but for making a change towards democracy these are crucial challenges 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 in. 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 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 of this is what our peoples will party has been saying since last november calling for national reconciliation and 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 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 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. us. home i think jihad is a spokesperson for one of the opposition groups do you believe the opposition could possibly consolidate them in what i might have. 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 coup warden ate 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 we believe the recent conference in cairo was illegitimate for a number of reasons first of all 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 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 secondly the cairo conference or what had been convened at the initiative of mr now bill are a big 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. impartiality and we regard it as

a western policy tool used against syria 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 scenario 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. i believe the geneva conference has demonstrated a new alignment of powers whereby nolan 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. 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 little charting one is a task for all the sound national forces in syria and now this is exactly the right time for it with the walk was the. french foreign minister laurent fabius has announced that the final document 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 a resignation how would you explain this conflicting interpretations. that the bag and feet that. 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. and it was only made any year the situation in syria has steadily deteriorated in recent times that's what the new syrian government is doing to address this rising violence and bloodshed and to keep check on armed groups activities across the country has. no home in. 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 like 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 a nationwide dialogue and establish a national unity government for 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 yet 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 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 look i'm bored.

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with this hour sports i'm a bit of a tasty twist the hot dog eating contest and it's a california this is weird i know not every american but for a californian to win a hot dog eating healthy is people in america he was very very hungry and he said to say sixty eight hot dogs in ten minutes i watched the footage i was about to eat my lunch i couldn't do it so we're going to have a look in just a moment. to have you with us this is sports today although it's been a busy day it's all coming up right now. then there were four defending champion new job which reaches the semifinals at wimbledon where he will face six time winner roger federer. italian job fabio capello prepares to arrive in school for possible talks over the fake and russian national team managerial post.

need for speed the hungry joey chestnut marks independent states that side with a six straight victory at the national hot dog eating championship. stunning stuff but we start with tennis where weather permitting we should know our first finalist at wimbledon in a couple of hours time with. action taking center stage with the first semifinal no indeed on her way third seed. taking on kerber all of germany the paul with the upper hand of the moment she took the opening set with the score in the second still indeed. she is on the pressure in a little later expect fireworks as the in-form victoria azarenka four time champion stringer williams go head to head. over in the men's side of action roger federer has ended mikail huge needs hopes the world number three claiming

a straight sets win over the russian in their quarterfinal clash on wed and stay a one sided affair really with six time champion federer burley putting a foot wrong all along six one six two six two the final score the swiss taking the first seven just twenty eight minutes and was just as quick in wrapping up the second has now lost all fourteen much as he's played against fed express. the with these two would usually works against you 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 to day things worked out great for me so i'm very happy and. there was i suppose a roof great match for me i played aggressive served well again the so i'm really pleased with my for forms to. awaiting federer in the semifinals is world number one novak djokovic the defending champion hastily dispatching german florian meyer

six four six one six four in just an hour on forty five minutes but the top seed knows he is in for a sterner test when the ask for stage comes around. uses his serve you well and opens up the court he uses that slice world to get the good the balls to battle slow and where he's very aggressive at times and you 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 suiting he's tired of the game the most so it's going to be interesting. the other semifinal between the murray and joe will fred tsonga fourth seed murray victorious so responded diving for the waters but how the five from a set six seven seven six six four seven games to six the final score and meeting murray is no gearing up for his poor women so.

far ease opponent in the semi joe well fred song also needed four sets to progress the french mincing off germany's philip cole screamer seven six four six seven six six two you will be better than this year after being beaten semifinalist twelve months ago. let's leave tennis behind and move to football where fabio capello is a jew touched on in moscow within the next hour or so for what's believed to be talks concerning the fake and russian national team managerial post or over the country's football union have flat out refused to confirm that that's the reason the italian is coming to the russian capital the sixty six year old settle on shortly at the private finnick of a three airports sparking speculation that he is to succeed the recently departed dick advocaat the former england manager was linked to a job russia's f. c. and g. last year but it turned out he arrived in russia to watch a ballet up the bolshoi. theater no less capello quiz english position two months before euro two thousand and twelve it's a global level where his c.v.

truly springs to life so having won a domestic title with every single team he has headed. more foreign footballers will not be able to discover russian hospitality they are refuse executive committee making what's seen as a highly controversial decision to up its limit on overseas players from six to seven men on the field that wants heavy spending on. the main teams lobbying for the new rules they say that the move will increase competition between domestic overseas players forcing local talents to give it their best honor and not starting line up sponsor opponents of the rule whoever states often coming russian stars will miss saw it on valuable game experience and remain on the bench or indeed in youth teams while tourism sports minister for telly mood code valid to do everything in his power to reverse that decision. to form or test driver. has lost her right eye following

a crash during testing this week in and the thirty two year old rules by her twin the m.r.i. race car she was driving at a support truck for a field on tuesday the spaniard hunt been driving the car for a team for the first time she'd been driving at speeds of up to three hundred kilometers per hour but was travelling considerably slower at the time of the accident the team saved she also received serious head on facial injuries and is still in a critical condition. basketball now where team russia are successfully continuing their quest towards the olympic games out of qualification tournaments in fairness wale and david blocks charges moving into the quarterfinals after a conflict when over the dominican republic in group c. four russian players scoring in double figures with another former n.b.a. all star on break her olenka leading the way with sixteen points vs captain later warning against underestimating their next. and gold in the face in the last.

three weeks till now until the twenty twelve olympic games kick off one of russia's top swimming hopes. who is on the verge of quitting the sport four years ago spoke to constantine to top off but the quest that lies ahead. it's hard to imagine that one of russia's best swimmers a look does the kid and its biggest hope for a mantle at the london games you know again you kurdish kim was almost at the point of quitting the sport four years ago after the moscow i feel to qualify for the finals in his favorite one hundred metres butterfly at the beijing olympics but the help came in the poor mother serving olympic silver medalist i was desperate and i wanted to quit but luckily miller a challenge invited me to train with coach and italy but i wouldn't say we could progress together and i wasn't really interested in swimming as such i just wanted to see new methods of training from a coach in the us i said to myself a new language a new country it's a good experience even if i don't improve so i jumped in with. since then karate

skin has learned to enjoy swimming again and his results have certainly improved. he has said world records in short courses on the new coach dena and won gold silver and bronze at the european championships in twenty. and he won the moscow stage of the world cup in twenty eleven beating fourteen time olympic champion michael phelps and his training partner charity. i feel i have truly become a swimmer i got and learned a lot in russia i've become a hard worker i was ok but sometimes i regret that i didn't leave to train abroad the training sessions are almost the same but the surrounding atmosphere is completely different you don't get bored of the routine and for me it's easy to focus on training when i'm away from home teaching for else in their own peacekeeping where kertesz to to talk. him to swim gave the most was a boost of confidence however it's not his opponents that own the mind of the two

time world record holder and head of this summer's olympics i want gold at the european and world championships and i set the world records record but nothing can be compared with the olympic games the psychological pressure is extremely high and you start hesitating and wondering if you brady for that of course i'm ready i've been preparing for this my whole life it will be the third and probably last olympic games for twenty nine year old corky and russia's captain is surely ready to make a big splash in london. on finally eating sixty eight hot dogs in ten minutes is something most doctors would advise against but for one speed eating out late titles are more important than a settled digestive system meets joey chestnut the twenty eight year old tying his personal best at the national hot dog eating contest in new york is the california six straight victory which takes place every independence day stateside this year

just don't finish the must of sixteen dogs out of those main rival tim of new york who only fifty two the champ earning ten dollars well in the women's section sonya thomas betrayed her relatively small stature to dominate with forty five hot dogs. all. the first. ivy i got it. out of your one grade the seventy five but there's always next year next year i'm going to go off my seven straight when i'm seventy is only a good number solid for my dinner i think today all your sports weather is next.

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we cue leaks strikes again this time by starting to publish over two million e-mails from syrian politicians government departments and companies dating back years. meanwhile as violence in syria continues to escalate dozens more are killed across the country why people far from the from line are now struggling to survive. but it's greece slams the british prime minister for threat suggesting he could block greek immigrants and other eurozone citizens from entering the u.k. at the jefferson should be looking to its own banking. judgment on all the in just a moment. it's

five pm in moscow this is coming to you live and here's our top story and weekly leaks is publishing close to two and a half million e-mails from syrian government officials from this far back as two thousand and six the leak is almost a hundred times bigger than the release of american diplomatic cables which walk the u.s. military and leadership and made weiqi leaks founder julian assange an enemy of the state so our firth is following developments. there's going to be some very anxious people in the syrian government right now more than two million emails are in wiki leaks possession and they're going to be released in chunks over the coming weeks now the message from was that this isn't about criticizing one group or another wiki leaks saying that this isn't only embarrassing for the syrian government but also for the west western companies how they say one thing and do another but yet the message from g.-d. innocent really was that this isn't about criticize.