revolutionary guard representatives in syria are growing in number syria is being supplied the house was relieved supplied with things going on side they have to. say that iran is playing with the ranters and want to settle and the situation it's farce or just it's not true that we cannot ignore the fact that iran is very much sees syria as a battleground between the iran that wants to promote islamic revolution and other forces are trying to contain it and this is exactly what iran is doing it's using syria and it's supplying a little extreme tending it looks like everybody is using syria everyone's using syria now they'll go ahead jump in. me again in for size one point if hezbollah gets what kind of missiles over further would it apply and who the target is i believe the conflict in syria centers over roads and highways something similar to the nine hundred forty eight conflict and basically as sad moves his troops inside big roads in cities if they are including hezbollah that's a factor that's a strategic military factor but also the highways among city and cities and the highwa

and its supply regime now detaining it looks like everybody is using syria everyone's using syria now they'll go ahead jump in. let me again in for size one point if hezbollah gets what kind of missiles over referred would it apply and who the target is i believe the conflict in syria centers over roads and highways something similar to the nine hundred forty eight conflict and basically as sad moves his troops inside big roads in cities if they are including hezbollah that's a factor that's a strategic military factor but also the highways among the c.d.n. cities and the highways linking syria with the surrounding countries these are the domains the reins who are hizbullah rebuilds possibly israel or the c.d.n. troops loyal to assad are moving so this is the landscape of the battle the art of going to be shooting at each other the helicopter will define the thirty chick outcome of the battle so the question is does hezbollah own helicopters that can have next capabilities does and i'm quite sure that he would be receiving very important technicolor information and operational experie

syria. ah so these are very important questions so far i think obama is happy to the to see the c.i. eight getting into the conflict because he could not have all of them he objects to arming the rebels but the bureaucratic interests of the pentagon the cia prevailed over him so the question now is how obama how is he going to die you'd act effort in syria again is the backdrop of the war in afghanistan the war against terror and others so it's a very very tough test for obama and he should get more involved and more engaged in syria otherwise it could be the climb into his presidency if things do to cure rate ok dan should there be more western intervention in syria but before answer that i also want to relate to what the earlier totally. false claims are the are not even worth. mentioning but still israel has peace with egypt as well as pits with jordan israel on the verge of reestablishing negotiations with the palestinians of course of the syrian responsible regime comes into power i'm s

syria point. rubbish which is the media being peddling it because if you if you attempt to put anything toward iran everybody in the west begins to feel threatened this is just like the use of and then you can accuse anybody of anything ok at the end of the day i think certainly the effect of the syrian revolution will be to weaken hezbollah because at the present moment the contact between iran and hezbollah is through syria and that's the point that is going to be weakened however i think israel knows hezbollah can do and israel cannot afford to lose civilians and civilians will be lost if there is an intervention with there is a conflict between hezbollah and iran that's. defending the iranians but i. i think there is a conception which is purposely done by putting iran into the picture but certainly i think at the present moment the moral position of the west to the city and conflict because everybody talks about one thing to protect the people well to do you give them freedom and democracy an

national interest in syria. well no the it doesn't seem like there is except you know obviously the fear it could gain a bit of a foothold it seems amazing to me that you know the government's job is to protect its national national interests and to declare war when appropriate and . i have yet to hear any american politician seriously or any well known one say look why don't we have a declaration of war against the assad regime and go in defeat him and you know get out but i had saying you know the tendency to want to nation build afterwards in. syria it just seems like that would not be possible given the current situation and what if assad left today what would happen in syria anything different you know i mean no i. don't know it's a hypothetical hypothetical hypothetical flint go ahead. i don't you know the idea that the opposition is going to form some coherent nationwide government in syria is is a delusion you know if left to surrender damascus you would still have you know tens of thousands of men under

groups in syria? the can he give any assurances about the degree of authority and control exercised by the fnc over the wide range of opposition forces operating on the ground? the foreign -- >> i'm mildly alarmed by my sight of a further full page of text from the right honorable gentleman, but i know he'll put my mind at rest when he tells me he's not trying to deal with it. >> i will endeavor to keep my remarks as short as possible. i would simply say i indicated when listening to the foreign secretary's statements, it had begged more questions than answers, but i'm mindful, so let me conclude with following remarks. i understand frustrations are growing, but a strategy borne of frustration is less likely to deliver than one based on strategic insight. surely the priority now for britain should be to work to unipie the -- unify the syrian opposition. syria needs to see a deescalation and a political resolution. while the government has our support for its action toss provide humanitarian and nonlet

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from syria. well for more on the arms embargo on the fate of syria let's now cross to political analyst talk to us on the dollies also from the syrian dialogue he joins me now live from london how do you think britain and france will be able to get the e.u. arms embargo lifted when there's such strong opposition from the likes of germany and sweden. i so you care this is a lot to do with the pressure that is being now exercised for gulf countries as well as turkey on for on some britain there are talks now that qatar is using its financial pressure with sign and. business contracts and billions of dollars with britain to pressure britain towards taking such outs or steps and terms of arming be syrian rebels that's why now we hear rhetorics that britain may even go out of its way and start arming the rebels outside any european union agreement or outside international and what would be the diplomatic backlash if it they go ahead along with france where there will be a diplomatic backlash of course

syria. the international community would act on that additional information. when it comes to issues of war and peace, having the facts before you is very important. more broadly as i said in the opening statement, the assad regime has lost credibility and legitimacy. i believe he will go. theave helped to mobilize isolation of the assad regime internationally. we have supported and recognized opposition. we have provided hundreds of millions of dollars in support for humanitarian aid. withve worked diligently other countries in the region to provide additional tools that move toward a political transition within syria. if your suggestion is that i have not acted unilaterally militarily inside of syria, would be response that to the extent possible, i want to make sure we are working as an international community to deal with this problem. it is a world problem and not a united states problem or an israel problem or a turkish problem. it is a world problem when tens of thousands of people ar

not from outside syria and this everyone in damascus believe that. a full solution if you are depending on outside on do you should you could not find a solution very minute solution because without many of power that interfering in this a dollar thank you very much indeed for that update it was only live there in syria thank you. security services in the u.k. says scores of brits are fighting in syria and could use their weapons know how to cause havoc when they come back home or this is just one part of a wide ranging reporting to keep terrorist threats faced by britain that extend to biological weapons attacks and cyber crime or to. live now in london sara one of the key concerns then raised in this report. well it's the first annual report on the counterterrorism strategy and in it they highlighted the growing security threat from syria where al qaeda affiliates were tracking hundreds of flights is from europe now let's take a look at some of what the report says and they said as and when u.k. residents for ten there's a risk that they may carry

graphics religious economic just like syria syria that make it difficult for. well absolutely yeah exactly like syria where you should probably be asking the people in you should be asking the people in mali if actually iraq is the most recent or best example for treaty change what we did in libya certainly spilled over into mali and the french are trying to be french and other african and african forces are trying to deal with it's not as if you know the. iraq was the last time that the u.s. intervene militarily in libya. libya is a good example flint go ahead jump in. i don't make forcible regime change works and it doesn't matter whether it's done by massive and direct western military intervention invasion and occupation as in the case of iraq or if it's done you know somewhat more standoffish fully or indirectly by relying on local proxies and providing air support like we did in libya or if we are providing support for local proxies as we are in in syria it doesn't work it produces massive political carnage it does not create stable political outcomes and

from syria.it is a burden in france war and they could well supply weapons to syrian rebels despite a un embargo russia responded by saying any such attempt would be a breach of international law r.t. contributor i'm sure aton see things will eventually backfire on western states if they are many assad fighters by definition the arms that would be supplied by the french and british governments would be in the wrong hands because they are supplying rebels in a civil war and therefore they are the wrong hands no matter who the britain or france and so this is i suppose what's interesting here is that washington is much more nervous about the arming of rebels because they are obviously concerned that the afghanistan scenario is beginning yet again but it is so sad that leaders of countries like france and britain can think of these limits because the blowback will be phenomenal. rebel fighters tactics in syria coming under international scrutiny human rights organizations raise the alarm over armed

the different groups in syria represented in this coalition i talked about all want to maintain syria'sunity. even the foot soldiers of al-assad's list army are not calling for the division of country. are not think syrians looking to divide their state. government that the will look entirely different from how the last government did. politicaline lots of scenarios where you can work out a deal between the groups >> taking in more regionally, we have refugees in turkey, overwhelming in jordan and lebanon on. long-term, this becomes a financial burden of political risk to these countries. what do we need to make sure we do everything necessary so that does not happen? >> our conversations with these neighboring countries -- they have explained to us the strains and burdens this is putting on their societies. there are economic strains and also attentions between the groups in those countries like in lebanon, for example. we talked about questions and i thought about how christians and muslims live together in lebanon on but when you have these extra burdens put on the country, and provo

refinish from syria. well for more on syria let's now cross to strasburg and political analyst robert hollowness robot how will the syrian conflict change if britain and france do go ahead and bypass the e.u. and supply the rebels with arms what sort of impact could that have well it depends how far they're prepared to go i mean we've already heard some pretty astonishing absurd statements from william hague the british foreign secretary saying they were going to send non-offensive on the cars with blankets to the rebels if britain and france do ignore the european union bad on exporting weapons to syria obviously is going to have an effect and clearly. britain france and probably behind them america getting pretty panicky about. team of overthrowing. saudis just not working whether that's where something that they really want or whether they just want to neutralize syria by reducing it to chaos we can't really tell but certainly if they start to pour weapons in in a big way obviously it's going to make a

from syria. the leaders of britain and france all one day could well supply weapons such as syrian rebels just find an embargo david cameron and francois hollande sceptic press the e.u. to lift the ban russia has responded by saying that any such a time to would be in breach of international little odd treat contribute to afshin rattansi believes it will eventually backfire on western countries if i am the anti us our fight is by definition as it would be supplied by the french and british governments would be in the wrong head because they are supplying rebels in a civil war and therefore they are the wrong hands no matter who britain or france and so this is i suppose what's interesting here is that washington is much more nervous about the arming of rebels because they are obviously concerned that the afghanistan scenario is beginning yet again but it is so sad that leaders of countries like france and britain can think of these as a missed because the blowback will be phenomenal. rebel fighte

from syria. the leaders of britain and france claim they could well supply weapons to the syrian rebels despite a un embargo russia said that any attempt to do so there would be a breach of international law on our website we're asking where any foreign arms supplier to see to it and the assad fighters could lead so far thirty seven percent of respondents say this would pause other countries to arm both sides ultimately setting the whole region on fire about this same believe that this will only lead to more deaths but a quarter think that such a move would spark a worldwide diplomatic crisis and a minority only seven percent think this will end the conflict with the opposition when claiming the victory we want to know what you think click on r.t. dot com cast your vote while answering that very same question r t contributor option written see things that will eventually backfire on western states if they are syrian rebels. by definition that would be supplied by the french and british government

as is often the case over the last ten years with a surprise in syria h. side is accusing the other one and these accusations sound quite similar we're hearing from syria's news agency national news agency rab have fired a missile containing chemical agents in the country's north not far from syria's biggest city aleppo a scene of devastation violence over the last year and that the attack has killed dozens of people and this is almost a direct aim of what we're hearing from a u.k. based opposition group syrian observatory for human rights the only difference is beyond me is behind this attack i've contacted several people on the ground some journalists we used to work with in syria and they've also confirmed that these happened but it's very hard to verify at this point exactly who is behind the attack and how many people happened. we seem to be hearing never-ending claims and counterclaims it keeps going around a big circle doesn't it now absolutely and it's very hard for journalists even those working on the ground to to cover this conflict because ther

or for more in syria we can now talk to danny makki he's activist and co-founder of the syrian youth in britain the foreign minister sergey lavrov he's also said that russia is not in the regime change game assad is still in power and yet western countries are still playing that game why. there's many reasons why western countries would still be playing that game syria is a state which has not really had great relations with the west because of its political stances toward certain. issues so russia clearly supports a political solution in syria they reject changing the regime by force or a western administered formula of regime change which happened in libya so russia rejected libya's scenario and iraq scenario of divide and conquer which is patrolled by western countries so it's very important he'd see that so get over of our discussion your report promotes a political solution and understands that the syrian opposition leaders need to really negotiate with this hearing government in order to find a political solution to the ongoing crisis in syria so some of the western countries t

also on the program, iran, syria and north korea block a new u.n. create they to regular threat arms trade. why? well, we'll go live to teheran to find out why. the cripryian president tells his people economic turmoil has been contained. and -- i'm in the egyptian style? delta. find out of the why this area, once a football pitch is now ompletely submerged. north korea's leader has orders his army to prepare for a rocket attack on u.s. military bases in the pacific. it scuggetted he approved an order with his late night meeting with his generals. harry force et reports from seoul. >> in the center of pyongyang thousands turned out in a show shouted to him and death to the u.s. imperialists. pyongyang signed off on his long range missiles to attack the mainland and bases in the pacific. in statements attributed to him he said the time has come to settle klts with the u.s. imperialists adding the u.s. hostilities have entered the phase of threats and blackmail and the late-night meeting was seeing the b 2 stealth bombers the blufrpbltest of figures a

let's go back to syria. are we doing the right thing in cilia? -- in syria? guest: the only redline the white house put out was the use of chemical weapons. there were reports from syria that the president assad regime used chemical weapons against the rebels and the united states reached the conclusion that that is probably not so. this situation is close to the brink of forcing the united states to intervene in some way to prevent crossing this redline. president obama's trip to the region, including jordan, is hosting hundreds of thousands of refugees and highlighted the fact that the situation on the ground in syria is not getting better. there is no sign that it will get better. it does not seem the united states has a response to this ongoing challenge. guest: the united states has been the biggest donor in terms of humanitarian and financial aid to the syrian opposition. close to $500 million so far. also giving logistical and to indications training. we are told there is some training and intelligence being given to the militants, parts of the opposit

but not in syria which is right now on the ground but in that syria that they used to leave before it's been a country of an amazing diversity it's been it's been one of the strongest points of assyrians and actually and actually it's it's been a very chilly turned to this series weakest points and i've been working on these idea and here's my report about that this part of syria known as mr. tamia between the tigris and euphrates rivers is considered a cradle of civilization has been home to many ask nic and religious groups living in peace and harmony for ages people here believe this diversity is serious strong point but some warn it could also be used against the country and that's something to destroy. and the regime slogans in syria have been repeated to the longest of all the arab spring countries but assad didn't step down within weeks like the leaders of to measure and egypt nor did his regime fall within months like colonel gadhafi is in libya opposing sides have gone beyond demonstrations and clashes killings have become an everyday reality those wanting a son to go both at h

look at syria and iran.gh there remains a difference over what is the red line with iran, the fact that obama seems to have recognized israel might have to strike earlier. not only because it has a different perception of what red line is, but israel has weaker capacity. it doesn't have the strength in the air force that the united states has. it might have to strike earlier because it can do less. >> bret: do you think they strike soon? >> look, i have been -- for years i thought the israelis have to strike at some point. only reason i think they might not and if they don't, it would be because they may have calculated they don't have enough to severely destroy or set back the program iran has. i think it will strike and i don't see developments in the negotiations. >> bret: do we know if we provide them bunker buster bombs? >> i don't see how they do it without our assistance. since we take the blow-back, we might as well be involved. we might as well have say and control over how it happens. there is an i

i wish to see syria the way it used to be when there was peace i want syria to win this war if you have to climb a mountain sometimes you have to take a perilous route we lose our friends and relatives in order to save syria and arrive at the top where other peaks won't be seen our greatest dream is to be able to live safely and peacefully like we always. you know that you were here we hope. for we i was like. oh my god. i didn't think that i'm going to see my mother again but i saw her. it was like. i'm free. i went to ended up i ran. but when i saw the army when i saw the flag the syrian flag the red. flag and the two green stars i was like oh my god i'm finally free. i could not talk anymore and the officer you know carried me. and i was crying because my friends are still there and what only going to do. they said to the cameraman of the law. is with us. and i was like you know i was like take me just let me go. they send me one thing they want to say. oh. to me. the military our family. are mean the people have always been one folk. how else can we regard them except as brothers an

american teens from syria trying to avoid the syria draft. the notion that the united states gives a solitary dam and have human life and this country invaded criminally a sovereign nation called iraq and was responsible for the deaths of a million iraqis, three million injuries, four million in exile, the fact that this nation cares at all about human rights when we tortured people all over the world and have one of the citizens, the guy that exposed all of our crimes including the -- >> host: okay, so, jack, we got the point. i have to leave it there. steve? >> guest: i find a great deal of the statistics and the great deal they use to support, quite out of keeping with my open view of the conflict, and george was not imposed on anybody by the united states. he was elected by the syria opposition. we have nothing whatsoever to do with his election, and i think what we have seen is an effort by the syria opposition to begin to move beyond some of the -- the factional conflicts that have brought it into disarray over the coming months, and br

you see so many people coming out of syria, people from syria, people that have family in syria tellinghe people that they know that the majority of these rebels are extremists here they are uneducated. they are paid mercenaries from gulf states that come in to do whatever they want. they are paid to do these things and commit much worse atrocities than assad did himself. and the question is, what business do we have in syria? that is a very important question, i think, everyone needs -- that is a very important question i think everyone needs to ask themselves. the financial system in america is falling apart. everybody knows that, everybody feels that except the billionaires and millionaires. it is interesting to note that those cleaners and millionaires have quite a stake when it -- those billionaires and millionaires have quite a stake when it comes to war. they are always pushing for war. i don't see how your guest is -- i commend him on his ability to speak so well. he is a very eloquent talker, but he is not addressing the issues. he is not -- it seems to me like your guest is tr

we did have an opportunity to discuss syria. as you know, we are horrified by the loss of life and brutality. if this continues as we are seeing, there will be increasing fragmentation of syria which obviously will have disastrous consequences for decades to come. it is important to have an immediate political transition to end the conflict. obviously, we have an urgent need for the international community to help in humanitarian assistance to catch up to the challenges we are facing. we need to have the ability to stockpile through the same people, and also to be able to assist those outside. jordan today is hosting by far today the largest number of syrian refugees. we have over 460,000 syrians. that is 10% of our population. the alarming trend continues as we see today. it will probably double by the end of the year. it is possible that number could go up to 60 million by the end of the year. the refuge camps -- the refugee camp it is the fifth largest city in jordan. and the economic cost due to the influx as further stresse

from syria. country which action or a time to believe that is diet and that flight is could eventually backfire on foreign nations doing it by definition that would be supplied by the french and british governments would be in the wrong hands because they are supplying rebels in a civil war and therefore they are the wrong hands no matter who the britain or france and so this is i suppose what's interesting here is that washington is much more nervous about the arming of rebels because they are obviously concerned that the afghanistan scenario is beginning yet again but it is so sad that leaders of countries like france and britain can think of these as the mists because the blowback will be phenomenal. we don't take it anymore well say new york is saying just a few minutes alluding colton how allegations are we tell it by the n.y.p.d. have taken the people of brooklyn to the limit. and there's now a new play in the quest to find life outside the blue planet to find out who is said to rival nesse

chemical weapons have reportedly been used in a rocket attack that killed twenty six people in northern syria both the opposition and the government blaming each other for the assault. by the vent here angry crowds you're seeing ringing the cypriot parliament demanding the rejection of a tax that would see savers bailing out banks that levy could see people lose up to ten percent of their life savings or for cyprus to qualify for these pictures being broadcast live from the parliament now by artie's roughly video news agency or that streaming online to. express his concern over the ongoing hunger strike in guantanamo bay despite authorities efforts to play down the protests we've got the latest there this hour. busy news night a series of bomb attacks through baghdad killing dozens and injuring hundreds as iraq struggles to get back on its feet on the tenth anniversary of the u.s. led invasion. good evening this is our kevin oh it's good to have you company our top story a rocket attack on a town outside aleppo in syria's north has left dozens dead including sixteen government soldiers detail

groups in syria? the can he give any assunces about the degree of authority and control exercised by the fnc over the wide range of opposition forces operating on the ground? the foreign -- >> i'm mildly alarmed by my sightf a further full page of text from the right honorable gentleman, but i know he'll put my mind at rest when he tells me he's not trying to deal with it. >> i will endeavor to keep my remarks as short as possible. i would simply say i indicated when listening to the feign secretary's statements, it had begged more questions than answers, but i'm mindful, so let me conclude with following remarks. i understand frustrations are growing, but a strategy borne of frustration is less likely to deliver than one based on strategic insight. surely the priority now for britain should be to work to unipie t -- unify the syrian opposition. syria needs to see a deescalation and a political resolution. while the government has our pport for its action toss provide humanitarian and nonlethal assist

in syria we have one word. christian churches and you can go to any of them regardless of your religion a muslim soldier who companies out spending rates and praise in his own way side by side with the christian mantra if you pray for peace to come back to syria it doesn't really matter where and how you do it there were explosions everywhere they were trying to divide the area into a christian and a muslim part because the people would say no so they kept. them up always so when they p.n. and i don't know one or more from saudi arabia. or their king there. i don't. know if that one her going to go. oh. this is they're muslims but they don't even know what a muslim is is my. they know nothing about our faith but even with the money. playing. the mission and free accreditation free in-store charge is free to make amends three. three stooges free. old free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media dot com. wealthy british. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy

syria so it looks like syria's future is something that's being determined outside syria at the meetings between foreign countries and the external opposition the opinion of those who think that the government and internal opposition also carries weight is totally ignored. you know that the solution we should have a solution from inside syria not from outside syria and this everyone in damascus believe that this is this is the only way for solution if you are depending on outside only you should you could not find a solution permanent solution because there are many of power that interfering in this. security services in the u.k. say scores of brits are fighting in syria and could use their weapons know how to cause havoc when they come back home this is just one part of a wide ranging report into key terrorist threats faced by britain the extent to biological weapons attacks and cyber crime on the surface takes up the story the first annual report on the counterterrorism strategy and in it they highlighted the growing security threat from syria where al qaeda affiliates were tracking hu

we did have the opportunity to discuss syria.bviously we are all horrified by the loss of life and the brutality of the conflict. >> sectarian conflict that if it continues, as we're seeing, it leads to the fragmentation of syria. which obviously will have disastrous consequences on the region for generations to come. therefore, it is immediate, it is important to have immediate need for an inclusive political transition, that ends the conflict and the threats that emanate from it. what we are facing now today obviously is an urgent need for international community to help in humanitarian assistance, to catch up to the challenges that we're facing as the countries bordering syria. not only do we need to look at the ability to stockpile humanitarian supplies to the syrian people inside their country, but also to be able to assist those that have fled. jordan today is hosting by far the largest number of syrian refugees. the numbers have just exceeded 460,000 syrians. that is 10% of our population. and the alarming figures, if the