in seventy five we had a conflict but i know christians and muslims in lebanon and this conflict was resolved well with we adopted a new constitution and achieved holiday it is possible that at some point lebanon will face the threat of being broken up into pieces and of course it concerns me that look at iraq for example the us occupied the country then they withdrew their troops and what we have now iraq is divided there is a danger that something like that will happen in syria to the current situation persists and if syria is divided this will directly affect lebanon. do you think the concierge and regime can protect lebanon michoud the. question is not whether this regime stays in syria or is replaced by another when the problem is that the insurgency affects the situation in lebanon. who do you think is behind the syrian conflict. we have some global and arab interests clashing here and we all understand that what we don't understand is where this clash will take

us in the end but we can say one thing with about if the syrian conflict is resolved one way or another this will affect the situation in lebanon. this is the recent events in lebanon the murder of two shakes the situation and after the detention of saudi malawi who was later released in tripoli all these events indicate that seven forces are not only trying to flare up a conflict they want to start a wave of violence in the country we want to understand it but the big question is who stands to benefit from that and has started minute but. it's being done so that palestinians can become citizens of lebanon if lebanon is divided palestinians will eventually be able to become lebanese citizens. trying to divide lebanon. i can ask you the same question external forces seek to control lebanon they seek to divide and weaken all the countries surrounding israel in order to ensure israel's security. based on the current situation in the region and the information we have

kind of point the finger at somebody and say they lay are interested in a scenario more than anybody else and. i can put it this way we've all heard this expression of the arab spring but who has seen the fruit of the spring no one has egypt elected its president or has the spring ended but most of the same thing is happening in tunisia and in yemen there's no fruit there's just this expression i should have to break out of egypt and i really think that what we see today is an israeli spring who will pose a threat to israel now and palestinians dying every day and no one protests before even if one person it was killed it was an outrage today three palestinians get killed or ten or twenty and nobody says anything there's not even any talk about differences within the palestinian move on with my. mind was i have been as mr minister i'd like to ask you about their doctrine of eleven lebanese citizens no

doubt you follow the situation closely and you disgusted with the talk if colleagues during your and prime ministers visit to turkey what is the current situation with these people who kidnapped them when will they return home to their families. with i can only give you a very general answer because we made an agreement with turkey not to disclose the details to the media the kidnapped people are on syrian territory two kilometers away from the turkish border we're working together with the turkish foreign ministry to liberate these people really thought it would have been well lot of us what was the syrian opposition involved again was there that they are the kidnappers. yes these people were kidnapped by the syrian opposition but we don't know which group within the syrian opposition is response about the turkish authorities are looking into also here and i mean on his blog is it true that has been largely done. is the only person who can bring these people home.

i don't think so but the secretary general of hezbollah did say that as if his personal involvement is necessary to resolve this problem he would be willing to make. them. none of the kidnapped individuals i have. no fear no do you know how soon the kidnapped individuals may be freed quite soon it will happen this month. but in fact that it will only realign itself in defining its policies and will not take into consideration serious internal conflicts but some said that this is impossible as the geopolitical ties between the two countries are very strong when you think about that. let me ask you a question what will happen if lebanon pursues a policy that is based purely on its own interests where will such a policy get terms in which we have a problem but part of the people support the current regime in syria and another part support the opposition but we as a state of policy we recognize the syrian government so is the minister of internal

affairs and you know who should i support if i'm in. or against the regime the minister today should be against the regime. lebanese republic cooperate with in syria. the syrian government that the un recognizes the syrian ambassador represents syria in the united nations what i'm saying is that we cooperate with the government of a country that if there is regime change in syria we will cooperate with the new government of lebanon recognizes syria as a nation as does the un don't have the clashes between the sunni and the lebanon and leads to a seven. it's not true that the clashes were only between the sunni and the house something like that did happen but not on a large scale but back in those days when the syrian army was in lebanon including tripoli there were certain conflicts but we never had clashes between a sony and they allowed we see real. did not support the lovely against the sun you

always have people standing up for their interests and. the syrian ambassador to the un bashar far and he has appealed to international organizations among other things offering evidence of what terry on lebanese territory the lebanese president the prime minister and just south of deny these allegations who say that while the ideas of al qaeda may be present in lebanon there are no grounds for terrorism or terrorists yet your defense minister says the terrorists including al qaeda cells may be present. could you please explain these differences in such an important issue it would be no i have personally met with the defense minister and we've cleared up this situation there was some misunderstanding regarding terminology but the president said on the issue is correct we meant that there are no al qaeda cells in lebanon but it is possible that individual members of this international organization present in our country but we don't have al qaeda camps or al qaida

cells in lebanon to be settled with us me mr minister why don't you make an official statement in the u.n. and your view of the facts presented in other sharjah far as a letter why didn't you know insufficiently that there is no terrorism in lebanon and that nobody supports terrorism that. there is no terrorism in lebanon no one can say for sure that it is al qaida has behind the terrorist attacks terrorism is a very wide concept that no one can say that there are no terrorists investable that count how to be terrorists may be everywhere in the u.s. in iraq country and recently there was a terrorist attack in front of a man from tunisia or algeria killed three or four children doesn't pass a terrorist attack terrorist attacks happen all over the world the best way to address this problem is to consolidate to the people of lebanon. mr minister part of the repercussions of the syrian crisis may be avoided by demarcating. the border

between lebanon and syria i'm sure had that have been the demarcation of the political not stop terrorists from crossing over into another country. but the situation will be more transparent that's true the situation will be more transparent we should have had a proper border a long time ago. wealthy british style. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy. for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines in two counties

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massacre deja vu in syria government forces fired dozens of women and children and then another slaughter once again coinciding with a high profile appearance of kofi annan a. touching sore points local political attention shifts east to its present. leaders in beijing wrapping up his chinese tour. as europe's economic union is showing the signs of cracks germany calls for a political alliance to mueller from the. state's banks by ratings agency. latest news from the world of sports. hello again thanks for watching and these are the headlines. to reach the french

open final for the first time become the new world number one. russia players get a clean bill of health ahead of their opening with the czech republic on friday. hundreds are russian fans. for your twenty. first bid to reach the french open final for the first time this afternoon she takes on current wimbledon champion petrak of eight in the semi's at roland garros victory for the russian would also see her become the new world number one in great form at roland garros. yesterday and is the favorite against of the number four seed expecting a tough battle a movie on court following the first semi between. an. extremely tough opponent. someone that. had good success in her last couple

previous meetings. but always tough matches the last one is to go it was tough to set or for me. in that second set to win it so. she seems to be playing really well i know that my opponent tomorrow and you know i lost. my keys in the last so i hope that day will remember something from. think when i can win against her and she's playing with a great season right now and she's very tough opponent and they will be big change for me tomorrow. carol lanka and i leave a trail over our building to reach the women's doubles final their match was tied as a set all yesterday the four players suspended their show to restart in just a couple of minutes. defending then champion rafael nadal stays on course to a record seven french open title he beat fellow spaniard nicolas almagro in straight sets yesterday and will play another spaniard but in the semi's after he

got past andy murray. the one who's going to play best the day after to morrow but you can't analyze these these are matches i mean we should abandon the players in the world very close who would have said last year that federer would win his match was i mean this isn't working we sure can't make any predictions it's just impossible and i will switch to football and spanish side villareal have been left stunned by the death of their newly appointed coach. suffered a heart attack on thursday a day after the fifty four year old had signed a one year deal with it a reality but as the other was a former player with several clubs including racing santa and they're a team he went on to coach along with levant a and sporting gilles. now there is just a day to go before the european championships begin and dick advocaat looks like he will have

a fully fit squad to choose from ahead of their opener against the czech republic on friday striker roman pavlyuchenko and goalkeeper ego i can feel of have suffered with leg injuries but both were back in training with the rest of the team on wednesday as all twenty three players went through their paces based in the. they also played a training match that saw public find the back of the net at the lokomotiv moscow man was russia's top scorer at the euro two thousand and eight to three goals to his name he's competing for a starting place with alexander because you called pavel pogrebnyak and that i shall very meanwhile hundreds of russian fans are heading to poland for the euro spy train they left moscow's better sky station today after russian railways laid down a free service to the office love where russia will play a death first game against the czechs tomorrow no great weather great weather i should say in the russian capital although fans do seem to think that will give their teen good luck. but the spirit is great people say that if it rains when

you're leaving that's a good sign i think that since the weather is so murky that's really a good sign for us i think we'll definitely progress from the group that's for sure we will progress i think we will play in the semifinal internet that's for sure. fingers crossed i don't have a car has announced that he will step down after the euro two thousand and twelve finals however so far he hasn't joined great success for the russian national team guiding them to the finals with the minimum of fuss poor free caught up with former netherlands defender newman who knows his fellow dutchman better than most. these are nervous times for dick up accounts he has but weight of a nation on his shoulders as he prepares for russia's first match of the euro two thousand and twelve finals against the czech republic however he believes russia in with a good chance of spring a surprise in poland in ukraine and one man who knows him better than most having played on his fellow dutchman from the majority of his career says he's upon task

state coach i know him for twenty years and he's never changed he's always. he's always focusing the football he always gives one of the ten percent actually to get a result. you can see it as well over the last couple of years he's doing well and also with country. as one of my favorite the managers i've had because he's always focused on football. try to get to get the best out of his players undercount is a ready one trophies of benevolence scotland and russia where he won the u.a.e. for cop i'm a domestic championship was the needs he's managed to form a strong bond with the players especially those who played under him in st petersburg and newman believes his mentality is second to none technical mall to face in his wealth and. discipline right mentality and i think he sees the right place universe as well russia had few problems in qualifying for the euro two thousand and twelve finals at spuyten early here camp haven she finished top of

a group a new man believes the russians can do well at the european championships but it's always difficult because sometimes you think teams will doing well analysis if they don't perform and sometimes they've also some surprises with the country but we know that they have a very good team. players players who can score goals can make a difference but it's always interesting especially. because it will be tough but it's possible we'll soon find out how well russia during the euros and they will stand a strong favorites to win the group having been drawn with poland greece and the czech republic. to go back out to somebody's got russia to the euro two thousand and twelve finals however that will be easy parts and comes the hard part is he tries to pick his wits against the top coaches and players from around the continent how well loved this will be the judgments final told him and in charge of the russians he'll be determined to end it on a high ridge bumble fleet artsy. let's go to basketball now in the n.b.a.

where oklahoma city have become the first thing to make the finals the thunder winning their best of seven series against san antonio fourteen in the western conference a side that the home side with a slow out of the blokes in the latest game but managed to overturn the fourteen point deficit after the eighteen quarter kevin durant top scoring the thirty four points is russell westbrook and james harden combined for forty one. was exciting it was exciting. you know this is our first real at this stage you know we knew we had a great opportunity coming into the game to try to close it out. or you know what we came from and are we work so. it's going to keep going keep keep believing. we'll see what happens next. with just a couple of days left before the thirty one million dollars. to a champion manny pacquiao and challenger timothy bradley were both radiating confidence in a news conference at the m.g.m.

grand in las vegas and a matter what the outcome of the bad hope favre pacquiao is guaranteed the bulk of the price fun though should they be undefeated bradley produced an upset on saturday he will be in line for a much brighter future and the americans is predicting packy i will have to ask for a rematch. twenty four so. explain this to us. sit take it right here. all right for the next fight nov tenth. i'm already predicting the future guys right here. there is also a lot at stake for thirty three year old manny pacquiao who barely escaped with a decision in his latest bad against one man while marquess of metal. that prompted behind the scenes during this at the filipino boxer great is no longer in trouble shape such talk is obviously not doing his reputation any favors and he's ready to prove that damage is wrong. we did our best because.

bradley. you know what he's feeling. that's why i train like i feel like it is it just all now lewis hamilton is expected to visit moscow next month as the formula one star agreed to take part in the annual city racing around the kremlin former ferrari driver jon karl if you see calories in the russian capital on wednesday and says he will be joined by mclaren's former world champion hamilton for the event that will see f one cars tour the city center giving spectators a good chance to see the machines close up the world rally championships will also be promoted by the appearance of three time runner up we have been in finland and according to physicality the drivers are looking forward to it as much as the spectators. for us. it's a great feeling as well. as a different situation beef from its weekend you know it's much more simple

it's much much less pressure. but it's it's fantastic because driving with a formula one there on the. square it's just great and it's also more like.

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international news and comment twenty four hours a day you're watching r t. a new massacre has apparently taken place in syria in a small village near the city of hama so far reports are painting a very contrasting picture but the episode appears to be eerily similar to those surrounding the bloody slaughter in the tunnel last month. has more from damascus for us you may also find some of the pictures in this report disturbing there is even more confusion about this latest massacre here in syria than all the previous ones and a lot of the details of alleged witness accounts and video just don't match so far the most extreme death toll. stands at almost one hundred dead and this is the figure that's been picked up very quickly by most of the international media immediately after it emerged now the opposition's claim is that government forces shouted to peace called for calm in villages in central syria not far from the city of hama and after that.