and turkey. so the first point on the negotiations and it's been mentioned in the previous three criteria were defined in copenhagen its political and economic and also the key negotiations the realization and assessment at each stage of the process when the chapters are open and where they are closed. the present time out of the 35 chapters in the negotiations there of the 13 chapters and close on the one nothing has happened since. there are elements that are raised by the insist on the related to the challenges turkey has built for some of the member states. nevertheless i want to say that there are three chapters. the one on public procurement and the one on social policy and employment that can be open for negotiations. they can fit and feel ready for the opening of the chapters and there are eight chapters or so that cannot be opened and until we can resolve with turkey with turkey and the e.u. joining together. and i have to say year the e.u. for implementation for the protocol would give

but i didn't hear the gun and as we all know turkey. has been also the end of the assad regime in syria three of them were from. has indicated. a change nobody leadership in syria the same time as impression and cherokee. interested in stability in this region more than any other countries in the world don't you believe that falling. devastation of president assad's syria might. become my total quagmire and chaos which might also affected neighboring countries. because it isn't then in. us it is imminent. and then the dynasty. that is human in. this is the missing then. to. us that. of a process thank you for this question has she. sued in. civil life. we share. our outlook on the issue of providing stability in syria. questions. we are categorically against. any. any. violation of syria's a territorial integrity. song. as you know. here in which even syria. has already taken action that has caused some eighteen thousand lives civilian lives in syria and. we are looking at every g.m. there is. wiping out its own citizens. some forty tho

sure so i think that assad is in a country like turkey are concerned you know what's remarkable about them and some of the reason that i'm bullish on them is that i'm better sort of commodities in general and durkee is one economy that does not have a single commodity export it's basically completely reliant on imported commodities so if you get lower commodity prices that helps turkey indonesia on the other hand benefits from higher commodity prices but i still like indonesia because i think that they have been managing that commodity when for quite well unlike the brazils and rush years where i think they have not used that this commodity boom of the kid to build any meaningful investments and they've used it all on the consumption side of the equation which is not very healthy so the key and indonesia at some level are quite different in that one is a commodity importer almost in full the other one export some commodities knows how to manage that commodity even for windfall will on the other end of the likes of brazil russia which i think haven't been doing a good job in terms of m

because of the sort of religious and other sort of reasons and i think that what turkey and indonesia to me are showing is that that model can also work that culture cannot hold you backward does not have to necessarily be a wheat around your around your neck so i think that turkey's reform streak of the past decade and the fact that there. aspiring to be a regional powerhouse much more connected now with the former soviet republics and also like you know the chain that i've seen i go to istanbul quite frequently five to six years ago you would hardly see any add up tourists in istanbul because this part of turkey has been a bit of a pariah nation that wanted to be european i went there last year and it's teeming with tourists from saudi arabia and other countries in the middle eastern region and they're all coming there because they're sort of now like to think of it as there are. you know think that it's like a big sort of cultural change that we might see a change in the way the middle east region is viewing turkey given the fact that they take nomic performance has been quite good

game turkey is playing provoking the kurds is really. going to lead to a disaster starting in turkey itself great talking to you dr ali mohamed thank you very much indeed for your thoughts on this editor in chief of the syria tribune joining us live in dubai thank you thank you bill. is r.t. can be live from the russian capital coming up in the program a glimpse of hope for the world's top whistleblower ecuador the swedish authorities to question julian assange in its london embassy over sex assault allegations as he continues to fight possible extradition to the u.s. . for it is a big day for sports fans around the world with only a few hours left until the long awaited summer olympic games kick off in london fleets are preparing for the opening ceremony spectators are flocking to the british capital and the olympic torch is completing the final kilometers of its seventy day relay and what you're seeing on your screens right now is the final leg of the journey the torch has made its way towards the games main arena across the river tham

and while violence in syria continues the prime minister of turkey comes to moscow to try and convince russia to get tough on the assad regime. coming up i've got all the details. of the london olympics as the british with the games. to have you with us here on our today. life in moscow serious. deputy have been killed in a suicide bombing in damascus and the minister is the most senior official within the syrian government who have been killed since the conflict last year. to the violence that's been rocking the syrian capital for days now and in the very near future will be crossing live. to bring us all the latest developments on this story. well for now the turkish prime minister is here in russia for talks in reaction to the growing bloodshed in syria while moscow's staunchly opposed to any unilateral sanctions on the regime in damascus ankara has other views let's get more on the story sean thomas now joining us live here on r.t. good to see you sean obviously rusher insists it doesn't want any boots on the ground in syria do you think a turkey will be able to convince moscow oth

russia against turkey.gain, i won't turn that into, you know, like a major transformation of relationships, but that is a big part of the process. things are going to change. going to be a good relationship between israel and turkey, israel and russia, the u.s. so let's not go from one extreme to another. i don't see a russian israeli alliance. i think just an improving relationship between the two countries which i think is overall quite positive. >> i think that is the first time i heard the word around in the west two hours. that is -- that leads me to ask this question. how much does that countries stand to lose from developments in syria? the flow of the regime, the emergence of some different kind of regime. is russia acting in part to protect the iranian interest? >> that is a great question. you know, i think that the iranians to stand to lose an awful lot. aside is really there most important ally in the arab world. in many respects to the you know, this is not so much of russian verses american ga

best case for the burgeoning economic and political ties between syria and its northern neighbor turkey but ever since are there on and bashar assad stopped calling each other france turkey has played a very active and i would say a very destructive role in the syrian affairs turkey's territories being actively used to smuggle weapons for the free syrian army and on the top of that's reuters news agency has revealed that turkey alongside saudi arabia and qatar has stabbed a secret military base in one of its southern cities to direct vital military communications support for the free syrian army now a number of experts have long warning that turkey's adamant support for the syrian opposition may come at a cost to its own security for a number of days the turkish state has been struggling against its own militants i'm talking about the coup stunts workers party b p k k b it's been fighting for the establishment of an independent sovereign state for the kurds world's largest people without a state a few months ago i shall get a chance to. is that several kurdish settlements around syria a

it's infused with language about turkey. the findings section is about turkey.kly a turkish enterprise could take this bill, once it passed, and use it as a passport to get preferential consideration with respect to these economic opportunities. i think it does present some continued concern with respect to trade concerns. but on the foreign policy front, even if you felt it was important to given preferential consideration for purposes of a nonstration project or pilot project for one nation's interest over others, why would you select the country of turkey? given its record. that's why ranking member berman has sent a dear colleague letter around urging opposition to this bill. he knows from a foreign policy standpoint the record of turkey and i have to mention a few of these things because they're compelling. . increasingly turkey has become hostile to our ally israel. recely threatening to mobilize to escort ships to gaza and to stop israel from developing energy sources in its exclusive economic zone. second in june of 2010 nato member turkey voted against

the turkey. clint's modifying turkish traditions to be cool why not i do not know why actually we are accustomed to them that i do not know any turks following dutch traditions there are very few of them it is almost never the case. after the wedding the next morning begins as usual for the brain he wakes up prays and then takes a ride on the tram for a few stops. to dismiss this is my story i live here and. the people of boston moma belmore live in the same city as the native dutch yet these two worlds exist power to each other like tram tracks the question for most in holland and the rest of europe is whether they will ever meet. mine. would be soon which brightened if you knew the song from funds to the question. he starts on t.v. don't come. every nation represented here directly and urgently makes it clear that russia and china will pay a price u.s. secretary of state texas shot at moscow and beijing claiming that the two were supporting the syrian regime as the us spearheads a programmable

that to the relationship between syria and turkey should continue to be. let's say tense but then we continue to be peaceful to do because it was syria and turkey don't have the interest in jumping over the. over the peaceful line of greeting each other. and the military confrontation would be catastrophic for both and especially for turkey because it might in has a possibility also a certain internal difficulties. well thank you very much mr george a former advisor for the syrian government on your thoughts on the subject. now still ahead for you a little later news from another middle eastern country where the wounds of the arab spring remain open and on healed. libya's questionable headway towards democracy real they're under a crushing blow as protesters ten election authority office into pieces in the very birthplace of last year's uprising. and of the un president of sanctions against iran are now in force but will ones that succeed in making to run abandon its nuclear ambitions find out in a few minutes here on our team. thank you kay has found anot

you've heard of talking turkey. how about dodging turkeys. we'll take you to a new jersey town where they're dealing with some angry birds. >> first, as we do every morning, we begin with a look at today's eye-opener. your world in 90 seconds. >>> the american people do not want to go down the path of obamacare. that's why we voted over 30 times to repeal it, refund it, replace it. >> the house votes to repeal health care reform again. >> it will be the latest in dozens of such votes. the first, though, since the supreme court ruling upholding the law. >> what a waste of america's time. >> a zero chance the senate will go along. >> who says these guys aren't doing stuff, huh? >>> medical -- >> a u.s. airways plane forced to land in philly. >> at flight attendants told the captain they smelled something and felt sick. >> a terrifying flight from aruba to miami. hit by severe turbulence. >> we were -- it was scary. >> another california city is declaring bankruptcy. san bernardino's council voted last night to seek chapter 9 protection. the cit

for nato to establish a no a no fly zone i think it's important remember when we look at turkey as a member of nato it's actually stopped nato doing two things that it really wants to do and the u.s. wants to do one was closer military cooperation between nato and the european union the european. security force a rapid reaction force of the air was trying to set up and most recently turkey has been vetoing any cooperation between nato and israel so at the moment even for you know the us i mean the u.s. isn't completely dominating nato and we've seen some disputes between member states about a lot of a lot of other incidents as well and i think that we would see that with turkey of turkey tried to push and it did try to push after the downing of the jet it tried to push for a lot harder nato reaction actually got we do see resistance within the organization yes i think the u.s. dominates it but it doesn't have complete control ok georgia last ten seconds the last word in the program are you worried that nature might get in over war in syria . i am concerned that the assad regime in da

and there are issues as well for turkey's own defense and security. these borders have been strengthened in recent weeks. there was a shooting, accidentally, emerged of a turkish jet by the syrians a couple of weeks ago. all the escalation of violence in syria, just about 30 kilometers from the border, is worrying the neighbor to the north. >> thank you very much, our bbc on -- bbc team on the border. still ahead -- we take a look back at the olympics where engineers shared the glory with the athletes. that is in our next olympic postcard. nasa says its satellites record of what it calls unprecedented surface melting in green land. they did not know whether this is a rare natural event or due to global morning -- they do not know whether this is a rare natural event or due to global warming. >> of this dramatic footage of a glacier collapsing in green land two weeks ago. the owner of the boat managed to escape just-in-time from the huge waves it produced. scientists believe this collapse is a sign of a much bigger problem very nasa says its satellites

animus' hasi'a broken out in turkey. it started in turkey. it is possible to imagine the situation, particularly if aleppo continues to move in the direction of rebellion, or slaughter occurs in aleppo. because of the enormous ties between the turkish community and aleppo in the south of turkey, to which the prime minister is highly focused on, one of the basis of power -- i think it is possible that you could see the turks become much more aggressive. it is possible. it would be much more telling than either the saudis, who remain totally helpless, or the jordanians, who are a little better, but this is way beyond them. the turks could do this. it is possible. if the turks were to do this, i could see president obama leading from behind. it is possible that you could then get american input. you could have greater american activity. you could have the agency working with the turks in coordinating the delivery of better weaponry, although i still think, as mark pointed out, if you have heavy artillery and your drop in it on a.c.t. level, that

had to act by itself because other nato members do not agree with our mission in fact we have turkey did not agree with their mission and did not cooperate as strongly on the iraq mission and it has another thing so you see there is disagreement within nato that there had our debate. there there was many people in the u.s. itself who were against the invasion of iraq that you had to stop the u.s. that's not the issue or nato doesn't have the power to stop the u.s. from waging a war if it wants to and neither do the american people there's your argument has and has no has no substance to it the u.s. those who are the ones and when it went to wants to pretend that it's nato doing it not themselves then they use nato otherwise they do in the name of the united states and nato is just the hired thugs to go in whenever the u.s. wants to. keep a distance gas facility here in israel you get going up here in istanbul do you worry that nato could be dragged into an overt conflict in syria. i think it's unlikely at the moment there's certainly no desire for it but i think there's always a dang

from turkey? >> we are making some plans.october date that i have been talking about as our cutoff point will probably be the date i move back. >> when they new factory, new strategy, and new contacts suddenly the october deadline didn't feel as overwhelming as before you guys, good luck on everything that you're doing and i'm going to be back here in october. october you're going to still be around. >> yes, we are, indeed. >>> gregory and stephen have a lot to do over the next few months and we are going to check back with them in october to see how things are going. in the meantime, mike is here with us now. we should also mention that he's the author of the upcoming book "the pumpkin plan." and colleen is here from entrepreneur.com. mike, thank you for all your help with that. >> you're welcome. a little bit of fraud came out of my mouth when i saw myself wear a dress. i had not done that since college. >> i'm so glad you're not wearing it today. thank you. >> you looked great. >> the bill lowow pad of disgustingness. >> n

in turkey, he is already considered a man.e was circumcised to a wheel weeks ago and is celebrating his right of passage with 600 other boys. -- rite of passage with 600 of the boys here for some, the fanfares to much. for low-income families, the operation is financed by the city of istanbul. >> we are very grateful to the mayor. circumcision is vital to its muslims. our religion dictates it. all the parents here are proud to be allowed to go through it with their sons. >> this family decided to go to the clinic. most parents bring their sons to be circumcised between the ages of four and 12. siblings, aunts, and uncles have all come to celebrate his big day. it is hard to say whether the 6- year-old bonds even stressful with everyone in high spirits. his mother admits that, tradition aside, she is a little worried. >> you wonder if it will be painful. you worry as a mother, but we are still happy. it is a big moment and a blessing for our family. >> the doctor is full of encouragement, saying he will become a real man and mu

take our turkey, because we're almost done. >> how long does the turkey ---- >> in turkey cooked about two to three minutes on both side, it's thin, butterflied. lay that on top. >> this looks really good. >> some of my students are probably saying, why don't you make that for us? sliced tomato now. >> it's tox touch can i.can you can -- turkey. you can buy that the a whole foods. -- by this at whole foods.wh this is one of the best producte sti've ever tried. >> while you're doing that, lett me show you the information about the health screening this weekend, and this is being prove moments by the national cancer institute pan institute of health, the community health expo in silver springs, this saturday in 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the civic building. there will be free presentations , yoga, zumba, and demonstrations. you made that so big. >> that's mine! studio audience will fend for themselves. thank you very much, sir.ch tell pepper we said high. >> we will have more in a bit. where am i? >> allison? >>> we are starting off your da with singing and dancing as weda go behind the

. >> what our turkeys goals in the same crisis was at our turkeys goals likely to be realized speak with well, i think turkey has gone through a big education on syria. i think they knew very little about syria when they start out, and the gut reaction for all good, much like american reaction he want to stand for democracy. he just succeeded in the victor in a long struggle with the military. he is sunni. he wants to make this larger economic zone for turkey, and shift power really to the south up to the north end of the senate turkey the its and because of houston very successfully. serious credit up for him. by getting into this terrible arab spring, and he went down and tried to talk to assad, it didn't work and he got mad, and he had to side with democracy. and same with america's to to side with democracy when push comes to shove because its international relations. and i think he did that, but once he got his feet and come he realized how dangerous it is. that's what all the neighbors have been doing. because there's lots of kurds, the kkk is a very powerful organization in syria

on feeding the wild turkeys so our residents don't have to worry about being chased by turkeys. >> theymland is fertile for more than just the crops. wildlife officials could catch the birds. but trying to lure them into traps using food is difficult. when kevin reed's tomatoes are an easy target. >> what can be done? >> make the hunting season longer. and put food on their table with them. you know. >> eat them. >> eat them. why not? >> it's sure got a lot of folks here in a fowl mood. sorry. i couldn't resist. for "cbs this morning," seth doane, hainesport, new jersey. >> begs for the silly puns, doesn't it? >> it does. maybe it's the turkey's revenge for thanksgiving. >> you might be on to something. >> they got to have some rights, right? >> that turkey at the white house isn't -- >> is there a culture of corruption on wall street? plenty of people asking that question after an interest rate scandal that just became public. we'll show you how some wall streeters say they have to cut corners on "cbs this morning." chili's lunch break combos are a sizzling deal, starting at 6 bucks. t

into him is a devout muslim from turkey nor was goes to the mosque on fridays. abraham is temporarily unemployed bessel he can devote the rest of his day to walking around the neighborhood he lives in. these few streets always he sees of not just amsterdam but the rest of europe his favorite cafe in turkish wedding dress shop owned by his sister are located here also from a shop in our family like many other community members here comes from turkey i think yes and i attended a dutch school but i have always communicated with turkish people and we also speak turkish at home and i mean hate the same way other turks do. i go to turkish weddings turkish coffee houses and celebrate turkish holidays. face. this friday in britain is lucky he's been offered a job singing at a turkish wedding. becoming a professional singer has been his dream for a long time. to bring him sings into question this is the only kind of music his family and misspeak friends. culture is that so much going on the huge musician on the mark with his fear of spring finally coming to sudan as the

i come from turkey all over it and i am a target. but i live in holland and i feel very good here when i leave this place for a long time and i really miss it and i want to come back to amsterdam to boston loma . a completely different way of life can be found only a few trump stops away from. loma amsterdam could compete with new york for the title of modern babylon more than two hundred ethnic groups lived here. the whole of post-war poland has been working hard to build the image of europe's most tolerant country to legalize soft drugs and prostitution as well as same sex marriages freedom of opinion and liberty are the call values of the modern netherlands. as it. helps. status will be. that i will be no. drugs consumption that there will be no fear. on the streets so the youth will be protected so they won't be doing hopeful things. these young people are representatives of the islamic organization shari'a for holland there are groups of this kind all across western europe only recently to great britain ban a similar group of is

they receive major reinforcements new supplies the military equipment new supplies of arms from turkey and saudi arabia when you talk about syria what's important to keep in mind is this sequence of events it is true that the syrian army is employing having artillery in the city but they are conducting drive military operations in response to terror attacks that have been happening in this city that have been happening in aleppo for several months and many residents of our left are telling us that they don't understand why that it took the government so long to conduct those military operations because they've been suffering from this criminal activity for quite some time now the residents of also telling us that before this military operation was launched the army how to evacuate the residents local residents out most of them are now stationed at the compost of the i left university residence from other locations at. the campus so. on one level syrian people were able to come together and try to help each other and what's important to stress also is that allowed for is believed to be