rule the day. hello and welcome to our. clashes rage on in syria home with personal troops trying to fight back and rebel held areas and new religious divisions into the deadly mix as u.n. observers get another thirty days to assess the situation after being given the blessing of the security council. protesters demanding a right to rally in bahrain are met with tear gas after the government bans political demonstrations at least fifty people have died since the un last began to end february last year. and tourists in israel are now taking up arms as visitors can try their hand gun range but what's marketed as anti terror training

has triggered concern around the country. and up next my colleague bill dodd asks russia's ambassador to the un what was behind his no vote for the western backed resolution on syria. mr churkin russia's decision to veto this latest resolution has caused comes to me and widespread criticism of moscow's stuns is russia supporting the assad regime. of course not about what needs to be done in order to settle the crisis unfortunately the strategy of our western colleagues to seems to be to try to whip up tensions in and around syria at every opportunity and this time they took the occasion of the need to extend the mandate of the monitoring mission in syria and

attached a number of unacceptable clauses to their draft resolution so we needed to talk together was that unacceptable draft to log off and on more space to work on the document which was adopted the. foreign minister of of countries of the so-called action group which is that which calls for setting up a transitional national body and that requires of course dialogue between various parties so in this context to introduce a resolution which would only entailed pressure and almost inevitable sanctions on the syrian government did not look like a good idea to us at all and when they. blocked a decision which in our view was gone the book counterproductive so moscow not supporting the assad regime but america britain and france say that russia has failed the syrian people today how how do you react to that. well you know you know

you know. there are quite good and bad and loud propaganda i think what they have been doing in criticizing russia and china and some sometimes quite stridently today it was the british and the french perm reps who went out of their way on fortunately all sorts of false false who's on the foreign policies of russia and china they should focus more on on the need to. help unfortunately they have done anything at all in order to set them train a productive positive process in in syria instead they have been working. with the so-called friends of syria in fact. this is a group of countries who are enemies of the syrian government i wouldn't call them enemies of the syrian people but certainly those who want to topple the syrian government this regarding the consequences which are extremely tragic which such policy. because the government or president our side it's not simply one individual

or a group of individuals they represent of course a certain segment of the of the syrian population a certain power structure which has existed there for decades so to break it would cause and is causing trying to break a considerable trouble and bloodshed to reform and through dialogue this would be much more reasonable a line of action and this is what russia has been advocated dialogue hasn't achieved anything so far is that now an overwhelming global sense of something has to be done to stop the killing of innocent people and what about intervention on humanitarian grounds is no acceptable to moscow no moscow is very concerned about chapter seven i don't want to get into technicality of protecting chapter seven leading to perhaps military intervention but what about some form of intervention to stop the killing. well in a way the money group which. is a way of of

a sort of political intervention in trying to a practical intervention and trying to deter violence unfortunately it hasn't happened it hasn't been successful i mean you said the dialogue has not achieved anything the problem is that the dialogue has not started yet the opposition groups refuse to enter into dialogue where they sit with a syrian government which says it is prepared for the org they should try that all four of the syrian government to enter into dialogue this is a major mason missing link a major impediment in the way of coffee and an activity you know humanitarian intervention unfortunately it only sounds humane but the fact of the matter is that any military intervention for whatever reason is inevitably going to cause more bloodshed bloodshed and you know we know that those greatest humanists in the world u.s. and u.k. intervened in iraq for instance citing all sorts of noble protects in that

particular case nonexistent weapons of mass destruction what of course there is a one hundred fifty fifty thousand civilian deaths alone to say nothing of you know millions of refugees displaced persons and the whole dislocation in the country so don't be duped by committee in a few million communitarian rhetoric there is much more geopolitics in their policy in syria than of humanism and unfortunately the practical consequences of the of their policy is that that the conflict and bloodshed is not abating you mention geopolitics and understand that you mention the fact that what's happening in syria is actually a name don't what's going to happen in iran eventually can you explain that that iran is the eventual goal i don't know why. i did refer to iran but in a slightly different context i wouldn't rule out that then they will move or move on to iran but i. i was not referring to that i was in my remarks at the stakeout earlier today in the united nations i was referring to their clear interest and

this is a major motivation of the policy and their effort to topple president assad in curbing iranian influence. in the middle east in that region and it's also a major motivation of the other middle eastern the fight there is for the marcos' saudi arabi and qatar who are concerned about what they see iranian interests of course in one area and as well they claim that she approaches there is a sort of iranian sponsored even though some observers including your colleagues journalists who have experienced on the ground believe that it happens to be genuine protest. against a system which is not entirely democratic to put it mildly so clear a geo political dimension is there in the policies of a number of countries who are extremely aggressive these are the syria and it is nothing to do with the interests of the syrian people because the ceiling who need

is to find yes can i ask you though what is the worry for moscow will these geo political implications which you've explained so clearly why is more you know we are not it will not in what way could moscow be effective will not what are the about. well we're not what are the geopolitical implications of sort of that particular saying even though we believe that the greater confrontation with iran is hurting. is unnecessary and of course we are directly involved in the store is solved peacefully the problem of the iranian nuclear program and the. growing tension between iran and the west and. it is it is not it's not it's not helpful our concern is that this city and people have to suffer the consequences of this geopolitical geopolitical struggle and our concern is that the focus of

everybody's policy must be the benefit of the syrian people and the only way they can put an end to this tragic conflict is to get to the negotiating table and the ground there is a document which you which was a consensus document adopted by the group of action foreign ministers in geneva two and a half weeks ago which says that at transitional national border needs to set up a bit to be set up and it cannot be set up by the by sanctions it cannot be set up by more pressure on just one side of the syrian government which is claiming that it is ready for the locus there's a need that it's representative for such a dialogue but so far the interest from the opposition is not there and we see extreme opposition groups are in the position groups resorting to more and more violence and even terrorist attacks like the one we saw yesterday in the masters this is not to say. the syrian government has not exhorter it has not resorted to excessive violence of the time at times or made very serious mistakes and

blunders over the months but the time to end that unless we wanted to continue for years is to enter into dialogue. russia has really stuck by its principles of intervention is it not there. in danger of being isolated bearing in mind the continual vetoing of the sanctions in the u.n. security council and of course the supplying of military hardware to syria although most of course says that this is not being used against civilians but this what's it do for russia's reputation and indeed its relations after this crisis is over. well we'll see we'll see i think doing the right thing and not simply following somebody is a. catastrophic policy is something which makes makes me proud is something which eventually will be borne out of the right course of action on the

right policy. under these very difficult circumstances and. if i'm not mistaken the united states has cost sixty vetoes on the palestinian issue alone so why don't you. question my american colleagues about the impact of the image of the united states in the middle east of the continuous mito sometimes even between their own presidential and secretary of state public statements so that all is a part of the u.n. charter there is nothing wrong about casting it when you feel the need to do so can we talk about what happens next now no agreement in the u.n. security council but russia has said that it would like to see an extension of the u.n. observer mission to syria but at the moment is a visible impact so far what is the point in keeping the mission alive when so far it's failed. what the what will be the point of the other part was saying that at least we have a more chance to get objective information if it's there or if the situation we

have to improve there will be on the ground already so they will be able to participate more actively in in the political process and also the in dealing with their community and situation so pulling them all to is is going to entail negative consequences and one to avoid that unfortunately now here on we seem to be undergoing another sort of a little diplomatic battle now we are going to have a discussion it will be to making it the technical role but without loading it with political it conditions and implications thank you very much and we'll leave it there vitaly churkin we really appreciate your sure i'm russian ambassador to the u.n. thank you very much indeed for explaining moscow the situation during this crisis now thank you. wealthy british science.

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clashes range on in syria where the regime troops trying to fight back and rebel held areas and new religious divisions adding to the deadly mix that's a new one of the servers get another thirty days to assess the situation after being given the blessing of the security council. protesters demanding a right to rally and brain are met with tear gas after the government bans political demonstrations at least fifty people have died since the on last began in february last year. and tourists in israel are taking up all arms as visitors can now try their hand on a gun but what's marketed as terror training has triggered concern around the country. up next it's all the latest from the world of sports with paul.

thank you very much welcome along the to the world of sports here is what we've got coming up tea time the third round of the open golf championship is underway with american brands natica top of the leaderboard after an imperious display on friday . poling the bradley defending olympic champion your lane isn't by either fails to clear height of a diamond in the gulf of mexico meeting in monaco not ideal preparation with again now just six days away. pedal power mark cavendish claims the twenty second tour de france stage when his career moves forward on the all time list next teammate bradley wiggins who is closing in on the overall victory. but starting with golf where at the open they are in the very early stages of round three with the leaders not taking off until later on saturday american brandt snedeker is the man to catch

after a full a second round at royal lytham and st annes the world number twenty nine is yet to hit a bogey in the opening two rounds he was in imperious form on friday carving a six hundred sixty four to tie the course record after thirty six holes he sits on ten under a shot play of first round leader adam scott and tiger woods is in contention to in third place he was on six under three time former champion chipping in on the last hole to ensure their leader is nervous looking over their shoulder. i think you look at the names that are five and six shots back means even less again so it's a world class leader board stacked up a few shots back and. i think no matter what the conditions are tomorrow one of those guys is going to have a good day and make up ground. now in football new lokomotiv moscow manager bennett

just got off to a winning start in the russian premier league although the railway men didn't have it all their own way you're going to newly promoted more on friday evening and then standing affair at the start stadium ten man locomotive fighting back from a goal down to eventually winning three to four goals coming in the first half with new signing that former top man veteran trial luka scoring the winner for the railway men after just thirty eight minutes. meanwhile saturday see six other things begin their domestic campaign says car host ross talk about getting their kicks off in around ten minutes time in our travels they need not go out to face vulgar last year's runners up spots are to take on their old rivals that's music and i did a long and bloody cast cats. staying with football and asked nola pay reluctant to part with star striker robin van persie despite interest from all over europe the gunners turning down all office so far for the club captain the dutch international courted by manchester united manchester city and eventis through them falling short

of the asking price asked they want to know the forty million dollars for the striker the team captain has one year left on his contract but says he won't sign an extension when asked will lose out financially if you stay for another twelve months the twenty year twenty eight year old school forty one golden fifty three games for club and country last season was named english premier league player of the year. when more manchester united have refused to reveal how much they offered for van persie as the team arrived in south africa for some pre-season training ferguson was non-committal when responding to questions about the dutchman although he later admitted the club had made an approach to the official channel from percy's potential arrival at old trafford would prove a boost after the red devils lost that from the league title to rivals manchester city at the end of last season the midfielder michael carrick believes they will bounce back stronger. you know the way we finished last season in terms of. when they won

a bronze star goner. that's. that's exactly how i feel you know determined to play play again and start the season well and win trophies for this club. now it is just six days until the olympics get underway and there was an eventful diamond league athletics meeting in monaco on friday evening it was a mixed night for russian athletes in the french principality double olympic champion your lane is in by a very had the worst possible build up to the games she had two attempts of for me to seventeen failed with both crashing out of the competition early on without registering a height however there was better news in the men's one hundred ten metre hurdles. finished third setting a new national record of thirteen point zero nine seconds in the process however in the men's four hundred meters there was an injury scare for a reigning champion machine on merritt the american stating he would be able to

defend his title despite pulling up injured with around one hundred metres to go. meanwhile the olympic football teams of great britain and brazil play the warm up game in middlesbrough on friday evening not much to cheer about for the home fans though it was the south americans dominated in the two no victory the first goal coming just twelve minutes in and from a set pace as tottenham midfielder sandro headed home a mars free kick stupid his men pushed really closer make a richards came close to leveling with this header. and that was in the last misfortune for the manchester city defender his missed time tackle in the box like to a brazil penalty rising star neymar gate keeper jason steele no chance with a for side shot into the corner. then at the riverside stadium. we know where that we can see going to the beach with us what people are saying

about those being favorites we know a strength of what we have to do is to work hard and show in the games that we can be champions on the beach in the world all together like we did today one help in another if we do this we can go far. meanwhile andy murray admits there could be a repeat of his wimbledon taze if he comes close to winning an olympic medal at his home games the world number four recently lost the final of the all england club to roger federer and couldn't hide his disappointment on court afterwards the olympic tennis tournament is to be held at wimbledon twenty five year old house and another emotion. always been very emotional i just try not to show. hours in front of millions of people you know it's pretty uncomfortable at the time when you can control your emotions in front of. the front of everybody watching but i have no idea you know i'm sure if i get close to winning medals or

you know. i wouldn't be surprised if there was some more motions. meanwhile a group of russian of volunteers have set off for london to help with the hopefully smooth running of the fast approaching games but also to gain experience for the winter olympics two years down the line is nick charles reports. with the london olympics now just around the corner russia are sending a force of one hundred and four chosen ones to the heart of the english capital to lend a helping hand and gain valuable experience for the winter games in sochi twenty fourteen i want to get this experience and hope that it will be useful fought their way into the olympic games and such it so i expect it's going to be a great experience for me and it will be useful for the russian team the farewell at the moscow airport was marked by an appearance of the leopard hair and white bear who are better known as the talismans of the sochi twenty fourteen paralympic

olympic games while the mascots cheered on the volunteers before they departure also taking part in this end of it was the president of the sochi twenty fourteen organizing committee dimitri children a shimko who sees this as a great opportunity for the team but they're not just ordinary. syrians. or real professionals our us are the cream of the cream. selected soror the three of us here and the previous games they select was handpicked from all over russia one of them is tatiana that i'm jane in a seventy year old pensioner from st petersburg this summer she took a break from her retirement routine and went to the other end of europe for the opportunity of a lifetime actually seeing your family if he was like a fairy tale i'm nervous but it's the moment we've all been waiting for i can believe that in a few hours we'll be in london and attending the olympics. during the winter games

in sochi twenty five thousand volunteers will be lending a helping hand and cover over twenty years of specific duties ranging from directing olympians to their distant nations to giving first aid to those that need it so she volunteers will make one third of the entire games personal and he's just some of them about to experience how it's done in. macon archos team asking. finally saturday sees the peralta much stage of the ninety nine toward a france take place in team sky's bradley wiggins that's almost certain to become the first briton ever to win the competition it was actually wiggins teammate and compactor mark cavendish one's going to take the second longest on the route the perfectly executed sprint finish allowed cavendish to cross the line fast and in

the process climbing twenty second stage when of his career he's now joined four time last saturday's time trial will suit overall leader wiggins who has the opportunity to extend his two minute five second advantage in the general classification and keep hold of the all important yellow jersey heading into sunday's final stage and the procession to powers. well that is all from the world of sport you know will be here later though here on r.t. with plenty more do join in then but the world weather is next followed by the headlines with carol. world with. her in more mouths to feed but where will the food come from can science provide the answers to the future of under the microscope. we've got the

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