from phones to. t.v. . it is a half past the hour here in moscow headlines now damascus confirms syria's chief star the defense minister and his deputy have all been killed in a suicide blast the deadliest opposition assault on a high ranking us officials since the conflict began last year. the turkish prime minister is right here in moscow trying to convince russia to get tough on the ruling regime in damascus this us foreign minister sergei lavrov says the western policy of supporting the opposition will only lead to an impasse. and washington will send us. the olympics as the british tasked with guarding the games

apologizes for its incompetence despite a multi-million pound contract. now as our western nations hailed libya's election as broadly liberal journalist patrick hayes believes there's little for the libyan people to be celebrating discussion it's right now. as libya continues its long march towards democracy militant rivalry talk session and continued outbreaks of violence opposing major challenges we're joined now by spike magazine journalist patrick case even extensively about libya and about what's been going on historic moments for libya really all we going to see the any concrete changes i think it should have been the story moments i mean what we what we've seen with the elections is the first time the libyan people have been able to

express their voice and talk about who they want to be elected for the first time in fifty years since nine hundred sixty five should have been the story the moment it should have been the outcome of the struggle the logical outcome of the arab spring in libya last year unfortunately what we see with these elections is that this struggle for democracy this march towards democracy is here to talk about it has effectively been a spy western intervention over the past year or so the election itself has been administered by the national transitional council which was effectively cherry picked by the west rather the than actually selected by the libyan people it's an unelected body and there have been a lot of disagreements has been a lot of protests over the past nine ten months by the libyan people who are unhappy with the lack of transparency from this government they're unhappy with the fact that the transitional council does not represent their views or the people

they want to be in power and they're also unhappy with the way in which the election has been planned and the seats for the national council have been allocated a large proportion of them being allocated to tripoli and the west of libya i would touch on the problems that that's causing in a moment be said in your latest article. libyan election on. what do you mean were it not for nato intervention last year i think these elections should really have been something to celebrate the libyan people taking the democratic initiative overthrowing the tyrant gadhafi who was in charge for forty two years and they were starting to do that last year were it not for a haphazard intervention led by the time nicolas sarkozy in france and david cameron the u.k. prime minister who decided to step in and in the name of humanitarian justice intervene in the in the in the way in which

a sovereign country was being administered by gadhafi and to really kind of forge a wedge between the people fighting the civil war and. cronies that cause real problems because it meant that first starts with the transitional council that was set up last february in two thousand and eleven the whole time that the war in libya took place they were all into it towards getting western approval for their actions the national transitional council weren't even in libya broadly during the uprising there in qatar there in the united arab emirates this year they were flying around the world making deals with western. governments that might make sense in some ways but the thing that they forgot to do and this was the real issue and you see this happening in syria now is to get the mandates of the libyan people to engage with them and to be oriented towards leadership to them rather than convincing the west in particular that they are the right people to lead so what

you happens following the fall of the. transitional council who effect only helicopters in late actually because the rebels took tripoli bye bye by storm much faster than they expected you had a vacuum in libya with a transitional council that did not represent the will or the kind of the ideas and feel. of the libyan people in general and there has been this really strange moment since there have been any other way of avoiding that. i think the way that power vacuum could have been avoided would have been to knott's of had western intervention in march last year another really being a western intervention in libya wouldn't be this point right now they wouldn't be having that. election we're just seeing democratic elections in egypt we've seen elections in june this year there's no reason why the libyan people couldn't have also brought about change by themselves in fact i think it takes

a very paternalistic mindsets in the west that they have to step in and intervene and do this on behalf of the libyan people seen massive swathes of the army starting to defect from gadhafi and they're. sure ragtag kind of bunch of resistance kind of starting to step up and to challenge could have been different strongholds. particularly in benghazi it wasn't necessarily the case of the west needed to intervene the tool but in intervening in this is. the democratic initiative from the libyan people they interfered with the struggle for leadership that struggle for the future battle of ideas for the future of libyan society which is necessary in a civil war to really unify and get here individuals so that they can so that they can bring about change which actually reflect their will rather than what the west nato in particular thinks is the best way towards a society the west has now moved on to other things i think. there's been

a lot of turmoil in libya over the last few months and we've heard very little from . people who were very vocal last year so david cameron after the death of gadhafi said this is the opportunity for the libyan people to forge a strong democratic feature and i'm very proud of the way that britain has played a role in this but now there is silence. from david cameron from a from hillary clinton from william hague the foreign secretary in the way people don't want to talk about it anymore partly because there's a lot of talk about using a look in stone in syria and they don't want to acknowledge the fact that what we have seen is effectively a very fragmented libya in the past six months is that a realistic possibility do you think i mean would a division of power in the way work or is it going to cause a struggle for where there is talk in benghazi and which is in the eastern region i think it's very telling that the libyan people have started to reassure these kind

of tribal role and also go back to these old boundaries and divisions because rather than actually having to struggle for democracy that unifying sense of comradeship that i idea that they've really put everything on the line to get rid of gadhafi and to bring about a new society the west effectively the country into democracy you saw this a lot over the you know in the past year where you know the west would effectively bomb the rebels then when it was safe to come in go in and take that town and then they would move forwards that was the kind of strategy so effectively the west handed this revolution and i say revolution in kind of almost scare quotes to the libyan people on a plate and that wasn't fair for them the democratic initiative from them it's also really warps not process of proper leadership and a proper sense of how the country can be governing feature you mentioned the rebels

there i mean militarily they weren't anywhere near the point where they would have been able to topple the regime. in terms of that you know sort of with hindsight it's easy to criticize but again we come back to where we are now what's not and what we did barack go in egypt we've seen bring about democracy there's no reason why. things couldn't have happened very very quickly and that was the remarkable thing about the arab spring no one sort coming within a short periods of just a couple of months people took the initiative and brought down regimes that were just seen for generations and generations of people in the middle east as being immoveable for the vast majority of people in libya they've never seen elections and anyone under the age of about sixty really probably going to remember life without having a few years ago and that was the same with mubarak and that was the same with ben ali. i mean things could moving very very quickly western intervention i think really almost puts that struggle for democracy on ice in libya in

a way that hasn't happened in egypt and tunisia you know i think there would have been a risk with the syria style situation sort of this stalemate between the two sides and the death toll just keeps mounting i think there is a tendency of course from people and you saw this in benghazi as well when gadhafi troops were getting ever closer to benghazi and the death toll was rising the people of course do look for for anyone to help them they are desperate various points but the problem is when you continually have the idea of a crutch when you can call for effectively a guardian angels come in and help you it does what the situation and things the west didn't necessarily make it better the death toll increased considerably after nato bombs started to fool in libya and the thirty thousand people died in the period in past years during the uprising a lot of that was due to western intervention. wasn't a bloodless time once the west in actually intensified its and internationalize the conflict in a way that wouldn't have been the voice. for. one western intervention

intensifies internationalize this is often brings about kind of greater bloodshed if you leave the struggle to the people the democratic struggle to the people of the country selves i think we also need to think in terms of what comes next now there was never you know there were. never a plan for what happened in the post death here in libya by and by david cameron by obama he was very much you know obama reluctantly got involved and after you know less than a week really started to kind of go on the back foot the western leaders didn't have an idea of how they were going to restructure libya they didn't even want to talk about regime trains when they first started. bombing libya so i think what i think we can learn from from the libyan situation is that western countries coming in and intervening to try and intervene you know even good heartedly in a humanitarian situation can really warp

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the headlines on r t damascus confirms that syria's chief of staff the defense minister and his deputy who killed in a suicide blast it's the deadliest. high ranking official since the conflict began last year. and the turkish prime minister is right here in moscow trying to convince russia to get tough on the ruling regime in damascus as foreign minister says the western policy of supporting the opposition will only lead to an end. and washington will send u.s. agents to bolster security at the london olympics the british tasked with guarding the games apologizes for its incompetence despite a multi-million pound contract. sporting action that dmitri.

all the ladies from the sporting world right now you're not to think so joining us this hour coming up in the program. i was poisoned to cyclists frank claims he's innocent after failing a drugs test it to the frogs. big deals with. undergoes a medical to join big hairy social man in a reported twenty five million dollars move from a similar. braving bald world champions league winners and other sprint race to once again send out a warning to same vault ahead of the london olympics. so the toughest stage to the front has started without one of the big names frank schleck was pulled out

by his team after failing a drugs thirty two year old from loss and look tested positive for a banned erratic although he claims he's innocent and may have been poisoned cause twelfth in the race has asked for it the sample to be tested he's the second driver of the test positive french fry that remy also failed a drug test a week ago. currently bradley wiggins was full of confidence ahead of the age sixteen it includes four of the biggest climbs in cycling is one of which rises to the two thousand meters the brit has a two minute advantage over all standings over sky team a chris froome while italian been chosen to bali is a further twenty seconds back he hasn't written off his chances of grabbing the yellow jersey but first. has every belief he's team can help him win the tour de france. i think we proved every race we've gone through this year across the board

even when. there's been other line ups and things like that. this team prides itself on racing as a team going out with a game plan and sticking to their game plan and working for each other really in every environment not just on the bike but off the bike is where we support each other and i think i think that's one thing we've got over a lot of other teams deployed was the not only did that was in a way that it was that it will be very difficult to wean but the next two days is the mountains if there is a little crisis for a rider it is more likely that they will lose big time in the third week then in the first two weeks. if russian players have given their backing to thought capello is set to become the new head coach of the national side of the talent has already named russia's main problem in the sport it's the presence of too many foreign place in the russian premier league in the next few days the former england boss is

expected to sign a deal with the russian for begin and will take charge in time for russia's friendly against coast next month before world cup twenty fourteen qualifiers against northern ireland and israel in september russian stars including dean are believed to have backed his imminent appointment. i think this is the correct decision and he's a great coach and one of the best around he's been in charge of england and top clubs around europe he's very experienced it will be great to work with him you are going to share it with i don't really know what to think at the moment so many names will link with your black capello i'm going to. just have to see what he's able to bring to the team and hopefully he'll help take russian football forward. with. it but i give it is said to put pen to paper to complete his transfer from a similar one to three spending perry sound. and striker was offered a sewage contract worth seventeen million dollars a season after tax cuts also believe french side agreed to pay twenty five million

dollars for their thirty year old swede the theat will put the club's spendings to one hundred million this summer after also signings latins former teammate and. from an up. in other news made to united manager sir alex ferguson has wished happy birthday to nelson mandela south africa's first democratically elected president turned ninety four united and get their pre-season to underway the red devils are due to play a couple of matches itself before moving on to china to face a good drug bust shanghai next open in their domestic campaign it everton in a month's time and ferguson says bringing the trafford top ask.

there are just nine days to go until the london games begin and the brazilian football team has touched down in england in search of their first olympic title many brazilian fans were. to welcome their heroes despite the nation's glorious history they have never won olympic gold favorites with spain after picking a seriously strong scored it include sent a strike an air of twenty is one of the hottest talents in world football and a stimulant frontman alexandre pato brazil will play great britain in a friendly on friday before starting their groups against belarus and new zealand. the biggest name on the track may be spring to you soon bald but fellow jamaican young blake looks like an increasing threat to the triple olympic champion is just draw a nine point eight five in the one hundred meter loci event in switzerland and says

he's playing on course for the lympics playground the fastest time of the year last month at the jamaican trials his nine point seven five faster than vault nine point eight six also beat the world record holder in the two hundred meters there the pair will go head to head in london. when you can confidently say that someone has complete dominance in any one given sport but russia has done just that in synchronized swimming since the year two thousand that foreman says have had a strain colder round a limb big gold medal. caught up with russia's current aspiring do in the run up to the foster approaching london games. russia's synchronized swimming team and do it have won all six possible gold medals in the last three olympic games in addition they have also contributed heavily to russia's overall gold medal tally in both the world and european aquatic championships but whether or not the challenges of drop

the standards in recent times it's clear the current batch of russian athletes are being trained hard. we really work a lot to cover one of the training facility mills this they're all shocked that we train daily for ten hours horning and polishing the routine is very difficult and to remember it is even harder. although it was removed in favor of the team competition for the nine hundred ninety six games the jewett is now considered to be the most prestigious event of all russia and the c. of. the c. a year mark over with a country stop at the last two olympics but a couple of new starlets in the form of natalee and said. have since emerged shining at least in the world and european championships so. it's much tougher physically this time around because in the last olympics i only participated in the team competition and now i will also be performing in the duets completion it's

a more individual event and it's of course very prestigious and because of that it's more than double the work the discipline requires great strength in jurists flexibility and of course precise timing as well as exceptional breath control when upside down underwater so training is tough and constant and lengthy the bills can train for literally half a day in order to ensure they maintain the proper level of fitness. without a doubt the most difficult aspect is dealing with the physical demands we've got to do at repetitions in the morning and to team repetitions in the evening so it's quite difficult to keep yourself in shape mentally it's also tough yes the olympics are the gold. but you try not to think about that because it just becomes that much harder rushes synchronized to it. and so. of course i have to spend a lot of time in the water but surprisingly spending all amount of the ten hour

training sessions here in the gym practicing record graffiti. it's a long and at times lonely task with a rigid regime that leaves little room for anything else let alone the time but insist there's enough time for friends and family that if there is we have one free day a week so we try to get everything done then like go to the movies and read with friends i have a husband at home so i like spending time with him of course but this is part of our work and i just have to get used to it and of course there wouldn't be much of a duet if the two girls couldn't get along with each other. natasha and i get along very well even beyond the training facility but it can be difficult especially when we come back after our day off and have to resume training when are we really want to do is share the latest of each other mushy enough feeling big shoes and expectations will be sky high when they dive in the olympic pool in london in august but it seems they're already well prepared to carry the torch in russia's

bid to win gold for consecutive time michael cook of genco. moscow. finally golfer tiger woods says he would love to represent his country when his sport makes its return to the olympics in two thousand and sixteen but for the moment he's got the pressing issue of getting ready for the upcoming open world number four has won the event three times before but it meets this year's course and st annes will not allow any room for error that warns players will have to be on their game from the very first see when the opening round gets underway on thursday. it is different there's no doubt because we have to be precise rather gate. and had a ball or a specific number normally it's an iron hybrid or i would our driver off the first team you can hit basically distance you want and you're setting yourself up for the

second shot but this is totally different and. psychologically it is different because you have to be on your game right away and you can't just you know hit a ball in the fairway any distance you want you have to have tapped at the ball a precise number and that is different and then we experience from you know week in week out. ok you have today i'll go back into our start with sports news from around the globe whether it's next stay with us. on our show is that so much i'm going to get you to be. on the mark when i bring syria witnessing a new generation of warfare and information for your peers no doubt western media aims to construct a concise. the

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