thank you for joining aren't you with me karen tell you case whole banking sector is under scrutiny as the barclays scandal implicates the elite big questions remain as the investigation into rate rigging continues with the former chief executive failing to provide many answers. europeans are hailing their parliament's decision to reject the controversial anti-piracy act which has been slammed for violating internet freedom. and 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 are the international efforts to finally bring an end to syria's woes aimed at the right places we ask the country's vice premier and opposition member contrary john mill up next. tappan was a. minister syria is about to get a huge 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 you know the 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 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. last year's crisis demonstrated the degree of public resentment for the government's liberal economic policies which had 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 by 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 child. 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 president's cabinet is not your national unity government in essence 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 to get the country

out of its present crisis it will follow. the story. jihad in 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 the significant share of the opposition secondly the cairo conference or what had 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 the syrian patriots have lost faith in the arab league's impartiality and we regard it as

a western policy tool used against syria whether the west has sought to interfere in syria's domestic affairs or 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 that and what about. 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 because its assertion that the only acceptable remedy for the conference is national dialogue and the establishment of a national unity government. as for alone charging one is a task all the sound national forces in syria and now is exactly the right time for it with that has walked. a lot of french foreign minister laurent fabius has announced that the final document to the geneva conference dictates that president assad should step down at the same time russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says the document does not provide for ourselves resignation how would you explain this conflicting interpretations you mother get that you can have that the bargain. kalinda 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 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 will. see warsaw. and it was only made any year 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 none 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 what will continue 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. claim that the embargo is damaging the assad regime which is own substantiated we believe that once we manage to bring about national reconciliation and restore unity we will be

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the u.k.'s whole banking sector is under scrutiny as the barclays scandal implicates the elite big questions remain as the investigation into rate rigging continues with the former chief executive failing to provide any answers. violence in syria boils despite the best efforts of peacemakers but it's not just bombs and bullets that thread 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. and europeans are hailing their parliament's decision to reject the controversial anti-piracy act which has been slammed for violating internet freedom. right now it's time for the sports update here on r.t. .

thank you very much care and welcome to the sports headlines here's what's coming up then there were four defending champion over djokovic is the semifinals at wimbledon where he now faces six time when a roger federer. pedal power germany's our very dry ball in stage four of the tour de france while swiss probably in country retains the overall leader's yellow jersey. and hitting the heights the grueling sport of sky running takes to europe's highest mountain elbrus in russia the start of the new season. but first to tennis where roger federer has ended russian mikhail youzhny as wimbledon hopes the world number three claiming a straight sets win over there in the quarter final clash in all honesty it was a one sided affair with the six time champion looking at his imperious best. to

grammar school line this waste took the first second just twenty eight minutes and was just as quick in wrapping up the second youzhny has now lost all fourteen matches that he's played against the thirty year old. i do 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 measures easy i prepare for them like i do for any other big match and to day things worked out great for me it's i'm very happy and. there was i suppose a roof great match for me played aggressive served well again so i'm really pleased with my for forms to while awaiting federer in the semifinals as well number one novak djokovic the defending champion didn't have to be at his course and best in order to dispatch german florian meyer six four six one six was the scoreline in a victory which lasted an hour and three quarters but the top seed knows he's in

first down a test in the last four i uses his serve really well and the options of the corgi he uses that slice really well to get to get 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 see better but i think for me you know the grass grass courts are soaring he's tired of the game the most and so it's going to be an interesting interesting match. well the other semifinal will be between andy murray and joe wilfred tsonga fourth seed murray was victorious over spaniard darva for there to come from a set down a close match in which three sets went to tie break six seven seven six six four seven six the final score line now prepares for the semifinal i think. to serve in years and be able to draw from experience and having played well all times nor well to put in

the two years but nor them for a long time. you know road focusing on that being the seventy photos of the need to focus on the big. well murray's opponent in the last four that is stronger of course also needed four sets to progress he beat germany's philipp kohlschreiber seven six four six seven six six two song beating crying while i. was in the women's game it's semifinal time on thursday third seed agnes got advance get takes and actually care about the germany in the other semi world number two victoria azarenka faces sixth seed american four time former champion serena williams. now in cycling under a great part of germany has one stage for the tour de france although fabien cancellara still has the overall aid the two hundred fourteen kilometer item of

a vehicle on was marred by a large crash in the closing stages involving the winner of stage two guys mark cavendish it happened with less than three kilometers to go with riders just going for position then time to sprint to perfection passing greg henderson in the final seconds before sprinting to the lying to take the stage victory alexandra put out she finished second with the try to tom. swift far beyond cancellara retains the yellow jersey despite finishing in one hundred nineteen place takes a seventy second lead over. into stage five. now some sad news from formula one where test driver maria has lost her right eye following a crash during testing this week the thirty two year old was badly hurt when the m r zero one car she was driving hit a support truck at duxford airfield in cambridge or on tuesday the spaniard had been driving the car for the oxfordshire based model t. a team for the first time she'd been driving at speeds of up to three hundred kilometers per hour during the testing but was travelling at considerably slower at

the time of the accident the team say that she also received serious head and facial injuries and is still in critical condition. now 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 i was on the border duke was considered last week to have one foot in the door already having as an assistant coach because hiddink and the recently departed to carve a cart beach soccer specialist and current under twenty one a youth manager nicholai piece of f. is now also thought to be on the short list is valerie guys i have who had a brief stint with the national team ten years ago his major success though coming a club level winning the u.a.e. for cup and three league titles with moscow meanwhile former england manager fabio capello is also an outside bet according to russian media sources. now it is so far so good for the russian basketball team at the olympic qualifying tournament

in venezuela david plotz mind thrashing south korea in their group with the dominican republic their next challenge russia's upcoming opponents on paper should pose few problems for the team captained by our very curious anchor the euro league m.v.p. itching to get another outing on the international stage after his car moscow scored came up just short of the continental title this season three teams at the event will claim the final for the olympic games the quarterfinals tip off on friday. and finally to the relatively new sport of sky running where this year's a world series kicked off on mt albert in southern russia causes him to top off as the story from europe's tallest mountain. when it comes to board human beings can be formed 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 what 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 the altitude. in order to achieve their aim reaching the summit most of their fleets leaving mountaineering yaris and they used to such conditions running in the mountains has meaning pastime for thousands of years but probably very few did it for one italian marine or committee established running as a sport in their early one nine hundred ninety s. while his compared to it forest ranger market i guess barry is one of its best athletes very happy to. hear that the it's the first time but he got back to my heart we have to be afraid about the mountains you know because it's

. the right way to to climb them mentality that nothing is you think. you can you can have problems you know. this guy running more serious launched this season's containers the ice is slopes of for the first time where the last race to be held in spain in the italian biggest berry was the quickest in the vertical kilometer of them where athletes ran up a height of one thousand meters with the overall length of the course not exceeding five kilometers the thirty five year old beat his friendly rival you saw them. this by a minute and set a new record in the three thousand meter sector here on the mantelpiece it's it's amazing in all for me because it's a mountain that it's very known all over there were however it was a thirty five year old spaniard who claimed during the engine style by being the

first to touch that beak in the sky race the runners 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 and that amanda's stop the clock in less than four hours yeah that. and. i used to compete in cross-country skiing and biathlon but when i was there was little snow in spain we had to climb high up into the mountain snow and i did it quickly but always enjoyed the mountains and looking at the scenery so after quitting by after long 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 numerous have scenes been to the top for some into remains a long term and top achievement but for those who run above the clouds it appears to be nothing more than just another challenging but enjoy it will draw

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