week's top stories carried out president vladimir putin has rejected calls for military intervention in syria and iterated his view that the u.n. peace plan is the only way to prevent full scale civil war the comments were made this week during his first foreign tour off his recent inauguration meeting the leaders of germany france and the rooms head of the russia new summit in st petersburg. as rebels and government forces in syria trade blame accusations and really massacre in which at least one hundred eight people including many children

died the u.n. investigation to find out who's really responsible comes as clashes between syrian government supporters and opponents in neighboring lebanon eight people dead. broke voting for ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak as he begins a life sentence handed down to his partner of hundreds of protesters last year during was closely followed by massive demonstrations across the country thousands of rioting in the capital cairo angry that he's not to be executed. time running out for during the sanford less than two weeks left in his legal team and he'll. lose his battle against extradition to sweden and britain supreme court sounds and supporters there it could eventually me and today with the u.s. to face espionage charges for leaking all american diplomatic cables. well next our interview with newly elected president of the college in which he talks about the

road ahead for his country as it faces economic difficulties and strives for e.u. membership. that's what it is mr president thank you very much for giving your time to this interview the international media see you as a nationalist and a right wing however you based your election campaign on good relations with the european union that is the obvious they are absolutely right i am a nationalist but i'm a democrat as well and as far as european values go we will respect them because of our constitution and the constitution that tad it cost to meet certain i wrote together i respect it sincerely i'd like to bring order to serbia the way that germany is organized probably a lot of time will pass until the western press accept me and treats me fairly as for many years they've written about me negatively now it's difficult to change that but after achieving victory in unacceptable conditions during an incredibly dirty media campaign it's more probable that the media will change their opinion

too moreover i showed that i want to be the president of all the citizens of serbia i've resigned the position as head of the party that i founded only three years ago and i took it to the top of the serbian political scene i left it as if it was a child when now my objective is to make serbia a developed and successful country and for that i need the support of all citizens not only members of the progressive party of serbia. aren't you afraid you'll lose the support of your traditional very to save your european stone your voices at the store i'm not afraid because europe is a very attractive partner for serbia and our country should meet almost all the conditions that the e.u. imposes this process should stop only if they ask us to renounce part of our territory i'm referring to kosovo and i talk here until now i've been open and sincere with the citizens of serbia and i'm going to continue cooperating with the people at the moment they impose such conditions i told people immediately i think that's why i won't lose my popularity you know in our country the dismissal of

a president is almost impossible nevertheless my term will last five years only if this it is. and allow it if they no longer want to see me in this position i will walk away right now i'm convinced that the politics that i've been representing are the only good politics for serbia as it was the view in your first statement after the elections you said that serbia will not turn away from the european path and at the same time you promise to hold a referendum where the citizens will have to decide if they want to join the e.u. or not we keep this promise as award of the referendum is going to happen we agreed with the democrats that when all the conditions are fulfilled for serbia's entry to the e.u. we will go to the people with the question do you want to be in the e.u. and they will decide that's how they did it in croatia only a few months ago but only after they had fulfilled all the conditions and when the e.u. had accepted coalition then they organized the referendum i think it's necessary to cooperate with citizens a lot more than in the past but that doesn't mean that i'm resigned to the european

way my only fear is that they'll impose conditions that i personally wouldn't accept but probably the citizens would say that's fulfill it too because we want to be in the e.u. i won with fifty percent of vote and i know that the other half didn't support my ideas that's why i believe that i should ask them to give it to these women more as those who come to power tonight when serbia is in a difficult economic situation when the country's unemployment rate exceeds twenty four percent on the other side europe also has its problems and it's becoming poorer day by day so why do so still want to become members of the new aren't you afraid that the greek scenario could be repeated in your country not over twitter you know greece is another thing greece is a member of the e.u. which was spending more money than it could afford then one day it came out that it didn't have anything left it took advantage of the e.u. which is not a state but a union of states the trust one another serbia is far behind any of the e.u. member countries i've had a meeting with the foreign affairs minister of slip out here who told me much

concern that unemployment in his country is ten percent at least i told him that we almost read. twenty five percent of that our debt by the end of the a.b.a. probably surpassed sixty five percent of g.d.p. which would be a catastrophe as a state most likely it's not the debt that is good for the g.d.p. of the state it is too low so they should go on trying to form part of the e.u. which means much more than simply belonging to a union a well organized judicial system of the human rights freedom of expression because of the struggle against organized crime bribery and corruption of the likud minority rights you all these are achievements over the you know serbia and to the ears i don't know that burst of all they have a crisis of expansion with it today it's clear that we were being naive during the next ten years of the same time they have the existential crisis the euro is a currency that's turning weaker by the day on the other hand it's a big question how long is germany going to help many other you know that's to say how long should german taxpayer support the countries in crisis i promise to guide serbia to a path where no one could say that we don't want to enter the e.u.

my truth is that the world is a lot bigger why victory is a victory of the ideology of both the e.u. and russia only and not the e.u. or right or because of the sea there it doesn't work that was interesting he did a thing that said be a will have to seize between the e.u. and russia i think it's possible to keep the right balance between then. you have a call at the level i prefer not to have to make the choice or this i'd like serbia to be a home with toodles want to the west and the other to the east these serbia simply belongs to the east as well as to the west we have a traditional and deep relationship with russia not only in terms of origin but also in religion as tree customs language but we have complementary industries that we've had exceptional economic relations since the second world war unfortunately we ruined our industry with senseless privatization which led to people losing their jobs never the less we have the education we have the will power and natural resources to collaborate once again with the russian federation at

a much higher level since two thousand serbia has moved away from russia's until two thousand. thousand and eight when russia signed with serbia an energy agreement of all allowing our country to breathe more easily will also those who are already talking about the construction of south stream of large investments in hydro and gas power stations and we should have done it earlier because the they shouldn't think that it's our unique partner because this way it could impose really harsh condition is the country should maintain its sovereignty and also have partners in other places and we shouldn't forget about the brics countries of the arab and african world to cooperate very well with serbia so when we open the doors of serbia to the world we do so for a prosperous future that's why i'll never choose between russia and the e.u. i know where my heart is and everybody in serbia knows that but i also think that we can be a good bridge between europe and russia and the best partner of russia in the e.u. of either of these two molex because of the other the it seems like serbia is always having to meet new conditions to become e.u.

members the other candidates have to join nato what if they want me to join it to a. certain. that is serbia will never enter nato as this is the will of the majority of the serbian people and the e.u. will never impose this condition because serbia doesn't have any reason to enter i don't see any sense in its existence but if nato becomes an organization which together with the collective security treaty organization would fight against organized crime of the world then we would have participated serbia is a small country surrounded by nato members there's no one serbia would start a war with it we don't need nato to defend us we are militarily neutral and it will stay like that forever are you ready to maintain a dialogue with pristina and with its leader touchy just as they are at the purport of this at that i'm ready for dialogue but not with her she would have to because there are suspicions that he committed crimes against the serbian anything he cannot negotiate until the investigation of his case finishes but i will speak with other representatives after the bombing of serbia in one thousand nine hundred

ninety we left nato in the terra tragedy where we gave them civil and military power we have. ministration for communities in northern cause of over here and the e.u. has asked us to abolish the serbian institutions and we responded that we cannot do that because we have a university there are hospitals and schools and colleges oil i just follow the constitution and in serbia the president is its guarantor yours our constitution says that kosovo and metohija are parts of serbia that either leave that he possible to divide hasa by force in this case what would happen to the serbs living on the territory acquired by the albanians not the sole southers you're good at this moment and from the point of view of the constitutional it's not possible to and one of the citizens of serbia say yes in a referendum build i don't know but the syrians who live outside these four communities as north depend on the christina case for when making a new lazies the international society especially the united nations should guarantee its absolute security and serbia should guarantee a good life and that's something that serbia avoided

a bit and i will do my best over the serbs in kosovo can leave from their work without waiting for assistance and depending on the institutions of pristina view no because this would start the indirect recognition the loss of those independence of the us in a beard or they were the use. of this it is that in russia as well as in serbia you hear very often that the hague tribunal is unfair to the serbs do you plan to continue their cooperation with the tribe you know initiated by the democrats. who have been the team leader who defended voice live shell and i struggled against carla del ponte a for many years or even personally in strasbourg we had a very difficult conversation in the presence of many parliamentarians of the european council the hague tribunal will exist until the situation in the world changes or people have been convicted their people are dying there but the tribunals have the support of all countries and so far no one has launched a process to stop it anyway it will be closed soon because there are only

a few processes legged with and it will close in a fairly negative way for the global justice system as the former president of serbia die. in the hay fields the presidents of croatia and bosnia have not been convicted discrimination of the serbian people began long ago and today nothing has changed and segregation continues obviously it's not fair that the serbian government adopted them nor on cooperation with the hague tribunal and we have to respect that lower and stand by it like we've enjoyed many injustices in this world or so what if there was that a. thank you you. thank . wealthy british style holds a spot on the flipside of. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the

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please please please. please . president but he has rejected calls for military intervention in syria ritter rating that the u.n. peace plan is the only way to prevent a full scale civil war comments made this week during his first foreign tour of his new term between the leaders of germany france the roots and russia new summit in st petersburg. as rebels and government forces in syria trade name each other for the massacre in which at least one hundred eight people including many children died when what is best to geisha one call it comes as clashes between syrian government supporters not potence in neighboring lebanon eight people dead. big

protests in egypt as the ousted former president hosni mubarak begins a life sentence for his part in the deaths of hundreds of protesters during last year's revolution thousands rioted in cairo many angry that he's not to be executed . but time is running out for julia saunders was under a fortnight left for his legal team on a dance teacher appeal to pretty supremes court ordered his extradition to sweden on to sexual assaults and accusations his supporters could eventually lead to being handed over to the u.s. to face espionage charges of the north american diplomatic cables. well you know with all sports news and one european powerhouse in particular really is looking back on form they had of next week's euro twenty twelve and the certainly are the netherlands are whom we are speaking about setting northern ireland for six on saturday night kerry spain germany england all the rest they better be aware because they are around me are a team in form or not coming up in just a sec. thanks

for joining us this is indeed sports today plenty ahead including the stories in brief. court date maria sharapova eases into the last sixteen of the french open courtesy of a straight sets win over china's paying. time running out the chances dwindle for double amputee oscar pistorius to make the london olympics after finishing last on a golden lead me. on hardwood hopes russia's basketball team are also seeking a spot of this summer's olympic games podium finish out a qualifying tournament in venezuela next month will achieve the. first tennis where not a single russian man has made it through to the second week of the french open the country's last hope of losing his third round match to dublin for in straight sets

on saturday evening spending for a court specialist simply too strong for the twenty seventh seed from start to finish dropping only four games on way to a comfortable six love six two six two victory so disappointed with his display at one stage used this to scratch the word sorry. elsewhere a fourth seed on the murray showed no signs of this recent back injury as he claimed a no nonsense win over colombia santiago heraldo to reach the last sixteen. to the fourth round is amounts to a historic seven chrono ruling across rafael nadal downing edwardo shrine also in st. today the. no i stopped a little bit. as good as i did i mean the blow used to. stop a little bit my legs and they had to break and i thought that if so they were with my with my so but in general these are the big go for me straight says.

feelings over the women's game goes further heartbreak for russian players on the day with two of the three an auction exiting the prison internment maria sharapova the so winner from the trio the siberian native dominating china's paying sixty six one week drop by drop the first week of action the french open is the only major of the twenty five easier to win. over is the on seeded russian however pushing wimbledon champion petra to think about all the way third run much by taking the second set of results would be different to the six two four six six games the one the finals. m c a public also watched the russian going down in two sets of the czech republic stories like a pile of face to shore up of while defending champion lena through to the last sixteen after a three set win over american christina mchale and brings us to international football where the netherlands are shaping up very nicely indeed ahead of next

week's european championships they are going to town on northern ireland in a friendly on saturday evening the first goal coming eleven minutes in a well we're corner finished off by robin van persie the packed amsterdam arena then got the see another brilliant set piece four minutes later mom of the match wesley schneider the scorer fun percy would never from a spot kick before the dutch went on to make it four before the break fell a finishing off a great team move. the same man would get a second six minutes after the break but the right wasn't completed until it doesn't minutes from time wrong the law or the player nodding home from the point to pick six will not allow the biggest defeat for northern aren't rushes opening world cup qualifying group opponents in over half a century. double amputee sprinter oscar pistorius is facing further bumps in the road to his historic elim pick dream at the four hundred meter specialist finishing last the diamond league meet in or. over the weekend the south african running on

prosthetic legs finishing with a time of forty six point eight seconds below the olympic a standard of forty five point three olympic champion the shawn merits run down reigning world champion ronnie james to win in the time of forty four point nine one seconds native chris brawn though moved in the second dr james his appeal for a false start was dismissed on the run or the squalor fight until taylor was third space stories will not look to do better next weekend in new york on the african championships later this. fall strong winds assisted luzhin winning the one hundred ten meter hurdles in oregon but also took a bite out of his world record aspirations the two thousand and four olympic gold medalist equaling robles. a mark of twelve point eight seven seconds but a strong breeze notified that feat another often school medal winner justin gatlin he won on the day a strong start never got wins forte but the thirty year old again made up for

a sluggish beginning to finish strongly a time of nine point nine zero so. the reigning fastest man in the world wasn't in the beaver state meanwhile instead you seen bolt was marching down the cut walk in london the twenty five year old stopping by in this summer's olympic host city the shoe off to make his kit for the games recently failed to break the ten second barrier whilst competing in the one hundred meters of the diamond league meets in the czech republic giving his rivals hope but even bond's back to talk the season's fastest time in rome a week later. it was one of the things i came to get in the first and it was a. very dramatic experience as you should for every experience so we. were. just i think came back strong golf for special living looks fine. to be in prime position to claim his first

tournament win on the p.g.a. tour the twenty seven year old holding a one stroke lead heading into the final round of the memorial levine moving up from second place thanks to efforts like this eagle on the fifth hole three bogeys whoever kept the american from increasing his lead over the field overnight leader down a spot finishing second on seven under a south african shot on the eleventh hole his sole birdie on the back nine rickie fowler is a further two shots back while tiger woods is right behind him four shots off the lead the spikes carving an impressive four on the back. on the n.b.a. hardwood kevin durant's has once again sticks his claim for m.v.p. award honors this year at the twenty three year old scoring eighteen of us thirty six points in the fourth quarter the thunder tied their western conference final series against the spurs a two to three time lead scoring champion knocking sixteen points the rule in the

final quarter after watching his oklahoma city seven fifteen point lead windell to four. russell westbrook was limited to just seven points but serge ibaka put in a career high twenty six to make up for the punk guards off night the series now heads back to sun and tony for game five underneath. twenty seven asus you know. just moving the ball and making the right plays a problem i think doing the first three corners kind open for me in the fourth that i was able to make some shots but you know russell groceries chains made great purses and i was a show do my job of finishing and staying on the hardwood finally were team russia have their i said firmly on a place of the twenty twelve olympic games the bowlers last chance of picking their birth will occur next month a qualification tournament in venice with gregorian sticks up the story. russia's national basketball team needed to become first or second at the last year's european championship to get

a straight ticket to the olympics but andrei kirilenko and his team mates finished the tournament just to play slower than their quiet clinching bromance against macedonia this means russia now has to take part in the qualifying event which starts on july the second even if. the first three teams will secure their place in london and head coach david blott is confident his men can achieve their aim i think we have a good team and i think we've proven that over the years. you know three teams out of twelve make it so i'm not a mathematician but that's twenty five percent chance right sort of hopefully will hopefully will make those chances a little bit better than that while preparing for the qualification event russia will play friendly games against macedonia greece lithuania and great britain lot will have a squad of seventeen players at his disposal however to play in her upper will join this cord later is the dual were given time off after

a long club season while russia's experience guard sergei become will miss the tournament after picking up any injury sergei played a big role in all of the major competitions in the last seven years so his losses is a problem force but we have other talented players and other guys that have stepped in. to fill the position and hopefully they can they can do the job and river and save each is another doubt after he was taken to hospital with a spine injury earlier this week but despite these problems the team spears a high and everybody feels passionate to fulfil the task and book a place for london games is great no people happy to be here you know some kind of training camp so we're excited will still for us i guess you could say just excited to go out and so rushed. first opponents in qualification will be south korea followed by the dominican republic while the final game sus cage old for july the

eight and with the women's team already qualified for the olympics the man will certainly try to do their best to make them. party moscow. this summer whether it's next year and twenty four are. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture.

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