across the islamic world across the muslim world from afghanistan down through turkey into saudi arabia qatar and of course egypt. one of egypt's main opposition leaders and the former head of the arab league says mrs regime is failing to fulfill the nation's hopes for change or deal with its major economic problems. the change that we wanted that people hoped for the language the services education the health care and the rest of the fives but then into the life objections have not really produced anything new fifty percent of the country lives in poverty the illiteracy the bad unemployment the problems that have not been addressed i think this moment this is the point that one many of us as citizens as liberals as nationalists that believe that we. who said time we should not stand still. we have to move on let us move together the vision of dividing the country dividing the people divide the republic opinion is not in our interest. in fact artie's full interview with egyptian opposition leader. today at six forty five pm g.m.t. . but while one the country struggles with the outcome of its

constant flow of weapons and cash into syria by certain western state line turkey going to saudi arabia and qatar the israelis then not concerned that the syrian government would use chemical weapons against israel they are very concerned that the militants in syria would use them if they acquired them it could be a pretext that but the west issues in concert believe america to intervene in the syria they claimed in the run up to the invasion of iraq the reasons for going in iraq had weapons of mass destruction nothing was found intervene in libya colonel gadhafi forces we're told we're going to alter. our sins and thousands of libyan civilians there was never any evidence for that spend once again yes there's a very realistic possibility that the militants in syria could acquire chemical weapons and of course who would be responsible for that would be those countries around the world in particular in the region turkey saudi arabia qatar and starting western countries that are doing absolutely everything they can at the moment to weaken the syrian government. check and i will be got on a website

division of the world the other thing though is if you look at who's destabilizing syria you see saudi arabia. qatar now the thing about those places or jordan similar is that these are futile monarchies these are absolute monarchies of a type you don't find anywhere else in the world they were about four or five hundred years behind the time. when rights abusers absolutely article in the washington post today that one fourth of the people in saudi arabia live in poverty so you maginnis a parasitical royal family of thousands of princes and princelings who live in the lap of luxury and still with all that oil money they can't have a decent standard of living for four or five million the question now is when the revolution hits those places and also terrible human rights abuses i think it might relieve the pressure on syria if saudi arabia and qatar were kept busy at home with their own problems which they should pay attention to rather than meddling in syria unfortunately out of time there's so much more to talk about thank you so much for coming thank you giving a little bit insight on the convolut

with syria turkey claims it wants to see democracy in syria but look who it's working with saudi arabia qatar and their democratic credit is wanting. forget the zero problems with neighbor's roof which in korea has prided itself on for many decades critics now see turkey as dancing to one nation's. bomb places burnt very schools kill people but that does not suffice to get certain permanent results which the us can utilize afterwards because you in the choice of football involves country use some social strata some people internalize us policy and will represent in the countries that have been invaded so our this is very tricky comes in geographically and culturally it's a great base camp for the likes of the us and nato to take include food in their empty acid invasions it was just two years ago that turkey was calling bashar lost a brother and voting against sanctions on iran its relatively recent change of heart however may not have everything to do with turkey's desire to appease the west and may indeed be part of a plan by turkish officials to become regional if not global major players.

across the islamic world across the muslim world from afghanistan down through turkey into saudi arabia qatar and of course egypt. well one of marcy's former rival for the presidency is now a prominent opposition leader of and he says the nation needs to move forward here's a preview of the full interview which will be airing for you at six thirty pm g.m.t. . the situation in egypt generally extends because of the fact that nothing has really changed the change that we wanted that people hoped for dealing with. the services the education the health care and the rest of the tides but dating to the life of victims not to be produced anything new when you have to move on that is the essence of the message. as it. move on respect democracy respect the rule of law let us move together. three presidents of the year opinions main bodies are due to the noble peace prize that a ground ceremony and all slow but before the prize was even handed out hundreds marched to the center of the norwegian capitol in protest this came on the heels of several previous winners issuing an open letter to the nobel fou

with syria turkey claims it wants to see democracy in syria but look who it's working with saudi arabia qatar and their democratic credit is one thing. forget the zero problems with neighbor's rule which in chorale has prided itself on for many decades critics now see turkey as dancing to one nation's. place but are in place kill people but that does not suffice. which. because you are. treating. people internalise us. represent in the concrete. this is very tricky comes in geographically and culturally it's a great base camp for the likes of the u.s. and nato to take a foothold in their anti acid ambitions it was just two years ago that turkey was calling bashar lost a brother and voting against sanctions on iran it's relatively recent change every heart however may not have everything to do with turkey's desire to appease the west and may indeed be part of the plan by turkish officials to become a regional if not call both major players. optimum for. but it was someone who used to go. through and stop in. syria was part of the land but now syria is. a member of united nations. and independe

term across the islamic world cross the muslim world from afghanistan down through turkey into saudi arabia qatar and of course egypt. syria's rebel forces have joined forces under one military command which they hope will unite diverse groups in the western backed struggle against president the sad this week the international community again voiced fears that the syrian government could deploy chemical weapons to defeat opposition fighters selling them at damascus continues to deny going to can then assesses now whether the chemical arsenal is a real threat or a pretext for intervention. u.s. officials said intelligence agencies have detected that assad's government has been preparing its chemical weapons stockpiles of possible use the obama administration's message to syria the u.s. is ready to act if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons there will be consequences and you will be held accountable there will be consequences. there will be consequences we have sent a unmistakable message that this would cross a red line for america the media quickly picked up on the alarming news of

across the islamic world across the muslim world from afghanistan down through turkey into saudi arabia qatar and of course egypt. where one of marcy's former rivals for the presidency amr moussa is now a prominent opposition leader he says the political crisis is no excuse for the failure to solve the social challenges here's a preview of the full interview which will be airing for you at six thirty pm g.m.t. . fifty percent of the country. is lives in poverty the illiteracy the bad unemployment the other problems that have not been addressed something this moment this is the point that one many of us as citizens are just liberals as nationalists that believe that. we are losing time. if we come to a conclusion and do a national conciliation with the care of everything national conciliation. it's our responsibility as a society but it is the responsibility of the president the government and that is . this is the point it is that is supposed to be the big conciliation into the deal to start working through the behaves of the society because there is a back a couple times a day or a differenc

across the islamic world across the muslim world from afghanistan down through turkey into saudi arabia qatar and of course egypt the opinion of william angle there but one of morsi is a former rivals for the presidency omar more so is now a prominent opposition leader that he says that the nation has to move forward here's a little preview of the full interview which will air for you at six thirty pm g.m.t. . the situation in egypt generally stands because of the fact that nothing has really changed the change that that people hoped for dealing with. the services the education and the rest of the tides of dating to be life or you. know to be produced and i think you know you have to move on that is the essence of the message of message today move on but i suspect the book is a respect the rule of law let us move together. three presidents of the european union's main body is our duty the noble peace prize and a grand ceremony and also but even before that prize was handed out hundreds had marched to the center of the norwegian capital in protest this came on the heels of several previous win

through the constant flow of weapons and cash into syria by certain western states and turkey saudi arabia and qatar that are doing absolutely everything they can at the moment to weaken the syrian government's. this is the corporate giants like starbucks and imus on the finding legal loopholes to avoid paying taxes on their profits and the u.k. is losing billions of pounds as the public to. start paying. a lot more on that later in the program. also north korea launches a rocket despite international warnings that as we head off to the break some say shouldn't further isolate the country rather engage and. lift. the speed. of light rightly. so. today. these are the. streets of canada. with me rovers. losing out on billions of pounds in tax some corporate giants so wriggling out of paying. naturally that's a public which is left to pick up the slack while also being loaded with tough austerity. reports the government seems quite fine with maintaining the status quo . well people from all of people tend not to protect this country companies like starbucks and apple and google at the moment it's reall

effectively trying to topple the regime through all of its you know through the its clients saudi arabia and qatar which are funding the jihad is going into syria so i wouldn't say that there is this is causing an end to the new york colonialists project that is just changing changing the equation just roughly ok joshua changing the equation when you think about that. well united states is trying to withdraw from the middle east largely and consolidate its interests in the gulf region around saturn arabia because we have pulled out of iraq we've pulled out we're trying to pull out of afghanistan and we're trying not to get into syria although we are creeping there is a growing mission creep we've just recognized the new government but we prescribe al qaeda in in syria so we're treating syria in a much more gray zone than the old bush you know with us or against us where we're prescribing al qaeda we're coming out against assad we're recognizing a new government that's that strong it's hopefully pro western so. obama is trying to complicate this and not just turn it into a sectarian you know slugfe

through the constant flow of weapons and cash into syria by certain western states and turkey saudi arabia and qatar that are doing absolutely everything they can at the moment to weaken the syrian government's. corporate john such a starbucks and amazon the funding the legal loopholes to avoid paying tax on the huge profits u.k. is leaving billions of pounds as the public demands rich firms start paying their dues more on that a little later this hour. also north korea launches a rocket despite international warnings but as we hear after the break some say world powers shouldn't further isolate the country but instead engage in talks. in the streets. with. the small group. bottoming. out. for. me to be soon which brightened. soon from funniest impressions. from stunts on t.v. don't come. if you just joined us a very warm welcome this is all to live here in moscow britain's losing billions of pounds and turks are some corporate giants are wriggling out of paying their fair share now that is going to the u.k. public which is left to pick up the slack while also being loaded with tough austerity resul

there are two countries like saudi arabia and qatar which have been two of the main countries financingand helping to deliver weapons to the opposition in syria today. >> rose: it's an interesting aspect of the middle east that the qatarians are also close to hamas and have given money to them as well. >> absolutely. right now the qatarrys are playing an outsized role for a small country. the emir is trying to put himself and his country on the map diplomatically. they were very involved, of course, in libya. one of the first countries, arab countries in particular to support the rebel there is in the fight against colonel moammar qaddafi. so qatar is playing an important role now on a number of fronts. >> rose: eric, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: eric schmitt from the "new york times." back in a moment. we'll talk to ehud olmert about how he sees israel today, president netanyahu, the coming election, iran and many other subjects. stay with us. >> rose: ehud olmert is here. he was prime minister of israel from 2006 to 2009. he left office under the s

rebels being supplied by saudi arabia, qatar and also turkey so that both side here have little interest in a peace deal. more interestingly both sides, the saudis and the iranians, have an interest in trying to see this go on as long as possible and an interest seeing their side win inside syria. they're willing, more than happy in fact, to supply money and weapons as long as the syrians are willing to continue to keep killing each other. you look at this long term, many people think this will be a very long sectarian civil war. we're talking a time frame of years. right now, jon, the death toll is about 45,000. a lot of people are saying that number could easily double in the coming months and years as this violence continues, jon. jon: the refugees keep streaming out of that war-torn country. leland vittert in jerusalem for us. leland, thank you. harris: new information from russia today where president vladmir putin has signed that bill banning americans from adopting russian children. we saw this coming and now it has happened. the bill angering americans and russians who say it vic

the -- as opposed to the iran, as opposed to the iraq regime, sorry, kuwait, qatar, saudi arabia actors. is really also about china and russia on the one hand, and the united states and europe on the other. so we have three levels of stalemate. local, regional and international, simply because there's so much at stake. so a country like syria, or a regime like syria for the past 40 years have had these calculations in mind. so this is not to excuse the regime whatsoever. this is to understand, the outcomes of what we have been witnessing for the past several decades involve these kind of calculations that many of us don't take into account. >> and we've been talking with bassam haddad, "business networks in shyria: the political economy of authoritarian resilience" is the name of this book. it's published by stanford. professor haddad is also head of the middle eastern studies program here at george mason university. this is a booktv on c-span2. >> tell us what you think about our program this weekend. you can tweet us at booktv, comment on our facebook wall, or send us an e-mail. tv, n