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sometimes they are international courts. sometimes they are military tribunals, sometimes it's military actions, sometimes it's publicity. and it's become a much more complex picture. and i think tribunals are part of the solution but they're never going to be all the solutio solution. >> one thing that i would be interested in your reaction to as he writes of the siren of exceptionalism which -- which david described in his book as the ongoing effort by the united states to kind of carve itself out of the reach of some of these tribunals. i think that would be a good issue to put on the table because i think all three of you have thought about that issue, the role of the united states in international justice. harold, looking forward, do you see greater or less u.s. engagement in leading the way on trying to make these new institutions which you describe successful? will the u.s., for instance, ever sign their own statute in our lifetime? >> well, there are two kinds of exceptionalism, good exceptionalism and bad exceptiona

reaction of any kind precisely because it does not change anything in international law or international politics it simply reaffirms the existing privileges that the p five have and so long as the international community's response to international crises is predicated on the national interests of the p five then we would have the erratic record of intervention that we had prior to or to be when in the one thousand nine hundred sixty really council significantly expanded its understanding of its chapter seven powers and that's the problem but are simply it's not that it has created a new school printer vention a previously didn't exist a great power was always abused humanitarian claims in the past directly and in the nineteenth century that's nothing new the problem is the selective implementation of r.t. in the fact that for all the noise that it has generated in the last ten years it has achieved very very little but you think about that philip i mean it's a pretty spotty record i mean if you still if you look at what happened in libya it's when nato started bombing when they graduat

stories of 15 people who were interned or impacted by the internment. and the exhibition highlights the individual stories of each of the japanese americans who came into the classroom, as well as the rich student responses to these stories. the project really gave the students space to make very meaningful connections between the historical event of the japanese internment and contemporary and historical instances of social injustice in america today. but we're here today to meet phillip and chloe, so i want to introduce you to them. phillip also was one of the gracious japanese americans who came into the classroom and told his story. phillip congatonda went to law school and graduated hastings law school but never actually practiced law. he became the first chronicler of the japanese american experience and is credited with broadening the japanese -- broadening the definition of theater by bringing jap needs american stories to stages all across the country. he has collaborated with the most diverse american theater venues, from large mainstream hous

as a war there is a policy of international law which is against right. offensive for that this is absolutely clear since i come up on the u.n. is possible that now the truth is this this idea that somehow you can just make up if that's true or we have this with tony blair into iraq we had it again over libya . as jones says that the the the resolution when we thought arise any action which people agreed to was far exceeded and ended in regime change which was not which was not because so we have to look at this we also have to look at what is going on here and there is a movie on you and so. there are no more things was crying on look afghanistan is a disaster everybody knows everybody knows this is not going to hold for twenty forty because the afghan soldiers who are supposed to be trying to be the replacement for the americans and the british and so on are killing the american and british soldiers two british soldiers killed or killed this week over it result things which every single one of these if you look only what is going on you have to say ther

transfers, not internal transfers and not internal regulation issues related to, as i said, stuff that is involved with the second amendment, the right to buy arms and what not. so the i don't have a problem with the two congressional letters. again, it's not that they oppose an att. they oppose an att that the conflicts with the second amendment. in terms of the u.s. ultimately to ratify the att, i thinkh

allies expected to commit even more support to the opposition at an international conference sunday. the recent shooting rampage by a french gunman interludes draws a presidential candidates in his fierce pre-election rhetoric over extremism and immigration. actions being used by some far right candidates to attack france's immigration policy. spain's prime minister set to announce a new round of austerity measures a day after a nationwide strike led to violence between protesters and police cuts are aimed at saving the country tens of billions of euros. next cross-talk continues to cover the syrian issue does the west still harbor plans for foreign intervention that's up next stay with us. the key. is to. blow him welcome across town people about serious divides as the peace plan for syria gains international support worries remain that is only a lull before the civil war in the country resumes with greater intensity and violence on all sides because the west and its allies in the region still harbor plans for another humanitarian intervention. can. still. cross not the new peace pl

having an international support, but i -- i'm really baffled by the idea that somehow an international assembly provides a legal basis for the united states military to be deployed in combat. i don't believe it's close to being correct. they provide no legal authority. the only legal authority that's required to deploy the united states military is the congress and the president and the law and the constitution. >> let me just for the record be clear again, senator, so there's no misunderstanding. when it comes to the national defense of the country, the president of the united states has the authority under the constitution to act to defend this country. and we will. if it comes to an operation where we're trying to build a coalition of nations to work together to go in and operate as we did in libya or bosnia, for that matter afghanistan, we want to do it with permissions either by nato or by the international community. >> well, i'm troubled by that. i think that it does weaken the ability of the united states to lead. if we believe something ought to be done i would think we would

i mean if you do what would you like the international community to do then syria their international community here they have responsibility to protect this so yes that the survey what does that mean they have to stop to end all this crimes and using the money what their syrians called to implement their saves on and i how it should be protected by a limited no fly zone above the signal to the area all races actually want to see the end they are have been calling for us for a month why would you want to no fly zone when the syrian government is not using planes or helicopters it doesn't make any sense. you know they use their credit they use their wins you know. in other businesses but they of course they don't have the muscles coming from the airplanes but they show their cities and the areas from their planes ok family this is why this is crazy you know york you know if you think on our blog you think the military intervention will correct and the human rights violation will just make things worse violence begets violence ok and then we could become internationalized which i'd like

under international law and of the gross violations of human rights. they say the icc has been constrained for political reasons. russia and china have the code resolutions. amnesty would like the human rights council to act. syrians involved in torture should be left in no doubt, the organization says, that they will one day face justice. >> for more on the current crisis in syria, one year after the first protest erupted, we are joined by the author of "the arab uprising, the unfinished revolution that the new middle east." let's talk about this idea of the call for sirte officials to be taken to the international criminal court. -- for syrian officials to be taken to the international criminal court. what are the chances of this happening and what impact would this have? >> it is true that you probably need to go through the security council the right now you have russia are really holding the line on stopping international military intervention which the u.s. does not want and which would be a terrible idea. they might be able to trade that off for

he's worth emotional reporting meanwhile the syrian authorities have given the international red cross the green light to enter be unbundled city of homs on friday the soldiers are called in the un security council to allow immediate humanitarian access to the worst affected areas a move also supported by russia and china from a new york who's more important reports it's been nearly seven months since we've seen any type of consensus coming out of the security council with respect to syria but that consensus is coming through the form of a press statement issued by the security council with respect to humanitarian aid in syria we are seeing some consensus coming from the security council on humanitarian fronts about how to end this conflict is where un security council's remain divided the security council members remain divided russia has said and continues to say that there needs to be a cease fire in syria were both sides put their weapons down and begin to engage in a dialogue at that point was separately underscored by kofi anon the un's envoy to syria a newly appointed envoy by t

there is violations of the international humanitarian law and human rights law. i think the way forward for boroughs's development is to deal urgently with the human rights violations that are happening and to deal with the humanitarian access issue. there are people in the burma'snt's and i and civil society who are hopeful that this type of change will come. we're not seeing it yet. >> joining us from our bangkok's judea's. thank you for your update. the u.n. nuclear watchdog said it has received an invitation to visit korea years after its since -- the stations were closed. and to allow u.n. nuclear inspectors into the country in return for food aid. >> a string of recent deaths linked to overwork has raised questions about the price workers are paying for the country's success. top international companies place orders and a manufacturing -- in the manufacturing of a high-tech gadget. >> it is the start of a long work day. she works at least 12 hours a day, six days a week to provide a good laugh -- life for her children. she spent so much time at the shop she

having an international support, but i -- i'm really baffled by the idea that somehow an international assembly provides a legal basis for the united states military to be deployed in combat. i don't believe it's close to being correct. they provide no legal authority. the only legal authority that's required to deploy the united states military is the congress and the president and the law and the constitution. >> let me just for the record be clear again, senator, so there's no misunderstanding. when it comes to the national defense of the country, the president of the united states has the authority under the constitution to act to defend this country. and we will. if it comes to an operation where we're trying to build a coalition of nations to work together to go in and operate as we did in libya or bosnia, for that matter afghanistan, we want to do it with permissions either by nato or by the international community. >> well, i'm troubled by that. i think that it does weaken the ability of the united states to lead. if we believe something oug to be done i would think we would be

and other words economic pressure prompted us to develop our internal capacity. as you know the ease let me republic of iran launched its third settle out recently mr nunn and taken. also we have our own production in various advanced areas like biotechnology and then it's acknowledging that software development information technology we even explored some of those products. so i can say that sanctions have turned us into a strong advanced and successful country in many areas of the economy of corn and instead of merely importing of goods and we are now it thought a little different the country. well you do sound pretty diplomatic but he also sound optimistic at the same time the newly elected parliament in your country has harshly criticized. for the state of the economy does that mean from your point of view as a diplomat that your country may try to soften their relations with the world in order to improve the economic situation. but. you know there's never been our desire to have poor relations with other countries push to push in fact i think it is the west

it took us a while to become a party to the international court of justice and other international institutions. but i don't think anyone should kid themselves that the atmosphere between the united states and the court at the moment bears any resemblance to where it was back in 2003/2004. the mood is very fundamentally changed. i have colleagues here from the state department -- when we went to the assembly states meeting in new york of the icc, there was applause as the united states entered the room, you know, the deep freeze was over. the period of engagement has begun. and the point we get to more formal kinds of relationships will always take time for the united states which is a country that has been worried about entangling alliances since george washington. but i do think the mood is very, very fundamentally different than it was. >> i'm going to open this up for questions in a sec but i would like to ask one final question for the group, which is really the role of justice in prevention of atrocities. obviously, there is -- there were a dimension to this that you want to try these bad

law i regard as somewhat absurd i mean international law to whom through the united states or russia or iran's who is involved in international law and under what circumstances there is a notion of actually observed it's not at all clear and i mean what are we referring to whose international law is it the united nations is it nato what are we referring to this was a kind of is it is or should know or you don't mean these are very small to it's also not mean i don't think he i don't know he that the international noise for god and i don't think he that you're about to commit the murder all worldly the only question would be the unintended consequence is the question is whether this can go on not that he's clearly not legal can intervene in syria these new u.n. resolution and the only one is with his regime and they won't be you and his addition because they need to us violated its own you and his addition in the case of libya and of russia and china doesn't we don't want to be taken for one swallow and. lindsey please jump in here because well when we exactly and the russians also ha

a low aim welcome across concrete about serious divides as the peace plan for syria gains international support worries remain it is only a lull before the civil war in the country resumes with greater intensity and violence on all sides as the west and its allies in the region still harbor plans for another humanitarian intervention. can. start. to cross out the new peace time for syria i'm joined by herbert lunden in new york he is president emeritus of the hudson institute in brussels we go to someplace mon he is a writer and author of humanitarian imperialism and in london we have lindsey german she is the convener of the british anti-war organization stop the war coalition right folks this is cross-eyed that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encouraged her but if i go to you first in new york what's your sense of kofi annan peace plan for syria is that it beginning or is it a dead end post probably a dead end largely because the civil war is likely to go on assad has engaged in murderous activities thousands of people have lost their lives it's a terrible situa

spread crimes under international law and other gross violations of human rights. it says the i.c.c. has been constrained for political reasons. as russia and china have vetoed u.n. security council resolutions. so instead, amnesty wants the u.n. human rights council to act, to gather evidence that will lead to eventual prosecutions. syrians should be left in no doubt, the organization says, that they will one day face justice. alan little, bbc news. >> you can get more on that story on our website. that's bbc.com/news. there's plenty more indeed also on our main story at the moment, the bus crash in switzerland. 52 people on board, most of them children, crashed in a swiss tunnel. 28 people have been killed. most of them just 12 years old. we've got the details for you and, of course, the response from belgium, as well as switzerland on the website, bbc.com/news. >> you're watching "bbc world news" with me, david eades. the headlines this hour -- 28 people, 22 of them children, have been killed in a bus crash in switzerland as they're headed home to belgium from a

for instance, are the international standards established under the international convention of safety of life at sea and the standards of training and certification, to insure that cruise vessels are built and operated and manned to the highest standards? our training and certification requirements under these conventions especially for emergency evaluation and crisis management, adequate in light of the greatly incomed size and complexity of newly constructed cruise vessels. and are passengers given adequate indoctrination into what to do during emergency drills? these are some of the questions that immediately come to mind. i would be interested to hear from the coast guard and cruise industry with respect to their progress and implementing new requirements established. and in close, the best way to insure long-term economic health of the cruise industry in the u.s. is to insure there remains appropriately regulated and that the american public jiffbly considers a cruise vacation a safe and secure form of leisure travel. with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. i have one consent requ

now to another issue dominating international affairs syria has called on the international community to pressure the syrian opposition into peaceful dialogue. stressing that it's taking sides in this conflict is not. resolved. said and called on the international community not to supply weapons to the syrian rebels saying that this only leads to more bloodshed and sets back any possible peaceful dialogue between the authorities and the opposition they're. going to live in moscow thank you. so have you hear our view on the russian presidential campaign from a different angle. to my promise. and of course your videos to comic strips and children's cartoon so we look at who's got the upper hand in the battle for creativity to voters in the run up to the election. will bring the polarizing attitudes towards a lot of straight into focus of course. for now a preview. of the average. person is relatively a pacific partly because they think there isn't much of a real choice and secondly because they think. he's going to win. organize that he wins whatever the voters do so i think this could

>> the stockholm international peace research institute last week released a report on internationals transfers. according to the new data, india has overtaken china has the largest arms importer with asian nations in the largest consumers of military hardware. the institute on friday hosted a panel looking at the new numbers in the impact of global security. the united nations is scheduled to meet in july to negotiate a treaty regulating the international arms trade. >> welcome everybody. my name is streamed to any of director of chantal de jonge si. this is the newest research center of the so-called international peace research in the tube based in washington d.c. now as many of you may well know, sipri is an independent under international research to toot dedicated to the research of arms control, disarmament, but also regional and transnational security issues. i think many of you might be familiar with sipri's annual yearbook, which provides very authoritative information data and analysis on security on conflict, military spending and rna, non-proliferation and arms control a

a step forward as pyongyang signals it will accept international nuclear monitors. but a senior envoy says relationss with south korea are at a standstill. welcome to nhk world "newsline." north korea's chief nuclear envoy says his country will soon accept inspectors from the international atomic energy agency. the move comes under a recent agreement with the united states. late last month pyongyang told washington it would suspend uranium enrichment activities in exchange for u.s. food aid. >> translator: we'll allow iaea inspectors into our country in the near future. we're taking concrete measures to fulfill our agreement with the u.s. >> ri spoke after attending an international conference in new york. he said the event made it possible for north korean and u.s. representatives to hold detailed discussions on bilateral issues. ri said the end of hostile relations between the two countries will serve as the basis for resolving their outstanding problems. south korea's chief nuclear envoy lim sung-nam also attended the conference but he didn't meet with his counte

of war are considered per se violation of international law or a threat to international peace and security and this justifies the intervention of the security council however humanitarian intervention should be limited in time and space and link whatever action is taken is linked to the purpose and that is to stop to prevent the occurrence taking place of. crimes against humanity then crime before for certain what the need to force. a professor we've only got a minute. lost i want to broaden it out a little bit we've heard on the program just tonight a leader of the libya's revolution accusing west and. how's abandoning his country now after the military intervention you think of other countries think of a rock you think afghanistan you think it libya possibly syria do you think foreign powers are simply leaving a trail of destruction behind. while if had it not been for the russians and the chinese. founding using the power of the security council probably syria would have faced the same consequences that could have been much more. devastating is very much more trouble in the area because

why in an international environment of growing uncertainty, risk and credit would we choose to add to those risks by making large and misguided pastor and national defense budget? cuts that by themselves will not significantly reduce our national debt, the real driver which is our domestic entitlement programs. i do not see a compelling answer to this question at this time and i imagine today's hearing will underscore that point. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you so much. senator mccain. mr. clapper. >> thank you. distinguished members of the committee for inviting us to present the 2012th worldwide threat assessment. i observe you probably are the given up for us. i'm joined today by the defense intelligence agency, friend and colleague lieutenant general ron burgess. these are marks in her statement for the record reflect to collect event sides of extraordinary men and women of the united states intelligence community would be recognized and we must appreciate that and have it is our privilege and honor to the. we are most appreciative of your knowledge of the work, sometimes un

declared march 8 international women's day three decades ago. the goal was to provide an opportunity to reflect and confront issues affecting women. we know that we cannot have a vibrant society and must we have a seat at the table and have the power to make our own decisions about our bodies, families, and communities. each year, the un select a team . -- theme. if we could have everybody sit down, please. thank you. i love looking at the photographs and reading the stories about what happened around the globe. i encourage everyone to go home and log on to google, just type in "women's day." there are so many things happening today. i want to point out one of the great story. this really grabbed my attention. it took place in a village in india. 200 women blocked traffic for the basic right to go to work every day and earn money. i want to read a couple of quotations. "we have brought in winds of change. the same husbands who used to order us indoors when officials came to talk, now tell us to go out and interact with them. these groups are bri

these are just some of the examples of regional and international resolve. nevertheless, as both of you have described, we've also seen the assad regime has intensified its vicious attacks against the syrian people. the situation is, frankly, horrific including indiscriminate artillery fire against entire neighborhoods. today's reports from homs are truly alarming. large numbers of syrians are living every day under siege, deprived of basic necessities including food, clean water and medical supplies. women and children are wounded and dieing for lack of treatment. innocent people are detained and tortured and their families left to fear the worst. yet despite the regime's brutality, the people of syria dmon straight enormous courage. their determination to continue protesting for their rights, mostly still peaceful protests, is an inspiration and a testimony to the human spirit. now, as assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs watching the upheavals in the arab world i'm humble enough to say that we don't know for sure when the tipping point, t

international community to crush or this syrian opposition into holding peaceful dialogue with. stressing that seeking sides in this conflict is not a way to resolve it is also said and called on the international community not to supply weapons to the syrian rebels seeing that this only leads to more bloodshed and sets back any possible peaceful dialogue between the authorities and the opposition they're speaking about the relations with the united states the prime minister has said that the reset has worked economically wise but when it comes to washington's plans for the anti missile defense system in europe the reset this field which is one of the sides wants to become totally invincible but this undermines the strategic balance of forces in the world we feel it's highly dangerous the strategic balance has let us avoid global conflicts since the second world war when a country begins to think it's invincible to retaliate and straight from another country it leads to a lot of conflicts in aggressive behavior and it's not just because. america is an aggressive country because

and she'll be joined by anthony fauci, president of the international aids society and international co-chair of the aids 2012 effort, david munar, president and ceo of the aids foundation of chicago, and diane havlier will moderate that discussion that will be looking at the history of the international aids conferences and what we can expect as we look forward. so we'll continue that conversation next week, and i hope you can all join us. that will be webcast live at midday, and we expect a strong turnout here as well. and i want to thank everyone who is joining us online. we have 100 persons joining us online for this event today, and i want to welcome them. and we've, we're very fortunate, also, that c-span3 has chosen to come and be with us, we're very grateful for that. so, please, join me in welcoming our guest of honor, dr. thomas frieden. [applause] >> thanks very much, stephen. thanks to everyone at csis for really excellent, cutting-edge work that you've done in global health on a wide variety of issues. and also i want to thank all of the nongovernmental organizations and

it is contrary to every international norm that we believe in. for us, it provides three take for us to continue to talk to kofi annan and the russians and others about why it is they need to stand up on behalf of people hurt and tong shel describe to them why they should join us in a coalition, that is the most important work we can do right now. there may be some immediate steps to make sure humanitarian aid is being provided in a robust wait. and to make sure that an opposition unifies a long principles that ultimately would provide a clear platform for the syrian people to be able to transition to a better form of government. but, when we see what is happening on television, you know, our natural instinct is to act. one of the things that i think both of us have learned in every one of these crises, including libya, is that it is important for us to make for that -- make sure that we have thought through all our actions before we take those steps. that is not just important for us. that is important for the syrian people because ultimately, t

and there will be an international presence in afghanistan for a very long time. there will be a government relationship. there will be diplomatic relationships, there will certainly be economic relations but there will also be, very importantly, a security relationship between the united states and afghanistan but the broader international community as well. in many respectes, the taliban has had difficulty sustaining themselves inside the human terrain because they've been rejected. the people do not want to go back to a taliban environment. they were on the fence for a while because they were not sure how this would turn out. but as local governance continues to gain traction, as economic opportunity becomes more widespread throughout afghanistan, what you find is the people, the people who might have accepted the taliban at some point in the past, see that there now is a future that could be different than the taliban darkness, a future that could be in fact an afghanistan that is aligned with the west, an afghanistan that is aligned with the united states. an

continues to hit it with sanctions international leaders have agreed to restart the international negotiations which have stalled for over a year in addition to the child star crowns agreeing to let u.n. inspectors inside a military facility that suspected of atomic weapons work in efforts to prove its nuclear program is peaceful u.s. president barack obama says he hopes the new talks will help silence washington's hawkish voices but there are worrying reports from an ex israeli intelligence officer that tel aviv or won't rely on diplomacy for much longer global affairs researcher benjamin shuts it believes the u.s. could also be waiting for an excuse to attack. the only thing we know for sure that iran is working on nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and everything else are just. to put it another way it's accusations from major israeli and u.s. officials it seems to be some kind of theater that israeli and american officials are playing because obama seems to try to convince. diplomacy would be the better way but in fact. soft power that he is using to meddle into iranians iran's inter

more arms smuggling any arrest of more than one hundred foreign mercenaries of spike in years of international interference. and all but two e.u. leaders cited new pact on tough budget controls while people across europe unite against cuts to their wages and pensions. six pm in moscow i mattress or bring you today's top stories at a look back at the week's news here on r t tens of millions of russians choosing the man who'll be the president for an unprecedented six year term today polling closes in just under three hours we're bringing you comprehensive coverage from the heart of russia. today's turnout expected to be high with russians having showed a huge level of political activity leading up to those who vote authorities are making every effort to keep the poll as transparent as possible hundreds of thousands of observers spread nationwide every ballot box under the watchful eye of live webcams for the first time which anyone can tune in. live in red square bringing us all the latest so there's only a few hours left for the western part of russia to finish voting what's the latest we're h

as we see there is still a lot of wrangling going on at the international level in the u.n. security council and other united nations organizations and the friends of syria and all of these other international organizations that are putting various types of pressure on the syrian government and or the syrian opposition groups and so it's absolutely up in the air at this point and it really depends on the extent to which the international community really wants to continue pressing ahead with the ongoing and needed support for these supposedly opposition rebels that have supposedly spontaneously arisen in syria but as we now know have been being funded and armed and trained and equipped by the international community for some time certainly last month there were a number of multiple confirmed reports from various different news agencies confirming that iraqi officials were admitting that certain will have a long established smuggling routes were being used through iraq to funnel arms money and even jihadi can syria to take part in this uprising so once again whether or not th

international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day syrian government forces have allowed an aid convoy to enter the city of homs after capturing the rebel stronghold of baba amr this follows a call from the u.n. security council to allow immediate humanitarian access to the worst affected areas a motion supported by russia and china for a notion i spoke to residents of the seed city who gave an eyewitness account of what she described as atrocities committed while the rebels were in control. international red cross and syrian red crescent has reached it's brought food water and medical supplies to the city that suffered from an almost month old siege humanitarian agencies are also expected to create injured from the area many people have been killed in homes as well their bodies have never been taken away and that will be another part of their mission which used to be one of the opposition's main strongholds here syria is now under the government's control local media reports that in the tunnels undern

there is international outrage, but no agreement about how to bring it to an end. bbc news, outside homs. >> let's look at some other stories. observers from the organization for security and cooperation in europe have described the voting that returned vladimir putin for another term as russian president as clearly skewed in his favor. at a news conference held in moscow, the observer's spokesman said there were serious problems with the democratic process. >> although all contestants were able to campaign, the conditions for the campaign were clearly skewed in favor of one candidate. also, overly restrictive, candidate registration requirements limited genuine competition. while all candidates have access to media, only one candidate, the current prime minister, was given a clear advantage in the coverage. state resources were mobilized at the regional level in his support. >> that was some of the monitors speaking. vladimir putin has yet to respond to. those to but he claimed a resounding victory. he had tears in his eyes as he spoke to supporters in moscow. the

sort of financial thrillers there's articles devoted to international. assistance. but there really is a financial relationship with the former republic of the soviet union. big article devoted to rush through interest shared with the international financial institutions world bank. i.m.f. all the liberal development banks and my beloved story. the. g. twenty g. eight different other economic potential collapse it isn't easy and you know we're all tell me about the g. twenty you personally took part in the g. twenty meeting or finance ministers in mexico right so will the g. twenty summit that we're there that will take place soon will it take some important steps in reforming world financial institutions later this year. you see each year. it's just happened each year g twenty. discuss a number of police was more important one but a man a number of issues all with one is the most important for these year the most important issue is the increase in the financial capacity of the international monetary fund. this is the most urgent decisions need to be tak

that we build multi-lateral international consensus for any action that is taken. two, that we maintain clear regional support from the arab world. three, that we make substantial u.s. contributions to the international effort, especially where the united states has unique resources that can be brought to bear. four, we need to have a clear, legal basis for any action that we take. and five, keep all options on the table. but recognize that there are limitations of military forces specially with u.s. boots on the ground. each situation, as i said, is unique and as i've said there is no simple solution here. the reasons for the differences between our approach with libya and the current approach to syria are clear. although there has been widespread support in the security council and the arab league for military intervention in libya, no such consensus currently exists with regard to syria. for us to act unilaterally would be a mistake. it not clear what constitutes the syrian armed opposition. there has been no single unifying military alternative that can be reco

international interests happening here. i want to posit a story, a view of it, see what you both think about it. we look at something in a country, a transit point for terrorists. syria the hub of that. in addition a state sponsor of terrorism itself and a key ally of our biggest problem in the reichen not just for us but for iraq and iran. now the people want to get riftd guy that run this place. a lot of internal divisions. we talked about the complexities of all that. but in the midst of all this seems to me as much as anything else, clearly this is salve regime change, about a change of direction for the country, but from our strategic point of view it's also a composition for future influence. in essence who will influence the direction syria goes in the future? as long as al qaeda and others see this chaos and say, we can go in and take advantage of this chaos to our advantage create a better place to operate in. nations like ours see it potentially to go in and embrace the syrian people to embrace what they think is