so, the last time they got through a similar crisis was hama. so, you have a protest, you have an uprising, you suppress it. the playbook does not say negotiate with the protesters, so there's no negotiation. ( gunshot ) >> one very high-ranking turkish official told me that what's going on inside the leadership is that bashar's mother herself is telling him that these are the same events, that they remind her of what happened in the late '70s and early '80s. and her advice to him is that he has to act like his father, he has to be strong, he has to be decisive, and he has to crush this element of rebellion against him. >> narrator: bashar sent in tanks, armored vehicles and snipers. >> this is how the assads, both father and son, deal with domestic threats. they retreat into their alawite fortress, and there's this convulsive reaction to put down any sort of domestic threats, and to put them down ruthlessly. >> narrator: many syrians had hoped bashar would be different than his father. during the first massacre of hama, bashar was studying medi

hamas does not represent palestinian issues. it represents iranian issues. >> i hope you will get to the palestinian question in a moment. plenty of people say is supports syria. you did not mention syria in your list. do you want to see president assad toppled? >> again, it's a little bit uncomfortable for me to talk about other leaders in the region. >> to talk about them all the time. you talked about iran. >> we certainly see president assad continuing to butcher his own people. this is something the international community has to do something about. >> what can israel do about this? >> unfortunately, we cannot do too much. if we say anything, it may be misconstrued or used against anyone. >> here you are with a platform. tell me whether or not you see president assad as president of syria? >> israel's interest is to have the people of the middle east achieve their goals. they deserve democracy. they deserve respect, dignity, human rights, and civil rights. we understand it will be a very long and treacherous road ahead. >>

. >> one thing people may find surprising is the arab league has asked how moss -- hamas, a palestinian group, to intervene. is this desperation? >> it is an intriguing move. when united states, all the arabs tried to convince syria to change its ways, but failed, i am not sure how hamas, which is a guest on syrian territory at the end of the day, could do better. >> and the u.s. state department. if the arab league and the international community at large is failing to make an impact, what prospects for peace is there in syria? is war inevitable? >> we are already heading in the direction of civil war. it is not premature to say we're in that state of civil war. i keep repeating myself when i say before we explore options by the international community, we need to of a very, very clear message on the part of the opposition of what we want. unfortunately, they are divided and those divisions and weaknesses are becoming more apparent. >> thank you for joining us. >> sure. >> now to libya where concerns are growing about the inability to rein in issues from the old regime. our corresponde

the city of hama has been it.. >> reporter: friday, close to noon, driving into hama, streets desserted, check points manned, reinforcements. one of syria's oldest cities braces for what's become the weekly day of rage against the government. the streets almost desserted. a few people wandering around. all the stores shut. as you drive into the city, you get a sense there's very little traffic on the roads. army check points along the highway. it feels tense. look down here. see the police. army. lined up at the end of the street. a two and a half hour drive from the capital, it's the city the president cannot afford to lose. 30 years ago, his father killed 30,000 people here putting down an islamist revolt. writing on the wall tells you today's opposition is not far away. in the center where monitors live, soldiers seem keen to show they have riot gear rather than rifles. it's syrian repression. the soldiers say on a normal wednesday, all these stores would be open. as we drove into the city, the city is shut and

hamas, they don't want to see our relation with israel. so it's... mixed. >> simon: the emir appears to have no ideology and, critics say, no loyalties. when his close personal friend, syrian president assad, refused to stop killing his people, the emir abandoned him. today, he talks tougher than any other world leader on what should be done in syria. would you be in favor of arab nations intervening in syria? >> khalifa: i think for... for such a situation, to stop the killing, we have some... some troops should go to stop the killing. >> simon: the killing is worlds away from qatar. what you see here is contentment. there have been no protests, no calls for democracy. after all, what could an opposition offer that qataris don't already have? but the emir just bought himself some additional insurance. he raised the salaries of all qatari government workers by 60%; soldiers and policemen got 120%. the prime minister insists this has nothing to do with politics. >> jasim: we have one obsession, is how to continue to let the people live in the same sta

. >> one thing people may find surprising is the arab league has asked how moss -- hamas, a palestinian group, to intervene. is this desperation? >> it is an intriguing move. when united states, all the arabs tried to convince syria to change its ways, but failed, i am not sure how hamas, which is a guest on syrian territory at the end of the day, could do better. >> and the u.s. state department. if the arab league and the international community at large is failing to make an impact, what prospects for peace is there in syria? is war inevitable? >> we are already heading in the direction of civil war. it is not premature to say we're in that state of civil war. i keep repeating myself when i say before we explore options by the international community, we need to of a very, very clear message on the part of the opposition of what we want. unfortunately, they are divided and those divisions and weaknesses are becoming more apparent. >> thank you for joining us. >> sure. >> now to libya where concerns are growing about the inability to rein in issues from the old regime. our corresponde

it surprising -- >> one thing that people might find surprising is that the arab league has asked hamasintervene. is this pragmatism or desperation? >> this is an intriguing move. the u.s., turkey, all the arabs tried to convince syria to change its ways but failed, i am not sure how hamas could do any better. >> also, terrorist organization according to the u.s. state department. >> absolutely. >> if the arab league and the international community is failing to make an impact, what prospect is therefore syria or is civil war inevitable? >> we are already heading in the direction of civil war. this is not really premature to say that we are in that state of civil war. i also feel like i keep repeating myself when i say that before we explore options by the international community in terms of what they can do to stop the violence, we need to have a clear message on the part of the opposition on what they really want. unfortunately, they are divided. those divisions are becoming more obvious. >> thank you for joining us. across the border in turkey, a court has ordered a former head of th

and others who think like hamas, who have as their intent the elimination of israel.ther it's in schoolbooks that teach how to kill jews or whether it's in the political discourse that's spoken from fatah or hamas, there is a belief that jewish people do not have a right to have a jewish state. there are people that say, should we have a two-state solution? and the israelis would be happy to have a two-state solution. it's the palestinians who don't want a two-state solution. they want to eliminate the state of israel. and i believe america must say, and the best way to have peace in the middle east is not for us to appease, but to say, we stand with our friend israel. we are committed to a jewish state in israel. we have not have an inch of difference between ourselves and israel. this president went before the united nations and castigated israel for building settlements. he said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on israel from the gaza strip. this president threw -- [ cheers and applause ] i think -- i think he threw israel under the bus with regar

this new sunni islamist camp that's right rising up the army is very concerned about links between hamas which is also a branch of these lawmakers brotherhood movement and the new government in cairo and they're also worried about their stake in both egypt and economy in the egyptian political life they've gotten used to running the show and it's going to be very difficult for them now to accept the idea that they're only going to be tasked with defending the country physically and not having a say in how the country is run so i'm sure they're going to try and hold on to power for all those reasons how do you think the small affecting your ties with the rest of the world. as i've said i think egypt is going to start moving away from the pro western camp and it's going to find itself at the center of a new sunni islamist camp that's rising up in the region will be made up of countries such as turkey it would make it made up of gaza under the hamas islamist regime if syria is in syria it falls it would be very likely that an islamist sunni camp would rise up there and you would see this ne

the region will be made up of countries such as turkey it would make it made up of gaza under the hamas islamist regime if syria is in syria if such falls it would be very likely that an islamist sunni camp would rise up there and you would see this new regional alliance springing up and i think egypt would be at the heart of that all right yeah i'll plop in a reporter at the jerusalem post thanks for your insight. the arab league is deciding what to do next in syria where airfare ports are true the violence remains unabated it's rumored that the group will extend its observer mission in the country because they think the presence of monitors has reduced the crisis in some areas are sorry for reports from damascus. they add minutes. meeting to present their findings on what's been happening here in syria and to discuss what their next move will be now the arab league mission in the country to oversee the implementation of the arab peace. syria's government among other things that included the release of political prisoners the withdrawal of the government troops and tanks from some of t

blocks of these talks is the whole issue of reconciliation between rival palestinian faction groups hamas and fatah there have been ongoing talks between these groups for some time now to establish some kind of unity government the next round of talks will be on the second of february in cairo now hamas has heavily criticized for holding these talks with the israelis it has called on fattah to boycott them it has said that they are merely repeating a policy of failure these ladies for bayside have said that they cannot be any real discussion of peace talks until the palestinian militants stop firing rockets into israel just last week there were several palestinians who were killed when israel launched a series of strikes on gaza the israeli said that those were in response to palestinian militants firing into southern israel these raids also concerned that any kind of negotiations that they reach with will not be it here to buy from us until there is a reconciliation deal in place between these two palestinian groups the other stumbling block is of course the whole issue of settlements an

over the past two months basically there have been aggressive verba attack on the palestinians and hamas on gaza we have been experiencing almost daily. again as gaza and you were out on gaza. palestinian resistance to groups as they mentioned there is no justification for such aggression and for such variable as lady attacks against the palestinians doctor if you look back to last year the thirty seven or incidents where the israel's worried that gaza is smuggling in weapons from egypt and says if gaza continues to do that if it is doing it if it continues to do it they will step up those attacks is there evidence they are finding their way in from egypt. now since the libyan revolution which took place in february of two thousand and eleven we have been hearing many israeli accusations. the palestinian resistance the groups have been smuggling. weapons. left over from the. libyan civil war they found out their way to the gaza strip now it could be true because some of these weapons will use the about two months ago when this is the big fire with. a number of these missiles like an isra

hama echoed to the sound of shelling and rocket fire this morning. a defector who oversaw the defense budget until a month ago told channel 4 news today that iran is helping the government witheapons and snipers. >> ( translated ): there are planes loaded with cash coming from iran. i would estimate about $6 billion has arrived so far. there were iranian snipers. i saw them going into the security compounds. i heard them speaking farsi. what business do they have there? there are expense claims listed for these iranians under the heading of "experts". >> reporter: the head of the arab league observer mission said today there's been a significant increase in violence over the past three days. there were even deaths and injuries in normally quiet aleppo today, but there's no solution in sight, and the russians have said they will veto the proposed resolution at the u.n. security council tonight. >> suarez: margaret warner takes it from there. >> warner: for more on the spiraling situation in syria, we go to ania in beirut. thank you for joining us. the

. >> eso no quiere decir que todos los iranÍes son terroristas, pero todos los que pertenecen a hamass y ataques terroristas. encontramos a kanaan en una agencia de viajes a pocas cuadras del parlamento venezolano preguntamos por quÉ estados unidos lo nombrÓ como simpatizante de hezbolÁ. >> porque yo soy musulmÁn, yo soy musulmÁn, ¿quÉ puede hacer yo? yo soy orgulloso que yo soy musulmÁn, ¿cuÁl es el problema? si uno es musulmÁn, ¿no debe vivir? >> ¿usted alguna vez ha dado una donaciÓn a hezbolÁ? >> yo nunca, ¿por quÉ va dar a hezbolÁ? hezbolÁ debe ayudar al mundo, no necesita ni a mi ni a usted ni a nadie para ayudarlo. >> ¿usted cree que hezbolÁ es un grupo terrorista? >> no. no son terroristas. es como cualquier grupo, es su paÍs, defiende a su paÍs. pero no son terroristas. si usted en su paÍs viene alguien quiere te mata, usted defiende su mismo. usted terrorista no puede ser. >> las agencias anti-narcÓticos de estados unidos y colombia creen que una de las nuevas fuentes de ingresos de hezbolÁ está en el narcotrÁfico y el lavado de activos. >> estamos hablando de operaciones gl

was she moderate, was she progress of hamas -- was she progressives? who cares. she is smart, and she hustles zeroth. they are just titles. share them. dooley has distinct relationships with people on the board of supervisors who attend our meetings, present legislation in person, and not send a staff member who does not care, and and it matters to this commission, and i am sorry i did not want to talk about much tonight, but kathleen dooley has significant relationships on the board, and that does end up mastering to all of of spirited -- to all of us. >> any commissioner, seeing none, i would like to add a few things. recently i heard the senator point out at the speech of the mayor won the election despite strength voting region -- despite ranked voting something like 60% to be mayor of san francisco. it is an overwhelming mandate for the mayor to run the city the way that he campaigned, and i believe people ceassee someono wants to be conclusive, someone who wants to break down barriers, someone who wants to get rid of labels, just one label for everybody cur

and others who think like hamas, who have as their intent the elimination of israel.teach how to kill jews or whether it's in the political discourse that's spoken from fatah or hamas, there is a belief that jewish people do not have a right to have a jewish state. there are people that say, should we have a two-state solution? and the israelis would be happy to have that. it's the palestinians that don't want it. they want to eliminate the state of israel. and i believe america must say, and the best way to have peace in the middle east is not for us to appease, but to say, we stand with our friend israel. we are committed to a jewish state in israel. we will not have the an inch of difference between ourselves and israel. this president went before the united nations and castigated israel for building settlements. he said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on israel from the gaza strip. this president threw -- i think -- i think he threw israel under the bus with regards to e the fining the 67 borders as a starting point of negotiations. i think he d

comes to the hamas creature russia blows up. wealthy british style holds. the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy kinds of reports. could you take three. more chargers. arrangement three. three. videos for your media project c.e.o. don carty dot com. president obama imposes a new tougher sanctions on iran over its disputed nuclear program all of this despite iran's threats to shut off a key oil supply route in the gulf. the syrian regime's crackdown on demonstrators continues unabated forcing arab league observers to warn to moscow's to reign in the violence. and as the world rings in two thousand and twelve with fireworks and celebrations we take a look back at the momentous year filled with protests civil war and regime change . it is good if you to join us today the first day of two thousand and twelve rule received show you watching the weekly or not see us president barack obama welcome to the new year by signing into law a tough new set of sanctions for iran anyone doing business with central bank will face punishment thanks to the new

we have evidence of a civilian army in homs and the outskirts of to match -- damascus and in hama. there are many examples where the army is still in place. >> syria is divided. the arab league is also not of one voice. the speaker of the parliament, and advisory body, said the observers should be pulled out altogether saying the ongoing violence was undermining the credibility of the organization. more observers are due to arrive later this week. all the while, the death toll continues to rise. >> police and the nigerian capital have used tear gas to disperse people protesting against the government's removal of subsidies on fuel. prices have doubled since they were removed on sunday. unions have called for demonstrations over the next few days. >> motorists a form of long queues at the few stations that were open. many kept their stations closed as they tried to figure out how to adjust their prices. the decision to remove the subsidy on fuel hazmat the price of petrol has more than doubled. -- has meant the price of petrol has more than doubled. and decades of corruption have me

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and well come to the hamas creature russia close up. this is our time. to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many we all want that war we breathe we hope. to me the american dream is to live in peace and prosperity and freedom and a government under socialism is not a government afraid. to. hear. you have very motivated out cross the country who are activists who are willing to fight for what they think is right for themselves but the fact is. we're bridge and. i. think. we are counting. properly drowning and i think it's spread by it's cutting off our. it's making goldmark recy. all but impossible. now it's not about spilling blood. just the war of the barricades from one side and fears blockade from the other. invisible border has cut people from the land for twelve years. the conflict that divided serbia into two hostile parts is still not over. on. the cold the peninsula within the arctic circle is russia's northernmost point a group of sportsmen skiing in the mountains has been hit by an avalanche rescue as of

and in advance of that, we had supported hamas and supported their candidates. but after they won the election, the united states said, no, we can't let them take office. so we declared after the election was over that they were terrorists. and we forbade them to take office. >> do you think that was a mistake? >> i think it was a mistake. we would have had peace nearly in the middle east if we had worked with them. but this is what we have learned in egypt and i think we'll take a different path and give them a chance to govern. >> israel is understandably pretty twitchy about what's going on. i interviewed president netanyahu and he took me to the map of the region, showing these big countries, and then he put his thumbprint on israel and you get a sense of the vulnerability they feel. you've always been criticized for being more pro-palestinian than israeli in the conflict. do you think naturally that you are? >> no, i don't. if i had one constant prayer the last 35 years of my life, it would be to bring peace to israel. becausion about the holy land, i've ta

a member of hamas, he was traveling between ramallah and jerusalem where he was detained. british actor jude law as among 18 high-profile figures who will receive damages and an apology from rupert murdoch's news corp. for having his own hat. he is getting $200,000. the list also includes the former u.k. deputy prime minister and an australian singer. u.s. politics now. we are down to four. today, -- the race for the republican candidate who will take on president obama this november narrows further when texas governor rick perry decided to call it quits. his decision comes just days before the south carolina primary. in bowling out, he threw his support behind newt gingrich, but it comes on the same day gingrich's ex-wife came forward with some pretty harsh charges. >> this is the candidate who is no longer a contender. the winner, who is no longer a victor, and the challenger whose ex-wife has just spilled the beans. first came an announcement from rick perry, the texan who looked like a potential winner of this republican race until he spectacularly mangled his own mess

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