by the syrian government here they could play going to interference with the internal affairs really the sense here from damascus is that the government here are working on their own reforms they want the arab league mission to focus on their job of course the problem is you've got countries in the arab league like saudi arabia like qatar now seeing the sense that they're reaching democracy to syria when of course they themselves don't have to vote to see. rush's stances once again and that this should be seeking resolution with alice for an intervention now i've actually spoken to the national coordinator council which is the opposition within the country they welcomed the maven again reiterated their felt that as long as there is no move towards foreign military intervention they're very pleased with the response from the arab league mission because you still got observers on the ground it's expected that that mission is actually now going to continue possibly for another month and possibly with the end of their powers and their numbers as

well of course what you don't want to see happen now is that the arab league mission which is really the only route there remains a teacher seeing dialogue in the country to now have blocks put in its way so the question really is how to make the mission the observer mission more effective because as we've been witnessing in the past couple of weeks really at the moment in the country what you want to be thing is the sightedness and not further division. or civilization. or. going. to homes the conflict has moved ever closer to the country's capital now many damascus suburbs are also embroiled in the conflicts between government forces and the armed opposition. well this is all that's left of many of the houses now inside just absolutely gutted it's broken glass you've got bullet holes lining the walls

you've got clothes seen around the house where people have less than behind fleeing very quickly you can really see here the devastating consequences that this conflict has heard the picking up the pieces won't prove easy amongst the opposition themselves they're all worrying divisions and as the conflicts become increasingly violent there are now areas of the country where it's unclear exactly who's in control what do the people here in the image i think the syrian army having control. over you see are not. a lot of numbers but a number of secrecy of who's in charge and so you know. the division the diversion of the stuff arab league observers look set to remain in the country for another month trying to build the basis for multi-party elections even seen by the international community although you are you do a story as to where you are you do your position you have to put in your mind that

you have to work with the other side's working with the other side uses their look . but with thousands killed bringing the different factions to the negotiating table is going to be a major task sara for our city damascus syria. they you has imposed fresh travel bans and asset freezes on the syrian regime as punishment for the ongoing violence but i sarah marusek a political analyst from syracuse university says the opposition is also partly to blame for the bloodshed and that pressure should be put on both sides to start talks. of course there are certain parts of the opposition that should share the responsibility for the there are a good amount of syrians who are dedicated to peaceful demonstrations who have been showing up on the streets and have been you know resisting calls to violence but then there are also many dangerous segments of the opposition who have long used violence we see this as more and more especially over the last several months with

a lot of weapons coming in through foreign borders to the opposition that's becoming increasingly militarized and carrying out some very devastating attacks on syrian infrastructure sharing government institutions the police and also innocent civilians are getting killed in syria and so really the violence now is a two way street and it's really a failure of the syrian mission the observers if they're not going to have pressure on both sides it's unrealistic to force one side to make all the changes when there is violence coming from both sides what's going to happen to the silent majority of syrians who are not protesting are they going to be attacked by the more militant forms of protesters are they going to be injured in some sort of process that is not going to facilitate dialogue that's going to facilitate chaos. members have voted to impose further sanctions on iran in an attempt to curb its nuclear

ambitions which maintains are purely peaceful the measures target the iranian oil sector the country's main source of foreign income banning any future contracts russia expressed its regret over the move saying it undermines diplomatic efforts to solve the crisis. has more. sensually a total oil embargo it will have immediate effect on new contracts but that existing contract will be allowed to run for another six months they've also agreed on a ban on a gold and gold trade and other precious metals with iranian central bank all of these of course aiming to financially and economically cripple iran over its controversial nuclear program with western leaders still insisting iran is trying to build nuclear weapons while to run denies this now the e.u. embargo follow strict new where u.s. sanctions that were passed into law by president obama in january so as far as the e.u. is concerned by july it will be a full and total implementation of these new sanctions this is unprecedented in

terms of the scope and the desired a potential effect on iran but it is also one president in terms of its potential economic impact on the european union itself let's not forget the e.u. imports up to twenty percent of rain in all its second biggest buyer and one of the twenty seven the biggest buyers within that are elite spain and greece the very same countries that are now struggling to deal with that sovereign debt crisis greece in particular heavily dependent on the radio with up to one third of its total imports from iran also its relying on terror for easier credit terms so they will definitely have to find alternatives for these countries these are what their leaders will have to talk about how to cushion the potential economic impacts on the several member states and of course because of all the uncertainty oil markets have already reacted pushing oil prices up and higher oil prices will just mean higher prices of goods meanwhile prince britain and germany said they were willing to negotiate the sanctions if iran halts tomic activities but columnist an asia times correspondent says iran's patience is just about to end. the p five plus

one as it's called the slide for on the members of the security council goes germany does should sit down three or actively by the end of this month. in this. broken circuits to start talking again about about iranian nuclear program but i wonder if iran has any incentive at the moment in effect the hard line there is into our say exactly that. the sanction is a nice day are only implemented on july first we are going to close down the streets of hormuz as a reaction this is something that they need to see terms of their internal public opinion because they are being pressured all the time by the europeans the americans in the europeans in the really a million iranians are asking themselves what is our government doing to defend that in effect that we have the right to choose to develop a peaceful nuclear program and there is no if it is eighteen you we're glad you eat by national intelligence estimates in the united states that they are developing

a nuclear weapon i mean and later in the program the twists and turns up russian politics as they are campaign intensifies presidential hopeful one thing at a point and wants to get tough on him and gratian. and now to libya where at least four people have been killed and twenty others wounded as forces still loyal to colonel gadhafi attacked the former leader stronghold of bani walid earlier the national transitional council's leader warned that the country was on the edge of simple war weeks of protests in the city of benghazi and forced his deputy to resign on monday and demonstrators many of whom helped overthrow the previous regime are angered by the slow pace of reform and a lack of transparency any entities handling of the country's assets pays a reporter for the online magazine spiked says the events in libya are not surprising given the fact that the council was not chosen by the people. now i find

that very interesting actually because well what i mean the national transitional. council itself was very much something that was already chosen by the west not something that was chosen by the libyan people it was very much kind of put in place and then there were kind of helicopters in when gadhafi was gotten rid of so the thing i find very striking here actually is that the n.t. you see isn't doing itself any favors into the pro-democracy campaign is also seeing off the. supporters as well warnings for a long time that this could happen in bani walid people were saying very least two moments we may get a pro get off the uprising here and the m.t.c. did nothing about it they were warned now bani walid to apparently been taken so it's not surprising and it does seem like the m.t.c. is impotence and this is reflecting the needs and desires of anyone in libya at the moment there was a lot of congratulates really talk by cameron to see a bomber who kept a bit of a distance but was still involved after the fall of gadhafi i think they're going

to be very reluctant to admit that what they didn't do was bring about democracy in the country and in neighboring egypt the newly elected parliament has had its first session most of the seats are occupied by the islamist parties that clinched and overwhelming victory in the first post mubarak elections but as our maria financial reports many now feel they are just going to play by the rules set out by the old regime. there is a growing actually here in egypt all ready that with these with this new poll and changes will actually not be as dramatic as people in the revolution demonstrators protestors have expected them to be the muslim brotherhood's freedom and justice party has indeed more on the first vote in post barak egypt mostly because it had voted had promised people also a tip to how to keep production transition transition from military to civil power something people have been calling for have been demonstrating for since the supreme council of the armed forces took power from mubarak last february because

to them they say that the ruling generals have been actually representing the old regime something they've been fighting against and something actually their revolution has been designed to gets rid of but already today we have many signs indicating that the islam is in this new poll that the muslim brotherhood as well is salafist the second part to that war and they see a vote actually going most likely to cooperate with scoff and that's why many people who have been able to speak to here in pa wrote saying they feel a little bit strange. croatia voted sunday in support of a bid for membership the yes ballot however wasn't a solid one with more than half of all eligible voters simply ignoring the national referendum the country is now set to become the union's twentieth state by july next year but only after all the other members ratify the move croatia was split on the issue with those in opposition saying there is nothing to gain from

a bloc currently experiencing its worst ever financial crisis analysts say they're going to must focus on reforms to save the country's credit rating and boost the economy before they become a fully pledged member and as our teeth tom barton reports the divisions are here to stay even after the vote. violent scenes in the croatian profit it's the country's the referendum that said. let me. risk being made behind me to be sold to the protesters in ways they take and see protest as well they can sway some to many seats in the coalition capital and find things has just been telling. you. these are empty attempts to say the government is trying to suppress the

dissenting voices they are joining with surrender croatia's independence to brussels is not very good that will put in another street nearby the foreign minister is trying to convince people to session is vital for the current economy to leave the stability the scow to lead it into the creative trading of creation. that is translated into membership of the union gracious budgets would be in serious trouble everywhere you turn in croatia the e.u. is being discussed whereas most of the political. class no longer question the europhiles stands public views different points you know this is going to tell you as we come into our seat because all our fish and that's our biggest threat you know if you will be asked to leave the room with the cold as we have today the e.u. has regulations those that don't want to obey must stop trading here in memphis you

know we have two sons who are employed and maybe because of that i would be prying or feed them reasonably simmers because you know they are looking to me to worries about solvency of local industry and economic well being a former student and there are still some voices in parliament think the benefits of what joining. the coalition we're not going with our heads high up we're going to already because our economy our non-existing our exporting is pretty bad our b d p is very low so we don't really have anything to offer. back out on the streets the arguments quality not continue with ferocity with such strong emotions it seems unlikely this referendum result the nation's division and the european membership top box of art. from any us foreign minister has been fired after making insulting comments about anti-government protesters calling them

quote violent slum dwellers protesters gathered in budapest to the university square a saying the dismissal did not go far enough and called for the resignation of the president this comes amidst almost two weeks of violent clashes in the country as the e.u. second poorest nation around manias are facing wage cuts and tax increases as their country struggles to meet the demands of its international creditors. and now to paris where both houses of the french parliament have passed a bill making it a crime to deny the killings of an estimated one and a half armenians in one thousand fifteen. the ottoman empire twenty countries have already officially recognized the armenian genocide but the move has been strongly criticized by turkey which maintains the deaths were a consequence of the first world war around home power an executive director of the armenian national committee of america says ancora has no choice but to acknowledge the genocide so many countries around the world russia canada france of course it

will be sweden switzerland others recognize this crime so we think it's a step toward mounting pressure increasing pressure on turkey to finally come to terms with their many genocide both truthfully and justly one very welcome aspect of this for us as armenian americans is that it shines a spotlight on president obama president obama promised as a candidate as a senator to recognize you're going genocide and he immediately after getting like you brought that we hope that this reminds the president was obligation to his own commitment and also remind him of that he was to the right thing and the congress should do the same two thousand while i believe it was when the french parliament initially recognized the armed genocide i'm not exactly sort of your but when they did subsequent to that recognition it's true between irish and actually increase so turkey is pretty much a paper tiger your they make very vocal threats but often they don't follow through

they're going to do what they do in terms of trade and military relations based on their own interests. the trial date has been set for the american woman who shipped her adopted russian son to moscow with nothing more than a note saying she didn't want him anymore torry hansen placed the seven year old on a transatlantic flight to russia all by himself claiming he had psychological problems hansen is being sued for child support by the world association for children and parents and the trial has been set for march twenty seventh the boy manes in russia where he's receiving professional care at a very special children's village the incident sparked outrage and led to new adoption rules between the u.s. and russia. russia's presidential election is less than fifty days away and the candidates are setting forth their agendas prime minister and can time to putin has published a second major newspaper article this time outlining his plans tonight russia's multi-ethnic society parties peter oliver reports. but talking on

multiculturalism a migration vladimir putin praised what he sees is russia's long history as a multicultural nation a history he says goes back to the days of the russian empire and it's said that there have been some very serious problems though when it comes to migration and integration of migrants in russia that these problems over the last twenty years since the collapse of the soviet union were very serious indeed in our problems that russia is still struggling to to deal with today speaking about what the results can be of migration going wrong he warned of the rise of nationalism the rise of xenophobia these type of issues that we saw acted out in real life eight in moscow in two thousand and ten with ethnic clashes taking place and you know square right next to the kremlin in the heart of the russian capital he hits out at those that seem nationalism right he hit out at those who have the slogan such as stop feeding and stop funding the caucuses saying well the caucuses are

a part of russia talking of multiculturalism he said that russia had a very unique system of multiculturalism something very different to say what happens in europe where he said basically multiculturalism had failed and that russia system was something this country he's very different over to me and said that there's no way that you can completely get rid of all illegal immigration into russia but if he's elected president in the elections in march that he hopes to be able to to make significant cuts to the amount of people that are arriving in russia illegally now he wants to do this by toughening the laws to try and deter people from entering the country illegally he also wants to see a system put in place not just to monitor foreign immigrants coming into russia but also to monitor internal migrants also by twenty thirty he wants to see an exam put in place to those wanting to come and settled and live and work in russia but they have to be able to pass the russian language exam also an exam on russian culture russian history so those are the things that he wants to put. to tackle the issue

of migration and multiculturalism in russia. have next art he talks to the president of the palestinian national authority mahmoud abbas about the latest moves for statehood stay with us for that exclusive interview. visit is the final stop on your european tour. still waiting for

a resolution to the statehood issue what do you expect from russia's leadership at this stage when the issue of palestinian rights is being decided according to international law. the russian federation as well as the soviet union before it has been regarded as one of the key and principal hopes for the palestinian people since the nine hundred seventy s. when the late palestinian president yasser arafat visited moscow our nations have enjoyed good relations it's not only the result of the role that russia plays in the region but also due to the fact that russia was a great power a member of the united nations security council and a member of the quartet of middle east mediators this is why we focused so much on strengthening our relations and why we expect russia to play a positive role recently the quartet took a number of steps calling for negotiations without doubt we coordinate our position with russia and several other countries to get an understanding of where palestine

stands what it should do. and what it shouldn't. this is why we visited the u.k. germany and have now come to russia we hope that the talks with israel currently underway in jordan will result in a positive outcome but if they fail we would need to have a list of further steps to be taken and it put it together we want to listen to the opinions of the countries i mentioned earlier and russia in particular. the negotiations are just a way to gain time. bring about solutions or agreement. that . what stands behind that statement. means they want to preserve the status quo something we completely reject all illegal settlements all illegal buildings must be torn down and removed from palestinian territories perhaps the israelis have

a different vision although in the past they have left their illegal settlements on the sinai peninsula and sharm el sheikh and returned back to their borders we have the same situation in lebanon believe some of the settlements there even with that they want to preserve the existing situation of the palestinian territories and to convince the international community to accept that they want to make us accept this vision we will never accept it. netanyahu said that he gave you a twenty one point detailing the israeli position by doing so he refused. despite. what the document all about. three times in september two thousand and ten the first time in washington on an invitation from president obama and the second time in sharm el sheikh the third time we met was on the twenty fifth of september at his house in jerusalem where we talked for four hours and discussed all the issues. yet the talks ended with no

positive results no discontinuation of the development of the occupied territories no changes to security policies the israeli way they intend to occupy the west bank and the heights for another forty years. this is colonial policy and colonialist logic this is not the logic of a person interested in constructive talks and peaceful coexistence with his neighbors i don't refuse to meet but i need to have a good reason now i get twenty one point proposal and what are these twenty one points are they just some headlines or indeed a list of twenty one issues that need to be addressed by our peoples. today we only need to discuss and solve two issues borders and security why would we want to add more issues to the agenda did he think it was a secret but it's no news and it's not of any practical use either but it is not appropriate for a prime minister to submit this way

a document that simply enumerates some issues such as borders security the jewish state of cetera with no clear indication of what is actually expected of the other party. do you think current events in the arab world could strengthen. and help. internationally. still no clear position common to all arab countries yes there are revolutionary changes taking place but it will take time to figure out what results they brought about the countries we want to work with in order to strengthen our position will need time to get back on their feet and build their states under the new conditions however the general arab stance on the palestinian issue has not changed the people who lead these revolutions are the same people who supported the palestinians in their pursuit of independence and these people have not changed what has changed is their attitude towards their leaders and their guns. but that is their internal

matter and we don't get involved the arab stance on the palestinian issue has remained the same. on the other thank you very much for being with us today we wish you every possible success in the implementation of political reform and creation of a palestinian state. law but. to . discover its beauty to. lead. communicate with the want to. become free to. see what nature can give you. the.

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these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. hello and thanks for being with us seven thirty broadcasting from the heart of moscow and parents around syria rejects proposals for president all assad to seem power to his deputy and the formation of a national unity government which the opposition damascus called the initiative an interim ference in its internal affairs and an attack on syria sovereignty. the e.u. slops more sanctions on iran targeting the country's main source of income oil the

union has reiterated that the move is negotiable provided the halt its nuclear program which the west sees as the bread and returns to the negotiating table. and croatia says yes to e.u. membership but before turnout for the referendum and violent protests exposed deep divisions within the balkan nation the country is now set to become the bunions twenty eight states by july of next year but only after all the other members ratify the move. next thirty takes you to see the stunning scenery of the caucuses nature reserve in southern russia that's in our special report don't go away. so the rush of.