first foreign journalists killed in syria is under arrest a french camera man was mortally wounded by a grenade along with at least eight locals the country's authorities blamed terrorists for the attack leading the armed opposition groups which it blames for instigating the violence. well one of the implications of the ongoing bloodshed and syria still hard to predict are its he said down with professor of middle east politics dr jeremy salt to get a broader view on what's going on in the region. thank you jeremy for joining us here on our team as well as call put it when it comes to the middle east there west talks i gently sickly and acts brutally if it's true if you agree with this what should be done what can be done to prevent syria from falling into these patterns look at what's been happening in the middle east and the policies the western governments of followed they have always had the noble

motive and we're doing this for this very very good reason but we don't have to be terribly skeptical or cynical to understand that actually behind the noble motive is self-interest if we look at what happened in egypt the west backed mubarak right to the very last and then was no longer possible to back him when it was indefensible they dumped him and with him with the president of tunisia and then they moved very very quickly on libya what was happening in libya. absolutely terrible in many cases in the name of human rights they kind of attacked libya the same with syria you know it's kind of it's it's a protest movement it's democratic change and reform which are very worthwhile motives to support but there is another agenda here which has to do with broader global and regional strategies what has the libyan scenario failed in syria will the western powers change their tactics i think that libya with the template for syria kind of went to the u.n. they got the no fly zone was lucian and opened up libya to aerial attack and i

think they thought that they could repeat this in syria but it didn't prove to be possible largely because of russia actually because russia made it plain that it would not support another no fly and no fly zone resolution in the security council so this left the government of britain france and the u.s. in particular with you know they had to work out what policy they were going to pursue you know i still think they would like to intervene in syria but. i realize it's not saying is look they're not saying this is a different situation altogether stakes are much higher the risk is much greater the dangers are much greater because intervention in syria how do you describe that whether you're talking about a buffer zone or the top american military humanitarian causal as a french foreign minister does it still the same thing as the invasion of another country and syria would resist that along to get involved actively get involved third party take the fall back position i think is to support. certain activities

inside syria which are calculated in the downfall of the assad government and its replacement by. government will be formed presumably from. the prison would take take over in your book the unmaking of the middle east you chronicled alone in a bloody history of western invasions in arab lands with all the efforts by the u.n. and arab league of arab league is the threat of foreign military invasion for syria is in the past right or not here of course is still a possibility of course as to the possible to do rather because it's risky for intervention would be risky however it was done would be to kind of maintain the support for what's happening inside syria on the side of the opposition like the calculation would be that sooner or later this precious if they maintained will result in the collapse of the assad government well as compare syria with the lead

and iraq to what extent the syrian national council similar to libya is national transitional council or iraqi national congress rocky national congress was almost a fiction leader no support inside iraq whatsoever. iraq for a long long time has pumped up because they want to create this exiled body called the iraqi national congress so there was an iraqi voice in the propaganda war against saddam hussein the libyan situation the lives of the libyan transitional council as you know basically would affect us from the governing tripoli jump ship when it got too hot they took a uniform with the benghazi and the transitional national council for all of whom we didn't know we knew someone from all of that if we can't say the syrian national council. is largely composed of the mixture of people who have the roots who are inside syria but the dominant i think exiles. has been in paris for

a long time like read one. who's based in washington and has very very close ties with the state department you know what kind of clout what part of hold of these people have inside syria i would say not much. you know so there are similarities between these councils and of course you know that the transitional national council for national transitional council in libya. recognize the syrian national council as a legitimate representative the syrian people it's not this simple as that so it's kind of part of the campaign against syria of which that that now the lid is now the libyan government is now part elections at various levels are currently on to go in in syria with more had so what do you think will bashar al assad remain in power as a result and we have a very very dangerous situation in syria which could have exploded into a very very nasty. part of breakdown inside the country and could lead to

a regional war. in this context let's see if this you give me a few months and see how the process works for bashar does have. a base of support so i don't think you could say that the party would be doomed the moment they call free elections that could do well why do you think human rights watch talks and foreign media neglects the damage done by militant groups in syria it's somewhat of a mystery to me it's a mystery and the city has made some pretty. provocative claims in with regard to syria one of them is that i think it was military people dressing up as doctors in homs hospital. any verification of a claim made on the basis of on their own people. and similar claims have been made by other human rights organizations human rights watch the. u.n. human rights council its committee it's all one way it's all about what the

government is doing and making very very extreme claims the government's response to the death of two hundred fifty six children for example. four thousand five thousand of dart there is no desegregation which is what the critical reader would want you know you see this week where they come in for this anyone know how many people have been killed in syria so far in its report. the human rights council report said four thousand but there was no explanation of that figure where they go. a few days later. to see un human rights commissioner for the security council and so far for. the figure it goes around the world and i think it lodges in the popular imagination it's five thousand people being killed by the syrian government but security forces by enough to whatever whereas in fact i don't think it's any doubt at all that a large number of military of civilians have been killed by armed gangs about

it but by factors so what we actually need to do is to aggregate these figures like how many people have been killed by the syrian army how many of them were innocent entirely innocent how many of them were men who picked up arms. how many civilians have been killed by gangs so forth and so on you need to break the whole thing down but these are not broken down since we are in turkey let's talk about turkey a little bit turkey definitely wants to be associated with the changes in this region to be seen as a leading play in this movement so may turkey he use this moment to its advantage turkey before the policy for the last seven years of creating zero problems on the borders ok and that meant kind of dealing with iran doing with syria and syria had

a rather complicated relationship over many many years. and so these problems were resolved and they did lead to very good stable balanced relationships with syria and with iran in particular so all of a sudden the policy was reversed instantly like turkey did a sharp right hand i think the turkish government seem to think that the syrian government for the protest movement got up and running and i think the calculated the only question of time before the syrian government goes and therefore i think it want to put it want to be riding the wave ok put on the crystal the way to question the wave of reform and change in the middle east and to be seen as the leader of this movement. turkey legs but the fact is that. syria as i said i would stop there. is not libya that will if any one interferes with us like across our borders to cause an earthquake in this region so the stakes for everyone including turkey in this situation very very high to turkey made this decision that

i think that affable go therefore we support the opposition therefore we support the syrian national council of space and istanbul therefore we support free syrian army do you think that was a wrong decision in doing so they have antagonized iran and antagonized iraq. because now iraq has come out quite strongly in support of syria and of course the living is governed by his boss has also been very very critical of turkey so the change in foreign policy has kind of dumped the zero problem and what they've done that is create problems now if if if our side goes ok then it's all worked out but if if if if he doesn't somehow manage to ride this out. well then i suppose it's going to go on for months you know and they'll have to pull back from a position that you had to create and actually it's not really terrible any longer you've got to deal with here like it or not is turkey being sincere in its

intentions saying it wants stability in syria and stability in the region at the line with with. saudi arabia with united states britain and france but that's where it is that's what's that and so the rhetoric about humanitarian intervention. humanitarian strip has been a kind of simple thing in discussion about syria over the last six months and talking about along with that but they know the dangers they do of course they know that just that if there was a move across the border if turkey somehow were talking to taking the lead. it would open up a pandora's box of problems you know and. you know turkey with. no question of invention but it seems to me this is definitely a big difference over this issue like it's an option that somehow has to wear however it might be carried out.

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including journalists and inspectors should leave. and this clear what happens with such witnesses i got on my site. ready. to. shoot merciless shooting and. more news today violence is once again flared up the first thing these are the

images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are today. the crisis in relations between washington and tehran as it provided by the assassination of a iranian scientist in two years iran blames israel and america for the plot but says it was not the rail the country's nuclear program. the first foreign journalists killed in syria and rusty french camera man was mortally wounded by a grenade along with at least eight locals the country's in the war he's blamed terrorists for the attack meaning the armed opposition groups which is blames for instigating the violence. and the ten year anniversary since one toddled bay greeted its first prisoners has been marred by protests in the u.s. and abroad people took to the streets demanding the release of those still held in

the jail that president obama ballads. all of those were the headlines here on our back at the top of the hour with more in the meantime here's a sports update was dimitriy. i know they're welcome to this and i'll take that to the company again and top stories. on the roads in the. extend the gap between the sides. unexpected results. in liverpool a narrow way big against manchester city in the first leg of the carling cup semifinals. and to lose but still go through advancing to the last eight so the. second leg defeat to seville. but start with us took

away in the. biggest rivals and main competitors for a play of sport spots ok the russian capital the game finished three one at this economy here in augusta there but up of has more. ok darby between sports car into his car what's to become even more important as the teams battled hard for a place which comes with a chance of a playoff in the western conference both sides were on the same pressure tesco suffered ten defeats in eleven matches among them a repeat of the cage hill record humiliating loss to a move eight nothing well spark touch struggled to get back on winning form with a new coach behind the bench and they should aim for it with no real science for success the game started cautiously with both teams putting defense first the hosts had possession but it was the visitors who broke the deadlock meter way through the opening period we call it a fork and was first in the rebound to get the feel at the start who earned his

first point in the sixth game since his second comeback from the n.h.l. in the second test packet collecting penalties and sparta finally converted and in bondage of having an extra man a grandson of it's his college and various mikhail of you who are too good for me failing to level matters scoring his fifth of the season the next tonight game continued in the last frame right up to the fifty three minutes when sergei showed up to give the wise them about play for his fifteenth goal of the season to give them a man believe sparked up threw everything at their rivals for an equaliser the red and white school the goaltender but only in vain as the visitors shot an empty netter to see what final score we won. forces fundamentals against so good in the forests. and build it. still bit better with my game at the first point so maybe less panic now and hopefully it's going to get going i

think we had a lot are my chances and we've been put into the park and that you know that hurts when you miss that many things i want for lunch only the refs going to start calling the other way. you know you we we had better moments where we shouldn't try to very. damaged to bounce back after wishing nothing defeat to be more c two rivals and. then point teams in the rankings and it seems spark the need a little miracle to see the police in the way you do so you bubble. but. the results from wednesday night two more games are played across eastern conference play this try to manage to take only one point. as they hunted side defeated them in a shootout there was another surprise result in st petersburg where locals car account leaders conceded for an ounce of goals against the visiting. football

liverpool have beaten manchester united i'm sort of match to sit of course in the first leg of the carling cup semifinals the game finished one nil in favor of the. stadium steven gerrard making all the difference for two minutes in a converted following this city's stefan savage in the area referee had no other option but to point to the sport's experience gerrard made no mistake sending the ball plastic paper into the right hand corner the second leg will be played at anfield on the twenty fifth of january. you know of alliance there are through to the last eight of the copa del rey that spot a second like home defeat to seville in the last sixteen and we go straight to the second half. opened the scoring in the sixty fifth minute better so dollar broke and easily beat the keeper the hosts needed four minutes to level matters. take it

was the third to the rebound in the box seville soup the lead at the very end of the game when valencia defend the. injury time so to want. on the night on aggregate it's fallen vance to the next stage on the way to go. over to possible nowhere in the n.b.a. the new york knicks and. six game winning streak with an eighty five seventy nine victory at madison square garden the host totally controlled the first half thirteen points to the first quarter and twelve by haas time try to five after the big break and a million managed to equalise midway through the third period. proved to be useless when the next retained double figures late soon after was twenty seven points from and twenty from amare stoudamire where the biggest contributions to the next four

win in a row. if our ceremony for the russian youth winter olympic team has been held at. airports the pick of the country's hopefuls flying off to innsbruck for the first games would get underway on friday russia will be represented by sixty seven young athletes with women's figure skating traditionally being one of the team's biggest hopes to win the canes of the sport three time domestic happened adelina sotnikova and world championships runner up elisabetta to. regard it a strong favorite for glory at the frost approaching finals seeing it as the perfect for house of the sort of twenty fourteen winter olympics. and it's going to be much more than just a completion for me myself and my teammate i believe you could have a chasing to represent our country at the winter youth or limping games it's a big responsibility and a new exciting experience at the same time we will have

a great chance to feel what the olympics are all about two years ahead of sochi two thousand and fourteen what he feels like to live and communicate with other athletes under the pressure and hopefully when. we expect some good results from our team at the games hopefully each of them will manage to fulfil their potential despite the pressure which is always there when it comes to big events like this. in winter sports son of words of and celebrated victory at the freestyle world cup event in france in the big final this week two canadian races. and mariel thompson or threats underlain by her disbelieved it made a mistake which saw her finishing last out of four claimed the first sport there which let her talk with an ensuite two hundred and eighty nine point thompson and live in second and third respectively. times they've been in philly.

has become the fastest in the men's event and managed to overtake the likes of canadians christopher and david duncan and last of sweden playing to his first world cup victory. to the runner up spot. now the miracle of team t.-bo continues in the n.f.l. with the quarterback taking the denver broncos through to the n.f.l. playoffs despite an orthodox style that all supporting the recent stunning overtime big against pittsburgh to want to focus on the heavily favored england patriots this saturday. in the grand scheme of things it's one game and it's a playoff game so it's big but i'm not going to let you too much into it it's just one game and you know we've got another big win this week. you know it will be fun . to be exciting because you're playing the new england patriots and we get a chance to play tom brady and bill belichick. and. it's another round of the

playoffs and it's exciting. to the world of high octane engines now where ferrari are hoping for much better things from the team and its travis entine to twelfth this table will introduce a completely revised car for the new season on the third of february to principles to fun of the many college said car that's competed for ferrari on the f one track throughout last season hadn't been good enough no doubt that the main reason for the very these important year last year was the product that the car was not performant enough so i think that we have a just the realization try to maximize. the people that were already in and try to bring new stuff you know the fresh air of a new will working in figure eighty with the people on the other because that's a fundamental thing that we have to do. moving on to the. follow the other way. as one state in the cost competition wrong what took the stage when i

was coming home. over all of this to find that cross the finish line just twenty one seconds behind that made the night time champ. ten days equal to more than ninety minutes. finished in the mean time in the box cutter great beyond the red abort claimed his first stage victory at the rally his competitor. second to minutes out of several just press of france to finish the day but maintained its overall leading position. ok up to date no more sports news from around the globe for into eyes time hail and save us.

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the crisis and relations between washington and tehran is a great a by the assassination of a fourth iranian scientist and she hears iran blames israel and america. the first foreign journalist was killed in syria's unrest of french cameramen was mortally wounded by a grenade in one of the countries of the war he say was a terrorist attack. ten years after the infamous one time obey greeted its first graders people in the u.s. and abroad demand their release of those still held in the jail that president obama vowed to close. on here most of the markets have opened up today's trading session in the block.