make your statement. below and welcome to our cheese the weakling of karen tar all these are your headlines pair of bling house postpones an emergency meeting on syria where rebels are struggling to hold back enough funds to bother shooting in the country's biggest city aleppo the u.s. and its allies are bolstering the insurgency in with fresh multimillion dollar support and looking for new ways to replace a saw. a three members of russian punk band pussy riot await the verdict for staging an anti putin stunt in russia's main cathedral prosecutors want a three year prison term and the case attracted the attention of some of the

world's biggest music stars. criminal probe star launched into a muslim sect in central russia that kept around thirty children in an underground bunker for almost ten years the children aged between one and seventeen years have never been to school or been seen by a doctor and have rarely been allowed into daylight. and a major offensive is under way in egypt's volatile tsunami region it's to try and restore security after the border violence which left sixteen interruption soldiers dead last week. next american world affairs expert phyllis bennis explains why arming both sides in the syrian conflict only serves outside interests. thank you for joining us on r.t.

red cross and many other experts are saying that the situation in syria has descended into a civil war a full scale civil war. how does that how does that affect the positions of the positions of the west versus the position of other countries so far we have seen no indication that either the us or any of the outside actors are taking seriously the consequences of the determination by the international committee of the red cross that this is a full scale civil war what it means among other things is that the international laws of war what's known as international humanitarian law apply throughout the region and it applies to the opposition as well as to the regime they are obligated under the conditions of international law not to use certain kinds of weapons not to attack civilians not to hold prisoners without some kind of process all of those things are part of international humanitarian law and we have seen no evidence yet

that any of the outside actors are taking any of that seriously what does that mean to the syrian conflict what it means for the syrian people is that the militarization of this conflict is escalating that can only be in my view dangerous more dangerous the notion that there can be a transition a regime that would not have the same kind of repression that we have seen from assad all these years is still possible the fact that hillary clinton is now reduced to acknowledging that that if assad himself arranges a transition safe haven whether it's in moscow whether it's and saudi arabia or somewhere else that's still possible then the question becomes who is going to be in control if the escalation continues if the militarization continues what we will then see is that the post. government will be led by the men with guns just like what we saw in libya just like what was so in somalia and many other i don't want

to make comparisons libya is a very different country than syria somalia is a very different country but the notion that the victors of a political struggle because this is still a political struggle in syria when the victors are those with the guns that always bodes ill for women for children for civilians syria is not libya syria has a long history of of civil society mobilization and organizations they have many things that was not possible in libya it's not the same i don't want to equate them but the danger is that you will have certain parallels certain similarities such as unaccountable militias who will not put themselves under the accountability of a new government that is a very dangerous reality and as diplomats have already acknowledged if there is another bigger explosion in syria if the entire syrian body politic explodes it will be an explosion not an implosion as libya was there is the danger because it

is becoming sectarian because of that sectarian character that is only now becoming dominant in syria in a country that was not traditionally a sectarian divided religiously divided country despite the use by the regime of the religious and sectarian divisions to maintain its power this was not a population that identified primarily by their religious affiliation as sunni or shia or alawite or whatever it was a possibility that if you were alawite you had a better shot at power but it wasn't the way people define themselves the danger of course is that with that growing the sectarianism growing there is the danger that it will spill over the borders and. some congress. senators calls to arm the rebels for the u.s. to intervene don't you think that's just going to make it worse any further

intervention by further militarization is going to make things worse the original militarization has made things far more difficult further militarization is going to kill more civilians the choice of the syrian opposition to take up arms was contested from the beginning by other parts of the syrian resistance who said that we have a better chance of changing our government of overthrowing the government by nonviolent methods so certainly more escalation whether it's by the u.s. or any other outside power is going to be very very dangerous experts now say that the rebels in syria are very much dominated by there is an interest in the united states for instance of downplaying the role of the islamists but it's become more apparent that there are islamist forces whether they are al qaeda i think there is certainly not much evidence yet i think that it is a very dangerous for outside actors who are not on the ground who don't necessarily

have good sources on the ground to assume that any islamist forces for instance are part of al qaeda that's a word that's designed to sow terror in the minds of anybody in the west anyone in europe in the united states it cetera i don't think we know yet what we do know is that the opposition in syria is very diverse there is a part of it that has an islamist framework the same is true of all of the the rebellions that have led to the arab spring we see the muslim brotherhood in power now in egypt that's not al-qaeda there were people claiming it then it was not true we don't know if it's true in syria diplomatically the efforts where do you think that's had given that the escalate the situation on the ground is escalating the fact that the u.n. has. allowed the the monitoring mission to remain on the ground for at least another thirty days is the one bit of hope that i see right now kofi annan team led

by general mood the norwegian general has begun the political process in which they have been able to use in one town another town in small areas from the ground up to make possible a kind of diplomatic process of local commanders of the military and local commanders of the opposition forces of the resistance to create small scale ceasefires in three or four towns the town of day sore is one town in syria where it's apparently working if that could be expanded if that mandate could be shifted from simply monitoring a non-existent national ceasefire to facilitating small scale local ceasefires that could then spread and move up from the bottom bringing people with it rather than trying impose something from outside from the top down which certainly has not worked that might be the one hope for a diplomatic and less militarized solution as susan rice and other foreign

diplomats at the u.n. said that they are willing or they will withdraw at the through the monitors if this insulation on the ground is does not improve and so far it's not improving so is that is that is that them saying that this is the last time where expanding this mesh that they are saying this is the last time they said that the last time they will change based on political realities not based on the realities on the ground the realities on the ground are not what is determining u.s. positions russian positions qatar's positions saudi positions anybody's positions except for the people of syria what the outside powers are doing has virtually nothing to do with what actually is going on on the ground so what we're seeing play out of the united nations. is a power struggle between the united states and russia between nato and the gulf states on the one hand and other arab states on the other we're seeing

a bunch of different battles playing out diplomatically almost none of which are taking into account the interests of the people of syria where do you think that's had you think there will be since. clinton and other diplomats have talked about intervention on site they want to think that's going to happen do you think that's a possibility that the west is looking at there is already intervention underway the western countries have provided the military of saudi arabia the military of culture that's where they buy their weapons from they buy american weapons so it is already western weapons that are going in it's not coming directly from the us but it is weapons of the west the danger of that escalating is very serious the danger of further escalation involving other outside actors is very serious i don't think the us right now in an election cycle i don't think the obama administration wants to engage in

a direct involvement in an air campaign for instance against syria of the kind they engaged in libya i don't think they want to whether what is known in the us as the c.n.n. factor the political pressure on a president in this case on a candidate in the election based on what people are seeing on their television sets becomes very important it's not impossible that even when the regime in power in any country and in this country when the obama administration doesn't want to engage directly if there is enough political pressure they may give in to that pressure that's happened before it could happen again mccain is trying to exercise that kind of pressure on their congressmen and other senators if there's a number of senators there's a number of members of congress there's calls from the punditry in the mainstream media it's. there's a lot of pressure on the obama administration not because any of them have a proposal of what would actually work but simply because they're using this as

a stick to hit candidate obama in the context of the elections that's very dangerous for the rest of the world what are the solutions that you think are best for syria and he's saying there is still time for dialogue but when the government and the opposition i think there is still time i think the time is diminishing i think that the level of repression from the government has been so horrific and in response the opposition which i support as a principle of the right of people to rise up against a repressive regime the fact that they are using stronger and stronger military. strategies and military tactics makes that kind of discourse that kind of discussion that kind of negotiation more difficult but there is still time i think the question remains will the international community help to make that possible for example by small scale community by community village by village city by

city negotiating process is at the grassroots bringing together local commanders with local officials of the of the military to work out a cease fire and then the political process the best thing the international community could do would be to allow the u.n. to play that role rather than as a fig leaf of international involvement a fig leaf of multilateralism to cover the unilateral decisions of several different governments.

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arab league has postponed an emergency meeting on serial where rebels are struggling to hold back an offensive by the regime and the country's biggest city aleppo the u.s. and its allies are bolstering the insurgency with a brush multimillion dollar support and looking for new ways to replace a solid. three members of russian punk band pussy riot await the verdict for staging an anti of group and stunt in russia's main cathedral prosecutors want a three year prison term the case has attracted the attention of some of the world's biggest music stars. criminal probes are launched into a muslim sect in central russia kept around thirty children in an underground

bunker for almost ten years the children aged between one and seventeen years have never gone to school or been seen by a doctor and had rarely been allowed into daylight. and a major offensive is under way in egypt's volatile tsunami region it's to try and restore security after the border violence which left sixteen egyptian soldiers. dead last week. let's check now what's going on in the world of sport you know it is here and of course the olympics are on the top of your charts but what about those in need footballers yeah we're going to be getting to the olympics very shortly but russian football it's a gold today open simply to bring the smiles are everywhere because they beat their biggest rival to meet five spartak moscow what a result more and not right now a. thanks

for joining us this is for today we have got plenty ahead few of the next eleven minutes or so including. half a dozen team russia the most successful day yet at the twenty twelve olympic games winning sixteen medals suffered a. northern mike's reeling russian football champions in a play in their biggest win over type of rival sports in over half a century crushing the red and whites five goals to nil. tied up the top rain stopped play during the penalty but rather dull the season's final major with remarkable royalty just saying giving the way out that. russia have enjoyed their most successful day yet the olympic games in london six goals coming in teams way on sunday setting new world on olympic records in the process the money that just doesn't stop farmar he's got more. it was

a super saturday for russia and a sensational one for their rhythmic gymnasts gania conniver she has become the first person to win olympic back to back titles in the individual all around event the twenty two year old wiring the crowd and judges with a grace and charm and top scored with the hoop ball and clubs she was only second best in the ribbon and that was the fellow russian doubted me today eva who got the silver russia have now won this event for the last four olympics and no one is more happy than conniver if they shout at the stars i still have a smile on my face some three hours after the competition wrapped up i'm the happiest person in the world right now i didn't expect so many people to cheer for me at these games meanwhile as side in the sunshine rushes walkers were lining the streets with gold last man ever setting a new world record in their women's twenty k. race gliding past teammate and defending olympic champion. at the death of victory

in front of buckingham palace finishing in a time of one hour twenty five minutes and to seconds. before that surrogate could be epic instead a new a limping record when he won the men's fifty k. race the double world champion said he felt low on energy after thirty k. but found second wind to set a new game's best of just over three hours and thirty seven minutes almost a full minute ahead of destroyers jarrod talent who got silver on the track the reception over added an olympic gold to her world crown in the eight hundred meters belorussian a catheter you know pushed over the plane bronze behind south africa's caster semenya and after that the women claim silver in the four by four hundred meter relay behind the usa and while that was going on and the child over playing gold in the high jump the world champion the only woman to play two weeks isn't five compactly it should call in or not the bronze in america is just about the silver so that takes care of five gold medals but the very first one of the day was won on the water at eight in dorney with russia winning the men's kayak double sprint

power. paratroopers the guy and alexander that you change are finishing the two hundred meter course a full second ahead of the rest four and then pick glory even still grab bronze in the men's singles sprint. on this occasion there were no gold medals for russia's wrestlers but they did get their tenth and eleventh medals of these games the seek to do course got a silver he lost in the final sixty kilogram freestyle to talk to gold of the wallaby yalom a whole lot bronze hundred twenty kilogram category and boxer davida at a party and make sure he got bronze in the flyweight division. so russia are opening up a bit of a sprint at the end of these games and it certainly got me out of breath just talking about it for sunday is the home straight and the last chance for russia to close in on their target of twenty five gold medals and three farmer. london. saturday's showpiece event again had you seen bolt at the center of it the jamaican

who already has starkly retained both his one hundred and two hundred metres in the back titles now also a double one hundred meters relay champion just like in beijing four years ago the sprint sensation shaun of london twenty twelve a sketchy run up to the games for the twenty five year old forgot the bottom victory in both of his individual disciplines and there was little thought last night too after he picked up the baton from your hand blake for the final leg bolt finishing ahead of team u.s.a.'s ryan bailey to all to set a new olympic record in the event jamaica the first team to ever run the relay and sub thirty seven seconds thirty six point eight four to be exact full six school medals officially making him the greatest sprinter of all. it was a shock over in the men's football final at the olympics mexico to brazil won the first goal just a minute end of arabia perera scoring he did the same here fifteen minutes from time of a great header brazil would pull one back through hold the chelsea want. that was

as good as it got for the resilience to all mexicans first ever olympic. create scenes that despite the numerous debates before the games that looks now like london two thousand and twelve has been a major success for britain along with the financial pluses the olympics simply made the country feel better as robert down in florida. can secure. a transport housing infrastructure just supports the cultural and social legacy from london. for these days and these games to go for decades to help the words of london mayor boris johnson inspire but only time will show if they're true with the games coming to an end we took to the streets of london to find out if the olympics have really changed the country for good personally oversee is an opportunity for everybody. now and i in the u.k.

to come down and watch the olympics games and. the nation how it is inspired a lot of people that is get involved in sport although for those who do sports and just watch the one great thing in common the unique feeling of being part of the british sporting event on the planet i think it's a emotional impact that it's had on the whole of the country it's galvanized by scotland wales and england it has been really fantastic it's quite nice atmosphere and yeah it's really fun to watch think it's been amazing has been in london so my home city just being able to come up to london enjoy the atmosphere. with everybody around from all over the well it's just been fantastic the huge investments in the london twelve summer olympics are definitely expected to materialize in term benefits for the whole country but on top of all that is simply the way the games

just made people feel i. i. i was. i. was. so the hosts great britain along with those who came here to the building give. birth for the new party. leaving the olympics and funky dogs with sunglasses to one side and talking football now are stunning results on some of the i'd look at the top of the table changed dramatically in the russian premier league as an eight versus sports i

mustn't game at any time but even more so this time might considering both sides were perfect after three q. and sharing the summit on nine points but it turned out to be far from an even battle up north and it's maksim to nick off the nearby straw fans need to know up to fifty two minutes before. missed the chance the whole goal back from the penalty spot. would immediately make it three nil the visitors was deepening when he had mcgeady saw straight red for what seemed like a pretty innocuous challenge because as you and showed no sympathy for four nil just minutes later before sure will call for up to his breaks right at the death five nil the final score as an eco three points clear at the top. meanwhile missed the chance to push up the joint second spot alongside city rival spartak the real women held to a two two draw at home to allow near the bloody calf i think twice coming from behind to earn a point in the capital all the scoring done by the thirty seventh minutes with the inform thomas pushkin the last man to get his name on the squish.

the team who align you whitewashed five the last week have got back to winning ways turkey brawls need to prepare a vulcan nation no growth to nil at home in chechnya. not in a brace with a strike in each off now the fifth but face a tough four weeks ahead moscow spartak moscow would have been some petersburg. with all the excitement going on in london one could be for. given for forgetting there's a massive gulf event happening across the atlantic remark a royal saying the leader shot the final major of the season the p.g.a. championship with run three suspended on saturday because of bad weather there were three men at the top heading into the weekend but cole peterson tiger woods are no longer someone with a dreadful start of the day at kiawah island sitting three over through seven holes seeing though is still one of the players to catch the big. for another solid diving though he too had to return to the clubhouse after seven holes at stormy

conditions and with an irishman like a roy is also at the top last year's u.s. open winner putting five of the nine holes he managed to play before the weather halted proceedings. you know the way i'm looking at it you know i'm going into the final final day of the final major of the season tied for the lead so i mean i can't ask for much more so you know i don't care if it's going to be twenty seven holes eighteen holes thirty six holes you know i'm just happy to be going in and a good position. not all for me for that day mr paul scott was here in the next two hours for more weathers next. wealthy british style it's time to.

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