this is r t from moscow with me kevin only watching our weekly the news review of the week the top stories the u.n. says it's syria on the firing line for another gruesome attack this day says for foreign powers. moscow is pushing for an international contact group mediate a cease fire and told the washington shunning the idea of. a big deal in beijing russia and china sign up for more trade and pledged last year's record breaking eighty billion dollars worth of business the leaders of two nations also launched a joint investment fund this expected to help finance around seventy percent of

commercial projects in russia. spain is to seek up to one hundred billion euros to help salvage banks making it. follows the group of spain's debt laden banks need a bigger buffer against any severe financial shocks. and thousands of egyptians protest that their former leader wasn't sentenced to death and that his last prime ministers made it to the runoff next week egypt chooses its first president since last year's revolution. syria's conflict leaving neighboring lebanon suffering some of the fallout next to the lebanese interior minister speaks to us about why the violence won't stop at the border. well again a swell of 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. the 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 the people of lebanon have close religious and family ties with neighboring states. 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 a lebanon. for fitness in nine hundred seventy four and seventy five we had a conflict between christians and muslims in lebanon and this conflict was resolved well with we adopted a new constitution underachieved 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 with a 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 that 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 can you 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 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. my lawyer was given 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. 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. well while 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'll say here and i mean i'm hizbullah 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 he would be willing to resolve it or them hello i get my legs but none of the kidnapped individuals i have been commanded 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 under them or 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 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 get us which we have a problem if it had been part of the people support the cover. 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 who 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 a 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 don't have come clashes between the sunni and their law when northern lebanon leads to a civil war in lebanon. and 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 allow 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 if there were terrorist on lebanese territory the lebanese

president the prime minister and yourself or deny these allegations who say that while the ideas of al qaeda 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. i have personally met with the defense minister and we've cleared up this situation there were 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 be secular best me mr minister why don't you make an official statement in the un and refute the facts presented in a percentage of far as a letter why didn't you nonce officially that there is no terrorism in lebanon and

that nobody supports terrorists that i looked at the video 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 and no one can say that there are no terrorists in this or that country out of the 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 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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for the. technology innovation is development around russia. the future. headlines the un says it's syria. this is poised to intervene pushing for international mediators. but washington shelling. getting a. lot can survive the storm the country's confirmed will seek up to one hundred billion euros to help system making it the. country with. a big russia and china sign up for more trade and pledge to. breaking eighty billion dollars worth of business the leaders of two nations also launched

a joint investment fund that's expected to help seventy percent of commercial projects here. and thousands of egyptians protest that their former leader was sentenced to death and that his last prime minister made it to the poll next week egypt chooses its first president since last year's revenue. now let's talk sport the latest from football's european championships and a lot more as well units here. thanks always have been great to have you with us this is indeed sport today plenty heading clearing all this. major achievement maria sharapova becomes only the temple woman in history to win all four grand slams after claiming the french open title on suffered a. pick of the bunch denmark and germany record wins over the netherlands in

portugal on day two of the european football championships. and top on the truck sebastian vettel records a blistering lap to secure pole for some of this canadian drumcree. in a weekend to remember for maria sharapova the russian becoming only the tenth woman in history to win all four grand slams after a six three six two victory over italy sir ronnie in the final of the french open the twenty five year old headed into some of his final knowing they were on grass was the only major missing from her impressive c.v. shop about proving too strong for her opponent from start to finish wrapping up the straight sets win in one hour. her last grand slam success came in a stream in two thousand and eight but not long afterwards dropped out of the world's top one hundred as she battled injury and loss all form but this will now see her return to the number one spot when the new rankings are released on monday . it's the most unique moment i've experienced 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 these players if you give her our legs some games like this in the beginning of course the they're more relaxed and was very difficult for me to play she made a good. sunday one of modern sports rivalries another chapter world of a war nobody york a veteran six time champion rafael adult opts to meet in the men's final in paris their six hour a stream open decided in january is widely regarded as one of the most a perv matches of all time jock which one loveday this evening can become the first man since one thousand sixty nine to hold all four grand slams at once the double

meanwhile is aiming for a record breaking seven french open title. seven no before the final is difficult to imagine much of six hours. you know michael i guess but. i will be there for i think every ball and you cannot predict what's going on you know the thing that i have to believe this is going well. playing with confidence and i have to bluegrass if i have to play my game football where the second day of euro two thousand and twelve action has already yielded the first major upset of the competition denmark overcoming the odds to shop in their lungs one will beating the twenty ten world cup run a shop for the first time in forty five years kate partridge watch the danes stunning victory in the fall of ukraine. so here we are on day two zero two thousand and twelve and the second day is proving just as fascinating as the first denmark one the netherlands nil and few would probably have predicted that result

before the tournament started with the dutch being the finalists in south africa in two thousand and ten and denmark they were lost when using nine hundred ninety two but it was the dutch he donated possession for the first twenty four minutes robin van persie normally so prolific brosnan couldn't find the shooting days and the robin to use the defense return to full minutes in it was the day to open simon close and making a run on the left hand side of his deflected cross somehow finding michael frayn down a bit runs on the goalkeeper to make it one nil the dutch peppered the danish goal three attacking substitutions huntelaar came on he managed to get a one on one with the keeper and he missed then had a shot for a penalty it wasn't to be their day denmark won hala nil and it's going to be the danish side that take a one zero victory from group a group of death on the first day and they stroll down the gauntlet to germany in portugal. also sitting pretty at the top of proofreader germany joachim loew his men one goal too good for christiane rinaldo on his portuguese team it's not the

greatest of spectacles involved but the germans won't mind not one little bit and neither will their funds these were the quite extraordinary scenes in berlin during the game really more reminiscent of a final rather. germany won the tournament in one hundred seventy two nine hundred eighty nine hundred ninety six. and after that make up for their first need to get out of the toughest euro two thousand and twelve group to next meet the netherlands on wednesday who themselves not badly need a result on the scene not against portugal if they are to make it into the quarterfinals. it's been said he never performs for his country like he does for his club but after scoring one hundred trick against our tribals brazil argentinian superstar leo messi cannot finally put that criticism to bed goals going to war in saturday's friendly which took place in new jersey messi second goal in the night here putting his side to one up after thirty four. minutes. for brazil were far from finished and where the team in the lead by the time chelsea target holik showed the quickest off feet eighteen minutes from time

a three two ahead an equaliser from daniel not long after that then set things up nicely for messi to do his stuff three three at this stage a brilliant run and a stunning finish from the barcelona money eighty two goals for club and country in all competitions simply a phenomenon. which one does not mean messi is in an exceptional moment luckily he's arjen time so we can benefit from that ourselves our tactics are a little different from barcelona as we play a bit more direct we don't have the personnel to play that kind of game that barcelona do you are very thankful for how was turning out to go we're going to be . a major upset in the world of boxing meanwhile with timothy bradley jr ending money picky how seven year unbeaten run in the ring the twenty eight year old scoring a controversial split decision in las vegas to take ownership of w b o welterweight belt pacquiao came out firing on took the fight to the american early on before bradley rebind and halfway through desert storm winning five of the last six runs

to eventually remain on defeated in his twenty nine professional fights pac-man landed more punches but the filipino ultimately could not connect with the big shots boxing world already buzzing about a nov tenth rematch between the pair. from the one where sebastian vettel sits in perfect position to his fast track successes this weekend the two time defending champion securing pole position for the canadian grand prix a race that german has yet to win the twenty four year old proving more comfortable in montreal on the day than two thousand and seven two thousand and ten when i list hamilton mclaren manless fastest in practice but to be content with second place on the grid two thousand and six winner on current standings leader fernando alonso will start from third russia's first ever f one driver to tell the petrol. it was only nineteen quickest. and finally let's finish off with a spot of winter sports the spite being june our congress on the season that's been

on plans for the next one has been held in new fire the main debate this year focusing on hard to further develop children sport as michael reports. since two thousand and six members of the winter sports community with companies providing equipment or actual sportsmen and women have been gathering in order to review the state of winter sport in russia common reoccurring topics have ranged from development of new training facilities to education or the engineering specifics of arenas however this is participants focused on how to better develop sport for children. governments federations and people in general need to pay more attention to developing sports for kids because the benefits are clear is the promotion of being healthy we need to instill that into the minds of children it's better to spend money on being healthy rather than spending that money on medicines when talking about developing children sporting abilities naturally one of the most important aspects that come to mind is the infrastructure that's needed and

although many believe investment stops in moscow and st petersburg it's places like in far the capital of russia's republic of. that's actually leading the way into short years they've managed to build this state of the art ice hockey arena that were far enough which is now home to the continental hockey league two thousand and eleven when there is no lie of the team itself is leading by example boasting five i thought hearings including this one with which to train their younger players. now they've also built this enormous biathlon sport complex so that young russians can further hone their skills in one of the country's most popular sport arts or. this is a really great complex and has all the necessary equipment for proper preparation and training it can be used only around whether summer or winter which is good because we always learn something new made up of two different sporting disciplines it's most commonly known for the combination of cross-country skiing and rifle

shooting although no way is the most prolific in the event russia is also no stranger. to go to but i have flown has always been a sport in which russians have excelled in no athletes have enjoyed many great results at international level it's now the sport has to share its popularity with other international sporting events like football but it's still appealing to all age groups the consensus is clear to win the kids of seeking personal glory and rather to get them to better understand the physical benefits of simply doing sport but even though the adults are hoping to instill some humility in the kids with a spin towards thing healthy deep down there will always remain a desire to be the best. and i want to go to the world championships that's my goal and what aiming for which is why i'm here and training every day is a mark of sankoh r.t. who far russia's republic. is your sport paul scott will be here in

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