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democrats name barack obama their candidate for u.s. president as he rally support for his campaign but his last four years have been dogged by broken promises as well as a country's growing. next hour not talks to one of the leaders of the syrian opposition possible ways to and bloodshed in the country that's in our spotlight. if you. knew. you to leave.

for good. hello again to walk into a spot like the interview show on our team i'm on the knowledge end today my guest on the program is. john move. according to the syrian opposition all this was the month very violent a very volatile month but in syria leaving more than five thousand killed the u.n. doesn't confirm this figure that says there are refugees up with the reactors over a hundred thousand syrians have fled the country last month in august held but regardless of the statistics opposition and government forces keep shooting at each other and the war is far. but recently a new political force has emerged in the opposition camp it represented in syria

paloma and stands for a strictly peaceful solution to the crisis point talking today to fact head you loose one of the leaders of this peaceful opposition member of the executive committee and the head of its delegation through which. the problem long civil war in syria has already playing down sublimes both the arm down. opposition backed by the u.s. and its allies on one side and president bashar assad on the other show no signs of ending the fighting nevertheless every day of war means more suffering for the syrian people that are one of the syrian opposition and leader of the communist labor party for tatar movers believes both sides should put down their weapons and trade. union. home is that you also welcome to the show thank you thank you very much for being with us to the sink of the mass well first of all i want to ask about your current visit to moscow

so you came here as the head of the delegation of the europe popular front a popular coalition because you also met the russian deputy foreign minister mr but that so what kind of support do you expect to get from moscow and was any support promised. by my own good forts from our friends and congress to in russia movement of national united. congress silly and the human and as ours so no we. could make some. relation between last. peaceful. way of changing in syria and with some organization in.

russia especially in foreign minister. and. i guess that russia has a mighty can do many useful things still syria especially in this crisis is a crisis in syria. especially because about one and half million syrians now. change their houses between this and the blaze. peaceful places or. there are about. hundreds of billions or so in syria. about two hundred thousand people out of syria is what i think i think. russia country. till now would distinguish and will stay between the regime and the mighty

so and also so you will see a big mass of the syrian be able which is now not on the side or the other side of terrorism thinks and this big mass of the syrian people are using it needs many many things especially when that is coming schools of chemicals on syria many factories in aleppo specially after about before about twenty days or about on mars many factors are on the ground now. so i think the russian people and the russian mighty can do many things on these ways to suggest you know you have had meetings in the russian foreign ministry you know what i wanted to ask you i've been reading even during the vacation that we had always been reading in the press that that despite

that kathy ireland has stepped down the russian diplomacy continues to support the coffee and then plan on syria do you believe that this plan can still be implement. i feel it collect. go on little. because there are two sides of the strategy and ways they are going on. extremes it is really and i feel that the outside. might like usa and the european and some gulf mites or two might is awful so you will not talk with the side to stop fighting. pushing money a big amount of money possibly visions to see i'm also mightily and many many.

missing that. would bones. also fighters. well according to the latest news read coming from from syria the syrian army assad's army has bulldozed houses in the west in damascus pretty soon what activists called collective punishment of sunni muslim areas hostile to president bashar al assad and. i sadly it is a shiite as we know so do religious contradictions still play such a significant role in the syrian conflict also more prolific all than religious. i think any business in syria here is nor fighters.

i think also the syrian army will not be zeroed out on first thing. others think it's a war in syria it is step by step we are going on a wild war especially on. revision. ok well according. to. the news the news reports and according to two trips to the analysts last month was the bloodiest in syria since the uprising began in march two thousand and eleven. to me there has been following the news and here's this report. violence in syria has reached its peak five thousand people were killed in august alone that's the highest in the seventeen month old uprising which has by now calling the police

twenty three thousand lives the u.n. refugee agency says one hundred thousand people fled syria last month another record breaking figure assad's forces begin wide use of air power for the first time in august to try to put down the revolt some western countries including the u.s. insist on a radio solution to the crisis this is not at root a humanitarian crisis it is a political crisis caused by the cruelty and callousness of the assad regime no amount of humanitarian assistance will and the bloodshed and suffering. that day will come only once assad has departed and a peaceful syrian led transition to democracy has begun russia keeps on warning against this kind of one sided approach. those demanding the capitulation of just

the government forces in syria while at the same time urging the opposition continue fighting this position is based on the fact that these forces are ready to pay an extra price which will be a huge number of human lives diplomatic efforts to solve the conflict have so far failed the syrian government says there will be no dialogue with the opposition until the army has crushed the rebels the opposition in turn has rejected any talks until assad is removed from power one thing and peace envoy to syria lakhdar brahimi the former foreign minister who replaced kofi annan this month has recently given quite a pessimistic view of the situation describing the peace mission in the region as nearly impossible. it is called the coalition for peaceful change and it is opposed both to two to bashar al

assad's regime and to the rebels that are fighting the president of the country so what's your view out do you see the solution of the problem in the country if you oppose both i think there is a kurd or some part of the. position politics parties. what we call it here. and there is also on the part which we are as a for with inside it call it a collection more after what are you assuming i think if russia might to speak. with there was a syrian regime that it was very aborted to begin a negation between. the side of interior.

dabs. we ask that the syrian diplomatic. minister to go on this way as i was in the wrong before about one man's there is organization coated centrifugal so she asked him about it in of was in there was from syria to go total i think this war so this. diplomatic minister can go on some ways more and more useful than what has us organizations. one specially inside syria but so must ask the regime to do some steps like give this. part of operas and there's. an

illusion let's show station of it. to let there be ball in syria top to make a convenient competition between this was a and this was a bottom so i think this way it is a very video book that the syrian says tech jehmu through one of the syrian opposition leaders the spotlight will be back should we also read felt they would then go to. oh an admission free accreditation free transport charges free to arrangement free risk free. free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media. tom.

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welcome back to spotlight i am al green of in just a reminder my guest on the show today is just one of the syrian opposition leaders mr jealous your front your coalition was created just prior to the elections last may and these were the first democratic elections in in years and years based the multi multi party multi party systems you've got you at five places one of five places in parliament in no first seem. the. front it is one one side of our collection. and we are another and there are about six or seven flutes and collection in. what

is called a collection of peaceful change in going we didn't agree with the. front to go on. because. and especially we didn't agree with them to go on the minister to go inside the government at all so this collection some of its sides it is inside the violence we didn't agree with him at all. because this will not put us exactly what is our british in way again which it is addict regime. sure now we will not let this good action go by the wind we will stay inside it and we will go once again. what this mean and what that

means with ourselves and we think that really is a current goal exactly on peaceful changing inside is our government so judging from what you say you do have you do have serious problems within the opposition i mean i mean you have disagreements and of course but this this makes it very hard not to fight to fight for your for your cause of those it but we see that all through this site the from what's inside these two parties see how did you meet and say that really heather i think your sings very very important to us they are really against. fighting. really against any outside of our side when we go on fighting inside syria so these two things is very important to us and we also

see the russian our friend really syrian people and we seeing the details of the issue and it is very very important now in a crisis in syria so we will not let this go to chain go with that when i talk when you say the russians are your friends that the russians are a friend of the syrian people you are an opposition leader but if we judge from what we what we hear from the west they say that the russian position is that moscow is backing but those regime do you feel that moscow is really behind bashar assad i think russia. look mighty and look these are regime and who think that there is a very different between the turn of the syrian army and the organization of the might the and the regime is a very them both a single lit

a difference between and with things are also the symbol look to the single so that russian we think now but italy with you know that they are nearest to the syrian be able more they are nearest to the syrian regime but the west of course they have. the. dollars that it bill. seriously there are with the war with the free syrian army. and the gold companies and those are thought the country. lit and the photo from any award came and go inside syria but the syrians are told well at this point i think we may get return to to discussing the so-called koffi annan peace plan because it didn't work

you said earlier on this program that unfortunately it didn't or if you will according to the coffee plan the violence in syria should have stopped in april but something went wrong so can you tell us from your point of view from inside the country what went wrong and who's to blame i think here our insides are side. fighting and also in congress also. they are more radical zones early g.m. now. refuse any negotiation with the regime. only when the is out of syria. and we think that there. is less. that site really because. i have asked other sites in syria and out of syria before here.

to the masses to sit around and to speak to preserve our boat so future of syria. and is very siloed of the opposition of. in syria refused also we refused but we think now it is very wrong to to fuel this thing but we have also all to speak wizard come now on that it. will ask the russian side to ask so bizarre and so there was a note to come on the table. and to begin. it is very well then you representative for syria after coffee resigned mr lockhart of the brain he said recently that he feels like he's standing in front of

a brick wall and there's no crack in this war that he could see do you think he is the right person to to to help solve the problem i think at all he is not all right i'm not sure articles why he and before him mr and i. came on. liberal hume outside our countries between russia and between the united states and so you're all being. if not so european british on our side in the struggle in syria i think and also with the from the side that took place on that regime will not be any peaceful way nearest now. let's talk about possible intervention everybody is talking about intervention now where usually the interference of a community into conflicts it usually starts from humanitarian aid in conflict

zones and the the the real red cross plains are very often followed by bombers and the real military intervention began as well recently you mentioned turkey you mentioned the turkey's proposals which suggest creating our the so-called bar for a zone in syria for humanitarian reasons you are against it is it because you think that this may be used to mask the future intervention so from the first moment from of first time they reach will. just saw a thing. they were going on the way of more struggling in syria. and this is what you are saying you say there you go the designs west centers are the ones that you are. and i think now or is a future when they will try to make this. they will let the syrian

social civil war step by step by and they quickly do you think interference may help do you think this is some kind of interfere some kind of controlled interference or you're against any interference at all we are really we will refuse any one of a kind and we will i think we will have to take against it even if this fighting will go on for years and years and out our think we will fight it but also we are peaceful change in the way. but inside is a strike inside syria we will not take any would be a guest says so and that's why we will go with is a big mass of this probably a big mess but if you say we will fight we will fight any any interference but you mean that you will find together both the bashar side and the opposition and

the rebels they will all find him and i see who are fight we will shop on the same enemy but if the word from his point did not look when bashar assad regime will go on some boy. or some day will get us he wants and i think this is some difficult maybe and it is not impossible to go from the same way the same one but i think every side from us will shop on the same enemy every side from his point from his beliefs thank you thank you very much indeed for being with us my wife and dad just a reminder go back to my guest today one day after john lewis one of the syrian opposition leader and that's it from out from all of us here if you want to have your say. perhaps someone in mind for you think i'm going to do next time to drop

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