it's official forces has reported many casualties on the ground. in the last few days almost it's really hard to determine what's really going on on the ground there because of safety issues to reach the place and confirm. definite numbers of people. according to. what turning to activists saying that the syrian military has basically. some parts of the city government completely refuted any type. that they have actually. blamed it on the terrorists that have been taking active role in the city they are spread all over the place there and causing many casualties the government also has issued many statements today that the security forces were able to kill tens of

terrorists that belong to these terrorist groups that they also believe that are being backed by foreign foreign influence on the ground russia's prime minister vladimir putin has cautioned against outside forceful intervention in the syrian conflict and there was a risk of behaving like a bull in the china shop moscow also calls on world powers to use that political clout to put pressure on both the syrian government and the opposition to lay down their arms and engage in talks or to use. in light of the ongoing. situation in syria russian prime minister said that syrians must be allowed to solve the situation in their country on the their own question prime minister speaking during a meeting with the religious leaders have a warning against any possible foreign it military involvement in the country among

. all violence wherever it comes from however one cannot act as a bull in a china shop people must be allowed to decide their own future and we should help them give advice possibly help strange views of weapons and so on but under no circumstances must we intervene. russian prime minister is also reminded of the situation in libya. recently the situation continues to remain quite unstable fascistic in practical steps in trying to solve the situation in syria on tuesday russian foreign minister said it's. part of the russian delegation to damascus met with the syrian president bashar asad coming out of those talks with russia's foreign minister said the syrian president is ready to said down for a dialogue with the opposition senior member of the opposition syrian national council welcomed russia's role as

a mediator and the peace process russia is calling on international pressure on all parties involved in the syrian conflict in order to resolve the situation diplomatically where is the western powers that is the u.k. the united states and france i want president asad to step. up the picture of the western countries and actually lessen their diplomatic ties with syria by pulling out there on the boys to damascus and to the acid rhetoric is also continuing to come from the united states of where the where the white house has said the syrian president. days are numbered and i think time that pentagon has said that they are leaking adult ways to the boards at the rebel fighting against the regime of president asad although not militarily now they say. well let's not talk to camille truckie he's a contributing editor with syria comment online magazine joining us there in

montreal not russia says any forceful involvement in syria's affairs from abroad would be disastrous what's your view on that were a year after the beginning of the crisis it's created that foreign intervention in syria affairs has not been very constructive because the intervention is taking place by the most motivated players and they're motivated for their own grievance we have turkey the gulf arab states and the international community which is the united states and its allies in europe and they're all interfering with the whole of weakening the syrian regime weakening its ties to your own. i mean we have to i mean this is their view motivation it's not helping the syrian people they're sort of intervening when we've had one hundred or two hundred casualties and i don't believe this is really the thing which made them concerned so we know where the occupation is not. seen that their intervention will not be

for the rights reasons and it's been a very negative until now they've been they've been pushing the opposition to another state to speak to the scenery team they've convinced opposition that the syrian regime is about to forward and therefore there's no need to talk to them so . no we were saying to vision even if it's not for by using force has been very negative by using force do you think force could be likely in the long term. with that depends on their nations if they can if you did that iran. and iraq were not side with the sudan regime they might decide that the price to pay for the forceful intervention is manageable and there would be many in washington who are who are already actually pushing for using force against the syrian regime and others would argue that iran is bound to interfere because you to ignore it is next after studio falls and in that case it becomes really beyond. beyond anyone's ability to justify

it with means it would be a regional. war very closely regional war you mention talk a little earlier techies just recently announced he'd like to hold talks and trying to encourage negotiations in turkey itself should that be viewed them with cynicism bearing in mind what you said about talking idea absolutely because they are not inviting the regime any support it will store if they start talks for how to how can we gather more forces that will help us fight that is. top of the regime so that we need to force through the use of force because diplomatically there's nothing much you can do it or you don't have any more to as they have us or that was they've heard of and already talk about the opposition who is your position it's all very well to say let's have negotiations but of course it is a fragmented opposition isn't it with many vested interests. the position is where you have the syrian people and you have the position many of the most visible little position figures have nothing to do with the syrian people or they have not

been to the syria for decades for example so i mean when you say the opposition we're really talking about the politicians who have a strong leadership roles in opposing the syrian regime got to see them and many of them live in the west so you have you have goods and their main man what you vision is what i mean or separation that's what made them a position to start with you have. mists and they would like to. see them for things that the sunni shia will not accept that pointing to egypt and libya and tunisia where is the longest one state as a much more diverse. country where you have so many minorities and they are and really are not comfortable to islamic who are like egyptians might be your tunisians might be and then you have the leftists idealist in the opposition you have lots of calling us in syria you have socialist that is has not been kind to communists in the past for example who have been imprisoned just like islamists so

that will but this is still voted yes and short on that basis the west is calling for regime change it's such a muddle situation who do they expect to take control and indeed if assad does fall soon and many say he's days are numbered what happened will be a power vacuum won't that. when we already see that the. never able to produce whenever they meet in a conference they never they are never able to produce any document that highlights political program in d.t.'s or without the details even the largest document that scene was half a page movie which is false the generalities about we want to free syria and we want democracy and freedom of speech the media cannot take me on anything because you have you have those who could this separation so they would not agree with that so serious you have those who are islamists and you have secular and communists on the other hand i cannot see i cannot imagine how they can agree i mean they all agree that they want that is going to be a move that i understand but it is not

a no logical place where they can all meet and agree on so i can imagine there'd be lots of conflict of course besides none of them is strong enough to want to assume power after regime falls till. i have seen online opinion polls on facebook way or a number of names from a position where placed against bashar assad and the question was who would you vote for bashar al assad got about fifteen thousand votes the next one from the opposition but one billion got one thousand nine hundred votes and a religious state that got three hundred votes so there's no one one figure in opposition but we've heard who has spoken or supports the mail thanks so much for giving our explanation on a very complicated situation i doubt we'll talk more about this in the future great to hear from a chemical attraction thank you thank you. outrage sweet britain after the european court of human rights brought the deportation of abu qatada dubbed as on the bin laden's right hand man in europe it's the nation's in a string of questionable judgments the overall domestic decisions all these newer smith explains patients with the e.u. is running fend. off fest. don't bring the

land with the queen it so current three and its parliament but no was made by someone else if building a house is what we in the u.k. . they call this supremum court but in practice it supremes in name only despite being the highest court in the land when it comes to human rights if you don't like the way your case is going to home you can take his abroad to france and decisions made in strasburg could overrule any may taya the european court of human rights was set up after world war two to avoid the persecution of minorities by the state but now it's being de railed and it was never never anticipated of the second world war after the holocaust off the terrors perpetrated by certain tyrannical governments but the court now would be protecting the criminal and not the victims

still lays in control of a sea have dogged the european court in strasburg there's a backlog of up to eight years and when cases are decided judgments are written bizarre in two thousand and ten the court decided to give prisoners the right to vote petition by john hirst who spent much of his life behind bars after killing his landlady the u.k. is still refusing to implement the ruling it makes me physically ill it would probably mean to give the vote to anyone who is in prison aside it could also cost of the last time that we looked at this the cost of complying with judgments under the european convention of human rights was about two point one billion pounds a year that's three point three billion dollars plus another two point eight billion in a susi ated one off costs in other areas an immigration ruling means

a convicted nigerian rapist gets to stay in the u.k. because of his right to a family life. and most recently the european court of human rights ruled hate preacher abu qatada dubbed bin lardons the right hand man in europe can't be deported back to jordan where he's now g. to be released on to the streets of britain this is somebody who stands up and publicly. hatred about everything that our democracy is stands for and yet we can't get rid of him because of the european convention on human rights sitting in strasburg forty seven judges one from each country so far so fair except none of them were elected by the people of the countries they're making law for we've got a system of law and order in this country it's worked for many many years for the seats or the mother why do we need brussels to tell us what we can and cannot do the answer is we don't so therefore british law for british people those who aren't

calling for the u.k. to pull out of the european convention on human rights all together are demanding reforms to stop strides making decisions on what should be. the court process to be more focused on fundamental civil and political rights not interfering in the daily lives. and in the ministration of the criminal justice system in the member states of the council of europe without reforms there's a risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater as nations pull out of the human rights court undermining it leaving those in countries with weak a human rights protections entirely vulnerable. r.t. . egypt says it won't change its stance in the latest with the u.s. even against threats to withdraw middle train eight nineteen americans are among forty three n.g.o.s activists banned from leaving egypt and accused of illegally using foreign funds to fuel unrest in the country washington has already called the

scandal a slap in the face and threaten to stop one point three billion dollars of support given to egypt. reports. egypt's new government crackdown on n.g.o.s has raised many questions and we may want is right now the groups many which funded by washington have been on the ground here for a while they were at the vanguard of the uprising against the baraka that eventually brought the supreme council of the armed forces to power last february and no one has ever seems to care about their sources of income that is until they don't have to take criticism to the new military leadership laymen scaff for the slow pace of reform some of them are used by the other. that are quoting people the. notion that they are the one that evolution they have . won the radicals who live there this is very much a dangerous world there are two girls this is species elected prosecutors raided

seventeen offices of advocacy groups forty three activists including americans germans and egyptians are now facing trial for illegally using foreign funds to promote and arrest in the post mubarak country activists how would claim they are the victim of scarves reluctance to give up power with dreaming the people about with their brights with the scarf looking for enjoy. some agent against the regime and old mind the round up of activists has also netted the son of you asked mr taishi secretary ray la hood for the fueling tension between cairo in washington. isn't simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think that. anything at all so this is a game and there it was military aid to egypt reaches one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there has been weeks to condemn this car one

in the days of blank checks are over or they condemned mubarak tons of times but at the end of the day the continued on flowing that the provide the support also continue flowing when you don't order washington's so-called support for democracy here in the middle east and washington wants to step in always the situation as much as possible in order to guarantee its interests they don't care about democracy meanwhile even those on the streets protesting against car sharing the council's concerns about the engineers motives the usa has had a hand in tips policymaking for years but the whole n.t. and your campaign has become the first serious disagreement between america and the countries your story takes cairo wanted to send washington and message that it's no longer the silent dog it was under mubarak but an independent state which will last tolerate any outside interference some doubts though they really minute the end to military movement growing ever bigger you can see it over there is

a very callous all the armed forces are scaf now running egypt is in a very vulnerable position and this nationalistic pronouncement may just be a nationalist show put on to calm the people down and to win back a shred of credibility. remember we always have more stories news and comment on our website r.t. dot com and right there at the moment should you log on be a tourist anonymous group clinton city officials and publishes their personal data online in retaliation for what he calls the violent crackdown on occupy protests. also on the web site of the moment caught in a cold snap ukraine enjoys its harshest winter in recent history with over one hundred people dead because of drastically subzero temperatures correspondence account from freezing is online feed right now at r.t. dot com. in

a recent report london based independent news agency the bureau of investigation journalism uncovered this deadly drone strikes carried out by the u.s. in pakistan it also highlighted several quotes from president barack obama claiming the strikes only target terrorists and not civilians whenever the report found hundreds of civilians have in fact been killed by these cia led aerial attacks to compile the report thinks it won't be long before the legality of using unmanned drones in that way is tested in court. has been so that it hasn't killed a civilian in pakistan since at least some and every news agency. every credible news organization that's looked at this is not the case we know that civilians are being killed pakistan is clearly very unhappy with. an interview in the british newspaper the. pakistan high commissioner to london describing the drone strikes i see in effect extra do the actual execution state sanctioned

executions seem to be an indication that these drone strikes are happening at this point what you know because of what pakistan wants united states court has ever looked at the legality of these drone strikes and there's a reason for that every time. in a case has been brought in the united states that has attempted to look at whether these strikes are legal or not the united states is claiming something called state secrets privilege but that's where they say actually this is a covert operation and we can't discuss it really does need to be an accounting here and an examination by the u.s. courts about the legality of these drone strikes and the various additional legal questions that they raise and that time i suspect is coming quite close given the pressure in the u.s. right now. time now for a special interview and we speak with the former israeli ambassador in barracks to discuss the position his country occupies on today's worldwide political stakes

that's next. what there have is radium. who recently resigned from the government on grounds of principle he said he could no longer serve in a government whose policies he did not agree with ambassador thank you very much for joining us here in our team you resigned after more than fifteen years of service what was the final score.

to greet the stuff of the foreign minister ministry of foreign and the bad news for him was who. desires people's needs to be careful rule. and i thought that was very telling. of the psyche that. exists behind his political. and i thought i could not. minister with this kind of statement is it a statement supported by the majority of israelis i think we israelis yes we. we grew up on. the view that. we need to be on alert. any more most israelis live a life that is quite bad and you can cut of the environment and planted in the us or in your. and you will find the israelis quite

. easily integrating into society into requirements in place and so on so it's not anymore the regimented society of my childhood. a little old time it's at any given point in time but it is true that israelis are not naive and they believe that we can survive here in the middle east. only if we are ready to fight when you resigned to the same time message to all the staff of the foreign ministry explaining the resignation what was the reaction and what is the general mood like among israeli public servants concerning the policies that will have to different i have no illusions some of us were frustrated by my letter. because it is outside of the code of conduct that you just drop out because you don't like the message the messenger has

no view over the message that it is because of conduct and it's quite legitimate to think in that way how many messengers agree with the message and how many don't in the foreign ministry in my view. large majority don't care there are professionals and whatever message comes for them to deliver they will do. a solid minority ministry that is politically motivated to promote. an. image. rather. hawkish. position government. is pursuing. i think we do also have the lefties. leftovers from the

past but i think they're a minority your last overseas posting was as ambassador to south africa what's your experience in south africa she seems as far as the situation is all is concerned. i think that israel is. in a danger zone to slide. by default. into. money for stations of apartheid if we don't take it. and i'm afraid we don't take it and there's going to contain in the united states as far as israeli policies on iran and palestine does how close is the rest between the united states and israel or is it merely another quarrel i'm surprised to realize how deep the americans care for israel is when it comes to the conversation the political conversation in the us. i also can see how. the aftermath

of the war in iraq and enough guns. and the american city of the middle east. could work badly for the image is present in the u.s. in the political discourse in the us and in the context of american interests god forbid that the u.s. will be more reluctant. to reach out for israel because our predicament now is a good result of a policy pursued by this kind of government in a way that i think is tragically wrong. that we lean to the american congress a single source of strength in our diplomatic fabric and that is a very dangerous. who can it's all been

a lie on in the region considering that in the aftermath of the arab spring the middle east has become more radicalized i don't think israel is looking for a life i think israel is looking for. partners. of convenience. one is jordan. who survivability in the way in the form we know it is a house in my kingdom. so we entertain. a lot of common interests egypt is consumed by its own revolution and as long as it doesn't pose a threat to us i think israel is taking a very careful distance and turkey. because a straw fixed foreign policy towards one of the emerging powers in the middle drain you and that's what a lot of our thank you very much for joining us here on r.t.

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three. the bloodshed in syria will only be found in both government and opposition forces lay down their. country's. fury in. europe. back to the streets of london to the european court of human rights people tension. and the first signs of a rift between the u.s. and egypt. changes.

from now in the meantime takes to the skies to look at how hot air ballooning is becoming increasingly popular here in russia that's our special report next. people couldn't fly for a long time i don't think because they didn't think it was possible we can learn how to do that without machines anyway if we want to. do it online people here are remend ticks they have generous souls soon this is something out of this world and in chanting experience in the skies would brings these people together they come here from all over russia and the world are. always people stick together because of both the love of ballooning and that none of them will be able to do it singlehanded each person is a zone of responsibility.