the combination of civil resistance and peaceful protest and the free syrian army is doing the trick. >> rose: suggesting that you think there ought to be some guilt on the part of countries outside of syria who have not come to the aid of the free syrian army and syrian people? >> oh, absolutely. i think the international community had a moral responsibility to prevent these types of massacres we're seeing. they had a moral responsibility to prevent what is now really genocidal proportions of killing and the international community failed to act. the united nations has been paralyzed through russian and chinese vetoes but i think nations could have done far more. >> rose: as you know, at some point early on there was some notion on the part of other governments that he might have within him some reform tendencies. did he ever, is the first question, and secondly is he simply a reflection of power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely? >> well, i think initially when he assumed the presidency i believe he was optimistic. i believe he had good intentions and wanted to see re

most villages we pass are now guarded by free syrian army fighters. walking through the streets of this village, life at first appears normal. but it's not long before the signs of the conflict surface. the burned-out buildings, units of rebel fighters driving around, graffiti supporting the free syrian army. abdullah hamoud and his wife sabria have lost three of their sons in the fighting. the father says he gave his sons to the revolution and would sacrifice all his children for freedom and dignity. the mother disagrees. her sons meant the world to her, she said. she told them to flee. instead, they went to fight. now, seven grandchildren have no fathers, the wives have no husbands. this is what the army did to one colonel who defected to join the rebels. they are worse than animals, his brother told us. if i catch any of them, i will slit their throats. the kids here are eager to show us shells and shrapnel they collected. in the city of aleppo, 8-year-old mohammad lies wounded with shrapnel throughout his body. far away in western capitals there a

you have on one hand, the free syrian army saying he's on the way out.e are trying to get him out, but lost contact with the commanders doing it. on the other side, saying he's back at his job, supporting the things happening. >> al-sharaa is considered one of the last figures of the guard. he was a confidant of his father. if there is true, how much of a blow would his defection be? >> it would be a very, very big signal to whoever he thought was loyal around him who is not in the upper echelon is desserting him. the defection a couple weeks ago of the prime minister sends a signal it's possible for officials to get out of the country that the free syrian army can help them. farouq al-sharaa has been foreign minister for many, many years, prime minister before that, somebody very, very trusted by the regime. he floated peace initiatives to take over from al sad to negotiate. it damages any efforts along those lines, not that i think anyone had a lot of hope in there. for al-sharaa, that is a critical message, his top guns are leaving him. where else can

syrian army. state-run media said the jet crashed due to technical problems. rebels in the free syrian army are launching attacksution tanks and machine guns snatched from their opponents. the insurgents raided a military depot on monday in the southern city of daraa. government forces areution fighter jets to support troops attacking the commercial capital aleppo and other cities. tens of thousands of aleppo residents are fleeing the attacks and heading toward turkey. they are living in shelters and hoping to cross the border. nhk world's watanabe has more. >> reporter: here, this is the entrance checkpoint from syria to turkey controlled by syrian opposition force. several hundred people waited at the checkpoint on monday for the turkish government to issue entry permits. the checkpoint is located about 50 kilometers north of aleppo and controlled by the free syrian army. refugees line up to receive water and baby formula from the opposition forces. children are playing with shells scattered around their shelter. a 48-year-old man told nhk his house was burned down by governme

able to produce heavy weapons and had establish relations between the revolutionaries and the free syrian army across syria, we made the decision to launch the decisive battle." it is unclear how the free syrian army is financing its campaign. the group's statements would suggest are making do with weapons they have seized or made themselves. "we are not receiving support from abroad or from anyone within syria." yet the free syrian army's coordination office is located abroad in istanbul. experts agree that rebel forces are receiving massive aid from gulf states who are seeking to increase their status within the region. >> qatar and saudi arabia have openly admitted they are supporting the freeze syrian army. there are suggestions that the army is being paid by the gulf states. so, can be sure that all the fighters in syria are receiving financial aid and weapons from outside. >> fighting is contained within syria's borders. the involvement is national. neighboring -- the involvement is international. neighboring countries are involved. >> the country is under fire over one of its biggest po

free army is committing these violations of law. probably it is the regime's .rmy, assad's army the free syrian army is abiding by international conventions, the geneva conventions. if there is a group that has done something wrong, i cannot lay responsibility on one faction of the free army for wrongdoing, but if there are grey areas, it is because of those militias that have cost massacre against their own people. >> that is the defected brigadier-general. charles glass? >> both side has blamed the other four every massacre that has taken place. it is clear to those who have been inside with the rebellious forces and with the regime, massacres are being committed on both sides, which is inevitable in civil war, but that is why it is urgent to have negotiations. it is tragic that kofi annan has withdrawn, that the impetus for any kind of negotiated settlement is gone. if this war continues, there will be more and more massacres by both sides and many more revenge killings on both sides. it could escalate the with lebanon escalated because there was no serious attempt to negotiate a solution in lebanon when war started in 1975. ultimately

airbase these are all you know turkey is a nato country the military operations for this so-called free syrian army these syrian so-called revolutionaries and it's clear now that this is not a shift in terms of u.s. strategy it doesn't represent any kind of alteration all that it does is reveal that the diplomacy of this so-called diplomacy the so-called looking for a negotiated settlement is a fraud. the diplomacy is in fact the form of perjury but the reality is that the u.s. government the obama administration with the pentagon and the cia i've been. coordinating the military operations to overthrow a sovereign government in syria now the u.n. says it's registering about three hundred displaced families in syria each day a swelling refugee influx of seeing more camps being set up across the country's border art is more if a national travel to one of them and says even their politics prevails over simple human values. a conflict of contrast and contradictions freedom fighters with guns in their hands and the hardest pool to call for jihad those claiming to want to stop the violence in the country

much of northern syria is controlled by the free syrian army. the unofficial capital of rebel- controlled syria is a town about 30 kilometers northwest of aleppo. 65,000 people lived here until recently, but as many as 2/3 of them have fled. more than a week ago, the three syrian army drove syrian government troops out of the city after a series of bloody clashes. hundreds of residents died in the fighting. the rebels may be triumphant, but many residents also feel grief over the events. >> no muslim with done what out -- no muscle would do what assad has done -- no muslim would do what assad has done. only an animal. i have lost three members of my family. >> and military council runs the district and distributes food, but not everything runs smoothly. >> we have syria's problems here. people have to wait up to two hours to get bread. lots of our food has to be smuggled over the border. >> there is the sectarian tension. the city is almost completely sunni. headquarters had been taken over by the military council. inside, someone has defaced pr

airbase these are all you know turkey is a nato country the military operations for this so-called free syrian army these syrian so-called revolutionaries and it's clear now that this is not a shift in terms of u.s. strategy it doesn't represent any kind of alteration all that it does is reveal that the diplomacy of this so-called diplomacy the so-called looking for a negotiated settlement is a fraud that the diplomacy is in fact a form of perjury that the reality is that the u.s. government the obama administration with the pentagon and the cia i've been. coordinating the military operations to overthrow a sovereign government in syria well right now to calm if you think a camera never lies thank you dan take a close look at this picture from an austrian newspaper now see how compares to the original we report on the european media is digital deception and the syrian conflict. now what is often ignored by leading foreign media when it comes to covering this year in conflict are the brutal tactics employed by some armed rebel groups a horrific video has surfaced revealing the other side of the syri

the freeze syrian army, a very strong now in the east -- the freed syrian army, very strong now in the east of the country. many people say the government has given up their. but the free syrian army has been very active in the mosque is, -- damascus, daraa. i think we get the idea of government troops and their garrisons fighting a sea of insurgency. things like the highway that goes through homs to aleppo becomes important. being blocked by guerillas, we see the response escalate. let's look in some video we have got. this is what happens when men with guns blocked the highway. syrian army, the playing ever- heavier firepower. we have frozen the image there. this is one of two objects that flies down toward this town. it is actually a heavy artillery system. either way, it is the type of weaponry the assad regime has taken for possible use against israel, here being used against insurgents. >> that is a lot of what is called collateral damage. aleppo now is the site of a major attack. >> exactly. the government has been left in their wretched position there, really. there has been a discussion about are they getting weapons from saudi arabia. we do not see any signs

syrian army are gathering in greater numbers. more tanks have been brought brought up, and of course they completely control the sky. >> axelrod: how do the free syrian army rebels deal with the fact that they're so overpowered? >> reporter: well, two things. firstly, they're working inside a city, ancient city, quite high buildings, probably five or six stories. they can hide beneath those. they can move in those always. they have beaten many tanks already. these, again, are russian-made tanks. due to the makeup of them, they explode very easily. they have that advantage. the other, of course, is that they are quite prepared to die. and they believe that this is the-- to them, the holding on to aleppo is the end game, or part of it. and that is something of an advantage over the syrian troops who, of course, conot quite have the same motivation. interestingly, a couple of mediterranean coast is an area called tartous, a base where the russians are reinforcing at the moment. the belief among the free syrian army-- we can't confirm this, of course-- that bashar al-assad is already there, effectively the control of the government is no longer wi

airbase these are all you know turkey is a nato country the military operations for this so-called free syrian army these syrian so-called revolutionaries and it's clear now that this is not a shift in terms of u.s. strategy it doesn't represent any kind of alteration all that it does is reveal that the diplomacy of this so-called diplomacy the so-called looking for a negotiated settlement is a fraud that the diplomacy is in fact a form of perjury that the reality is that the u.s. government the obama administration with the pentagon and the cia. neck deep coordinating the military operations to overthrow a sovereign government in syria. the question of how to resolve syria's drawn out conflict has caused deep divisions between world powers russia and britain among them the nations are poles apart on the issue but will come into focus president putin's meeting with the british prime minister in london artist laura smith explains. it's unlikely to be an easy meeting prime minister cameron will reportedly use this opportunity to press president putin again over ending violence in syria the two countr

borders now the free syrian army already claimed responsibility for this blast of and though they said that they never intended to target to you in observers and that they were aiming for the syrian army personnel in any case this explosion of really underscores how easily available and how why. adly used explosives have become these days in syria in the beginning of the syrian uprising the rebels relied primarily on small arms but over months they have become and precisely more sophisticated in bomb making and many experts attribute that to an influx of foreign fighters in particular iraqi insurgents who bring with them a lot of bomb making expertise the iraqi government even went on record to say that they have sold information that al qaida was crossing from iraq into syria to carry out those attacks on the top of that reuters news agency published a story a few days ago in retreat quoted an f.s.a. field commander who was saying that thanks to you of the expertise of iraqi insurgents they've been able to increase the debt to nation range of their bombs up to seven kilometers also th

be going to turkey just to take note what is the situation after the rebel forces of the free syrian army has been defeated they pull it well will be there but they could steps are going to be taken to double check with the turks who are playing a very important role in supporting the free syrian army. unit out through the they are based on principles of justice so fake we t. they usually criticize those countries go to the rogue states and spot source of terrorism but we have seen the free syrian army conducting it there are paid with car bombs partly also with suicide bomb burst political assassinations and that's against the quote three this is in this case a syria that piece of the united states and the other countries it's a violation of international law ok sober and theo is called to a member of the syrian neighbor of united patrons so we could not talk about her this especially with these called trees that are supporting terrorist activities it because they have lost it by opinion the fortitude the world standing to criticize other countries when they're actually doing the themsel

taken and double check with the turks who are playing a very important role in supporting the free syrian army. unit out there at least they are based on principles of justice of the day usually criticize those countries close to the rogue states and sponsors of terrorism but we have seen the free syrian army conducting a terrorist campaign with car bombs partly also with suicide bomb burst political assassinations and that's against the quote three the sense in this case is syria that piece of the united states and the other countries it's a violation of international law. so bring you is going to member of the serial number of united patients so we can all talk about service especially with these called trees that are supporting terrorist activities if they come they have lost in my opinion the fortitude the world standing to criticize other countries when they're actually doing it themselves. coming up with r.c. the fallout from the revolution egypt's new remaining tribute to the escalating threats from the country's new leadership as car is relations with israel. and the pain tonight safe

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he is with the free syrian army. good morning to you. oing with the fsa there in turkey. >> well, we are here to evaluate the free syrian army, its capabiliti capabilities, operations and what kind of assistance it needs. we have been meeting with a number of groups and will continue to do so. >> the fsa, as far as i understand it, began as a group of military defectors who fled to turkey. how are they keeping contact with the rebels inside syria? it can't be easy. >> it's not. they keep contact via cell phones. satellite equipment that allows us to communication via the internet. programs like skype, like the one i'm talking to over now they use extensively. chat. communication by smartphones and the internet allow people to carry out operations. ultimately the way the fsa looks at it. >> what is the goal? i'm glad you brought that up. what is the goal of the army? is it to end the al assad regime or to become a more powerful force that washington has to deal with? >> they want to end the regime. i think they are organizing to do that. p

openly admitted that obama signed orders for the cia to openly cooperate with the so-called free syrian army several months ago we know now about that the free syrian army is training at a u.s. air base in turkey we know that the u.s. state department has been openly funding the syrian opposition since two thousand and six so for them to come in and say that iran should stop funding the the syrian government in helping support that is just such a bizarre such a hypocritical statement that no one i think will take it seriously but it will i'm sure generate many headlines and give a lot of op ed writers space to write editorials about why iran is interfering in syria now very briefly because we're running out of time turkey is pushing for the creation of a no fly zone in northern syria to provide more security for refugees fleeing the war do you think this will help prevent many civilian casualties. quite the contrary it can only lead to civilian casualties as we saw in the libyan example they used the cover of a no fly zone which immediately turned into an outright bombing campaign and that w

they represent the wishes of the syrian people and so the army is clearing out aleppo suburb by suburb and it's quite a real crisis for the friends and backers of the free syrian army because they now have to think about what to do you can't make sure the amount of fighting there's also information can't time has reportedly tried to bribe this iran ambassador a mauritanian in exchange for taking the rebel side allegedly promising one million dollars and political asylum so what does that tell us about the gulf states and. while that want us not to go i should say. what tell us about the gulf states is they have in the supplies money. to buy people out and this is the first question that should be asked of all these defectors how much they pay you how much do you get then there must be some kind of sliding scale i mean what is the ambassador worth what is a foreign minister worth what is a kind of a low level represented mauritania worth i mean he was reportedly been given or offered one million dollars plus twenty thousand dollars a month for the next twenty years which you know is pretty good but one would imagine that people would be offered even more

syrian army. state run media said the jet crashed due to technical problems. rebels in the free syrian army are launching attacks using tanks and machine guns snatched from their opponents. syrians raided a military depot in the southern city of dara. they are using fighter jets to support troops in cities. tens of thousands of resident are fleeing attacks and heading toward turkey. they are living in shelters and hoping to cross the border. nhk world has more. >> reporter: here, this is the entrance checkpoint from syria to turkey, controlled by opposition force. several hundred people waited at the checkpoint on monday for the turkish government to issue entry permits. the checkpoint is located about 50 kilometers north of aaleppo and controlled by the free syrian army. fugitives line up to receive water and baby formula. from the opposition forces. children who fled with their parents while playing with shells, scattered around their shelter. a 48-year-old man told nhk his house was burned down by government forces. he fled from the suburb of aleppo four days ago with his sev

the city's pretty much controlled by the residents, by the free syrian army.owever, the regime has taken to shelling the residents from a far, as i mentioned before. day and night you hear these booms as a hit residential buildings. people are killed. this is the kind of life there. as in much of syria, the town has seen massive internal displacement. nearly all of the residents of one side of the town, which is the most targeted side, have moved to the other side of town or have left syria completely crossing the border into lebanon. >> where are they getting their weapons from, sharif? >> the weapons are coming through a smuggling route from lebanon carried by young supporters. they are poorly armed, these rebels, in zabadani. mostly assault rifles and some rpg's. the kind of farming and support we a scene from the gulf from countries like saudi arabia and qatar that has wrapped up in the last three months and channelled mostly in the north from southern turkey to places like aleppo. they have not seen this kind of support coming in. they are poorly equipped