good leader doesn't give a doing about anything tunes mission to teach music really shouldn't why you should care about humans in. this is why you should care only on the dog. latest news from around the world you're with r t and these are your headlines afghanistan sees a surge of violence with the latest bombing killing at least nine in the north of the country i ask lation columns as foreign nations increasingly consider pulling out of the conflict earlier than planned. because it up pretty britain's queen elizabeth reportedly gets half a million dollars and financial support from a fugitive russian oligarch there are now questions over how bodies but his office keys cash was used and what he expects in return. syria's violence spills

into neighboring lebanon with deadly clashes between religious groups supporting and opposing president assad meanwhile damascus claims it's being targeted by a terrorist alliance of al qaida and foreign backed groups as fears grow that extremists driving are driving syria's into deep divisions the 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 media watch it's an independent nonprofit what 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 faced in reporting the arab spring. in all the countries where there have been protests and regime change the. 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 like that 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. sources whose.

you know news and opinions you connoisseur to verify. and this is a real problem and i 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 governments of 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 the governments 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 a notch during these arab spring. but also the opposition movements have been very adept at using the media. to get the 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 they 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 you know but her name 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 on time so this is a problem and because there is so much happening in the arab world right now i mean 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 a 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 governments proposing reforms was too little too late and the way violent ways in which the government put down these protests meant that you know any talk reform was was

pointless but does revolution by its very definition a not gain as an impetus all of its way into the even if the government's needs 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 i think this is a problem if the if the demands of these revolutions were met early on in the sufficient way it wouldn't mean 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. and 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 jeems 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. 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 only just basis people should have the choice if they want to vote for parties other than 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 they're 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 and all being and you talk about the will of the people and let's talk specifically about syria for a moment there's sort of movement 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 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 they're allies 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 in syria now you are seeing car bombs and things are but you want seeing before all right what's the future particularly for reporting in north africa in the middle east particularly with. as a result of these uprisings it has improved i don't think the rise of islamic parties in this country 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 the 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. sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

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extremists are driving syria's a deep divisions. next up andrews' here with the latest sports. hello there good to have the company and these are the headlines for change after guarding spot at moscow to champions league football very karpen makes way for form of valencia boston to ny emery. while the blue manchester is celebrating after city be free to you to be crowned english champions. and it's heartbreaking for tears come moscow if they lose basketball surely final by single point two million p.r. . despite spartak moscow claim the runners up spot in the russian premier league by larry carp and will step down as manager as planned form of the legacy of boss emery will take charge with immediate effect his appointment coming just after

sparta lokomotiv to neil to secure champions league football next season during his four years it will end see emery guided the spanish team to third in the league or three times in a row he was also a former teammate of carping at real sociedad karpen will take over as general director at spartak and will oversee transfers where he ended his time as manager on a high spot i.p.c. lokomotiv to kneel on the last day of the season to claim the second spot behind champions any czech defender matic suki knotting spot x. first midway through the first half an arch and dizzy doubled their lead five minutes before the break aiden mcgeady with the cross for by go. most part i also needed to discuss the loose twice former champions through been in the army men played into their hands as they squandered a one goal lead to lose three one in cars and because you put the visitors in front right before the interval it was all routine after the restart substitute nelson valdes grabbed the equaliser after less than two minutes on the page. and got the

news cut it in these was first to the rebound to give the home side the lead eight minutes before time. and then to provider minutes later to set up. rubin denying to scar champions league football next season. elsewhere angio also heading into the europa league despite a two you know how in defeat at the hands of champions any first alexander who could. cross right after the break in them because of assisted in tuesday's late go has the same petersburg side concluded their title defense on the high while the scars go from informants of a stand in a similar place the number one draw to ban the home side stop scoring the see through right opening after ten minutes of play there and they clung on to that but the same of a child with the draw deep into injury time the boss the midfielder was first denied by the woodwork but kept his car to find the back of the band net. so this

is how the top of the table finished anywhere already the champions before the final game yesterday am for the second year running and they joined in the champions league by sparta. sittings and she russian cup winners rubin go into the europa league lock my teeth and kapan complete the top aides while in the bottom half of the table ross stuff will join in the relegation play offs after a late one defeat ready relegated tom tom took really through anton because you're off with five minutes to go rostov level to me she couldn't change that heading home. and they went all out in search of a crucial winner but instead they can see the penalty deep into injury time and alexi get a kick handed a two one victory to tom could join them in the first division should they also use their playoff double header again shinny. vulgar of the other men in the regulation in the relegation play offs they lost their last game for one relegated spot an

hour to finish bottom but finish this bell in the top flight with a three three draw with president chris of yet or three one one with terry. now over in england match the city of champions for the first time in forty four years on a thrilling final day they scored two stoppage time goals to be q.p.r. three two enough to snatch the title from rivals manchester united on goal difference city were trailing two one with ninety minutes gone despite q.p.r. having joey barton sent off early in the second half and in the dying second strike to go and where they gave city an amazing victory grabbing the title from under the nose of manchester united beaten sunderland one nil fastenal finished third in the table with a three two win a west brom tottenham before them so you know to finish fourth all of them were relegated after drawing to stoke enjoying moved in the championship next season but the day belonged to city. does not this is the final

like these. very broad for. players because the idea that they want the. reward for it is they want to do with the. passport now and heartbreak for to escape moscow they missed out on a seven euro league title after losing by a single point two in p.r. costs in the final and he stambaugh the army man had led for much of the game last year to secure its three pointer making it twenty five thirteen in the middle of the second quarter and his side almost twenty points clear in the third but a limpy are cos claw their way back and rode their luck missed a golden chance to clinch the game went to south this failed to score twice from the free throw line in the dying seconds at that point the army men were clinging on to a one point lead and were then hit with a sucker punch for a million p.r. course george was pretty insists racing down the other end to sink the winning

basket the greats claiming a stunning sixty two sixty one victory. but afterwards to school star forward kurylenko said his team only had themselves to blow. for the defeat while at n.p.r. cos players hailed their never say die attitude they spoke with roh band from arctic. is disappointed it was. played a great game in the first four smaller toward the members where there was not really lots. of start saving ourselves for fourth quarter but there is no fourth quarter you know we do remember where this one was a good. thing or just generally. i don't think real problem with difference today we were no problem with often seen. in the first half for everything was falling on our hands you know what a great difference comes out of the north france. for the second half we just couldn't score points those are mostly for the young guys it's good for them but they don't know we're broken psychologically i did you manage that oh no no no

coach came in toes we had thirty turnovers in the first second just say if ya want to give up just ahead a great season is this ok you say no cause you're going for it today we're going to keep more for you you know we've been doing the whole year. each other and being a human being we did it's a night now the ice hockey world championships russia have extended that one hundred percent winning straight to six games after to know when over the czech republic in stock and alexander payne if you're looking for russia less than a minute in before top score you can e-mail kinetic second on a power play for his seventh go so far russia then top group they remain the only unbeaten side the tournament while the usa rushed in and five nil to overtake the co-hosts and gave seconding good. meanwhile russia's walkers are showing full ahead of the olympics they took a clean sweep of the team on us the world cup on home soil russia taking a one two in the women's twenty kilometers with

a leaner. beating reigning world and a limp a champion of the conies skinner by almost a minute twenty seven minutes and thirty eight seconds while. we are in one the men's fifty k. head of compactly. in china will be the major threat to russia in the sport at the olympics in genuine heat on the very cleaver of to take gold in the men's fifty k. russia's world and the limping champ that every board should finishing down in ten . formula one pastor maldonado has clinched his maiden victory after winning from his first ever pole position at the spanish graeme prayed the venezuelan was overtaken by financial on zone started second on the opening lap but the williams driver would stall back into the lead after the second pit stop while former seven time champion michael schumacher crashed out yet again after running into the back of brunei centers but maldonado hit top form at the barcelona track to beat along just over three seconds for him your i can and third fellow to shred no it was

williams first victory since two thousand and four more than are those made and we . need to be happy because they did the science fair slop. for a number better start than me but i was the us for doing that based on the one story my my first body on my first big three you can imagine where they feel. well there was a fire at the williams gary jafta the victory nine people receive treatment for mainly minor injuries although one person was taken to hospital with burns in tennis roger federer came back from a set down to beat thomas burdick at the madrid open final after know about djokovic sure nuff only had been knocked out on the blue clay federer was the clear favorite to lift the trophy although burdick wasn't going to roll over having beaten the swiss two times already this year and the world number six broke his

opponent in the second game before taking the first set six. however federer then break twice in the second to level the match and finally six five in the third he converted his fourth match point to claim his third madrid title and record equalling twenty masters crown he also leapfrog in the world rankings to gave number two. and american three no williams is the women's champion she thrashed world number one victory as a rank in straight sets plays never met each other on clay before but the belorussian was totally played williams racing to a six one six three picture. and finally math teacher has won the players championship gold richest event the american picking up a nice one point six million dollars after a two shot victory over scotland's martin lead gave himself a three shot cushion after rolling in this birdie on the sixteenth. and even though he bogey the next hole teacher was cool and collected coming at eighteenth and sunk

a regulation path to victory this win moving him up to six in the world rankings don't miss the chance to add for you mcelroy as number one after finishing in sixth place sawgrass. brings to the end of the sport for the moment i've got more in a couple of hours time stay with us so if the weather. well for the future science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've dumped the future covered. wealthy british style. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global

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