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with the games apologizes for a. multi-million dollar contract. now as western nations hailed libya's election as broadly liberal journalist believes there's little for the libyan people to be celebrating discussion it's right now. as libya continues its long march towards democracy militant rivalry talk session and continued outbreaks of violence opposing major challenges we're joined now by spikes magazine journalist patrick case even extensively about libya and about what's been going on historic moments for libya really all we going to see they any concrete changes i think it should have been the story moments i mean what we what

we've seen with the elections is the first time the libyan people have been able to express their voice and talk about who they want to be elected for the first time in fifty years since nine hundred sixty five should have been the story the moment it should have been the outcome of the struggle the logical outcome of the arab spring in libya last year unfortunately what we see with these elections is that this struggle for democracy this march towards democracy to talk about it has effectively been a spy western intervention over the past year or so the election itself has been administered by the national transitional council which was effectively cherry picked by the west rather the than actually selected by the libyan people it's an unelected body and there have been a lot of disagreements has been a lot of protests over the past nine ten months by the libyan people who are unhappy with the lack of transparency from this government there are unhappy with the fact that the transitional council does not represent their views or the people

they want to be in power and they're also unhappy with the way in which the election has been planned and the seats for the national council have been allocated a large proportion of them being allocated to tripoli and the west of libya and would touch on the problems that that's causing in a moment be studying you later stars will. be an election on. what do you mean by. last year i think these elections should really have been something to celebrate the libyan people taking the democratic initiative overthrowing the tyrant gadhafi who was in charge for forty two years and they were starting to do that last year were it not for a haphazard intervention led by the time nicolas sarkozy in france david cameron the u.k. prime minister who decided to step in and in the name of humanitarian justice

intervene in the in the in the way in which a sovereign country was being administered by gadhafi and to really kind of forge a wedge between the people fighting the civil war and. cronies that cause real problems because it meant the first starts with the transitional council that was set up last february in two thousand and eleven the whole time that the war in libya took place they were all into it towards getting western approval for their actions the national transitional council in libya brutally during the uprising there in qatar there in the united arab emirates they're inching this year they were flying around the world making deals with western. governments that might make sense in some ways but the thing that they forgot to do and this was the real issue and you see this happening in syria now is to get the mandates of the libyan people to engage with them and to be oriented towards leadership to them rather

than convincing the west in particular that they are the right people to lead so what you happened following the fall of the. transitional council who affectionately helicoptered in later actually because the rebels took tripoli by. my store much faster than i expected you had a vacuum in libya with a transitional council that did not represent the will or the kind of the ideas and feel. of the libyan people in general there has been this really strange moment since there have been any other way of avoiding that. i think the way that power vacuum could have been avoided would have been to not have had western intervention in march last year no the real had been a western intervention libya wouldn't be this point right now they wouldn't be having that. election we're just seeing democratic elections in egypt we've seen elections in june this year there's no reason why the libyan people couldn't have also brought about change by themselves in fact i think it takes

a very paternalistic mindset in the west that they have to step in and intervene and do this on behalf of the libyan people seen massive swathes of the army starting to defect from gadhafi and they're. sure a ragtag kind of bunch of resistance kind of starting to step up and to challenge khadafi in different strongholds. particularly in benghazi it wasn't necessarily the case of the west needed to intervene the tool but in intervening in this is. the democratic initiative from the libyan people they interfered with the struggle for leadership that struggle for the future battle of ideas for the future of libyan society which is necessary in a civil war to really unify and get here individuals so that they can so that they can bring about change which actually reflects their will rather than what the west nato in particular thinks is the best way towards

a society the west has now moved on to other things i think. there's been a lot of turmoil in the bureau over the last few months and we've heard very little from. people who were very vocal last year so david cameron after the death of gadhafi said this is the opportunity for the libyan people to forge a strong democratic feature and i'm very proud of the way that britain has played a role in this but now there is silence. from david cameron from obama from hillary clinton from william hague foreign secretary in the day people don't want to talk about it anymore partly because there's a lot of talk about using a loop in stone in syria and they don't want to acknowledge the fact that what we have seen is effectively a very fragmented libya in the past six months is that a realistic possibility do you think i mean would a division of power in the way work or is it going to cause a struggle for where there is talk in benghazi and which is in the eastern region i

think it's very telling that the libyan people have started to reassure these kind of tribal role and also go back to these old boundaries and divisions because rather than actually having to struggle for democracy that unifying sense of comradeship that i idea that they've really put everything on the line to get rid of gadhafi and to bring about a new society the west effectively the country into democracy you saw this a lot over the you know in the past year where you know the west would effectively bomb the rebels would then when it was safe to come in go in and take that town and then they would move forward that was the kind of strategy so effectively the west handed this revolution and i say revolution in kind of almost scare quotes to the libyan people on a plate and it wasn't fair for them the democratic initiative from them it's also really was snapped process of proper leadership and a proper sense of how the country can be governing teacher you mentioned the rebels

there i mean militarily they weren't anywhere near the point where they would have been able to topple the regime. so in terms of that you know sort of with hindsight it's easy to criticize but again we come back to where we are now what's not and what we did barack go in egypt. bring about democracy there's no reason why. things couldn't have happened very very quickly and that was the remarkable thing about the arab spring no one sort coming within a short periods of just a couple of months people took the initiative and brought down regimes that were just seen for generations and generations of people in the middle east as being immoveable for the vast majority of people in libya they've never seen elections and anyone under the age of about sixty really probably going to remember life without having years ago and that was the same with mubarak and that was the same with ben ali. i mean things could moving very very quickly western intervention i

think really almost puts that struggle for democracy on ice in libya in a way that hasn't happened in egypt and tunisia you know i think there would have been a risk there either end up with a serious situation sort of a stalemate between the two sides and the death toll just keeps mounting i think there is a tendency of course from people and you saw this in benghazi as well when gadhafi troops were getting ever closer to benghazi and the death toll was rising the people of course do look for for anyone to help them they are desperate various points but the problem is when you continually have the idea of a crutch when you can call for effectively a guardian angels come in and help you it does what the situation and things the west didn't necessarily make it better the death toll increased considerably after nato bombs started to fool in libya and the thirty thousand people died in the in past year during the uprising a lot of that was due to western intervention wasn't a bloodless time once the west. actually intensified its and internationalize the

conflict in a way that wouldn't have been the voice. for. one western intervention intensifies internationalize this is often brings about kind of greater bloodshed if you leave the struggle to the people the democratic struggle to the people of the country selves i think we also need to think in terms of what comes next now there was never you know there were. never a plan for what happened in the post libya by by david cameron by obama it was very much you know obama reluctantly got involved and after less than a week really started to kind of go on the back foot the western leaders didn't have an idea of how they were going to restructure libya they didn't even want to talk about regime change when they first started. bombing libya so i think what i think we can learn from from the libyan situation is that western countries coming in and intervening to try and intervene even good heartedly in the

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the headlines on the syrian government denying reports of multiple explosions close to the presidential palace for the defense minister. brother in law killed in a suicide attack. the bloodshed continues the turkish prime minister is right here in moscow to try and convince russia to get tough on the ruling regime in damascus this as russia's foreign minister says the policy of supporting the opposition. lead to an empire. and washington. security at the london olympics is the british. game. despite the multi-million pound. sports joins us next.

hello there all the ladies from the sporting world right now here in r t thanks for joining us this hour coming up. i was poisoned cyclist frank claims he is then he sent after failing a drug test separate tour de france. big deal switching strikers lautenberg undergoes a medical to join big spending spree century man in a reported twenty five million dollar move from a similar. braving ball to world champion yodlee. sprint race to once again. warning to same bald head of the london olympics. so the toughest stage of this year's tour de france has started with one of the big names frank schleck was pulled out by his radio shack team after failing

a drug test the thirty two year old from luxembourg tested positive for a banned retic although he claims he's innocent and may have been poisoned cause twelve in the race has asked for a b. sample to be tested he's the second ride on that test positive. also failed a drugs test a week ago. meanwhile current leader bradley wiggins was full of these are you going to have stage sixteen it includes four of the biggest climbs in cycling is one of them which rises to over two thousand meters the two minute advantage in the overall standings over sky team a chris froome while it televen chance in a further twenty seconds back he hasn't written off his chances of grabbing billy the yellow jersey but first let's hear from wiggins who has every believe that his team can help him win the tour de france. i think we've proved every race we've

gone through this year across the board even when the. it's been other line ups and things like that this team prides itself on racing as a team going out with a game plan and sticking to that game plan and working for each other really in every environment not just on the bike but off the bike as well we support each other and i think i think that's one thing we've got over a lot of other things in which the market along with it of you know that it was that it will be very difficult to wean by the next two days is the mountains if there is a little crisis for rider it is more likely that they will lose big time in the third week then in the first two weeks. russian players have given their backing to thaw capello who set to become the new head coach of the national side they turn has already named russia's main problem in this sport a presence of too many foreign players in the russian premier league and the next few days the former england boss is expected to side a two year deal with the russian for it will take charge in time for russia's

friendly against ivory coast next month before world cup twenty fourteen qualifiers against northern ireland and israel in september russian stars including dinny are believed in and has backed his imminent appointment. i think this is the correct decision and he's a great coach and one of the best around he's been in charge of england and top clubs around europe he's very experienced it will be great to work with him you are gershon you with i don't really know what to think at the moment so many names will link with a job like capello and guardiola you just have to see what he's able to bring to the team and hopefully he'll help take russian football forward. meanwhile big spending paris and your men are set to unveil. his their new signing later today this striker will complete his switch from a stimulant after arriving at the top for a medical it's believed a french club great to pay twenty five million dollars for the thirty volts wade

has been offered a contract worth seventeen million dollars a season after tax. you know the united methodist. birthday to nelson mandela south africa's first democratically elected president turned ninety four united. season two underway in the red devils are due to play a couple of matches in south africa before moving on to china to face did drug shanghai beijing who are side will open their domestic campaign at everton in a month's time and says bringing the target back to old trafford is that task. now there are just nine days to go until the london games begin and the brazilian

football team has touched down in england in search of their first olympic title many brazilian fans who are. to welcome their heroes despite the nation's glorious history they have never won olympic gold and a joint favorites with spain after picking a seriously strong squad it includes striking them who at the age of twenty is one of the hottest talents in world football and ac milan frontman alexandre pato brazil will play great britain in a friendly on friday before starting their pain against egypt brother east and new zealand. the biggest name on the track maybe sprinter you seen ball but fellow jamaican you and blake looks like an increasing threat to the triple olympic champion has just run one point eight five in the one hundred meters. in switzerland and says he's playing on course for the olympics the fastest time of the year last month at the jamaican trials point seven five with fossett and vault

nine point eight six also beat the world record holder in the two hundred. it is their pair will go head to head in both events in london. it's rare when you can say that someone has complete dominance in any one given sport but russia has done just that in super right swimming since the year two thousand and eight team performances have had a strain cold around eleven big gold medal michael chang caught up with russia's current aspiring in the run up to the fast approaching london games. russia's synchronized swimming team and you would have won all six possible gold medals in the last three olympic games in addition they've also contributed heavily to russia's overall gold medal tally in both the world and european aquatics championships but whether or not the challenges of drop the standards in recent times it's clear the current batch of russian athletes are being trained hard.

or we really work a lot never one of the training facility mills there's they're all shocked that we train daily for ten hours hauling and polishing the routine is very difficult and to remember it is even harder. although it was removed in favor of the team competition for the nine hundred ninety six games the jew it is now considered to be the most prestigious event of all russia's. and honest to see a year mark over with the country at the last two olympics but a couple of new starlets in the form of natalee and said. have since emerged shining at recent world and european championships so. it's much tougher physically this time around because in the last olympics i only participated in the team competition and now i will also be performing in the duets competition it's a more individual event and it's of course very prestigious and because of that it's more than double the work the discipline requires great strength insurance

flexibility and of course precise timing as well as exceptional breath control when upside down underwater so training is tough and constant and lengthy the girls can train for literally half a day in order to ensure they maintain the proper level of fitness. without a doubt the most difficult aspect is dealing with the physical demands we've got to do at repetitions in the morning and to team repetitions in the evening so it's quite difficult to keep yourself in shape mentally it's also tough yes the olympics are the gold. but you try not to think about that because it just becomes that much harder rushes synchronise to work. and. of course i have to spend a lot of time in the water but surprisingly spending all amount of the ten hour training sessions here in the gym practicing record graphy. it's a long and at times lonely task with

a rigid regime that leaves little room for anything else let alone the time but insist there's enough time for friends and family that if there is we have one free day a week so we try to get everything done then like go to the movies and meet with friends i have a husband at home so i like spending time with him of course but this is part of our work and i just have to get used to it and of course there wouldn't be much of a do it if the two girls couldn't get along with each other. natasha and i get along very well even beyond the training facility but it can be difficult especially when we come back after our day off and have to resume training when are we really want to do is share the latest of each other mushy enough shoes and expectations will be sky high when they dive in the olympic pool in london in august but it seems they're already well prepared to carry the torch in russia's bid to win gold for consecutive time michael. moscow.

finally golfer tiger woods. to represent his country when his sport makes its return to the olympics in two thousand and sixteen bought for the moment he's got there more pressing issue of getting ready for the upcoming open the world number four has won the event three times before but he admits this year's course life and saying. will not allow any room for error and warns players will have to be on the game from the very first tee when the opening round gets underway on thursday. it is different there's no doubt because we have to be precise rather gate. and hit a ball a specific number normally it's an iron hybrid for what our driver off the first tee and you can hit it basically distance you want and you're setting yourself up for the second shot but this is totally different and. psychologically it is different because you had to be on your game right away and you can't dismiss you

know hit a ball in the fairway any distance you want you have to have tapped at the ball a precise number and that is different than than we experience from you know week in week out. ok up to date now i'll be back into style with more sports news from around the globe for you where there's a next stay with us. well

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