market why not. why don't what's really happening to the global economy with my stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. to report. this is r.t. vote counting is almost over in russia's parliament true election united russia policies in the lead winning the majority of scenes in the lower house but still losing a big share of its previous popular support to the communists all second in the race with iraq on the democrats also making it to paul that. as global players need to decide the future of afghanistan pakistan all news role is key to stability of the region boycotts the event is the latest sign of his relations with washington

take time for the worst following nato's recent deadly air raid on pakistani border pegs. and egyptians are back at polling stations for the second stage of the college's parliamentary election hearing putting round of the votes to an overwhelming win by the is a mystery now and to secure their exalted. necks as international pressure mounts on syria either bennett talks to one of britain's foremost jenice jonathan state of the guardian newspaper his take on possible solutions to the country's political crisis. i'm joined by jonathan steele former chief correspondent of the guardian newspaper and now a commentator on international affairs jonathan thanks for speaking to r.t. europe now the u.k. 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 start 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 be 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 i should pay has just called for humanitarian corridors to be opened into syria with or without the syrian government's permission damascus when he was asked does that mean you would protect these corridors would that be military protection he said of course so in other words they are thinking of having a 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 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 asset must go or would be a platform that says we need dialogue and and a transition which is peaceful and civil war and 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 save the city of hama. needs protection. you know and then they could have a no fly zone over that city and then they again it's the thin end of the wedge

which would move out to becoming full scale support for. civil war the trouble is of course that hama and homs the two cities that have the most fighting are not on the scene because it was on the coast in libya that made it much easier to have a no fly zone lawmen to start bringing in ships bringing weapons and supplies and all the rest of it more difficult in syria unless they nominate one of the coastal cities or 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's 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 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 getting stuck 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 syria as the 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 and of course syria has quite good 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 does the fear of iran really outweigh any concern in 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 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 is 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 and you know drop them. position and father at 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 they 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 has has descended into civil war have lessons not been learnt well i agree with you i mean i think i think it's quite irresponsible 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 i said proxy war between the gulf arabs are mainly sunni against the iranian regime which is causing the cancer and i'm afraid it's been the united states have been 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 sunni shia thing of that created

a near civil war in iraq it's terribly dangerous and one 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 arab 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 was 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 what's the worst case scenario should syria completely collapse into civil war well the worst case scenario is massive. of ethnic cleansing with their lower majority from whom the assad family comes from the ruling elite being forced to flee the christians who brought at least ten percent of the population possibly more in syria are very worried and very probably

most of them as one understands prefer the assad regime which has been very tolerant to christianity no problem with any kind of religious discrimination and 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 our side 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 our side 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 a genuine i think i do obviously we can't do this sort of 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 out 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 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. find a compromise learn some point everybody comes into the room together but may need

outside mediation ideally by the arab league if not by the united nations but i think one of the things that should be on the table is immunity for a certain he's not going to give up power peacefully when he sees what's happened to mubarak put in prison or house arrest in his case hospital arrest because he still 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 broke in the saudi arabians brokered whereby president saleh has now given up power in return for immunity for his family and himself under transition to a 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 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 rainy and thing and the feeling that the. unreliable on the israeli question. that he's sort of they've had intermittent talks with assad but. they've never reached a peace agreement is not just because the israeli line is also very are hot and so both sides of where they found it 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. look at libya we don't know exactly how many people were killed in libya. people say thirty thousand people died in six months or so that it took to topple gadhafi well they're sort of saying well. that's worth it if you can bring in a different regime which will be obviously more progress than at least initially if

it's had western support to topple the regime jonathan steele thank you. wealthy british style. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. it's

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second stage of the country's parliament community action period putting round of the votes to an overwhelming win the by these limits you now i just secure their advantage. ok more world news in a little under fifteen minutes let's get all the latest sports they first with kate . thank you for joining me and here are the latest sports headlines a league of their own the league a golden boys need all messi and cristiano ronaldo are all moment for the european footballer of the year award. while fathers pay tribute to former brazil captain and football legend socrates who died on sunday aged fifty seven.

and sweet make sure a former world number one tiger woods wins the chevron world challenge with a birdie at the last hole and a two year title drought. first of all bore the league a trio of lino messi and cristiano ronaldo have been nominated for the golden ball award for the european player of the year messi is touted as a slight favorite to make it a triple of ballon d'or trophies the argentinian has scored fifty three goals in all competitions the barcelona since picking up the award last year his tally includes three hat tricks in fifteen games since the start of the current spanish season well used to measuring is widely regarded as one of the best midfielders in the game and finished runner up last time. right all madrid linchpin renowned like messi has netted fifty three goals the portuguese won the award three years ago while playing for manchester united because then coach so alex ferguson tell it well madrid boss doesn't rain here and pass it hasn't got the other one by the coach is a good. time it means i film

a runner up david beckham has once again refused to pledge his future to any particular club the former manchester united and rail madrid star is currently in a post season two with l.a. galaxy in australia and says he'll make a big decision after christmas england's most capped outfield player will be out of contract by december the thirty first and has been repeatedly linked with mega rich french side parasite drama though the good news meanwhile fallbacks fans is the better in midfielder has no immediate plans of hanging up estates. now i don't feel thirty six years old a man i still love training still love playing so i only continue until i feel differently. now the world of soccer is playing its respects to former brazil captain and midfield legend socrates who died in hospital in sao paolo on sunday age fifty seven following a short illness the former thornton's player had been in a critical condition with an intestinal infection since friday he's also been in

hospital in august and september with internal bleeding widely regarded as one of the greatest as a midfielders socrates only turned professional when he was twenty five but went on to play in two world cups winning sixty caps for his country between one nine hundred seventy nine and one thousand nine hundred six and scoring twenty two goals in a glittering career. well that career was given a fitting tribute by fans of his former club corinthians won the brazilian championship for a fifth time on sunday after goalless draw attempted murder and a minute's silence turned into vocal appreciation for the great man before kick off against followed was a bad tempered affair with four players sent off two from each side but it didn't stop corinthians getting the point they needed to clinch the after the first national title since two thousand and five. about the genius of one argentina's aperture title destino win at home to banfield gave them their first

piece of silverware three years that you can achieve twice first half. wonder strike from diego rivera after the break. a victory. lap of allah followed with some of the back of players to go flying. over in england the top two sides in the premier league have been drawn together in the f.a. cup has managed to city will play rivals manchester united in mouthwatering third round so i want to just really expect a similar once again lock horns with counterpart robert the man cheney city will host the game at the end he had stadium on january the sevens still revelling in their six one league trial but all traffic do not talk about why united. also knocked out by hold the city in last year's f.a. cup semifinals. my little boy will travel to follow in this monday night in the premier league where a win would put kenny dalglish's side level on points with last night and newcastle

while full of needed victory as a sixteenth and just two points above the drop zone. and that's a goal from former world number one tiger woods has won his first title for over two years after clinching the chevron world challenge in california by a single shot at the final hole from fellow americans like johnson once hadn't won since the australian masters in november two thousand and nine which was followed by high profile revelations about his personal life and later divorce from his wife as well as injuries but he's finally back to winning ways with two holes to go he was trailing johnson but then managed back to back birdies when it matters the crucial one on the last hole the right approach shot setting up the wing parts which he then went on to sink the relief is obvious finishing on ten under par to beat johnson by a single shot the victory also moves woods from fifty seconds to twenty first in the world rankings. i know it's been a while but also for some reason it feels like it has it because when i was coming

down the stretch there if i felt so comfortable. i felt comfortable and i was i took off the water just to. put myself there in these positions. it is discomfort as far as making a part of the feeling afterwards. it was you know i think i was screaming something but it was just when the golf tournament pulled it off with one dollar to go on. to go birdie birdie is going to get. staying in america where the green bay packers have reached the n.f.l. playoffs the current super bowl champions grabbing a last minute field goal to win thirty eight thirty five at the giants to remain undefeated well the giants took on the packers in new york's met life stadium on the back of three straight defeats and were trailing twenty one seventeen my half time in forever watches donald driver at the end zone but the giants kept themselves in it and by the fourth quarter the game still hung in the balance rogers again found drive it with the pakistanis thirty four twenty seven lead

however eli manning hit back the giants connecting with the mix to get back to within a couple of points and they were level thirty by each d.j. where. the two point conversion. but rogers made sure the pack is sealed their twelve to win for twelve games he's deep pass to jordy nelson set up a last minute field goal. and mason as we converted it to give the packers a thirty eight thirty five victory place in the playoffs. and is now in rafael nadal four back from a set down to be twenty martin del potro in a thrilling force that match to seal spain's fifth davis cup title in eleven years is all walked out into the olympic arena knowing what was at stake that initially seemed to inspire his opponents del potro racing through the first set six one is he trying to bring his country level in this davis cup tie but an adult then found

his rhythm winning the second set six four to tie the match. his fun ping forehand too much to handle. the spaniard found another gap was sixty one. even the pool side went to a tie break nidal kristie that without dropping a points for its spain's fifth day despite the face it's often not twenty six not to use in the right. and finally to some spectacular snowboarding pictures as x. games champion travis weiss sailed thousands of fans and he was promoting a film that's captured press taking images of the sport and one cause forever ports

. wyoming native travis rice has won two christie just eggs games gold medals in his career and numerous other titles inventing new snowboarding moves in the process but his true passion lies in filmmaking with his latest movie called the art of flight making its final tour stop in moscow we were lucky enough to use some of the most dynamic and cutting edge film equipment in the world along with. sound design from. steven spielberg's facility in california that is beautiful so it was meant to be seen on the big screen. to create a for blu ray of a primary shot it for the big screen that's why we're here. arsal flight concept was born three years ago following rice's directorial debut on an other cutting edge snowboarding film called that's it that's all the result of his work in partnership with brain form digital cinema and director curt morgan are widely

regarded as a new breed of action sports film for most people it's a unique opportunity to experience in high definition a one of a kind of adventure that sakes that you are avalanches accidents and unexplored mountains in remote corners of the world trying to strike is obviously not alone in challenging mother nature and popularizing snowboarding as a lifestyle helping him defy the odds and raise the bar on the quality of the video footage describing this breathtaking pastime our crew of at least ten people including the star of countless snowboarding videos swiss and make a last minute. this film as an audience much brother and then anything else before and everybody talks about and it's beautiful i've been to huge premieres like here in moscow but also to the small shop screenings and everybody is just. stunned but just blown away but

a picture is never. snowboarding was basically nonexistent during the soviet period but it has now won over the hordes of millions of russia's youth at least two thousand people have turned up for the premier of the art of flight in moscow's pushkin cinema and most seem to already be familiar with the concept as well as the stores of the film in the book around the country snowboarding is old do either so we know about competition this is exactly what these guys have done with this film they sort of united themselves with nature and i don't think there will ever be better writing then was been demonstrated in this movie there was only one showing of the art of flight in moscow however it confirmed that the demand for adrenaline packs and masterfully edited footage is as high as ever in russia and the audience is already eager to experience what else try this rice or perhaps some other filmmaker will have to offer as their next snowboarding work of war. artsy

moscow. amazing stuff and that's how i found.