movement that's going to somehow free the syrian people that's ludicrous that's not what the syrian people want i think that some elements in syria have been very clear that this is a they want this to be a syrian problem they don't want interference from from al-qaeda they don't want interference from outside forces but where i would agree with john is there is a reality nations do have interests whether that's the gulf nations whether that's the united states and russia. but i do think that there is an imperative to support the free syrian army i think there's an imperative to support the people who are trying to get away from from a despot who killed his his own people john you know support and support the rebels that yeah this is a problem first of all if there were an imperative to support this so-called free syrian army there would be certain requirements like is there a few say an army that two. and. ok yeah and you know this is a real problem if you decide to intervene in a conflict on one side you have to have some reasonable expectation of what's going to happen as opposed

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army there would be certain requirements like is there a free syrian army or is it to. fashion all and ok yeah and you know that this is a real problem if you decide to intervene in a conflict on one side you have to have some reasonable expectation of what's going to happen as opposed to virtually none which we have i mean the obama administration has even stated that you know knocking out the assad regime would create a power vacuum and even if we were supporting the free syrian army it would still descend into probably an archaic civil war that has the kind of on the order that we saw in iraq you know and in terms of a moral imperative this talk i think really needs to stop because if there were if america had a moral imperative to do something to stop human suffering and mass death then we shouldn't of gone into iraq and killed seven hundred thousand people when we shouldn't have been imposing sanctions on iraq and killed in about a million people during the one nine hundred ninety s. we shouldn't have you know there is there is a trial going on right now for a lati

this town is a stronghold of the free syrian army. it was liberated from assad's army more than three months ago. >> narrator: the army of the assad regime has been pushed back across the valley to the other side of t orontes river. ahmad's village is well within range of their artillery. shells and mortars are routinely fired into this village. >> (translated): god willing, bashar al-assad's army can't get in here. we run things here now. >> narrator: doctors and nurses are ordered to report immediately to the local hospital. ahmad is already there, using his phone to film casualties. >> (translated): i ran to the area to see who was injured, to see how i could help. these people's lives are over. this is what god had written for them. i just despaired, and thought it was time that arab countries felt our suffering. >> narrator: ahmad and the people of his village have witnessed these scenes many times, fearing they will be next. today, it's mohammed mattar who has lost members of his family. >> narrator: mohammed is surrounded by th

that's i will say that siobhan advisor to the syrian president thank you very much for being with r.t. to date thank you so you can ask president assad has recently appealed to brics countries to actually intervene and stop the crisis in syria. what more can the breaks countries do other than russia and china to actually help this conflict is there anything else to do. i think the brics country can do for international stand for stopping violence and thirty hours violence has to stop by all sides and then they have to go around the table and the sudan people who should decide for themselves that we can deny now that the syrian crisis has a regional and international level and less these store lovers are sorted out and the less there is a real intention to stop the crisis by these two lovers it's very difficult to stop it inside syria because it's not a crisis that is only in the city are but it is a crisis that's being threatened are financed by both regional and international forces speaking of president putin. he recently during his visit to germany suggested that all shipments of a

that's i would say the shotgun advisor to the syrian president thank you very much for being with r.t. to day thank you but we can't ask. for it so i want to start off with the latest news do you know what's happening to the four italian journalists that were detained in the north of syria now i have no idea really because i do know now of the so many conflicting reports about a neutral in syria. it's very difficult to sift through the truth so i really have no clue what's happening to them. but if they were captured in serious norrish near the turkish border do you guys still have control over this territory or are at this point it's the free syrian army and the turkish side too are the only authorities there it's very difficult to speak about the control of the net. in the north because there was. a certain point tried to kidnap or do something and then you know that doesn't mean that they control the point do they just make swift here and there and then you know that's how the that's how they function but. they do not control the area i don't think they do but the media has a life

people it is the syrian people who are standing against terrorism it is the syrian people who are standingagainst car bombs and car explosion the syrian people who are standing against but usually part of. a day and it is a sudan people who are going to make the future of syria but a guard list of all the designs that others might have again to syria and they're going to sudan people you've mentioned the arab states who are creating chaos in syria why would they be interested in creating chaos in syria and to stick to destabilize the region. i think it is against their interests in the long run and unfortunately i don't think those who are creating chaos and city are right from the beginning have a totally independent will whether in their countries old or in the region unfortunately they are carrying out their designs that. designed for the regime you know under probably for the word you know if you if you if you do you think of what is happening in libya and yemen in sudan in egypt you know you in here out in syria you would know that there is a hugely resigned that has made poor decisio

the syrian woman if you are. trying to protect their families. at the start of the very most of other conflicts built by noon sama muhammad i'm planning to stay in russia. to build a new life in russia here. syria's prime minister survives an attack in damascus as a car bomb explodes near a school in kindergarten killing ten people. like you know. one of the boston bombing suspects could have been trained. as the country's prime minister admits there may have been militant camps on their soil. in the russian couple desperate for the return of their baby son after he seized by us social services they talked about their family battle. live from our studios here in moscow.

the syrian people are not doing. what now my mind and my friend do we always believe that god maybe will give us a better life because we are seeing god with people who want. our life. feels like a blow to living in his younger siblings house and watch his brother he had no strong desire to go to the land of their ancestors he and his wife rinna have become accustomed to this secular city life. who see with opening the. people of light and just killing each other nobody knows why i left and i left my home go i left my job my friends some family also still there we left our whole life. yet you don't see is nine year old daughter can speak know the russian she only knows arabic and neither her schoolmates nor her teachers can understand her. the adaptation for her was more difficult then for the others she had a hard time kept to herself and said nothing and language she would simply sit in silence. to study with older children they too came from syria several months ago the language barrier prevents them from learning

believes the syrians did in fact use chemical weapons against the rebels.information about these two incidents? >> no. i don't have additional information. i had heard reports from people inside syria and israelis and french and british that they had evidence that bashar al assad had used those weapons. and it should not surprise us, wolf. this guy will do whatever is necessary in order to ensure his position of power. and by the way, it is now a stalemate and has been a stalemate and the prospects of him being overthrown any time soon without taking out his air power and without supplying the right weapons to the right people and coordinating a government from inside syria, it may remain in stalemate and the massacre goes on. and finally, the king jordan is in town as you know. they are about to be overwhelmed by refugees. by the end of this summer they could have a refugee population that is half the population of jordan. think of what the united states would look like if we had half of our population in the form of refugees in our country. >> i can only

alout syrian rebels to guard and police them, and us prevent the syrian government from using militaryorce against them, in particular, the way the syrian government has been terrorizing its own population. it's firing artillery, and using helicopter gunships. we have the ability to prevent them from doing that and i think a minimum on safe areas, on the borders of syria's territory, we ought to be doing that. >> brown: all right, david kortright, your response. >> that's, i think, very dangerous. we don't need another war in the middle east. let's focus this discussion on the chemical weapons threat, the possibility of use of these weapons. that is a dangerous concern. and let's concentrate on what it will take to get the evidence that's needed and then if it's there, to put pressure on them diplomatically through the u.n. there's a lot we don't know yet, and the-- just a few incidents that have been reported, even the u.s. intligen agcy itself says there's varying degrees of certainty about the evidence. we shouldn't be talking about military action, i don't think, under any circumst

well hello what we've seen in the past few weeks really is a certain advances made by the syrian army in areas around damascus encircling the rebels in the areas west to host their early lebanese border and probably have the prime minister did not all probably have a prime minister been assassinated today that would have given those or rebels a large boost or moron and you know this is this has been going on of officials have been telling you before you know that i was there until you were the top brass in the military were actually successful assassinated about back in july and and the tactics to always been there is no let's get rid of top of issues of of the syrian government and let's give some people on the ground more out to continue to fight against the syrian army a syrian government you mentioned these these things are happening before and some of these tactics seem to be trademarks of if mr radicals fighting alongside the syrian rebels just how big is the role of extremists do you think in the conflict. well since the since the video that was issued by humans or harry in jul

to kill not only the syrian prime minister but also fellow syrian civilians and this is something which is just completely ignored in the west and is no difference so the terrorist bombings that occurred in london in july two thousand and five. well our of course there has been a lot of speculation that western money has been an ana terrorist hands so do you think this attack is evidence of that. well let's just have a look at the this is the so-called free syrian army they've made it the various groups that make up the free syrian army have made it very clear that their ideology is islam is m they wish to replace the secular progressive states that is syria which should be a little and many of these groups are linked to al qaida for example the al nusra front so the fact that western governments led by and principally by the united states has been has been send in hundreds of millions of dollars to the so-called free syrian army. really you have to sort of think about it yourself is the money going to end up in the hands of terrorists yes it is without any doubt whatsoever and anyone p

at a russian passenger plane has reportedly come under missile fire in syrian air space but the one hundred fifty nine passengers flying home from egypt narrowly escaped unharmed. and the u.k. could be about to boost its military presence in the gulf states raising questions about its priorities as a cozies up to regimes with poor human rights records. eleven am and the russian capital you're watching r t. the us has for years been calling for a crackdown on corruption within afghanistan government but it turns out behind the curtains american officials may have to play a driving role with a shadowy deals their media reports suggest that millions of dollars in cash are regularly shipped to the afghan leadership in return for u.s. influence and running the country president hamid karzai asking for him to shipments claims that there are scope is being exaggerated details from artie's got its to come. both u.s. and afghan officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to the new york times and said that for many years the cia had paid tens of millions of dollars in what they say was ghost money

dozens wounded in a huge car bomb explosion on a busy square spreading terror and panic throughout the syrian capital. shooting itself in the foot u.s. media report suggests that secret american payments to the afghan government ended up in the hands of drug barons and even taliban insurgents have been battling against for decades. no reprieve for a year a new figures show eighty thousand jobs lost last the crisis union space of a month more than twenty six million workers amount of work. in the u.k. could be about to boost its military presence in the gulf states the critics say british troops would. already troubled region. this is r t with all the very latest breaking news i'm carrie johnston a deadly explosion has rocked the syrian capital a car bomb went off near the former interior ministry building in central damascus at least thirteen people have been killed and seventy are reported injured local correspondent. who witnessed the blast joins us on the line live now from damascus what did you see and what does the area look like right now. into the now we have it's official now we are p

regime fall and indeed many syrians that would like to see the syrian regime fall. are right there embarrassed if you might say by some of the more extremist elements that have made their way into the rebel ranks and some of the tactics they've been using ranging from car bombs to chemical weapons so there's obviously a desire not to highlight that piece so far in. that piece even if there might have been some validity to the charges all right middle east expert professor stephen soon as of the university of san francisco a great pleasure to have you on r.t. today thank you for sharing a time thing. well we've lined up the best stories and pictures for you on line at r.t. dot com let's have a quick glimpse at some of them for you right now for example this hour up there now other suspected attackers of the boston marathon were reportedly planning to carry out another bombing this time though in new york's times square. another click away for you on line hounded file sharing giant pirate bay now seeking exile in iceland relocating its servers there from greenland the

in the free syrian army.re are other countries other than the united states quite willing and right now are beginning to become in this process of handing over the type of weaponry needed in order to check the, the syrian armor, assad's armor on the ground. they are getting that weaponry, not from the united states, but from other sources. at the same time they're putting a lot of aid from the u.s. in other ways. and we are helping vet and go through the process. and in a way let's calling it training that the europeans and the united states are involved in, to make sure that the right officers the once that are committed to the concept of syria as a nation and are not committed to a radical future for that country. that they're the ones that receive the aid. >> congressman boyce, thank you very much on capitol hill. >>> the other big story we're tracking today, in boston, dzhokhar tsarnaev has been moved overnight out of beth israel hospital, transferred to a federal prison fast, a medical detention center a

the syrian woman is. trying. to shove their mother father brother my name sama mohamad i'm planning to stay in russia. to build a new life in russia hear. the news about international airport in the very heart of moscow. you know the only. welcome back to cross talk were all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing syria. ok mark just before the break you want to jump in there please do i would disagree with john in terms of the u.s. not caring in terms of humanitarian intervention i think there's a long record of humanitarian intervention by the united states in fact the u.s. often receives a great deal of criticism for that but more to the point if we are looking at what could be done in syria i would also look to bosnia and kosovo as examples of not only what the united states can do but more importantly what the broader euro atlantic community can do after almost fifteen years we're seeing great moves towards a settlement for the kosovo situation and announcement last week by lady as

a massive car bomb explodes near the syrian interior ministry reportedly leaving man a casualty. and shooting itself in the food u.s. we were aboard suggest that secret american payments to the afghan government have been ending up in the hands of warlords drug barons and a van even the taliban insurgents that nato has been battling against for the last decade. cash for cots greece gets a multibillion europe in return for slashing fifteen thousand state sector jobs as the e.u. braces itself for new unemployment figures. and the u.k. could be about to boost its military presence in the gulf states but critics say more british troops would further harm stability and already troubled region. one ham in the russian capital you're watching r t and we begin with breaking news here a massive car blast was rocked this year in capital the bomb went off near the interior ministry in damascus state media have already reported multiple casualties this comes just a day after another explosion targeting the syrian prime minister local correspondent dawn i was eating who directly witnessed the

a russian passenger plane has reportedly come under a missile fire in syrian air space but the one hundred fifty nine passengers flying home from narrowly escaped unharmed. cash for cots. multi-billion euro payout in return for slashing fifteen thousand state sector jobs as the e.u. braces itself for new unemployment figures. and the u.k. could be about to boost its military presence in the gulf states bring questions about its priorities as its coves these up to regimes with poor human rights records. in the russian capital you're watching r t josh now the u.s. has for years been calling for crack down on corruption within afghanistan's government but it turns out behind the curtains american officials may have played a driving role in shadow we do use their media reports suggest that millions of dollars in cash are regularly shipped to the afghan leadership in return for u.s. influence in running the country president hamid karzai has confirmed the shipments but claims that their scope are being exaggerated details from. both u.s. and afghan officials spoke on the condition of anonymity

against the syrian people.e other videos posted online by rebels and opposition groups there purporting to show chemical weapons had been used against the people by the syrian regime. all these videos purr portding to show people having suffered the aftereffects of having been exposed to some type of chemical weaponry. just a few days after that video appeared u.s. officials had looked at that videotape, they concluded, they told cnn they did not believe that these tapes showed that these people in the tape had been exposed to chemical weapons. possibly exposed to chemicals, but not chemical weaponry. in the last month you also have the syrian regime inviting the u.n. weapons experts to come into syria to try to ascertain if chemical weapons had been used, but in fact just in the last couple of days the secretary general of the u.n. ban ki-moon actually said that they had a team ready to go but that the syrian government had not given them permission to come into syria as of yet, anderson. >> mohammad, we're go

been killed and dozens wounded in a huge car bomb explosion and spreading terror and panic in the syrian capital. they would prefer a year of new figures show eighty thousand jobs lost across the crisis in the space of a month the unemployment rate to an all time high. shooting itself in the foot u.s. media report suggests that secret american payments the afghan government ended up in the hands of warlords drug barons and even. nato been battling against for a decade. and the u.k. could be about to boost its military presence in the gulf states and critics say more british troops would further harm stability in an already troubled region. well news twenty four hours a day from our studios here in moscow you're watching. a deadly explosion has rocked the syrian capital a car bomb went off near the former interior ministry building in central damascus at least thirteen people have been killed and around seventy are reported injured correspondent who witnessed the blast joins us on the line live now from damascus what did you see and what does the area look like right now. now one minute i

intelligence officials believe with some degree of varying confidence that the syrian government has used chemical weapons against members of the opposition specifically sarin gas u.s. officials claim the attacks in question took place last month in new york and in the outskirts of damascus however a letter that the white house has sent to members of congress states that washington cannot confirm the origin of the chemical weapons allegedly used acting in lockstep with the u.s. british prime minister david cameron has come forward insisting that his government has limited but growing evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the syrian military according to reports m i six agents operating in syria smuggled soil out of the country to be analyzed for chemical and biological contaminants however u.k. military scientists reportedly said the soil contain treece is of some kind of chemical weapon though it could not positively identify the type of weaponized chemical now in an interview with the b.b.c. cameron said he worries that western leaders might fail to act in syria because of the

and its allies the syrian rebels through the conflict which is not limited. by standing strong damascus high schools to increase the pressure according to independent journalists will be homeless. it's a lot of nonsense and everybody in the diplomatic well knows it but it is intended to create an atmosphere where america and its weston's satellite allies can begin to people who are aggressive in their assistance to the rebels or terrorists or whatever you want to call them syria because the reality at the moment is that the syrian army is doing rather well on the rebels and doing rather badly despite the thousands of tons of arms to the west and their gulf allies of imported into syria i think john kerry said we must look at ways of quick pressure on fasher our side and he was speaking for wants nothing but the truth. britain and france tried to persuade the european union to ease the arms embargo so they could supply more weapons to the roles that was actually side inside the surprisingly defeated in the european union they weren't able to do that so now as

and its allies have bombed the syrian rebels through obstacles. but by standing strong damascus has fools the west to increase their presence according to independent journalists on its. it's a lot of nonsense and everybody in the diplomatic well knows it but it is intended to create an atmosphere where america and its weston's satellite allies can begin to people who are aggressive in their assistance to the rebels or terrorists or whatever you want to call them syria because the reality at the moment is that the syrian army is doing rather well and the rebels are doing rather badly despite the thousands of tons of arms to the west and their gulf allies reported to syria i think john kerry said we must look at ways of putting pressure on russia outside and even speaking for wants nothing but the truth. britain and france tried to persuade the european union to ease the arms embargo so that they could supply more weapons to the rebels that was actually side inside the surprisingly defeated in the european union they weren't able to do that so now

president barack obama has previously said that the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government would be a game changer in the u.s. position on intervening in the two year old civil war in a letter sent to two u.s. senators a white house legal official did write that the assessment of likely chemical weapons use in syria will not automatically trigger action including military intervention but the official also referred to a bad intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in iraq that led to the invasion the us invasion of that country in that case the intelligence was proved wrong everybody can remember just a decade ago when colin powell sat in the chambers of the united nations security council shaking a vial to try to to try to convince the internal community. to go along with saw america's indigent into iraq and clearly his claims of iraq having weapons of mass destruction were proven wrong but nonetheless u.s. senators like john mccain are already calling for action mccain has said that if the u.s. now is lines to intervene in syria it would send the wrong message to ot

us when russia and iran the while this is all see with me here thanks for joining us the syrian government has denied allegations it has any chemical weapons and says even if it did it wouldn't use them on the front u.s. officials claim to have sketchy and unconfirmed intelligence that damascus has used chemical agent on its own people well she's a marine of worth i has the latest. u.s. president barack obama was delivering some fierce words in the aftermath of tables comments he indicated that washington will conduct its own independent investigation into syria's alleged use of chemical weapons and a separate probe will be conducted in conjunction with the united nations america's leaders said the world can't stand by and permit the use of chemical weapons obama has previously stated that the use of chemical weapons by damascus would be a game changer in the u.s. position on military intervention into serious civil war now according to white house press secretary jay carney has confirmed that military force is one of many options that president obama is currently considering carney said a

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: the syrian civil war rages on, as assad's prime minister survives a reported assassination attempt in the heart of damascus. good evening. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, we debate whether the u.s. should intervene and explore who the fighters are behind the rebellion. >> ifill: then, taxing the internet. we discuss how congress may be changing the way we pay for the things we buy. >> woodruff: basketball's jason collins becomes the first male pro athlete still playing one of the big four sports to come out and say he's gay. we assess what his announcement means for sexual stereotypes on and off the court. >> ifill: ray suarez reports on tod's gathering of holocaust survivors and the veterans who helped save them, to mark the 20th anniversary of the u.s. holocaust memorial museum. >> woodruff: our "daily download" looks at the bogus tweet last week that sent the financial markets into a minutes-long nosedive. >> ifill: and hari sreenivasan explores "pandora's lunchbox" with the aut

intervene in the syrian civil war? >> that is going to be a game changer. >> pelley: the president reacts to reports of a nerve gas attack. but what does the evidence show? reports from david martin and holly williams with the rebels. the boston marathon bombing suspect is moved out of the hospital. don dahler on the tough choices facing some. bombing victims. >> my foot felt like it was on fire. >> pelley: he was the king of broken hearts who reigned over country. we'll remember george jones. and steve hartman on the road. if everyone were like dan stroup the post office would be in the black. >> every year like clockwork, you know you're going to get a letter from mr. stroup. from captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. ning news" >> pelley: good evening the president said today that the united states cannot stand by and permit the systemic use of chemical weapons on civilians. he said it in the oval office the day after his administration confirmed evidence of nerve gas in the s

says it suspects with quote various degrees of confidence the syrian government has used chemical weapons. limited growing ever. to join rebel groups in syria. a serious threat on their return. with me thank you for joining us today a massive fire through a psychiatric hospital in the moscow reachin killing all but three people inside thirty eight bodies have been found off the rescue operations wrapped up at the blazing gulf the entire building and reportedly erupted in a wing providing special treatment to patients. reports from the. investigators are combing through the remains of that psychiatric hospital here in the village of lemmon ski about sixty kilometers away from moscow and they're trying to find what on earth actually had put it in the early hours morning when fire broke out in the building and swept through it killing thirty eight people the fire started around two am say locals in the village and it spread quickly lots of people not being able to make it out in time but when the emergency services arrived after an hour it was already too late to save those a side three did

says it suspects with varying degrees of confidence quote that the syrian government used chemical weapons now the u.k. joining allegations citing a limited but growing evidence. and terror alert and u.k. officials on the alarm over young europeans being recruited to join islamist rebel groups in syria claiming they pose a serious threat upon their return. eight pm in moscow. good having you with us here on r t our top story this just into r t one of the jailed pussy riot band members has been denied early release from prison a judge in central russia ruled to keep. behind bars for the remainder of her two year sentence she got that term for hooliganism last summer after her group's impromptu performance at the christ the savior cathedral in moscow r t z x a alexei he has been watching the proceedings he joins us now live with the latest hello alexi so tell us more about the ruling in this case. well we actually expected a quick decision either way a negative or a positive one the whole process lost it for almost ten hours and the decision on. parole lee has been next now the judge said th