the latest news in the week's top stories from our t.v. barack obama's tough foreign policy action kicks in quick after soft talks of cuba's control of the white house for another four years. by western powers to step down and facing death threats from the rebels the syrian president exclusively tells us he will stay until he's voted. after some of the most intense the stereotype clashes in months greece faces more protests as it decides on draconian twenty thirteen budget live coming down but to come this hour . and israel takes a but its neighbors firing its first rounds in syria since the start of the conflict that itself the killing six palestinians in retaliation for attacks from

gaza again we'll bring you up to date with the latest and. just after midnight here in moscow this is the weekly with me kevin now in thanks for being with us and first the republicans in the u.s. licking their wounds after voters put democrat barack obama back in the nation's top job it was a close race that ultimately ended in a clear win over hardliner mitt romney but obama's soft campaign talk on foreign policy sink transformed into tough action even before the ballots were counted out his gun if you can reports. in the wake of president obama's reelection there was no sense of euphoria as in two thousand and eight but his victory did come as a relief to most americans his challenger mitt romney was widely seen as more aggressive especially his foreign policy rhetoric also a seemingly out of touch with middle class america we are an american family and we

rise or fall together as one nation. waiting for him right after we election is the so-called fiscal cliff a combination of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts all we need is action from the house. and i've got the pen ready to sign the bill right away. but averting the fiscal cliff is probably not the first issue addressed by the president. he also writes the drone strike targeting a group of al qaeda militants in yemen on wednesday the un has raised concerns about the legality of such strikes due to reported heavy civilian casualties on the lack of transparency on the west part we're in uncharted waters when it comes to policy american policy related to drones this week the administration imposed financial sanctions against the rainy and of the u.s. planes but jamming satellite broadcasts and blocking internet access and you read that comes on top of a whole lot of other sanctions that had been put in place by the u.s.

which proved to be crippling for the iranian economy the goal is not to change the iranian government's decision making it's actually leverage ordinary civilians against the iranian government and threaten to topple the government by inciting you know food riots or you know people who are unhappy because they can't you know their grandparents are dying and can't get medicine and on friday despite president obama's claims the u.s. should move away from the cold war thinking in the places with russia the white house launched its first permanent military presence on polish soil the issue has been a constant so warning the side of relations between moscow and washington as the u.s. also plans to install missile interceptors in poland but the president every other democrat that i'm aware of is also made it clear that if it needs russia is still opposed to it still sees it as as a we're just going to go ahead and believe the president's actions so far have shown while he may be talking soft he's acting tough looking at some of president

obama's first moves after reelection one could say he takes the idea of america being the wall police very seriously but the question is who can hold that world police itself accountable in washington i'm going to check on where we go so much more former cia officer told us that a bomb of the used to break free of the string was being pulled from the right. what i would suggest is that he call a press conference what he would say is you know the campaign is over and i found out that i've been grievously misled they told me to say that iran had threatened to wipe israel off the map and i found out that they never said that it's a matter of fact the israeli deputy prime minister sort of said ok ok they never said that and so my speechwriters are being canned i'm going to get some new speechwriters the intelligence community keeps telling me that he run has not yet decided to build

a nuclear weapon and so i'm going to get rid of all those folks from brookings other places who are the soft on which the speech saying well you know you still have to worry about this instead of negotiations once these troublesome people have their own agenda are dismissed then he has a square chance of saying look we're going to do a deal with iran just as i said five years ago we're going to talk directly to them and we're not going to let that be sabotaged by either israeli intelligence or israeli official or not those within the neoconservative camp in washington. syria's president's rebuff western calls to step down award for intervention will spark a global disaster in an exclusive interview he gave to us this last week if not seen already this weekend it's online on a website. on this channel later this hour now interview a sophie shevardnadze explains what he had to say. this thing that really marked me

the most is how really how much more complicated situation inside syria is that from what we see in the media because i talk to people yes the country is divided and even the people who didn't like assad before this conflict started are now so scared that fundamentalists will come to power fundamentalists who are fighting on the side of the free syrian army and syrian people are not about that i mean this is like the only secular our country that had a lot of different religious groups always living in peace with each other whether it's sunni or shia or always or christians so they're really scared that if the army will fall apart and then you know you have this extremist muslims coming to them and asking them to basically be just like them so it's not just about assad i think people feel like whether he goes or stays. it's only can get worse if he goes because it will get i mean that the terror attacks will continue and the fundamentalists will come to power so they're very scared of that. that he's not a western puppet he also denies the fact that civil war is taking place in his

country he's saying that it's not civil war it's a conflict where he has to five different fractions of terrorism. on the fact that the financing of this terrorist fractions was unprecedented and it was coming from abroad what he also said that if the west were to intervene militarily it would have a domino effect from atlantic to pacific to the price of beef and vision and it's going. to be more than the whole world came before because if you have a problem in syria and iraq the philosopher's stone cold. turkey to in the region and coexistence. it will have a domino effect but if it were. to the pacific. you know because you know. i don't think. it's going. to go but you do so nobody can predict what's next. president assad says only elections can

determine his future but it seems not everyone agrees the free syrian army is beaded chief says they want the president's head on a plate. in his statement to your channel 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 will not manage 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 notice the same fate as. leaders of the syrian opposition meantime say they've signed of initial agreement to form a new coalition ger a conference in catarrh this weekend but the bodies lost support in syria itself after key activists there disavowed the exiled officials this as the u.k.'s top general now says the country may launch a limited military intervention in syria as early as this winter it's therefore the most serious pretty stretched to damascus yet i spoke to political analyst dr franklin lamb he says only foreign action can topple assad at this point. absent

a nato type no fly zone massive massive air strikes no i don't think. the regime can be defeated because their air force is being supplied it still has a lot of reserves and i don't i don't fear a measure got nato or a ground invasion i think what we've seen so far of this opposition which is actually splendor and some ways they've got a very steep slope to climb the only reason we have that almost tissue quality remark was the threats and that could be the political pressure that was put on them pay had to do something this weekend do you think the west is going to show up in qatar and arrange a show and no result no how long it will last we don't know and it's been twenty one months into libya you recall and there are factions still aren't glued together and they had the benefit of nine thousand bombing runs by nato so i i think that

the other problem is not the groups themselves which are very disparate but the law comes. poort. god now among the syrian people and what they have lost in terms of respect with through a lot of crimes they've committed a lot of assassination to massacres this is a last ditch effort in a sense to try to put together viable opposition and only time will tell if it's going to stick together dr franklin lamb now from voting machine glitches to bureaucratic barriers voting wasn't exactly straightforward for many americans in the elections last week but those troubles are being batted off by the united states with accusations that it prefers to scrutinize everyone else's election rather than its holding on later. but right now there's gritted teeth in greece tonight a crowd keeping vigil outside parliament in athens as it votes on next year's

budget doesn't make comfortable reading for hard pressed citizens but needs approval for greece to secure a fresh international loan and that it condition was further wage cuts and tax hikes which naturally squeeze through parliament last thursday but public patients were long ago five years now into a crippling slump of a quarter of the country's now out of work violence broke out as lawmakers mull the latest cuts while police were pelted with molotov cocktails from furious crowds while the trance acute apartment building where over one hundred arrests let's get some analysis on that what's going on from dimitri going off of the season economist and the editor of the athens news newspaper dimitri good evening now the prime minister who you've quoted in your latest article said the thirteen point five billion euro cuts passed last thursday marked a big step towards economic recovery when you think about that the reality perspective first of all we have to be sure of prime minister. she didn't mean that the measures it themselves are going to bring any recovery in fact. was forty

seven percent last year it's going to for. around seven percent this year and probably near that next year so in measures themselves. thirteen point five billion. next year is going to be nine point five billion out of that with the program that you're staring the problem is front loaded which means that these nine point five billion euros are going to be taken out of the economy out of the disposable income the grief greece wreaks. by with wage cuts in the public sector pension cuts cuts in will find of benefits and benefits as written are as serious.

and or destruction of labor rights and reduction of wages in the private sector as well demetrius the pm also said didn't a that many of the imposed measures a fair a lot over do whose responsibility is it been really to pay these debts it is the public yet. well again he didn't say many he said some and he does not refer to the stereotype serious here first some structural changes that have to be taking place in the public sector in the end ministration selfish but you see with these are scared to measure being directly. affecting the public sector how can one expect. these measures to help. public employees work more efficiently in fact their own. can't. operate in the normal level which was not very efficient anyway so i don't think

that. there is going to be any benefit from the measures themselves the only benefit that the prime minister expects as well as his coalition arms expect is the release of these low more weighted long delayed thirty one point. five billion euro tranche from the labor that's the only thing that the government uses as just if you creation for the program each node in it at meets at the program is unfair and probably is going to bring more recession then. dimitris even if this budget is passed though greece could be kept tell you known by the international lenders and on thread's tender hooks about as much needed bailout funds are talking about their course what are the chances athens could be make spec'd see it all made to jump through more hoops in the coming days. when you surrender i think. with a delay

a new day and it has been imply a. german finance minister both control your day yesterday and today in the current statements against greece hopes of getting these so these funds and your time suit. are what their germans imply what merlin implies year is that we want more conditions attached to the program. dealing with the control of these funds as well as the control of the project very. administration area by the greek state in fact that what they want to do is to have full control of russia terry. is ration as red as. their. head disempowerment off and peace to have

a say in the market that sells itself so really the new conditions have to do list who is in control of marjah terry and his regime english. isn't the greek government or is it he's been in. have been with the last say nothing yes no appetite of a politician increases a ready change governments three times during the crisis they are the latest cuts i just barely got through parliament last wait what happens if the coalition tanks. when the garnishing is going to try and tank anytime soon of course there will be there are going to be leaks and andros is there one and be here another there two or three there for instance. in the beginning or in the middle of the week we manage to parse. the measures and sarah who's

thirty the thirteen point five billion euro worth of measure of super stared to measures and air with will be seen monday majority of one hundred fifty three out of three hundred now. they expect to get more than that one hundred sixty five and piece at least are going to be voting for the budget which incorporates these measures so the coronation is held together really by the fear of what will happen if it tanks if it gets dissolved if it disintegrates obviously because then he's not only that you elections are going to happen and few of the current m.p.'s are going to be reelected and that the rangers we're going to have to wrap it there i'm afraid we were out of the line she'll disappeared a minute to matrices it columnist and editor of the athens news agrees thank you

ever so much to appreciate it we're watching the events there cause nothings closely next few. israel's going to solve militarily in time gold on two fronts is this week only one day in fact firing the first rounds of the serious sunday just hours before heading back at villa to the sick gaza killing several civilians civilians were told my dad's very shortly and i also as well about bahrain the phone companies they're facing troops who saw the troops in the long struggle for voice if i was really driving the crackdown from. next. i never thought i could earn a living this way. natalee a shell of i is a lawyer she tests small arms that does not almost machine building client natalee

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israel's military both its northern and southern front is right now this weekend the country's fod into syria in response to a mortar attack on the golan heights televisa warning of tougher action against militants in gaza to offer salvos from the palestinian territory fall asleep as the latest. only on sunday afternoon israel fired into syrian territory for the first time since the nine hundred seventy three war as spoke earlier with the israeli defense forces spokesperson unit who did confirm that these warning shots took place he said that they were in response to a mortar shell for link near and the israeli military post in the golan heights now these ladies do not believe that they were the target they do believe that the shell was part of the byproduct of the internal fighting taking place in syria between forces loyal to side and rebel fighters but the army is saying that it won't tolerate more attacks from syria that violates the disengagement agreement between israel and syria now there have been several such incidents over the past

two weeks just last week three syrian tanks crossed over the demilitarized zone between the two countries alarming israelis and also causing them to raise their lives in the area the idea has filed a complaint with the united nations saying that any kind of fire imitating from syria into israel will be responded to also on the southern israeli border we have seen a flare up provided the tween the israelis and palestinian militants the latest we heard from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is that his country is ready to strike hard to against the gaza strip if it does not stop attacking israel he made these remarks today sunday at the weekly cabinet meeting in which he said and i'm quoting that the world must understand that israel cannot sit idly by while attempts are made to attack it the hostilities along the israel gaza border have it's going to choppy particularly this past weekend this follows israeli airstrikes that killed six palestinians four of whom were teenagers and two of whom belonged

to the militant group islamic jihad according to the gaza health ministry spokesperson there are a number of people who were injured the biggest stands at around thirty including children the problem though is that often in these israeli airstrikes israel lands of killing civilians and not militants as its intention. it is a must have taken responsibility for this attack they worked for israeli soldiers that were wounded in it and response from the palestinian side was dozens of rockets that were fired into southern israel early on sunday morning the whole south of israel is in a state of high alert and this comes of palestinian militants about to take advantage for these diffs now flare ups along the israeli gaza border are quite common and we have seen already two flare ups this month this though is one of the highest casualty counts in gaza in a single incident in recent months. bahrain's largest opposition group says hopes of fading friendly breakthrough dialogue gulf kingdoms deepening crisis witnessed

fresh clashes this week with dorothy's deploying its paramilitary national guard back police in their battle against protesters the latest wave of protests began friday security forces to gas thousands of shia worshippers trying to reach their mosques for prayers a teenager was killed in a traffic incident during the clashes and there was more violence during his funeral on saturday authorities banned all public gatherings last week to quell nearly two years of anti-government actions opposition politician says the international community needs to put a lot of pressure on by. in doing. things well. meeting in d.c. with the front. ministers and officials so everyone is saying more all the international community are saying to their government go back to the dialogue they don't want to go to the dialogue they don't want to respond to their people to the one demand that's why they are from security and spoke and try to nicely all. on the air they want to buy land but this is creates

more violent platforms they know not to go to political dialogue without. pressure from don't the national community only get to ask for deadline at a time when for the dialogue and for to reform nothing will happen and we will continue with this stalemate but this is stalemate and stagnation. and known situation. china launched his once in a decade transfer of power this week the communist party congress is reviewing a list of candidates and it's expected to announce the more wednesday the incoming top officials vow to tackle the growing challenges facing the world's second largest economy the i.m.f. predicts it to overtake indeed the u.s. to become number one but two thousand and sixteen promising to increase its influence across the globe of buying up ailing businesses in europe and developing africa's vast natural resources. traces the nation's rise.

lighting the flame on the international stage building to new heights on this world . and soaring beyond its limits whether in outer space the arctic outer continental shelf or on your local store shelves china is making its ambitions known let's see this is made in china. made in china china well cheap economic goods have translated into massive profits for china as well as criticism you know this comes amid growing concern that china is using its economic clout for political leverage . different. trying not a very promising country. you pump your top with the rising twenty try less than five the i.m.f. says china could surpass the us economically in real terms by twenty sixteen it may not help the countless chinese who live in poverty but it sure makes rivals nervous

china's economic clout has grown it is now the second largest economy in the world it's the second largest manufacturing exporter in the rimini the chinese currency is playing an increasingly important role in the world economy so there is a shift in relative economic might in the world that might has been threatened by the economic slowdown and it will be up to china's new leaders to try to reverse the trend for now they seem to be getting their way. china is inching into europe to snap up ailing businesses this french vineyard is just one of the casualties. but that these people they come here only buy learned just like to buy up a castle or jewelry on iran u.s. sanctions against oil trading with the islamic republic don't apply when you're america's largest banker. in africa china is using cash to buy clout beating

western rivals in the race to exploit the continent's vast resources you know its efforts to buy influence through investments have been met with an intense public backlash and countries like pakistan building infrastructure instead of military bases has made china the preferred superpower among locals. don't interfere ok. other countries it is not like. that like america. still it has been abandoned its military the country's new leaders are expected to continue to pour billions into its defense budget the second largest in the world this may worry pentagon planners and beijing's asian neighbors but so far china's economic might has proven more powerful than the sword the other two nations which are fighting in the words what is america what is china so america is using which is water and there is a lot of losses and china is using.