talk about the main stories we're covering for you today here about a moscow rally in reaction to russia's parliamentary elections descends into an on north rise march and scuffles with police. they go on the road to ruin the entire eurozone credit ratings are on the block as leaders make a beeline to brussels for a last ditch attempt to salvage the country. and cutting back ties with qatar russia responds after its envoys beaten by security forces in doha apparently off

the crimean criticism of its u.s. backed starts spring revolutions. of the arab world ends the year very differently from how it began next a former top syrian diplomats says his view of the changes in the region's prospects. with me i have mr adnan a former syrian ambassador to the united kingdom and sweden and also a former deputy secretary general of the arab league he's a political analyst and i would think so thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. i thank you and greetings to you. t.v. station too much democracy too soon is that what we're witnessing in the arab world and does it mean chaos for countries like egypt it is too soon to say there is much different places where there is democracy but because democratic.

slogans put before the elections do not mean that necessarily the window is going to be correct is democracy so i would say we have to wait and see are we using the right terminology when we talk about the arab spring i wonder what use this word. by the way this season spring is this season or verse storms in the region normally come with there was dust from south sahara or whatever second spring in countries they don't we don't have any foods anything really produce the season which is season of production is summer wind gives the green it is that our spring is the season where you have to wait and see whether there is going to be a positive outcome or map and the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu warns

that the arab spring will turn into an anti american anti israeli anti democratic tsunami does the arab spring really challenge the american and israeli standing in the region or in the country does it actually promote their interests first of all you can hear who statement the statements made by the israeli leadership. the i very subject line the religion it from the very narrow interest of history not their objective he took the subject so he really and they are concerned mainly over how much someone there. are you doing what concessions can a million new genes gift was an item on the light of this they make their judgement so if those new regime is going to a poor as certain disadvantaged that agreements like him david or this of course he wouldn't be happy about it because that agreement was ninety percent.

at least in favor of history what is your sense of what is happening here in egypt how do you predict events will unfold so i think we have you have to remember always that egypt is very important country is stitch country with with knowledge of country and these things economically speaking of course the. areas of strength in the areas of weakness what is more important now is to build really democratic society. far from the influence of any intimate whether this eliminating the military element or religious anyone or any intimate from outside and i'm for i am afraid that all these elements are effecting factor in the future politics in egypt you know president bashar assad is promising democratic elections

next year but do you think the west is putting pressure on him because they want to those elections absolutely this is now is an established fact they have started the process of democracy calling on all parties to join dialogue in that in finalizing the laws the constitution the decrees on election on parties it up but it was strange for everybody in the region to hear mrs clinton going on record and calling on certain a position groups not to go for dialogue and even more than that justifying in florida. with schools the question mark we'll choose to believe. what americans. do they need democracy to be neat chaos out of the really committed or they have still something left of the principal said by

somebody i mean franklin and all the leaders in their own history or the stick to what can be said i say bush said that we are going to restructure the middle east. partitioning of the middle east what about iran do you think nato and israel have the military and economic capabilities to strike you when i do think that they have the capability but if the question is do they have the community of winning the war i have to very much because israel will be very very heavy price the countries in the region or together will suffer because of such kind of stupid adventure i hope that they will be less mad and consider only the lessons of the past the decent lesson would be the behavior of iraq

imagining the united states of america when they really did this or they are going to if used where they can have some you know military operations and then can they have the cake all together all the military bases it's a that and now we are seeing them fleeing leaving iraq after the big hundreds of billions of dollars in a weak economy and after the cause the suffering of more than almost almost a million victims and this is stupid it i hope they will learn that the peoples of the area here they can win or but the people's will fight with everything they have in order to see the backs of those soldiers leaving the country when one looks at the strong anti reigning in statements that are being made by both the united states and israel all we see and iraqi sonari are in relation to iran where is

almost a pre-war before the actual war look i agree with you that the same store guns but iraq iran is not iraq iran is much much stronger militarily. and they have many many cards to play i think the americans do that very well they want to pressure these countries. the edge of the t.v. playing that kind of game as far as possible settling of invasion in order to to have more kids concessions by iran i doubt whether this policy will succeed because the americans are very very well known in the region there is no credibility for the americans american interest now is the care they want is they do anything. country in the they want israel is the only nuclear power in the agent is the

military american base and they have now the americans i saw fond of establishing bases in the region almost only a few countries in the region don't have american military base including turkey which is a very very country of seventy million the biggest one of the biggest military bases in turkey they were considered to be is a spearhead against the soviet union at that time and i think the same duty is now but the name is not soviet union now than it was russia and i'm sure that their key idea mind only of the last new pieces established amused turkey what four people talk about protecting israel from iran. yes this is not the wrong thing i mean this is correct but more important it is part of the strategy of

reviving cold war instead of ending russia with all destructive bases do you think the turkish american alliance will continue because if one looks at turkish society it is changing and one does see more islamists coming to the fore no i think for the time being the leadership in turkey is quite fulfilling their own obligations as they call it. they need to be sent. to the the bilateral agreements which exist between turkey and america and dirty it is so so far they are doing this how long this will go i believe that the people in turkey. lighted people. joy the beauty thinking deeply real not except that for long and i remind you that that was not

easy when the ruling party now came to power in two thousand and two they could not they didn't dare to challenge the public opinion so they didn't involve turkey in the in the iraqi war they didn't allow you know their bases the american base to be used and that was very correct decision but at that time the ruling party was still coming to power he was unsure of his ability and strength but now i'm sure that these policies are different. the venturing more we are trying to take a leading role in. what we call probably bloody policies which are not in the interest of the people of tech when one looks at the international pressure being put on countries like iran for example is it actually

having the opposite effect absolutely they are strengthening the position of the leadership in iran the people you mentioned the cold war setting up do you think that this region is headed for war and if so who are the players what you put is a question is it measure important question when the when you have called war probably are not clear planning a war but it comes to a point where you cannot control you cannot control what you bring or explosives and you set fire near it and it is only a matter of luck or time and i know that they are many parties who could provoke pushing a cold war to a hot war because of their interest companies manufacturing arms are to be considered the mean groups which have

a pretty wide for such things and they were behind. a lot of wars which happened in . so the advice is to avoid cold war to a place called war with dialogue to solve pending problems whether these problems are international or regional when i see region and this includes the middle east a lot of things happening in the middle east i think if there was wisdom and dialogue there would we saw with in weeks. it many innocent people would be saved i've known online thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. i think.

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impressions so. these friends starts on t.v. dot com. a moscow rally in reaction to russia's parliamentary elections descends into an unauthorized march and scuffles with police. the final leg on the road to ruin the entire eurozone credit ratings are on the block as leaders make a beeline to brussels for a last ditch attempt to salvage the currency. cutting back ties with qatar russia responds after its envoys beaten by security forces in doha apparently after kremlin criticism of its u.s. backed stance on the arab spring revolutions. sports news there.

hello there thanks for watching the sport and these are the headlines a chance to make history's any trouble to look in to claim a spot in the champions league knockout stage for the first time. while chelsea boss fears boesch feels the heat is his side risk missing out on the last sixteen with a crunch time against valencia. and i think they're charging make a deal with a shootout win over former champions. and no go for klitschko boxing's heavyweight champion cools off this weekend in the fight with more men on health grounds. but first i need to st petersburg are preparing to make history a point against porto in portugal tonight would see them progress the knockout stages of the champions league for the very first time the russian champions have

been trying in portugal for the last six days in preparation for this game and got a taste at porto try guy stadium yesterday although absent was any star striker alexander could you call he sidelined with an ankle injury the russian beat porto three one instant pages big in september but despite that victory. he says tonight's game will be a big challenge. there isn't a favorite i would say that even if we had won against there wouldn't be favorites here because obviously playing here are our stadium is a big challenge and it's not easy to play against porto. we must come here and show our quality our character and put our personality on the pitch and play the game. well porto are third in the group at the moment and have to win tonight's progress but they have injury problems to defend the media rafael and midfielders thready guardian and christian rodriguez are all so selection headache them for manager be

told he's had a largely disappointing rank since taking over from andre vs bow ish fans help protest after their shop champions league defeat to apple well purvis says he always knew it would come down to the final creek gang. just that the battle between the three teams for the two places in the champions league was something that i predicted a long time ago because it clearly felt especially after watching our pool play that group g. was going to be very competitive until the end of the last match and that's the way it's happened. so this is the. top and already through to the knockout stages but want to win again this evening to guarantee a top spot should they fail to get three points selves could finish top for the win over port. while chelsea boss. says his team will try to take the initiative in their crucial clash with valencia victory or goal or stuart stamford bridge would ensure the blues make the knockout stages but the feat or score draw would see the

spanish side go through instead along with by late occasion who have already qualified elimination for chelsea at this group stage with since romance. in two thousand and three adding to the pressure on manager of the first season in charge although he is trying to. think of soon as plane of two to be sure that we always take the initiative of the game and we know that. we want to get something because it all represents a lot for them makes makes things easier makes it makes things even more difficult for us but we just have to. do it again because that's what we've been doing in the past so we will change. strategy just because we play such an important game strategy will be and will be the same we take the initiative of the ball and we don't speculate in the game as you know we don't break down the report. longwalls we want to we want to get quality position for them that's what we do them and. say

they plan to attack and go for the win even there was school draw would do them it was one one between the sides when they met back in september but the spaniards have produced good run since then winning seven of the last eight matches the latest a two one win over espanol in the league and arjen time they feel the team cost them scored in that gang say they are after three points tonight. you know. we've come here with the mentality to go there and try to win the game where we're there to draw with a goal would be good for us but we're going to try to make the most of the fact chelsea will be trying to win the game too and that is exactly what we will try to do ourselves but you are going out of it with a busy night saving but one result from last night in english premier league full of ten man liverpool one nil at anfield on monday evening think scoring the winner after spearing had to be sent off in the seventy second minute. now the football

news the shortlist for the world player of the year has been reduced to three little messy and christiane we're now day making up the nominations for the fifth ballon d'or award messi won the inaugural award last year after faces well paid the big gong was my friend. and he's the favorite again over the last year the argentinian i scored fifty three goals in all competitions for barcelona team is widely regarded as one of the best midfielders and we've got the steel and we've used before bollywood to change pain we're now day like messi has netted fifteen so the portuguese won the ballon d'or three years ago while playing for manchester united the winners will be announced on january the. i actually. won a penalty shootout against former champions to keep up that charge in the western conference yesterday evening the last time they met one six three but in contrast

last night's clash and the goal is off to overtime and so a shootout was needed to settle it and dimitri was the only man to find the net to give the win a fourth in the western conference ten points off. but with a game in hand and the six eastern conference after losing half their game sites. now a box of adam a klitschko has called off his next title defense after the heavyweight champion was admitted to hospital on sunday for the second time in two days the thirty five year old ukrainian was g. to square off against frenchman john mark mormeck on the tenth of december but the younger klitschko brother had a kidney stone removed on saturday but before being rushed back to hospital to dust off hospital in germany due to suffering painful inflammation is the reigning champion while also holding and heavyweight belts. meanwhile light

welterweight champion has been taking in the sights of washington d.c. he defends his b.f. and w.b. eight belles there this weekend against hometown boy lamont pedersen his trainer on the left there is freddie roach who also coaches boxing superstar manny pacquiao and cohen has been sparring with the filipino in the run up to the bag and aims to come through it in style on saturday night. i mean i tried to make sure the price not to be close is going to be coming if you could win for me because if it is any closer you might just go towards peace because you. know we were ready for this far we don't want to do. the right game plan to be here. with martial arts where russian athletes have proved once again they are a powerhouse on the world saying the battle of champions tour was held in moscow at the weekend and it's all local talents victorious in ten clashes out of eleven against their opponents from all over the globe for danny and has more. this is

called the battle of champions and the proud name of the annual event which was held in moscow for the sixth time is just a court russia still present today it's in eleven different martial arts were there at the civil sports with their counterparts from the rest of the world first on the mat the practitioner's three time world champion and it sounded a good move against evil east to turn the european champion diver the bin until. the russian was quick to dump foam his opponent with his keeping ability and then proved to have the edge in nearly all aspects something wrong and i did what i plan to do neutralize his legs and didn't let him kick me in the head although he managed to hit me with some body shots well let's give him some credit is a very experienced fighter. over to some bigger guys will speak to the risk of getting to know the most and shin dip in these martial arts of sumo. along

these rushes hero in this business the five time world champion promptly proving that he's mass in size are hard to stand up against even for the men from the martial arts homeland. while next up to demonstrate their skills this should have gone practitioners. during then done the skull test of the russian up and comer evanthia enough. this time around it was a punch and perfect timing the decider the mother gideon of knocking his experienced opponent out cold to extend his country's lead both of us a new one and i'm glad to see that a lot of homegrown talent has emerged in russia over the last four years both in wrestling and stand up fighting disciplines they're developing very fast and motion also getting more and more popularity with the russian people. the host dominated the event claiming one victory after another although the final belt produced

a different outcome then sion martial art of concurrency on which incorporates both wrestling and striking techniques was part of the action the olympics now is being revived with and may fire is competing with only a few restrictions russia says lum google play store files seen it all from portugal with the title world champ and stake i am a thirty two year old summa did his best to keep the fight on the ground and that finally gave him the edge over his opponent who's eleven years younger and just ran out of fuel by the end of the belt nevertheless overall the russian martial artists proved their class with an impressive ten victories was just death one defeat the back button on archie most. impressive stuff that is the sport for the moment that we've maul us.

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