reid's participation in the bombing of libya griffin continues massing its forces anti-war activists john rees told loren at the government will not withdraw from the conflict before the coalition reshape some political map of the region here's more of his thoughts. today i'm talking to john reese he's very active in the stop the war coalition that position is that the british military should not have got involved in intervention in libya john reese thank you very much for talking to martine now the government says that the air strikes prevented a massacre in benghazi why are you right and they're wrong well i think the longer term effects would be even worse than the effects might have been on benghazi but i don't actually accept the government's argument about benghazi either if you look at the guardian reports on the day before the airstrikes took place from benghazi it's clear that the rebels in benghazi stop gadhafi. before he got beyond the suburbs and i think it would have been impossible for a force of maybe tens of thousands of soldiers to take the city of a million people so i don't

that position is that the british ministry should not have got involved in intervention in libya john rees thank you very much for talking to r.t. now the government says that the ad strikes prevented a massacre in benghazi why are you right and they're wrong well i think the longer term effects would be even worse than the effects might have been on benghazi but i don't actually accept the government's argument about benghazi either if you look at the guardian reports on the day before the airstrikes took place from benghazi it's clear that the rebels in benghazi stopped to get a piece of this before he got to be on the suburbs and i think it would have been impossible for a force of maybe tens of thousands of soldiers to take in a city of a million people so i don't accept that that was a sufficient justification for the war in the first place i also think there is some evidence again report in the guardian newspaper that he actually moved into place so you could take shelter from possible air attacks so far from producing the effect that the government said it would produce the opposite

i'll bring you more thoughts from anti-war activists john rees who was featured in lawrence report later in the hour. our case erlang from the campaign against arms trade as a military hardware sold by britain was clearly designed to be used against civilians the fact is these governments in the middle east and north africa who are being sold were couldn't quite aggressively by britain i should say who are in fact undemocratic dictatorial abusive regimes i think it was pretty world know when these weapons were likely to be used for internal repression of course no one knew when it was likely to happen but the fact is they were buying weapons such as crowd control technology cheer gas and wall and door breaching equipment which could only be used for internal repression for us the most essential saying this report does is our sixth really tough question how do you reconcile promoting arms exports with staunch support for human rights well we would say in reconcilable we want to see a continuation of an arms embargo right across the entire middle east and north africa and we certainly welc

may be on the way to lure emmett london and will bring in more thoughts from anti-war activists john rees who was featured in lawrence report later this hour. rebels are preparing to restart crude oil exports as the first tanker arrives in the opposition held eastern corridor to grow the petroleum is expected to go through kickstarter for it reaches its maiden quarter the e.u. and according to reports oil hungry european states have offered their rivals a look let's have deal with potentially dangerous consequences daniel bushell explains the main use of libyan oil the main. reason to go on. the e.u. representative here in brussels more sanctions only applied to the national old corporation the state held hold energy company and all other companies continues as usual there are concerns that this will be used. for own. in the region of course the u.s. . has imposed only. and the proof will raise questions about the motives of the coalition raising. the control. was the motive and the ruble for the. bases in the east of the country trying to infiltrate the rebels and the leadership over the

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