multi-party system in the country but the proposal doesn't seem to have helped curb the violence as artie's body of financial reports from syria. says a damascus has started with a new so this is a nation to shake up one of the mosques over done one of the districts of the capital was killed as far as local we do is reporting he was shortened with five shots this area may dawn where we are right now he's famous to be very conservative people living here are supporting a very much pro-government procession but at the same time there's been many office dition people living in this name. hold as well and tensions between these two sides have been very hard specially the recent the just last month this area saw suicide bomber a type one twenty six people were killed and more than sixty others injured speculations appeared as well that they say was killed because of his political views violence is continuing in the southern part of the country we are hearing from the opposition activists that the army of bashar al assad has attacked the city of daraa targeting free syrian army soldiers and as a

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year or two at a time when political hackers have joined forces with the occupy wall street movement artie's loosely caffein off shows us how protecting free speech and the internet are growing increasingly at odds. cyber war is the next pearl harbor some dismiss it as hype but in congress it's a clear and present danger we will suffer a catastrophic cyber attack the clock is ticking and in the pentagon will keystrokes could now be met with real weapons the pentagon now considers cyber attacks acts of war a cyber attack could merit a military response bombs for bits so to speak. they say that the threat will come from foreign shores. an invisible enemy that lurks abroad but in this year at the protest that enemy has a familiar face and a presence right here at home alone. we are anonymous a leaderless hacker movement with a political purpose together we stand against me here just as i don't govern and joining forces with occupy wall street to fight corporations banks and governments turn for. their freedom of the power of the people cyber protesters or cyber terrorists for the u.s. governmen

forward by the government amid a backdrop of violence that's plagued the country for nearly a year artie's worry if an ocean has the latest from damascus. but we've been hearing lots of the lawman reports on possible terror attacks and provocations and strikes here in the capital damascus and everywhere in syria for that reason clearly security has been taught it's not huns police officers are literally everywhere we've seen many of them to die patrolling the streets trying to watch the situation was issued and has indeed been boycotting the vote but not only that they've been called in the old people to go strive not to go to cast ballots and to take to the streets to protest against president bashar assad and to ask for him to step down the ballance is key. tina in the country with reports on people dying a literally every day as for the vote actually it is progress see we've been able to visit to polling stations here in the capital damascus and people there are people there they're all voters we've been able to speak to them they don't feel afraid some of them have said that yes we kno

countries are glad they have decided to stay away from the euro as artie's tom barton reports. today's shift nearly over for forty three year old team leader jimmy carlson lorries keep rolling off the production lines here at scan years main works but one doses weeds know there's a crisis on their way with on top of it so much but i heard up in profit making health cards in fact scanning a was hit by the eurozone crisis when economic trouble loomed many lawry orders were canceled the black headlines came we have a crisis in the you will be your with. maybe going down and so on and then our customers get very hesitant but the lorry maker like sweden overall recovered fast from the initial downturn and has so far managed to dodge much of the pain felt further south in two thousand and three swedes shocked other e.u. members by voting against joining the euro it was just one factor which now sees the country with one of the world's lowest government debts and one of the healthiest looking economies in europe we have most with pathetically changed our problem with the fiscal side s

killed artie's i've a bet it has the latest on this. syrian observatory of human rights it's one of the most widely quoted sources of syrian casualty figures but it's not always telling the truth and ownership at the syrian observatory for human rights is left several media outlets quoting false information as to rivals fight for the same name the original group was hijacked by opposition activists who are posting military deaths alongside civilian ones both sites claim they're the official observatory this is the original site in arabic with an english version on facebook and this is the fake site launched in the center and mostly in english several foreign news outlets have assume they are one and the same thing quoting the fake sites casualty figures the consequence of a very different perspective of the crisis the original sites latest figures showed just over five thousand one hundred civilian deaths against almost two thousand military casualties the rival site claims well over six and a half thousand civilians have been killed an

anger of the people who are suffering the most from the implemented austerity is not going anywhere artie's chick grace reports. system under siege m.p.'s drowned out the pleas of tens of thousands of demonstrators amassed within a short passing another round of unpopular cuts. the results proved incendiary. that uganda protests turned violent as protesters including fringe and a kiss clashed with police again leaving their mark on athens. a day on this is the remnants of public anger big losses and the only thing that's been broken as governments past increasingly unpopular austerity cuts will be left asking who can they trust serve their interests to the measures are very very tough part of the poor people especially and this is the reason that they feel. today i think more measures have been taken and they're it's not going to work in the end it will be another bill he clearly had bad and. oh i hope for the best but i don't see it coming. under pressure from brussels berlin and the international monetary fund the greek government has cut more jobs and slashed funding for the nation's pen

gets the support of its arab allies well arty's takes a look now at the noose tightening around damascus. the mates you know the countries calling themselves friends of syria raised many questions before it even started why would iran seventy arab and western nations gather in tunisia has been a mystery till the last moment. if they are real friends they should not think about economic sanctions that really affect syrian people and a negative way for minimal i hope the arabs will play a role in mediating dialogue between the opposition and the government but it's become clear that none of these issues will make it onto the meetings agenda our priority is to facilitate the humanitarian the delivery of the humanitarian assistance and we have some proposal on the table to prepare. the best way to deliver based assistance as quick as possible. the u.n. estimates about six thousand deaths in fierce clashes between the government forces and the armed opposition with the humanitarian situation described as a catastrophe allowing aid to get in and an immediate cease fire are key points of the fr

and up next artie's interview we speak with a former israeli ambassador. to discuss the position his country occupies on today's worldwide political stage. where have his radio. who recently resigned from the government on grounds of principle he said he could no longer serve in a government whose policies he did not agree with ambassador thank you very much for joining us here in our team you resigned after more than fifteen years of service what was the final score when you. write. to greet the stuff of the foreign minister ministry of foreign affairs and the ban of all banners for him was whoever. desires peace needs to be careful. and i thought that was very telling. of the psyche that. exists behind his political weight and i thought i could not. minister with this kind of statement is a statement supported by the majority of israelis i think we israelis yes we. we grew up on. the view that. we need to be on alert. any more most israelis live a life that is quite. and you can of the. environment here and planted in the u.s. or in europe western europe

trillion dollars of american debt but for the white house business comes before public opinion as artie'sguy netaji can reports what a better way to celebrate valentine's day than with a partner who lends you money nonstop provide.

veto if the text is submitted to the vote in its current form it's got all the latest on this from artie's marina porter joining us live from new york hello marina so moscow has made its position clear but the security council is still set to go ahead with a vote tell us more that's right on the security council members are now gathering together at the united nations for this saturday morning meeting a meeting which may lead to a vote on the draft resolution. on syria which is sponsored by the arab league and the europeans now this draft text resolution while it has been. vises first being presented on tuesday russia says the text has been softened at its request but while dropping demands for explicit demands for regime change in arms embargo moscow believes that the textile needs to be revised now here's an example as to why the last draft resolution i saw says that the security council. supports the arab league plan which calls for syrian president bashar assad to delegate power to his deputy that is something russia is very much opposed to it is not going to support any resolution tha

calling on washington to supply anti assad fighters with weapons and as artie's gun it if you can reports many believe that would make peace impossible. hawks in washington calling for the arming of things surgeons in syria we should start thinking all options including arming the opposition i give them training i give them communications equipment and then ultimately i give them weapons. experts say arming the fighting groups among the opposition is a sure way to drag the country into a protracted civil war it will also further marginalize those in the opposition who have advocated nonviolence or who advance political strategies that the more. plied to the to the factions of the syrian opposition and the more that happens the less likely it is that they'll be a negotiated solution leading to a cease to be civil settlement there encouraged i think very much by the united states the civil war in lebanon went on for fifteen years absolutely appalling bloodshed and you can easily see that that could happen in syria like the u.s. all qaida has indorse the rebels fighting in syria under presid

a top chinese diplomat recently visiting damascus amid reports of ongoing violence in the country artie'smaria has been to one of the syrian cities caught up in the conflict. zabadani i think to kilometers northwest of damascus lebanon just over the border once a relaxed luxury mountain resort the town has recently been the scene of brutal clashes between assad's forces and anti-government groups there is a lull in the fighting and as we approach the city we're not sure who's in control at the checkpoint they are happy to see a russian television crew as solid hint about who is in charge here russia is among the few countries still talking to assad and calling for others to have dialogue with the regime along with china it to be towed to the u.n. security council's resolution and voted against another one at the general assembly which put pressure on assad to leave this town nobody home to around twenty thousand people looks abandoned the reminders of recent turbulence tell their own tale of what happened here on these walls you can see the story of the conflict how it was developing here

over allegations they've committed crimes against humanity for more perspective on what's going on artie's marie if an ocean or reports from damascus. time to change tactics with fighting in homes entering its third week the syrian opposition based abroad and its foreign supporters seem to have run out of patience the foreign military solution to the country's crisis always considered as a last resort might now become a realistic scenario we are really close to thing this military intervention as the only solution there are two evils military intervention a protracted civil war the opposition outside they have contact with the external powers and they don't have contact with the with the with the syrian syrian people the. core of this can be manipulated mujahid not his real name has been fighting the assad regime for months he went to all protests and spent many days in jail but now he says the crisis has gone too far as for me i give up actually because the is not just this is not just. a war we are losing we are losing buddies even if this engine. will really give me a very who can vote

and allies stressed that tough economic sanctions imposed on terror on need time to work but artie's priya sridhar reports that there are many factors that could impede their progress just clear if iran's intransigence continues it will face increasing pressure and isolation the left is branding up the pressure on new delhi to follow its lead in stopping imports of iranian oil and dealing with its central bank but india refuses to follow suit it is not possible to do you need . to see. you don. yes you can only. grow. a former u.s. state department official said that india's failure to stand with the west on the oil embargo is a slap in the face for the united states and raises questions about india's ability to lead but despite all that indian officials won't budge on the issue india is there on the largest oil customer with an annual trade of twelve billion dollars officials here in new delhi are negotiating with their counterparts in tehran to continue that trade using rupees instead of dollars to get around the western think sions. and it's not just india ignoring the last wishes

the ballot paper even so washington hailed it as a step forward in yemen's democratic transition artie's cross-talk later this hour discusses what's behind the u.s. support. one of the reasons why the u.s. state department congratulated the yemeni people on the election is because the united states will continue to use drones and fighting the. elements of al qaeda in the country and states of course is interested in stability and instability and in a strong government figure that they can crush al qaida the problem is is that yemenis don't like strong government by anybody like their independence and. has wanted you know. is taking advantage of this resentment to gain support among certain tribal leaders and but at the same time the popular pro-democracy movement . the fears united states all this that this chaos is going to strengthen ironically weakened al qaeda because many people who might have been prone to support that kind of are realizing hey there's more power in massive nonviolent action than there is in terrorism. precious presidential election just around the corner but you w

a fugitive russian oligarch and a suspected chechen terrorist both living in london are involved artie's laurus with our jaws of life in the u.k. capital details on this are laura good to see you so tell us more about this latest development in this investigation. well this is a big development and these are all names that you will have heard before with the exception possibly of this man who is making these allegations the man who's making the allegations is a man called colonel dmitri. who is charged with organizing essentially. an appellate court back in two thousand and six the prosecutors say that he formed a group to carry out the killing he planned the whole thing he delegated tasks he even provided the gunman with the gun with which. was shot he is a former senior police official he is supposed to have planned that killing the people who he say ordered it now are. the oligarch who is living in london akhmed zakayev the chechen separatists leader who is also living in london now russia has requested the extradition of these two people on numerous occasions their extradition has be

blow to iran leaving it isolated and potentially forcing tehran to adopt more aggressive policies artie's last month as more. iran's military is put through its paces but how long will this carry on being a drill as the conflict in syria gets bloodier by the day western powers range against president assad ally iran the strategic position looks increasingly shaky which some suggest is no coincidence there is a proxy conflict between israel and its western allies and iran which basically only has one ally in the region which is the syrian republic so if you can get syria away from iran either through a diplomatic deal which they're trying for many years all through regime change which seems to be the direction of travel now that would definitely weaken iran and all roads in the middle east right now do seem to lead back to tehran experts are calling the last thing deployed and hope that bring down throw radian asked and replace it with the opposition figures we've already said they did talk to and see terror on foreign policy neutralizing nuclear iran is most powerful ally since the iran i

be in support of both fair elections that drive is going to take place at school as on sunday and artie's even a piece can offer reporting there from central moscow. now there is more arable land in russia. than in any other country in the world but consumers especially in the big cities struggle to find fresh farm produce however the appetite for organic products means that more and more people are taking up farming and tempt to raise the standards of what on offer in the country supermarkets but as our tears diapers cover reports there's still a long way to go. the feast for the eyes but not necessarily for your stomach or many would be shocked to find out what exactly makes its way onto our plates. if only people knew what their sausage is made of or how they your get was bottled they would be very upset and would stop buying anything at all at the shops . perhaps that's why there is a growing demand among people in russia's main cities organic products unfortunately for them russian shops have little to offer what is sold as eco and bio friendly is often far from it. by abroad as have

as artie's peter all over explains. his key foreign policy issues of course that election president is coming up in just over a week's time and he was saying basically where he stands now with regards to syria he said that russia would not play along with anybody that they wouldn't just follow along with the herd when it came to opinion the ongoing crisis in syria but it wasn't the only issue a lot of me it was addressing for a little while now the major fly in the between relations between moscow and washington has been the united states proposed missile defense shield in eastern europe. very strong words for him from the prime minister here saying that the united states needs to realize that russia had the strength that the united states should be looking for a more constructive approach to finding a solution to the current impasse will iran was also on the lips of the prime minister vladimir putin saying this the allegations that iran was developing nuclear weapons was being used as an excuse to try and initiate regi

to investigate the country's officials over allegations they've committed crimes against humanity artie's correspondent in damascus marie if a notion has been keeping up on developments on the ground according to our sources here in syria the fighting in the besieged city of homs is now over with the army taking control of the city we've been here when initial reports from our sources here that they had a cease fire agreement between the free syrian army and governmental forces in the area but it hasn't been confirmed of course we are receiving all the reports from other sources such as opposition groups opposition activists london based syrian observatory for human rise about a resume challenge involved clashes continued in the city of homs this reports a very hot to be very far out and it's also very hard to find out exactly who is behind these reports and all these people on the ground all they are reporting from abroad while these conflicting reports of all what's going on here come and made a rise and design and rising pressure from the international community to the regime of presid

and about our special artie interviews next hour here for now britain could soon be turning to chemical weapons to and force the law this according to the national academy of sciences if made legal police could use substances currently banned for military use while burke field from the education activist network says the u.k. shouldn't be using the same type of gas that was internationally criticized when used by greek police last year. income passive. nerve gas as it is as it is called has been used against protesters in the june general strike in greece and amnesty international condemned the use of that tear gas in normal language it's called choking gas and has said that the greek government has waged a chemical warfare upon its very own citizens now you can actually die from the from the gases be being used against protesters against larger crowds and what we have seen is that the police time and time again has lost control of the streets and thus it doesn't come as a surprise in the context of global revolutions and revolt that now the u.k. is starting to use the same measures as

belgium a group of radical muslims gets a mixed public reaction ranging from fear to ridicule as artie's tests are so your reports their extreme message may contradict the very religion they claim to observe. bearded wearing a comma floss jacket and constantly surrounded by men fought a belt is hard not to notice he heads the islamic fundamentalist group sharia for belgium in september the group opened the country's first sharia court in antwerp to mediate domestic disputes among muslims with our own system. of handling things if you want to accept it accept it if you don't. there is a judgement day if you if you're a muslim you will go to paradise if you are this believer you will go to hell. any further controversy may have ended there if that was all there is to it but videos such as these. have caused outrage. the freedom of speech and. the hatred incitement to violence starts we have. leadership. he openly. said that. i should be. should be killed because i am an enemy of in january in antwerp or prosecutor recommended two years in prison and a fine of five hundred fifty euros for a

is to set up a joint venture with the terra and independent gas producer business artie's mining acosta has won that. this partnership means the two companies will work together on strengthening their position on the gas market but now as a single entity its era which was of course the first private company to produce and supply gas in russia is now handing over four of its assets and this collaboration will lead to the production of over forty billion cubic meters of gas a year amounts in reserves of over one trillion cubic meters of gas these companies claim this will increase not only their reserves but profits and capitalization and also it doesn't exclude the possibility of adding its own assets to the company in the future but at the moment it seems their main priority is to increase their potential and influence on the gas markets. well staying with natural gas you'll get back reconstruction and development has denied ukraine alone to modernize its gas transportation system the bank says it cannot lend money to a company which is posting losses and needs structural reforms now le

in the country hope the upcoming referendum on a new constitution could help reduce the bloodshed artie's marie if an ocean or reports from damascus. ballots instead of bullets mess demonstrations and violent protests have been rolling across syria for almost a year. the syrian government is are calling for the people to shape their future together by taking part in a referendum on the country's new cost to sion fulfill its pledge to reform. a boss who is very excited that soon he'll be able to decide his own tomorrow because it's a completely new era is good for everybody even opposition can take part it's for all the amendments to the country's number one law have been among the key demands of the opposition since the uprising began and the draft seems to cover the most pressing issues it starts with eliminating baath party supremacy which have ruled the country for the last fifty years introduces a multi-party system and sets a two term limit on any future president however even these reforms a cause in controversy. jihad that his friend odin flower shop in damascus he says this new do

and afghan efforts at negotiating peace but artie's military contributor says cars i continues to avoid the real issues that prevent stability in the country. interview to a wall street journal was the most important public relations event for the president of afghanistan it was rather strange when the mr karzai during this interview quoted unwittingly the former soviet president gorbachev referring to afghanistan as the moving war in full display. correctness mr karzai was carefully spared. from their answers. to most important challenges facing afghanistan right now that is their rampant corruption. that is suffocating the country. and. our growth. leading factors there could precipitate the implosion then a stand from within that was r t contributor currently of herself you can catch more of his analysis in our blog section at r.t. dot com also right there for you now are all mine explosive reflections from iraq party asks people on tough ronna how they feel about their country's controversial nuclear program and hears from students who volunteer to do atomic research. also anonymous

pressure on toronto as the country's leadership reveals new progress on its nuclear program but as artie's done you a bushel reports america's action could end up backfiring on its own people. this is a bid to kill iran's economy washington's move to tehran from the swift world transaction system would choke its ability to trade internationally swift interbank payments orders all the world's a business that all the world's business they used practically every company and state in the world to exchange financial info the legality of america's move is hardly question its unprecedented political interference in a network which has always said such issues should be handled on a national level what is clear is barack obama's frustration the sanctions work in iran hasn't backed down in the nuclear dispute in fact there's no one else to enrich fuel production new tensions mean more misery for u.s. consumers brant it's six months last night over one hundred nineteen dollars a barrel cutting iran to swift will again hit not just the energy price but the recovery of the world's economy. let's have a

rallies are taking place in the capital a spike of political activity ahead of next month's elections artie's put on a verse and monitoring the situation in central moscow. thursday seeing a day of rallies in support of various political candidates for president across moscow doubt today is a public holiday meaning that lots of people are off work and able to come out on the streets where i am right now it will probably go to the exactly going to be the largest demonstration the largest rally taking place this is amongst the pro to me a putin for president supporters they're. going to be holding a large rally at luzhniki stadium the central football stadium here in moscow old guy says have been given permission for up to one hundred thousand people to take part in not but this isn't the only rally taking place today elsewhere in the city there are rallies in support of well veteran firebrand politician to me as you do not see his liberal democrat six party supporters putting on a demonstration saying that they want him to be president also a rally in favor of you know he should go and all of

artie's more international reporting for us there now middle east blogger karl rove says nato states are only escalating the situation in syria supporting the fragmented opposition assume assad were to step down tomorrow who is actually the legitimate in this intimate political opposition to take control and when the west talks about supporting or the gulf states this side or the outside one actually the group so you would go to and finance or give some or two so within the vacuum who would step in you would have people returning from iraq that has kind of the weapons or the experience and i think what we really need to be aware of is this highly erratic nature of western policy in particular u.s. policy towards all the countries in the region but particularly now towards syria that is kind of becoming provocative the west really needs to step back and try to cool things down before the escalate out of control. james corbet middle east expert and a journalist says the peacekeeping initiative for syria put forward by the arab league could easily be hijacked by states interested in reg

the islamic republic as their country's worst enemy competitors twenty five percent a year ago but artie's more important i reports now on the intensity of the anti iranian message flooding the us media and its impact. in the u.s. capital of media and message it one particular story a unilateral strike keeps spinning round and round iran could attack the united states in a much more fearsome way iran a hypothetical national security threat growing more dangerous by the day that new york could eventually be on iran's hit list we have to assume that hezbollah would be the proxy for iran and will carry out the attack as assumptions about iran's potential plan of mass destruction floods us mainstream media more cops an automatic weapons are flooding specific areas of the big apple the new york city police department increased security around israeli government facilities and synagogues last week amid growing tension over tehran's nuclear program however the n.y.p.d. says it has not received any specific threat related to iraq upping the ante a u.s. senator has called on federal agents to quote

what activists want to prevent the saying the new law would in danger free speech and net privacy artie's tom barden has more from stockholm. this is the frontline in the most modern of political battles over internet freedom these crowds have gathered in central stockholm in sweden the original home of the pirate parties that have sprung up all over europe and beyond here to protest against after the anti counterfeiting trade agreements it all revolves around unseen piracy laws that are trying to be pushed through in many countries this agreement tries to standardize the enforcement of those laws in the e.u. and in america and further around the world these people say it's not an innocent agreement it's not simple assault on the internet freedom and it's a way for governments to monitor them and to stop them from having a free exchange of information on the internet and we heard earlier from people on both sides of the argument about how different views are here on this issue if you say well everything should be free well perhaps no one will write any books or produce music or films etc

negotiations as a breakthrough in attempts to end the war that's tracked on for more than ten years but artie's military contributor says karzai continues to avoid the real issues standing between afghanistan and prosperity. interview to a wall street journal was the most important public relations event for the president of afghanistan it was rather strange when mr karzai during this interview quoted unwittingly the former soviet president gorbachev referring to afghanistan as the leading war in full display of correctness mr karzai was carefully spared from answering to most important challenges facing afghanistan right now that is there rampant corruption. that is suffocating the country. and. aggression. leading factors there could precipitate the implosion of ghana's stand from within. healthy shoppers who think they're buying organic food from russia supermarket shelves may need to think again with fake standards for labeling products buyers often don't know what they're getting but farmers are making a change for the better paving the way for russia to become a provider of organic food f

arty and scary. website r.t. dot com is the place where you can find all the latest news and analysis and in our blog section right now are online exclusive reflections from our. party ask people in talk problem how they feel about their country's controversial nuclear program and hears from students who volunteer to do atomic research. also anonymous strikes again as part of this bring down several u.s. government websites and the largest in the latest act of protest against mine censorship. is. the official delegation. from the. video. and st paul of your. home thanks for being with us and twenty two minutes past the hour the u.s. defense secretary has hailed afghanistan's involvement in peace talks with the taliban president hamid karzai has confirmed u.s. and afghan efforts at negotiating peace but artie's military contributor says karzai continues to avoid the real issues that prevent stability in the country. interview to a wall street journal was the most important public relations event for the president

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they are watching artie's weekly news review with me kerry johnston but first today millions of people across syria are expected to have their say on the country's new draft constitution referendum which promises a multi-party system comes amid ongoing violence with the opposition vowing to boycott the ballot as artie's were for national reports from damascus some hope of the vote could bring about an end to the conflict. ballots instead of bullets mass demonstrations and violent protests have been rolling across syria for almost a year by. the syrian government desire calling for the people to shape their future together by taking part in a referendum on the country's new constitution fulfilling its pledge to reform. was very excited that he'll be able to decide his own tomorrow. it's a completely new era is good for everybody even opposition can take part it's for all the amendments to the country's number one more have been among the key demands of the opposition since the uprising began and the draft seems to cover the most pressing issues. it starts with eliminating baath party su

and the colonel's fallen regime artie's ivor bennett explains. ducted imprisoned and tortured for six years all thanks to british government health those are the claims of two former gadhafi detainees who say they were captured by m i six and flown to libya in two thousand and four abdul hakim is now libya's military commander along with sami el saadi he was part of the libyan islamic fighting group they're suing a former british spy chief for complicity in the torture to me the most damaging aspect is just how much the british were involved in even just two cases of sending senior people back to libya and then the potential damage was just how much they knew about the nature of god after his regime and how he and his officials were tortured prisoners that were that should have been obvious documents found in tripoli by human rights watch seemingly expose britain's key role in the libyans rendition within m i six counterterrorism chief says mark allen pulling the strings he allegedly writes in one letter sent to gadhafi spy chief moose's. i congr

all right artie's marine important i reporter for us there from new york thanks for that update. marcus papadopoulos editor of politics first magazine believes the u.s. is still committed to seeing power change hands in damascus western interest in the conflict in syria isn't guided by. advance human rights democracy or the rule of law in the region if it was about that then we'd probably see an american naval flotilla off the coast of saudi arabia which happens to be one of the most repressive and brutal regimes in the world it follows a pro who western foreign policy syria is a huge player in middle eastern politics and the west principally america has a very problematic relationship with syria so it would be very much within america's interests for the syrian government for president assad to fall from power and for a more accommodating a more sort of pro western government to come to parallel should that happen that would give. almost full dominance politically in the middle east so instead of western governments the british and the american and the french ones talking about

up next artie's full interview with him rabbani khar on the foreign policy challenges for pakistan. she's the youngest foreign minister and of all that has to deal with some of the toughest security challenges he not rabani khar pakistan's foreign minister is joining us now on r.t. thank you very much for your time minister it's been more than ten years since pakistan joined the u.s. military operations in afghanistan do you think that was the right thing to do you see if. you would you know things look very different but of course. the collaboration that pakistan has had in the last ten years pakistan has bit of a heavy price for that but it is also a fact that pakistan inhibits the region inhabits the region and will continue to have the street and and this region has some serious problems the region has some serious problems put into terrorism and pakistan has always maintained that it is important to have collaborative joint efforts to be able to rid the streets and rather than follow sort of unitary approaches. in how we want to rid the streets and you mentioned. the price of y