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the moderate opposition and one of. the moderation of the opposition it's about whether or not these people are ready to talk and from what i understand there have been several statements by their leaders militant leaders on the ground that i know it's very easy to negotiate they want to as as i said die hard i mean doing this are in conflict with always in the every stage and in every here we saw such groups and from moscow's perspective. ninety five percent of those groups are not inclined to negotiate and to talk her to pursue political process so. i think it don't matter for talk about the summit what matters here is russia turkish relations and their partnership. in the first place russia understands that for turkey it's one of the most important parts and it can't just push it and impose its own wheel on on its partner well i was partially both agree and disagree
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with you because i do think their relationship with turkey eric strongly is extremely important and we will talk more about that but i also think russia genuinely. cares about what happens to the people of that province and i think this is one valuable thing that we got out of the summit a very explicit declaration by all the three leaders that they will try to take a lot of care in trying to protect the civilian lives and we are talking about more than three million people living there but from what i understand it doesn't mean that russia syria or iran for that matter would refrain from narrow strikes aimed at the militants infrastructure is it possible to separate the two to go after the terrorists and fully spare the civilians i think september fourth it was the first series of airstrikes in the weeks so when they targeted. targets outside of populated areas so and in fact after that we didn't hear much of
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a position from the western side and from the regular show i think one of the things that many observers note about the if the problem is is that it's very densely populated and one of the tactics by terrorists is to essentially mingle going to it when the russians or the syrians try to spare the civilian lives as much as possible i think the i would assume that the terrorists would try a quite the opposite you know. historically during the war we saw that human shields are used you know almost in every. serious case in the. poor in eastern guta so that was plenty of such cases and of course i mean during the civil war and during the oppressions it's almost impossible to avoid collateral damage as it is called and. russian the first place and partners they also took is of although all want to minimize possible casualties among civilians and also among
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those i mean among the militants because that would actually. increase another refugee flow which would go where so it's turkish borders exactly now social media especially western and turkish a social media failed with a search and that putin brushed aside rick fast foresees far in terms of at least backing it formally but i think practically speaking russia has no other choice but to accommodate turkey and that request specifically in order to prevent this massive exodus of the civilians do you think does the large scale assault in italy was ever on the cards let's put it this way the assault is on the table that's for sure but the degree and the character of this assault is still to be defined so basically that what was one of the reasons of the summit gathering so the three parties aim to decide what the limits will have this would have
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but as we see i mean they postponed the assault that's one important outcome and secondly i mean it's not out of agenda completely it's still on the table and those before strikes in this. gathering of syrian military on the border of the province also confirms that almost all preparations for a possible offensive. complete now i think you with a grid of may have. or that russia is after in it is not just a military victory it wants to use that military victory as a transition to a full scale of revival and rebuilding of syria but which would involve the return of the refugees hopefully the return of the international investors to haue bin reckons traction don't you think it's a little bit naive on the part of moscow to believe that if it plays in good faith and that comedies or tries to accommodate everybody that you know everybody else really respond in kind and we'll actually allow if let alone assist the full scale
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rebuilding of that country. there is no reason to believe that they will happen exactly how we describe because during the three previous cases with three other discussions owns over and worked quite opposite the quiet harsh offensive partnered with talks and striking deals and perspicacious of. rebels. but anyways it was a very harsh narrative here in the station this is quite different here turkey is involved and turkey is quite important partner and also have invested heavily in its own supported groups in syria's north and it also has another objective syrian kurds and to follow up on that. agree it's nice to believe but i would also say that it is naive to believe that. basically dealing with it lip will help to
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finalize or you know get back refugees or attract you know investments foreign investments that let me ask you about the sort of the language that the leaders employ because president ed though on the tough cookie that he is usually very blunt in laying out his argument and during this meeting in. you know the future called peroration to russia in turkey depends on the outcome of the lead question which to me is you know it's a plain blackmail and you have president putin who is supposedly so much so much concerned about you know looking tough and mass killer he was very self spoken he went out of his way to stress how much he agrees with president and go on why is that well again coming back to the. miry dia that took is very important for russia both in syria and even outside of it so to
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have a nato member country which supports your policy in the country which counterbalancing actually speer colleagues of the north atlantic alliance. balancing their criticism of this i think it's quite important for from moscow and with without having the gun on board with his policy on syria or the reconstruction of where the return of refugees than dealing with the kurds it will be almost impossible to to finalize the you know to it to be the fruit of the syrian complaint alexei i wonder though whether. turk here responds to russia with a similar degree of understanding and accommodation and i will give you one example i was watching c.n.n. turk the other day and they ran a report there from a it lip about a father of a household who is stocking on gas masks for his children and that man actually
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said that he is in fear of a chemical attack coming not from the syrian army but from the russians and that shows to me that the aired on friendly media which c.n.n. turk definitely is. quite happy with stirring the anti russian sentiment there is no law lost for moscow in ankara is there yeah but it's politics i mean there should be no surprise about that i mean don't forget the turkey is not a moscow ally it's just a partner it's a merge of convenience the same as a russia has with iran so let's not fool ourselves and thing that took you will you know turn its back. to states or europe and just embrace russia's new alliance no it won't happen and this is why i mean it has two. sticks and carrots and this is exactly what what we see during the face to face meetings we can see that both presidents. respect each other the want to negotiate they want to be compromised continually exactly actually present with of them consider their
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countries powers even not great but regional powers for sure and of course that prescribes i mean prescription. behavior to which i was a child and now let me ask you specifically about this specter of yet another chemical attack in syria this is where the turks and the americans despite all of their public disagreements are really playing on the same side because it was turkey before provided the supposed evidence on the chemical incidents the americans lately double down on the syrian rhetoric suggesting that they actually have strong prolife that the syrian government is preparing yet another crime of this sort do you think with the risk whatever he has going with putin know russia to throw in his lot fully with the americans. so it took it in no and you know for centuries being quite.
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interesting and unpredictable player so it's a good bargain and it's uses you know weeks hides over its partners to you know trade off some great deals for itself absolutely but when accusing your potential partner of slaughtering people with the use of chemical weapons you know i question some comes politically domestically where there are the on as a president can continue and you negotiating with russia if russia indeed back such a horrible crime so as far as i remember didn't say specifically that you know russia to blame and to accuse of you know a chemical attack an attack is this present get out of that of course i mean assad i mean everyone can accuse a on the on that but there was no word of criticism on russia public criticism of russia put his policy in syria for example when it was in. that
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province because at the same time oil is good to because at the same time turkey had this all of branch operation not syria we're also going. smoothly it went so also with the collateral damage and with. civilians it's so it's kind of tit for tat and i would say that indications that erdogan is quite critical of syrian regime and bashar lots of it doesn't mean that he blames russia for that and also doesn't mean that he supports russia on its policies well actually we have to take a very short break now but maybe we'll be back in just a few moments stay tuned. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s.
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back to worlds apart with alex eclipse nick of middle east expert at the russian international affairs council alexei let me pick up on the point that we were discussing just before the break the suppose that the chemical attack i think all sides are now asim aiding you mentioned kurdish sensibilities of turkey earlier and my understanding is that russia is trying to be attentive to those. at the cost of a defacto partition of syria even though it's not quite clear whether turkey would be interested in that now i've seen some reports in western media about. some kurdish forces to be realigning themselves with the syrian army especially after the so-called american betrayal in the aftermath of a offering offensive do you think that is something that maybe i'm drawing air though on your and making him a little bit more concerned about where both russians and the syrians stand at the
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moment that's one hundred percent right and that's already been held true rounds of reconciliation talks between representatives of the kurds over a few ideas and syrian government in damascus so no deal yet struck but there are good. prospects for that and also played into hands of both syria damascus and in moscow because that actually makes her more nervous and more negotiate on terms like that yeah we have russians who are partners with damascus and they also have quite good connections and ties with kurds so russia could be a broker between kurds and the mask of the kurds and turks to finally reach a deal which will take into account concerns of both kurds turks and and and syrian government now old. three leaders at these tech run meeting paid lip
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service to syria's territorial integrity do you think though they conceptualize in the same way do you do they understand that in a similar fashion. it's quite tricky question because all three powers have their forces on the ground two of them russia and iran on official request of the syrian government and turkey is not and we can hear from syrian media that syrian officials call constantly turks as a. prince because their presence there illegal so i think it's just you know for sake of appealing to offer the ear that here we're committed to this syrian territory integrity which is in fact i mean it's in fact it's in. all three interests because if we hypothesize and that kurds were a tony or even the no. independent state that will be a precedent that will be followed by you know kurds in other countries in the rock
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in iran the in turkey but i think the kurdish question is now is not the only question to consider here. i think the refugee issue is also a very pressing for example the u.n. envoy in syria stefan de mistura said the other day that there as many as ten thousand al-qaeda connected militants in the province and they if you add to that family members the figure could be three four times as much the question sooner or later arises where is that population going to be settled because all the powers that supported them throughout the syrian conflict are not eager to take them in turkey definitely filled its own border you know not happy about or it's not excited about letting in more refugees or more militants into its territory and to play the devil's advocate to the russian position where do you think those people could be settled if not. in some sort of an aaton the most region on turkish border
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because those people i mean the diehards could die hard but that still leaves a sizable population of civilians who do not want any sort of reconciliation and any sort of the official syrian authority on the ground and i think that's one of the plans in mind during negotiations that. certain area on syrian turkish border would be necessary because i mean the us as you mentioned it's impossible either you need to eliminate all this forty or fifty thousand. militants with their families so it means with women with kids so of course it's impossible so they should be certain. deal on that and as far as tokyo or any control it's quiet. prolonged area of borders with syria and also territories in the north so that they might so of. transitional you know area off settlement of those going to russia or syria for
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that matter or iran for that matter would trust turkey with the of the minister into administering of that area that might be not only turkey mr area but also with you know u.n. observers or not even the u.n. observers but the russian military police which already played quite. positive role in syria's north in golan heights. so that might be an option now an important player here is iran and the turkish iranian relationship is just as complicated if not more than the turkish russia relationship it was interesting that president are the one referred to president rouhani ascii brother during the summit but surely you would agree that these brotherhood is not without its complications what is the iranian short term and perhaps medium term objective in the bleep i think is iran here is in. is in the best position because i mean. when he sees his two friends
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going over no struggling are gay and he's like you know sting a sign of the a monkey watching i was it right right right and that but it was a monkey but. iran has secured is presence in syria i mean one hundred percent the only question is that what will be the degree overrun in military press and or comic presence in syria so for iran it's not really a. priority to see what happens with it but on the long run of course it's in iran's interest that damascus would gain control of one hundred percent of the territory because that would mean more access to the syrian territory but iran willing to wait a little bit is that what you mean that iran is not rushing so yeah now both president rouhani and president begrudge the american presence in the eastern are you afraid region much more so than president putin why is that why is russia
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at least from my perception a little bit less. obviously acting c.e.o. of the americans being there in the first place because it's putting the who will negotiating with americans that because i don't believe to trample in good shape the rouhani. on that so that's kind of like putting playing on a safe side here so i'm supporting this idea that you know foreign forces. legally. in syria should be must leave but in the same at the same time is like keeping his retore quite low on that but one of the things that president rouhani specifically addressed during the summit he said that the issue of the history afraid you'll have to be settled second off to the question is decided and i wonder how can it really be settled i mean democrats are not going to pack up and leave just because the russians or even the iranians are asking them to
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one hundred percent and that's i mean from my point of view. the issue of is way more important than it lip like yes off to live for a deal i mean or it was settled and then you have i mean it is not that much important as you for it is for the long term syria the reconstruction or will be all all of the oil and gas and refining of course of course and their kurdish areas which are well established in terms of administration in terms of governance so they're quite sustainable and incorporating back. into the under the damascus control is one of the most important tasks well actually it's been a wonderful and exciting conversation thank you very much for being with us today and encourage our viewers to keep it going on our social media pages and hope to see you again same place same time here on worlds apart.
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