thanks for joining r.t. it's half past the hour these are your top stories a u.n. convoy comes under fire in what appears to be a rebel held area in syria while washington considers injecting pots of money into the opposition and. fresh reports say millions of dollars aimed at training locals to maintain security in iraq and restoring infrastructure in afghanistan are going to waste its critics attack plans to send u.s. police across unstable regions of the world. and russian police get closer to

solving the shocking mystery of more than two hundred human fetuses discovered in woods with the source revealed as a state institution. and picks up on r.t.r. interview with the russian envoy for human rights constantine who says the norms of international law around the world leave much to be desired. thank us. thank you. thank our consent to go freshen foreign ministries and woodsmen from human rights democracy and the rule of law it's great to have you with us again sir hello and good emotion is to be back next the arab spring has upset the balance of power in north africa and the middle east who witnessed islamist movements come to power across the

region some are moderate but also the rise of radical islamism is evident what threat do these radicals represent well first of all we saw called arab spring. a process which probably reflects certain objective phenomena in the in the region that was the movement which pretty much from within. are all of us lee there was certain external but dissipation i would say or even some certain external prodding in those cases where the changes came from within stability in those cases in those countries is basically kept and we face fewer immediate dangers as far as extremism is concerned as far as the security there all of those countries and all of the joining regions is concerned. it is definitely different when. certain transformations certain political

changes being pushed from the outside then it's a different picture and. we keep reiterating that it's not only russia's view that you cannot bring about democracy from the outside democracy to become the result of the certain internal processes if we take for instance this issue which is which falls within my purview of my men the situation of the field of human rights and democratic development and rule of law. yes you are absolutely right the picture is not black and white and. we cannot say that. that human rights being insured. absolutely better. in the. certain countries of the region

where the arab spring has occurred. it's still a long way it's still a long way let's take for instance i mean pretty much all of them but let's take for instance libya let's take for a little when you talk about better like our human rights ensured at all when we were better off before the need to let invasion or now i don't know what will the new government in libya do you know the elections and. when i see the new government. government and your thought it is they expressed their willingness to build the democratic libya to build libya which will live here to the basic human rights and democratic freedoms which is positive it's a long way and the picture once again is pretty much mixed because what we see now is unfortunately the violations of human rights may be to continue.

in the way it is a result of the military conflict which raised in the country but still future is ahead of this country and we hope that this future will be democratic we hope that human rights. in their you know in their integrity will be ensured for both the libyans and for the citizens of other countries what's going on with the two men to russian language serving their sentence in libya well i'm not a lawyer. i'm not sure whether this term serving their sentence is absolutely right because they have been sentenced. one of them to life time in prison another one to ten years in prison and we have expressed. our assessment of the of the sentences we think there are too harsh that they absolutely do not deserve such punishment and we think that the legal and the

legal processes have been faulted and have been flawed and. oh. the situation is that. the the lawyers and the russian embassy as with the russians has been very much supporting those efforts have appealed we hope that these sentences will be reviewed seriously reviewed we. strongly encourage the libyan authorities to. provide for all the basic rights. of our citizens in accordance with international standards. remains to bring our citizens back home talking about bringing citizens back to russia victor boot is one example of

how what he has defendants say is a criminal case invented by the united states just to remind our viewers a picture of what is a russian business and who was arrested kidnapped by the u.s. drug enforcement administration and sentenced to twenty five years in prison to serve in the united states and russia's foreign ministry has said many times that it would try to restore justice what's going to happen there do you think well the same goal we we are undertaking all necessary efforts to bring i was it isn't back home where yes indeed we think that the sentence is unjust we think that the entire legal process. process which led to their sentence was absolutely political from beginning to em. political or politicized maybe roath the goal remains the same. we keep raising the issue of mr wood or

some other similar cases of mr yushchenko also russians of them who also has been has been. a else a pilot who had been extradited. to the united states and. i would and he also has been sent as i think to twenty years when you say it was a little political case what exactly do you mean like america versus rochelle what you know the reason lot of hollywood is in the in the story of mr bush i mean. i don't mean only that famous movie a lot of the war you know which we fortunately also became a factor in the which must not happen factor in the last year but but you know he was sentenced for as it was for intentions you know for inventions to can mean something illegal in the use of in the eyes of the

american system of justice what we've seen is of course lack of. objective and impartial. legalistic approach one more issue we keep pushing the american authorities. to ensure. you mean conditions for our citizens in prison it is not good when russian citizens in american prisons are being deprived of medical assistance for us and unfortunately we had to raise this issue more than once with americans both mr good and mr you're a shrink. and you know all the blood is still in the one of the federal prisons and he is in a special cell for. the most. dangerous criminals he definitely does not in his present condition. in particular he does

not represent any. clear and present danger to the security of the united states president obama promised to close down guantanamo and then one russian citizen is also serving the sentence in that prison but he hasn't been able to do that so far do you think it will be easier for him to accomplish if he's re-elected well there is still some time before the election so. i don't want to speculate about the upcoming american elections who will win and what will happen you know it's definitely the will of the american people but. this particular. problem is a gaping you know in the you want reds domain because that particular prism is a very special institution and norms of international law. be it international or international humanitarian law or you know they are not

respected there is like a legal way kewl you know which one is going to suddenly or you used to be whether it will be difficult by the income of the ministration and some people say the chances are slim. but their best to live their lives if there is a will is they say there is a way. or it will be tackled by the next administration and whatever the administration will be you know but it is to be tackled it is to be there because these. are. resolved human rights problem just very briefly i want to get back to where we started talking about the arab revolutions syria is in the news a lot lately and if we observe. what happened and how things happened in countries like egypt tunisia libya all those arab countries that underwent revolutions what lessons are there to be learned for the syrian scenario

you know i will stick to the humanitarian field the main lesson is or is the following the best way to prevent new casualties among the civilian population among the civilians the best way to ensure in the long term manner. respect for human rights respect for human dignity. definitely to stop personages as soon as possible use to strike and begin full fledge it mention or political dialogue in compassing all constructive political forces began three different leaders to happen without external interference civilians are the first to suffer we saw it in libya unfortunately where quite a number of civilians perished including under the nato strikes including under nato they did and it is still to be investigated by the way. which has not

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to permission. these friends don't see on t.v. don't own. a u.n. convoy comes under fire and what appears to be a rebel held area in syria while washington considers injecting pots of money into the opposition. pressure poured say millions of dollars aimed at training locals to maintain security in iraq and restoring and for structure in afghanistan are going to waste as critics attack plans to send u.s. police across on stable regions of the world. and russian police get closer to solving the shocking mystery of more than two hundred few men fia's says discovered in the woods with a source revealed as a state institution. in fifteen minutes now it's time for sport with i'm

on. hello and welcome of this is for the arts are you with me a room on call for a london lympics and the rest of the headlines out first. match at sec team russia secured their second gold at the libby games and again it's in judo. two goals in two games all that given all for remains the only score for today as the chechen side claimed their first next three of the season against crossroads are. and from dream to reality russia's first ever professional motor sport track is dried out for the first time. and let's start with the swans it's well the london olympics where there's been another gold in judo for russia on day three with the details from london here is

andrew former. so i want to start for russia i know we've only had three days of competition so far but russia have been amongst the medals for the third day running to date saying have got a second gold it came from montreal is that even the seventy three kilogram category he beat japan's world champion ricky in a car in the final a man he hadn't beaten in six previous attempts and he did it with the yukon and that effectively means he threw his opponent on the side that happened in the final minutes of this five minute contest is the eye of a true olympic champion he came into this contest ranked number four but he blew away a host of big names including south korea's ki-chan wang in the semifinal no doubt much to the delight of russia's judo loving president vladimir putin but of course no one is more delighted than is die if himself. and i had a solid game plan for the clash my coach told me all i had to do it was crucial to neutralize my opponent the stronger hand and prevent him from doing any effective

moves also ahead to boy and it. worked out. so joy for him but there was pain in the pool for russia and this is who came fourth in one hundred metres backstroke final she was second at the turn but lost out on the bronze medal to japan's i attack our american missy franklin got the gold with . claiming the silver there's also more heartbreak for us her hopes went without trace in one hundred metres breaststroke coming in seventh after coming forth in beijing with the way his teenage insatiate routinely t.j. taking the gold and india is a toff could not add to the bronze he got in sunday's relay finishing down the field in the two hundred metres freestyle that was won by france's agnel gani favorite ryan lochte was fourth well there was better news for russia's handball and basketball teams the women in those events both keeping one hundred percent records at these games with two wins from two incidentally the russian prime

minister to reach me. video of kissing every member of the house after their victory over great britain russia's men know in the artistic you now six didn't do you say well they didn't pick up a medal in the final however the women do have a chance to shine in that event on tuesday with more is richard on monday wasn't the best of afternoons for russia's male gymnasts as i failed to get on the podium in the team event however on tuesday you had tension turns to russia's women's at the gymnastics team as well try and fight it out for a medal where there's a lot of expectations on them and rightly so they managed to qualify in second place for the team final which will take place on the tuesday after a couple of names which are well worth looking out for including victoria. she managed to finish in first place overall for in the quarter cation period and also . watches russia's team leader and best gymnasts for countries produced perhaps in years bo it has been difficult for half an hour she's just come back from

a very serious injury nevertheless former russian gymnasts steeliness ahmad she's backing of the russian team to do well on tuesday and try and bring home a medal but. you know leo is going through some hard times right now she was and she actually still is a leader but the young generation is catching up with her but she has to bush has to give up she's a fighter and i'm sure she'll be fine. for the arms of a swimming pool where russia just one bronze to show over varified so far but they'll be looking to certain improve on tuesday and first of all veronica should be going in women's two hundred metres freestyle but will be a very difficult task for her to try and get on the podium but perhaps much more is going to be explained to the russia's four by two hundred freestyle relay team well back in beijing in two thousand and eight they managed to claim a silver just a few days ago the men's four by one hundred metres freestyle relay team they managed to claim a bronze on

a lot of expectation on them both very. to try and bring home a would be russia's second medal in the pool so far also very few chances even beyond sure you will if you remember just a few days ago russia the women's team they were on the brink of a medal in the team competition but just missed out on the points and getting a final in just two points on getting a bronze medal so will be seen you can manage to get a medal in the individual events and just have a bit more luck on my side couple of other events times to tell you about where russia might have outside chances once in the men's for oil fencing and the men's judo where russia have done very well so far winning two gold medals and also just . keep beating the volleyball we got off to a great start with the first mind taking on brazil a favor is really to win gold two thousand and twelve london olympics so this will be a great test for the russian side who ranked second in the world kind of a you can get a win over the perennial foes the brazilians but it's going to bode well for the

rest of the tournament their hopes of trying to claim the men's volleyball gold medal so this is fast becoming one of the best at the start to an end in picks for russia and president putin is due to arrive in london in a couple of days' time so let's hope the russian team can keep that medals tally ticking over until the end andrew pharma. london. let's move on to russian football where it's headed cross they have claimed their first win of the season after beating f.c. krasnodar one nail on home pitch eighteen minutes were all that stunned his lot church of his men needed in order to get to that victory even all headed in his second goal of this year's game in the campaign to seal the finals for all one nil to take already in the first half so grass' they are now in the standings with four points while cross the seventh with three.

now russia's first ever world class motorsport track has been tested out in the moscow region a four time formula one champion alan process among those in attendance for their rental world series event course that's important was there as well. four years ago few dram to moscow would have its very own world class more a sports wreck today even a month ago you could heal new workers here and the quickest car was nowhere near formula one levels but the dream finally came true and high octane action has found its home on the outskirts of the moscow region make an impact in international motor sport now a very real possibility for russia the building of the track began in two thousand and eight with a total cost to reaching one hundred fifty million dollars when it comes to a wants to get the best rate money can buy they call herrmann toolkit the global renowned architect who's designed numerous f one tracks around the world it's

a very technical track we have one part also talk is. a half is so slow and very very tricky if you push too hard then you go a little bit over the limit and you know there's a lot of time and you have to have in mind that the combination of a connoisseur don't need to concentrate on the car you are in now you have to concentrate also on the next two cars. after four years of plenty and many more years of dreaming russia finally has its own motor sports track to help because now that racers can develop their skills and their own country and maybe even fast track their way into the f one race. one man already did throw up into when it's in the rework work it became the first russian to make it into the sports top echelons securing his first podium finish at the season opening

a struggling ground pre the following season and after two years bela trana the twenty seven year old driver now races with get around f one where. the action is a tackle. better than percy was. i think they make a few cars hold the books is the thought of michael it's no is no bump in the. you know about the it's it's quite difficult you know it's it's a lot of those people call a second or third year and it's very difficult to find a fix on the corner if one is for another day however the rana world series taking center stage this week not only was the first franchise to test the track it also hosted the first ever international motor sport event in russia. it's saying that yeah. that's easy. that's why keep the such. stuff just. tried what you can accept home just like the small private

russia is already set to join their one calendar in twenty fourteen it's another circuit in the winter olympic of surgeries over the moscow raceway should prove a solid plan b. and some of the sport still surrounds you most likely be held here the dream finally a reality constantine bought up of archie. and finally the following athletes in germany have their own interpretation of what's going on in london right now the eighth model and takes bringing together competitors who don't mind getting down and dirty to reach that stop the lighting of the ceremonial torch in hamburg only slightly less the tackler than a similar ceremony on friday after the fort campbell first on the menu with team members more than likely having trouble distinguishing the opposition from one of their own sleighs are usually reserved for the winter games but

a relay race for the mavs was among the clear spectator favorites here a battle of local footballing powerhouses so i've seen the muscle beat meaner form full of the gold all the dirty fun for a good cause with proceeds going to a local cancer charity yeah. i will be back in just under a couple of hours but don't forget to that our youtube channel is available to you at any time just search for artsy sport news and you'll find us thank you for watching. and.