the un security council. syria. humanitarian corridor the move. to negotiate with president assad. to losing three schoolchildren the interior ministry has denied previous reports of

his arrest. president. in the middle east put iranian crude supplies in jeopardy. the un is now one step closer. to pressure on president assad next. editor of a london based newspaper says the west is using syria as a. today i'm talking to abdel bari atwan who's the editor of the london based arabic

newspaper. we last met around about six months ago when of course we were talking about libya but today we're meeting to talk about a different conflict again syria thanks very much for talking to me now let's start first by sort of comparing and contrasting those two situations where do you think the main differences lie between syria and libya there is a huge difference between what. is happening in syria. and libya actually there was a u.n. security council resolution as one seven one nine seven three which actually allowing. or international community to intervene to protect civilians by all means in libya so. when you look at us and syria i believe because of that russia and trainees intervention will support thirty two. because actually there is no. syria we can see their

community completely but our lives and scare. you into if you can serve as a lucian's to intervene in syria and also you know from the military point of view it could be extremely costly for them to intervene in syria is very strong country it has a very strong army all saw very. recent or modern weaponry so. it was easy to write in syria and libya. and syria here in the u.k. the operation in libya has been heralded as a success do you agree with that assessment and do you feel that it's creating more of a site for intervention in the region in general we have to remember that actually when. occupied iraq president bush said you know accomplished and they were very happy with the sec says there and look what happened after nine years the worst was

defeated the. american administration lost more ground. there and they gave iraq you know a golden plate for your honor so that the same thing happened in afghanistan to claim that the invasion of afghanistan was a loop success after ten years actually they are talking to reinstate been in power again so i could be the same thing in libya immediately they said it was easy i actually didn't lose a single soldier he was toppled and that evolutionary is there so but it isn't going to be the same in a year's time and time in five years already in the lead here is i failed state. three thousand. you know missiles surface to air missiles fall to the hands of groups that there is a civil war now the central government is very weak and there is

a suspension movement leader could be partitioned. into three states maybe six states god knows so the future is not really. comfortable for many people in syria there you say is different there is no oil as we discussed the opposition is very fragmented as well i think the main reason is that the west doesn't seem as keen to intervene but actually the west wouldn't have been and that it was to change their genes twice first in iraq two thousand and three second and leave the. two thousand and eleven. why there have been these two countries because there are. reserves there but when we look at syria there is no overt reserve so there are stature nutz. i don't believe that. you know for we were going to stash one of the art there are looking for it is the war for that's

that's what's happening in the middle east so i think. that with their losses if there are involved actually a war in syria ok in iraq there are hundred forty six billion barrels of oil in a lead there are forty billion barrels of oil reserves there but what's there in syria for there is nothing so and there the same time i think the russian and the chinese the feel they were deceived and they were actually. you know cheated by america and by their was and powers when they said you know we are intervening there for human reason and thought protect civilians and they used their u.n. security council to change it again which wasn't actually the case so i think that same deception could impact already people in syria again and that's why actually we are. in a situation is continue as it is so what we've got at least for now is the accepted thinking is that local powers should take charge of this conflict that's come in

the form of the arab league how do you think that's what i believe the league but i magically because they're actually administration of the crisis was actually before the management of the crisis was actually scandalous ignored chinese completely and they feel that they can go to united nations and be can. be u.n. security council resolution to leave or to impose sanctions on syria but actually the miscalculated now that russian and chinese that have been look stand here stop here you know you cannot intervene without a doubt reconsider and sort of solutions and so i think the arab league miserably they are running out of options and now some of them are very near. there's. room for armed opposition but this kind of arming the opposition. actually.

feasts approval from many many regional polls and from the national polls so it is their luck now and syrian people are paying a price for what they are playing strategy has been to isolate the assad regime from the rest of the world what do you think the consequences of that could be but actually the arab league yes they've managed to isolate syria first and the arab world see the region is divided very very isolated now there is a sanction imposed on the syrian regime by governments that most of that country has actually close their embassies in damascus so could be more actually going to be taken in the coming future and the same thing syria is facing a huge resolution on the international community where you can see maybe they have russian they have. to have their chinese on their border but look about beyond that actually you can see that a gene is isolated and sanctions started to bite and you can see the standard of

living is there to really think there are a lot of communities are not available for the people. the local currency lost more than fifty percent of its value i think this is very very dangerous situation for the syrian people and also for the syrian government all the signs point to a positive response from assets to kofi annan the u.n. arab league envoy proposals which of course included and immediately lateral cease fire safe passage for humanitarian aid these kinds of things what kind of dialogue do you think that is ready for actually. was bolstered by coffee and mission because coffee and said you know be should be only a political solutions to the conflict in syria and also he said to reach this political scene. they should be between very gene and the opposition groups and that's actually what i said would like to see it because he was scared of military

intervention to save him there will be a political solution means it means you know what will stay and impact and i said will be this is the end of syria because the. opposition this is a recognition. and you know that also all. of his reforms are now with all of the other actually more pressure for more reforms and that's why. they're coffee and i missed him the second thing also you know he accepted these kind of five five points which actually the outcome of the talks between for all three syrian foreign minister. foreign ministers when they met it was very very important simply because for the first time the arab league admitted there should be a cease fire between all sides this is a reference to the armed groups which. i referred to all the time saying look.

i'm not fighting the people so i think that's why i said now more relaxed after that mission of course also after about five points. of the arab league foreign ministers and the. foreign minister is that the way forward there i mean the opposition is so fragmented and seems very unwilling to enter into negotiations despite that caveat out it's relatively successful mission. there to the opposition where when we started to see cracks in the syrian national council recently the prominent leaders actually defected and there were very fierce and their criticism of the leader of the syrian national council they saying dad he is a dictator exactly like. the. i said i would be extremely happy with this defections he would be extremely happy with their divisions on the opposition's and there because you know the opposition is supposed to present itself as i'll turn at

the. when you have these sort of factions now and are working without any coordination between each other so this definitely will give that a chance to breathe again and to consolidate its power more and more on the syrian people does fall do you think that will make it easier for western superpowers to deal with iran well actually i think it is i have a feeling that. you cannot isolate syria from iran if the full definitely it will be easier for the west and they've been around because they managed to secure the front that is the israeli neutralize you know tens of thousands of syrian syrian warplanes which actually could participate but to speak in any war against iran so. in order to do that you have to invade syria to invade syria is a very complicated adventure could be very costly i have

a feeling that the west is not intervening in syria because they're going to determine what they are going to do. in nuclear programs are they going to bomb iran if they have decided to bomb iran i think they will bomb iran and seated together and hezbollah i think they will you know are packaged in or i believe. it is the war will take place the question is when that's that's you know i believe. that america and i believe there will be a war. you know the difference is about the timing of this war it could be either before the american. or after grad days or really want to before the americans because of the chain reaction that american would like to wait until. all they feel is this election so who is going to win i don't know what it is it's very very critical so we have to wait and see and i believe that's why the west is

actually now calling their pressure on the same region and i believe that's why actually the west is we think you know not intervening by military means in syria because they are waiting to decide what they are going to do with any question. very much what.

the headlines on r t the un security council has passed a statement calling for a cease fire in syria and the opening of humanitarian corridors for the move endorsers of peace plan by u.n. arab league special envoy to syria kofi annan who negotiated in person with president assad. french police are still locked in a standoff with a man suspected of killing seven people in the city of toulouse including three schoolchildren the interior ministry has denied previous reports of his arrest and now to live pictures here at the scene in toulouse just outside the house where the standoff continues the french president now in attendance we hear that officials

have brought him to the gunman's mother to try and convince him to put down his weapons and come out. and warnings over oil shortages that lead to sky rocketing prices as tensions in the middle east put iranian crude supplies in jeopardy by threatening to destabilize that the world economy. for unity now and we're going to get the latest and greatest action from your world of sports just what just under two months to go now until euro two thousand and twelve one of the co-hosts started to get into the spirit certainly our junior is the kickoff for the football tournament rory i'll tell you what they are getting in the spirit of we're going to have a look at what's going on in kiev in just a moment right. thanks for joining us this is sports today plenty head over the next ten minutes including three stories in. poor shorts so an excuse on to lose their first game in their

best the five series against barcelona in basketball's your league. club highest quartets with chief moose in a ross fisher guide team. to a fourth straight toughest cup title in florida. sixteen strikes we recap all the efforts which mother during the latest round of russian premier league action goals it's all true. let's get on the. playoff series with the feet the russian side going down for barcelona in spain parslow with the better of starts going in at the end of the first quarter twenty two fourteen in front of the reeling champions also dominating the second increasing their advantage to a dozen points by the time great unix though spotlights some walked in the third period cutting deficits and nine but that was to be brief fights this hundreds

restoring their twelve point advantage to eventually came a confident seventy eight sixty six when pete mchale netting a season high twenty two points while also now being seven rebounds for the winners barcelona will also host game two of the series on thursday. now a state legal battle is brewing over the n.b.a.'s newest sensation jeremy lin the popularity of the new york knicks guard has rocketed since he made his debut last month however his mundra name shoehorned was registered in three months ago by a chinese business woman. occasional was approved in august last year while lin was playing in china she's since started producing basketballs using lynn's name but insists she's done nothing wrong. lynn's next of kin their fourth straight victory under interim coach mike woodson new york seeing off the toronto raptors one hundred six to eighty seven murray stoudamire leading the hoops with twenty two

points his tally being who did this lead all in the second quarter to make it forty six thirty six the former phoenix sun also won twelve rebounds on the night an exciting front after all four periods extending their lead to nineteen by the final buzzer. let's talk football where a number of tasty ties lie ahead in the english premier league this evening chelsea's visit to manchester city the pick of the four games on paper city four points adrift of cross-town rivals united are solid but to hold the game in runs on the champions chelsea badly in need of a result of eastlands the currently set fifth of the champions league reckoning to stop them will be hoping to further make inroads into the top two when they will stoke liverpool or relegation threatened q.p.r. while everton will aim to hold arsenal's four game winning streak. standing and were both in manager own coral has given an opt in on the health of for priests the

twenty three year old midfielder collapsed on the pitch against tottenham at the weekend after suffering a cardiac arrest medics say he had a comfortable night and is not breathing on his own but call says there is a long way to go. the piece is still insecure so to me it's critical for us the times we've been approved. by stupid to see herself as a so was forced out but that was. the. conversation if you will sixty six private just the time which is a great saying more serious still pretty much pretty early in the process. messy house once again entered the record books the twenty four year old origin time sensation is now the top scorer in the history of course alone a football club and i see hitting a hot trick in the sights five three win over grenada on tuesday night that took his tally to an incredible two hundred thirty four goals in official competition

the market clipping says are read as a sixty year old record of two hundred thirty two goals it also means the feat for world player of the year has found the net an incredible fifty four times already this season. garcia could be about to add to the list of global superstar spanish radio is claiming the european champions have agreed to sign highly rated brazilian youngster neymar from some toss the twenty year old will of partly arrive at the new camp after the world cup in twenty fourteen but he'll reportedly worth around seventy six million dollars. american football now where the denver broncos have secured the signing of n.f.l. quarterback legend peyton manning on a five year ninety six million dollar contract the four time m.v.p. was presented to the media as a prank last year for the first time and choose day on the thirty five year old says he can't wait to start. i'm very excited to begin the next chapter of my playing career. starting in recent warm i can tell this organization is committed

to winning broad goes i do very proud will fans love this team and this truly is a special football environment and i'm glad to be a part of it it could edition. club once again prove themselves to be one better than their golfing peers after winning a fourth st thomas stuckup title. and ross fish of both contributing scores of five under sixty seven to help the orlando course prevail in the two day team competition tiger watch on the greens here with the former world number one's health status headline is ahead of the events woods withdrew from a tournament in dural on march eleventh due to pain in his achilles tendon the thirty six year old though showing few ill effects karting and even par seventy two for team albany while husin made sure the title stays in orlando helping lake nona reach a total score forty one under the world's top golfers cannot look forward to the masters the year's first major chains are off and progress

a fair go. done lydiate put themselves top of the pile of brick the six nations the twenty three year old named player of the tournament following wales' championship the flanker missed his team's opening victory against argentina but then playing none of them against scotland. would prove instrumental in will sixteen victory over france which secured the grand slam last saturday arlen flyhalf jonathan sexton finished runner up in the building with it it's really captain that sergio resets. let's move back to football in the longest ever russian premier league season it still didn't meet who are the team to catch the same petersburg scythe rushing to weigh in on friday to stretch their lead we don't look back out those tracks plus the rest which from the net plus we get it is our time.

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. now finally going through passport control on your report has never been much fun at kiev's bora spall international airport attempted to alter that this week. a euro twenty twelve host city putting on a gala cultured in preparation for the summer's tournament ukrainian singer vitelli

cause love ski aided by the local border guard no less no stranger to the sporting world the twenty seven year old son the ukrainian national anthem at meijer boxing events in the country and was in beijing supporting the nations on pins in two thousand and eight because he was performing quote the euro twenty twelve players on them this time. at tournaments starts on june eighth so not much time if you're singing voices in action as well and that is all the sport what is next. question was that so emotional difficulties with a huge musician on the market as the syrian civil war crimes on calls for an outside military intervention grow louder and louder while at the same time there is an.

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