two thirty pm in moscow these here are headlines afghanistan season east by you can violence with the latest bombing killing at least nine in the north of the country yes police in comes as foreign nations increasingly consider pulling out of the conflict earlier than. a cousin of britain's queen elizabeth gets half a million dollars in financial support from a fugitive russian oligarch there are now questions over how boris berezovsky is used and what he expects more. serious violence threatens to spill into neighboring lebanon with deadly clashes between religious groups and supporting and opposing

president assad meanwhile damascus claims it's being targeted by a terrorist alliance of al qaeda and for in fact as fears grow its freemason are driving serious divisions some. difficulties in establishing the truth in troubled arab nations what we focus on next we get insight from media monitor sharif nashashibi stay with us. today i'm talking to shari nashashibi he'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 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 journalist 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 it's ironic because the 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 that 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 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 social 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 wars that you know if you look at the populations of these countries a lot of them are very young they are quite good at using these social media outlets and the much more difficult for the government to control so in a way the government's attempts at stifling 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 as these conflicts have progressed 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 moved 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 ickes 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 is 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. 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 this is an impetus all of its into the even if the governments need

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 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 and 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 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. 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 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 or that 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 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 no 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 militarized 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 and serum now you are seeing a car bombs and things that you want to seeing before all right what's the future particularly for reporting in north africa and the middle east particularly with. power as a result of these uprisings it has improved i don't think the rise of islamic parties in those countries necessarily has a bearing on the levels of press freedom it's early to tell because you know a lot of these countries because they're never been press freedoms and this is a process that's going to take some time to build institutions to try to train journalists properly you know 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 headed in the right direction whether the little stir there was a different matter but i think the important thing now is that people 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. to what extent and i would call them paid mercenaries how much are they going to be in your defense to protect your administration and your successors none none you say the mercenaries like blackwater will not play a major role in this kind of tradition this is one of the issues over which we are in. they will be here they will be. gone as far as the afghan government is concerned no way no mercenary no way

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a high spot at beating. on the last day of the season to claim second place behind sammy and champions league football next season check defender suki nodding in spot x. first midway through the first half doubled their lead five minutes before the break aiden mcgeady with a cross for both golds. to finish second spot i caught unaided tears scarse to lose it twice former champions through being in the army men played into their hands as they squandered a one goal lead to lose three one in cause and because you could put the visitors in front right before the interval but it was all routine after the restarts substitute nelson valdes grabbing the equaliser after less than two minutes on the pitch and got danny's got it in ease was first to the rebound to give the home side the lead eight minutes before time. and then turned provider minutes later to set up a grown man. who'd been denying to sky champions league football next season. elsewhere

angy also heading into the europa league despite a two new home defeat at the hands of champions and eight first alexander who could of followed in his cross right after the break and then who could offer assistance in sabol to steve's late goal as the sun petersburg side completed their title defense on a high. while a last gasp goal for inform him of h.k. four placed in a. a one one draw ban the home side's top scorer in the seen it through all right opening after ten minutes of play and they clung on to that late but similar age salvaged the draw deep into injury time the ball's in the midfielder was first denied by the woodwork but he kept his car to find the back of the net so this is how the top of the table finished any were already the champions before the final day and for the second year running and they joined in the champions league by sparta while europa league places gates. and the sittings angy as well as russian cup winners through been blocked motif and could band complete top eight day while

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a seventh euro league title after losing by single point two in p.r. costs in the final and eight stamboul the army men had led much of the game last year to see just three points in making it twenty five thirteen in the middle of the second quarter and his side almost twenty point play in the lim p.r. cost pool their way back their luck to scar missed a golden chance to clinch the game when saskia failed to score twice from the free throw line in the dying seconds at that point the army men were singing on to a one point lead and then were hit by a sucker punch from n.p.r. course georges insists he's racing down the other end to sing the winning basket the great climbing a stunning sixty two sixty one victory. while afterwards to discuss stuff forward on that occur olenka said his team only had themselves to blame for the defeat while n.p.r. cos place held their never say die attitude they spoke with r.t. from cos arrest. it's disappointing the loss. played great game in the process

will force a lot of toward homers why there was not a very large snow. to start saving ourselves for fourth quarter but there's no fourth quarter you know we do have momentum or way that's why we lost a good. thing or just generally. i don't think we have a problem with difference today we were no problem with often seem to work in the first hour for everything was falling on our hands you know what a great difference comes out of the no friends. or second how we just couldn't score the points those are missing the young guys saying that it's good for them that they don't know we're broken psychologically i did you manage that oh no no no coach came in here toes we had thirty time those in the first second he just said if ya want to give up just play get him a had a great season is this then ok now you say no cause you're going to cry 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 if i am and we did it's

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