doesn't depend on lebanon alone politically and in terms of security lebanon depends on external factors as well that the people of lebanon have close religious and family ties with neighboring states. hello dana is there an alternative to external influence. there has to be an alternative 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 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 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 to if the current situation

persists if syria is divided this will directly affect lebanon how. do you think the concierge in regime can protect lebanon. 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. look 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 certainty that 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 in africa 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 were. to start

a wave of violence in the country one understand it but the big question is who stands to benefit from that. 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 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 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 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. mind was he had been as 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 own 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. would 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. atry 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 i mean and has been 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 or them get a leg that none of the kidnapped individuals are has been larkham on days you know for you know do you know how soon the kidnapped individuals may be freed quite soon it will happen this month. lebanon says that it will only realign itself in

defining its policies and will not 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 and 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 in that have been part of the people support the current 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 at 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 we had a bit on how can clashes between the sunni and the law when northern lebanon leads to a civil war in lebanon. 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 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 the allowing syrians did not support the we again it's the sunny you always have people standing up for their interests. but the syrian ambassador to the u.n. bashar just far he has appealed to international organizations among other things offering evidence to the white terrorist on lebanese territory the lebanese president the prime minister and just south of all deny these allegations to say that while the ideas of al qaida may be present in lebanon there are no grounds for

terrorism or terrorist 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. though i have personally met with the defense minister and we've cleared up the situation there was some misunderstanding regarding terminology what 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 are present in our country but we don't have al qaeda camps or al qaeda cells in lebanon resettle levesque me mr minister why don't you make an official statement in the un and refute the facts presented in the sharjah far as a letter why didn't you know insufficiently that there is no terrorism in lebanon and that nobody supports terrorists. there is no terrorism in lebanon no one can say for sure that it is al qaeda. who's behind the terrorist attacks are terrorism

is a very wide concept no one can say that there are no terrorists in this or that country to 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 and 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. with

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top stories of the week as well as well as the latest news stories the u.n. says and syria peace plan is in the firing line after another gruesome 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 make me the fourth largest e.u. country to ask for a bailout it follows 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 the last prime minister has made it to the polls next week egyptians as 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 is what we've got coming up. a grand slam success rushes of maria sharapova becomes an even tenth woman in history when all four grand slam titles as she claims the french open with a straight sets win over saw ronny. danish delight denmark stunned one of the euro twenty twelve favorite says morton also is

meant to get the better of the netherlands by a goal to nail the. king of the swingers 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 saw the army in the final of the french open the twenty five year old went into saturday's final no new 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 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 when people see her return to number one in the world rankings when they released on monday. the most unique moment i would

experience in my career i i never thought i would. i have that. i thought that 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 this player if you give legs some games like this in the beginning of course. there are more relaxed and was very difficult for me to play she made well later on sunday one of the great modern sporting rivalries is when you get world number one novak djokovic 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 and could become the first man since one nine hundred sixty nine to hold all four

grand slams at the same toy the dell meanwhile is going for a record breaking seventh french open title. seven. well before the final is difficult to imagine much of six hours. you know mike like this but. i will be there for a big every ball and you can not predict what's going on so the thing that i have to believe this has been 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 nail in hardcover with michael crown delhi scoring the game's only goal. in the meantime in the other group 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 joachim loves men. now russia in action on the opening day and fans are still celebrating after supposed start of the tournament for dick advocaat man maybe the czech republic for want to move top of group a reach of important watch the drama unfold in what's love. russia's preparations about three weeks ago played free warm up matches in the final warm up match for big italy free meal which is a really big confidence boost for the team and it really in relaxed mood since that landed in warsaw and travelled to here down here ross love about 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 a game 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 over to seconds ago it would eventually go on to win the man of the match and it was not a change to himself he was suffering from bit of a grueling injury earlier we showed 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 very 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 but 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 event but certainly showing a lot of bigger nations the likes of germany the level in spain they'll be taking notice of this russian side especially the attacking prowess that russia has. a

good lawyer and publishing can especially under they are sharp in the mean of charge and he received a lot of stick really when he said 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 de kalb the cat he's kept in released how is my. his return to form so all in all a fantastic result for russia to get this year as a 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 a year it is saying they kicked a 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 open guidance of new coach steve hansen and he has 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 johnson men showed no signs of taking their foot off the gas in the second period as they ran out forty two ten win as the means island again to beat the old 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 a 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 turn the screw in the second period dale steyn and john the various crossed the line after the break to give the home side a winning start on the new courage maya. is 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 olds 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 overtone and then again in two thousand and again and it's the decade this year and to embark on a difficult golf course has been has been a great way you know with yourself coming up it obviously helps to be playing well and 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 while you catarina has kenya 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 although there's plenty more later here when 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 specially of sounds of the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. because of the difference to use it. all as an actual grip and you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see if people don't wake up to

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latest news in the week's top stories here on r t v one says it syria peace plan is a fiery why after another gruesome massacre this week as international peace and pressure efforts are bolstered. at a deal in beijing russia and china sign up towards rate and budged to top last year's record breaking eighty billion dollars worth of business. spain is to seek up to one hundred billion euros to help salvage its tumbling banks maybe as a form e.u. country to ask for a bailout. and fountains of egyptians protest that their former leader was and sentenced to death and that his last prime minister has made it to the runoff in the presidential poll.

and i am in the russian capital you're watching r t on marina josh welcome to the program you want observers in syria are still trying to determine just how many people were massacred there on wednesday and who's to blame top u.n. officials admit the peace plan is being flouted by both sides of the conflict dozens have reportedly been killed across the country in the past twenty four hours alone while foreign calls for intervention are being ramped up as many phenomena now reports. duquesne body is lain side by side we mean children among them death was indiscriminate and bloody the pictures from syria this week have brought shock around the globe and also a worry in sense of deja vu just weeks before another massacre came to light this time in the village of houla and the world was quick to pass judgment the american british and french push for ability.