neil clark u.k. based journalist and contributor to the guardian newspaper thanks for your time thank you very much investigative journalist and middle east expert a so winstanley tells r t the syrian opposition is fragmented and says there's no unity between groups over a means of fighting the regime here's a preview. although both sides deny differences in in military intervention essentially in political differences there is different trends in the syrian opposition mainly between the people who support outside intervention and the protest with who so you've got groups like the syrian national council which are now openly you favor of a no fly zone which to me seems ridiculous because you know there isn't any even claim that any of the syrian regime for all its many crimes there's no claims that is the people so no fly zone just seems political pretext to invade to me. buildings on fire shops alluded dozens injured this is how the greek people met a new round of drastic cuts approved by their parl

for more on syria now i'm joined by neil clark are u.k. based journalist and contributor to the guardian newspaper. thanks for being with us so the arab league observer mission in syria last month blame both the government and forces of the opposition for violence why is the legally taking measures though against you authorities well taking the support of stance toward the opposition. well that shows the agenda behind the arab league i'm afraid and this is not a real genuine attempt to bring the war in factions together this is agenda driven and again it's all about regime change because i think any genuine attempt to end them still exists it would have. the government the government does have majority support in syria there was an opinion poll last month showed the president sat around four percent of the people who wanted him to stay and yet these are the kind of normal people as far as the western powers and the arab league concerned and all they're saying is basically the government must go and that the government must lay down their w

well neil clark a u.k. based journalist and contributor to the guardian newspaper says instead of diplomatic wrangling world powers should focus on urging both sides in the syrian conflict to lay down arms why and we've got peace in syria over the last eleven months the government has said they will make concessions the government can open to talks but the opposition has been picked on by irresponsible western powers and its allies and i think they would have had a peaceful solution to this months ago had the opposition not been egged on by the west they are being encouraged to take a very hard line the west has been denouncing the government violence but it hasn't been denouncing the violence by the opposition and until it does does not have any peace in syria so you know that is actually the western powers in the arab league who responsibility now say to the opposition forces look you have to stop the violence the government stops the violence everybody stops the violence and then we can have proper talks

journalist neil clark a contributor to the guardian newspaper in the u.k. told us earlier that russia phobia was fanning the litvinenko story in the west. it seems that the british media and i'm talking about serious newspapers they don't seem to want to cover stories when they don't fit the narrative and the dominant narrative of course back in two thousand and six was that the evil tyrant putin and ordered the f.s.b. to come to london and hill. without any evidence and when you think about it you know there are lots of explanations for this much and actually the least likely is that it was in the by president putin the time of the murder there were all kinds of conspiracy theories floating around attacking russia and putin for this there was a real russian campaign in the west media there are people called the neo cons i think they're right wing thinkers who really resent russia's revival under president putin and medvedev and these people use anything to discredit russia russia really is a counterbalance to u.s. global domination russia is friendly with

on the ground there in damascus will journalist and contributed to britain's guardian newspaper neil clark says the referendum results confirm he thinks the beginning of democracy in syria. it's a great day for democracy in syria and yet what's the reaction been of the western leaders well hillary clinton's denounced it as a cynical ploy. rest of the german minister he said that it the that it was a sham but in fact what is a sham is the west approach because it could because their reaction to this referendum shows that they're not really keen on real democracy in syria it's the last thing they actually want but we've had opinion polls before the show and fifty five percent of syrians want president assad to stay have huge demonstrations in favor of president assad in damascus which have barely been reported in the western media the reality is that the majority of syrian support but for the west these are long people their views don't count and so we have this ludicrous position where we have the west which claims to be supporting democracy is discounting the views of the syrians despite t

well discuss this now with journalist neil clark is a contributor to the guardian newspaper in the u.k. well as we've just been hearing me a little. farther says he was wrong to blame his son's death on putin and he also admitted her husband was working for british intelligence while six years ago she actually denied it it's a job to know what to believe in this case isn't it. but it is an x. thing back it actually could in november two thousand and six or five years ago now and we still don't really know exactly what happened what we do know is at the time of the murder there were all kinds of conspiracy theories floating around russia and putin for this there was a real campaign in the west which without any evidence. of this in the russian services but what about the press reaction now in the u.k. do you think the. comments will be covered in the british press after no i just said no i don't and that tells the story because it seems that the british media and i'm talking about serious newspapers they don't seem to want to cover stories when they don't fit the narrative and the domin

neil: not when are take all. >>guest: and this is "super tuesday," but the truth is, this super tuesday is much more like clark kente "man of steel." four years ago you had california, you had texas, you had over half of the delegates being picked on that one day, super tuesday, and this year? it is a fifth of the delegates. it is important but not nearly as important as super tuesday was four years ago. >>neil: very good thank you forgiving us an early promotion for my coverage of super tuesday. i think that closed the deal. larry on the not really all important super tuesday. thank you. put that in your pipe and puff open it. after the president pushed off the pipeline here, canada is pumping up china over there. up next, why christie nomes is fired up. [ male announcer ] there's been a lot of talk about the chevy volt lately. how about some facts? the chevy volt was one of the most awarded cars in 2011. the volt's battery has been tested for more than 395,000 hours. ♪ and, most importantly, the volt has received the highest overall vehicle score for safety possible. [ cheers and applause ] the extended-range ele