find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. was a report on our. time to remind you of all the top stories here on r.t. this hour from schools on the syrian opposition to form a government saying paris would recognize it all casualties of the conflict rebels reportedly shoot down an army helicopter the government is accused of massacring over three hundred people. israel prevents activists carrying school supplies to children in bethlehem's refugee camps from entering the west bank while israeli soldiers also stand accused of using palestinian children as human shields. never wondered nations not aligned with the u.s. government iran to look for global solutions even sick regional bank you're a little sore at ten despite attempts by washington to play down the importance of the gathering. of about another summary in fifteen minutes from now the meantime we

ask a foreign affairs expert and leftwing german politician why he thinks burnin is adopting double standards over the syrian conflict our in-depth interview next week on r.t. . as one of the world's major economic and political power houses germany has a lot of influence which it can exert over global situations not to talk with me a little bit more about what germany is doing on the global stage right now i'm joined by. the foreign policy spokesperson for the left body here in germany thanks very much thinking to. syria is of course the major flash point in the world right now what's germany's view on situation moment. i would love to know i know what my position is in syria and i think i'm the only side i can take that those people are still peacefully demonstrating for the right for the democratic and human rights.

but the german government officially they don't cite something true of the. human rights violator repression within the country sure enough but officially them taking any other side with the rebels or whatever but informally and we see it from their involvement you know this by ship on the ground there and other stuff and they invite syrian petitions for the time thereafter and train them here so officially they seem to take sides but it's unclear to me who they are now you mentioned the training of politicians for a syria without assad how are those people chosen. i no i do your i mean this is by it's not the government think. think think that's close to the government would have. somebody select people and i don't know on the basis of which virtually no clue i mean we have been invited for on discussion i'm operating in how can you

train some people not to mean we left party blinking in germany we have confidence left politicians some people in syria i would know who i would pick but obviously these are different people so if these people being brought to germany because germany sees them as being beneficial for the country in the future sure obviously i mean there's sort of an idea this government has which is not out in the public space i don't know about it but obviously they have an idea who they want to govern the country with or this is ethnically based religiously based or politically based no clue i can figure i can imagine i would thing that they would look for people who are not too close to the muslim brothers so to islam for way from for us what is possible maybe not too critical about turkey but i don't know so if germany setting itself up is the best place to to train politicians for the post.

that's what they are doing i mean obviously they are inviting people here and they call it training for the situation there after. so yes they're training people for government positions they want to have the relationship with the german government and you mentioned the muslim brotherhood they're another country where they have huge influence of course in egypt how do you view the situation in that country after their revolution and their transition into a new egypt was very difficult situation for a long time i was afraid that the army would take over. now as of today it looks better so that they are losing some of the power of the military to the elected president this situation continuous hopefully to future for the situation within egypt what this means for the whole region i mean we had a clash at the border to israel so really have no idea i think it's

a very volatile right now for israel for libya syria. and especially then all the threats from israel against iran so it's too early to say that the revolution in egypt is one is over everything is peaceful and happy happy but it looks better today than four weeks ago well to move to libya now what's the situation there in your opinion how does a country like libya want to rebuild itself and one of the aftermath very few people talk about is that many of those who fought in libya now went to the area and are now fighting in mali for example were we have no sort of a civil war going on or some really extreme muslim took over the north a part of mali many of those fought before that and worked with weapons everything were trained in libya so we see sort of the fallout of this war and libya in the neighboring country is there a chance that the type of situation we see right now in libya could be repeated in

syria as is today the situation for me in syria looks much worse than in libya because i mean the whole environment you know with the middle east conflict. is one problem the other problem is that right now there seems to be so many other countries. who have their own interests within syria supporting one side or the other turkey with the kurdish problem so they are supporting the movement just to prevent the kurds within syria to have their own you know autonomy then you have the gulf states supporting the rebels you have russia supporting assad and we have the cia on the ground you have german spy ship something i mean this seems to be the whole world have their interest now with one group or the other syria and that looks to me like a recent piece for a long civil war within syria now we talk about contagion when we're talking about the eurozone crisis is the risk of a wall contagion in the wider middle east area if the situation in syria continues

contagion is the very risk why the west right now is hesitant to intervene because they know if you go into a country like syria you have no control of what's going to happen in the neighboring countries with in the center of attention and levanon so that's why right now the west does not want to intervene because the one of the spillover. but is this not the perfect opportunity to work with iran if i would just look at syria i would think. that that's now the time to get in contact with iran but if you look at the current news. threatening more and more in conflict with iran traveling to attack the nuclear sites within iran with the threat growing by the day and i'm still not confident that things were really keeping at bay until november. it's very difficult for me to think about getting more contact with iran but at the same time there's the spread of military attack on iran interior and

might. seem to back off the talks that started so hopefully in moscow for example earlier this year so. the problem is that we're not having syria as a problem alone we're not having he said iran is a problem in the rhone we have turkey because conflict there is escalating everything at the same time so where do you see the future of this argument between israel and iran if tel aviv would be rational. i would be happy and think nothing's going to happen because i think military attack on the. could be nearly suicidal for israel. considering that with all the change in egypt in the neighboring countries the tech like this you don't know how to how the region will react and if netanyahu be rational would be happy and safe and think no they won't dare to unfortunately i'm not sure that that and you know is that

rational i mean he's increasing he's really increasing his tanks israel attacks. and i'm afraid his calculation might be before the u.s. election i can attack iraq i have to back me after the election he might not want to back so that gives us a really really bad chance that the netanyahu might attack in october as soon as october and starts with an attack and the question is how an attack from. tools for a nuclear science in iran how will that develop. i'm not sure it will develop an all out war but i mean attacks on israel will happen then you don't know how to react with the street almost whether they will close it or not that would definitely start an all out war in terms of germany's role what job is that germany to do germany could really change a lot in that region it was. germany nine years ago to to mediate in the conflict on the not the program it was germany who moved the three plus three talks in the

beginning in two thousand and three when i'm talking to passengers in the region when i went to a couple of months ago i mean everybody thinks the german should play better the stronger role this government just plays. the u.s. courts so whatever the u.s. does they follow it and they don't have any initiative on their own what kind of initiative would you like to see the first thing they could easily do is deescalate the conflict with iran i mean they could really go three four five steps towards to iran and say ok. now we believe that you stopped the military nuclear program in two thousand and three so that we're lifting the sanctions and we are engaging in human rights talk and economic talks and this and that this journey just lift sanctions is that not purely a symbolic act you know it would be much more than symbolic because the u.n. sanctions are rather small and then the e.u.

sanctions much much bigger i mean it's the oil embargo that's very bad. germany was sort of the powerhouse behind the on the border they could easily have said in a ok we postpone it for another six months postponement not lifting there would have been a very strong signal to turkey. they could have started negotiating. to me to move on i mean i really thought here with my own government and said what's the problem with with the moratorium for three months for six months and it wouldn't be for that because they just followed the u.s. line here they don't have their own policy that's really bad i think the other thing is weapons i mean german arms exports third biggest in the world after russia around the u.s. . they should stop selling weapons in the region and that involves saudi arabia as well as israel as well as other countries and they are still sending every kind of weapon to that region what would you like to see from the german government's foreign policy right now i mean if they would do nothing at all i would be happier

than what they are doing today i mean officially they're not doing much but then we certainly can read the newspapers that they sent a spy ship you know that they are monitoring everything that they are helping the rebels against the assad regime they are taking sides in a military conflict and that's exactly wrong i mean better would be if you don't do the right thing do nothing thank you very much bush speaking. your work or.

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syrian opposition to form a government saying paris would recognize it casualties of the conflict rebels reportedly shoot down an army helicopter while the government is accused of massacring over three hundred people. school supplies to children in bethlehem's refugee camps on the west bank from jordan on israeli soldiers also stand accused of using palestinian children as human shields. hundred nations of the us together in tehran to the global solutions general ban ki moon will also attend despite attempts by washington to play down the importance of the gathering . with a news team with more on those stories and plenty of others for you fifteen minutes from now in the meantime it's the latest sports with kate.

i don't welcome to the monday night school round up on day one of the us open head on. real deal croatian midfielder luka moderate signs a five year contract to join while madrid taught them for a fee of around forty seven hundred million dollars. while top tossed around by moscow prepared to have gone to the right for the playoffs losing be a why do you like to milk. this title fights defending champion some starters that makes a winning starts to the defense of the u.s. i crowd is day one gets underway at flushing meadows. first a football in the commodities has passed his medical and signed a five year deal with spanish champions real madrid the stall midfielder completed his transfer from top them for a fee of around forty seven and a half million dollars the croatia playmaker says he's happy all of our products to

join the league giants who finally completed that were trying to deal after their surprise two undefeated a tough day on sunday the twenty six year old arrived at spurs in two thousand and eight from don imus zagreb and made over one hundred fifty appearances for the north london side scoring seventeen goals he's also won fifty eight caps for croatia scoring six times tottenham have also announced that entering a working partnership with ray i'll. be challenge for me because my feeling career. and. i'm sure. and that's. what i need here. and i just need to enjoy my food. well meanwhile here in russia it was a first win for gojira to crash in as young as his cuban side thrashed second bottom valda six two to rise to weights in the premier league the game was the

russia two coaches second in charge of the hosts and they were three no luck by the interval so i have netted in the first minute just exactly maybe two nil after thirteen and they added a third on the stroke of half time does that mean that i did a full straight after the break i still don't call them back for vulgar from the spot for one they bagged the second into bounds first before danny nikolai's fired home their six. alex a couple that he the consolation for of all that to slog to the fifth consecutive defeat six to. four meanwhile on sunday tesco moscow windfalls off a trance inclusive out of three milan homepage alexander signed up with the host to head coaching goalkeeper. unawares from long range after only six minutes and then . added a second just before the interval allan so go for it with the assist. and with five minutes left akhmed the rockets latched on to a mark gonzalez cross to get his first goal of the season so they all began wrapped

up their third win in a row to go forth and have just a point to separating the top five. hurt in the meantime the moscow have a mountain to climb is down but rescue side hope to overturn a two no deficit in the home leg of their playoff double header against god in the europa league on tuesday the premier league's bottom team gave themselves a tiny boost on saturday as they won three two rivals latif to end their five game losing start to their domestic campaign and knows they need another high scoring performance if they're to reach the group stages in europe. we need. but. to play football like in the game against lokomotiv of course is totally different much you know because in europe for the game two zero and we cannot afford to lose two girls like against. looking what we've very easy to stumble but we will try to play for this which are. now moving on to tennis and

the final grand slam of the season the u.s. open is underway in new york with women's defending champion sam stories are making a winning stars to the defense of her crowd yesterday and was in cruise control against croatia's petra lost to a seven seed winning six one six one is not a took over not only of china also among the early start of the flushing meadows where wright has delayed right. now into golf and the l.p.g. a tour has produced its youngest ever champion off the fifteen year old lydia co won the canadian open by three strokes the south korean born new zealand close her fairytale weekend with a five under par round of sixty seven is also just the fifth amateur to win on the tour and the first to do so in forty three years while earlier this year she also became the youngest player to win a professional event after her victory in the story into the back of t.v. passing the better thank you brooke anderson. it's

a professional event and you know i just came to make the you know play my best sport. and i won and i'm going to get the chair of the it's amazing and i won the u.s. . it's been a really great couple of weeks. now i'm moving on to motorbikes and marco melandri has leap frogged combatant max biaggi to go top of the world superbike standings doesn't get up off watch the b.m.w. ride a train victory in the second race and you know he will stage you know goal russian stage at the championships. prior to that in an incident back tourists race on a rainy sunday morning in one storm sykes rode almost flawlessly to make a bit of history by becoming the first winner at the moscow race way ahead of b.m.w. rider milan great while reigning champion carlos checa who started from pole crashed out along with four other contenders on the sleeve a track untested is all the more than what you said when you live this gentleman

from south finish on just in a way because a lot only did the all the test on tiles and you know it's a whole lot it was a dumble and twenty six year old sykes was close to making it back to back double as the english man took an early lead in the second race but this time around it was no wonder he worked his way into first place despite starting the race from fifth the thirty year old former much of the p. word of a squeeze by sykes on land fifteen and level of bed claiming his six women of the season current leader and former world champion was in the collision and failed to finish which man from the laundry is now the overall leader of the championship race for me i want to be second i was like i can't wait there was a lot i did and this year. so although i still want to play when you're sad

part. meanwhile in the supersport category there was a lot to cheer about for the home fans who packed the stands of the brand new circuit a local hero let him early on the for the yuppie shorter sports team was seventeen qualification but produced an electric start to move up to third and confidently to man then to look finish line to push his second podium of the season while the two time champion currently to cans of food was the winner i had to sit up in your movie and you know me as you. you know like in. the back of the goal of those who would be soon sunday the twenty six so foolish at the most glorious we not only made history by hosting leno and you're almost two stage of the world superbike championship but it also going up to challenge for the overall title as well as providing the local crowd with some local success to cheer on constantine but not both archie. and finally there's only one boats in the

world which sells the european flag the estimates you write for two which is unbeaten since its launch in two thousand and ten however its latest victory was probably the hardest of all that suddenly and explains. his boat is a says the best europe has still for the most advanced and probably the fastest moxy yacht with a motivational dream team on board all together as one promoting the idea of european unity as a mature but she has never tasted if it since it first took to the water into wine to tell smashing records as a measure for teen only june the fourteenth at the draw a rolex cup these amid big the previous record by over three hours with experts kohli it the best ever sailing performance in the minutes rainy and. now the brilliant blend of europeans as again some russian flavor with anton sort of gave

making his debut these image in the political to multicultural race over the last weekend but is that assume it's a great honor for me to be russia's representative on such an outstanding both shoulders shoulder with the likes of yacc and schumann and want vila who are sailing screen with a crop this is a great chance for all of us to bring our skills together and reach the top and change. the first race for the russian was expected to be a real challenge for the whole team as the weather conditions was far from perfect and fortune. we will expect quite light breeze and so on the big question will be going west. or going on the side going to the middle so there are a lot of strategic options and obviously following the weather reports the race proved to be one of the hardest tests these i'm a team had ever had escaping out of death comes. tried a brand new route me at the tail and killed. which gave the yacht the lead in the

dying minutes just twenty miles from the finishing line in malta carlo. was a long one when you would really not record but actually trust forecast to go along italian coast and we made a very early decision to split to the right and we realize soon on the track nobody else got the same plan the risky tactic proved to be the best with the team's victorious record remaining intact and in the meantime as immature opportunities once again challenging the elements on the course between minako and porter chair will near servia. the team of outstanding europeans based on going all out to be in the record set in two thousand and three. r.t. . and not so from the post ask why.

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