syria we have marwa dowdy and princeton she is a departmental lecturer in politics and international ations of the middle east at the university of oxford in washington we have david pollock he is a senior fellow at the washington institute for near east policy and in montreal we cross the maximillian forte he's a professor of anthropology at concordia university in montreal all right folks this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it but ok first i'm going to go to david david the the white house says that it is inevitable that assad will fall so by saying it does that make it inevitable now i don't think saying it makes it inevitable i think what makes it inevitable is the situation. where the syrian people most of them are rising up against the regime. i think we've seen in other countries in the region and elsewhere in the world when almost the entire population of the country rises up against the government sooner or later that government will david do we know that the the majority of the people are rising up in syria and we know that. yes

actually after the product was ation period in the noise and eighty's under thatcher this whole bill which telecom which gasoline. and the the government. later decided they'd sort of all the families who were much too cheaply and then want to go and get some more of that money and so they live with a windfall tax of about eight billion pounds which is you know not an inconsiderable sum of money so that is a possibility but let's talk about the timing here how is all of this going to go down with the political lobby here in moscow just less than a month away now from the election the presidential election how is this going to work with voters do you think will the prime minister also come up with the idea for luxury tax which was actually on things like super because. he's quite explicit about the idea that this is not going to be a tax on the middle class it's just for this very small minority of super wealthy people now it's difficult to generalize about. any population feels but i think it's a sense that say they don't really like the tycoons because the oligarchs and taxing them

lot including the muslim brotherhood who actually don't seem to want to participate in the gauche ations and are setting preconditions or saying in order for us to enter negotiations assad must fall and i think that is part of a western edge on the the whole thing for the west is not about negotiations is about overthrowing a regime which is a part of the i broke brought up block which washington or which some western states western powers want to get rid of including is are also wants to get rid of them. this is our team now greek politicians a last minute agreement on a fresh austerity plan so hasn't exactly been created with open arms a forty eight hour strike is being called by the country's two major labor unions and eurozone member states say they will put even more conditions on greece before handing out a second bell out after a struggle athens did manage to broker a multi-party austerity deal which has been demanded by creditors and was in place just a matter of hours before your of ministers met in brussels but they are still unhappy and unwilling to hand over one hundred thirt

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preconditions for the talks was that assad should resign so they wanted an old come of they go she ations the outcome of a process as a preliminary condition and so the possibility of negotiations is very unlikely and from that point of view it's starting to resemble a bit what was happening in libya where the opposition consistently refused to engage in any sort of peaceful negotiations. so i think that's highly unlikely peter david yes david go if i can go to you i mean we've brought up libya here do you see that you see this turning into a libya like scenario where you know we go down the slippery slope of intervention when they say of what no fly zone means one thing then the reality on the ground in the bombing is another thing. no i don't think this resembles the libyan scenario partly of course because unlike the security council. given the threat of a russian and maybe also the chinese veto will approve any kind of military intervention in syria but i think if one is looking for a peaceful resolution it's very easy to imagine how that could happen and that would simply be. his rul

forgotten a lot of science and technology is that we need in order to recreate the middle class if it is ation such as does a pro inquiry to know all right interesting point gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that meet our break we'll continue our discussion and downward mobility of the middle class stay with r.t. . if you want to. welcome back to crossfire people about to remind you we're talking about the prospects of the middle class. ok david i'd like to go to you in chicago mention before we went to the break what he didn't say it exactly but he was talking about what people say the politics of dependency and how the state has made the middle class dependent and because of the the rise and maybe we see it we're seeing the fall of the welfare state do you think that's a mitigating factor in the fate of the middle class because no i mean i think i had to go ahead and think so go ahead that that makes that make it makes no sense in the i don't see how anyone can blame the fact that there's people on welfare that's not what is responsible for the fact that with the jobs ar

engineers and the sky and of of associate proficient all those wares of the center also says we does ation of western countries in europe in the us to. know is that we have a shrinking middle class and the kind of explosion of middle class in two parts a well meter closet is sinking and on the middle class of professionals increasing in incomes in impact in political command of society and we are not we are no more able to to to to to to create new dynamics of either class the problem is not simply technology it's a problem is that investment technology could easily investment new businesses and new will be arsed from is more and more in china in india in buzz euna and inertia are this in less in the western countries and zoo loo where we don't class or western countries are completely since king they are first hated the face put it equal problems and difficulties and seats we are a problem for there were crises in most western and i want if you want to call i want to do with it whatever you think of it in the second half of the problem david you look a little perplexed if you want to jump

forgotten a lot of science and technologies that we need in order to he create a middle class if it is ation that is disappearing quite a know all right interesting point gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that meet our break we'll continue our discussion and downward mobility of the middle class stay with r.t. . if you. still. want to. oh i see. it's all designed to keep you closed in your own small world as a prison. you know you leave somebody in there for a couple hours like that in a stress positions. you have this fear of the unknown in this stress sort of building and. i've seen interrogations go on ten twelve hours they chose songs i remember from marilyn manson. slayer the two songs would be angel of death and raining blood to kill the enemy going to war coming up here into iraq coming into baghdad. charlie poole of the bodies hit the floor just the rock n roll bad it was fitting for the job we're doing. is he. going to be a. welcome back to crossfire people about to remind you we're talking about the prospects of the middle class. any easier. ok david i'd like t

control of the country's resources should pay something back knowledge is that the process of profit is ation after the collapse of the soviet union was dishonest there are one hundred fourteen billionaires in russia and many have made their fortune from commodities but i would say more of the shelf steel magnate says what his idea will be difficult that. was risky but really it's very important to understand how this idea can be implemented in reality who should pay the tax currency the ones who privatized the assets back in the ninety's plus many large enterprises the private millions of people this issue must be addressed the question is though how exactly this can be done well that's all for now but stay with us for headline news coming up right after this. question is that so much i'm going to give each musician the power to find the mark when the feet oh in the battle for syria the international community is as divided as the syrians themselves when it comes to resolving a situation. welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow these are the top stories america gathers a coalition

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still feels ation in many respects like unfinished business. rival militias squabble over territory. most of these laws brigades of former rebel fighters answered to no one but their own commanders. so far, they have met with limited success. last spring, at the start of the revolution, dr. altman mejoel traded his stethoscope for a gun. now there is talk of former rebels to return their captured enemy. now they need a psychological revolution. >> the regime and his idea are still in many minds. we have to change its mind. we have to change ideas. ♪ >> when he was not singing and playing his guitar, he also fought on the front lines. now he says that it is vitally important that those who took up arms lay down their weapons. >> machine guns cannot build. >> strings are stronger than guns? >> yes. question of freedom -- >> they still agree that the freedom that comes with the revolution has changed their lives for the better. park>> a sentence has been sentn for a man who tried to blow up an american airlines airliner two weeks ago to request th

an issue free clinic ation free transport charges free. maintenance free. free. to tide free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media. i don't see seen plenty of the outskirts of nizhny novgorod but it was time to get out and take a proper look at the regions capital. so it's good to get a bit of. these trips so i'm off to meet a man who's going to help me get to know. a little bit. but. i want to show. siegfried moved here from germany back in two thousand and six within a few months he was married getting regular work as a translator and he's lived ever since so what would you say some of your favorite things are about the city it just the russian. this oh i will show you some of them and you will visit one of these. right in the crable this huge stone citadel was built from fifteen hundred to fifteen eleven but most of its original buildings were destroyed during the soviet union nowadays it houses news news local. evident but it's still an imposing place to walk right in the heart of the city. these monuments and architecture have earne

eleven percent of the gaining a whopping thirty five percent on friday with the company's capsulize ation reaching almost nine billion dollars this mention a number of factors among them a possible merger of polish gold and its russian was poly metal also the company is expected to boy about four percent of its stocks from minority shareholders. come period of profound economic changes some talking about the new world order who will be the winners and losers are the head of a brazil based think tank the center for business diplomacy offers his verdict. but we're in the midst of a transition phase what are the elements in this transition phase that i think will shape the world. very straight very strong state owned enterprises from brazil russia india china a renewed innovative capacity in the us in knowledge intensive sectors they will create new facebook's new google's new microsoft and that is going to be good for parts of the american economy it will also widen the gap between the nose and the know not just the haves and the have nots and i think we're going to also see a time of sacri

tell prime minister putin what they're hoping for in the next administration later in the day and of ation and high technology have been top priority for the for this government and foreign specialists agree that russia has potential to be put into practice. right now in russia same as in berlin germany everyone is looking for this engine of job where you put that in the basement and the will is there whatever we have to sell it come by leave people in thirty forty years you could do here in three four years the most important thing is the culture that entrepreneurship and start up is good then. scope for different foundations that fund the company we need more of them there is a lot of wealth in russia here then we have to curry a sort of it atmosphere and the education that the well could contribute to the startup world. let's take a look at the markets now exchange rates first the euro's getting value against the dollar and the ruble following signals that new ministers will approve a second bailout package for greece also stronger for the most reliable high against the u.s. currency oi

the ational association of realtors releases the index for january. markets finished in positive territory. for the week. the dow gained 33 point and is within sight of 13,000, while the nasdaq added 11. >>> there is concern that rising gas prices could slow down the economic recovery. according to aaa, the average cost of a gallon of regular nationwide is now $3.68. compare that to just a month ago when the price was 30 cents cheaper. >>> the federal trial to decide who should pay for the gulf oil spill has been delayed by a week. the judge is allowing bp to work out a settlement with the thousands of businesses and individuals harmed by the disaster. according to a bloomberg report, the settlement could total $14 billion. >>> and more and more americans are getting serious about their online privacy. 44% of respondents in a new survey said they have deleted comments from their profile on a social networking site, only 36% said the same thing in 2009. >>> why we keep our comments in private messages. >> to ourselves. you know all about that privacy s

government protest and the procession itself eventually turned into hostile to mr ation in the clashes that followed and that continued the next day five people were killed and many others injured one violence one day causes even more violence next day and so on and so on we also can see political murders as well this week shaikh of one of the most of damascus was assisted native apparently because of his pronouncements the shaikh came out with strong condemnation of the terror groups of the armed groups he blamed for the bloodshed calling for to stop the violence to stop the bloodshed we're also hearing about hostilities in other parts of the country reports from opposition activists that in the city of homs many people die every day in the city of hama they've been several explosions all pipeline in the midst of violence these tensions all across syria syria reforms. to go in this week the date for the national referendum on the country's new constitution was announced the vote is expected to take place next sunday as far as the ministry of internal affairs of syria has said around f

before ations rule the day. russia and china vetoed the u.n. security council's resolution on syria at a vote in new york moscow wanted all references to regime change taken out of the draft. more than two hundred thousand people braved bitter cold across russia to ensure their views on national politics are heard one group demanding fair elections marched through the streets others rallied in support of the current leadership the. fighting between police and protesters continues in egypt twelve people killed hundreds more injured in the latest crackdown. you know neil up next with the latest sports news stay with us. good to have your company this is sports there are plenty ahead over the next ten eleven minutes or so including all this. then there were two we preview what will be american sports most watched spectacle this year n.f.l. super bowl forty six. full steam ahead spanish team telling all i can become the first squad in over twenty years to play in the opening three legs of the volvo ocean race. and imports and exports we take an in-

of the activists so how do you react to that what well was there any ground for us to check yours ations you know i could say the influence of the united states for on the russian policy i think it's a lowest for last decades obama administration is very passive. they caught the whole money supporting democracy all the world there they began restart policy which is very. friendly research research research very friendly. then it only idiots or propagandists could say that united states stay behind this process brought us moment i can give you one example you know for organizing this millions meant we need money to to to order seen this voice and source on all money ville collected by the people thousands of people just sent money five hundred rubles one thousand rubles three hundred rubles on or on a special open foundation so we raised money for all through the internet are some of the through the internet will raise money from regular people to order all this all this machinery all this me all these no no one sent from this maybe forever of the accusations because because using the int

what you would want ational matches for the euros only place based kind of training camp and all else so everything is in place and i think there's plenty of time. time you this means that the squad will get together to next may's.

with us to put in what they're hoping for and the next administration that will be later today and of ation high technology have been top priority for this government for a specialist agree that russia has potential but words need to be put into practice . right know in russia the same as in berlin germany everyone is looking for this engine of job or a huge event in the basement and the will is there what do we have done to sell it come by leave people in thirty forty years you could do here in three four years the most important thing is the culture that on corporate north ship and start up is good then. school of. different foundations that fund the company we need no more of them there is a lot of wealth in russia more than we have to curry a sort of it atmosphere and the education that the well could fund you need to do is start up the world. let's have a look at the markets now exchange rates first the euro is gaining value against the dollar and the ruble following signals that the e.u. ministers will approach the second bailout package please also stronger or those pushing them over

sin from ation as two rivals fight for the same name the original group was hijacked by opposition activists who are posting military deaths alongside civilian once both sides claim their 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 a very different perspective of the crisis the original sites latest figures show 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 and barely six hundred troops a difference many claim suggests this is a lot more than just a numbers game i don't think even the people using these figures are have any objectivity really they have an agenda a clear agenda is there just the fire by any means possible that assad regime is a brutal massacring regime and it needs to fall a soon as possible a

have begun a joint military naval exercise despite north korea's threats of possible return ation according to seoul officials the twelve day drills are largely computer simulated imputed defensive. national defense commission has denounced the under the tree display as a sudden declaration of war. the train carrying some seventy five people has derailed in canada three railroad employees were killed and dozens of presenters injured carriages which were traveling from duggar falls to toronto came off the trucks close to roa station. crews have been working to free those who remain trapped in the wreckage the cause of the derailment is not yet known. silent movie the artist has won best picture best director and best actor at the oscars seven in hollywood i think it was favorite to collect the prestigious awards for best actress went to meryl streep for her portrayal of former british prime minister margaret thatcher in the lady with the scorsese's prison adventure hugo took five years. to seventy they're now the finance ministers of the world's leading nations but over the weekend to discus

in large measure the firearm the debate in america is really over in our it's kind of a supporters' ation and if it's cause goes away it goes away they need a dragon to slay in order to continue to develop their membership in order to motivate their members and in order to fundraise from their members i get a fundraising letter from n.r.a. about every other or every third week. and some a lot it is and some of them are really pretty intense and here's one from from the summer dear mr feldman some of congress' most powerful anti gunners demanding a registration list of every american gun owner they want your name this to feldman they want to know where you live your address that's pretty frightening stuff i kind of disagree with the idea of scaring your members out of their hard earned dollars precedented government intervention chipping away at your rights to your freedom the n.r.a. instills a tremendous amount of fear in its members and the thing is it works. it motorized their members but you can stop them if you look at the historical moment there's really very limited threats to gun r

regulations in other parts of the world so harmonize ation of all regulators. something beneficial it does create an environment in which because a paid in a fairly regular fashion. may help. some of the smaller banks in the medium banks to compete with the very large russian banks. and staying with the story angus campbell from london capital group explains how similar measures are already making european bank is more responsible. we're seeing a huge change in banking on the way it works the investment banking arms have have a huge overhaul they have not only been subject to huge job losses but increased regulations they have to build up their capital requirements the risks they are taking at the moment are much more considered much less the risks are. certainly not as big as they used to be in the past and that is changing the way banks currently work potentially in my in the long run make them less profitable but as long as they're safer that khamenei be a good thing so we're already seeing changes to the way banks work we will continue to see that going for

stability when you have lack of stability you know there is always the possibility of the to ration astill ation miscalculation i mean the. loss of control by the central regime in damascus means. their appearance or the presence of terrorist groups that may operate against israel i mean we know that the syrian army has advanced weapon and impressive arsenal of. other. weapons so it's always the really tendency to prefer stability a stable regime and the fear of the. situation is these now in syria the lack of stability the ongoing struggle and they also effect the border between israel and syria or a whole lot of people given that israel is concerned about the consequences of a potential collapse of assad's regime as you said earlier assad's regime did have elements of stability to it now we're seeing total lack of stability there how does israel help to stabilize the situation in a neighboring country is it is it working to improve the border relations their border security. well the border is quiet but clearly it's not in the hands of israelis in the hands of the syrian people i also believe

achievement or it's more important for him to make others believe that one of his main goals is delegate as ation in russia. well of course yes to make democratization part of his pre-election strategy image because he realizes now after the protests that have been going on for two months little bit more that a huge portion of the population in the electorate demand that kind of democratization they had some hope of it being achieved under an invidious presidency. in his rhetoric if not in his actions gave some hope that democratization was on its way but after they made their switch put in so he's coming back to the presidency there was no there was no certainty among among the liberal middle class segment of the electorate this was happening so yes britain has to offer this how genuine it is it's a big question you know you have to you have to wait for actions to back it up the debate is this is this working well it's not democracy it's i think maybe the most important of all yeah exactly yeah but i would remind you that democracy in russia it's a long term project it's not the immediate reacti