soumitra writes that if you knew the song from phones to these. stones on t.v. don't come. hello and welcome to our team karen taraji and these are your stories the embattled syrian opposition makes a fresh plea for foreign action as activists claim popular support is dwindling allegations of rebel atrocities have surfaced with a video allegedly showing dad loyalists being thrown from a rooftop in aleppo. egypt's president has ordered his powerful defense minister and military chief of staff to quit the country's troops are currently engaged in a violent crackdown on militants in the mean creasing way rest of sanaa region on

the israeli border. and while the northeast egyptian border heats up israel feels trapped in the middle and beefs all but security forces in tel aviv's also worried about neighboring syria's chemical weapons stockpiles and how they'll be used with terror back to rubbles when out. next up a former syrian politician persecuted and forced underground for more than ten years tells us what he thinks is going wrong with his country. he was a critic of the syrian authorities long before it was safe to do that spending fourteen years in prison for his political activism dr abdul aziz al hayat a prominent member of syria's domestic position is joining us now on r.t. thank you very much for taps or for receiving me syrian opposition has so many faces at this moment they are bearded men with kalashnikovs there are some people

who are trying to direct the uprising from abroad you represent grassroots opposition do you think that your long time goals for this country to cure that here in visage. is actually being served by the ongoing question well it's a very important. question thank you for that. you know it's not easy now to decide. what we've struggled for a long time to achieve in syria is within reach nowadays because too many complications happened in the uprising of syria when i said most of the uprising started peacefully for democracy can really do credit towards freedom and dignity and percy. but. there was a curve the events because the regime decided to treat that was to worship only by military means us forcing syrians to hold arms to defend themselves at the

beginning and then there was a chance really an important chance for extremists and the opposition to enlarge their forces and to. gain support from some regional states and maybe global as well international i mean and that's who are the things started to get. worse and worse but we still stick to hope because we have to and we are still fighting to gain a peaceful political process in order to preserve the syrian people aims from the uprising do you have any. specific idea how we can start or you can start this political process because everybody is talking about every consideration but nobody knows how to carry this out. we are

trying to. sort out. any kind of understanding and a kind of agreement on the. international scale to calm things of the political parties involved including the americas versions trying is there a principle there of. the states that it's still way sure that everybody is losing and the result of the situation if it goes on will be a lose lose situation no one will benefit from that. that's why everybody must cooperate. to congress the military groups first of all the regime second round groups all the opposition that it's time it's high time indeed to come to

a cease fire and to start negotiations about what to do and how to arrange some peaceful future for the country of course this includes the president and his family must step aside at least for a while. and the power must be passed on to some acceptable personnel from the regime acceptable to the regime and accepted to the opposition as well. to start a presentation on period in which. a new constitution and new legality will be established in the country if those transparent elections here and visiting . would result in the current president assad getting the majority of votes would that be acceptable to you and i guess most importantly would that be acceptable acceptable to the world one says. any person accepts the

principle of voting and the voting is really legal and transparent everyone must accept that is what's the outcome. of the elections you spent fourteen years in prison and definitely your have an ax to grind with their subs family why are you not among those who are carrying arms at this point why no you're not fighting him because first of all being a studying and practicing politics for decades and i came to the conclusion which is the only logical conclusion that arms will lead to the destruction of the country and to democracy that's why it's harmful way it's useless and it will. support the extremists on both sides that's why from the very beginning it was very

clear for me and for others that peace for struggle is the only way towards a democratic future of the country you know in the western eyes the home grown civil of position and armed groups are perceived as allies given what you just said why haven't you or groups who support you been more vocal in trying to distance themselves from using terror for achieving political goals among the armed opposition you have different political goals. and different political attitudes i believe many groups through the armed opposition declared. they would be. in favor of a political process on certain terms and conditions of course what others will not

respond to that we have some cell if it's some that is the islamists will have their own agendas so among the sea real. the spirit. there are really connections with some armed. opposition groups. and there is a common understanding. among very not too hard here civilian is not to attack any. infrastructure establishment or it's only. illegal to use arms to defend lives and civilians now from the very beginning you've been strongly against. international intervention into syria in the forest and one can argue

that what we have now in syria is a form of government military intervention because you have lower forms going through your borders even you admit that there are some foreign nationals fighting the syrian army in the north rich do things more damaging the open libyan style military intervention or covered by its so lasting intervention in the form of supplying arms the libyan style. is. completely imaginary when the strike up like in syria it's impossible. all because circumstances of this syrian creature. circumstances what happened and why we're here to answer it is number two yes day after day the struggle and the fighting in syria is. coming some kind of

a proxy war now they off today very easy number one and the only group in the opposition. are becoming more and more hostages in the hands of their allies we are losing their. independent decision. they cannot apply what they think or believe and because they need support in arms and ammunition and fine until. it's at or etc etc freedom can mean very different things to. many different people and the footage that we often get from the north of the fighters. shouting allahu akbar . there are also reports that they are fighting for the creation of their islamic state. and my question to you is is there any danger that in search for

greater political freedoms syria may lose all other forms of freedom for example social religious gender freedom and you know all those other aspects of dignity and freedom are they simply very frankly yes there is a possibility now and it was not. created just now accommodated through days that the syrians may lose some of the freedoms that they are used to it's a possibility but there are other possibilities of well that's why we say now you cannot preserve your rights by just being afraid of what it you must be active. we believe that the majority of the syrians would not choose any kind or even just state i sometimes get an impression that here in syria the hatred for the opponent within some people is chong the law for their own country and they would rather be

right than merciful to people around them how can you in the current circumstances and given your experience how can you foster the spirit of conciliation given how far this situation has gone already among some serious the majority of the syrians among the active syrians now. the majority is not active yet and those that can. have us has to vote from time to time what on earth is going on how are you doing that yes we are questioning themselves but i believe this is a reaction will come there which will come to an end sooner or later because it's not a real culture or real sort of this you know history of the syrian people thank you

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embattled syrian opposition makes a fresh plea for foreign action as activists claim popular support is rental and new allegations of rebel atrocities have surfaced with a video allegedly showing a dad a boy lists seen thrown from a rooftop in aleppo. egypt's president has ordered his powerful defense minister and military chief of staff to quit the country's troops are currently engaged in a violent crackdown on militants in the increasingly of ruston tonight region on the israeli border. and while the northeast egyptian border heats up israel feels trapped in the middle and its security forces tel aviv's also worry about

neighboring syria's chemical weapons stockpiles and how they'll be used at the terrible act rubbles point out. all right sport is next with union and i guess all that's left to say is wrong and of course sochi twenty fourteen last ride london twenty twelve is of course not finished it's brazil next and twenty sixteen but in seventeen months not that anybody's counting here of course it is the winter olympics coming just so what you we've got more on all but right now. to have you with us this is sports there were plenty had few including the story. to us that russia secure three more goals on the final day of the london olympic games to finish fourth overall. slump continues to

stay rooted to the bottom of the russian premier league table after losing their fourth straight game. weekend to remember remark arroyo wins the final major of the golf season the p.g.a. championship bias and see a trip. to london twenty twelve summer olympics have come to a close the final day of the game seeing team russia have three more goals to their whole meaning they did after all improve on their performance four years ago in beijing for more on that here is done with fifteen mental events scheduled for the final day sixteen of the london olympics russians proved to be the best in three of them and we start with arguably one of the most epic match ups at the london games the men's volleyball final to be a real thriller with man producing

a stunning comeback against the sport's powerhouse brazil and making history the russians became the first team ever to win the men's olympic volleyball final from two says down and brought the country its first ever olympic volleyball gold and russia have finally claimed a gold medal in boxing at these olympics the country's newest a limp dick champ you go to me. he battle it out against stones. in a very light heavyweight. meanwhile in richmond gymnastics russia has been a dominant force for decades after you've been agonizing was gold in the individual all around event on saturday the russians proved their class in the group competition this was russia's fourth consecutive allenby gold in the discipline one moment all for russia on the day game in the men's basketball undertaken olenka and co managed to collect themselves after their disappointing defeat from spain in the

semifinals and secured a bronze medal with an eighty one to serve a seven win over argentina this was also russia's first olympic medal in this event well the london olympics are over now and russia's final stats are twenty four golds twenty five still worse and thirty three bronze medals just won gold and none medals more than in beijing four years ago over in two thousand and eight russia finished third in the overall medal standings while here in london it was the hosts does of the police on the global olympic podium just behind china and the usa and still not a disaster for russia who have shown some signs of improvement robert colony on r.t. on done. meanwhile team usa confirmed their status as the best in the basketball business by beating spain for their second straight gold medal chef ski's charges

however pushed hard in a rematch of the beijing olympics final the americans struggling to contain spain early on the power of the underdogs and to some solid feel should be done jeans. however led a late surge for a one zero seven one hundred fifty the americans thus proving the hard won again for a fourth olympics men's basketball. written on three joshua meanwhile claim super heavyweight gold beijing winner roberto come a day early losing out on bok after the match was tied at eighteen points apiece lennox lewis on. the same title as i. squeezed in their second gold medal of the games out the very last event laura. taking top honors in the women's modern pentathlon thanks to a stunning display in the shoot run part of this. this is how the top of the medals table looked at the end rushes just behind the top three one goal shorts of their target of twenty five and place the standings to

create a feeling for team usa the country back on top after china pushed them into second place four years ago this time it's the chinese who have to settle for over old silver all great britain and northern ireland's extraordinary games for them finishing third place. the olympic project proven to be a major success story for london the city itself also closely watched by organizers of the next olympics the twenty fourteen winter games g to take place in the russian city of sorts she constantine to top off takes up the story. the london games have come to an end and eyes will now turn on the russian city of sochi as the black sea resort prepares to host the next winter games in just eighteen months however these games in london have been crucial to this such organizing committee who say they've learned a vital lessons one hundred fifty specialists from such organization committed learning from their positive experience of london again as there's enough cross in

the way our colleagues. treated the challenges they faced deserve on the marks. this is similar to where we have to bring into the structure of those problems included ticketing issues at the start of the games and there were empty seats at some then use however the problem was quickly result secondly there were concerns about congestion in the center of london and that didn't turn out to be a problem and that was in no small things to the thousands of volunteers who guided to and from vanier's so things to learn there but such organizers have taken comfort from the fact that the development of the black sea resort is similar to the development of the olympic park in london like and so it should. have been that way to the most depressive version of them. into the region with

a well developed infrastructure for the south of us like i say in such a way of creating new city. in the middle of nowhere which will turn such into the all year round you saw on the international winter sport just a nation what to do with these venues after the olympics is always a key issue in london many will be used for years to come and if they're not they will be removed and that's also something such organizers want to copy but it's not on the tangible. legacy like your role it's airports or power station on the new hotels and then us it's much more beyond we are going green in construction we have to change the attitude toward people with disabilities create a new standard all the better for the environment for those whose disability assembly created the home there isn't as a culture which didn't exist in our country before once the queen elizabeth olympic

bodies. it will attract we estimate nine million visitors a year to become one of the top ten must see sights in. russia alembic chiefs i regret to repeat the overwhelming success we've seen here over the past three weeks and leave london believing they now have everything required to make such one of the best winter games in history come sunday about the r.t. london. let's leave the olympics behind now and talk russian premier league football where game week for concluded on sunday as in the past three weeks there was an auction to forget for dinner the historical powerhouse languishing at the bottom of the table following their fourth straight defeat rubin this time their victory but it wasn't until seventy eight minutes in that the hosts finally broke the deadlock the league's joint top scorer berbers not chilled firing on the for. the win sealed

then right out the death. letting rip from the outside the area going to be no op the second while the nama are already looking like prime relegation common. task in moscow a return to winning ways the army men had suffered back to back defeats heading into their classroom. but john toss it eased c.s.k. worry somewhat with the winning strike fifteen minutes from time the goal also condemning the savings to their first defeat of the season. and sunday's first game on carney poised more davia finished goal listen perm while in the last truly a summary outof me the two wins on the trot away to struggling. to goal finally where irish eyes are very much smiling today that's off to remark on roy blitzed his way to victory at the final major of the season the p.g.a. championship after a weather delayed some real was

a whole lot of golf that we played on sunday marco royce seizing the initiative to move away from joint overnight leader v.j. singh and secure a three shot advantage at the end of the run. and so to run for even puerto started brightly moving to thin a shot of marco royo over a series of bogeys at the start of the back nine would ruin his chances another englishman the on heralded david lane had a late run to finish second but that day was to belong to mark roy the northern irishman simply in scorching form on on keo. island a closing birdie completing a bogey free round of sixty six came a massive eight stroke win over the field last year's u.s. open winner of the p.g.a. championship to his c.v. two majors by the age of twenty three not going at all. just an incredible day you know it you know i just sort of continued on from there in the lead last night and. you know played some beautiful golf on the back nine this morning even

though i didn't didn't hole and he held a couple parts but could have been a bit better and you know went out there this afternoon just trying to play solid golf i set myself a target i said look if i get the twelve under par no one's going to catch me. and i was able to go one better than. what a weekend for rory and all your sports mr paul scott told me here in the next two hours with more sport whether it's next. to the. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.