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ministerial meeting it's pushing for a buffer zone something russia and china strongly object to it says heavy battles continue. chancellor merkel is in china to drum up business and convince beijing that the euro is on the road to recovery but beijing says weak euro zone states need to impose further cuts and reforms. well up next we talk to a nun who lived in syria for a decade and witnessed what the people went through when the first sparks of trouble ignited the war in-depth interview next on r.t. . well today we're joined by sister agnes mariam of the cross she's founded a christian community and i'm on a street in damascus she's been living there and working there for the last twelve years thank you very much a sister for joining us today my first question is you've been there for twelve years working in damascus in syria iran different areas has there been a difference in your work throughout those years and in the recent months that

we've seen uprising and violence of course we have been facing. the n.p.t. evolving to get more and water but as you can pick you know it's really in the sand to head it. is so for us it was new because we would see in civil service provision of the smallest petty since one thousand and ninety four. and we really. appreciate. the security team in syria you know its security feel for the core of it which is imposed somehow. by regime which is very strong good and sometimes a kind of. again but never does and this. is that everybody was living in security. now were when the events

begin. raise we were very happy because really also wanted felt that the that is a need for a chance but very very quickly. we got bad news. from. the witnesses. in our biases and in homs. and also from damascus in daraa where what to do as a witness is civilians who is out of any political. position and you know they were counting on us telling us stories and said put it except to the contrary of what we were seeing on the television so we took position for. objective truth. good information. and also for sunday that it

because only by scholarly you had to help. position where you had. people detained so you were also helping the opposition yes it's what we call opposition the you know pushing your position which is not under any party and that i'm not that. you have you have always been today a peaceful demonstration ok. so we have. to free you to set free people. also if there is a need of humanitarian help even we had opposition meeting in our monastery and the first appeal for the day i logged and recourse invasion was a monastery and i'm sure very well aware of all the criticism that has been thrown

your way what is your relationship with the assad regime. if you know i have no more of the nation's. religious entity and i would of thought it is a religious it's not political it's not even civilian you know we had a mainstream report that came to syria and for it one way for a while i went with them on the scene you know but in january. in december i asked to go to do a position where the good review would already implemented ok and so i could have i as an eyewitness and in the beginning we did not even know who were those people and we said said those people there were. identified.

gangs you know we said we don't know who they are but they are spreading. these ordered the killings abducting and the many crimes you know of metal rods. to destabilize a country and all saw to implement a kind of racial for a civil war for example they would kill. targeted targeted for example they would kill a lot with i have seen. in homs. a flock of blood. because in the day before. people you know source and i did then defied gangs have been beheading nine i know with people just because they were i know it i have seen this was my eyes and i i talked

to the population of the sunni population who do you think has has perpetrated this they didn't know they said they were wearing like soldiers but do you think that it's their loyalty towards the what do you want me to do i kind of shut up if if if nobody is reporting this i feel as if if i know it and i do not report that i am helping. to continue is that a way and after even of human rights watch begin to talk about things perpetrated by. actual armed insurrection affiliated saying that it is affiliated to the opposition that were doing sins against humanity and this is an improvement but we're talking about the syrians in general do they want regime change look i think that yes and said to do regime has fallen there is no more of

this sort of team you will never ever have the same regime on what. now. the commission they have been discriminated net because they are christian but because being commission they could not participate in islam is the most patience and sometimes it i have to violence is against them. everybody says you know we had more to bin two hundred thousand coalition that had to flee out because of this big worse position that we have to hear. between extending your opposition you know in some of the leaders of the opposition outside of syria they never came back to syria since thirty years so they don't have. a popular ground ok they want to come to be able to come

but with the help of. the foreign. foreign intervention military and but you have entirely our opposition. we do doesn't want this kind of foreign intervention. they want changes but we saw violence and we saw destroying everything when we're talking about a solution a third way as you mentioned earlier in this conflict how is that going to happen given that there are a lot of guns on the street how is the solution to work and what exactly can be done there is a big violence you know but. it's not everywhere in syria. violence that is reside needed by the border guards. and is following a special plan but in that country. you have

a large piece of. people. around of lands which is not on the violence. and also even in the cities where you have violence they have so much space to. what would be. a kind you know for a country like iraq completely destroyed that many of the opposition and begin to think and to say it's not the way the value and it's not doing so since one year we have been one more than one thousand people have been invited to. the. complex to think about is sort of the way and this side of the way the name of the certainly if initiative is the most on the high initiative does not come from the opposition does not come from under it comes from is a silent majority of the syrian people from the leaders of families of tribes

of clans and also from a religious leaders day meet together. and they were very active. when there were the challenges that nobody could solution it but for example in homs. you had many families completely trapped the. streets. they were controlled by the opposition but i was going to bomb them so they were under high danger they were trapped for more one month nobody would know how to do it so my son a high intervened you know. they have cousins inside the opposition for example and the ghoulishness they have their own people believe in

so they made negotiation secretly and slowly by slowly everybody could go out well there are also other christian or catholic figures aside from yourself we're also making comments on the syrian conflict and there are some of them who don't agree with you who say that the syrians need outside help they need intervention yet you're both all from the same community what do you say to this what do you think of this i want to say is that the syrian people has to defy by itself which is itself what they want and my claim is that let the syrian people alone and the majority of the syrian people they want change but it's a change would be impeached in dialogue and reconciliation i hope he said.

syria is so strong he said they will make they are doing a new social pact. new basis result if you want ideology of party political party and it will be stronger it will be better and it is open to and you future full of you know more contemporaneous achievement and i hope with the blessing of the party had a kid last i respect and i give him all my side with a shaman as a believer of sr i guess i am thank you very much for your time. well for the. money it's technology innovation all the latest developments from

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continue. china to drum up business and convince beijing that the euro is on the road to recovery beijing says we cut eurozone states need to impose further cuts and reforms. but with a new team with more news stories in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime paul is next with the sport. thank you very much bill welcome along to the world of sports has what's coming up european to all russian champions innings in pieces by a draw against european giants ac milan in the champions league group stages moscow placed the might of fossilised. splashing the cash by munich break the windows legal record one song signing spanish midfielder having martinez fifteen million dollars. underway china time the first gold medal of the paralympics is the games

begin with a spectacular opening ceremony in london. but we start with football way in the champions league rushes to representatives this season have found out their opponents in the group stage on the draw has not been caught and russian a premier league champions in its impinges bugger in group c. with seven tie european champions ac milan trips to belgium and spain also away to challenge for letty's men as under lock and malaga make up the rest of the group competing in the competition for the very top. in group j. last season's top flight runners up spot on moscow face the ominous task of taking on. the cost of one side of one of europe's premier competition twice in the last four seasons portuguese side benfica and scottish champions celtic completely agree . the reigning champions chelsea who won the competition for the first time in may are in group eight their opponents are italian champions eventis. ukraine and

f.c. north. there had to be one group they could be called the group of death the champions of spain will face the champions of england israel madrid have been drawn against manchester city to form a win is all the competition complete the line up nine hundred ninety five. as in one thousand nine hundred seven champions put us here dormant. and you can say that full draw on the dot com now and the euro plates eskom moscow are currently in action against qualifying round second like clash they led one nil from the away leg but conceded early in the russian capital this evening and appeared to be heading for the dreaded extra time is only a matter of seconds left back later on thursday headings and go to the netherlands with a one zero lead over. newcastle host roma toss following a one zero draw in grace and into the latter just kicked off against remaining side as the last two i mean while liverpool will be hoping to progress at the expense of

scottish club hearts. and i'm goal from andrew webster twelve minutes from time in the first leg means that john maclean is hearts trial one will heading to one field the s.p.l. side make the trip south of the border i'm fine liverpool inconsistent for three nil the thing to west brom of the day of the premier league season was followed up with a two two draw against champions manchester city last week but manager brendan rodgers insists his side off favorites to progress. in this religious ritual. will drink to one of the good top players and we need to. to beat every team that comes to them free so we're at the top during the advantages of those. nothing's impossible ills with grace try and make sure that we believe. go to work or socks off work hard to get the ball we don't panic on it make sure that the key position we don't get a weaker than we do not will be. meanwhile the latest chapter of the footballing

saga between real madrid and barcelona has gone the way of the galactic carriers has a marina and car and finally ending their seven game el classico losing streak to lift the club's first spanish super cup since two thousand and eight but also how the three too late from the first leg the railway said little time wiping out the deficit it why a taking advantage of a strong defensive mishap to open the scoring eleven minutes gerard piqué the next boss of the fan little show a lapse in concentration a brilliant flick christiane rinaldo begin one of one with goalkeeper victor valdes pressing for two late night visitors was continued were not on i was sent off down rinaldo full flight you know messy process hope with a stunning free kick right before half time for two one was how it finished on the night for aggregate playing for a trophy of the season on away goals. meanwhile there has been some good

news for barcelona as their midfielder andras in the us that won the u.a.e. for european of footballer of the year award team a leader of messi and railroad bridge forward cristiana are now they were the runners up the spanish international got nineteen rights while one elder in massey received seventy eight the award is voted for by fifty three journalists representing each of the u.a.e. for nations in the us to fail to play in the league title last season but was part of the triumphant spanish side for one euro two thousand and twelve. now with the clock ticking until the closure of the european transfer window german club munich have smashed the national record to sign spaniard harvey martin as the central midfielder arriving from la liga club athletic bilbao for a face around fifteen million dollars or just over thirty six million pounds the twenty three year old was a member of spain's two thousand and ten world cup winning squad and also helped his country defend a european title days some of the margin has apparently had other options for the

elected for a move to the. does new guy. still fit you will at the end of last season given all the options there was one that stood out amongst the rest which was coming here this is one of the three best teams in the world historically and currently when they told me it was an option i quickly focused on coming here people have spoken well about the city the people. now to the u.s. open tennis why russia. is looking to reach the third round of the final grand slam of the year the unseated russian is taking on a local favorite that's twenty third st martin thanks there in action right now taking the sat french major well for tsongas he's up against one seeded martin clunes out of slovakia very strange game. taking the summer storming back to twenty second six one before dropping the third later on the world number one top seed roger federer played beyond germany. in the women's draw meanwhile saw fourteen.

straight sets and then preach on three williams plays where they are jose martinez sanchez of spain say that nascar advanced poland that things are not a spaniard correspondence mcgraw all right. now cyclist lance armstrong maintains he's still a seven time tour de france winner the american was stripped of all the titles that he's won since one thousand nine hundred eight after saying he would no longer challenge the u.s. anti-doping agencies drug charges against him however he says that is not an admittance of guilt. my name is lance armstrong i am a cancer survivor i've been asked to come up here and talk about my story of survivor ship i'm a father of five and yes i want to tour de france seven times to book saying we're going out a goal of kenya said to put his own bait in a record on the line this weekend the w.p.a. and i.b.i. middleweight champion faces poland's greg goss prox up in new york on saturday but for a fight club ken was keen to stress a possible super fight with a russian to me is not currently on the cards presently dimitri pirro doesn't

really mean anything to me even though he is a w b o champion i'm not really interested in him i'm about to fight proxy on september first so beautiful it isn't in my head at all this and finally at the paralympics in london russia have claimed two gold medals on the opening day of competitions a win in the men's four hundred metres freestyle swimming while it's on a soft did likewise in the women's event but away from the competition is a party atmosphere in the english capital as roman cross whoever ports. the final stage of the paralympic torch relay saw some of the world's most acclaimed stars usher the flame through the streets of london among them top international model and mother to three children and that's all you have a john of a who also happens to be the ambassador for the next winter games in russia's black sea resort of sochi in twenty four teams not just that i cannot write i want to use

the resources that i have in russian to do a lot to help new paralympic needn't olympians and already getting plenty of support on focused on contributing to the party room because instead london's what it's called organizers have pulled out all the stops in order to achieve a record breaking ticket sales that's certainly something to live up to when the next winter paralympic capsule of sorts she will pick up the bats and our group was lucky enough to also catch up with thirteen time paralympic champion remember it's all about the russian state duma deputy participated in six games herself but admits that it's a completely different experience so right here as a fan let me now present i've never attended the opening ceremony of the games in my six paralympic outings as an athlete because i usually had to prepare for competition during that time so this first time experience is like a holiday for me and from the streets on when the torch to the stadium where thousands of international spectators made their way to the opening ceremony.

so the twenty as well paralympic games have officially begun over the next couple of weeks athletes from one hundred sixty six countries will battle for the gold medal in twenty one different sports and these games are promising to be the most watched paralympics to date. him on cost or of course for our team for going to the logs and. not his old from the water sport for now but before we go i'm just going to tell you that sas com also have been eliminated from the europa league they were leading one nil going into the second leg and. in the russian capital but they've lost two nil conceding a second goal deep into injury time so sas college europa league campaign aides are about as old from the water sport for now but there's plenty more light to hear an aussie the wild weather is next.

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