisis us an expert at what is your version what's going on has nato that democracy failed in the country last time have been to tripoli it was on the twenty first of december last year. i had the chance to meet with all the main players with the little stuff of the jail even with the prime minister with the foreign minister where the oil and gas minister and i spent the whole day in tripoli and i still have a feeling that i was in a very fragmented city three or four militias hating each other competing with each other sometimes shooting each other and it seems like the pieces of. political puzzle the mob get together we see it live get back to you know it has to take time and it has to take goodwill from all the sides which were involved in

a very long lasting conflict which to my personal opinion was a real civil war and in some areas over libya of this civil war is not the words in the south there is the whole desert area as an area of well to the certain extent no man's land it's out of control of. new governmental forces it's says zone of tribes it's a zone all of controlled arms trafficking so i think that the difficult time for libya will last for quite a significant period of time if we build political elite is not ready to sit at the round table that's actually which russia was proposing last summer which african union was proposing last summer which president of south africa jacob zuma will be proposing on the twenty ninth and thirtieth of january in a disability that the african union summit african union summit to my mind may play a very positive role. in putting that round table in the center of tripoli or any

other libyan city in order to inspire the process of national reconciliation that's all political talk if you look at the last of an ordinary libyan guy was he better off before or now before the ordinary libyan guy it's very difficult to say because there are ordinary libyan guys and big guys the ordinary libyan guys in tripoli and ordinary libyan guys and desert living with that tribes and these are very different ways of living some people are happy to and i saw it physically in tripoli some people are happy to drink openly in the moonshine which was absolutely prohibited in the time of warmer today and some people are really unhappy with that fact because then the favor of sharia laws everywhere in the country some people when you talk to them and dream about so-called dubai scenario they want to see libya as a mediterranean resort with five star hotels because you know and all that stuff but some people love thinking about the purity and islamic identity some people

talk about necessity of establishing a sharia law for the country and all these lawmakers world and all over the arab world there are so many competing different points of view you could probably say today that you can find in libya even within one family total unanimity of views what are the chances that his son safe islam will actually get a fair trial a lot will depend on that that would show the new face of libya actually i think that you will be in the government and the new libyan judicial system should show that it really share is the values of human rights rule of law and democracy in the new libya and that was my message when i was talking to. the juliette in tripoli on the twenty first of december i also asked him about the initiative of isis see it hate to bring the case of assisted nation of number of gadhafi to an international group. in court actually his response was

a very reserved and after that they said that it's very important to show to the international community that new libya does not have anything in common with the previous regime now the western companies are lining up to get lucrative deals with the new libyan authorities where does russia stand with that some of the russian companies have already. started their operations in libya my guess probably of his working together with any of jeep to extract oil the russian railroads are ready to give back the russian companies are talking to their counterparts in libya about returning to libya i got a very clear message from the political leadership and from the prime minister when i was in tripoli on the twenty first of december that you libyan government welcomes russian companies to be back so why not ok let's talk about syria now that's been top news for a while now what makes syria different from other countries that have been subject

to the. arab spring and at this point how big is a sites support base because we don't hear much about that syria is different because syria is a cornerstone for political settlement in the middle east and the geo strategic role of syria is sorry to say that and i built want to insult anybody but it's more important than more crucial than geo strategic role for the international stability of that many other countries were covered by so-called arab spring that's why dealing with the syrian case we have to play political chess but not american football is that where people want intervening to say i don't think that the idea of intervention into syria is in there strategically speaking it's a wise idea i think that what syria needs today it needs more political efforts it needs political dialogue and that's why i heard with regret. that president bashar

assad said that he is not in favor of the continuing of the mission of observers sent by the arab league he got pretty upset when russia seriously think that observers sent by the arab league can play the role as a factor of stability when russia also offered several times that russia can be a docking mechanism between the government and the opposition unfortunately all our proposals are being rejected for the time being can i ask you about the arab league i mean isn't it are they in a position to actually make demands such as i sat ship step down isn't their role really to mediate rather than i demand anything like that but i think that their role is to mediate that's what the secretary general is saying and that's what he's proposing no to mediate to build bridges and we need russia strongly believe that regional organizations should play a more important role in today's international politics what is important to mention here is that we are protecting syria but not the syrian regime we are

protecting syria as the country we are protecting syria as a nation we want to help syrian people and syria as a country so you bring up a very important point because at this point if you look at it from the outside it does look like a full fledged war that's been going on for a while do you think a regime change in syria in order to protect the syrian people it's reasonable i seriously think that today syrian political elite has to understand that the civil war will not lead to any political solution it will produce more blood from both sides which will produce more hatred and it will make national reconciliation more and more difficult i think that i was syrian friends from all the camps involved in this fight should look at iraq a scenario should look at the libyan example should look at other sand examples vendors along with world that other set examples in africa we have serious. think

of that civil war can all be a political solution do you think finances and arms the free syrian army a syrian opposition delegations and we were meeting here in moscow i think at least four syrian opposition delegations were not hiding sources of finance they were saying that finances coming from different sunni states different kompany as individuals what we see in syria today and i really regret to see that we see more and more of a conflict and conflict between the shia and the sunni bashar assad belongs to a family which is an ally we family the shia family the majority of the population in syria are sunni is and unfortunately that is one of the biggest problems of the middle east today we see more and more competition between the shia and the sunni in some cases it is represented by the competition between iran and turkey but in some cases it is represented by the competition between different political and

really shows a religious circles within one state how big a says support base at this point well i think that the support is rather substantial but it's not enough to arm all the opposition and to start massive war or mason mess of invasion against the syrian army so you just got back from sub-saharan africa are the vibes of the arab spring felt there in the region at all one of the most concerning. results of the so-called arab spring particularly with the war in libya is the problem of arms trafficking in the south of the zone in sub-saharan zone i recently visited. me and morocco and for these four countries and what is happening in the desert where this happening in and the soccer the zone is a real nightmare one of the tribal leaders said to me what's happened in libya on the mind the market of what markets today saw get the chinese made man pad that was

and along for american made stinger costs the price of two kalashnikovs it's for nothing and i think it's a real problem it's a real problem because uncontrolled thinking may end up somewhere in the south of africa or somewhere in the south of europe but do you think that the fight for don't we nation over at the african resources could destabilize the region well the it's not the fight it's an out of competition. suddenly many countries which forgot about the african continent during the ninety's recognized that africa is the only continent in the world where you can get the assets for their real price or sometimes for the price which is under the market and today we see competition between many countries in the african continent it's not chinese domination like it was in the ninety's we see turkey was iran we see russia we see western countries

we see brazil we see other players india malaysia i mean all the new economies of there and all the new economies all the emerging economies want to buy to peace how much thank you very much thank you so much indeed. the eat. up the so. the air limits obscure to small

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damascus rejects are of the calls for president assad to step down and form a new government the opposition league has decided to extend its observer mission to the country as a ten month long unrest in syria rages on. iran stands defiant terms that even poses its toughest sanctions yet banning the import of crude from iran response to its disputed nuclear program new oil contracts have been ruled out but existing deals are allowed to run to do by which time the e.u. is hoping to securing turn its of sources of fuel supplies. plus derided for being

one sided the extradition or between the u.s. and u.k. designed to help bring terror suspects to justice basis calls for review it's been criticized as one way streets to american jails sometimes for offense is considered crimes in britain. it's a way to remand it with today's sports news. well welcome to sport an artsy come and see a live from moscow with one call for a leg up ahead but first the headlines. victoria azarenka becomes the first semifinalist at this credit open after defeating i mean scored bon scott of poland . and so you didn't get some of us by the time with our series the williams in straight sets to set up on the straight and open quarter final against maria

sharapova men's champion about djokovic is all for. football transfer news russian international a mom is to stay put in the english premier league while national team mates. it's packing his bags for a return home. there's get to his first though and choose this quarter final matches at threat in open victoria azarenka is through to her first semifinal over this tournaments after a come from behind six seven six six two victory over poland's agony and rub on scum the third seed awaits the winner on the other choose a quarter final word defending champion came to light is in now on court against world number one carolyn following itself when over twenty eleven finalists in the not so eight time grand slam champion clijsters has won the first set six three and it's fine in the second. in the men's role four time was tried in open champion a row ship federer takes on the world number eleven juan martin del potro that

match got underway moments of goal and a little later world number two rafael nadal takes on so much verdict who has dropped on these two sets so far in this tournaments are all part has failed to progress past the quarter finals opened in the last couple of years losing to the lower ranked players each time so he will obviously be looking to improve on that. and earlier former champion maria sharapova claimed her spot at the next stage where she will take on serina williams is eliminator sitting out in an all russian quarter final at the australian open germany's sabine lisicki became the first woman to take a set off sharapova but after dropping the over the twenty four year old russian blogger we thank you for what he thinks think think think think think think of one of the first time since winning the title down under one years ago. and i think in the way next is

a left handed compassionate macor about his serves up the biggest side of the firmament so i'm thinking what if we are old knocking out fights i wouldn't really know williams the way they were made when the water finally. yeah i'm surprised because she's a great player and it's really tough to play against her. but i don't know i just feeling so good i'm so focused so i played my game and. i won against city and that's amazing you know i didn't play well and i'm not physically one hundred percent so it's just like you know i. can't be so angry at myself even though i'm very unhappy and you know i can play a hundred times better than i did this whole tournament. elsewhere a second seed survived the second set back by the former world number one on the bottom each of thirty above the rim of the champions held on to win six two seven six and will at least here wrong so the last stage.

in the next round is exactly and surprise back in iran. the last. to go into her amazing final at a major events. has been backed by former compadres martina navratilova the eighteen time major winner saying the current bumbling champion is more deserving of the world's top ranking being carried in who has yet to crane and major title. nobody feels that was near to the true number one we still have the same ranking system reason. six years ago when they were giving no bonus points for beating players to a little bit of their number one because. he doesn't have a great record in her career or over the last four years over the top to. well in the meantime depending men's champion overcame former finalists late and he

went in four sets straight in playing in his sixteenth home grand slam two sets and a breakdown in the third before reading all six straight games to become the first man to take a set off the top seed however the world number one fought back take the four six three and reach his fifth straight quarter final in melbourne. it was playing out of his crowd he loves competing. you know the top guys in the big stage and he proved it was a great atmosphere you know it was the. crowd got involved in it it was great you know the moment you play tennis for to be out there in the situation. and josh will face studied for error in the quarterfinals the spaniard semifinalists last year was a straight set winner all over france as rashard desk a. former finalist schauble fred song is the biggest names of fall

so far in the men's draw the french six seed going out zucchini should koori after a five set thriller the twenty two year old keeping his nerve in this long final rally to become the first japanese man to reach the australian open quarter finals in the open era and is not overwhelmed by the team and. that he's going to be. to me a lot of history. to be number one player. but that never gives me the finish. a grueling match finish of corey and he'll next play a well rested andy murray that's why speeds and find this book in his place in the next round after. a retard atsu said down fourth seed murray spent less than fifty minutes on this is the only hot rod laver arena. the n f

l now where lawrence tynes kicked a late field goal against san francisco to send the new york giants into the super bowl where they'll meet the new england patriots who edged out baltimore now first to the n.f.c. championship game add the candlestick park where the defense is dominated however in the final period eli manning produced his second such down pass connecting with manningham from seventeen yards to put the giants ahead a late twenty five yard field goal by the forty niners david akers levelled the score at seventeen all to send the game into overtime plus an error by receiver kyle williams of the giants season possessions and they ran three times to set signs up for his winning kick the giants will now look to emulate their two thousand and eight success when they deny the patriots a perfect season the vince lombardi trophy. and also feel world deserves you know this this been

a long journey for. you know have a time only been over david. and so we were you know. we're never going to think very chilly all we did was work you do better. you know all this work this homework with the week meanwhile in the morris billy cundiff missed a field goal with just eleven seconds remaining as the patriots booked their super bowl placed by edging the ravens twenty three twenty tom brady scored what proved to be the winning touchdown in the fourth quarter with this one yards bringing the patriots from behind but the older ravens had the chance to force over time comes if his kick to the left of the post so the patriots have the chance to avenge their two thousand and eight defeat as they again face the giants in february the fifth. their all fans play defense i thought. we should get on a little bit better in the red area. certainly you know not the interceptions we

won we were moving on. and we won ten straight so if you can make it live. to football all the soccer variety now and with a week to go in the english the transfer window room on public goes agents has finally confirmed that the russia striker has signed a one year extension with the thirty year old that will remain at white hart lane until the summer of next year despite having been recently with a move to happen doesn't clubs both in england and in russia. has fallen down with manager harry redknapp speaking orders since arriving from spartak moscow four years ago but has scored forty one goals in one hundred eight appearances so far for the spurs. however one russian or regular is down for a home after a spell in england spartak moscow have announced they've reached an agreement to sign midfielder to be from everts and the twenty six year old is juice to undergo a medical before putting pen to paper for the red lights in the lives of captains

and other mosco side looking at sea before his move to the selfies back in two thousand and nine. in ice hockey take a chill as squash the season long ban off arguably the league's most short tempered soft guy jeremy blonsky of the sorriest sides the hot headed canadian saw his appeal satisfied after serving at the team game ban the avid mixed martial artist was handed a heavy penalty in november for yet another punch up on the ice but should now be available for sunday's game at champions salad box you live as a struggling. and eight game losing streak. i will be back with another update from the australian open in less than a couple of hours meanwhile you can take a look at our youtube channel and artsy sports news where you can find some great feature stories about sports in russia and much much more thanks for watching.

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damascus rejects arab league calls for president assad to step down and form a new government with the opposition that ten months gone on rest in the country rages on. terror on stands defiant even imposes its toughest sanctions yet banning oil imports former onto its disputed nuclear program. you're right it being one sided extradition laws between the u.s. and the u.k. designed to help bring terror suspects to justice faces pressure calls for you to shine give it's a one way street to american jails. world

news and much more twenty four hours a day you're watching out here. syria has rejected an arab league call for president assad to step down the baskets criticize the appeal as an attack on its national sovereignty or summing up a month of its observer mission to the country that said all sides of the syrian conflict must lay down arms the pan. our body wants assad to hand out with deputy and form a unity government with the opposition server that has been extended but saudi arabia has dropped out despite the existing situation in syria has improved qatar had earlier called for military intervention but is now moving the. e.u. imposed a new round of sanctions on the syrian regime own agenda it's already. counted.