welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow and these are the top stories a forty year old man has been killed in quebec after a man opened fire during a victory speech of the province's newly elected leader one other person is in critical condition premier pulliam or while was rushed off stage unharmed police arrested the suspect a man in his fifty's wearing a balaclava. the u.n. calls for an end to militarize in both sides in the syrian conflict speaking at the general salman bunky moon said the crisis is taking a brutal turn while tens of thousands of people are fleeing the escalating violence . and in china and china warns the u.s.

to back off band left southeast asian nations resolve their own disputes have her visit to beijing and secretary of state hillary clinton urged the four nations to work together on the issue of the south china sea. up next we talked to a german journalist for his firsthand accounts of the syrian conflict. as the conflict in syria continues to unfold under the watchful gaze of the world's media there are all those that say that we aren't receiving the full picture of what's going on on the ground in the embattled middle eastern country now one of those people joins me right now manuel oxon writer thank you very much for speaking to me thank you well to start off how long were you in syria and where were you what did you see i will for nine days in syria in july and i was exactly the time when the so-called petal of damascus was reaching and i was inside damascus all the

time and i could compare every day the worldwide media coverage and with what i saw with my own eyes now what you saw while you were on the ground in syria doesn't seem to fit with what we're seeing on our t.v. screens does it well at first it is a difference everybody saw what's in damascus because the worldwide media coverage of the mainstream media coverage claimed that the massacres is was at that time when this so-called battle of the massacres that massacres will cain or the opposition of there were the rebels the armed opposition called this operation they were seeing that hold the mouse because it's on fire their heavy fighting so i think even a couple of days later when the battle was reaching they were saying that now the rebels are so close to the city center that they are a power to conquer now the city the government will fall i was inside the city and then you didn't see any of them therefore there was no war in the city of course

they were in some suburbs you saw that that they were fighting but it wasn't it all a better reaching inside the city now in terms of the scale of this conflict nine days isn't a whole lot of time to spend on the ground there has been going on for over a year what you saw though did you feel that that was typical of what was the beliefs and feelings of people in syria in general what i didn't we. inus is the beginning what what happened in march or in april is last year when when the demonstrations and so on begin and what i witnessed as i spoke to a lot of people who are not outspoken not with the syrian government and they didn't have any problems to tell me as a foreign journalist that they are not with their government but in this is i think the most important difference to the media coverage here they were all against this war which is now raging so they said all of the we are not with our government right now we support our army in pushing back the foreign terrorists from our

countries so then we can make the changes and the reforms we need in our country now you've been quite critical of german foreign policy concerning syria one of the main problems for you well first of all it's really ridiculous how drew money seems to react to on what is happening in syria because. i got very much the impression that the german policy makers the german politicians get all their information by the mainstream media and i ask myself why fifty we used to have an embassy in this country why did we use to have diplomatic personnel in this country and by the way why do we have a secret service who is monitoring what is going on so i can give you a couple of examples it's what is maybe the most well known example is the so-called massacre of houla what happened before i arrived there when. killed i don't know any more of the number i think it where one hundred eight people a lot of civilians and also children some of them and all the western governments

including germany reacted very quickly by sending home the syrian ambassador and almost closing the syrian embassies without waiting for an examination of what really happened so when later on it came out and this is not a conspiracy theory at the swatches and the official thing what came out later that this message or what took place was not caused by the syrian army and the syrian security forces there nothing happened usually you should say ok i made a wrong decision sorry for this please come back so we can keep our diplomatic relations so you see this is one point we we are doing a lot of things based on. more or less very very bad information sources but when it comes out later that it's wrong we don't step back now their example which is maybe a little bit more funny if you compared but it's serious of course if you look of about the political consequences of his was the so-called syrian gager if you remember last year in june there are several n.g.o.s homosexuals in she owes

where not just to clarify what you're speaking about was a a blog that was supposed to be from a lesbian woman in syria that turned out to actually be written by a man based in scotland. so so it was it came out in june there was a big campaign they were claiming that this syrian. well which never existed which is also it well known today that she never existed that she was arrested by the security forces so the german chairman for for human rights in the german foreign ministry marcos learning from the liberal party was immediately reacting he gave a statement on what happened and he was saying this is showing obvious that there's a sub government is not taking seriously the reforms in t. show the release immediately i mean up dollar so what came out i think just two or days two or three days later it came out that it was as you say at the u.s. american guy located in scotland to making this block so it was

a complete fraud so what was for me interesting as a journalist where two questions the first question was how does it how does it manage that the german official is reacting so quick on such an issue and the second much more important question is when it comes out later that it is also fraught how do we react to we say sorry do we take it back do we corrected for the german audience are you a critique of of the citizen journalism i'm not i'm not criticizing it generally because this citizen journalism can be a really important instrument but what we learn about the within the conflict of syria is that this so-called citizen journalism is abused by several to end she owes by by lobby groups who are abusing like their life for what for what ends are they being abused for making pressure on politicians for making decisions for example the decision of breaking up diplomatic relations with

a country that is the decision to support with financial means and with technology means the so-called opposition to make. but who gains from that no nobody makes a decision nobody pushes this hard without gaining something and what you're saying who gains out of the situation you put forward. well they have they are there are a couple of interest groups who benefit from such a politics you have that first interest groups of the big interests interest groups of the western governments who want to have the regime change there and who are supporting that the information you get from these countries are very much one sided or money that what you're speaking about information there was a statement it came out from a senior u.s. military official who said that if you want information on syria first call is always to germany germany's far more involved in this than most people think only yes and for generally and it's really really very embarrassing for for germany because what i don't see what i really don't see is any german national interest so

in my opinion this shows in particular foreign policy that germany's they're not really acting like a super in state should do me personally i don't see a necessity why we should invite fifty syrian opposition votes to germany to educate them in berlin by educate what do you mean political trading what we are doing by that is that we support the overthrow of the syrian government we are interfering in syrian why shouldn't germany train these people and how the democratic process works to make sure that syria isn't run by the guy with the most guns in his hands this is our german chop is that our german shock to train people from all over the road what happens if their government is overthrown and a revolution is taking palace what with the russian what the russians say if if we train our people to overthrow putin what would the u.s. american see if we train now here by taxpayers money so we all donating this as the germans for a revolution in u.s.

or in any other country so we are now or in that case of syria maybe the populations are look this government is so cruel and this assault is so meanies so brutally slaughter it's good that we trained its people because it basis and we were talking before on this wrong information and that it's wrong image of what is going. on that country so you see this this fits together but as i said and this is really my point of view it's not our job as chairman if you paid to enter to train people for taking over governments in other countries it's not our job to do our job is to get good relations to put the government's existing this is my point well this conflict isn't going anywhere anytime soon it does seem and it's plenty much more we could talk about say for now thank you very much well thank you.

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a forty year old man has been killed and pulled back after a man opened fire during the victory speech of the provinces newly elected leader one other person is in critical condition. was brushed off stage unharmed police arrested the suspect a man in his fifty's worrying about. the u.n. calls for him and to militarizing both sides in the syrian conflict speaking out of the general stanley bunky moon said the crisis is taking a brutal turn while tens of thousands of people are leaving the escalating violence . and china warns the west to back off and southeast asian nations resolve their own disputes out of her visit to beijing and secretary of state hillary clinton

urged the four nations to work together on the issue of the south china sea. so they had lines here in r t and sports next with paul. hello welcome along the to the sports headlines here is what we've got coming up. reigning champion says defense of her u.s. open crown is over after a grueling three set defeat to top seed victoria azarenka before bad weather and play for the day. road to brazil manager fabio capello prepares for his first competitive games in charge of russia added friday's world cup qualifier at home to northern ireland. and the ring return of k h l champions to now moscow where dramas are part and god three two on penalties in the season opening match here in the russian capital. but first go to the hard courts of the u.s.

open tennis where they tour as a banker has become the first player to book her place in the semifinals of the women's singles at flushing meadows the world number one and top seed knocked out defending champion australia's sam stosur in three sets the belorussian stormed six one but stosur took the second six four forcing a decider which as a record took on a tie break meaning stosur relinquishes her grip on the trophy that she won twelve months ago. of course is always going to be disappointing when you lose you know a good quarter of the u.s. open but i really played the website i thought it was a really really good match you know it was what a pointer to it so. you know i'm really happy with the way that i played and gave it everything in the men's draws down for the advance into the quarter finals following a straight sets victory over frenchwoman ryszard gas k. however heavy rain in new york forced the rest of the day's matches to be postponed

defending champion novak djokovic was an early break up against stanislav but then cut loudly roddick and juan martin del potro were in a tiebreaker. now to football and russia have been dealt a blow ahead of friday's opening world cup qualifier at home to northern ireland spartak striker archer is out with a knee injury a worry for new manager fabio capello who has already dropped captain andre arshad in which of important reports if not be a capello want to stamp his authority on his new russian side he certainly achieved advance he made the tough decision to drop former captain under sharp in there's almost been a neighbor present for his country over the last decade hello the arsenal striker hasn't been in great form this season but roman shock of say is it is a surprise not to see his former senate team mate in the squad i think it's a surprise as he was always in the squad before but capello obviously wants to take a different path and i don't really have a lot to say about then he's

a good player and has played very well for us i think it's a shame that he's not in the squad russia play their first world cup qualifier against northern ireland on friday and will be looking to qualify for football's biggest tournament for the first time since two thousand and two capello has been given the task of getting russia to brazil and shock of says it's great to work with the italian and i suppose that here in theory the coaches have all been similar with capello though training is different we didn't play well at the euros and we're really motivated to play well whenever we put on a russian shirt we always give our best. there are a number of new faces in the russia squad who didn't really feature and a former head coach to counter cants defies all in dallas block and on the issue all relatively new and the latter is a ready twenty eight his call up came as a bit of a surprise and yours alone i'm really happy to be called up i think i have worked hard and that's why capello has given me a chance to russia's players didn't know too much about the northern irish team

will both be on friday or they are expecting a tough physical battle against a side who rang to one hundred one in the world of fabio capello's have just over a month to get to know his new players but this is where the going gets tough for tally and as he looks to try and help russia qualify for will be the first world cup since two thousand and two or capello's already made a bold statements by dropping former captain andrea charbonneau he'll be hoping to play is what he selected can help russia get off to a perfect start in the world cup qualifying campaign with victory over northern ireland on friday richard darty moscow so after being dropped from the russia squad what is next for andre arshavin well according to reports he could be set for a move to deny moscow british newspaper reports claiming asking are ready to let the thirty one year old leave the club on a free transfer deal would need to be completed soon with the russian transfer window closing on thursday join the gunners in two thousand and nine he has been

named in their twenty five man squad for this season's champions league london club in the forward our last season where he enjoys a neat and how luciano selectors manage retain that the russian title. now to ice hockey where the fifth season of the k h l a's are underway the annual first vs second curtain raiser sort of fending champions dynamic come from behind to claim a shootout win over runners up in guard and lift the inaugural locomotive cup constantly to top off what's the action. traditionally the go and cup winner is face the finalists once again in the opening fixture of the new season and it seemed as if the previous season had never stopped as cup holders denominate took to the ice to meet are on guard the game turned out to be a repeat of last season's final where the moscow eighteen beat the only excite to leave the trophy in a seven match the real line eight minutes into the opening period and undone coriander rifled back home to give on guard and one nothing lead it to deny us some time to get back into it but denise cocker if levelled matters four minutes before

the end of the second converging on a powerplay and the blue and white should have scored in the other material by bank of failed to capitalize on the penalty shot however play off top score in the haleigh neeson did give denominate two one lead on a powerplay in the decisive period but seven minutes before the final buzzer made all square again. one time that being point passed from alexandre for all off on a counter-attack this core line didn't change in the overtime and the game went to shoot out thirty year old forward for all of was the only a longer play to put his name on the scoreboard in the shoot out wheldon amma's new signing swede that he heard and that exceeds with sand that box into the back of the net speak to kill it to wrap up the blue and whites first when they were separated by things like especially for the second period we were better. at least i think so too bad and we didn't even score

a little bit more it was the first match so we were a little bit overwhelmed by you motions is good that we managed to win in the and earn two points i so did i came from behind the shootout win over their rivals from the eastern conference in the opening cracker and defeat gay chelsea's and promises to meet their high expectations and become the best in the history constantine but out of. now engulf america's ryder cup captain davis love the third has picked his wild card for the competition which begins later this month steve stricker dustin johnson brandt snedeker and the two thousand and three u.s. open champion jim furyk have been selected to join tiger woods and co as they are saying that to wrestle the trophy away from defending champions europe we have a great eighteen a team member new nucleus that we got as the p.g.a. championship with keegan bradley jason dufner johnson phil mickelson webb

simpson bubba watson and tiger woods an incredible way they've been playing great obviously all year we're very excited about them i couldn't be a more excited about our team in formula one ferrari a gearing up for their home grand prix there are eight stages left this season including this weekend's race in italy and ferrari's fernando alonso is currently the man to catch with a twenty four point lead at the top of the drivers' championship the most important race of the year. we had racing at home we have a lot of support from other kids for see. you story think if it only has been always very few months or so we want to put the i will performance on sunday. now staying with my sports on the g.t. one world championships and the g.t. three european championships have made their debuts here in russia as nick like old explains. not only was it the first time that the g.t. championship had come to russia but also for the first time this year but if the

g.t. won world championships and the mostly amateur g.t. three european championships lined up together on the same grid. despite bad weather and little knowledge of the newly built moscow raceway track the drivers were quick to adapt belgian audi club team w party completed a solid g.t. one qualifying race lawrence went full and stiff on our telly secured ball position well oliver jarvis and frank stickler finished third at the same time g.t. three championship leaders maximillian burke and dominic bowman won the battle with the treacherous conditions to take the first race when that first time we were assisted you on guys. yeah i had a lot of fun it was not easy to go on contact with them just to do my race my talking to get a good get to the good of the attitude is very guys but it was

a great race meanwhile nova drive a pair more tim and saves a company called claim their maiden g.t. three victory in an incident packed race two while the battling g t one was in full flow but it wasn't without its glitches as the safety car had to be deployed twice due to standing water on the track however it was the hexis race in mclaren team who recorded a hard fought one to finish this off i know we had an amazing. if it doesn't result for us and again for the championship there's a bit of a does a grid of here in russia the mclaren drivers secured victory by over twenty five seconds which puts them back in contention in the driver's championship second was the sister car of alviro parenting and gregoire jim was steered well stapler and jarvis took third bringing to an end a very challenging debut in russia nicolo chose

a moscow region. as you'll spoil for now but i'll be back with plenty more in just under two hours time here on our to do join me that. well. it's technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. in his first t.v. interview since his inauguration. just as well as one ton of all of its inmates and bring them to syria to do the fighting there practically the same calling to people bloody near putin speaks exclusively to r.t. .