or western governments proclaiming the syrian national council to be the legitimate representative of the syrian people when even the syrian people are deeply divided over the legitimacy of the s.n.c. right there are a number of other groups there's s.r.c. there's the n.c.c. there are a number of individuals that have broken with the n.c.c. or even resigned from the n.c.c. recent sorry from the s.r.c. recently and so it's it's not necessarily a given that the s.n.c. maintains the legitimacy that it needs to lead the opposition and it's not it's not clear that the s.n.c. is even technically leading the opposition on the ground i mean it is primarily an exile organization so in terms of how that plays out on the ground and whether that group actually has legitimacy to move the uprising forward whether the s.n.c. is responsible for the mass protests or even the violent conflict that that's currently going on in syria that's unlikely at best and so even if it maintains that momentum even if the u.s. provides it with arms and weapons and things that doesn't necessarily mean that it's going

the rebellion gets boosted by arms for a broad now there is a split at the top as exiled syrian national council has been slammed by the opposition committees in syria with the syrian national council chief said he stepped into it israel reignites the palestinian conflict by shell are reportedly shelling gaza wounding seven people this is television pushes ahead with efforts to barricade itself against its arab neighborhoods. union joins us now with all the way to spoil the biggest day of the year for russian ice hockey fans is upon us it certainly is not there's been one shock already today at the world championships russia will be hoping norway can't record another one more not in just the second. this is for today this thursday afternoon and such a moscow plenty had including. continental time to take a look at the republic of ireland today in our continuing series on euro twelve hopeful. stage wins from four this year at the tour of california the united states most prestigious cycling event. on the ice breaker we catch up with the swedish coach to do what's never been done before when russi

. >> the largest opposition leader, syrian national council president burhan ghalioun visited japan last week. how crucial is his role in the conflict? >> he's one of the key players. japan, the u.s., europe and many other countries recognize his council as one of the legitimate representatives of syria. now he's pushing them to play a more active role in the country's affairs. he came to tokyo to ask the japanese government for even stronger support. in an interview ghalioun said there was a fatal blow in a peace plan drawn up by u.n. special envoy kofi annan, as well as in the u.n. security council resolution. >> translator: assad is taking advantage of weakness and division in the international community. annan's plan allows assad's regime to use its power to oppress people. there has to be a resolution in the security council that enables the use of actual force against the current regime. >> ghalioun wants the security council to adopt a new resolution allowing military operations if syria's government fails to comply with the cease-fire. he also said he won't accept any solution th

the syrian national council is the main opposition grouping. it's the one that has most international backing. but it has 300 members representing different interests in a deeply divided country. the s & c has been beset by power struggles between competing factions and it has no control over the military campaign being waged by the free syrian army. the most damaging charge is that the syrian national council has squabbled while billions have died. this man spent 10 years in the regime's prisons. he quit the s.n.c. earlier this year. what do the activists inside syria, whom you deal with all the time, feel about the s.n.c.? >> they feel he failed to do anything, not anything happened inside syria. >> the international community is frustrated too at the opposition's failure to agree a political plan for the future. current leader of the s.n.c. is this politics professor who's lived in paris for the last 30 years. isn't the big problem here that you are so incompetent and so divided as an opposition? translator: do you think people who have live

getting more weapons but also having a leadership crisis to contend with the turkish based syrian national council has been disavowed by the opposition coordination committees in syria the head of the s.n.c. says he's stepping down british based journalist neil clark thinks the opposition has lost credibility the syrian national council we knew before this week that they were very fractured in divided opposition anything that unites these people the regime and these are the very people close to the west wants us to believe are a government in waiting and it's quite clear that these bunch of jokers couldn't run the going to shop i mean if they were put in charge of one shot they'd be arguing about the price of coffee and the idea that the s.n.c. can actually birthplaces everything and if they really have the level of support they claim to have they claim that they've got over sixty percent support it why did they put their names will the elections of us we can see here we've got a democratic framework so the domestic problems through elections president assad and said that the elections last week s

custody as the rebellion gets boosted by arms were abroad but there's a split at the top exiled syrian national council has been slammed by the opposition committees in syria but the s.n.c. chief said to be stepping down. plus israel reignites the palestinian conflict reportedly shelling gaza wounding seven people this is tell of even pushes ahead before efforts to barricade itself against its arab neighbors. next an economics leader writer for britain's guardian newspaper about what's needed to get greece and the entire region back on track. today i'm talking to dieter chakraborty who's an economics leader writer for the guardian newspaper we're talking as politicians increasingly start to discuss an exit for greece from the euro zone as you see chakraborty thinks that orderly all disorderly that exit will see disorder on the streets of greece d.c. thank you very much for talking to us today and we've recently seen these elections in greece which appear to have shown that the greek people reject austerity how long do you think that rebellion is going to go on for i think it's already been going on for

we're seeing a major split in rebel ranks with the exiled syrian national council disavowed by opposition coordination committees in syria how do you think that would affect the situation on the ground. well i think the syrian national council we knew before this week that they were very fractured in divided opposition anything that unites these people of the regime and these are the very people of course the the west wants to believe or a government in waiting william hague has praised them in the past and it's quite clear that these bunch of jokers couldn't run the corner shop i mean if they were put in charge of one shot they'd be arguing about the price of coffee and sugar. and so really the idea that the s.n.c. can actually replace the sound regime is ludicrous and if they really have the level of support they claim to have remember that they claim that they've got over sixty percent support if that was actually true about them why didn't they put their names for the elections to consider a democratic framework to sow the domestic problems in syria through elections president assad h

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a man says he is leaving his position with the syrian national council amid infighting. >> there were reports of renewed shelling by government forces. >> these images are set to show a soldier in the rebel stronghold. president assad's troops are trying to destroy the tower. the rebels have appealed to u.n. observers for help. the monitors have been unable to stop the violence so far. the syrian government appears to be showing little regard for the u.n.-backed cease-fire. more clashes had been reported. the army -- the rebel army refuses to surrender. the leader is trying to boost morale. he says the most important thing is discipline. another man, who says he is a disaster, voes to protect -- vows to protect the lives of civilians. he says the government is oppressing the syrian people. many took to the streets in protest against the government. >> stay with us. we will be back in one minute. >> welcome back, everyone. he is one of germany's's leaders who is trying to find a way out of the -- germany's leaders who is trying to find a way out of the eurozone debt crisis. on a thursd

. >> in other news, members of the opposition syrian national council appear divided over whether al qaeda may have been responsible for thursday's large bomb attack in damascus. at least 55 people were killed in the car bombings. the heads of the council suggested al qaeda could have been involved. the present regime says the blasts were the work of terrorists linked to the uprising. official results have been announced in nigeria's elections. the islamist -- islamist coalition taking third place. lower-than-expected. the chinese legal activist chen guangcheng said he has made no progress in his efforts to leave the country. he has not been able to apply for a passport. he has been at a beijing hospital since leading the american embassy, where he saw refuge after escaping house arrest. raw emotions were amazed today in oslo. the trial of anders behring breivik, the man accused of killing 77 people last july. the victims' relatives stood up and do a shoot at the man. he missed and the television cameras also missed the incident. our correspondent has this story from oslo. >> it has

. >> a member of the syrian national council. he is currently in the u.s. city of chicago. he's planning to meet nato officials there when they hold their nato meeting on sunday and monday. he told me he wanted the pressure to be kept up for president assad to resign. >> we've been, of course, we have not been invited since we are not a state or entity. but we do have some side meetings regarding the summit since we are pushing for nato to be a role in syria especially implementing the safety zone inside the syrian territories. the main issue to see if the civilians stay in syria. they need as you were port from nato member states. >> who will you be meeting out of the nato members that are there? do you have any explicit support from any of them? >> we have some meetings with different officials on the arabians and top officials to discuss syria. and according to our sources, nato may be consider thinking about studying this proposal because there is -- there is no much options left on the table. the outside regime continue the killings and the syrians cannot -- just can c

the rebellion gets boosted by arms from abroad but there's a split at the top the exiled syrian national council slammed by opposition committees in syria with the s.n.c. chief said to be stepping down. and israel reignites the palestinian conflict reportedly shelling gaza wounding seven this is television pushes ahead with efforts to barricade itself against its arab neighbors. up next the future of russia belarus relations in the spotlight stay with us. how again i walk into the spotlight the interview show on our team i'm al gore and all men today my guest. and i poured her heart of lot of the potent took office earlier in may you made a number of the media's decision one was to skip the g eight summit in the us which allows take away show in the media about which country would be chosen for putting the first presidential visit according to recent information it will be belarus russia's close neighbor and ally bilateral relations however suffered during the presidency i would lead to madrid so it was going to change in the near future how will the relations between russia and belarus develope

. >> in other news, members of the opposition syrian national council appeared divided over whether al-qaeda may have been responsible for thursday's large bomb attack in damascus. at least 55 people were killed in twin car bombings. the head of the council suggested al-qaeda could have been involved because of what he said were linked to the syrian government. but the president's regime says the blasts were the work of terrorists. the chinese legal activist chen guangcheng says he has made no progress in his efforts to leave the country. he told the bbc has not been able to apply for a passport. he has been in hospital since leaving the american embassy, where he sought refuge after escaping house arrest. a chicago jury has found the former brother-in-law of actress jennifer hudson guilty of murdering her mother, brother and nephew. he faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison. turning now to a scandal that has rocked the british political establishment, the former editor of two news international tabloids has been telling an ethics inquiry about her close relationship with top politicia

he has led the syrian national council by consensus rather than election since it was founded in octoberf last year. he was reelected in a vote held on tuesday. united states is suspending most sanctions against burma in response to reforms. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton will allow american companies to invest in burma, but an arms embargo will remain. and a chinese activist has given details of his torture and retribution they said they suffered at the hands of chinese authorities. the bbc has obtained the first interviews with his family members since he escaped from house arrest last month and fled to the american embassy in beijing, causing a diplomatic crisis. we have more from damascus. >> the human rights activist whose daring escape into the arms of american diplomats put china and america at loggerheads. for 15 days, he had been under guard at a beijing hospital. just how he managed to flee his illegal house arrest, and then adding dozens of guards watching him is becoming more clear. first, he had to scale the walls of his house. as he did, he fell and broke his foot.

in an exclusive interview with nhk, syrian national council chairman burhan ghalioun called on the international community to step up its pressure against the government. >> translator: the assad regime has colluded with terrorist groups in and outside the country to terrorize citizens and justify the crackdown. >> ghalioun said monitoring of the cease-fire and mediation efforts are not enough to halt the violence because of the differences among u.n. members. >> translator: the united nations security council should adopt a resolution that allows the use of military force against the assad regime if it fails to comply with the cease-fire. >> ghalioun also acknowledged the need to overcome divisions among opposition groups. >>> u.s. officials say they're ready to pursue a security council resolution that would eninclude an arms embargo against the syrian government if the cease-fire fails. >> any and all violence that results in the indiscriminate killing and injury of civilians is reprehensible and cannot be justified. >> the state department spokesperson said the tactics employed in the damasc

syrian people. this is exactly what we need to stop to bring the situation forward. >> in istanbul, members of the cerne national counsel said -- syrian national councild the u.n. monitoring mission is a failure and called for the world community to step in and stop the blood shed. >>> in his weekly address president obama said he will visit the vietnam veteran's memorial on monday as the u.s. marks the 50th anniversary of that war. >> it's another chance to honor those we lost at places like wai and kaison, danang and hamburger hill, and we'll be calling on you, the american people to join us in thanking our vietnam veterans in your communities. >> the president also promised to care for a new generation of veterans who served in iraq and afghanistan with healthcare, college funding, and jobs. >>> more than 3000 bay area boy and girl scouts paid their respects to fallen soldiers this memorial day weekend. there are more than 112,000 grave sites at the golden gate national cemetery in san bruno. today each one of them has an american flag waving right next it to. it took the scouts less than two hours to place a flag at each site. >> i know it means a

speculating about what could've caused this as a small army very because you've already seen the syrian national council that's the opposition group outside the country they've released a statement saying that they've accused the regime of using tactics to push the u.n. observers out now is really unfortunate this is something you see a loss in syria the back and false accusations from both sides and it happens a lot to really muddies the waters with the situation here now what we can tell you is that from what we've seen and we've been with the observers every day for the past couple of days is this more or less is service and sales and they say they are being welcomed facilitated by both sides not as not to say they're not violations happening from both sides incessant areas that they have been welcomed their presence is welcomed and it's having a small but noticeable effect in the areas that they are visiting now that's a fact they're also in areas that there are large on rest at the moment and in places like iraq and italy where we were last night there are criminal gangs operating. and there are fo

weapons from abroad the opposition remains split and anti-war activist jim brown says the syrian national council chief stepping down is just more proof of that. clearly you have an opposition that is and there isn't a single opposition bloc and there are those voices that are clearly calling for for intervention and there are those who are clearly against it and i think these those two tendencies in particular are afflicted in the splits in the opposition be united states has its own very special interest anyway and it would to some extent it would rely on its local allies but on the other hand would never see complete control to them so they would be working in parallel the united states would prefer a regime change as it's preferred outcome they would like to eliminate its part of opposition to iran. and i don't think that they consider there's a possibility of a favorable outcome if the syrian government remains in power and whatever they say whatever they talk about peace i think for them that's the dieties the bottom line and that is their objective. still to come this hour staring down the

strikes and boycotts to up the ante and then to introduce national front movements like the syrian national council or liberation army as like the free syrian army and the introduction of foreign advisors and foreign aid and foreign weapons into the conflict you know and bringing bringing sabotage and violence into urban areas and how to prop the population along the way so it's there in black and white and everyone should read it it's a road map to what's happening in syria well outside support for the iran of sort of syria's armed groups is no secret saudi arabia and qatar alone funnel millions of dollars to the rebels every month but as can each to cam reports it's not just cash and weapons being smuggled into syria by but ideology to. this is said to be an option taking place at a hotel in saudi arabia what's on sale is a human life the video shows a father offering his son as a suicide bomber into syria and reason money as compensation. for the more. we should be rumors of oh. yes no i don't think. we are you want to be. in the media. but chilling footage was leaked on the web we cannot indepe

strikes and boycotts to up the ante and then to introduce national front movements like the syrian national council or liberation army as like the free syrian army and the introduction of foreign advisors and foreign aid and foreign weapons into the conflict you know and bringing bringing sabotage and violence into urban areas and how to prop the population along the way so it's there in black and white and everyone should read it it's a roadmap to what's happening in syria so while washington actually succeed with tactics in syria which is presumably regime change and if it is regime change what happens what is going to replace assad how would it succeed in this type take. well i guess i won't even go that far i don't think washington will succeed i think washington has. used all the arrows and it's clever and we're seeing this increasingly the u.s. cannot launch a military war itself anywhere in the region any longer the u.s. cannot. use the un security council to pass inane resolutions any longer. mainly relies on sort of financial pressures like sanctions and and unconventional military tactics

rebels admit getting more weapons but are now faced with a leadership crisis to turkey based syrian national councilhas been disavowed by the opposition in coordination committees in syria the head of the s.n.c. is reportedly stepping down anti-war activist brian becker from the answer coalition thinks foreign powers are targeting damascus for regime change. sony arabia qatar they have their own interests in terms of reorganizing the middle east principally of weakening syria weakening iran changing the relationship of forces in lebanon but behind qatar and saudi arabia and even turkey which has its own regional ambitions is the united states is the nato countries the former colonizers of syria and the region who are committed to overthrowing the assad government and who i believe have crossed the rubicon now in terms of preparing for the all out intervention including military intervention by nato forces and remember turkey will be the gateway for nato as a nato power for the efforts by the west as they did in libya to use ultimately military power to overthrow a government and independent governme

working in parallel what about this split we've seen in the rebels' ranks the head of the syrian national council most saying he's going to step down how is that going to affect the conflict is going to change anything for the syrian people. i can't say whether it's seriously going to change things but clearly you have an opposition that isn't there isn't a single opposition bloc and there are those voices that are clearly calling for foreign intervention and there are those who are clearly against it and i think these are those two attended these in particular affected in the splits in the opposition. in the un is claiming too that iran is also sending weapons to syria what stake does to have in all this can you cast a light on that. well clearly syria is a longstanding iranian ally and it's the only one of its kind in in the region standing so that it wouldn't surprise anybody i think if iran was doing whatever it could to to prop up the syrian government i don't thing that would surprise anybody but was all this going i mean the u.n. has got more than two hundred observers know in syria trying

nation council who are very much behind the u.n. peace plan and they're very supportive of that outside of the country and the opposition rhetoric is slightly different and we saw yesterday the syrian national council releasing a statement accusing the regime of being behind this attack and of course there is in his set released a statement saying again that this is the work of terrorist groups operating within the country it's very. very hard to cut through these claims and counterclaims that we've seen right from the beginning of this conflict and it really muddies the waters from both sides you get this very strong blame game gayssot it is hard to know what's happening though we do know from being here on the ground with the of services that when we're talking about the opposition that are at the moment and it's widely acknowledged there are criminal gangs operating in the country there are foreign nationals who have come in who are fighting in this country we know that some of the armed opposition groups are being funded as well from the outside and indeed some of the gold states get made very very clear that they're behind funding the armed opposition and getting on the armed

custody as the rebellion gets boosted by arms were brought but there's a split at the top syrian national council has been slammed by the opposition committees in syria the s.n.c. chief now said to be stepping down. and israel reignites the palestinian conflict by reportedly shelling garza wounding seven people this is television pushes ahead with efforts to barricade itself from its arab neighbors. next because reporter asks when it comes to debt how much is too much. max kaiser this is the kaiser report the war against financial terrorists like jamie diamond and ben bernanke will be one in places like this the global nerve center and h.q. of gold silver dot com here in santa monica california stacy herbert talk to me max everywhere we go here in america we see debt pushers and the result of their over debt pushing they're pushing this debt crack on people who are just dropping dead all over the street so i have a headline here that is going to put into context and explain this bigger debt pushing story the most dangerous drug in the world devil's breath chemical from columbia can block free wil

the rebellion gets boosted by arms from abroad and there's a split at the top to the exiled syrian national council get slammed by the vision it is in syria the s.n.c. chief said to be stepping down. also israel reignites the palestinian conflict by reportedly shelling garza wounding seven people this is television of pushes ahead with efforts to barricade itself from its hour of make. more of those stories are a lot more as well with me in detail in half an hour when i was kevin i went to when the let's return to washington d.c. for the second half of tonight's alona show. our guys time for you said it i read it right take time to respond to our brilliant are engaging viewer comments on facebook twitter and you tube because when you've got something to say i listen now i have a lot of them really quick up there and my prompter so hold that i'll get to i'll get to them in a minute. all right so our first person was talking about our little experiment that we did yesterday talking about school lunches where you have nice having quite a few snacks and so this commenter said if someone tells me pizza

refusing to go along with the un security council resolution and the fact that the so-called syrian national council is rife with muslim brotherhood domination and is split within itself can't even get its own act together that there is no opposition worthy of the name at this point you have i have i witnessed reports that i got when i was in turkey recently. you had so-called rebel fighters coming across the border from turkey they were armed with a fistful of dollars kalashnikovs and they thought they were told that they were fighting the israeli defense forces and turns out they were fighting fellow arab brothers and they were a little bit shocked to find out and that was an eyewitness account so i think what we have there is quite quite far away from the western media accounts of this i think it's it's time to just let the syrians sort out for themselves what they want for the government in their country but washington still considering where they've said non-lethal assistance to the syrian opposition and the hope for pace through diplomacy in syria while that's happening. well washington is pla

speculating about what creative calls this a smart move really because you've already seen the syrian national councilthat's the opposition group outside the country they've released a statement saying that they've accused the regime of using tactics to push the u.n. observers out now is really unfortunate this is something you see a lot in syria these back and forth accusations from both sides and it happens a lot the really muddies the waters with the situation here now what we can tell you is that from what we've seen and we've been with the observers every day for the past couple of days is that more or less the observe it themselves have native they are being welcomed and facilitated by both sides not as not to say they're not by elations happening from both sides in certain areas but they are being welcomed their presence is welcomed and it's having a small but noticeable effect in the areas that they are visiting now that's the focus also not a secret it's common knowledge here in the country that amongst the opposition you . really you have got to make the division here there are elements of t

the rebellion gets boosted by arms from abroad but there's a split at the top the exiled syrian national council being slammed by the opposition committees in syria the s.n.c. chief said to be stepping down. plus israel reignites the palestinian conflict by reportedly shelling garza wounding seven people this is television pushes ahead with efforts to barricade itself from its arab neighbors. as promised just not economic inside then from washington d.c. next with laura lister in tonight's capital account. good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for may sixteenth two thousand and twelve minutes are out in the fed's last open market committee meeting which means that everyone is looking for the news about what the fed will do next to manipulate rates the money supply and of course reality as with the consequences jim rickards author of the best selling book currency wars is here to talk about them and its world that day in the u.k. in a number of other countries it's a campaign demanding an end to developing world debt but h

we need a syrian national council and an opposition movement that is assumed by the international community, that has a cross sectarian message. i believe we need to begin arming those groups within syria that will support that cross sectarian message. and finally i think the united states is at the point where we need to prepare for some kind of intervention. that doesn't necessarily mean boots on the ground. people have talked about no-fly zones, no-drive zones, areas where the opposition could congregate and train. i think we have to prepare that. i'm reluctant to say it. i think we have to prepare for it. we might need it and the act of preparation, figuring out what operationally we can do, getting support in the region, may actually help tip the military, the business community and the minorities to decide we're going to go done request with assad, r be part of a new period. >> thanks so much. when the polls close in texas in a little under three hours, remember we've been talking about this for a long time. it takes 1144 to win the republican nomination. that would be delegates. gove