the common ground, the the profit headlines, hero analogy, international disturbing images about doing it. hundreds are reported killed in syria. the nation becomes of side of mass executions of the hand of the new government authorities. now for the day, in a row, with the situation deteriorating in syria, local for you to the level and then a simple attempt to save their lives. some of the ongoing time we left and crossed the river in order to survive and provide for our children. so we left and came here, they are killing christians and l. whites based on their identity. if i show my face and they see it, they will slaughter my family. this is the catholic church of saint george and that the guy of this was targeted in it is ready as striking october at least 8 people were killed behind me. as i took shelter in this building,

at least 5 of those are believed to be civil defense work, cuz it is a trail of death and destruction following israel is continued phone bod, window of southern lebanon. spider officials claiming that only a handful of military sites have been targeted. you're seeing it right there. those are the remains of churches left in the story with the top stories all the hour and all of the week. it's so good to have your company for the traditional sunday weekly program here on out to the engine top story and to syria. we go west for both. so coming in now of mass executions of civilians of the hands of the new governments, minutes and fulls. i should warn you, there are disturbing images coming your way and you want verified images. so if you're going on a social media showing the fatality of what's happening in syria and have a look at it right there, that's a car running of a body on the street as others beaten on the sides of the road is now i made the

ramp and executions of religious minorities miller since i'm loving that victims. i've tried the meanwhile reports are coming into the whites and christians who are being prosecuted for the rid of just believes are fleeing to the russian. come, i am an ad based on the mediterranean coast. know that we have made, let's hockey a base journalist about the blood shed in syria. he says, despite promise was from damascus to end. the violence of tax continued targeting entire families and villages. and his voice, by the way, has been changed for his protection. and there was other classes between uh, also boilers and the teachers with ministration. because of disclosures, lawyer was pointed with ministration teams and masks of numbers from the other settings before it shouldn't the hundreds if like the dodgers, there's families with golf competition. you please just started going into the privilege of furnished by the new child swells due to old men, women and children. so the powerlessness folder or money,

or the state because the front of duplicate the to do was massacres, happened in the suburbs of the fall semester. to go up on y'all's also be have to do. they have uh too many of them. they also bring to the look on the, on the words of the other subjects they have to do something for me is there's no way you can start to look at your industry goals, where everyone was to, to come out of that house. is it from the shops a few shops? so it been a, this new brand new setting the butcher doors. you'll sort of need 3 or 4 times. the parsers of the situation is too much finish. no one is able to put in there is promises from the window station to put an end to, to, to what's happening or to pull out the fighters or the loyalty is but the most and try to do been doing massacres through snowboard, move in by meals in the to the how the started and bo show button, what do you

a do for the jews? the city on the goals is just stuck. we're living in the mid sentries. but in the $21.00 sentence, the additional human rights also because husband was alternate to $6440.00 was old, one for $40.00. the situation was too much for under additional international, held their support to put introduce genocide and behavioral cost that these criminals, i believe the domestic out in syria has done locals into refugees. situation simply, watson's by today in groups of syrians continue heading towards on level people are simply trying to find safe refuge and they say their ethnic identity is put a target on that box. we were displaced, we left in cross the river, taking out children with us. not being able to sleep under the shedding on the situation is very bad. it is no longer possible to live in syria anymore. there are

no schools, so they shut down the clinics. they came and took away over medicine and doctors leaving us with nothing. we have nothing left to tool even though until the last moment we continued fighting in syria in order to survive and provide for our children. so we left and came here was the, they are killing christians and l. whites based on their identity. we want protection and help. we want international protection as we christians are being slaughtered. if i show my face and they see it, they will slaughter my family. everyone fled well, at least now, the european union has broken its silence on the blood, shred and syria. however, it lays all the blame on pro aside groups without any mention of the actual government militant forces that are in broad daylight. executing north in europe and union strongly condemns the recent attacks, reportedly by pro a side elements on interim government forces in the coastal areas of syria and all

violence against civilians are causing a lot of alto legendary john list, an editor of margaret, a bitter old martin j now sharing this sunday with us here at all to the international mountain and very well welcome to you. this story. it goes from bad to worse. we've seen the footage of mass killings in syria, but now that he was come out. and boy, oh boy, the blame game is getting off. i piracy very much on the wrong foot. the you condemning the victim all these executions? can you help me understand the blame game martin? i wish i could. um, it does seem preposterous. it best doesn't to, um, i think could be used not very good at doing may a cobra. it very, very rarely, everett met smith made a mistake. it doesn't really have a form policy in the same way that member states do, or america does. it has a, some form published on paper or something seriously like of which people find you about as something come quite concrete. but this statement is really worried,

isn't it? you know, um, we've had weeks now. all of us live on the land and how those like, how does the color, the renew foreign policy cheese into that, you know, a massive amounts of restructuring age are available now to new soon machine. but we need to see better government. now this has happened. i mean, this is just an expensive this no, really looking at this ethnic cleansing unit does the, you know, just close the size and pretend that this is just just a scuffle between 2 ethnic groups that been each others throats. forget talk about that. all this takes them often. yeah, i'm sorry to jump in, but i apologize. but you make such a good point. i mean to is brussels now going to have to come out and, and call a spade a spade as if it didn't see this coming motion. i so i think that besides if that statement holds and um on, on all the leaders and brussels a, some of the lower the land and a few of the heads of other institutions all support then the situation is quite

worrying because you know, those terrorists who are now in pop in damascus of the same terrace that donald trump and his 1st mountain office in his 1st home. in january, 2017, was fighting his american forces, afflictions those in iraq. and then they moved over to syria. if you remember, he, you know, he blues on trumpet a lot missed he was talking a lot and press conferences. and if i attribute of way of, of destroying ices dash in the region, you know, for the best pieces debilitating. so in the entire region, if not the well, now, you know, old issues late. so now those same hate test flights is under eligibility or what are big lifecycle themselves these days and they're supposedly kind of keep a straight face. i mean, they have choices, very creative, so i shouldn't be flippant, but they all supposedly west of metal eyes. so i mean, this is no, you know, this a nightmare scenario of western photo soliciting for him policy which simply cannot

be consistent. and this is a real problem is not with the inconsistency is the years later when you are you a one minute you're fighting terrace in 2017, when trump was doing that, he had the support by the way of a random has black, which is not reporting the tool by west of charlotte, you know, but in how we do a full circle. i think you'll be really, really interesting now, but we're today to see what statements come from, from trumpet ministration or the state to com. yeah, i mean, i'd love to see it happen frankly. i'd love to see what's going to be coming out of those places right now, because at the end of the day, as you said through all sorts of forms, whether it be usa id or there are other little front. so the c i is you said the financing, all kind ices that today at our show i'm and yeah, you know, here we have what is, as you say, ethnic cleansing happening in syria. some people are saying, well, it's in delani is beloved, almost al. sure. i, it's in as genetics, it's this kind of persecution, of religious minorities will continue some a saying that others are awesome. that legitimate question, is there any way that this new regime in damascus would actually willingly move on

to live on in peace with minorities in this area? it's hard to imagine. they will be more willing to live with minorities. i work with minorities the previous regime, the new set ration you know, um is this a government was far from perfect it. i'm not particularly a fan of a sudden let me be clear. but the one thing he did was he stopped rival ethnic groups from coffee each other's throats. that's was, that was really the signature of his reign is a respect to minorities and minority human rights. so i think if they, if this new group, you know, which is it's a terrorist group. i mean, that's cool. display despite is a terrorist group, you know, these are terrace and it's not the 1st time it's fall from the 1st time in contemporary history. that the americans of a supportive terrace, you know, i mean, i remember big journalist, bedroom, 2015 and writing up a story about the to,

to doesn't live the 12 groups a line to okay to which was supported, supported with cash. but the above, above administration. so this is nothing new here. you know, this is something that we've been dealing with quite some time, but i think uh, some analysts coming out and saying it's gonna be very difficult now for trump to carry on any sort of support whatsoever. you know, he's gonna have to have some pretty tough chokes. yeah. with nothing you in as well to say, look, you know, keep going stream is in order because we can't really keep the lead on this for much longer. i mean, you know, i was just going to ask you to let you get auditor on this martin if you could actually offer the american president a little bit of advice from your end of things. what would you tell from to listen to advises. i mean, it's something he doesn't do. he's got some pretty tough people working for him. you know, who understand them at least. and what we don't want right now is for this situation to escalate and for trump to be flippant. and to just reacts with these uh, of the costs kind of policy decisions and may be started

a lever on supporting the code so north even further with more equipment, more homes. and you know what we're holding, warring is a clash, or was some sort between that group and the present regime in h t s, which is basically as well as a, as well as, as well as backing them. and what we need now is sobriety long term planning, and from trump to sit down until the people in the region and really understand what's going on and how it can be diffused. you know, how do you work with terrorists? you know, i've been running in my own opinion pieces for the last few months. the problem with supporting extremist groups in the middle east is up some point. they stick a knife in your back. yeah. it's just a question of time. you know, and so, you know, the inconsistency of america in particular i think has let us to this situation now where we just have to absolute confusion and for the you to make that statement today, i think is belief that we have anybody in brussels with, with basically a 6 pack of toilet rows of i q between

a is to actually even understand the situation to make a statement like that is just rank stability. yeah, we have to really wonder whether the eu has now its own agenda in syria and in the middle east, which would not really up to speed with which the keeping us little secret, you know, to, they really want to support juliani and you know, is this a push for me as well as israel is used as influences money much more than we ever imagined. they, they, they could do, you know, the last few days of the obama administration, rory, you know, this policy slip through eunice, this just slipped through to let some, this, this terrace group in it live in the north, to basically take of the syria and a bloodless coon, i wonder what do was drop to between netanyahu and bytes, and whether it had been planned for weeks on, on, you know, or just in the before the trump admission took over. but now is from the problem. yeah, i mean, he does have a problem with the middle east guy that's or so good to get you on the program. talk about talking sign, i'd say with the legendary john les martin j also. editor is not great,

but all good, so good to get you on the program. always grateful. thank you martin. thank you. let's take the conversation further here. what are the international costs a lot? that's why senior correspondent motor, i guess the, by the way, who spends many years reporting all up and down syria motor out. it's good to get you want to quickly here on the sunday program, we've been seeing the footage of these mass killings in syria. and now the e. u is condemning the victims. can you help me understand how this blame game is on folding right now as well? these, these new opinions statements of come, of some of which just even to europeans themselves. i mean reading some of the things, the listing pundits social media. i'll say it's the sag, it's insane. and then these are the ones in deception by the european union tried

to blame the victim for being butchered them in their intelligence. todd villages being suppressed, being tortured new delays of ho ross, hill or ease absolute incorporated's. in the past, the european union, they referred to these processes to those who states this uprising in syria of pro asset which is entirely untrue. go my comments about incompetence. everyone with any of friends and colleagues or contacts in syria will tell you the not even that either what, which uh the, the 6, the, the, uh, the present, outside held for support of his off that you left. they viewed his, his exit from syria and fleeing syria as betrayal. they've you, everything that has transpired since of assets fault. there is no such thing as support for outside any more inferior amone's. even his club never the less

what we have seen ever since h t. has, has come to power is because it gives you the, as expected, they wanted to step in schools. i may have spent the months since they've come to power prosecuting. i was again, just remind everyone, the yellow tech, which a former president of syria by charlotte saw him from his support base, so to speak. nevertheless, a tiny minority in syria and minorities in syria, which either there are multitude of approved to be the enemy of h t s h e s. will the, the stream is sunni, is witness predominant. uh, in the northern, in the central, in the east. the, uh, sorry, the western parts of syria. they've hit the follow and then see it through a very hard lot. is lot web, but anyone who lives in a sunni muslim is anatomy that they've tries to put on a good face. you know,

civilized phase. we see the leader of age, he has paid for a more traditional jihad, this governments to, to sue's business. and this is a man who has said thousands of his own sizes to the depth of suicide bombings. this is an organization that is 2nd only to our uses in the number of suicide bombings that they've stage and they have gone now off to the minorities. the christians have so far kept more or less towards the visa, the broad. you know the refresher on top of the full name, it is the out of what it is. you know, it remains to be seen. what will happen? so these are, these are the remains to be seen. what will happen to the codes if a t s uh gets control of territories, where could the predominant g leave? you must understand that syria is very sick, tired country. so, in the same safety, you might have a neighborhood the belongs to the codes belong to the christian, belongs to the armenians,

all those aloe us. and is the reason of that much mixing outside of cities, such as you'd have damascus or level. and then the scenario us also at this time, the h t s, as in, like the former president by charlotte. so they, they don't care for minorities. they have the respects for minorities. all that they understand is that paula and zoom force and what we're seeing now is the consequence. consequences, you know, could have been full cause and was full cost. and now it is transpiring and the streets and serial. once again, all flooded with blood. what have custody of his senior correspondent joining us live here on the program. thank you to 11 know now here when i tell you what is really ministry, bob, bob and, and it's like a large scale destruction last year while jerusalem insisted it was on the

targeting hasn't blah military sites. the reality on the ground tells such a different story, have a look at this in southern lebanon, just weeks after a tentative sea spot with as well. the skate of the destruction becomes more power into the state policies, as well as less than the whole site of the south with the targeting of heritage and religious sizes to cry by the government as a war crime. what you can see for jaime, or the ruins of the time, the most k, and so the 11 and it was destroyed in this friday, and strike back in october in the 1st few months of the is righty. escalation of his aggression against lebanon. fortunately, nobody was in the most of the time, it was struck with no civilian casualties, but further up the road. around a week later, a civilian building was shot for workers from the civil defense were killed in that striking across the road from there is a graveyard where those graves have been desecrated. web very by the damage during

the is why the pump all, but now you have to remember of course, that these are so called precision strikes. so these buildings were targeted deliberately, by these ready forces on could constitute a war cry. it isn't just most of been destroyed, churches are, will say being targeted by as well. and the guy on his radio strike destroyed the 150 year old to that. so if the local catholic community paintings of st. job that in jesus the have on the was a christmas tree lies among the ruins. a that would know celebrations is a church was telling me to bind his writing this all account or this listen memory of those killed here. this is the catholic church of saint george and the guy this was targeted in and is ready as striking october. at least 8 people were killed behind me. as i took shelter in this building, at least 5 of those are believed to be civil defense work. cuz these way the defense full is also targeted the house of a priest. these are a cause,

a game we have to reiterate, well known as targeted strikes by these ready defense tools, they claim to be targeting militiaman. but again, of course, this is a religious building. i just been talking to 3 times inside of 2 in 1978 in 1992. again, during the is why the bombardment of southern lebanon, i'm once a game is being targeted and it was completely destroyed in the latest of those attacks, you're assessing when they've shopped a global permanent itself, with each the collective as well. that's an i thing and destroyed, go with the entire village. the my money most lives in ruins. o. c. u was the 1st crew to witness the optim off. following the sea side, entering, despises, ready to end, strides and gunfire. most destroyed, impinge about another. we know it's a really new cub. i sell in a graveyard, disagreed to the entire day as we drive across the south, a seemingly never ending number of religious buildings reduced to rubble. well, this is what remains of the mind is a most k in the village of i'm not certain southern lebanon,

very close to the is why the boulder it was very much on the front line of is rose from baldwin of lebanon. a number of strikes across if it is killed, a large number of civilians that just behind the you can see what is known as the monitors graveyard is here. that the has the resistance fighters all baby, but it too was hit in and is ready as strike with those fighters being denied dignity even in death is man who has always insisted that it's more was about defeating, has the law about the security. but it's targeting of religious and cultural buildings, graveyards and burials science further questions. the sincerity of such claims the psych was cavity targeted and the deliberate destruction of churches and most may be considered war crimes. yes, as we have seen, over and over again during was in lebanon and gaza, israel continues to actually totally impunity and never seems to face the consequences of his actions. this is these really for aussie in southern lebanon.

stateside we go here on the program where the us vice president is issued a statement online off the he said he was arrest while walking with his young daughter today while walking my 3 year old daughter, a group of slobber, ukrainian protesters, followed us around and shouted as my daughter grew increasingly anxious and scared, i decided to speak with the protesters in the hopes that i could trade a few minutes of conversation for them, leaving my toddler alone. nearly all of them agreed. it was a mostly respectful conversation. but if you're chasing a 3 year old as part of a political protest, you're the person. yeah, we took this conversation to follow the regarding opposition sentiment in america with international security consulting, role investments. but i think it's um, unfortunately, we see that happen quite frequently. um and i think because of the administration steps to try to in the conflict and actually stop the killing,

that's counter to a lot of a lot of parties are against them and. and so there um, yeah, they're there. they don't really care if it's a, it's a private time if it's a child that he's walk in as a child at that time period, they're just going to yell of them to as old signs of then wait and sign something just like good to go past of the russian embassy. your go to an activity. yeah, i remember going uh, taking a friend of mine who voted during the presidential election. people are demonstrating across the street crime to disrupt the voting. unfortunately, it's a negative impact this being a project and you know, inconsiderate demonstrations, inappropriate demonstration. so those what they were saying that is, um the, yeah that, that uh, that that is, uh, it just how this occurred. the situation. i think it portrays negative to negatively upon the demonstrators and potentially upon the uh,

the country itself. i know not everyones like that but, but it really, uh it, it doesn't kill it. actually probably probably, um, hurts uh the case. so now i understand many of the ukrainians uh, issues and stuff and then helping yeah. the story right there on the chest to around the continues online right now at all to dot com. but also across the telegram odyssey and the, [000:00:00;00] the, the rabbit collapse of the ottoman empire gave the arabs hold for independence. but

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a different tactic one old or favorite by donald trump. never admitting mistakes and repeating the same thing over and over again. what does this between the 2 presidents and their respective countries? like to discuss that, i'm now i'm joined by demetrius this left deputy director of the center for comprehensive. he repeating an international studies of the higher school of economics in moscow. mitre is good to see you again. thank you very much for your time. my pleasure. great to see to now i'm sure like most of us, um you found the exchange in the oval office? we did drop dropping. what are the main takeaways for you from? from that's past, oh my main think it weighs that the trump administration is really committed to ending the war as quickly as possible. they perceive the ukraine more as a winnable and as a distraction which prevents the united states from focusing on really important