next the gloves are often cross talk as artie's peter lavelle grills his guests over the role of western foreign policy in the arab spring. it is. still. a low in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle to forgotten spring a state appointed investigation claims bahrain used excessive force as it halted protests led by the shia majority in february and march this report is seen as a final attempt to bring bahrain's increasingly polarized sides together there is little indication of this happening anytime soon. and it can. start. to cross our brains quagmire i'm joined by kate hudson in london she is the general secretary of the campaign for nuclear disarmament and birmingham we have peter ere he is a middle east consultant and in prague we cross to mitchell bell for he is the editor of the essential european journal of international and security studies at metropolitan university prague cross-talk rosen a fact that means you can jump in anytime you want kate i'd like to go to you first in london what do you think about this report a lot of people are calling it a whitewash while at the sa

but i would say for example that it was not made for western consumption at all in fact we can see that the world the royal family and the alpha liefer family has been attempting since two thousand and two really to bridge the gaps between the different segments of society there's been calls for national dialogue there's been attempts at constructing a more i think a widespread consensus over how the whole range of progress proceed into the future that doesn't mean. all at once all the reforms not only that the report stress but also the reforms that the regime has been attempting to push forward. you know magically appear and you know very easily be adopted by society but i think that's the reports and i think the whole ethos in general are very keen on really building a national dialogue and bringing all segments of society together in a manner or do you think about that peter in birmingham i mean we had the have the saudi troops come in in court what invited in to keep the peace there i mean how can you have some kind of reconciliation when you have a gun to your head. and then you y

and russia's new radar keeps watch on the country's western most border with strike force is planned if nato fails to guarantee its european missile shield isn't day begins moscow. hello this is r.t. it's midnight here now my name is kevin owen live in moscow for you and our top story a case based on prejudice and conjecture that lawyers for a russian woman suspected of spying have lashed out of britain security service for a panel over ruled a deportation order and said catches it to live at it can stay in britain she was accused of trying to siphon information during an affair with a british m.p. she worked for over bennett's been following the case in london. the cotton panel of three judges including a former head of the british security service ruled the balance of probability she was not and is not a russian spy is not certainly not we need her to reach this point she was arrested twelve months ago back in december last year on suspicion of being a spy and since then according to her lawyer she's been living a cash guest nightmare and she's been living under scary strict bail c

france and the leading western countries recognized the illegally declared independence of kosovo in two thousand and eight it's become very hard to to find a solution because you're actually unilaterally trying to impose something on a sovereign country which is serbia serbia has said that it cannot recognize independence the united states is recognizing independence we don't see any any room for much maneuver there especially because western powers are saying that they're not going to withdraw their recognition of kosovo independence so it seems like if someone is actually planted the seed of the future of instability and disorder in this part of the world and it's the western nato powers unfortunately. but finally a master part of therapy is begging for a year number shap now how could the situation of the cosmos there be a border effect a bit. though this is one of the secrets to why nato is using aggressive action right now by the deadline for serbia as an assembler knife that that's the day when the european commission the european union supposed to make a decision on granting

that those western nations should. the french government. talked about in military coup or western troops they're just playing into the hands of the regime anything that has to do with these issues should be the arab league turkey regional players team not friends it's not western europe. western military intervention should be outside of the discussion right now it should be the focus should be regional players trying to. solution artsy online reporting tonight how a fast food chains t.v. sees the fate of the dictators in the middle east and africa. and we. check out who else zimbabwe's long time with robert mugabe is remembering it is now so lonely dinner at our teat of. an american scientist mission to you craig turned into a quest a very different kind of chemistry tempted by promise love he was quickly left homeless hungry and with nowhere getting home at his lectures or skis the story of a man who love really does. social services in western ukraine were very surprised at encountering this homeless man. he looked exactly like a typical

western countries in the capitals of some countries in the region are openly recommending opposition to not hold talks with the assad regime it looks like political for the cation on an international scale civil war is brewing in syria the whole region seems to be plunging deeper into crisis. while people suffer in the continuing wave of. violence in the middle east and north africa some analysts say certain powers might be interested in keeping the trouble boiling there are certain powerful interests outside of the middle east who wants to bring chaos is the ruling scenario just in turning chaos in order long term will be militarized directly by nato and the oil resources of these oil rich countries large can be directly put under private hands it looks like this so-called transition to democracy in the wake of the arab spring is not going to while more blood is being shared we're looking at an arab winter and maybe a new way or spring around the corner as tensions rise and as certain go more powers are pushing for regime change in more countries of the region the wave of revolution

and other western players are reacting to. this have a second chance now they've had a chance to rehearse what they could have said in the case of. it because they have absolutely no kind of consistency they have no real policy and they have no real direction what they're hoping at the moment is somehow that the military would regain control and ensure a more kind of snot transition in favor of their own interests and outlook for the . syria no faces punishing sanctions from the arab league as a diplomat from a body says damascus ignored friday's deadline to accept foreign observers france is actively seeking international support for the humanitarian corridor to be set up in the crisis tom country it's also the first time a major power was formally called for foreign intervention in the uprising against president assad but there are questions about paris's to go efforts at these terrorists more. people thanks to the libyan intervention of french president nicolas sarkozy bad destroying a first for his country first call for n

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out in the mountains of western west virginia and western pennsylvania. it is creeping towards the east. a lot of clouds will be here today. maybe a little sun. sunrise at 7:04. by noontime, we ought to be in the 60s. mid and upper 60s during the afternoon with a lot of clouds around. sunset at 4:48. a look at your evening planner at 6:11. stephanie stallworth is in for danella with the traffic. good morning, stephanie. >> good morning, tom >>> an accident on route 66 approaching route 123. two left lanes blocked. significant delays for folks coming our way. take a look at 66 approaching route 50, the damage is already done. folks traveling on 270 getting a little slow southbound around route 80. heading on past route 109. after that, the lanes are open as you head down towards 495. no reported problems on the beltway. just had the earlier debris on the outer loop right around route 450. joe, over to you. >> stephanie, thanks very much. >>> three violent carjackings at the very same shopping complex. montgomery county police say the same suspect is target

falsely reporting there from cairo brian becker from the anti war coalition and serves as the western powers would rather have a familiar ally of the top and indeed despite public demands for change. the united states and britain but principally the united states is looking at a number of options their primary option was to keep mubarak in power forever or then his sons and that can't be now can't happen right now so they thought then that they would have a military rule that would create those political leaders who were acceptable to the west that's come undone because the military has not let go of the tight grip on power and so now they're looking for plan c. mohamed el baradei he is a familiar face to the west who is recognized by the west he was the chairman of the i.a.e.a. he was somewhat independent of the united states but not really a severe challenge to the united states in the run up to the iraq war so of course i think he might be considered by the american government the best to be available options but the egyptian people want genuine democracy they don't want an interim

intervention it's knocking out a country which was a problem for western domination of the world and especially africa it's about regaining those military bases which mama gadhafi chucked out in one nine hundred seventy it was the biggest u.s. base that was thrown out in one thousand seven hundred field it was about reestablishing that wintry place in africa so everything is going back so i don't see like iraq i mean iraq suffers terrorism and on and on a daily basis which under saddam hussein didn't so i think we're going to see a similar if not worse model developing in libya right now so soon judging by what you're saying the investing no hope at all in the new government to be announced by next sunday is likely to form the government and the how much influence will nato have on it i think i think you know nato has influence is only as much as securing knocking out the german government securing the oil fields and that's it it's been a war on the cheap it's been a war conducted by nato from miles up in the air and no nato soldiers lives have been lost over sixty thousand libyans l

western states to get in there for a regime in syria and if that is their plan then what is the point what is that again . very very important thing is that this is the most tolerant society in the middle east this is one place where all kinds of people live together in i think remarkable harmony and again it's a it's a very wide variety moslems of all kinds christians of all kinds of christian greek orthodox greek catholics melkor syriac many many other kinds druzes curves and so forth this is a model of the peaceful coexistence of various ethnic groups now the u.s. policy i think right now is to smash the middle east according to ethnic lines and other words if you can have a divide and conquer policy which says to let the christians will be kicked out of lebanon and the christians will be say kicked out of syria in the way that they have been kicked out of iraq and ironically a lot of them went to syria you can you can get a situation where all of these countries are are fatally weakened. way in which it's introduced is if you look at syria the main centers of trouble are on the tu

moscow blamed syria's increasing international isolation on western plans to bring about regime change. syria's hour of the day visit but president assad says the united states and its allies call for tougher action to bring about the downfall of the syrian leader. turning up the heat for us on china strange tough language over trade and currency issues such as the apec summit comes to a close and who won. three two one. back in business the crew of three heads to the international space station on a russian soyuz it comes three months from the crash of a similar unmanned rocket that happened shortly after that. just after four pm on monday here in moscow this is on it's here with me. but u.s. and its allies are more interested in regime change in syria than a peaceful solution to the rest that's according to the kremlin russian foreign minister says that western countries are trying to stir up syria's opposition to president bashar al assad that's going to let us know there's a developing story with. moscow has been trying to mediate a peace deal in syria from months now what is the k

and seventy's so will the western paradigm which is currently showing blatant signs of decline to the asian model or something more formidable or will the global wave of dissent prove capable of reversing its downfall one thing is clear is that once the dust settles things will not be going back to business as usual or i don't think anybody will disagree with you on that first i'd like to go to richard in london who's interests are served by the idea that free markets and democracy work together well i mean the. democracy there are a lot of special interest groups that arise especially since the start of the twentieth century when we've seen this drift in the political elites world socialism so as we've said a huge growth in what the state does we've seen all these various best interests rise and strengthen and that's really the problem that's why the people don't feel they've got a voice because the special interests and i was so powerful ok david what do you think about whose interests are served here because when we look at all of the protest movements all around the world we have

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powers are saying that they won't see western powers typically want to speak on behalf of the syrian people and think they're in a part better position than the syrian people themselves to do so where are we tonight goes this all rumbles on it's been eight months now these protests calling for assad to step thousands of people have been killed is there any end in sight or is syria closer to a full blown civil war. but i mean one thing it's quite hard to get objective reporting in syria i mean there's some good stuff going on but at the same time there are a lot of pious reports coming out there's a lot of interest play when it comes to actually finding out what's going on on the ground so actually getting to the heart of that is really problematic but i mean i really stress at this i think you know the more you have you on observers going in . on the ground and intervening and monitoring what's going on the more you have the threat of economic sanctions which can often really get the people as much as they can the governments the more you have these kind of outside interventions and

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those are getting closer to western maryland as well. rain showers possible in areas like oakland throughout the midday into the night as well. for baltimore a dry day. winds calm. 10 degrees above average. the complete forecast coming up. >> our top story is a deadly car crash in howard county. >> friends and family gathered last night to remember those killed. >> jeffrey was an incredible kid. a young man that literally changed the world. >> it was a bitter sweet moment for the parents of jeffrey giles who lost his life in a car accident. giles' parents and three siblings were surrounded by family and friends and held a candlelight vigil for the 19-year-old. >> he had a heart that was so big. >> dale kirk audet iii lost control of his car and hit a tree in the 5200 block of royals hill road. jeffrey giles and 18-year-old jonathan deckman died at the scene. two others were treated and released. >> we believe speed may have been a factor. we believe the two deceased people may not have been wearing seat belts and that may have contribute

that destabilization looks like it's going to go even further i think that people in the powers in western intervention of countries are now are now wondering how far this will go and whether it can go perhaps too far for their conference. well western powers are focused on syria at the moment moscow has accused the west of stirring up tensions in the arab world by calling for the overthrow of the syrian regime russia says calls from certain states for the syrian opposition to avoid dialogue with the government are only provoking further violence r.t. peace offer has the latest. what we heard from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov today was him reiterating russia's position on the ongoing conflict in syria that position is that they want to see negotiations regime change become the final outcome in not conflict now said beloved of cold what he called the western calls for assad to step aside and also for the opposition in syria not to negotiate with assad he called that a provocation saying that that would not bring about peace that would only spur on the opposition to continue th

social services in western ukraine were very surprised at encountering this homeless man. he looked exactly like a typical local bun and asked him what he was doing and he replied in english but no regular down and now was he homeless man turned out to be us citizen kerry delayed oh yes scientist and politician last year he even ran for the governor supposed in arizona but failed he came to ukraine on a scientific exchange mission which quickly merged into a wife hunt the lego got in touch with the ukrainian woman yulia we invited him over to chill and i think you'll use that she is definitely working looking for a marriage partner produced through the rest was like a bad dream it was and sure enough see that the lego learnt that all his credit cards were blocked after his cell phone and laptop chargers were stolen no money no connection with the outside world and most importantly no we'll yeah a long way from home and love the american slept rough at the train station until he was found by a local social services very seriously ill and is now doing well but that's in term

unlike other economic downturn and since then today western capitalism has seen the financial sector of the economy rebound even flourish without meaningful economic growth and jobs generation this is the informant in a sentiment that elected officials are acting league with big business and corporations. and it's interesting. american. freedom for all right now is not work. and while millions in the arab world struggle to become part of a democratic process millions in the west say they feel disenfranchised from a political system that does little to address their grievances but as these protests point to a system in trouble it is the asian model of capitalism that is slowly emerging as an alternative if that has worked with and be able efficiency democracy of course it's sounds good but in practice it. always bring you the results and the scars economic results history has demonstrated that capitalism is equally compatible with fascists regimes of various stripes from nazi germany to write ups in south america of the one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's so will the western parad

is also word that comes to mind the arab league i'm afraid has shown itself to be an instrument of western geopolitical designs on syria after all it was the arab league that condemned syria a week or ten days ago and it was also of course the arab league that approved the attack on libya so i don't think we should pay too much attention to what the arab league does and certainly the fact that they are looking the other way while things happen in the very city in which they're meeting should give us grounds for concern it certainly does seem strange that the arab league will be meeting in the heat of the unrest and is actually turning a blind eye to it entirely if we can just for a moment here though we're turning our attention to it out of syria france has just now become the first western country to raise the possibility of an intervention in all kind of a bit reminiscent of what happened with libya do you think it could get support from other nato allies. i think that's quite possible as you know the french proposal has been to create a humanitarian corridor or and this is where the sim

russian foreign minister says that western countries are trying to stir up syria's opposition to topple president bashar al assad let's get the latest on the developing story with our. moscow has been trying to mediate a peace deal in syria from months now why does the kremlin to think that western countries are pulling in the other direction. will circulate through all of us said in a statement expressing russia's dismay at the decision to suspend syria from the arab league he said that with russia's help and advice president assad has been implementing the reforms that were put forward by the arab league in a meeting on the second of november a peace deal a deal to try and broker peace in the syrian conflict now. for office said this the decision to suspend syria from the arab league is counterproductive to a peace deal saying that the this decision really sends a message to the syrian opposition to to continue fighting against president assad's on the pro government forces in syria not getting them to the table to discuss a peaceful resolution to this now russia has tried to mediate

that rain stretching up through western pennsylvania and western new york state gradually moving its way to the east. as that front arrives by late tonight and after midnight, we'll get the rain moving in. between now and then, a lot of clouds. throughout the day, lots of cloudiness through the morning. sun in and out. temperature by noontime in the 60s. sunrise 7:04. sunset 4:48. a cloudy evening, down to the upper 50s by midnight tonight. look at that rain chance for tomorrow, and look at the forecast for the rest of the week and the weekend in ten minutes. stephanie stallworth, good morning. how's traffic? >> good morning. >>> traffic is behaving this morning. as you do your travels on the beltway, no problems, accidents, or incidents to report. take a live look at cameras on beltway near route 1, college park, so far, so good. heading over towards the legion bridge this morning. folks in virginia, 95, traveling right around the fairfax county parkway. you're looking pretty good. we're getting volume building as you come out of prince william county. it's going to be the usual stu

activated immediately will be early radar warning stations in kaliningrad which is russia's most western enclave the country's nuclear strategic forces will be strengthened significantly he pointed out that this needs to happen quote urgently are the countries and strategic missiles will be fitted with advanced kind of tracing systems and latest generation warheads and you also notify the armed forces that a system needs to be developed that could destroy data exchange in the control systems of this planned missile defense shield if these steps are not enough the president pointed out that this would be russia's last resort. just each other measures are insufficient or the russia will deploy and temporary strike systems in the west and south east in order to prevent further damage from the u.s. missile systems including you know the system of deployment of these going into missile systems in accounting that region will be one such step if the situation develops in an unbelievable way russia will reserve the right to seize further steps in the area disarmament and arms control. even unix

dot com reports online and western companies lining up for their stake it's the u.k.that's likely to come out and talk about how the brits are being favored. also online to scoff at the boot the russian capital's former maryland to some uncomfortable questions about a lot of billion dollars that went missing in the bank of moscow two years ago. some of the world's other main games for you this hour. a mass gathering of afghan elders discuss how much their country should stay and wind united states ground cancelled aside and level of washington's involvement once combat troops leave twenty eight president karzai wants to secure long term support is increasingly furious at america's unilateral actions of cause civilian deaths. president obama has arrived in australia was canceling his visit last year because of problems back home part of the trip is to try and expand america's military presence there station facilities joint training exercises increasing access to bases to counterbalance china which is dominant officer care. colombia's largest rebel group the fark has c

missile defense systems are being placed and is growing more and more right on their western border there and if you look at them out it's interesting that you bring it up it's the best evidence really to understand why russia has reacted this way why they've been so strong on their stance over the past couple years and really over the past couple of decades been signing these. our strategic arms treaties there's been several of them just look at the mouth i mean it's nato it's eastern allies you go down into the mid east and come up a long the pacific eastern seaboard of russia and they're surrounded there surrounded by so many critics who say that russia's reaction perhaps is is is an overstatement that it's over reacting just really needs to look at that map and it's it's quite simple to understand why they look at this as a threat and are demanding that their interests are also taken into consideration telling them that this are these rockets these military bases all these systems are against rogue states like iraq is just not enough. lisa now with the reporting live from central mosc

western audiences will be able to comprehend. well i hope you'll stay with me because you're going to be there if you indeed are going to be able to develop yet it if a year from now we see a thriving democracy in tunisia where there's free debate where there's a free press where all different political currents are able to articulate their point of view then i think you know the term islamic democracy is not going to invoke the type of you know scary images that are already let me jump in here will change that proposition a year from now many thanks to my guest today and to mr islam and in denver and thanks to our viewers for watching as you are to see you next time and remember astafy. can. still. want. in taiwan all cheese available in this type. and type eat the how it feels like be sure to type the hotel hotel while shall his the groom photo the show with the town some will type the hotel kuvasz over town from the hotel resort evergreens the hotels like pete victoria hotel. her town hall springs resort and spa tied to a hote

for the western highlands of western maryland.s is a drying trend as the front had our way. that front will bring a big difference in temperatures. you can see that front on the map as you see 60's out toward the bay but dropping for the 50's toward frederick. it is 32 currently in oakland. if they get any shares through the afternoon, some of that could fall as snow. this is the cold air coming in from the west that will push into baltimore through the afternoon. we're talking about how temperatures will fall rather than warm as the day goes on. the showers are heading across the eastern part of maryland and the clouds have stretched back into the west recalled from the slicing into western maryland and the cold air will fall on the backside. this will dry things out because we have high pressure in control toward the planes and this will make its way toward our region for the next couple of days. after all this wet weather, we will finally get a break with drier weather into the holiday weekend. we drop down into the 50's around

he is old-fashioned, honest and intelligent western pioneer. the second is a letter to lucas wrote in the years earlier during the war of 1812 when he was a young officer and he wrote this letter to a fellow officer. what is important to keep in mind this war is your hearing. he put in writing. he wrote, never was. more patriotic ernie the were completely in their power to accomplish every object it is higher desire that the president and they must not be something discourteous for want of a general. neither was ever a man of talent as there are so shamefully opposed to in the cell or treacherous commander. first of all, kramer is imperfect because the man was self educated, but smart. secondly, you put that in writing you could get a lot of trouble. this is indian who see in ohio and the war of 1812 a pioneer which is to say he would go and get what he wanted. example number three of this is private ohio paper in 1832.81832 years before the conflict of michigan altogether. one kernel of the regimen and something younger than he is now, lucas s

been functioning and beginning at least with two thousand and eight the world and specifically its western part of the undergoing momentous changes and its financial and political system ever since the credit crunch significantly undermined the global financial architecture the entire western paradigm which has for a long time assumed as one of its basic tenets the synergy between democracy and capitalism is now being seriously questioned the global occupy wall street movement is just one example of disillusionment with the promise of representative elections and the free market system which. never was. distinguished i should not know. but it's. pretty it's a very widespread sense that everything that is going on the war that's causing it seems to me is just. there's also ample evidence that capitalism is facing its greatest challenge since the great depression of the 1930's unlike other economic downturn and since then today western capitalism has seen the financial sector of the economy rebound even flourish without meaningful economic growth and jobs generation this has been for mentori