hello and welcome to our team and it's half past the hour time now for a recap of your headlines violence in syria flares up as the u.n. calls for a halt to all arms supplies from abroad meanwhile the geneva peace plan has highlighted differences within the opposition which it's been struggling to overcome. the new year ozone rescue fund is facing challenges of from within not even a week to turn it was agreed the bailout plan has sparked anger in finland and the netherlands with a court challenge it to germany. and america's hunt for

julian assange appears to be continuing while the whistleblower is waiting for ecuador to make a decision on his asylum bit that's as r t is set to bring you the final episode of his interview show. up next as promised our interview with author and correspondent martin say for with the middle east and focus on the volatile transition underway and the reach him. i. i'm sitting down with martin c. a veteran correspondent he's covered foreign affairs for many years one of his latest books is called the politically incorrect guide to the middle east he also wrote extensively about u.s. wash over the nations thank you very much for joining in this to see my pleasure i want to start with you wrote an article about the monkey needs to law the law is supposed to punish russian officials allegedly involved in human rights violations

by not granting them us and by freezing their assets here the state department has the full authority to deny the says to anyone they want without any senate approval why this bill in your opinion the senators in question who framed the bill would have pushed it through the committee are. writing a tidal wave of self-righteousness they have magic themselves to be secretary of state of the united states there is no rational justification for this spill as you pointed out the u.s. state department already had and in fact in this case had exercised its right power to prevent forward nationals from entering the united states the u.s. government has these parts doesn't need them this is signaling out russia on alleged charges of corruption where the record of a large majority of countries in the world on corruption issues is vastly worse

than russia's is there is no rationality behind this act on the american business community did not support it they did they were very slow to realize it could pass but they don't want it why how can that impact because it's bad for business if it provokes an anti american reaction in russia serious people in america know this serious people in the american business community wants to invest in russia they recognize there's tremendous potential there. this flies in the face of american rational self interest the death of that man sergei magnitsky was tragic no doubt about that but too many this kind of punitive legislation passed in the u.s. would look quite hypocritical considering all those notorious were ports about human rights abuses committed by the us in places like like abu ghraib you know the secret prisons how do you see that. i think again this is true in every

country that there is a natural tendency towards so fright useless as jesus said we see the sin in our brother's eyes before we see the sins in our own this is human nature let's move away from the magnitsky law us russian relations haven't been rosy in recent years but the leaders of both countries made took concrete steps to boost economic ties trade and all that but in the geo political field differences remain and we see a serious clash of approaches over syria. what is at the root of the clash the americans have developed on their ideological passion revolutionary passion for democracy i have had russian journalist friends who turned out fifteen years ago predicted to me this would happen they say your country is going to be as ideologically swept away by trying to promote democracy around the world regardless

of its own interests as we were in trying to promote communism in southern africa or in afghanistan in asia think they were right i am convinced they were right i felt at the time i told them i thought you could very well be right i hope you are wrong but they have been proven right look at the arab spring so cause as i documented in my two a week book which you referred to before the politically incorrect guide to the middle east i predicted the. strongly in that book that opening the door to theoretical as opposed to real democracy in the middle east would simply lead the way to extreme islamist dictatorships throughout the middle east which would be far more oppressive and cruel on issues of human rights what do you think about what's happening in in chipped i just remember it was perceived as such a success as well as libya but we see that the situation on the ground is is far from that what what went wrong with those revolutions what went wrong with those

revolutions i discuss in two of my books i predict isn't that book that of democracy came to egypt revolution civil war and eventually genocide would follow just as it did in iraq the christian population and like russia the christians of egypt are orthodox christians the copts some of one of the oldest christian communities in the world at least ten million people could be in risk of genocide if things get out of control in egypt it may not happen that way but it could there is an islamic government in turkey but the turkish islamist government are you saying that democracy is deadly that region yes not in every country but democracy has to grow gradually in countries in the region you have to have a strong middle class growing you have that you have to have enough people with property to learn principles of responsibility this is not something that muslim people cannot learn there are many highly successful muslim democracies in the

world turkey certainly of them are crissy egypt can be but it needs to be able to develop its middle class and alleviate its poverty situation first right now we do not have democracy in egypt we have rather like the french revolution two hundred twenty years ago we have an authoritarian regime which has been toppled we have a lot of people expressing their passions of the streets we do not have stable democratic instant. sure it's to allow the development of democracy and we do have people who are experienced in the compromise and trading and modern reship that is essential to the mark recy whether that is democracy in america bag with dish russia or germany or turkey how damaging can it be for. certain countries to the kind of democracy pushed from. from aside from the us it's enormously damaging in several different ways the first and most obvious

way is if you top off our tyrian leader or even if an authoritarian leader simply collapses to his own corruption and incompetence as mbutu did and say a year and he was not pushed out by either of us pressure or russian pressure basically he grew old and the regime collapsed but there was no democracy did not follow and so year what followed and so here was civil war and genocide that lasted more than a decade ten million innocent human beings died by contrast in one thousand nine hundred nine and two thousand i was a personal witness and into the zia of a much happier change so cargo was another of the most greedy and corrupt tyrants in modern history but when he was pushed aside the intern the xeon people were sufficiently sophisticated were able to put together or inherit from their past enough structures of responsible leadership and they have enough serious responsible leaders waiting in the wings this is

a classic example of how evolution can go but if you push out. authoritarian leader or even the tyrants too soon you have first of all the key in which simply hundreds of thousands or even millions of people will die you can have civil war or genocide easily following afterwards in america most of the american people though they are defiantly christian do not know that the christian historical christian communities in iraq were virtually liquidated not under saddam hussein but in the conditions of chaos that followed the american takeover before an effective government could finally be established in iraq only within the last four or five years i just want to tell our viewers that you have three pulitzer price nominations for international reporting and you been covering foreign affairs for so many years and i want to ask you. since you mention iraq what has changed in

the media field in the u.s. since since iraq has something changed because i mean at that time as you said the media in general they they were basically cheerleading for war there was nobody to question nothing has really changed not since then the real lessons have not been learned there is a lack of courage and a lack of intellect i believe in the american broadcast media let's say with the regards of the coverage of the arab spring i'm sure it is sort of watching what has been left out of the media attention what would you point out several things first of all the successful democracies evolve they cannot be created instantaneously overnight when authoritarian or to tell a tarion regimes disintegrate or fall there needs to be a period of time even of a generation and more work people can have security of private property where people can get used to a relatively free market economy you would russia know this you are making

excellent progress not the years in the one nine hundred ninety s. when i often visited your country terribly difficult years prosperity and democracy are not on the table goals most people in most countries can have them but they are not quickly or instantaneously achieved americans how far one hundred years drunk instant coffee you take a little. a little envelope of coffee of powder you poured into a cop you had hot water instant coffee now they believe democracy can be spread the same way you simply take american instant democracy the american blueprint for democracy you impose it on the country you have water pressed so instance democracy the world does not work that way they thought it did with the arab spring the entire his. three of the middle east shows that things will not be that simple but

they also in the administration and the republicans to as i said are blind to the terrible danger is that their policies are causing they do not realize they are putting religious and ethnic minorities at fearful risk in countries like iraq syria egypt thank you very much pleasure. here. going global.

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mallinson serial flare assault as the u.n. calls for a home to all arms supplies from abroad meanwhile the geneva peace plan house highlighted differences within the opposition which its factions have been struggling to overcome. the new euro zone rescue fund is facing challenges from within not even a week after it was agreed to the bailout plan has sparked anger in finland and the netherlands with a court challenge to in germany. and america's hunt for julian assange appears to be continuing while the whistleblower is waiting for ecuador to make a decision on his asylum bid that's as r.t. is set to bring you the final episode of his interview show. right now let's get

the latest from the world of sports with paul. thank you very much carol welcome to the sports headlines here is what we've got for you over maria shriver's quest for a second consecutive grand slam title is over after she loses disagreeing as it's getting in the fourth round at wimbledon. all through affect all to you looks at how the recent european football championship can have a lasting effect on the ukrainian tourist industry. and the sprint king mark cavendish wins the second stage of this year's toward a frog. before us to eat. somewhat surprising result wimbledon world number one maria sharapova is out after a straight sets defeat a german sub in its key in round four six four six three the final score line the

russian had beaten the fifteenth seed in their last three meetings but the funny thing is she misses out on my fifth quarter final appearance at the all england club and to lose her world number one ranking. this is my opponent she played extremely well today and did many things better than i didn't and this given day just have to hand it to her welsh rabbit as compared to maria kirilenko has however made the last eight for the first time. china in three sets she'll now face poland are next got to van sciver for a place in the semifinals. this after the pole reached the last eight straight sets win over unseeded italian g.o.g. who double faulted on match point. second seeded victoria azarenka was in dominant form and she reached the quarters following coping with the former world number one an advantage the better russian controlled from start to finish and she only dropped one game. defending champion patrick a bit of

a is also through coming from a set down to italian francesca schiavone next up a quarter final four time champion serena williams says. americans are getting past jaroslava shred of in three sets it was a real test for the thirty year old with the final set lasting just shy of an hour this week backhand on match point putting american through. the wall kim clijsters has bowed out of her last ever wimbledon the full time grand slam winner losing six one six one to germany's angela prices will retire for a second time after the u.s. open later this year. meanwhile in the men's draw world number one novak djokovic has put his place in the quarters this secured a six three six one six three ring. three unseeded compared to. six hundred champion roger federer is also through this we're staying on course for a record equalling seventh title with

a force that's when against belgian. world rain that caused problems on monday andy murray's match with myron shalit was postponed with the fourth seed a set up a finalist last year wolf which song it was a set down against mardy fish when rain altered that one the russian mikhail youzhny whether dennis istomin in five sets the next up for usually roger federer in the quarter finals. now to cycling or britain's mark cavendish has won the second stage of this year's tour de france the world champion beating germany's on pole in a bunch sprint for the finish line cavendish seen here in the yellow helmet when the sprinters green jersey in last year's race and threw down a marker to his rivals on monday switzerland's family and councillor stays in the lead in the lead as yellow jersey i should say and remain seven seconds ahead of another great bragging wiggins in the general classification. now euro twenty twelve it may be over but for the host countries the effect will be felt for

a long time to come kate partridge looks now and how the last month in the spotlight could help boost ukraine's tourist industry. football the world's favorite sport and big business poland and ukraine pumped around fourteen billion euros into their country's infrastructure to co-host euro two thousand and twelve economists a host nations rarely profit from big tournament but the feel good value could prove to be priceless in ukraine to resume is booming more than three hundred thousand people enter the country on match days to the four venues of the visit and then it's almost a fifty percent increase and around one hundred fifty thousand fans came to kiev for sunday's final proving national pride can be used host nation's coffers this is chris shattuck street one of the main roads of central kiev lined with shops and leading to independence square for the past month it's been the capital's found zone and could hold around ninety thousand people who will come to enjoy the

football and to spend some money. the average visitor splashed out around eight hundred euros per street a four day trip on travel hotel souvenirs and food and drink over a quarter of a million liters of beer were drunk ahead of the final in the kiev fan zone and with the weather generally seeing temperatures in the mid twenty's all of this was good news for the local retailers we can speak about. one sound that was generated by the fans and here you know the. approximate b. then c. s. and the fans are into something like maybe five six millions of viewers it is just an hour. to see that it is like this but we see that fans on generates more business processes in terms of service. restaurants stories shoppin for ukraine and i think that weekend we'll be able to speak about it at the

end of the year reports of racism in some polish and ukrainian football clubs high hotel dry. and political issues had initially kept some at home yet when england reached the quarter finals to face italy at least six thousand fans made the trip to kiev while supporters from all over the world were impressed by what they'd see if you compare it to harkov where we've been in that don't just go and this is. really the capital much bigger. more impressive building the employment. much cleaner. yeah it's called up for you. and if you get to me and i mean whether you would come by cheek right there my name is michael also from amsterdam and every been here now for the second time this month so i think it takes a while when we come back here but maybe when the kids are a bit although there may year we come back here in the u.k. i don't report said despite ukraine's group stage exit the country aim to recoup

twenty five percent of its costs crucially for tourism the tournament has exposed visitors to some appealing and less publicized history and culture with voluntary fan support groups optimistic some visitors will return we really are we really hope that offers a comeback so tells their friends or relatives that ukraine is friendly crane is open ukraine is current and that is that they will come. or would like to come here or offer the championship and spend more time seeing our nice architecture charges etc etc so as to of europe's heavyweights did battle at the olympic stadium two of eastern european countries prepared to close their accounts hopefully long term benefits when i weigh short term costs and provide every fan winner or loser foreign or local with priceless memories. quality kiev ukraine. now finally russia's men's beach volleyball team have booked their place in the

london olympics after eternal when i've a pilot in the qualification tournament here in moscow my craft genco reports. when was the tournament started exactly what it says on the tin olympic qualification that's something that up till now how deluded the russian men's beach volleyball team after failing to emulate russia's women's team already qualified by winning the continental cup this really was the last chance saloon. but the russians kept their nerve seeing of poland in the final in two rather one sided games i. think. in the first year and you need to be but bush was shocked and people come to him to straight sets hotness agape lakoff you repeated that against poland second duo. which i think people russians twenty runs in the last go into the match for home comforts seem to have played their part in the resoundingly victory the

players however went without. the fun. i had about three hours of sleep the previous night because off the top. of the final the final was she was seven thirty pm so we had to hold our emotions and keep focused but we are experienced players and know how to deal with this kind of stress. and with eyes now firmly on london the guy's mood was understandably boy. we're not playing on going to the olympics to simply participate any this year has been tough year where so we'll want to do the marks and see how high we can get if we get a medal that would be amazing to get playing better and better together so hopefully we can reach our peak at the olympics and make. in the men's other final muscle mexico two militants the other olympic tickets after practice despite dropping the set against the mexicans team should never look like

they would surrender their undefeated run in the tournament i think i would. say we had a really. great team spirit although it's just one to get for two teams which of course can make problems but i think we did a really good job and we deserved it and with that the bunch of sports for the beach volleyball competition at the olympics have now been killed one of his own losses men's beach volleyball team will after all be joining the women's team on the plane to london this summer that's often been sleeping in weeds in their whole let's look at the other people to gaze upon the final here in moscow now going to seem to be heading to london to a bit of history builds a good two thousand seat stadium clear from the twenty eighth of july because they want those are going to jump about will now be full of big glory michael going to take over all teeth that must go with me to call out his old from the want to spoil for now we're back with more the rain just under two hours time here on our join me then at the world weather is next.

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