hello again this is r t these are our top stories tonight serious conflict spreads further beyond its borders as people flee the violence into neighboring states fresh clashes between rebels and assad supporters and eleven and have left seven dead and dozens injured. animal lawyers say they're being banned from bringing up alleged torture inside military tribunals which they're challenging as pretrial hearings for some of the nine eleven suspects prepared to start on thursday the notorious prison still open despite president obama's two thousand and eight election promise. and ecuador's foreign minister exclusively tells r.t. spanish channels his country will go as far as the hague to defend its asylum for julian assange he says they're standing up to london and washington to protect freedom of speech. next r.t. here's how western countries fueling of the syrian conflict is soli does serve

their own goals in the region. today we're joined by christiane sen he's an adult lister 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 levasseur yes for joining us today the first question i'd like to ask to establish the basis of your opinion you establish this is that we see a sham syrian friendship does that mean you are considered pro assad as you had been portrayed in the belgian media i'm considering me as pro syria pro syrian people i'm convinced that the only way to get out of this crisis is out of this bloodshed is by following the path of free for a lot of the ball to offer firelands so if i see i'm ready for him i don't see

i'm pro sets. but if you look to the reality in the city and go from the mint who also is willing to follow this path or forum and 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 one of 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 it has to do with destroying the people. and also convinced. i have a lot of testimonies from from people in syria that a lot of. 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 products i went to daraa. which was so hot the bets the year before where the trouble started. 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 you're in the situation in syria what's really. a syrian. or a city and problem. trouble would have started from. our homes a lot of. outside forces and governments are interested in the 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. that 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 out syria and i'm quite convinced if they would succeed to destroy syria the next door to it will be hezbollah in lebanon i wonder if these two allies are taken out. they will concentrate one hundred percent on the of them who are you referring to when you say they i mean to my opinion the united states and their allies because they have their strategic interests in that region. also do. 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 gas reserves in the former soviet union i mean the central asian states of the former soviet union so they're for a huge i 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 are now we know they find identity cards passports of foreign people. they capture people with a foreign accent you really are from mercenaries or doing it for the money but you also have no al qaeda which is active in. syria because they hope

to be find a new you know a new base 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 the region in syria or the people in accordance region in syria they 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. anti syria and no i think there are different theories is it going to be true would that be still have this. dream these aspirations to

make of turkey again a. powerhouse which it once once was in the region. during the ottoman era. another factor is that. the fact 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 with 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 economical 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 in the binion of the west through in a war of words it's 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

automatic bomb or a nuclear weapon and then they told me why should we need in that period 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 its. 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 know really the situation in the middle east what they know about it it's based on cliche is you know like a very black white picture you know the good guys and the bad guys and even amazed that a lot of people don't even realize. she goes through at the chicken location of here . 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 the origin of the bathtub or street it was socially sporty a lot of people say ok president bashar al assad and his family to allow we are so 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 all the christian orthodox christian greek orthodox matter i need. living together for hundred of your very peacefully. but most people who are dump realize this chris as a thanks very much for your time it was a pleasure. magine assets that the phone watches young every single month. and waiting for you to stumble. i saw a man with

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top stories today is conflict spreads further beyond its borders as people flee the violence in the neighboring states and fresh clashes between rebels and supporters in lebanon have now left seven dead dozens injured. the top headlines from us lawyers say they're being banned from bringing up alleged torture inside military tribunals which they're challenging as pretrial hearings for some of the nine eleven suspects prepared to start on the first day of the tour his prison is still open despite president obama's two thousand and eight election promise to close it . and ecuador's foreign minister exclusively speaks to word sees sister spanish channel and says that his country will go as far as the hague to defend its asylum he says they're standing up to london and washington to protect freedom of speech. next in our t.v. present to world sport. welcome

along to the sports headlines here is what we've got coming up. on our held event his manager antonio contest failed in his appeal against a ten month suspension meaning he'll miss that offensive you very sadly our title. nanny state could portuguese international nanny on his way to the needs and petersburg with the russian club expressing an interest in the manchester united winger. and the vicious cycle our teammates rush is only starring freestyle motocross as he attempts to inspire the next generation to follow in his footsteps . but first a football and event his manager antonio contrary has seen his ten month ban for his involvement in 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 it means the x. italy international will miss the defense of the title he won with you very last season he is expected to launch a second appeal which is to be heard in september. now after spartak moscow champions league win over fenerbahce day there are further five ties in the third qualifying round later on wednesday the pick of which sees greek side panels and i cross 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 likes of ruud van nistelrooy and santi cazorla to ask will this summer the veteran coach manuel pellegrini says they have what it takes to progress . really are we have to be released to go the players we have in the uk look for any excuses because we have lost we're going to join you in. the game to the players that we have left here. elsewhere on wednesday braga host undernet travel

to a.t.l. limo so dinamo zagreb will go head to head with matty vol one party boss of. shmona . meanwhile over in the english premier league chelsea will be looking to make it two wins from to win a host reading the royals may be newly promoted to the top flight to gel to boss roberto di matteo is expecting a tough test. i'm very worried of you know newly promoted teams like reading we saw in the week and. southampton a world that played against man city and. it's going to be a very difficult game when you play a new promoted team early on. meanwhile who are rock bottom of the russian premier league have just kicked off in the europa league playoff match with german side f.c. stuttgart there in the opening half an hour or so in germany kevin qur'an year of course up against his former club he spent four years it stood guard the game is

currently goalless. now staying with football as an instant pages could be set to bolster their squad 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 now his 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 the club management have so far resisted his wage demands though they stressed they want the winger to stay nani joined united in two thousand and seven so far twenty five goals in one hundred twenty five appearances russian champions in eight now throwing their hat into the ring with manager luciano splattering aiming to do a deal before the country's september tenth transfer deadline. now to tennis where andy murray continues. his quest for a first major 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 say this could be the scots chance to win his maiden grand slam. andy murray is my favorite. i think he proved something to himself to the other guys winning the olympics at wimbledon i think that he's. he's becoming a better player all the time physically hits the ball a little bit better i think a forehand side especially is ready. for with. so so he'll be true of all in the. benefit. community. now six time olympic gold medal winner hussain bolt has celebrated his twenty sixth birthday in some style the jamaican took to the skies over the alps fresh from his on precedented success at the london games where he successfully

defended his one hundred and two hundred meter titles as well as once again winning the four by one hundred meter relay gold he's in switzerland where he's due to compete on thursday his first taste of competition since the olympics and he's already turning his attention to rio twenty sixth. really but at the thought i would be there as long as i'm fit and i'm ready i'll be there it's just about making different roles there's a lot of different things i can do in the sports my coach wants me to do quantum you want to try a long jump are you could always try to aim for the records again so is different from things go to after the season or decide what we want to do and work on that next season now over to one of the most i catch ing and risky extreme sports on the planet i'm talking about freestyle motocross lexing kolesnik office russia's only man in the sports an eight and he's hoping the next generation will follow in his

footsteps as robert downey and explains. the power of gravity. risk. fear the dead devils of freestyle macross take them all on and win proving impossible is no more than just the ward the only washing currently he's got all it takes to do stunts like this isn't 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 as special training camp in the moscow region past week saw twenty five amateur riders from all over russia and ukraine come together to show you 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 set time paying off with hopeful success. and at the very least sizable progress whatever it was not only a school but a contest as well with a jury watching and selecting the gifted few at the will of concert was to go to jude law is to. learn for almost a year was back out only a week before this started and probably saved a lot of energy each of them have their own unique style both we can strong point so it took us 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 across competition in the world red bull expires but the odds are one of these riders from the kolesnikov stable will hit the heights sooner rather than later. regret but in your own party. elsewhere london's relationship with america's most popular sport is set to move up a gear american football franchise the jacksonville jaguars announcing that a play one home game a season when the stadium from two thousand and thirteen the historic london ground has already hosted one n.f.l. game annually since two thousand and seven now the fans get a chance to form an affiliation with the giant u.s. and while jacksonville is conquering novel territories and in your own a shot can the team helping stratton to win and fill seats back in florida the side have missed the playoffs in ten of the past twelve seasons while the top star morris jones drew settling into a contract dispute. 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 deon and neuer are the rich and he made the a ten thousand nine hundred seventy eight and also failed twice in two thousand and eleven the latest effort was hampered by poor conditions and jellyfish stings she had been in the water for just over seventy two hours before giving up and on the eve of her sixty third day 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 is going to be a pretty small place oh my mouth was a drink wine all the deserts have been crossed. but this piece of ocean is never been done by a swimmer. that is all from the world of sport for now but i'll be back with plenty more in just under two hours time here on r.t. the world weather is next followed by the headlines with kevin.

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my name is richard davis i'm an architectural photographer from london and i've been traveling in russia for the last ten years on a project fed 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 monument obviously but it's all saved an object of wonder you know it's something that people can look tense and it opens their eyes that that shows what can be achieved by using your imagination.