lot and dialogue between opposition on their own and i think. coming to their government in guinea and the neat things with. meeting in these sea with the fund. will ministers and show so everyone is saying ok all of the international community are saying to their government go back knowing that they don't want to go through this dialogue they don't want to respond to the people genuine do not and that's why they are. security escorts and trying to. they found all. they want and violence but this is a small island platform so it's seen as through not to go to political dialogue so you're saying the ban we've seen this recent ban on protests we also understand that they may even impose more limitations on protest that's actually going to provoke the opposition even more. position our strategy clearly going with

nonviolent movement but you cannot control the protest of go on. frustration a phone the conduct of the bully is that how they deal with that you cannot control hundred percent of those this is not happening anywhere in the war why should it happen in butner why should that opposition the moderate opposition one opposition be held accountable quote any act of an individual it won't go that is not running away and not even going to get don't know the security person they're accountable for to buy a nation this is human trafficking this this is been going on for twenty months now and the violence seems to be getting worse where will this stalemate end do you think. without. pressure from don't the national community only get to ask for a deadline a time for the dialogue and the before nothing will happen and we will continue

with this stalemate but there's a stalemate and stagnation in my it. just a saying of course and you mentioned the international pressure earlier that you know they believe they're being abandoned by the west are they right in saying that and if they that is the case do you think the west's attitude could change in the future. i don't see the future talking about weeks maybe months that there will be some sort of. cue got the international community to be more assertive let me be very clear that they are encouraging government to go with . their government to respect their human rights. international obligations. but there is no. forstmann to those implications and there is not asking or time with and a clear agenda. and. you know what i'm telling you look we'll.

have to leave f.a.q. very much indeed for joining us live here on r.t. . joining us live from bahrain thank you. greece is about to grow into a whole during a week of nationwide strikes against austerity the government is losing support as it gets ready to vote on a new set of tax hikes and spending cuts international lenders are demanding the measures before they hand over more bailout cash artie's peter all of us is in athens. the first demonstrations in strikes against the latest round of austerity measures for greece are under way these people are journalists who've walked out in anger and what they see is unfair measures that are going to be imposed by the somali risk government on the greek people in order to make the thirteen point five billion euros worth of savings that's being demanded of greece by its three main creditors the so-called troika those thirteen point five billion worth of cuts have been demanded in order to increase receives its next round of bailout money

a all important city billion plus euros worth of cash without which well greece is facing a very painful fall towns being kicked out of the euro zone now they say that the cuts that are being imposed on them by the government are going to be imposed on him by the government that's up for a vote in the parliament on wednesday that they're totally unacceptable now on tuesday and on wednesday these journalists will be joined by people from all across greece as a general strike takes place before tea eight hours in the parliament the opposition who said they want to see new elections in greece so unhappy are they with some modest says policies and they also you said this why couldn't the prime minister renegotiate. the thirteen point five billion worth of cuts that's been demanded of him and he said the reason he couldn't do that is because it wasn't negotiable this is being dictated to greece and that's prompted the opposition to call for the

people of the country to rise up peacefully over the coming days and take back their country. as britain grapples with the e.u. over how much it pays for membership cash appears to be leaking in another direction it's been revealed that some politicians are spending tens of thousands of pounds flying to exotic holiday spots on so-called fact finding missions on the surface reports. china miami we might all dream of jetting off to some exotic destination but unfortunately in the middle of a double dip recession with thirty measures biting we're being kept to ground. for some lucky and just think of the some of those fall flying at destinations fact finding mission one fact that has been found is that these trips costing millions in tax payers pounds so take a look at the figures they regularly come in at more than forty thousand pounds per

trip one shit singapore in china cost a whopping seventy two thousand pounds something has clearly gone wrong when you have a coach trip costing eight to ten thousand pounds per member of parliament on the trip there either either staying in luxury hotels when they could look at more modest accommodation or they're using business class travel when they could travel most of the rest of us not surprisingly the public's not impressed i certainly think it's excessive and i think they i can't say taking the piss but they're taking advantage there's absolutely no question. because i find a good place. if you have the patience to look on the right side and if the m.p.'s need some advice on how to save the pennies the public has. already ok guys i think. we'd all love to just fall into the sunset to help

us deal with the economic crisis those excessive expenditures are going to leave many m.p.'s looking like they simply got their heads in the clouds so. london. the civil war in syria is encroaching on israel off the tanks into the sensitive buffer zone in the golan heights breaking a decades long truce incident was not considered an act of aggression against the jewish state but increased fears inside israel that the political shake up in the region may eventually see israel stuck between a rock and a hard place i thought he. explains. remember this. this is our. generation of young people being numbed to some friends finding runs off against them to despots to their country in just under two years the rage against dictators seems to have turned in a new direction. the capital of the caliphate the capital of the united

states the arabs. the arab spring uprisings primarily salts to do away with their own regimes they now own creasing we seem to turn against israel with the old leaders out of the pictures the first new governments little to do with the old ways of tacit compliance if not friendship with israel's existence a pattern that didn't escape israel should get used to a different middle east for all means and. i think that the most important thing is the barak and the coming to the fore of the muslim brothers it is definitely definitely much more difficult middle east for israel sprouts of the revolutionary spirits which took over the region appeared to have shot up even in places considered soon by israel here in the golan heights some twenty thousand jews consider themselves syrian their home country is just across the road has

a daily reminder of the home they have lost and though it may be in the grips of a civil war many of them with gladly make their home in a stable syria rather than in israel golan heights where annexed by israel during the six day war with syria forty five years ago though the current unrest in syria is viewed differently by residents of this village they are united when one thought . israel is a stable country but we are historic you are part of the syrian nation and it's our culture we want to be on the syrian authority even. under this oppressive regime you want to be part of syria before the civil war ticker damascus was said to be involved in talks over a peace accord with israel albeit clandestine ones to power in syria be transferred to the opposition the result will surely mean peace and stability for television of course when assad was in full control of the assad family in syria israel knew

what it's going to get from the assad family so to speak i mean the notion was what you see is what you what you see is what you get. although for residents of the golan heights the future territory is much clearer in the spirit of the arab spring they too are prepared to bring great just what you learned so far would. go back to syria what was taken and will have to come back and. here we go. golan heights. well after a short break we interviewed the son of the cuban leader raul castro and he talks about have been his relationship with washington the war on terror fidel castro's health stay with us for that if you can.

trimmings in this tree even for specialists a voice can produce several sounds it warms the to do the means the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from the unions believe not only animals but also all surrounding objects like reverse forests and different stones souls imitating the sounds they believe assumes to capture the power of nature. was. there are special instruments that accompany the singing give gainey says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says once there lived a poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous

people killed it on the horse was revived as an instrument. those that have suffered a fall is because of the spirit of the horse coming to his dream he said make an instrument from the tree the sounding board from the leather on my face the strings . and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again which means come back and this melody only instrument is called. to fly as one of the most famous groups in the republic there. next goal is to tour broad they say for you are peons it's difficult to pick up and sing so i ask them to teach me and see if i can do it. cheer it up and they were.

you know you thought it was sure. it was you. but now it is part of the song and not the actual through it singing which i wouldn't even try to refute. so maybe you have to be born here to be able to sing like this puzzled so until i met mall she looks like a deveny and i don't even speak their language but she is from japan. most as to thought in mind that she planned from two hundred years ago until scrappy here she's not planning a professional singing career but she keeps practicing just because it's become part of her nature.

if they slept with us on our t.v. today is that our own customs son ali hundred customers spin it's his first interview to media outlets and we are all honored he's agreed to talk to us hello ali hand you came to moscow to launch the russian edition of your book the empire of terror what kind of threats does washington's still pose to cuba respect the washington. the situation has not changed much because the factors that led to the dramatic situation must allow something similar might happen again because the reasons that triggered the grave international crisis that put the life of all humankind under threat still exist. has nothing changed at all. no because the main players are still the same the people who are in power now carry on with the policies of their predecessors those who were responsible for creating

that situation in the first place in other words the world's one superpower is still the only superpower. in so it doesn't matter who wins the election obama or romney do you think foreign policy will remain the same. the truth is there isn't much of a difference between the main political parties in the us including their foreign policy stances as a real foreign policy strategy is presented as something that both parties have approved but the fact is it's devised in the interests of the real decision makers behind it it's not necessarily just one person but it is one system the so-called establishment could wield the real power in this country it consists of politicians and businessmen who make decisions because they have the economic power. so what are the actual threats today. as you know there are

a number of ongoing military complex in the middle east and central asia the u.s. military presence and continuing military operations are explained by the desire to benefit from occupying these countries it's clear that the us is there because it wants their natural resources it's clear that the u.s. policy is very much driven by economic interests. so you think the uprisings in libya tunisia egypt or syria or not brought about by a grassroots movement. it's calling for more freedom and civil rights. i think they would and they have my full support these countries faced serious social problems which triggered the uprisings in the first place but the trigger for the problems themselves was external we need to uncover the real reason for the unrest for popular discontent how did it come to be if it's rooted in the policies that these countries carried out the policies prescribed by international financial

institutions made a international monetary fund and the world bank these institutions are nothing more than washington's was used by the ruling elite to pursue its financial interests that they seek to profit from these countries financial flows and make them indebted that's already happened to many neoliberal countries this in turn breed social unrest and discovered people rise against their leaders because they can't satisfy their own needs. but how do you distinguish between the peoples pursuit of freedom and civil rights and other countries interference. in thier what are they but i could ask you the same question since you're the professional journalist here let's think back to the role the mass media played in libya syria egypt and other countries where people were really protesting because of the problems triggered as i said before by the neoliberal policies imposed by

the worst part is that the people seeking to benefit from the situation exploited people support to overthrow legitimate governments established in accordance with the law and of a constitutional so they had the government smeared by the mass media to justify subsequent aggression. so what's the difference between democracy and dictatorship than they have and it's very clear democracy is when all the constitutional rights are. when the people elect their government by the majority vote the laws of the same yet the west isn't satisfied with them in some arab countries and turns a blind eye to their violations in other arab countries are the ones that are its allies knowing. that which doesn't bridge the gap between people and the actual lawmakers in many countries people have no say when it comes to adopting was that decisions are made at the top but the reaction might be positive or negative.

but that meant that we've been watching protests taking place in latin america and africa as well as in europe and the so-called developed countries. were the reasons for the people in these developed countries to come out into the streets to voice their anger against the very government that it's supposed to represent them the reasons are the same that led to uprisings in north africa and the middle east very often these public protests get distorted in the media and portrayed as a violation of public order that has to be suppressed and punished we saw staggering video footage of brutal police responses in many of these countries and they're the countries that take pride in their democratic system their freedom of speech and people's right to self-determination and money and yet they find it unacceptable that people went out onto the streets to fight for solutions to major issues basic issues like employment and social care that affect everyone. judging by your book and by what you're telling us right now you don't think that

the situation in the world has changed but many latin american leaders are convinced that we now live in a multi-polar world you don't see that. if the multipolar world that we all want to see is not here to get it it's our aspiration rather than reality a number of countries not even the countries themselves but their governments their political elites still dominate putting their intentions above the interests of the international community and the governments of different countries define the terms . terrorism differently and what's your definition one. that's an area where double standards are often applied the west has its own understanding of terrorism and the countries that the west suspects of terrorism and puts pressure on as a result of a different approach cuba is against all forms of terrorism wherever terrorist acts take place and whoever is behind them terrorism cannot be a solution or a tool but we disagree with the anti-terrorist policies that the u.s.

adopted after nine eleven well they're motivated by revenge the measures that the u.s. takes aggressive and destructive they use the war on terror as a pretext for achieving their political strategic and economic goals instead they should be looking at terrorism as something that puts people's lives in danger. yes the one you were in angola and participated in the armed conflict there do you think you would do that again or would you think twice before going there now. i would do it again what because cuba did not seek any selfish gain when it got involved in angola as in terms of conflict cuban internationalists went to angola to show solidarity they wanted to stop what the world powers secretly trying to do it in slave destroy and divide angola following their own political and economic agenda. do you think the same for the latin america armed conflicts that are already in the past. at the moment looking at the history of humanity i think they

are in the past we have so many other tools which we didn't have before we now have a better understanding of things unfolding around us there are new ways of engaging in this kind of fighting historically only the ruling powers in the financial moguls could use these means i'm talking about the media which could be a very effective weapon in political conflict other governments don't bother to study the reasons for terrorism and order to have a successful war on terror we need to know why terrorism exists and the reasons a social isolation unemployment conflicts between different ethnicities and other minority groups that feel neglected by their governments and are often attacked it's important to make sure that all people have access to information with new technologies so that countries can develop what we need to create opportunities for people this will eliminate risks and break destructive patterns which put humanity in jeopardy as we all know that there's

a risk that our planet will soon become uninhabitable. today there is economic freedom in cuba do you think that cuba is free politically as well. cuba is free economically politically and socially we've always been open to everything and there's a certain angle when we talk about political freedom but because of that we have people who are paid by foreign countries especially to go west to organize unrest in cuba. they use this money from the u.s. budget destabilize the political and social situation in the country negative attention to us and discredit cuba internationally this way they're trying to justify a potential attack as in the case of. this has been going on for fifty years so it's nothing new to us but we're interested in the opinions of true cubans the patriots who want our country to prosper and those who want to create not destroy them we don't care about what traitors think. and i mean i would guess that i will

castro has said that cuba needs some fresh blood in his political leadership what's your vision what will this new litter should be like. the role of people of different ages holding different political offices in cuba many think that the destiny of a revolution depends on its historic leaders and that's true of its individual leaders who've made crucial political process possible with. speaking of one particular leader how is fidel castro feeling you published his picture recent wait is he feeling well. but if it now but i think you know i think the media made a mistake here i didn't take that picture like a couple it was probably another family member with the same last name but not me but if. i want to keep it three away how is fidel castro feeling. told us about his health in a recent article he wrote while in his signature sarcastic style he made fun of

those who've been trying to pronounce him dead many times before that people have been doing that for fifty years probably before you were even born you were very young reports about. death first started coming when he was in sierra maestra people said he'd been killed and then it kept happening for fifty years in cuba who used to it all and no longer pay attention to such rumors that fidel is an amazing person he's done the impossible many times he continues to surprise as even in eighty six he's able to find common ground with people everywhere in the world not just in cuba that's why many still see him as an exceptional individual. how has cuba changed under the leadership. how is it different from fidel zero. it's like comparing romney and obama and asking how the us will change of romney's elected president and maybe it's not the best comparison but what i'm trying to say is that there is no difference whatsoever there is total continuity but nothing

that shouldn't change will change. are in complete agreement and they have the same strategy and actions and thoughts this is seen in the way they deal with strategic and tactical issues they may differ on how things should be done but they achieve the same goal. that's why i compared them to romney and obama because i've been asked before about the difference between a democratic and republican presidents my answer is there is no difference they are identical and it's the same in cuba. want to thank you for your time thank you. i mean. you are the host of the. winter the pick.

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