street medio dog r t dot com. what about here where there are here is a look at the top stories of the week the u.n. says it syria peace plan is in the firing line after another gruesome massacre this week as foreign powers poised to intervene russia's pushing for an international content group to enforce a cease fire and talks to washington shined the idea. of a deal in beijing russia and china signed off on war trade and pledge to top last year's record breaking eighty billion dollars worth of business leaders of two nations signed more than a dozen agreements and the launch to join investment funds to boost projects in russia. and spain is to seek up to one hundred billion euros to help salvage and stumbling banks making the fourth and largest e.u.

country to ask for a bailout if after now it's meant that spain's debt laden banks need at least forty billion euros to buffer against any severe financial shocks. and thousands of egyptians protest at their former leader wasn't sentenced to death and that his last prime minister's made it to the runoff bowl next week egypt chooses its first president since last year's revolution. syria's drawn out conflict is leaving neighboring lebanon suffering some of the fallout next lebanese interior minister tells us why the violence won't stop with their borders. well it then a so i love the lebanon is affected by internal tensions and we do not conflict or decisions related to security issues are made outside lebanon by other countries so how can you talk about security in lebanon then. 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 because the people of lebanon have close religious and family ties with neighboring states. is that an alternative to external influence. there has to be an alternative that even smaller countries than lebanon resist external influence a conflict also what do you think about the conflict between the shia and sunni as in lebanon. in one hundred seventy four and seventy five we had a conflict between christians and muslims in lebanon and this conflict was resolved well if we adopted a new constitution and achieved harmony 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 do we have now iraq is divided there is

a danger that something like that will happen in syria too if the current situation persists if syria is divided this will directly affect lebanon. do you think the current syrian regime can protect lebanon. but the question is not whether this regime stays in syria or is replaced by another one the problem is that the insurgents in syria 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 to. because in the end but we can say one thing with certain doubt if the syrian conflict is resolved one way or another this will effect the situation in lebanon. this is the recent events in lebanon the murder of two shakes the situation in africa the detention of saudi malawi who was later released into a pulley 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 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 but one who is 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. is based on the current situation in the region and the information we have cannot point the finger at somebody and say that they are interested in this scenario more than anybody else. i can put it this way we've all heard this expression of the arab spring but who has seen the fruit of this spring no one has egypt elected its president or has the spring ended almost the same thing is happening in tunisia and in yemen there's no fruit there's just this

expression of the arab spring 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 palestinian was killed there 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 with my. miley was you have been is mr minister i'd like to ask you about the abduction of eleven lebanese citizens no doubt you follow the situation closely and you disgusted with the turkish 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. 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. out of this what was the syrian opposition involved again with said 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 responsible the turkish authorities are looking into this and also here and i mean on his blog is it true that has been law leader hassan nasrallah is the only person who can bring these people home. i don't think so but the secretary general of hezbollah did say that if his personal involvement is necessary to resolve this problem or he would be willing to resolve it out and hello again i like that none of the kidnapped individuals are has been commanded is no do you know how soon the kidnapped individuals may be freed quite soon it will happen this month global. lebanon says that it will only rely on itself in defining

its policies and when more to take into consideration syria's internal conflict but some say that this is impossible as the geopolitical ties between the two countries are very strong what do 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 getters which we have a problem with have been part of the people support the cover. the regime in syria and another part support the opposition but we as a state pursue our own policy we recognize the syrian government so as the minister of internal affairs whom should i support if a million people in lebanon are against the regime the minister too should be against the regime whom do we as the lebanese republic cooperate with in syria we cooperate with the syrian government the un recognizes the syrian ambassador represents syria in the united nations what i'm saying is that we cooperate with

the government of the country if there is regime change in syria we will cooperate with the new government lebanon recognizes syria as a nation as does the un only at a bit on how can clashes between the sunni and their law when northern lebanon leads to a civil war in lebanon that it's not true that the clashes were only between the sunni and the alawi 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 and there were certain conflicts but we never had clashes between the sunni and the allowing syrians did not support the we again it's the sunny you always have people standing up for their interests. the syrian ambassador to the u.n. bashar just far he has appealed to international organizations among other things offering evidence that there were terrorists on lebanese territory the lebanese president the prime minister and just south of all 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 in lebanon could you please explain these differences in such an important issue. that i have personally met with the defense minister and we've cleared up this situation there was some misunderstanding regarding terminology what the president said on the issue is correct we meant that there are no al. the cells in lebanon but it is possible that individual members of this international organization are present in our country but we don't have al qaeda camps or al qaeda cells in lebanon the circle of us mr minister why don't you make an official statement in the un and refute the facts presented in a b'sahjat far as a letter why didn't you nonce officially that there is no terrorism in lebanon and that nobody is the port terrorist that. there is no terrorism in lebanon no one can

say for sure that it is al qaeda who is behind the terrorist attacks terrorism is a very wide concept no one can say that there are no terrorists in this or that country to be terrorists maybe everywhere in the us in an arab country 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 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. the demarcation of the border will not stop terrorists from crossing over into another country but the situation will be more transparent then that's true the situation will be more transparent we should have had a proper border a long time ago. with

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top stories of the week as well as well as the latest news stories the u.n. says it syria a peace plan is in the firing line after another bruce a massacre in this week as foreign powers poised to intervene russia is pushing for an international contact group to mediate a cease fire and talks with washington's shunning the idea. of a big deal in beijing and russia and china signed up for more trade in pledge to top last year's record breaking eighty billion dollars worth of business the leaders of two nations signed more than a dozen we launched a joint investment fund to boost project in russia. spain is to seek up to one hundred billion euros to help salvage its stumbling banks making it the fourth and largest you country to ask for a bailout it falls the i.m.f. announcement that spain's debt laden banks need at least forty billion euros to

buffer against any severe financial shocks. and thousands of egyptians protests that their former leader was and sentenced to death that he was last prime minister has made it to the polls next week egypt chooses its first president since last year's revolution. elsewhere the top stories of the week i'll be back in about fifteen minutes time with more updates for you in the meantime here is the latest sports news with. hello welcome along with to the world of sport here's what we've got coming up. a grand slam success rushes of maria sharapova becomes i mean the ten woman in history when all four grand slam titles as she claims the french open with a straight sets win over south of ronny. danish

delight denmark stunned one of the euro two thousand and twelve favorites as morton also is meant to get the better of the netherlands by a goal to nail the. king of this winner's lee westwood wins his nor the masters title finishing five shots clear of the pack in sweden. but first tennis and maria sharapova has continued a great sporting weekend for russia she's become only the tenth woman in history to win all four grand slams after a six three six two win over it and he saw it out on me in the final of the french open the twenty five year old went into saturday's final knowing the victory at roland garros was the only grand slam missing from her impressive c.v. the siberian native was too strong for her opponent from start to finish racking up the straight sets win and one hour and twenty nine minutes the last grand slam success came in australia in two thousand and eight and not long after she dropped out of the world's top one hundred as she passed the injury and loss of form this way and will see her return to number one in the world rankings when they're

released on monday. the most unique moment i've experienced in my career i i never thought i would. i have that. i thought there when i once. thought that would be the most treasured. moment my career but. when i fell down on my knees today i realized that this was extremely special and even more so with these players if you give legs some games like this in the beginning of course. they're more relaxed and was very difficult for me to play. many good well later on sunday one of the great modern sporting rivalries is when you get world number one novak djokovic which takes on six time champion rafael nadal in the men's final in paris january's six hour australian open final between the g.a.o. is widely regarded as one of the greatest matches of all time talk of its one day i

could become the first man since nine hundred sixty nine to hold all four grand slams at the same time the dog meanwhile is going for a record breaking seventh french open title. setting. well before the final is difficult to imagine much of six hours difficult but. i will be there every ball and you cannot predict what's going on so that in that. he's going well. playing with confidence and. i have to play aggressive i have to play my game now moving to euro two thousand and twelve where group a all the so-called group of death got underway on saturday the first game of the day registered the shock of the tournament so far one of the favorites the netherlands suffered a surprise to think to denmark the game finished one name in hardcover with michael crowned delhi scoring the game's only goal. in the meantime in the other group the

game germany got off to a winning start against portugal a header in the seventy second minute and by munich striker mario gomez enjoyed a winning start for walking loves men. now russia in action on the opening day and fans are still celebrating after supposed start of the tournament for dick advocaat men maybe the czech republic for one to move top of group a which of important watched the drama unfold in force live. russia's preparations about three weeks ago played free warm up matches in that final warm up match a big italy free meal which is a really big confidence boost for the team and it really in relaxed mood since they've landed in warsaw and traveled here down here are all slow of the game itself and the rush of a really dominated from around the fifteen minute mark did start to well after they really took a stranglehold of again the attacking trio of under their sharpened islands a goal of an alexander character called really causing the czech defense no end of problems it was really no surprise but russia did eventually manage to open the

scoring for about money and would go to up later in the first half of the czechs did manage to pull a goal by but even intervention of roman public really did give the russians a boost and he provided the go ahead with his seconds ago it would eventually go on to win the man of the match and it was probably change too and so he was suffering for bit of a grueling injury early in the week when he strode but he's back to full fitness as he grabbed a fourth to get russia a fantastic start and some really big boost for take out the guardsmen have played so well in this match against the czech republic has been you go into the rest of their games the next match of course being in poland on the twelfth of june which is a national holiday in russia should be a fantastic atmosphere in warsaw but certainly this russian team shown katz said in the lead up to russia on really want to favorites to win the whole of veins but certainly showing a lot of a bigger nations the likes of germany the level in spain they'll be taking no shifts of this russian side especially the tacking prowess that russia has. and

publishing can especially under sheriff in the mena shot and he received a lot of stick really when he was at arsenal were in the year played quite well for the national team during that time but today he really was sensational his movements his his direction of the ball is will to win was just fantastic and it's going to be a great boost obviously for dick of the cats he's kept in and really how is. has returned to form so all in all a fantastic result for russia to get this year as two thousand and twelve campaign off to the best possible starts. well meanwhile for stewards were hospitalized after allegedly being attacked by russia supporters the incident happened in the city of what's love and media after russia's victory over the czechs no arrests were made place are examining security camera footage but once. they kicked the line on the ground. now to rugby union

a new zealand have won their first match since being crowned world champions they beat ireland forty two ten in oakland on saturday it was the first match for the or blacks under the guidance of new coach steve hansen and he'll have been delighted with what he saw and in particular the contribution of davis on julien surveyor who scored a hat trick he helped himself to two tries in the first half as the home side strolled to a twenty three three the interval bunch of men showed no signs of taking their foot off the gas in the second period as they ran out forty two ten winners and means ireland again to beat the all blacks in twenty six meetings. meanwhile the southern hemisphere also got the better of the north in brisbane australia ran out twenty seven nineteen winners over six nations champions wales it was the perfect response from robbie danes man who suffered a shock nine six the thing to start five days previously. south africa meanwhile completed

a hat trick of victories for southern hemisphere sides they beat england twenty two seventeen. however it was poised six six at half time before the springboks turned the screw in the second period dale steyn and john de villiers crossed the line after the break to give the home side a winning start under new coach maya. now in goal for the u.s. open beginning next week. well number three lee westwood is a former just the right time he's won his third norty a masters in sweden it's the englishman's first european tour title for over a year he finished five shots clear a fellow englishman ross fisher after carving a final round sixty eight the thirty nine year old putting on the back nine led him to victory helped along the way by this eagle on the twelfth sweden's petter hansen and spain sergio garcia were among the pack six shots behind the winner now turns his attention to the olympic club in san francisco and his search for a maiden major title. is incredible you know to have one of the first time in one

thousand nine hundred sixty first of it all and then again in two thousand and. eight this year and. the difficulty of course has been it's been a great way you know with yourself coming up it obviously helps to be playing well to go into its own with confidence of a win like this can only be positive now finally with the twenty twelve london olympics on the horizon the russian modern pentathlon federation has named their squad for the games double olympic champion andre more say have reigning world champion alexander soon will be in the men's squad why you can't tell you know how to ski you know and you have the k. are great just make over will be competing for russia on the ladies' team prior to the olympics there's one more international competition past the european championships but before that later this month the kremlin cup takes place in the russian capital and organizers say it's ideal preparation.

for the crimean cup we'll have only best athletes more than thirty countries also say they'll bring their first choice lineups for the competition remember the only international tournament which is shared will be for the upcoming london olympics is the european championships so i believe the crimean count will be very interesting. well that is all from the world of sport for now all that is plenty more later here on r.t. . with the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially the sounds of the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. us of a difference to use it as a threat all as an extra bit but you know if you keep spending a trillion dollars a year on weapons of eventually you're going to blow everybody up you you know

people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't make up new food weapons or a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today.