please please please. please please. please . optimism surrounding the arab spring has been replaced by worries about the arab fall as a wave of anti western protests and violence sweep across the muslim world. but for one former british spy in the recent events brings to mind unheeded lessons from the past in his thirty years of british government service alastair crew has operated in trouble spots all across the globe from helping them with fighters in afghanistan against the soviets to working with rebel political groups in northern ireland cambodia and colombia as a former special envoy to the middle east he has brokered

a number of cease fires between israel and the palestinian movements fatah and hamas he now serves as the director of the conflicts forum in beirut where r.t. set down with him for an exclusive interview thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us what is the wave of recent violence the anti-american a wave of protests across the middle east do you see that as a coordinated effort or or perhaps just a reaction to what's going on on the ground it seems to me that what happened in libya was well planned well conceived i mean very well planned. and was certainly not something that happened just out of the blue and it coincided of course with the anniversary of nine eleven. and seems to be more serious i don't think that necessarily suggests that everything else that this that occurred during this period. was therefore coordinated or well designed or or or well planned and what it did touch was a real lady to

a sense of anger at what people see as the continuing aggression as they see that tradition for games culture against their way of being in the three by one. the recent events the sudden outbreak. in libya itself in benghazi the very seeds of what the americans saw a. new new era mirrored this outbreak will cause. the west cumulatively to begin to question and start the process which they need to do which is really to reassess what actually is going on it's not the awakening people for it's not simply a popular impulse of the oppressed against the a precious it's far more than that and what we are seeing is the overlay of the dynamics here is the gulf states saudi

arabia or. other gulf states that are trying to create a sunni bloc in the west of islam as they try to create the salafist sunni bloc in the east and succeeded no it's the there and it's causing huge turmoil and huge internal conflict within the reach of referring to the killing of the u.s. ambassador in libya us secretary of state hillary clinton are marked how could this happen in a country that we helped liberate what are the u.s. foreign policy makers missing when it comes to their supports our interfering in countries where that complicated stance towards the west indeed i think it is causing a real sense of anxiety and a sense of schalke in the united states widely because this whole narrative that somehow the awakening was going away was reflecting and you know much of that was

simply based on this. narrative that was promoted by many mainstream western press that look they're using twitter and facebook therefore it must be western in its orientation well of course you find the salafist groups who. seeing facebook and twitter not necessarily to promote western values but i think they gave it the sense that somehow this was flowing in the west direction and i think this is come as a big wakeup call to to the western states for the moment we see a tacit if you like alliance between the of radical elements in the united states in bringing down assad and bringing down get our feet but when that's finished where will their anger where will. their objective turn it will turn precisely on israel and america. living i've seen for twenty five years people think they're using the salafist as sort of simple pious people who don't

understand politics for their end only to find the salafist use them for the veterans and i fear that this is happening they will find that it will turn on them and will bite them just as it did twenty five to thirty years ago but what lessons has the us failed to learn when it comes to its experience in afghanistan and how does that relate to what's going on right now i remember in eighty seven going and talking to the americans about it and saying you know you need to really understand the big differences between these groups that are taking part in this alliance put together and you have to understand some have credibility and real roots within the community but others do not at all quite different and the americans and the senator i remember at the time turned to me and said listen i was to thank you for the advice and mourning your survived certain groups in afghanistan but look i just want to tell you they're the ones that really came communist pass and so we looked

away didn't want to know what was happening we prefer not to go because it was so popular domestically with president reagan with mr thought it was going down well no where in the area where king get off its ass kicking president assad's. it is a popular sport in the west and good domestically so we don't look who are these groups in syria who were the groups in libya what really oh they're taking it all their objectives truly to bring about as some in the west imagine as simply a more liberal society a more democratic and easy breathing society of course justice twenty five thirty years ago people didn't want to hear it was unpopular to say anything so it's been extremely unpopular here so are you saying that the west miscalculated chose the wrong alliances perhaps i think that they miscalculate totally what was

happening. chose they created to merit it for themselves it was a constructive narrative that really all of the initial awakening which was popular and had real popular impulse and it was somehow a vindication of european values of american values and they misread the it was not it was in fact when you heard that it was a protest against injustice in iniquity it was a protest against neo liberalism it was a protest against the absolute support of the west against for israel and for. its policies against the palestinians that may not have been at the forefront of all of the problem but the reason that these dictators like mubarak had been so impulsive it was precisely because he was the instrument of the west the instrument

of suppression of the palestinians and that it was all was played behind the protests that took place so it was not an endorsement of western values it was a reaction and i think the recent violence that we've seen against western embassies not just american. with. sharply on the line symbolically the limits of western influence in this region this is pushback against their attempt to shape and mold the so-called arab awakening for their own purpose to install their own people their own successes for their own interests in the area but when it comes to syria how do you see the conflict there playing out is peace at all possible at this point or haply surpassed that. i don't think until now we've had a window that does not really being a real window for negotiations because the west has not wanted. the opposition to seriously negotiate except on

a complete collapse. of president assad in the in the syrian system i think. maybe a window arising in the near future and i do hope that the west will instead of ridiculing it and belittling russia's attempts to try and a negotiated outcome. supported because russia place a crucial if there is ever to be a negotiation between the two parties will have to be guaranteed to have to be guarantees for the opposition for who's going to give the guard the u.n. . west of course only russia can really play the crucial role in resolving i'm sorry but a u.n. negotiate the u.n. has no standing and no legitimacy in syria amongst either thought at this time

and are you worried about be ongoing violence in syria spilling over here into lebanon and potentially fracturing the society here of course everyone is worried and it's already has had effect here in lebanon it is polarized the politics of lebanon. it is resulted in conflicts that have taken place in tripoli it is resulted in. skirmishes that have happened in beirut and in in the south. we see reflections of this taking place and lebanon the is of course vulnerable to this type of sectarian conflict but so was jordan and so is iraq and we are seeing the same effect also taking place so it's affecting the whole region and if there is if it continues and of course if the money in the weapons continue to be poured into syria it will of course continue

for a certain extent. no government can stop two or three people and car bombs does continue the tensions will increase but they may explode outside in fact i think in many cases. at this stage it's the states outside that are more vulnerable the neighborhoods of syria that could be said to be more vulnerable than syria itself to call for gratian and civil war israel remains a surprisingly untouched it would seem at least honest on a surface by the rise of radical islam do you expect that to continue and how do you see this playing out i think at the moment it's quite true that the palestinian issue is almost obscured hardly even on the agenda. but of course i don't believe that this will persist i believe that the palestinian issue has been so crucial to the self identity of so many states whether it's egypt whether

it's syria itself that when things settle down the palestinian issue will of course reemerge and of course israel is not unaffected it may not be feeling the effects now but look i mean what's happened has been as. take the change of south africa experience all those years ago at the time of the implosion of the soviet union suddenly. israel is now surrounded in egypt and perhaps soon in jordan and elsewhere by a very different region from the one in which. it previously existed thank you.

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benefit cuts and price guides. that's the headline say up next it always has sports news with paul. thank you very much you're welcome along to the sports headlines here is what's coming up right on track spot our moscow secure their first win five in all competitions as they think of ourselves three one in the russian premier league. top of the pile put on snedeker wins the p.g.a. tour championship by three shots playing with the fed ex cup and applies plus a ten million dollars. on the back in the business two time defending f one champion sebastian vettel wins the singapore grand prix to end his longest run without victory. but first former england football captain john terry has called time on his international career he informed three lions boss roy hodgson of his

decision and it's had a phone call on sunday evening the thirty one year old faces a football association charge of using racist language against q.p.r. defender anton ferdinand that disciplinary hearing takes place later on monday terry was cleared of racially abusing ferdinand in court in july and says the f.a.'s decision to pursue charges against him makes his position untenable he played seventy eight times for his country and was initially made captain in two thousand and six. elsewhere russia's most successful club spartak moscow have won their first league game since the middle of august relief all around for you know i am arrays man is the red and white three one on sunday and manual amany k. claiming the house door calming the house now twenty seven minutes after converting a quickly free kick that was the nigerian second goal of the season on his third was to follow but before that out a double spotlights advantage the brazilian picking his spot superbly sixty four

minutes in after the corner kick the crowd not too long afterwards and make a had his breaks the. strike aside first thing home a powerful live for us from a little flaw in cinema grab a consolation for the lost of an eighty eight minutes meeting three one was how it finished spots are now up to six. complaints and actually one point behind all the two time russian champions will be . men who were without a win in three. hundred turned out to be a feisty affair one red card for either side late in the first half somehow i was shouting salvatore for rubin on the stroke of half time turned out to be solitary one when simon seven. let's take a look at the top eight then how they currently stands as caused by inform sees them top three points clear of lokomotiv terek meanwhile have slipped from

a top to third angie and sparred. over there about. me while i was really glad manchester united secure a come from behind win over rivals liverpool at anfield the home side for supply the entire second half with ten men off the jonjo shelvey received a straight red card to challenge on john you have been low so i printed the scoring for skipper steven gerrard just after half time goals from rafael and robin van persie sending united out the second in the table behind chelsea another highly anticipated pictures to reigning champions manchester city draw with asshole joleon lescott and so on because chelsea to score as well newcastle and spurs technology respectively. so i five weeks into the season the top of the table looks like place chelsea lead the way with four wins in a draw manchester united tech closest rivals one point behind everything's good starts is them and while the reigning champions manchester city is down seven. now to go for an american brandt snedeker has won the p.g.a.

tour championship and with it the fed ex cup the american showed no sign of now says he can prove his final. around three birdies on the back nine to cool the drama out of a final day which was laced with possibilities it's a timely boost for snedeker ahead of the ryder cup which starts on friday the thirty one year old finished three strokes clear of englishman justin rose it was enough to pocket a ten million dollar prize also claiming the fed ex cup world number one rory mcilroy was unable to in his pool for granted by the minister nine shots off the. air just to get back into the team that's their team spirit should be good fun. and is going to go there and enjoy it and try and help the team europe as much as i can . now to formula one where two time defending champion sebastian vettel is up to second place in the standings after winning the singapore grand prix for the second time in two years mclaren's lewis hamilton started from pole and held off the

competition until disaster struck after twenty three laps the englishman retiring g to gearbox issues as vettel took over just after the midway point seven time world champion michael schumacher collided with john erik the german faces a ten place grid parity for the next race in japan for his part in the incident jenson button i made sure that mclaren would reach the podium finishing second is fernando alonso but his overall lead has now been cut to twenty nine points with six races remaining. now moving to the ice where new n.h.l. arrivals are already making their presence felt in the k h l the match between title holders and scarfs and peaches took center stage on sunday pitched as a battle between superstars alexander ovechkin and area of i'll check his room and with more. take a shell is widely considered to be secondary in popularity to the n.h.l. but with a lockout in north america already in effect that argument seems to be no longer an

issue because some of the world's best players are now strutting their stuff right here in the gulf and. alex said that she has returned to his home scenes in a moscow from n.h.l. the washington capitals was marked by two points in as many games where the new jersey devils in a couple chick on the other hand the match against all these t.v. became his cage and that very successful one too has sky st petersburg out scored the muscovites by three books to one you know family and all the friends here and those rates are playing from the home crowd to know that people here they're enjoying watching hockey especially those reiver yanks you know to top conspire against each other and i think it's all sponsored though the battle for a place in the gari cup playoffs is still months away but the chicken couple chook duck soup and other locks out and h l r's are ensuring top attendance at various cage hillary nets from seven countries using three others i'm very happy that

players like alex ovechkin decided to come home i hope that he will shine here just like in the n.h.l. i'm glad that he opened his scoring tally today and hopefully he and the rest of us will help us win the title which is. well a deskins dinar most certainly have plenty to look forward to this season but capitalizing on opportunities will probably become the priority in the immediate future though it will take him some time to adjust but that can already knows what needs to be done to achieve that success. i can feel trust from my teammates and the coaching staff were showing combinational and attractive playing as that was what scoring is are we want we needed seven on the previous match and one today so we need to find that golden mean when we score three or four and comfortably. so because the n.h.l. and its players union continued to cross over cash north america is now missing out

on top notch ice again action and their loss is now russia's and other cage all countries game has even more n.h.l. ors are now seeking a path to the continental. remark austria r.t. moscow. elsewhere england's preparation for the super eight stage of the t twenty cricket world cup could not have been worse they recorded their lowest ever t twenty score and then one thousand run defeat to india by side to their already secured their place in the super a stage making this much somewhat of a dead rubber however england captain stuart broad won't be pleased with what he saw india reaching one hundred seventy four four from their twenty overs and why england struggled with india's spinners they were skittled for just eighty r.b.i. i'm saying it is a four for twelve. finally russia's national across country iran has successfully concluded the annual event which is the biggest sporting gathering ever in the country attracting over one million participants across eighty cities

michael crabtree and co it was at the moscow leg of the race. it's one of the oldest sports and one of the simplest since it was included in the first modern olympic games back in agent ninety six cross country running has barely changed and why should it it encompasses everything that's needed in sport strength stamina fitness and competition but to name a few but today's nationwide event is also about uniting a nation. is designed to unite the nation friends family and friends of sport and even those who are no longer active like me have come down to support the cause we're all around to give an example to people a slight extend running and i'm not only about strength it's also beautiful and though it has been run in beautifully. many prominent figures in athletes were among the one point two million people who don't their running game. in roughly eighty cities across the country and just outside moscow russia's minister of sport would tell him which call was on hand to officially open the race and also partook

in a rather symbolic with fellow colleagues. ultimately everyone who was taking part today is winner there's no need to overdo it everyone should be picking the distance and speed that suits their stamina and fitness that's why i chose to run only five hundred metres. another pleasant factor was seeing so many youngsters willing to come out on a dreary sunday morning to take in the fresh air open space and party atmosphere. will look like a very interesting sporting event we need to support sport as best we can i myself do a lot of sport so that's why i came. the event will no doubt continue to be a success in coming years with russia determined to further promote a healthy lifestyle while it probably won't rival the world's biggest nationwide cross-country event which was held recently in the philippines attracting over four million people it's still the biggest sporting event in russia and judging by the turnout today it's proof that people here definitely do approve of

a healthy lifestyle as to why. he still isn't finished by the way he's still running that rice and that is all from the world of sport and i would argue that without plenty more in just under two hours time here and i'll take. download the official ati application to cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch on t.v. any time any kind of. question is that so much about the taxpayers' money maintaining it is a charade even come out of the five area growing competition for sovereign control

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