here is r t live from moscow our top stories violence in syria flares up at the as the u.n. calls for a halt all arms supplies from abroad meanwhile the geneva peace plan has highlighted differences within the opposition groups and its functions have been struggling to overcome. the chief executive of barclays the third largest bank steps down in a scandal over ring to interest rates the british government is ordering an inquiry into the entire banking sector. and america's hunt for juliano songs appears to be continuing while the whistleblower is waiting for ecuador to make

a decision on his asylum but that's a start he is set to bring you the final episode of his interview show in our worst time. in x. as promised our interview with author and correspondent martin safe with the mideast in focus and the volatile transition underway in 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 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 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 powers doesn't need them this is signaling at russia on the ledge 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 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. and this flies in the face of american rational self interest the death of that man is fair game was tragic no doubt about that but too many this kind of punitive legislation passed in the us 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 now i think again this is true in every country there is a natural tendency towards 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 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 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 trying to promote communism in southern africa or in afghanistan in asia i 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 my two a week book which you referred to before the politically incorrect guide to the middle east. addicted 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 the media but we see that the situation on the ground 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 islamic 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 democrat. i think 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 that the kind of democracy pushed. from aside from the us it's enormously damaging in several different ways the first and most obvious way is if you top of power tyrian leader or even if an authoritarian leader simply

collapses to 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 that not following the 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 indonesian 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 an 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 affective government could finally be a star bush 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 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 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 target syrian regimes disintegrate or for there 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 now but 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. lit. to envelope of coffee powder you pour it 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 a country you have water preso instance democracy the world does not work that way they thought it did with the arab spring the entire history of the middle east shows that things will not be that simple but they all that so 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. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. the full source material is what helps keep journalism we. we want to represent. something else.

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party's top stories 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 its factions have been struggling to overcome. the chief executive of barclays the u.k.'s third largest bank stamps down in a scandal over rigged interest rates the british government is ordering an inquiry into the entire banking sector. and america's hunt for julius songs appears to be continuing while the whistleblower is waiting for a court order to make a decision on his asylum bid that's hard to see is said to bring you the final episode of his interview show. and next call brings you the latest sport here on

our team. thank you very much nice to welcome into the world of sports here is what we've got for you over and out maria sharapova his quest for a second consecutive grand slam title is over after she loses to sabine lisicki in the fourth round at wimbledon. aftereffect r.t. looks at how the recent european football championships can have a lasting effect on the ukrainian tourist industry. and the sprint paying the 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 submarines it's going in round four six four six three the final school i'm russian had beaten the fifteenth seed in their previous three meetings but the defeat means she misses out on the quarter final appearance

during the hour to lose her 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 well defending champion patrick a bit of a true however coming from a set down to be italian francesca schiavone next up full time champion serena williams. america getting past just love a shred of the three sets it was a real test for the thirty year old with the final set lasting just shy of a mile. 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 the sea. meanwhile six time champion roger federer is also through this we're staying on course for a record equalling seven title with a four six over the world example. of course. monday

march was now in chile it was suspended with the fourth seed a set out we find this last year that story wilford song that was sent down against mardy fish when rain halted that one but russia make i'll use me in weather and the dentist i'm in clive said next up the hematologic federer. now euro two thousand and twelve may be over but for the host countries the effects will be felt for a long time to come kate partridge looks now at how a 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 forty billion euros into their country's infrastructure to co-host euro two thousand and twelve economists say host nations rarely profit from big tournament but the feel good value could prove to be priceless this is fresh out of st 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 have all 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. the one sound that was generated by the fan zone in kiev we know the. approximate been serious and the fans are into something like maybe five six millions of here is it is just. our. scene that it is like this but we see that fans on generates more business processes interims of service. restaurants stories

shoppin for ukraine and i think that we will be able to speak about it at the end of the year reports of racism in some polish and ukrainian football clubs high hotel prices 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 hark over we've been in the don't judge them does this. really become too much. more impressive building the apartment. much cleaner. yeah it's called capital look at that 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 will hope that after

a sectarian back they'll tell their friends or relatives that ukraine is friendly green is open ukraine is current and that is that they will come. or would like to come here or after the championship. spend more time seeing our there is architecture churches 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 for an almost call with priceless memories. now to cycling and britain's mark cavendish has won the second stage of the tour de france the world champion beating germany's andre grove pollen a bunch sprint for the line have an interesting him helmet one sprinters green jersey in the race last year and threw down a marker to his rivals on monday switzerland's fabienne canter lara has no rules no

yellow jersey and one seven seconds ahead of another great rivalry game so. now maybe a couple of months away yet but anticipation is growing ahead of gold ryder cup the buy annual event takes place in illinois in september europe a current holders having been victorious at celtic manor in two thousand and ten but usa captain davis love the third says recent excess on the p.g.a. tour shows his men have what it takes to wrestle the trophy back. i think we get overlooked 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 it always is close and we know that this ryder cup is going to be close no matter how well reply and but i think this year will go on with a lot of confidence find the rushes a men's at beach volleyball team have put that place at the london olympics to know

when i have a poland in the qualification to an. micro chunk i reports. it was the tournament that did 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 you need to beat but of course washed up and put the contour in two straight sets partner sergei prokofiev repeated that feat against poland second duel. and challenge which i hold that equaled russia's twenty run of four wins in the last go into the match at home comforts seem to have played their part in the resoundingly victory the players however went without their worries prior to the final. i had about three hours of

sleep the previous night because after topping all 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 our eyes now firmly 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 show ourselves to the marks and see how high we can get if we get a medal that would be amazing if we were playing better and better together so hopefully we can reach our peak at the olympics and make our fans head. north by theirs in the men's other final shout muscled mexico to nil to clinch the other olympic tickets are up for grabs despite dropping a set against the mexican's team austin never looked like they would surrender

their undefeated run in the tournament i think for his 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's the final two sports for the beach volleyball competition at the olympics have now been filled so not just men's these global teams will after all be joining the women's team people on the planes along the summit that's going to sleep in a meeting their whole lives could have the political implications only final here in moscow now if you seem to be heading to the london to a good. two thousand seat stadium where from the twenty eighth of july going to a little bit drunk a bottle now he's going to be glory michael going to go to the moscow. well that is all from the world of sport for now you know we'll be back and live from the two hours time with plenty more join in then wild weather is next so.

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