it was a little good also probably if you were you know to withhold it created anything in an exclusive interview the syrian president slams foreign backing for the rebels as the main cause for the escalating conflict in this country. targeting to radmore crippling sanctions are planned for iran on top of the latest restrictions approved by barack obama in his first foreign policy decision following reelection. and the selective trip advice from tripoli libya is the busiest tracting tourist these days visitors are being kept in the dark on tragedies like the violent siege in assaultive than it will be.

if you just joined us this is r.t. at eight pm moscow time money kevin now in first syria's president says that the conflict in his country has escalated because western powers have hand-picked him is the latest bogeyman in an exclusive interview with us. that any direct foreign intervention in syria would spark a global disaster r.t. sophie shevardnadze spoke to the importantly there it is kaput. 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 fight different fractions of terrorism he emphasized 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 gained from that and he also said that west tends to create enemies for themselves like communism in iraq saddam hussein and he feels that bashar al assad in syria is the new enemy not syria but him himself so he feels that the fact that conflict has asked 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. 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 the problem. with 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 and he said 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 tor here 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 gone and his government that's the problem and that's against bashar and wants to all especially because god wants to reassure his and strengthen his political position in turkey. and in the region personally think. of the autumn and you can throw delusion it was doing both many. different. which is. not to be ready for but in his how do you think that if i ask him 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 call think 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 the 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 exact way to think to. different parties to for. and against terrorist group but i always thought if you didn't thought you could because there will be little emotion but within bill's motions you have militants who thought that the civilians. 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

a full exclusive interview with syria's president assad on air in just over an hour's time he or you can watch it right now or any time but he. i'm syrian i mean. maybe in syria but after the events you know the incident. did you know are to exclusively friday through sunday on r t r t dot com a problem syrian dissidents an exiled opposition figures a meeting in qatar to try to forge a broader alliance against a mask is the syrian national council which is the main umbrella groups leading the talks but activists rym took money told us the external opposition's got most way over the fight on the front line i don't see he was critical of the for the syrian national council as a body but i'm not against many of the people who formed this camera so yes it was formed with lots of external support maybe external. but they don't matter

a lot to it matter is the people inside syria people who are opposing the regime inside the country everybody is asking the opposition to come in one correlation and coalitions are always weak by nature and they fall apart in front of the challenges and we are in front of a very very tough crisis i can sit here in london and talk rationally about political solutions but if i have an eighteen year old who have seen his mother being killed or his house being demolished i can say that he has no excuse to use our army and i do also blame any external player who exploited those young people and put their arms in their hands and send them money and weapons. barack obama is only just beginning of course and he's already making bold steps in the international arena the u.s. is centered and forced to touch meant to serve as warplanes in poland which should press washington for security guarantee against russia as u.s. lawmakers are also reportedly preparing new sweeping sanctions against iran targeting its foreign business transactions and the top for the latest round of

restrictions imposed by barack obama just after was reelected to the white streams of widening between america and the round after the pentagon revealed that a radian jets the u.s. drone flying over runs coast last week and you can reports. 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 has imposed financial sanctions against iranian officials so the 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 have been put in place by the u.s. which are 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 iran and the u.s. appears to be stopping them some argue that the view was this role might be playing a good cop bad cop diplomatic game there anyway the administration's strategy appears to be to make iran 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 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 un 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 the reunion military had fired upon but did not hit a you was grown flying close to the pentagon claimed the drone was there on a 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. in washington d.c. the political analyst mohammad marandi says it's unlikely to run down to western pressure. the fact that the obama administration is imposing new sanctions almost immediately out to the elections is a very negative message despite the fact that the sanctions really won't have any effect on iran but it's basically basically signaling to iran that the united states is unprepared to move towards

a rapprochement and to move towards resolving the issues from the iranian perspective the ball is clearly in the western court they are the ones who are acting aggressively against iran making military threats against the country imposing embargoes to intentionally hurt ordinary iranians and supporting terrorist organizations carrying out cyber attacks americans are being very provocative by sending drones over your run in airspace or very close iranian airspace and but i think the iranian response is even more significant the iranians have shown or are stating basically that they are not going to take any form of aggression from the americans lightly and that they will respond robustly the iranians aren't intimidated they take an independent foreign policy they support the palestinians are supposed to raid the regime which the iranian see as an apartheid regime is really completely unacceptable to the united states and i think that the americans

fear that other countries in the region will sort of try to become more independent of the united states and europe like you ron. three cincinatti was me kevin i mean selling holidays by hushing up hostilities libby is being marketed now to result of all the travel agents are accused of copying western media by staying silent on the draw and so there you go report coming up. on american stranded in cuts barred from coming home to the united states to visit the sick mother in a few minutes so why use a little name could be the only reason for the. recently protests and demonstrations of any kind were banned until further notice and by crane

a curfew as in 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 hud's you down if you tweet about the leadership so it's pretty undemocratic to me and that 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. and theory and i may have. made a few. gosh i didn't r.t. exclusive friday through sunday on r.t. and r.t.

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libby is described as many things were considered as a holiday hotspot but believe them or not it does seem that many people do although there's of course one glaring omission among excursions the siege ravaged city of bani walid sara first reports on the travel agents hiding tragedy from the tourists we're here at the world travel market a trade taking place in london where people can consulates their holiday inspiration all that scouts exotic spot for a honeymoon one country you probably wouldn't expect to see being touted as a tourist. and that's libya the places where the tourist interesting the site is a political side it's completely safe and guaranteed it's got to be safe more than even towns to big towns like london or new york but there's somewhere that's not mentioned in the guidebook bani walid a desert town that's remaining loyal to formally to colonel gadhafi it's just a few hours dry southeast of the traditional tourist destination tripoli 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. run 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 a goes surprise and i came. back of the situation at the moment in libya and if we have so many people it means our situation is becoming more stable and we can think for next season to do something with the. and it's a wonderful country so we're. good about what's happening in bani walid at the moment i knew what he did but do you mean what's happened was things happening

there there's been fighting do you know about that you know we went to confront the tour operator i saw you speaking some people eat telling them about what's been happening in burnie walid at the moment. this is. what it's done for the future. there's a reason we don't speak about it was deeply disturbing is that despite a growing body of evidence about crimes against civilians and increasingly vocal concerns from human rights organizations he came media and government remain resolutely silent they've got to sort of package this as a success it's very important for nato so we have this sort of speed 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 here this in a case by the u.k.

media a seeming refusal to talk about what's been happening in places like danny well 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 abuse government has been relieved recovering far start around real issues left the city of virtual ruins but spoke to a man whose family lived through the very siege he asked us to show his identity for his safety when he told us there is still no peace in burnie will lead. government of supporting the group of militias that. are taking and killing innocent cities in the. city leave you this militias out of blocking all supplies now from entering the city or being late this included minutes in food water and other life and assistance they are destroying with guns

and bullets and use. of but. this is against all the international laws this article i miss agnes of humanity and how you use difference and now do you further want to be able. and the young for whom to another to. be able. to didn't do their business only get the united states was first to come. with bombs and guns into pretty darned if it where they know now that i was guided is running the government of libya to rising believe. world news for the sound of turkish fighter jets and helicopters above body kurdish militants along the border with rockets left fourteen dead the strikes were reportedly launched after security forces got a tip off from locals about

a build up of suppressed activity in the area now the kurdistan workers party the p.k. k. is fighting turkey right now to try and carve out an independent state over forty thousand people have been killed since the start of a search and see that started back in one thousand for thousands of salafi muslims taking to the streets of cairo demanding the introduction of sharia law the rally comes amid a fierce dispute between islamists and liberals over the wording of egypt's new constitution the drafting of the new framework is the latest step in the country's modernization of the arm sting of hosni mubarak and a popular uprising last year. revelations of. mass fraud and embezzlement involving hundreds of millions of dollars or hogging the headlines here in russia it's emerged that some of the country's most ambitious projects including the satellite positioning system glow in us were plagued by corruption and there's also a scandal at the highest levels of the military two hundred far more reports. this is part of the russian government's wide a crackdown on corruption to date having covered two major scandals involving for

all 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 two and a half year investigation the russian audit chamber has now come out and said it believes two hundred million dollars was embezzled and on top of this they also found that you're in the apec summit last september how do people stop in russia is stored at around three million dollars there's embezzled doing the development of facilities there say two major scandals here this is also coming on a day that it was announced that a new man is the need for you to help reform the russian military and also to stamp out corruption there isn't a bit early and he was appointed incidentally on the recommendation of short good with a new defense minister who himself was appointed after the dismissal of anatoly subdue called this week he was relieved of his duties he made allegations of corruption in

the fraudulent style of military for the seat 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 more importantly showing that it is taking action. we're reporting tonight as well a bit o. f. words formula one races and discover online for most what's made the most for boston to take measures against you and tell drivers to buy their. bus the time for change in china as the country has for a once in a decade power over which we're watching closely for you when our website our. next story of american living or working in cats who's been barred by u.s. authorities from going back to his native oklahoma to visit his ailing mother air force veteran said dick long converted to islam over a decade ago but now he's on a federal no fly list there's no been told why adam soltani from the council of

american islamic relations believes the man's muslim name is rendered him 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 and 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 that individuals 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 not a law abiding u.s. citizen and really cannot think of anything that would prevent him from travel. so many across germany said to mark a pivotal date in the country's history never the ninth or the pearl in war come to twenty three years ago it was the end of the cold war when two countries a stand simply became one place refresh and reports now the visions remain. made in love a barely 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 but didn't have the chance to see the outside world that were telling us in the world waits roots in the west when we were different were 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 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 head west those two youngsters live in an aging population behind slowly that might be changing since two thousand and one the migration numbers are declining and in two thousand and eleven we had for the first time nort not more out migrants than in migrants these people are living breathing statistics they all see the nickname for born easterners and they've 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 all had similar problems like. where do i find a flaw or if i want to buy a house with these kinds of so the next project was that we build the workload

where we. try to collect all these information but the challenges the tougher to overcome may be unspoken in the water between their d.d.r. and us germany was one of the hottest across in the world this brown path is what used to be a mine field 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 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. got some great programs lined up for tonight shortly indeed the martin deals a painful blow to sensational journalism in the mainstream media and breaking the set more than for a short it's not erotic. hughes's

day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of story hundred sheep in the mountains in panes of t.v. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he jumped out of having studied accounting but he dition and familial 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 t.v. and round tent made of diskin. he's beastly back amongst his family and his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celcius 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 it's really fit there could die out altogether. 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 cats or dogs. with people leaving them coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of the herd and more attractive than promising. and livestock 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 we can start to look for a new wife. 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 wildest campaign in our history something let me format it i think of that some forget. the twists and turns but it will mark the soup this campaign for you to watch what we're about to do because you've never seen anything like this.