he is now at loggerheads over how to stem the bloodshed in syria today we talked to bahrain's foreign minister to learn what his country believes should be done to stop the violence. our guest today a. minister for foreign affairs in the kingdom of bahrain is there anything they would like to say to the russian authorities about their position on the syria issue. the situation in syria as both difficult and dangerous not just for syrians and for all arab people everyone who wants to see peace and stability in the reach 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 there and they were unable to fulfill their mission but their reports do indicate that the situation is extremely dire of the material

and ahead of the observers mission and what he reported to the arab league differs from what we heard from other observers 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 the region is calling for a military invasion in syria the question of an authority change in syria by whatever means is not a common peregrination to them. 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 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 really the policies of. other states who are not helping to bring peace and stability to their regions the countries are divided into tears for major according to their geopolitical standing they are to one state or the other and their world in which. a regime change in a minor curry would not lead to changes and we gentle scale syria on the other hand is very important to the reality we have to think very hard about the possible repercussions and complications we might have to deal with before we interfere in syria's. 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 and that well obviously having worked in the media for a long time you understand the level of 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 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 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 and israel is still threatening as it always has to strike out against iran and its nuclear program therefore we work all day every day to relieve tensions in the region and to reach a mutual understanding we have to work on 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. 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 and satisfactory their unstable and contradictory which we're 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 policy relations between booker in iraq have always been good historically speaking but the statements we'll hear coming from an iraqi politicians and regional governors in line with that 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 that 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 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 meeting 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. of this program will be peaceful and transparent at 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 bahrain which cooperates with russia in many areas including a regional security also corporates with the u.s. 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 has a great power russia should be present in our reach a troll is indispensable russia has put forward an initiative on security illegal we supported it and confirmed it in a joint of. a doctor during a visit by our king to moscow and signed by him and president medvedev. should have cause for all political forces in the region to develop a similar 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 commonwealth have they taken any steps towards achieving this goal. the summit itself so a number of steps and 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 its proposals in may and the annual summit of the corporation council and 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 interim 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 to go in the first is that a commission on gathering evidence or elation has been established the commission

is studying the events of the past year and above. 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 a commission has been created to implement the tasks imposed on the go all proposals concerning legislation and additional system will be submitted to parliament but the second proposal 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 and 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. the arab world is part of the whole wider world and in no way differs from we're not trying to condemn anyone but the point is that our society must move forward and for us that's crucial. but. thank you very much for your time. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not on the third emergency department beds and not enough nurses and those that to take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my ventures a firefighter i didn't want to be around so i started out i want to just do

firefighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the florida problem this medical got a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for i've waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a same francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with a patient and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least.

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raging violence within syria and international diplomatic standoff over how the address should be results and. the greeks are back on the streets of athens protesting against massive new job cots demonstrators have clashed with police to use tear gas to disperse crowds says the country's coalition government struggles to agree on more austerity measures to appease creditors and secure a vital second bailout. many wrong slams new u.s. sanctions triggering tehran's nuclear program calling them part of a psychological more barack obama earlier ordered fresh penalties that involve freezing it where any in assets and stopping all transactions with the country's central bank. sports is next here on our t.v. with kate.

hello thank you for joining me for the sports update and here are the headlines hitting back liverpool manager kenny dalglish insists luis suarez should not have been banned after the striker returned off the bench in monday's goalless draw with tottenham. while simply the best tennis star nobody joke of it is named the laureus sportsman of the year club ocelot and i get the team award. testing times williams become the last formula one team to wield a new car after the garage as pre-season preparations get underway in spain. as football liverpool manager kenny dalglish has again vented his anger over the eight game ban given to luis suarez the striker returned to the side for monday night's goalless draw with tottenham after being found guilty of making racist remarks to manchester united's patrice evra the other guys start receive rapturous applause from the anopheles faithful when he came on as a substitute for dirt count after sixty six minutes but he couldn't break the deadlock as both sides missed chances with spurs manager harry redknapp missing the

game due to a delayed flight although they said he was pleased with suarez return but again denounced the ban given to strike out. between these years when the boy thing is going to do something. with a way to get him but. we don't think it should have been aware but we're going to get bikes will look forward to working with the. well result leave spurs a third in the table five points behind manchester united and seven adrift of leaders manchester city but no seven their chelsea while the full who are also hunting a top four spot stay seventy four points off a champions league place. to catch up i stuck in ireland and i must have claimed their first win in a row with a feisty victory had to let me see where to go within six points of the discard in the western conference. how did i know we're cruising in this one right from the beginning on the spot that there were two men in front after fifteen minutes and

that shortly followed by a strike because i think of course i keep two nil. before that i have cramps his grace many were thinking it was game over by this point and those that weren't almost certainly were when the home side scored a fourth at the start of the second period. that. toll which pulled one back for severe and see if it was going to. bust swiftly restored their three goal difference at all because of finding that this time sensible did rally later on to make it five three but that's how it stayed in our extending their winning run to five games. to the store or it was a good game even those to be won't make it to the playoffs dilute good on the ice and i can see they were not much of a good enough for these games for our team i think it was the first game where we managed to take advantage of all that but you notice we created five goals

a good result in which i think. meanwhile. like look sets to be awarded the twenty cent tour de france title after alberto contador was stripped of the yellow jersey for failing a drugs test during the race like a cancer luxembourg had finished second but now looks extra benefit from contador is going to verdict the spaniard has tested positive for the banned substance trend buter all claiming his final test was due to eating contaminated meat the twenty nine year old will also now lose his twenty eleven when he had a good time at all and remain barred from the sport until august after receiving a backdated two year ban the case has taken months to result after various appeals and something cycling chiefs have criticised. me more than that it is fundamental to be less time between sports justice and sports under the media events it is confident it will come to have a keepsake the over eighteen members of the cycling everyone thought he was cycling in spain portugal italy when they get

a lot of these of if you say green will jump he was saying in france you say going argentina he won two stages just a few days ago. in the future it is absolutely necessary which is just like you need to have just as serenity and even though that he's was extremely complex come of that type of case becomes. you know meanwhile current tour de france champion to the eleventh has defended psyching recent record intact and doping congo is the second rider to be stripped of the tour de france title following 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 it's the sport of sparkle he's done 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 replicate what cycling do so the fight against drugs in sport can be can maybe be beaten one day across a sport well evans was talking at the laureus sports awards ceremony in london which saw a men's world number one tennis player novak djokovic named world sportsman of the

year. no the joke. while the serbian was in imperious form last year lifting three grandson trophies and enjoying a forty one match winning streak including two from the previous season last month djokovic clinched the australian open title to become only the fifth man to break three may just. walk kenyan long distance runner vivian chatter utah was named sports woman of the year after winning the five thousand and ten thousand meters at last year's world championships in sas career. barcelona where named the team of the year pep guardiola side won their domestic football league for the sir time in a row and the champions league for a third time in six years after isn't found oversell accepting the award. moving on to four we don't want to two time reigning champion sebastian vettel says it will be harder than ever to try to retain the world title this season his red bull team

have unveiled their new car the abi eight which uses the stepped or lowered nose design the team hopes the new vehicle will and then a third straight constructors title but will think any design advantage they'll gain over their rivals will be less effective than in previous years as the team at for the start of the first race in melbourne on march the eighteenth. you know the last two years we had two big things taken away that doubled its uses plus for this year the system around the blown exhaust so you know we're missing that and therefore so i think if you could to really create a difference as we see obviously we hope that you know our cars better than all the others but it would be difficult and i think because we'll be fairly similar as in pick ups will be even closer than they have been well meanwhile williams were the last game to pull the covers off their new car the u.k. based outfit have reunited with engine supply ran over twenty twelve as the team marks its thirty fifth year in the high octane sport williams are nine time constructors champions and will be relying on

a draw to bruno senna as well as possible maldonado this season eleven. and of the twelve f one teams and how that in spain for pre-season testing one finally brotherly love may prevent the texaco heavyweight boxing champions from fighting each other but that wasn't an option for mixed martial arts. the russian came up against his brother in a summer by a tournament last weekend although the first to find a technique fight solution is rather funny and explains. the men especially sambo last seed is here in a minute this is not a pleasure but i russian has been the is the ambassador of the sport it came from for years the lust to account was really true it was the last emperor of mixed martial arts came to the show he had won six times before the russian but some with championships such as infront of a home crowd. thirty four year old was going for his seventh the most times i'm

sure you put family very funny to have a rest now we've had a few of all fights often listen that's what i'd like to thank my opponent it was good to get back to the net for a president fight and i want to think going to a formidable. in the nose and dissipated by divans was simply inevitable in the final of the hill weight class but in a place his younger brother four time russian gent down but some of the men would also been big respect in the global enemy arena some might have been looking to see a rumble. i was i when i left i was just a seven second masuk less. yes many expected an exciting fight about the two brothers had never fought against each other before but they came out and produced an elegant finale for the competition which the younger brother gave it into the

elder one in a very dignified way. but he was. however there have been sol no lack of tough action and here is the proof.

while a hearts full of courage is often the competitive edge play comes to martial arts and let's close with a sold example of that the super lightweight final. despite being exhausted by flu and high temperature and having already won the title three times before leiber godin of holds on to them too if we screw with the mystic crown thanks and all the love it was a home even for me as i came from the famous some was seventy training school based here in moscow so i felt great responsibility i had to win so little. robots were then young arty muscular. and i saw the smallest bisons thing.

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you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. a glimmer of hope for a peaceful way out of the syrian crisis as russia's foreign minister determined to pursue a diplomatic solution is in damascus holding talks with president bashar al assad.

greek standoff clashes on the streets of athens as protesters voice anger at massive new job cuts that's while coalition members struggled to agree more austerity measures to secure a vital second bailout. plan a discovery that could reveal previously unknown lifeform as russian scientists drill deep into a sub place a lake in the coldest place on earth we explore the significance of this rare finding with our very own correspondent and antarctica. it's five pm here in moscow this is r.t. coming to you live on many sonali with our top story this hour and russia says the

syrian president is ready for dialogue with the opposition this is the.