mission to teach me why you should care about. this is why you should care. this is a. top story is not exactly how. the country's president and hopes it will help to bring about a change in the current regime pushing the born. violence in the country intensifying over the past two months. emergency aid and reaching across one hundred sixty people were killed and tens of thousands lost their homes in flash flooding humanitarian assistance is coming from across the country to try to help victims get back on their feet. and the former boss of barclays bank gives up

a twenty eight million. to resign but. the payoff claims that big bankers get rewarded regardless of alleged wrongdoing. all that up to date for the moment he would discuss russia's stance on the conflict in syria with the chairman of the foreign affairs committee in russia's lower house of parliament alexey pushkov our in-depth interview next. city think he events unfolding in syria. to syrian people. there's a civil war going on in syria and it's only the syrian political opposition that's benefiting from it because the opposition took up arms and use violence to achieve their goals i'm convinced that most syrians don't want to have this armed conflict it's a well known fact that the armed opposition groups persecute the christian community

in syria thousands of christians were driven out of their towns and villages shia muslims a minority in the country they make up thirteen percent also targeted by armed sunni radicals who represent a majority of the armed opposition minorities are killed as we saw in houla and driven out there is a town in syria called home market right now it is controlled by militants and there are basically no local residents left in hama they have either been killed or fled the city and in this situation the so-called friends of syria and hillary clinton tell us that the armed opposition is fighting for democracy the armed opposition is not fighting for democracy they are fighting for dictatorship and it will be a dictatorship of the forces that they are trying to bring to power to replace assad it's clear by now that it has nothing to do with democracy we can draw this conclusion from the way this armed opposition is acting they don't want any negotiations that will they don't want to comply with the amount plan they don't

want to create a transitional government they don't want anything what they want is to have all the power in the country i don't quite understand how the u.s. can support the armed opposition because these are the same kind of people who blow up american soldiers in afghanistan and iraq of the same kind of people who kill nato troops in afghanistan in the same country they're considered enemies of the united states well here they're treated as allies i don't think this insurgency would have any serious prospects without support but they have this external financial and political support they get weapons from outside therefore it's not simply an uprising without a serious. future it's a civil war that split the country in half as a result of external interference. but what are these outside forces actually trying to achieve why would they want to wage war. the us in particular wants to topple the assad regime which has long been considered anti american i believe

assad's good relations with russia have also played a role in washington treats any government on friendly terms with russia with a degree of skepticism to put it mildly so they would never rather replicate it with a regime supportive of the u.s. as for islamist a one harvey mana keys in the govt like saudi arabia qatar or behind they seek to model the syrian regime after their own they would like to cover all women under black veils lock them up at home strip them of their electoral rights in case of dissent the government would follow the example of bahrain and open fire against his own people this kind of conflict is not unique to syria but with events in bahrain the us simply turned a blind eye because bahrain is america's friend the bit in other words these gulf countries would like the sunnis to take power and establish a religious state just like in the persian gulf and weaken the shias who have been ruling syria as well as iran which is currently regarded as syria's ally saudi

arabia qatar and bahrain treat iran with much animosity and see it topple the assad as a way to weaken the shia iran this whole situation has little to do with freedom or democracy neither saudi arabia nor qatar bahrain or the united arab emirates have any democracy or freedom and most of these states even lack a constitution because it would be ridiculous to assume that these democratic states could bring democracy to syria or the sunni shia confrontation as a very important dimension to this conflict often ignored it plays a major role that you know just recently u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said. and i go wait russia and china will pay a price because they're holding progress in blocking it this is no longer tolerable what's your reaction to the statement. but all i see is that the us is paying a price for what it did in iraq for example the us has lost

a lot of its glamour and trust in its foreign policy. i would even go as far as to say that the occupation of iraq prompted a crisis in us or at the moment even its staunch allies like turkey or egypt along with western european countries such as germany the u.k. grounds so a drastic hike in anti american sentiment in the us is now paid a price for their occupation of iraq now russia warns against the occupation of syria russia says that it syrians who should decide their own future hillary clinton may well with oyster opinion but it's no more than a fantasy i hear she's about to step down as secretary of state so this must be her farewell. the us has clearly demonstrated that it's not going to back down i've syria how far is russia prepared to go. the conference on syria held in geneva in june we adopted a roadmap supported by the us russia and china the countries agreed on the need to

set up a transition government to launch a dialogue between the government and opposition the participants agreed that it should be the representatives of the two warring parties that should start these talks this blueprint was backed by russia the us china and france almost every country present so it looks like a sensible solution but as soon as they put their signatures to the plan a war of interpretation broke out hillary clinton said that the plan implies that assad must go russia said the document does not even mention the name of a sad so it has nothing to do with his he. russia insists that the document aimed to end violence and start negotiations and all this despite the fact that all the country said they had reached a common understanding it's really strange when five minutes after you reach an understanding that parties appear divided over the indeed the countries did reach

some common ground or bit fragile but again they tend to interpret it differently this means a political battle is going on also the rebels said they won't take part in any kind of talks and refuse to be part of a transitional government i think pro-rebel forces can easily do both signed the geneva plan and then tell the rebels to press on with the old ways that being their fight against the assad government. forces. what does russia. russia insists on the agreements that have already been reached so that the sides should know that the rebels are against the us well if the rebels don't want to join in the cozy asians what can we do about it we can't send in our troops and force them to do so all we can do is to work hard to persuade the u.s. to use their leverage with washington signed the geneva plan to set up a transitional government and therefore the us should now use its influence on the album position in syria to make them comply with it otherwise their policy would

look hypocritical making official statements in support of the process of negotiation they in fact more sabotage we could also work to persuade the cabinet not to renounce their support for negotiations and a transition government that was in fact government has agreed to the plan and it is only the armed opposition will the rebels who are against it the u.s. says the rebels are ready to join the negotiations only after assad has resigned but this was never mentioned at the geneva conference we never signed any document that would say that syria must change its regime under the influence of the external players and we say syrians grass make their decision this is russia's stance russia cannot work miracles however it can and will maintain its tone. not. many experts say that for the us a war in syria would pave the way to attack iran do you think this scenario is possible and yes. i believe there's been too much speculation on this issue

personally i don't quite see how a possible military strike against iran is connected with syria's future amidst the economic havoc and domestic hostilities that syria is clearly out of shape to attack any of us allies in the middle east so should the us decide to wage a war on iran syria will have little to do with. i think that thing could be a strategic base but. there are many u.s. allies in the middle east for example jordan but nobody ever calls jordan a strategic base to attack iran i would not take these speculations seriously to me the issues of iran and syria are poles apart the masochists is thought to be iran's ally so you need a regime change in syria in order to weaken iran but in my opinion this is all very farfetched right now syria can't be a fully fledged ally to iran too focused on its own domestic affairs it can either

send its troops abroad will cause any trouble for america's allies in the middle east so the argument that the us needs to crush syria for taking on iran holds little water you know that the issue of iran is not about its military expansion or aggression it's all about the nuclear weapons that iran may acquire this was a hot topic long before the syria crisis it's been on the agenda for about twelve years with the us strongly against iran going nuclear this alone is enough to prove that the issues of syria is very different from that of iran i would not link these two issues closely together.

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alleged wrongdoing. in the news team with more on those stories for you in full in fifteen minutes from now on the meantime the beach is next with the sports. hello paul to marty thanks for joining us our coming up in the program. had hunting public. and others to make this short leads to a place to give a card to russia's national football coach. girl power rangers open jumper murray trouble is set to become who rushes first female black bear up at the opening ceremony of the long island plagues. and aiming high rushes hottest talent in three sports come to moscow to showcase their skills.

so the russian food you don't has unveiled a thirteen month short lease for the role of the national coach and former manager is just one of the star names on it explain it is currently without a job after leaving the headlines last month but all it stayed bossa two or three straight domestic titles and two. crowns during his four seasons in charge but the forty one year old is just one name on that shortly still thirteen coaches as it russian for the union also plan to approach former england manager fabio capello for more talk. as well as former italian world cup winning coach much l o p. well but had also been linked with a move to russia but they tell him ruled himself out of the running after signing a five year deal to stay at the helm of manchester city will see the forty seven year old manage a state with city until the summer of twenty seventeen he guided the club to f.a.

cup glory in his first full season in charge last year and he followed that up with their first league title in forty four years in may. also a new liverpool manager brendan rodgers says he would consider sending striker and out on loan ac milan are reported to be interested but rodgers denies days been an official offer in the meantime for more supports has made the league liverpool's priority team finished outside the european places last season just want to avoid any repetition. probably school the twenty five blue suit who can be strong in every single competition the reality is we want to ensure that we we can improve on a. reality in the last three seasons the club is finished seventh in the so we want to improve on that and build a. you're

a player for liverpool football club the intention is to one. move in paris today being made france manager is the highlight of his career so far the former world cup winner coach was officially unveiled at the headquarters of the french football federation places where and who resigned after the country's problems if you were twenty twelve first task will be to unite and often divided support and see them qualify for the twenty fourth world cup in brazil not an easy task in the same qualifying group as world and european champion it's spain but the forty three year old is determined to make an impact. no mess here. i'm very proud and it's agreed to honor for me to have this responsibility because sound very addition to these blue white and red shirt it is the best thing that has happened to me in my professional career i'm not here to threaten anyone as you know i am

a very demanding man i give all my trust but today french football situation with all that has happened in the past i think we all agree it's not the clearest cannot fail. occulus military service is said to become russia's thirst flag bearer at the opening ceremony for the london olympics is the front runner for the row after winning the french open title last month with victory in the twenty five year old completed a career grand slam of the four major titles and current world number three will be looking to add an olympic gold to their collection at home made in games almost one hundred fifty athletes will compete for russia in thirty four sports as a nation targets a top three finish overall but they also know this work to be done. a little bit of that would push a new process or it's going to be a tough olympics because our rivals are very strong on the u.c. in china and the poor new favorite city but the host nation and many more countries

will also be vying for medals still we expect our team to keep great britain would be and finish in the top three in the middle stable. wades can't wait to kick start the defense of their olympic title as the american dream team continue their preparations for the games the likes of le bron james kobe bryant and. put through their paces in las vegas. part of the gold winning squad in beijing four years ago. looking to repeat that success and claim fourteenth title and also use this tough power to help their compatriots deliver the goods in other sports. huge arbor. we're really looking forward to the challenges we were before to support. the u.s. . it's a very very. good to go out there and try to represent our country regress where we know how to support each other in the process you know we also know that that's

going. to be the lover and you know no other player that you would like to do the million want to burst person or so it was from. one of the old time great olympians . guaranteed jamaican super sprinter you're saying bolt will win in the one hundred meters in london. during his glittering career but says the chances of american sprinters tyson gay and justin gatlin shouldn't be dismissed they have not run as fast as the world record holder bolt or his jamaican teammate blake. believes other athletes can benefit from being out of the spotlight britain could also spring a surprise everyone anyone could beat and that's why you have to run a race that i wish that i could have just mailed in those nine gold medals just look that's ok i'm the favorite we give it to me we have to remind everyone to be meeting with him when i think the united states always has a strong team america team i think will do well in the hundred meters and in the

relay under two hundred and the relays and that's right i think people forgot in the united states always been very very strong. but let's not throw out the british team because their whole couple of years ago they won the gold medal couple games ago to win the gold medal i think that the very people. finally when it comes to extreme sports russia is catching up fast with the west and this summer season sees a huge range of events across the country they include the adrenaline games in law school which has attracted international stars with a more haze in michael christian go. it felt like the seventh annual general in games in moscow had a statement to make that the world should be paying more attention to its budding skaters and be a mix reuters indeed says the collapse of the soviet union russia has been playing catch up with the world in a lot of traditional sports especially those of the extreme kind but you wouldn't think that the country was far off now judging by the number of young athletes showcasing their talents for shows like russian skaters have every chance to

succeed in international competitions thanks to such organizes you keep bringing the level up high it's especially beneficial to our skaters but russia has every chance and if we train and show we really want it we can achieve anything even though the event was obviously dominated by such russian hopefuls there were plenty of foreign talent attracted to the event due to its lofty status must be some of the visitors and i really like moscow the city is really beautiful i also like the atmosphere here the people have done a great job with the skate park and i'm definitely coming back next year the b.m.x. competition also had plenty of showmen that wowed the crowds five time x. games winner reynolds also had only warm words to say about russia russia for us or so that's my first time actually making out yeah i see some of it's videos but it's like it's way second to someone's talented players like to board a bike riders are down on the same level that. that stuff is really awesome to see

that dude from everywhere to really get good awesome bad super fun fours to the run and not have i give you a good time i haven't been real by the makeshift today carnival certainly made the most of the mast young crowd with lots of many attractions and events to participate in one unusual attraction had the aussie crew especially interested people coming here to the general games can only not only check out the world's best skateboarders and b.m.x. riders but they also get the chance to test drive their own jeep on this rather difficult obstacle course as. you see right now it's i'm trying to tackle but it's all fun and games as you can see the sun is shining and i've just managed to finish it so many spectators turned out to be curious passes by as moscow's famous gorky park is usually packed with people on the weekends. i came to spend my often on in gorky park and saw that these games were on i think it's really great and i'm enjoying myself here but there were of course plenty of hardcore skateboard and be

a mic stands on hand. every year it gets better and better and they're constantly building new skate parks of course it's all more developed in europe in the us i think in a couple of years everything will be there it's truly amazing to see the skate scene and to be a mixing evolving as it is here in moscow and in russia as a whole now this skate park behind me was purpose built although generally in games which also shows that moscow is fast becoming a real hot spot for summer sporting events and of course with all this turnout that we're seeing today moscow will be giving other more traditional sporting cities a run for their money in the future. r.t. moscow. ok that's all from me for today goodbye.

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