syria's opposition threatens president assad he will not leave the country alive after he pledges to stay in his homeland no matter what it is exclusive interview with r.t. . cia chief david petraeus quits his post over and extramarital affair as some question whether there is another reason or he's the parcher. friday prayers and violence and in violence i should say in bahrain with police firing tear gas at all visitation activists struggling to make their voices heard on going anti-government protests.

this is r.t. live from moscow with me or even josh the free syrian army is the main armed opposition group in the country has threatened president said he would follow the fate of libya's leader moammar gadhafi this as bashar asad said in his exclusive interview with r.t. he has no plans to leave syria masri the head of the afa say media department who has listened to the words of the president says it is doomed. no he said he would not leave syria you know this very well because he will not be able to leave syria he and his people not money to leave the country for free syrian army to do this if you will not get out of syria you'll be lucky if you reach the same fate as. the western backed syrian opposition is still locked in talks over the creation of a unified group to forge a broader alliance against the government the syrian national council vying to keep its main role has chosen a new leader appealing for more weapons to help oust asset an anti-war activist

brian backer says the opposition was never after a peaceful solution to the conflict if the opposition is saying to the assad government and other forces within the syrian government that their fate will be the fate of khadafi mean sodomized and murdered by a mob of course that leaves little incentive for the syrian government to sit down and negotiate but these forces within the syrian opposition have never wanted to negotiate there were forces that did want to negotiate did seek to have change and reform in syria but without foreign intervention and without civil war and they have been pushed to the side by the syrian the free syrian army and i sort of say they've also been pushed to the side by washington and by the nato powers who really only wanted civil war as the main method to carry out the regime change in syria the syrian president says only the ballot box can determine his future insisting he has the support of his people and the army had warned against foreign

intervention in syria saying the western powers have picked him as one of their bogeyman sophie shevardnadze spoke to the battle leader in damascus. that he is not a western puppet he also denies the 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. 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 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 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 he himself so he feels that the fact that conflict has asked

a lady because the west has created a new enemy in the space i wasn't told that there wasn't a problem you know there were. any means it was because we knew that. for different reasons we 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 petro dollars i also ask him about turkey and if the war with turkey was a real possibility and he didn't doesn't believe that there's going to be an actual 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 gone and his government that's the problem and it's against

bashar and wants to all especially because god wants to reassure his and strengthen his political position in. and in the region personally thing that you've been used . to money and you can control as it was doing both when you pull you. differently. which is. not good money not to be ready for but in his old 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 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 exactly to think to. different parties to for. and against the terrorist group but i always thought if you didn't start it because there will be little motions but within those motions you have militants who thought that. 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. and you can see the full exclusive interview with syria's president bashar assad next hour here in our teeth and it's also available on our website r t v dot com. i'm fifty and i mean. maybe a few behalf but even so you can buy incident by shar al assad in our two exclusive

friday through sunday on r.t. and r.t. dot com now one of america's best known military leaders and cia had david petraeus has abruptly announced his resignation stepping down petraeus admitted to an extramarital affair saying he was guilty of unacceptable behavior david petraeus served as cia boss since twenty eleven after leading the u.s. military campaigns in iraq and afghanistan reports say he had of the pharaoh with his biographer paula broadwell who is currently under f.b.i. investigation broadwell spent a year with a former cia chief in afghanistan interviewing him for a book on u.s. warfare she's expected of she suspected rather of trying to illegally access the trestles classified e-mail intelligence experts lieutenant colonel tony chaffer told r.t. there is more behind the resignations than just moral issues origins one of the lessons of washington is whatever they're talking about publicly publicly the issue is something else entirely and i think that's what's here let me be very blunt here

general eisenhower the commander of our forces of world war two who led the d.-day invasion one hundred forty four had an affair with his driver and f.d.r. president. roosevelt knew about it but they didn't believe it so there's something else deeper here something else that i don't think anybody fully understands this general general petraeus may have is the critics over c.i. a lot of folks have problems of cia i'm a trained case officer trained by c. i have not seen but i know a lot of friends over there and you know they have a very unique structure a very unique culture and any time it outsider comes in such as betrayers and others as well there's a great deal of resistance because all we see is not an insider is not a trained intelligence officer so used. makes his leadership was different to what a lot of folks were used to let's face it the military techniques of general he's used to doing things a military way syrians a civilian organization i think from day one there were clashes. and deadly clashes

flared up in the bahraini capital manama when police prevented people from attending friday prayers security forces set up checkpoints and fired tear gas at the crowds killing at least one person a sixteen year old boy who reportedly tried to break through barricades to get to moscow and was chased until highway where he was hit by a car thousands of opposition supporters plan to gather for worship last month authorities banned all public gatherings an attempt to stop the ongoing protests against the modern day a political analyst patrick tennyson says the ruling family has been given the green light by the west to crush the opposition. if you look at you know william hague and quit hillary clinton gallivanting around with the friends of syria meetings accusing the assad government of crimes against humanity you only have to look at bahrain to look at a litany of crimes there revoking nationality of protesters right now they're they

blaming the latest bombing on his bowler as if it is hizbollah has any any connection with bahrain so why not be a rajab he's going to have his appeal denied next week by the the all talk we see in bahrain so you know the euro loves to read they go down there for loads of money in their country formula one grand prix every year and loads of oil coming out of that country there's absolutely zero chance of any democratic reform in this country and this is a country that absolutely needs it washington and london have more or less given the boot the go ahead for the bahraini roll family and that and that government that autocracy to really go hard and fast and drop the hammer down on any pro reform movements and that's exactly what we've. seem. paypacket string can recession here britney youngsters are being asked to pay for their future security we'll look at the biggest shake up u.k. pensions for generations that's coming your way after the short break.

recently protests and demonstrations of any kind were banned until further notice and buck reign 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 hudson 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 some freedom into warmer 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. it's. the. wealthy british science on. sometimes right. market why not going to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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charge is free arrangement free risk free. to tide free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects free media oh god r t dot com. welcome back you're watching live from moscow was marina joshie how the british government is introducing a new pension scheme called automatic enrollment which could see people forced to save from and the early age lawmakers claim it will insure everybody has money to live on and retirement bought as r.t. sarah for of reports many see it as just another financial burden. pensions and retirement already things that you think about when you're young now if you're a twenty two or you might have to the government's new or so romans it's being

billed as the biggest take up of the pension system for over a generation but it's how much of a burden is this going to place on people who are just starting out as you race through life it can be hard to keep the piggy bank for planet say many other things to fork out for pensioners seem like just another financial hurdle but not to worry the government's got a plan to get people saving and their little piggy is called in rome and it's always something that can be left until tomorrow you've always got something else to spend your money on it always seems a long way away and then when it gets close you think was too late. automatic enrollment is to help you buy basically saying look you're going to be put in your own decision to take is whether actually you think that that's the right thing and their families go with whether you actually you think no unusual opt out brits have been spending like there's no tomorrow with around half the case workers paying

nothing towards their future but with an aging population automatic enrollment will force companies to sign up every employee even though he's ending far below the average salary will be eligible a wage of just over eight thousand pounds a year is enough to make it apply but the first some will know about it is when they see less money in their already modest paycheck. there is golf course going to be a cost to it so he's going to cost people some of the hard earned income every month but having said that if money is for the pensions campaign is warm that is an open door to miss selling and the money will be creamed by schemes and huge management fees the government is trying to sell this is a winner with tax relief and making employees pay up as well but not everyone's. convinced about of ogun of my own finances rather than forced to by a government. body the same for more or less you know your future oh i'm just

turned twenty two to keeping from a pension i'm thinking about how i'm going to make rent next month more gauge whatever i'm up to my pension right now the oath of office. i would be out. with many feeling we sing governments have made a pig's ear of the country's finances they own convinced they should be sticking its snout into the savings consider much of minas the sun when you can just playful these days touches of so many things whatever you know is just ridiculous i don't think you should have to pay for it to know what was finished with nothing in the pension pot and whilst the government's need pensions does encourage saving in the current economic circumstances it seems that many people will simply be saying out so. well with the us election signed sealed and delivered there is still little with manny there. i didn't vote i didn't really care why not.

i didn't even know like what anybody stood for are just not something that interests me i just go with the flow party's resident takes to the streets of the big apple to find out what people think of the exhausting race that's coming up short program. before that let's take a look at some of the stories from around the world over the e.u. budget for next year have collapsed after member states failed to agree on extra funds for the remainder of two thousand and twelve there's a huge gap in so-called emergency funding aimed at covering education infrastructure and research projects one point five billion euros were to be paid to italy poland and spain to help victims of flooding and job cuts the lack of agreement casts a shadow over another long term budget plan for the next decade which is up for discussion later this month. every teen police search at a sri lanka prison has erupted into violent clashes between authorities and prisoners inmates seized weapons and some managed to escape police twenty seven

people were killed during the ride several prisoners were later caught after a briefly going on the run of the country's largest prison. uprising since twenty. and up to ten thousand ultra conservative muslims have rallied in cairo demanding the implementation of sharia law in egypt's new constitution the document is currently being drafted as a country moves away from the policies of ousted president hosni mubarak the country is divided over the issue of islamic law and many gypsies believe such a policy will be a step backwards and their threat to civil liberties. the u.s. has denied russia's request to transfer a prisoner victor brought who was convicted for arms dealing in america back to his home country to serve out his sentence the department of justice says it doesn't want to create an undesirable precedent due to the seriousness of the crime and u.s. court sentenced bood to twenty five years in jail in april for conspiring to kill

american nationals and to sell weapons to colombia and rebels the x. businessman denies the charges russia has been trying to get him sent home in line with an international convention moscow believes that boots prosecution was politically motivated was foreign minister sergei lavrov saying he will do all he can to get him transferred to his home country. more stories for you on line energy dot com including stop piling nuclear weapons is crazy iran's president questions the sanity of any nation with atomic bombs. given that gave away seven u.s. navy seals have been reprimanded for divulging secrets including details of a solid logons assassination while working ask himself puts on a popular video game. for more years that passage from president obama on twitter caused a stir this week becoming

a mostly tweet a tweet following his return to the white house but it's worth the u.s. electorate a large really that inspired by one of the most expensive election campaigns of all time the residents hit the streets of new york to gauge the public's reaction. the u.s. presidential election is finally over now what this week let's talk about that did you vote are you happy with the outcome yes i mean what do you expect to change in the next four years. i guess i was. expecting for you me because i don't know exactly was going to change i didn't vote i didn't really care why not i don't even know why quite anybody stood for just not something that interests me i just go with the flow so you don't think it affects your everyday life i'm sure it does. i'm sure it does but do i have much control

over it and it really feel that what voting is the only way that you can control i still and feel like i had that much control no i didn't why not i was torn between the two. figure to be in my own interest but there were more than two running you could have voted for someone else and no i do think there were more the people that were running for the presidency and you didn't even know it. those two parties are too strong and they're entrenched and i don't think you want to change that but what about if we start really trying to separate money from politics or put solutions like that on the table. we'll have the right to vote full these people out do you think that there might be room for a third party come two thousand and sixteen. well i focus on whatever i can hoping they can do something but it's you know it's a tough road to go you know what's it going to take for the american people to wake up and realize there's more than two parties. i'm not sure i sometimes think we put

a lot of pressure on the president and a lot of the change has to come from with us as well you know we can't rely on him one hundred percent you know you got to you got to get up in the morning and you've got to work for your country yourself you can't rely on one man to do it all for you i. i think the only people in this country that have ever really been able to make a difference usually end up dead. that is so sad sad but true but. do you think it'll ever change. i would hope it would i don't know what the catalyst for that will be but do you think you and i can be a catalyst don't you think that people can demand more and make a change. i'd like to think that so do you think that we can make people more aware in these four years that we have until the next election i think so how do we do that. that's a good question we're doing it right now we are whether or not you expect anything to change in the u.s. the bottom line is real change is probably not going to start with the president in

visioning it it's going to start with the people demanding it. and kaiser report is coming your way in just a few minutes here and stay with us. in this remote sign bearings in which people still sing the songs which russians sang in the middle ages and they cherish the ancient rituals practiced far as you said our church before the seventeenth century the old believers here is sign here are conservative community. over. there yes i see.

now a lot of. people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and to see them how to dance in the local star. seventeen year old nadia is from the same village she now studies in the city and dances at a club. she puts on her costume and the traditional amber necklace only when she comes to visit her grandmother that. night. i didn't ask on time for an answer yes because i want to keep up to date with this morning world but still i would like to of can my very ground home exercise lawyer very attachment to the church brought ninety's and sisters to this remote glen and east deflate by call more than two hundred fifty years ago they were exiled and persecuted for not agreeing to the

orthodox who forms introduced in russia in the sixteen hundreds the old believers still bolland cross themselves with two fingers not with three as they do in modern orthodox churches in russia and never knew when praying was more and more young people leaving for big cities this year is the old believers culture could be imperiled. nazia plans to continue her studies abroad the grandmother says wherever she goes as long as the tunes are fresh in her memory so is the culture of.

russia. which writing. songs. from fines to. stop time don't. buy their a max kaiser welcome to the kaiser report you know governments are brinker's around the world are invincible things to big baby ben bernanke used magic money printing able to survive the fastest inflation jump over the biggest accounting black hole thanks to the wizards of central banking stacey woman tell me more mags they tell you that story believe them again and that they were wizards they could make it all

better. well my first headline is an analogy for that we see this time i was or held after bullet proof tattoo brawls so a sorcerer tattooist in thailand max has been arrested after several brawls involving young disciples of his all these teenage boys were painted with these tattoos that they were told would make them invincible to gunshot wounds and knife wounds well sure enough they went out to test this and see if it actually works so there are huge brawls police arrested the teenagers and asked them why they thought they said they were tattooed because they believed it would make them invincible and wanted to test whether it works or not they used sticks in the lives but guns were rarely seen in the brawls i think this is the first time we're seeing bleeding from the virtual game world into the analog sticks and stones can actually break my bones world in other words just this generation that's brought up with magic

potions and fantasy virtual worlds have been unable to migrate into the non virtual world where buying a trunk and to give you magic powers actually doesn't exist. this generation coming up is do well is there a game called pinball wizard because you know this guy was the wizard and many of us in the global west the think of the central bankers and the treasury department's of having some sort of wizard like powers and i always think of it as like a pinball game they're trying to get the ball you know they're cheating they're lifting up the game and trying to get the ball to go down into the right spot you are talking about would be tilt tilting the machine and a big screen comes up a big letters. on the pinball tilt and this is in fact came up a few years ago for the global economy in two thousand and eight a gigantic jolt if the moon.