how is dr sharon kalya professor at the school of international affairs in the. media's roundel forces have surrounded the colonel qadhafi held desert town of bani walid southeast of tripoli saying talks with former leaders loyalists have failed to get out. troops have been given until saturday to surrender with rebels now preparing a final assault the colonel who is still at large is thought to be in the town three other cities controlled by groups are now being encircled by rebels the interim leadership claims a week ago the youngest son who commanded military brigade was killed but two weeks since the libyan capital felt the interim government's already being criticized by its own allies and here at all military commanders calling on the leaders of the national transitional council to resign being extradited warless political satirist ted rall says a new civil war seems inevitable. i have some sympathy for. a lot of the call to get rid of all the summary figures and it's not much of a revolution if you have former officials from the ex and from the government t

group presell india china and south africa dr earthly them charlie a professor at the school of international affairs in india at least as important their line says the united in dealing with the situation in the middle east bric is a microcosm of the movement towards a multi multi lot of work and you can only have multiple l.t. through joint action by brick nations it's very very important but sanctions could be the first step into another military intervention by neutral and its allies in the name of protecting the people of syria it's important to prevent this no more because it made end up in a situation similar to what we have in libya where there is this transition and reach was dictated by western military intervention and propped up america said that they were leading from behind but basically the point was of france britain and the united states are not the arbiters of libya's destiny french are the companies an intel of british oil companies are talking about how they're going to be number one. libyan oil so we don't want to go down that path again allowing yet another country which is part

other major unworldly or in the middle east well that was dr three round professor at the school of international affairs in india. now libya's rebel forces have surrounded the come or go down there the taliban he will lead southeast of tripoli saying and talk with the former leaders loyalists failed iraqis chimps have been given until fact today to surrender with rebels now preparing a final assault out is where the national reports from tripoli. fighting in the area known as you were lead southeast of the capital tripoli continues despite the recent claims by the new government's interior minister to take control over what's thought to be cut off his main and last stronghold within twenty four hours this battle is indeed very important for the rebels actually for both sides this is the size of one in terms of engine is six month long conflict here in libya the rebels need it because taking control of this area would officially mean the end of the regime and the colonel's fall they've been preparing for this operation for quite a long time with nature helping them this operation has actually started wel

in dallas school of international affairs in india thank you wrote very much for being here with us in the program how the break states are united in the need to resolve this year in crisis through dialogue but western countries tend to resort to sanctions so why do you think are there such differences within these two blocs. you know i feel that bric nations are making a stand out and learning lessons from the lack of collective consensus on libya when the earlier you know you know more happened before the protests snowballed into an armed rebellion and there were u.n. security resolution is that actually. hijacked for regime change when the resolution was only talking about protecting civilians so it's very very important now that sanctions could be the first step leading to another military intervention by nato and its allies in the name of protecting the people of syria and it's important to prevent this normal because it makes end up in a situation similar to what we currently be or we are there is this transition and reach was dictated by western military intervention and propped

we have a chinese student at the school of international affairs. >> where you from in china? >> my question is, if you talk about china being a responsible stake hold her, i'm just wondering, from a chinese perspective, what do you think are the incentives that will encourage china to be effective and what will be the factors to might encourage them to be a responsible stakeholder? >> good question. i was building off a speech that i gave in 2005 when i was at the u.s. government, and i was talking about u.s. policy toward china, and the theme of that speech was encouraging china to be responsible stakeholder. the core logic of that speech remains true today, which is that, over the past 30 years, china has had this incredibly successful growth, about 10% a year over 30 years. and i had the good fortune of visiting chin ain 1980 when i was living in hong kong, so i've seen with my own eyes what an unbelievable difference it makes. and the reason i asked you where you're from, when i visit china, i always try to get beyond meetings in beijing, so just last week i was up in the

of the council on foreign relations. thank you very much for being with us. >>> and a former legal adviser to political negotiators and current fellow at the belfour center for international affairs at kennedy's school of government joins us now here. diana, good to see you again. >> thank you. >> what are the chances, do you think, that after this meeting tonight, 6:00 tonight, the president meets with mahmoud abbas, that president abbas would step back and say, i get it, we're putting the u.s. in a difficult position and risking our own funding in congress from strong, you know, pro-israel supporters in congress? >> well, i think it depends on what is the alternative that's on the table. what was disheartening today with president obama's speech was that he didn't mention the basics of a settlement freeze which has been the one demand that the palestinian negotiators have been putting forward as the requirement to be able to relaunch talks. i think a lot of it depends on what it is that obama comes to the table with. if he's going to continue to reiterate the same formula, i don't think that there will be a backing down. if there's something new, different, maybe we'll see a general assembly resol

have more weight in international affairs same thing can happen in syria so it's not obvious that the fall of the assad government is the u.s. and israeli interests but there's a school thing in washington. that you know well previously thing aside is ok with us we can move with now saying well you know we the we can't keep us out anyway so let's try to get on the side of change sure and i think that that's a statement that most people would find hard to argue with and no longer talking about successor governments you bring up the point in egypt where the military government still there i think it's also important to bring up libya because i mean we see these two leaders we see the french president their british prime minister there today kind of pledging their support making sure the national transitional council know that they still have the support of nato and the west but i want to talk to you about just who the national transitional council is who the rebels are it's made up it seems to me of islam that's perhaps a majority of it it's made up of a lot of different factions and i think it's hard to say exactly. you know what will we'll see next there doesn't seem