china is inching into europe to snap up ailing businesses this french vineyard is just one of the casualties. but that these people that come here leave by learned just like to buy up a castle and 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 in countries like pakistan building infrastructure instead of military bases has made china the preferred superpower among locals. they don't interfere ok. other countries it does not like. it or that like america. still it has 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 there are two nations which are fighting in the word what is america what is china so america is using which is water and there is a lot of losses and china is using up peacefully and civilized with the other there is no loss and if the strategy is working why change it chinese theaters understand the importance of soft power. and yet understand that is the economic development team. to some extent has made it a certain although to be studied if not to be followed completely 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 t.v.

moscow. baghdad is a poring over the details of a major arms deal with russia after suspicions were raised of a possible corruption on the iraqi side reports on sunday first suggested iraq had to pull the contract sealed only a month ago which was quickly denied by the iraqi defense minister four billion dollars deal would make russia iraq's second biggest arms supply of the us christopher who's a government and business consultant suspects from washington may play a role in creating obstacles to the 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 with so this. 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 lip to call a petition just a little you that is a very sad story for washington and it doesn't bear good sides for the future. five months behind closed doors is taking its toll on julian the son it's very little bit teary mental health with him in jeopardy as we report on line. across the playing that cost the cia bosses drop his infidelity really what forced betrayal sound. and wrote in with the story of tougher times force one of mick jagger's go friends from the sixty's to auction off the rock legends. details or quality dot com.

bahrain's largest opposition group says hope saw fading for any breakthrough dialogue the gulf kingdom's deepening crisis witnessed fresh clashes this week with authorities deploying its paramilitary national guard to back up police in their battle against protesters the latest wave of protests began on friday security forces tear gassed thousands of worshippers trying to reach their mosques for prayers the teenager was killed in a traffic incident during the clashes and it was more balanced during his funeral on saturday authorities banned all public gatherings last week to many years of anti-government actions. position politician. says the international community needs to put pressure on bahrain. in dineen and. things were

ok i mean on meeting in d.c. with the front steps their ministers an official so everyone is saying bank him or all of the international community are saying to their government don't go to the dialogue they don't want to go to the dialogue they don't want to respond to their people genuine demand that's why they are being flown security aspect and try to lastly they ban all of protest. and that they want to contend violence but this is creates more violent platform so they know not to go to political dialogue without. pressure from the international community to go back only get meant to ask for a deadline a time of playing for the dialogue and for the reform nothing will happen other than we will continue with this stalemate but there's a stalemate and stagnation myatt and and known situation.

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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 to hear him and you're out of florida election process continues to be the first broadcast in the us and it's the party new york. well in the way the syrian conflict in the president assad's own words is exclusively on r.t. after the break. wealthy british style.

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president bashar al assad of syria thank you very much for talking to r.t. today now let's work on damascus so you know many people work that state year ago that you would 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 and if you started this with or any people responsible persons. means taking over leaving supposed to contribute safe or not. that would be fighting us who wants to work to win this war how would you reconcile. with your people after everything that has happened just be. again more

precise the problem is caught between me and the people i don't have a problem with people could be united states is against the west is against me in many countries including turkey which is not of course against me if the peoples of the syrian people are against me how can it be so it's not about to call siding with the people if not the bob conservation between the syrian and the syrian don't have civil. terrorism and support coming from abroad to support terrorist to destabilize syria but this is all. the infrastructure military infrastructure economy is suffering 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 a question cause no one claimed that. 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 special to the middle east and the islamic world and

we're going to stop. sending our womans 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 you 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 actually 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 can not see this border with mexico for example maybe the same for russia which is the become true so no country can. in the border you can only have bitter but the situation on the border when you have good relation with your neighbors something

that we don't have at least thirteen up. 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 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 despite the government should be between officialdom there or fuel 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 they talk and maybe 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 friends a nation become a foothold for the opposition. not the not turkey only government. only just a bit without it not the turkish people thirty people news 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 to use political future this is one reason the other reason. personally think that he had been useful form 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 a sort 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 are not the enemy for some of them the majority of the arab governments support syria in their heart they don't. do that explicitly under pressure by the waist sometimes under pressure by the petaled petrodollar and all aboard who supports you from the arab world many countries support syria by the whole but the. truth here that explicitly but first of all iraq. play 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 a country. they have good position like. 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 is no contradiction i don't help you through contradicting option why because we had a good relation with seventy nine people 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 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 because 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 gilkey 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 know so far what we know that they are offering the knowledge support of the terrorists 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 this provision. the western intelligence what's the role of

al-qaeda in syria at this point are they controlling any of the rebel coalition forces no i don't think looking to control their look to have your own military kingdom or the moderates in their language but mainly you know they try to scare the people through exclusion association so it was something like this to push the people toward this position or to accept them as the reality so they go through but they are finally used 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 pro. the king of the syrian people few days ago misty internationally recognized the crime that the 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 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 strongarm unified on me while you're 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 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 made by the with the with all twenty other countries in syria. 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 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 a thing could be all with of. success you have to look for this portrait 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. they are two to two guys one of them doesn't believe in the old speech or the extremist. you have the old girls who have been convicted by the

court years ago before the crisis and their natural enemy the government because they are 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 a 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 looked 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 a 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 got it all but i don't think. with i'm going. to go but. 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 what he's expected to think just to ask different parties to form. and just against the terrorist group but i always thought if you didn't start it because there was very little emotion but within those marches you militants who thought that this could be and. at the same time maybe on the tactical level you could have done something

different but as president you're not think you could take the decision on strategic level which is different present a lot of 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 but i can see myself moros yourself in syria differently i have to be in syria you sort of hold the position i don't see myself with the president or not this is not my interest i could see myself and 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. well. science technology innovation all these developments from the

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