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you suggest or certainly in working with the western media many western states are claiming that assad's days are numbered calling him a dictator and the many other names at the same time did you think the overthrow of the regime is just a short matter of time now. oh i die i mean who knows it's very difficult to predict the future but i mean the international community its main focus should be on bringing pace and stability to syria civilians are dying every day not just because they are being called up in the fighting between government forces and armed militants and terrorists as well the report by the arab league clearly states that he must crimes have been committed by by the op by the people in syria that are opposed to president assad so instead of western governments the british and the american and the french ones talking about president assad stays being numbered they should be more responsible in their outlook and the main focus should be on bringing peace to syria dr marcus papadopoulos the editor of the politics of the magazine live in london thanks for coming on r t today t

seems that for western countries the time for dialogue is pretty much over now we know if the u.n. resolution that was just calling for. for to stand down we know that you know if he hadn't done that it's very likely that the steps would have been taken no fly zones potentially military intervention we've seen that happen before in libya i wouldn't be surprised if that had happened again were it not for the veto and it does look like western countries are still looking for ways in which they can sidestep that veto and intervene regardless and i think they want. western countries have no faith in arab countries or already any other countries being able to determine their own affairs and fear of the how about this. this discourse amongst themselves they always want to intervene and think that they know better and if they don't step in then they could be potentially be a tragedy they like the idea that they are in a kind of almost neo colonialists way as if it's like this kind of paternalistic way in the way that you had nineteen centuries kind of western countries going in and educat

as those western comments on the outcome of the u.n. security council vote on syria sound indecent and almost hysterical in this connection i can't remember the saying that those who are angry are really right look at these historical statements attempts are being made to create a false picture of what is really going on in syria and what's really happening is that there are several and not just one sources violence in syria but with regards to why russia vetoed that resolution over the weekend well russia's position on syria has always been the same they condemn both sides both the side kill them and the the opposition and want them both sides to put down their weapons and come to the table for talks now as far as russia concerned the resolution is on the table only focused on the government forces and didn't make any requests on the the opposition to lay down their arms and as far as russia concerned that's not acceptable when it comes to a u.n. resolution on syria. let's get more on this from patrick hayes political analyst for the o

governments and western media and we have to remember that the western governments and western region they have an objective objective is regime change they want to see president assad's fall from power and that is the main goal of the syrian national council it's something that should they should be taken a lot of caution should be attached to them so you don't feel the syrian national council giving accurate in for information to the west to the media outlets to the world. no the syrian national council it was formed outside of syria and is based outside of syria they were objective is to see president assad fall from power and it should also be stated that some members of the syrian opposition actually remain in syria and they've made it very clear that while they want to see changes in the syrian constitution they want to do this by working with president assad and his government and they've made it very clear but they do not want to have any relationship with outside forces the fact that the syrian national council is doing so really does raise a lot of suspicions about their age

western troops or military operations or conflicts involving allies or countries in which western countries and governments have some kind of interest there is a striking tendency to simply fall into line with the official narrative obviously if you're in bed with an ominous character miter saw if you look at inevitably going to bond with the soldiers or the people at the receiving end of a do it may well be shooting at you as well as the saudis so that naturally narrows the land somewhat that's why and gone was basically ducking the strategy that was in the gulf war but there's another wider question which is as you suggest when dealing with these kind of conflicts if it's striking because the risks for challenging official narratives are not that great for most reporters in the western media because the what happens when you lose their jobs or they won't get rich and yet the start was. rist it's often stunning to me at least how readily. the the western media in his editorial lines it's coverage and people who did interviews in his general portrayal of these conflicts will reflect not exa

what western hemisphere nation received the most slaves? it was the nation of brazil. the trans-atlantic voyage called by many the middle passage, from africa to the western hemisphere was quite deadly for slaves. is that a myth or is that reality? that, indeed, is reality. any trans-atlantic voyage in the 17th through 19th centuries was indeed a very dangerous journey. at the beginning of the slave trade process, the death rate among slaves was about 20%. so, pretty high death rate, about 20% of the slaves did not make it to the western hemisphere. however, as time progressed, that death rate began to drop. by the time slave trade ended, the death rate hovered about 4%, so from a death rate of about 20% to about 4%. interestingly, though, if you look at the trans-atlantic death rates of european immigrants to the western hemisphere, the death rates are about the same as the slave trade, if you compare it to the final 4% number. many americans are confused about who brought slaves from africa to the western hemisphere. the process was relatively simple. first of all, i

shawn like you gratefully say after see three days of diplomatic deadlock over this arab and western backed regime change resolution it looks like russia's calls that it would not support such resolutions have finally been heard and we're seeing somewhat of a game changer take place although we do have to remember that right now the guessing game is still in full swing contradicting reports coming out of statements that delegates are making at the united nations security council in terms of how soon and what kind of resolution exactly could be officially put on the table at the united nations security council what we do know for certain right now is that there has been about four hours of talks behind closed doors this thursday where delegates and diplomats seem to have agreed on new elements that they are considering putting into a new document and we do know that these new elements are being sent over to governments at home for consideration approval and deliberation and from what we know the russia's ambassador to the u.n. has said that this does not mean that anything has been fu

western interest in the conflict in syria isn't guided by. advance human rights democracy or the rule of law in the region if it was about that then we'd probably see an american naval flotilla off the coast of saudi arabia which happens to be one of the most repressive and brutal regimes in the world it follows a pro western foreign policy the reason why western governments are ignoring the findings of the report is because it doesn't fit into their agenda syria is a huge player in the in middle eastern politics and the west principally america has a very problematic relationship with syria so it would be very much within america's interests for the syrian government for president assad to fall from power and for a more accommodating a more sort of pro western governments culture parallel should that happen is that it that would give a washington almost for we don't mince politically in the middle weights and it's what i would describe as a geo strategic chess cool it's so it's not within the interests of western powers principally america t

in the past clearly establishes a relationship between western governments and western major they work very closely together we saw this in the wars in the former yugoslavia we saw this leading up to the invasion of iraq and we also saw it last year in libya the head of russia's foreign affairs committee has been meeting with opposition groups in damascus he spoke to r.t. about the syrian conflict you can watch that interview indeed there later this hour . next the streets of moscow were flooded with people on thursday gathered to show their support for the candidates running for the upcoming presidency tens of thousands turned up for mass rallies in the spike of political activity there ahead of next month's election people all over attended the largest demonstration. both thursday seeing a day of rallies in support of various political candidates for president across moscow today is a public holiday meaning that lots of people are off work and able to come out on the streets largest rally taking place this is amongst the pro vladimir putin for president supporters many thousands of p

the western world may want to help the syrian people honestly but. it would be a huge mistake to antagonize china and russia now by crossing them and intervening in syria despite a veto. i don't think that any humanitarian concern in the west will be big enough to actually prompt governments ok james james in and i'm going to give you the last word i mean dissolve and you think we'll be doing a program on theory a month from now. peter i think it's going to end with us arming people like john mccain who has been a neo con neocon sort of mouthpiece for years now putting israel's israel interests ahead of america i think you'll see him and joe lieberman and others pressure of to arm the rebels in syria i think unless collate from there perhaps you'll see civil war and you'll see these a liberal here in a train intervention run out of time thank you michael very very very interested gosh and it looks like it's going to be a terrible ending no matter how you cut it many thanks to my guest today in washington amsterdam and in los angeles and thanks to our

this is a push back against western culture is a way of talking about control.hout using those words. >> reporter: the government may find it hard to take back control. this person works for a japanese car company. her favorite tv program, the social issues talk show, removed from prime time. she now mostly watches tv clips online instead. >> every day especially now that i'm working when i drag my tired body and mind home, i really want to have a moment of relaxation. i want to laugh outloud. but i can't be as easily satisfied as before. so i feel a bit disappointed. >> reporter: she misses her shows. she was even more offended by how the rules were rolled out with no public input. >> i feel perhaps they have good intentioned but their methods are very undemocratic. they're too forceful. it feels like a monopoly. >> reporter: this generation of chinese wants a voice. freedom is what the skater talked about when asked what he likes about western culture. >> it attracts and interests me a great deal. i think it's very free. that really attracts me. their thoughts

western united the. spoke more favorably over diplomatic in consensual solution recall of the russians going out earlier. if you look at the u.s. and so i read it in yemen they were very patient because negotiating a political solution we just saw an election in yemen. that turned the page on previous president. and was supported by the. the election was supported by the main faction that had been in jail so there are alternatives there are no immediate goal as they walk on who are very very different from being. robert naiman policy director for just foreign policy we appreciate you weighing in certainly that situation changing by the moment really there well today is the nationwide opening of the new military flick act of valor now this used real life navy seals to give americans a realistic view of what these secretive forces do now once the trailer and was exciting and heroic but it is of course hollywood so does the movie portray reality or just what the u.s. government wants you to see it's a quest

in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want jim and i to go to you first it seems like western powers have an agenda here they want to get rid of assad but they want to stop the killing as well aren't they mutually contradictory well this is a common problem we've seen this over and over again around the world we've seen it in libya just recently but you have to remember that we had a similar situation in liberia we've had a longstanding problem in the sudan so in a sense it's not a new problem i'm not really sure if the world is divided i think generally people agree that the syrian government has been excessive in its use of force and constructive so i do think in a sense there is yet unanimity and the people think what this government is doing is wrong ok what do you think about that james in los angeles here because we have kind of a new situation right now the u.n. security council didn't vote for the any kind of intervention a removal of assad is a precondition to move forward here so we kind of have a deadlock obviously i mean what what's the next move here because we're

russia and china particularly russia has been very much criticized in western governments and and western media for its veto and the russians are standing by it was listen to what russia's ambassador to the u.n. but how he had to say about that. our effort was directed at ending the bloodshed those who are accusing us have been trying to fan civil war and conflict in syria so you know i don't want to want to make them in using this kind of hysterical language but we should have a. call that track record in dealing with the situation of syria supporting opposition sometimes with arms with their goals of forty's even change so. history will show i think. russia has been doing everything we can and continues to do everything we can. ok jim so what do you think about that i mean what my point is here is that you know these humanitarian interventions which i think is an oxymoron in a way because so much violence is used but i mean you know it was libya. being what we looking at libya as a president we can do it in other places and let's be fair and places that are that to the west would like t

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i am here to ask you to stop this attempt to overrule the western plan. please respect the community plan as itis, there have been 66 community meetings discussing entertainment with input from all interested stakeholders. please do not ignore our well thought out and well the plan. show my neighborhood some respect and leave the plan alone. i suggest you start your own plan. thank you. >> next speaker, jeremy pulled. -- paul. >> my name is jeremy paul, i am a permit consultant and diocese people with projects going through the permit process. this plan has been very -- a lot of hard work has gone into it. there is so much quality in this document. i don't want to see a this, the quality of the essential core element of this document be threatened by a weak entertainment element. it really falls upon the entertainment division and the community that created its to support entertainment uses in the western soma. i have worked there for about 60 years and spent most of my days there. i feel very strongly that this plan as it now stands is very weak in how i

we can remember that some thirteen years ago there was a chinese russian veto yugoslavia but the western countries disregarded it and so bombed you so obviously i work on this i believe you know well again it could happen again it could eventually happen again i think in the short term the more likely scenario will be covert support to the. two armed opposition elements i also have to say that i very much hope that one of the well let me take a step back and say that the problem here is that there are very few potentially credible mediators left certainly not the arab gulf states certainly increasingly less turkey given its growing hostility with syria russia is one power i think that can bring sufficient weight to bear on damascus to persuade if not the syrian president then at least the syrian politically about the urgent need for a genuine political transformation that could prevent some of these catastrophic scenarios that you've been suggesting believe me being here you know in moscow you probably have heard the opinions of russian russian experts. politicians that into syria would

and does an intervention ok i mean if the west does it it's ok because they're western powers they're good guys but if iran does something like that using the same doctrine it will be called invasion well you can do that if i may john kerry i'm going to hear or see anything at all to see the right. no i think i mean i think this here it is even if you take the example of the russian intervention in georgia which was defended initially at least on humanitarian grounds it was roundly sneered at by western states and by western commentators the idea that the russians would dare to invoke a humanitarian justification there when clearly the only states which are expected to be allowed to you know belies the discourse of unitarianism or western powers so i think it's very the there's talk of universalism in those talks as if these rights are free floating and belong to anybody in principle but in reality we know that it's going to be the great powers they decide how they're applied the great powers on the security council in particular the western powers the western powers britain can i can

it will have a large place in the world in the 21st century and the western model i think walt be as helpful and pervasive as we once thought. so history has been on the one road heading towards some kind of in the point that looks like the west. now i think we're starting to see the road take different paths and that i think is one of the reasons that this century is going to be quite interesting but also dangerous because it requires a level of management and of consensus that historically speaking of the world has never required. >> charles kupchan serve the national security under president bill clinton, and in fact your former boss his most recent book, back to work, has aligned that hasn't been picked up on much, but he said as long as we are still organized by the states do you think there is a future where we are not organized necessarily by country or nation? >> mean ebit it is a long time away, and i think one of the interesting developments of the last couple of decades is how strong the state remains. the kind of party the nation state is coming back because the globaliza

know you see that very very few people have joined it you have this creation of a federation of the western militias a few days ago one hundred militias in the west of libya and that really does seem to be a step on the road to the breakup of libya into at least two parts west and east if not more so as a sign come find anybody who says that they think the things just go away and the militias will respond tribalism land and so on i am afraid not so briefly to wrap up do you think that the uprising has reached its goals. i know i don't think so i mean if. people said that the problem was khadafi you can find many people who say when the problem wasn't good i feel as such it was it was lack of rule of law for example and clearly you don't have the lower end of your told no i don't think i don't care for people for all right jim brann from the stop the war coalition thanks for your time. type police are searching for two more suspects in a failed terror plot they say targeted israeli diplomats in bangkok three iranians have already been detained over tuesday's explosions in the thai capital te

the past clearly establishes a relationship between western governments and western major they work very closely together we saw this in the wars in the former yugoslavia we saw this leading up to the invasion of iraq and we also saw it last year in libya this is r t coming up a bit later in the program mr to stickle nightmare europe's financial troubles are predicted to get even worse as the bloc prepares to flood athens with more taxpayer cash intended to repay previous e.u. learns and. election fever grips russia as thousands of people come out on the streets of moscow to show their support for the various british dental candidates. a u.s. soldier accused of the largest leak of state secrets in american history has been officially charged in court among the data he suspected of releasing this footage of u.s. soldiers firing on civilians and that is christine for reports next the system behind the trials being blamed for covering up crimes and punishing those who speak out. nearly two years in waiting much of it in solitary confinement. among the twenty two charges filed against him ai

he wants to repay the people of western japan by playing music. he visited a monument in kobe for the 1995 quake. he made a renewed pledge to work with his friends to pass on memories of both disasters. >> translator: i believe human bonds and friendships survived both disasters. >> reporter: the concert was held at a department store in osaka. >> translator: we received great support after the march disaster as people in western japan know what the survivors are facing. i hope you will enjoy our concert. >> reporter: the sound created from the salvaged debris is touching the hearts of the audiences. >> translator: the concert reminded me of the disasters in western and northeastern japan. and i cried. >> translator: i believe long-term support is necessary. i'll try to remember last year's disaster by putting myself in the survivors' shoes. >> reporter: to hand down the memories of the disaster, he will continue to strike the chords of his new guitar. >> more news in brief from around the world. a new report warns that up to 4.7 people in south s

western europe getting unsettled as we head into monday. across the mediterranean, a few showers, particularly to the south. more significant precipitation and a lot of that will be snow towards the north, heading in across the balkans. snow will be accompanied by sub zero temperatures. still seeing minus 17 in moscow. minus 11 in kiev. central portions well below zero. minus 4 in vienna, minus 1 in berlin. better in london at 7 degrees, and 5 in paris. here is the extended forecast. >>> our lead stories this hour, the emperor of japan is resting up. he will have surgery on saturday to increase the supply of blood to his heart. it will be his first operation since doctors removed his prostate nine years ago after they detected cancer cells. he is 78 years old. doctors at the university of tokyo hospital examined the emperor to check his coronary arteries and the flow of blood to his heart. they found his symptoms were getting worse. the emperor has been receiving medication since last year, when part of an artery was found to have narrowed.

western the. spoke more favorably over diplomatic in consensual solution recall of the russian going out earlier that if you look at the u.s. and saudi arabia in yemen they were very patient at negotiating a political solution we just saw an election in yemen. that turned the page on grevious brother. and was supported by the men in the election was supported by the main action they've been in jail so there are alternatives there are no immediate goal as they walk on who are very very different from glee robert naiman policy director for just foreign policy we appreciate you weighing in certainly that situation changing by the moment really there and here in the u.s. there is a new red scare mainstream media has been bashing russia and china for several weeks the two countries of course as we just talked about drew the ire of the media and the u.s. government after vetoing the u.n. resolution that would have forced syrian president assad from power now while the media like to paint russia and chin

it's a terrible argument because as we've seen with western interventions particularly u.s. led interventions they turn into all sorts of extra violence that we cannot be contained and all sorts of unintended consequences that that should just be an immediate game changer for any intervention is an editor at antiwar dot com joining us live there in washington thank you for your thoughts and your time. the world's top whistleblower is taking his long legal battle to stay in the u.k. to the country's supreme court where he's appealing extradition to sweden during the signage is wanted on allegations of sexual assault dating back to august two thousand and ten which he denies that we can expand insists the case is politically motivated artie's laura smith reports from outside the high court in london. as often happens on the first day of these hearings you only hear one side of the story and what's happened today is that today in a sound his team has given that evidence they have that point his lawyer diana rose's seems to be quite convincing in front of the seven judges they w

continues to come down in western maryland. we are tracking a huge cluster through garret and into hagerstown. we have another significant round of rain that will keep it on the wet side before finally we do start to clear up overnight and into the day tomorrow. take a look at the pattern. you can see nice clearing in to ohio. it is on the way. we will dry out and clear out tomorrow but in the meantime dealing showers and storms and concerns in western maryland if you are traveling to hugey stown -- flash flood problems and severe warnings up for parts of eastern tennessee and the south. this evening 40s, scattered showers, still a few storms to the west and tomorrow the big change in to the 60's we go. we will talk about how it unfolds in to the weekend straight ahead. >> a suspect has been arrested after shooting a deputy. it happened in cambridge when the deputies tried to serve a warrant. the suspect shot the deputy and jumped on to the window. >>> an 82-year-old man is recovering in a hospital after being shot by a home in

russian business is being hit by western sanctions against iran over its nuclear program the gulf state takes approximately fifteen percent of russia's still exports trade across the caspian sea is being severely impacted because of restrictions imposed by u.s. banks at a coming over from industry research research group plus explains. any bank that is tied in with the us banking system. cannot cannot take part in trade it cannot open letters of credit it can we all know lots of credit theoretically it can be done for russian or ukrainian banks in fact in the end of december the iranian and russian trade and boris have met there has been talks about facilitating an easing of the system for russian banks to accept iranian lots of credits the fact is it doesn't seem to be working at the moment traders producers are telling us that free hundred thousand tons on the normal month zero terms at the moment. fifty five minutes on that i'll have the full the european markets. all the. cultures that so much given to each musician are you finding the right on the mark with syria and the smart move

he's a big basketball for at -- basketball fan and a lot of western friends and enjoy it western culturethe question is how much of that western is asian has seeped into his world view in the way he will try to liberalize -- westernize asian has seeped into his world view in a way that he can change his world view in a substantial way. >> there is so much we just do not know about him, and that is a concern. >> they do not call at the hermit kingdom for nothing. for generations, north korea has been the most isolated, least known country literally on the planet. even people who study it for years and decades cannot get and and do not know who is really running the show. we know there is a small coterie of generals who worked with kim jong il, but reading the tea leaves, it's harder to figure out what's going on there than it was to figure out was going on in russia. >> to an ambitious but ill-fated journey a century ago. setting off in a hydrogen balloon, a scottish explorer and his two-man crew tried to be the first to reach the north pole. they died without making it. incredibly, the e