cotto shirts and finally who turn hilton family oprah somerset grandchildren so this week her knowing. full well so i don't give a hoot sure some silly girl mitchell in terms. in the media she's available in the end result. come back and watch and actually live from moscow here's a look at the top stories for you and fails to agree on you proposed statement to condemn syria's crackdown on protesters with russia saying it could worsen the violence meanwhile the u.s. support of the arab spring to backfire in washington's made ally israel if radical islam is man assume the uprisings. the international monetary fund predicts america's reign as the world's largest economy will be over in just five years forecasts say will be overtaken by china as early as twenty sixteen. and

neighboring india is seeing its new middle class grow rapidly and their spending power and salary business is booming and global brands are flocking to get in on the game. we had lunch here at r.t. for more insight into the ongoing unrest in syria r t spoke to a veteran middle east reporter hard says the country's president who wants to out of himself as a reformer is most likely a prisoner to the will of his security forces. i'm talking to alan hots he's a veteran middle east journalist who's been involved with the region for forty years as both a reporter and a conflicts resolved but alan thanks very much for talking to you now you've been speaking recently lost about whether mainstream media has portrayed the idea of democracy in the middle east in its reporting do you think you have. oh i think it

has totally betrayed democracy because there's a political reality to be face. no american president. and only an american president masses in american president has the leverage to require israel to be serious about peace. he's never going to use that leverage unless he because of the control of the zionist lobby in congress he's never going to use that leverage even if he wants to until he is pushed to do so by informed public opinion one might say by demonstrations of real democracy in action the problem in america and frankly in europe but most of all in america is that most citizens are too uninformed and misinformed to do the pushing and that is frankly because the media has been complicit. with zionism in suppressing the truth of

history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict so i think it's very simple i was about to present what about these these these demonstrations and conflicts that we're seeing in the middle east at the moment what's your view of how the media scope of balance i think generally speaking the coverage is pretty ok . but. the whole thing is exciting also frightening to me because i think the message that all the autocrats have got from mubarak's departure is if our people take to the streets and start demonstrating should. i mean that's what seems to be have. but i think the key frankly is in egypt right to work. i think that they probably will evolve into elected government because the pressure on the generals may not like it but the pressure is there so let's assume down the road nine months ten months there is an elected government you then have the fascinating problem of the separate piece with. the how the hell

does the new government handle that. there is a way in which they could do it very cleverly and maybe change everything in the middle east. if the new government said we'll have a referendum on this treaty and if there was a referendum my guess is that eighty percent of egyptians and say tell you no we don't want it it hasn't served our interest it hasn't served the arab interests and certainly retrench is right. now with that kind of reform so a new government can say to america you've heard our people speak and say you like democracy i don't want this treaty but we'll have the treaty wookey it if you use your leverage on israel to get them out of the occupied territories oh what a fascinating scenario that would provide ok let's take it back a bit and let's talk a bit about syria because that's the current country that's that's entering into this whole process in a balanced and europe and the us of reiterated calls for un sanctions but it's

a country that you know under international pressure for a long time over its ties to iran and its support for hezbollah and hamas how serious do you think the stress of sanctions. well maybe it is serious but so what . i don't think young asset is in control. i think our side is probably more or less a prisoner of his generals in the security services he gave the world the impression when he came to power ten eleven years ago that he was really not like his father was a thought he was going to be reformed. i suspect that probably was the genuine. son of the father but i think right now he's probably as i say a prisoner and they're just going to shoot and shoot and shoot and rather like the israelis to get out. about what the world things i didn't seem serious security forces were like that some say this call for sanctions is the first step towards

a no fly zone and we all day what happens from that do you think that the west could use the libyan as a sort of excuse for intervening in syria. where the libyan scenario to me. is known seems i mean what if we go to the moment we've got to stand up so i think most people of late in the state broadcaster he was written off in the media in newspapers and television is mad i think that's a complete misreading of the man i think he's evil but not mad i think he set up his whole to curity operates sperry cleverly over the years he knows exactly what he's doing. so i don't think that sends any kind of message except don't get involved in the way that the french and the british have don't get involved unless you're prepared to go the whole hog and the whole hog frankly would be targeting and killing him. so i don't see what lessons that libya holds for

dealing with syria of course we are sort of less than about the nato allies so i think popular opinion suggests that they say it's it's it's no use wax and its goal of protecting the civilians in libya is really nowhere to be seen anymore is nato in any case capable of leading another. no i didn't think it is i mean everybody is terrified of what happened in iraq because most people know that was illegal. but the problem is even if nato could put its act together and say we must deal with these tyrants we was really put sanctions on them this to follow up with military action boots on the ground it wouldn't get to the security council china would be to it i'm sure russia would be to it see what people don't understand about the united nations it's not a social standing institution it is the sum total of the hypocrisy of the member states. and unless you can actually have

a total consensus working through the un actually becomes impossible syria has a good relationship with iran which could give to ask a strong supporter in all the states would you expect. i think tehran would be very worried about what's going on. because as i am situation in tehran the present regime probably only has to support the thirty percent or so the people so i think it's it's it's got to think very deeply about how it responds to this but the ties between the regime in damascus and the regime in tehran yes a very strong but i also think. has a vested interest in what's going on here i mean i'm not one of those who writes his brother officer as a terrorist group i think shapeless strong. his brother's leader is head and shoulders above all other leaders in the region i think he's

a real leader and i think his book. has evolved into a truly democratic party so i don't think he will want any rock. but if syria were to for you i think you're really asking me what what would happen well i don't think syria will force extent but i can't see a scenario in which syrian security doesn't remain in control. and what the world doesn't know about syria is that for many years under this present president's father. it actually cooperated with israel. it was actually times and the israeli public in the sixty seven war i tell the story of this in my book there was a secret understanding between syria and israel before the sixty seven war so syria plays its cards very very well to survive in this region it's much too early to

write of the regime there in my view and what about the regime in iran some are saying that the entire point of this the entire goal the stars the western powers are concerned isolate iran and that by force the regime change do you agree with that though i do and the more the outside pressure comes on iran the more i think it is going to unite the people of iran you see there is this ridiculous story that iran wants to develop nuclear weapons there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that the regime wants to develop nuclear weapons i mean they categorically say they don't know i can see that the revolutionary guards may be same look we must develop them for forty terence but the nonsense of it comes down to this supposing iran did have a few nuclear weapons do you think it would launch a first strike on israel of. it wouldn't because iran would be obliterated this is

just a bluff and it serves israel's purpose because it takes the world's attention away from what israel is doing which is talking peace and continue to expand settlements and israel must be actually its leaders must be very happy with what's going on in the arab world actually because again it's taken all the focus away from israel and it gets on the building more and more settlements like. it almost almost how possible to think it is that in the wake of all these revolutions in the middle east islamists will come. with this it's terrifying thing if we stand back and look how we evolved through through egypt. the what we might call the extremists of the fundamentalist muslims they weren't in the game it was basically very ordinary people of all classes and all backgrounds. you know if the suppression goes on and on what that will do is eventually open the door to the extremists so

in my view the west should now be solidly behind the street as it were to bring about the reforms of the changes they want because that is the way to guarantee that the fundamentalists won't have the oxygen if you like come into the business it's a huge issue. and was about israel in all of this will it be a less safe place in the future if you think israel has never been an unsafe place one of the great is. another thought of all lives as it relates to the israeli color same conflict is that israel's been in danger of annihilation i detail in the three volumes of my book it is a complete lie israel's existence has never been danger from any combination of our military force and that is unlikely to change in any foreseeable

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a spring of nineteen forty five on our team hungry for the full swing we've got it firsthand. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. the u.n. fails to agree on an eve proposed statement you can down syria's crackdown on protestors with russia saying it could worsen the violence meanwhile the u.s. support an arab spring could backfire on washington's made ally israel radical islamist managed to hijack the uprisings. the international monetary fund predicts america's reign as the world's largest economy will be over in just five years say it will be overtaken by china as early as monday sixteen. and neighboring india is seeing its new middle class grow rapidly and their spending power exhilarating business is booming and global brands are flocking to get it up again. next we've

got all the latest sports highlights with with us in the studio this morning to you in the morning to you and the bragging rights are once again firmly on barcelona soil tell us more they are and just when people thought they might be weak and go. away from home in the champions league semifinal what a night. this is sports today these are some of the stories we're covering this hour. cottle on conquests that grace from lionel messi sees barcelona secured sunil first leg against real madrid in the semifinals of. the limits of blank. state cease to become the new coach of the shipper ritchson you just heard

squad. is on the plane no it's the russian national skydiving team. adrenaline junkies world cup pool this. its first blood to barcelona in their champions league semifinal clash with real madrid lionel messi the mom ensuring the giants have one foot in london's final next month his two goals making a difference on the burnaby yellow tempered a further though it was brought to the boy writes. marco reales headspace sent off for an alleged dangerous tackle on. his manager julie following him for protesting the decision on best show first the argentinian wizard finished came up . with one of the goals of the season to date for players to get her to deal so a hefty advance to the new. school leaving the. a

team that is one champions league cups will never think that a future match is lost i'm convinced of that i've played many times against real madrid as a player i've seen the many times since i was a kid and now as a coach you must know what i do to control the atmosphere in barcelona newspaper the people in barcelona know this institution has found that scene and that you carrie. you know if i tell him or you wait for what i think or what i feel my career will end to date and because i cannot say what i feel i will just leave you a question for which i hope to get an answer someday why. elsewhere on the continent benfica are preparing for thursday's first ever of all portuguese europa league semi final clash with braga all the teams in the last four are in fact iberian benfica were just the one injury worry for their clash midfielder

carlos martins whose i toyed with a thigh strain while up fronts usually prolific striker also could do so he hasn't scored in open play for almost two months of trying and their second fierce behind porto to lift the war in dublin on may eighteenth they meet for your reality in the two leg semi's. full on have all but ensured english premier league football for another season after easing two or three in a win over bolton on wednesday night the west londoners breaking through their traditional safe mark of forty eight points fights largely to advance to be american international following home after a quarter of an hour before netting again three minutes after the break bread hunger and out of one hundred twenty five minutes from the time the wind left information the top half of the table. ok and other football news was spurs manager felix magath claims he has reached an agreement to take over moscow journal reports

claim that fifty seven year old german will remain on the wall spoke helm on to lead end of the season before taking up the reins of the more school club slovakia coach from your vice is also a currently being courted for the job in addition to his national coaching role dino are seeking a replacement for a new drug boss of each of the soccer earlier this month meanwhile the massu clubs say they won't comment on to any contract he signed. ok let's go to the cato rink where there is said to be a big coaching change and i saw key former of lung coach milosz raese get stating he did say over the reins simply to spur club that fifty two year old check saying he's virtually agree to to you deal with the option of another year the no financial details revealed discussions are partly underway already over a list of players would like slot the team at lunch with a big surprise of the kid child play offs the veteran squad powering into the

finals where they came on stuck i can't sell a box you live scout they're one of the richest clubs in the league meanwhile but so far how feel to reach that big. spring is not most certainly in the or in moscow with subzero temperatures now but a memory meaning extreme awfully cannot indulge themselves with the sports stuff they love such as russia's eights away from a diving national team or non-customer have watched the squad do their thing.

it's a perfect day for some skydiving here in the moscow region the russian national team has spent hours days and even months in training and all that's in preparation for the world cup that will take place in july in germany. after that stage that he will have time for further training and any necessary adjustments ahead of the globe's aerial competition the world championship so the time champions russia are one of the leaders in the sport but that doesn't mean it's going to be a walk in the pork soon come on the french and the americans jump on a regular basis and are worthy rivals of the world cup will show was to be expected from each team the french the americans and the russians or maybe there are some other teams just pulled up at socks and can prove a worthy opponent would almost storm ation skydiving is not for everyone but they say that once you try it it's practically impossible to stop simply jumping from

a plane into the open sky is not enough for a professional parachutists and chasing records has become a lifestyle for most while a release of adrenaline has become a fun necessity to a. point in time to take a few. world records. leoni cousin it is one of the members of the russian sex are all that's four hundred away for mation world record is also an in central part of the national scene preparing for the next world cup in germany this once on all or at freefall simulator is where you eat and other skydivers perfect their permission skills unfortunately these artificial conditions have to be used often because moscow's unpredictable weather doesn't allow for year round skydiving however so far it hasn't kept this crew from international success the professional here would like to. get a lot like the crowd full policy to allow them to build formation

skydiving is a competitive sport that opposing teams usually resemble a fraternity or rather than a rivalry and the phrase a friend in need is a friend indeed applies to this brotherhood probably more than the majority of other sports. doesn't buy. all they can chill off like most. everything i come to national bullshit bunch of bizarro. jumps. and if you're a good. guy from the national going to states it's great that the local. joel will not speak we've been told will jump in and should vote for you for this computer all necessary evil that we formation skydiving is an acquired skill that takes years to perfect and a half late who's in before is usually between thirty and forty years of age but

for many the dream stores right here with the first downs and jump guided by an instructor cost artsy moscow region. you really do have to love it to do it now the following event definitely has the right to be called drag race but there's hardly a vehicle in sight no big wheels but plenty of high heels up the florida circuit take a look at this the female impersonators accelerating swiftly through a challenging obstacle course heels of furthering heights for pacing racing slicks the team coverage is doing their best with the shoe selection for each advance then most determine steering their sport to victory showing great control to run the cones well the event will run until the end of the month i will also feature toll ships on an open earth and race build cars the most fun you can have under the sheets which are close. by word not is all your sport for now i'll see

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