a peaceful day and civilized to be the head of the it is no loss and if the strategy is working well why change it chinese need us understand the importance of soft power. and yet understand that you konami people love them and t. famines to some extend has made did a certain mall go to be studied not to be followed complete for now a growing red dragon means that china's version of a new world order is here to stay you see captain of our moscow. bureau just a few minutes away from contracts corruption and question marks a rock denying pulling a full billion dollar arms deal with russia over concerns of foul play in baghdad one of the more i think stay with us some back with the details.

catalonia wants to get its independence from the rest of spain locals feel that madrid texas all of catalonia economic success is a way putting the region into debt trust me hardly have it all taxed away is very aggravating i can see why people are frustrated but the people who want independence have a very odd slogan catalonia a new european state so let me get this straight you want independence but you want to stay in the e.u. is that what you mean what exactly would that change that's not really gaining independence that shifting dependencies staying in the e.u. means you won't have control of your borders you'll still be on the euro c won't have your own currency you will be able to establish your trade standards those will be dictated to you by brussels and if you don't like the austerity measures from outsiders like in madrid then you might want have a conversation with the greeks because being an independent country in the e.u.

won't save you from people messing with your finances all i'm saying is that big truly independent means answer to no one not madrid not brussels but that's just my opinion. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. do we speak your language i mean some of the will not advance. the music programs and documentaries in spanish more matters to you breaking news a little turn to of angles keaton's stories. for you here.

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any time. iraq's pouring of the details of a major arms deal with russia after suspicions were raised over the way baghdad handled it reports on saturday first suggested a rocket pulled the contract sealed only a month ago which was then quickly denied by the iraqi defense minister four billion dollars deal would make russia iraq's second biggest arms supplier after the u.s. because of course always a government a business consultant told me he suspects washington may play a role in creating obstacles to this deal. if this deal head gone through that would have meant for the iraqi people it kind of you know starting a balanced situation of the evening with east and west so to say and that would be healthy for the iraqi people because this is in line with their geographical very

simple geographical situation now putting this deal under pressure you know that means that the u.s. are insisting on a monopole in the region it is it is very clear you know it is not mr maliki was calling the shots in the iraqi policies that is the u.s. right now and that they are not able you know to allow a little petition just a little you that is a very sad story for washington and it doesn't bear good signs for the future. button says a ruptured independence day march in poland's capital warsaw two police officers were injured in clashes and the various nationalists from going from firecrackers the streets quickly became ill and dated with flair wielding crowds chanting anti-government slogans some were detained as security forces rubber bullets tear gas and buttons to bring the situation under control last year's independence day riots in mosul led to several dozen injured and over two hundred arrests. more will

use the u.n. nuclear watchdog says the rand is carrying out what could 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 a parts inside hasn't been visited by the un since two thousand and five and some western countries suspect around of using it to hide elements of a weapons program around strongly denies them trying to develop a nuclear deterrent and the i says there is quote good reason to or believe the iranians will cooperate with inspectors the u.s. election wasn't without its glitches with some reports of voting irregularities and errors but it overseas polls would seem to be a bigger concern to americans as artie's a necessity churkin in their 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 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 shortened early voting time slots to gerrymandering were rigged drawing 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 eric holder this video shows how easy it is to attempt to steal attorney general eric holder's vote when an idea is not required i should forget 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 u.s.

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 work of monitoring elections. refuses to monitor u.s. elections on the grounds it don't meet the 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 that's not the case well obvious flaws are met with a deaf ear here in and year out a flawed election process continues to be the first folk cast in the us and is the

party new york all the way as promised the syrian conflict in the president assad's own words exclusively here on r.t. after this break. sigrid lumber tour tim curry was able to build the most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach creation why it should care about humans in the world this is why you should care only on the dot com.

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free. education free. free. free. free. free. free volunteer video for your media project a free media john darche dot com. thank. you. president bashar al assad of syria thank you very much for talking to our to today i was going to ask it's so you know many people work that state 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 the instability in syria this was or any talk about people it's not about pows it's all increase not about me staying or leaving it's supposed to contribute safe or not so disobey me but we've been fighting us who you work to win this war how would you reconcile with your people after everything that has happened just be. became more precise the problem tween me and the people i don't have problem with people called the united states is against the west is against me many countries including turkey which is not of course against people of the peoples of the syrian people or against me how can they be good so it's not about the goal siding with the people you spoke to bob the conservation between the syrian and the syrian don't have several it's there is a and support coming from abroad to support terrorist to destabilize syria and this

is for. the infrastructure military infrastructure economies so. it's almost as if like syria 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 good because no one claims. about when to do the war unless we have the answer when they are called to stop smuggling. foreign fighters from different parts of this world special to the middle east and the islamic world and we're going to stop. sending armaments to those terrorists if they stop this is working i can answer your continuing leaks we can finish everything is public 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. see the border sometime for 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 become true so not completely to the border you can only have better situation on the border when you have good relations with your neighbors something that we don't have at least thirteen or. support more than any other country the smuggling of all romans and terrorists 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 in his country the same for the syrian people so it's not the conflict or the difference is not between the syrian people and the turkish people who support the government and the official green between officials in the field because 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 the talk and maybe two thousand and eleven of the you will be 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. now but not turkey only guns government. only just a bit without it not the turkish people thirty people news good relation with the syrian people this is a gun i think he believes that if muslim brotherhood. takeover 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 been useful part of the autumn and taking control of the region as it was during gotten him. differently. 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 saudi 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 enemies some of them the majority of the arab governments support theory in their heart they don't.

do 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 countries supported 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 in 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. all of them but. see 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 a good relation with 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 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 because of the occupied land and we have to support them in their cause very 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 the support of the terrorists through turkey sometimes in lebanon. mainly. but we have the other intelligence not the with in the region some of them are very active more active in the with other 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 no they don't think looking to control their look to have your own military kingdom or the moderates in the language but mainly try to scare the people through explosion association suicide bombers something like this to push people towards this provision. to accept them 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 and 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 that was committed a few days ago when they captured soldiers and 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 it 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 strongarm unified 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 were to go if you wanted to leave to syria. or to see that this is the only place where we can leave i'm not pop at all isn't being me by the west could be with twenty other countries in syria . made in syria and i have to even see them going to school 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 be. and even with people who doesn't understand who doesn't believe in indicted you have to keep trying whether you succeeded or not think if you always 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 diet or the extremist. you have the locals who have been convicted by the court years ago for the crisis and they're not your enemy you're the government because they're going to be detained if you had a normal situation it's the other part of them 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 will spend the money and supply them with all of 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's. militants or politicians who can accept the title that's why we've been in these they look 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 the last stronghold of secularism and stability in the region and coexistence it's 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 the list although i don't thing. to do with going in that. regard but you did with so nobody can hear 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 there is a role for executive think to start to ask different parties to for to have dialogue and to stand against the terrorists but i always thought if you didn't start as modest because the world umbrella was marcia's but within bill's march with. militants who thought that the civilians and the army at the same time may be 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. for my country i cannot see myself i can see my company in ten years time this is where i can see myself. in syria differently i have to be in syria it's not all the position and i don't see

myself with the president or not this not by interest i could see myself in this country have come through a terrible country more prosperous country person bashar al assad of syria thank you for talking to r.t. thank you for coming through ok. on the fly so. i shoot despite. all this. saying here. is the truth. the most reliable of the twentieth century. legend. national.

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