london or people can consulates the holiday inspiration of that scouts an exotic spot for a honeymoon a one country you probably wouldn't expect to see being touted as a tourist destination and that's libya the places where the tourist interesting the site is a political sideshow it's a completely safe granted that's got to be safe more than even towns to big towns like london or my new york but there's somewhere there's not mentioned in the guide the bani walid a desert town this remain loyal to salma leader colonel gadhafi is just a few hours dry southeast of the traditional tourist destination chipley but it's a world away from the safe environment the two guides the pitching. the town's become the scene of some of the fiercest fighting since the libyan uprising last year but despite reports of indiscriminate shelling and gas attacks on the local population at the hands of the libyan army there's been an almost total media

blackout in the. r.t. ran the story for more than a fortnight before anyone else picked it up back in london and despite libya being showcased it seems that bani walid has once again been conveniently left out of the conversation and when i saw this. it was a ghost with surprise and i came. back of the situation at the moment and if we have so many people it means situations they could be coming most and we can think for next season to do something with libya and it's a wonderful country so we would about what's happening at the moment. but the main was hacked was being happening there there's been fighting to know about that no we went to confront the tour operator i saw you speaking some people eat telling them about what's been happening in bani walid at the moment. this is. for the future. because it was deeply disturbing is that despite

a growing body of evidence about crimes against civilians and increasingly vocal concerns from human rights organizations the same media and government remain resolutely silent i've got to sort of package nish as a success is very important for nato so we have been 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 travel information and you will be given reasons to visit libya and undoubtedly there are many there's a concerning silence in a case by the u.k. media a seeming refusal to 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 coffee very sorry. so tour operators may be a pains to promote

a peaceful libya but one man whose family survived the siege of bani walid begs to differ he asked us to shield his identity as he described the post blockade reality on the ground nobody nobody can move nobody can do anything it is. a city. without electricity without water without anything it is no if it has the city you can leave you know. and the islamist groups many militias and many communities do you carry it. over to your. own body or will you. be going to. the big stories this week a rock is poring over the details of

a major arms deal with russia after suspicions were raised over the way baghdad handled it reports on saturday first suggested iraq and pulled the contract sealed only a month before which was quickly then denied by the iraqi defense minister the four billion dollars deal would make russia second biggest supplier after the us government and the prisoners consultant christa hoare still suspects washington may play a role on obstacles to this deal. if this deal head gone through there it would have meant for the iraqi people kind of you know starting a balanced situation of dealing with east and west sort of sick and that would be healthy for the iraqi people because this is in line with the geographical very simple geographical situation now putting this deal under pressure you know that means that the u.s. are insisting on a model pole in the region it is it is very clear if you go it is not mr maliki was

calling the shots in the iraqi policies that is the u.s. right now in that they are not able you know to allow a little petition just a little there's a very sad story for for washington and it doesn't bear good sides for the future. so today's my world news brief a series of violent attacks in southern pakistan has claimed thirty one lives wounded dozens more most of the target killings were carried out in the country's biggest city karate by government motorcycles a magazine editor and five students are said to be monk victims their motives are being investigated still being no claim for the attacks sectarian political and ethnic violence in the cities killed around one hundred people this month alone. the u.n. nuclear watchdog says iran is carrying out what appears to be a cleanup activity at one of its key military bases which the i.a.e.a. wants to inspect for nuclear research projects the parchin site hasn't been visited by the un since two thousand and five and some western countries suspect brand of

using it to hide elements of a weapons program around strongly denies those trying to develop a nuclear deterrent and the i.a.e.a. says there is quote good reason to believe the iranians will cooperate with inspectors. but a mass anti nuclear energy rally in japan the thousands gathering in front of parliament in tokyo all the country's reactors were shut down last after last year's fukushima disaster but two plants were laid. reopened to try to help cope with severe power shortages before that accident caused by the earthquake and tsunami a third. nuclear generated. the u.s. election has gone without his glitches were some reports of voting irregularities in areas but his overseas polls would seem to be a bigger concern to americans as he said this is a report 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 chicago my id. 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 the 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 and. iran elections and 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 and whole policy makers in 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 has to admit you know admire us that we're great. 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 broadcast in the us and if there's a church in our party new york. five months been closed doors has taken its toll partly on julian assange it's fear that we're supposed to be rating mental health is putting the real jeopardy reporter about online for good speed with it plus the fling with calls the cia of bosses job but is infidelity really what forced some to and rolling with the stone tough times force one of mick jagger's girlfriends from the sixty's to auction off the rock legends love letters details r t v dot com. all the way as promised the syrian conflict in the president's own words is exclusive on our t.v. after this break.

i mean isn't this true even for specialists how a voice can produce several sounds it wants to do the means the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from the unions believe not only animals but also all surrounding objects like reverse forests and even stones souls imitating the sounds they believe assumes to capture the power of nature. to get to one of the five main stars of scrotes and it imitates the gentle breezes of summer chara whose name means great hunter says he suspects adopt.

there are special instruments that accompany the singing guinea says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says once there lived a poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the horse was revived as an instrument book it was it was up to full is because of the spirit of the horse coming to his dream he said make an instrument from a tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings. and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i called the instrument a gear which means come back and this melody only instrument is called. thank

you. president bashar al assad of syria thank you very much for talking to our to today you're most welcome damascus so you know many people work year ago that you wouldn't make it this far but yet again we're sitting in the new renovated presidential palace and recording this interview who exactly is your enemy at this point by any means terrorism and instability in syria this was or any talk about people it's not about. the whole issue is not about me it's three whole leaving it's supposed to contribute safe or not so disobey me but we've been fighting us here he worked to win this war how would you reconcile with your people after

everything that has happened just be. again more precise the problems called tween me and the people i don't have problem the people could be united states is against the west is against me many countries including turkey which is not of course you can speak of the peoples of the syrian people against me how can you be so it's not about to coincide with the people you spoke to bob the conservation between the syrian and the syrians don't have to feel it's their ism and support coming from abroad to support terrorists 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 so that's going to cause no one claimed. about when to do to end the war unless we have the

answer when they're going to stop smuggling foreign fighters from different part of this world specially with the middle east and the stomach word and we're going to stop. sending our moments to those terrorists if they stop this is working i can answer your continuing weeks you can finish everything if the big problem but as long as we have continuous supply in 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 from them to you with this world which is not correct even the united states cannot see this border with mexico for example maybe the same for russia which is the become true so no country can see the border you can only have better situation on

the border when you have good relations with your never is something that we don't have at least. to 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 he's going to be the same for the syrian people so it's not the conflict or the difference. it is not between the syrian people and the turkish people despite the government should be between of officialdom there of should cause all the 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 government. only has to be decided not the turkish people thirty people musa good relation with the syrian people this is a god i think he believes that if muslim brotherhood take over in the region and especially in syria he 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. 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 reasons for him to change or to shift his policy from zero frames i thought it 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 enemies some of them the majority of the arab governments support theory and in their heart they don't dare . to say that explicitly not under pressure by the west sometimes under pressure by the petaled petrodollar and on the board who supports you from the arab world many cult. supports syria. but the truth here that explicitly but first of all york. it's very active role in supporting syria during the crisis because its

neighboring country and they understand that if you have warring inside syria you will have war in the neighboring countries including iraq. i think of the country. they have good position like. home and. mainly in those other countries and other countries. can't 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's no contradiction i don't have these contradicting option why because we had good relation with iran since seventy nine till 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

urine 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 relations with iran with no relation is completely two different objects that are supported syria. supported our cause or because of the occupied land and we have to support them in their cause very simple iran is very important country in the region if you for looking if we are looking for stability we need good relation with iran you cannot talk about stability while you have bad religion with iran with filthy with your neighbors and so on this is it. do you have any information that there were stern intelligence are financing rebel fighters here in syria no so far what we know that they are offering. normally support on the terrorist through turkey sometimes in lebanon. mainly. but we have the other intelligence problem with

in the region some of them are very active what activity with under this provision . you western intelligence what's the role of al-qaeda in syria at this point are they controlling any of the rebel coalition forces know that they i 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 exposure and association so it's. to push the people toward this position or to accept them as the reality so they go through by state but their final game is 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 government forces have committed war crimes against their own civilians we are fighting terrorism we're. implementing our constitution. by protecting the syrian

people few days ago misty internationally recognized the crime that they've that was committed a few days ago when they captured soldiers and excluded them and human rights watch more than once about the crimes all those terrorist groups and it was described as a war 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 defy it would disintegrate so you cannot have strong god you can fight on me while you are killing your people so the army cannot with a stand 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 west could be with twenty other countries i'm syrian and maybe. maybe 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 him that if you have to keep trying whether you succeeded or not think of it 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 special or the extremist. you have the old girls who have been convicted by the court years ago for the crisis and they're not your enemy you look over my god they're going to be detained if you had normal situation it's the other part of them the people who has been supplied by the outside and the only could be 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 to or they don't have decision because they don't own their own decision so you have to be realistic and you have the third part of the people whether he's. 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 happened is 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 it's free it will have a domain or fate that affect the world from the atlantic to the pacific and you know the implication or put it on both although i don't thing. with going. to god but you do so 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. 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 if you didn't start as modest if the cover world umbrella was marcia's but within those marches you had militants who started

tooting 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 on 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 moros yourself in syria differently i have to be in syria and you sort of hold the position i don't see myself with the president or not this is not by any interest i could see myself in this country country table country more prosperous country president bashar al assad of syria thank you for talking to r.t. thank you for coming through again. wealthy british style. is not on the front.

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