video for your media project free media. this is our. headlines now the u.s. and its allies in the u.n. security council. draft resolution on syria which does not rule out military intervention and an arms embargo on damascus russia refuses to back the motion. against regime change and wants the blame for the bloodshed in syria placed on the government and the armed opposition. german chancellor angela merkel in china calling on the country to help the financially crippled by investing in the euro

and will also be pushing for beijing to get on board with the western policy on iran. plus the international community calls on israel to stop building homes on occupied land palestinians who live there are trying to stop what they call terrorism at the hands of israeli settlers israel's promised to come down on the perpetrators but the continued support for settlement construction is sending a mixed message. to the senior editor of the new statesman magazine. tells us here at r.t. that finding a solution to the crisis in syria will not be easy and it will not be seen as legitimate without a un resolution he watching out. today i'm talking to. the new statesman magazine talking about the violence that's going on in syria that maybe. and also the developing situation in iran may have

found thank you very much for talking to me today now we've seen observers being sent into syria who seem to have done nothing to stop the violence in fact the death toll has risen from twenty to thirty people that day how good do you think the observers are implementing that monday i think in the very good given of one of the leaders of the mission when it originally went in was a sudanese general who's been accused of carrying out war crimes and ethnic cleansing a doll for which slightly hobbled both the legitimacy of the mission and the trust of a lot of syrian opposition groups in the arab league mission since then the saudi arabians have complained about the mission they've pulled out their observer they're pulling out their own bus and i mean the arab league has really been all over the place from syria on the one hand it's condemned syria it was praised for the first time condemning a fellow arab nation and putting a resolution in a few months ago since the mission has been criticized for among other things the personalities deployed and its inability to stop the violence i think the real issue is that the syrians need to allow in a much much more neutral a much more wide ranging

a much more forceful international observer mission if they've got nothing to hide if it's if they're genuinely not killing innocent people what have they got on it and what about sanctions the u.k. recently proposed tougher sanctions on syria things like travel bans asset freezes what effect if any do you think that have it to friends have told you to the sanctions are more on the fence over sanctions given the experience we have with iraq for over a decade of sanctions which cause more suffering to the people than to the saddam regime i support sanctions targeted against regime members targeted against people who are indicted for human rights violations or war crimes find if they squeeze the country itself from the people who've done nothing wrong and i think that's a mistake i think we have to think much more creatively about syria i'm not one of those who support military action in syria isn't libya it won't be easy it won't be legitimate without a u.n. resolution and more and more innocent people will die than have already died but that doesn't mean you just turn a blind eye to the violence that's going on more than five thousand people have died according to the un's own figures and our side is a man who clearly is not backing down you look at some of his interviews. you know

he's not a bomb because there's colonel gadhafi but he says some pretty crazy things about how it's nothing to do with me not my orders these are all rebels everyone who's dying and let's talk about the opposition for a little bit there paid to be three blocks that the free syrian army has the kind of external opposition that's been through in the streets do you think they'll be able to form any kind of well that's one of the objections of a lot of people are having against any kind of external military action which is where is the legitimacy in libya you had a opposition movement which despite being consisting of different groups secular religious etc indigenous those outside the country they did for a you know it would opposition for the purposes of getting rid of gadhafi and they controlled territory it's what prompted the intervention to begin with in syria they don't control any territory they don't control any cities or towns and there is this division between the external opposition figures like the leader of the syrian national council is based in paris and those who are on the on the streets who have said again and again to western reporters to human rights groups that we don't want military intervention we are opposed to both syrian president were

opposed to the assad regime and were opposed to western intervention we saw what happened in iraq and the syrians what's interesting about the syrians is that they saw up close and personal the effects of western intervention all because hundreds of thousands of iraqi refugees fled into syria they know the consequences of a kind of ill will tanya bill thoughtout heavy handed western intervention which just exacerbates the violence and the free syrian army as far as you can see what are they fighting for does it look like genuine democracy there's a huge debate about the f.s.a. and how much first of all how many defections there are going on because they claim to be getting dozens and dozens of defectors every day every week from syrian armed forces and yet all the independent observers not just the assad regime but it's apologists say well actually it's a trickle and they're exaggerating there of strength in order to again justify a western intervention if you look at the history of western interventions so-called humanitarian interventions you always see there's an equivalent to the f.s.a. on the ground whether in libya which you go about to kosovo the k.l.a. . which also said you know give us the guns give us the support and we'll do the

fighting and in a in afghanistan you have the northern alliance and actually it turns out that these groups tend not to have as much legitimacy as they claim to be not to have as much military strength as they claim and the free syrian army is accused of killing people itself isn't it do we have any idea of sort of the number of casualties well again without wanting to overdo the composer did libya and syria one of the things you see when you do support rebel groups sometimes i'm say very groups you know my enemy's enemy is my friend you support people who are perhaps not the greatest defenders or advocates of human rights themselves in afghanistan we supported all sorts of unsavory warlords and still do in libya the opposition groups and the national transition council there in libya was accused by human rights watch during the conflict of carrying out all sorts of killings and abuses of prisoners which still haven't been resolved to properly accounted for do we then want to lurch into a syrian conflict where again we are ignorant of what's going on on the ground we're not experts on who these people are what these groups started for and the f.s.a. of course if you consist of defecting soldiers from an army that's carried out

human rights abuses then a lot of those defectors will have been part of those human rights abuses that's just a horrible reality of the world we live in and in terms of the actual people do you see any link between the libyan islamists and stays on the ground in syria well there's been reports about as you know well as with all these conflicts you know very gray and they're murky that libya does live as groups fighting in libya finished fighting in libya have transferred over to help some of the syrian opposition groups and do you see an accidental move towards intervention since the new year my position is changing and i can imagine a scenario where we are where nato is asked or the british government american governors are asked to enforce a no fly zone to enforce some kind of safety corridor or look which which would be would be ostensible they were protected rights all well and good but would push us into all sorts of areas of the middle east we don't want to be involved in because syria for example is a much bigger player in the israel arab conflict it's a much bigger country and tougher to overcome and beat militarily for two. does

that long to beat libya are going to take us to syria how far do you think syria is already essentially a battlefield between iran and the west the israelis have been clear for many years that if you can pull syria out of all but you will weaken iran which they consider to be the number one enemy the number one menace in the neighborhood the number one threat to israel's strategic interests so if you can get syria away from iran either through a diplomatic deal which they tried for many years all through regime change which seems to be the direction of travel mel that would definitely weaken iran and all roads in the middle east right now or do seem to lead back to tehran and saudi arabia's relationship with iran is increasingly hostile and it teases iran of supporting create this testing shiite minority how do you think that could play out saudi arabia's own position is brazenly one sided brazenly self-serving and hypocritical here you have saudi arabia having pulled its ambassador of damascus having complained about the arab league on the ground of its human rights observations well first of all the saudi arabians have their own human rights abuses to deal with at home their own oppressive regime but even if you take the

arab spring the saudis are throwing their weight behind the syrian opposition to assad and yet have done their utmost best to stop the arab spring to stop the revolt and all of the other countries in egypt in bahrain where saudi troops went in to better are still in berets suppressing protests in bahrain and in syria they're supporting the opposition if that's not one side of this i don't know what is and that shows you that saudi arabia is only interested nothing to do with human rights or democracy of course and how could so very very interesting is that it's about trying to deal with iran that we know from wiki leaks that the saudi king told the american government cut the head of the snake a deal with the snake that is iran and in his view iran has been threatening recently to block the straits of hormuz which of course we know is the main export gulf oil what do you think the political consequences of that could be. genuinely worried about what will happen if the iranians chop strait of hormuz as they promised i think you'll have a situation where we start sleepwalking into war on both sides where there are extremists on both sides. who want a conflict who would love

a conflict because it would serve their purposes in the west there are people who want to take out iran both for america's national interest so-called and of course for the israelis and in iran there are hardliners who see that the islamic revolution is failing to receive the green movement popular who are seeing lots of people protesting in the region and see a foreign war seeing who see the idea of being under attack as a way of uniting the country so they're hardliners on both sides and i think the people in the middle have to be careful that we don't allow the hardliners to kind of allow us to sleep welcome to war where they shut the straits of hormuz and the americans who i suspect don't want to go toward an election near a force to come in in order to secure the oil and to protect the israelis if israel were to attack iran as well which is the sixty four thousand dollar question you mentioned that this is of course an election year in the u.s. do you think that the u.s. is likely to wait until the election is over when in doing so it could under israel by not acting sooner well that's the interesting question i think of their own free will i don't think they do want to go to war think obama is running on a campaign of trying to energize his base say we're the guys who ended iraq we're

the guys we're going to bring troops home from afghanistan with the guys who took a backseat to libya didn't put boots on the ground the idea that you would then kick off a conflict with iran but how does one american general put it you know if you loved iraq if you like to rock in afghanistan you love iran i mean it would be a major conflict and i think if you listen to for example defense secretary panetta saying recently that actually an attack on iran would have unintended consequences would be a backlash against american troops in the region clearly he's not keen on it and yet if the israelis were to strike iran and iran were to strike back then the americans would be drawn in whether they like it or not because they can't abandon israel because of an israel for strategic purposes they certainly can about israel in election year we're in very shaky economic times globally at the moment but what no one seems to be talking about is what the economic consequences of a war with iran would be in an age where we are facing a double dip recession possibly another great depression where oil prices are already so high we could see an attack on. pushing oil prices above hundred fifty

dollars a barrel some of the sights even a record high of about two hundred dollars a barrel which really would take the entire world economy not just ours but the asians the chinese back into a major major recession major. and i think people have kind of turned a blind eye to this and only recently with the radiance threatening to block the strait of hormuz we think a third of the will seaboard oil passes through people start to go away to what the hell is going to happen to all prices and i think that's a factor the american government's raising as well perhaps less i mean these are any government's reasons why he has been very much thank you. i am. was shot four times in total. syrians aboard.

people should be allowed to defend themselves. by these people are not. basically military. i'm sorry you know that the bullet comes out here and this makes it go bang and if what's in here is going to die and that's all the training really really crazy and. killing well one of. the streets. a little out of hopefully we will never use the weapons for self defense but we should be prepared for class including the teacher of. seventeen students. who are still a lot of. means

of protection can be used. in global supremacy. between two thousand and five and two thousand and nine the u.s. has spent fifteen billion dollars in the prostate for the entire program that we are dealing with right now here in two thousand and eleven is another one hundred fifty billion dollars that's larger than the country's entire military budget off things because the best for the defense. wealthy british scientists are. spot on with. the. market.

going to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds of reports on. the headlines on the u.s. and its allies in the u.n. security council. resolution on syria which does not rule out a military intervention and an arms embargo on damascus refuses to back the motion and to let someone go is against regime change and wants the blame for the bloodshed in syria placed equally on the government and the opposition. and china calling on the country to help the french really crippled the e.u. by investing in the euro and pushing for beijing to get on board the western policy on iran. plus there's the international community called on israel to stop building homes on occupied land. palestinians who live there are trying to stop what they

call terrorism in the hands of israeli settlers israel's promised to come down on public traitors but the continued support for settlement construction is sending a mixed message. and those are the headlines here on r.t. but for now it's paul the latest in the world of sport. hello welcome to the sports headlines has what's coming up. tragedy in egypt more than seventy fans are killed following a pitch invasion during a top flight my. pride maria sharapova trains in moscow ahead of a red fed cup outing for russia. gunning for gold all team it's one of russia's big medal hopes for the sochi winter games. but first three days of national mourning have been announced in egypt after more than seventy people lost their lives at

a top flight football match violence flared up in the game between al masri an alley when supporters some apparently armed with knives ran on to the pitch the visiting team al-ali were chased into the changing room but were kicked and punched as they fled officials say the death toll could yet rise with more than two hundred injured violence at football matches in egypt is on the increase since political unrest swept the country more than a year ago egypt's deputy health minister has described it as the biggest disaster in the country's footballing history. meanwhile over in england newcastle have moved up to faith in the premier league that's after two nil when a black person on wednesday dropped down to seven thought they could only manage a goal is to our relegation threatened bolton to lose the russian side in pavel pogrebnyak was unavailable as they drew one one at home to west brom aston villa fullback from toodle down to take a point at home to keep a norwegian six game unbeaten run came to an end with a three hole defeat sunderland. some sad news from the world of boxing muhammad

ali's legendary coach angelo dunn day has passed away at the age of ninety he was best known for working with ali and helping him become the world an olympic champion the corner man also worked with fifteen other world champions including sugar ray leonard and george foreman he was inducted into the boxing hall of fame in one thousand nine hundred ninety two. moving to tennis and maria sharapova has held her first training session in moscow ahead of this weekend's fed cup quarter final with spain the twenty four year old has only ever played in three fed cup matches but after a couple of injury plagued years the world number three reached the australian open final last week and sharapova told which had been pulled late she's hoping to continue her good early season form by helping russia place the fed cup semi. you know what it's always great to be in the finals of a grand slam that's why you know you always want to be down to the us too and you know for me to be able to come to moscow in a few days obviously it's a tough transition going from the heat to the cold but it's like that for everyone and you know i think we just have to make the quick adjustments but i'm happy that

we have a home match instead of away and then i can actually be in my home country and it's sort of last time you played for a couple russia is for french to. give you no motivation this time off because you know last year you know it's it's a team effort and i think that's really how it happened on and i didn't have a good first day and then the next day you know the whole team kind of raise their level and one zero two so it's just it's such a different environment than what we're used to whereas when you lose a match and then you kind of out you know you lose a match you still have a chance and that's what makes it so special here do you feel more confident because i mean you're getting to be crowned some foreigner. but helping to put what happened in two thousand and one two thousand and eight behind you and just moving forward even that you want to get into a point or hurdle going to work to get to the stage of being in a final it's great and for me to have been in the open where i haven't been a stage in the second week of a grand slam is a really good achievement for me and you know to be number three in the world is great as well as for the question obviously a huge year for you with the ground so i'm trying to get on the ground sometimes

i'll be lympics i mean this is part of a region where you're playing pick up trying to get in the big team and it wouldn't mean to you for the olympics has meant so much for me since i was a young kid that was really what we always looked forward to and one day in tennis when i was young wasn't that big and it was always all the olympic winter sports that i watched and i hope that one day i would be an olympian so you know i missed it out in beijing with the shoulder surgery and this year they're looking forward to going to fix up so much on. top sixteen have extended their lead at the top of group j. with a home victory over italian side seven the host took the bull by the whole drive from the stalls winning the course of twenty twelve minutes continue to press in the second. increasing their advantage to sixteen points by halftime henry dhamma can top score for next with sixteen including this two pointer to make it forty two twenty two midway through the third period because untamed then took their foot off the gas but firmly held on to their lead fifty nine forty for the final score there

. meanwhile in group a olympiacos registered their first win over the top sixteen the greeks beat on a dual fs of turkey at home eighty three sixty five. top score for the hosts with eighteen points. now stand with basketball and in the n.b.a. indiana have beaten minnesota one hundred nine ninety nine the pacers scored more than one hundred points for only the second time this season it was a pretty close affair during the first two quarters over the visitors would start pulling away late in the third danny granger top scored with thirty six points including this three pointer to make it sixty fifty two in favor of the paces. granger was then involved in an ole to cation with kevin love. but the referees managed to calm the players and avoid a mass brawl. rangers shined in the final period to having several crucial points as indiana run out winners one hundred nine points to ninety nine. now to the

chinese basketball a jr smith put in a quite remarkable performance as the zhang golden bowls but the quinto double stars by one hundred twenty two points to one hundred ten the former denver nuggets guard contributed sixty points in his team's victory by putting on a dramatic show with three pointers he managed to score fourteen out of his eighteen attempts from behind the arc so that he was at the highest score in the game smith also contributed eight rebounds and six assists was quite a performance. now to women's figure skating where russia has never claimed a single olympic gold medal however with two years to go until the sochi winter games there's hope that that run will soon end fifteen year old adelina sotnikova is a real medal prospects for the dunya and went to major. ladies singles this is the only discipline in which an olympic gold medal has eluded such

a big figure skating nation like russia are the insult nicobar is one of the few offering major hope for the long anticipated ladies' ground in the sport first of all in sochi twenty fourteen at the age of fifteen so to go one has already claimed the russian domestic title three times having also won the world junior championships in twenty eleven. she has already proved a strong will to win she's a fighter and this is something you cannot teach that's given by god she's one of those who can compete and can achieve top results now that's a fact. and yet right i was for it when my mom took me to skating skill nearby just to test my capability for skating with professional coaches all the kids around started crying when they fell down but i stood up and kept moving forward step by step and the coaches looked at my mother and sat with strongly recommend

that you make her continue and that's how i started figure skating. according to the international skating union says rankings so it nicole is currently the world's number seventeen what has plenty of time to fine tune her skills with her coach five ten years to search and bam million of a there is a lot. have you seen that come on you should have completed that element every single till and is destined to face tough competition absent downs at the first ever youth winter olympics in is work back in january signature was aged out by her teammate another russian hopeful elizabeth. i believe in being at the russian championships in innsbruck the outcome was opposite they always get compared to each other they compete against each other and that's ok it's just like they've been pollution. the rivalry which only gave a boost to russian men's figure skating as for the girls only time will tell who's

better they're both still growing. we had a good relationship i would say we're friends ever usually picks an ins brick willock together in the same apartment but when it comes to the ice rink it gets tough which is do battle for survival there is still a lot to be done for a villain a certain to fulfill her huge potential but one thing has always been there in her mind agendas mentality which i like to see chances and i always take the risks of doing things which are difficult for me sometimes i mean i don't do well during a warm up and my coach tells me to leave some complicated elements out of my program but i always dare to do them i think to myself i'm strong i'm struve that i can delete. this what nobody can teach and so to go a has it. figured well in their own team. with one hundred twenty seven days left until the

start of euro twenty twelve excitement is growing across the host countries the ukrainian city of castle which isn't even hosting any games has dedicated it's unreal i stress to hold to the tournament has takes place on crime in poland the summer the french are several sculptures including famous footballing trophies on players as football favor. sweeps across the country. this is a gathering there goes on every yeah they stunt it's related to euro twenty twelve the theme for the cups heroes and everything related to the upcoming tunnel meant. for now you know we'll have more for you in just under two hours time join in that .

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