oh and welcome to the program karen taraji with your top stories serious conflict spreads further beyond its borders as people leave the beilenson to neighboring states fresh clashes between rebels and the sob supporters and levanon have left seven dead and dozens injured. on top of the lawyers say they're being banned from bringing up allegedly torture inside military tribunals which they're challenging as pretrial hearings for some of the nine eleven suspects prepare to start on thursday the notorious prison is still open despite president obama's two thousand and eight election promise. and ecuador's foreign minister exclusively tells our two spanish channel that his country will go as far as the hague to defend its asylum perjury in a song he says they're standing up to london and washington to protect freedom of

speech. up next r.t. here's how western countries is fueling of the syrian conflict is soley to serve their own goals in the region. today we're joined by christiane sen he's an analyst specializing in the middle east particularly syria renia relations and he also founded be a syrian a friendship association here in belgium about four years ago thanks very much obvious for us for joining us today the first question i'd like to ask to establish the basis of your opinion you established this is so ca sharon through again friendship does that mean you were considered pro assad as you had been portrayed in the belgian media and considering me as pro syria pro syrian people i'm convinced that the only way to get out of this crisis out of this bloodshed is by

following the path of free for a lot of the ball to offer firelands so if i say i'm pro ready for him i don't see i'm pro sets. but if you look to the reality it's the syrian government who also is willing to follow this path of reform you've written and said that the armed uprising in syria has been supported or started from be outside but do you also acknowledge the fact that the syrians from inside want change and what is the basis of your analysis on this i do believe is that the violence what we are seeing you know this has nothing to do with the forum this has to do with destroying the people. and also means. i have a lot of testimonies from from people in syria that a lot of the what they call the rebels the members of the of syrian free army it's a matter of fact they are foreigners i mean this is not

a forum in syrians are not interested in this is syrian people out of very. peaceful peaceful people and they managed to live together for centuries since. we don't any problem so the violence we're seeing no it's not a syrian productions i went to daraa. which. which was to hold the beds the year before where the trouble starts. also that it's near to the jordanian border it's not a coincidence that the trouble started at the border there. at the border town because this underlines once again the influence from abroad i mean. if the cuban situation in syria was really. a syrian. or a city and problem trouble would have started from. our

homes a lot of. outside forces and governments are interested to be to destroy syria why because you have to remember the city has a very strategic position in the area in the middle east in the region i think the main targets as a matter of fact is. because iran is such a powerhouse in the region it's so strong. they know that to take out iran first they have to take syria and i'm quite convinced if they would succeed to destroy syria the next order to get will be hezbollah in lebanon on the one days these two allies are taken out they will concentrate one hundred percent on the the who are you referring to when you say they i mean to my opinion the united states and our allies because they have their strategic interests in that region. also

too. a lot of people talk about oil but you have to know syria it's not rich in oil they have some oil but it's not rich but of course the real oil is in saudi arabia and syria can be a transit country. you also have to know that or huge guess reserves in the former soviet union i mean the central asian states of the former soviet union so there for you to guess reserves and i think you have to see it in this context how do you confirm the identity of the rebel fighters as you claim that they are coming from the outside they're foreigners how do we have proof of that because they found a lot of. proof of this like. when people die in homes. they find identity cards passports of foreign people. they captured people with

a foreign accent you really are from mercenaries are doing it for the money but you also have no out qaeda which is active in. syria because they hope to be find a new you know a new base to to establish a new base over there let's just briefly look at turkey's role in all of this historically turkey and syria have had good relations what is the interest in turkey being rather aggressive now against syria what is the what lies in it for them to see unrest in syria as a matter of fact we're already seeing this because at this moment kurdish region in syria or the people in accordance region in syria very already got a lot of. governments from the government in damascus and of course turkey is not happy with this evolution this change of mind why are they so. and

to see. no i think there are different theories is can be true that they still have this. dream aspirations to make thirty again a. powerhouse which it once once was in the region. during the ottoman era. another factor is that. defector of the muslim brotherhood they're not really anti western because the origin of the muslim brotherhood. they are what we call rick and. so they are interested in free trade with europe with the united states with the western world i mean we see now in egypt the muslim brotherhood we know when that thirty governments also the president is also pro muslim brotherhood

and maybe they are hoping to establish a new government in syria also pro muslim brotherhoods for economic growth economical reasons and also political reasons of course because you cannot really split this and you said that the ultimate target in this geopolitical story is iran what is and this is not the first time that this opinion has been voiced or what is your analysis on this where iran is concerned it's fairly clear to me not only to me to a lot of people that purpose is to destroy the iranian regime because in being here in the west or in awards it's a hostile regime hostile to the. western world i don't think this is true because i feel stupid also many times to run and i can assure you that the ukrainian government is a very rational government spirit and government always stated

a nuclear program. is a civilian program. while in the west they say no. birth person is to get an atom and bomb or a nuclear weapon and then they told me why should we need to not provide a weapon i mean even if we manage to make one appear a weapon. there is a difference between having a nuclear weapon and to be capable to deliver it so there is a big technical step between these two phases and they see even if we have one nuclear weapon and they think we're going to use it's the american government and their allies they will almost to the middle ages so they have no interest in their own three being destroyed it's so they are much more rational than most people here in the west think now all the opinions you voiced today it's contrary to the

general narrative that we find in a lot of the press lot of the analysis here in belgium or in western europe how is your work and your opinion is received in this part of the world unfortunately. most people. here in belgium but i can also. see maybe a broader picture of the western world to your open in the united states they're not really aware they don't promote really the situation in the middle east what they know about it it's based on who she is you know like very black and white picture of you know the good guys and the bad guys and even amazed that a lot of people don't even realize. she just took the ship a location a field. for them it's somewhere over there in the middle east and the same with syria i mean a lot of people don't know that's the origin of the bathtub or think it was

socially sporty a lot of people say ok president bashar al assad and his family to allow we course this can be true but this is not. how can i say this is not the main factor in syrian politics the main factor is the origin of the baath party the socialist party where all religions lift together and city as one of the few. maybe the only country in the middle east where you have all these denominations christian but also get only christian orthodox christian creek orthodox matter and need. living together for hundreds of year very peacefully but most people here don't realize this christianity thanks very much for your time it was a pleasure. magine

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a project said rough wooden chair choose obviously i fell in love with the trenches they are extraordinary ok it's a beautiful opiates and the church is is a religious monumental obviously but it's also an object of wonder you know it's something that people can look towns and it opens their eyes it betrays what can be achieved by using your imagination. culture is that so much different and there's a huge music history occurring on talk radio from series raging civil war without question this conflict has turned into a proxy war involving regional players and western powers.

serious conflict spreads further beyond its borders as people flee the violence into neighboring states fresh clashes between rebels and assad supporters and levanon have left seven dead and dozens injured. one tama lawyers say they're being banned from bringing up a legit torture and military tribunals which they're calendaring as pretrial hearings for some of the nine eleven suspects prepared to start on thursday the notorious prison is still open despite president obama's two thousand and eight election promise to close it. and ecuador's foreign minister exclusively tells artes rather channel that his country will go as far as the hague to defend its asylum approaches asuncion he says they're standing up to london and washington to protect freedom of speech. those where the headlines paul's here now with the sport .

thank you very much karen welcome along to the sports headlines here is what's coming up. on our held event as manager antonio conto fails in his appeal against a ten month suspension meaning he'll miss the defense or give a seventy on title. nanny state court to use international money be on his way to using the can just work with the russian club expressed an interest in the manchester united winger. and the vicious cycle all teenage rushers only star in freestyle motocross as he attempts to inspire the next generation to follow in his footsteps. but first football and eventis manager antonio conte has seen his ten month ban for his involvement in alleged match fixing up held the forty three year old had appeared in court this week trying to clear his name after being

banned for not reporting alleged match fixing in two games involving his former club sienna in the two thousand and eleven campaign that means the x. it's only international will miss the defense of the stereotypes we won with you very last season he is expected to launch a second appeal to be heard in september. now after spot at moscow's champions league win over found about che there are a further five further ties in the third qualifying round later on wednesday the pick of which sees greek side of the mike ross travel to spain to take on malaga it's the spanish side first ever champions league campaign the club have been blighted by financial problems in recent years and have lost the like salute by mr lloyd and santi cazorla to arsenal this summer but veteran coach manuel pellegrini says they have what it takes to progress. we have to be realistic about the players we have and not look for any excuses because we have lost good players we're going

to join win the game with a place that we have left here. on wednesday braga host you deny under lax travel to i. had with not able. to thank. meanwhile over in the english premier league chelsea will be looking to make it two wins from reading the royals maybe newly promoted to the top flight but chelsea boss roberto di matteo is expecting a tough test. come very wary of you know newly promoted teams like reading we saw in the weekend. southampton how well the played than did against man city and. it's going to be a very difficult game when you play a new promoter team early on. now staying with football as an ace in petersburg could be said to bolster their squad at the club saying they've been negotiating with manchester united to try and capture portuguese international nani his asking price believed to be close to forty million dollars nani's former suffered

a dip towards the end of last season the twenty five year old was negotiating a four year deal to stay at old trafford but club management have so far resisted his wage demands though they stressed they want the wing it is stay now he joined united in two thousand and seven so far scoring twenty five goals in one hundred twenty five appearances russian champions in eight now for and their hearts into the ring with manager luciano splatting aiming to do a deal before the country's september the tenth transfer deadline. russian football staying with russian football i should say and deny moscow who are rock bottom of the premier league table have a chance at a fresh start in europe former ku band manager. taking over the reins of the blue and whites for the first time for their battle with stuttgart in the europa league playoffs their number have never been relegated to find themselves at the bottom of the table with five losses it is many russian premier league matches so far this season german team captain kevin currently hoping to open his goal tally for the

season against his former club where he honed his skills from two thousand and one to two thousand and five. now to tennis where andy murray continues his quest for a first grand slam title next week at the u.s. open having beaten roger federer in the olympic final and with rafael nadal having pulled out injured two separate major winners so this could be the scots chance to win his maiden grand slam andy murray is my favorite. i think he proved something to. the other guys winning the olympics at wimbledon i think that he's. he's becoming a better player all the time physically he hits the ball a little bit better i think a forehand side especially these ready. read them with the rough or without. that in wimbledon. lawfulness so he made the final so he'd be truffled before in the. benefits of today's well community.

now it's one of the most i catch ing and risky extreme sports on the planet so i'm talking about freestyle motocross alexy kolesnik office russia's only man in the sports a late and he's hoping the next generation will follow in his footsteps as robert i've done and explains. the power of gravitas. risk. fear the dead devils of free selma cross take them all on and when proving impossible is no more than just the ward the only russian currently whose got all it takes to do stunts like this is that exceed the two thousand and nine world championships bronze medal winner he's also the country so in besler to the sport's most elite competition red bull exploiters although he may soon be joined by others

a special training camp in the moscow region past week saw twenty five amateur riders from all over russia and ukraine come together to show of their own skills and learn more from kolesnik of and his colleagues i could spend my entire life writing by myself i learned nothing new but under the guidance of these poor writers i can improve a lot kolesnikov rebuilt his training camp to lead both rupees and skilful riders use it why have days filled with practice and theory five days of hard training and even painful fail or is it time paying off with hopeful success and at the very least sizable progress however it was not only a school but a contest as well with a jury watching and selecting the gifted few at the will of consult with targets injured last time was sword learned for almost a year was buckled only a week before this camp started and probably saved

a lot of energy each of them have their own unique style both week and strong point so it took is pretty long to pick out the best and this is a great example to follow for all fans of the sport if you work hard you'll succeed i hope next year our task will be even tougher russian riders has never made it on to the podium of the toughest freestyle and one across competition in the world red bull expires but the odds are one of those who either is from the kolesnikov stable will hit the heights sooner rather than later. robot vote in yon party. now one woman's dream of becoming the first person to swim from cuba to the united states without a shark cage has been dashed for a fourth time sixty two year old deanna nyad originally made the attempt in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight and also failed twice in a two thousand and eleven latest effort was hampered by poor conditions and jenny fish stings she had been in the water for just over seventy two hours before giving

up on the eve of her sixty third day the insurance athlete reluctantly ruled out a fifth attempt. this is history out here no one's ever done it and really in this day and age the earth got to be a pretty small place oh my mouth was a drink wine all the deserts have been crossed. but this piece of ocean has never been done by storm are. now finding let's return to football where again week five in the russian premier league offered up plenty of net busting action yet again for a look back at the best his all we can feature this is goals galore.

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