discussed with this with jamal wakim professor of history and international relations at the lebanese university in beirut welcome to the program jamal. let's start with the meeting do you think this meeting will bring any significant easing of the dangerous tensions do you think between washington and ankara in syria that we've been witnessing. i believe so specially at a time when the goods in syria. have mended fences with the syrian government and have let the syrian troops to enter to offer in the same time . the turkish troops are stumbling and they didn't achieve much success in their onslaught on our friend so i believe the u.s. secretary of state has given that. a gate out. of the crisis or of the problems they found themselves in especially that the americans want to keep the goods at bay they don't want them to. feel free to deal with whichever a side they want specially that it was a lot of me for them what they did with the syrian government regarding three and so they want to go on to their control and they want also to win the turks over and that's why they. expressed his willingn

it all means knowledge jamal wakim professor of history and international relations of the lebanese university in beirut you're very welcome do you think that this cease fire is it possible to implement a and b. is it going to hold for thirty days. well i believe that the ceasefire is conditional and this is noted in the un resolution because the syrian government and its russian ally will. continue its operations against. isis which are on the terrorist list. this is on one hand and on the other hand i believe that we need to see what would be the reaction of the united states because the united states was the one to call for the un resolution for the ceasefire in the beginning however the russian intervention amended this ceasefire to fit. the needs for fighting terrorism. in syria. while the united states thinks that the ceasefire was meant not for the syrian government to take control of which should remain. like a region to direct threat to the capital to damascus and there were plans to link. them to a plan for region controlled by the united states to. open a quality door that would all

and we're now joined live by jamal wakim international relations professor at the lebanese university mr joachim thanks for joining us here on r.t. international today u.s. officials describing this as strike as quote defensive how would you describe it. i believe this is and i got action against the syrian arab army and against the syrian government because the united states have no legitimate claim to have troops on syrian soil. it claimed that it was fighting eisel but so far we never saw a single strike by the united states against isis fighters all strikes game against the syrian arab army and its allies and then the attempt to take hold off north eastern syria. and establish military bases there this is part of it all and scheme for the middle east by the united states to keep this region under its control especially that it could control the whole region from the from the upper of create this region which is between the west and what he must get to that. just him i mean if i may just i'm sort of interrupt you but regarding this airstrike by u.s. led forces just now one hundred

promote their geopolitical agenda and jamal wakim international relations professor at the lebanese university very interesting thanks for your time. today the body of russian military pilot romana phillipe off was brought to his hometown of war on ash a major died fighting in syria after his plane was shot down by militants. to get here we had to walk through a crowd of hundreds of people many of whom were holding flowers as you can see behind me hundreds of people are now standing by the gate waiting to get inside it really seems like part of the city is here to take part in this ceremony the pilot's plane was shot down on saturday in the northwestern part of syria which is still controlled by the latest incarnation of the terrorist group the real month try to remain in the aircraft as long as he could he then managed to eject from the plane only to find himself overwhelmed by a terrorist the pilot who supported a few people has shared the details of their last communications his voice remained calm when i. see them was the commander's reply and then he said so evenly as if it was something

well let's talk to him he's an associate professor at the lebanese american university in beirut and joins us on skype is this an indication that things have improved between i really on the saudi leadership. i think so no i think anybody has been. serious after just two or moved relations with saudi arabia being it's his. war of hezbollah and that is not so you know alliance with hezbollah and. that's what wise or political wise also i really succeeded in convincing. me. not to be aligned with any. power so now and defeat us policy which was a condition also. to. come back to us i think. that the saudis know the saudis are to be examining he asked us in that position finding no other alternative to solve how do you see a strong sunni. country people of willing ok by united front or is by i mean many people say that saudi arabia miscalculated this resignation issue has really had lost any influence in lebanon as a result of the crisis. of course i mean you have. these big you. show this all washed out on the. ship and under my arm you know many warnings how to use allies. into leader

he shams a banner a retired lebanese army general and joining us also from our raised in italy joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma gentlemen thank you for being on inside story welcome to the show dimitri in moscow if i can start with you russia was the main guarantor of these yes collation zones and now is leading the onslaught of airstrikes in the early province and civilians are bearing the brunt of the strikes what happened to russia wanting to reach a compromise in syria well i think if we look at what's the russian general policy in syria it's important to look at what's happened in sorts you just recently and this conference that took place is pretty much it's is a pos for all for the single austin associate peace process and by russian standard there has been as a success there has been a right now there is a way for creating a constitution to syria somehow transitional body and so right now russia pretty much feels that it's on the path for bringing this here and reconstruction to syria and the same time in doing so no no in terms by sweating for how they may talk plays out on the social and

situation was generally quiet in the universe area of operation and despite heightened rhetorical related to the proposed construction by israeli defense forces and lebanese court reservation areas and called south of the blue line construction began in one reservation areas on the seventh of february with no incident reported mr president returning to the israeli palestinian conflict let me reiterate inclosing that we in the international community must continue advocating for substantial israeli policy changes related to the situation in the west bank including a halt to certain construction demolition or structures in the prevention of palestinian development in areas c. on gaza we must collectively work to alleviate the humanitarian disaster and provide full support to egyptian reconciliation efforts. our supports to honor also remains vital i also hope that we will be able to look beyond the closed dark negotiating rooms that are currently empty of diplomats and politicians to see that there are israeli and palestinian advocates for peace working tirelessly to promote change civil society organizations use and women's groups religious and community l