syria's opposition threatens president that he will not leave the country a lie after lie just to stay in his homeland no matter what his exclusive interview with our. cia chief david petraeus quits his post over extramarital affair some question whether there is another reason for his departure . friday prayers and then violence in bahrain with police firing tear gas and opposition activists struggling to make their voices heard in ongoing anti-government protests.

in washington to live from moscow with me marina joshua the free syrian army the main armed opposition group in the country has threatened president acids he would follow the fate of libya's leader moammar gadhafi this as bashar assad said in his exclusive interview with r.t. he has no plans to leave syria final masry to have the f.c.a. media department whose listen to the words of the president says it is due to. me that it in his statement to you will channel he said he would not leave syria we know this very well because he will not be able to leave syria he and his people not money to leave the country the free syrian army will not let him do this he will not get out of syria long enough you'll be lucky if you reach the same fate as . now 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 made rowe has chosen

a new leader appealing for more weapons to help oust asad 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 into the 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 should 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 but shot

a loss of war against foreign intervention in syria saying the western powers have picked him as one of their bogeyman r.t. so vision of announcing spoke to the vattel leader in damascus. that he is 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. and 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 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

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 because we knew that. for different reasons they want to create a new. program that the president has to do first of all you have to focus on. what they say 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 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. 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. and in the region personally think about who knew some of the ultimate and you can through as it was doing both when you pull you. differently. which is. not to be ready for but do you 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 the 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 the same for exactly the same just. different parties to. and just against the terrorist group but i always thought if you didn't thought you could because there will be little emotion but within those motions you had 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. and you can see the full exclusive interview with syria's president bashar asad in twenty minutes time here in r.t. and it's also available on our website r.t. . i'm fifty and i mean. i mean do you feel you have to be since you've been playing

student bashar al assad in an r t exclusive friday through sunday on r t r t dot com while america's best known military leaders and cia had david the trans has abruptly an ounce of his resignation stepping down the tracks of minutes here and extramarital affair saying he was guilty of acceptable behavior david petraeus served as cia boss since two thousand and eleven after leading the u.s. military campaigns in iraq and afghanistan reports say he had an affair with his biographer paula broadwell who is currently under f.b.i. investigation in prague will spend a year with a former cia chief in afghanistan interviewing him for a book on the u.s. warfare she suspected of trying to evade legally access tresses classified e-mail intelligence expert lieutenant colonel tell me chaffer told r.t. there is more behind the resignation than just moral issues revealing 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 related to 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 a critics over c.i. a lot of folks have problems at cia i'm a trained case officer trained by cia and not cia but i know a lot of friends over there and you know they have a very unique structure a very unique culture and anytime it outsider comes in such as betray us 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 it used techniques his leadership was different there was a lot of folks who are used to it let's face it the military techniques he's a general he's used to doing things the military way syria is a civilian organization i think from day one there was clashes. now deadly clashes

flared up and of a rainy capitol minimal when police prevent a people from attending a 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 was chased into a highway where he was hit by a car thousands of opposition supporters plan to gather for worship last month since henri's banned all public gatherings in an attempt to stop the ongoing protests against the moderates and geopolitical analyst patrick hannifin says the ruling family has been given the green light by the west to crush the opposition. well if you look at you know william hague and 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 they're revoking nationality of protesters right now they're

they blaming the latest bombing on hezbollah as if it's 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 europe loves bahrain 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 big 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 seen. now yes pay packets shrink and recession hit britain youngsters are being asked to pay for their future security today to look out biggest u.k. pensions for a generation. plus closed society find out how

radical elements in norway's islamic community are causing concern with locals that's coming your way after the break. usually the police and occupy protesters are like oil and water but in atlanta they've come together to save the house of a former detective jacqueline barber unfortunately ms barber lost a lot of money battling cancer and was facing eviction when she turned to occupy homes for help so far she's managed to stay in her home despite it being sold out from under her feet but the main thing is that her fight to stay in her home has become like a bridge between two groups who are usually at each other's throats the police and occupiers the thing is the cruel economic practices can affect us all even retired

police like ms barber i know there are some irresponsible people who buy things they can't pay for and here the police have to do something about them but they shouldn't throw you out of your home that you've paid for for years just for getting cancer no one shift to live with the constant fear that their home will be taken away after years and years of payment just because they got sick and america thought we believed in private property not eternally rented from big banks but that's just my opinion. more news today boylan says once again flared up. and these are the images go world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day.

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do we speak your language any time of the war not a day. when news programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little turn to tip angles kidney's stories. you hear. then try to alter the spanish find out more visit i to allahabad. welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow the british government is introducing a new pension scheme called automatic enrollment which could see people forced to save from an early age lawmakers claim it will ensure everybody has money to live on in retirement but as artists are first reports many see it as just another financial burden. cantons in retirement already things that you think about when

you're young now if you're a twenty two 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 that is 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 the same many other things to fork out for pensioners seem like just another financial hurdle but not to worry you 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 tomorrow you always got something else to spend your money on it always seems a long way away and then when it gets closer you think was too late and so what automatic in rome and used to help you by basically saying look you're going to be put in your own decision whether actually you think that that's the right thing and therefore he's go with the flow and stay in whether you're actually using no

unusual opt out brits have been spending like there's no tomorrow but they're around half the casework is 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 the already modest paycheck. there is golf course going to be a cost to him so he's going to cost people some of the hard earned income every month for having said that it's money is for the pensions campaign is warned it is an open door to mis selling and the money will be creamed off by schemes and plays into 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 drove over my finances rather than forced to by

a government even called margin there right now across europe and probably the same for some or let you know your future 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 if you also robespierre would you be. i would be out. with many feeling we sing governments have made a pig's ear of the country's finances the own convinced it should be sticking its snout into the savings consider much of toby's i mean is this someone 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 to know what was to finish with nothing in the pension pot and whilst the governments need pensions skiing does encourage saving in the current economic circumstances it seems that many people will simply be saying out. well the us election

signed sealed and delivered there is still little enthusiasm was manny's there. i didn't vote i didn't really care why not. i didn't even know like what anybody stood for just not somebody may just be i just go with the flow party's president takes to the streets of the big apple to find out what people think of the i'll copy sausage race that's coming up shortly the program. before that let's take a look at what's happening in the wallet now syrian state t.v. reports twin explosions in the country's southern city of duran the two car bombs are said to have killed several civilians and damaged buildings activists claim the blast went off near the country's military intelligence headquarters in the city and saw the mediately clear who was behind the attacks. go 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 is

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. there were team police search at a sri lankan prison has erupted into violent clashes between authorities and prisoners inmates seized weapons and some managed to escape at least twenty seven people were killed during the riot several prisoners were later caught after briefly going on the run the country's largest prison has seen two similar uprisings since twenty tam. 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 gyptian believe such a policy will be a step backwards and threats to civil liberties. the u.s. has denied russia's request to transfer prisoner victor boot 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 a u.s. court sentenced to twenty five years in jail april for conspiring to kill american nationals and to sell weapons to colombian rebels the x. businessman denies the charges russia has been trying to get him sent home in line with an international convention of 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 are available for you

on our website r.t. dot com including stuff while a nuclear weapons is crazy iran's president questions the saturday of any nation with atomic bombs. giving the game away seven u.s. navy seals have been reprimanded for divulging secrets including details of a solid logs assassination while working as consultants on a popular video game. now multiculturalism is on the rise in norway but a growing islamic population is causing concern for many and increasingly radical muslim movement is attempting to implement its own shari'a laws which has some locals worried or even often has more. tolerance is no is well known trademark maybe even to well known thirteen percent of the country's five million population a remembrance but it seems it may be suffering from its own hospitality rather than

district the year was like every day we get so sick of this city starting its immigrant community population for years it's been home to a large number of outsiders who believe in peace and many locals treat it like it's besides it's not enough a while ago the radical islamic group demanded to make its independence from the city and the sharia law territory to feel literally. in a letter sent to some of the country's politicians and journalists and known extremists have threatened to carry out and nine eleven in no way if their demands are not met. it's really something. to be taken seriously but this is not the first death threat coming from noways muslim community in this media of pakistani born in mom preaches those not praying should be brought to prison for those not fasting during ramadan decapitated it

isn't possible to kill here in the river yeah no problem or weapon is made to kill we hear concerns over how some immigrants bring part of their cultures to no way from the head of the country's hunting union. our something course in this there were pending for muslims who seem to have more interest in weapons than in nature and helping attending courses is one of the two legal ways in no way to get a personal weapons license if you don't respect the rigid rules and you want to live the way we live in norway and then you can go back to your country opposition party member he himself came to know we as a. tical refugee in the late eighty's he says the ruling labor party is importing voters immigrants are indeed him on the party's strongest supporters but the price is high how can you into

a great minority when the minority is actually the majority in a society who is going to learn from. such rhetoric is too familiar to every norwegian the homegrown terrorist killed seventy seven here last summer protesting against the takeover of muslim immigrants also one towards one of those on that island last july his comrades and friends were killed right in front of his very eyes he says he survived to fight for what brave it tried to destroy the most important. program. it's a fight the fight for democracy or. justice it's something that we need to focus on despite concern for the threat to kill made by some immigrants may be a real noways unlikely to give up its taller and small toe in fact it's quite the opposite for many the only response to brave immigrants motivated massacre is seen

immigrants embraced more than ever before. r t no way. and let's now go across the pond for more years and now has them mastered that was . on twitter and now we can take a look at our resident laurie harvard as gauging reaction in the big apple. 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. what do you expect to change in the next four years. i guess. for you to make because. it 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 oh it sure 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 than feel like i had that much control no i didn't why not i was torn between the two. for you to be in my own interest but there were more than two running you could have voted for someone else 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. or we'll have. full people out do you think that there might be room for a third party come two thousand and sixteen. well whatever occur. they can do

something but it's you know it's a tough road to go here 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 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 the middle 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 shortly after the break syria's president speaks exclusively to our to giving his own perspective on the bloody conflict gripping his country. richest fluff man often knows that to ride a horse you've got to catch it first. for

him it's a daily routine that your soft as a horse breeder on the island of a horn at the heart of bike all his life on an isolated farm is about blue sky green grass and his horse is worthless sometimes it gets lonely here but horses have become part of me now i've fallen off so many times sometimes that bites as well it's part of my everyday life. i holmes been home to a rats like me just laugh for centuries most still live off the land of cattle and fish every evening local villagers place their nets and in the morning the catch is always good. we always have enough here. if by call is often called the pearl of side big.