suffer a blow from greece's burgeoning debt crisis and meanwhile in athens violent protests against edward tufte in the stoics images there. on a syrian woman seen as the symbol of the regime brutality against his own people reappears alive and well after reportedly being beheaded for several backtracking out there giving to the supposed death saturation coverage. it's eight thirty one now here in moscow next to meet a former british ambassador to that war stricken country the resolution vetoed by two permanent members russia and china split the security council gives his take on the region on events in the region. today i'm talking to basil eastwood's he's a former u.k. ambassador to syria he was serving in damascus twenty nine hundred ninety six thousand the situation's changed a lot since then and we want to talk about what the situation on the ground is like now astri said thank you very much for talking to us today now ross have been these facts acids deserves at least some credit for trying to instigate some kind of reform you are going well if you was seriously trying to try to little and