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are for the headlines now aired out rallies to mark the anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising in bahrain a put down with tactics and weapons from the u.k. sparking claims of western governments hypocrisy over different revolts in the region. sizing up the rivals u.s. leaders control china's christine vice president and leader in waiting she ging pained at the two nations vie for the upper hand in the turbulent relationship. and one sided reports from syria blaming only the regime for atrocities seen by some as an attempt to hide the truth of the conflict sweeping under the carpet. the next.

talks to middle east expert tariq ali with turbulent situation in syria and the implications it could have for the entire region. i'm talking to tariq ali who's a historian and author and writes mainly on subjects to do with the middle east of course we're talking about events in syria tariq ali thanks very much for talking to us now president assad seems to be clinging on to power in syria do you think there's any chance of him stepping down in the near future well it looks on likely as if he'll step. of his own accord i think he has to be pushed out the syrian people who are of course doing their best in the country what is more dangerous is the pressure is being built outside especially in istanbul and by nato to try and organize an intervention that i think would be disastrous and lead to enormous

bloodshed much much worse than what's happened in libya. so i think that be a disaster i think the best way is for pressure to be put on him from without by countries who are not seen as hostile to syria which include russia china and others. and the pressure should be kept on at home and he should be told in blunt terms that he has to go there his father shed a lot of blood in syria he is now doing the same and that this family's on acceptable and syria needs a nonsectarian national government to prepare a new constitution the arab league's reportedly calling for a joint arab league un so-called peacekeeping force to be sent into syria president assad has already rejected the idea do you think it's a good idea i don't think it's a good idea to send any so-called peacekeeping forces i mean first we have to say

what is the arab league the arab league is essentially amaury bond organization which is brought to life when the west needs it too it is played no active role for the last twenty five years in any positive sense in the region it failed to stop the war in iraq it back the war on. libya and it's probably being used as a surrogate to try and push through foreign troops an intervention in syria which i'm totally opposed to i think that is the one thing syria does not need is foreign armies we've seen what's happened in iraq and we've seen what's happened in libya but surely the involvement of the arab league which is kind of a local regional group is better than the involvement of the un or nato as exterior organizations well it's fine having observers from them if they do their reporting accurately but foreign troops i mean you know who will be the foreign troops there

the arab league said saudis said cut through these these sort of big vote crews of democracy in the region i mean that's utterly ridiculous it doesn't make sense at all i think the pressure has to be kept up on the externally nonviolent pressure that he has to go and i think that the chinese and russians are now. in a strong position to be saying we've effectively prevented any foreign intervention in syria but you have to go. and push through. a national government the other people of course who are people getting pressure on most of the iranians and hezbollah in lebanon and i think all these forces should now see that it is impossible for syria to be governed by this family and this sectarian clique that has ruled it and the sooner they go the better for syria in terms of external forces well the our police decided to halt all economic and

diplomatic contact with the syrian government will that have any practical effect do you think probably not because the. other countries are not going to do that the reunions are not going to do that they are a strong craving. and lebanon i don't think is going to get involved in that on that level so it's not going to have a huge impact i think the only language. the klan and the military around him will understand is very firm language from china and russia i think they are now in a strong position to push through change without violent action do you see syria as becoming increasingly isolated in the region and what effect will that have on iran in turn do you think well i think they are becoming isolated i think the iranians are such an independent state to me and one of the few sovereign states in the region that they can look after themselves i don't think the fall of us as such

will affect iran because it will be in the interests of the syrian government if it is a democratic and representative government to maintain good relations with all these countries i mean you know i i have to say that when you look at what the west did in relation to the our pride seeing some of the crisis in the yemen where killing still go on and what they're doing in syria it just sort of stand for the former yemeni president is having medical. states. so this double standards that operate make you suspicious of western motives and the heath people pushing for we intervention in syria after saudi arabia gotter essentially they would like a syrian version of the muslim brotherhood to to to run the country that is the new

plot for the arab region and then the united states will do deals with them as it is done in the past and you say china and russia are in a very strong a geisha eating position now however. foreign minister lavrov says visits to syria recently seems to have yielded no results whatsoever well i think that you know if it carries on like this and that the. for. amalie and clam refused to budge and refused to relinquish their stranglehold on the country sooner or later something disastrous will happen possibly including some form of foreign intervention and then where will they or do they want to end up like do they want to end up like saddam hussein lynched by mobs backed by western troops that is the future that stares them in the face there is no other breach let's talk about the sheer complexity of the various forces that seem to be at large in syria at the moment we heard reports that british and cattery forces are operating under cover

in syria do you think that could be train it's perfectly possible british and catherine forces were operating under cover in libya long before it became public now we know this is what they were doing intervening in these conflicts to bend them in their own directions so i have no evidence for this but it wouldn't surprise me at all if they were behaving like this and what about the iranians we've also heard reports although they've denied it of fifteen thousand iranian troops going into syria well that i don't know i mean i would have thought that given the pressures on that around the moment from the west with the european union imposing sanctions the americans rocket playing the israelis threatening to bomb it it would be all bad to put it mildly if they started sending troops out of the country but we have no real evidence of either the british and the cut through all

the uranium i'm saying one is possible the other may be possible both are equally foolish we've now seen violence spread from homes to a second city aleppo and the usa that al-qaeda is involved in that if syria is substantially infiltrated by terrorists what do you think will happen will it give the west essentially an excuse to put up some sort of military operation in the country or on the other hand will they let the terrorists do the dirty work of overthrowing president us out themselves. they might do that i mean the is a very weak force at the moment it's used essentially to frighten the children that it has very little military strength its leader this is why he really has issued a statement saying that he is part and parcel of the struggle to overthrow. fighting alongside some group or the other but they have very little actual

strength and i don't think one should take a look i. exaggerated ideas of the threat it poses to seriously i mean the fact is the overwhelming majority of people in syria of want the assad family out and that is the key thing which we have to understand in which he should up dust. a lot of commentators have been saying about the arab spring in general that the violence and uncertainty in the aftermath will enable the muslim brotherhood as the only organization that is organized enough to take advantage of it to essentially step into the fray are you worried that that will happen in syria well i don't support them politically and i don't think it will be in the interests of syria to have an islamist government you know moderate or extremist the pattern seems to be at the moment of saying that the turkish model a moderate islamist government is the best model for the arab world i disagree very

strongly with that i don't think it's a good model for turkey either by the way. but the fact is if it's the only power in the land it will and there are elections that will come to power like it has into it's here like it has in egypt and then one has to deal with it i mean i regard these groups as the slum equivalents of christian democracies socially conservative organizations but perfectly happy to follow the latest economic trends. which dominate the west and do deals with the united states they've done them before the turks are part and parcel of that the strong member of nato and these countries will probably follow suit whether this is will be our people really that is a different question altogether but you make the muslim brotherhood sound fairly benign really do you think that christian minorities and other minorities have something to fear from that well i mean there is always within moderate islamist

parties a current which feeling that they can't really offer people what they want which is a decent standard of living which is a social safety net to work then divert attention by targeting minorities the brotherhood has done it in relation to the copts in egypt and it's not impossible but they're sort of peers in syria. we'll do the same so that is not a good thing at all but you know we have to wait and see if this is what the majority of the people want then unfortunately it will happen sooner or later tara kelley thank you very much thank. you. resistance is not politics but a culture. is

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rallies to mark the anniversary of the pro-democracy uprising in bahrain are put down the tactics and weapons from the u.k. sparking claims of western governments hypocrisy of a different revolts in the region. sizing up the rivals u.s. leaders can joke china is a sitting vice president and leader in waiting she jinping as the two nations vying for the up ahead in the open relationship. and one sided reports from syria planing on only the regime for atrocities seen by some as an attempt to hide the truth of the conflict by sweeping rebel crimes under the carpet. and your father brings us late to sports news there.

hello there good to have your company watching the sport here in r.t. and this is what is coming up the following goalkeeper roy carroll saves a penalty is ten man in p.r. . one nil in the first leg of their europa league tie and more. while barcelona put one foot in the quarter finals of the champions league with a three one win over by les because in germany. she gets praise from the limpid changed and competitive test events for the twenty four team went to gangs gathered pace. first the football and former manchester united goalkeeper roy carroll came off the bench to save a late second half penalty as ten man in p.r. cost. the stadium in the first leg of their europa league loss the tie to the harsh weather the rubin had to play on the artificial pitch but it was

the visitors he took the lead with eighteen minutes to. scoring for the green champions men had a great chance to get level when the. make yet he was sent off for a foul on. the knees but. carroll came in to save the resulting penalty from nacho and then the other europa league tie that last year's final sporting braga lost to nil to turkish side after having striker held sent off after thirty minutes now in the champions league leon got a hard full win over. the like to say with the win in the first leg of that last sixteen clash and defending champions barcelona went in the only way to reach an accord is a three one win. for the price of the spaniards is manager happy with the result. of the things but i think. and did not allow many chances in the

first half but in the second half we continued pressing and we managed to create a lot of chances to school two additional goals finally and i am aware of the skills that we must seize champions league season and should secure against a german teams and speaking in general it does not matter how good or bad it looks like when it comes to the games against germany teams because no one was simply trying to find a way to beat him but well tonight it is the turn of russian champions any they've never got to the knockout stage of the champions league before. in subzero conditions the saving temperatures are expected to drop to minus fifteen selfish and it wasn't much warmer when he trained yesterday and notable absence say there was that influential midfielder danny. and along with that defended. will be hoping the home crowd will not as they did in the team's november champions league game against. and also hope they'll be the better prepared for the icy

conditions. we have played in such weather already probably more often than our opponents i don't think that's a major advantage for us because we also likes it when it's warm we like playing when it's football weather and the current weather isn't exactly that but i think our support of it will fill the stadium something that will help us. benfica are well aware as any current we can cite the portuguese team who will listen to exploit that after talking negri band helping not manchester united out of the competition benfica are also five points clear in the portuguese lake and jesus doesn't think the weather will play too big. without question both teams will be facing problems of course we have little experience of playing under such conditions which we are ready for this we perfectly realise what are facing based on this where ability. tactics and the system of play where ready for tomorrow and

we'll do all we can so that the cold weather doesn't affect the quality of our teams play an obstacle he. now and the other champions league game on wednesday arsenal will travel to the san siro to face city alley ac milan the gunners b.b. italians on their home turf at the same stage of the torn four years ago it was two nil then in theory already will be doing his best to get more goals tonight in his last game paston before turning to the new york red bulls i asked him vanga is slightly worried about the playing surface. try to play the whole game and. we think. we really go. to the readers were so it should be an exciting game i'm a bit worried about the quality of the pitch. doesn't look exceptionally. hopeful to. from a man have struggled against english opposition apart from that defeat to aston

three years ago they also lost the spurs last season they're also struggling with injuries defender sandra nestor. back in training after long spells but are unlikely to feature and that also applies to kevin prince both tank and former arsenal man mathieu flamini. meanwhile arjun time strike a collar stud is back in england trying to resurrect his career with premier league side manchester city he flew back to manchester after three months of unauthorized leave in his native argentina manager manchin says he welcomes the return of tevis who has not played since he allegedly refused to walmart in city's tuna last by munich in september the striker has paid an estimated three hundred fifteen thousand dollars a week has lost an estimated sixteen million dollars in wages fines and lost bonuses and is now undergoing fitness tests at the club who hope to have him back in action for the premier league run in city currently top the table two points clear of manchester united with thirteen games left. well in scotland glasgow

rangers have gone into administration the winner of a record fifty four domestic league titles were immediately hit with a ten point deduction which leaves them fourteen points adrift of legally disabled tick with twelve games to go fans were understandably angry at the decision however club owner craig whyte is adamant it's the right decision. because he was strong on the soccer like the issue was. very. difficult to talk straight that was right. now with a couple of major test events completed over the weekend the olympic city of sochi olympic city of sochi preparations for the twenty fourteen winter games seem to be well on track as chairman of the coordination commission john called keely says there are no burning issues at the black sea resort.

the games will go smoothly but to make it happen we need to create all the necessary conditions i'm not saying there are any burning issues but preparing for the olympics is always difficult no matter where they take place transports accommodation security and infrastructure need to be looked at by the biathlon and school complex got the approval of the competitors at last week's russia cup in such a high with the details discussing khan's pain itself. with just two years to go before the start of the twenty second winter olympics in sochi more and more venues have been put to the test the latest was the biathlon and ski complex called lower after local mythical hereon and which is one of the most ambitious projects of the games located on that so hard to reach across mumbai i am at a height of one thousand five hundred metres above sea level at this height the lack of oxygen makes the competitors breathe harder increasing their efficiency and

boosting their results complex lower is supposed to. become one of the best in the world while the trek with their loves is already considered to be one of the toughest in the sport. is the hardest track in the world with sixty three percent slopes with temperatures varying by as much as four degrees it's absolutely unique this is our country and we have every opportunity to succeed the go on blix includes to steady himself each with their own story and finish knowns the shooting area and warm up zones the designers of the venue try to make the competition interesting for athletes and spectators alike the track is very demanding with numerous turns which make it hard to pause and rest on the slopes and those by athletes taking part in the russian cup became the first competitors to appreciate our is facilities at the summit. the track is very challenging lots of turns lots

of slopes if and after it has some alpine skiing skills to turn on the slopes they can win back some vital seconds just. an average time on the european tracks is around twenty five minutes here it's over thirty the nature of the course is very hard. the complex is still under construction and will be finished in june twenty third teen however the weather in the mountains is unpredictable and while wind is not a problem. fault can alter the game plan of any competition well says the guy. we have a proverb when the weather is getting worse it's time for biathlon and when it's foggy here reminds us of the famous german venue an overhaul of except for the wind the same situation could arise at the olympics but it's good that we've got different weather conditions here of the we have yet the view of russia is one of the leading nations and biathlon and the country skiers and biathletes going to

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