stories it's not clear. whether to accept a political refugee. egypt's former president hosni mubarak is said to be in a coma. the presidential runoff. in syria. amid. tens of thousands of russian and chinese troops deployed in the country. for the moment in fifteen minutes.

perspective on the syrian uprising and the way it's covered by media across the world a senior aide to the country's president. thank you. for saying that siobhan political and media advisor to syria's president it's great to have you with us here today what about i'm happy to be here so it's now official u.n. had a 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 but it is 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 that has a life of 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 while there are hundreds of journalists who came to syria during this crisis it's true that we don't give access to foreign journalists hundreds of

freshened written in the game hundreds of. foreign journalists from all over the world from india china. they were from all over the world and so it's not true all the journalists given access to syria. but also the that our. pens a satellite the channel hole 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 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 hard morning as a way of life you know we often hear especially 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 the issue is syria the issue is the unity and safety and sovereignty and prosperity of syria that is the issue here but you surely have your own version not official but your own version who may these people be who are helping the terrorists to kill peaceful people like you say i think even the observers of the you and say that very.

different a group we don't know who these people are we've been not to who they belong to my leadership i mean. they were forces and they would say to you this is the most the problem in syria that you know. and that's 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 ended 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 corporate with us they did not stop the mission this or spun the mission we all saw fear for their safety because the syrian people are good to do we 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 indonesia i don't think. that is possible in a sense because if you take what the sudan and prices and there are all. china would 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 yemen all 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 the way 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 do you guys have except russia while they live from it are also tonight of course of course countries learn from their experiences i have no doubt we'll all learn from our experiences i have no doubt that the west learned from afghanistan. and the from libya also that that military strike doesn't always come with a flowery result doesn't treat the best result that they hoped for i think the world is different now and i think. it's no longer one polar system i think russia and china now hard to face and the international adding to that relief of

most people and the world because we have suffered from one polar system and we're happy with the urgency of the bipolar system with the emergence of the brics and i think the word is changing but look what just happened in libya for instance i mean the us 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 and 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

to should work or is it the people who should decide i'm not going to talking about syria is it democracy to say to the british people you should move camera or is it . the 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 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 boycotting roads killing 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 that 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 are part of the conflict and in fact those who are smuggling arms and money into syria are the ones what 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 control of the international community who should also do something about that 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 syria's 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 that they're in agencies but until now we haven't seen anything of the humanitarian aid arriving to syria we called it the absolutely fully with the humanitarian agencies there's no problem so there's

a humanitarian corridor open in homes right now there is no humanitarian code or i don't know where the negotiations are but there there is no need for the humanitarian corridor 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 official state us united states issued what does it feel to be like on a sanctioned list sanctioned by united states you mean personally for me it doesn't change anything to be sanctioned no i refused to go to the united states in two thousand and five and they sent me money in the invitations 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. american airport. 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 through that and i see by the way they didn't sanction me they proved my assets and they know i don't have a single dollar not only in the united states anywhere and the word so their countries as many assets of the like because they don't have any of them my asset is the love for my country and for my people and all these you know propaganda movements to put their name or so on to want to put my name on sanction means nothing to me books of mine are being sold in the united states i thought a duke university i thought richard and 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 side of not me who should be embarrassed this should be about saying i shall want thank you very much for this interview thank you very much thank you. you know.

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thank you very much but well from a long way to the sports headlines here is what we've got coming up. then eight bronstein england secured the last two quarterfinal places euro twenty twelve. from a chelsea to china to be a drug bust once the champions league winners for a chinese super league strugglers on big spenders shanghai shambaugh. the last chance saloon russia's basketball squad gear up for the olympic qualifying event in venezuela the last chance to make london twenty twelve. but football where the quarterfinal line up twenty twelve is now nine england and france shattering co-host ukraine's dreams by securing the two qualifying spots from group d. reports from kiev. so it's england and france to go through from group d. and we're respectively play italy and spain in the quarter finals of euro two

thousand and twelve well first up at the donbass arena internat skate was england wrong on 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 on teammate ashley young found a cross on the left hand side but rooney practically unchallenged could only had 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 fumbles and rooney couldn't have got any easier goal heading in from one yard ads well after now the ukrainians i tried to fight back and it was control to see roger milewski he had you know 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 a replay 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 one ukraine will roy hodgson he's now in been to israel and in a draw and they go through as group d. winners and one next play italy so then we turn to kiev where france lost two nil to sweden swedish captains last a neighbor him of it said in sweden they had to play for their owner after two to face and they were already eliminated and after forty minutes all the toivonen neatly made those words come true he managed to hit the post but stehman is off to the interval it was even him a bit himself to put the swedes one across from seven lawson was acrobatic you met by the ac milan 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 seven last and turning from provided to goalscorer in the dying minutes kristin wilhelm's and. and last i was there with the rebounds to make it twenty three match unbeaten run comes to an end

they finish second degree our next play spain well elsewhere didier drogba has left chelsea and joined chinese superleague side shanghai china while the ivory coast striker signs a two and a half year contract with the big spending club reportedly earning up to three hundred thousand u.s. dollars a week the thirty four year old spent eight years at chelsea scoring one hundred goals in two hundred twenty six appearances he went out on a high of course scoring the decisive penalty in the champions league final victory over by munich last month. while elsewhere indian cricketer you are seeing a return to the sport of the twenty twenty world cup later this year the beginning batsman was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer earlier in twenty twelve and spent more than a month in a boston hospital the united states his target is to play out the i.c.c. event in sri lanka in september the thirty year old has already returned to light training and says his recovery is on the right track. six seven sessions of dreaming dreaming where you are so i'm just getting back into

the groove. this be like a normal was you know breathe normally normally which is a lot of excitement and fun for me at the moment possible now where they hate one win away from securing their second n.b.a. championship the star trio of le bron james dwayne wade and chris bosh well making big contributions in miami is a game for victory over oklahoma on tuesday james turning in a gutsy performance with twenty six points and twelve assists the reigning league m.v.p. shaking off leg cramps to head a crucial three pointer with the end of the fourth quarter the thunder now with our backs against the wall no team in history has recovered from a three one deficit in a best of seven final series. the whole were they were put into a mix of the complete game you know we need we need to perform performance from everyone you know we understand it myself and the way distribute a lot of press but you know what you know the sacrifices and you know a commitment from our other guys know we will be in this position. now there are

less than a two weeks to go until one of the toughest insurance events in world sport gets underway the twenty twelve toward france begins in belgium in ten days time the favorite this year is teams guys bradley wiggins who has been preparing from a training camp in spain thirty two year old wiggins is aiming to become the first ever british winner of the event and says it's something he's dreamed about since he was twelve years old however he says defending champion that's australian evans is the one to catch pass to think. he's the winner last year he could tundra climb and wind sprints on small mountains so he. is still the man survey for the issues too and he wants a fight so never gives up. so for me. now athletes from the birthplace of olympic competition will see action after all at the london games this summer confirming they will be sending

a team to the event despite the country's huge financial troubles the greek athletics federation went as far suspending all domestic sporting activities in april saying they lacked funds to pay coaches and staff but the annual panhellenic track and field championships still went ahead it was a very low key event at the site of the two thousand and four olympics just over one hundred medals hopefuls will go to london compare that to the one hundred fifty one athletes the country brought to beijing in two thousand and eight and the four hundred thirty one home games eight years ago. war. funding was reduced quite dramatically. every now. gratian of the athletes. despite that we managed to get private money from sponsors many coming from outside greece series so today we're very fortunate. to have a team that comprised of more than one hundred deaths. now with thirty seven days

to go until the start of the olympics athletes from across the globe are finalizing their preparations great britain's eventing team may have more global media attention than most stars because of the presence of queen elizabeth the second granddaughters are phillips has been selected in the five strong squad perfuse to comment on whether the queen was her biggest fan. i miss my family very proud been right behind me and you know it's great. the name with the base elected software yeah. you know you got to get there and we you know the next few weeks is we're going to we're working really hard to make sure that. this is the best performance ever. i just feel myself very lucky to be riding on a team with these guys now finally the russian men's basketball teams last chance

at olympic qualification is fast approaching the squad is set to travel to venezuela to attempt to book their place at the london games michael chang caught up with them at their final training session here in moscow. 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 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 losing out with tears. in the europa league final but snapping up the most valuable player award for twenty twelve also reiterated his coach sentiments saying recent friendlies were not about getting

a result but really trying their different sets are no different combinations and different rosters in the four lineups and i think very very what he knows what he's doing and we definitely fighting to win the game but i don't think it's a big issue for us you know to be very you know concentrate on a result right now friends and family with a few allowed in to watch their loved ones train one more time before the next stage of preparations. and even sports minister of italian would cool 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 be also said to speak so we he wishes this good luck to him and we hope to make him and all of the russian fans happy this training session concludes with russia's national

basketball teams preparations on home soil they will now fly off to the u.s. where they'll play another three friendly games twice against great britain and once again that the way new before heading out to. the olympic qualifying will begin on the second of july michael schenker. well his old from the world of sports there's plenty more light to hang on the weather is next followed by the headlines with bill.

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