i think the arab league will be a key focus. >> before we get to the arab league, this is a differentigm than either libya or egypt, the other -- libya, you had concerted efforts through nato which brought down cad of afy and in egypt, you had the military stepping down which led to mubarak's failure. here you have full-fledged civil war, the military standing aside assad. internationally nothing happening. this could go on for weeks months almost indefinitely. >> i think it is going to grind on for some time. but that said, obviously you have the free syrian army and the opposition. they're gaining strength it seems to me. they're able to hold territory now in a city like aleppo, they're able to fight the regime to a draw. and the regime unfortunately continues to be able to maintain the support of the security services. that's going to be the key issue. at some point in time if the security services in the context of egypt the military needs to eventually determine that their best interest was not the same as mubarak's. at some point in time, we hope there will be a tipping point wh

western powers or or the arab league but where they have already intervened we know that saudi arabia and carter are funneling weapons into syria and just yesterday president obama signed a secret order to provide support to the rebels in syria but the full extent of the support. that agencies like the cia might be providing is really not clear yet in hours of this senate hearing on syria. you hear. the intervention is discussed. and i heard senator kerry for example to say we cannot allow security council to prevent support to the opposition and you hear the witnesses at the hearing where the experts who the card say that u.n. security resolution would be desirable but dark necessary. and then you have the same experts saying that the chances that the future government you know it will be friendly to the united states are bigger if they help the now so. he was saying that we're just wasting time in u.n. security council so you understand what the what the. new deal is here in in washington but at the same time the same experts were saying there are sides fall could effectively mean a

stories syria's rebels find to retake control of aleppo for their western financial backing while the arab league puts its emergency get together on a whole new. members of the russian female problem which will see right away their verdict on turnout time in the country's main cathedral in a trial that divided the nation. plus egypt kills the seven suspected no ten months of operation during the town and its increasingly violent since i rejoined last sixteen border guards dead. and what a difference a year makes me look back at last all this straw i of which raged across england have made fears they could return. hello and welcome to our tease the week this sunday on karen terror that's four o'clock here in moscow while the arab league postponed sunday's crisis meeting on syria where rebels are struggling to regain ground in the country's biggest city aleppo foreign ministers were to discuss a new envoy to syria to replace coffee anon who quit earlier this month u.n. chief a bunk house been fact in the presence of international monitors in syria as the current observers mandate runs out in a week

stories in syria brussels five to retake control of the help further was turned by an actual on the arab league puts its emergency get together on. numbers of the russian female group mostly run away at their birthday and i'm talking to the country's main draw in a trial that divided the nation. egypt's kills the seven suspected militants and some operational all out there in a tactic that's increasingly violent and i reject that left sixteen border guards dead. and what a difference a year makes a look back at last august riots which raged across england made the local fears they could return. hello and welcome to our teens the weekly this sunday karen tara well the arab league has postponed sunday's crisis meeting on syria where rebels are struggling to regain ground on the country's biggest city of aleppo foreign ministers were to discuss a new envoy to syria to replace call for a non who quit earlier this month u.n. chief of bonn ki-moon has backed in the presence of international monitors in syria the current observers of the mandate along south in a week's time this us foreign powers led

fight to retake control of aleppo with the help of further western pa announcer backing while the arab league puts its emergency get together on hold. by members of the russian female punk group pussy riot await their verdict half drawn on top of their stands and the country's main cathedral in a trial that divided the nation. and gyptian forces killed seven suspected militants and a massive bomb ration to an attack left sixteen border guards dead in the increasingly violent sanaa region. and what a difference a year makes a look back at last august riots which raged across england a major local beers it could return. and welcome to our tease the weekly this sunday i'm karen taraji it's six o'clock here in moscow well the arab league house suspended has rather postponed sunday's crisis meeting on syria where rebels are struggling to regain ground in the country's biggest city of aleppo foreign ministers were to discuss a new envoy to syria to replace coffee and all who quit earlier this month u.n. chief ban ki moon has factor the presence of international monitors in syria as the current obse

welcome to our teens of the weekly i'm karen taraji it is three o'clock here in moscow while the arab league has postponed sunday's emergency meeting on syria where rebels are struggling to hold back on offense of the regime in the country's biggest city the armed opposition suffered a setback this week as government forces pushed them out of a key district in aleppo as the battle for the city in town so far as foreign powers led by the u.s. are piling more pressure on finance this bypassing the e.u. when washington and turkey have set up a joint group to facilitate regime change and. and a replacement for sot the u.s. and its allies have also up the ante by pledging even more multimillion dollar support for the rebels london being the latest to weigh in but the international community and syria itself split into warring camps those working in public jobs are fearing for their lives as oksana boyko reports. it's a fixture in any public office in syria whether you buy it or get a driving license president assad will be watching for those working it's not a political statement rather a sign th

fight to retake control of aleppo with the help of further western financial backing while the arab league puts its emergency get together on hold. members of the russian female punk group pussy riot await their verdict after an anti putin stunt in the country's main cathedral in a trial that divided the nation. egypt's president orders the country's powerful defense minister and the chief of staff to resign it comes a bit of militant crackdown in the increasingly volatile sinai region. what a difference a year makes to look back at last august's riots which raged across england amid local fears they could return. hello there this is r.t. you're watching the weekly with me kevin zero in our round up of the top stories of the last seven days and first the arab league has postponed sunday's crisis meeting on syria where rebels are struggling to regain ground in the country's biggest city of aleppo foreign ministers were to discuss a new envoy to syria to replace kofi annan who quit early this month u.n. chief ban ki moon has backed the presence of international monitors now in syria as the c

to retake control of aleppo with the help of part of their western financial backing while the arab league puts its emergency get together on hold. members of the russian female pong group post the riot await their verdict. in the country's main cathedral in a trial that divided the nation. and egyptian forces killed seven suspected militants in a massive gratian launched after an attack left sixteen border guards dead in the creasing we violence in our region. and what a difference a year makes a look back at last august riots which raged across england and they had local fears of a good return. alone welcome to artie's the weekly the sunday karen town and it's seven o'clock here in moscow while the arab league has postponed sunday's crisis meeting on syria where rebels are struggling to regain ground of the country's biggest city of aleppo foreign ministers were to discuss a new envoy to syria to replace kofi anon who quit earlier this month he won chief ban ki moon has backed the presence of international monitors in syria as the current observers mandate runs out in a week's time this

arab league special envoy to syria coffee is in fact resigning officially this will take place on august thirty first when his mandate expires now the nobel peace prize laureate was initially summoned to be key met eight or in the syrian conflict half a year ago a very hard six months that many had dubbed the diplomatic mission impossible partially due to the seriousness and intricacy of the conflict unraveling on the ground for the last seventeen months but also because of the conflicting opinions of the united nations security council members take a listen to what and on said about that the increase in militarization on the ground and the clear like a few need to be in the security comes from fundamentally changed the circumstances for the effective. of my rule. and already a non-story marks are being reflected in reality while russia has said that his resignation is regrettable we have heard from the united states say that russia and china are the ones whose failures are underlined by kofi annan resignation but in reality the gist of the problem of course is that the key players are s

does not act is it possible the arab league or someone else might come to use force together? >> well, there hasn't been any serious discussion of that yet, the arab league in their most recent ministerial meeting did call for safe havens for civilians in syria, but they did not propose any specific measures how you could maintain safe havens and we would be very cautious about calling for safe havens unless we were prepared to put troops on the ground to make them safe and that's a lesson we learned from boss bosnia you can't just announce there is a safe haven, people go there and they find it is not safe and not prepared to defend it, so, no, there hasn't been serious discussion of that, although my government andther governments have made clear that we do not take any option off the table. what is your assessment of where it is on the ground? >> well, the situation unfortunately is deteriorated very substantially over the nine months, so what has happened is the opposition which was originally peaceful, because their protests were not listened to, because the regime did no

arab league envoy to syria nearly six months ago. at the time he called stopping the fighting in the country a very difficult assignment. while that assignment proved too difficult. annan is resigning when his term expires at the end of this month. >> the former u.n. secretary-general made the announcement on thursday in geneva. he condemned the government of syrian president al-assad. annan also criticized the u.n. security council for being locked in a standoff with russia and china on one side and western nations on the other. >> at a time when we need, when the syrian people desperately need action, there continues to be finger-pointing and name calling in the security council. >> annan took on his role last february. since then he worked to resolve the syrian crisis by mediating between the assad administration and members of the antigovernment opposition. u.n. secretary-general moon says he accepted annan's resignation with great regreat and will start looking for a possible successor. united nations officials are feed itself i

to retake control of the left but with the help of further west and financial backing while the arab league puts its emergency get together on hold it had been to discuss a replacement for peace envoy kofi annan. more of a top stories the last seven days egypt's president orders the country's powerful defense minister and the chief of staff to resign it comes amid a crackdown in the recently volatile sinai region which killed seven suspected militants. members of russian punk band pussy riot to wait. until putin stunned the country's main cathedral in a trial that's divided the nation prosecutors are demanding. the final decision expected next friday. next american world affairs expert phyllis bennis explains why both sides in the syrian conflict have side interests. thank you for joining us on r.t. red cross and many other experts are saying that the situation in syria has descended into a civil war a full scale civil war. how does that how does that affect the positions of the positions of the west versus the position of other countries so far we have seen no indication that either the us

rebels of five to retake control of aleppo with the help of for the western financial backing the arab league put its emergency get together on hold it had been due to discuss a replacement for peace of the peace envoy kofi annan. the president orders the country's possible defense minister and the chief of stuff to resign it comes amid a crackdown in the increasingly volatile in my region which killed seven suspected militants. and members of the russian female punk group pussy riot alway's their verdict off saying anti putin stunt in the country's main cathedral the trial that's divided the nation prosecutors are advising three years jail for the women with the final decision expected next friday. next american world affairs the experts feel is a ban is explains why a we all mean both sides in the syrian conflict draw the only serves outside interest. thank you for joining us on r.t. red cross and many other experts are saying that the situation in syria has descended into a civil war a full scale civil war. how does that how does that affect the positions of the positions of the west versu

arab league envoy for syria which could throw peace efforts into a tailspin. finger pointing and name calling at the u.n. security council for his decision to resign. meantime president obama apparently authorized covert support for the syrian rebels and. president assad revelation comes as the u.s. ally britain try to bridge the gap over their widely differing approaches to solving the syria crisis. and other joins the battle to secure. the country's president the process. of the country's london embassy while sweden circles traditionally believed for eventual prosecution in the u.s. that story next to we speak exclusively to christina sound in ecuador about the fight and america's role in the process. well thank you very much christine perhaps for being here today with us in this show. just to start how do you feel about the work that your son has done and the effect that it's had on the rod on and policies of the united states the reactions that have occurred since then and that but also on his life and and us his mother or the perception that you've had of

fight to retake control of aleppo with the help of further western financial backing while the arab league puts its emergency get together on hold and had been due to discuss a replacement for peace envoy kofi annan. members of the russian female punk group pussy riot await their verdict after an anti-gay stunt in the cup country's main cathedral in a trial that divided the nation prosecutors are demanding a three years' jail for the women but the final verdict expected on friday. an egyptian forces killed seven suspected militants in a massive operation turn attack left sixteen border guards dead and increasingly violence in our region kairos deploying extra troops tanks and weaponry to the area while destroying many smuggling tunnels into gaza. that's american world affairs expert phyllis banus explains why arming both sides in the syrian called flicked only serves outside interests. thank you for joining us on r.t. red cross and many other experts are saying that the situation in syria has descended into a civil war a full scale civil war. how does that how does that affect the position

the latest news on the week's top stories the arab league's set to make a move of a syria where armed rebels are struggling to hold back a regime offensive in aleppo. p.c. riots three away the verdicts were staging an anti putin stunt and russia's main cathedral with a case of trance in that tension of some of the world's biggest music stars. also criminal probes are launched into a muslim sect in central russia that kept around thirty children in the underground bunker for almost ten years. and a major offensive is under way in egypt's volatile sinai region to restore security after border violence which that sixteen addiction soldiers dead last week. hello and welcome to all see coming to life. with the makers news and the week's top stories the foreign ministers of the arab league countries a major lazer on sunday to discuss the next moves of the syria most members vehement opponents of president assad and dodd directly backing the rebels inside the conflict country the armed opposition suffered a setback this week when government forces pushed them out of a k district in the comme

and arab league special envoy to syria coakley and then announcing his resignation from the post. following his decision to leave thursday, he criticized the security council's actions in hampering a resolution. >> without purposeful and united international pressure, including from the powers of the region, it is impossible for me or for anyone to compel the syrian government in the first place and also the opposition to take the steps necessary to begin the political process. i have therefore inform the secretary general of the u.n. and the secretary general of the arab league today that i do not intend to continue my missions when my mandate expires at the end of august. >> annan will continue in his position until his mandate expires. in a separate announcement, secretary general ban ki moon said that a search for a replacement has commenced. the plan was never fully adhered to by either side and the violence has continued to escalate, according to activists. more than 20,000 people, mostly unarmed civilians, have died in the past several months of fighting. several in the int

the former secretary-general was brought in to be the voice of the united nations and the arab league to try to diplomatically stop the fighting and the killing in syria. nothing worked. he wrote and pushed for a six-point peace plan that existed on paper only. richard roth is with the united nations right now, and first of all, kofi annan is out, and did anybody see this coming? >> well, nobody was talking about it though it is not surprising. it is interesting that it comes on this day when the u.n. security council is to discuss the fate of those u.n. unarmed observers who were sidelined by the increasing violence there, and one aspect of the failure of his mission. one diplomat from the west saying that you can't blame kofi annan for this, and don't blame the man. it is kofi annan's name who was on the six-point peace plan and they did not get to point one, and now he is off of the masthead. and so looking for the successor of the arab league, and it will be interesting to see if anybody steps in to want to take that over. they met together, annan and assad together with the secur

arab league envoy for syria blaming finger pointing and name calling at the u.n. security council russia calls announced resignation regrettable but says for the allies of about the envoys efforts of the stuff. meanwhile president obama apparently authorized covert support for the syrian rebels in the violent drive to oust president assad the revelation comes as russia and u.s. ally britain try to bridge the gap over the widely differing approaches in solving the syria crisis talks today in london. and julie the sun just joins the battle to secure asylum for his son in ecuador meeting the country's president in the process the wiki leaks editors at the country's london embassy while sweden circles for extradition and what assad's believes is a cover for eventual prosecution in the united states. thanks for being without see tonight now we present world sport. hello and thank you for joining me kate partridge with us for round up on a day six billion pics and here are the headlines topknots russia claim their third gold medal of the london olympics. triumph in the

and the arab league looking for a new joint and boy to syria after coffee announced that he'll step down at the end of the month the diplomat blamed a lack of consensus at the u.n. for the shortcomings of his peace plan for syria where violence is escalating and the citric and has the latest from new york. this was a job that most called a diplomatic mission impossible from the get go firstly of course because of the intricacies of the conflict on the ground but also because of the conflicting positions of the key players at the united nations security council and now with one month to go before. the job is officially over we're already seeing reactions from the international community that some could call predictable russia for one has said that the resignation is regrettable other countries have said this as well we are seeing many countries in the west already back to singing the old tune of regime change something that russia and china have vetoed repeatedly at the united nations security council we're hearing the united states begin the finger pointing again saying that the resignat

it's top stories the arab league said to make a move over the syria where armed rebels are struggling to hold back ever seem offensive in aleppo. they pursue riots three away diverted for staging an anti peaches stunt and russia's main cathedral for their case are trying to change that tension and some of the world's biggest music starts. also criminal probes are launched into muslim sects in central russia that catamaran says are true and an underground bunker of a stain. and a major offensive is under way in egypt's ivana tyla sinai region to restore security after the border violence which left sixteen egyptian soldiers dead last week. and welcome to all see twenty four hour news live from moscow. with the latest news and every view of the week's events first the foreign ministers of the arab league countries and later on sunday to discuss the next moves over syria most members vehement opponents of president assad and on directly biking the rebels inside the conflict ten country the armed opposition suffered a setback this week when government forces pushed them out of a cave dist

by the arab league and turkey forty eight percent favor sending weapons and other supplies to rebels forty seven percent oppose overall a little support for u.s. ground troop involvement. mother discuss u.s. foreign policy and syria i'm joined now by cole bach infeld director for advocacy for the project on middle east democracy coal welcome thank you so what do you think about those figures overall it seems that americans aren't overwhelmingly on board with the idea of direct intervention yeah i think there's generally true i think some of the comments that you see from condi rice and john mccain it's interesting that those aren't reflective of the romney campaign's position that they're actually much further in front of him and his positions very consistent with the administration at this point i don't think there's a lot of appetite for much more than we're seeing right now. as we just saw we saw mccain and rice really pushing for military intervention mccain really criticizing obama for not doing enough over there. and you could see it was interesting you could see the attendees

and the arab league to move fast and finding a new chief peacemaker for syria kofi annan is stepping down blaming escalating bloodshed and finger pointing out the security council parties honest i see a child can i reports from new york. after what has been virtually months of diplomatic deadlock highlighted by the recent thursday's resignation of un special envoy to syria kofi anon the international community seems to be back to attempting to make bibi steps in pushing the syrian process forward and this friday the one hundred ninety three member united nations general assembly is set to vote on a resolution which is not going to be legally binding it will be purely recommendation this text basically condemns the syrian government calling describing the failure of it to pull out of civilian areas it calls on the syrian government to stop the use of heavy weapons and it also condemns the united nations security council for failing to find some sort of tangible solution to the events unraveling on the ground interestingly the initial text of this resolution did call for of bashar al a

and the arab league to move fast now on finding a new chief peacemaker for syria as kofi annan is stepping down new york man and in the situations across the developments there for us what else does that resolution entails and sincere. well kevin now this resolution is yet another step baby step in the attempts of the international community to try to find some sort of solution to the syrian crisis after virtually months of diplomatic deadlock we have one hundred ninety three members of the united nations general assembly having just voted on resolution that not only condemns the security council for failing to push forward to any type of solution finding when it comes to the syrian crisis but this is also a text that condemns the syrian government for failing to put down the heavy weaponry and for failing to leave civilian areas we have one hundred thirty three countries having supported this text twelve voted against it and thirty one members abstained so russia as you said has called this text on balanced and one sided and along with china traditionally did not support this text citing

colluding with bahrain and other sort of petro monarchies in the gulf in order to intervene by the arab league and the friends of syria to destabilize syria or to destabilize libya over spurious human rights concerns that were never actually documented or proven so you know it's it's kind of like this this is really it not be all right drop. it use a canary in the coal mine this is a genuine democratic movement as far as i can see this is a real arab spring moment and this is been completely ignored and discounted by the west in favor of their strategic alliance with bahrain and what you can see is the grand chessboard is in play now rory so looking forward after the election where wins the us election there will be more intimidation and possibly direct moves against iran in a preemptive way while patrick patrick many many people even bring in that you know the iran side to enter into the equation for months now but a moment ago you brought up the issue of the arab spring now unrest in bahrain flared up together with the arab spring uprisings why in your opinion that have protests that failed

arab league special envoy to syria coffee and on is resigning officially this decision will take place and come into effect at the end of the month on august thirty first when his mandate expires we have to remember that back in march bonn ki-moon kofi annan successor at the post of the united nations security secretary general had summoned the nobel peace prize laureates to take place and start participating in the conflict as a key mediator in the syrian conflict and some of course had dubbed this position the entire time a diplomatic mission impossible because of the complications of the conflicting positions of the members of the united nations security council as well as the intricacies and the difficulty of the conflict on the ground take a listen to what anon said to us of students association the increasing militarization on the ground and the clear lack of unity in the security council have fundamentally changed the circumstances for the effective exercise of my rule to turn when we need when the syrian people disparate lead need action there continues to be finger pointing an

there's news on the week's top stories the arab league set to make a move out of the syria where armed rebels are struggling to hold back a regime offensive in aleppo. they pursue rides three outweighed the bad example staging an anti putin stunt russia's made the sea drop with that pays a parting that touch of some of the world's biggest music stars. also this hour a criminal probe so launched into a muslim sect in central russia that kept iran says it children in an underground bunker was. under a major offensive is under way in egypt's bottle sinai region to restore security at the border violence which left sixteen attrition soldiers dead last week. this is also you coming to you live from moscow and you are out with the latest news on the week's top stories the foreign ministers of the arab league countries a meeting later on sunday to discuss their next moves over syria most members vehement opponents of president assad and are directly backing the rebels inside the conflict can truly be armed opposition some of it some bad this week when government forces pushed them out of a ke

arab league envoy. and the u.s. says it shows there's no nuclear weapon in the works yet but a leading paper reports that an israeli strike on iran could come before the u.s. presidential election and lead to a possible rift between the two our. next insight into how to keep the euro zone countries afloat by sending them their separate ways. today i'm at capital economics talking to roger bootle he's the head of the winning team in the wolfson prize which is the competition to find the least disruptive way for a country to exit the euro logical thanks very much for talking to us now this wealth in prize the competition why was it important to you to put together such a strong entry i was fascinated by the question that lord will some posed and as i thought about it i quickly became aware that no one of the really satisfactorily even i think attempted to answer is no i thought we could learn a lot as well as contributing quite a lot in trying to answer it and that's what we did and talk me through your winning entry

the arab league said to make a move the other the syria where only rebels us trying to get a hold on a regime offensive in a letter to the senate now lies of bolstering the insurgency with french multi-million dollar support and looking for new ways to replace assad to. the three members of russian punk band pussy riot awaits the verge of civil staging and on to putin's stunt in russia's main cathedral prosecutors won't just three year prison time the case of trying to the attention of some of the world's biggest music stars. criminal probe zone launched into a muslim sect in central russia that catterall sasuke children an underground bunker for almost ten years he is the children aged between one and seventeen games have never gone to school or been seen by a doctor and had really been allowed in today want. to major offensive is under way in egypt's vos while sinai region wants to try and restore security out of the border bought into the shuttle sixteen egyptian soldiers dead last week. under next american world affairs expert if it is that is explains why all mean both sides in