you said here in moscow this is. the top syrian security officials including the defense minister and his deputy have been killed in a suicide blast in damascus it culminates four days of violent shaking the syrian capital and it's the deadliest oppositional sold on high ranking assad government members since the syria conflict began. russia says the policy of supporting the opposition will lead to an impasse as the turkish prime minister visits moscow to

decide the next step towards the conflict in syria. an explosion has hit a bus carrying israeli tourists at an airport in the city of burgas killing at least four people the blast is believed to have been a terrorist attack with israel already playing iran. well as western nations hailed libya's election as broadly liberal journalist patrick hayes believes there's little for the libyan people to celebrate his in-depth interview is up next here on r.t. . 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 spikes 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 expressed 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 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 there are 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 but you said in your latest article. a libyan election on. what do you mean. it's 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. intervention led by 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 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 there in tunis 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 offering 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 affected me helicoptered in later actually because the rebels took tripoli bye bye by storm much faster than 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 could have been avoided would have been to not have had western intervention in march last you know the real had been a western intervention 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 a 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 in 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 the civil war to really unify and get here individuals so that they can so that they can bring about change which actually

reflects 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 future 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 obama from hillary clinton from william hague foreign secretary in the day 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 trouble 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 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 forward 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 the plane and it wasn't fair for them the democratic initiative from them

it's also it really was snapped process of proper leadership and a proper sense of how the country can be governing feature the 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. so 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 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 period 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 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 pretty much 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 but the syria style situation sort of the 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 crisis when you can call for effectively a guardian angels come in and help you he does want a situation and the thing is 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 in past year during the uprising a lot of that was due to western intervention. wasn't

a bloodless time once the west. actually intensified its and internationalize the conflict in a way that wouldn't have been. 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 libya by by david cameron by obama it was very much you know obama reluctantly got involved and after 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 change when they first started. bombing libya so i think what i think we can learn from from the libyan situation is that western countries

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i mean new stories here on r.t. this hour top syrian security officials including the defense minister and his deputy have been killed in a suicide blast in damascus it culminates four days of violent shaking the syrian capital and is the deadliest opposition assault on high ranking assad government members since the syria conflict began. russia says the policy of supporting the opposition will lead to an impasse as the turkish prime minister visits moscow to decide the next step towards the conflict in syria. also reporting the sound explosion has hit a bus carrying israeli tourists at an airport in the ballgame and city of burgas killing at least four people the blast is believed to be a terrorist attack with israel already blaming iran. i'll be back with the news team in about fifteen minutes from now with more on those stories and others in the

meantime dimitris here with the latest sports. sports analogy thanks for joining us they sell and coming up being very volatile. big deals with an strikers lock and key but again which signs a three year contract with perry sounds remained in there with four to twenty five million dollars moved from a similar. i was poisoned cyclist frank schleck claims he's innocent to failing a drug test at the two different. braving balt. blake wins another sprint race to once again set up a warning to use a bald head of the lungs and. first star strikers lautenberg in which has signed a three year contract to complete his move from ac milan to free spending per it

sounds your man swindon captain will be taking a reported seventeen million dollars a season after tax it's also believed the french side splashed out twenty five million to buy the thirty year old seat taking the club's spendings to some one hundred thirty seven million dollars this summer the national runs up. for the lot to mate and now police. and to break in the over the moon after joining the two believes will become super cop. i come to a dream team and the dream team will be continue to growing and i mean they will do everything to win and i want to be part of that this is the future and i want to be part of this future to make this history and i mean there are about a great players also like listed with is enough seeing dream team brought also the business world. we shouldn't forget this and as long as i have him behind me i

don't need to look back and only need to look in front of the things in front. of. other football news main street art and manager alex ferguson has wished happy birthday to nelson mandela south africa's first democratically elected president turned ninety four united. get their pre-season to underway and the devils are due to play a couple of matches in south africa before moving on to try to face did it drop by shanghai shanghai. side will open their domestic campaign at everton in a month's time. says. but is their top task. in cycling home here it's almost folklore has gone top of the king of the mountains course of occasion the french mint winning the gruelling sixteenth state of the tour de france wednesday's ride was only two hundred kilometers long and featured

four major climbs in the pairing is. first at the top of them all before crossing the finish line one minute and forty seconds ahead of dane sorensen so will wear the whole put on jersey from now on but the yellow one stays with bradley wiggins the briton maintained two minutes and five second lead over. froome with italy's in chains in third overall defending. now trails little wiggins by just over eight minutes. but before that stage frank schleck was pulled out by his reddish team after failing a drug test thirty two year old from luxembourg tested positive for a band. although he claims he's innocent and may have been poisoned who was twelfth in this race. let's ask for a sample to be tested he's the second driver on the test positive for.

also failed a drug test week ago. there are just nine days to go on to the london games begin and the brazilian football team has touched down in england in search of their first olympic title many brazilian fans who are heathrow airport welcomed their heroes despite the nation's glorious history they have never won olympic gold and join favorites with spain after picking a seriously strong squad that includes santas striker who at the age of twenty is one of the hottest talents in world football and ac milan frontman alex out of potter brazil will play great britain in a friendly on friday before starting a big group see campaign against egypt and. new zealand. the biggest name on the track maybe sprinter you say bold but fellow jamaican you and blake looks like an increasing threat to the triple olympic champion is just run point eight five in

the one hundred meters at a local event in switzerland says he's playing on course for the olympics friendly fastest time of the year last month at the jamaican trials his nine point seven five were faster than waltz night six he also beat the world record holder in the two hundred meters there the pair will go head to head in both events in london. when you can call for that to 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 and eight performances have had a stranglehold around the olympic gold medal michael caught up with russia's current aspiring to in the run up to the fast 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 aquatics championships but whether or not the challenges of drop the standards in recent times it's clear the current batch of russian athletes being trained hard. we really work a lot never one of the training facility nails this they're all shocked that we train daily for ten hours hauling 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 the country at the last two olympics but a couple of new starlets in the form of natalee and said. have since emerged shining at recent 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 competition 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 injurious 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 girls 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 goal. 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 free 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 they go to the movies and meet 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 you just have to get used to it and of course there wouldn't be much of a do it if the two girls couldn't get along with each other. there's more pressure 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 parcel 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 of genco r.t. moscow. golfer tiger woods says he would love to represent his country when his sport makes its return to the olympics in twenty is sixteen but for the moment he's got the more pressing issue of getting ready for the upcoming open their world number four has won the about three times before a head bits this year's courses were life and sane and will not allow any room for error warns players will have to be on the game from the very first tee on the opening rounds get underway on thursday. it is different there's no doubt because we have to be precise rather gate. and had a ball a specific number normally it's an iron hybrid for i would our driver off the first

tee and you can hit it 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 than than we experience from in a week in week out. of that so from a full today by. it

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