but you read. three. three stooges three. young old free broadcast quality video for your media projects free media oh don carty dot com. welcome back time for a look at the headlines that russia holds its breath for the final results of a parliamentary election the ruling united russia party losing its overall majority but still emerging one on top. iran says it shot down a u.s. spy drone along its eastern border with the use of american unmanned aircraft over the country being seen as the latest evidence of washington's efforts to destabilize countries beyond its influence. and to cross the atlantic tempers

flare again as british and pains you have a one sided extradition policy that's left its citizens of the us eager to think of an american justice system. the next as international pressure mounts on syria ati's i bet it talks to author and journalist jonathan steele for his take on the possible solution to the country's political crisis. i'm joined by jonathan steele former chief correspondent of the guardian newspaper now commentator on international affairs jonathan thanks for speaking to r.t. now the recently been approached by the king of jordan to spearhead a diplomatic offensive against assad william hague the foreign secretary is now met with opposition leaders is this the preamble to another libyan style intervention. it could be i mean we can't be sure and i think it's dangerous it might be i mean they're trying to hague's message to the opposition is to get your act together

unite on a common platform in other words to turn yourself much more like the libyan opposition who the government also talked to and then eventually recognized as the official government of libya so i think it is the first stage to trying to recognize the opposition. and there are hints more from france than from britain at the moment that there would be some kind of foreign intervention i mean the french foreign minister and i should pay has just called for humanitarian corridors to be opened into syria with or without the syrian government's permission and damascus when he was asked does that mean who would protect these corridors would that be military protection he said of course so in other words they are thinking of having in the limited number of foreign military people moving into syria perhaps against the will of the government of damascus what must the opposition now do to gain recognition has there militarization made it easier to achieve that well i think the unity thing which was going on about is what they want they want to sort of

feel as united platform and so they know who they're dealing with they don't want a lot of different competing groups but the question is what will the platform be is it going to be a very hardline platform that keeps repeating that assad must go or would it be a platform that says we need dialogue and and a transition which is peaceful of ours and civil war and an armed struggle like in libya so that's very important. the the other thing is is whether they will try the tactic of saying we have to protect civilians you know the benghazi syndrome if they could say the city of hama. needs protection. you know it could have a no fly zone over that city and then they again with the thin end of the wedge which would move out to coming from school support for the. civil war the trouble is of course that hama hopes the two cities that have the most fighting are not on the sea plane goes it was on the coast in libya that made it much easier to have

a no fly zone are meant to start bringing in ships bringing weapons and supplies and all the rest of it more difficult in syria unless they can nominate one of the coastal cities on the mediterranean and the safe zone but it's a bit unlikely at the moment because those cities will to be quiet in this uprising the arab league is already suspended syria and recently issued that three deals made and that's now passed these attempts were portrayed as last ditch a tense that conventional diplomacy but could they not do more to mediate isn't that their role. yes i mean the very keep saying that assad should have dialogue with the opposition but the opposition including the people that hague was meeting in london this week. are against dundalk they just simply say assad must go and that's also the line of the british government of the french government and the u.s. government i mean they should be putting the same pressure on the opposition to enter a dialogue as they're putting on the government in damascus i mean it's ridiculous

to say one side will start talking who's going to talk to if the other side refuses they seem to be siding with the sounds opponents they want why do you think that is well i think they've decided that. it's a lost cause in the sense that they don't like his links to hezbollah in lebanon they don't like the fact that he is sort of in the front line of. opposition to israel you know jordan and egypt have their treaties with with this will seriously only country with a sort of long border. with israel it is not sort of peace at the moment and so they don't like that very closely syria has quite the relations with iran. so they've decided i think that it's almost like a proxy war against iran if you can topple assad it's like it's considered to be a sort of proxy of blow against the government in iran so it is the fear of iran really outweigh any concern of syria descending into civil war well i'm not even

sure it's fear you know are they really afraid of iran i think it's more that they want to undermine the regime in iran and i think i think it's hostility to iran i would say rather than fear of because what is there to be afraid of with iran you know the only thing is this question of nuclear weapons which still a long way down the line before iran would have a deliverable nuclear weapon it's first got to create the warheads on the weapons if it's building them and then it's got to have the delivery system that could transport these things safely you know dropping. positioning father the right target. which is some way off so there's no reason to be really afraid of iran and anyway there are other ways of dealing with the so-called iranian threat the military you know where there could be some plant plenty of diplomatic ways of minimizing whatever. worries you you have about iran surely the arab league and western countries have some sort of duty here to to prevent syria from slipping

into a full blown civil war i mean it's not the first time middle eastern country with a complex religious and ethnic makeup as has descended into civil war have lessons not been learned well i agree with you i mean i think i think it's quite irresponsible i mean and it's really amazing in a way that these arab neighbors of syria and the other members of the arab league are taking such a hard line but i think it's this cancer of the sunni shia thing which is as a separate civil war between the gulf arabs are mainly solely against the iranian regime which is causing the cancer and i'm afraid it's been united states of pushing this line is the threat of danger we must be afraid of it and we saw a lot of it in iraq of course the solution you're seeing of that created a near civil war in iraq it's terribly dangerous men would have thought of course in lebanon also earlier one would have thought that people would say look the last thing we want is another sunni versus shia military civil war going on in one of

the major countries they should be doing all they can to try and stop it and i'm saying that assad has made many many mistakes he should have not used for so much at the beginning he should have offered more serious dialogue at the beginning his office but quite flimsy and probably deceptive deliberately and you know he has been very hardline but the other side is now being equally hardline in the situation is becoming polarized the worst case scenario should syria completely collapse into civil war well the worst case scenario is massive. snick cleansing with the i lowered majority from whom the assad family comes from the ruling elite being forced to flee the christians who brought these ten percent of the population of. syria are very worried very probably most of those one understands prefer the assad regime which has been very tolerant to christianity the problem of any kind of religious discrimination they're more worried about the muslim

brotherhood who are the main force in the opposition the armed opposition to. the me are christians could suffer greatly look what's happened to iraqi christians most of them have had to flee the kurds are in a sort of wobbly position they don't care which side is worse for them is assad worse than the possible sunni arab muslim brotherhood coming in. so i think a lot of the minorities are really worried and i think that's partly why there are these big demonstrations in support of assad in damascus and aleppo they're not all people have been sort of forced out into the streets in some way or other some of them and genuine i think i do we obviously we can't give us some exact analysis of how many and genuine and how many have come out because they might be government workers who think that they can lose their jobs if they don't come up but. you can't get so many people out on the street without some of them being genuine on the other hand the prison as sad as certainly committed some terrible atrocities against his own people is that initial crackdown not to blame for the current

situation well i think that's why you need mediation i mean assad has made terrible mistakes and a lot of people have been killed by the security forces and obviously the families and friends of those people you know if you explain your anger and they just want to disappear. so you can see why it's difficult but that's why you need mediation faster just to invite people say come to my office and we'll sit down and we'll talk about things it may be too late for that because there's so much suspicion so that's why the arab league ideally should. the mediators coming in and meeting each side separately pabst initially said what are you willing to give concessions to move and can we find a compromise among some point that when it comes to them together may need outside mediation ideally by the arab and if not by the united nations but i think one of the things that should be on the table is immunity for. me he's not going to give up peacefully when he sees what's happened to mubarak put in. prison or house

arrest in his case hospital arrest because he's ill trial or the gadhafi precedent which is to be lynched in the street on you tube. you know that's not so you need immunity and actually we've got a very good model in yemen they've agreed to signed a deal which the arabs brokered the saudi arabians record whereby president saleh has now given up power to you to immunity for his family and three hundred transition to new elections within the next few months both parliament and for president is very good model now why can't the saudis who did that with yemen do the same thing for syria what have countries like the u.k. france america got to gain with syria here there's no oil wealth is it purely location or is the iran question is the ante raney and thing and the feeling that the. unreliable on the israeli question and he's sort of

they've had intermittent talks with assad but. they've never reached a peace agreement is not just because past that israeli line is also very are harder and so both sides of really found it to impossible to agree does the international community genuinely not see then the dangers of civil war in syria or is that merely outweighed by the need for influence an intervention in syria well i think very problematic cynical very look at libya we don't know exactly how many people were killed in libya some people say thirty thousand people died six months or so that it took to topple gadhafi well the sort of saying well. that's worth it if you can bring a different regime which will be obviously more progress than at least initially if it had western support to topple the regime jonathan steele thank you.

it's all designed to keep you closed in your own small world as a prison. you know you leave somebody in there for a couple hours like that in a stress positions. you have this fear of the unknown in this stress sort of building and. seen interrogations go on ten twelve hours they chose songs i remember from marilyn manson and metallica slayer the two songs would be angel of death and raining blood to kill the enemy going to war coming up here into iraq into baghdad. johnny pulled the bodies to the floor which is the rock n roll

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hello there thanks for watching and these are the headlines this week big story tiger woods wins the chevron world challenge to end their two year title address. plus fans pay tribute to brazil legend. at the age of fifty seven. and sizzling start alexander golf kick start his quest for a fourth world cup crown as he needs russia's four man bobsled to victory in austria. but first goals former world number one tiger woods has won his first title for over two years taking the world challenge in california by a single shot from fellow americans that johnson words hadn't won since the b.m.w. championship in two thousand and nine and that was followed by personal problems and a divorce from his wife and finally got back to winning ways he was training johnson the two holes to go but then many back to back birdies when it mattered he got

a two on the shore seventeen and then hey at three on the last this great a price setting him up for what the winning which he goes on to sing on the relief was obvious beating johnson by a single shot to finish on ten and. i'm finally ending his title direct. i know it's been thinking a while but also for some reason it feels like it it hasn't because when i was coming down the stretch there fossil so comfortable. i felt comfortable and i was i took off for what augusta you know when i put myself there in his positions. it is discomfort as far as making a part and the feeling afterwards. it was. i think i will scream at something but. when the gas terminal pulls it off with one dollar to go

on. to go birdie birdie is going to get. back now will stay in the states because the green bay packers have beaten the new york giants thirty eight points to thirty five a last minute fill go making sure they remain undefeated and also secure a place in the playoffs the giants were hosting the packers at the met life stadium on the back of three straight defeats but they were trying to twenty one seventeen by half time after our rogers found on the drive behind the back of the end zone by the fourth quarter the game still hung in the balance but rodgers again driver to give the packers a thirty four twenty seven lead. however eli manning hit back for the giants connecting with phoenix hate to bring him back to beat in a couple of points. and they were level when d.j. ware ran for a two point conversion. but what use are made sure the packers remain undefeated

his deep pass to jordy nelson. here setting up a last minute field go off the chain it's a. mason crosby stepped up the converted to give the packers thirty five victory and a place in the playoffs. and other news the world of football is paying its respects to former brazil captain and midfield legend socrates he died in hospital in san paolo aged fifty seven following a short illness the former corinthians player had been in a critical condition with an intestinal infection since friday that he also been in hospital in august and september with internal bleeding widely regarded as one of the greatest ever midfielders socrates he turned professional when he was twenty five but went on to play in two world cups winning sixty caps for his country between one hundred seventy nine and one thousand nine hundred six and scoring twenty two goals in a glittering career while our career was given a fitting tribute by fans of his former club corinthians when the brazilian

championship for a fifth time on sunday with a goal of straw against pow mia last before kick off a prime minister to turn into a vocal tribute to supporters changing his nickname dr paul we're going to follow it was a bad tempered if as you can see four players were sent off to from each side although the neutral was enough to be pretty is their first national title since carlos tevez and have him ask around i led them to victory in two thousand and five. we will stay with football and the english premier league talk to the city and manchester united have been drawn together for a match watering third round in the f.a. cup holders city will host the arch rivals. he had stayed in the jan with the seventh still reveling in their six one league triumph at old trafford in october united will be and to avenge that defeat their worst home loss since nine hundred fifty five city also be one nil in last season's f.a. cup semifinal and the red devils by five points at the top of the premier league

table. the last time was one of only two world premier league encounters to merge from sunday afternoon with newcastle in the other top forty andrea sherman's arsenal welcome championship side leeds liverpool will play the winner of the replay between southend and old and chelsea are up against portsmouth . meanwhile on sunday robert who scored the fifteenth minute we're not. able to go straight three goodison park for thirty years and steven fletcher scored a late second half brace as wolves moved four points clear of the drop with a two one win at home to sunderland who will watch by incoming manager martin o'neill and richardson opened after fifty two minutes with the sebastian larsson missed a penalty that would have made it seem able to quickly equalize and then go on to find the winner. then turn it. down to be one martin del potro in

a thrilling four set match to seal spain's fifth davis cup title in eleven years and into the limbic arena. would help move the cup triumph in four years but that seemed to inspire his opponent in the beginning. racing through the first set six one. define his rhythm after that winning the second set six four to tie the match his forehand just too much to handle. and. in the third. another game and he went on to win six one. the full set go to tie break through that without dropping a point it is spain's fifth cup trophy and the dow has played its part in not winning twenty fed cup singles matches in

a row. and winter sports three time former overall champion alexander zuckoff has led his form slating to victory in the first world cup race of the season in austria so you call them company could have done better in the second heat after trying america's first team but russia's first run had given them an edge of nine hundred seventy second which was good enough to give them the aggregate victory ahead of the us germany completed the podium in the ski resort of the eagles while russia's second saying we're fourth fastest of the day. and lastly the n.b.a. lockout is almost over russia's top basketball stars are heading back to the u.s. after a brief spell back in their native country among them is timothy who is on his way back to denver after a stint at his hometown club in cake. as this report. europe's arguably best number five larry king kids center team of famous golf he's only the seventh

russian to play in the national basketball association he signed a three year deal with the new york knicks in twenty seven but was then traded to the denver nuggets where he's still under contract or third to keep kids during the lockout in the n.b.a. but he always knew that as soon as the standoff was over he would be on the one of the first planes back to the united states europe through groups i've shown here in russia what i've learnt in america or tournament on the n.b.a. are two different leagues if you get to see at least one n.b.a. match then you know right away that it's wrong to compare to try anything else i had twenty five years ultimate fate had already become a living legend and russia and the moscow region in particular despite knowing that his services are required in the n.b.a. asap most golf didn't hold back in his final match for him keep picking up sixteen points for rebounds four assists and two block shots it's earned in an impressive

performance to ensure his side maintains a one hundred percent record in this season's united we didn't really need a lot so. with but for can do a little bit there itself is just of them all of them will be small kids what they tell the whole small kid but he half i think is with us by phone in the future just because it's most and this is the last of its colleges so he because this is what i told he's a thug. team a famous golf took part in his level matches for denver this year but has still not had a chance to display his full potential on the court as he has not been in the starting line up yet however he has been more prominent during his time with the new york knicks averaging thirteen point five minutes per game in his thirty four appearances so if all goes well with his current club we could possibly see the sensor in different colors when his contract expires we can talk about it maybe one

year and have. the free agent i'm absolutely sure a lot of the weasel loves him and i mean no one to receive him back because he did a good job and needs some of you the fans of nice as you said there are a lot. now the former can number twenty five is dedicated to his new club the n.b.a.'s denver nuggets same in close touch during the lockout his mind is now probably already in colorado where it's hoped he'll reach new heights and make his family friends and country proud and must go knows what to do in order to approach the sixty six and be a season in top shape your goal for yourselves and i will start training a soon as i arrive in denver it's very important to get a time of toast quickly especially at ten for because it's the highest city in american basketball and it's harder to breathe if you're not used to such altitude so the first week will be tough as for everything else well i'm returning to my old home and hopefully my old life to timothy will not be all alone in denver as his

wife is taking the transatlantic trip with him because our friends in denver are already waiting for us whereas there so when we arrive i'll probably be resting for a few days and getting used to the time difference after spending five months here in russia do you still look out in the n.b.a. russian star center team of famous golf is making his way back to the north american league that's what if i get a role will certainly be a missed here at home but it's highly unlikely that anyone will hold a grudge against him for representing russia in the world's top basketball league room on cosgrove artsy moscow region and that is all the sport for now for the moment until his time. culture is the same of jargon genocide was under the model years of the taliban bad

guys going for the exit after ten years of an inconclusive war be dotted states and its allies are desperate to leave afghanistan by the end of two thousand four.