reconsider their decision on almost right because they've been so helpful in the fight against al saud but the decision to formally recognize the syrian opposition coalition will pave the way for more support for these rebels and they're asking for weapons for a lot of weapons including heavy artillery but washington is accusing the massacres of using weapons bound for use in populated areas and its fight against rebels who serves to further allegations that scud missiles have been fired and warnings that the chemical arms could be the next step jacob holmberg founder and president of the future of freedom foundation so the u.s. is deliberately demonizing the syrian government. we've heard this stuff before about you know saddam hussein's debbi m.d.s. and he was going to unleash them on the us and mushroom clouds over american cities and it was entirely bogus it was that it was a way to get the american people to support the invasion and occupation of the country and that's what all of this interventionism is all about to install their dictators into power look like how the us empire i

reconsider their decision on an almost threat because they've been so helpful in the fight against al saud but the decision to formally recognize the syrian opposition coalition will pave the way for more support for these rebels and they're asking for weapons for a lot of weapons during heavy artillery and the latest from damascus is that this wednesday the explosion targeted the syrian ministry you know we don't know whether it was the all new sort of front or another rebel organization here and what we do know that it was a massive explosion rather three explosions rather there has been many blast like that in the past mostly suicide bombings. washington is accusing damascus of using weapons and banned for use in populated areas in its fight against the rebels this says for the allegations that scud missiles have been fired and warnings that chemical arms will be the next step jake of pawnbroker founder and president all the future of freedom foundation says the u.s. is deliberately demonizing the syrian government. we've heard this stuff before about you know saddam hussein's debbie in

control on the oil dominance in the region so if the if the government or for that matter the house of saud or the regime in bahrain if any of them work to fall it would create severe economic shock waves for the united states and the other powers and of course they're not able to execute their geo political agenda unless they have a gemini in the middle east correspondent reported just a few minutes ago that q.h. opposition is a diverse mix does it have the unity and support to challenge the government. well it depends on what we mean by challenge the government i think there currently challenging the government by boycotting the elections and said surely in falla dating the entire process making a parliament that has absolutely no real power within the minds of the people i think that is a way of challenging the government but i think to your point whether or not they are able to depose the government that is something very different remember revolutions are not simply about showing strength on the streets they're about seizing power and it still remains to be seen whether or not we're se

. >> what if all of saud, and i don't expect it in december or january, but what if we end up with 6% unemployment rate. it shocks and surprises everybody. m well, now you know the fed will stick by its word and we have to raise rates. we could see trillions of dollars shift in a day, couldn't we? >> we could. but the market is anticipatory, so it will move in anticipation of the 6%. and in the short term, you may get the market to come back with the equities trace as movement we expect higher in the near term. but look, ultimately the best thing for equity investors is higher brond prices because you get will jallocation trade. and in some sense there is her and we move from bonds into risk assets. >> you are watching a live picture where we see ben bernanke step up and give us our news conference any minute now. he will stand be, meets p the ps and give us what we want. >> and check this out. manhattan is rising above. this is a billboard on the west side highway. look at it. it's huge. bigger than multiple cars put together and trucks and pets and friends. it is huge. and it is ris

he did a successful job there assad saud did. and they just really highlighted they're really in control. that is why you have seen -- go on. melissa: the other side has gotten really aggressive. we saw at the last meeting, rafael ramirez, representative from venezuela getting up talking about the fact they have more proven reserves than saudi arabia. saying they're a bigger oil giant. they brought studies from bp along to back the claim. if you look at opec's website now, they recognize venezuela being on top even though their production really lacks, but, you know, is the thooid turning inside opec? >> that is exactly the point there you made, melissa. we're seeing even though they have sort of 300 billion of reserves, we're seeing falling production from them. venezuela needs like 3 billlon a year just to keep up with production at levels where they are now. they need that investment and yet at the same time they kicked out exxonmobil. they kicked out chevron. they have kicked out conocophillips. so all of these different issu

one of april saud's few remaining allies and so faro posed action to intervene the crisis that killed nearly 40,000 people. >> margaret, charlie rose here. has the report that david martin has, the story that david martin has reported that they're mixing the ingredients of chemical weapons influenced what the russians may be doing? >> reporter: well, the russian foreign minister said that the assad government assures them that the reports that syria is readying chemical weapons are rumors. adamant among today's meeting, charlie, a signal russia wants to be a part of what comes next. if clinton can get them to support at the security council, they could roll out tough sanctions cutting syria off from any remains support. >> where does the violence stand? >> reporter: well, charlie, we're told that rebels surround the city of damascus which has been an assad stronghold. secretary of state hillary clinton says that bash ar al assad assad-o could use chemical weaps to hold on to power and told cbs news, not clear she can negotiate an exit pnd tends to recognize the syrian opposition as th