it really has nothing to do about the poor people of syria or democracy it's a geo political play to go after to turn around and turn around would be oh i met loser if the regime in damascus did fall well it's both exactly which part of the reason why the united states would like to see assad go because then iran loses its only regional ally and it further isolates you are allowing the united states and israel to put more pressure on it to stop its nuclear weapons program suspected nuclear weapons program so there is a clear strategic interests go ahead jump in i just want to jump in i do think there are any and they're greatly concerned here i think one of the problems at the top of their concern is if the syrian regime falls that in a sense the arab spring will blow back into iran again in they'll see an uptick in their in the opposition or own country so i think they're not just for the strategic reasons that they want syria to stay because it's their pipeline and lawson has once important regional ally but i think it also has domestic

implications for them that they're really concerned about what you think about that james i mean what how does the rand play into all of this here because again i look at western mainstream media and they're just doing this typical colored revolution element here which we we all have to be honest with ourselves we don't really know what's much of what's going on on the ground because western media all media as far as i can tell been banned from the country so all these numbers coming about casualties guesstimates as far as i'm concerned. well that's a very valid point peter i mean the endgame here is iran i mean the neoconservatives in the us the pro israel lobby want to take down the ronnie regime because it supports the enemies of israel and hezbollah and lebanon and hamas and that's what this is all about that's what iraq was all about iraq wasn't about oil how much oil are we getting out of iraq it's negligible i mean it's nothing how many a lot with oil company merican oil companies there was about taking down saddam hussein because he supported the enemies of israel and with regard to the palestinian resistance there so with iran that's what then game is for this agenda like i said

i'm not saying that elements of the pros are a lobby started that revolution or uprising in syria but i think the numbers have been inflated i think i saw an artsy piece about that about it about reporting entity and they've been exaggerated in western media and like i said the end game is iran you can read my friends book the transparent cabal dr steven seagal ski and that is what we're we're working towards they want to take down the neocon service and wrestle pros are a lot we want to take down the. main arab ally and that's syria and it all goes back to nine hundred sixty seven peter and israel's deliberate attack on the u.s.s. liberty of a good friend former republican congressman paul finley and he told me when israel got away with murdering american marines and sailors on the u.s.s. liberty on june eighth one hundred sixty seven he wrote the excellent book they dare to speak out about the pros will lobby influence in america he said once israel realizes get away with murdering american sailors and marines and people like john mccain and others in his admiral father covered it up for lyndon johnson

they could get away with anything and that's what we're dealing with here you got politicians in america to put the interests of israel first and they don't put the best interests of america first you have neoconservative think tanks like the heritage foundation american enterprise institute they're all pushing war for israel against iran and syria well and we're sitting right as we go to jim jim is from the heritage foundation go right ahead would you like to defend yourself or a comment i mean are you supporting. you could. well i mean you can go to heritage dot org we have a piece on our website it's we think the u.s. military intervention in syria is not a good idea so i think it speaks jim let me stay with you here what you also know is that ok let me let me stay with him here jim what is the what is the future now you think of the humanitarian interventions right now because. russia and china particularly russia has been very much criticized in western governments and and western media for its veto and the russians are standing by it was listen to what

russia's ambassador to the u.n. but had to say about that. our effort was directed at ending the bloodshed those who are accusing us have been trying to fan civil war and conflict in syria so you know i don't want to want to mimic them in using this kind of hysterical language but we should have. all the track record in dealing with the situation of syria supporting opposition sometimes with arms with their goals or forty's even change so. history will show i think. russia has been doing everything we can and continues to do everything we can. ok jim so what do you think about that i mean what my point is here is that you know these humanitarian interventions which i think is an oxymoron in a way because so much violence is used but i mean you know it was libya. being what we're looking at libya as a president we can do it in other places and let's be fair and places that the west

would like to target there and they're cold called enemies of the west and all that friends of the west they're never going to be targeted that way even though their human rights records could be deplorable or eccentric cetera i mean and i think you know the right to protect is a very good case russia did that with south to settle we can disagree on that but that's how russia looks at a valid form of the right protect the south were defenseless they were not fighting anyone and now we have a people that are in very dire straits i believe but the whole idea of an a humanitarian intervention has been short circuited because the some western countries took advantage of the libyan case. well i do believe that humanitarian operations are really no different than any other kind of foreign policy decision and it's never simple go to the rule book and it tells you exactly what to do you have to weigh the merits of all the situations your own capability what's the right thing to do what can you actually bring a situation i actually think the right person to protect is

a pretty back us an empty dr and that can be used for going after your enemies and can be used actually to prevent people from doing legitimate humanitarian operations so i would just put it aside it's going to go to the ash heap of history we're going to take each one of these cases on their own merit i mean i would say in the case of russia russia does have a longstanding relationship with syria and this regime they i think they they have special access and i do think they have special obligations to make every possible effort to do what they can and i think they are. going into it looks like they're going the extra mile in trying to get the sides to talk to each other each other in moscow another venue i mean the ambassador was very emphatic about all of that i mean the the the behave the reaction from western politicians and diplomats i think was hyperbole i mean the amount of violence that to the u.s. is committed against the people in the greater middle east in the last twenty years particularly you know is that you know you get to the point of hypocrisy here make a fine go to you what do you think about the future of these humanitarian

interventions i mean we had a dead end right now because or we do see western powers or a coalition of the willing as i keep saying they will end up doing it because the u.n. security council is not going to back it up anymore. we'll see a coalition of the willing as you put it the best thing for the united states to do now is support the support the support saudi arabia in whatever they can do to help the opposition to go back to a point about this responsibility to protect doctrine i think and the situation in syria now shows that strategic interest always trump humanitarian missions. listen the world may want to help the syrian people honestly but. it would be a huge mistake to antagonize china and russia now by crossing down and intervening in syria despite defeat oh i don't think that any human. in the west will

be big enough to exclude from the gulf and that's ok james james in l.a. i'm going to give you the last word how do you think this is all going to end you think we'll be doing a program on syria a month from now. you know i think it's going to end with us arming people like john mccain who has been a neo con neocon sort of mouthpiece for years now putting israel's israel interests ahead of america i think you'll see him and joe lieberman and others pressure a bomb to arm the rebels in syria i think unless collate from there perhaps you'll see civil war and you'll see these a liberal here. in a very short run out of time thank you much for a very very interested question it looks like it's going to be a terrible ending no matter how you cut it many thanks to my guest today in washington amsterdam and in los angeles and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at you see you next time remember. if you. want

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the u.s. gathers a coalition of nations to help bring down the syrian regime indirectly as american weapons with portably find their way to antacid forces. the greek labor union stage a two day strike in response to the latest wave of a stair the cuts which they say is pushing workers and the economy towards a financial abyss. politically proactive a group of public figures from russia's civil society gather widespread support of the request to keep the presidential elections fair and transparent.

from moscow armory and joshie the violence in syria is escalating and there is no u.n. backing for foreign intervention so and to us of forces across the world are seeking other means to topple the president the u.s. is setting up an international coalition aimed at supporting rebels in their struggle against a mask. the so-called friends of democratic syria will involve countries willing to prop up the opposition and pile more pressure on their regime direct military action is ruled out but reports suggest british and qatari special forces are already in the conflict zone and while the u.s. and its allies criticized russia for supplying military hardware to damascus there are now calls from american lawmakers to arm the opposition in response syrian troops are trying to stem the flow of weapons already being smuggled in from neighboring countries but there are. reports that region's been flooded with american arms for years. at the united nations security council america

holds one permanent seat but when it comes to weapons the world's largest arms exporter is often seen as sitting on two chairs they say there isn't an international embargo on arms preventing them from doing that that is a fact but that doesn't change the immorality of supplying a dictatorial regime that is killing its people in massive numbers every day and we are are deeply concerned about that as u.s. officials continue publicly scolding countries over relations with syria critics say the accusations are being thrown from a tremendous glasshouse the us is a hugely difficult in this regard because they've long been the largest arms dealer and most of those weapons the us sold the store equally more than four hundred billion dollars worth of since the one nine hundred sixty s. have gone to the middle east and you can't argue. seriously that it's made that

region any more stable in the past few years nearly fifty percent of u.s. weapons exports have been flowing to the middle east many countries with the biggest appetite for american weapons have also made headlines for carrying out brutal crackdowns against dissidents and opposition groups if you are are so you know ok in france they are thugs you're not i mean this is for all of us who have been overseas the duplicity in apocrypha of american foreign policy is painfully. evident according to congressional figures america has sold one point four billion dollars worth of weapons to bahrain since two thousand and america struck its single biggest arms deal when saudi arabia ordered sixty billion dollars worth of arms the us has long subsidize the israeli military and recently supplied them with bunker buster bombs experts say this strategic arming of middle eastern country. is

aimed at iran and extending u.s. dominance in the region. is going on. against your own it's not a rule of you know human rights. geopolitical f.b.i. whistle blower sibel edmonds has accused america of playing particularly dirty while leading a campaign for regime change in syria but it's not some kind of. simultaneously op rising situation where people are a ballet and then suddenly they are mysteriously arm and mysteriously arms are being smuggled into syria from turkey well who who is providing this arms nobody's asking in the us media well these are u.s. arms shipped to turkey this is the u.s. military complex flush with record revenue continues to lobby its interests on capitol hill arms manufacturers are some of the biggest companies in america

they're some of the most powerful lockheed martin not only do they making so much for the defense department around the world there are federal contractors and many other levels they're going to vote in elections this statue outside the u.n. headquarters is a symbol of global peace and nonviolence but critics say the idea has been twisted by the u.s. which goes around advocating peace arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit marina point ny r.t. new york. now russia has been trying to mediate a peaceful solution to the syrian conflict for months and wants to host talks between the warring sides one middle east expert told r.t. that because she will be hard to bring about as long as the syrian opposition is railing for regime change. after the meeting with the russian foreign minister sort of a love of expressed his readiness however the other side is not expressing its readiness there are some members of the syrian opposition who are expressing readiness

however there are other sides a lot including the muslim brotherhood who actually don't seem to want to participate in the gauche asians setting preconditions or something in order to negotiations last fall and i think that is part of what's to those on the the whole thing for the west is not about negotiations is about overthrowing a regime which is a part of you bro brought a block which washington or which some western states western powers want to get rid of including israel also wants to get rid of the. greek politicians last minute agreement on freshest already plans hasn't exactly been greeted with open arms a forty eight hour strike has been called by the country's two major labor unions and eurozone member states say they will put even more conditions on greece before handing over a second bailout after a struggle athens did manage to broker a multi-party astaire deal which has been demanded by creditors it was in place just a matter of hours before you were ministers met in brussels but they are still unhappy and willing to willing to hand over a one hundred thirty billion euros the greek parliament now has to pass

a package of cuts and reforms by sunday the journalist who system needs says his situation in the country is deteriorating and the consequences could be dangerous. what we get from all these measures. if we have all the default then we are in this situation where we have to face death from starvation in greece this situation in greece you six three not that moment we have children playing in their school because they don't have proper breakfast and because they don't they don't have enough food so you realize that the sheet to a should is getting worse and worse we have a lot of people as i told you that they are hungry at the moment first of all they demand. elections i have to tell you here and now they want elections they want to . check on they have been wondering whose recipe are we following at the moment the increases i mean the greek government there actually comes from the i.m.f.

and there are simply wasn't sure. how it's going to trade each old view of the troika gives their main. orders and you know that we get more and more so in the last two years. as they say and i agree with them easier to see this time to morrow rice from the west than to see all these orders and all these measures bring us to growth and bring us back to normal life. robert oulds chair of the london based think tank bros group believes that it's the european currency itself pushing greece to the at. greece is in severe economic difficulties and it's failed to meet many of the targets that the eurozone and the i.m.f. has set it for what it has to do in terms of to be able to reform its finances to be able to pay back some of the debts that it that has been largely caused by issues to do with the euro itself and the problem that the euro creates and how it

makes the greek economy competitive so basically greece cannot survive while it is in the euro and the more austerity measures which are being forced upon it will just hurt the greek economy even further wages have been cut thirty percent on average in greece pensions are being carved people are finding it very hard to survive because of the result of the austerity measures in the problems caused by the euro what they're doing at the moment is just throwing more money at the problem and really putting back the day when greece will have to deform will have to leave the euro. coming your way here in r t innocence lost in afghanistan find out why the latest airstrike has left afghanistan as president and damning foreign troops. and separate that's why israel is stopping thousands of palestinians from living here israeli families.

civil society in russia is moving to the forefront of politics with a mission to keep the upcoming presidential election fair and transparent a group of leading public and proactive figures are joining forces and crucially they seem to have the support of the candidates and the voters are going up has more. it doesn't take long to find videos of alleged violations during the recent parliamentary vote in russia just a couple of clicks is enough and scores of these files have flooded the internet and even though most of the allegations are still to be proven in courts tens of thousands of people have been taking to the streets demanding fair elections but marches presidential vote is just around the corner events are unfolding quickly when. people want to vote responsibly and to know where their votes go they want political competition independent courts and media forming the voters' league is not our achievement the idea was floating in the air the voters league was

officially founded in january by a group of journalists and bloggers activists artists writers and other public figures statements made tedious like t.v. host and now activists. have already asked for the head of a charity fund and blogger he was eighty at the bianca also known as dr lisa. or other school martha coordinator of the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights on roads for everyone was moved to our league is an opportunity to gather people who are not indifferent to what's happening the more people with a similar position there are the better the league's main goal is to ensure fair elections is published a list of initiatives on the web divided into groups that everyone can be a part of public discussions and online votes are the key instruments and letters have been sent to all presidential candidates asking them to cooperate with the

league and even though the project is less than a month old everyone has so far agreed including pledging would appeal to another candidate businessman mikhail prokhorov has already struck a deal with the league you have to go on willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers we've also arranged to. together unified database to keep track of the election points because according to its founders around ten thousand observers are needed to ensure a fair election in moscow alone. it's great that the civil society wants to be more active but it's really important not to cross the line and observers not only are positioned it is serious so if the mutations are not to take sides in the political process. it is the league's founders say they'll shut the organisation down if it ever starts turning into a political movement they were keen to work with all candidates equally there's no doubt society has changed more people want to have more influence on russia's

political life perhaps that's why it took less than one month for the vote was leaked to establish ties with both the authorities and the opposition and with the help promised from the candidates the league just may secure enough access to effectively monitor the vote in march as long as it avoids taking sides and protects its neutrality is going to be moscow. well you can always get all the latest news and updates online by logging on to our website or to yours what's waiting for you there today iran returns to r t one hundred seventy drone that was downed last december to the united states only now to bring about an eighty eight of its original size. also online spoke to soon germany is forced to switch back to nuclear energy just one year after declaring it was giving it up find out why dot com.

the afghan president has ordered an investigation into an airstrike that killed eight children on wednesday in a statement how can down the aerial bombing by. in troops just a week ago the united states and else could hold combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected but the strike could worsen elron strained relationship between karzai and washington i had a mounting afghan das tell documentary filmmaker clay clair bourne thinks that despite khan nation civilian casualties will continue to rise. he has to put on a certain pretenses to have any viability any legitimacy as an afghan woman or something like this happens but he is basically a tool of the american occupation there so we can expect any real demands to change from here this kind of thing obviously doesn't win hearts and minds this happens in

the same area we're afghan soldiers recently killed french troops important i think because the u.s. is playing a pull out even moving next day for him because the rangers are moving your troops out we can expect more airstrikes and more civilian casualties in afghanistan you are a sock two thousand and eleven eight percent. two thousand and ten in terms of civilian casualties i'm afraid we're going to see that trend continue in two thousand and twelve precisely because they noted they have to pull out safely because they noted again this up. just over a month before rerun of the presidential vote in south syria one of the candidates is in hospital joy is recovering from a stroke she suffered on thursday when prosecutors arrived to take her in for questioning being called is a witness to a raid on government offices late last year joy to claim victory in november as

disputed presidential election which was by supreme court the country's capital was gripped by protest for weeks after the vote joy was planning to stage her own inauguration as president this friday which the acting head of the republic cold and attempted coup. now to some other stories from around the world germany's finance minister has been caught on tape saying portugal's bailout plan may need to be revised once a second bailout for greece has been finalized the comments came at a meeting with other eurozone ministers and are the first acknowledgment from a high level your official that portugal may need more time and money to get its economy back on track the country received a seventy billion euro bailout last april and has since fallen into a deep recession. pakistan's supreme court has rejected an appeal by the prime minister against a contempt of court charge lonny will be charged less he agrees to reopen

a corruption case against the country's president has refused claiming the president has immunity from prosecution while in office if found guilty the prime minister could face up to six months in prison and be disqualified from holding public office. plants tried by police in rio over a low paid could put next week's famed brazil carnival of risk despite an agreed pay rise of thirty nine percent and over the next two years the law enforcers once double similar industrial action in the city of salvador and saw the murder rate double with one hundred twenty people killed during the nine day police strike the army could be deployed in rio to provide security. a dossier on apple founder steve jobs released by the f.b.i. includes allegations of drug use and former friends describing him as deceptive and not honest the previously classified files were put together when jobs was being considered for a sensitive job as a trade consultant to present.