talk about what's been happening in places like that anyway the reality is that the new government is struggling to control its militias and bridge the deep divides that remain in the country but none of that you're going to read about in a very sorry. london well tour operators may be at pains to promote the peaceful libya but one man whose family survived the siege of bani walid begs to differ and he asked us to shield his identity as he described the post blockade reality on the ground nobody nobody can. nobody can do anything it is. and. so. to be able to leave without particular city without water without anything that is no because the city you can leave you know. and. many. many kilometers do you. do your.

job it is going to be going to. iraq is pouring over the details of a major arms deal with russia after suspicions were raised over the way that baghdad handled it reports on saturday first suggested iraq had pulled the contract just a month ago which was quickly denied by the iraqi defense minister the four billion dollar deal would make russia iraq's second largest arms supplier after the u.s. now government and business consultant consultant christophe horse tells us that any complications with the deal are down to washington. if this deal head to gone through that would have meant for the euro keep people kind of you know starting a balanced situation of the living east and with sort of see that would be healthy

for the iraqi people because this is. geographical very simple geographical situation now putting this deal under pressure you know that means that the u.s. is insisting on a monopole in the region it is it is very clear hugo it is nobbs and mr maliki who is calling the shots in iraq you policies that is the us right now in that they are not able you know to. petition just a little you that is a very sad story for washington and it doesn't bear good sides with the future. let's get to more of today's news for you this hour i series of violent attacks across karate in pakistan have claimed twenty four lives and wounding dozens more gunmen on motorcycles carried out several targeted killings but a magazine editor and five students said to be among the victims the motives are still being investigated and there's been no immediate claim of responsibility for

the attacks that sectarian political and ethnic violence in that city has claimed around one hundred people the lives of one hundred people this month alone. there's been a mass anti nuclear energy rally in japan and with thousands gathering in front of parliament in tokyo all the country's reactors were shut down after last year's fukushima disaster but two plants were later reopened to help cope with the severe power shortages now before the accident caused by the earthquake and tsunami a third of japan's alec tricity it was a nuclear generator. ceremonies across germany on friday had marked a major major moment in the country's history of the berlin wall fell twenty three years ago signaling the end of the cold war and that is when the two countries stand simply became one again but divisions do remain as are. reports.

made in love a belly produced in western germany by a choreographer from the former d.d.r. in the eighty's when one nation was riven into different fled what he saw as a prison for the promise of freedom. we artists needed inspiration we didn't have the chance to see the outside world propaganda were telling us it's roots in the west would we were different emotional genuine and not rich but. 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 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 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 silence 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 and one the migration numbers are declining and in two thousand and eleven we had for the first time note not more out migrants than in migrants these people live in britain statistics they are 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 flat or if i want to buy a house or these kinds of so the next project was that we build the workload where we. try to collect all this information but the challenge is the tougher to overcome maybe unspoken the water between the d.d.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 says it to be cameras barbed wire fences and watchtowers every one of the half kilometers it was all taken away off to

reunion this place is now a museum but while there was a may have become part of history 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 the u.s. election wasn't without its glitches with some reports of voting irregularities as well as errors but it is overseas polls which seem to be a bigger concern to americans as r.t. is honest as your church reports. you elected me to tell you the truth honesty is the best policy while maybe not in u.s. elections two words define why people hate america double standard on everything in this presidential election season these two words are back in full swing the basic definition of a double standard is a rule or principle unfairly applied in different ways to different people or groups let's find out if this is relevant to the us election system from

questionable voter id regulations to shorten to early voting time slots to gerrymandering rejoicing congressional district lines to favor certain party laws affecting voters' rights are passed left and right and vary state by state do you have an error this video shows how easy it is to attempt to steal attorney general eric holder's vote when an idea is not required should be. yet places that do ask for a government issued photo id can affect over ten percent of americans that simply don't have one there is an attempt to prevent large numbers of people from actually exercising the ballot election monitors usually serve the purpose of keeping track of and discrepancies and while the us likes to keep a close eye on the way elections are handled abroad even the carter center which grows a rod and does the great we're monitoring elections. refuses to monitor us elections

on the grounds. basic standards of integrity when election ideals are not met elsewhere criticism runs rampant elections in venezuela elections in iran elections in russia. the press will go to town on any sign that the outcome was fixed and while nitpicking abroad is all the rage the elephant in the room remains unnoticed at home policymakers and to a great extent our media and and trickle down to the american people have literally the literally think that the rest of the world is stupid. that they don't see it that everybody naturally house to admit you know admire us that we're great and it's not the case well obvious flaws are met with a deaf ear and here in and year out a flawed election process continues to be the first vote cast in the u.s. and if the party new york well go away artie's poll exclusive interview with syrian president bashar al assad is up next.

on the march under god these men and women are walking one of the longest and probably the loneliest road in the world they reenacting march into exile made by thousands of czarist russia. if i was here three hundred years ago i may have disappeared my local lord i may have deserted from the army or a variety of other crimes the result was the same like my fellow prisoners around me i've got a long and very cold walk ahead into exile in siberia yet it took them years to get there summers and winters entire years a lot of people died on the way this group in the western siberian region of omsk discovered their living on the only surviving stretch of the original nine thousand kilometers of the siberian exiles track that's had no modern changes made to it

yevgeny discovered that he's descended from some of these exiles and decided to build a museum telling a story he and his reactors now receiving letters from all over the world to show them what it was like for these bloody good earnest it's scary to put the shackles on of course but it's interesting if we don't remember our history we will have no future. it's a monument to one of the czarist russia cruelest chapters. the city serves as the capital of anticommunist white russian leader admiral culture shock in the civil war from one thousand nine hundred to nine hundred nineteen whilst in residence he lived here though the study of the man like the maintenance of this building has remained a taboo right up until the present day or we still receive hate mail saying that he hanged a lot of people and was famous for severe punishment it's all true but it was at a time of civil war both sides were monstrously cruel it is sadly the theme of

cruelty which links so. much of history to the rest of russia particularly of exile . thank. you. president bashar al assad of syria thank you very much for talking to r.t. today almost was going to ask this so you know many people work year ago that you wouldn't make it this far but yet again we're sitting in a new renovated presidential palace and recording this interview who exactly is your enemy at this point by any means terrorism instability in syria this with or any means not about people it's not about persons. the whole issue is not about me

it's three all living supposed to contribute safe or not so this a barrier that we've been fighting as he worked to win this war how would you reconcile with your people after everything that has happened this be. again more precise the problems called tween me and the people i don't have problem the people called the united states is against the west is against me many other countries including turkey which is not of course against me of the peoples of the syrian people or against me how can it be so it's not a balticon siding with the people if you stop the ball play conservation between the syrian and the syrians don't have several it's about their islam and support coming from abroad to support terrorist to destabilize syria and this is for. the infrastructure military infrastructure economies suffering it's almost as if breaks here is going to fall into decay very soon and the time is against you in your

opinion how much time do you need. to crush the enemy you cannot answer that question because no one claimed that he had the answer about when to do to end the war unless we have the answer when they are going to stop smuggling. foreign fighters from different part of this world specially with the middle east and some accord and we're going to stop. the same being armaments to those terrorists if they stop this is where i can answer your continuing weeks we can finish everything if the big problem but as long as we have continuous supply in the main and all moments and everything else and logistics is going to be. also when think about it you have four thousand kilometers of loosely controlled borders you have your enemy that can at any time cross over jordan or turkey to rearm get medical care and come back to fight you exactly exactly where no country in the world came feel the

border sometime for you with this world which is not correct even the united states can not see this border with mexico for example maybe the same for russia which is to become free so not complete. the border you can only have better situation on the border when you have a good relation with your neighbors something that we don't have at least thirteen of the keys support more than any other country the smuggling of our room and interest can i ask you something i've been in turkey recently and people there are actually very worried that war will happen between syria and turkey do you think a war with turkey is a realistic scenario rationally no i don't think that's a god for for two reasons the war needs public support and the majority of the turkish people don't need this war so i don't think any russian. official would think about. going against the will of the public and it's going to be the same for the syrian people so it's not the conflict or the difference. it's not between the

syrian people and the turkish people it's because we don't offer should be between official in their field because all their politics so i don't see any war between syria and turkey in the horizon when is the last time you spoke to the ground and how did they talk and may two thousand and eleven after he won the elections so you just congratulated him you just that was the last time it was the last why has turkey that you call the friendly nation become a foothold for the opposition. not the not turkey only guns government. only just a bit with not the turkish people people need to good relation with the syrian people this is a gun i think he believes that if muslim brotherhood take over in the region and especially in syria you can go to his political future this is one reason the other reason. personally think that he had the news of the ottoman and he can control the

region as it was during those many. different let's say i'm very lucky which is the islamic but not gotten him in by not to be ready for but in his heart you think that it's hard for me these are the main two reasons for him to change or to shift his policy from zero frames a sort of view of problems to zero friends but it's not just the west that opposes you at this point you have so many enemies in the arab world and that's to say like two years ago when someone heard your name in the arab world they would straighten their ties and on the first occasion they betray you why do you have so many enemies in the arab world they're not the enemy if some of them are the majority of the arab governments support theory in their heart they don't dare. to say that explicitly under pressure by the west sometimes under pressure by the petaled petrodollar and all aboard who supports you from the arab world many cult.

support syria by the whole but the. truth here that explicitly but first of all york. plays very active role in supporting syria during the crisis because its neighboring country and they understand that if you have a war room inside syria you will have war in the neighboring countries including iraq. i think of a country. they have good position like. mainly in those other countries and other countries wouldn't count all of them but. they are they have positive position but without taking actions iran which is a very close ally also exposed to economic sanctions also facing a threat of military invasion if you were faced with an option cut ties with iran in exchange for peace in your country would you go for it there is no contradiction

i don't have these contradicting option why because we had good relation with seventy nine to today and it's getting better every day but at the same time we are moving toward peace and we had peace process we had peace negotiations iran wasn't a factor against peace so this is. information to try to promote in the west but if we if we need peace we don't have to have good relation with you on this no relation is completely two different objects here are supported syria. supported our cause or the cause of the occupied and we have to support them in their cause the simple iran is very important country in the region for looking if we are looking for stability we need good relation with iran you cannot talk about stability while you have a bad religion with iran with turkey with your neighbors and so on this is it. do you have any information that the western intelligence are financing rebel fighters here in syria no so far what we know that they are offering. normally support on

the terrorist turkey sometimes in lebanon. mainly. but we have the other intelligence not the with in the region some of them are very active what activity with under the supervision of your western intelligence what's the role of al-qaeda in syria at this point are they controlling any of the rebel coalition forces no they don't think looking to control their look to have your their own military kingdom or the moderates in their language but mainly you know they try to scare the people through explosion assassination so it's. to push the people toward this position and to accept them as the reality so they go through but they are finally to have this with the islamic emirate in syria where they can. promote their own ideology in the rest of the world do you accept that

the gun forces have committed war crimes against their own civilians we are fighting terrorism. implementing our constitution. by protecting the syrian people few days ago misty internationally recognized the crime that the that was committed few days ago when they captured soldiers excluded them and human rights watch more than once about the crimes of those terrorist groups and it was described as. a crime this is the first point the second point if you have committed a crime against its people this is devoid of closure because the syrian army is made up of syrian people if you want to commit a crime against your people the army would be fired would disintegrate so you cannot have strongarm unified on me while you are killing your people so the army cannot withstand for twenty months in these difficult circumstances without having

. the embrace of the public in syria so how could you how could you have this embrace moment while you're killing your people this is a contradiction so this advance from what it seems from the outside even if you wanted to go. you wouldn't have anywhere to go if i was your girl if you want to live to syria. or to see that this is the only place where we can leave i'm not pop at all isn't being made by the with good with all twenty other countries and syrian army. made in syria and they have to leave incident by incident do you think that at this point they could be talks or diplomacy or we've reached a stage where only the army can do nothing i always believe in diplomacy i always believe in the old will always believe even with people who doesn't understand who doesn't believe in indicted you have to keep trying whether you succeeded or not think of you all with have. success you have to look for this particular success

before you look for the good before you achieve the complete success but you have to be realistic you don't think that only they can make you achieve something because those people who commit these acts there are two to two guys one of them doesn't believe in the extremist. you have the old tools who have been convicted by the court years ago before the crisis and they're not your enemy your government because they are going to be detained if you had a normal situation it's the other part of them is the people who has been supplied by the outside and the only good they can only be committed to the people or to the government to spend the money and supply them with them and they don't have a choice they don't have decision they don't own their own decision so you have to be realistic and you have the third part of the people whether he is. militants or politicians who can exhibit that's why we've been in these. for months now even

with militants and many of them give up their armaments and they went back to their normal life. for an invasion is imminent i think the price of this invasion if it's happened it's going. to be more than the whole world came before because if you have a problem in syria and you got this last stronghold of secularism and stability in the region and coexistence with it will have a domain or faith that if it will work from the atlantic to the pacific and you know the implication or put it. i don't think. with going. to god but you did with nobody came here what's next if today was fifteen so march two thousand and eleven that's when the protest started to escalate and grow what would you do differently what i would do what i did exactly zero for exactly to

think to start to ask the different parties to for to have dialogue and to stand against the terrorist group but i always thought it didn't start as modest recovery world umbrella was marcia's but within those marches you had militants who started to think of the civilians and the army at the same time maybe on the tactical level you could have done something different but as president you're not there if you could take the decision or strategic level which is different present us how do you see yourself in ten years time. through my country i cannot see myself i can see my company in ten years time this is where i can see myself more as yourself in syria differently i have to be in syria the sort of hold the position and i don't see myself or the president or not this not by interest i could see myself in this country if a country table country more prosperous country person bashar al assad of syria thank you for talking to r.t. thank you for coming through here to.

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