we will begin with hisham. >> hello, good morning.ank you, adamant tanks to everybody here for being here and also to support one festival hosting this event. i think they are spring -- which is actually in arabic that were referred to as the year of awakening, which i think is far less seasonal. i think every time we speak about this, we speak not every time, but a lot of times we speak as if we expect history to respond at the same page as it did during this uprising. history, which goes most of the time at a glacial pace. certainly there are moments such as the arab spring when it's very fast and dramatic and somehow we expect that to continue. and i think we have to first of all before asking what is going to happen, perhaps ask ourselves or question the assumptions that we have created around what is actually taking place. i think one of the things that has taken place inside it has not been missing people have been focusing on, which is the overthrow of incredibly violent long-standing teeters, which is obviously a fundamental e

and it is time to appraise them end cut through those cliches we have those our first speaker is hisham matar a novelist born in new york raised mostly in cairo his father is a libyan dissident deducted from the family's home in 1990 with the assistance of the mubarak police and has been missing ever since. he is the author of two novels in the country of men india's traneight a visiting professor and we will begin with hisham matar. >> good morning. thing due to everybody here for being here and also to the brooklyn festival for hosting this event. the arab spring which and arabic we referred to the arabic awakening which is far less a seasonal. [laughter] we speak not every time but a lot of times we speak as if we expect history to respond at the same pace as it did with the uprisings that moves at the glacial based -- pace such as the air of spring as when it moves very fast and dramatic and we expect that to continue and first of all, before asking what will happen but ask ourselves or question the assumptions what has actually taken place? i think one of the things that has taken

banned from moving around freely in syria making it virtually impossible to confirm any of the reports hisham jaber from the center for middle east studies told me the regime should open its doors to the media so that the world can see what's really happening. to stop the military action we have to stop it from both ways when they ask the syrian government to stop military operations who will convince the surgeon to stop their military are there there is an operation against the execution in syria there is a large mass media that syria has not could not until today contains all the words that they do. and the international community is not with them for about what's going on in syria i think if the senior world opened their doors to the mass media they would sure the whole world that there is all our fighting can not only their governments but the institutions of the state and they are killing people and the government of syria must use your security forces to start up those are the turks. principled position to take the lion's share of the spoils of libya's vast postwar all reserves london c

hisham jaber director of the center for middle east studies tells r.t. earlier that it's not just for violence in the country that western leaders might want to punish the syrian government. at the pilot in two thousand and eight he went to syria and who. then mr obama also sent his best to before the congress which i knew way at present. but that's i see the strong counts here i live on on and that eventually iran and palestine c.v.i. did not give to the west i mean think. that's right see india is not that good i don't have any explanation for the behavior of the elite except except maybe. and my journey into the pit of fear and ignorance of the states of america. without a pete because day with all of the united states of america they can patrol go to the. companies who. took in this position. it with us here on r t coming up a little later europe's money continues to dry up as investors take flight. borrowing costs go up yet again if you can more trouble on the already beleaguered euro explain why a little bit. that's all story in business the presid

russia has been calling for so it's very interesting very interesting to hear your point of view dr hisham kassem thank you for joining us live there from the actual thank you. the u.n. security council is reviewing palestine's bid for u.n. membership in new york the motion was filed in september too much euphoria in the west bank in the deciding vote may come as soon as next week. weighs up palestine's chances. palestinians have resigned themselves to the fact that it's unlikely they going to get the two thirds majority they need in the united nations security council for the statehood bid what this means is that they will not become full members of the united nations and the united states will not be forced to exercise its veto right there are eight countries amongst the security council who have indicated that they will vote in favor of the palestinian bid these include russia china india south africa brazil levanon nigeria and gabon both the british and the french have announced that they will abstain from the vote there they will abstain alongside portugal and bosnia while germany and

. >> his name is hisham. >> i have a restraining order, against him. >> just one night before, after paul's birthday party celebration, paul told police, some guys in a truck tried to follow jennifer home. >> so, was paul on to somethinging? dedeck tiffs detectives went to talk to the brothers and checked where both men were the day of the fire. there was no doubt they were nowhere near the fire they had al buys. >> at the time of the fire, we knew where both of them were. one was in a cafe. on videotape. one was at fry's electronics and home depot. we have the receipts and videotape from both locations. >> so once the brothers were in the clear, the cops did what they always do uncases like this, in fact, it's practically police work 101. they took a closer look at the victim's boyfriend. paul. and there was a curious moment in that police interview the day of the fire when paul admitted he wasn't always the best sort of boyfriend. >> me and girlfriend, we broke up. and thanks to san jose, they put an emergency restraining order on me. because she said paul threatening me. blah, bla