mr rabbani walked into the show thank you very much for coming for being with us and my first question is about the mehdi. army many anywhere in the talks between the syrian opposition namely the syrian national council and the president do you think this can be considered good as a step towards a peaceful solution of the conflict were. like the military solution well i certainly hope it will succeed because as you indicated yourself this may well be one of the very final opportunities to prevent an even bigger catastrophe and in syria i think there are. basically two questions one is the question of transition and the other one is what happens after that transition the basic problem in syria is that you have a. regime that is on prepared to negotiate about substantive issues. but which retain sufficient popular support and firepower to hang on for a very long time conceivably or at least to make. any transition very bloody and try to straw fick and you have an opposition that has basically put its eggs in the foreign basket and sought to get foreign powers to effect regime change on i

foreign minister and a world that has to deal with some of the toughest security challenges he not rabbani khar pakistan's foreign minister is joining us now on our t.v. thank you very much for your time minister it's been more than ten years since pakistan joined the u.s. military operations in afghanistan do you think that was the right thing to do you see if. you would you know things look very different but of course. the collaboration that pakistan has had in the last ten years.

up next artie's full interview with him rabbani khar on the foreign policy challenges for pakistan. she's the youngest foreign minister and of all that has to deal with some of the toughest security challenges he not rabani khar pakistan's foreign minister is joining us now on r.t. thank you very much for your time minister it's been more than ten years since pakistan joined the u.s. military operations in afghanistan do you think that was the right thing to do you see if. you would you know things look very different but of course. the collaboration that pakistan has had in the last ten years pakistan has bit of a heavy price for that but it is also a fact that pakistan inhibits the region inhabits the region and will continue to have the street and and this region has some serious problems the region has some serious problems put into terrorism and pakistan has always maintained that it is important to have collaborative joint efforts to be able to rid the streets and rather than follow sort of unitary approaches. in how we want to rid the streets and you mentioned. the price of y

the taliban, these are held responsible by the taliban, were successful in assassinating chairman rabbani, chairman of the afghan high peace council, former president of afghanistan. >> right. >> going into this year or late last year, excuse me, musat kan of the helmand province, a successful aassassination. el hadj ap. bayeg, former chief of police in the hakar and kunduz provinces, a successful attack and assassination. razik, police chief in the kandahar province, that one failed, was not successful, but there were some deaths and casualties associated with it. going into this year, aga, the district governor in kandahar province was assassinated by the taliban. mohammed mahma, the tribal leader in kandahar was successfully assassinated by the taliban. the u.n. reports that 462 civilians were assassinated by the taliban in 2012 -- excuse me, 2010 alone. and so you would argue by these numbers that the taliban has not abandoned its practice of political assassination, is a form of intimidation in afghanistan. is that correct? >> certainly. >> and so one of the things that we see in rep

she's the youngest foreign minister in the world but has to deal with some of challenges here that rabbani khar pakistan's foreign minister is joining us now on r t thank you very much for your time minister it's been more than ten years since pakistan joined the u.s. military operations in afghanistan do you think that was the right thing to do. you would you know things look very different but. that pakistan has had in the last in the focus on this prize for that but it is also a fact that pakistan. region inhabits the region. and this region has some serious problems. but in into terrorism and pakistan has always maintained that it is important to have collaborative joint efforts to rather than follow sort of unitary approaches. in how we want to rid the streets and you mentioned. the price of your involvement in afghanistan has been pretty high many thousand of your citizens lost their lives millions of people have been very placed there estimates that it cost your country around seven u.s. dollars but we often hear criticism about pakistan's role. in afghanistan found the american sid

nicholas rabbani professor at the lebanese international university joining us on the line from beirut thanks for being with us this is not the first time that russia and china have sided together to resist a u.n. resolution backed by europe in the u.s. what lies behind the division as you see it. i think that the u.s. is the trying to make and you had germany and then in the middle east and to dominate the you and security council. they are that their responsibility to protect the civilians as a cover you know that responsibly to protect the civilians should it's a strategy it's a new strategy in the international public lol but it's it means that the military action is the last resort and the begins with the. responsibility to prevent the clash from or to to blow between between the parties and then to say responsibility to protect and at the last when the when they can do they want to have that responsibility to be built this is this does not happen and leave not in iraq and then now it seems as not happening in syria you know the western allies are trying to go directly to mitt to

foreign minister in the world but has to deal with some of the toughest security challenges he not rabbani khar pakistan's foreign minister is joining us now on our team thank you very much for your time minister it's been more than ten years since pakistan joined the u.s. military operations.

up next artie's full interview with him rabbani khar on the foreign policy challenges for pakistan. she's the youngest foreign minister and of all but has to deal with some of the toughest security challenges he that rabani khar pakistan's foreign minister is joining us now on r t thank you very much for your time minister it's been more than ten years since pakistan joined the u.s. military operations in afghanistan do you think that was the right thing to do you see if. you would you know things look very different but of course. the collaboration that pakistan has had in the last ten years pakistan has bit of a heavy price for that but it is also a fact that pakistan inhibits the region inhabits the region and we.

i'd like to wear our guest, gina sanchez with rabbani global economics. welcome, gina.cinating that one of the few people that called the crisis ends up getting nicknamed dr. doom. ends up getting ridiculed to some extent. shoot the messenger. you, the last time you were on air said you don't cure problems with insolvency with liquidity or maybe i'll paraphrase, it's hard to put out a grease fire with water or liquidity. you have flipped, your organization has flipped more friendly to stocks, very little really has changed in the world. we're talking about bridge loans for greece today, kicking the can. can you give me an idea why? and what's the duration of this bullishness? near-term or longer-term? >> well, it's not really, i wouldn't call it bullishness. it's a tactical trade. and the tactical bet is that we heard some significant change in ecb rhetoric, a real belief that they are committed, really committed to making sure that the bailout happens. they're committed through liquidity, through the long-term refinancing operation and through other means as we heard t

market was grossly overvalue and that's when i was saying, please don't become a stock picker because rabbani great at these macro issues with economics. but no one ever knows whether the stock market is cheap, undervalued, overvalued. it's so hard to call and i was appealing for you not to do it. were you not making a call at 9,000 that stocks were overpriced. >> we don't have a specific market call. >> were you dating that back then? >> because the consumer was so weak. >> that was the only thing i ever gave awe hard time. >> i'll give you an example of something that i am, that i'm not any good about, which is, which is related, which is the sentiment in terms of bank of america is a great bellweather not just for the financials, but for the market. so last year in the fall, stock was absolutely creamed, it went down to like almost, i think below $6. what justification was -- >> i thought you called that. i thought you were right about the banks having another downturn at some point. >> but a stock trading at 50% tangible? there was no justification. and so there was a correction, but to h