thank you for joining r.t.e. it's ten thirty here in moscow and 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 a lot of differences within the opposition which its factions have been struggling to overcome. the rescue fund is facing challenges from within not even a week after it was agreed. sparked anger in finland and the netherlands with a court challenge 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 bid. to bring you the final episode of his interview show . up next as promised our interview with author and correspondent martin with the middle east and focus on the volatile transition underway in the region. 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 monk need to kill 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 magine 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 powers doesn't need them this is signaling out russia on alleged charges of corruption when the record of a large majority of countries in the world on corruption issues is vastly worse than russia says there is no rationality behind this act and 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 russian also interest in 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 reports about human rights abuses committed by the u.s. in places like like abu ghraib you know the secret prisons how do you see that. well i think again this is true in every country that there is a natural tendency toward so fractiousness 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 u.s. russia 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 an ideological passion revolutionary passion for democracy i have had russian journalist friends who ten and 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-called as i documented in my two a week book which you referred to before the politically incorrect guide to the middle east i predicted very 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 egypt 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 when why. 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. 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 on the streets we do not have stable democratic institutions to allow the development of democracy and we do not have people who are experienced in the compromise and trading and moderation 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 through his own corruption and incompetence as mbutu did and say here and he was not pushed out by either 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 anough 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.

at 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've 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 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 certainly 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 for their needs to be a period of time even of a generation or 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 tunable 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 have 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 dangers 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. was the idea of multicultural society we were. sharing the motherland. wealthy british style. is not on the.

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stunts on t.v. dot com. violence and serial flare result as the u.n. calls for a halt to all arms supplies from abroad made while the geneva peace plan has highlighted differences within the opposition which its factions have been struggling to overcome. the new eurozone rescue fund is facing challenges from within not even the week after it was agreed to the bailout plan has sparked anger in finland and the netherlands with a court challenge to her 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 bit that says 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 karen welcome to the sports headlines here as always go for you over and out maria sharapova as quest for a second consecutive grand slam title is over after she loses to subbing as its key in the fourth round of wimbledon. aftereffect looks at how the recent european football championship could have a lasting effect on the ukrainian thorsten district. and bring to king mark cavendish wins the second stage of this year's tour de france. but first to a somewhat surprising result at wimbledon well number one maria sharapova is out after a straight sets defeat to german something that it's key in round four six four six three the final scoreline the russian had beaten the fifteenth seed in their last

three meetings but the defeat influences out a lot of crying records are you england club rooms or world number one ranking. the credit goes to my opponent she played extremely well today and did many things better than i did in this given day and just have to hand it to her. defending champion patrick if it is true however coming from a set down to be to tell you francesca schiavone next up for all time champion serena williams. the american getting past the hour florida 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 . 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 victory over patrick troitsky. six time champion roger federer is also through this way staying on course for a record equalling seventh title with

a force that's when over the least. well rain caused problems on monday andy murray's match with marion gillett was suspended with the fourth seed a set up while semifinalists last year ger wolfe tsonga was a set down against american mardy fish when rain halted that one but russian mikhail youzhny big weather and then a system in five sets and next up ahead roger federer in the quarter finals. now euro two thousand and twelve may be over for the host countries the effects will be felt for a long time to come kate partridge now looks at how months in the spotlight could help boost ukraine's tourist industry. football the world's favorite sport 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 from us was in ukraine terrorism is booming more than three hundred thousand people enter

the country on match days before venues are here for the visit for here 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 boost host nation's coffers this is straight 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 makiya fan zone and with the weather generally seeing temperatures in the mid twenty's all of this was good news for the local retailer as we can speak about. one sound that was generated

by the fans on in here we know the. approximate been serious and the fans are into something like maybe five six million said here is it is just. our. scene that it is like this but we see that fans on generates more business process is interims 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 prior. and political issues had initially kept summit home yet two in 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 the don't get them this is. really the capital much bigger. more impressive building in the apartment. much cleaner.

you know it's colder kept for you. and if you could tell me your name and whether you would come back to ukraine 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 be year we come back here in the u.k. adults 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 after as i came back they will tell 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 after the championship and just 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 waste short term costs and provide every fan winner or loser foreign or mogul with priceless memories. polity kiev ukraine. now to cycling on britain's mark cavendish has won the second stage of the top of france the world champion beating germany's andre greipel and a bunch brained for the line combination in the yellow helmet head. on the sprinter's green jersey in last year's race and threw down a marker to his rivals on monday switzerland's fabienne country lara has the overall lead is yellow jersey and remains seven seconds ahead of yet another break that we get. now maybe a couple of months away yet but anticipation is growing ahead of goals the ryder cup the bi annual event takes place in illinois in september europe card holders

having been victorious at celtic manor in two thousand and ten but usa captain david love love the third says recent success on the p.g.a. tour shows his men have what it takes to wrestle the trophy back. i think we will get over looked a little bit now people start to catch on that our tour american players the young players are playing very very well now but every time i go to a ryder cup we sit up on the stage and we look at our team and we think wow we have a great team and it always is close we know that this ryder cups going to be close no matter how well our plan but i think this year will go on with a lot of confidence now finally russia's men's beach volleyball team have put their place at the london olympics suffer eternal way and i've opponent in the qualification to have been here in moscow micro chunka reports. with 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 for them but the russians kept their nerve seeing of poland in the final in two rather one sided games. in the first you got of and need to be but of course washed and people come tore into straight sets upon the sergei prokofiev repeated that feat against poland second duo. and. have each. equaled russia's twenty run of four wins in the last going into the match at home comfort seem to have played their part in the resoundingly victory the players however went without the rights of the final. i had about three hours of sleep the previous night because off the top group we knew we would play in the final only the foil was shelled for seven thirty pm so we had to hold our emotions and keep focused but we experienced players and know how to deal with this kind of

stress. and with eyes now thermally on london the guys mood was understandably buoyant. we're not playing on going to the olympics to simply participate in it. this year has been tough so we'll want to push ourselves to the marks and see how high we can get if we get a medal that would be amazing we're playing better and better together so hopefully we can reach our peak at the olympics and make all our fans happy. but it in the men's other final muscle mexico to nil to clinch the other olympic tickets up for grabs despite dropping a set against the mexicans who never looked like they would surrender their undefeated run in the tournament i think for the success was that 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 final two spots for the beach volleyball competition at the olympics have now been filled. rushes and

there's a piece of all the ball team will after all be joining the women's team on the plane to london this summer that's interesting sleeping and eating our whole school and not helping with the reasons on the final here in moscow now going to seem to be heading to london to a bit we'll get to two thousand synesthesia where for the twentieth of july was a good example now you call it big glory michael got to go to the moscow. well that is all from the water sports now a lot more for you in a little under two hours time here and i'll tell you whether he's next. well. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

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