in syria gathers momentum against a backdrop of diplomatic clashes. recently forces fifteen crowns and wardrobes over it to appease its international creditors as it was there to ravage populations there was a general strike. in the center of oil down documents discovered in libya implicate britain's m i six spy agency during dishnet dissidents that many people take to. ration eventually water and only conference. for the world community is now at loggerheads over how to stem the bloodshed in syria today we talked to bahrain's foreign minister today what his country believes should be done to stop the violence on his interview is next. our guest today is his excellency shaikh. mohammed al khalifa the minister for

foreign affairs in the kingdom of bahrain is there anything you would like to say to the russian authorities about their position on the syria issue well the situation in syria is both difficult and dangerous not just for syrians but for all arab people everyone who wants to see peace and stability in the region out of the initiative put forward by arab nations was clear it was approved by syria the only question remaining is whether it will be implemented properly we've sent our observers there and they were in danger unable to fulfill their mission but their reports and do indicate that the situation is extremely dire. the material served to us by the head of the observers mission and what he reported to the arab league differs from what we heard from other observers we agree with the syrian authorities that foreign military intervention would not be tolerable we don't want to see that happen and we do not support calls for it not a single country in our region is calling for a military invasion in syria the question of an authority change in syria by

whatever means is not part of a common arab initiative we have agreed on those issues and we know that's why russia is obstructing the adoption of the resolution of syria in the un security council. that there are. many think that the situation in syria is declining in part due to the fact that western states have not adopted the unified solid position on syria needed if the u.n. security council is to adopt a resolution in russia's case the motivation behind stopping the resolution was clear but the west is not a single minded on syria as it was on libya do you think that's true. the thing is after what happened in libya any country would think twice before committing to specific measures the situation in the region is extremely volatile the region under the jurisdiction of the cooperation council remains fairly calm and safe thank god our countries are doing all they can to keep it that way the policies of other states however are not helping to bring peace or stability to their regions countries are divided into tears major minor according to their geopolitical

standing how close they are to one state or the other and their role in regional affairs and so on a regime change in a minor country would not lead to big changes on a regional scale syria on the other hand is very important to the region we have to think very hard about the possible repercussions and complications we might have to deal with before we interfere in syria's affairs you know. taking into account the battle cries we hear especially from american and european media do you feel that a full scale war might break out in the region that would harm all gulf states. well obviously having worked in the media for a long time you understand a lot about politics and we've engaged in global politics for a long time to have the cries for battle ever stopped we hear them constantly throughout our lives they come from the west to the east and the north we can't simply ignore those calls will work on our own military policy as we've been

hearing war drums throughout our entire lives and we've become used to that but we must take the situation seriously it involves an atomic bomb which iran has developed because. the region is unstable due to interference by various forces our own geopolitical situation is affected by what happens in iraq iran afghanistan the peace process is constantly threatened israel is still threatening as it always has to strike out against iran and its nuclear program we are concerned about the fact that a neighboring state appears to be working on a nuclear program which could lead to a region wide disaster if an emergency account therefore we work all day every day to relieve tensions in the region and to reach a mutual understanding that we have to work on that we have to take this situation seriously the war drums you mentioned and not getting hotter and they won't stop in the near future event. could you give us more detail on the discussion about security in the region when. there are direct external threats coming from

countries who don't want stability and security in our region as well as internal threats coming from within the region our relations with iran are currently threatened we find them on satisfactory there unstable and contradictory which we are not happy about especially as representatives of the cooperation council we are beginning to fear a deterioration in our relations with iran as well they're threatened by the unstable situation in iraq which developed after the u.s. forces pulled out of the change in iraqi government policies relations between bucker in iraq have always been good historically speaking. but the statements we'll hear coming from iraqi politicians and regional governors aren't in line with our tradition i was referring to specific threats to the cooperation council nations there are also certain hidden threat to stability and security in the region and these have to do it but arrange relations with the allies such as the usa the e.u. and russia we'd like to have

a clear strategy and clear mutual understanding of problems of regional stability and security with all of our partners we're trying to make our region safe for foreign trade vessels and contribute to global economic growth if we and our allies had a clear cooperative strategy we would have no problems with security has to belittle in a region where we can achieve that by establishing open and transparent relations with all of our partners and that's what we're in a full. on is the gulf countries peaceful nuclear program intended to counter iran's nuclear program or would you have developed it anywhere. yes we do have such a program but we're not going to use it to stand against anything else the issue of iran's nuclear program is an international one but we live in this region and when it's discussed with iran the conversation turns political and touches upon many other issues when something concerns a particular region the opinions of those living in that region must be considered

there are big and influential states in this region the cooperation council must take their opinions into account but i'd like to say that we are no less concerned about instability in the region and then with the iranian nuclear program sometimes we can't help but feel that many other issues it's not our biggest concern getting back to the gulf country's nuclear program and i'd say yes but firstly it won't be built to oppose any other regional nuclear program whether it's iran or any other country secondly this issue is still being discussed and a specific legislative framework is being worked on with the i.a.e.a. this program will be peaceful and transparent. every stage just that it's required to be and we're working on that with total understanding of our full responsibility . before him tackling the challenges to regional security addressed the issue of strengthening cooperation with russia an important international stabilizing force we know the position of bahrain on this issue do you think your partners in the

cooperation council will listen to these calls and take any specific steps to make cooperation with russia even closer than it is now. i can answer positively not only on behalf of the train which cooperates with russia in many areas including go to regional security but also corporates with the u.s. and e.u. countries with china japan india and many many other states we also see a positive response from russia regarding all areas of cooperation and the benefit from it russia has always played a major role in international affairs and russia is a great power russia should be present in our region a troll is indispensable russia has put forward an initiative on security in the gulf we supported it and confirmed it in a joint statement adopted during a visit by our king to moscow and signed by him and president medvedev this initiative calls for all political forces in the region to develop a single approach to gulf security and. the last summit of

the cooperation council for arab states of the gulf put forward a proposal to create a common wealth have they taken any steps towards achieving this goal. the summit itself so a number of steps on transformation of the cooperation council into a commonwealth as proposed by the king of saudi arabia a working group has been formed and the group is to hold a number of meetings to come up with his proposals in me at the annual summit of the cooperation council in riyadh steps are being taken not only as proposals but also in terms of concrete solutions. if you remember our previous interview we discussed the initiative by the king of bahrain to set up an intern commission on human rights and a special commission to gather evidence of human rights violations has this initiative been approved if so what's been done so far. cannot we've achieved two goals the first is that a commission on gathering evidence of violations has been established the commission is studying the events of the past year and. it submitted

a report to the king which as far as i'm concerned has been broadcast live around the world now another commission is to implement the twenty four proposals listed in the report and that's been set up another thing is that a high ranking government of commission has been created to implement the tasks imposed on the government all proposals concerning legislation and the digital system will be submitted to parliament for approval the second proposal by america is to create a human rights court in the arab world and that's hugely important of europe has an international court on human rights america has a court on human rights with its headquarters in costa rica arab countries don't have such an agency only the arab charter on human rights is in place and we don't have a competent body for anyone to address his or her issues over human rights violations this proposal has been submitted to the arab league secretary general and will be considered at the assembly in march this year we're watching this process and continue to work on its adoption by the arab world is part of the whole wider world

and in no way differs from it we're not trying to condemn anyone but the point is that our society must move forward and for us that's crucial. been ahmed al khalifa thank you very much for your time.

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a general strike. a sensible oil. mr stumptail libya tate britain is a six page. this is an. interesting ration eventually rewarded with oil contracts. under his head lay to sports news. are you watching the sport and this is what is coming up over the next. back in action luis suarez returns from liverpool are. fails to inspire the reds in the going forward tottenham. please reply me star midfielder danny could be out for up to six months after damaging his knee and training. is simply the best tennis star never djokovic. or soon to be

a year long distance runner. but we'll start with english premier league where luis suarez returned to the liverpool line up but he could not inspire them to victory over tottenham last night the game ending go. as far as missing a total of nine games one to his offense and some fans and eight are being found guilty of racially abusing patrice evra pretty couldn't break the deadlock afterwards. said he was glad to have him back while spurs will be glad to get katy perry redknapp back out that he missed the game due to his ongoing court case over tax evasion. losing it's when the boys think he's going to do something. with a way to get him but. we don't think. we're going to go. forward to working with a no word though obviously we would give the team jorgen he was unable to do they

just couldn't quite get his so but you know obviously we knew the side and we knew the way that we was going to play. a different voice given the instructions to the players but pretty much most the loads were all of really pretty much what's expected from them so there isn't too much of a change but obviously leader and you know you you want to mirror. he wants to be. well the result leaves spurs in the table five points off manchester united and seven from leaders manchester city while liverpool are four points of a top sports for. more russian champions and it will have to do without midfielder miguel downie for their champions league round of sixteen double header against benfica starting this month the twenty eight year old has picked up a knee injury during the in each training session in italy and could be out for up to six months which also makes the play my doubt for portugal at this summer's european championships in poland and ukraine. while in zimbabwe one of the

country's former football chiefs is in court henry way is accused of fixing friendly matches of the national side in the far east between two thousand and seven and two thousand and nine as part of a betting syndicate the case got underway on monday which wire was the chief executive officer of zimbabwe's football association and was sacked in twenty ten she denies the charges the scandal has also led to the suspension of more than eighty players. elsewhere cyclists and the schleck looks set to be awarded the twenty ten tour de france title after alberto contador were stripped of the yellow jersey for failing a drugs test during the race schleck from luxembourg had come second but now looks set to benefit from contador as conviction contador tested positive for the banned substance clenbuterol and had said his failed test was cheating eating contaminated meat the spaniard would also now only use is twenty eight italia title and will remain barred from the sport until august after receiving a backdated two year ban the case has taken months to resolve after various appeals

something citing chiefs have criticised. it is fundamental to be less time between sports justice and sports and media events it is capital or virtual control over tips for eighteen months to cycling everywhere he was cycling in spain portugal italy when the giro. he was cycling in belgium he was cycling in france he was cycling in argentina he won two stages just a few days ago and the son louis two are in the future it is absolutely necessary the sports justice like any type of justice need serenity and even though the case was extremely complex come of that type of case comes sooner. while the current tour de france champion leavens this defendant cycling's recent record in tackling doping contador says second ride to be straight to the forefront in floyd landis in two thousand and six after he also failed a drugs test but evans says cycling is setting

a good example. i think of the sport of sparkling star more than enough to prove itself it's doing the right thing and now it's now it's time for other sports to look at cycling in and replicate the preparatory barsaat going to so the fight against drugs in sport can be can maybe be beaten one day across a sport. to speaking there are on the eve of the laureus sports awards ceremony and that sort tennis world number one novak djokovic named world sportsman of the year while kenyan distance trying to fifteen chariot was named sports woman of the year . while djokovic picking up the award at the ceremony in london the serb won three grand slams in twenty eleven and won forty one matches in a row and last month clinched the strain open to become the fifth man to win three majors in a row. thank you thank you thank me to last year's world championships in south korea. barcelona

when wayne detainment the year they won their domestic football league for a third time in a row and the champions league for a third time in six years club president sandra's they're here accepting the award . now at a time running formula one champion sebastian vettel says it will be harder than ever to retain the world title this season his red bull would say their new car the r.b.a. eight season stepped knaves design and they hope that with and then a third constructors title in succession vettel things any design advantage they'll gain over their rivals will be less than in previous years as teams prepare for the start of the season and the first race in melbourne on march the eighteenth. you know the last two years we had two big things taken away the double the fuses plus for this year the system around the blown exhaust so you know we're missing that and therefore it's i think difficult to really create a difference we see obviously we hope that you know our cars better than all the

others but it will be difficult and i think the cars will be fairly similar as in pick ups will be even closer than they have been funny there have been some great sibling rivalries in sport but while boxing's klitschko brothers may refuse to fight each other russia is mixed martial arts king feared or a meeting in care doesn't have any such reservations and took on his brother alexander in a brutal lot of sambo with more is wrong with danny. the man of the special sambo athlete is good really good this is not a flashback. has been the greatest ambassador of the sport he came from for years the last weekend was a real trip the last emperor of mixed martial arts came back to the competition he had won six times before the russian but somewhat championships in front of a home crowd and moscow the thirty five year old was going for his seventh domestic

title checker you are still a very funny to have a rest now head of a few more fights i'll have tonight if i'd like to thank my opponent it was good to get back to the met for a competitive fight and i want to thank god. for my work. and the most and dissipated by divans was simply inevitable in the final of the heavyweight class that replace his younger brother four time russian champion but it sounded and men would also earn big respect in the global and main arena some i have been looking to see a rumble. but we're left with just a seven second muscle class. yes many expected an exciting fight two brothers who never fought against each other before but they came out and produced an elegant finale for the competition the younger brother gave it into the elder

one in a very dignified way. he would. however they then saw no echo of tough action and here is the proof.

while a heart full of courage is often the competitive edge play comes from our shores and let's close with a solid example of that the super lightweight final was. despite being exhausted by flu and high temperature and having already won the title three times before. dinner flows on to them to a crisp through of the mystic crown. the smell of it was a home even for me as. came from the famous sambal seventy training school based here in law school so i felt great responsibility i had to win so long. for the known artsy muscular. i tough sport side that is the spoke for the minute.

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