wanted to force all the assyrians to south a city. they wanted us to flee. to russia. to russia of course this is always been the only option for us. and this had a very negative effect on our economy and infrastructure. means you are intentionally destroyed this what is he an economy. georgia clearly violated all the agreements we had and wiped out everything in south a say yeah but what exactly had you had. when we were still in autonomy our agriculture in our industry actually did pretty well. we had twenty seven production facilities in south the city. but then georgians destroyed practically everything. so you are seeing in essence is the public would not be able to survive without russian aid. it would be very hard for us to survive without this support. because you talk about rebuilding your economy in one of your recent interviews he said that. expected to develop a healthy efficient economy within the next eighteen months or so. but given its current devastation that would require an economic miracle. i think we should do that step by step what we can to procr

bombs rape the eyes of the sleeping assyrian gods. as if it were only a sand box, a few worthless grains of sand. i'll cut for you the last swathe of blue from the sky, sever my and if you'll let me, but for 5 minutes more, leave me to sleep without the knowledge of war. a kanun weeps near the funeral of music. having been occupied, notes mourn for the loss of their song. i am for a concert of horses, the origin of gazelle leapt up from the heart of al gubungi. have you made small steps into the desert within us or listened for the gutterals longed deep within our throats, you would have come bearing gifts. i have nothing in red that i would not abide in green. el batanabi wrote the heart of our silken tanab, what need have we for you? no poem has ever enough red but that its blood might river beneath the veins of its people. beneath the desert sun, one man by one man by one man breathes six. thousands of tons wrung sonorous from the sky. where is god? black-eyed woman, the street dogs are running wild. will you save me? simple white

bombs rape the eyes of the sleeping assyrian gods. as if it were only a sand box,

now to turkey, where jets forced assyrian passenger plane to land in ankara today -- forced a syrian passenger plane to land in ankara today. the plan was eventually released. turkish -- the air plan was eventually released, allowed to resume its slide -- the airplane was eventually released, allowed to resume its flight. more than 32,000 people have been killed in the uprising across the country. yet one region in western syria, along the mediterranean coast, remains largely untouched by the violence. it is the ancestral home of president assad and his mi niority. -- minority. >> another day dawns along the mediterranean. there is an ease in this area that you do not find in many parts of syria anymore. the only fighting in this part of the country is among friends. i met a popular group of students at a cafe. they come from many groups, but the coexist here -- but they coexist here. it is hard to believe that war is raging just a few hours from here. >> is it too dangerous to come to syria? >> you can see people shopping and playing. nothing. >> nothing happens. no problems here. m

. >> in jordan, like turkey, more and more assyrian refugees are arriving, reinforcing a sinking pealingn the region that the crisis is spreading. diplomacy has not stopped the war and now is struggling en to content. >> no one wants an escalation lease area, but might it happen anyway? turning to the presidential debate, it was seen for a make or break moment format romney as he struggled to connect with voters on the campaign trail at unpunished in recent opiniin polls. barack obama, polls suggested romney had come out on top. many commentators said he dominated the debate while obama lacked energy. we have this report. >> in a country is fraught with a bitter political divisions, and there is a rare moment of agreement. >> from mitt romney outshines president obama in the first date. >> the consensus of the american media -- mitt was the hit. president didn't seem to want to let go. he started with a standard campaign like -- is but it would cut taxes for the wealthy and hurt the middle-class. >> that kind of top down economics where folks the topper doing well in the average person m

turkey has fired shells across the border into syria after five turkish civilians were killed by assyriantar attacks. the first u.s. presidential election debate between president obama and mitt romney focused on the economy. americans are about $1 trillion in student loans -- owe $1 trillion. despite the huge investment in their education, almost half of recent university graduates are either unemployed or underemployed and many worry about the future. which candidate will they support? our correspondent has this report from philadelphia. >> mack has just qualified as a lawyer, so now taken put his lawbooks away and turn his attention to is $170,000 student debt. >> the whole gravity of it really did not hit me until about a few months ago when all of a sudden it was like, that's not just a number, that is actually a representative of something. so the joke has always been, well, i bought a house. but really it is a little bit more than that. unable to find a job, he's moving to texas to live with his parents and is not thrilled about it. >> i am 27 years old. even though it is rather ty

the prime minister also spoke of assyrian refugees, saying it is too early to call for a no-fly zone over syria but urged the united nations to create safe havens for civilians. >> as long as this decision is not taken, we cannot follow through with measures in the north of syria. the no-fly zone in iraq was expensive, and that would not be the right step in syria. >> ankara has taken in more than 100,000 syrians. berlin has given 150 million in a bus as it could only take in refugees from syria in an international agreement is put in place. >> for more, we are joined by our political correspondent. is the prime minister satisfied with the response to the refugee crisis? >> he was certainly pleased with germany put down 50 million euros on the table very early on and also help with technical assistance. chancellor merkel today also assured the turkish prime minister that if the crisis continues, germany will put more money on the table and more technical assistance will be offered, but -- so i think he was basically happy with that. >> merkel has always opposed a tricky's exception i

have you come to an end decision on the on this we have in east occlusion with the family of the assyrian is asian of the specifically with the human rights and democratic institutions this is called the old dear and it's based in warsaw and the lead among other things deals with with elections and they way they operate is that we do expect and that's basic documents of the organization. the. countries or we call them state participating states that's one of the reforms or perhaps we should as we move towards being. a more fully fledged organization. do we expect each of them to invite all the to send a team to look at how to proceed in the monitor and election. and this team's approach this team to abuse is an assessment in balogun governmental positional social forces a certain and that's what's been done for every election including the election in the united states and based on these accommodations then in observation team is followed so i mean it is a good service to the action to you there will be there will in service as well as as a matter of fact how how do you cope with the lega

and i found out that 1973 when the egyptian and assyrian armies taught us by surprise and we're almostt the point where we would've lost the war. and when we lose the war, we are going to go to the sea. it's not the war you fight in vietnam or afghanistan. when we lose the war it means that we are out of the game. we got to a crucial point in the first day of the war that we were invaded from both fronts. and from here in washington, the state department sent a telegram to the embassy which is not far away from here, and on that telegram there was a message from kissinger, secretary state department, telling us of the issues, wait, hold your horses, do not take action because kissinger is going to move on with diplomatic efforts. and that the time the telegram was sent from the state department to the embassy, during yom kippur, the egyptian and syrian armies were already on their way to destroy the jewish state. and that is an example of a mistake because the leader at the time, prime minister golda my year, she was afraid to take a preemptive attack. she was afraid because she said s

in the world, home to numerous civilizations layered on top of one another-- including hittites, assyrians, arabs, mongols and ottomans-- that reach back to the beginning of recorded time. >> we have references to a place called aleppo from roundabout 2000 b.c., and it's clear that it had certain antiquity then. >> brown: julian raby is the director of the freer gallery of art andackler gallery in wa, ington aand an expert in middle eastern art.gt you have shiites, you have sunnis. but, at the same time, you had a plethora of different christian communities, armenians, syrians, greeks, an extraordinary crossroad of cultures religions, and all built on what felt like a strata of not centuries, but millennia. >> brown: many of the city's architectural and cultural landmarks have long been designated as "world heritage sites" by unesco. until recently, the old city had been a vibrant place, with locals and tourists flocking aleppo's famous souk, an eight- mile-long marketplace where goods from throughout the region were bought and sold for centuries, signifying the city's role as a major trad

we gave russia veto power and 30,000 assyrians -- syrians are dead. >> what will you do differently? you never answer the question. you don't go through the un. that we have been in the process and have been for months to make sure that humanitarian aid as well as other aid is getting to the forces that we believe, the turks believe, the jordanians believe, the free forces inside of syria. that is under way. our allies are all on the same page. nato as well as the arab allies in terms of trying to get a settle. that was their idea. we are the ones that said enough. the fact of the matter is that russia has a different interest than we do. >> what happens if assad does not fall? congressman ryan. what happens if he hangs on? >> iran who keeps their greatest ally, he is a supporter of terrorism and he will continue to slaughter his people. >> what would romney-ryan do about that? we agree with the same red light on chemical weapons. they are right about that. but what we should have done earlier is work with the freedom fighters. we should not have called him a reformer. forshould not

the first issue to exert all efforts on the basis of justice and dignity meanwhile the senate -- assyrians civil war forest the syrian leadership from damascus made is the support that has allowed hamas to remain aloof. february 2012 the agreement with hamas was reiterated that doha and last month turkey prime minister join together to oppose the support of palestinians. that powerhouse of turkey and egypt with the economic power of the gulf could provide ballast to move region no peace process forward. progress is essential to consolidate democratization in the region. be no justice delayed is not justice denied. with palestinians to set an example justice denied a rowboat to evade develops built rejection we have to recognize hamas now deals with another day at -- dynamic currently attempting to do real democratization as we have seen the attack of israeli checkpoints borders the north and the south and chaos is attracting policy activists who do not recognize our respect national borders to destabilize those borders seen that already paul into lebanon. am not implying palestinians of ou

sunnis yet there is a whole group of other minorities from the christians to the jews in syria to the assyriansaught in the middle. apart from these groups, this is a movement, a grass-roots political movement, but those people's political voices demand democracy and they have been squeezed out. we're focused on the military. my own view is that we should have pursued the line we agreed to in geneva on june 3. the foreign ministers came together of the permanent five, with the foreign ministers of qatar, kuwait, and iraq -- we agreed that the way forward was political settlement and public transition. that transition man to the transitional government would assume executive powers which implies that the government has to go out. we went on to say you need to maintain the security forces so that they can ensure security and hopefully contain and protect the chemical and biological weapons. government inch -- institutions should insure that each group will be looked after. in other w