as a good up until the strength for this to tropicana hutto. a last ditch effort to end bloodshed in syria the arab league demands that president assad talk to the opposition and withdraw his tanks from the streets. costly recognition of washington halt funding of unesco hours after the u.n. cultural agency grants palestinians full membership by a majority but. the mainstream media resurrects an f.b.i. case code named ghost stories seeing the release of footage featuring russian sleeper agents uncovered in the u.s. last year. ten am in moscow good to have you with us here on r t our top story of the world waits for syria's response to the arab league's demands to pull tanks off the streets and start dialogue with the opposition earlier syrian president assad said he would only speak to parties with no links to foreign powers or what he called terrorism some three thousand people already killed since clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces started.