any time. thanks for joining us here on r.t. and just in time for the headlines now ukraine's high court rejects that yulia timoshenko has appealed against a seven year sentence the former prime minister was jailed for abuse of power linked to a gas deal signed with russia or in two thousand and nine hundreds of supporters are demonstrating in kiev against the decision. with millions of the e.u. balancing on the edge of poverty companies are forced to adjust and produce smaller and cheaper products for the struggling masses in the age of austerity. and a wave of mutual accusations by both syria and syrian government officials and rebels following deadly funeral car bombing in damascus meanwhile the mainstream

media blame for sanitizing evidence of ugly tactics previously adopted by the opposition. following the headlines now with a former french intelligence agent who served in the region hit by the arab spring now we're sharing his views on what's exactly going on there and when will it come to an. in the news. room. well today we're joined by claude money tracey is a former member of the french intelligence services also an officer and founder of the european strategic intelligence and security center that's a brussels based think tank specializing on terrorism as security issues thanks very much for the same money for joining us today do you spend a lot of time in north africa the middle east so looking at the arab spring did you see it coming where you were expecting this and how much of it. is a product of people going against of the oppressive governments and how much of it

as some governments claim as before from the outside would probably say things which are really pretty going to go right to the very book without. first of all no we didn't see it arriving we knew clearly that there were so a lot of programs in. in the middle east and in the arab world in north africa from of poverty social problems and drug problems problem of the you use was out and going on and so on and so on and we knew that something was burning. but we were much more the folks who is on the probably on the risk of the musician down the risk of a so-called arab spring. when it happened. and we saw when we saw the mechanics we understood that it would be

a large. and deep shock not only for the oblong that's all the world at the beginning very clearly was not towards it was exasperated a few people wanting to leave and a normal life if you exhibit here in egypt for instance if you take the tahrir square at the beginning you very young people graduates most of them most of them had been supported by the united states some of them were trained in the united states were funded by the united states and someone with a very clear and very little idea of the future or the only sad thing is that it didn't happen in the west and all that but in and country where the political agenda was different and we had this people coming from the history the it was a keeper all you have diffused and everything was like a bit of a dinner today by dishonest by the muslim brothers to see see this as

a friend in the region. ultimately is coming into power. i wrote personally you thought a long time before the vision elections the. the only possibility is to have the most embarrassing us first but if you've got a formation in egypt i mean everything else was just in both of them because you have a very poor society. allows people who are just not able to read the newspaper we speak in a blind month number saw everything was in place predicts or missed in itself and not a democrat issue in the. in the same in tunisia. and just same from our c.n.n. yes we're looking at the syrian crisis it is complicated and it's far from over and we've heard the last of turkey talking about starting a no fly zone and we've also heard from the french defense minister he said the

france is willing to help in looking at this effort do you think this is where it's headed a similar reagan scenario is a no fly zone i tell you very clearly no one. of the western world the one the one to go in syria but maybe at one point it would be in both even to avoid the roads i don't think so but it's possible if we go into syria i think it would be a nightmare. but we see. for the moment we don't see any clear. evolution in syria it seems that's clearly the government going to two in. particular tools. so to look for the moment you have just kidding after killing and this. bomb stepped up bombs. and no mercy for consideration because of the base of the problem you don't have

the problem of dimock of course you have a problem of democrats and so yes but it's not the main point the main point is a problem with between the city and the other words which i think both sides of the population do. needing to contract for twenty years yes and the sunni which are seventy five percent say no it's enough we don't want to anymore but indeed it's not stick somebody or it's not since on the in the middle east. today in syria for the it's losing the poor losing their grip on the poor means dying. i not sure that the two mediums i know it's already got to die so didn't ignore the show he's been keeping the power. with the support by doing of the questions you have to me on the i know it's into million of fish from the question very clearly and so yes supporting the power because the fear. if they fear to have some

problems when the sunni will run the country like defend no christian in egypt is the muslim brothers and them another. today and let us the police come in here either today it seemed to be clear that you cannot be. in the midst of moving. i mean yes you can be a single christian and nobody probably will have to you cannot have a missed christian organized community which it pretty. much fame and with the possibility to have wanted to go activity in the midst of the world today i mean the muslim world today all despite the tough words of some of the western leaders allies of said syria and you still feel that they don't really want to go to syria on a full military still what do you think is holding them back we know we think

and they already don't think that syria could be watched and i think basically they are right because they need to get six million people in syria we have a. big. in seventeen eighteen and twenty minutes of people we have clearly extremists the media is the border of iran is between iran and israel and you have the ribbon on. a given problem which is not so far so no one want to be involved the last time. we i mean west down the armies were involved in the area i was there it was in the eighty's in even on and we leave the ribbon on the body bags to for the little soldier. two hundred forty two american marines and sixty two french possible i was there the day i will remember for my life would be better and it was not

a very nice experience for us i don't think we don't we want to have this experience again and if we go there we have the risk of these explosions again. we cannot it's that again it's good to know he was moving with a good guy the good car body can come make everything happen in quiet in the city getting just two or three bad guys and after we were the last at the end of the movie he kissed the beautiful woman the mother in the they have a lot of children it's not read since story it's middle east it's very savage war and after the swell. what it would be to do we know would be the winner. after this why are you in. there with citizens of cones killing. revenge killing and so on and we don't want to be involved there or

from the intelligence circles can you confirm that yes model of weapons into syria as well as the process of some other foreign secret service of the country very probably. coming from your four or the governments and from so there are. hundreds that's clear i think everyone knows that. some indigenous services in some probably the british where my six. maybe the french. maybe the americans are involved but they're living on the don't live on in the support of the opposition on the one hand you're saying that western leaders and their allies don't want a military operation in syria but at the same time you're also saying that it's very likely that there are foreign secret service agents in the country already but that is getting involved isn't it what's the difference between a military operation and having agents on the ground you can deny. you can deny

when you send indigenous people even if they are killed in that you can say yes but i don't mean us authorities tell us of illinois and i don't know what i'm looking for news of the secret service the men prospect of you to secret service and to get at and is the post possible you know i don't know them when you go when you go to his arms downs. brains you could've said no it's not my plane let's talk about al qaeda operating in syria is this true or not and if so what can the situation develop into it's probably very true what we know is that syria. at the time of the world. iraq syria swarm of the platform of action from. for al qaeda a lot of people coming from europe. from belgium from frost from germany

came in to went into iraq through syria so it's clear that al-qaeda us at the time its own. it's clear or so that's a lot of people we don't know much but a lot of people who were involved in the iraqi war today fighting with the opposition against the regime in syria for a very abuse reason. if you remember the people of al-qaeda in iraq were getting shots as well as so british and american soldiers. in syria the poor is so shit yellow it's a bunch of shiism so for the people of our guard up which are so you have very strict obedience it's the worst enemy. to kill to kill or shit is better than to get a question for them. so. it's

a good motivation for them and we have clearly people and we sort of saw some modus operandi. i don't think that we have people of al qaeda involved for instance in the fighting through to fight and die because doesn't make sense but we knew we had the bomb the. center of the ball in damascus. a few weeks ago it wants. very likely another job or at thirty for the moment nobody knows exactly what the different tendencies in. the. opposition. in syria because when you see for instance the people in powers of the. united church you know the national syrian committee. down very much their own very worst speaking they are very democrats and so on when you see the people

planting bomb bouncing because it's another sign of the free so where is the truth what is the real power of the moderates and the democrats if they exist what is develop over for the people of al qaeda what is the report of the saudis nobody exactly knows and we would see it moving noids. after but when will be does nobody knows who would be in six months or. medicaid banks very much for your i think you. wealthy british science it's time to. market weiner scandal. find out what's really happening to the global

economy cause a report on our. headlines on odds he ukraine's high court rejects yulia timoshenko appeal against a seven year sentence the former prime minister was jailed for abuse of power linked to a gas deal signed with the rusher in two thousand and nine the meantime are hundreds of supporters are demonstrating in kiev against the decision. but millions in the e.u. balancing on the edge of poverty companies are forced to adjust and produce smaller cheaper products for the struggling masses in this age of austerity. by the wave of mutual accusations by both the syrian government and rebels follow a deadly funeral car bomb in damascus meanwhile the mainstream media blame for sanitizing evidence of ugly tactics previously adopted by the opposition.

let's get some action here now you didn't joins us with all your sporting headlines it would seem my friend does a nice in petersburg of digging deep into their pockets that it doesn't deed it looks as if they have one hundred million dollars to spend rory but they're not content until they get rid of every last ruble our senses tell you what not only on hold the names being bandied around we have more in that in just a sec. good to have you with us this is sports today we have got palantir head for you including the following. dana payne former world number one carline wozniacki suffers another first grand slam exit this time the u.s. open. troubles piling up the russian premier league bottom club schofield to make it past europe league qualifying stages. and global games london get set for the

opening ceremony of the twenty twelve parlin picks later on the way. that's kick off with football where do you know most schools european adventure is over for one more year the blue and whites losing three one on the aggregate to german side stood guard in europa league qualifying following a one one draw in moscow on tuesday night after trailing to know from the first leg in germany it was always going to be a tough ask for down progress cues meant for a goal as first forty five minutes up to him karina the goal scoring hero from the first leg vid of the open for the visitors in the sixty four minutes alexander kapoor and level matters thirty minutes later but it was little more than a consolation dahmus at rock bottom domestic after losing five all of their opening half a dozen games. sports. are seeking to move into the group stages of europe's top club competition the muscovites hold a two one and vantage heading into their second leg champions league battle at fenerbahce. monitor unite embry likely to be in for

a very tense evening for. stadiums turku summer called blue is notorious for its less than pleasant welcomes the two teams on the opposite end of the win loss spectrum after their latest domestic matches fenerbahce beating galaxy and taps for three nil at the weekend while spartak here mr. on top spot in russia with a tough two one loss to. petersburg goalkeeper for fear of has decided to retire from international football in order to raise his children the thirty three year old stating he wants to spend more time with his family following the death of his wife marina in a car crash last year he remains open to the possibility however of returning to the national set up at some stage twenty eight times since making his debut in two thousand and three fear played all of russia's euro twenty twelve games but was dropped for fabio capello's first friendly much in charge against the ivory coast.

bosses are gearing up for a final shopping spree ahead of the september third european transfer deadline is a neat continuing their pursuit of manchester united winger nani having met with the twenty five year old representatives in amsterdam the english club had been asking for on forty million u.s. dollars for the portuguese international f.c. portugal being getting calls from up north as well with sinitta hoping to buy their brazilian striker i. there's only a few hours now to go before the start of the parra limpid games in london the team russia contingent and indeed all the four thousand two hundred competitors have already settled into the athletes' village following a unique welcome in the english capital for a month of. it could have been just a simple flag raising ceremony but the brits have once again al done themselves putting on a theatrical show to welcome the participating nations at the london to once it's

welfare and a big village living there you go but it's a great britain has already built a tradition of creating an environment without barriers for the paralympians sort of we have a similar plan in place for so g twenty fourteen and we've implemented about seventy percent of it already but the russian flag of the national anthem were last but definitely not least in line leading the procession to the time paralympic champion makes a bottle of who will also be the country's flag bearer at the opening ceremony later on wednesday and also it was a tumor it's a huge responsibility to have the honorable distinction of being flag bearer for your country i feel completely fired up emotionally the russian national team has a number of athletes who will be making a second at santa claiming their place on the paralympic podium among them beijing gold medalist swimmer they can who is by the way also an ambassador for the next ones or paralympics to be held in the russian black sea resort of sochi in twenty fourteen. there's

a huge difference between how i felt coming into the gene and today it's difficult to explain but i feel both the pressure and the support which is really making me eager to get into the pool the paralympics will be held until the ninth of september as the streets of london are about to get filled by thousands of athletes and fans from around the world for a spectacle of unparalleled will and strength of character says that this integration of the soviet union allowed to have been done in order to help people with disabilities and that's reflected in russia's medal count and the. as well one hundred sixty three of them are here which is the twenty percent increase from the beijing games and hopefully the additional participants will help russia overcome the eighth place finish four years ago costa reporting for artsy from the garden big finish in london ok let's talk tennis where the biggest upset of the u.s. open to date occurred on tuesday former world number one caroline wozniacki going

down into the on heralded rumanian it would mean that coming in the first round to say it was a shock would be going a step too far this year wozniacki also crushed ice on the opening day of what has failed to win a title and saw her ranking fall from first ten ninth value for the sixty six to when she stepped into unchartered territory for her second round berth in new york city. trina williams meanwhile is remaining on course for her fourth title at flushing meadows the thirty year old dominating under way six six one in their first from bottle spiny of area who is a mark this son shares the next roadblock on serenus path. not a bad day at all for the only russian ranked player an auction on tuesday maria kirilenko confidently spotting south african at channel cheeper is in straight sets six two six one like a husband never made a pass the fourth round on not your. over in the men's side of action holder novak

djokovic burley broke sweat in easing his way into the second run courtesy of a six one six six one win over italy and. only one russian meal in action on the day meanwhile team was involved in a five seven concert. to throw a silver but it was a brazilian came at the right side of the four six six four six seven six three seven five scoreline silver now takes on. the fourteenth world helicopter championships hit russia this week i'm pretty much in the dark you maybe are but finally nikolai chills is not he's here to explain a little more. one hundred kilometers south of moscow teams from eleven countries have come together to prove they were the best pilots on the planet at the renowned field of jerk you know as it played host to the fourteenth annual world and equipped to championships in front of packed crowds i think it's fantastic that to

engage ordinary people to see what helicopters can do and i think they enjoy watching the competition and the standard of flying is excellent so if you want to see good flying this is a good place to keep. using ten types of helicopters over five days of competition the pilots take part in five different events navigation precision fender riggin slalom and freestyle for the ninth year running groschen pilots with the board in the first four and they're very mean to take helicopters to another level that crashes trying to make this even more spectacular for example helicopter racing is not had officially included in the compound three program on the world championships it was invented in russia with the aim to create more interesting events. meanwhile freestyle is considered as a separate trophy where pilots perform robotics combined with other stands this

year legendary world freestyle champion quinten smith returned to the competition after an eighteen year break and still shared top honors with oh she is sacred she was and helped ensure britain finished behind russia on the podium with germany third but in this case the taking part was as important as the result they might. have family. that seems now each other. with each other being at the family the pilot of a. big happy family so after another by catching tournament the spectators were also treated to a spectacular phenolic as russian military hello. it is made to give the appearance to be fair when to know the year's competition hosting the world championships is not only an on off for the russian organizes what's also a testament that the sport which originated from this country has still quite a lot of through to the world of aviation nicolo it shows. moscow region.

staying on terra firma finally a four strong team of all round thrill seekers from the u.k. have won the grueling final stage of the twenty twelve adventure race world series the squad completing the six hundred twenty kilometer course by running cycling canoeing orienteering and having an up the start and finish for the race with a difference was sterling castle in scotland the winning quartet terex setting the pace to want at one stage they had such a commanding lead they would tell lunch a quick shower and an eight hour sleep the team ending with an aggregate time of eighty five hours twenty nine minutes the win means that they have now been invited to take part in the world championships which take place in france next. i think they deserve more than our sleep after all of that is your sports not whether it's.

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