doesn't depend on lebanon alone politically and in terms of security lebanon depends on external factors as well 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 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. 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 too if the current situation

persists and if syria is divided this will directly affect lebanon. do you think the current syrian 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. 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 now who is trying to divide lebanon. i can ask you the same question external forces seek to control lebanon they seek to divide and we can 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 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. 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. 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. 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 also here and i mean on his 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 i get i believe that none of the kidnapped individuals or has been commanded is know if 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 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 us which we have a problem if it had 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. 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 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 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 syrians did not support the we against 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 terrorist on lebanese territory the lebanese president the prime minister and just south of you 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 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 this 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 we settle with us mr minister why don't you make an official statement in the u.n. 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 terrorism is

a very wide concept no one can say that there are no terrorists in this all that country to terrorists may be everywhere in the us in an arab country recently there was a terrorist attack in front of a man from unity 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

the end of the war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared from the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially if the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. the facility to use it as a threat. as an actual event but you know if you keep spinning 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 nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents the firepower of the second world war this. is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today.

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thousands of egyptians. deaf. now let's talk sport the latest from football's european championships and more as well. 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 portugal on day two of the european football championships. 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 the long grass was the only major missing from her impressive c.v. . 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. last 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 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 good. sunday one of modern sports rivalries it's another chapter world number one nobody york a bitch and six time champion rafael adel opt to meet him in this final and porous their six hour extreme open decider in january is widely regarded as one of the most a perv matches of all time jock which one love day 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 seventh french open title. well before the final is difficult to imagine much of six hours if you can do most you know mike like this but. i

will be there if i had been given a ball and you cannot predict what's going on now the thing that i have to believe that this has been well. playing with confidence and i have to bluegrass even 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 nil 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 six 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 in denmark they lost when as in nine hundred ninety two but it was the dutch he dominated possession for the first twenty four minutes robin van

persie normally so prolific brosnan couldn't find his shooting days and though you robin teased the defense attorney four minutes in it was the day simon loosened making a run on the left hand side of his deflected cross somehow finding michael frayn delhi 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 a keep out and he missed that 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 to take a one zero victory from group a the group of death on the first day and they start on the go in place. sitting pretty at the top of group three or germany joachim loew his men one goal too good for christiane rinaldo on this portuguese team it's not the greatest of spectacles involved but the germans were 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. for their first need to get out of the toughest euro two thousand and twelve group then next meet. them selves the 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 a hot 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. it's. brazil we're far from finished and where the team in the lead by the time chelsea target holik showed the quickest of 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 on

a stunning finish from the barcelona money eighty two goals for club and country in all competitions simply a phenomenal. what it 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 don't we're very thankful for how it's turning out go regardless of 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 the 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 date on two thousand and seven two thousand and ten when i list hamilton mcclaren manless fastest in practice but 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. 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 being on plans for the next one has been held in new fire the main debate this year focusing on how 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 the winter sport in russia common reoccurring topics have range from development of new training facilities to education all 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 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 women as mulayam 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 by athlone has always been a sport in which russians have excelled in no athletes have enjoyed many great

results at international level of course not 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 just under two hours time with more sports but now it's the weather followed by all the nice.

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hello and welcome this is r.t. live from moscow you're watching the weekly a roundup of the top stories of the last seven days with me kevin owen you an observer's 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 being floated by all sides in the conflict dozens of reportedly been killed across the country in the past twenty four hours alone while foreign calls for intervention being ramped up the financial reports. duquesne body has 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 sands of deja vu just weeks before any other 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 military intervention in syria is absolutely enormous.