he starts on t.v. don't come. here with r t why from moscow the headline in his first major interview since he was forced from office in june hargraves deposed leader ferdinando to go reveals he was ousted under threat of widespread violence by the opposition country's been isolated by other south american nations since. the mood of anger rises in saudi arabia with more protests planned to activists at a rally tensions of dissidents a lack of political freedoms and civil rights fuel on grass which the west continues to ignore. u.s. peace envoy to syria kofi annan wants to hear the council take a tougher stance and warn both the government and opposition of consequences if

there is no ceasefire the calls bring no relief to the common people who continue suffering from this war. next as promised his exclusive interview with paraguay's ousted president fernando. but up here mr president welcome to the program how do you feel about the recent events what are people seen when you know. i would first like to say hello to your audience i'm happy to see the international press interested in the events in paragliding the parliamentary koon the paraguayan people who resist it we have all lost here this parliamentary cooed disrupted the democratic process in the country and made it lose as well as the whole region it distressed mercosur and illness or paraguayans are outraged that some say there was no coup because of zero violence

and no tanks on the street for them indeed it was nothing like a military coup of the one nine hundred seventy s. and one thousand nine hundred but it was a grave violation of law a president who was elected constitutionally by a majority of votes gets illegally have still that really made the people angry but i think that mr president right after you were voted out of office you spoke as if you were resigning of your own accord he also looked as if you weren't quite sure so later we saw him more in jericho a little girl like the one we see now at the movie so what did you feel to be asked convincing in your resistance to the cooling bills first hours and then i thought about what in the end i saw people out in the square they wanted me to go because of the ministers i knew that a new massacre was being prepared i am a convicted pacifist i didn't want to see any paraguayan lose their blood as a result of violence that's why we went along with this illegal and unfair process it was a politically charged trial disguised as

a constitutional process only as one m.p. said it all looked like a circus designed to depose a democratically elected president what do you think about media accusations that are circulating speaking out against vice president federico franco taking over what do you agree with the situation make that aggravate it once. international interest in a pair of y. will result in much more of the international community stop swollen events in paraguay so closely. i believe it may be right of them and presently it's not only the international media that watch paraguayan closely but so do international organizations we can definitely say that today in our country there is prosecution on political and ideological grounds on monday the european commission and organization of american states will arrive in our country we're also asking eunice so nervous or and other international organizations to participate in the process of restoring democracy in paraguay this isn't just about the april twenty thirty election this is also about getting equal opportunities and eliminating censorship

and persecution for ideological and political reasons that are taking place in our country now with as you mentioned the regional blocs who are america so even though federico franco who are you please to declare that he was going to rebut paraguayans expulsion from microsoft it looks like those groups leaders who we agree on this will make their difficult for him what consequences of the long term expulsion from their original blocks you were foreseen or. we wouldn't want to see those consequences there's a widespread saying that innocent people pay for the transgressions of sinners and isn't that true we wouldn't want to see economic sanctions or economic blockade have a negative impact on the lives of common people who export their bananas pineapples and oranges to europe why and argentina they will be the ones who end up hurt the most and therefore we disagree with the economic blockade of paraguayan but we do

support sanctions against these serious violations and that's why paraguay is expulsion from mirka sort of that and even if so it was a sanction against the political forces that staged the coup i'd like to ask you first what do you think about the role of the organization of american states and secondly in your view. what were the objectives of the country was such a spin germany and france i mean you're recognised federico franco is take over almost immediately and says. strange fact is that most nearby states in the region don't recognize it i believe it's much more important as there are such countries as vatican city and taiwan but what's the political weight of places like vatican city don't lie well there how can you compare twenty three foreign states with the political weight of argentina brazil or europe quite like our neighbors and brotherly states with whom we've been maintaining commercial diplomatic and political relations in empathy more like what is the position of the church in this

matter mean for you as a bill of it. i believe that in politics reality is the most important aspect of the vatican's decision may well be symbolic but as i've said it has no real weight from the diplomatic commercial cultural and political viewpoints even compared to a country as small as europe quite euro gries recognition is much more significant than that of any other country including the e.u. but for that to look at so what are the media doing with their report what is the role of the media here in the para white i'm a bit of that i mean one thing which drew our attention here in our society on is that people who tickle situation in the countries are being talked about much while in society from the oh they're sensitive here just apathy a lot of it can be and there are a lot of them made that the fact of the matter is they don't like to talk about such as most of the media here the main thing is that nothing has happened according to the media all is quiet there are no rallies no deaths no blood because

i the president and the legitimately elected government don't want come out and so bloody you know therefore it's important for the media to reflect the truth that what's going on here now is a disruption of the democratic process and the people won't forget this there are things that are never forgotten just because nothing is said about them but i think this parliamentary coupe. committed on the twenty first and twenty second of june this year will not be forgotten by the people because the coup is etched in their minds their personal history and the history of civil society and as they say if nothing has happened why has america's story expelled us your if nothing's happened why has eunice or expelled us if nothing's happened and everything's all right why is the european union sending a commission to our country for the organization of american states held an extraordinary meeting and a commission they've come here from that organization so it can't be so good nothing is happen or something very serious has happened here and that a serious violation with a parliamentary coupe a coup d'etat when the president elected according to the constitution by

a majority of votes was impeached over like he will go in a week in twenty women are exposed to the keyboard dated two thousand and nine from the us embassy in us and see on to the us department of state that it contained rumors about opposition plans to topple you through parliament and to hand power to federico franco were you aware of this document. but no no i wasn't aware of the document that was published in twenty eleven but i've said that parliament talked about a political trial for me twenty three times in all these years i always insist that the key merit of our government is that it didn't give up in view of these threats of political trials here specially on the part of parliament as for this issue of plotting and expulsion i keep saying that politicians will never forgive the fact that a toad of unknown origin such as fernando lugo who comes from neither the political elite nor from traditional political parties or just out of his obligation to the people took their place they belong to them as politicians the chair of the lopez

dynasty or the seat of government which again is a pinnacle that some see. popular support for a force for instance in agriculture about security and to resist a parliament that was getting increasingly antagonistic do you think he may. a chance to ease the tension here is there anything you could have done without. this young i don't think so but this parliament is dominated by traditionalists conservatives and right wing it and even if jesus christ shows up out of the blue and tells them to change their mind they were right we were sabotaged all the way parliament gave us a budget with a deficit of eight hundred billion dollars so firms were in short supply for everything and when the chaco flood propelled a deep crisis they asked us for fifty billion dollars for their politicians mind you these politicians are members of political parties who get paid for nothing you know so we said no that was the straw that broke the camel's back. but what about

the longstanding problem on land ownership of the whole of eighty two percent of the territories owned by only two percent of the population in the revamping of agriculture was one of your election plagiarism are something we strongly believe there are you a bit you know what wields the real power in a pair of white. in the. letter the country's land ownership structure defines its economic structure and with the same parliament whoever brings this question up will end up just like me today depends to an extent on executive power but it's the judiciary that sets the chief for them and the right to land is within the realm of the judiciary paraguayan is four hundred six thousand square kilometers large but if you take all the rights to land together it square mass will exceed five hundred twenty nine thousand square kilometers it's the judiciary the ground's rights to possess land that already has two or three owners the. problem has no solution as

long as the sea people remain in parliament it's a symbol of when you change the situation through democratic elections or if there are fundamental flaws in paraguay as a political system and better way. i say both the constitutional system is flawed our constitution was drafted in one thousand nine hundred two after the fall of a thirty five year long dictatorship and we handed the bulk of powers over from president to parliament but now it's parliament that has the most political clout you know most of ours have proven it indeed we submitted two claims on breach of the constitution to the supremes court but they were never published because parliament blocked them in other words parliament is used to threatening and blackmail is an argument against other branches of power but on the one last question mr president you know frank i promised he would not run for presidency in the april elections now he says he will step down by august fifteenth for president lugo all of seattle come back through a democratic election and you picture yourself as a twenty minute we're a team candidate but i think. there are

a number of ways out including legal and political as for the legal track we've initiated proceedings on constitutional violations the court has handed it over to the prosecutor's office should the court rule i return i will immediately take office but this scenario is unlikely i believe i will have to take the political track and run for the press. one way they can tell me i've already been president and can only be reelected after one time in power here in accordance with the constitution where there's a will there's a way if you want to keep a person from running for office because he's a people's favorite and therefore a serious rival there are lots of legal tricks to do that. but. thank you for your time. thank you. wealthy british.

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in his first major interview since he was forced from office in june paraguay's deposed leader ferdinando to go revealed he was ousted under a threat of widespread violence by the opposition country's been isolated by other south american nations since. the motivator rises in saudi arabia with more protests planned after the death of two activists detentions of dissidents a lack of political freedoms and civil rights will be addressed which the west continues to ignore. u.n. peace envoy to syria the on and once the security council to take a tougher stance and warned both the government and opposition of consequences if there is no cease fire but the called for a no relief to the common people to continue suffering from relentless war. i have

more details on all those stories coming up for you at the top of the hour up next though let's check in with former union joins us and there seems to be a lot of olympic torch action going on today there certainly does it tell you what for the world student games as well there is russian flame with flavor and of course the london twenty twelve games it's reaching its start more all not coming in he said just a second. thanks for joining us this is indeed sports today plenty ahead including the stories in priest this hour. the first corruption a swiss court sings football's governing body had knowledge of potential bribes accepted by former president jalil how the language. legend the legendary leavitt's great michael johnson gets up early to jog around stonehenge no less with

the olympic flame. on spring time r t catches up with russia's olympic medal hopefuls in diving with a twenty twelve games just over two weeks away. football's world governing body is embroiled in yet more claims of corruption according to a swiss court for murphy for president john havelange an ex brazilian football boss ricardo tesh era received payments from i asked al the organizations former marketing partner a swiss prosecutors reports published by faith it shows the perp could have received up to twenty two million dollars before i a cell went bankrupt in two thousand and one the swiss based company were repeatedly offered lucrative world cup marketing rights by the game's governing body ninety six to have lunch with fifteen present for twenty four years from nine hundred seventy four on. new top of the monitor undeveloped said the premier league

title is the same for next season but the portuguese also admitted the north london club could lose influential midfielder newcomb moderate each. the willingness is there from. from the player but you know it's. a play of this importance is not easy to part company with but you know. i think the chairman is a person that respects the values of the football club and and only with the with the right offer we will take that step. to boxing where the most eagerly anticipated non-title fight of the year occurs on saturday expect fireworks from former heavyweight world champion david haye who is head to head with fellow briton derek just sore in london the pair hit the headlines earlier this year following just the words world title last of the telly klitschko a perceiving to storm the fans five press conference leading to a brawl between the two the british boxing board of control withdrew just or his license for his part in the frock while the world boxing cost of the hundred him on

indefinite suspension is able to fight the weekend though as the contest has been licensed by the looks of fighting the federation while haye has come out of retirement for the launch on the rivalry between the two looks as bad blooded as ever. if you look at you looking down my face look at me usually you. just. look at. the little bit this is. the scene something that i didn't really read i. see also to be received. meanwhile the mirror count has been reinstated as w b a light welterweight world champion the englishman lost the title in a controversial points decision to lamont peterson in the same berth for ever after the w.b. a ordered a rematch in failed a drug test on the part was counsel it means counts five and sunday against w.b.c. champ danny garcia is now world title unification. basketball into the n.b.a.

were recently crying champions miami are not resting on their laurels they hate having big name veterans ray allen and rashard lewis to their ranks for next season the florida franchise claimed their second n.b.a. championship last month with a finals victory over the oklahoma city thunder and they appear determined to keep hold of the title allen arrives as the n.b.a. record holder for the most three pointers while his former seattle teammate lewis is a two time all star according to the team's press. isn't the transfers don't necessarily mean big paydays for the star gee. if we could you know in the ability to pay all the players you really want there maybe they could get on the open market we would we don't have that capability so you know show our people that they're interested in inter mean here and they know the situation is and so they want to be here because. i really believe that because of the organization as

much as anything there are sincere in how they've set this whole thing up and when they see a team that has an opportunity to be a winner in. this stage of their career this is you know this is where it's about while there's no better time than summer to reflect on the best outlet like achievement stateside the world of sport colliding with hollywood glitz and glamour at the annual e.s.p.y.'s ward's newly signed lakers guard steve nash quickly delving into the red carpet world off los angeles fellow germy lin though he was the center of attention receiving the breakthrough off lead toward the new york knicks winning their problem with the houston rockets to resign the twenty three year old he went from the end of the bench the playing all star level ball while newly minted n.b.a. champion lebron james want to please all of the year long runners this. life of academia clerics will meanwhile be on show in a year's time when the twenty thirteen summer universe rules into the russian city

of his own preparations for the student games now almost complete with a ceremonial flame being lit up the sorbonne campus in paris traditional toughest on designs on the torches lit by five storm students from as many different parts of the world university president park tell me a job or igniting the main flame with local gymnast mannella coyotes on a lympics still very medalists shooter so. taking over from there this is only the start of a long journey for the symbol of the student games though the torch will switch more than two thought. sometimes while visiting fifty four cities are running. about to look pretty we're going to finish working on all sixty four sporty venue's by the end of the year we recently celebrated our one thousand year birthday so we got lots of experience in organizing large scale bands it's important that we use that expertise to improve infrastructure as a record number of events athletes and visitors are expected for these student games which are the story is that while this summer olympic torch relay is nearing

its conclusion the head of the games kick off american sprinter michael johnson no stranger to taking the bottle and running with it as he got the chance to take the flame around a very notable landmark a morning jog around stonehenge for the forty four year old who still holds world records in the four hundred meters on a four by four hundred meter relay the four time of the gold medalist warming up before having an official run though through nearby seals preallocate leader the torch winding down his journey of near thirteen thousand kilometers with the games coming up on july twenty. third grade. going clear sky. running with the torch which is a credible anywhere but of course running with it around stonehenge is credible moment this summer will see every participating alone pick a nation half female athletes competing for the first ever time that softer saudi arabia made a rare concession by agreeing to send two women into action at the london games sara are set to provide for

a medal in the hundred meters after just making the final line up deadline. competitor. tommy could also bring her country glory in the seventy eight kilos without a great guitar i'm also didn't send any women to the two thousand and eight games in beijing to change their stance since then so the female athletes up to now had not been allowed to compete in front of the mixed international audience. so those games just around the corner we continue our look now at. of the russian athletes gearing up for success in london this time around we concentrate on diving archon grigori and report. the last decade in diving so cheney's athletes go from strength to strength both immense in women's competition at their home olympics games in beijing four years ago they clinched gold in seven categories out of possible eight the rest of the world led by a russian divers thus left to wonder just how they could break the monopoly last

year swimmer in the world championships further evidence of the eastern dominance of the chain are sweeping the opposition winning gold in every single discipline. if we try to be objective we should admit that to match china in this sport in the near future is virtually impossible our athletes can beat them in this or that discipline because they're still human and they can also make a mistake but in general i don't think anybody can challenge china. but support and olympic sport in particular is where the unexpected does happen and of course russia's diving team will be just tourists in their upcoming trip to london two time olympic bronze medalist claire gold pairing a lot of the victory many by will compete in the individual platform well the country's rising young talents he has a hero for a new guinea because the tour will take the floor into springboard events. i think that both myself and sarah have to get our hair the right first and foremost as

mental toughness can become the most important aspect at such a big event like there lympics in the women's program russia will be represented by three earthly it's begun silver medalist in the us to see a person of color in the olympics debutant the dish the bhajan are our individual springboard hopes well of the ten meter discipline you little to know will be seeking nothing short of bald despite being only twenty three over won silver at the two thousand and four olympics and this experience will be on her year. yes. but i think i can make the top three in london the competition will be excellent and set chief of precinct i will have to carry out my programme. all in all russia will have divers competing in six cancer greece out of the eight. and with such a force to be this china even one london medal of the highest value will be considered a successful. forty. something credible to watch isn't

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