great to have you with us thank you for having me here so was that from the latest news and maybe at the country has been swept with violent protests and government crisis us an expert at what is your version of 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 most awful of the julian with the prime minister with the foreign minister with 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 life 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 of libya this civil war is not the word in the south there is the whole desert area as an area of the certain extent no man's land it's out of control of. new governmental forces its own of tribes it's a zone of controlled arms trafficking so i think that the difficult time for libya will last for quite a significant period of time if we have 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 the president of south africa jacob zuma will be proposing on the twenty ninth and thirtieth of january in a disability that's 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. as of national reconciliation but 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 to duffy and some people are really unhappy with that fact because then 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 a five star hotels because you know isn't all that stuff but some people love thinking about the purity and islamic identity some people talk about necessity of establishing sharia law all over the country and all over these lawmakers world and

all over the arab world there are so many competing different points of view you can probably see 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 he 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 lead in tripoli on the twenty first of december i also asked him about the initiate the of all the ice is see in hague to bring the case of assisted nation of warmer khadafi to international criminal court actually his response was a very reserved and after that they said that it's very important. show to the

international community that new libya does not have anything in common with the previous regime now that western companies are lining up to get the critic of deals with the new libyan authorities where does russia stand with that some of the russian companies have already. started their operations in libya unlike the 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 be a 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 sats 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 by build want to insult anybody but it's more important the more crucial than geostrategic role for the international stability of many other countries that were covered by so-called arab spring that's why dealing with syria in 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. or 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 the regret that president bashar assad said that he is not in favor of continuing the mission. observers sent

by the arab league he got pretty upset when russia seriously think that the observers and by the arab league can play the role does effect of stability we in russia are also offered several times that the 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 mediate rather than look 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 the 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 it will produce more hatred and it will make national reconciliation more and more difficult i think that our with syria and 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 sad example spenders along with world of a set examples in africa we seriously think of that the civil war can all be a political solution what do you think finances and arms there. free syrian army of

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 security and conflict between the shia and the sunni bashar also belongs to us a family which is an a lovely family a 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 cases 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 mace a message invasion against the syrian army so you just got back from sub-saharan africa are the vibe some 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 softened 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 softer 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 the market is today saw at the chinese made manpad that which is and a lot 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 the fight for don't we nation over at the african research could destabilize the region well the it's not the fight it's a kind 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 the real prize or sometimes for the prize which is on the 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 the iran we see russia we see western countries we see brazil we see other players india malaysia i mean all the new economy is there and all the new

economy is all the emerging economies want to buy to peace how much thank you very much thank you so much indeed. please. please please. just sleep.

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the phone these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada as the first chinese operations are over that seems. the headlines on r.t. fresh rounds of violent attacks in libya as khadafi loyalists clashed with supporters of the new regime in several cities at least five people were killed in the former leader's old stronghold of bani one of the. gulf states withdraw observers from syria as the troubled country rejects an arab brokered peace plan for calling a president assad to go meanwhile the e.u. slaps more heavy sanctions on damascus. and india reportedly finds a way to buy iran's oil despite the bargain of pay for black gold with the

yellow report suggest iran's biggest customer china could follow suit. time now for the hourly update of sports. hello welcome to the sports is on another big day of tennis from the australian open yes the headline is. top out reigning champion kim clijsters beat outgoing world number one caroline wozniacki to reach the semifinals of this trail you know . while that express roger federer cruises into the semifinals rebelling curious crates at victory party martin del potro will face either rock adult or thomas burdick. from dugout to talk talk on the line if you're choreographed not been in court where you can i say charges of tax evasion. but first to tennis and reigning champion kim clijsters has begun outgoing world number one caroline wozniacki to

reach the semifinals of the astray you know and the twenty eight year old belgian overpowered the dane to win six three seven six in scorching temperatures and ensures wozniacki will lose her number one ranking after sixty seven weeks that's how. you know i was i was happy with that i was playing not just sad to try to be a little more dominant again. you know she stepped her game up and started serving better in the second set. so i knew that you know i mean we've both had a really good day you know and first. we really went for shots and good serving and good returning to. it so i started laughing every time because the media's sounds to me sometimes like i'm finishing my career and i only have one year left and you know time is running out but the fact is quite a few years in front of me and i still improve and you know. number of australian

open so the number of years of i will dance in french open so you know. i'll definitely do my best and charity trying to win one even more and you know the end of the day. you can just do your past. in the semifinals classes will face third seed victoria azarenka who came from behind to beat palin's i cashed out six seven six love six two and the better russian could become the new of number one if she were to go on it so i thought. i was approaching to smash you know to try to do the best i can and i was searching for another sad time just couldn't really manage to play my game and maybe two years ago i would be like ok you know it's not working today. i'm going to try to we'll see and today i really try to forget about the first set and start from zero and really you know find hard you know really take it one of a time and keep going so i think there was

a different mental approach a little. while meanwhile over in the men's draw roger federer cruised into the semifinals that imperious straight sets victory over eleventh seed potro the senate seat he was yet to drop a sex needed just under two hours to complete a six four six three six to win it was also a federal one far as it's much but when one is swiss downplayed his feet. it's nice to win this one you know i mean venture will forget which was what he was most thousands merchants on will remind me again but. i do not remember my five hundred pound it was a year so it's. no big of mergers and those ones but it's a big milestone i agree it's a lot of matches a lot of tears and it's been around for a long time or extreme if you decide which way we're. federal next play the winner of the quarter final between second seed rough on and on and punish burdick the

czech became the first player to take a set alternate all of this year's tournament winning a dramatic tie break to take the first set seven six but now don has found his way back in his leading fighting sets to on. me one on monday former champion maria sharapova claimed her spot in the last eight against arena williams conqueror you got that in a car of a set up at all russian quarter final at the australian open well germany some in the city became the first woman to take a set off shore up over after dropping the open over twenty four year old russian quarter way back into the match to win it three six six two six three four wires to the top of the world rankings if he repeats hope two thousand and eight feet is the tournament. and standing in the way next though is left handed combatant mccarver who served up the biggest upset at the tournament so far the n.c.v.s. twenty three year old knocking out five time when a serene a women's role in her late grand slam into final. surprise because she's a great player it's really tough to play against her. but i don't know i just

feeling so good then so focused so i play my game and. i won against syrian and that's amazing you know i didn't play well physically one hundred percent so it's like you. can't be so angry and so very unhappy and you know i can play. one hundred times going to do this whole turn of. well meanwhile defending men's champion novak djokovic overcame former finalist lleyton hewitt in four sets the australian playing in his sixteenth home grand slam was to set the breakdown for reading off six straight games to become the first man to take a set off the top seed however the world number one fought back to take the ball six three and make this space quarter final thing album. you know late it was playing out of his crowd and obviously he loves competing against. you know

the top guys in the big stage and he proved it again it was a great atmosphere you know towards the end of the third set the whole force that the crowd got involved in and it was great you know the moment you play tennis for to be out there in those situations. over in england tottenham manager harry redknapp has been in court after being accused of receiving secret payments from his former chairman milan none that age while he was manager of portsmouth the court heard that the sixty four year old spurs coach who is the most successful english manager and favorite for the england job received a percentage of profit from transfers during his time at the club while the chairman had opened an offshore account for him in monaco it's alleged mr manager actually invested and alleged two hundred ninety five thousand dollars for he's going to manager which the prosecution claimed neither had any intention of declaring for tax purposes secret payments were allegedly made in the name of rosie forty seven mr dog plus his year of first both men deny charges of cheating the public revenue. well meanwhile saying the top of

a lot of public has confirmed that the russian striker has signed a one year extension with the north london club the thirty year old will remain at white hart lane until the summer of next year despite having been recently linked with a move to hoffa doesn't clog both in england and russia. has fallen down harry redknapp pecking order since arriving from spartak moscow four years ago but has scored forty one goals in one hundred nights appearances so far the spurs. however one of russia's regular is bad for homes after a spell in england sponsored moscow have announced they reached an agreement signed midfielder leon believe that the rabbits and the twenty six year old is due to undergo a medical putting pen to paper for the red white did you know can send another moscow side like i want to be before his move to the toughest i can two thousand and nine. other means i rushed as young athletes have returned home from the inaugural used olympic winter games in austria where the team finished fifth slover all the competitors were greeted by hundreds of friends and relatives at most with

that of the airport bringing home five gold or silver and seven bronze medals it is about the pushing them to gold in the figure skating and is also russia's medal hope for the such a games in twenty fourteen. i'm trying not to think of the pressure and just do my job by listening to my coach and i fully trust him i'm confident that he knows what he's doing so i'm absolutely calm. and the next editions of the bio on your youth winter games will be held in china and norway while the betting to host the subsequent to events are about to get on the way and those from uncle sam have discovered russia's republic of dagestan is among the hopefuls with the most good with the it's possible that in twenty eight scene the youth will in pick games will be held in dagestan it would be hard to accomplish to be honest but it is possible that but in twenty twenty two it's quite realistic we will be ready to host the games in twenty eight but if not then the team will be ready for twenty twenty two

even if we don't get to host the youth summer games we will still create the entire limping infrastructure the main stadium for forty five thousand people which will be built within a framework of a new city it will be built on the coast near the airport and it will be a very beautiful city with its house roads and stadiums and everything else that is needed for the junior lympics once again it doesn't matter if our bit wins or no we will build a new city in any case. and in the meantime my healthy golfing legend tiger woods is raring to kick start what a say should be his first full season in a while as the former well the one who has to play at the abu dhabi golf championship after ending his two year titled out with a win at the world challenge event in california in december i'm looking for this year you know that's something that to say because i was able to. prepare and. get fit enough to prepare last year and towards end of the year and you know that

demonstrate to myself what i can do with. it what shall i want to be doing the golf swing if i'm physically fit to do it. played really well my last three efforts so relook at for this year and. you know continuing building on what we're what we've done towards the end of last year for sure to the n.b.a. now where western conference leaders oklahoma thunder won their ninth skein from ten outings after thrashing the struggling detroit pistons ninety nine seventy nine the fund that's a team lead early in the first quarter as russell westbrook set up second round with this perfect in the back pass. and later in the first book but. just for us as he spun off the stuff he pulled it off the grass with the thunder a twenty eight ten least. one of the third the thunder showed some great counter-attacking play as surge to barca blocked at one end before being t. that going to run to the other it's a thunder

a sixty four thirty seven lead so if it is ninety nine seventy nine that's more going to inform oklahoma while the misfiring pistons are bottom of the central division. and finally on to ice hockey and the k h l has squashed the season long of call ghibli the league's most short tempered tough guy jeremy yavlinsky of notorious side which is well the hot headed canadian saw his appeal satisfied after serving a fifteen getting the advantage mixed martial artist was one of the heaven can see in november for yet another punch up on the ice which should now be available for sunday's game at champions sol about to live and struggling with years to end and a game in the street. and that's always marshallese life in.

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video. in. the palm of your. pressure. libya gadhafi loyalists retake a former stronghold with warnings that a new civil war is on the cards. gulf states withdraw their observers from syria and the e.u. slaps fresh sanctions on the troubled country. and paying for black gold with the yellow one india reportedly finds a way to buy iran's oil despite the. loss of the song we're covering slightly as unemployment in russia comes in much better than expected in

the month of december more on the markets and later. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here in moscow. in libya loyalists to the late moammar gadhafi have retaken the former stronghold of bani walid after clashes with the new government forces violence between supporters of the new and old regimes has been seen in cities all across the country and as our north africa correspondent. i reports there is much to be held when it comes to pace. in the last few days the situation has been very tense and dangerous and with. the number of anti government protests and clashes between the pro-government forces and the forces loyal to the ousted leader.