christian you before we go to the record syria of course. syria has killed great number of american troops in iraq they facilitated the flow of foreign fighters then they supply answer terrorists they are perhaps the chief sponsor of hezbollah long with iran they are iran's mini me in the area they are building a nuclear. weapon democracy will change now it's this is a battle against all arguing that it's as simple as that all right gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on syria stay with our team. and. good luck. to build a most sophisticated. doesn't sound anything mission to teach creation and why it should care about humans. this is why you should care only. the for. the for. loop to be soon which brightened a few. songs from fans to questions. whose flames dance on t.v. dot com. the first. place. plug and. story. comes from the field of. play. welcome back to cross talk you know about my job we're talking about the syrian civil war. plane and. story. and now we're joined by

to syria why is it incumbent upon the united states france and britain to bring democracy to syria why. because we have interests here because syria has. problems for the u.s. david you want to jump in syria a nation that has supported the go ahead david jump in. why not assist the nations that are struggling nonviolently against the dictators that still have western support why in bahrain do we send some of our top cops over there to lead the cracking of the skulls while in syria we be mown the inability to pursue a nonviolent course that we have opposed at every turn. christian you before we go to the record syria of course. syria has killed great number of american troops in iraq they facilitated the flow of foreign fighters then they supply lines are terrorists they are perhaps the chief sponsor of has blown long with iran they are iran's mini me in the area and they have they've they're building a nuclear so if that is what it was obviously will change all of that and local weapons democracy will change all that now it's the this is the big i don't think it's not our arguing that

role which is increasingly becoming public in syria. the only thrives on on societies where particular sunni arab societies where the political leadership has broken down and we've seen that happen in iraq where saddam hussein a sunni arabs were not able to build a cohesive political leadership that can negotiate with the united states and the shiites in iraq are i'm afraid the same things happening in syria right now christian if i go back you know los angeles do you think it's underestimated of snakes a karine differences in the civil war particularly in western media when i think. no i think that they have been you know reasonably well appreciated of course there you know it's important to realize very various foreign powers interests in this in iran has an interest in supporting the alawite minority which is the shia minority and you know or iran is a shia government which is one of several reasons why they continue to back syria russia of course has its interest has a naval base at tartus so you know those are interest that aren't

christian you before we go to the record syria of course. syria has killed great number of american troops in iraq they facilitated the flow of foreign fighters then they supply lines are terrorists they are perhaps the chief sponsor of has long with iran they are iran's mini me in the area they have they've they're building a nuclear so that's what it was obviously will change all of that imo the weapons they democracy will change all that now it's the this is the big i don't think it's that are arguing that it's as simple as that all right gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on syria stay with our team. my name is richard davis i'm an architectural photographer from london and i've been traveling in russia for the last ten years on a project photograph wooden chair choose obviously i fell in love with the trench in this extraordinary ok it's a beautiful opiates and the church is is a religious monumental obviously but it's also an object of wonder you know it's something tha

christian you before we go to the record and syria of course. syria has killed great number of american troops in iraq they facilitated the flow of foreign fighters then they supply lines are terrorists they are perhaps the chief sponsor of has blown long with iran they are iran's mini me in the area they have they've they're building a nuclear so if that is what it was obviously it will change all of that and local weapons sales democracy will change all that now it's the this is the big i don't think it's that are are going that it's as simple as that all right gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on syria stay with our team. and. he's. wealthy british style some time to write in the times. of the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on. my name is richard davis i'm an architectural photographer from london that i've been traveling in russia for the last ten years on a project photograph wouldn't choose obviously i fell in love with

more updates available on the situation in syria of course from r.t. on twitter we'll bring you the first hand experience of our crew on the ground there as well as reaction analysis on the latest images to disturbing as they are a lot of it said r.t. underscore common. of the new snow today during the sun just mother whose medical dollars leader as her son pleads for asylum the president said the decision won't be influenced by pressure from any other country cristina such talk to r.t. to during a visit telling us that u.s. politicians are still gunning for revenge as you put it over wiki leaks some even calling for sons execution the full interviews on air later this hour on this channel is some of what we expect. from the beginning. from the us from politicians and from. news coming ahead it's what they were screaming at his news in the most brutal way this interview no filter at all on how they were feeling and calling out for approval for the submerged inciting movie against myself and still in the last few weeks. there's been a fox news it has in

for more flowers on in syria i think this is a situation i know nobody really solution in syria so the scientists have a team around him editions for any foreign intervention in syria i think this will save. lives on equal to war and you have also to be more limitations to intervene in syria for example that the first edition is there if the cancer carry on structure in the society so i mean if foreign intervention in syria would have ensue flexions inside this turkish society the second reaction is that turkey don't want to spend alone against iran and syria it is thought that the gulf states have the will and desire to finance. such. a step in syria as such or an intervention that they don't have the means the military means to intervene so turkey would just stand along with the nato in syria and the limitation is that the relationship between their dog on. the army is not good. for example. his general stance of germs. into turkey sure presents under the pretext of the so-called mark against him but also i think kind of i think there is no option but there is no possibility for you

christian you have before we go to the record syria of course. syria has killed great number of american troops in iraq they facilitated the flow of foreign fighters then they supply lines are terrorists they are perhaps the chief sponsor of has been long with iran they are iran's mini me in the area they have they've they're building a nuclear so that is what it was obviously will change all of that and local weapons they democracy will change all that now it's the this is the big i don't think it's not our arguing that it's as simple as that all right gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on syria stay with our team. and. you can. download the official publication. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch on t.v. any time. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other pa

india want to bring a certain about syria. even. the use of force or selective editing is hardly a new invention the war war's has long become a cliche but in syria one sided coverage keeps the war going and shooting for t.v. really killed. journalism schools no longer teach their students to be objective it's considered impossible rather they're told to strive for balance and integrity and to put humanistic values above political but syria is once again a special case in this bloody conflict western media rarely calls for reconciliation or political dialogue rather it's for arming the rebels and for the war also known as freedom fight to go on a summer break artsy reporting from syria racial discrimination was felt nowhere more painfully in the world than south africa when apartheid was ditched nearly two decades ago the country was reborn race related prejudice has reemerged and this time against the whites living their arteries paul slayer investigates. once the color of ulta from start and skin was the key to the good life here

are we seeing another libya type situation here in syria. that playbook worked in libya they want to try the same playbook until it doesn't work anymore i'd like to reiterate remind everyone also that. there used to be in the republic go under nasser that egypt and syria together with the idea of a pannier unity morsi has gone a long way when mercy shows up at the dam meeting in tehran in tries to destroy any possible cooperation alone the nonaligned member countries it's outrageous and by the way many of these not aligned member countries have american military bases in the uk and you do not align didn't have american military bases in your number. two point there now here's here's the question we have these quote unquote nonaligned states going against syria syria taking offense to mohamed morsi his comments how do you see this all playing out with seemingly the entire world against syria right now it's almost everybody is against any type of a solution so far it's been a breakup of the country the p.k. k. the. kurdish organization has bee

but syria can be a transit country. you also have to know that or huge guess reserves in the former soviet union i mean the central asian states of the former soviet union so they're for a huge i guess reserves and i think you have to sit in this context how do you confirm the identity of the rebel fighters as you claim that they are coming from the outside they're foreigners how do we have proof of that because they found a lot of. proof of this like. when people die in homes. they find identity cards passports of foreign people. they captured people with a foreign accent you really are for mercenaries or doing it for the money but you also have no out qaeda which is active in syria because they hope to be find a new you know a new base to establish a new base over there let's just briefly look at turkey's role in all of this historically turkey and syria have had good relations what is the interest in turkey being rather aggressive now against syria what is the what lies in it for them to see unrest in syria as a matt

well it's a lot more complex obviously in syria because syria has a stronger military has stronger regional allies than libya did. obviously the looking for some way to overthrow the regime in syria nothing nothing so far has what are the gun was the great muslim hope for nato is to push on the people of the region and their dog on a kind of far shine has somewhat faded and i think the new the new boy on the block is a president of egypt morsi and i think it's in this context that we have to study the so-called shift to the east there is no shift to the east this is this this seems to me and i think we have to really kind of display a lot of vigilance considering what we've seen in the last two years but this seems like another trick that nato is trying to employ and as mr one of the conference said in opinion piece in the guardian just recently and what the comfort of being you know a very important asset to nato is interest in the region that morsi does not come with the baggage of the people and morsi is the product of the arab spring so he's perfectly placed to kind of push regime chang

kurdish region in syria or the people in accordance region in syria very already got a lot of. government from the government in damascus and of course turkey is not happy with this evolution why this change of mind why are they so. anti syria no i think there are different reasons so it can be true would that be still have this. dream aspirations to make of turkey again a. power. house which it once was once was in the region. during the autumn an era. another factor is that. the factor of the muslim brotherhood they are not really anti western because of the origin of the muslim brotherhood. they are what we call rick and. so they are interested in free trade with europe with the united states with the western world i mean we see now in egypt the muslim brotherhood we know with that thirty governments also the president is also pro muslim brotherhood and maybe they are hoping to establish a new government in syria also pro muslim brotherhoods for economical economical reasons and also political reasons of course because you cannot really split this and you said that the ultim

it's not everywhere in syria. violence that is reside needed by the border guards and is following a special plan but in a country. you have a large piece of. people. around of lens which is not on the violence and also even in the cities where you have violence they have so much space that. what would be. a kind you know for a country like iraq completely destroyed that many of the opposition and begin to think and to say it's not the way the value and it's not doing so since one year we have been more than one thousand people have been invited to. complex to think about is certain way and certain way the name of the survey if initiative is an initiative does not come from the opposition doesn't that come from division it comes from the silent majority of the syrian people from the leaders of families of tribes of clans and also from religious leaders they meet together and they were very active. when there were the challenges that nobody could solution it but them for example in homs. you had many families compl

>> well, i found a way in to syria. syrian government does not really allowed journalists in on official visits, are very rarely does, so there was a way in through lebanon to reach this talent. i was hoping to reach damascus, but the number of checkpoints prevented it from happening. it was a very interesting and i opening experience to see this town, which basically is waiting for some kind of solution to happen and is yet really on the receiving end of the majority of the violence. >> sharif, thank you for being with this, and your bravery and just describing in "the nation" especially at the end of the peace, interviewing people and the shells are falling. "democracy now!" correspond sharif abdel kouddous speaking to us from cairo where he has just returned from syria professor omar dahi is also with us. he is speaking to us from western massachusetts, an economics professor at hampshire college, born and raised in syria, just returned from a research trip to lebanon. talk about the syrian uprising and what you unde

that explored the war in syria and made very sure that war would not stop in syria i think a lot of the blame for what is taking place in syria fall in the hands of the sooty and qatari and the turkish because they actually prevented every to find a solution for the crisis i think the syrian and its allies its friends china russia and iran tried to actually put a plan to find and exit where a new transition will take place and every time you find the sooty calling for a conference and putting more pressure on syria now i think the free syrian starving kidnapping lebanese every day look what happened now everything is going into chaos and the street of lebanon and i think the. one at the exit its citizens from lebanon and leave the lebanese in a very difficult condition so we're seeing at the moment the sectarian violence spreading going over the borders is this an isolated incident or do you see more to come as there seems to be no end in sight to the crisis within syria itself. well i think i think there is more to come on and it is very tense today all all across the country from from

internationally here called the out of this quitting his role as voice threatening to throw peace efforts in syria tells. its emerged president obama apparently authorized secretive for going to see around with a violent conflict just as brushing and america's closest ally britain try to bridge divisions over how the prices should be resolved. also video was released which seem to show submission of croats and supporters by syrian rebel fighters side of the war often ignored by a leading foreign media. they would scream you know. in the most brutal way. joined assad as mater says the u.s. threatens her son in an explosive artillery new in ecuador where she now the country's president part of the whistleblowers asylum plea. which aren't you coming to you live from moscow and first breaking news this hour international peace and boy in syria kofi annan says he's quitting his row as syria and oil well i was made architect of the syrian peace plan the called on both sides in the syrian conflict to lay down arms and a gauge and a dialogue we have more on that from our correspondent from the u.s. and fr

while syria's delegates walked out of a meeting of states not aligned to the u.s. taking place in tehran outraged by egypt's new president and oppressive regime. plus the euro zone's engine room of germany heads east for investment chancellor merkel is in china to drum up business and convince beijing that the euro is on the road to recovery. and from our studios in moscow this is r t and let's get right to our top story the u.n. security council is wrapping up its meeting over the situation in syria with turkey pushing for the creation of a humanitarian buffer zone in the country britain and france say they are not ruling out any options in syria including a military enforced no fly zone our new york correspondent joins us live with the details thanks for being with us first of all has the international community come any closer to reaching a consensus on how to handle the ongoing crisis. well the security council remains very much divided over how to deal with the syrian crisis the high level meeting that was taking place is taking place in new york focused on th

my first question is, you know, how long does he have to govern greater syria? i mean going back to plan b, i mean he could still be in power, that is one issue. the other issue people need to look at are the finances depending on who you listen to he has between 5 and $7 billion of reserve in the central bank, if he runs out of money to run his country, i think that is more indicative of how strong the regime is, because if you can't pay your troops. >> rose: down from 17 billion. >> if i look at the weakness of the regime i look at the finances, so he if he has money coming in technically he should be able to hold on indefinitely if he runs out of money, can't keep the electricity power stations open and can't keep the water running and can't keep paying his soldiers, i think that is where the major crack is. >> and how long, what is the ticking clock on that? so that the economic pressure will be so severe he has no choice well, depending on who you listen to, financially, if you look at the central bank figures toward the end of the year technically but it d

in syria because when you see for instance the people in powers of the. united church you know the national syrian committee. down very much their own very worst speaking they are very democrats and so on when you see the people planting bomb bouncing because it's another sign of the free so where is the truth what is the real power of the moderates and the democrats if they exist what is develop over for the people of al qaeda what is the report of the saudis nobody exactly knows and we would see it moving noids. after but when will be does nobody knows who would be in six months or. medicaid banks very much for your i think you. wealthy british science it's time to. market weiner scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on our. headlines on odds he ukraine's high court rejects yulia timoshenko appeal against a seven year sentence the former prime minister was jailed for abuse of power linked to a gas deal signed with the rusher in two thousand and nine the meantime are hundreds of supporters are demonstrating in kie

fleeing the violence in syria in droves. refugees are spilling across the border at a rate that hard to handle. >> about 500 people are coming every day, but the authorities are having to send them to another camp which is only just being built. >> and talk about some hometown advantage -- great britain is hang an olympics to remember and the games aren't over yet. >> welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. it was a bruising day for the british bank standard chartered, with its shares plummeting after accusations from u.s. regulators that it laundered money for iran. the uk's fifth largest bank denies it hit over $250 billion of secret transactions, but american authorities say it violated its embargo. our business correspondent reports. >> can a bank really stand for something? can it balance its ambition with its conscience? >> this is how standard chartered sells itself -- a bank with operations across the world, doing good. but tonight, executives here at its london headquarters will be reeling fro

security council is to discuss syria with problems presiding over the top body hoping for a resolution to deal with the crisis that's how he was also invited to the ministerial meeting it's pushing for the creation of a buffer a no fly zone over syria a sigh. thing russia and china strongly object to a syria's president has lashed out at ankara saying it bears no direct responsibility for the bloodshed in the country bashar al assad says his forces need more time to overcome the rebel soldiers would heavy fighting raging on recent reports suggest opposition fighters have down the government fighter jets in the province and the lebanese who spent over a decade in syria and came to the aid of the suffering when the conflict erupted so it started causing chaos there a long time ago. is that it's not political. it's not even civilian genuity i asked him to do a position where to get organized. and so i called the head and i and i witnessed and in the beginning we did not even know who were those people and we said said those people there were. identified gangs you know we said we don't kno

today in syria for the it's losing the war it was into britain before means dying. i not sure the two mediums i know it's already got to die so didn't ignore the show he's been keeping the power. with the support by doing of the questions you have to me on that i know it's in two million fish them the question very clearly and said yes supporting the power because the fear. if they fear to have some problems when the sunni will run the country like defend no christian in egypt is the muslim brothers and them another. today and let us the peace come in iran. today it seemed to be clear that you cannot be. in the midst of movement. i mean yes you can be a single christian and nobody probably will have to you cannot have a missed christian organized community which is pretty. the most fame and with the possibility to have wanted to go activity in the midst of the world today i mean the muslim world today well despite the tough words of some of the western leaders allies have said from syria you still feel that they don't really want to go into syria on a full military

brush your top stories from the week syria's rebels fight to retake control of the left but with the help of further west and financial backing while the arab league puts its emergency get together on hold it had been to discuss a replacement for peace envoy kofi annan. more of a top stories the last seven days egypt's president orders the country's powerful defense minister and the chief of staff to resign it comes amid a crackdown in the recently volatile sinai region which killed seven suspected militants. members of russian punk band pussy riot to wait. until putin stunned the country's main cathedral in a trial that's divided the nation prosecutors are demanding. the final decision expected next friday. next american world affairs expert phyllis bennis explains why both sides in the syrian conflict have side interests. thank you for joining us on r.t. red cross and many other experts are saying that the situation in syria has descended into a civil war a full scale civil war. how does that how does that affect the positions of the positions of the west versus the position of oth

security council is to discuss syria with france presiding over the top body hoping for a resolution to help tackle the growing humanitarian crisis there turkey was also invited to the ministerial meeting it's pushing for the creation of a no fly zone over syria well more now from our new york correspondent arena porton . who we expect much to come out of the meeting marina. well this meeting is a high level meeting where nine foreign ministers of the security council seats will be in attendance as will representatives of turkey jordan and lebanon those representatives will be discussing the counter effects and the consequences of the syrian crisis and how it spilled over into their borders now as you mentioned turkey is expected to raise the issue of buffer zones with the security council turkey wants to create according to reports of buffer zones within syria for displaced people now this is an idea that has already been shot down by the syrian government as well as russia and china and if i'm not mistaken possibly even the secretary general of the u.n. because creating a buffer zo

is going out through a syria so it doesn't mean there's no a lot of hypocrisy coming out of washington we look at the situation in bahrain which is very ugly he world's biggest global body outside the u.n. is suspending syria's membership the organization of islamic cooperation it will also hold an emergency summit to agree to a resolution on the country iran's the only member of the block to have openly spoken out against sidelining to mascot's but several member countries like the tar and saudi arabia are pushing to mobilize support for syrian rebels currently fighting against the government longstanding regional rivals sunny dominated over riyadh and shiite tech won't have take an opposite stance on syria this as the country's opposition steps up calls for a libya style intervention let's get more on this from a middle east blogger karl sorrow he joins us live from london thank you for being with us now there are reports that veteran fighters of last year's libyan revolt are now active on the syrian front line was wholly units fighting among the rebels now some experts are saying th

if there is regime change in syria and the extremists come to power . problems for jordan where we have our own extremists far more flexible. and so now jordan faces the backlash of a conflict which some in the country have helped to escalate meanwhile more than one hundred fifty thousand refugees remain stuck on its borders and what's supposed to be a safe enclave but way food is hard to come by toilets case and not enough tends to go around leaving some to the mercy of harsh desert conditions this is. the atmosphere here is so. mysterious you die quickly but here we are dying a slow death i wish now i never left to come here. jordan narrowly escaped a wave of. the arab world it says it's. caught between both sides it might be enough to stop the serious shockwave however that conflict in. camp on the jordanian border. and we're coming to you live from the heart of moscow still ahead. a look at the roots of radicalism. the spread of. russia and whether it's being fueled from abroad. british. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy

and they want to bring a certain picture about syria. if. they use a photoshop or selective editing is hardly a new invention the war horse has long become a cliche but in syria one sided coverage keeps the war going and shooting for t.v. really kills. journalism schools no longer teach their students to be objective it's considered impossible rather they're told to strive for balance and integrity and to put humanistic values above the way to go but syria is once again a special case in this bloody conflict western media rarely calls for the conciliation of political dialogue rather it's for arming the rebels and with the war also known as freedom to go on its own about the artsy reporting from syria and of course we're closely monitoring the situation in syria on our website as well the latest news on the in depth analysis is that right about twenty four seven including video footage released by the free syrian army in a water appears to be a mass execution of assad supporters in the lead. plots. in a u.s. court hard to close the use of dr

and you want to bring a certain about syria. if. they use a photo or selective editing is hardly a new invention the war horse has long become a cliche but in syria one sided coverage keeps the war going and shooting for t.v. really kills journalism schools no longer teach their students to be objective it's considered impossible rather they are told to strive for balance and integrity and to put humanistic values above elated but syria is once again a special case and this bloody conflict was to media rarely calls for reconciliation a political dialogue rather it's for arming the rebels and for the war also known as freedom fighter to go on a kind of like artsy reporting from syria. and we are closely monitoring the situation in syria on our website where the latest news an in-depth analysis is available twenty four seven including. we were born on the latest atrocity in aleppo sparked a mass indignation across the world for the syrian army plus. a us court has declared the use of drones in american skies is completely legal find o