that's amazing with one arab league envoy kofi annan president bashar al assad says he's ready to for diplomatic solutions to the syrian crisis but not until terrorist groups to stop just stabilizing the country. at such a time for the opposition the protests rallied central mosque is a turnout much smaller than expected internal divisions and a lack of organization of late. and tension on the israeli palestinian border triggered by the killing of the gaza resistance leader continued the program focus on more pictures about something. very welcome to see twenty four hours coming to you live from the russian capital and we start in syria where president bashar assad has pledged to make any genuine efforts to resolve the crisis and his country as a meeting with the one and arab league envoy to syria kofi annan on the battle for president also stressed he's either dialogue can hardly succeed while terrorist groups continue to provoke violence and destabilize the country she's more if an option for the talks and us. following his meeting with the joint you and i are oblique and we're here

puller in his meeting with the joint to an arab league envoy here in damascus president bashar assad has said that syria is ready to make any onus to step to the crisis here in the country but he has stressed that it would be impossible while terrorist groups are continuing to spread violence and chaos across the country the conflict between the opposition and the authorities here in syria is about to enter its second year and since the beginning of the uprising last march the opposition activists have been accusing president bashar assad and the regime of using force using blackman's against peaceful protesters against innocent civilians while officially damascus has been arguing that it's fighting against terrorists against armed groups operating in the country in order to dust of allies the situation here on the ground coffee on and ahead of his visit to syria has announced that he will travel to the country to try to persuade the two sides been involved in this conflict to start all of insistent that talks are essential to the violence of the crisis and warning that further milit

with twenty four hours a day the syrian president bashar assad has said he had liked to make what he called any honest effort to solve the crisis currently tearing his country apart the statement comes after his meeting with the u.n. and arab league envoy to syria kofi annan who's been a make or break diplomatic mission in damascus but he's more of a notion has been keeping across developments that. puller in his smitten with the joint you and i are oblique envoy here in damascus president bashar assad has said that syria is ready to make any onus step to end the crisis here in the country but he has stressed that it would be impossible while terrorist groups are continuing to spread violence and chaos across the country the conflict between the opposition and the authorities here in syria is about to enter its second year and since the beginning of the uprising last knowledge the opposition activists have been accusing president bashar assad and the regime of using force. against peaceful protesters against innocent civilians while officially damascus has been arguing that it's figh

it's amazing with the grand arab league envoy kofi annan president bashar al assad says he is ready to search for diplomatic solutions to the syrian crisis but not until tell his groups to stop destabilizing the country. a testing time for the opposition other protests a rally in central moscow it's things that turn out much smaller than expected internal divisions and a lack of organization are blamed. on tension on the israeli palestinian border triggered by the killing of the gaza resistance leader in two news with a barrage of rocket fire under drawbacks and so on but something. hello and welcome saucy twenty four hour news live from moscow i'm hugh dash of our thanks for joining us fronts president bashar al assad has pledged to make any genuine effort to resolve the crisis in his country that's amazing with the u.n. arab league envoy to syria a costly anon they battled president also stressed his view that dialogue can hardly succeed well terrorist groups continue to provoke violence and destabilize the country she's murphy notion of follow the talks in damascus. puller in his me

we do twenty four hours a day the syrian president bashar assad has said he'd like to make what he called any honest effort to solve the crisis currently tearing his country apart and whether he admitted it would be impossible while terrorist groups continue spreading chaos the statements come after his meeting with the u.n. an arab league envoy to syria kofi annan in damascus headed his make or break hypnotic mission and then called for an immediate cease fire involving both revel's and government forces so talks could begin that was immediately rejected by syria's exiled opposition it enjoys the support of some western and arab states including cata which is call for international forces to be deployed to help end the conflict however the russian foreign minister stressed that again any interference in syria's internal affairs is unacceptable i teased a town in africa has been following lavrov is meeting with the arab league in carro . the joint statement declared that's russian the league of arab states finally agreed on a road map that russia has been suggesting for quite a while now

it's amazing would be to our arab league envoy kofi annan president bashar al assad says he's ready to be search for a diplomatic solution to the syrian crisis but not until terrorist groups still destabilizing the country. also testing time for the opposition protests rallied central moscow sees a turnouts much smaller than expected internal divisions and lack of organization are big. and tensions on the israeli palestinian who are triggered by the killing of a guard of resistance leave the continues with a barrage of rocket fire and more victims of god's sight. and welcome to all see twenty four hour news coming to you live from the russian countess so on we start in syria where president bashar al assad has pledged to make any genuine efforts to resolve the crisis in his country that's amazing with the yuan and arab league envoy to syria a coffee and had the president also stressed his view that dialogue can hardly succeed well terrorist groups continue to provoke violence and destabilize the country also he's worth you know if not all of the talks and damascus. following his meetin

it's amusing would be you are an arab league envoy kofi annan our president bashar al assad says he is ready to search for diplomatic solutions to the syrian crisis but not until terrorist groups to stop just don't like it stabilizing the country. accepting ties with the opposition as a protest rally the central mosque sees a turnout much smaller than expected internal divisions and a lot of organizations. that tension on the israeli palestinian village triggered by the killing of a gaza resistance leader and news with a barrage of rocket fire and more victims on pods. and a very warm welcome to all to see coming soon live from the russian capital and we start in syria where president bashar al assad has pledged to make any genuine effort to resolve the crisis in the country at a meeting with the u.n. and arab league envoy to syria a coffee anon the embattled president also stressed its view that dialogue can hardly succeed while terrorist groups continue to provoke violence and destabilize the country she's murphy national follow the talks and damascus. following his meeting with the

it's a meeting with if you are an arab league envoy called the atlanta president bashar al assad says he is ready to search for diplomatic solutions to this year in crisis but not until terrorist groups stop destabilizing the country. it's a testing time for the opposition as a protest rally the central mosque sees a turnaround much smaller than expected eternal divisions and a lack of the danger zone. and touching on the israeli palestinian view were triggered by the killing of the guns of resistance and continued with the ground from it and from the victim's own lives. and a very warm welcome to our city coming to you live from the russian capital and we start in syria where president bashar al assad has pledged to make any genuine efforts to resolve the crisis his country that's a meeting with the you are an arab league envoy to syria a coffee and on the embattled president also stressed his view that dialogue can hardly succeed while terrorist groups continue to provoke violence and to stabilize the country while she's wary of international follow the talks and. following his meet

. >> this is at hope bashar assad will be gone and iran will be more isolated. i don't think that day has yet come and i think this is the crux of the discussion between israelis and the americans now. it's not over the threat of iran. it's when do you actually deal with the threat. when will the world understand why you're dealing with the threat at the time you're

also come just two days after the one year anniversary of the uprising against syrian president bashar assad there is ongoing and spiraling violence in syria and we are also receiving reports that al qaida is now operating there calling for the opposition groups to unify there if that and they fight against the syrian regime the latest if it a diplomatic compromise comes from the former head of the united nations kofi annan last weekend he was in syria where he met with both a syrian president bashar assad and opposition groups and he is all members of the united nations security council to give the nod to the proposals he's put forward on the table now the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has members of the u.n. security council to come forward and give this support russia is also calling for a political dialogue that will see an agreement between the syrian regime and the opposition. has handed over a set of balls all to the syrian leadership i can assure you that these proposals do not mention any demands on president bashar assad to step down i believe it's up to the syrian people

knew bashar assad's father. the only member to attend his funeral. i met the current president there. i believe that dialogue would have had a chance to succeed. i think dialogue would have had -- still has a chance to succeed in iran. i think the beating of the war drums without exhausting all of the sanctions and all of the diplomatic avenues is not smart. i think you have the israelis, ehud barak used to be prime minister, now defense minister. i think he is engaging with tough psychological warfare with the iranians when they talk about a stride. and i think diplomacy does have a chance to work. it is astounding, though, what bashar assad has done. >> would you call him a dictator? >> i would call him a despot. he is more than a dictator. i would call him a barbarian. he is worse than a cannibal. he is a barbarian. what they're doing there, and it's a shock to me. i sat as close and you and i are and talked to him in a reasonable way. he is an ophthalmologist. he is british educated. he has a very cultured wife. my wife joan had lunch with her, d

united nations kofi annan last weekend he was in syria where he met with both assume president bashar assad and opposition groups and he is all members of the united nations security council to give the nod to the proposals he's put forward on the table now the russian from minister sergei lavrov has members of the u.n. security council to come forward and give a support russia is also calling for a political dialogue that will see an agreement between the syrian regime and the opposition. has handed over a set of balls all sort of syria i can assure you that these proposals do not mention any demands on president bashar assad to step down i believe it's up to the syrian people to decide this issue any consensus decision that the government and all opposition groups come to as a result of dialogue russia is not supporting the syrian regime support the launch of a political process a cease fire is needed for that in the first place in the coming days they will be a deliberate and from the united nations visiting syria to assess what is the reality on the ground and this is the latest if it t

addition to this there are elements of al qaeda operating in syria against the syrian president bashar assad and what we're hearing from those whites group is that there are members and elements of the opposition who are guilty of human rights abuses intimidation the detention and torture of security force members as well as supporters of the government human rights watch says it has watched at least twenty five videos on you tube and on those videos it sees security forces members and rigidly confessing to crimes that they committed the very indeed these statements were made and did you receive in addition to those they have footage that shows that the opposition has been executing people in their custody and now human rights watch has called on the opposition to forbid the members from doing this but the problem is that it's not clear who is the leadership of this opposition because on the one hand while washington and western allies have recognized the syrian national council there is a multitude of opposition figures who do not fall within this fold and as a result it's not actually a wh

the unanimous world could help structure a unity government to succeed them, including perhaps bashar al-assad's sect, which is about 11% of the population. that would be face-saving for bashar al-assad and his family. without that, i fear more bloodshed. there may be more statements but no real impact. >> you mentioned the tricky issue of immunity, which is what president saleh got in yemen. you think human rights groups, now that 8000 people have been killed in syria, would tolerate personal immunity? >> it is not an appealing option. i agree there are no good options. but it seems to me less bad than continuing what we have, which is ongoing bloodshed, a massacre of thousands of civilians on the ground, and no end in sight. russia, so far as we know, is still arming the regime. the russian foreign minister apparently is taking a sharper tone with syria. may be behind the scenes russia is trying to broker something like this. but i would say to those who are outraged by what is happening, and i am one of those, that personal immunity and the structuring of a stable government to come immediate

. >> the president of ri bashar assad, may fit the description. but the united states is not dearg at to be the case. the u.s. expects assad step down from power himself. assad is currently cracking down hard on protestors o e demanding that he resign from thsyrian presidency. the civil rebellion and asd as crackdown on it have already lasted a year. 75 siacilis veee kied by syria's military and assad's security forces, says the u.n. the u.s. ambassador to thu. susan rice delivered this u.s. message indirectly to president assad. >> your days are numbered, and itis time and past time for you to transfer power responsibly and peacefully. >> thu.n. security council 15 members recently reviewed the syrian rebellion and crackdowns. the council drafted resolution calling on bashar assad to step down. the resolution was backed by the u.s. and both the 22-member area abe league and the 27- member urine union. but the resolution never saw the light of da inanruiatwo powerhouses, blocked the measure and called instead for a brokered deal between assad bels

. >> britain's ambassador to damascus says president bashar al-assad could be forced out by the end of the year. it is 11:00 in washington. >> it is 4:00 in london, broadcasting to viewers on pbs in america and around the world. >> the biggest died so far in the contest to become the republican candidate to run against barack obama in the u.s. presidential election in november. boats are being cast in 10 states, the -- votes are being cast in 10 states, but the big prize is the state of ohio. exit polls suggest the front- runner in the race, mitt romney, has won three states. rick santorum has also won three. the contest is to be extremely close in ohio. no republican candidate has ever become president without winning there. mitt romney has won the primaries in massachusetts and virginia. newt gingrich has won in his home state in georgia. rick santorum has one in tennessee, oklahoma, as north dakota. we are in columbus, ohio. it is looking incredibly close. >> it is incredibly close to the point where the word out of the mitt romney camp is they think there could be less than 1000 vo

hillary clinton says president bashar al-assad will be judged by his actions, not his words. more than 9000 people have been killed in the past year. the latest estimate came as president assad visited the city of homs. our middle east editor reports. >> the question is whether the president is playing for time or whether he is serious about finding a way out of the violence. that would mean concessions to the armed opposition. opponents the president condemns as terrorists. the regime has shown more enthusiasm for victory at the negotiations. -- vera negotiations. he congratulated the soldiers. >> some of the residents are coming back. it is thanks to you and your sacrifice. >> a soldier response. >> we're here to defend the country to the last drop of our blood. >> kofi annan was in beijing. he now has the support of china, as well as russia. he needs their help to keep the pressure on the regime. >> we need to see how we move ahead. >> this peace plan, now accepted by president bashar al-assad, calls for syrians to negotiate not fight. the regime has agreed to pull back it

the syrian president bashar assad said he would like to make what he called quote any honest effort to solve the crisis currently tearing his country apart however he admitted it would be impossible while terrorist groups continue spreading chaos or the statements come after his meeting with the u.n. and arab league envoy to syria kofi annan in damascus ahead of is a make or break diplomatic mission called for an immediate cease fire involving evolving both rebels and government forces so the talks could begin but it was immediately rejected by syria's exiled opposition that enjoys the support of some western and arab states including cutter which is called for international military forces to be deployed to help end the conflict however russian foreign minister sergei lavrov stressed again any interference in syria's internal affairs is unacceptable. for national has more from damascus. hopes are fading already but this mission will succeed the leader of the syrian national council a turkey based opposition group recognized by e.u. as illegitimate for a percentage of the syrian people

serious ruling baath party has its regional office here its chief says meeting bashar al assad in person was the most memorable event of his life while the prospect of a un sanctioned foreign intervention in syria is now minimal he says behind the scenes syria still remains a front here for regional powers syria's from here about maybe half an hour and we see everything you know we're. going from here went on to syria we're going from government to syria and. from jordan from there from. across the street in a hospital run. by sunni charity attitudes are strikingly different most of the patients here are young men from the homs province and some like muhammad don't hide their affiliation with the free syrian army he's take on who is responsible for the bloodshed is not hard to guess. i have a warning for the russian people that if they don't change their stand will cut all ties with them once the revolution reaches its victory would you still have time to make the right choice for. the hospitals administrators shows us some of the about five hundred patients they've treated since the upr

i can assure you that these proposals do not mention any demands on president bashar al assad to step down i believe it's up to the syrian people to decide this issue any consensus decision that the government and all of the groups come to as a result of dialogue that russia is not supporting the syrian regime to support the launch of a political process a cease fire is needed for that in the first place in the coming days they will be a delegation from the united nations visiting serious. to assess what is the reality on the ground and this is the latest if it to reach some kind of political agreement between these two you know for it he's and the opposition. the arab league chief her surface syrian opposition sees no alternative to solve the country's crisis other than libya style intervention rob lyons from the online news magazine spark says at this point attempts to ship the conflict from the battlefield to the negotiating table are hopeless. there is a. situation we were through trying to seem to be hoping for some kind of between sort of solution as most of the ground rules are

the syrian president bashar assad has said he would like to make what he called quote any honest effort to solve the crisis currently tearing his country apart however he admitted it would be impossible while terrorist groups continue spreading chaos and statements come after his meeting with the u.n. and arab league envoy to syria kofi annan in damascus head of his make or break diplomatic mission call for an immediate cease fire involving both rebels and government forces in order to let talks begin and that was immediately rejected by syria's exiled opposition it enjoys the support of some western and arab states including cutter which has called for international forces to be deployed to help and the conflict parties where if an. in a courtroom too much. they didn't already but this mission will succeed the leader of the syrian national council a turkey based opposition group recognized by e.u. as a legitimate representative of the syrian people has said that alan's comments and his idea to find their way out of crisis through dialogue are disappointing while syrian people he said a

why would bashar al-assad listen to him when he has not listened to anyone else? >> is a good question. especially when he is showing the third largest city as well as a lot of other attacks throughout the country. kofi annan, a nobel laureate, is someone who does have international weight, but it is very hard to see how this would get in the way of the regime's plan to dictate and process -- to end the protest from above. >> you would hope that the united nations would have some weight as well. how does kofi annan differ from anything they have already tried? >> allows them to play a card without having a security council resolution, which the russian and chinese have vetoed a number of resolutions put forward by the united states and other western countries. this allows the united nations to get into the process. the question now is will bashar al-assad use that to change his approach to the crackdown -- unlikely -- or will he just bargain for more time to kill his own people. >> kofi annan needs support of the opposition for this to work. >> that is right. the

that it's time to arm syrian rebels but not everyone is ready to pull the trigger on president bashar al assad's regime we're going to show you how a few lawmakers are trying to strong arm their way into syria. finally. did this new syria. angry bold promises from the syrian government after a referendum vote and the approval of a new constitution official say there is light at the end of the tunnel despite continuing bloodshed question is that the syrian people agree. plus from religious freedom to foreign policy the economy to national security americans trust the media and the governments to direct the political discourse to topics that really matter but whose agenda are they really serving. good evening it's wednesday march seventh four pm here in washington d.c. on this the captain of the watching our team. but we begin in syria where an end to the violence is seemingly nowhere in sight after almost a year of bloody offensives the government of president bashar al assad seems an able to regain control of the country meanwhile the opposition rebels are too weak and too fragmented to overthro

rejecting it outright instead what the groups have been focusing on is criticizing the way that bashar assad is handling affairs in syria now there's a six point peace plan by the former u.n. chief talks about dialogue between the opposition and the government creating a humanitarian corridor walls as well as the withdrawal of troops and heavy weaponry from population cities the fact that damascus has indicated it is willing to accept the proposal and the fact that we haven't yet heard this kind of commitment from the opposition puts the ball thoroughly in the court of the opposition in terms of how events in syria now unfold. but a peace deal between would ask us and the opposition would be difficult to broker because of the political tug of war within the rebel camp that's according to at least observer pressured hayes. it's very hard to know exactly who the opposition is in syria you have a very divided opposition a very fragmented one where you effectively have it head which is the national syrian council which is led by theology professor in born in paris the university there you have o

involvement now last weekend kofi annan was in damascus where he met with the syrian president bashar assad as well as the opposition and he went on record after those meetings in saying that the door was open to a diplomatic solution and at the same time the syrian regime has indicated that its response to announce proposals is positive now the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has urged all neighbors of the international community to back this mission with lavrov saying that russia puts its weight behind it because of this those fish i hope this mission won't be ruined we have a feeling it every time we manage to achieve some positive change in the stance of damascus there's an immediate counterweight reaction and any steps forward are just missed i hope this won't be the case of how countries in the middle east and some western states treat the mission of kofi and i it was very strange that after his first visit to damascus the opposition syrian national council claimed the mission had already failed we're standing definite signals to damascus to cooperate with mr in arms and we hop

for a year now already the opposition activists have been saying all the time that the regime of bashar assad has been suppressing syrian people civilians innocent people while officially damascus has always been insisting that it's spies and against armed terrorist groups operating in the country this is expected of coffee and then will spend two days here in syria will meet president bashar al assad and some members of the syrian opposition within the country it's not yet clear whether he will travel outside damascus security forces on high alert fearing any provocations and terror attacks. great national reporting there from syria now coming up later this hour here on our t.v. the uprising hailed as a wave of democracy turns into a grab for power and cost and carry a stamp violence has become an integral part of the democratic process with politicians exploiting ethnic divisions to achieve their goals. and we report on palestinian children learning their first tough lessons in life thanks to long and hard daily journey to school. our crowd is gathering in central moscow to protest the cond