and other syrian provinces like many other citizens did been combin president of syria is committed to reforms and in two thousand he proposed a major program of reforms but events in the region that followed affected the implementation of the reforms that were gravely ill the us invasion of iraq and a potential threat that the aggression would sweep over syria after the american government made some tensions clear the turmoil in lebanon and the assassination of the lebanese leader rafik hariri the situation in the region changed in the state of syria is threatened the reforms were shifted to the back burner and defense of the country was made the priority task and has been the most important thing ever since today however the government is considering the implementation of the reform plan their predecessors have launched but not finished president bashar al assad has lifted the state of emergency and signed a decree that allows holding peaceful demonstrations in the country by doing this the president actually enforce one of the basic civil rights besides the draft law

and parties were submitted for discussion about the text can be found on the internet previously we had a law that limited be allowed number of parties in syria to ten the new law stipulates that people may create new parties if they wish to their number is no more limited and whether the newly established party will be in opposition or not doesn't matter either a lot of attention is also paid to the new normal mass media which is essential a part of the national dialogue as a law on parties on elections or on local authority of story economic and after the us all of us you mentioned the national dialogue as part of this framework the syrian government called a consultative meeting on the national convention schedule for tenth of july what was the opposition invited to join this convention and what was their answer to the invitation or what the how they laugh that's true we were having consultations with members of various public group. when the opposition is not only official public

figures on the first round of preparations for the national convention that is going to take place on july the tenth its main objective is to set the framework for a national dialogue and make it work the most everyone will be able to join the dialogue and help tackle the problems we face peacefully and for the benefit of the country and its people wish to marry me was their position there has emigrated from the country all soo much it's a joint meeting with them e w nudge we won't draw lines between the internal and foreign opposition we are concerned about their ties to external powers it is important that their opposition activities should pursue the interests of syria and stay within rosalyn will see a large amount of soria yet there was a lot of protesters and security service officials are still being killed in syria when is it going to end our on our part of the first of all i object to using the word kill in relation to protesters no one is killing protesters these are all rumors spread by the mass media the facts are falsified to manipulate t.v.

viewers tales about protesters being killed in syria amir lies and false vacations who actually has been killed in syria a policeman security service officials and innocent people of course there are sporadic civilian deaths no one is going to deny this but there is no denying either that there are armed bandits who kill soldiers and fight against the security forces take the city of jews are all sure but the security forces were kept isolated for three days when the militants failed to defeat the security forces they tried to get revenge on them a cutting off heads and throwing the bodies to come and graves. yet unwalkable observers think that the relations between syria and turkey have deteriorated after the syrian troops came close to the syrian turkish border and were deployed in several regions uncertainty channels which he called biased recently reported civil and deaths is it sure that syrian turkish relations are threatened one out of geneva there are two aspects to syrian turkish relations first we think the turkish

government fully realizes that a good neighborly relations in syria would benefit both the turkish and the syrian people and syria is also well aware that friendly relations with a neighboring country that has a common border with syria of approximately eight hundred fifty kilometers should by no means be sacrificed to any extent that of another aspect is that deployment of syrian military forces in this region is not directed against turkey not at all there are people on the syrian side of the border who have tried to take power by use of force and by killing innocent civilians therefore it is only natural that syrian military forces will move there in order to restore order stability or security in that region and this should not be misinterpreted as an attempt to provoke the other side or is a sign of decline and security between the two countries it was directed against the armed groups of people who try to oppress the citizens on the syrian side of the border and forced many of them to flee their motherland with the help of our

team we would like to address everyone who left our country and we would like to say that we encourage them to come back and by the way many have already turned out but on the turkish side there are groupings of armed people who are standing in the way of our citizens who wish to return if we informed our people that we are ready to provide them with all necessities for everyday life as well as with free transportation home by syrian national bus service ready to provide them with everything from a quality life not just food supplies medication and medical aid and what's most important in my opinion we should welcome them back home without any repercussions have that the that the. what are you expecting a western military intervention in syria the way it happened in libya leave me. be i'd like to say that the situation in libya is completely different from that in syria syria's position has been clearly articulated and the global community is aware of the military forces syria has so even if the west is thinking of

intervening we would advise them not to moreover syria has friends and allies or stand by and oppose any kind of intervention in syria's domestic affairs syria is the key to the balance in the middle east any meddling with its internal affairs will drive this region into a disaster and western countries are well aware of this but nevertheless they keep hating arabs and syria in particular because of our political stand on the arab israeli conflict because of our achievements of success and our progress on the reforms track under the leadership of president bashar al assad. dr phil what is your assessment of russia's position with regard to events in syria. our data i believe that russia has a very commendable physician the russian federation performs its tasks of a permanent member of the un security council in a most responsible way supported by our friends in moscow who would like to make a statement this is a situation in syria poses no threat to global security and peace and therefore should not be discussed by the un security or he would rights council and truth

external intervention and injection of considerable funds as i said and circles have infringed our rights the rights of syrian citizen to spit on many protesters were in fact bribed and we even have the details of the amounts paid in arms purchased and we also are aware of the conspiracies against syria i mentioned some common interests and would like to say that syria is truly the main line of resistance to keeps extremism in check preventing it from spreading all over the region and russia is not that far from our region and quite often not to deal with religious extremism just like syria when we stand up for ourselves or russia protect its principles and standpoints with us protect not only both our countries but also china and all those countries threatened by extremism whenever the charges are laid at iran's door that it's been intervening in the syrian crisis is that shoes and what would you want to say in response to such allegations of iranian was that this irani syrian relations are not hostile to any third party either in the

region or on the global scale their main objective is to counter israeli occupation of the overtaken arab territories and establish security peace and stability in the region we strive to achieve understanding between iran and arab countries while the west is trying to set a rant against our countries persuade it to stop supporting arabs the west is trying to bend arabs to their will and strippers of a true ally i.e. a ram they want to run to withdraw from our common stand against israel and to become a strain both from us and all the arab countries. what is your assessment of the arab countries attitudes in syria. we never rejected support arabs and so did everything to secure their support for syria i believe the down times must be united in their statements and a hard time like. what happened in syria to be expected to spread like an epidemic across other arab countries in order to weaken the israel in the west to impose

their civilization supremacy their values the mindset on us i very carefully and follow the signals west wants from us especially in view of the recent events and i must say that in truth they do not wish us well the main blow is now directed at syria as an state and its purpose is to enforce a new reality on syria in the interests of the west to force syria into giving up its current position and getting it removed from involvement in the arab israeli conflict otherwise why would anyone needed to go there looking long enough.

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including. nice aged defending champions brazil must wait until the final day of time progress from the cup american group stages following a draw with oracle. from the straightforward it is hall of famer hundred. ninety s. legend andreotta c. gets a place among the legends of the court. two decades later the last team to win the u.s.s.r. football championship see eskimo school regroup to commemorate the victory with a clash against city rivals dina. let's get off the mark with formula one where the british grand prix is in full swing mark webber the man starting from the front of the grid marking only the second time a nine races his red bull stablemate season leader sebastian vettel failed to secure pole but remain champion vettel didn't wait long to seize the initiative the

german overtaking webber right from the off so run twenty three laps in. silverstone it's vettel the man. who won here last season is second while mcclaren is lewis hamilton overtaking fernando alonso into third russian vitaly petrov started from fourteenth on the grid for rhino he's done in sixteen. care from england to argentina we go where nerves are juggling for brazil at the cup america the defending champions must know when their last group game to ensure a progression into the quarterfinals after a second straight draw against part of why this time they ate time winners soap. in the scoring thirty eight minutes in truth johnson who's a long shot. of the nets and then midway through the second half par of life on themselves in front scoring twice within those minutes manchester city striker rocky something who's netting his twenty fifth international goal here before the

same man set up substitute nelson valdes who shot some hard cross the line to spite the best efforts opposite the park julio cesar i solo managed to equalise late on fred making it seem to be in the last minute to salvage a draw for the i but it's clear that we didn't play well and we're conscious of that and i think we had some good moments in the game why would create a score in the tune says men must look for consistency during the nazi minutes of the match and lacking this once again with a conscious that's a moments was below what is expected from the fall. that result means venezuela or to control of crude pieces are furry aside seeing off ecuador one no and some of these other class says are gonzalez the man netting just after they are marked with a proper a long range efforts the wind only venice will this third pop american victory ever

since for sticking part in the competition in one thousand six hundred. fifty president sepp blatter a sent a stern warning to potential rubrics following a series of match fixing scandals worldwide but the seventy five year old swede said he saw no fall play in the mexican f.a. clearing five players earlier accused of doping. these people directly and we could suspend them for life all those involved whether the players trainers officials or referees to concerning the recent mexico scandal we have for you for completely agree with the decisions taken by the mexican football federation it's definitely a case of food contamination this issue is a great wake up call for everybody. that brings the golfer steve stricker has pulled ahead of the field after the penultimate round of the john deere classic the twice winner with a two stroke lead heading into the final day overnight leader chez revie slipping down to third on saturday the american was tied with stricker at one stage but then

the six to lie three strokes off the pace zimbabwe is brendan the young said second to help by eight birdies including this on the final hole circuit meanwhile was second steve marino ahead of day three but an eight under par round of sixty three allowed him to finish the round all alone at the top. and rags he has been inducted into the tennis hall of fame the eighth time grand slam winner on one thousand nine hundred ninety six olympic champion joins his wife steffi graf who became a hole of famer some seven years ago i guess the well he was regarded as the bad boy of the sport in the early nineties but promptly turned his life on career around becoming the oldest player to help the world standings aged thirty three in two thousand and three since retiring in september six agassi has been keeping busy raising money for children's charities worldwide. and at the beginning of my journey my friend gil said to me andre you have dreams and i have strong shoulders

so stand the most shoulders and reach to my children to all of our children stand on our shoulders reach higher than we could reach for your dreams. because today standing here receiving this honor i am living proof that no dream no journey is impossible thank you. ok baseball derek jeter has set a huge career mark in a sport which converts its records like no other the thirty seven year old becoming the twenty eighth player in league history to reach three thousand hits just another day in the office for the new york yankees star moving to the famed all the amazing mark up for this after at the bottom of the first jeter pumping becoming the only player in new york franchise history today in this three it's heights and

he did it in some style as well getting his first homerun in the year to send the local pride into a frenzy. perceive it to cart a few more hits on the day helping his team to a five four victory but it was the homer at the bottom of the third difficult for them on only ever wanted to play for the u.s. so. the number that is meant a lot in the history of the game because not too many people have done it before. you know to be the only yankee to do it to be the only yankee to do anything is pretty special you know if i was leader and strikeouts would be happy about it because i have so many people have played here. but you have to be the only yankee . is the only team of i want to play for you guys are well aware of that and to be the only one to do something like this. i don't really know if i can describe it quite a milestone not finally back to football where nineteen ninety one was certainly

a year to remember for c.s.k. moscow the club during the soviet league cup double just months before the collapse of the u.s.s.r. to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of that success the army man took on the cross torn rivals deano us rich upon port free reports. nineteen ninety one was to prove to be a fantastic year in the history of serious car moscow the club managed to win a league cup double playing some very attractive football and what proved to be the soviet union's final football season where that you're going to play football for the fans while they were thoughts about getting a move to europe where we could earn much more money we were always trying to play at our best to impress clubs abroad and try and get a move there this was very prestigious just like playing for your national team cisco would never get the chance to attend their trophies as almost immediately after the season and finished the soviet union broke up nevertheless some of the players would now be open to completely new opportunities which

a few years ago would have been unthinkable one thousand perestroika in full flow a trickle of players such as rain a desire for joy and severe in one nine hundred eighty eight hundred decided to point their trade abroad however with the collapse of the soviet union players when i was free on my ass to go to western europe and potentially lucrative contracts with some of europe's top clubs one of those players was eagle cleaver on earth who would join for gere in one thousand nine hundred one he spoke to salary of just a couple of hundred dollars a week playing in the soviet union for a pay package of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in italy form an enormous striker said it was a great experience to play abroad but when. i was happy to move there was no point in staying in russia after the breakup of the union because as a footballer i wouldn't have progressed and would have stayed at the same level i managed to learn a lot from my time in italy. in the early nineties be italian league was with dime strongest championship in the world however colligan of said the soviet league he'd

been playing in the last few years was almost a strong. i left to join forty or nine hundred ninety one but i didn't think there was a massive difference between the italian and soviet leeks at that time we had very good. sites like to nominate and to nominate tbilisi the league was a very high standard and there were some very good players with twenty years on dinar moba club of left to move to italy to can say this can you to come over a display armaments league cup double many of the players who battled back in nine hundred ninety one the present including the likes of alexander but argue and say he could be a cause like live on earth and enjoy it successful careers abroad after making moves in the early ninety's to form a culture of forward getting a coffee showed that he had lost any of his scoring touch as he backed the first half patrick but serious cash owed the same resilience but it made them so successful twenty years ago has been a full bank to claim

a formal draw for shares of those yeah it's always good to meet up with old friends we're still in touch but it was nice to get back on the pitch with old teammates as well as playing against opponents who i came up against two decades ago it was a shame for serious carver they never got to defend their league and cup double twenty years ago however the opportunities the football is were given following the break up of the soviet union was priceless and lived a life of cleavon of them but i joke to become household names in italy and germany bridge of a whole fleet anti moscow. lots where you wrap up the sport whether it's next to you. hungry for the full story we've got it. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on the.

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breaking news from r.c. a pleasure cruise or something go on the river bolduan russia's republic of topless dog at least one person is dead and nearly a hundred others are missing. in the week's other news georgia's spy hunter has the charges high profile photographers with snooping from moscow but skeptics say it's an anti russian image boosted by president saakashvili. also download food for angry objections as they return to squared to vent against the interim leader who they say stole their revolution. a change of tune by germany on trade agreements to bruce natives weapons stocks for use of libya despite opposing the military offensive from the start and. behold the front page britain's best selling newspaper rolls out for the last time as rupert murdoch sacrifices the title while phone hacking claims and reporter read intensified and.

hello and welcome to r.t. twenty four hour news life. with the latest news under review of the week's events and we start with our breaking news this hour a pleasure cruise that has sunk on the revolving russia's republic of tatarstan with at least one person killed more than half of the one hundred seventy three people on board vessel have been rescued but ninety four others remain missing the emergences ministry has deployed teams to the scene to join rescue efforts and it's not known how the vessel got into trouble before sinking she is across developments and of course we'll bring you more from our correspondents in a few moments. and we're continuing georgia where three high profile photographers

have been charged with spying for moscow basic lanes it has video confessions to prove their guilt but skeptics say hail saga shady is on which chance to score political points off his town bottom reports now what's being seen as anti russian high georgia is on a spy role and not for the first time this time the spotlight has been shined on those usually behind the camera for photographers were arrested on thursday on suspicion of spying but who was there suppose it must but first georgian authorities didn't say who they thought the alleged spies were working for but a day later they did russia in turn moscow has accused georgia of power knowing the georgians are so quick to stick a spy label on to anyone i guess is just a level of democracy and that has been noticed not just by russia but by various key international organizations like the u.n. one of the.