for this very very good reason but we don't have to be terribly skeptical or cynical to understand that actually behind the noble motive is self-interest if we look at what happened in egypt the west backed mubarak right to the very last and then was no longer possible to back him when it was indefensible they dumped him and with same with the president of tunisia and then they moved very very quickly on libya what was happening in libya that was absolutely terrible in many cases in the name of human rights they kind of attacked libya the same with syria you know it's kind of it's it's a protest movement it's democratic change and reform which are very worthwhile motives to support but there is another agenda there which has to do with broader global and regional strategies what has the libyan scenario failed in syria will the western powers change that tactic i think that libya was the template for syria they kind of went to the u.n. they got the no fly zone was lucian and that opened up libya to aerial attack and i

think they thought that they could repeat this in syria but it didn't prove to be possible largely because of russia actually because russia made it plain that it would not support another no fly under the no fly zone of resolution in the security council so this left the government of britain france and the u.s. in particular with you know they had to work out what policy they were going to pursue you know still think they would like to intervene in syria but they realize it's not the same as little or nothing as libya is a different situation altogether thanks so much for the risk the much greater the dangers are much greater because intervention in syria how do you describe that whether you're talking about a buffer zone or you talk american military humanitarian causal as the french foreign minister does it still adds up to the same thing as the invasion of another country and syria would resist that around to get involved actively get involved it's hard to take the fallback position i think is to support. certain activities

inside syria which are calculated and in the downfall of the assad government and its replacement by. government will be formed presumably from the exiles from that agitating against they presume to take take over in your book the unmaking of the middle east you chronicled alone and bloody history of western invasions in arab lands with all the efforts by the u.n. and arab league the dayton row of arab league is the threat of foreign military invasion for syria is in the past right or not yet of course is still a possibility of course as to the possibly poor border rather because it's so risky for intervention would be risky however it was done would be to kind of maintain the support for what's happening inside syria on the part of the opposition and their calculation would be that sooner or later these precious if they maintained will result in the collapse of the assad government well as compare syria with the lead and iraq to what extent the syrian national council similar to libya

is national transitional council or iraqi national congress rocky national congress was almost a fiction the leader no support inside iraq whatsoever believe that iraq for a long long time has pumped up because they want to create this exiled body called the iraqi national congress so there was an iraqi voice in the propaganda war against saddam hussein the libyan situation the lives of the libyan transitional council as you know basically would affect us from the governing tripoli jump ship when it got too hot and they took a really forming the village to benghazi and the transitional national council for all of whom we didn't know we knew someone from all the way said we can't pass the syrian national council. is largely composed of what a mixture of people who have their roots who are inside syria but dominated i think

by exiles agree one galleon has been in paris for a long time like red one. who's based in washington and has very very close ties with the state department you know now what kind of clout what kind of hold are these people have inside syria i would say not much you know so there are similarities between these councils and of course you know that the transitional national council or national transitional council in libya. recognize the syrian national council as a legitimate representative the syrian people it's not that simple as that but so it's kind of part of the the campaign against syria which that that that now the lip what is now the libyan government is now part of elections at various levels can count to go in in syria with more had so what do you think will bashar al assad remain in power as a result and we're very very dangerous situation in syria which could have exploded into a very very nasty proto breakdown inside the country it could lead to regional war

. in this context let's see if this is given a few months and see how the process works for us does have. a base of office support so i don't think you could say that the party would be doomed the moment they call free elections that could do well what do you think human rights watch talks and foreign media neglect the damage done done by militant groups in syria it's somewhat of a mystery to me it's a mystery and the city has made some pretty. provocative claims in in with regard to syria one of them is that i think it was military people dressing up as doctors in homs hospital doesn't use any verification of that it's a claim made on the basis of unnamed people right and similar kinds of a made by other human rights organizations human rights watch the arms u.n. human rights council its committee is all one way is all about what the government

is doing and making very very extreme claims the government response for the deaths of two hundred fifty six children for example for four thousand five thousand have died in a desegregation which is what the critical reader would want you know you see these figures where they're coming from there's anyone know how many people have been killed in syria so far in its report. the human rights council report said four thousand but there was no it's left of africa where they go. a few days later navi pillay the un human rights commission pieces of this is the security council is it five thousand. and produces i think it echoes around the world and i think it lodges in the popular imagination is five thousand people being killed by the syrian government about security forces by another or whatever whereas in fact i don't use any doubt at all but a large number of military of civilians have been killed by armed gangs about

it but the fact is so what we actually need to do is to aggregate these figures like how many people have been killed by the syrian army how many of them were innocent and target innocent how many of them were men who pick up arms. how many civilians have been killed by gangs so forth and so on you need to break the whole thing down but these figures are not broken down since we are in turkey let's talk about turkey a little bit took a definitely wants to be associated with the changes in this region to be seen as a leading player in this movement so may turkey use this moment to its advantage turkey the foreign policy for the last seven years of creating zero zero problems on the borders ok and that meant kind of dealing with iran dealing with syria and turkey and syria had a rather complicated relationship over many many years. and so these problems were

resolved and they did lead to a very good stable balanced relationship with syria and with iran a particular goal sudden that policy was reversed instantly like turkey did a sharp right hand turn i think the turkish government seemed to think that the syrian government before the protest movement is got up and running and i think the turkey gobbler calculated that's any question of time before the syrian government goes and therefore i think it want to put it to be it want to be riding a wave ok put itself on the crest of the wave the quest of the wave of reform and change in the middle a sin to be seen as the leader of this movement. to make decisions but the fact is that. syria is as i would just said. this is not media. anyone in the future of us like across the board because earthquakes in this region so the stakes for everyone including turkey in this situation a very very high but turkey made his decision that i think that affable go

therefore we support the opposition therefore we support the syrian national council but the office space in istanbul therefore we support free syrian army do you think that was a wrong decision in doing so they have antagonize iran they've antagonized iraq. because now rockets come out quite strongly in support of syria and of course the lebanese government still not by his book has also been very very critical of turkey so the change in foreign policy has kind of that dump a zero problem policy and what they've done at least create problems now if if if assad goes ok then so what us but if if if if if he doesn't somehow manage to ride this out. well then i suppose it's going to be gone for months but you know they'll have to pull back from a position that you had to create and actually is not really tenable any longer you've got to deal with government here like it or not is turkey being sincere in its intentions saying it wants stability in syria and stability in the region at

the line with qatar with saudi arabia with united states britain and france that's where it is that's what happens and so the rhetoric about humanitarian intervention a buffer zone humanitarian strip has been a kind of simple thing in discussion about syria over the last six months and talking about along with that but they know the dangers they do of course i know that this that if there was a move across the border if turkey somehow were talking to taking the lead. it would open up a pandora's box of problems you know and i. you know turkey itself has said you know it's no question of intervention but it seems to me this is definitely a big difference over this issue like it's an option that somehow is still there however it might be carried out.

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welcome to the. headlines. at the top of the. you know i did have the chance to get level with a trip to new castle. finally after a fourteen month winning streak in russia. but first russia have reached the finals of the under twenty world ice hockey championship speaking hosts canada six five and a real thriller in calgary the russians had been six one up. net self butt. house then stormed back with four thousand five minutes in the final period to set up a really tense finale however russia managed to hold on i'm defending champions

will now face sweden in the final after they came from juneau dang to beat finland three eight in a shootout. well on to the football where the city have beaten liverpool three nil to go three points clear at the top of the english premier league city had lost to sunderland just forty eight hours before this game but put that disappointment behind them with goals and where i'm sure a james milner penalty any blip the sending off of sitting midfielder gareth barry in the seventy minute liverpool were playing without striker luis suarez after deciding not to appeal against his eight match ban for racially abusing manchester united's patrice evra elsewhere spurs the third six points behind city after their one there when i will west brom and sunderland continue to impress under new manager martin o'neill with a four one victory over struggling wiggins but it is city they were leading the way . players by the way to. fight every ball against sunderland but.

we were lucky. tonight that all three four we had some problem this week on doubt we did a good performance i'm not sure the schoolboy reflects a really good way though obviously it's. certainly deserve to work. i think the lesson that. for no clinical we're going to suffer. there's a lot. well to not have it in take on bolton amongst united have the chance to get back on level terms with sitting they travel to new castle both sides looking to banks back after a disappointing defeat at the weekend. here with all that you know the clubs like ourselves you know. the big clubs come along and you've got to get yourself up and

ready for and we're looking forward to tomorrow and i see of the back of a disappointing result fancy there be more might be fired up for as we are after game be more livable so i think you could go well players in the russian premier league is still enjoying their winter break at the moment so it is an opportunity to look back at the pick of their goals from twenty eleven with a net bulging. i

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think i. see crack is there including a couple from cabana who are currently managed by former chelsea star down to tresco he got them promoted to russia's top flight and earlier in the season he spoke with artie's consenting to top off fun you left chelsea three years before i'm on about the club do you feel any regret that you weren't there when salaries went sky high and the blues won the league yeah i think it was about time for me to leave the club but i didn't know at the time that but i always was going to come

and also. in this time i was not in the good relationship with the coach who was the only them i had to leave but i was sorry for sure because after two years i left chelsea won the championship you spearheaded team which played in the champions league so why did you decide to make a move to combine a team which has been just relegated to the owner of the club and the government of the region come. especially in a manner for me three times in my house on the street or computer i think that was from the cities i mean the club where i was working i was i was sure it is going in the wrong direction because if you need the money and in this moment disc lovely to disappear from for good and i think i did the right thing to do move in the right time before they come to bomb they had five coaches in one ear and i was going to be scared about the situation but they said they want to change something and leave

even when we lost three games in the road and there was the pressure a little bit last year i know the owner of the club said. but it's going to be the new federal sort of the bond and fuel trust me do you think that the world cup and twenty eight team can change something in this i'm sure the percent sure after the world cup that i shall be much better not just in the national team what also in the club competition and they will love medal from this and it's good for the country because it'll be a new stadium of snow reports new streets new hotels i think it's fantastic for russia the world cup will be here and i wish after the world cup i'll be in russia because that will be the time to be here and that was about manager down press speaking with artie's constantine for top of the season now let's switch to tennis and the council open where defending champion roger federer has brushed aside twenty ten win in a kind of a junket to reach the second round the swiss maestro also beat the russian in last year's final missing perry again system ran federal able to breeze through the gate

inset in a mere twenty two minutes taking it sixty seven genco was unable to regain his composure after that for start with federate taking the first round match sixty six two in just under an hour this way saying to win the cats our title for a fourth time distance elsewhere six p.s.g. cage calling for a lot he was among those watching sixty eight alex a bomb a lot of junior russian getting a comeback win over felipe overlander. also in round one the tally won the opening set seven five but all of them began to show the resilience which earned him eighteen pins motion of the year award the twenty eight year old making a swift turnaround in the second set to close out a five seven six four six two win was. far rafael nadal is staying on track to become the first spaniard ever to win the katter open the top seeds appeared to be heading for a nice and first round victory after winning the egging set against felipe call schreiber the german veteran however was able to take the second thing down the

tempo when the two eventually grind out three set win in just over two and a half hours. i and we will end with basketball where him key have suffered their thirst league defeat in fourteen months in russia's top flight but it was by the narrowest of margins top four so i could see clearly getting a sixty eight points to sixty seven victory in the league seemed like business as usual for him first as a rule to a fifteen point lead after the first quarter fatality frizzed and leading the charge of getting high sixteen points but the men from some market chipping away at the deficit thanks largely to brian rushmore to me again high seventy pinky led by four at half time but couldn't hold off a surge from the visitors the size went back and forth in the final quarter but it was korea with sixty eight sixty seven minutes. while the memphis grizzlies

rediscovered their rule i really n.b.a. following a thirty point loss against chicago on sunday really gave you twenty three points to help you so i put away the sacramento kings have some young another solid contributor to the home team exasperates having twenty points off the bench that steal lay and lay out making a score eighty five sixty four degrees and dominating one hundred thirty nine hundred sixty final school for the kings have now lost four of their last five after winning the series and. that's all we've got time for with the weather coming fall.

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from the russian capital twenty four seven this is r.t. welcome. the u.s. says its warships will continue their missions in the persian gulf in response to iran's warning to keep the aircraft carrier one away from its waters tensions rose as the u.s.s. john stennis passed through an area where iran was holding ten days of naval war games in the drill began around threaten to block a key oil supply route if new u.s. sanctions hit it later backed down and also saw a number of missiles tested are said to be long range the russian military says iran cannot produce intercontinental ballistic missiles iran is under increasing pressure from western which believe it might be the weapon of times correspondent. new sections adopted by the.