crossed the aisle a caution he is a professor of political science at the american university of beirut and another member of our cross talk team still in the hunger all right folks this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want if i could go to london first we're going to if how would you describe events being played out now in libya because i've been covering this watching this very closely obviously it's my job in and that's what i do for this program and it seems to me this is a civil war in the west under the guise of a coalition has chosen a side. in my being unfair in my description i think it's just been a very difficult one this one in terms of intervention because on one hand you know doing nothing at all would have sent the signal broadly from the west that we just don't do responsibility to protect anymore because it didn't quite work out very well for us. and intervening of course has all sorts of connotations like the one you mentioned taking sides in a civil war. and there's also the intricacy of the security council resolution which is really i mean the p

and exxon right well being here in beirut lebanon watching global media and watching c.n.n. be see it's amazing because they look at the price of gas and then on one chart and then they have a dead people racking up in various regions in another chart and they're trying to figure out how many dead people it takes to keep the price of gas down a penny and this is now they see the world it's all about dead people versus the price of gas how many dead people per penny and of course if they needed kill more people to keep the price of gas down another penny then they're all for it so that they have these you know cheerleaders on c. and b. c. these over the cloth only make one in kind of found sitting around saying yeah they kill people as long as gas prices are down another penny and people think this is the cage fight of america is that they've created a global cage try to keep that but going forward stacey the fact is that price of gas is going to continue to go higher for a lot of different reasons so mark is going to get into some other business other than the exportation of

all right welcome to the kaiser report imax guys are where here in beirut lebanon to get a taste of freedom as it sweeps the region freedom fighters are everywhere all across north africa the middle east and even madison wisconsin it's a global insurrection against a banker occupation with its own songs like. this new hit from. gadhafi stacy herbert welcome back to the kaiser report well max first let's play a little clip from this viral hit remakes of moammar gadhafi he's brilliant speech to the nation there we go. that's a fantastic sweeping the globe the population the youth the arab youth the thing they love so much about gadhafi speech is that they for forty years i've known he's a totally bonkers insane dude but the west is prance around the world stage at various i.m.f. and those sort of meeting the west gave him legitimacy so they love how embarrassing his speech was because it was mostly embarrassing for the likes of tony blair and. george bush is no longer in office but obama no i mean where is tony blair is he kind of square in london settings and goes into was lecturing a i mean

and in beirut you buy that because one of the things that's very interesting about president obama's statement is that he doesn't talk about him and the game getting into a war is not that difficult we've seen that since the iraqi adventure of starting in two thousand and three even before that afghanistan and american and coalition forces are still there now because they didn't think about the end game is this a mistake being made again. yeah i mean the us. innocently ration the word she was dragged into the situation and libya it was the french and to a lesser extent the british who were enthusiastic about intervention there on the grounds of. minimizing civilian casualties. but from the beginning none of the western powers said that they would be committing ground troops to the conflict in libya. i mean the us had no option but to interfere against the pressure from its european allies ok david i mean i can't think of you know i really tried to do my homework for this program i can't think of any humanitarian calling called humanitarian intervention where you didn't end up putting

in beirut is very interesting is that the way it was pretty media is the opposition following in the footsteps of tunisia egypt of just the arab awakening the great hope that we saw on our television screens all around the world but is that as we just heard from david they didn't have the supply lines maybe not the organization people who criticize them for not having a leader describing who they actually are you have people in the west few days ago even saying they should be armed but then people step back and said who would we be arming and isn't there enough military material in the country already again i mean all of this confusion and all of the ring this time mr gadhafi and his loyalists have slowly but surely gotten it would appears to be the upper hand again why do you think it went so wrong. well there are a number of factors here and the consideration. you mention the war in game this is far from the end of yet and let's begin in mind that we are not only talking about leave year but as well as egypt and tunisia and for that matter the rest of the arab or the young and the

like rahm emanuel jobs but when george bush did it they don't care and the same vice versa here in beirut people talk you know that sunni shia shia sunni and then the states between red state blue state blue state red state and the powers that be like to push that that that conflict which is an artificial construct really just to get people fighting with each other and not giving them any kind of basic services yet and also to allow the looting by the autocrats on the desk but they're only allowed to operate in a situation where there's huge sectarianism wherever you divide it and this brings me to this past weekend we went to a protest here in beirut secular activists planned protest and bid to topple sectarian regime so demonstrators were out the street on sunday calling for the toppling of the sectarian regime they were saying that the possibility of achieving change in a country where sectarian and partisan affiliations often. defeat mass action so anytime there's a mass movement and a mass anger gets quickly divided into sectarian groups that so change never comes because you pick of

beirut. i love beirut because. it was a great place to be a spy. and then the embassy got hit. by a suicide car bomber. sixty three dead americans dead lebanese six of my close colleagues friends in the cia were killed there. carsten to that saw the bomb go off and suddenly i saw this big bang this white star called me the old embassy and then of course the bang and then i looked up flames and i run over and there i saw it and destruction and chaos. it was a stunning assault. one man with a car could wage war on the united states ironically with an american truck. there is one man who knows a lot about lebanese car bombs. mahmoud. a top expert who defused does. sins of bombs. christian car bombs palestinian car bombs muslim car bombs. and the long drawn out civil. war going. on then i was the only expert who has this monthly income bombs in lebanon and. russia became too good at stopping. and then his adversaries decided to target him. one day they left the boma specially for me since it was activated by remote control and as soon as i touched the bomb. they blew it up. unfairl

beirut. i love beirut.

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i saw this in 1989 in beirut when the syrians attacked the oil in beirut. it's provocation. there is no justification for hitting oil dericks. it causes massive pollution and it hurts the people on the ground because they can't use the fuel and also if that's being exported, that's obviously an aggressive move there. >> well, they wanted attention, they are certainly getting it now. the world is watching to be sure. edward yeranian with cbs radio news covering the unrest in -- in libya. thank you. >>> a great day coming our way in the bay area. a lot of sunshine outside, low clouds over the bay area. just some patchy fog showing up. thicker fog showing up in some of the interior valleys but that's all going to start to fade away through the day and going to see a lot of sunshine coming your way. if you are stepping outside, yeah, plan on patchy fog, temperatures running in the 40s and the 50s at this hour. by this afternoon, spring-like weather coming our way. temperatures up into the 60s. maybe even a couple of low 70s by the afternoon with mild sunshine and couple of high

>> that came on the heels of the explosion of the marine barracks in beirut. >> that was a harmless, pretend a little show war. you show your strength every once in awhile, but there was no cost. but you don't do the big ones unless you are serious. >> that is the real issue, is obama is serious? look, i had all kinds of questions about getting into this and the first place, as did obama, as did secretary gates. obama, in the end, made a decision, we are going in, but now his objective is that america ought to leave and have the war on going. he wants to give up -- it is process over bad policy. you just heard him say in that at the exit strategy is executed this week. >> what is the exit strategy? >> the u.s. has special capability that will still be at us and that war. >> there are two parts to this, the easy part, the no-fly zone, and the other part, continuing to protect the civilian population, which apparently we have. >>9 gaddafi tries to test the n- fly zone. one fighter shot down by a french fighter, that is the end of that. >> well, the reason that we do is that after six d

and you could certainly see a bomb or signature between beirut and the ninety three trade center.olemn ase amateurish attempt to reclaim his cash deposit would end in a record two hundred forty year jail term. but there was nothing funny about usis plan for the twin towers. the bomb van was deliberately part one of the towers he structural support. his aim was to bring down both towers. we got a good blow by sunday night two days after the bombing the slurry foundation would have failed would have allowed some of the hudson river in and cause tower one to collapse most likely into tower two causing it to collapse. ramzi yousef was finally captured in pakistan two years later and extradited back to the united states. he was taken by helicopter to the southern district of manhattan for arraignment and as the helicopter flew by the twin towers one of the agents point at the towers and says they're still standing. grandiose and takes a glance it looks back stokely it says more money and more time and they would not be and he was pretty correct. food is why again in one thousand and tw

>> that came on the heels of the explosion of the marine barracks in beirut. >> that was a harmless, pretend a little show war. you show your strength every once in awhile, but there was no cost. but you don't do the big ones unless you are serious. >> that is the real issue, is obama is serious? look, i had all kinds of questions about getting into this and the first place, as did obama, as did secretary gates. obama, in the end, made a decision, we are going in, but now his objective is that america ought to leave and have the war on going. he wants to give up -- it is process over bad policy. you just heard him say in that at the exit strategy is executed this week. >> what is the exit strategy? >> the u.s. has special capability that will still be at us and that war. >> there are two parts to this, the easy part, the no-fly zone, and the other part, continuing to protect the civilian population, which apparently we have. >> gaddafi tries to test the no- fly zone. one fighter shot down by a french fighter, that is the end of that. >> well, the reason that we do is that after six d

all right welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser were here in beirut lebanon to get a taste of freedoms it sweeps the region freedom fighters are everywhere all across north africa the middle east and even madison wisconsin it's a global insurrection against a banker och.

government in places like dubai or beirut where they corroborated and met each other and strategically went about pursuing the goals of opposing their governments. >> surely they find strength from one another by finding one another on facebook and on twitter and they knew that their message was getting out to a public. surely that encouraged them. was perhaps social media not something of a tipping point when it came to egypt and because there are so many more people using social media than there were in 2009 in iran. >> well, again, i don't think that we have to focus on the social media as the primary force. the same number of people in egypt using facebook two years ago. the first wave of protests in egypt started in 2008 when they had huge labor strikes in the country. and they already have hundreds of thousands of people who are using facebook. they didn't ignite political change because the political circumstances were not there. it was tunisia that was the tipping point for egypt. it was not facebook or twitter. >> there's an underlying assumption that authoritarians afraid of

with award winning journalist in beirut named one of the world's top one hundred intellectuals by the foreign policy magazine. your latest book is taming the gods of religion and democracy on three continents so i want to start our discussion by asking you about the role of islam in the modern world how significant is it and do you see a certain level of islamophobia in the united states nowadays there is certainly a level of islamophobia just as the all over the western world it's difficult to talk about the role that because it's not one thing to millions and millions of people it's a faith but inside the world of islam there's also a violent revolutionary movement which is a minority of muslims who take part in it you can sympathize with it but it's there and that causes problems. to the extent that people are worried about violence coming from those groups that worry is justified is that we. know that would be very mistaken dangerous notion are you seeing a certain level of phobia when it comes to. well yes. people bigoted opinions on it. i think it's one of the last forms of bigo

tens of thousands of joined a rally in the lebanese capital beirut to protest the weapons arsenal held by hezbollah fundamentalists the crowds the supporters about going prime minister's side here really who stepped down last month after his unity government collapse has been largely its allies pulled out of the cabinet over a un back tribunal which is likely to implicate its members in the killing of the country. in two thousand and five. fourteen people have died in a two a bus accident in new york with another ten seriously injured the coach was carrying at least thirty one passengers and it flipped over slid on its side and hit a pole pole sliced the bus in half terry the roof top of the vehicle the driver told investigators he swerved to avoid a tractor trailer which sped away with bus returning from a casino outside the city. you're watching r t from moscow with me kevin o. in thanks for being with us today we will of course keep you updated with the latest news coming out of japan for the evening and you can also find the latest online on our website and our team dot com the nex

we're going to spend our interview there thank you very much for being with us live on the line from beirut this this evening terry miss on the founder of the international n.g.o.s. now as the crisis in libya unfolds the revolutionary guard for egypt is subsiding but many fear the return of the old guard and question whether the new leaders will bring about the changes they want for. more from cairo. several weeks have passed since they've evolved but it seems the wheels of the old political machine are still turning we start now oh everything usual revision didn't finish here we need change we need you'll be able. to govern ourselves. now that would be. used to be an anchor on egypt's national state run radio she claims even though president mubarak has already stepped down the media is still being manipulated and made to me and is. me around all those who are around including ari and i would pick this up but thinking and making in late january several hundred thousand people took to the streets of cairo demanding president mubarak step down after several weeks of violence the president. a

some other international news making headlines and that is the last rally of the lebanese capital beirut to the disarming of hezbollah fundamentalists the ground supporters of the prime minister. said down after his unity government talents. and its allies pulled out of the town but it's a u.n. tribunal which is likely to implicate its members in the two thousand and five killing of how we respond when the us premiere. but horrific. has claimed the lives of fifteen people and seriously injured another ten was carrying at least thirty one passengers when it flipped over slid on its side and had a pole pole slice the bass in home along the windows terrible roof top of the vehicle with a driver told investigators he swerved to avoid a tractor trailer where this is claimed the blast traveling at high speeds the vehicle was returning from a casino outside the city. what single thing in mind from moscow gets out in the bad light in just a few moments say without. brown or do. we hear it because our petri outs that. god promised them this millinery long stuff. will if they are still going to be

minister has quit amid persistent allegations that some coffee that large parts of his doctoral thesis beirut university revoked call theodore's and gutenberg's academic title last week saying he had failed to sufficiently credit some of his sources thirty five year old who was regarded by many as the country's most popular politician says he made the decision as the royal was overshadowing his ministerial duties for . colombia has been removed from a list of countries requiring special observation by the e.u. grants drug control watchdog international narcotics control board say the move was in a recognition of the country's achievements in fighting the problem would continue to monitor developments closely the u.n. said twenty ten report showed drastic reduction was a cocoa plantations in colombia and that more drugs were seized there and that any other state of the world over the pa. decades. federal authorities in the u.s. so charged a former goldman sachs director with insider trading the securities and exchange commission says roger abused his position by passing on confidential informa

ten thousand to join the rally in the lebanese capital beirut to protest the weapons arsenal held by has a lot of the mentalists the crowds supporters of outgoing prime minister hariri last month after his unity government collapsed as blair and its allies pulled out of the capital over a u.n. tribunal which is like a duplicate its members in the killing of the country's former premier. only this week russia's republic of chechnya hosted an all star match widely seen as a major step forward for the region a team of brazilian football veterans arrived for a charity game against a team captain by the chechen leader ramzan kadyrov barn explores how a former reno for military conflict is now leaving its bloody past behind in favor of sport. it must rank as one of the more curious pictures in football history at a press conference late the night before church's leader ramzan kadyrov spoke of his excitement at the arrival of the opposition it's a real holiday to all our fans who have been waiting for this event for such a long time it's an exciting guy and i know that many of those who lef

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said deed he's a foreign correspondent for the new york times he divide the time between baghdad and beirut but today we think hiero and a lot of the guys report but it is more pleasure taught things like all of these revolutions that are going on now across the region and change the narrative from muslims are bad to arabs or good and now saying that there's a total shift in the perception of the arab world as now they are on the forefront the cutting edge of democracy that is is that there's a tremendous pride in the hearts of people there now you know i don't think it would ever occur to the notion that muslims are bad necessarily might be the perception elsewhere but i think you're exactly right that in europe world right now here are the winds of change there's absolutely a fundamental we think of what arab societies represent and it's breathtaking it's breathtaking in both its scope and also it speed we're talking about basically two months january and february in which to dictators or to say awkward terry and we are so fallen when people have taken to the streets depressed demands tha

tens of thousands of joined a rally in the lebanese capital beirut to protest the weapons arsenal held by hezbollah fundamentalists and crowds of supporters of outgoing prime minister saad hariri who stepped down last month after his unity government collapsed as its allies pulled out of the cabinet of un but tribunal which is likely to implicate its members in the killing of the country from two thousand and five. you watching r.t. from moscow my name is kevin and we will keep you up to date with the latest news coming out of japan throughout the evening and you can also find the latest online and r.t. dot com the next sideline update on this channel is in two and a half minutes time. from our hero. we hear it because our passion doubts that. god promised them this lynn belongs to our. will if they are still going to be thinking the. goal chosen people will not believe that god is real estate agents they look at the standards for you guys and this guy is as we. don't want to be this is a. different might not them. up with. them up. top.

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