the free syrian army. that in effect there's a stalemate there's a stalemate and the government forces have a hand against so-called opposition forces so i'm sorry you talk about this stalemate going on we've just had this whole friends of syria group meeting in the past week in istanbul some delegates of the group agreeing to pay opposition fighters and soldiers defecting from the army and with the gallon t.-t. think the money will be used to buy weapons but i think this is a red herring altogether because the free syrian army is why announced by the. times from the outset this i mean the free syrian army are the foot soldiers of the western military alliance and they are advised by their own military handlers we know that we know the special forces on the ground that french army french military officers were arrested late february the thing was hushed up and the for truth but i think the truth is that the western military alliance has been waging a covertly war using the free syrian army for more than a

people we were speaking to on the turkish side had telling us really that the the free syrian army are still crossing back across in some parts to help the refugees that are crossing but of course that is extremely concerning the turkish authorities allowing facilitating in some ways the syrian f.s.a. cheats to go of course back into syria of course these clashes then pretty expecting extremely disturbing because you've got this refugee camp so close to where some of this violence is in harkness. walking. across the border i walk again. maybe. the army took a shine to me they came to the back maybe he's come along there's some people come back you know this people work with the f.s.a. . beside the border across the turkish border just syria understood this type of order i know that many of the free syrian army people here there are people here and they're operating there inside you not because the government has let him go back to fight now so this is all happening in the run up to the fast approaching deadline for an agreed truce in syria how are things are looking in that respect

>> yes, the free syrian army has a clear objective to protect civilians. it does not pose any real threat against the military machine of assad. if they were to withdraw, the free syrian army would have no jobs to undertake. it is unable to cause any threats to military capability. it can at best hold back a few ground troops. if the free syrian army -- they would by nature observe the cease-fire. >> they say they're waiting for you to do that and give a written guarantee. is that something that you think would be considered at all? >> it is extremely unrealistic. we have a military capability four international warfare. it is asking the free syrian army, who are widely armed, to give up everything. what is assad going to do to guarantee he will not continue the onslaught? he continues his onslaught on villages, towns, and cities. >> do you now envision a new stage taking place in this conflict? it would seem the cease-fire will not really be observed by the tuesday deadline. >> the best special of the opposition was skeptical at best. everyone knew that pr

the commander of the rebel free syrian army has indicated that he will not give any kind of written guarantees that he plans to lay down arms and this is just hours after the syrian forward of a crazed force such explanations what the syrian regime is awesome for is written confirmation that the rebels will lay down arms before with tool of a tense and the troops some population centers now this does threaten to derail the peace process just two days before the peace plan that was put forward by the former u.n. chief kofi annan goes into effect what we know is that the rebels are saying that they do not recognize the legitimacy of the syrian president bashar assad's regime and as such they will not be giving any kind of guarantees what they want to stay is for the syrian troops to return to their bases and for security checkpoints to be removed from the streets but what we're hearing from damascus they say that in the last two days there has been an alarming increase in violence in numerous syrian cities and it puts the blame for this squarely on the shoulders of the opposition who they say a

big truth is that the western military alliance has been waging because during war using the free syrian army. for all of a year no. this free syrian army doesn't represent anybody in syria the opposition is not an opposition is a bunch of thoughts and terrorists and that made by the western military alliance and the patrol cities which are blamed on the government up a bit by the free syrian army and ultimately the free syrian army is on the payroll of the western military alliance so that you can have a ceasefire called by the so-called international community when the members of the international community are in fact involved in the conflict the deadline has passed for egypt's presidential hopefuls to officially register for the race in the race next month about twenty candidates hoping to fill the shoes of hosni mubarak was ousted last year he let the commission is expected to announce in the next couple of weeks the list of approved candidates or he's really in lucia reports from cairo. you can divide the candidates into essentially three groups the first group are the liberals who are

military unless the armed opposition provides guarantees that it will follow suit however the free syrian army is refusing to meet the regime's demand our middle east correspondent paula has the latest. this follows last week's understanding that the syrian regime was prepared to accept a cease fire put forward according to the former u.n. chief kofi annan and according to that cease fire comes this choose day the masses will withdraw all its troops from the major cities and then it will be up to the opposition to meet a final deadline of six a in. which they would have stopped or fighting following the group would have been paved for negotiations between both sides but what we hearing from damascus is that over the past few days there has been an increase in violence and that violence is largely being perpetrated by armed opposition groups and that's why today sunday we heard from the syrian foreign ministry saying that there had been a wrong explanation given in terms of their commitment to pull troops from the cities by tuesday in fact he said that there had been no undertaking or no commit

all of the many of the free syrian army people here there are people here and they're operating there inside you not. let him go on back and forth as well as a civilian refugee camps taking the military army defectors and the man considered the head of the f.s.a. in the country the camp with a state's closely guarded thirty's make it extremely hard to access information here but we managed to speak to one member of the free syrian army about what they're wanting from the turkish government. we don't have enough weapons. it's not just the f.s.a. the turkey supporting it recently played host to the friends of syria conference where many countries including gulf states guitar in saudi arabia agree to contribute millions to funding the free syrian army it was a move the sun country source undermining to to put an end to the violence in the country peacefully these latest incidents are just the latest in a long line of setbacks these efforts to be realized syrian refugees here skeptical that a solution is close at hand thousands of people have made the journey across the border from syria.

unfortunately such a tragic incident like this is happening in the clashes breaking out between the free syrian army and the syrian government forces for a long time these border areas have really got incredibly incredibly dangerous they've heard the past couple of weeks of course as you've had this huge influx of refugees coming into the country coming into turkey there has also been very serious questions that have been asked about the return of a lot of the free syrian army back across into syria and the allowance of the turkish authorities for that to happen so there's really going to be some people wanting to look very very closely now just how exactly say many civilian refugee people worth it in this area of course turkey is a country that's been calling for a safe zone for a buffer zone to allow refugees fleeing the violence in syria to come in to turkey safely and you've really got the western just how safe having a refugee camp right or not border area where so much conflicts been happening recently really is and we were actually speaking to a number of the f.s.a. who are operating on the t

countries including gulf states qatar and saudi arabia agree to contribute millions to funding the free syrian army. undermining diplomatic efforts to put an end to the violence in the country peacefully and these latest incidents are just the latest in a long line of setbacks. to be realized syrian refugees skeptical that a solution is placed at hand thousands of people who maybe journey across the border from syria. like this one in. some cases they just a few miles from their home the struggle on the left unable to. serve but are they the happy province on the border. program the whistleblower turns inquisitor two days from now controversial we can expand the. areas his new room to . the forgotten farmers report in the palestinian struggle to end the living off. world turns the other way. turn of the twenty three candidates who want to run for egypt's presidency have been banned from taking part in next month's election. support of. venting former regime officials from entering the us just now being rubber stamped. and supporters demonstrations are expected the. former spy chief of cinnamon and

countries including gulf states guitar in saudi arabia agreed to contribute millions to funding the free syrian army moves this country sources undermining. to build an end to the violence in the country peacefully and these latest incidents are just the latest in a long line of. to be realized syrian refugees skeptical that a solution is close at hand thousands of people have made the journey across the border from syria. like this. some cases there just a few miles from their homes the struggle on the left unable to return. are they perhaps a province on the turkish border. program the whistleblower turns inquisitor just two days from the russian stand for the so many years to be sure. we look ahead. and go to farmers who've gotten a palestinian struggling to. tell the truth. and. ten of the twenty three candidates who want to run for egypt's presidency have been banned from taking part in next month's elections. in support of the law preventing former regime officials from entering the race. by military rulers excluding candidates have forty eight hours to appeal and supporters of demonstrations

the media on it is just to show like the syrian army is this collating the stories and really is committed to the contrary the row one so-called rebels or free syrian army or some of this. slamming fundamentalists they are escalating the situation inside syria and they are trying to gain ground but of course this is. so impossible or next to impossible the syrian government asking for the government here and that's why they're asking for guarantee they want or thirty like the turkish government until his or saudi to seal those borders so no arms being supplied the logistics to supply to turkey and they can cross the border inside syria just to purely to kill. and cause a hover and. destroy the infrastructure of the country the opposition says its pledge to the international community to end the violence is enough so why are they so reluctant to give written guarantees do you think. well the syrian government asked for the letting go and please as we know the. there are different groups there are thirty three different groups so they don't have a command center so we want to see what from those guarantees i'm getting there and this is kofi an

but the arab league allies are faulk -- biting at the bit to begin providing more arms to the free syrian army. the united states has been reluctant to support that for fear that by doing so, the united states would inevitably have to involve itself more in the syrian conflict. that is not necessarily the case and i think the administration to but the turks and the arab league to do what is necessary as long as the cease-fire continues to be violated. >> do you think is only a matter of time before the opposition is arms? >> the opposition is receiving covert arms from other countries in the region. they're getting their arms from somewhere. across the border from jordan, lebanon, turkey. turkey has provided safe haven to the leadership of the free syrian army. if turkey is providing that safe haven, you can be certain that arms are already reaching them. >> you seem to be implying that the path of diplomacy is now over. is that the case? >> listen, even the mafia has a code of honor. the syrian government clearly does not. it committed to a cease-fire, which it has consistently violated. the

the so-called three from the free syrian army and its supporters in the west and some. groups that support the do not want peace and stability in syria and after proportion of the syrian people support president assad in fact some some records claim that it is the majority now even if it's not the majority even if it is an equal number or a large proportion of the syrian population then one cannot have a stable syria without dialogue and one cannot have a dialogue without a ceasefire so the the opposition group thought with so called the syrian free army that is supported by western powers and some arab countries needs to. resolve this matter of priorities it needs to set its priorities straight to the international community and to everybody and to the united nations is the priority to actually have a stable and peaceful syria actually build government institutions and also of course do democratic reforms the order is the priority. change. every inch of the syrian crisis monitored intensely by the country's neighbors whose future might be directly affected by the israel

the free syrian army becoming stronger hayes country turkey is now home to twenty thousand displaced syrians refugee camps near the border see a continual flow of new arrivals and these we mess nearly all have tales of war. planes to support. we had to skip over the border the violence got through. negotiations they tell us what worked the opposition will not back down from this fight nor they feel we'll let it into fat despite the syrian government along with the international community having signed up to the un envoy to syria k.p.n. and peace plan at the friends of syria conference the parties have already decided who is the legitimate representative of the syrians france or syria soon people support the mission called an int declared by shooting nation council we see syrian issue council illegitimately present a few for all syrians the seemingly one sided approach is a part of the reason why russia and china has dismissed. concerns that excluding the assad government from talks undermines diplomatic efforts to end the violence if they want to help syria the to engage the syrian go

afternoon and they say talk is cheap friends assyria have pledged millions of dollars for the free syrian army effectively putting the rebels on a foreign payroll however even this didn't go as far as the opposition group the syrian national council and some of the friends a syria had hateful with calls to the free syrian army becoming stronger the hayes country turkey is now home to twenty thousand displaced syrians refugee camps near the border see a continual flow of new arrivals and these we mess nearly all have tales of war video to support. we have to skip over the border violence drug through. negotiations they tell us won't work the opposition will not back down from this fight nor they feel will president assad despite the syrian government along with the international community having signed up to the un envoy to syria cape fear peace plan at a friends of syria conference the parties have already decided who is the legitimate representative of the syrians friends of syria syrian people support the mission called an inch declared by shooting nation council we see you syrian issue . il

including called states guitar in saudi arabia agreed to contribute millions to funding the free syrian army is a move this sometimes she soars undermining diplomatic efforts to put an end to the violence in the country peacefully and these latest incidents are just the latest in a long line of setbacks for these efforts to be realized the syrian refugees here is skeptical that a solution is close at hand thousands of people have made the journey across the border from syria. like this one in. some cases it is the be miles from their homes. unable to return so are they the happy province on the turkish border. and more visiting professor of international relations from university in turkey says i'm curious stance over syria plays well into the rebels have. the syrian rebels main strategy is to draw in prone intervention because neither protests on the streets or. undermine the control room or the regime and so on hope training is to bring in the higher are nato countries turkey or as we heard it or not in a border country with a member of nato so if you can provoke. might work then we have.

the border and into a refugee camp as government forces because he's fleeing members of the free syrian army take he started talking of setting up a buffer zone to ensure the security of its southern border and to protect civilians thing from the violence in syria this also raises serious concerns that that could undermine diplomatic efforts to end the conflict by setting the stage for a fully fledged foreign military intervention well serious questions will be raised about just why a wreck e.g. kant was located so close to a conflict area even louder voices want to know why the rebels are being allowed to use the count as a safe haven for returning back into syria to continue that fight walking before. i don't cross the border i walk again. the army i took an army. for. some people come back you know the people work with. the border across the border to syria. border and many. people here there are people here and they're operating. do not. let him go on back to fort as well as a civilian refugee camp taking the military army defectors and the man considered the head of the f.s.a. in the co

make it extremely hard to access information here but we managed to speak to one member of the free syrian army about what they're wanting from the turkish government. is not just the f.s.a. the turkey supporting it recently played host to the friends of syria conference where many countries including called states qatar and saudi arabia agree to contribute millions to funding the free syrian army me for this country soars undermining diplomatic efforts to put an end to the violence in the country peacefully and these latest incidents are just the latest in a long line of setbacks for these efforts to be realized syrian refugees are skeptical that a solution is close at hand thousands of people have made the journey across the border from syria. like this one in. some cases they just miles from their homes. unable to. serve but are they the happy province on the turkish border. for now let's talk to a. visiting professor of international relations from university in turkey good to see you today it's quite interesting that turkey is outraged over syrian forces foreign interest territory but how

members of the free syrian army had little faith in kofi annan's mission. >> we want nato to come into syria and give weapons to the free syrian army. we want a liberated zone so we can free our country. >> as the clock ticks on the u.n. deadline, the mission looks far off. >> i ask the syrian government and the syrian parties to cease the violence, in accordance with the plan. i believe there should be no preconditions for stopping the violence. >> in moscow, where he met his foreign counterparts, he claimed that his side would be helped by agreement. >> we have withdrawn some military units from some provinces. we have allowed more media channels to enter syria. we have reached agreement to add a -- i humanitarian aid. >> nobody in the camps believes a word of it. after kofi annan, there were visitors with a different message. >> this is a war. diplomacy has failed, and it will continue to fail so long as bashar al-assad thinks he can defeat the opposition in syria militarily. >> the rhetoric will not bring military intervention closer. but it echoes a mood here that rejects any comp

chance very seriously because it may be their last chance and therefore this is this so-called syrian free army should accept a good kind of negotiations with the syrian official army so that when the syrian official army would withdraw from the cities there is that we can if you remember can guarantee stability and a cease fire so that the humanitarian aid can come in. the ambulances can do their jobs and so that we can prepare the ground for the next step that is national dialogue inside syria. recently one statement that was released raised the possibility of quote unquote further steps if syria doesn't implement kofi annan peace plan what do you think those further steps could be. well it depends who is not responding to the cause for the ceasefire but i think that this is a matter that will be discussed. in the security council and this is a matter discussed by security council members on a continuous level on a continuous basis. i'm sure that the russian. foreign ministry and the chinese foreign ministry and some other nations all fall who are holding onto the respect of the u.n. charter

of the free syrian army i'm curious as to what exactly that means we don't know what saudis i mean you think that they sign a contract and say we will do so many shootings that the syrian armed forces in exchange for ten thousand dollars a month it really i think is an effort to try to suggest to president assad that the international community is getting more serious but i think the underlying flaw is this is sort of a second edition of live you right now we're seeing the aftermath and you follow it there's a session this and then does the black immigrants are now held in detention and torture chambers there is fighting in the south so we armed all these people too and now we have basically a state of nature as opposed to gadhafi and so we similarly in syria we have no idea who the people are who would be recent be put on salary and we should have learned from afghanistan when the united states charlie wilson's war was funding who the economy network. goban hekmatyar that they ended up there we're funding them they turned their weapons against us and this is another example of the emp

group of sixty countries have agreed to pay the salaries and other costs of the free syrian army still waits for assad to act on a peace plan that was accepted last week northrop grumman and sandia national laboratories have created nuclear powered drones they can increase flying time from days to months and a supreme court ruled today that strip searches for new jail inmates are ok regardless of the gravity of their offense so with me today is former deputy attorney general under president ronald reagan and chairman of the american freedom agenda and kevin zeese co-director of it's our economy an organizer of the national occupation of washington d.c. gentlemen thanks for joining me tonight so ok let's start off with syria tonight and first we have so last week kofi annan offered his peace plan seem to be that assad accepted it and now the international community is still waiting for that to actually take a fact and here's hillary clinton talking about the the urgency as she sees it. there is no more time for excuses or delays this is a moment of truth. so yesterday the friends of syr

quietly stayed in the background of this conversation but actually turkey has been allowing free syrian army and al-qaeda soldiers to come over the syrian border have safe haven within their country now this is going to be a problem if you're looking at any sort of binding agreements for as a peace plan or anything like that is turkey can't be allowed to do that they've been hosting the free syrian army in their country since october and so let's get real here turkey is a nato country they've been actively involved in helping provide a base for this insurgency to come over the border it's an absolute free for all in terms of geopolitics so women to think that turkey is somehow a respectable player in this in this story which i think the spotlight needs a couple of turkey and fast if we're going to see the situation stabilize and syria shortly in the program the whistleblower tends inquisitor that's ten days from now controversial leaks about the song yes he's going to show you know week ahead. also the game changer for spain's football clubs sinking in debt some tough stuff you want to make.

quietly stayed in the background of this conversation but actually turkey has been allowing free syrian army and al-qaeda soldiers to come over the syrian border and have safe haven within their country now this is going to be a problem if you're looking at you know any sort of binding agreement as far as a peace plan or anything like this can be allowed to do that they've been hosting to free syrian army in their country since october and so this get real here turkey is a nato country they've been actively involved in helping providing a base for this insurgency to come over the border it's an absolute free for all in terms of geopolitics so normative think that turkey is somehow a respectable player in this in this story i think the spotlight needs a couple of turkey and fast if we're going to see that situation stabilize and syria. the taliban has launched a series of coordinated attacks on a diplomatic district of kabul including an assault on nato headquarters on the afghan parliament where the military airport out a lot about in the east of the country has also been targeted by land ha

the syrian army to thank this and to the free syrian army as well we know a number of the gulf states has already pledged large amounts of money to that outside the conference that they actually saw or a small gathering of trade government demonstrates is clashing with the turkish riot police all seemed a little bit unnecessary to be perfectly honest as he went out see find out what's going on there in the turkish riot police far outnumbered the amounts of the pro-government demonstrators they saw some sort of chaotic scenes breaking out by that conference and certainly i wouldn't have been a welcome distraction cause of course the friends of syria conference already coming under many criticisms from both the this pro-government syrians and also the opposition as well he really they feel that their representative all of the forty that's the full thing the syrian national council a representative of the syrian people that's very very interesting to note that that really is it's both sides that level that criticism of the syrian national council. seems to be to song possibly disorganize

chemicals and tosses them in their face. >> but there is an interesting session this morning on the free syrian armynd it said this is kind of the best hope for syria at the moment, these are about 15,000 defectors from the 600,000-man syrian army who said we will not kill our people. they are huddled own on the border with turkey and sent people to the cities and they are fighting with whatever they have, which is very little. because we are not amending them. the saudis have talked about arming them but they are not providing a lot of weapons, either. so, they are just doing the best they can with what they have but we they are being slaughtered and john mccain and senator lieberman who are visiting the free syrian army right now issue add statement today saying we must do more. we must supply weapons to the people. we must give them a fighting chance. >>shepard: but what is happening, that is a policemen matter and that's one side of this argument versus another. and it is not for us to take sides on such a thing but you were telling me at break about all the people would were fleeing the nation.

quietly stayed in the background of this conversation but actually turkey has been allowing free syrian army. soldiers to come over the syrian border and have safe haven within their country and now this is going to be a problem if you're looking at any sort of binding agreements as far as a peace plan or anything like that is tricky to be allowed to do that they've been hosting the free syrian army in their country since october and so let's get real here to use a nato country they've been actively involved in helping provide a base for this insurgency to come over the border it's an absolute free for all in terms of geopolitics so we're going to see the turkey is somehow respectable player this in this story i think the spotlight needs a couple of turkey and fast if we're going to see that situation stabilized syria. back to breaking news in the afghan capital the diplomatic district of kabul under attack a coordinated attack by the taliban with me now live on the line is tariq one who gives an. arabic reporter in kabul three of course are in the middle of what happened there is the attack