nabil el-araby referred. also in article viii of the charter of the league of arab states in this context we stress exclusive responsibility of the syrian government in the preservation of civic security in protecting from acts of destruction and sabotage undertaken by armed forces, armed elements and not peaceful demonstrators. in accordance with syrian law as well as international agreements to which syria is departing including civil and political rights, instead of respecting international law and in the context of feverish attempts to interfere in the affairs of syria by co-sponsors of the resolution against syria, some of whose officials who have suddenly fallen in love with the syrian people after an emotional hibernation through centuries, those who foolishly dream of the return of colonialism through these resolutions and concocting new terms to justify interference in syrian internal affairs. to misleading public opinion, exactly mimicking exactly what they did when they misled public opinion, when

it's mostly due to the oil sanctions which are having the biggest trickle down effect says economist nabil >> we are encouraging exports to iraq and iran and trying to find markets for our crude oil, trying to find sources for our import -- product imports. >> reporter: syria cannot refine enough oil products like diesel to meet local demand. sanctions are making imports a challenge causing prices to go up and virginia has even impacted the cost of some local products like chicken. "there needs to be a certain temperature maintained when the chicks are growing. it's a critical three-month period" explains this man. this needs heat and light. running the equipment requires diesel. as a result, the price of chicken, which used to be easily affordable for even the lower class, has gone up 20%. and it could get worse. >> what's also important is that the sanctions are pushing the government to go into protectionism and diversing its liberalization policies so this could be another victim of the sanctions going back to the old command economy tools. >> reporter: the sanctions are working though

arab league secretary general nabil. >> arab states aim at taking us as the syrian crisis in an arab context. we are attempting to avoid any foreign intervention. particularly military intervention. >> suarez: the draft resolution demands an end to the syrian government crackdown on the opposition. the plan would also require assad to hand over power to his vice president. that, in turn, is supposed to set the stage for a new unity government. the resolution before the security council says if assad fails to comply within 15 days, he could face unspecified further measures. despite the threat that syrians showed no signs of giving ground. >> the syrian people were always capable of solving its crises and internal problems alone. it has never accepted any form of foreign intervention in its internal affairs and affairs of its homeland syria. >> suarez: but it may never come to that. russia, a key syrian ally, has veto power in the council and foreign minister sergei visiting australia today called the resolution a path to civil war. >> i hope that knowledgeable people, reasonable peop

understand and probably both sides of the nabil do that the payroll tax cut at this point while quite popular does also have some current stimulus effect. i am afraid at times we need to be hoisted on our own language at some point and eliminating that would be viewed as a tax increase at some point in to this year going forward personally would like to see if the economy continues to improve that automatically phase out. i am concerned that as well it looks like the house leadership now after a great deal of talk about fiscal responsibility may try to extend that without paying for it of all people i think that is totally irresponsible and against the grain of everything that this committee both the chairmen of the ranking member have been about. all i personally would be opposed to that. if we are going to do it on would pay for it. but i guess what i am asking is what should we look at as the metrics on economic growth that would allow us to take on the deficit reduction with the revenue side increases and the entitlement side reductions to get us back in the greater balance. secur