the e.u. convinced the totally unacceptable escalation of violence in the area. the time as kind to speak with one voice and demand an end to the bloodshed and the democratic future for syria. the e.u. has been leading international calls for strong u.n. action. we are very disappointed like all of you by the recent failure of the united nations will to adopt a resolution due to a new feature of russia and china. last saturday following the vote, the high representative on the can ress up the eagles continue to support all efforts at the league of arab states and called once more on all members of the u.n. security council to assume their resonsibilities. the searing crisis is and will remain very high on the e.u. agenda. the e.u. foreign ministers will discuss it again on the 27th of february. the e.u. has thrown out the conflict by the syrian people and the high representative continues to increase pressure on the syrian authorities through multiple levels. the priority for now is to stop th

the e.u. level in order to see a concrete policy with deadlines in order to stimulate growth through more sand or markets among other things than that country has to be coherent and not only will have to comply with the budgetary rules but will also have to be more insistent on reforms domestically so that it can have a market which can cope with the challenges of a more and more real single market. the the vote but terror consolidations that our government is committed to in italy. i kept the objective that my predecessor had set in agreement with the pcb, extreme financial emergency for italy, this can explain the effect that the italian government expected to balance the budget by 2017 which means a couple years before the other member states and after a quick reflection, to speak to that commitment although some macro economy is contend that that was the optimum course. he raised any authority and ability to increase developments, presenting themselves first, we put together a package adop

the e.u. president stayed two sides were committed to turning what he described as their economic independence to both china and the e.u. well premier wen jiabao says he wishes to contribute but makes no specific commitment. >> let's listen to what the e.u. president had to say. >> we welcome the positive attitude and engagement and preerm wen himself have taken publicly to help with the euro zone and european union and welcome the chinese residents to help with the stability of the euro zone. with premier wen jiabao, we see -- is a key cop opponent. >> well china's premier wen jiabao said he hoped the summit would strengthen relations between china and the e.u. >> there's no denying the european financial crisis is widening the impact on the world and security arena, escalating tensions and triggering a lot of new problems. we are facing enormous challenges, and therefore -- solidarity -- are the common choice of europe and china and the only right path. it is against this -- background that

three and a half million jobs that depend on us having a positive relationship with the e.u. one of the benefits that we have of being part of britain is that our relationship with the e.u. is stable and secure there is a great legal they will in one hundred people will win an independent scotland game with an independent it's going to magically state it would have to go to rebut it would an independent counsel appointed how it would have to be a member of the european union i would imagine it was a real exception process and why it's already in it there's a huge difference it's already you've got about it already in the euro i mean if you look at a work on the high and very high and book of scottish independence by joseph martins he expresses dough if you look at over here is how it was one of the s.n.p. his favorite economists well i'm surprised you're one of the first ministers favorite color missy relies on him to back a bit ahead of you so i don't know innocent and that's always said this alleged time easy i mentioned i've never had it i've never seen it ok well this is

will the e.u. first of all and they just want to again add pressure to the syrian regime as they've already been doing so in the past few months and reiterated their message that the syrian government has lost any or all support of the nations they did add additional seven government officials to that asset freeze and they also oppose sanctions on the syrian central bank also banned the purchase of oil a purchase of gold that is precious metals and diagnose from the country and another thing they added is banning any syrian cargo flights to wild at any airports. it has to be said is now was the largest trading partner of syria accounted for about twenty percent of traits and this is no small matter however it begs the question are the sanctions effective at all the e.u. had imposed asset freezes on about one hundred individuals in the past as well as thirty eight organizations they will an arms embargo on the country yet the conflict is still going on for about eleven months now it hasn't it hasn't

for an in-depth discussion of the e.u.'s economic woes as m.e.p. nigel farage joins us later this hour. meanwhile tehran has reiterated its readiness to resume nuclear talks with the major powers to discuss the country's controversial nuclear program this why israel has stepped up its stance against iran with prime minister netanyahu saying tehran's aggression must be stopped he repeated the claims that iran was behind recent bombings allegedly targeting israelis in india. in thailand israel says there are links between the incidents despite authorities in india and thailand saying there is no such evidence and iran denying involvement terrine in turn says israel is waging a psychological war that many fear may pave the way for military action political analyst chris bambery explains why he thinks israel is acting as it is. i have to take israel's claim that iran is behind the attacks on its diplomats in georgia and india with a pinch of salt forcefully should be said israel has a long record of using assassination as the tool i think it might be b

as the e.u. puts the squeeze on damascus the syrian people expecting the results of saturday's vote on a new constitution there are forms put forward by president assad are designed to end the ruling party's fifty year monopoly on power and pave the way for free elections officials say there was high turnout despite a boycott from the opposition violence though raging in other parts of the country including the flashpoint city of homes where dozens were reported killed saturday rebels say it's a massacre the government insists it's fighting armed terrorists political analyst only are a lot of the shabby things putting pressure on assad is unbalanced and doesn't address the needs of syria. the direction is west. and the what's the plan to remove a president i thought the home office and they don't care at what cost if one wants to be heading to with the city and really can't include basic human rights and basic a human preserving human life one should call for dialogue one should. not push mom bet

damascus syria the e.u.is continuing to put pressure on syria's assad to step down confirming new sanctions against the country are on the way political analyst dr omar in a shabby things western powers are sending the wrong signals to the opposition who should be encouraged by the announcement of a referendum on a new syrian constitution. the way forward is to have dialogue and i think in order to have dialogue there must be sacrifices on on on both sides here is a president making. a huge move forward by presenting a draft of the constitution and i think that that should be in his view in many people's view sufficient to convince the other side to sit down on the table. and to have a serious dialogue. that would save syria the destruction and say this so many people. syrian opposition is calling for reform what is the best way to get that done is it through cutting weapons and shooting at government institutions to get to each other and having a civil war in syria of course not i think all the city and. ho

and e.u. right now with israel also threatening military action i can let you know just a bit later this hour in about ten minutes on r.t. we're going to talk at length to iran's i am void a live interview alyeska sultan i will be joining us live from vienna. earlier it came to light that israel might have already destroyed or a nuclear sites and the preparations for a military attack on taran are well underway it's from millions of e-mails allegedly hacked from the u.s. intelligence firm stopped for by the anonymous hacker group our correspondent or a smith reports of london. email wiki leaks has obtained from struck for secret files says that all iranian nuclear infrastructure has already be already been taken out they say that israeli commando forces in conjunction with kurdish rebels already destroyed all of iran's nuclear infrastructure on the ground and i quote some weeks ago israeli sources said in this in this string of emails that wiki leaks has released said the current let's bomb ir

welcome back to the headlines now back to basics the e.u. miles over fresh economic punishment for president assad's syrian regime after failing to push through a polarizing u.n. resolution. modern technology to support political activism prime minister putin games online and his bid to prove russian democracy. wind of change in latvia the country's russian minority hopes to win an upcoming referendum that could see their native language officially recognised as the latest attempt by russians to secure their political rights. but next on cross talk people develop asks his guest about scotland's debate over independence and how realistic it would be for the nation to go to learn. welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle in search of national determination and sovereignty this is what many scots say they want a realistic is an independent scotland would it be a viable state or is this all a ploy with the scots looking for a better deal within the e.u. . to cross scotland's potential sovereignty i'm joined by david kopel in denver he's an adjunc

challenges mad as the e.u. hits twenty. crisis poisons the union. profiteers have more power than people. a free trade bloc under threat from the great least. twenty. and you can. still. welcome back i'm wrong i'm beautiful to remind you we're talking about the independence of scotland. and you can. see. ok david if i go back to you in denver and a recent poll had gives the the following numbers fifty two percent to thirty two percent english voters favored maximum devolution from scotland or independents a bigger margin of support then the s. and p. s.n.p. in scotland itself i mean it's really interesting it seems we're having talking about it leads right here in many ways a lot of it one and one trend that is really moving in the u.k. is that the english are feeling more english and less british at least that's what some data is showing i mean is it a matter of and leads and institutions that want to keep this together devoid to what people actually think. well i think that the opinion polls within scotland itself ok fair to show that there's very

headlines the e.u. seeking to impose tougher economic sanctions on syria's government after failing to boost pressure on president assad three u.n. draft resolution blocked by russia and china. russia's foreign minister calls the western reaction to the veto indecent and hysterical ahead of a trip to damascus aimed at finding a political solution to the ongoing crisis. ensuring greater political involvement for the people through the internet prime minister putin laying out plans to upgrade russian democracy a day after massive pro and anti-government rallies sweep the country. pressure on all fronts greek coalition government deadlocked over adopting new austerity measures to secure a second ballot while the e.u. says time for a deal with iran and deal for things is running out. up next on cross talk peter lavelle i guess about the debate over scotland's independence and how realistic it could be for the nation to go it alone stay with us. if you can. follow me and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavel

the e.u.is surely no signs of backing this raises the prospect of nations outside could look refusing to introduce. taxes. even less a. few lights and lines will go out of business but. business . analysts think a look at the currencies now will start with the euro which is rising slightly to the dollar after one hundred seventy two billion dollars bailout was agreed fall in an all light summit of european ministers and stronger or less portion of the ball higher against both the u.s. and european currencies so let's take a look at the oil prices at the moment crude is down on speculation up prices which are near and nine month curve as you have continues to struggle with itself prices and that's also against the backdrop of rising crude stockpiles in the u.s. the rod speed is consumer of oil now let's check on the situation in europe markets there have raised earlier games the first thing is news in over a quarter of a percent of all the dax is point eight percent. let's move on to russian ma

forty three nations including the largest economies in the world are fighting the e.u.'s unilateral move to charge airlines for carbon emissions the international air transport association which unites all major passenger and cargo airlines says the system is unfair and that should be imposed globally not to region the airline industry already pays enormous taxes in europe that were supposed to be to cover the environment that's the airline perspective but there's also another perspective which is that outside of the airline industry a number of states say this is an infringement on their sovereignty because they need to us charges to cover the entire flight not just the portion of the flight it takes place over here where space to encourage airlines to reduce greenhouse gases the e.u. will oblige them to effectively pay a tax on fifteen percent of their carbon emissions this will be done by purchasing quotas on the emissions trading system the other eighty five percent is free of charge by twenty twenty the chargeable amount will write to eighteen percent to you're a st

demanded by the e.u. . civil society takes center stage in politics so a group of public figures to monitor the upcoming presidential vote i would backing from all of the candidates the goal of the. league is to ensure a fair. election. into the world of sports poll now. thank you very much and warm welcome to the world of sports here is what's coming up. not gone for long reports claim former indian coach fabio capello could be in line to place i'm g. managing your question is john with the club expected to make an announcement on monday. making our rockets russia given a lifeline in the davis cup tie with austria federer switzerland the white washed by the usa. and a tiger ready to pounce former world number one golfer tiger woods is four shots behind leader charlie wayne going into the final round of the pebble beach national in california. but first a football reports in both the russian and british press claim that former england manager fabio capello could be in line for a move to the russian premier

good to have you with us here on r t our top story iran has reportedly war in six e.u. countries it may stop supplying them with oil in response to a series of sanctions including an embargo on terrans key export an iranian official added the only reason they're not stopping the crude sales immediately is europe's extremely cold current temperatures are he's jacob greaves reports from greece one of the countries believed to be subject to the oil cut by tehran. the latest reports here what we hear is the arabian foreign ministry has cooled up these are bastards of the six nations concerned and told them that cuts will happen but not right away or they will face a ban on exports to their nations but they'll be given some leeway and that's what they termed humanitarian reasons the cold snap that's been sweeping across europe that will go down if implemented preempt somewhat those sanctions imposed by the e.u. back in january due to be implemented in july six nations in question here well those reported to be in the really thick of it when it comes this economic crisis we h

now as greece struggles to control its economic crisis the e.u. turns up the heat on iran over its nuclear program the european union has announced a series of financial sanctions including plans to stop importing oil from july meanwhile iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad announced that the islamic republic would soon revealed major advances in its nuclear program he also warned that europe was playing a risky gang by cutting off trade with iran because you consumers uptown for around twenty percent of iran's oil output. the spanish ambassador to iran said that sanctions will hurt this country more than any other european state based journalist may go on and morocco says the e.u. embargo serves only the interest of the united states. would we're seeing here is not a decision that comes actually from the european countries to spain never want to do some bar go to to prove to be put in place this is something that comes externally from the united states pressure on the european union i mean it's not just displaying a mutually also greece imports l

and as the e.u. plans to bring iran to its knees with an approaching all embargo their affairs the move could backfire and hit european countries the hardest. russia's second largest lender the tepee has decided to fight back it says from minority shareholders to double the market price and join me in about twenty minutes with more details on the business but at that. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day the u.n. says it plans to team up with the arab league and restart a monitoring mission in conflict on syria president assad's forces say they are conducting anti terror operations shelling several areas including the flashpoint city of homs but activists are accusing the government of a massacre saying hundreds of civilians have been killed over the past week something hard to verify and with conflicting opposition reports of casualties there are those who believe the figures are being manipulated to push a regime change agenda bodies are the benn

the e.u. seeks to impose tougher economic sanctions on syria's government after failing to boost pressure on president assad or u.n. draft resolution that was blocked by russia and china. russia's foreign minister calls western reaction to the veto decent and hysterical ahead of his trip to damascus aimed at finding a political solution to the ongoing crisis and ensuring greater political involvement for the people through the internet prime minister putin lays out his plans to upgrade russia the bocher see a day after mass pro and anti-government rallies sweep the country. and pressure on all greek coalition government in deadlock over adopting new austerity measures necessary to secure a second ballot while the e.u. says time for a deal is running out for athens. speaking to senior any of this about the reasons for europe's shortage of gas this winter the business news is the twenty. nine pm in moscow i matras a good to have you with us here on r t our top story the e.u. and u.s. are calling

the e.u. . u.s. declines to rule out arming the syrian opposition that was also backed by al qaida spreading fears that washington's push for regime change in syria could plunge the country deeper into chaos. and the failure of the u.n. nuclear watchdog mission in iran fuels talk of even more sanctions while tension around the islamic state begins to take its toll on the countries putting those fountains in place. plus the cost of going green as your proposes a new carbon tax airlines struggle to keep their ticket prices low and we'll have more of that in business in twenty minutes. in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program the streets of spanish cities become a battlefield a stands of thousands of school children and students protest against education cuts the demonstrations turn violent earlier this week in the city of landsea were seventeen people were injured in what's been called the have the handed repression of the rally five days of protests have

japanese airlines also oppose the e.u.'s regulation. >> translator: i think it's important that all of the world's airline companies agree to establish environmental measures based on one rule. >> reporter: the e.u. will not compromise on this issue. it wants to show international leadership in addressing climate change. >> it does not breach the principal of sovereignty. if you want to operate in europe, you have to respect the law, you have to respect the environmental law. >> reporter: no one can agree on which country should be responsible for the co 2 that airplanes emit. nor does the kyoto protocol address the issue. it looks like there will be no early end to the deadlock. >> the chinese government has banned the country's airlines from joining the e.u. plan. china state run news agency reported on monday that civil aviation administration has told airlines that they will need government approval to raise fares to pay the e.u. charges. this is considered in effect to be a step to prevent chinese airlines from accepti

than the people of the e.u. than the ordinary people in ordinary working mand or people who live from a salary the only real solution is not to what the e.u. is not imposing on your own solution is social democracy. also investment advisor patrick young says euro zone leaders could now be prepared to expel greece from the currency union. in every possible respect greek greece is not a tragedy and it is due and the reason for that is simply because the reason no way that they are going to be able to implement whatever austerity they're talking about this weekend against such a backlash of public opinion whatever happens there the problem for the rest of the euro zone is that not only we have to basically be prepared to defend the whole integrity of the euro and actually if you read what's been said behind the behind closed doors this week of the euro zone and indeed from the summit you can see there's a spirit that you know what we may have to do three so we may even have to end up ditching portugal from the euro

eighty billion euros is zero point seven percent of the e.u. g.d.p. so this is really not very much when you want to improve growth job creation possibilities it is more a question of each of the member countries i just think its policies accordingly and then we are talking about tax reform regulatory reform we are also talking about much more flexibility that is needed in the labor market so it's one thing to have as an object leave more growth and more jobs it's quite another thing to come to the policies and again these are first of all measures or policies that need to be adjusted in order to come to some real result in terms of growth and jobs ok why protesters have stood up to the authorities in washington d.c. refusing to remove that counts from two parts despite threats of police action. still preparing to resist with officers standing at the ready nearby and as she is explaining occupies a range united in their beliefs. so we are here ad macpherson square where protesters have been occupying the park since october throughout the demonstration

embargoes continue to restrict iranian exports of oil to china i don't see how the e.u. in bugger would china's import olds or you from your own. mr yong region is dying the professor of international politics at the university of bristol thank you for coming on and so it's a day. well you without your life in moscow you can always log on to our website r t v dot com to give us your opinion on the possible results of chancellor merkel's visit to china let's bring up the numbers from our web site right now or so far this hour forty three percent of you think the visit will help china access new markets almost a third of it was believed beijing will extend a helping hand to a week in europe by now sixteen percent say that china will move closer to the western position on iran a minority of this hour believing the meeting will end with chinese support for u.n. security council resolution on syria to head over to dot com cast your vote but for now let's head over to the business of. coming out for you russia's prime minister has a voice. to take the russian economy from the

fulfills the demands of its creditors dr sure is our role model from the e.u. research center thinks greece won't be able to escape default even where the rescue cash. there's no question that the greeks are going to end up defaulting at some way down the road the problem is that europeans the rest of the eurozone is not quite ready for a disorderly default right now and so another hundred thirty billion is being poured into their country so there isn't a disorderly default so it doesn't spill over into countries exactly next spain and italy so what you're going to end up seeing is some very very poor countries which have been put into dire straits because of the fiscal austerity measures that we just agreed upon the problem is when the elections happen for example in greece in april you know when the new government followed through with such harsh measures i mean they're in place now but what happens are able is anyone's guess and what effect do you saying the latest round of austerity measures will have on greece log on to r.t. dot com and share your thoughts

it's a day of mass protests across the e.u. with tens of thousands rallying against austerity and economic hardship a correspondent tom bowman reports on the day's events at the epicenter of the euro crisis. the greek parliament you can see behind me is no stranger to protests and indeed there have been protests throughout the day and throughout greece today doctors have staged walk outs as have many public sector workers local councils were occupied across greece and across the territory here with the message really that these cuts these cuts in pay these cuts in pensions are simply going too far we're talking about a twenty two percent cut in wages across the board in the minimum wage really really tough cuts going through here also to pensions those really hard to stomach for many people and unions have turned out very very concerned over that protesting outside the parliament and outside that the european commission's building here a lot of flak being directed at perceived interference from brussels from other eurozone capi

what the e.u. is now doing it's trying to influence the outcome of the greek general election not satisfied with getting rid of the last democratically elected prime minister and putting a puppet in the forwards to papademos it now says it's now saying to the greek people unless you vote for the right parties the less you vote for parties that are happy to be subjugated do you control we will not give you the rest of the money and you will go bankrupt i suspect that despite the dissatisfaction that is felt by many german politicians i think the german parliament will continue to toe the line and continue to say that buy it out so the answer as far as i'm concerned it's rather like saving the cancer and not saving the patients we saw one of the commissioners e.u. commission early crews said the other day that if greece left it wouldn't be a man overboard situation so even at the top there is now a crack beginning to appear and very interesting really what i've seen in the european parliament is for

but you've even had some e.u. officials say maybe we have to have a separate account for greece to actually repay this money. that takes up the issue of financial independence. sovereignty. >> and banks still across are concerned on the rumbles. >> yes. briefly they had a pretax $4 billion in the last few months of 2011. that's a pretty impressive figure and a 3% drop on the previous year below analysts' expectations but they have had a drop on the bonus. but the really interesting thing what's gone up is the capital rate the amount of money they put aside to help them through financial difficulties. that's gone up 11%. >> now two men allegedly hired by a man to kill his bride while on his honeymoon in south africa are in court. both are charged with murdering 28-year-old annie -- in the back of a taxi during a staged highjacking. joining me from cape town -- can you tell me what's happened in court? >> well, for the first time the two accused have arrived here in the high court in cape town. they have both been a

more on the situation in syria we can talk to political activist who's joining us from ramallah the e.u. is calling for the creation of humanitarian corridor in syria how close are we to foreign military intervention well actually i believe that they've started this already they've been sending. members. through the surrounding countries of syria and all these. laws that we've explored that. took place in. the massacres are actually at the hands of al qaida members and we know very well that. transfer of these militias are tied on members from iraq and from libya through turkey and through jordan so we just have to ask you washington isn't deliberately supporting al-qaeda is it. well if if they were. supporting. throughout afghanistan war. before fifty years ago and they were. they they know. activities in iraq and if they think that they can serve them by these explosions and creating chaos in syria why not i don't think that they you mind this may be a. record they try to avoid any linkage between them and i think to serve their. purpose here and to. topple the. bashar al assad i thin

european impartiality comes under scrutiny as a number of schools are accused of brainwashing e.u. values into children in the name of diversity. one pm of the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshie welcome to the program now crisis last syria finds itself caught between two very different diplomatic efforts as the u.s. and its allies piled pressure on the government of russia and china are trying to mediate a negotiated solution while beijing stopped diplomats in damascus meeting members of the ruling elite and the opposition the chinese effort follows up on months of attempts by moscow to bring the warring sides together but there were those who refused to talk unless president asad gives up power violence is escalating almost daily now was dozens reportedly killed over the past twenty four hours a little science professor joseph chang says u.s. dominance in the region is forcing some world powers onto the defense of. the major factors you know wolf. i. know some kind of just me. throughout the world that need the. and in north africa obviously the conservative count

country's top stories iran says it's been considering canceling oil sales to six e.u. countries but it wouldn't do so at the moment because of the cold winter in europe this kind of as the israeli pm accuses the islamic state of being behind but the toxin needed to jabatan the. dr says external players are encouraging opposition groups to stay out of dialogue with the syrian government and therefore bear large responsibility for them growing violence meanwhile president assad has announced ever random only need calls the team. on the rallies marking one of the pro-democracy uprising in bahrain protesters face yet another harsh clamp down on the words police using toxics and weapons from the u.k. . up next the economic woes are being scrutinized and also his capital account was born in this. good afternoon and welcome to capital account and i'm lauren lister here in washington d.c. here are your headlines for february fifteenth two thousand and twelve europe is shrinking at least the economy is italy's things into recession the eurozone contract for the first time since

was iran reportedly stopped oil exports to six european states in retaliation to e.u. sanctions as international rhetoric is ramped up to further a family of flames of friction with the islamic state. live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and used to now a six pm here in the russian capital four pm in damascus and syria's president bashar assad has ordered a referendum on a new constitution to be held in eleven days according to the country's state run news agency it could put an end to the one rule party to the one party rule i should say of the president's baath party and shrines in the current constitution there now when it came amid reported violence in the cities of homes and some of the fiercest in the months long unrest maria for notion is in syria and now reports . the take over a national referendum on the country's new constitution has been announced in every day that is expected to be how the. syrian government and thousands of parents are probably confirmed a document that had been drafted to end the monopoly of the ruling

but promises of support that's all that high ranking e.u. politicians can get from china during their visit to beijing the asian giant stop short of outlining concrete steps in certainty comes as greece again failed to meet conditions set up by the e.u. which led to the cancellation of a key meeting between euro zone finance ministers jacob graves reports from athens is showing just how far reaching this crisis in greece and also the euro zone now it in terms of achievement feels very least so you had quite a high ranking delegation heading there it was headed up by the president of the european commission the president of the european council as well as a manual but also. both of them despite that high ranking delegation didn't get any more guarantees apart from good imposed of was a chinese counterpart so know by now. sure interaction the thing guaranteed in terms of financial stimulus is really what they want the reason they're in china is because china has the money they need right now three point two trillion dollars reserve currency fu

the drugs haven't been considering cutting all sales to six e.u. countries but it wouldn't do so at the moment because of the cold winter in europe . russia says external players are encouraging opposition groups to stay out of dialogue with the feeling government and therefore bear large responsibility for the ongoing violence and while president assad has announced a referendum on a new constitution. and that rallies knocking one against the pro-democracy uprising in bahrain protests thank you nothing to clamp down with me seizing tactics and weapons from the u.k. . international news live from moscow this is our she was me here thanks for joining us for us to iran has reportedly warned sixty you countries that might stop supplying them with oil in response to a series of sanctions which include an embargoed until iran ski export and iranian official has added to the only reason they're not stopping cruise sales immediately is europe's extremely cold current temperatures jake agrees reports now from greece one of the countries believed to be subj

the third say the measures only need further hardship for greek people six percent are convinced the e.u. will not let the greek economy collapse and the minority considers bailouts to be the only way for athens to survive. the u.s. has hinted it could eventually give arms to rebels in syria despite previous strident opposition to further militarize and conflict in the country the obama administration says if a political solution to the crisis proved impossible it might consider other options at this amid warnings that washington's continuing efforts against the syrian regime could see it fighting side by side with art is going to count reports . i meet bloodshed in syria more extremists are penetrating the country to help bring down a song that's according to u.s. intelligence which says all current affiliated fighters were responsible for a series of deadly suicide bombings in damascus and aleppo targeted at syrian military and intelligence facilities we've seen evidence of. extremist sunni extremists i'm not can't label them specifically as al qaeda but similar ilk who are infiltratin