additionally, according to tunisia live news founder zied mhirisi, tunisia's tourism is in a deep recession. >> for the second year now, we're having a serious decrease in the number of tourists coming to tunisia. the number dropped from seven million people a year to three million people a year. tourism is really paying a high price during this revolution. the government has a lot on its plate, not only a struggling economy but all the rest of the problems involved in establishing a fledgling democracy. sana ouechtati is a law professor and member of an opposition party. >> ( translated ): i believe that even if its difficult to expect results that are immediate and sustainable, you must present to the people, who have been waiting for one year something concrete and tangible, right away. >> reporter: the parliament is dominated by ennahda, tunisia's mainstream islamic party. it swept october elections with 41% of the vote. human rights activist intissar kherigi is an ennahada party member who returned to tunisia after 20 years in exile in london. she counsels patience with a government th

security council vetoes they gather when the gathering is underway in tunisia we get more details from our teaser murray if an ocean a joining us live with more from damascus so there are high hopes on the outcome although not everyone is optimistic what is the feeling inside syria where you are . mary if you can hear me what's the feeling on the ground inside syria. apparently we don't have an audio connection with maria there. however she did file this report earlier let's take a look. the meeting of the countries calling themselves friends of syria raised many questions before it even started why would iran seventy arab and western nations gather in tunisia has been a mystery till the last moment. and if they are real friends they should not think about economic sanctions that really affect syrian people and a negative way. i hope the arabs will play a role in mediating dialogue between the opposition and the government priority is to facilitate the humanitarian the livery of the humanitarian assistance and we have some proposal on the table to prepare. the best way to deliver this

against syria are getting louder tonight at the friends of syria meeting currently being held in tunisia with the e.u. already preparing to freeze the syrian central bank assets next week it's among the new measures to cripple the assad regime being proposed by the u.s. and its allies as they gather there try to hammer out the syrian crisis let's get the latest now from our teeth from national is in damascus for us maria hi the meeting is not yet finished but we've already heard some strong statements coming out of that meeting what is being said bring us up to date if you would. well kevin indeed we are already hearing in a number of quite strong statements from other countries taking part in this meeting in tunisia the u.s. state hillary clinton has said that president bashar al assad will pay a high price for the violence against syrian people america has called for more economic sanctions against the regime and particularly to boycott the all from the country and to freeze assets syrian assets abroad this is something the french foreign minister has already confirmed france will do t

there has been a change in syria, tunisia, egypt. in egypt, mubarak had been removed but the system is still there. we have seen major protests in yemen that have produced some change. of course, there were major protests in bahrain that were met with tremendous repression and of course syria is a part of that. the arab spring or the arab uprising has achieved a tremendous amount. the removal of dictators in tunisia, libya, egypt. it is a question of time. >> revolution is one thing but what comes next? this will be a question for syria as well. >> yes, there is no question about that. some states are having an easier time. tunisia, where the military has been removed from the political scene and they're working out what the democratic politics will look like. in egypt, the situation is much more difficult because the military is still there. in libya, the situation is different because of the lack of political institutions that are viable and beginning from scratch. very outcomes, different degrees of difficulty, but overall there i

european and arab nations opening in tunisia today the so-called friends of syria group is expected to discuss new measures to cripple the assad regime which they blame for nearly a year long bloody hell and in the country russia and china refused to attend the meeting moscow says the group is biased in its attempts to settle syria's internal conflict by ignoring the role of armed opposition groups in the bloodshed in which thousands have died meanwhile washington is reportedly holding talks with the u.k. france and italy and turkey over preparations for military intervention and israeli web site known for links to intelligence sources claims a decision will also depend on the outcome of the meeting in tunisia and whether the u.s. gets the support of its arab allies or he's moree if an ocean it takes a look at the noose tightening around damascus. the meeting of the countries calling themselves friends of syria raised many questions before it even started why would iran seventy arab and western nations gather in tunisia has been a mystery till the last moment. if they are real friends

the meeting in tunisia is a meeting of.friends surprisingly enough an internet search of the friends of syria reveals a totally different community this website claims to reveal the truth and collects evidence of and to government activity among syria's enemies are the country's name in themselves friends friends of syria get together across the sea to thrash out their solution to the conflict many here wonder if their own stories will really benefit the people on the ground or is it a case of with friends like these who needs enemies. damascus syria. the coalition of states meeting later today in tunisia reportedly going to recognize the syrian national council as a legitimate representative of syrians seeking peaceful democratic change the opposition group that was based outside of the country earlier political analyst professor ibrahim i whooshed told me it's being used as a tool to stir up civil war you can call it the meeting for the friends of the united states or the enemies of syria but you cannot call it a meeting

talks with which wants to further tighten the screws on the assad regime and due to start shortly in tunisia moscow says the group is biased by ignoring the role of the armed opposition fighters in the bloodshed it's a view shared by many within syria as art history of the notion of reports. the meeting of the countries calling themselves friends of syria raised many questions before it even started why would iran seventy arab and western nations gather in tunisia has been a mystery till the last moment in the sun if they are real friends they should not think about economic sanctions that really affect syrian people in a negative way. i hope the arabs will play a role in mediating dialogue between the opposition and the government but it's become clear that none of these issues will make it onto the meetings agenda our priority is to facilitate the humanitarian the delivery of the humanitarian assistance and we have some proposal on the table to prepare. the best way to deliver this assistance as quick as possible the u.n. estimates about six thousand deaths in fierce clashes between the go

the removal of dictators in libya, tunisia, egypt. it is a question of time in syria. >> is a part of the problem what comes next? there is so much to come. this will be a question for syria as well. >> some states are doing better with it or are having an easier time than others. the military has essentially been removed from the political scene and now they are working out what democratic politics will look like. in egypt, the situation is much more difficult because the military was still there. in libya, the situation is difficult as well because of the lack of political institutions that are viable. as varied as outcomes, different degrees of difficulty. overall, this has been a positive thing. >> thank you very much for coming. >> moving now to greece where violence erupted on the streets of athens when white police clashed with protesters. the demonstrations were the latest show of anger at new austerity measures. the government will be forced to make deeper cuts to get the latest round of bailout funds. >> another day, another

i think the united states has a very important opportunity with libya and tunisia and al gearia to morocco. if we do what we need to do, we can help them move towards democracy and produce results for people. libya is more challenging because gadhafi destroyed all institutions. they don't have institutions that they can remove people from and fill people with. they are making progress and the prime minister will be coming to visit in a few weeks. i would urge if it's not on the schedule that he meet with members of this committee and explain to you what he and his government are doing. they cooperated with us ongoing after the man pads. we implemented a plan that we worked through with them. we are also working with them to fulfill the signing. they face problems in combining the militias into a coherent organized military presence. we are supporting them in the efforts to do so. i think that we have got a chance here to respond to their positive attitude and bring dividends in how they develop, but our own standing and leadership and reintegrating into civilian and into the security servi

nations hearts controversy with fears they're all teary motives for the gathering in tunisia besides providing aid to the violence torn country this is reports emerge washington is in talks with the u.k. france italy and turkey over plans for military intervention. the media war on iran gathering steam in the us and appears to be having an impact according to the latest online our latest opinion poll there suggest a third of americans now see the islamic republic as the nation's biggest enemy with nearly half supporting military action against iran. the man tipped to be russia's next president has been capturing the imagination of british authors and filmmakers less than a fortnight before russians head to the polls a book on bloody near putin's personality is due to hit british british bookshops hot on the heels of two documentaries featuring the russian prime minister. moscow out next revealing how popular and healthy fast food is in the russian capital stay with us. hello and welcome in this week's moscow out south where we're taking a look at fast food culture from the arrival of

after the elections in tunisia, the islamists took over. he called the islamic elections an inspiration and said he was deeply encouraged by the progress. before obama was elected, the leadership in yemen and egypt, their flawed to be sure. but they were at least counted on as u.s. partners. and before obama was elected, israel could count on america's unwavering support. but since obama's election, israel has rarely enjoyed president obama's support. and ev said that israel should indefensible 1967 borders. make no it. in israel's hour of dire need, the united states must stand with israel. in a bad case of misplaced priorities, the president thinks that israel building apartment worse than iran getting a nuclear bomb. week ago today the supreme leader of iran said that israel is a cancer that must be cut out. and at the very same time last week, iran launched a new satellite and they threatened any nation that tried to stop iran's nuclear ambitions with ten times the violence in return. they mean business and we need to pay attention. oba

the one country he might have listened to, russia, has refused to come to the tunisia conference. there's going to be an impressive array of countries here to show wide spread support for the syrian opposition and denounce president assad's crackdown. but when it comes to immediate humanitarian aid for those people inside homs, that's going to be difficult. >> now, a fourth inquest has begun into the death of a baby girl who disappeared from a tent in the australian outback more than 30 years ago. the girl's mother, lindy chamberlain, or insisted all along she'd been taken by a wild dog, a dingo, while they were camping. she was convicted of the baby's murder in 1982 and then freed four years later when the baby's jacket was found near a dingo's lair. our australia correspondent, duncan kennedy, has this. >> 31 years after her daughter disappeared, lindy chamberlain was back in a courtroom, but this time to present new evidence to a coroner about dingos who she's always blamed for causing her family's misery. azaria chamberlain was nine weeks old when she vanished. the family was

many cafes in the old town and i've noticed that everybody inside was fourteen live coverage from tunisia well people here on the ground people in syria following this event but the country is divided on what to expect from this meeting of friends of syria in tunisia and what kind of solution these countries may bring to them some are still concerned that it will not be the case and they fear in that the western countries are actually planning a military action and they can do that on behalf of this particular group the friends of syria and i have to tell you that these fears are not groundless because we've been recently hearing reports indeed about. foreign intervention considered by international community as a possible solution to the to syria's own go in crisis and just recently the syrian national council this is syrian opposition based abroad has been calling on the nations taking part in this event of friends of syria to assist the free syrian army in different ways including weapons the whole opposition the national called nation committee has been very much concerned about these

now at the so-called friends of syria meeting in tunisia u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has called russia and china despicable for vetoing the u.n. security council resolution she says they're not on the side of the syrian people but whose side you think washington is on. i think a very important reason for china russia to be draft resolution is that. pretty with that. that resolution will not be fair to to stop while others see a real not so all with the syrian crisis the right way and that could be you know the chargers and the pressure on the principle of the charter of united nations and the norm and the actual norms in our relations so in that case i think china russia vetoed the resolution. rights. act and. we think through themes of for things to be down first said that. the syrian authorities and also the party. should be made to and a fully. or swallows two or part two some three meter lunch. dialogue to discuss. political reform so that to become a work out. political reform and. plan in its. current. practice should not be wi

>> immediately after tunisia, there was a lot of chatter in egypt. the activist forces there were openly trying to figure out how to make the same thing happen and trying to lay the ground work for a similar uprising. but you heard so much, oh, that can't happen here. i remember talking to on the 26th, actually, the day after the start of the revolution when you had these unprecedented numbers turning out and really taking the country into unchartered waters, i remember just get anything a cab and wanting to go to tahrir and having, like, the classic cynical cab driver who was basically like, oh, no, we can't do what tunisians did. few news ya's a civilled country. even then egyptians did not believe they could pull this off. and i think one of the stories of the mubarak regime was with, is that it -- people kind of lost faith in themselves. he really killed the sense of political engagement l and really sowed this feeling of helplessness in the people. he wasn't gadhafi. there will be no maas graves -- mass graves being unearthed in egypt. but he re

ask them what they want from the diplomats in tunisia. >> they are now watching what is happening inside syria. every day, more of the killing from children and women. it is important to have a buffer zone. we need a no-fly zone. >> people gathered across syria as the clamor for change grows. some still dared not show their faces. >> our people are being killed every day. we want this violence to stop. >> this has become a friday rituals for almost a year. they want the right to be heard. >> we want to kill you. >> frayed them, freedom, freedom. -- freedom, freedom, freedom. >> the sheer strength of numbers is not matched by a fire power. they have little capacity to resist. >> some were attacked or daring to protest. our view of the country is limited. we see a lack of help from the outside world. as night falls, men with guns stand guard across sylvia -- across cilia. -- across syria. the road ahead is likely to see more bloodshed and death. >> joining me now for more on the events in syria and the discussions in tunisia is a man who served as the u.s. ambassador to morocco. thank you

." >> for ministers meet in tunisia to seek a victory in this year conflict. demonstrations over the burning of copies of the koran at a u.s. airbase. >> volkswagen shifts into high gear, doubling its profits thanks to improved car sales. we begin with yet another call on the syrian regime to stop killing its own people. >> foreign ministers from 50 countries, mostly arab and western nations, that in geneva on friday for the friends of ca meeting. they open the borders. -- the syrian council told ministers did that weapons are being smuggled in to syria to help the rebels. we have this report from tunis. >> defense of syria conference was hoping to put more pressure on the syrian president, but it produced little agreement on how to do it. the syrian opposition says it needs weapons. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton favors an embargo on syrian oil. the conference was not set up to discuss the possibility of military intervention, but at the end of the meeting, france's foreign minister refused to dodge the issue. >> some people have raised the hypothesi

world leaders gathered in tunisia, making news toward recognizing syria's opposition.he bbc's correspondent bridget kendell begins our coverage tonight. >> tonight the glimmer of a break through. some severely wounded casualties, including women and children, were evacuated to a local hospital. not the injured foreign journalists, though. they apparently refused to go. red cross negotiations on their fate are continuing. meanwhile, today's fighting sent a strong message, endorsing the main opposition grouping, the syrian opposition council. >> i have offered them whatever additional practical help we can provide from the united kingdom and the political opposition outside. i believe they are doing the right things and that they will be able to bring greater unit to the opposition. >> among the points agreed, to promote the national council, to ramp up economic sanctions against syria, and to close embassies and to preposition humanitarian aid just in case president assad recedes. >> behind-the-scenes, there was chaotic disagreement about whether to arm the rebels. brit

egypt is egypt, libya tunisia, they are almost, all arab people, while in iraq or syria, you have much more diversified societies. the army's structures are different. egyptian army has different tradition than syrian army or libyan army. each case is unique, but the demands of the young generation is same and one for all. and our approach to this transformation, it's the same, but in each case, we had different diplomatic matters to help with the practice. today, in syria, what we tried to do is, unique as compared to egypt and libya or tunisia, first of all, let me say, last month when i went to tehran, before going there, i gave a press conference, and a statement, we said we don't want to have cold war structures in our region, cold war tensions, a new cold war polarization in our country. and today when the resolution was vetoed i repeated the same, we do not want to see new cold war logic rising in our region. what did i mean? i mention inside the region, new polarizati ons, such as shiite and suni countries. there was rejectionist camps, we do not want that type of separation. o

secretary of state hillary clinton is meeting with officials from 70 countries in tunisia to discuss ways to end that violence. tina krause has the latest developments now from london. >> reporter: hundreds of protestors loyal to syrian president bashar al-assad tried to storm an international conference in tunisia. foreign ministers from more than 50 countries are meeting to demand an end to the violence in syria. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is among those at the friends of syria gathering. she's calling for a cease fire to allow humanitarian aid into the country. and pressing for new sanctions and travel bans. gunfire gunfire [ sound of gunfire ] , rebels are locked in a fierce battle with syrian government forces, they're asking international leaders to send them more weapons to help take down the assad regime. activists say syrian troops executed at least 18 people in a village of central via friday including at least -- syria friday including at least five children. the humanitarian chief in the u.s. says the situation is deteriorating and the syrian government is bl

syria a group of nations sparks controversy with their motives for the gathering in tunisia cites body aid to the bodies torn country that's reports emerged that washington is in talks with the u.k. france italy and turkey preparations for military intervention. a media war on iran is gathering pace in the us that has to be having an impact or if the latest opinion poll that it suggests a third of americans now see the islamic republic as the nation's biggest enemy with many hoff supporting military action against iran. and plan to be russia's next president has been capturing the imagination of british office and filmmakers less than a fortnight before russians head to the polls a book on print and personality is due to hit british bookshops on the heels of two documentaries featuring the russian president's. next we explore ambitious building projects that involve cutting edge technology and innovations. hello and welcome to technology update this month we're taking a look at a topic that hits well close to home in russia many innovations in terms of new building materials have come

and colony of libya, french colony in algeria and tunisia.so these are all separate from each other. the second ave. analogy was during the cold war because there were two men was progress, south of communist thomas nowadays time to have one single regional ownership and throughout the cold war, because the arab or i'm because those the soviet type of government, there is an absence of link between the leaders and the people. and we said it was a risky decision. it is always. now, some people are surprised, as a fork or academician, how we have two stake such a critical decision. usually academicians are long thinking, selecting people. that's the image of the academicians or utopia case the claim to me that my -- some of our foreign policy is utopia. if you make an assessment in each history values come you have to make courageous decision. and the leadership should show these issues. yes, turkish foreign policy took a risk last year. today it is easy to say, it was normal to say go to mubarak ordered was normal to be to save go to ben ali.

. >> rose: look at what happened in tunisia, modern islamists did well, look what happened in egypt, muslim brotherhood did well. we don't know what is going to happen in other places. but are we going through a period in which we have to witness and experience islamist governments having their shot at running countries? >> i include for rocco, morocco is one. >> rose: you mentioned that earlier. >> and tunisia and egypt, but remember, what is common among the three? they are moderate muslims. for example the real extreme wing of the muslim party in egypt became second, and most likely. >> rose: 25 percent or so. >> so i think there is no choice but to give a chance for the islamists because they won through elections. then that is the will of the people. >> rose: yes. and in some cases, the argument is made that this is a good thing, because being in power might moderate even their views if they were extreme. >> and we see that already. in morocco and tunisia and egypt, all the language we hear from them is positive and moderated, it is not extreme at all. actually, the first thing

." >> more than 70 nations gather in tunisia to try to stop the bloodshed in syria. they call for an immediate cease-fire to allow aid to the civilians trapped in the conflict. but what leverage do they have over the assad regime with the glaring absence of russia and china? hello, and welcome to "gmt." also in this program -- nato appeals for calm and patience in afghanistan as protests continued after korans were burned in u.s. military base. hungary under mounting pressure from the european union to get its house in order. we will talk to a -- leading hungarian politician. it is midday here in london, 2:00 p.m. in damascus and 1:00 in the afternoon in tunis where representatives from 70 countries are trying to forge some kind of coherent and effective strategy on syria to help civilians in the country and to try to end the violent actions from authorities. the friends of syria conference includes leading western powers, eric nations, and members of the syrian opposition. but there is concern any action will not be possible without the cooperation of china and russ