stupid. stunts on t.v. don't come. here with our line from moscow our top stories another big withdrawal that britain's parkways bank as the embattled chief executive follows the chairman out the door over interest rate rigging millions of furious homeowners and businesses could have been overcharged just so barclays keep its books looking healthy. aside denies clinging to the presidency and says he'd go if it brought peace to syria moscow's calling on the opposition to stick to the research and leave a peace deal as a prime chance to bring peace. and iran launches long range missiles during

military exercises which are capable of reaching american bases in the region and even as far as israel all the parliament in tehran spreads to quote a vital shipping lane to countries supporting the e.u. oil embargo. now the mideast and arab world of violence volatile transitions are throwing up a host of challenges far and wide as our dear he hears next from a prominent global analyst. 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 russia 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 and have pushed it through the committee are. riding 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 bill as you pointed out the u.s. state department already had and in fact in this case had exercised. its right power to bend 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's is 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 and this flies in the face of american rational self interest the debt. of that man sergei magnitsky 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 reports about human rights abuses committed by the us 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 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 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 caught as i documented 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 talk of 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 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 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 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 but the years of the one nine hundred ninety s. when i often visited your country terribly difficult years prosperity and democracy are not on the table good most people in most countries can have them but they are not quickly for instance the chief 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 dangerous 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. to a. few .

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another big withdrawal ad britain's barclays bank as the embattled chief executive follows the chairman out the door over interest rate grading millions of furious homeowners and businesses could have been overcharged just so barclays could keep its books looking healthy. denies clinging to the presidency and says he'd go if it brought peace to syria moscow is calling on the opposition to stick to the recent geneva proposals because it's a fine towns to bring stability. and iran launches long range missiles during military exercises which are capable of reaching american bases in the region and even as far as israel parliament in tehran prensa closed

a vital shipping lane to countries supporting the e.u. oil embargo. more details on all of those stories coming up in fifteen minutes first let's get the latest spar with you know neil he joins us and i know you're going to be speaking about the reign of spain but the rain at wimbledon is more pressing concern is and it certainly is it is. not the moment to tell you what the umbrellas are out in force and he said but good news action is underway more not in just a couple of ticks. this is a sports today and we have plenty had few this choose the afternoon. cost on affect our team looks at the legacy of the recent european football championships on ukraine. home as heroes euro two thousand and twelve champions spain are welcomed

back by tens of thousands of fans in the capital madrid. and smiling eyes in ireland after a gruelling nine months french team win the race came in on the syllable lead in goal away. with tennis replay and wimbledon was again halted today because of rain but action is under way in the men's side of the draw right now on center court where there is a roof top ten players. to go out of first on choose they score their six three. every start of their march from yesterday murray now to set to do marty finishes old school ritual for song of a set up piece with the score in the third scoreless of the moment while former wimbledon semifinalist richard is fighting to stay in the tournament florian meyer to set up on the frenchman as we speak. euro twenty twelve may be over but for the

host countries the effect will be felt for a long time to come the partridge looks now at how a month in the spotlight may well have changed to koreans image abroad forever. 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 a host nation's rarely profit from big tournament but the feel good value could prove to be priceless this is crash 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 fans are 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 makiya 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 would. be one sound that was generated by the fans on in here we 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 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 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 seen if you compare it to hark over repealing the don't judge them this is. really because it's much. more aggressive building in the employment. much cleaner. yeah it's called kept a 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 are we'll hold out offers a comeback they'll 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 offer the championship and just to chill spend more time seeing our nice

architecture chargers 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 moco with priceless memories. kiev ukraine. meanwhile spain there being continuing to celebrate after successfully defending your european crime the twenty ten world cup winners enjoying writing their way into the history books becoming the first ever side to in three straight major tournaments. some are commonplace in the spanish capital tens of thousands of people showing up for the latest festivities following a one sided final win over italy have. a chance of his squad taking center stage at sybella square with the trophy of course so from the tour it is not the golden boot accolades. that was named we are all the terms.

few drinks there are no doubt i think as well to cycling where britain's mark cavendish has won the second stage of the tour de france the world champion beating germany's under griebel in a bunch sprint for the line kalman dish in the yellow helmets won the sprinters green jersey last year and true down a gauntlet to his rivals on monday in. the overall leader's yellow jersey seven seconds ahead of another briton bradley. it's. a close thing not snow it may be a couple of months away yet but anticipation is growing ahead of golf ryder cup the bi annual event takes place in illinois in september europe are the current holders but team usa captain davis love the third says recent success on the p.g.a. tour shows his men have what it takes to wrestle a trophy but. i think we will get over looked a little bit now people start to catch on that our tour american employers 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 we know that this ryder cup is going to be close no matter how well reply i am but i think this year will go on with a lot of confidence. russia's men's beach volleyball team of book their place at the olympic games after victory over poland in a qualification tournament right here in moscow michael crew of chain co piled on the suncream to watch the action on full. 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 for them but the russians kept their nerve seeing of poland in the final in two rather one sided games. in the first year and you need to beat but bush was shocked and people come talk in two straight sets

partner sergei prokofiev repeated that feat against poland second duo. and. which i hold that equaled russia's twenty run of four wins in the last curling into the match but home comfort 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 off the top group when you play in the final. was shelled for 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 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 where 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. in the men's other final muscle mexico to militants into other olympic tickets after practice despite dropping the set against the mexicans team auster never looked like they would surrender their undefeated run in the tournament i think i would. say we had a really. it seems period although it's just one ticket for two teams which of course can make problems but i think we're going to do a really good job and we deserved it and with that the final two sports for the beach volleyball competition at the olympics have now been killed. because well it will team will after all be joining the women's team on the plane to london this summer that's already been sleeping in weeds in the polls close at the home of people for grayson's on the final here in moscow now going to seem to be heading to london to a purpose built

a good two thousand seat stadium where from the twenty eighth of july they were also going to join the battle now before the big glory michael got to go to moscow . finally to sealing where a group has become the twenty twelve volvo ocean race champions with a race to spare the victory marking only the second ever win by a french crew in the prestigious insurance event frank company trading lead to a company deal on telefonica throughout the five hundred fifty nautical mile ninth leg groupon however only needed a top four finish and not sprint and ended up coming home second in goal way arland behind camper that result securing them an almost saleable twenty four point lead with only an import race remaining lionel pew who led to keep victory in one thousand and six was the last frenchman chipperfield the. it's a very bad day for me and. i don't agree on every item out exactly with what they said is a. victory but. i was not going to. think

yes now if i go and. i want to thank god i like to write. incredible scenes well done to them and that is all your sports know i'll be back in just under two hours time. well for the first coupon it's technology innovation all the rest of elements from around russia we've got the huge earth covered.

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