it's. eight thirty am in moscow these iraqi headlines the u.n. edging closer to a syrian peace plan to make both sides laid on their arms while the u.s. threatens more pressure on the regime if it doesn't comply but opposition leaders admit that some foreign states were sending weapons to support the rebels. the u.k.'s new spending plan banker's budget with motorists and the elderly taking it head high can fuel prices will deal at heavy blow to small businesses who are driving the struggling economy. gunfire and explosions heard in the french city of toulouse where police are laying siege to a house where a suspected killer at

a jewish school was holed up for a second day the man is claimed to have links to al qaida and is thought to be heavily armed. echoes of syria's conflict being felt in neighboring lebanon splitting it society on who is behind events across the border next r.t. interviews the lebanese foreign minister warns of the dangers of taking sides in the conflict. in the militias this is your first visit to moscow as a foreign minister according to to an interview with mr lavrov your deliberations had launched really focused on the syrian crisis how do you assess their results. our meeting was primarily focused on the bilateral relations between lebanon and russia we also discussed a lot of other issues of mutual interest it is apparent the middle east has been going through a very difficult time therefore we have discussed the developments in the

palestinian territories the threats facing the gaza strip and israel's actions in the occupied territories and especially the situation in syria russia's standing on the syrian issue convergys with that of ours in that sense it's as clear as day we are just as concerned about the issues of series security and stability as other neighboring states and the entire international community. we seek to restore stability not only in syria but the entire international community the events in syria escalated into hostilities and armed resistance against government forces from the very start armed groups fighting against the government are being financed and supplied with weapons they are destroying civilian facilities we hear calls for military intervention coming from within syria as well as internationally we see one party in a conflict big backed against the other that is an opposition supporter to fight the government here we are very much concerned by the situation and the political

transformation is not to be achieved by force pilots produces more violence every country has its political opposition if every opposition movement in the world with a push for its agenda through violence the world will go up in flames therefore any political country should promote their agenda with peaceful democratic means and such as rallies it is unacceptable to fuel violence smuggle weapons undermine government institutions and destroy sovereign nations never known stance has been as clear as that of our russian friends from the very start with russia opposes a foreign military intervention it opposes the notion of supporting one of the conflicting parties and its opposes violence as a means of promoting a political agenda it is against resolving the issues of transformation and change of political climate by other countries for the sake of certain policies in regard to the entire middle east. and europe and what can also happen with the proposals

made by mr coffey on and were mentioned during your joint press conference with serbia lavrov and it was announced that russia and lebanon are determined to support these proposals all the way to adopting them as a un security council resolution what is your opinion of the essence of these proposals and what. happened. with the resolution hasn't been repaired that's not my. that is a big discussed firstly the world wide five points mr lavrov spoke the result in one thousand sets and it is a session of violence by all sides of the conflict the other points and the intervention providing humanitarian aid to the neighbors searching for neutral monetary means and providing assistance to the special u.n. envoy kofi annan in his efforts these five points are the foundation for the joint work on taking syria out of the crisis and developing a fascination with these five settlement very well balanced and logical who would

speak against ending the violence on all sides of the conflict whereas it had been previously said that the syrian government had to stop its aggression as if it was the only one guilty of it that special envoy kofi annan proposal also mentioned that secession by. women demonstrates a well balanced approach to the issue of having to stop violence not only on the part of the state of other sides of the conflict as well. completed. until we see the perseverance in the violence. so far we have not discussed it so far this is merely a draft which requires approval by all the parties of the conflict that it is a call for the opposition to adopt such a peace plan today when state institutions and civil cities are being destroyed but we cannot demand the states such actions unilaterally is there an inflow of refugees from syria to lebanon today. there is

a lot of reporting on this issue tonight that some allege there are twenty thousand thirty thousand or even forty thousand refugees dramatically airfreighted refugees come to lebanon from neighboring areas in syria where there is fighting at the moment this can happen in any country people are trying to stay alive by seeking shelter with relatives or friends who live across the border officially but there are a few hundred refugees up. maybe some two thousand or three thousand a year but these are temporary refugees rather than permanent once pieces are stored in syria they will return home many syrian families little relatives eleven on that they have invited to stay what they release people are also providing humanitarian aid to those in a. desert it is from the so-called free syrian army and a little water guards have reportedly irresolute some of them and are planning to hand them over to the syrian authorities despite calls by several international

human rights organizations to refrain from such a move. and all the status of those desert is essentially different from matchup refugees who merely seeking a place to spend a few days away from hostilities looking forward to returning to their homes once peace is restored machine armed people trying to smuggle what was it into or out of syria are a different story altogether illegal arms trafficking from syria forces the lebanese government to take action in order to prevent it or the. desert isn't in the traitors who have been arrested and will be put on trial in accordance with the lebanese nor the way it should be done in any country but in the lebanese military and security forces are presently concentrated on the vicinity of the syrian border in order to monitor movement and prevent armed individuals from sneaking out into syria with such traffic destabilizes not only syria but also lebanon get what.

they have got but the commander of the un interim force in lebanon has called for these army hezbollah what do you think about this statement that. hezbollah you know what we have repeatedly stated that the lebanese resistance forces are forced to bear arms due to the ongoing occupation of a part of nobody's territory by israel that israel continues to make its own. is across the territory by sea and land on a daily basis which is a constant source of danger and that is why we cannot tell the freedom fighters in southern lebanon to lay down their arms while they are faced with constant threat from israel that israel needs to stop pressuring and threatening us all the time so that we can feel that our peace security and stability are not endangered that we will still need a force capable of protecting us against such current threats we can revisit this issue once occupation is over and lebanese territories are liberated and.

the u.n. security council is closely following the events in the middle east and that lebanon has many friends around the globe including some of the council's members would be possible for a u.n. security council resolution. to end its daily flights over the lebanese territory. we are against a policy of double standards when great powers back one of the parties in a dispute this policy is a source of great suffering in the middle east and the occupied territories and there are un resolutions addressing and we do not insist that the international community should throw its weight behind us in this dispute that we demand that the international agreements and resolutions should be respected and observed how can we feel safe about our future how can we look forward to peace and stability with israel pursuing a policy of intimidation in the occupied territories from southern lebanon to the golan heights to the palestinian territories the changing demographics in palestine

the ongoing illegal exploitation of its territory water resources and the continuing pressure to force out the native population will never bring peace it will only aggravate the situation all across the middle east the same is true the golan heights where israeli settlements and being set up and the demographics are being changed israel also continues to occupy lebanese territories that we look to the united nations to implement the. a resolution is adopted back a 1940's yeah. demand that israel should observe and follow these resolutions and agree that regrettably there is no power in the world that could force israel to abide by these resolutions or what we clearly see here is a double standard policy applied to almost any other vitally important issue in the middle east take the iranian nuclear issue for example iran is a member of the international atomic energy agency that you get is being held back from acquiring its own civilian nuclear capabilities on the pretext of its alleged

intentional to develop a nuclear bomb. israel is not even part of the i.a.e.a. and yet it is allowed to have its own your clear on what we call for disarmament in the middle is how can we achieve this we never cyclical interests from the other party oh well a good. pick . with the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that you can reference disappeared. the risk is not zero that something

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u.n. edges closer to a syrian peace plan to make both sides lay down arms while the u.s. threatens more pressure on the regime if it doesn't comply the opposition leaders admit that some foreign states are sending weapons to support the rebels. the u.k.'s new spending plan bankers budget with motorists and the elderly taking a battering you can fuel prices will deal at heavy blow to small businesses who are driving the struggling economy. gunfire and explosions heard in the french city of toulouse where police are laying siege to the house where a suspected killer a jewish schools holed up for a second day the man is claimed to have al qaeda links and thought to be heavily armed. paul is up next with all the latest sports news stay with us.

hello welcome along to the world of sports is good to have you come to make it was coming up perfect scott says moscow get there your only player can play on the way to the big victory over athletic bilbao in the russian capital. testing the fitness for the world number one golfer tiger woods prepares to take part in the first major of the a the last is in two weeks' time. the russian rocket probable they could return to hockey i think wanted by his former club say as though it's either the general manager of the team president. but first in basketball or fast car drew first blood in their best of five year only quarterfinal playoff with bilbao the army men were far too strong for their basket

ponens as they easily ran out ninety eight seventy one winners as rich have been portrayed reports. standing in serious cars part of a trip to the season's final four in istanbul the play of ricky's bill down the side from the basque country really uncharted territory and we're looking to hand the only women the first defeat on their home called one spanish sign since two thousand and eight i was the visitors face a tough test against a team with fifteen zero one so far in this season's competition from the hosts immediately made their intentions point clear as day raced into an early lead falling goodlooking the paints a minute piece each and run of the show. but as good as the world pensively they were equally bad in defense bilbo were not overawed by the situation and clumsily cause problems with serious county friends and pressing game failed to stand the spanish outfits numerous the times visitors were trailed by just

a point in twenties. simply trying to see end of the first quarter turn. the second proved to be just as tight as continue to post a sea of stars the pens all sorts of problems however slowly but surely the muscovites clipped off again by half time they'd already opened double digit fifty points of food you need. to move into overdrive in the third district to became completely away from their opponents so use cover on points with three stages serbian teammate meals are those which particularly influential i'm the only one showed a string from a pinch as i would say should put a master class of his own as they would go into the final pool turn eighty four to fifty one now bilbo knew the game result with a thirty three point difference made camp they never got close to reducing the lead to single digits a serious run at ninety eight to seventy one winners and i'm breaking really into

said the size performance of the first quarter was one of the best he seemed since he's been in the club i think with a great special second half third quarter was the best probably quarter you know so far we've seen over a third of the play great defense and convert that right away. and that's why when you think teams we don't know where we're well as much as some of the stuff we have to just kind of. stuff a little bit of. a fine performance was a serious car that we're trying to dominant opera porpoise call turn and bell looks to make it to known best of five series on friday let's go look to try and qualify for a nice spinal for your been fully don't see moscow. now in football dinner not being have become the first russian cup semifinalists as both won their respective quarterfinals on wednesday come on buddy as man for us look i'm not even grozny for

now i'll call dennis how to dennis with a double. told you now we're now we won the winners again zen eating some pieces but this was done the same of it gave the muscovites the victory it's now onto the english premier league where manchester city have moved to within a point of leaders manchester united after come from behind two one home victory over chelsea striker costs have as returning to first team action and helping create the winning goal the argentine hasn't featured but rather since september he had literally refused to come off the balance in the champions league title he played the final twenty five minutes and set up sammy now three for the with up to five minutes to play well small league from tottenham into the dr thomas overall and eight minute goal and take them along the way that everton stores themselves will help one wanted home by stoke or liverpool's that even further away from the champions league places for the three two defeat at q.p.r. . let's see what obama has done to the top of the table united still leads the way

that city are now just a point for the pot and how it affects a goal difference now above the north london rivals tottenham the whole chelsea still have some work to do if that's a top spies in the fourth and final champions league spot and one thing's for sure it's going to be an exciting title running. i don't know if for example performance and i think that we did a good performance even if we go again. because we could see their their growth and that there was a really difficult. elsewhere the bolton wanderers club doctor says that fabrice muamba was dead for eighty minutes before being revived at the weekend the twenty three year old suffered a cardiac arrest whilst playing for bolton against tottenham medics say he's making miraculous progress and at this moment his life is not currently in danger are those too early to say if he'll ever play professional football again. i can't begin to explain the pressure that was that was there. as i was running on to the pitch once i got there my focus was entirely on for priests and i wasn't aware of

a place a couple ground are going to. come on i didn't know that i would wear because there . and it wasn't until thirty five thousand voices united to start thinking for peace members mean anything from the outside environment penetrated into focus now we may be more than three months away from this summer's european football championships but you a thought have begun the bidding process times the tournament in eight years time at an extraordinary congress in istanbul the way to confirm that we are writing to all fifty three member associations asking nations to register their interest in hosting the tournament they have until may fifteenth to let their interest be known the invitation will also outline the minimum requirements in terms of number and capacity of stadiums and given the current global financial situation they will once again listen to joint bits. but i think that the us has a history of joint beats the. euro and the next you will.

join bids. switzerland austria and poland ukraine including from one country of the european union another one north of the european union raises. now the national football league in the usa have handed down unprecedented punishment after it emerged bonuses were being paid to players who other is new orleans saints coach sean payton has become the first coach's attended by the n.f.l. for any reason he's been suspended without. hey for the whole of next season well it seems the former defensive coordinator gregg williams who now works for the similarly round has been bad indefinitely punishment for the players involved will be decided at a later date the n.f.l. say knockouts worth one thousand five hundred dollars and cut off one thousand with payments doubled or tripled for the playoffs. there are. a tremendous amount of information corroborated by several different sources. it's very clear the place

was happening on a regular basis it was clearly out of control but they identified specific players and targeted them for injury that's simply not acceptable in the n.f.l. and in any game for now in ice hockey in the cage playoffs last season's runners up atlanta have reduced the deficit in their best of seven series against skill drill now three two following a three one away victory in game five in some places and the other western conference semifinal lineout the number have taken the three two lead against eighth seed torpedo as the muscovites were fourteen winners in these new york road the hosts failed to penalty shot. in the meantime it's do or die for double to go in top champions but also to trail in the best of seven series three one against draft to game five of their encounter takes place in chile of insulates on thursday elsewhere even if god could make it into the conference finals if they'd be metal and not need to go storm alex. anymore one of russia's most electrifying ice hockey

players probably way could be returning to the sports the russian rocket is wanted by his former club says car but i turns forty one in nine days time and says car shareholders seem eager to make him either a general manager or team president himself said he cannot nor deny the room is his future possible position could help lure some key future free agents to the former soviet powerhouse not. made it past the conference quarterfinals in the cage out in the league's four year existence. and finally have to go through all eyes are on top of the words he's preparing to take part in the masters the first major of the year the tournament starts in two weeks now prior to the event the former world number one played in a pro on competition and intends to play him one more this weekend the arnold palmer invitational with two weeks before the masters his health is a big topic and his last official told of the american hudson withdraw all because

of tightness in his left the kidneys tendon the same one that forced him to miss two majors last year but according to woods he feels good enough to play golf as many as eight days in a row. you know is one of those things were just continued training continue preparing and just kind of monitor things. a little more than i used to because i used to be able to just kind of play through it but then again i was also sent me back and want to resupply had surgeries that i would ignore those and this kind of play through it as successful the problem is that it was also a detriment sametime physical well that's all the school for now i'll have more for you in a little under two hours time for me then. led

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