tv [untitled] July 11, 2012 12:30am-1:00am EDT
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welcome back you're watching r t here is a look at the top stories top to go she asians are expected between syria's opposition and russia's top diplomat in moscow the rebels hope to persuade russia help the mouse president bashar asad and bosco once a year whether rebel forces are committed to a peaceful solution. some of britain's elderly could soon be abandoned as a government considers taking away free medicine and transport it's a sad those already struggling with the nation's double dip recession. as greek finances deteriorate its nationalists reaping the benefits of chaos with race hate
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crimes on the rise human rights watch has urged athens to take urgent action. but as we talk to one of syria's opposition leaders for his vision on how to end the bloodshed in the country in our special interview that's next. might have a because if you're joining us now we have michelle and the head of the syrian democratic forum delegation and what is the outcome of your talks with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov out of. the immediate come of the talks was pre-determined by the fact that you have on the one hand a delegation from a country where a full blown war is raging and a great power on the other you can hardly expect a specific outcome at the essentially we wanted russia to hear us aid because we represent the oppressed people of syria we want to serve the people of syria we protect their interests and we presented our position i think we were frank and
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convincing we told russian officials will be needed to hear from various opposition groups in syria for the syrian crisis to be resolved russian assume a well balanced stance russia plays a major role but it should not be part of the problem russia has a long history of friendship with the syrian people the people of syria expect russia to help them gain freedom and overcome the current deadlock the syrians want russia to take a fear approach to be as fair as possible precious's not side with the forces that will surely lose in the struggle that is the current regime and foreign minister lavrov said russia was not committed to the current regime in syria but had alternative solutions leveled made a few remarks about the lack of harmony among opposition groups and mentioned arms deliveries and other military issues we responded very openly and frankly to all these concerns our delegation said that the opposition has decided to present a common front of the keitel conference and all opposition groups in syria have signed the papers on a transition period and on the future of syria as regards the arms deliveries we have pointed out that the procrastination of the city
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a crisis makes it difficult to resolve the problems of arms the sooner that is a fair solution to the crisis that would meet the demands of the city in people the sooner it will be possible to cut the supply routes for arms deliveries by standing in the way of resolving this crisis. those who are concerned about the arms made in the interest of those using those arms. do you think the cairo conference convinced moscow that the syrian opposition is united. at that i don't think so not anymore but i think moscow is on the way to understanding the real situation with the struggle underway in syria the problem is russia looks at the situation from the viewpoint of the ruling regime whereas like i told lover of issued look at the ruling regime through the prism of the current problems these problems are bigger than the regime bigger than the opposition and even bigger than severe these are international regional plan are big problems they cannot be resolved unless a conflict between the regime and the opposition is resolved the crisis cannot be
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resolved unless there is international consensus on the way it should be resolved in the way that would take severe to democracy through a transition period as five powers including russia have agreed in geneva this is why russia's role is very important russia can help resolve the city of conflict democratically but this will lead syria out of the current deadlock and put an end to violence bloodshed and destruction in syria what is happening today benefits israel and possibly the u.s. if this destruction goes on and the ruling regime wins it will rule over ruin and that suffer a strategic defeat if the opposition wins it will inherit the country in an unmanageable condition in any case it is necessary to stop this violence stop this bloodshed all the efforts taken at the international and pan out of big levels in order to an end to the violence only make the ruling regime all the more harsh events and see them eventually planted in such a way that russia will lose as will the people of syria. how do you think syria has
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become an arena where international and regional players fight each other. definitely and it was the ruling regime which turned into such an arena from the very first day the popular uprising began just a few days after it started i ruled that the regime is trying to. the problem through violence from the top but the time will come when the people resolve it themselves by trying to resolve it you the ruling regime surely you're ready to delegate this rate to anybody as long as it is not you're willing to take this problem to a regional or international level not letting the people of syria take care of it i wrote this less than a month after the uprising began but they insisted on resolving the problem their way and now they face the consequences they face the consequences of their approach syria is being destroyed street after street city after city village after village what kind of solution is that in order for a small group of people to remain in power the whole country is being destroyed what are you be prepared to embrace moscow's proposal and engage in dialogue with
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a regime that we are ready for dialogue with any groups within the regime that would agree to promote democracy in syria. could that possibly include president assad. or father he doesn't agree to it and we don't want to negotiate with bashar al assad three weeks ago he officially declared war on the people sitting at first he had formed a new government that included a ministry for national reconciliation then he declared that every effort of this ministry and in fact of the entire cabinet effectively contributions to the rising violence so how can you have dialogue with a man who has declared war on his own people we are willing to negotiate with any party that would agree to reestablish syria is a democracy democracy is our principle condition we are not going to play games and dialogue should not be a game our country is falling apart and we are not going to mask this breakout by staging a dialogue with. an f.m. in vatican and this statement suggests that all of position groups are united in
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rejecting a dialogue with bashar al assad is there a relevant provision for that in the document of national accord with the body. it is there in the transition plan which provides for two stages within the trance. p.d.f. stage one shall actually start with the pools and president assad and stays to show include reforms that will make it a democracy such as appointing a new government of national unity electing a new parliament and adopting a new constitution. how. are you confident that the revolution in syria will not end up an islamic revolution. we have emphasized in our deliberations with foreign minister laughter of the there is a strong tendency for that and the longer the crisis the more radicalized it becomes but the more they press the starker the opposition from the syrian people who will not allow their country to go fundamentalist just as it won't allow arms shipments to continue. what about them back here on. what do you believe it is
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possible that moscow might host a delegation that would represent all the syrian opposition in the foreseeable future. i hope this will happen and even if it does not represent everybody at least it should represent the majority. what do you think about the recent split within the military in syria is it evidence that some of the big shots in power have realized there was a dream is doomed or are they still convinced that this government is doing the right thing. first of all it shows the government's reliance on violence has proven a failure secondly it shows you cannot break the spirit of the people and those with the regime have just realized this it has become apparent that our country needs a different solution finally it shows that peaceful protests by the people will eventually bring about the kind of a come the people see as desirable. i said what about the alleged involvement of iran is that mere speculation or other specific facts to back this up that none of
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her had of this is not just speculation when i had told her many declares that iran will not commit a toppling of the syrian regime and this is not speculation he sees iran as one of the parties to the crisis he says that a collapse of the assad regime will be a defeat suffered by iran but i hope it will be many who will get defeated in syria i said and you played a very active role in the recent conference in paris where as in the past you used to be rather reserved in respect of international processes of this kind does this mean that you do support international intervention and out of the way i'm eating out yemen that it does not mean that at all the parties conference was not intended to make military intervention possible it was meant to support the people of syria i did not assert the syrian national council as the sole legitimate representative of the syrian people what urged us to take an active part in the meeting was the realisation that the only parties represented in its deliberations will be those
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who come to the table certainly the conference does represent somebody but we need to be clear that no single group is capable of toppling a despotic regime such as the syrian government specially if they haven't got the public on their side and now we have some people based outside syria committing cleared there the opposition and the people stand behind them what it really is is a kind of creature of politics and an insult to the people the syrian national council was merely one of the parties in that light at the conference they should realize that they are but one group within the opposition and they are not entitled to speak on behalf of the entire opposition and they seem to be starting to realize this however with great difficulty i say this was michel a kilo member of the syrian democratic platform head of the syrian opposition delegation that has been posted by the russian foreign ministry thank you mr kilo goodbye.
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amid accuracy and knowledge on the attributes of solitude here. those who are behind bars get freedom of self-expression. nearly a billion people in the world are going hungry every day. in the united states even our trash cans are filled with food you just have to go get it all of these perfectly good eggs because one was cracked didn't even get all over the other ones just threw them all away rotten cheese from the german oh. we really like the upper crust. from the dumpster at one am this morning three pm this afternoon on the grill a hake made from one dozen dumpster egg whites. delicious
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tough negotiations are expected between syria's opposition and russia's top diplomat in moscow the rebels hope to persuade russia help the mouse president bashar asad moscow wants to hear whether rebel forces are committed to a peaceful solution. some of britain's alderling could soon be abandoned as the government considers taking away free medicine and transport its upset those already struggling with the nation's double dip recession. as greek finances deteriorate its national breathing the benefits of chaos and raise hate crimes on the rise human rights watch has urged afghans to take urgent action. as they have lined up next the latest sports with paul.
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thank you very much marina welcome to the world of sports here is what's coming out headhunting pep guardiola fabio capello harry redknapp and ten others make the shortlist to replace dick advocaat as manager of russia's football team. olympic dreams french open champion maria sharapova is set to become russia's first female flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the london games. and making a splash l.t. catches up with one of russia's leading hopes in the pool ahead of those london lympics. firstly though the russian football union has unveiled its thirteen man sure list for the role of national coach former barcelona boss. is just one of the star names on the are a fuse raider the spaniard is currently without a job after leaving the catalans that last month stayed brasso to three straight
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domestic titles and two champions league crowns during his four seasons in charge but the forty one year old is just one name on the shortlist of thirteen candidates the russian football union also plan to approach former england manager fabio capello the sixty six year old italian sit down as england boss two months before the start of euro two thousand and twelve former tottenham boss harry redknapp is also thought to be a target as well as former italian world cup winning coach marcelo lippi. whereabouts a man cheney had also been linked with a move to russia but the italian ruled himself out of the running off to sign a five year deal to stay at the helm of manchester city the contract will see the forty seven year old manager stay with city until the summer of twenty seven saying 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. now one man not in contention for the world is diego maradona undoubtedly one of the greatest
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footballers of all time but yet to prove himself as a manager the argentinian has been fired by the by troubled vassal after a disappointing domestic season maradona has been in the job since may twentieth levon after almost a year after quitting the national team however results haven't lived up to the club's expectations the legend guided them to eighth in the league failing to qualify for the asian champions league on the final straw was the team's failure to win a second test fixture against bahrain's out despite winning the first leg three one . now set to become russia's first female flag bearer at the ending ceremony for the rapidly approaching london olympic show up over is the front runner for the role after winning the french open title last month with the victory the twenty five year old completed a career grand slam of all four major titles and the world number three will be looking to add an olympic gold to that collection at her maiden games almost four hundred fifty athletes will compete for russia in thirty four sports as the nation
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targets a top three finish overall. a liberal that would push a new process though it's going to be a tough lympics because our rivals are very strong in the u.c. in china at the period new favorite city but the host nation and many more countries will also be vying for medals still we expect our team to keep create britain it be and finish in the top three in the middle stable. well elsewhere superstars of the n.b.a. are itching to begin the defense of their olympic title as team usa continue their preparations for the games the likes of lebron james kobe bryant and carmelo anthony with perth for their faces in las vegas the trio were part of the gold winning squad in beijing four years ago the usa looking to repeat that success and to claim a record fourteenth title. huge are. you know we're really looking forward to the challenge. for the four to support. the u.s. . it's
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a family thing. to go out there and try to represent our country press where we know how to support each other in the process you know we just want to know that that's going. to be the lover and you know there are no other players that would like to do the million want to best players or so those from. while continuing the olympic fame and it's not just america's basketball players who are stepping up their training outings michael corruption has caught up with the russian swimmer and medal hopeful nicky taleb in self. nikita logan's have made a name for himself when he was part of the four by two hundred meter relay team that won silver at the beijing olympics since then he's racked up a bunch of medals at both the european and world championships making him one of russia's bright stars in swimming but nikita admits the upcoming games in london are far different prospect than those in beijing back in two thousand and eight just give us a sense over the wall this time around everything is different because i'm twenty
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three years old now not nineteen and my whole approach to the sport has changed so i've become more professional started watching my diet do additional training in the gym and expectation is much higher now than four years ago honestly it's much harder now that's not to say nikita shies away from hard work he believes a good start to the day can make any daunting task seem like fun. domingo's to complete all the tasks you set out and a lot depends on how you begin your day how you started it you need to get up in a good mood train well and enjoy yourself while doing it and then you can sleep with a sound conscience but it's all about the start of the spike of the insanely arduous ten hour training sessions that will let every olympic champion aspiring one that is asked to go through nowadays i think it will so it had his days in the run up to the olympics meticulously planned out with three little time for anything else when you will know he has a lot of girlfriends but so far he hasn't introduced me to any of them when he
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finds the right girl i'm sure he'll give us the opportunity to meet her but for now he's only got eyes for the olympics and it seems both mom and son see eye to eye on this particular issue it's just right now i guess you could say i don't have a social life you have to sacrifice everyone for the sake of the olympics i do have one free day a week where i can take my mind off swimming i like to hang out with friends drive my car and it's difficult but i'll rest once i've accomplished what are set out to do the key to qualify for the london olympic. after clinching silver at russia's national championships he will now be competing in the men's one hundred meter freestyle event as well as the four by one hundred meter and four by two hundred meter relay events and he fancies russia's chances but if it if we just look at our hundred meter swimmers you can see that four of them have posted times that are in the top ten best results this year and i believe it's a great relay team that can challenge for the gold at the olympics so the pressure is on for nicky to logan's of to perform well at the games and many will be hoping
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he gets up on the right foot when he wakes up in london michael thank you marty. now to cricket where one of the finest wicketkeepers of his generation has been forced to retire following a freak accident south african mark boucher ruptured his left eye ball after being struck by a bale the thirty five year old is the most capped gloveman in history and was due to play his one hundred fiftieth test against england later this summer we all know that she's meant us as is as a person but i think it speaks for itself i mean i think he was in line to achieve his hundred fiftieth test match you know a thousand dismissals in the game you know and so many other world records and step through and with that you know if you add that to the type of person that he was you know you'll go down as one of the greats in the game and certainly one of the greats and so african cricket. but i think now we just more about market person and getting him through the situation now the sport of cycling has once again been marred by allegations of doping offenses told of france compatible ammeter gregorio
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has been suspended by his team can feed us after being arrested by french police the twenty six year old was arrested it is team hotel on tuesday a rest day in this year's tour two other men suspected of supplying the frenchman banned substances were also detained as part of the long term investigation gauri i was thirty fifth in the race after nine stages this team say he's been suspended pending further investigations. make it go through there's a team member who's been arrested so of course it affects the team this is never something that's easy to live with but this doesn't bring into question the whole team itself and its wish to keep its place and to continue in this tour de france with this support of plotless. finally the annual precocity darker rally continues in russia stage three of the silk way rally from volgograd was won by christian lavelle co-driver pascal or rock heavy overnight rain made life difficult from the
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outset but a rock were able to complete the three hundred three mile course quickest for their second consecutive stage win. forty six year old lavelle dominated from start to finish now has the overall lead he's ten minutes ahead of his nearest rival heading into stage four which is the longest of the six stages. well that is all from the world of sports now about with plenty more though in a little under two hours time here on our journey then for the world weather is next. wealthy british style is on hold so it's not on the books by the fine. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global
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