images gold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. thanks for joining our team half past the hour here's a quick recap of your headlines afghanistan sees a surge of violence as a nato soldiers under top gun peace negotiator are killed in the last three days the escalation problems us foreign nations increasingly consider pulling out of the conflict earlier than planned. because one of britain's queen elizabeth reportedly gets half a million dollars in financial support from a fugitive russian almost dark there are now questions over how but he's put his

hands off schemes cash was used and what he expects and return. syria says it's being targeted by a terrorist on lines of al qaida and foreign backed groups as a jihad a screw at mit's thursday's twin blasts him to mass chaos that killed fifty five a series of deadly suicide bombings is deepening fears that extremists are driving the country's deep sectarianism. different difficulties in establishing the truth in troubled arab nations is what we focus on next as we get insight from media monitor sharif nashashibi. today i'm talking to sheriff nashashibi who's the chairman and co-founder of an organization called arab media watch it's an independent nonprofit stolk which works towards the independent and objective coverage of arab issues in the british media sharif nashashibi thank you very much for talking to us today now let's start

by talking about the arab spring in general how much diversity have you seen in media reporting of what's going on. well i think for the for me the major issue has been the difficulties which the media face and reporting the arab spring. in all the countries where there have been protests and regime change that have been very strict kind of attempts to stifle media coverage to stop journalists getting in. to stop them doing their work once they're in. i think that's been that's been the kind of overriding factor the commonality between all these countries is that it's been very difficult for the media to cover and that has meant a reliance on citizen journalism on opposition movements and things are but the problem with all that is that it's difficult to verify all these things so a lot of a lot of what's going on is based on hearsay on sources whose.

you know news and opinions you connoisseur to verify. and this is a real problem and i think it's ironic because the governments that are. experiencing these protests constantly complain that the media are relying on opposition movements to get their news but that's because the government stopping the media from going in and doing the job themselves but that does presumably mean that it has been very diverse in terms of who is reporting and what they're reporting has it presented a range of the point yes it has i mean just like in any conflict there you know you are witnessing a propaganda war between the various opposition movements and the governments that are fighting. both doing their utmost governments have really stepped up i mean the media freedom record has always been very bad in that region but it is really going up and not doing these arab spring. but also the opposition movements have been very adept at using social media. to get their point across.

certainly there has been misinformation on all sides and again this is not something. new and conflict but the social media has played an incredibly important role because the mainstream media has been unable to do the job properly because of all the restrictions and the physical dangers that they face so this is really kind of star kind of facebook and twitter was that you know if you look at the populations of these countries a lot of them are very young they're quite good at using these these social media outlets and the much more difficult for the government to control so in a way the governments at times of strife in the media is actually shooting themselves in the foot because they are they are giving opposition movements the ability to use other means which are more difficult for the government to control and yet there have been a lot of underreported issues haven't there is these conflicts of progress racism

in libya the feeding of the syrian armed opposition by by foreign governments the entire revolution in bahrain really yeah the problem is is that media due to budget constraints and other factors that really there are a kind of one story machine so you'll have you'll have a flashpoint somewhere in the media will focus on the flashpoint and everything else kind of falls off the radar and then when that incidents over they'll move on to something else so this is necessarily any conspiracy the media's. enabling but it's you know they're just unable to cover more than one big story at a time. so yes has been has been overlooked until now the grand prix has been happening and then once that was being worked out something else was was not being loved so this is a problem and because there are so much happening in the arab world right now in the spring is just so has affected so many countries it's impossible for the media to give all these incidents the coverage they deserve and they do all deserve the

same amount of coverage and we seem to get the picture in the western media of the uprising as the opposition always being right and the government always being wrong but isn't the situation actually much more complex than that. well i mean i am not a spokesman for the government or the opposition i think if you look at various countries i think opposition movements have gotten things wrong i mean the you know there have been credible like he's oceans of misleading. and propaganda but likewise the governments have done exactly the same thing i think if you look at the on balance it is the governments that are wrong because these springs these revolutions wouldn't have happened. you know people have gotten fed up with the fact that they cannot express themselves freely they cannot live in democratic systems they don't have the basic human rights and this has been going on for so many decades of people who just simply had enough to the point that government's proposing reforms was too little too late. violent ways in which the governments

put down these protests meant that you know any talk reform was was pointless but does this revolution by its very definition a not gain a sort of impetus all of its into the even if the governments in these countries are offering credible reforms that this sort of this revolution continues nonetheless yeah but this happens when when governments are either do not react in a new way to the revolutions they don't listen to them or you know what we see in these countries is governments trying to propose enough reforms to try and placate the revolutions without actually meaning that those regimes will give up power and people now see through this and they're like these are just cosmetic steps thing this is a problem if the if the demands of these revolutions were met early on and then the sufficient way it wouldn't maintain the kind of momentum and there's been a lot of talk about democracy but recently you wrote about an electoral law which has been introduced in. egypt in libya

a law which says that anyone who's been involved with the old regimes in those countries can't run for election now is that democracy no it's not a. i mean i was very vocally against this because i think what these electoral laws are doing in a way just the same as what those regimes that was barring candidates from running and that that is inherently antidemocratic. you should give people the choice. you should be able to gauge the level of support that the officials from the former regime has had if they don't have any support then let them fail electorally rather than make them political martyrs and if they do have significant support then it is unwise and dangerous to alienate sections of the populations that that support those candidates so you know democracy is not a case of you know. you know only allowing people to be elected who you want to be

elected you have to listen to the will of the people and i think it is you know it is you know this is a whole mark of the performer to say well these people are not allowed to run you have to vote for the for the people that we that we let you vote for so i don't think i think this is very dangerous. and since i wrote that article i see libya has passed another law that parties based on religion are not allowed to run which i find very strange because libya is almost unanimously sunni muslim so i find this is a very odd thing to parties to run on the religious basis people should have the choice if they want to vote for parties then fine the danger again here is that you're going to make political martyrs out of these movements that feel that they should. have parties represented by religion and they're going to be driven on the ground and this could create the kind of instability. and extremism that wouldn't occur if there if people are allowed to express themselves the only way for these

transitions to go smoothly is if you have as much of the population as possible the feel that they are in franchised if you disenfranchise them even a small section of population it can be really dangerous if you look at iraq i mean . the wholesale exclusion of a section of the population led to catastrophic what happened in iraq lessons of not being alone and you talk about the will of the people and let's talk specifically about syria for a moment there's sort of movements in some international news networks where experts are claiming that syria the syrian people do want an international intervention have you seen any proof of that. well there's different forms of international intervention i think there is there is a consensus that you know they don't want foreign troops in syria where you have disagreements now is whether whether the opposition should be armed or not or whether there should be safe passages in corridors and syria that's where the debate is i don't think i don't think anyone wants foreign troops on the ground

it's mainly about arming the opposition and i think the the problem i see i understand the concerns of people have been with arming the opposition because there isn't that kind of accountability you know you don't know what those weapons will be used who will use them against who you who they'll use and you don't really know who these people are right particularly in syria you know with the but the problem i feel with with not arming them is at the moment you have a government army that is not on the any arms embargo it is allowed to bring as much weapons as it wants and into the country and we've seen shipments of weapons coming in and you have an opposition that is you know if they are armed they are very lightly armed so what i fear is that those who are against arming the opposition kind of almost fueling the imbalance because the government can only if it wants to can only get stronger militarily and the opposition will only have a finite amount of weapons to fight with isn't the solution not then an international blanket international arms embargo for both sides i would think this

would be a better option it's a less dangerous than the militarization further militarization of the revolution but unfortunately given the viewpoints of various parties and security council i don't think that will ever happen russia and china will not agree to an arms embargo on syria not just because there are lies but they are suppliers of arms to the syrian government so that what happened. this is my worry is that the disagreements on the security council you know they are emboldening the government to act in the way that it's acting and this is i think will only. fuel increasing desperation among the opposition movements a serum now you are seeing in a car bombs and things are what you want seeing before all right what's the future particularly for reporting in north africa in the middle east particularly with. the region as a result of these uprisings it has improved i don't think the rise of islamic parties in those countries has a bearing on the levels of press freedom it's only to tell because you know

a lot of these countries because they're never been press freedoms it's this is a process that's going to take some time to build institutions to try to train journalists properly you know that to to allow just journalism to function in the way that it should and it never has in those countries so it's difficult. where things will stand but i think i think it's it's harder than the right direction whether the little so there was a different matter but i think the important thing now is that people under us are acutely aware of their rights and how long they've been denied them and i think it will be much more difficult now that the genie is out of the bottle to put it i can't. thank you very much.

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would be soo much brighter than a few new songs from phones to persian. means for instance on t.v. dot com. countdown the sun sees a surge of violence as a nato soldiers and a top afghan peace negotiator are killed in the lots three day the us coalition colleagues as foreign nations increasingly consider pulling out of a complex earlier than planned. because one of britain's queen elizabeth reportedly gets half a million dollars in financial support from a fugitive a russian oligarch and there are now questions over how bodies put his office in scatcherd was used and what he expects and returned to. syria says it's being targeted by terrorists alliance of al qaida on to foreign backed into groups as a jihad azour group at mit's there's days twin blasts in damascus that killed fifty

five a series of deadly suicide bombings is deepening fears that extremists are driving the country's secretary that's up. next up andrew is here with the latest sports. thank you for joining me again and this is what is coming up over the next game in a frantic finish spotlights snatch the second and last champions league spot in t.s. garner a dramatic end to the russian football season. while the blue of manchester is celebrating out the city's big a p.r. three team to be crowned english champions. and it's heartbreaking to hear the most go is daly's basketball surely final by single point two in p.r. cups. but first the football and spot at moscow have climbed the runners up spot in

the russian prime elite to ensure champions league football on the last day of the season. to nil in the moscow darby the red white's leap frogged another capital side into second courtesy of that win czech defender matic suki nor did spot x. first from a corner then midway through the first half and arch into zuba double bed late five minutes before the break aiden mcgeady assisted in both goals and spartak secured a third qualifying round of europe's top club competition. while spot i also needed ts guards to lose it twice from a champions through bait in the army men played into their hands as they squandered a one goal lead to lose three one in case than because you can go on to put the visitors in front right before the interval but it was all rubin after the restart substitute nelson valdes grabbed the equaliser after less than two minutes on the page. and got the nice car than the was first to the rebound to give the home side the lead eight minutes before time. and he then turned provider

minutes later to set roman remain up rubin the night is the champions league next season then rubin finished six but will join in the europa league after lifting their maiden rushed. cup on wednesday. elsewhere angio also heading into the europa league despite a two nil home defeat at the hands of champions sanny first alexander volleyed in andrea sherman's cross right after the break and then to cut off assisted. to steal a go as this in petersburg side completed their title defense on a high. while a last gasp goal from informs the first down miss image gave fourth place the number one one draw to ban the home side's top scorer seen it through right opened after ten minutes of play and they clung on to that lead him of each cell which the draw deep into injury time the boards in the midfield first denied by the woodwork but kept his car to find the back of the band net so this is the top of the table

finished zennie were already the champions and for the second year running and i joined in the champions league by spartak discard the number and piece headings angie and russia cup winners through been go into the europa league welcome i.t.v. could van complete the top eight while in the bottom half of the table rostov were joined volga in the relegation play offs after a late two one defeat it tom in siberia anton courage of finally open for the time side after fifty seven minutes then hate to back him on say mr second half penalty for ross stuff but they still managed to level matters with five minutes to go to meet you could change their heading home dragon black b.x. pass to throw off a lifeline and then they went to act in search of a crucial winner but instead they can see the dependency deep into injury time and alexi they have called sport cape hannity one victory two ready relegated tome could join them in the first division should they also lose their playoff double header again cheney. the other team in the relegation playoffs they lost their last

game four in the am spot announced the other team going down they finished bottom and had a three three draw with present in their last game in the top flight crews to be at or drew one one with terry. now over in england two goals in three so. stoppage time minutes gave munched the city a three two win at home to ten man key p.r. to hand them their first top flight title for forty four years on a thrilling final day in the premier league one one after fifty five minutes key p.r. captain joey barton was sent off for violent conduct the rangers still took the lead through jamie mackie and that's how it stupid nineteen minutes gone until late goals from i think jacko and see where they clinched the title from under the nose of manchester united who'd beaten sunderland one nil are still sealed third sealed third place of the three cheer when it west from tottenham before them to to finish fourth bolton were relegated after drawing two two at stoke can join moves and blackburn in the championship next season but the day belonged to city.

does not this is the final like these. that. i am very proud for my players because they want to win this. reward for the reason they want to do. that's possible now and hope right for tesco moscow they missed out on the seventh year league title after losing by single point olympiacos in the final and he stamboul the army man had led for much of the game last year to sixty three point to make the twenty five thirteen in the middle of the second quarter and his side almost twenty points play in the third but in p.r. cost cruel their way back and right their love to sky missed a golden chance to clinch the game went to star skates failed to score twice from the for a three line in the dying seconds at that point the army men were clinging on to a one point lead and then were hit by a sucker punch really in p.r.

course georgists princes is racing down the other end to sink the winning basket the greeks claiming a stunning sixty six one victory. but afterwards to discuss stuff forward on that i care olenka said his team only had themselves to blame for that defeat while in p.r. cost place hailed the never say die attitude they spoke with artie's course arrest . but disappointed who also. played great game in the process to force him out of toward the members where there was no remarks no we start saving ourselves for fourth quarter but there's no fourth quarter you know we do have momentum or way that's why i was a good. thing or just generally do for you or your wife i don't think we have a problem with difference today we were no problem would often seem to work in the first hour for everything was falling in our hands you know what a great difference comes out of the no friends. and second how we just couldn't score points those are mostly for the young guys saying that it's good for them but

they don't they weren't broken psychologically i did you manage that i don't know man you know coach came in here in tolls we had thirty turnovers in the first second just say if ya want to give up just pay get in a had a great season is this then ok now you say no cause you're going for it today we're going to keep more for you you know what i saw you know we've been doing the whole year standing amongst each other and being a unit a couple for him and we did it's a night. now they are talking world championships russia have extended their one hundred percent winning streak to six games after to know when over the czech republic in stock oh well xander per usual good hoping for russia less than a minute in before top score you get e-mail kinetic their second on a power play to his seventh goal so far russia then top group b. and remain the only unbeaten side of the tournament while the usa rushed in and their five nil to overtake the co-host and go second in group a. while russia's walkers are showing former head of the olympics they took

a clean sweep of the team honors at the world cup on home soil russia taking a one to win the women's twenty k. with. beating reigning world and then pick champion olga conies condemned by almost a minute in an hour twenty seven minutes and thirty eight seconds well surrogate could be apt in won the men's fifty k. ahead of compared to iraq in china will be the major threat to russia in the sport to be lympics in genuine beat on the ready to take gold in the men's fifty rushers world and a limb pick champion valarie porch in finishing down in ten. now in formula one pastore madonna has clinched his maiden victory after winning his winning from his first ever pole position at the spanish the venezuelan was overtaken by fernando alonso who started second on the mainland but the williams driver would still back into the lead after the second pit stop for my seven time champion model shoe market crashed out yet again after running into the back of

a senate. mountain other hit top full now at the barcelona track to beat along by just over three seconds welcoming reichen in third fellow to show no it was williams first victory since two thousand and four mountain are those making we. happy because they bet it is. the first lap. for a number there are better than me. but i were. doing that piece and you were so great i think my my first brought my first big three you can imagine where the fear . well there was a fire at the williams carriage after the victory nine people received treatment for mainly minor injuries although one person was taken to hospital with burns now in tennis roger federer came back from a set down to beat thomas burdick at the madrid open final after novak djokovic and rafael nadal had been knocked out in the belief federer was the clear favorite to

lift the try feel like thirty wasn't going to roll over having beaten the swiss two times already this year in the world number six broke his opponent in the second game before taking the first set six three however federer then break twice in the second to level the match and finally a six five in the he converted his fourth match point to claim his third madrid title and record equalling twentieth masters crown he also leapfrogged in the dark in the rankings to number. answering williams is the women's champion she thrashed world number one victoria as ranking in straight sets never met each other on clay before but the better russian was totally outplayed losing six one six three. and finally has won the play's championship gold richest event the american picking up one point six million dollars after two shot victory over scotland's martin lead she gave himself a three shot cushion after rolling in this birdie putt on the sixteenth and even

though the next day was cool and collected come the eighteenth and he sunk a regulation part of victory this win meet him up to six in the world rankings luke donald missed the chance to actually master roy as number one after finishing in sixth place so it's. so that brings you up to date later. well for the future science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. wealthy british style old time. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global

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