it was a little it was a little. you know the word for was created. in an exclusive interview the syrian president slams foreign backing for the rebels as the main cause for the escalating conflict in his country. and the selective trip advice from tripoli libya is busy attracting tourists but visitors are being kept in the dark on tragedies like the violent siege and assault of bani while the. world news live from our moscow headquarters you're watching our team with me lucy

catherine of well the syrian president says that western states are used to creating enemies are motivated by their own interests in an exclusive interview with r t bashar al assad predicts a global catastrophe should foreign powers intervene in his country are just so if you spoke to the embattled leader in damascus and has the following details. that he's not a western puppet he also denies to fuck that civil war is taking place in this country he's saying that it's not civil war it's a conflict where he has to five different fractions of terrorism. on the fact that the financing of this terrorist fractions was unprecedented and it was coming from abroad what he told me that if the finest were to stop then he would probably need about two weeks more to restore peace in his country and he also said that if the west were to intervene militarily it would have a domino effect from atlantic to pacific and no one would be a gain from that and he also said that west tends to create enemies for themselves

like communism iraq saddam hussein and he feels that bashar al assad in syria is the new enemy not syria but hume himself so he feels that the fact that conflict has ask elated it is because the west has created a new anime in the space wasn't it told that there wasn't a problem you know the way. it was. for different reasons they want to create a new. program that the president has to do first of all you have to focus on. this i asked him it's not just the west but a lot of countries have betrayed you on the first occasion why do you have so many so many enemies in the arab world he said well actually a lot of arab countries support me but they're afraid to say it out loud i asked him why it is because they're all under the strength and power of petrodollars i also asked him about turkey and if the war with turkey was

a real possibility and he didn't he doesn't believe that there's going to be an actual war with turkey but he also emphasizing the fact that the turkish people are the enemies of syrian people and they're always been a friendly nation its. and his government that's the problem and that's against bashar and wants to all special because the us wants to reassure his and strengthen his political position in. and in the region personally think about it the news of the autumn and you can control the region as it was doing that with many. different routes. which is. climbing but not go to money not to be ready for but do you how do you think that if i ask him to regret anything what's your biggest mistake he says of course i have requests and of course i have made mistakes but when i ask him what is your biggest mistake he wouldn't give me a precise answer he said it's too early to talk about precise mistakes and precise regrets because the war or the conflict is still going on i also asked him if he were to turn the clock back to fifteen as of march that's when the protests started

to escalate would he do anything differently and he said no i wouldn't because within the marches within their protest marches there were people who started to shoot innocent civilians and the government forces so the government army had no other choice than to respond with force do what i did exactly the same exactly to think to. different parties to force. and to stand against the group but i always thought you didn't thought you could because there will be little emotions but within those motions you have militants who thought that disobedience and at the same time so he said he wouldn't change much about a year and a half ago when the protests started to grow and escalate he would do exactly the same. well stay with our team for our full exclusive interview with the syrian president in just over an hour's time and of course you don't have to wait until then the full interview is also available on our website that's our dot com.

i'm so you know i mean. maybe you feel you have to be student. in our two exclusive friday through sunday on r t v dot com. well u.s. lawmakers are reportedly working on a new flood of financial and trade sanctions against a wrong which would prevent the country from doing business with much of the world now this would be on top of the latest round of restrictions that's just been imposed by washington but also to keep in mind the developments do come on the heels of a pentagon revelation that iranian warplanes tried to shoot down a u.s. drone near wrong's border last week or he's going to take hand has more. president obama's first moves after he won reelection have pretty much indicated that in the next four years he will aggressively pursue the idea of the u.s. being the world police the administration is impose financial sanctions against the iranian officials will be u.s. blames for jamming satellite broadcast and blocking internet access any rain that

comes on top of a whole bunch of other sanctions that had been put in place by the u. was proved to be crippling for the ukrainian economy and the population there is suffering a great deal because of that while campaigning president obama indicated that he didn't want to go to war with iran but that he would continue the sanctions policy and that's what he's doing we've heard reports that the obama administration might engage in direct talks with iran at some point but there has been no confirmation of that. threatens to attack there and the u.s. appears to be stopping them some argue that the u. was might be playing a good cop bad cop diplomatic game there anyway the administration's strategy appears to be to make iran's so desperate that they would agree to anything but sanctioning iran was probably not president obama's very first move after winning this election government officials here say that said on wednesday a u.s. drone strike targeted a group of al qaida militants in yemen and the president had to authorize that and

possibly he did that within hours after his reelection the use of drones has been highly controversial it's quite clear not everybody hit by those drones are terrorists and the administration so far has been far from transparent on how they pick the targets and basically authorize executions overseas the u.s. . has raised concerns about the legality of such executions there has been a lot of criticism especially after numerous reports of civilian deaths in the meantime this administration is said to rely on drones more and more and other drone related story this week the pentagon said rainey and military had fired upon but did not hit a you was thrown flying close to the pentagon claimed the drone was there on their surveillance mission so looking at some of president obama's first moves after reelection one could say he takes the idea of america being the world police very seriously but the question is who's going to hold that world police itself accountable well those are going to can but the u.s.

has so far failed to use the bargaining opportunity that sanctions potentially offer that's according to reza marashi he is the research director at the national iranian american council. you can continue to ramp up the sanctions on iran but sanctions ostensibly are supposed to provide leverage at the negotiating table if you're not using them as a negotiating chip when you're at the negotiating table then all they are is a blunt instrument the ends up adversely affecting the lives of innocent iranian people this is the first instance in which we've seen obama move forward on sanctions and it remains to be seen whether or not he doubles down on the diplomatic track of his policy to try to find a peaceful solution to the crisis but we haven't seen to date tangible evidence of these sanctions causing the iranian government to change strategic calculus on its regional policies or on more specifically its nuclear policy and that's supposed to be the goal that's the metric of success that both the bush administration and the obama administration have defined seen the obama administration really ramp up the

amount of drone usage you know whether it is yemen or pakistan or even today we saw a report of the iranian government shooting at an american drone that was off of its coast so we're in uncharted waters when it comes to policy american policy related to drones and until we have some rules to this game that the international community can abide by you know playing off the same script that increases the likelihood of a conflict that the united states and the international community i think would independently seek to avoid. well revelations of mass fraud and embezzlement involving involving hundreds of millions of dollars are hogging the headlines here in russia it's emerged that some of the country's most ambitious projects including its satellite positioning system were plagued by corruption there's also a scandal at the highest levels of the military and let's cross over right now live to andrew farmer for more massive scandal it seems like new details emerge by the

day what exactly are investigators looking at right now. but this is part of the russian government's why did draw it to. corruption in today he denies it has uncovered two major scandals involving through the first involves a three hundred million dollars presently to fund the development of the guy who asked project that is the russian version of the g.p.s. system the american g.p.s. system the system which is the satellite navigation service they find it so you know half year investigation that and as i say three hundred million dollars had been found on top of this they also found that you're in the high tech summit last september how it is not evil still. is thought it around three million dollars there's embezzled doing the development the facilities there say two major scandals here this is also coming on a day that it was announced that a new man is for you to see how full the russian military and also stamp time corruption. really go and he was appointed incidentally. not to be approved but

also on the recommendation of. the new defense minister who himself was appointed after the dismissal to call this week he was relieved of his allegations of corruption in the fraudulent side of military force at sea well below its market value so three major incidents this week i think the government is trying to show yes is taking corruption seriously doesn't pull these showing that it is taking action. interesting thank you for keeping us updated there andrew farmer far. right well coming up it's all in the name for at least one u.s. citizen who is stuck in qatar we find out how what you are actually linking to criminal activity and even bar you from entering your very own country. and living in tora strife keeps silent on recent unrest that some of the town of bani

walid about to influence those stories coming up after a short break. recently protests and demonstrations of any kind were banned until further notice and buck rein a curfew as if you can't go out of your home when the government doesn't want you to has already been in effect in the country since two thousand and eleven many of the protests which are now totally forbidden were related to members of the public demanding the release of political prisoners four people were also recently arrested for insulting the king over twitter wow a middle eastern country that has totally shut down any form of protest and holds you down if you tweet about the leadership so it's pretty undemocratic to me i bet nato is already fueling up ready to take action and bomb some freedom into armor right well not really if nato really cared about spreading democracy you'd think

they'd be more consistent with their targets but that's just my opinion. on syria and i made. me do through you know the after effects you know the incident but. i didn't r.t. exclusive friday through sunday on r t r t dot com wealthy british style sun it's sometimes. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on our. resistance is not our politics but our culture.

is couldn't. on its own. cultures of resistance are to. welcome back you're watching r t with me lucy cough and elf well libya has been described as many things but i've never considered it to be a holiday hotspot but seems that many people do although there is one glaring omission among the excursions the siege ravaged city of bani walid artists our first reports on the travel agents who are hiding tragedy from the tourists we're here at the world's top will mock at the trade say taking place in london or people can come to look for the holiday inspiration that scouts exotic spot for a honey way one country you probably wouldn't expect to see being touted as

a tourist destination and that's libya the places where the tourist interesting to the scientists are going to coincide so it's completely safe going to go into debt it's got to be saved more than even dollars to big dollars like london or my new york but there's somewhere that is not mentioned in the guide but bani walid a desert town is remaining loyal to formally to kendo gadhafi is just a few hours dry southeast of the traditional tourist destination chipley but it's a world away from the safe environment the two guides the pitching. town's become the scene of some of the fiercest fighting since the libyan uprising last year but despite reports of indiscriminate shelling and gas attacks on the local population at the hands of the libyan army there's been an almost total media blackout in the . r.t. ran the story for more than a fortnight before anyone else picked it up back in london and despite libya being

shaikh ace it seems that bani walid has once again been conveniently left out of the conversation when i saw this. it was of course with surprise and i came to the feedback of the situation at the moment in libya and if we have so many people means situations that could be coming most and we can think for next season to do something with libya and it's a wonderful country so we would about what's happening in the. lead do but do you mean was hacked was being happening there there's been fighting do you know about that no we went to confront the tour operator i saw you speaking some people eat telling them about what's been happening in bernie walid at the moment. this is. for the. president because he was deeply disturbing is that despite a growing body of evidence about crimes against civilians and increasingly vocal

concerns from human rights organizations the same media and government remain resolutely silent they've got to sort of package nish as a success is very important for nato so we have been of these countries have been liberated in inverted commas as great places to go great places to invest and the reality for the everyday person in these countries is a living hell really pick up one of the travel information then you'll be given reasons to visit libya and undoubtedly there are many there's a concerning silence in a case by the u.k. media a seeming refusal to talk. about what's been happening in places like bani walid the reality is that the new government is struggling to control its militias and bridge the deep divides that remain in the country but none of that you're going to read about in a. london. well libya's government says bani walid is recovering fast after armed militias left the city in virtual ruins but i spoke to

a man whose family lived through that he asked us to shield his identity for his safety when he told us there's still no peace and bani walid. government on t.v. supporting the. militias that. attacking and killing innocent citizens in the. city leave these militias out of looking. this included minutes in food would undoubtedly life in the sixty's they have this doing with guns and bombs and use. of but he would eat this is a given store their definition and knows. how use difference and know the photo and video. and the young fellow who tool to another to. be able.

to didn't do their business and only get the united states is was trying to steal a bigger ticket to cities with bombs and guns in don that if it where they know now and i mean the government of libya do you realize you believe you. are what we have more world news for you this hour turkish fighter jets and helicopters have bombarded kurdish militants along the border with iraq killing fourteen at least fourteen the strikes were reportedly launched after security forces got a tip off from locals about a build up of separatist activity in that area now the kurdistan workers' party known as the p.k. k. is fighting turkey to try and carve out an independent state over forty thousand people have been killed since the start of that insurgency back in one nine hundred eighty four. meanwhile a series of explosions have ripped through a chemical plant and comeback claimed the lives of two people and injuring nineteen

more a massive initial blast was followed by several smaller ones raising concerns over talks smoke and contamination. around that industrial plant the cause of the explosion is not yet known. well an american citizen living and working in qatar has been barred by the u.s. authorities from going back to his native oklahoma to visit his ailing mother air force veteran along has converted to islam over a decade ago and is now on the federal no fly list but he has never been told why that is the case now adam soltani from the council of american islamic relations believes that the man's muslim name has rendered him quote an undesirable the circumstances are pretty much heartbreaking because he is going to star in that he may never get to see his mother again and that's a reality we have to deal with which parent would have won their last wish to be with their children there's no indication of any reason for him to be on this no fly list he has never been convicted of any criminal activity he has served his

country for ten years in the u.s. air force and he has indicated that there is nothing he can think of that would link him to anything criminal in the nature you know there are cases care has dealt with in the past of individuals who were placed on a no fly list sometimes it just has to do with the name their name may sound like someone who was affiliated with criminal activities or or something of the sort we've never really been given answers by the f.b.i. and the department of homeland security so we're not one hundred percent sure it's kind of speculation at this point but nevertheless you know he's indicated that he is a law abiding u.s. citizen and really cannot think of anything that would prevent him from travel. well angry argentineans have put on a massive show of solidarity as you can see over in a web site r.t. dot com. the images you're seeing right now is the country's capital as protesters uniting in their anti-government campaigning we have all the details for

you as to why on our site. plus time for a change in china as the country prepares for its once in a decade power handover which of course we're following closely for you again on our web site r t v dot com. well ceremonies across germany will mark a pivotal date in that country's history november ninth twenty three years ago saw the berlin wall fall it was the end of the cold war and when two countries became one as artie's maria for notional reports divisions still remain. made in love a belly produced in western germany by a choreographer from the former d.d.r. in the eighty's when one nation was riven into different fled what he saw as a prison for the promise of freedom is an artist needed inspiration who didn't have the chance to see the outside world. telling us in the world waits roots in the

worst when we were different. genuine and not rich but. he never came back because even twenty years after the fall of the berlin wall the east is too locked in the dark past. soviet era infrastructure derailed never really adapting to the capitalist reality reunification it turns out was more annexation what happened politically and in the way of international law is that west germany became bigger if they would have taken the chance in that time to say we abolish both germany as we abolish the west of germany and we abolish the eastern region in the east germany and we make something new we make a new germany this might have been much better the forging of one nation was the end of another this is all that remains from a once large power plant in the village of man that stein in eastern germany it used to generate electricity for railroads and trams shortly after reunification the plant was shut down as happened with most industry in the former g.d.r.

abandoned buildings like this old and deliberate dated are still scattered all across the east here silent reminders of the former republics power the two decades following the reunification so a million and a half had west most to youngsters live in an aging population behind slowly that might be changing since two thousand one the migration numbers are declining and in two thousand and eleven we had for the first time note not more out migrants than in migrants these people are living breathing statistics they all see the nickname for born easterners and they returned home and everybody want to come but sometimes opportunity is not given it's a responsibility of the political to encourage people to stay here to give them like a maybe. opportunity to earn money but they're using eastern greed and

western guile to help themselves probably they're all had similar problems like. where do i find the flu or if i want to buy a house all these kind of stuff so the next project was that we build a website where we. try to collect all these information but the challenge is the tougher to overcome may be unspoken the water between their video and us germany was one of the hottest across in the world this brown path is what used to be a minefield and imposing construction with c.c.t.v. cameras barbed wire fences and watchtowers every one of the half kilometers it was all taken away off to reunion this place is now a museum but while there was a may have become part of history a division remains the boundary in some people's minds is as solid as ever and until these barrier falls true reunification will remain just an illusion. or if an ocean r.t. reporting from germany. just a couple of minutes we're going to be ready to break the set with abby martin and

washington d.c. don't go away. this is day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of story hundred sheep in the mountains and pains of t.v. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but he dition and familiar duty dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. he's just made camp at their winter farm stage setting up his ute the traditional two fenian round tent made of diskin. his p.c. back amongst his family as his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celsius says there are still there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my

mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here. so all most of us is simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and that's where they fit their could die out altogether. they knew it and it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their hearts they hurt the council going along with new people leaving then coming to the countryside the regions government is having to act making the life of the herd and more attractive than promisingly just have to do. and lie still and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day put out to ensure the hood a get so high at fair price i sympathize with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life they in their publics capital because ill but he no

longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pasta way of life and looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm with more time on his hands he says matter of fact way he can start to look for a new life. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a dollar and i conclude it's the longest and while this campaign in our history covers a lot more about me or not at all for some additional. what twists and turns to get below market this campaign for you to watch what we're about to do that you've never seen anything like that.

but the guys i'm abby martin so guess what just a day after president obama got reelected the news was released that another person has been charged under the espionage act in case you guys lost count this will be the seventh person prosecuted under the. chilling piece of world war one legislation this time the charges against james temple border the linguist for the navy and behind crane who's been accused of making copies of classified documents regardless of his intent the espionage act could carry the charge of death look this is no laughing matter obama has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined and it doesn't look like he's planning to stop anytime soon and that's why i'm breaking the set.