where did it take the. world. bringing you the latest science and technology from the realms. we've. covered. back here with r.t. here's a look at the top stories the un fails to agree on a you proposed statement to condemn syria's crackdown on protesters with russia saying it could worsen the violence meanwhile the u.s. supported arab spring for backfire and washington's main ally israel radical islamist managed to hijack the uprisings. of the international monetary fund for victim erika's brain 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 on their spending power of celery business is booming and global brands are flocking to get on the gas. for more insight into the ongoing unrest in syria r.t. spoke to a veteran middle east reporter alan hart says the country's president who once talbot himself as a reformer is most likely a prisoner to the will of his security forces. i'm talking to allan hawks who's a veteran middle east journalist who's been involved with the region for forty years as both a reporter and a conflicts resolved alan thanks very much for talking to me now you've been speaking recently a lot about whether the mainstream media has betrayed the idea of democracy in the middle east in its reporting do you think i have. oh i think it has totally betrayed democracy because there's

a political reality to be free. no american president. only an american president masses every 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 to be preached even if he wants to until he is pushed to do so by informed public opinion well not say by demonstrations of real democracy in action the problem in america and frankly in europe but most of all. 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 and what about the present what about these these these demonstrations and conflicts that we're seeing in the middle east but what's your view of how the media is quite for that i think generally speaking the coverage has been ok. but. the whole thing is exciting but also frightening to me because i think the message to all the autocrats of go from mubarak's departure is if our people take to the streets and start demonstrating shoot them. i mean that's what seems to be happening but i think the key frankly is in egypt and i tell you what. i think that they probably will evolve to an elected government because the pressure 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 peace 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 post it was a referendum my guess is that eighty percent of egyptians say terror we don't want it it hasn't served our interests the presence of the arab interests and certainly trenches right. now with that kind of reform so the new government will say to america you've heard our people speak and say you're not democracy i don't want this treaty but we'll have the treaty will keep it if you use your leverage on israel to get them out of the occupied territories but one 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 is entering into this whole process of amendments and europe and the us have reiterated calls for un sanctions but it's a country that's been 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 i said 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 work ten eleven years ago that he was going to be not like his father was a tyrant he was going to be reformed i suspect that probably was the genuine. son of the father but i think right you know he's probably as i say a prisoner and they're just going to shoot and shoot and shoot and rather like the israelis don't give a damn. about what the world seems i don't think serious security forces were like that some say this call for sanctions is the first step towards a no fly zone and we all do what happens from that do you think that the west could

use the libyan scenario as a sort of excuse for intervening in syria. where the libyans are not. to me is is known seems i mean what have we got at the very moment we've got to stand up so i think most people have made a mistake about gadhafi he was written off in the media and 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 security operation sperry cleverly is that he is in is exactly what he's doing. so i don't think that sends any kind of message except getting bowe 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 learned sort of lesson about the nato allies i think the

opinion suggests that nato it's its defies its name 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 action no i don'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 and this was followed with reaction boots on the ground it wouldn't get through the security council china would be to it i'm sure russia would be to it she 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 us just a strong supporter in all of this would you expect to react if one thousand nine hundred. i think tehran will be very worried about what's going on. because as i understand the situation in tehran the present regime probably only has the support of thirty percent or so people so i think it's it's it's got to think very deeply about how responsive it is but the ties between the regime in damascus and the regime in tehran yes are very strong but i also think has. has a vested interest in what's going on here i mean i'm not one of those who writes has been or off as a as a terrorist i think shake the struggle. his brother's leave is head and shoulders above all other arab leaders in the region i think he's a real leader and i think hezbollah has evolved into

a truly democratic party so i don't think he will want any boats rocked. but if syria were to fall you know i think you're really asking me what what would happen but i don't think syria will fall to the extent that 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's actually cooperated with israel. it was actually at times and israeli targets 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 off the regime. what about the regime in iran still must say that the entire

point that this the entire goal the stars the western powers it's isolate iran and that by force the regime change do you agree with that though i don't know 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 maybe same's the ayatollah look we must develop them for forty turns 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 course. 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 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 quietly building more and more settlements like. you know almost almost how possible to think it is that in the wake of all these revolutions in the middle east it's the best swell comes. with this it's terrifying thing if we stand back and look how it's a pro through through egypt. the what we might call the extremists or the fundamentalists 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 be 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 the fundamentalists won't have the oxygen if you like to come into the business it's a huge issue. and was about israel in all of this will it be less safe place in the future israel has never been an unsafe place one of the greats is. the mother and father of all lies as it relates to the israeli palestine conflict is that israel's been in danger of annihilation i detail in the three volumes of my book is a complete lie israel's existence has never been danger from. any combination of arab military force and that he's unlikely to change in any foreseeable future good.

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global brands are flocking to get in on the game. time now for sports and they get in here with us well you've been jumping out of planes isn't exactly my idea of fun but i gather it's an art form and you're going to see in just a few minutes time really the russian sky diving team their record british on the really do it for fun they're amazing plus the rest of the sport coming up in just a second. i have you with us this is sports today here on twenty four artsy i'm you know neal these are some of the stories are coming over the next ten minutes or so couple on conquests that brace from lionel messi she's posh slowness of current sunil first leg lead against real madrid in the semifinals of the european cup. scows the limit sideline coach milosz regime state seems to become the new coach of the super rich

simply just good squad. and is a birds is a plane no it's the russian national skydiving team we put the adrenaline junkies the high off world cup goals this are. its first blood to barcelona in their champions league semi final clash at real madrid lionel messi them on ensuring a couple on giants have won thoughts in london's final next month his two goals making all the difference at the bernabeu a.o. but the game had been overshadowed by a free much spot between rival managers pep guardiola. on the loss of a spilled onto the pitch of what was a bad tempered a fur reaction prosser the boy rights to be our marker reality type a send off for an alleged dangerous talk until the end of his knowledge or marino julie following him for protesting the decision if it was a messy show from then on in the argentinian second striker

a contender for goal of the season so i have to return to the neutral with caution patrolling immediately afterwards. a team that is one champions league cups will never think that a future match is lost i'm convinced and i've played many times against a real madrid as a player i've seen it many times since i was a kid and now as a coach he must know what i do to control the at. it's here in barcelona newspaper people in barcelona know the respect that this institution has for that team and what they are capable of. if i tell him or you a for what i think or what i feel my career will end today 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 why. i don't have a hundred to say elsewhere in the constant benfica bragger are preparing for thursday's first ever all portuguese europa league

a semi final clash all the teams in the last four or five iberian been faecal with just one injury worry for their clash midfielder curtis martin sousa toyed with a strain while up front usually prolific striker asked for produce so hasn't scored an open play for almost two months when fit their second favorite behind or so to lift silverware in dublin and maybe even to themselves to be theory al in the two legs semi this. column have all but ensured any premier league football for another season after easing to a three no win over bolton on wednesday night but west andres breaking through de missional safe mark of forty points thanks largely to clint dempsey the merkin international avoiding home after a quarter of an hour before netting again three minutes after the break bread and one more twenty five minutes from time when lifting fell into the top half of the team. and other football news wall street manager felix mcgeough claims he has

reached an agreement to take which he now moscow the russian media reports claim the fifty seven year old german said he will remain off the wolfsburg until we ended the season before taking over the reins of the moscow club slovakia monitor flooding your vices also apparently being courted for the job in addition to his national coaching role but it is my gaffe he looks very much in the frame true place and he was right also bit earlier this month the moscow side themselves they would comments on tell a contract is something. let's move from football to the cato rink there is said to be a big coaching change in ice hockey former. regime confirming he has to take over the reins and petersburg club the fifty two year old czech saying these early agreed to it. year deal with the option of one more year new financial details how to build those yet discussions are currently already underway though over

a list of peers pretty good would like to add to the team lunch with the biggest surprise of the key h.l. playoffs the veteran steroid powering into the finals where they came unstuck against south you live meanwhile are one of the richest clubs in the league but so far have failed to live up to their title credentials. let's talk tennis and robin sort of game is starting to shape up again in the world number five beating germany share a day in estrella yourself for next month's french open where he reached back to back finals for the past two years french and shared a seemingly overwhelmed super going to the game right to his opponent with a six one drubbing in the opener shared a storm back in the second set though maintaining his composure to get seven six eight was the swede though who held his nerve when it mattered six one six seven six one the final score settling for a fourth a.t.p. title of the. one martin del potro will be across the net from soaring in the

quarterfinals that tarring argentina having an easy time of things against a fall and beating the colombian sixty six one. three one head to head lead into friday's and country with story. spring is most certainly in the air and moscow with subzero temperatures now but a memory meaning extreme outlets cannot indulge themselves with the sports they love such us russia's national sky diving team among cos ref watched the squad do their thing.

it's a perfect day for some sky diving here in the moscow region the russian national team has spent hours said days and even months and in training and to all that's in preparation for the world cup that will take place in july in germany. after that stage the team will have time for further training and any necessary adjustments ahead of the globes so aerial competition the world championship two time champions russia are one of the leaders in this war but that doesn't mean it's going to be a walk in the pork a new sunni come on think the french and the americans jump on regular basis and are worthy rivals 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 team that just pulled out of 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 professional parachutists and chasing records has become a lifestyle for most while a release of adrenaline has become a fun necessity. it's a place you. carry. loony as in it says one of the members of the russian sex or well 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 one subtle or at freefall simulator is where you eat and other skydivers perfect their firm ation 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. it would like. like

the. policy to. fill formation skydiving is a contest of sport the opposing teams usually resemble efforts thirty zero 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 else. chill also like most of. the stuff i come mr walsh about so bizarre. jumps. and if you're a good. guy or a national it's. great that the like. but. nothing we've been for will check them out survives before discomforted to all necessary although we formation skydiving is an acquired skill it takes years to

perfect and half mate who is in the form is usually between thirty and forty years of age but for many the dream starts right here with the first townsend jump guided by an instructor cost artsy moscow region someday would it remodel their ticket now . the following event definitely has a right to be called a drag race but there's hardly a vehicle in sight no big wheels but plenty of high heels on the florida circuit take a look at this female impersonators accelerating swiftly through challenging obstacle course heels of a very right replacing racing slicks the teens are just doing their very best with the shoe selection for each offense now the most determined steering us well it's a victory showing great control are raw and cold the higher the offense will run until the end of the month will also feature. race building was the most fun to come from the sheets which are. perhaps less that of

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