i will repeat in arabic. [speaking forum in which -- speaking foreign language] >> the old regime uses the old style, which is divide and rule. we did not care about past conflicts. we struggled and tried to unite our nation. >> [speaking foreign language) >> we faced all of these challenges and we did not back off at all. we were courageous. we could not continue just to watch. everything for our freedom and our dignity, we want to gain a pack. -- get back. everything we do is for our freedom and dignity so that we will gain it back. ladies and gentlemen, -- >> [speaking foreign language] >> at the west pointed out the corrupt system of modernization to the world. it was clear that the tunisian government worked against its people, putting pressure on them. >> [speaking foreign language] >> in egypt, the regime of hawes in the park was also presented in a similar manner -- of hosni mubarak was also presented a similar manner. it was seen as aligned with the west, more particularly, interested in the interest

with the exception of two mistakes, his arabic was ok. he is somebody with the political views and frankly, he comes across as a highly coveted it in terms of what al-qaeda is for and how the actions of the g had groups are undermined. the islamic state of iraq. he comes across seeking dissociation from the islamic state of of iraq. he released the website about all that tax of the pakistan made taliban. in adam the dawn is critical to of media,to it's sort and the alphabet -- translate some english books to osama bin laden. with respect to other american groups, and more lucky does not seem to have made a great impression on osama bin laden. it seems the leader of aqao suggested to replace himself. response isden's that you are very qualified to do this. i would ask you to give me is some sort of opinion. he says, right mean, each one of you. it sort of your own guns that realization and. he seems to be reluctant to embrace him. a lotes it known theat key is not tested the area that this is a rare. >> thank you. as a journalist living in

whether the arab league themselves, it may be very difficult to get a solid position out of the arab league as opposed to the situation as it prevailed in libya. as you know probably the most unpopular person in the arab league at that time was mr. gadhafi. since he had tried to kill a few of the leaders of those countries. i guess i have a stop. we have a very distinguished panel of leaders here. i would just like to say, particularly there's a lot of young people in this audience. you come from all other the world. and you are here i think to learn and to listen. i hope you'll go back with the thought that we live still in a very dangerous world and the world that is fraught with challenges. but it is the next generation of leaders throughout the country -- the world that we can change from a bleak picture in some cases to one that is much more optimistic. i believe that your involvement in a cause greater than your own self-interest is the future of this country and the world. and i believe that when i'm associated with people like her in this room, i'm much more optimistic when i

should be arabic because they're not arabs. they want to say muslim because they're muslims. and we see the way they want to construct an empire. by sending money. sending arms. hanging. bluffing. we cannot support it. the world cannot support it. whether you're a russian -- speaking with putin and medvedev to say we cannot support a nuclear iran. now, if iran will win, the whole middle east will become the victor. actually the world economy could become the victor. because the way they rule is without any regard to anybody else. and this is the first problem. we cannot allow it to happen. all of us. the second thing is the way -- it's against the machiavellian formula. you can kill, you can lie, you can collect arms. we are over it. we cannot return to it. it's a human problem. the globe is already so complicated. it doesn't govern without the government. this is alternative. i'm afraid that some accomplice may take advantage if the iranians will win in iraq, in syria, in lebanon. and they won't stop. wherever there is a chanc

then there's the arab league council has asked satellite operators are upside. down the broadcast of syrian satellite channels what do you think about this decision. this decision is an attack on free media and freedom of expression it's an attack on syrian media the purpose is to hide the truth about what is really going on in syria from people both inside and outside the country this is part of the smear campaign launched by certain satellite channels and supported by the gulf nations behind it the decision contradicts fundamental moral and professional standards for mass media in the arab world and globally it contradicts the rules and regulations for satellite broadcasting as agreed by the council of the arab ministers of information and this decision was made by foreign ministers which means it was politically motivated it's part of the anti syrian political agenda we all understand that these plans are being implemented on political and economic level the main purpose of this decision is to silence syrian channels cover the role of some of these countries

the council of arab ministers of information and that the head of the council is a saudi. saudi arabia was one of the gulf nations that suggested slapping syria with sanctions if arab sat complies with this decision and this will constitute a violation of satellite broadcasting regulations this would be a politically motivated step organized by external forces that are attacking syria and the syrian media as for nasa that it's a joint stock company some of the stock belongs to the egyptian government some to private investors and that's why we insist that now such should not comply with this decision should on its legal and contractual obligations to the syrian ministry of information which means continuing the satellite broadcast of our channels. i want to assure all of our viewers in syria and abroad that syrian satellite channels will continue broadcasting without any destruction or there is no need to get new antennas or briefs. program your equipment today daily satellite broadcasting in syria is sixteen hours many specialized information channels have not reached thi

you know into thinking about the arab spring and the revolutionary changes in arab societies certainly the obama administration sort of primary concerns less about realizing democratic ideals then they are. you know hopefully seeing these stable regimes unstable regimes that would be friendly to the united states and friendly those would express itself in terms of agreeing with the basic outline of american foreign policy in the region rather than what's happening internally ok great do you think the egyptian people are going to disappoint washington. i don't think it's so much about the egyptian people disappointing washington but what the elected leadership will do in order to deal with the military now we see in egypt two states one where you have the political institutions which are being elected right now and the power of the presidency and the power of the parliament still haven't been defined yet we're going to still go through a constitutional process but on the other hand what a lot of people are talking about is the results of what will happen to the tonto we supreme council

middle east living up to the hopes and aspirations of the arab spring. and. to cross-talk what's next for the arab revolutions i'm joined by greg roman in tel aviv he is the director of development at the global research in international affairs center at the interdisciplinary center in cairo we have avi sapir oh he is a journalist and writer and in austin we cross to michael brenner he is a professor of international relations at the university of texas all right gentlemen crosstalk rose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i mean if i go to you first in cairo how would you describe the choice to gyptian is have when it comes to the presidential election well first of all thanks for having me you know a lot of people see it as a difficult choice between now islamists and remnants of the old regime but at the same time there's a lot of optimism that at least the democratic process has begin to work and. you know there's a large segment of society that is excited by both candidates. although he is a member of the old regime there are a lo

secretary general of the arab league, mr. special envoy come your excellency, the high commissioner is currently on mission and has asked me to deliver his state and on her behalf. we continue to witness a serious deterioration of the human rights situation in syria, which demand our attention and engagement. only yesterday we received reports of large-scale killing and treebeard,, which is secretary-general has just mentioned is currently trying to verify underground. last friday, the human rights council met for the fourth time in a special session to address the atrocious events in the area of the pullout. the council condemned in the strongest terms the egregious kind of candidate people, including 49 children. some were reportedly killed by artillery and fired by government forces on the residential neighborhood. but it is many of the victims worse than merely executed in their own houses. according to witnesses, the military commandant these violations. the syrian interministerial committee dusty getting the events repo

it is the most populous, the most central arab state. one-fifth of all arabs is an egyptian. egypt has been historically known to be the political and ideological center of the arab world. so these elections do matter. but i think the central question that these elections pose is is can they really provide the solution to what has been a crisis of political legitimacy in the aftermath of the revolution against the mubarak regime? now, revolutions, of course, are born out of a legitimacy crisis. the revolution destroyed or overturned the legitimacy of the old order. but what we've seen over the course of the last 15 months is that there has been no new legitimacy to take its place. and that i think has left a political vacuum that has been filled by three competing legitimacies. there has been the legitimacy of the military represented in this staff, the supreme council of the armed forces. there is the legitimacy of the revolution itself, which overturned the mubarak regime. and that has take an form of repeated demonstrations in tahrir square, claiming its own legitimacy to

is this the arab winter? the islamists are winning. is that bad? and if we're anxious about authoritarian relapse, if we're anxious about the commitment of the electoral victors in some of these countries to democracy and pluralism, if we're anxious about ma jortarianism overriding human rights, who's going to help ensure the bad outcomes don't take place? who's going to promote public accountability for new institutions? who's going to promote the values of dialogue and compromi compromise? civil society is going to do that. in these countries, that's what civil society does. before the egyptian revolution, it was civil society organizations who, you know, uncovered the truth behind the death of sayeed, whose anniversary we marked this week. and since the revolution, civil society organizations in egypt got a court ruling against military trials of civilians. so if we are serious about the fundamental policy insight that i think you've heard from so many people today, that lasting stability in the region is going to require a thorough change to go

the like nobody observed the resolution about arms embargo number of european countries and in the arab league probably reported that these were provided arms for the enemies of the khadafi regime why then we would introduce this arms embargo. and once again i stress we are not protecting the regime we are protecting chances to achieve stability in the regional chances to preserve stability in the arab world and we also protect international law because the way that the syrian crisis will be a result will play an important role in this new world tomorrow whether the world will be based on the un charter or the world will be considered a place where might makes right people say conkwright. stevenson b.b.c. mr lavrov you mentioned how science. has. yes video that i see it again with the guys i just got to visit it at the lodge that was in there for to see this guy but it's a concern when it come on when your second question if that of russia and america i see here i mean it is a social pressure and the americans it is the second question have russia and the us discussed a yemen scenario a

security council for some reason the arab countries did not want their report that observers prepared to go to the u.n. security council i don't know why i can only speculate but i don't want to do that . because this hasn't been one hundred percent confront we want to that report to go to the units a curate he counseled and immediately after that happened the arab league's stopped that mission and a recall did from syria i think the report was pretty objective pretty and biased. it reported out some unexceptable things done by the syrian government and it also pointed out that this is not just happening in viki that there are well armed people fighting the syrian government and the government forces probably that was the reason why the mission was recalled maybe somebody didn't like the way it worked and we see the same thing happening now we supported wholeheartedly the point of coffee n n as the special envoy we invited him to moscow immediately after that we supported the ideas he presented and that later. became the six point plan and today we're doing the same the reason we call

not only for egypt but also for the arab world, for so long, president hosni mubarak was a major ally of the united states, ally of israel and israel and egypt have a very significant peace treaty and this now changes the power dynamic here. what we're going to have next is a struggle with the army. the army here recently dissolved the parliament which is also controlled by the muslim brotherhood. and has said they will be in charge of writing the constitution. which will end up deciding what power the new president-elect has. that could very easily lead to a confrontation between the army and the mass crowds you see down right now, that are waving flags of every type and a lot of posters of their candidate and to take from this, 16 months ago, hosni mubarak thrown out, in three week and now a member of the muslim brotherhood elected the president of this country. you could have gone to vegas and gotten a million-to-one odds, 10 million to one odds on this kind of thing happening two years ago. it was simply unthinkable. for the muslim brotherhood to take over the presidency in egypt

arabic? meet together, how do they work out which language they are going to speak pucks is english ever used as some kind of a neutral language? what are the communication levels for the people? >> that's a really excellent question and i think i'm so fascinated with some of the dynamics of that language because in many ways they reflect so many dynamics in the conflict. jerusalem is a very divided city in every sense of the word. there isn't a physical wall running down. there's other places now. but, you know, there might as well be a physical wall in terms of how separated the communities are. and they do not all speak common languages. and most of the activities we did were in english with the idea that there was a neutral language. but that was problematical so. generally they have access to better education the started english at an earlier age than the palestinians did so we were working in a language that one group had better mastery of them another group, so there was problematic an

also representatives of the arab league by the way you run it is chairing the arab league at the moment katara he's the chair of the arab league committee on syria. and i think saudi arabia is a major country in the gulf region should also be invited to the negotiating table and also organizations like the u.n. of course of course the u.n. should act is in umbrella as a framework for this event and i would also think that the european union should play a role here because the european union is very much interested in the events in syria and they would like to overcome the current crisis. as we saw during our recent talks between russia and the e.u. in st petersburg just a few days ago. convenience we want this conference to be in the let's go and open discussion. and in this discussion it will become clear . with our real it is that you're going to get to achieve an agreement on a consolidated concerted effort but it's look. with regards to you the syrian government and all the opposition groups if you ask me about deeds it should be done it's in their early days of course we cannot com

arabic was added to whatever adjective. there rose only one other non arab working with us.an do. he combed his thinning hair with a toothbrush. he did not fear the abuse. after all he was only one step away from being era of. i hated to work in the factory. where is your job? i have to tell them. i or my eyes. tears sprung to her eyes when i told her. do you still have the house there? i could not tell her only one seen remained and it turned into the insane asylum. sami please. bring me something. a walk to the heart of the place and saw the crazy people wondering. i plucked of big and 11 and gave them to my grandmother. she breathed a the fragrance of her village. there are no figures in the world from like here. staring out the large window , all of the workers were traders and i was the worst. we were disrespecting the blood that was spelled out. maybe those were in the demolished village how could i justify myself? the floor wrapping next cabinet by car to the woods across the face i did it the next day and the next day then i mix to the electric signals with a forklif

lots of people who may need help and support and we need to get more people on the ground the syrian arab red crescent are doing a great job but their capacity is also being stretched everyone is trying to get aid into the country using them well as you mentioned do you first estimate the number of people needing help as one million that was in early march that was in late march late march so april may in two months you just say it's it's one of the half million wildly so there's that me that the situation is catastrophic i mean i mean like fifty percent more people in need within two months or so it's going to be millions but at the end of summer of nothing not and nothing is done our colleagues from the red crescent red crescent societies who have been able to be more active in some places than we have they are saying it's about one point five million obviously leave also isn't an estimation or is a growing this is why we think it's growing but of course we're not able to go in and do the kind of detailed assessments that we would wish to there's no doubt that the security situation. it

the arabs all the people in the arab world which do not support any act of aggression or intervention actually militarily inside syria today so i do not advise i do not do i do not agree and i do not comply to any military intervention and international intervention today in syria this is not according to the transitional period that we are to look for peacefully and in dialogue between conflicting parties now inside syria dr martineau from the universal peace federation thank you very much indeed for your thoughts your perspective on this life there in barrie thank you. thank you very much god bless you thank you this is r.t. live here in moscow still ahead in the program this hour unending uncertainty results of the presidential election in egypt a delayed with experts saying egyptians are between a rock and a hard place anyway plus the. roosevelts about burton says the private investment not oil should be the driver of economic growth in russia join me in twenty minutes time from this a p the book at the national economic for. more than a hundred people have been killed and five hu

is the arab -- what is going on with them? and what about saudi arabia. >> saudis -- i've heard reports, published reports that the awe i dids are assisting in some ways. the arab league, lebanon, obviously is under the influence of he baa will. trying to think who else. there's a couple of three countries in the arab log league who have veto action that makes it difficult than in libya. i know there are members of the arab league who are much more actively involved. but whether the arab league itself because of the vetoes of a couple of three countries, i'm trying to remember, but they -- it may be very difficult to get a solid position out of the arab league as opposed to the situation as it prevailed in libya. as you pow, probably the most unpopular person in the arab league at that was mr. gadhafi since he dried -- tried to kill a few leaders of the country. i guess we have to stop. we have distinguished panel of leaders here. i would like to say, particularly there's a lot of young people in the audience. you dprom all ov

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behind the decision contradicts fundamental moral and professional standards for mass media in the arab world and. it contradicts the rules and regulations for satellite broadcasting as agreed by the council of ministers and. this decision was made by foreign ministers which means it was politically i tell you it's part of the syrian political agenda and we all understand that these plans are being implemented and economic level. purpose of this decision is to silence syrian channels. the role of some of these countries providing support to the terrorists in syria. financially and smuggling weapons into the country and they're also rate of syria disclosing the truth about terrorist connections of some media outlets financed for to sign players we have had a situation where terrorists acted as correspondents for media that would have thought in the area people are sponsible that film there cried was that and sent a fruitage to the major government for the atrocities of the syrian people and the ministry of information. ministry considers it as its responsibility to provide satellite broa

great deal to say that there should be there must be and in the end there will be democracy in the arab world but right now there isn't any because unfortunately they don't have the institutions how are you going to have a democracy when you've got a military council ruling which can dispense with parliament and appoint the judges as it sees fit and you on the other side you just got a group of people who. tried to form a party but they would the parliament in which they hope to sit you shut. the instruments of democracy and they're going to you in tel aviv what in your opinion what has changed in egypt the last year anything is david says nothing essentially except for minus one person. i think despite some of the points of david made which i agree with on the whole a great deal has changed in egypt we've seen first of all a process in which. a great deal of people took to the streets to express their political opinions which was basically unheard of before the so-called revolution and second of all we've seen this process result in the representative from a muslim brotherhood party wh

of the top stories next hour if you so be sure nancy talks to tunisia's foreign minister about the arab spring in his country and the entire region. that's six of the seven am tunisian foreign minister it's great to have you with us sara today thank you so another tunisia is now facing a political crisis over the extradition of a former top libyan official back to libya president has condemned the move and the parliament is ready to consider and no confidence vote to the government is your government not prepared to face the consequences alone of this one sided action that seems like they too could without the president of the there is no crisis of course crisis it's easier there is differences between you know position. the political position towards the critics tradition of what you already agreed as a government to extract it would you be ready to demand you know what i need to come back to return but i need to a tree easier to be subject to trade so it's a very normal you don't tool extra duty or do you after a certain conditions in the make conditions but you were provided just. in