this. is now at four thirty pm on monday here in moscow time for your headlines accusations of a weekend of bombings in syria between rebels and the government. saudi arabia. traces of their own. post revolution the old ways of. egypt with critics accusing the new islamist strong parliament of turning the constitutional assembly into a for. us police received death threats softer a crackdown on protesters. verse three of the movement with peaceful demonstrations

. russia and china have stood side by side stance of the syrian crisis should only be resolved through diplomatic means the next we talked to professor from the chinese academy of social sciences to find out more on why the two world powers stand so closely together. please please. please. please. professor hare senior research fellow in studio west asian african studies and chinese academy of social sciences it's great to have you with us here in moscow my pleasure so skeptics say that russia and china unanimously resist the current solution to the syria conflict because they have significant economic interests. hard to say what he said to their shit about money

you are well i don't think it's just the money actually company or is there russia's economic interests in syria china's economic interests in syria it's not too much it's not about their money sure actually is that you sure about principle how to if and especially the international relations principle because it's always such as a policy the combative part is it i think about same as the russian's foreign policy as we are. we should fully respect the sovereignty of all of our country and also we fully against the use of force trying to do any region change thought towards another country so any imaging change older you know a change of at the needs traditional be undertaken by the people in that country by people in self i think that's the principles of our we are now defending it's a great principle and that has to be defended but for russia are other than

principle and maybe interest it's also an issue of geopolitics what about china other than the principle is or anything else why you're against a military solution if we're talking about a geopolitical. importance not only syria. even two that you're wrong the whole middle east as well because in terms of their oil resources i think everybody knows that china have really done all year import from the whole the middle east and also of course being our western region for example of the wheeler autonomous region we're also facing like a we've called history exuma its forces there are separate separatists and also some extremists so those forces there are also include quiet sarratt to us the ability in china as a whole so we don't want to see like. how you go after. maybe the they would like

to penetrated to our western area that's something we don't want to see more of those. extremist forces spreading or work towards our brother so as you mentioned al qaeda i know that it calls on muslims to support the rebellion against syrian president assad how do you think why has the initial fight for democracy turned into a terrorist calling i think the factors behind those issues are quite quite complicated i don't think this is army that the message that you should actually given the sectors in amman the muslim actually eventually because outside forces has been has been penetrated nowadays the so-called the freedom army of the syria now is not longer the pure syrian people resume freedom army turkey. to have called their base the in turkey. i think even other forces.

but also you've watched in the. army so that this information actually has been released by the cia from the united states and then later on has come for some other resources so now all those fighting groups i think they're becoming complicated much much more complicated than before you just touched upon the two segments of the syrian opposition to free syrian army and the turkey based national council also there are people there are industries are fighting for a better life this three pieces of the syrian opposition how cohesive r.t. right or how they are not so coherent because we all know the syria freedom army the bases in turkey outside of syria and then reason the city rather is another one called the whole of the nation group there's another called the national council so there are basically there are street major opposition groups of the old. three of

the they are not united together so that these organizations and also those fighting are the two major features among those opposition groups are also up people inside syria how willing are the opposition outside syria to the external i think they're going to listen to those others or sleeves i thought. the record like those so called the syria friends that conference friends of syria coordination. group based thing syria i mean the country then they refused to join the friends of syria conference so we are quite clear that means. groups at home they don't want to listen to listen any orders coming from like a freedom army of syria because they in turkey or any others so they are fighting for their rice separately independency what about the free syrian army fighting inside syria are they and the people who came out in the streets who were asking

for a better life fighting for the same thing you know on the surface they are fighting for the same same rights not saying the goal is the same for them that is to top down. that's the share the common goal for all of those the for the opposition grows by the way there were no other detail for example the national council of the syria they haven't put forth any charters for other life in what particular roadmap whatever national council i mean based in turkey based in turkey same thing also for that the coordination pounds obeys the in syria so i think that neither a big have put forward what kind of syria they are going to be with in the future what about turkey is it playing a constructive role in your name hosting forces that are eager to topple assad well kochi soon oh i think it also is quite complicated that first of war they host. repl searching. group freedom army of syria so they serve that as they have color

fought for them and they're going to hold the second the friends of syria meeting very soon probably early of a poll and also i think that turkey also it's their country now leading the way you can call for like some military support for those opposition party of course they're also impose the sanction to the pressure government so all of that that just to add to those supports to get to one partner in the between the mess the thing so obviously it's not so constructive for reaching the by iraq between those two fighting parties of the west is pushing for a humanitarian intervention in syria now of course one wonders really pressing need for that or could that be a cover up for in military intervention in libya i think to a great extent all of those measures so far has been taken

a rest and current choice. seems at least to a kind of like you mentioned a cover for the future military intervention even though on the surveys now we have heard quite a lot even from the white house from me on how this these are from a european country is they're saying knowledge that we need to hurry into regime is not a yeah i believe when president obama says there will be no milter i action against our sol is hardly to believe that because when we respect to the levy a war at the very beginning we heard the same in the seeing coming from white house and coming from the nato they're saying the military intervention is not out of fear and the little bit we have are saying very clearly eventually the military into regime that's the or a tentative left victims in syria are reported to be around seven. thousand five

hundred people and both sides deposition and the government claim each other for tweaking the numbers who are you more inclined to believe the new number coming out saying it is eight thousand so that number rising very rapidly so it makes. cannot be just the believe brandon wait no that number now has been given by the un and the the resources the u.n. can get the slumbers and then we try to see the back to two of the number there's another you pay based. a group called to summarize observation group for the syria so the five group of collapsing those numbers and then this prove that number this group of activists coming from the rebel forces so they send those numbers to this you pay based on human rights observation group and then they screw ups and this lumber for the un visit a fair number yeah i saw it. back

a whole there's some resources change so i think this is just the wrong way of saying and furthermore syrian government also gave lumbers they are saying even though you feel call it is a seven thousand casualties they are seeing at the least the one survey of the. other serious those security forces they had to being killed asked well by those of the groups so now i think the real picture is not so clear amidst this fighting new syrian constitution was supported by ninety percent of the population and this new constitution aiming to smooth things out can this results really be trusted ninety percent of the population supporting the constitution well the western media are. highly ballard's about supporting or eight or whenever somewhere has the high support here is there always about that election here in russia so. i think.

no matter it's true or not at least the fact is that majority of the people they have costed though that a lot i think the it should be the fact and also from observation team from i think from a different the civil society as they have also witnessed all those are voting process so i tend to believe even though those those supporting root extremely high but i tend to believe at least the like a seventy present should be. a majority should be. bad should be the fact do you think our side will remain in power and if he does what will his regime evolve into i think a so far the situation is tense to be favoring they were before their assad regime so if the situation goes like that either way there is no possibility for any like a warranty just to have done this are south of our share jim but of course i also

noticed like the us president obama when he had to join the conference with the. british prime minister the commodore and he used that these wars saying and now it's not a matter of if by sheer will step down it's not a matter it's a question of if it's just a question of when so which shows now united states in squads determined to get it by sheer power of his office so above the question is. it on the ground i think that's the determinations factor for how long they will be there is not outside forces can they final say thank you very much for this interview professor here my pleasure to be here.

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the headlines on r.t. and the accusations over who's behind the weekend of bombings in syria fly between rebels and the government with damascus claiming saudi arabia and qatar left traces of their involvement at the crime scenes. post a revolution the old ways are still dominate in egypt with critics accusing the new is the most strong parliament of turning the constitutional assembly into a farce. u.s. police received death threats after a crackdown on occupy protesters marking the six month anniversary of the movement with peaceful demonstrations. tartus got some us sporting action here on r.t. with.

well welcome to sport on r.g.p. broadcasting from the school with lieberman calls for him and these are just some of the stories that we're covering for you this hour. calm down starts a coach melody corbin urges players to keep their cool ahead of the moscow darby with arch rivals say sky. plus dancing for joy world number one victoria azarenka thrashes maria sharapova again to claim the indian wells around while rachet federer sakes the men sidle. and back on solving glynn's luke donald wins in florida to reclaim golf world number one spot from rory mcilroy. first sports all coast in russia's biggest football darby this evening and red lights coach larry clark in has called on his players to stay focused after that seems ill

tempered clash the last time around that's all sports talks ryker whether it's in receive a three game ban for that challenge and say it's got deeper good i can pay it who's been sidelined for seven months as a result it was a game that also had six yellow cards and in the feisty two to draw it both teams go into tonight's game hoping to ends a five match win this freak victory for says god would move them to within six points of leaders and eat well sports a could leap frog army men into second place. meanwhile good's hiddink has a say since his first defeat at the helm after his new side lost one nil to look in moscow philippe center came close to opening for the home side right before the interval but anji keeper of blood you've got bill of health firms and perry said it was effort from close range and the ecuador striker had a chance just after the restore got shot just over a blow for n.g.k. midway through the second half defender on the edge of bekele was fractured off the

field after a clumsy tackle by teammates chris sam was in his loser course was in the thick of it fully commit see throughout the match and his perseverance part of the pays off as he admits of the only goal of the game i said i was setting that one up well on jesus star striker samuel l. it's all will miss their next game at home after picking up one yellow card soon maybe looking at c.v.r. up to third ingenue remain in seventh. had before that's why former champions are being failed to break into the european qualification places following a one mil defeats advantage trespass to bind armenia forward marcus messing the only goal to mark his if you match for combine in the design minutes of the first half to blunder now eighth only two points behind n.-g. ball rubin stay in six. in the english premier league manchester united thrashed wolves five nil to go four points clear off manchester city at the top of its able

javier hernandez with a brace during the demolition elsewhere you cassell beaten or a child one nil you cover up he says with his third goal in five matches so a shocking day for wolves who are now bottom of the league on goal difference they have not worn for five games and conceded seventeen goals in the process but manager terry connor says he'll keep fighting in. the moment just to say to the players interest or you can believe in keeping with the normal games where we go to the richness we build we can feel. we were in twenty two points this is the same as we're going to miss q.p.r. so we're going to we're. trying to make sure. we begin. in the f.a. cup chelsea booked their place in the semifinals beating leicester fight to fernando torres with a brace finally getting on the scoresheet after playing more than twenty five hours of football without a goal as in the second quarter final for liverpool beat stoke city two one now in

scotland kilmarnock stands at celtic one nil to claim the scottish league cup for the first time although their cheap mince was soured by the death of the prophet or of their meat feel there would be entirely after suffering a heart attack in the galaxy is that died later in hospital the winning goal came from dieter bad for butts just minutes from the end celtic both still on course for silverware they'll now turn their attention to the scottish cot and are set so when the league. meanwhile bolton midfielder fabrice muamba remains in critical condition after suffering a heart attack during saturday's f.a. cup quarter final with thought and ham he remains in intensive care at the london hospital the twenty three year old collapsed during the spurs game which was a van that as the result bolton's schedule. league match against aston villa on tuesday has also been cancelled in the meantime thousands of fans and well wishers have been laying flowers of bolton's rebook stadium and captain kevin davis thanks

everyone for their support. this was pretty. you know. the firm believer in close to thinking and i think. still not pitch. thirty one thousand fans cheering and will in fact resort to pull through. you know we're all hopeful and it's going to help and you know as a strong guy and all that kind of support will hopeful that we can we can get close to information. in true problems and i think reese is going to is going to fight against all the. way and in tennis maria sharapova has been soundly beaten by world number one because or as our anchor in the women's final at indian wells the better russian when it's six two six three for her twenty third win in a row this year sharapova was also hoping to ventura's friendly and open final defeat. but from the off she always looked second best as

a break in her in the very first game before going on to the first set with ease in fact she broke the russians six times in this match at three love down in the second set sharapova did win a break of serve herself but that was the also her resistance and desire and competed one hour and twenty six minutes to wrap up that cirie it's her fourth title on the w.c. it's or this year her unbeaten start to the season now stretches to twenty three matches only martina hingis has one more with thirty seven in the history of women's tennis. meanwhile erosion betterer won the men's final four a record four sign beating american john eyes are seven six six three guys there had been a world number one. in the semi's and had also beaten federer in the davis cup clash months so it was no surprise he matched the world number three in the first set and only just lost it on a tie breaker but the second was more one sided federer breaking the americans

weiss on routes acclaiming and the other side all at indian wells and the thirty year old feels he's back to his best. to great victories for me against him in the finals and i will see where it takes me for miami but for me you know it's this is an amazing run i'm on right now six of the last eight events are played i can't believe myself but sure feels great now it is the quarter final stage and i saw k h l playoffs where powerhouse scarlet breakaway in their best of seven series against last year's big some finalist outlines scarfs who won and that so i after losing their latest meeting in overdesigning elsewheres in a moscow whole surprise package store pezzo enjoy it to one of these in their contests. what it looks like kate shells the most prolific player alexander riggs will after all be going back to the n.h.l. any time soon that's according to his agent the store forward much to the league's best twenty five goals and thirty eight it says for some about your life during the

regular season but the reigning champion stumbled at the first hurdle in the ongoing playoffs beating this with a five year old free to rejoin his form aside the natural predators are a double side for celibates in two thousand and eight widening the rift between the world's two biggest ice hockey league's disputes over his contract causing a major road back then. and sadly it's alexander in this room has shown again why he's a middle hole for the olympic games the russian winning the latest a. of the world cup in rio de janeiro only asked for a bus stop with his coach the since the world number one and won the first event the fencing against kazakhstan spado ilyushin goal after advance came from pool and then the competitor competitors were on horseback listen put in a good run knocking down only one fence although afterwards he was seen to have a heated exchange with his coach whatever was said seemed to spur to soon on in the

combines running and shooting he opens up a sizable lead and cruised home for a victory to the head of competitor it's sergei kodiak and who got second place. well russia's tensors have been using them also saber events to help prepare for the london games but they failed to pick up a clean sweep of medals after losing to china in that same events russia had won the men's and women's individual events on saturday and came within a points of claiming that the medal as well but it was the chinese who dwells the decisive blow squeeze into bits three forty five points to forty four they claimed silver in that same saber events and the last olympics and are pleased with their performance ahead of the london games this summer. today i'm very happy and excited it's the first time with one it's only meant in two years so it's a good win and i really enjoyed the competition thinking of hopefully we can force in an even better performance in london which is a visa in golf and when zelig charles is the world number one

a get his playoff victory at the transitions championship in florida enough to oust rory mcilroy from that's up spot jim furyk was the joints overnight leader and finished side for the lead again at the ends of his final round with three others on thirteen under they included robert characterise sang mumbai and luke donald and they all went into a playoff but let's also recovered well from the rough rolling the ball to within a few inches of the pin and when the others mr potts he just needed still hold his foot birdie for victory and it just that's a ends mcevoy's two week reign as number one salt is now looking forward to the masters next month. and not a. direction. the likes of to keep him on my grid from steve in the sixth. mysteriously perfect surfer

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