three hundred people outside the capital damascus and the death toll in the southwest town of the riaa

pound for task suppose the riaa gather final day in court as a verdict looms in the trial over the controversial mock prayer in russia's major seadrill that grab global attention. plus the un security council withdraws the international monitoring mission in syria rebels they are pledged to step up their fight and threaten to join forces with al qaida. now gypsy culture on the streets of russia that's our special reports coming up next here on our. there will be no kiss for the bride at this wedding nor will the couple don't sell for the ceremony in fact the newlyweds won't get anywhere near each other. to an outsider it's hard to tell which of these men is the group. the under like a new husband is standing a little apart from the rest. of my wife is fifteen there never kiss is a wedding so much it is against the law we will start talking to each other in a month or so. whatever. our marriage is the main objective in life for a caldera but none of them afraid to she was their own partners children have no say in who they marry it's the parents who arranged the weddings. more often than not a yo

awaiting their fate in the conover phillipos the riaa trial the verdict is expected any time the prosecution is demanding three years behind bars for the female trio. the braces for first posted off the transition of power it's interim leaders will hand over to an elected assembly despite continued violence after shocks fall for the revolution. all right those are the headlines here in our team next it's time for cross stuck with peter lavelle stay with us. and you can. still. below in welcome to cross talk of people about after a decade of wars and then ongoing global financial crisis particularly in the eurozone just how attractive is the west when it comes to soft power is the west specifically the u.s. losing its ability to influence others through example and the power of ideas and values. in. rostock soft power i'm joined by craig hayden in washington he's an assistant professor in the international communications program at american university school of international service also in washington we have ivan eland he is a senior fellow and director of the center on peace and liberty at

three hundred people outside the capital damascus and the death toll in the southwest town of the riaa cannot be independently verified but the government says it did carry out an anti terror operation in that area and the british foreign office has responded that sunday's massacre highlights urgent need for international intervention against the assad regime moscow insists any unilateral action will only worsen the conflict that's already claimed more than eighteen thousand lives president assad though has vowed to stand firm in the face of what he calls a western. plot against his nation and this comes amid reports by activists that rebels of the free syrian army have shot down an army helicopter of a damascus middle east specialist kevin barrett believes what we're seeing now in syria could be a setup from the tree intervention but once again as with the houla massacre we have a very interesting set of circumstances where right before is un ministerial meeting coming up on august thirtieth we have a big orchestrated p.r. event designed to smear the government in damascus and the wes

accused syrian security forces meantime of killing more than three hundred people in the town of the riaa that's very close to the capital and the government says it did carry out an anti terror operation in that area a briton who responded to the alleged massacre arguing that it highlighted the urgent need for international action against assad this while the syrian president has vowed to stand firm in the face of what he describes to be a foreign plot against his nation let's get some more on this now and speak to a journalist neil clark thanks for coming on the program mr clarke. it's good to see you today before i get to my questions i should warn our viewers that the footage we're going to show during our conversation. contains some graphic images so there does seem though to be little prospect of any independent investigation into sunday's killing and the departure of the un observers then no longer around of course the blame game has begun who is to blame as far as you're concerned well the blame game and the blame game begin straight away i think i woke up on saturday morning see

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