it's your statement. to the world. hello this is our top stories tonight big withdrawals in britain's barclays bank three top executives have quit over the interest rate rigging scandal heads continue rolling as the u.k.'s entire banking industry including the bank of england's put on the wall. is clinging to the presidency and says he'd go if it brought peace to syria meantime calling on the opposition to stick to the recent geneva proposals because it's a private chance to bring stability. and surround says new western sanctions placed to rein in oil cloud future nuclear negotiations this is the long range missiles

during military exercises which are capable of reaching american bases in the region. and the middle east. translations are throwing a host of challenges far wide these days as r.t. has 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 us to see my pleasure i want to start with russia you wrote an article about the magnitsky 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 imagine 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 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 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 rational self interest the death of that man sergei magnitsky was tragic no doubt about that but to 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. 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 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 cold as i documented 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 egypt i just remember it was perceived as such a success as well as libya but we see that the situation on the ground this 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 in 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 on the streets we do not have stable democratic instant. it's 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. 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 who is on 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 a tyrant 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 crew. 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 stud 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 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 now 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 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 too. hope of coffee a powder you poured into a cup you had hot water instant coffee nah 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 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.

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thanks for joining us this is more today on twenty four hour r t i mean in the piece our headlines this hour. cost then effect r t looks at the legacy of the recent european football championships bestowed on ukraine. almost zero zero twenty twelve champions and history maker spain are welcomed back by tens of thousands of fans in the dreaded. smiling eyes in our land after a grueling nine months french team group within the volvo ocean race claiming an almost saleable lead in the goal way. let's get going with tennis where played wimbledon was again halted for long periods on tuesday because of rain but action got underway long enough for britain's last remaining hope to make the quarter finals scott and the murray sing off more insulin in straight sets to make the last

eight in a clash left over from monday on center court where there is a roof top ten players for and one must on del potro got to go after the first on the day with sponsor for winning are six three six two six three well florian meyer has made the last eight for just a second ever time thanks to victory over richard yes they. are now euro two thousand and twelve may be over but for the host countries the effect will be felt for a long time to come kate partridge looks now at how a month in the spotlight may well of change ukraine's 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 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 and could hold around ninety thousand people have all come to enjoy the football and to spend some money. the average visit to splash data 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. wanting something that was generated by the fans and key if we know the. approximate between six 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 the fan zone generates more business processes interims of service. restaurants turris

shop in 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 reach 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 there is to hark over repealing the don't judge them does this. really become much bigger. more impressive building the apartment. much greener. it's called up for. 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

willing. to tell their friends or relatives there is ukraine is friendly korean 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 corollaries architecture churches etc etc so as to of europe's heavyweights did battle at the olympic stadium to have eastern european countries prepared to close their accounts hopefully long term benefits when i weigh short term costs and provide every fan we know or lose a foreign almost call with priceless memories partridge kiev ukraine. now as you've just seen spain are continuing to celebrate after successfully defending their european crowd the twenty ten world cup winners enjoying writing their way into the history books becoming the first ever side to win three straight major tournaments cheering on our or her

a common event of late in the spanish capital tens of thousands of people showing up for the latest best of it east following i was cited for the final win over italy in kiev and sunday. careless walk taking center stage the balance where with the trophy of course. the new tour is now of the golden boot accolade under any s. there was named player of the turning. sixteen some bad news coming from the formula one world though russia's my rusia team seeing their test driver maria did suffer a life threatening injuries during a crush at. next weekend's british grand prix that thirty two year old smashing into a support laurie after completing her first lap of ducks for earth field eyewitnesses stating was attempting to slow down for mechanical check when her car suddenly sped up and hit a stationary truck the daughter of former air force driver emilio was emotionless for fifteen minutes but then began moving her hands before being moved to

a nearby hospital it's believed she is currently still fighting for her life. to call for the russian army to open championship ended this weekend on the outskirts of moscow up and comers are also poff anina peggy cry and their new champions on the green constantine but top off reports. crew is leo this competition was also into professionals but it's now an all amateur tournament however that didn't affect the nerve of the event giving speak to others thrilled until the last hole in men's can petition by demon or ship of the crown with a relatively modest score of two over seventy one in the final round at the call all sums designed course seventeen year old or super from managed to beat the runner up alexandre clearest by three strokes even after making an double bogey on the eighteenth. so it was a great pleasure to clear the championship and everything was organized really well i'm happy to win the title although it wasn't my my aim was to perform well and

cardigan score i think i did that and i'm satisfied. meanwhile in women's two and bigger confidently grabbed the title dominating from the start date in year old set a new course record at the argo of golf club with a six under par sixty five winning round and she kept up that form until the end to go were talking the little board and overall that was a whopping nine shots clear of her newest royal and dealing the monarch and there he had been this is the it's more. than the. second. barrier we have rain and it was very hard to play and there we have this is a great score from last year's winner was foreign to us number one. but because he is now a goal for he wasn't able to defend his title however just allowing him interest to

compete does give up incoming talented chance to shine and underlines russia's long term goal of producing golf stories in the future constantine but up of our team. the future looks bright staying with golf or it may be a couple of months away yet but anticipation is growing ahead of the ryder cup the bi annual event takes place in illinois in september europe are the current oldish for team usa captain davis love the third say as 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 are 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 that always is close we know that this ryder cup is going to be close no matter how well reply on but i think this year will go on with a lot of confidence. finally to ceiling were group become the twenty twelve volvo ocean race champions with

a race to spare the victory marking only the second never win by a french crew in the prestigious insurance event from kemah company trading lead to a company zealand telefonica throughout the five hundred fifty nautical miles nine leg however only needed the top four finish in the sprint and ended up coming home second into goal we are left behind camper the result securing them and on the seal the twenty four point lead with the only important race remaining meaning the celebrations could begin in earnest. i think. the three hour came when. i was. thinking. that champagne will flow love is over your sports not whether it's next.

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