well go back to watching r t here's a look at the top stories a new twist in join us on just cat mouse game with the british authorities as we could accept her appeal for asylum ecuador's embassy in london after losing his legal battle against extradition to sweden. egypt's convicted former leader hosni mubarak as we've reported to be clinically dead after a stroke the country is in a limbo after the presidential runoff vote protests rage over the military's real landless hold in power. the mainstream media goes all out against those opposing intervention in syria with hyped up reports warning of women of war games to be

held in the country involving thousands of warships jets and tanks. op ex to canada perspective on the syrian uprising from a senior aide to the country's president but tanya siobhan political and media advisor to the secure near gives us the view from inside. thank you. for saying that siobhan political and media advisor to syria's president it's great to have you with us here today were about to be here so it's now official the u.n. had of peacekeeping force has confirmed that syria is in a state of a civil war what do you say to that statement well i don't think that this could work and then they're put in the three we put this statement saying it is not

really you but sponsible to say that syria is in a state of civil war especially as we are fighting. terrorism i think the media in syria or some media war on syria and that has allowed for for its own well talking about media you know when you read stories on syria in the internet media they often end with a disclaimer saying that the exact number of the victims in this conflict cannot be known because the syrian government doesn't give access to journalists on the other hand syrian government also says that the western media is very biased especially on who they call terrorists. my first question is do you think there can be trust restored between the western media and the syrian government or this media war will only escalate. there are hundreds of didn't talk to syria during this crisis it's

true that would give access to foreign journalists hundreds of freshened written in the scheme hundreds of. foreign journalists from all over the world from in the trial. they were as from all over the world and so it's not true all the journalists are among given access to syria. but also there are. tens at least of the channel's home made themselves part of the war on syria and citing sectarian wars fabricating facts about what's happening in our country but the media war itself can it do some real damage or hands on it can do a lot of damage to the media war because when you're. just a man and fighting sectarian hatred among the syrian people there are many people who fall victim to do this incitement unfortunately the media war

throughout history could be very damaging. but effective so you feel like syria's government could lose this in this conflict because of media war no i don't think so i don't think that extent but it's definitely a cause thing. lives of our people costing us the harmonious way of life you know we often hear especially at lately the syrian government pointing fingers to the others who are supplying arms to the unknown terrorist groups who are these others can you name the countries really the gnome but i would like to say to you that. the syrian government the issue is syria the issue is the unity and safety and sovereignty and prosperity of syria that is the issue here you surely have your own version not official but your own version who may this people be who are helping the terrorists to kill peaceful people like you say i think even the observers of

the. say that they're very. different the groups we don't know who these people are we've been not to whom they belong and leadership i mean you can they will and forces and they would say to you this is the most the problem in syria that you know whole. and the problem you know cooperation with the u.n. is critical for syria safeguarding it against a military invasion but with observers on the ground you know there was still hope for some balanced solution. but now that the units are abruptly and did the mission and they left how big is this threat of for intervention in syria while i think the observers have made many statements saying that the syrian government or put it with us they did not stop the mission this off spend the mission we all saw fear for their safety because the syrian people are. also afraid that some observers

could be targeted by the groups and we would hate that to happen all we hear in the western media is the possibility of foreign invasion or intervention how do you assess the chances for intervention i don't think. that is possible in a sense because if you take what the sudan and prices and the rule of fresh and china with the door twice and what would what this is with the stand off that it is the syrian people who should decide the future of syria i don't feel that. a military strike is possible and then if you look at what happened in libya or in yemen or you could see the consequences of what happened and i think the west is quite aware of where things are in the middle east and i

hope there are enough reasonable people in the word to weigh actions but it carefully and i feel there's no consideration for such a thing because of course you do have russia and china support as far as day here in security council goes but that didn't help much in the iraqi scenario. you know they want around the u.n. security council resolution and invaded iraq what other means to you that i said. well they learn from it i also think that's an idea of course of course countries learn from their experiences i have no doubt we all learn from our experiences i have no doubt that the west learned from afghanistan. and the from libya also that militarists doesn't always come with the flow or the result doesn't actually have the best result of the hope or i think the world is different now and i think. it's

no longer one polar system i think russia and china now have a say and the international adding to that relief of more people and the world because we have suffered from one polar system and we're happy the urgency of the bipolar system with the emergence of the brics and i think the words changing but look what just happened in libya for instance i mean the u.s. and their partners they have a perfect hundred percent track record when it comes to removing they had so foreign states that they want removed and i'm keeping in mind the result they have shown for bashar assad to go what makes you think that this could be different scenario. come to see how much russia has lived from by libyan scenario for example russia have to change. the political scene in the word by making an excellent stand in support of people who decide their future and is it democracy

to decide in foreign countries to move ruler i mean this is the way the more close it should work or is it the people who should decide if it is not the only talking about syria is it democracy to say to the british people you should move camera or does it do. british people who should decide why that doesn't apply to other countries is it because of the colin who got money over the other people is it because the west doesn't believe that a people are equal to western people in their right to choose their own system at this is a question i pose a democracy means the people of the country should decide their future should decide who rules them and then what did the syrian people achieve throughout the sea it was both cutting roads killings they are not losing

their army and police people we are the ones who are losing it and when they talked about libya what did they say they said we didn't lose an american soldier but thousands tens of thousands of libyan people lost their lives. so does not matter here talking about libya what are the implications of so much weaponry going into syria now what happens once the conflict is over and you have all this uncontrolled arms country full of arms what happened libya i think you can say that the conflict is over unless unless we all these arms are withdrawn from the street from the people that is what should happen these are part of the conflict and in fact those who are smuggling arms and money into syria are the ones who are igniting the conflict there are these foreign and

external factors particularly the media war smuggling arms and smuggling money into syria is a huge part of the problem in syria but can you do something about it at this point or it's out of your connecting is the international community who should also do something about it because those countries who say that their support kofi annan the plan and kofi annan plan say and the first item stopping armaments and stopping violence from all parties in all its forms some skeptics say that the reason a humanitarian corridor for people in serious most troubled place homes is not possible is because hearing government is afraid along with the humanitarian aid will come something else is that true that not true or that we be incorporating with the human the dead in agencies but until now we haven't seen anything of the humanitarian aid arriving to syria we called it the absolutely fully with

a human with it it didn't say there's no problem so there's a humanitarian corridor open in homes right now there is no human to fit in code or i don't know where the negotiations are but there there is no need for human with it and go to door but there are assistance that. this coming and being distributed through that at the cross under the cousin do you feel like the allegations about people being badly in need of food and medical aid is exaggeration. extremely exaggerated you are also on that black list of sanctioned syrian officials state us united states issued what does it feel to be like on a sanctions list sanctioned by the united states you mean personally for me it doesn't change anything to be. real i refused to go to the united states in two thousand and five and they sent me money in the nation's of brookings and throw money institute the go on the give a lecture there i didn't because i don't like to be treated. the

american airport the way they treat people they probably treat all people like this but i don't like to be treated that way and i don't have to go to the united states and by the way they didn't sanction me in the drawers of my assets and they know i don't have a single dollar not only in the united states or anywhere in the world so their countries as many assets of the like because they don't have any of them my asset is their love for my country and for my people and all these you know propaganda movements to put their name or so on to and to put my name on sanction means nothing to me do books of mine are being sold in the united states i thought a duke university i thought richard in university a third book of mine is now accepted to be published in the united states so i thought this should be embarrassed to put my name on the sergeant not me who should be embarrassed this should be about it saying a shovel and thank you very much for this interview thank you very much thank you.

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and you twist into an asylum just cat and mouse game with the british authorities as we can be said of her appeals for asylum in ecuador us embassy in london after losing his legal battle against extradition to sweden. egypt's convicted former leader hosni mubarak is reported to be clinically dead after a stroke the country is of limbo after the presidential runoff vote as protests rage over the military's real analysts hold in power. the mainstream media goes all out against those opposing intervention in syria with hyped up or ports warning of imminent war games to be held in the country involving thousands of warships and jets and tanks. straight to the world of sports with you know well finally today a breather at the european championships exactly right after all that from

thickness all the group stages we have a quarter finalists to kick off tomorrow so that means indeed there is a break today but much more sport coming up right now. good to have you with us this is sports today plenty ahead including all this. then there were eight something and secure the last two quarter final berths up the european championships. cross the atlantic quest russia's basketball squad gear up for a limping qualifying event in venezuela their last chance to make the london twenty twelve. staged by mike tyson's eventful life is to be turned into a one man show was on the speeded truth person hit broadway. but football first where the quarter final line up at euro two thousand and twelve is no known

england and france breaking co-hosts ukraine's hearts by breaking by securing the two qualifying spots from group d. kate partridge she sent us this report from kiev. so it's england and france to go through from group d. hour respectively play italy and spain in the quarter finals of euro two thousand and twelve well first up at the donbass arena internet skate was england won ukraine ill and a controversial victory at that it was an england man who was making his return wayne rooney who missed the best chance of the half back after two match ban and his mansion out a teammate ashley young found a cross on the left hand side but rooney practically on charge could only head white however three minutes after the interval i really swiftly made amends the cross this time coming from the right hand side from steven gerrard his cross-breed the goalkeeper who fumbled and rooney couldn't have got any easier goal heading in from one yard ads well after an hour of ukrainians i tried to fight back and he was going try to see roger milewski he had it over he had

a free header and he missed the controversy came just a minute later he beat the defense and he just the hand of joe hart it looked like john terry had cleared the ball off the line however replays showed that the ball had crossed the line all the officials missed it and again raises the question of goal line technology is a major championships and it finished a good draw on ukraine will roy hodgson he's now in been to instrument and a draw and they go through as group d. winners and one next by italy so then we turn to kiev where france lost two nil to sweden swedish captains last enable him of it said sweden they had to play for their on or off to two to face and they were already eliminated and after forty minutes all the toivonen need be made those words come true he managed to hit the post but stehman is off to the interval it was either him of it himself but the swedes one across from seven lawson was acrobatic be met by the ac milan man with a sixteen yard volley as spectacular started to put sweden one nil up while france they've been content to sit back but they did push forward olivier giroud who is

about to sign for arsenal next season seven minutes from time he missed a sitter he had it over but the swedes made him pay said lawson turning from provided to go scorer in the dying minutes christian wilhelm's and he hit the bar and lawson was there with the rebounds to make it to no of france's twenty three match unbeaten run comes to an end they finish second in group day or next play spain. now despite crushing out in the group stages of the european championships former russian monitor dick advocaat was the highest paid coach of the competition his side won only one much at the finals but the dutchman still received almost nine million dollars for the past year that's twice as much as any of us counterparts at the games at the moment you're just sorry that second earning four million but unlike russia reach the last eight just below that is germany's joachim loew of wealth creation. will be coaching local t.v. moscow next season was the lowest paid euro two thousand and twelve coach on a relatively paltry two hundred thousand dollars per. athletes from the birthplace

of a limp the competition will see action after all of the london games this summer greece confirming they will be sending a team to the event this by the country's huge financial troubles the greek athletics federation went as far as suspending all domestic sporting activities in the april saying their luck runs to pay coaches and stuff but the only will punt hellenic truck and field championship still went ahead a very low key event at the site of the two thousand and four olympics just over one hundred medal hopefuls will travel to london for that to the one hundred fifty one it's the country brought to beijing in two thousand and eight on the whopping four hundred thirty one at their home games two years back. greeks war. funding was reduced quite dramatically to me to see. the lending going to mean not for means gratian of the athletes. a spot that we managed to get private money from sponsors many coming from outside greece series

so today we're very fortunate that i'm happy to have it teamed up comprised of more than one hundred deaths and. let's talk basketball where the heat are one win away from securing their second ever n.b.a. championship the star trio of le bron james dwayne wade and chris bosh all big country. in miami's game for victory over the oklahoma city thunder on tuesday night james turning in a gutsy performance with twenty six points twelve assists the reigning league m.v.p. shaking off leg cramps to hit a crucial three pointer near the end of the fourth quarter the thunder know with their backs against the wall no team in history has come back from a three one hole and the best of seven finals series. the worst in men's basketball teams last qualification is fast approaching the school set to travel to venice will it to attempt and pick their spots michael chang co caught up with them after final training session in moscow before hitting the road. one win and one loss

that's how the russian national basketball teams played out the two recent friendlies against macedonia and greece but team russia's coach feels the results are the least of his worries when playing in practice matches the results to me or less important you know i've never been a big practice game guy in terms of. the results and it's always proven to be the case that that we do better in the in the actual tournaments than we do in practice games and i hope that continues team captain andrei kirilenko who's had some highs and lows in the past season with his come on bianco in the final but snapping up the most valuable player award for twenty two ground also reiterated his coach sentiments saying listen friendlies about getting results really trying a different sets are no different back combinations and different rosters on the floor lineups and i think david perry what he knows what he's doing and we definitely fighting to win the game but i don't think it's

a big big issue for us you know to be very you know concentrated result right now friends and family with a few allowed in to watch their loved ones train one more time it will then make stage of preparations and even sports minister of italian would call found the time to pop in to meet and greet the coach and players the minister of sport was very kindly and gentlemanly as he always is and let us know that he expected us to qualify. which is which is understandable and what he's what he should he also said without seeing the spectacle so we know he wishes this good luck to him and we hope to make him and all of the russian fans happy this training session concludes his national basketball teams preparations on home soil they will now fly off to the us where they'll play another three friendly games twice against great britain and once again is that the way knew before heading out to carrick us by the soil of the olympic qualifying thomas. will begin on the second of july. that brings us to

rugby were england tough finally got a win on their tour of south africa useful in their side fifth rushing the northern barbarians the visitors suffering their second straight the free to the south african national side at the weekend so we're determined to get off the mark and choose that no nonsense this time with nick alvin down and sticking his claim for a regular spot in the team with a first trick fullback simply unstoppable ossington went in the break thirty one ten up. did get more into things in the second half solid strong work paying dividends here because of pressure from the men and white and the hosts would never really get close enough to make a serious imprint into the final scoreline fifty seven thirty one and then finished the no take on the springboks in the third test on saturday. floyd mayweather jr has finally got something to smile about the boxer currently serving

a ninety day sentence in prison for domestic violence overtaking tiger woods as the highest paid athlete in the world money mayweather topping the forbes rich list earning eighty five million dollars last year those are still no news on a possible super fund with the money the filipino himself said second after raking in sixty two million dollars american golfer woods is slowly returning to form on the greens but he's been knocked off the top spot on this list he said third the top earning russian biggest grossing female is maria sharapova the recently prone french open champion twenty six tommy twenty seven and a half million dollars during the last year. one other boxer never really got close to that kind of money despite being possibly the greatest heavyweight of all time but mike tyson has more artistic matters on his mind at the moment iron mike is set to perform a six night one man show on broadway mike tyson on this truth will address the

highs and lows. of us quite remarkable life tyson burst onto the scene in one thousand nine hundred six becoming the youngest ever heavyweight champion of the world aged just twenty since then accusations of drug abuse and domestic violence have plagued his career says the man himself the good part of the aspects are all on show. this isn't a game it is well you know how. you know doing a solid story will be for me this is coming from a human perspective this is just my life from the beginning. and from then and now it's going to be a pretty dynamic you know if there's a really amazing you know now i feel like i've talked about it was pretty amazing yeah mike tyson thespian should be an interesting night bodies all your sports for whether it's next.

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