a leader that feeds on his people's blood. >> this defer be later may soon be used to save the lives of syrian protesters. the apartment is a base for a syrian exiles preparing their necks smuggling expeditions. the rugged terrain combined with poor, fofoggy weather provides ideal conditions for smugglers. even under clear skies, the 800 mile -- 800 kilometer border is extremely difficult. the two men stopped on the border. city. they fled their country six months ago, shortly after the protests began. there are thousands more syrian refugees like them in turkey. >> for a year, we provided friends in syria with satellite receivers said that they can have entered that access. we also bring in medical equipment and blood supplies. they are part of the struggle and we support them. >> the armed resistance calls itself the free syrian army. it is said to b strong and is largely made up of army deserters. its commander coordinates operations from his base in a turkish refugee camp. there are reports that some weapons are being smuggled in from turkey. the turkish government condemns the armed insurgency while a

a. syrian activists say twenty seven state security officers have died at the hands of army defectors as human rights watch dozens of government officials call them attempts to put foreign criticism of the countries drawing parallels now with the pressure put on libya before the nato bombing campaign then began. a moscow says only the eurozone could solve its own problems but it will try to help deal with the blocs debt crisis russia and the e.u. also pledged closer energy and economic cooperation as president medvedev meets top technocrats in brussels. amid this year's turbulence in the arab world algeria has remained relatively quiet but recent decades of still being tough on the country and its neighbors ruptures are a big concern too is the algerian foreign minister explains to us next. minister the arab countries have been swept by what has been called the arab spring what is european or russia's position in relation to dance in syria in the arab world as a whole. our opinion is based on mutual trust between our two countries on common vision concerning events in the world and on mu

the near future what will happen next but you know western states before have denied interest in a syrian term vention but we are witnessing a similar path taking to leaving intervention dontcha think. unfortunately a trajectory could be done but on the west gets the support of russia and china it's going to be very difficult let's remember in the case of libya you have crossed equally hundreds of billions of dollars in terms of the army just and even as a country which is very rich in there so required under sources and the west was able to recoup its expenses in libya you know getting very favorable or liquid threats in the country in the case of syria indicate syria you're not out of the country which is very recent years of hydrocarbon resources so any kind of military intervention by europe way the west which is already facing its own financial crisis and solving the crisis would be highly costly and in my opinion very very improbable so i think we're really trying to focus on sanctions and political pressures and try to avoid military intervention. as much as possible they're willin

a victim of one of the snipers. the jordanian government has taken in its syrian refugees and given when did demonstrators medical careis 24 years old. he was shot in the back during a demonstration in deraa. >> we were demonstrating peacefully with all of branches. we did not have any weapons. when we got to the military security building, we saw the snipers. and bodies were on the ground. so we hid. i wanted to help it demonstrator who had been shot in the head, and then i was shot by a sniper. >> walid was first taken to a hospital in deraa. an operation saved his life. as soon as the operation was over, activists took him to jordan. syrian security forces are looking for him. his brother has been arrested, his family home destroyed. >> i will never walk again. but i do not need to walk. depose bashar. the dictator must go. wounded and persecuted want one thing only, for the assad regime to end before more innocent people have to suffer. until their country is free, they will remain here as refugees in jordan. >> syrian officials have already agreed to allow international monitors into the country, but how much acc

against president assad and much descended into an armed insurrection a fountain joined a self-proclaimed syrian free army. why a thousand people have died as a result of the government crackdown while the regime says three thousand of its troops have been killed and i should return said journalists nice to what kind of reaches the alba league mission is supporting its own interests in the country. i think the arab league delegation has its own politics it's a very complex range of countries a lot of dictators of those countries definitely the arab league's intervention as it were into the syrian crisis shows how arab powers are some of them being used as proxies by washington but others are trying to flex their own might we know that qatar intimately was involved with the libyan deposing of good after the libyan conflict but it's certainly the western media viewpoint that we must believe the most believe opposition groups it seems that any mobile footage is no excepted as a source so only what the arab league said about holmes different very different a great deal from the reports we've been ge

the fact that i've played," you know, "every possible character from a gay nurse to," you know, a syrian undocumented immigrant, people see the breadth of your performance? where are you now? kind of like... >> it's in... it's a very exciting time. it's as well... could be a little bit frustrating in some ways, and so it's again, there's a good and bad in this. i mean, there's been great things coming out for people from that culture, people who are directors and storytellers that are telling wonderful stories about our people like, either moving here from like, whatever... like the movie... i'm so sorry... amreeka by cherien dabis, the director, for instance. it's a lovely story. this woman coming from the palestinian territories to america, to michigan, and sort of like... >> hinojosa: michigan. >> ...and then befriending this jewish guy. it's a beautiful sort of understated sort of way of approaching that. like the visitor, you know? things like the visitor, like amreeka, like those movies are happening now, and that's great, and there's more and more coming out of that, so i think th

a nine-month-old revolution began. she was invited there to conduct an extraordinary interview with the embattled syrian president, bashar al assad, accused of a brutal crackdown that's taken at least 4,000 lives. barbara, welcome home. >> thank you. >> reporter: you sat with saddam hussein, mubarak, gadhafi. how does this man compare? >> very different. he's not a wild, crazy person, at least that's the way gadhafi seemed to us. he is kaup. he is soft spoken. he is articulate. he speaks very good english. there were no ground rules. he answered every question. but there is this disconnect, bill, between what we hear about this country, the reports that we have seen, and what he says and it's hard to put the two things together. it was the uprising captured by cell phone cameras and posted online for the world to see. syrian protesters, chanting for the removal of their president. the crackdown that resulted has been hard to ignore. civilians gunned down on the streets. the dead dragged away. the u.n. says 4,000 protesters have been killed, including more than 300 children. enemies of the regime have taken up arms. and t

correspondent peter all of a syrian activists say twenty seven state security officers have been killed by army defectors in the southern province of there are meanwhile human rights watch has released a report naming dozens of syrian officials it claims are responsible for the violent crackdown on protesters political analyst chris bambery told me syria's now in danger of repeating the libyan scenario. i think there must be worries the increasing call for foreign intervention in syria not least in the syrian national council a body which is based both in the country and outside the country i have to say that many of those forces demonstrating in the saudi regime do not share our demand for foreign intervention or indeed for nor strikes on what is happening in syria now is that what as a popular revolution other forces are moving in to try and take that off or and use it for its own ends in the syrian national council this body of the sea which is both in the country and save the country is no seeing and if it would several ties with iraq severed ties to hamas and hezbollah it would tre

. >> a syrian activists said friday was some of the biggest scenes since president assad's government began. >> we say the who process there were around 50,000 protestors all day long today. it was a great day for damascus' uprising. for syria, it was absolutely massive. we had around 300,000 protestors in front of the monitors of people who get really excited. they really gathered massively as i mentioned. and it was just like in front of their eyes. >> the government seems to think that if it kills enough people it will stop the anti-government process. is there going to come a point where people will be too scared to come out on to the streets and protest against president assad? >> that's not going to happen. no matter how the killing gets more, no matter how ugly it gets, we're still going to go down the streets, you know, seek for our freedom, do whatever it takes peacefully. the regime is blind. they lost the defense of their reality. so many casualties. they're not going stop. and we're not going to stop. we're not going to stop either. >> an army spokesman described the explo

arab league observers arrived in a syrian flashpoint town of homs to assess months of bloodshed i made doubts over the independence and objectivity of their mission. seeking justice for those killed in the gaza war it's three years since the israeli offensive but the battle is far from over the palestinians who lost their families go to court. from putin's three run for the presidency to the parliamentary election that sparked mass protests we revisit the developments in russian politics in our series on twenty seven key events.

i talked about all this with zaidoun, a syrian activist.protect him we're only using his first name. zaidoun, first of all how are you doing and what are you seeing in terms of violence? >> well, anderson, it is just getting crazier and crazier. i mean, things are getting worse. maybe before the arab league initiative, there was killing, now it is more. you just saw the conference held by the minister of foreign affairs of the regime. he was claiming that there are no tanks in the cities. now i cannot just understand that, when i can see tanks on a daily basis, and nothing has changed. the same violence is there, arresting people on a daily basis, killing people on a daily basis. today we lost almost 20, 25 lives, half of them in hamas. nothing has changed. in fact, it is turning more into just crazy violence. >> the syrian foreign minister you said gave this news conference on monday and he showed very graphic videos allegedly depicting violence against civilians by what he described as terrorist gangs, except it was very dishonest. some o

>>> we're back now with a special edition of "nightline," an exclusive look inside the syrian uprising. after a nine-month virtual media blackout, president bashar al assad told barbara walters and her team they were free to go anywhere in the country and ask any questions they wanted. so, our correspondent, alex marquardt, went to where the rebellion started to see if that was true. >> reporter: the road south out of damascus was quiet. the plan, to visit places that until now no american cameras have been allowed. the president told us we could go anywhere, so we've decided to go to daraa, we're not alone. transportation has been provided by the ministry of information. daraa is where all this started in march. where brave citizens posted videos on youtube of school children arrested and tortured. protesters shot dead in the street. the town has become a symbol of resistance. despite of a strictly inforced media blackout. we had a meeting of the governor here who despite what the president said, said we're not allowed to go wherever we want. that meant we were to be escorted everywhe

this is part, a big part, of our ongoing discussions with the syrian opposition. the need to make absolutely sure that all communities in syria are comfortable with the fact that change is coming, and knowing that they are going to play a central role in this. >> the syrian opposition holds very strong cards. it is the determinant factor of what is going to happen ultimately in syria. i think it was very important that the ambassador did return, among the many things he has to do is build our ties with the next generation in syria. what can you tell us in our very public setting about contacts that we have made with the syrian opposition that would assist them in their struggle? are we doing everything we can specifically with determining what the attitudes are and helping to shape as attitudes in a new regime, particularly towards the christian communities? >> that is an important point. we are not shy about the fact that we reach out to the syrian opposition. it is a major part of the ambassador's mission in damascus. it is a major part of my mission on the outsi

a few moments. no merry christmas for syrians whose countries locked in a spiral of violence was the arab league looking for ways out of the crisis and the truth behind why it's happening. and turning from leave to somalia london aims at a failed state and a terror training camp leading to speculation and invasion is the next step. this is r.t.d. coming to live from moscow now thousands are expected to take part in another protest against the results of russia's parliamentary election earlier this month the mass rally in central moscow is being organized by various opposition groups who claim the voting was rigged to skin off tell us more. while you go or tell us how many people are we talking about here that we're expecting to come out today. well a big crowd is really expected here on sufferance every neuron such from moscow today the rally was authorized for fifty thousand but a little bit over that. confirmed that they're planning to attend the event on one of the social networks final preparations are currently underway here with the soundtrack on the stage behind me very tight security kind of res

in the short run, the attack is really a presence, so to speak, for the syrian government -- a present, so to speak, for the syrian government. it fits all too well, and for this reason, we believe the government is behind it. >> disposes complications for the observer mission which just a ride -- this poses complications. how does this affect the work they are supposed to be carrying out. >> i do not see any real effect. the observer mission is really a scapegoat. this is an attempt by the arab league, which is an impotent political organization, to allow them to do something. they can at least claim that they tried to end the violence, but the observer mission is nothing more than that. it is observing, but it does not have any real mandate to intervene. for this reason, it is not really important for al assad. things will go on and deteriorate, and syria will most likely see the same scenario we have seen in iraq over the past years -- continuing violence with nobody really knowing who is behind the various attacks. it is a tragedy for the syrians. >> it sounds like one. thank you f

. >> joining me on the line right now is a syrian activist based in the central city. thank you for your time. we have just seen pictures which the bbc cannot verify of apparently what happened to thursday. what did you see, what do you know about what happened thursday? >> we have heard that the arab league monitors are coming to see what is on the ground, that the shelling and syria must not. -- must stop. we went to the center square, but the security forces prevented us from doing that and that what allied -- and sat live grenades to us. 14 people were killed. the arab league monitors came at the end of this day. we don't have so much hope with them because we have seen that although they were in the homes, those monitors must come to the arab league, the army must pullout and the killing us stop, not as a fact-finding commission. that is their job, to stop the killing. >> why are they not able to stop the killing? it does it not make any difference to the government? >> that is what happened. that is why we are optimistic about them. they came to the city center,

a great deal from other reports we've been getting on t.v. channels of massacres continually going on what is in no doubt is that thousands of syrian soldiers are dying and they don't they haven't died because a peaceful protest. iran is run picking up threats to block a crucial oil supply route to a holding launch games taking place a new tool says nearly blind whole strait the us has its own contingent in the region mainly to ensure so it remains free when he's going to check and has more on the story responding to iran's warning the us said no such disruption would be tolerated and that the u.s. fifth fleet that's based in the gulf would ensure that doesn't happen the strait of hormuz links the golf and the oil producing states of bahrain kuwait qatar saudi arabia the united arab emirates to the indian ocean about forty percent of the world's tanker shipped oil passes through that strait it's a major oil artery a potential cutoff might cause turmoil in the global oil market although a saudi official says that golf nations were ready to offset any loss so. crude from the statements here you get a sense that washington things iran is bluffing

syrian city. one of the focal points that has resulted in a crackdown by the government. president al-assad has been condemned by the international community, and the u.s. says he must step aside to allow the transition to democracy. still, the killing continues. now the united nations estimates that is many as 5000 civilians have died. the u.n. human rights chief says the situation is intolerable. >> it is based on the evidence and the widespread and systematic nature of the killings, the detentions and the acts of torture that constitute crimes against humanity. i recommend that there should be a referral to the international criminal court. >> part of the problem is the lack of independent information coming from inside syria. these pictures were obtained from a social media website. the purport to show a fire blazing on the outskirts after an explosion ripped through a gas pipeline. there are also reports that a toddler and a 5-year-old child were killed by sniper fire at the weekend. the security council could refer the syrian authorities to the international crimina

or a big observers have been attacked by armed men in the syrian city of homs which was their first stop on a fact finding mission report suggests there were no casualties among the team monitors are fanning out across the country to visit protest hubs and flashpoints for investigate how president assad is coping with the unrest in the country right now this is opposition activists in syria suggesting that over thirty people were killed by security forces on thursday journalists are should returns are used to work in the region told me the arab league has sent the mission does of course its own interests in the country he thinks. i think the arab league delegation has its own politics it's a very complex range of countries a lot of dictators of those countries definitely the arab league's intervention as it were into the syrian crisis shows how arab powers are some of them being used as proxies by washington but others are trying to flex their own might we know that qatar intimately was involved with the libyan deposing of good after the libyan conflict but it's certainly the western med

i talked about all this with zaidoun, a syrian activist.u doing and what are you seeing in terms of violence? >> well, anderson, it is just getting crazier and crazier. i mean, things are getting worse. maybe before the arab league initiative, there was killing, now it is more. you just saw the conference held by the minister of foreign affairs of the regime. he was claiming that there are no tanks in the cities. now i cannot just understand that, when i can see tanks on a daily basis, and nothing has changed. the same violence is there, arresting people on a daily basis, killing people on a daily basis. today we lost almost 20, 25 lives, half of them in hamas. nothing has changed. in fact, it is turning more into just crazy violence. >> the syrian foreign minister you said gave this news conference on monday and he showed very graphic videos allegedly depicting violence against civilians by what he described as terrorist gangs, except it was very dishonest. some of the video wasn't even from syria, nor was it even shot this year. what you

a syrian a senior iranian military commander says the country may move its nuclear facilities to safe locations officials say the current positions of vulnerability to a possible strike is already minimal but it still could be moved for even greater protection but the u.s. and israel have not ruled out military action against iran's nuclear program which the west suspect is aimed at developing atomic weapons it's an accusation iran continues to strongly deny. by the aussies a special interview with one of the original architects behind the u.s. invasion of iraq is coming your way shortly as all the sports first corrina with the business. thank you rory hello and welcome to business this angle russian ventured saying b.p. says it's going to invest ten billion dollars in article production this will include infrastructure only oil fields and links to the export pipelines mainly aimed at china the move follows the failed arctic alliance between b.p. and roll sniffed which was blocked by the russian part. and gazprom says the south stream pipeline to three russian gas to europe will have

a. syrian activists say twenty seven state security officers have died at the hands of army defectors as human rights watch claims dozens of government officials from a violent crackdown on protesters but to foreign criticism of the country is drawing parallels with the pressure put on libya before the nato bombing campaign there started in. moscow says over the eurozone can solve its own problems but it will try to help with the blocs debt crisis for russia and the e.u. also pledged closer energy and economic cooperation as president of meet top technocrats impossibles. midnight thirty one moscow time as ninety five percent of research into genetic engineering is paid for by industry interests we explore if science is in danger of losing its objectivity in the face of pressure from the commercial sector that's our special report on air right now. we're here in central mexico in a place where traditionally for many thousands of years corn has been planted in these lands over the years corn has changed and more recently it has been changing because of the introgression of industrial varie

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well a syrian opposition self titled political leaders are holding their first congress in tunisia but the arab spring revolutions began a year ago is being seen as an attempt to rally support among arab countries. and he says that the president was at the conference the country doesn't recognize the syrian national council but is sympathetic with the first anniversary of the easiest street protests which were very few toppled elections held over some little to show for the effort of scruples. a year ago mohamed bouazizi set himself to protest against the authorities in tunisia unleashing public frie over corruption and poverty which led to the president ben ali a wave of revolt spread to other countries and the arab spring was born. today a monument stands to his sacrifice in his hometown. there's a widespread belief however that the changes in tunisia and there. we've asked for a very few things to upgrade the school two hundred families with disabled children and some jobs but no one wants to listen to the people haven't got money thing those who came from broughton reaped all the b

last month as i say it's now been confirmed in international media and it's apparently being run by a syrian defector colonel riyadh all assad in a car in southeastern turkey so again i think turkey and jordan just for the optics obviously don't want to be associated with this and don't want to to confirm this on the record but it has been confirmed by independent reporting and what it what it indicates is absolutely a type of picture movement that's being used both the northern border with with turkey in the southern border with jordan are now being used as points of destabilization where rebels are being recruited swayed and turned towards obviously the destabilization of the assad government i think if you think about this geopolitically james i mean this to me is sounds like huge news and other than your reporting and samples reporting there's very few places that this is being talked about either civil that civil said it and the thing that she wrote she said that western media who was there was told you know you can't talk about this yet why is this not a bigger story here in the u.s. .

a. syrian activists say twenty seven state security officers have died at the hands of army defectors as human rights watch claims dozens of government officials for the violent crackdown on protesters but foreign criticism of the country is now drawing parallels with the pressure put on libya before the nato bombing campaign where again. and moscow says only the eurozone can solve its own problems but it will help deal with the block that crisis russia and the e.u. also pledged close to energy and economic cooperation as president with top democrats in brussels. it's nine thirty one pm moscow time next a special report about how scientific freedoms under threat from corporate interests it's the story of two distinguished the searches who issued warnings about the dangers of genetically modified food and saw their careers destroyed as a result of it the second part of that report lined up for you right now. we're here in central mexico in a place where traditionally for many thousands of years corn has been planted in these lands over the years corn has changed and more recently it has b

on the high-end, once a magnet for syrian shoppers. they used to come here. those are visiting ministers. there are hard questions for the policy for syria. it is a very pro-business government, but they did not get much reassurance from this minister. >> there is no real obstacle. our trade is continuing. i know some businesses have been affected here. but i gather people will be patient. >> it you feel the government has handled the situation? -- how do you feel the government has handled this situation? have they been helpful? >> not really. there is no dialogue, so it is not good. >> it has come to symbolize the new wealth of modern turkey. it does have middle eastern markets for its products. but the success in syria next door was the real pride of the city. bbc news, turkey. >> in other news, thousands of egyptians have attended a rally in tahrir square. at least 17 have been killed in the last week in clashes, demanding in the ruling class is give up power. at a woman was beaten in anger. the congolese officials of held an official ceremony. today he tr

country something else i'd like to ask you said libyan militants a known to operate in syria what does that say about the nature of the syrian unrest that we've seen so far and why indeed does it appear that the u.n. members seem to be holding back from denouncing that what's happening there. you know this is a this is an issue as you know we two weeks ago the russian delegation and reduce the draft the security council resolution to the council trying to encourage the political process encourage the league of arab states money during mission which is being deployed now in syria but. we have basing our proposal proposal our new draft resolution on the presidential statement which was adopted by consensus in by the security council on august street which called on everybody to stop violence in syria and which stated that the only solution to the syrian crisis could be found through a syrian led all inclusive political process had all the members of the security council had all the influential members of the international community been guided by the principles of that presidential statement i believe the conflict would have b

that was a scary time because we were just outside we didn't know whether they would come in and we asked there are interview are you scared he said you only die once. so the syriansare very i felt hospitable people but when it comes to political talk when it comes to expressing a political view in a crowd it can really get heated they would. jostle at the rally that we went to it got pretty rough. and so forth. every detail but that is your job you go in there he try to get you try to do what you can to try to film as much as you cat try to put it in as much context and we had to tell sometimes. to tell people please calm down otherwise we can't get anything on film or here on the steps of the syrian capital where our lives have gathered to show their support for the government how did it end up far cry from the images we've been seeing in other cities that a country where there have been reporting lots of it makes a great roar says that at least government protesters however what they get. nowhere in this country whenever they didn't use about syria would never really be everything you suppose syria i would really pay attention to everybody here say that they go

his uncle is a former syrian defense minister. >> translator: we got ordered in army that went againstoath as a soldier. i had sworn to protect civilians, but when i saw what the government forces were doing to the people, i defected on june 2nd. >> people like -- are heroes for the people. he was cheered at an antigovernment demonstration. but he is surrounded by the syrian military and constantly shelled by tanks and artillery. in a meeting in a safe house, he insists that even though assad has not used his air force against the uprising, only a no fly zone imposed by the international community could help the rebels win. >> translator: we are in contact with soldiers who are in the army. they tell us that a no fly zone is essential to prevent them from getting bombed if they defect. >> for now, the men of the free syrian army are fighting a war against an overpowering fold. they smuggle fighters in and out of the neighborhood they control. evading government checkpoints. at night, they search everyone entering and leaving the area to stop government death squads. the so-called -- fr

a great deal from the reports we've been getting on t.v. channels of massacres continually going on what is in no doubt is that thousands of syrian soldiers are dying and they don't they haven't died because a peaceful protest. we're revisiting the key moments which show how the world's ending tony lived very differently to see you through the eyes of global correspondents. organist was a whole month not least of all because it was shaken by the worst rest in decades as thousands of riots as rampage through key cities laura smith witnessed the chaos that left an indelible mark on the country. we first realized what a big story this was going to be on the night of the seventh of august there had been localized disturbances on saturday the six but we were tracking the news and we literally couldn't believe what we were hearing we decided that this was a story that we had to go and. we went initially to the retail park and field where we couldn't see anything it was already dark it was quite late. and then all of a sudden out of the darkness came a group of around two hundred it's running across the retail park dressed mainly in black dark color

on the high-end, once a magnet for syrian shoppers. they used to come here. those are visiting ministers. there are hard questions for the policy for syria. it is a very pro-business government, but they did not get much reassurance from this minister. >> there is no real obstacle. our trade is continuing. i know some businesses have been affected here. but i gather people will be patient. >> it you feel the government has handled the situation? -- how do you feel the government has handled this situation? have they been helpful? >> not really. there is no dialogue, so it is not good. >> it has come to symbolize the new wealth of modern turkey. it does have middle eastern markets for its products. but the success in syria next door was the real pride of the city. bbc news, turkey. >> in other news, thousands of egyptians have attended a rally in tahrir square. at least 17 have been killed in the last week in clashes, demanding in the ruling class is give up power. at a woman was beaten in anger. the congolese officials of held an official ceremony. today he tr

in a better position the international community will be to demand the syrian authorities move along the reform track as quickly as possible towards forming the constitution doors conducting democratic open elections but all that in a situation when there is an armed conflict being encouraged from various quarters one would see weapons being moved. illegally into syria all that of course becomes a set radical conversation like to broaden this out next and focus in about what might be ahead in two thousand and twelve more generally in the region islamist parties have made inroads in the countries whose governments were overthrown in twenty eleven what additional risks does it bring to the middle east and north africa or indeed what action do you think that will require from the u.n. into twenty two let me say that i believe that the greatest. danger in terms of this debilitation in the next year if i make my if i may make that prediction might come from the very disturbing growing confrontation between the west and iran this is a very dangerous scenario russia has been working very har