the u.n. general assembly is debating the situation in syria following a massacre in the province of hama russia's ambassador to the u.n. is now speaking. to what he has to say representatives of our states we must rationally analyze the entire situation. laid down those steps which would make it possible to reverse the catastrophic development of events both in the region the much of the present first of all we must acknowledge that a great deal of what has been undertaken regarding the syrian crisis now is not working about the way a policy of unilateral pressure is not working on economic sanctions directed against the massacres are only i reading the humanitarian situation and are building a possibility among various groups of the population of your kind of girl demands for an immediate change are simply going you know where it is wrong of you to rely on support of those opposition groups which can find nothing better to do then to recall more foreign military interventions in their own country from those in

foreign capitals it must be admitted that the deliveries of weapons to groups of the armed opposition and the financing of this right charity only provides fuel to the fire creating a fertile soil for terrorist activity a so-called third force. russia considers it just categorically unacceptable to have come from a further escalation of the strike or the confrontation of us all and all the more so since the international community has a foundation on which we can all close ranks that is the annan plan supported by the un security council we should we believe that it is counterproductive and dangerous both to have premature forecasts regarding its failure and the statements of certain syrian opposition groups regarding their refusal to implement now there is a need to agree on practical action. in moving the syrian conflict onto a political ever kill mogul i said. key external players able to have

a real interaction various syria. and for coordinated action to support the enemy to ensure the full implementation of security council resolutions two thousand forty two and two thousand and forty three so you can wish the security council will approve this plan and get approval to the deployment of. u.n. mission i see very much a serious for the. russian federation is a very important issue for the early convening of an international conference on the syrian national council we are ready for consultations with the interested parties in order to implement the modalities with such a conference and for practical implementation of it to result in a conclusion if firm position of the russian federation of political and. political and diplomatic settlement in syria remains unchanged i think. party. movement well that was russia's ambassador vitaly churkin addressing the general

assembly there in new york and we'll be crossing over to new york in about twenty minutes from now to get more from our correspondent on what vitaly churkin had to say and the reaction to his statement there in new york now next an exclusive interview with a lebanese interior minister who gives his outlook on help the bloodshed in syria could impact the entire region. well again a so i love the lebanon is affected by internal tensions and we do not conflict or decisions related to security issues are made. by other countries so how can you talk about security in lebanon that. had a little bit of lebanon security doesn't depend on lebanon alone politically and in terms of security and lebanon depends on external factors as well that when the people of lebanon have close religious and family ties with neighboring states.

is that an alternative to external influence. that has to be an automatic even smaller countries than lebanon has just external influence. also what do you think about the conflict between the shia and sunni. for fitness in nine hundred seventy four and seventy five we had a conflict but i don't christians and muslims in lebanon and this conflict was resolved well if 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 with the current situation persists if syria is divided this will directly affect lebanon. do you think the current syrian regime can protect lebanon should the. question is

not whether this regime stays in syria or is replaced by another when the problem is that the insurgency has area effects 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 saadi 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 who want to understand it all but the big question is the least chance 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 you and your cousin 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. is based on the current situation in the region and the information we have cannot point the finger at somebody and say they lay are interested in this 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 this spray you know because 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 expressionlessly have spread out if you will 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 protest 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 movement and with my. marley was he had been is mr minister i'd like to ask you about their doctrine of eleven lebanese citizens no doubt you follow the situation closely and you discussed it with the talkers colleagues during your and prime minister's visit to turkey what is the current situation with these people who kidnapped them when will they return home to their families. but 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 i'm hizbullah 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 his if his personal involvement is necessary to resolve this problem he would be willing to muzzle it out on hello ok i like that 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. lebanon says that it will only rely on itself in defining its policies and will not take into consideration serious internal conflicts but some say that this is impossible as a geopolitical ties between the two countries are very strong when you think about

that but. 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 guarantee mission we have a problem but part of the people support the cover. regime in syria and another part support the opposition but we as a state are pursuing a policy that we recognize the syrian government so is the minister of internal affairs and you know who should i support if i'm in iraq by going to lebanon or against the regime the minister too should be against the regime. a lebanese republic cooperate with in syria. the syrian government and the un recognizes the syrian ambassador representing 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 one 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 perhaps 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 the sunni and they allowed we. did not support their lovely again. you always have people standing up for their interests and. the syrian ambassador to the u.n. bashar has appealed to international organizations among other things offering evidence if you want carry on lebanese territory the lebanese president the prime minister and just south of deny these allegations say that while the ideas about 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. and. 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. kind of 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 but. mr minister why don't you make an official statement in the un and the facts presented in other sergeant. why didn't you know insufficiently that there is no terrorism in lebanon and that nobody supports terrorism. that i looked at the video there is no terrorism in lebanon no one can say for sure that it is al qaida has behind the terrorist attacks car terrorism is a very wide concept that no one can say that there are no terrorists investable that kind of how to be terrorists may be everywhere in the us in an arab country

and recently there was a terrorist attack in front of a man from tunisia or algeria killed three or four children wasn't that a terrorist attack or terrorist attacks happen all over the world let me 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. the demarcation of the border will 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. the

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top stories this hour on r.t. a new massacre reported in syria however estimates of casualties vary dramatically as the timing of the slaughter just ahead of kofi annan briefing to the u.n. security council raises suspicion. at the u.n. general assembly is meeting right now these are live pictures from new york and some strong statements are being made as the u.n. chief called syria's president assad illegitimate. global political focus shifts to the east this thing is delicate iranian and afghan issues are discussed where i'm a putin met with the country's leaders. and increased cases of assaults on women in egypt's tahrir square revealed the plight of female protesters hopes for democratic change in the fading islamists strive to take a grip on power. with those stories in full fully in fifteen minutes from now in

the meantime under is next with the sports news. hello there thanks for joining me and these are the headlines double whammy of the bids to reach the french open final for the first time and become a new world number one. euro countdown russia plays get a clean bill of health ahead of that opening with the czech republic on friday. and hundreds of russian fans head out of moscow for poland as the excitement builds for you already twenty twelve. there is bidding to reach the french open final for the first time this afternoon she is taking on the current wimbledon champion patrick of in the semi's at roland garros your wrath of never reach the final running hours before news just won the first set six three and he's tied at one

a pace in the second while waiting for the winner is this really sad irony she got a stunning victory at the u.s. open champion sam studies that twenty one. becoming the sixteenth two sets to one of the four only did that she booked her place in the women's doubles final in paris she and part of the roberta davinci will play russians maria kirilenko and that eva traver who won their semi between checks and they have a cold. two sets to one. team all defending men champion rafael nadal stays on course for a record seventh french open title he fellow spaniard nicolas almagro in straight sets yesterday will play another spaniard in the last four on friday roger federer will face novak djokovic in a repeat of last year's semi in the other tie but i don't says competition in the men's game is so fierce now it's difficult to predict who will win. you know that will be the one who's going to burst the day after to morrow what will we do you can't analyze these are matches in which the best players in the world are very

close who would have said last year that federer would win his match was drunk i mean this is a sport in which you can't make any predictions it's just impossible for them now let's switch to football and spanish side villareal have been left stunned by the death of their new appointed coach manuel percy otto suffered a heart attack on thursday a day after the fifty four year old had signed a one year deal with hillary but i see i was a former player with several clubs including racing santander team he went on the coach along with van take and sporting deal. now there is less than twenty four hours to go before football's european championships begin and russia coach take africa says he has a fully fit spot to choose from ahead of the side against the czech republic on friday strike a roman pavlyuchenko and goalkeeper igor i can feel at have suffered with leg injuries but both were back in training with the rest of the team on wednesday is all twenty three players went through their paces at their base in poland they also

played a training match that saw public change their find the back of the net he was russia's top scorer at the last european championships and is competing for a starting place with alexander pavel pogrebnyak and. meanwhile hundreds of russian fans are heading to poland for the euro is by train they left moscow's better route sky station today after russian railways laid on a free service to the outflow of where russia will play their first game tomorrow night not great weather in the russian capital where they found seem to think that will bring them good luck. getting out of this spirit is greet people say that if it rains when you're living there it's a good sign i think that since the weather is so mark you that's really a good sign for us i think we will definitely win we will progress from the group that's for sure will progress so i think playing the semifinal in donetsk that's for sure is going to say now where the euros are where the manager is in their crust and take out the car is the right man for russia according to former

neverland's defend atheneum and he knows the dutchman better than most and he spoke with r.t. . before the team left the poland. these are nervous times for dick uppercuts he has the 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 a fantastic coach i know him for twenty years and he's never changed he's always. he's always focusing on what he always keeps one of the ten percent actually to get a result. you can see this well over the last couple of years he's doing well and also a country. that is one of my favorite the managers i have here because he's always focused on football. try to do to get the best out of his players advocaat is

a ready one trophies of benevolence scotland and russia where he won but you wait for cup pam a domestic championship was the needs he's managed to form a strong bond with the players especially bose who played under him in some petersburg and newman believes his mentality is second to none technical modifications well. discipline right mentality and i think the right place you know this as well russia had few problems in qualifying for the euro two thousand and twelve finals despite an early hit camp david actually finished top of a group and newman believes the russians can do well at the european championships is always difficult because sometimes you think teams were doing well and. they don't perform and also some surprises with every continent but we know that they have a very good team. players players who can score calls can make a difference but it's always interesting as personally. it will be tough but it's possible. we'll soon find out how will russia do it the euros and they will start

a strong favorite to win the group having been drawn with poland greece and the czech republic to go back out as a really got russia out of the euro two thousand and twelve finals however that was be easy parts and now comes the hard part as he tries to pick his wits against the top coaches and players from around the continent how with all of this will be the documents final tolerance in charge of the russians and he'll be determined to end it on a high ridge bumblefoot r.t. moscow. front says his team will need to be strong when they face england in their first game on monday the two sides are considered the strongest thing the which also contains ukraine sweden is warning that if anything glinting or still be hard to beat when they go head to head in the nets. i can tell you the english team is going to give it their rule like everyone they want to do well in the championship and even more so when they play against the french so we will need to be strong

they will defend well and they have good food to the match against england will be a difficult one it's never easy to play against england. meanwhile players will get a yellow card at the euros if they walk off the pitch after being racially abused the warning comes from u.a.e. for president michel platini however the head of football's european body also said referees have the power to stop games if racial abuse occurs his remark comes after italy forward mary a better telly said he would walk off walk off the field if he became a victim of racism or they're pretty neat hopes italy's coach sees or planned delhi will stop the striker from carrying out the threat. referees have the authority to stop the match if there are problems and they will do it because racism is above everything else i hope that mr both then you will be empowered but chose not to put on daily that's not my problem that's a problem for italy then of course you mustn't leave the beach because there could be a yellow card if you left the match most people want you to basketball where oklahoma

city have become the first team to reach the n.b.a. finals they beat san antonio one hundred seven points in ninety nine to win the western conference finals series fourteen kevin durant top scoring there with thirty four points as russell westbrook and james harden combined for forty one. was exciting it was exciting. you know this is our first time we're at this stage you know we knew we had a great opportunity coming into the game to try to close it up. for. you know where we came from and how far we were so. it's going to keep going keep keep believe it. or see what i was next and finally there has been plenty of bravado ahead of this weekend's title fight in las vegas manny pacquiao defenses that will be a welterweight belt against the american team bradley on saturday giving it some of their final press conference ahead of the bag that was the paki pocket over twenty million dollars however his opponent is already predicting the filipino will want

a rematch. oh yeah and you can explain this to you guys. so take it right. all right for the next fight nov tenth. i'm already predicting the future guys right here. well packie only just beat his last opponent on marquesa on points not prompted remains the boxing great he's no longer in top shape but he's ready to prove that diet is wrong. we did our best because. bradley's hungry fighter in this young and i know what he's feeling. and that's why i train like i was i feel like it is it just all and that is all the sport for the moment got the weather coming at me.

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