hello and thank you for joining aren't half past the hour here's a quick recap of your headlines the u.k. as a whole banking sector is under scrutiny as the bar closed scandal implicates the elite big questions remain as the investigation into great rigging continues but the former chief executive failing to provide many answers. america's occupy activists get a hold on philadelphia as they rally against corporate greed inequality and debt five days of protests solid dozens swept into custody. violence in syria boils despite the best efforts of peacemakers but it's not just bombs and bullets

that threaten people's livelihoods it's a lack of food and soaring prices that's taking its toll on people who haven't even taken sides in the conflict. well the international efforts to finally bring an end to syria's woes to the right places we asked the country's primary an opposition member called up next. tappan was a. minister syria is about to get it here gov that one of the key challenge. i would say there are economic social and political issues me they all relates to various aspects of the overall economic crisis in syria it is crucial therefore to begin a national reconciliation process as soon as possible we should address our critical economic vulnerabilities and identify

a basis for managing comprehensive social and economic reform of them for making a change towards democracy but these are crucial challenges and in essence syria needs fundamental democratic reform. the deputy prime minister for economic affairs how do you assess the current economic and social situation in syria and the. last years crisis demonstrated the degree of public resentment for the government's liberal economic policies which have been building up since two thousand and three these policies have resulted in rising social tension and eventually sparked a political implosion which we are witnessing to this day presently we're seeing a new stage of escalation in the political crisis has resulted in a deteriorating economic situation which is affected various parts of syrian society this forces us to consider the impact of an economic downturn on our social fabric and our political landscape that we're looking at two categories of economic challenges today there are immediate issues that we need to address right away and

then there are the overall faults within the syrian economy which require a new format and a new structure for the government and the state in general addressing each of these issues requires different time frames we should not deny that economic issues have an impact on the overall political situation in our country the entire syrian society should be involved in tackling these challenges. this is what our people's will party has been saying since last november calling for national reconciliation and not advocating a government of national unity with the leaders of the popular front for change and liberation of the people's will party believe that the present cabinet is not your national unity government in essence of but we will see it as a step forward in establishing such a government today that the government brings together several opposition groups that have agreed to participate in its work but we should keep the doors open for all opposition forces willing to put an end to violence and bloodshed this will in turn help us expand the representation in government for all the opposition groups

who genuinely wants to bring about national reconciliation and get the country out of its present crisis it will follow. me as a mystery. jihad as a spokesperson for one of the opposition groups do you believe the opposition could possibly consolidate what. had. before i answer this question let me ask you is there a need for such consolidation we are moving towards a pluralistic democratic society would you like the opposition to become more of a unilateral regime. should it become similar to the present regime which is unilateral in political terms i actually asked myself this question and i think the opposition should cool war tonight their stance at the most but there is no need for institutional consolidation the opposition should try to come up with a common agenda the problem is that

a part of the syrian opposition still has the mindset of a commanding party and this is dominated serious political landscape for the last few decades. i think that only over time can this kind of mentality be abandoned from this perspective of this is we believe the recent conference in cairo was illegitimate for a number of reasons first it did not include the true national opposition and more importantly the popular protest movement who did not attend this meeting a popular protest movement the number one factor in syrian politics today and it does not recognize political parties as such parties have little to no influence on the popular movement made with that in mind how can we recognize the conference as legitimate when it does not represent the popular movement along with a significant share of the opposition and secondly the cairo conference or would have been convened at the initiative of mr now. secretary general of the arab league but the league itself has been compromised acting as a warring party in syrian infighting syrian patriots have lost faith in the arab

league's impartiality and we regard it as a western policy tool used against syria with the west has sought to interfere in syria's domestic affairs willing to go as far as a military intervention in order to impose its will upon our country the way they have already done in iraq and libya any efforts to consolidate opposition groups are bound to fail whether it is the istanbul or any other pointless conference if a major national opposition party misperceived the actual situation in the country it will not be able to play a leading role in resolving the crisis in syria instead it will only aggravates the split in society. you've mentioned the conference in geneva what do you think of its result. for the stores of the i believe the geneva conference has demonstrated a new alignment of powers whereby known opposes russian and chinese initiatives anymore in my opinion the conference has come up with

a positive solution for syria primarily because it does not provide for military intervention and it only focuses on a political solution to the whole another important outcome of the conference is its assertion that the only acceptable remedy for the conference is national dialogue and the establishment of a national unity government. as for a loan charging one is a task all the sound national forces in syria and now is exactly the right time for it with his walk that was your. french foreign minister has announced that the final document the geneva conference or dictates that president assad should step down at the same time russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says the document does not provide for us a resignation how would you explain this conflicting interpretation in mother get out you can have that the bargain. linda would have us from

a diplomatic perspective the text of the final document allows each of the parties to interpret it in its own way none of the parties is either willing or capable of making concessions as far as governance in syria is concerned and therefore each party regards the document based on its stance viz a viz syria but notwithstanding this difference in interpretation the document is definitely a step forward and we should build on it in the future we'll zoom board. and it was only made any year peace with the situation in syria has steadily deteriorated in recent times that ominous new syrian government is doing to address this rising violence and bloodshed in jenin to keep check on armed groups activities across the country has. our movement and our party believe that a military option will not work in syria and the knowledge of the conflicting parties can resolve the situation i military needs none of the international

regional or local stakeholders can win in this conflict but they can all lose the only way of achieving national reconciliation this is to pursue it nationwide dialogue and establish a national unity government to work are all continued bloodshed is understandably impeding this process the new government and its new national reconciliation ministry send a clear message to all the patriotic forces both inside and outside syria telling them we are willing to follow a new path one requiring us to put an end to military confrontation and seek a political solution to the crisis in syria is in a difficult situation in social and economic terms it has been isolated which primarily hurts the people of syria rather than the assad government therefore the attitude of the west in isolating syria is pure hypocrisy and there. claims that the embargo is damaging the assad regime and is own substantiated we believe that

once we manage to bring about national reconciliation and restore unity we will be able to end the blockade in the way it has happened time and again throughout history both in syria and in other parts of the world is looking for.

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download free blogs your wallet in video for your media project and a free medio dog r t v dot com. the u.k.'s whole banking sector is under scrutiny as the barclays scandal implicates the elite big questions remain as the investigation into rape breaking continues but the former chief executive failing to provide any answers. violence in syria boils despite the best efforts of peacemakers but it's not just the palms and bullets that threaten people's livelihoods it's a lack of food and soaring prices that's taking its toll on people who haven't even taken sides in the conflict. that america's occupy activists get a hold on philadelphia as they rally against corporate greed inequality and debt five days of protests saw dozens swept into custody sports update is next with paul .

thank you very much karen welcome to the world of sports hayes was coming up then there were four defending champion o'barr djokovic treaties the semifinals of wimbledon well now faces six time winner roger federer a. pedal powered germany is on very good ball when stage four of the tour de france waltz was fabienne country retains the overall leader's yellow jersey. and hitting the high. the grueling sport of sky running takes to europe's highest mountain mount elbrus in russia the start of the new season. but first to tennis where roger federer has ended russian mccallion is wimbledon hopes the world number three claiming a straight sets win in the quarter final clash in all honesty it was a one sided affair with the six time champion looking at his imperious best six one

six two six two the dominant scoreline the swiss took the first set in just twenty eight minutes and was just as quick in wrapping up the second you see now has lost all fourteen matches that he's played against the thirty year old i just do would usually works against it and if it doesn't then you just adjust to it but. then again every match is different i don't take these matches easy i prepare for them like i do for any other big match and today things worked out great for me it's i'm very happy and. there was i suppose a roof great match for me i played aggressive served well again so i'm really pleased was performed. well awaiting a federer in the semifinals as well number one novak djokovic the defending champion didn't have to be at his awesome best in order to dispatch german florian meyer six four six one six four was the scoreline in a victory which lasted an hour and three quarters but the top seed and i was in

fast down a test in the last. uses his serve you well. opens up the corky he uses that slice really well to get together the balls to bounce low and then you know he's very aggressive at times and he can defend well so i mean i guess he's going to say better but i think for you know the grass grass courts are soaring he's tired of the game the most and so it's going to be interesting interesting match. well the other semifinal will be between andy murray and john wilford tsonga fourth seed murray was victorious i responded diving for a pool but had to promise from a set down a close match in which three sets went to tie breaks six seven seven six six four seven six the final score line was my now passed for more than semifinal i think. the seven years i've been on the draw from that experience and having played

a joke well all times i know i'm well. we played a lot and the juniors so i've known them for a long time and. you know rather than focusing on that being the semifinals of wimbledon and need to focus on that being a match against. well murray's opponent in the last fall tsonga also needed four sets to progress germany's philipp kohlschreiber seven six four six seven six six two song it was a pleasing finest in the seventies twelve months ago. now in cycling underground part of germany has won stage four of the tour de france although fabien country lara still has the overall lead the two hundred fourteen kilometer ride from abbeyville to row one was marred by a large crash in the closing stages involving the winner of stage two that's teams guys mark cavendish who happened with less than three kilometers to go with riders jostling for position greipel then time to sprint to perfection passing greg

henderson in the final seconds before sprinting to the line to take the stage victory alessandro pataki finished second to try to tom venus the swiss probably in country lara retains the yellow jersey despite finishing in one hundred nineteenth place he takes a seven second lead over bradley wiggins into stage five. now some sad news from formula one where test driver maria davey alta has lost her right eye following a crash during testing this week the thirty two year old was badly hurt when the m.r.i. one car she was driving his support truck at duxford athey holding came with just one choose date for the spine you had been driving the car for the oxfordshire based models the team for the first time she'd been driving a speeds of up to three hundred kilometers per hour during the testing that was traveling considerably slower at the time of the accident the team say that she also receive serious head and facial injuries and is still in a critical condition. to football where the russian authorities say the country

will have a new manager before the start of the new premier league season which begins on the twenty second of this month alexander bala duke was considered last week to have one foot in the door already having said that is assistant to both guus hiddink and the recently departed dick advocaat british soccer specialist and current under twenty one a youth manager nikolai piece of that is now also still to be on the shortlist valerie have had a brief stint with the national team ten years ago his major success is coming at club level winning the away for cup and three league titles with sales car moscow or former england manager fabio capello is also an outside bet according to russian media sources. now as so far so good for the russian basketball team at the olympic qualifying tournament in venezuela david plotz men thrashing south korea in their group with the dominican republic the next challenge russia's upcoming opponents on paper should pose few problems for the team captain by andre caroline the euro league m.v.p. to get another outing on the international stage after his task our moscow squad

came up just short of the continental title this season three teams in the event will claim the final berths for the olympic games the quarterfinals take off on friday. and now finally to the relatively new sport of sky running whether he is world series kicked off or mt albert in southern russia constantly but top of the story from europe's tallest mountain. when it comes to sports human beings can be form wonders at sea level but is above two and a half thousand meters altitude sickness becomes an issue and a good tip to avoid it is to climb up slowly but this advice is not for those athletes who call themselves guy runners and gathered on the slopes of europe's highest mountain well bruce was some of the world's best at such a height altitude sickness becomes an athlete's worst enemy routine exercises at such a level becomes knee unbearable dizziness and sickness are par for the course spending

time training in the mountains to climb to their altitude. in order to achieve their aim reaching the summit most of their fleets leave in mountaineering areas and they used to search conditions running in the mountains has been a pastime for thousands of years but probably very few did it for kwan italian marine the committee established guy running as a sport in their early one nine hundred ninety s. while his compared to a forest ranger market i guess perry is one of its best athletes very happy to. hear that the it's the first time but he got back to my house we have to be afraid about the mountains you know because of its merit and truth is the right way to climb them with the mentality that nothing is they think. you can you can have problems you know. this guy running wants us launched this

season's containers the icy slopes of el boost for the first time where the last race to be held in spain in the van but it telephoned against perry was the quickest in the grade school q. and. them where athletes run up a height of one thousand meters with the overall length of the course not exceeding five feel a meter the thirty five year old beat his friendly rivalry set amanda's by a minute and set a new record in the three thousand meter sector here on the mantelpiece it's it's amazing you know for me because it's a mountain that it's very known out over the word however it was a thirty five year old spaniard who claimed doom engine style way of being the first to touch the beak in the sky race the runner started from two thousand three hundred meters aiming to reach the top at the height of five thousand six hundred forty two meters it usually takes around nine hours to do it you know and there are

now on this stop the clock in less than four hours yeah that. and. i used to compete in cross-country skiing and by avalon beto when i was there was little snow in spain we had to climb high up into the mountain snow and i did it quickly and always enjoyed the mountains and looking at the scenery just so after quitting by off and on there was no question for me about what to do next or to do since the first man reached the summit almost a hundred and fifty years ago thousands of mountain nearest have scenes been to the top for some it's remains a long term in tampa children but for those who run above the clouds it appears to be nothing more than just another challenging but enjoyable job constantine but archie. well that is all from the water spot for now a lot more for you in around two hours time here on our table the well whether he's next.

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