/turkish relations. turkey all of a sudden looking like it was on the front lines of a reemerging, redeveloping cold war and not very comfortable with that. several scenarios you can imagine in the caucuses that are difficult and complicated. what happens if israel or israel and the united states or the united states alone strike iran? big problem. and a conference a year from now or a year after that takes place, u.s./turkish relations could have a whole different tenor, i would submit. differences may well emerge over syria, differences may well emerge over, or worsen, over turkish relationship with israel. there are a whole series of things that can go really, i think, very, very wrong. um, the e.u. piece may come back together, and that may change at some point turkey's calculations or the calculations of turkish leaders about, you know, where they need to make investments of time. we all work on 24 hours a day, but there's only 24 of them, and so if you're going to spend more time with the e.u., you

i mean i mean i think it's in the turkish turkish foreign ministry and turkish government circles there is this believe that when you know because there is this perception that russia is behind it then and then believe that in the. course. then it might be against russia's interests i mean to be that much supportive of so they are sort of poor pushing some sort of they're trying to push some pressure upon russia to support the u.n. security council decision which would which would sort of include chapter seven. resolution but seeing as as far as i've seen from the russian foreign minister. russia is against the supporting such a resolution but what i have seen today when when prime minister was there in the press conference i was a little bit surprised when i heard from the turkish prime minister saying that he was supporting the geneva accord which was also the exactly what russians are saying while they are saying that let's let's talk about the genie way accord and let's not talk about any sanctions including chapter seven. resolution. being discussed at the u.n. and certainly with t

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. >>> turkish fighter jets scrambled after syrian choppers near the border. a report on what sparked the bomber is next. and the owners of mississippi's only abortion clinic fights it from closing. [ male announcer ] this was how my day began. a little bird told me about a band... ♪ an old man shared some fish stories... ♪ oooh, my turn. ♪ she was in paris, but we talked for hours... everyone else buzzed about the band. there's a wireless mind inside all of us. so, where to next? ♪ so, where to next? what happens when classroom teachers get the training... ...and support they need? schools flourish and students blossom. that's why programs like... ...the mickelson exxonmobil teachers academy... ...and astronaut sally ride's science academy are helping our educators improve student success in math and science. let's shoot for the stars. let's invest in our teachers and inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> welcome back. you would think syria has had enough problems right now but its military is adding to the list. yesterday helicopters flew near the turk

syria's president has told a turkish newspaper it that he wished syrian forces had not shot down a turkish military jet last month. mr. assad said he would not allow the tensions between the two countries to turn into open combat. he is quoted as saying, "we learned it belonged to turkey after shooting it down." meanwhile, a human rights watch says the syrian government is using systematic torture to try to crush the rebellion against president bashar al-assad. a report published gives the various methods of torture in use. it is now calling for those implicated to be prosecuted by the international criminal court. bbc's james reynolds has this report from the turkish-syria border. >> in damascus, security forces demonstrate their power. here, a man standing by the wall is punched. the new human rights watch report outlines what happens to these people if they get taken away. they are teachers from northern syria. they have taken refuge here in southern turkey. at the end of last year, syrian security forces detained them for demonstrated. he was beaten so badly that he offered to pay guar

crossing the turkish border seems to be increasingly easy. we were briefly detained by the turks, by turkish soldiers coming out, who did not really know what to do with us. they told the syrians i was with to go back over the border, with five minutes for the commander to leave, and go back. there were a bunch of other people going across. they said, the soldiers are occupied, let's go. there are more people coming across the turkish border than they can really handle. you know, that is, i think, an indicator of what is going on. as far as the fighting in damascus, it is still confined to neighborhoods that have been very anti-regime since the beginning. i was in two neighborhoods in may, and there was a lot of tension. there were demonstrations. there was a lot of rock- throwing. there were small bombings presumably by the rebels against security forces inside as neighborhoods. at that time, the people there were very in support of having the fsa inside the neighborhoods. the neighborhoods were full of refugees from homs and other parts of

what are your turkish allies telling you about this, about the refugees and so on? >> first, again, for reasons i think you understand and appreciate, we don't comment on details in such confrontations, including when and how they take place. but we have a continuous dialogue with turkey, and among all allies. we have not yet received updated information about the situation along the turkish-syrian border. compared to what we heard last week, i cannot provide you with new information as of today. but i expect allies to receive updated information in this week. >> not asking for any details, but just two simple yes-no questions. on syria, has made a received any formal request or indication so far from turkey for the deployment or use of a-1's in support of turkish air forces? secondly, you say the right response at this point to the situation in serious political. -- in syria at this political it is made up in contact with the allies of the syrian opposition groups? >> no, nato is not received requests for deployment of the military assets, and now, nato -- and no,

this story i do apologize for that as you may have known if you're watching the new cast here the turkish prime minister is here at moscow for talks with the russian president and there they are let's let's shoot in right now and listen to russian president vladimir putin and turkey's like the one. we discussed some issues both in our bilateral relations and on the international. which or. what was the you i would like to emphasize that turkey has always been our strategic partner guided me a reliable partner to his among the. media. and i will go as we. know he will over the past three years so we have been able to bring our relations up to a very high level of it of course rather would have made about the trip our trade group by twenty six percent and has reached almost thirty two billion dollars use the you know at the. last poster but it like where you name it. from three of the space we may soon reach the level of their hundred billion dollars. but you can they use me at a lot did you do you. have a way to curing them what i will give you to get your part of our energy copper ration

truck drivers -- for turkish truck drivers.nly last weekend, dozens of trucks were looted by syrian rebels when they seized a crossing point. there is the fear that with the situation getting worse, this is unsustainable, but ankara has reiterated there will be no change in its policy, and the united nations has confirmed this as well. >> with more and more people fleeing the fighting, that is no doubt very important. what is the rebels' situation right now inside turkey? >> -- what is the refugees' situation right now inside turkey? >> ankara is concerned the numbers are rapidly increasing. around 1000 a day in many cases. there have been tensions within the refugee camps within the last days, fighting which saw the police having to intervene, and there are also tensions with some local turks. many of them belong to the same set as the syrian president, and there is a bit of antipathy and dislike of some of the syrian refugees -- many of them belong to the same sect as the syrian president. now that the fighting has reached al

meanwhile, president bashar al assad told a turkish newspaper he regretted his armies downing of a turkish fighter jets and added that he would not let tensions with turkey lead to war. >> tensions -- to this newspaper were eager to publish the syrian president's regrets. he told one newspaper he wished syrian forces had not shot down the turkish jet. he said his air force only learned the plane was turkish after it had been attacked. new footage has emerged from damascus, reportedly showing shelling. the international community is still struggling to find a solution to the conflict. the friends of serious group is due to meet in paris on friday to discuss how to increase pressure on the syrian president. russia, a key ally of the president, was invited, but after a meeting with his french counterpart, the german foreign minister said moscow may not attend. >> the fact that russia will possibly be absent from paris this friday does not mean that we are not talking to russia. i will go this thursday to moscow because we must try to convince the russians to put themselves on the right side o

then the turkish security cabinet has been meeting as we speak. 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 colla

there's over 30,000 turkish troops on the island. they're stationed on over a third of cyprus, and sadly that occupied area of this beautiful land is one of the most millerized areas in the world. i have seen this -- militarized areas in the world. i have seen this on both sides of the divide. it is really tragic that despite the wishes of cypriots on both sides of that line that this cannot be resolved. and the cyprus-turkey issue, unlike many others, is one that the international community has been able to reel on. there have been 75 resolutions adopted in the security council. more than 13 by the general assembly calling for the return of the refugees to their homes and to their properties and for the withdrawal of those turkish troops from cyprus. president demetrice -- dimitris christofias, his commitment to finding a solution, greatly impressed me in he reached out to turkish cypriots. i had my own opportunity when i was in northern cyprus to talk to cypriots, turkish cypriots, and they confirmed that their desire was to find a

this may be needed for turkish own self-defense but if those attacks carried out that's going to make it very volatile a very bloody very unstable situation in this region far worse and so of course went on a boy reporting right there let's go let's get some more on this now and speak to beirut based activist. joining us live on the program good to see you today as i'm sure you're well aware you know we take our attention from syria now to northern lebanon where fresh clashes have taken place in the lebanese city of tripoli this between supporters and opponents of the syrian regime but what is beirut's role in all of this. well most respect agreements. please continue. they would must respect the agreements between syria and lebanon that. no country must disturb must destabilize the other as you know tripoli there are a lot of. persons there and salafist too so as in order to respect the agreements they would must take it this is if action against those men in order to stop the pass we arms between tripoli and syria and also there are a lot of thing counts for military the. armed gunm

russia's foreign minister says the policy of supporting the opposition will lead to an impasse as the turkish prime minister visits moscow he's right here now trying to convince russia to get the. u.s. agents to bolster security at the london olympics as the british with guarding the games apologizes for a company. flight from moscow this is r t thanks for joining us today syria's defense minister and his deputy have been killed in a suicide bombing in damascus the minister is the most senior official within the syrian government to have been killed since the conflict began last year the attack adds to the violence that's been rocking the syrian capital for days now joining us live now from the center of the city but also let's get the latest on this good to see you maria can you update us on the latest developments from where you are. well it already is suicide bombing that killed syrian defense minister and his deputy who's also been the president brother in law and former. chief deputy chief of staff has happened on wednesday in the very heart of damascus just less than five kilometers fro

down the road, a turkish military watchtower. one syrian rebel commander told me he had received guns distributive from a turkish army truck parked nearby, right by the border fence. a local mp from turkey's main opposition party has heard similar stories from villages all over the border. >> they told us that two or three times a week between midnight and 5:00 in the morning, there are many buses and lorries bringing boxes. sometimes, they are escorted by military vehicles. we are getting information that they are bringing weapons. it is not possible that they could be done without the knowledge of government. >> according to him and other rebels, those go mainly to italians that support the muslim brotherhood. they say it is the dominant force in the syrian national council, and units like his, which are not islamist, are left out. >> there are other parties who are apart from this. they are not doing anything. they are getting money from the other countries. they have money, and when you have money, you have power. >> they den

the turkish community have certainly lost their trust in the establishment. >> we thank you very muchor the report. this is a case that has shocked many germans and left awkward questions about the nation's domestic authorities. >> let's look at how it developed from the start. >> police in eastern germany already knew about these three young neo-nazis when they raided several garages. the discoveries they made were alarming -- 1.5 kilograms of explosives, five pipe bombs, and numerous firearms. but they also made a huge blunder. although the suspects were already under surveillance, the police did not pounds. one member of the group was present during the raid on the garage, but the police allowed him to get into his car and drive away. over the next 13 years, the three allegedly murdered 10 people, carried out bomb attacks, and rob banks. the authorities failed to link the crimes. all the whale, the trio lived free in germany, spending hollywood -- spending holidays on the baltic sea, making new friends. the police were incapable of tracking them down. >> when you see the police in

russia says a policy of supporting the opposition would lead to an impasse is the turkish prime minister visits moscow to decide the next step towards the conflict in syria. and washington to bolster security at the london olympics is the british firm tasked with guarding the games apologizes for its incompetence. live from the new center here in central moscow this is r t with you twenty four hours a day top level syrian security officials including the defense minister and his deputy have been killed in a massive bomb blast right in the capital damascus some reports say the attack also claimed the life of the interior minister well the officials reject those claims here's our correspondent with more. that is suicide bombing that killed syrian defense minister and his deputy who's also been president bashar assad's brother in law and former deputy chief of staal for has happened on wednesday in the very heart of damascus just less than five kilometers from where we have been able to hear the sound of this explosion and we have to say we have to meet that's a. very intense and massive la

turkish intelligence could be more involved than we are getting. there is some evidence and talk of that. they have managed to secure weapons. they have a regular flow of weapons. they do not seem to have money issues. the trajectory is that it will take down the government or forced into an enclave. intervention -- if we are talking about bonding -- bombing, taking a defenses, do we want to be responsible for what would likely be the ensuing massacre of the minority? what will fill that power vacuum? at this point, there is a vacuum that is part of the total vacuum. after the government falls, that could be even more serious. i do not necessarily see an intervention that prevents the state's lessening the death toll by taking away the government's ability to use these heavy weapons. other than that, i think that all of the dynamics we are talking about still exist, even if we are involved or not. you have to figure at the issue of what we just saw in libya -- what happens when the dump a bunch of weapons on a country? where do these weapons go? do

do apologize for interrupting this conference here a big apologies indeed ultimately we've got the turkish prime minister the one meeting with the russian president vladimir putin the basis of the meeting is that at all the issue of the ongoing crisis in syria today we've heard some of the biggest bombings today it in syria three major officials killed in the bombings as well you can follow this on r.t. dot com and we will be coming back to this was a live it later in the program so we appreciate your patience on this for now here on r.t. you know the. other part of a pretty sure security firm has admitted the company's reputation is in tatters after failing to provide enough staff to guard the olympics however he still wants to claim the fifty seven million pound management fee saying it's all part of the contract as are things that laura smith reports olympic security concerns are now extending far across the atlantic. as athletes and guess start to arrive here at heathrow airport for london the limpid gains they'll be met by all the usual sites including long that immigration as u.k. bo

turkish forces have been on high alert since syria shot down one of its jets last month. today, syrian president bashar al assad tells a turkish newspaper he wishes his forces had not shot down the jet. turkey has joined international calls for assad to step down. >> there will be a new administration and a democratic regime in syria eventually. >> reporter: turkey, along with other members of the arab league, is meeting in cairo today to talk about syria. the group is calling for opposition groups to put aside differences and unite in their efforts to get rid of assad. >> it is a pressing need for the syrian opposition to engage in this transition process as a strong actor speaking with one voice. >> reporter: the u.s. has long maintained that assad abuses and tortures his people. now a new report issued this morning from a human rights group backs up the claim. it says the syrian government directed torture against civilians, including children. >> the syrian authority is running a network of torture centers, a network of torture chambers scattered across syria. >> repo

and they have done that and they have created networks and i think turkish intelligence may be could be a little more involved than we are getting. there is some evidence and talk of that. and they have managed certainly light weapons and they have a regular flow of weapons now. they do not seem to have money issues and i think the trajectory is that eventually they will take down the government or force it into some sort of alawi enclave. intervention, retype in, if we are talking about just bombing, taking out defenses, do we want to be responsible for what will probably be the likely ensuing massacre of the alawite minority or the driving out of the alawite minority? what will fill that power vacuum? there is obviously at this point a vacuum that is we are moving toward a total vacuum and i think after the government falls, that could be even more serious. i don't necessarily see an intervention that prevents these things. possibly lessening the overall death toll by taking away the government's ability to use these heavy weapons, but other than that i think all of the dynamics th

may be needed for turkish only self-defense but if those attacks carried out that's going to make it very volatile a very bloody very unstable situation in this region far worse. london based security analyst charles troubridge thinks the forces fighting to replace assad could pull syria into chaos if the regime falls. there are certainly amongst the opposition democrats perhaps people. working on the inside is what is the outside with that has to be said many of those should we say opposition figures who are speaking about secular democracy or actually on the outside of syria so the question is who is controlling who is the influence behind the armed rebels who are succeeding on the ground it may well continue and one has to look at the supplies and inspiration of various people and what looks to places like saudi arabia and one has to wonder whether saudi arabia is interested in promoting democracy so it isn't with its it with its own internal borders and one i think has to have the greatest fear is that south florida will fall from being a panacea for this. may well be that for at

turkey has played a very active and some would say a very distractive role in the syrian affairs turkishterritory is 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 sat at 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 calm 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 crudest on its workers party b p k k b it's been fighting for the establishment of an independent sovereign state for the kurds the world's largest people without a state a few months ago i shouted a chance to visit several kurdish settlements around syria and i was very surprised to find that they are defacto independent they have their own security force their own schools that own administration so all these developments with the kur

. >> reporter: kyra, he gave a long interview to this turkish newspaper.asically throughout this discussion he's calling the most serious challenge to his families' more than 40 years of rule over syria, basically a foreign. he said foreign powers that tried to divide syria tried to copy models in tunisia and egypt into popular uprising that people were paying demonstrators, he claims, $10 to come out in the streets and demonstrate against his government and now that price has gone up to $50 a person to come out and protest against him. he's accusing neighboring governments like turkey and the u.s. of sending arms and money to what he calls terrorists, islamist terrorists to attack his government. and when asked about the enormous array of human rights abuses allegations against him and his government, he says there may be a few mistakes made, but you can't accuse the whole government of crimes against humanity as united nations repeatedly has. he claims that united nations dominated by governments like the u.s., which are seeking his downfall in the first

me be needed for turkish all self defense but if those attacks every carried out that's going to make a very volatile a very bloody very unstable situation in this region far worse i do use oksana boyko reporting the wall of meantime the u.s. was also allegedly involved in setting up a secret weapons hub in order to smuggle weapons for the syrian rebels dr ali mohammed the editor in chief of the syria tribune says that her turkey on the gulf states are acting far beyond international law the u.s. seems to have finally understood that it will not have a clean clean clear success in syria and if it decides to intervene it will ruin the whole country on the way and that's why it's leaving the dirty work to do its local proxies so dearie turkey seemed to to like the idea of a middle east controlled by the muslim brotherhood which they can control easily thinking that this is their battle it seems gives them the privileged. that's what they think nothing allows them to do so this is against international law this is against every concept of neighboring countries so they think it's ok for t