to syria in the world. >>reporter: and that feeling of pride is one of the reasons syrians are buying the car, as it demonstrates the country has developed to a level where domestic car production is viable. we caught up with local businessman abdul hamid in a sham show room just outside damascus >>hamid: i decided to buy the sham car because it is well manufactured. it's a comfortable car witha nice design. and it's a car that was produced in my country. i had to buy it and i encourage every other syrian citizen to buy the sham car as it supports our country's economy and our national production. >>reporter: there is now another joint syrian- iranian car company operating, saipa, in the countryalthough some people question why syria is in the business of producing cars in the first place. >>husrieh: there is no use assembling cars while you can not be competitive in the international car market. it is not about import substitution any more it is about specialising and focussing on areas where we have compe

we have learned we need education to make things work syria -- to make things work. we have standards for food safety of. the standards work to protect public health. we have standards in a variety of fields. i think it is a viable strategy appear reagan -- a viable strategy. >> why did you come down? did you feel you were compromising the nutritional value? why did you think you could? >> the standard was half a cup. we thought five was a regional with -- we thought that was reasonable. perhaps when more people are eating vegetables, we will be able to get to these standards. >> you were basically doing the same thing the school district >> one thing i have heard from mcdonald's is there are studies that demonstrate that the toy is incentive to make on healthy choices -- unhealthy choices. why did you think they are spending the money? >> often when people are challenging a new policy, they say there is no study. we do not know if that would work. we cannot know if it works until we studied it to cure a good -- until we study it. they have the data on fell to the ch

get something in exchange from those third party third countries after it's imposed the sentiency in syria will number one i do not agree with these positions of the minister of defense saying i don't you wouldn't. i believe that russia is independent actor in this situation russia has all of this played a very significant role in discussions on iran and russia does still play an independent role in this aspect and nobody can. set pressure on russia because these relations with iran are too important for russia we do not want to spoil to damage these relations and we believe that these bilateral relations between iran and russia are much stronger than these episodes about. three hundred and and number two i think that. you know this is not about us trying to earn some more money a sound where else to get something else has an exchange of war you turn on the position on iran this is not the case we do lose our money here i am absolutely sure that this money will not become prince eight anyhow by any other partner of russia unfortunately i would have been happy if we both did but this is not

syria supplying hezbollah.iran supplying hezbollah and iran going nuclear. >> yeah, the world is short of perfect. i spent time with the russian minister of defense as well with prime minister putin. tried to convince them not to send those weapons to the russians, they are now sending extremely effective -- weapon with the dyament shuns of russia just -- with the men shuns of russia when you put it in the medicine ter -- mediterranean it is a weapon that can reach anyone, even your vessels coming to the eastern part of it. we tried to convince them until now we failed. i hope they will reconsider it. they also provide them with the best most advanced anti-aircraft missile systems. we hope they will consider these as well. >> greta: in terms of the peace process, the freeze on settlements that's been the 10 month moratorium ends within a week or so what can you tell me is the latest on that? >> it is not easy. for us it sounds bizarre to consider stretching it, because we basically did it as an unprecedented ge

i think education is the problem, not made donald syria and -- not make donald. -- mcdonald's. mcdonald's is not the problem. the parents get their food from mcdonald's and not from their -- sorry about that. it is not the problem how. also the problem is education. >> thank you spirited -- thank you. >> i wanted him to respond to some of the marks being made. thank you so much for being here. i think it is a fact that americans are not eating as many vegetables as they should. but does not mean we should not be taking many more efforts to try to move in that direction. she said few of the males would meet those standards. i would assume it is much greater at this point. it is an apples and oranges comparison. >> to explain what you mean by that. >> the survey that the doctor did? >> it is a survey of dietary histories and not what was in the play. a number of comments relayed to the feasibility. this is something the department really wants to hear about. so far the major concern seems to be about the vegetables. i think we would like to know what the barrier is. we know we ca

syria has always denied involvement. rescue teams have resumed their search for survivors of mud slide. authorities say 44 people have died. thousands more are at risk of flooding and landslides. south african trade unions have suspended their strike. more than 1 million civil servants will see the pay rise. union members say they will consider the latest offer. the spanish government has dismissed a cease-fire as insufficient after it said it will halt its violent campaign. the interior minister says they cannot be trusted. >> this was the moment they announced their cease-fire, but they do not say how long for. the reaction was unequivocal. >> they decided to stop because they cannot go on like this the spanish government remains skeptical. >> they began their violent campaign over four decades ago. it killed more than 800 people, but the wave of high-level of arrests have weakened the group. this government did hold talks in 2006, but they were shattered by a bomb. skepticism is shared by many spaniards. he says if th

and he said "making sure syria remains a secular state." do you have that fear at all about you are the economy? >> there's not any question, any debate on if turkey should be secular or not secular. there's a consensus on this use it's not a question that turkish not be a secular state. secularism means the fundamental part of the constitution. no one wants to change this. religious freedom for all the religion is different. but state and religion should be separated if they are unhappy with this. >> rose: what, then, worries you the most about the future of turkey? >> i stability in the region. >> rose: from? >> from middle east, asia, afghanistan, caucasus. it's why we're repeating security and stability. there's no stability and security there and as i said earlier it's very much important for us. because many conflicts, hot issues are around us. so therefore our attempt, our world and our insistence to contribute to the solution of the problems is appreciated. >> rose: appreciated and needed. so therefore has there been any progress in

resolution and an unconditional surrender by syria to you. be present turk that i have seen and i have here is not really a compromise i would call it an unconditional surrender to the european union this is not a compromise because for my. and i've understood the european union did not. get in exchange for this they gave nothing as usual and i'll just be asking for more. here syria is now really very much in the position of france underpaid it's not quite an occupied country but it's surrounded and it's sort of occupied and any leader or politics party which would really openly take into consideration serbia's interests is condemned by the western media as nationalists look what they have look we have and have always lived question rita which the united city use in order to get rid of milosevic but when he showed that he was still interested in his country's welfare he's known brand as an extreme nationalist and sidelined. still ahead for the next hour dangerous and on the run the famous russian martial artist who became an ultra nationalist

i was teaching english to iraqi and palestinian refugees as well as syria nationals in part of a program help iraqi refugees apply to college in the united states. shane was doing a little journalism. he has long been a courageous international journalist, focusing on the middle east. >> we have broadcast his report from iraq. >> i talked a lot about our politics, who we are. he was very friendly, especially gracious to my mother, concerned about her health and her upcoming surgery. he made a lot of the same statements he has made publicly all along, that he will make a strong plea to judiciary to be lenient with us, with shane and joshua, and he is feeling hopeful. >> talked about what happened 14 month -- talk about what happened for two months ago, talk about why you're on the border and what you're doing in northern iraq. >> in damascus, syria, and extremely beautiful place, but there are not many green mountains. a friend of mine and was also teaching the same program i was teaching at in damascus, a year ago for he to me about his hiking trip in northern iraq and kurdistan, a semi

he said lebanon and his -- and syria have historic relations and investigations into his father's killinge been misled by false testimony. rescue teams in guatemala removed -- resume their search for survivors after heavy mud slides and rain. authorities say at least 40 people have died. hundreds have been released -- remove from their homes and thousands more have been displaced by flooding and mudslides. more than 1 million civil servants walked out, demanding an 8.5% pay rise. the government has offered 7.5%. union leaders say they will now consider the latest offer. the spanish government has dismissed yesterday's announcement of a cease-fire by the basque separatist group etta as insufficient. the spanish interior minister says the group cannot be trusted and that etta must rebound -- renounce violence forever. >> this is the moment that etta announced its cease-fire, declaring that their armed attacks have ended. but they did not say how long for and there is no mention of etta giving up its arms. the reaction from the spanish government was unequivocal, etta has to renounce violenc

arrived in belgrade loaded their trucks immediately and two days later they were unloading them in syria of a book aided city that really needed humanitarian aid food in the made a sense to literally save people from perishing or to you know were given our current drove through the mountains in the cold of winter and along the way they helped this swedish team and there were vehicles that were stuck because we had come us six by six trucks with great drivers so on the one hand. this is how you establish close ties with colleagues from other countries and on the other hand the un declared immediately that they couldn't do without the russian crew any more and indeed for the next afford to seventy years we were doing un tasks all the time but we were delivering aid to the most difficult areas of the closed and comm swer battles were reaching across the front lines and so on representing the us such was our first experience that began in one thousand nine hundred three so this is soyuz headlines does the russian emergency ministry rescues twelve people in our charge that makes for one perso

and actually we surprised everyone when we beat many european countries and showed up in syria in response to the un call for help it is the well ahead of many other countries that were involved in the operation he's going to chose this story that if you go in one thousand nine hundred ninety three we signed an agreement with the office of the united nations high commissioner for refugees and we learned from experience self swedish and german crews. we saw that things were going bad in yugoslavia where they had the war ahead the battle of who. had breast cheese and of course russia couldn't stay away from it but i wouldn't just send supplies here we said we would have to fully participate in the humanitarian operation. and we made our decision in december the government approved it in january and in early february or in the crew when we departed from the ganske and. of course we selected professionals who knew how to drive in the mountains they arrived in belgrade loaded their trucks immediately and two days later they were unloading the dam in syria of a book aided city that really needed

george mitchell is in syria now. there is tension rising now in and around gaza. >> absolutely. on both sides of the divide, there are those that do not want these talks to continue. hamas has made clear what it thinks of these talks. that this is not the way to get palestinians their rights back. israeli settlers are also adamant that prime minister netanyahu shall not give in. they want him to continue building in the settlements. the tensions are there. the obstacles are there, but the american administration seems quite confident that it can move this process forward, and it is now moving on to the regional approach with this trip by george mitchell to syria and lebanon. >> many thanks indeed for that. pope benedict's visit to britain is intended to improve strained between catholics and anglicans, but just hours before he arrives, one of his senior advisers has pulled out, pleading ill health. hard, though, not to suspect a possible connection with an interview just published in the german magazine. in it, he talks of an aggressive atheism's spreading in britain, and he com

vulnerable today said does it make does it make an easier it needs it target for a possible attack syria to calais yes but in practical terms no because the most important part of the russian position right now in the iranian context is to prevent any use of. military force or threat of using military force towards iran so the real target is to reach iran has right now is either to continue its program and similar tenuously to strengthen its defensive potential in order to protect itself against any possible military service is alternative number one but as derivative number two which is much more logical which is much easier which is much closer is to start good cooperation with the international community in order to eliminate any risks of being attacked and this is the choice which we hope iran will sooner or later make but which is the which is does not make now unfortunately and we will continue to protect the iran in terms of preventing the use of military force against this country but we will continue to set pressure on iran in terms of this resolution in terms of economic sancti

quote he would have worked through the whole lot iraq syria iran dealing with all this sort of gets in the course of it hezbollah hamas except for in other words he thought the world had to be made a new and that after the september eleventh it had to be done by force and with urgency so we've gone through all that long he didn't say that in those meetings but you know dick was always absolutely hardline on these things but i think he would openly evolve this his worldview was that the world had to be remade up to september eleventh but you can't dismiss that cheney view and say well that's just that's stupid ok tony blair saying we can't dismiss cheney's view as stupid dick cheney megalomaniac warmonger are guilty of war crimes. insider trader created the insider panel with the bush administration father of the enron scandal father of the how the burton scandals father of the scandals over there. blackwater now xe he is evil incarnate when ronald reagan talked about the axis of evil it was dick cheney his mirror image and the mirror image of his mirror image he is the father son and h

the gateway to our final location syria still has the three hour car journey from moscow this out as a base will face of magnificent lot of strays bright and in domes quite village streets and russian traditions so join me martin on his for a final program on russia's golden ring talk in. the town was first mentioned in the russian chronicle in the at ten twenty full time of peasant revolt in the area every one hundred years later its home became the capital of the real stuff su still principality it's actually quite difficult to come here by public transport strains only go as far as got to be in the lead to get a bus from there the best transport method is by car the journey takes about four hours in order to promote national and international tourism in the one nine hundred sixty s. the soviet government decided to turn soused into a major tourist center and ever since it's become a museum town of ancient russian arts and architecture but it's not all about quite countryside exhibitions and ministries. are lucky because the various bell ringing sessions around town. this will wake

norway have signed an agreement dividing the borders of the area around the the barren sea environ syria other between them showing with their example how these kinds of disputes can be solved diplomatically and this forum is all about diplomacy and about coming to an agreement with a new military station all of. the idea of developing those. energy reserves that lie in the arctic. and there will be bringing you more live in exclusive coverage of international forum in moscow throughout the day here in r.t. . now on the way deemed psychotic and dangerous find out member of the band russian nationalist party managed to break out of a psychiatric ward leave the country without getting caught. the biggest political forum in the world is continuing in new york tackling the globe's most pressing problems such as poverty and hunger but as you'll see in a couple of minutes it's the vilified world leaders such as the iranian president who are stealing all the headlines from nato and russia the gathering has become a place where they can try to see eye to eye on a situation reports. one of the mo

have signed an agreement dividing the borders of the area around the the barren sea in the veyron syria other between them showing with their example how these kinds of disputes can be solved diplomatically and this forum is all about diplomacy and about coming to an agreement with no military zation all of. the idea of developing those. energy reserves that lie in the arctic. bringing you more than ever exclusive coverage of the international forum in moscow throughout the day here ninety. well the way deemed psychotic and dangerous that our member of a band of russian nationalists party managed to break out of a psychiatric ward and leave the country without getting caught. now the world's biggest political forum is under way new york tackling poverty hunger and other global issues as we'll see in a couple minutes it's the world leaders that america loves to hate such as the rain president who are stealing the show and nato sees opportunity to hold important talks a situation reports. one of the most important events of the day has been the russian nato council meeting where sides agr

a lot of my friends were lebanese and from syria. i had yewish and irish american friends.our identities were mixed. my sense of being american was being in a mix of things. >> margaret could you also reflect in a prior conversation you talked about your father had a sense of where he came from and it was a little more difficult for your mom to articulate that? >> sure. mother's side is irish american my father come from a different heritage. he is a genealogy. he traced his family all the way back to the times when they moved from spain to a region of france. that's where his family came from as peasants in 1850. and for generations, his family members had been going back to this place to visit their distant cousins. they knew exactly where it was. i was thinking that was a year after my irish american family came here. why don't my irish american family know this information. i want to try to find out what it is. i didn't know at that time what i was undertaking. i heard it said with irish american it's not genealogy it's archaeology. i found out about that later. it's ex

. >> thank you syria -- thank you. >> i am opposing the ordinance. i am speaking as a mother of three children and grandchildren of six children. i think the ordinance is wrong because it takes away people's responsibilities for themselves and for the children. today we have numerous people speaking. there is no doubt we do have an epidemic. thank you for pointing out an occasion for people to solve this issue. this is getting worse. we can work together. the scope of the problem is serious. we eat at fast-food, but most of the time we eat at home, so when you eat at a restaurant, it is easy to point a finger at a restaurant, and if they are the ones causing the problem, they provide food people want to eat. we do have a standard to guide us as to how to eat, and i think most of the restaurant industry does try to comply. i think consumers have plenty of choices including mcdonald's to reagan -- including mcdonald's the reagan we need to work together. >> what city did you live in? >> i have a mcdonald's if business in the city appear reagan >> how d

at the time of our arrest, we were working in the middle east and living in damascus, syria. shane, my fiancee, is a courage and international and talented journalist. i taught english to iraq we and palestinian refugees and syrian nationals. josh is anennvironmental teacher who arrived in syria as our guest less than a week before our arrests. after leading the study abroad program about global health challenges, our humanitarian work in different areas is what attracted shane and josh and i to each other and laid the foundation for the strong relationship the three of us enjoy. my hope is that by learning who we are and how we came to be in this diverse and fascinating region of the world directly from my lips, it will help clear up any doubts and end shane and josh's de detention. i intend to talk about these issues more in the days and weeks ahead because it is time to clear up the misunderstanding that lead to our imprisonment. i also officially believe that now is the time to make the world a little safer for everyone through peace and dialogue. i believe that our trage

. >> they had jobs ing syria. >> we committed no crime and we are not spies. >> reporter: iraqi presidentrrived in new york on sunday to join the u.n. assembly and president mahmoud ahmadinejad that it was a humanitarian gesture. >> the united states government should make humandatary release. >> i love him so much. i want him home for his father, for this berg his brother and grandparents. ouncil is expected to address concerns over iran's nuclear program... ahmadinejad says his government does not want an atomic bomb... but does want the u-s to accept iran as major power. he's not the first police officer to come out in favor of prop 19... e the first to do >>> she's not the first police officer to come out in favor of prop 19, but might be the first to do it on horseback. she is making a statement to win votes to legalize marijuana in california. >> i had two ladies in their 80s to be the horn for a two thumbs up. the state of california is saying yes. >> he rode across the conto end the federal war on drugs. >>> all right. lawrence is here. we usher in fall but it showed up already. >

syria, lebanon. the issue of... which was just endorsed by the united nations and nonproliferation treaty review conference. namely that we must move forward to create zones free from weapons of mass destruction. it's all interrelated and if forces used against the a country like iran the consequences, i don't even want to discuss it because i hope that reason would prevail and that the people who have this idea would not be prevailing. >> rose: the bbc reported that a deal for russians to sell defense missile was... had been canceled. and does that say something about how you view the iranians? >> we have a complex relationship with iran. it's our great neighbor, we have centuries of relationship. we have very many things which unite us, including trade, economic ties, energy projects, caspian sea. and iran is a very old civilization. it's a very rich culture and we have cultural exchanges for centuries. so the links, mutual links are very well rooted and very well established. and we want iran to be a stable count