i was going to tell you to go through the problem you know that we've always agreed to. an exclusive party interview the syrian president slams foreign backing for the brussels as the main cause for the escalating conflict in this country. targeting tehran more crippling sanctions are planned for iran on top of the latest restrictions approved by president barack obama in his first foreign policy decision following reelection. and the selected trip abayas from tripoli libya is busy attracting tourists but visitors are being kept in the dark on tragedies like the violent siege in the salt of bani walid.

world news live from our moscow headquarters here watching our team with me to see coughing up while syria's president says the conflict in his country has escalated because according to him western powers that have picked him as their latest bogeyman now in an exclusive interview with r t bush are also warned that any direct foreign intervention in syria would spark a global disaster sophie shevardnadze spoke to the embattled leader in his capital . that he is not a western puppet he also denies defunct 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 fight different fractions of terrorism he says on the fact that the financing of this terrorist actions was unprecedented and it was coming from abroad what he told me that if the sinuses 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 asked later 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 there were. any it was because we knew that. for different reasons they want to create a new. program that the president has to do 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 that 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 it's. and his government that's the problem and that's against bashar and wants to also pressure because god wants to reassure his and strengthen his political position in turkey and in. region personally thing that you've been used. to money and you control the region as it was doing both many. different routes. which is. slowly but not go to any employee not to be ready for but in his how do you think that he's had you from asking do you 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 fifteenth 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 as you say go for it thank you to think the. different parties to for to have total and to stand against the terrorist group but i always thought you didn't thought as most because there will be little motions but within bill's motions you have militants who thought that through to the civilians 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. of course you can watch the full exclusive interview with syria's president bashar al assad in just over twenty minutes time right here on our t.v. you don't have to wait until then the full interview is also available on our website that's at r.t. dot com. i'm so you know i mean. maybe it's you know i have to be you know i'm going student but. i did our two exclusive friday through sunday on our to our t. dot com. well u.s. lawmakers are reportedly preparing a fresh set of sanctions against iran targeting its business transactions with other countries now that is on top of the latest round of restrictions imposed by barack obama just after he won reelection to the white house the situation has been strained further by claims that iranian jets had fired at an american drone flying off iran's coast last week arties going to take on has

a story. 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 ministration is impose financial sanctions against the iranian officials will be u.s. blames for jamming satellite broadcast and blocking internet access anywhere in 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 iranian 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 engage in direct talks with iran at some point but there has been no confirmation that. threatens to attack iran and the u.s. appears to be stopping them some argue that if you 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 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. has raised concerns about the legality of such executions there has been a lot of purchases and 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 the reunion military had fired upon but did not hit a u. was grown 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 a 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 reza marashi from the national iranian american council says that washington's of ramping up of sanctions on iran has so far failed to persuade the country to change its course. 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 coming your way selling holidays by hushing up hostility is libya being marketed as tourist hot spot but travel agents are accused of copying western media by staying silent on the violence in the volatile country

. meanwhile had american stranded in a cup tara barred from pumping coming home to the west to visit his sick mother and in a few minutes we'll explain a wanted was his mother in the way that could be the only reason. i never thought i could earn a living this way. natalee issue of i as a lawyer she tests small arms so there's a lot almost a machine building ploy and a lot of the source talent of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no wait i'm so tired of shooting. the plot and history goes from making firearms doing world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines

during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the violence and germans so i was here also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to foreigners for hoffa's century it thrived on the massive moods of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed the life here was shaken to the core but some adapted to better than others. this is the year old truck factory russia's number one truck maker or girls will look at how well the workplace is organized everything's to make sure the workers don't waste time there was so production is booming in the factory has largely managed to get on to civil rails these giants are sold around the globe hey ablaze. brand new would be waiting to be delivered to a client's seventy trucks like this one roll up the plants conveyor belt every day just look at this things that absolutely huge. well i'm no

formula one pilot but hopefully if i can get up that. i can go for a test drive. oh that was fun perhaps i should get one of these to travel to work every morning but with the cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving money. welcome back you're watching r t with me lucy catherine of broadcasting live from our moscow headquarters well libya has been described as many things but have you ever considered it to be a holiday hotspot well believe it or not it seems that many people actually do although there is one glaring omission among the excursions are being offered to

them that's the siege ravaged city of bani walid artists our firth reports on the travel agents who are hiding tragedy from the tourists we're here at the world travel market a trade show you taking place in london or people can come to look holiday inspiration that scouts exotic spot for a honeymoon a 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 site is a political sideshow it's. going to go into you that's got to be saved more than even tones to big domes like london or new york but there's somewhere that's not mentioned in the guide but bani walid a desert town is remaining loyal to formally dick. deathy is just a few hours dry southeast of the traditional tourist destination aaa but it's a world away from the safe environment the two guides the pitching. the 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 showcased it seems that bani walid has once again been conveniently left out the conversation when i saw this. it was a ghost surprise and i came. back of the situation of the moment in libya and if we have so many people. situations they could be coming most and we can think for next season to do something with libya and it's a wonderful country so. what about what's happening and. what do you mean what's happening in 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 at the moment. this is. for the future. because it 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 i've got to sort of package nish as a success it's very important for nato so we have been. 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 travel information pack in. will be given reasons to visit libya and undoubtedly there are many visit concerning violence that's being echoed by the u.k. media a seeming refusal to talk about what's been happening in places like. 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 the. surf artsy london. well libya's government says bani walid is recovering quickly after armed militias left the city in a virtual ruins well earlier our team was able to speak to one man whose family had lived through that tragic scene he asked us to shield his identity for his safety when he told us that there is still no peace and bani walid. government of the suborder to google because of militias. attacking and killing innocent citizens in the city leave you. out of looking supplies no. this included minutes in food and other life in the sixty's they are destroying

with guns and bombs and use. of but he would eat this is a given store their definition and knows. how use if it is and know if you refer to him to be a one night and the young fellow who tool to another to. be able. and do good he didn't do about their business and only get the united states is was coming. to cities with bombs and guns in the done that if it were not a day no no and i mean the government of libya to rising. let's get an update on the world headlines right now turkish fighter jets and helicopters have bombarded kurdish militants along the border with iraq killing at least fourteen people there that these strikes work portably 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 the insurgency back in one nine hundred eighty four. meanwhile a series of explosions have ripped through a chemical plant in a comeback claiming the lives of two people injuring one thousand more a massive initial blast was followed by several smaller ones. concerns over talk success as well as contamination around that industrial plant the cause of that explosion is still unknown. well revelations of mass fraud and embezzlement involving hundreds of millions of dollars are hogging the headlines here in russia it's emerged the some of the country's most ambitious projects including the satellite positioning system or plagued by corruption there's also

a scandal at the highest levels of the military and here is a farmer with more details on this story this is part of the russian government's crackdown on corruption and today. two major scandal involving three the first was a two hundred million dollar embezzlement of funds during the globe last project that is the russian satellite navigation system that was meant to rival the american g.p.s. system but after its soon a half year investigation the russian audit chamber has now come out and said they believe two hundred million dollars. and on top of this they also found that during the apec summit last september held is not evil still in russia it's thought it around three million dollars there's embezzled joining the development of facilities there say to make here this is also coming in a day that it was announced that a new man is the health reform the russian military and the time corruption.

clearly he was appointed incidentally on the recommendation of a new defense minister himself was appointed after the dismissal anatoly subdue called this week he was relieved. of corruption in the fraudulent science of military force it's a well below its market value so three major incidents this week i think the government is trying to show yes it's taking corruption seriously but lou called police showing that it is taking action. well let's see what we've got cooking for you on our our website. argentinians have put on a massive show of solidarity as you can see the pictures right there at r.t. dot com the images you're viewing now is the country's capital i see a few protesters uniting in their anti-government campaigning on our website we explain why. plus the time for change in china as a country prepares for its once in a decade power handover which of course we're following closely for you on our web

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find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines joining us is a report on our. well an american citizen who's been living and working in qatar has been barred by u.s. authorities from going back to his native oklahoma to visit his ailing mother it's rather bizarre story where air force veteran so dick long who converted to islam over a decade ago is now on a federal no fly list and he's never been told as to the reason for why now adam soltani from the council of america islamic relations believes that the man's muslim name has effectively rendered him an undesirable in the eyes of the u.s. take a look. 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 nature you know there are cases care has dealt with in the past of individuals who were placed on the 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 has a law abiding u.s. citizen and really cannot think of anything that would prevent him from travel. well ceremonies across germany will mark a pivotal date in that country's history that arm of the ninth saw the berlin wall come down exactly twenty three years ago today it was the end of the cold war and also when the two countries a sense of we became one but as our team is an area for notional reports divisions

there are 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 stuff and 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 that were telling us in the world waits rose in the west when we were different emotional genuine and that. he never came back because even twenty years after the fall of the berlin wall the east is still locked in the dark past soviet era infrastructure derailed never really adapting to the capitalist reality greenough occasionally turns out was more annexation what happened politically in the way of international laws 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 regimes that use 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 moon 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 form idea abandoned buildings like this and delivered 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 the migration numbers are declining and in two thousand and eleven for the first time. not more out my.

in migrants these people are living breathing statistics they're all see the nickname for born easterners and they've returned home and everybody want to come back but sometimes opportunity is not given it's a responsibility of to put it in 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 heard similar problems like. where do i find a flat or if i want to buy a house or these kinds of sort of next project that we build the workload where we try to collect all the information but the challenge is the tougher to overcome maybe unspoken the water between the d.v.r. 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 after a reunion this place is now a museum but while there was a may have become part of history division remains the boundary in some people's minds is as solid as ever and until these barrier falls through reunification will remain just an illusion. or if an ocean r.t. reporting from germany. well it's the interview that's making headlines all across the world right now r t sits down with syria's embattled president bashar al assad you can watch that exclusive interview in full right here on r.t. in just a few minutes don't go away. the mission of free critic ation free in-store charge is free coming from and three. three stooges free.

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