peter lavelle and his guests discuss what the establishment of a new regime in libya has brought. a debate show cross talk is up next. welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle libya intervention like in the specter of civil war libya's transition away from the khadafi regime is proving far more problematic than nato planners had ever anticipated central civilian control.

following the welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the coup that failed but changed everything twenty years ago communist party hardliners attempted to derail me help out of a child's efforts to reform the soviet union in the coos aftermath the communist party was banned to be followed by the end of the u.s.s.r. could history of played out different. place and. started. to cross talk the events of august one thousand nine hundred one i'm joined by geoffrey hosking in london he is america's professor of russian history at the university college london in oxford we have archie brown he's america's professor of politics at the university of oxford and indeed we know the good old we go to nikolai petro he is professor of politics at the university of rhode island all right gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's have a look at the failed coup of one thousand nine hundred one. last week the president this is the same. on august nineteenth one thousand nine hundred one instead of tuning into the soviet national anthem citizens across the u.s.

the ongoing west ham's to corner iran and what iran is doing in response are both tackle to peter lavelle's cross that's coming up in about twenty five minutes and here's a taste of what's. the word even wants to bring the hidden even out of a well by doing something spectacular destructive to enemies of islam and this is what motivates him right you guys and all of the old soviet leadership who for all their misdeeds were atheists so they believed that a nuclear war and death was an end in failure and many things dying in a nuclear war for allah will get him to paradise what incentive do you have to bring to bear on him what carrot can you offer him to compare with us so you have to be prepared to stop his military efforts and he says i'm going to go and he says he doesn't and you can evolve why did you marry in the new zealand and he wants to wipe out israel which is a lot for a country that has been attacking anybody we should not be only drop to the most powerful nation this kind of rhetoric this kind of rhetoric is not good for israel israel is a very strong country and it doesn't need

polo in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle boris yeltsin was he a great man who made history or was he merely a product of his time opinions differ widely don't know one denies the important role he played in creating our present crosstalk continues that series from the collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago. place to. sleep.

know we welcome rostov around peter lavelle almost immediately after the collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago the commonwealth of independent states was established its original intent seen by many as a vehicle to witness the amicable divorce of the u.s.s.r. two decades on it is an organisation in search of a mission. to cross-talk the commonwealth of independent states i'm joined by stephen cohen here in the studio he's a professor of russian studies and history at new york university and in providence we crossed in a quiet petro he's a professor of politics at the university of rhode island all right this is crosswalks gentleman so you can jump in anytime you want stephen you're in the studio with me here in moscow let's talk about the significance of establishing the commonwealth of independent states after the soviet union collapses because ever since twenty years on there's the accusation that russia wants to rebuild the soviet union minus the baltic republics bad birth sometimes give birth to bad lives the commonwealth of independent states c.i.s. was formed by yeltsin

the hour's headlines up next peter lavelle and guest discuss the dispute over a planned u.s.anti-piracy laws which critics say may censor the internet worldwide stay with us crosstalk. oh. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle it's a contest pitting silicon valley against hollywood with washed.

following the welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle crude blockade and the turning off of the taps as the united states and the e.u. again sanction iran iran is also threatening to impose punitive steps against the western powers are we witnessing merely a game of chicken or a potential bomb ticking before the advent of war. and you can. start. to cross-talk iran and its oil i'm joined by john robson in ottawa he is a columnist in commentator for a sun news network and invited professor at the university of ottawa in london we have to settle me he is an international oil economist and technical expert with the united nations industrial development organisation and in irvine we go to our bankers our day he is a professor of engineering at the university of california irvine are gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it but first let's go to john robson in in london the you pushing forward july first will cut off all oil exports into the european union from iran and it is calling the strategy to avoid chaos in the middle eas

follow him welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle boris yeltsin was he a great man who made history or was he merely a product of his time opinions differ widely don't know when denies the important role he played in creating our present crosstalk continues its series on the collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago. and. to cross talk yeltsin's russia i'm joined by dmitri barber chair in the studio with me he's a political analyst at ria novosti news agency in washington we have donald jensen he's a resident fellow at the center for transatlantic relations and in london we go to alex proud day he is director of russian and eurasian studies center at the university of oxford all right gentlemen crosstalk rules and in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want well the reason why we're doing this we're doing our series here on cross talk on the collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago and twenty years ago on june twelfth one thousand nine hundred ninety also became the first popularly elected president of the russian soviet federated socialist republic all basically th

coming up peter lavelle when his guests discuss political posturing and million dollar lobbyist handouts in the own going u.s. presidential campaigns crosstalk is next. and.

below we welcome across time peter lavelle the could be trailed but changed everything twenty years ago communist party hardliners attempted to derail me help out of a child's efforts to reform the soviet union in the coups aftermath the communist party was banned.

cross talk host peter lavelle and his guests discuss what went wrong and whether the soviet union could have been saved that after a quick recap of our top story.

back to our top headline a year after the revolution and what does the future hold for egypt peter lavelle and his guests hammer out the possibilities in cross talk next on our team. and it. will only mean welcome to cross talk on peter live though unfinished business a year on the.

coming out peter lavelle and his guest discuss political posturing and million dollar lobbyist handouts in the own going u.s. presidential campaigns crosstalk is next. you. know we welcome to cross our computer all about the biggest and most expensive elections money can buy this is how many americans see what are called political action committees or super pacs are the super pacs good for democracy do they really inform and voters and are elections now only about money. and you can. start. to cross talk political action committees i'm joined by seton motley in washington he is the president and editor in chief of the less government also in washington we have greg coleman he is a government affairs lobbyist for public citizen and in los angeles we crossed a room he is the founding editor of the independent newspaper i'd gentleman cross-talk rules and if that means you can jump in anytime you want and i really very much encourage a room in los angeles if i go to you first in researching this program i came across i thought it was a very interesting and if not funny statement everyone lo

next to peter lavelle and his guests discuss the rao over a plan that u.s. legislation which critics say will censor the internet worldwide debate show cross talk is coming your way. hello and welcome to crossfire computable it's a contest pitting silicon valley against hollywood with washington in the middle supporters of the stop online piracy act claim they are losing billions of dollars a year on the internet opponents of.

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hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the coup that failed but changed everything twenty years ago communist party hardliners attempted to derail me helped out of a child's efforts to reform the soviet union in the coos aftermath the communist party was banned to be followed by the end of the u.s.s.r. could history of played out differently.

welcome back your cross talk on peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the events of august ninety nine you want. to. take off i can go to you i mean archie brown brought up a very interesting point before we went to the break about a got a bunch of plans to split up the communist party into competing factions me but isn't that still kind of a an old style mentality reform from the top down i mean because we saw during the coup a lot of spontaneous spontaneity and where people are saying no we're not going to go back to the old days and actually you know civil society became very very fertile with ideas ok i mean got a bunch off by then was already out of step with the changes in society. i tend to tend to agree with that point of view that you just articulated. i think. if good bye to of had somehow managed to push through his version of reforms the net result would not have been progressive change over time it would have been a dead weight on society for even longer sadly what happened in the aftermath of the coup was that the impetus for reform that yeltsin attempted to seize wa

the ongoing western attempts to call iran and iran's response of the topics up for debate to peter lavelle's cross talk now that's coming up in the next here on r.t. but in the meantime here's a quick taste of what lies ahead in the program. wants to bring the hidden even out of a well by doing something spectacularly destructive to enemies of islam and this is what motivates him right this guy it's not like the old soviet leadership who for all their misdeeds were at least atheist so they believe that a nuclear war and death was an end in failure and many thinks dying in a nuclear war for allah will get him to paradise what incentive do you have to bring to bear on him what carrot can you offer him to compare with that so you have to be prepared to stop his military efforts and he says i'm going to i don't know any sense doesn't it and you can involve why don't you marry him who is the only one who wants to wipe out israel which is what for a country that has a taboo only now we only drop to the most powerful nation this kind of rhetoric this kind of rhetoric is not good for israel israel i

and coming up later this hour our t's crossed peter lavelle asks his guest whether the new legislation may completely change the face of the internet. the fact is that what we're trying to do is enforce u.s. copyright laws on foreign companies whose copyright laws may be different from ours and what we're saying is if you don't follow us law in terms of copyrights then we have the right to shut you down the other part of the problem is affectively that's going through the division of it isn't that. you're objecting to the fact that people are trying to stop sites that are pirating american american intellectual property and it's not always just movies and music it's also physical goods that are kyra you know these are counterfeit drugs you know there are also maybe a little written material that can be and i you know harmon first harm children the harm adults there's a serious there are serious consequences where it's one thing and there's one sure the child is going to object to these sides but the the problem here the problem here is in terms of how you go about remedying the problem

blowing welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle taunting turnaround on a wider range of issues the standoff between iran and western powers has ratcheted up is the west preparing for a military confrontation with the islamic republic what role does israel play in the scheme of things and how much of this standoff is really generated by domestic political agendas. and you can. start. to cross talk around in the news i'm joined by solemn duty in los angeles he is the executive director of the muslim public affairs council in irvine we have soraya support her like she is an independent researcher writer and political commentator and in london we cross to mark fitzpatrick he's director of nonproliferation and disarmament program at the international institute for strategic studies our focus is crosstalk and that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it so i if i go to you first iran's very much in the news here we have murders we have sanctions we have military maneuvers we have calls for an attack on iran is this a drumbeat to war is it inevitable. good morning too g

election but some presidential candidates are still keen to demonstrate their support for israel next peter lavelle and his cross guests discuss how americans view their long lasting friendship with the jewish state. and you can. follow and welcome to cross talk into the house republican party presidential contenders are falling over themselves in their support of israel is this a reflection of gross ignorance of history in the israeli palestinian conflict or is it gross pandering to the israeli lobby in the us is this the kind of support to israel in america's national interest and in the end is it in the national interest of israel and its future. to take a. stand. to cross-talk the g.o.p.'s backing of israel i'm joined by small rosner in tel aviv he's a senior political editor of the jewish journal and a fellow at the jewish people policy institute and in washington we cross to sarah wildman she's a journalist and a foreign policy correspondent for politics daily dot com all right folks this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's listen to what some republican

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welcome back to cross talk i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're talking about the revolution in egyptone year on. and you can. start. in its case very interesting john i know in reading some of the media coverage of the revolution when you're on the up and not really american but more like british and european is it to instead of this kind of dichotomy we have the muslim brotherhood in the military it looks more and more like there were in cahoots with each other ok and particularly when writing this constitution now do you think that the the the democratic element of this revolution is being swept away by these two major forces because they're going to make a deal and it's not necessarily a deal it's going to be very public because the military doesn't want to be very open about it because we all know about their privileges so if i go to you on that david i mean so maybe it's just the cut you know it's not the extremes it's two different groups together that are very different they're going to make a deal with each other and that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be democratic. well

lowing welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle libya intervention like in the specter of civil war libya's transition away from the khadafi regime is proving far more problematic than nato planners had ever anticipated central civilian control is an illusion and tribal loyalty is strong it would appear it is a lot easier to take down a regime than to establish a new order. to cross not libya i'm joined by dr venter while in hanover he is an associate professor of government at dartmouth college in paris we cross to the end of jonestown she is an independent political commentator and author of fool's crusade yugoslavia nato and western delusions and in london we have nick mayo he is a foreign correspondent for the sunday telegraph all right folks this is crossfire that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it and i'd like to first go to diana diana is the the intervention that we saw nato undergo was it an intervention without responsibility because libya is a mess and it's getting messier all the time it particularly in light of the last few hours a day or so of

and coming up peter lavelle and guests discuss the route over the planned u.s. anti-piracy legislation that critics say will censor the internet worldwide stay with us cross talk coming up. hello and welcome to crossfire computable it's a contest pitting silicon valley against hollywood with washington in the middle supporters of the stop online piracy act claim they are losing billions of dollars a year to theft on the internet opponents of sopa worry the internet as we know it today could be hijacked. to discuss the future of the internet i'm joined by daniel castro in washington he's a senior analyst with information technology and innovation foundation specializing in the information technology policy also in washington we have wayne rash he is a senior analyst for weeks labs and to new york we cross to jason he is the gerald beilin professor of law at brooklyn law school all right gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage ok when and if i can go to you first to what degree should internet companies be

follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle boris yeltsin was he a great man who made history or was he merely a product of his time and opinions differ widely don't know when denies the.

shortly peter lavelle his cross-talk team debate how the commonwealth of former soviet states is still seeking a common mission first i'll be back to remind you of today's top stories. this is our time to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many we all want that war we breed the we hope. to me the american dream is to live in peace and prosperity and freedom and a government under socialism is not a government afraid. that i might need. to. have very motivated out cross the country who are activists who are willing to fight for what they think is right for themselves but the fact is forty four bridge . was. we are counting. property drowning and i think it's spread by it's cutting our heart. it's making real democracy. all but impossible. no it's not about spilling blood. it's the war of barricades from one side and fears blockade from the other. the. invisible border has cut people from the land for twelve year. the conflict that divided serbia into two hostile parts is still not over. mission in three accreditation three terms for charges free.

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peter lavelle and he has crossed our guest discuss the influence doesn't work in syria from the arab league monitors to the protesters themselves here's a preview. they have consistence policies towards syria and i think they took this side of their civilians inside syria and they have clearly i mean sorry if i could interrupt here i mean these are sort of i don't understand when we use the term protesters civilians i mean a lot of these people are armed and they're no longer civilians or protesters they're come back now and this is turned into a civil war and some western powers are supporting certain elements within syria taking a side in the civil war would you agree or disagree with that. serbia's hopes to join the e.u. are one step closer to really zation lawmakers have called on the european council to ground belgrade a long anticipated canaday status at a session in march but it's kosovo that remains their main obstacle to accession and local serbs living in the disputed region say concessions for membership aren't helping them as art using a rod in their reports. the checkpoi

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coming up next hour here in r t r t's crossed our coast peter lavelle asks his guest whether the new legislation may completely change the face of the internet. this is what we're trying to do is enforce u.s. copyright laws on foreign companies whose copyright laws may be different for large and what we're saying is this. you don't follow us law in terms of copyrights and we have the right to shut you down the only part of the problem is the fact of lawyers that's going through the division of. you're objecting to the fact that people are trying to stop sites that are pirating american american intellectual property and it's not always just movies and music it's also physical goods that are careful you know these are careful drugs yes there are also if you look at the written material including when i you know harm enters harm children harm adults there's a serious there are serious consequences. and. members of the arab league are gathering this weekend here a file report in the expired observer mission to syria it's widely expected to can damn president bashar assad who has continu