a very respected western businessman an intellectual was arguing the public. the solution to the european of the western economic component your approach is was to wrong from some of the chinese practices as well as from or all of them across the globe that please be sure to actually my final question i think we have to be open minded not just about accepting in some chinese experience or some western experience but also maybe some russian experience or sort of african experience but staying on the issue of russia and china and i think what's interesting about the relation between the west and east of conscious is that some western countries cannot afford not to deal with russia and china but they're sort of embarrassed about having to do that and what's interesting to me personally about iceland is that your countries seem to be very open minded about dealing with. you know all sorts of countries but dollars possibly moral judgments and i wonder why don't you feel confined to any particular group because obviously you belong to the west you are a european cou

but with western troops preparing to leave in 2014, international funding for the media will soon be drying up. can afghanistan's fledgling economy support its vast new media sector, or will a western backed media, among the most vibrant in the region dwindle giving way to war lord t.v., the partisan play things of afghanistan's political and religious parties. listening post's on the future of afghanistan media. >> a stark reminder of the human cost of war. >> we want to update you on a breaking story we are bringing to you out of afghanistan. >> over a decade of war. the news from afghanistan has been unrelentingly grim. however, one of the few success stories to come out of the country has been the news business, itself. there has been a revolution in afghanistan's media sector in the past 10 years. it hasn't happened by accident. >> western governments and institutions realized early on that media could play a significant role in terms of facilitating social change in this country. and, also, to open up the world to afghans. the forms it obtains to a large extent allows people to

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the western world has become a sort of ideology and ideology that if you press a pawn all there is very harshly but. i've often said it was taken us in western europe decades and centuries to develop the kind of democracy so this whole notion that you're opposed always been an issue by a democratic nation he should you need to take on therefore the country should become democratic in five years or ten years it's completely unrealistic i don't know if you would agree with me but in the beginning of this crisis there were a lot of. efforts or at least some efforts to reconsider the principles on which the global economy is run and some politicians meaning decision makers were talking about the need to heal you know readdress those principles but i would argue about it nowadays essentially be. tyranny of the status quo of borrowing a phrase from milton friedman seems to be prevailing do you think the world has really learned the lessons of all of the crisis do you think be underlying reasons for that prices have been the trast so you're absolutely correct that the reexamination many of us

so somalia is broken and now we have these other groups which many would say american policy and western policy in somalia generated these groups and now it's spreading further as i said is the cure worse than the disease here when we look at the war on terror. well let's consider for a moment what's been going on for the last twelve years in somalia we've had cia covert operations we've had joint special operations command forces doing covert operations we've had private contractors. military operating in somalia since nine eleven they've been conducting targeted assassinations air strikes drone strikes all of affected to billions they're. they've scattered. groups but also created new ones and polluting al-shabaab which has been which has taken responsibility for what happened in kenya. the united states has worked with ethiopia and kenya to bring invading forces into somalia which have been responsible for brutal human rights violations create the united states has created an intelligence infrastructure in somalia the notorious jail or prison interrogation center in at the airport the

western europe was assailed on every side by slavs, magyars, saracens, and vikings.any people thought that christian civilization itself might not pull through. in response, powerful dynasties built great strings of fortresses in which their beleaguered populations could shelter. in the 1100s, europe turned the corner suddenly, as if the passing of the millennium was the release. we see a dramatic revival in the use of monumental sculpture and large-scale architecture such as had only been glimpsed in the previous centuries. the cult of saints and the passion for pilgrimage to their shrines were dominant features of medieval culture. one of the most famous was the pilgrimage to santiago in spain. the church was believed to house a sacred relic of christendom-- the bones of saint james, santiago in spanish, one of christ's 12 apostles. from atop the tower at vezelay, you can still make out the old way of saint james, winding its way to spain. it's astonishing to think that hundreds of thousands of men and women made that pilgrimage during the medieval period. they und

so somalia is broken and now we have these other groups which many would say american policy and western policy in somalia generated these groups and now it's spreading further as i said is the cure worse than the disease here when we look at the war on terror. well let's consider for a moment what's been going on for the last twelve years in somalia we've had cia covert operations we've had joint special operations command forces doing covert operations we've had private contractors centcom military operating in somalia since nine eleven they've been conducting targeted assassinations air strikes drone strikes all of affected to billions they're. they've scattered. groups but also created new ones and clothing al shabaab which has been which has taken responsibility for what happened in kenya. the united states has worked with ethiopia and kenya to bring invading forces into somalia which have been responsible for brutal human rights violations create the united states has created an intelligence infrastructure in somalia the notorious jail or prison interrogation center in at the airpo

also to your entire political system and democracy and i think this is a very unusual notion for a western political because it's somehow assumed in the west that once you become a democratic country once you join to coopt you are there for ever and yet you seem to be suggesting that even an established democracy can go backwards and this may happen and if relatively short period of time what this is a very important point because the. main pillar of this financial. theology that has been called the western consensus and you mentioned in the beginning how spin the financial markets and democracy would always go hand in hand they would always move forward in a harmony that would never be an inherent conflict and this study developed also from the chair on the reagan years into our notion dot off the front of mental parts of our society is the market force you prefer so politics and society became a very second tory it was supposed to the markets would bring democracy social harmony and everything else and iceland was a very interesting testing case for this theory because it is difficult to

western involvement by so that by propping up right wing dictatorships and bombing intervening we are creating more communist than he was suppressing same thing has been happening in the so-called war on terror that the that the us intervention is creating. this backlash effect it's it's creating the very enemy that we're trying to trying to suppress that you have these extremist islamist groups that are taking back to taking advantage of this national reaction that people have to a foreign intervention and those wishing to and help siders coming in and trying to run things and so you know the you know the fact is i've been going to have been traveling to the middle east for more than thirty years and the it's clear that the more the united states to militarize is the region the less and less secure we're becoming. richard you want to react to that intervention interventions is probably one of the clearest indicator it's the biggest advertising recruiting for these kind of extremists. well the. intervention we're talking about here i mean if you are looking at west africa for example

chemical weapons all sides in the conflict continue to escalate the carnage on the ground are the western powers truly interested in negotiations with the assad regime or are they biting their time searching for new opportunities to bring about regime change in damascus. but if. they face. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. war is probably the most complex and difficult to. all of us are still locked up. in the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. just killed a bunch of people you know don't know someone there on the premises there are a us people. reading. this some of them shoots my brother in the leg not intentional because it is because it was night times four in the morning even the best given the mesh shoulders. are going to make mistakes does this whole idea of brotherhood an author. and camaraderie in this sense it was in this context. as absolutely no place. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule tod

dassxico cost western mexico's western tourist line, acapulco, famously -- on mexico's western coastline, acapulco, devastated. the main road that connects it to mexico's capital city has been cut off by widespread flooding. as a result, thousands of holidaymakers who had traveled to the pacific for the independence a weekend have found themselves still stranded in acapulco, many without basic necessities and becoming increasingly desperate to get home. the mexican red cross is helping to distribute emergency supplies . the operations continue to be hampered by the weather. >> we use helicopters to transport materials. there are many landslides. >> file tropical storm manuel has caused chaos in the western hilees, in east -- wow -- wo tropical storm manuel has caused chaos in the western states, an estimated 1.2 million people have been advised the -- have been affected. peoplere still over 50 believed to have been killed. it is believed that tropical storm manuel could strengthen again, given the streaking -- giving the stricken community little chance to recover. terrifying scenes for

i'm jim axelrod with a western edition of the broadcast. more than three dozen people are dead following an attack in nairobi, kenya. several american americans are d to be among the injured, and a terror group with links to al qaeda is claiming responsibility. witnesses report five gunmen opening fire in a new four-story mall and taking hostages. charlie d'agata begins our coverage. we warn you, some of these pictures are disturbing. >> reporter: police scrambled for cover as gunshot rang out at an up market shopping mall in nairobi. inside, the mall, popular with westerners was under siege. witnesses said a group of men armed with automatic weapons stormed the shopping center and shouted anyone who was a muzz lum could leave. they then started spraying gunfire and lobbing grenades into crowds. these graphic pictures of the aftermath snow elderly people, women, and children among the dead mall worker sudjar singh says police were no match for the gunman. gunman. terrified shoppers took cover for hours, trying to make their escape any way t

this is where western policymakers must focus their efforts on what comes next. we do have the moderate opposition. they're willing to work with those who are willing to work with them. most importantly they will be at the forefront of insuring that syria does not fall into the hands of al-qaida. and lastly, if i may add, what putin's comments are disingenuous. it has been the syrian regime that has historically been in collusion with extremist groups, including al-qaida and iraq. the military regimes have a long, long standing of history with al-qaida and iraq and other groups. there is a level of dis di disingenuinety. >> we'll have to see what the western policymakers, their decisions over the next few days. oubai shahbanda, and ken sofer, thank you for coming on tonight. >> well, labeling mosques as terrorist organizations but with 82% new yorkers of approving of nypd's efforts were they simply doing their duty. been and what do you think? hermela aragawi is fielding your questions. she'll bring them to us. >> the average 5% higher than their less active pier

chemical weapons all sides in the conflict continue to escalate the carnage on the ground are the western powers truly interested in a go. with the assad regime or are they biding their time while arming rebels and searching for a new opportunity to bring about regime change in damascus. to cross-talk the war in syria i'm joined by elizabeth ferrous in washington she is a senior fellow at the brookings institution in new york we have eric draitser he is founder of stop improve dot org and in moscow we cross to erich krauss he's an independent asset manager right gentlemen and lady crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it if i go to you eric in new york first. about a week ago there was a lot of this pheno optimism diplomacy of the russians and the americans are talking to each other and then in the last day or so obama signed waives a executive order to arm the rebels in syria so where are we at right now is to is it only about chemical weapons and then regime change that's still in the cards that's still part of the obama agenda a

anti-imperial obviously but anti-zionist and anti-western and anti-western take so many different forms whether it's western music playing on the streets of cairo and i think so much of what you -- of this collision course that we have seen play out certainly in your lifetimes and earlier really stems from this kind of philosophical -- maybe philosophical is not the right word but this mindset that has really come to exist in that part of the world ever since that time. and the last thing i was going to say is you know i feel what we are seeing now and even six months ago when we were looking at the region today and is now looking at what's happening in syria but also what has already happened in libya and what has already happened in iraq. what we are now seeing is the final disintegration of these orders created almost 100 years ago. iraq today come to even though no one in the american government is going to admit it because the idea is we still somehow liberated iraq and put it on the path to something, iraq today is essentially three countries in its three countries very much along

you don't have rich rubies, colors which are western. we have the narthex where people enter the church. we have the nave where people sit, stand or kneel in the church. we have the sanctuary where the priest conducts liturgy, which is inside. and between the sanctuary and the nave, we have the altar screen. let's talk about byzantine art for a moment. our artist is robert andrews. he's american--american born. he lives in massachusetts. he taught art for 36 years. he has a family of his own. and he said, "i'm going to try to capture the style of 11th, "12th century byzantine art through the eyes of a 20th-century man." and this is what we see here. this is the altar screen. it has 12 large icons and 12 small icons. we have 12 pillars. we have 12 windows. we have 12 tilted panels. twelve is a significant number in this church. our lord had 12 apostles. if you look beneath the dome, you'll see 12 apostles. here we have the apostles. this church is named holy trinity so we have the depiction of pentecost because we celebrate holy trinity f

because having the western maryland. to make five western maryland county is break off and form a new state the biggest issue for me is the gerrymandered districts the state delegate senate and congressional districts are so gerrymandered in such a way to ensure single party dominance in this state and i don't feel that we can be properly represented that way says he has a lot of support in the few weeks since he launched a facebook fan page it's garnered more than thirty six hundred likes they say they're tired of being ignored by political leaders until tax season comes around but just how many western marylanders really want to be left on their own not everyone here wants to be the fifty first star on the flag we don't need two separate like saying the eastern shore should be their own in the western shore should be there and it's stupid what revenue do we really bring in to suborder ourselves you know even as mail and as always trouble very proud to be a lot of the state says he won't move forward with the initiative

officials this summer zarif a western educated former iranian ambassador to the u.n. has been called a worthy negotiating partner the appointment has been seen by some as an olive branch to the white house another optimistic development came in july when one hundred thirty one members of the u.s. house of representatives wrote a letter to u.s. president barack obama encouraging him to use the opportunity offered by president rouhani for the improvement of bilateral relations speaking of letters iran confirmed this week that president rouhani and president obama exchanged written correspondence rare contact between the leaders of two nations that cut off diplomatic ties in nineteen eighty in his letter mr obama indicated that the u.s. is ready to resolve the nuclear issue in a way that allows iraq to demonstrate that its nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes and on wednesday iranian officials released prominent iranian lawyer nasreen day from prison after being jailed for three years for her human rights work in the past the us fought actively for so tod

so this simple discovery marks a revolution in roman and in western architecture. it made possible all the greatness which would follow. at the height of its imperial power, rome was a sprawling city, crowded with a million citizens and slaves. to keep them occupied, there were public baths, racecourses like the circus maximus, and the great amphitheater decreed by the emperor vespasian in 75 a.d. with its massive facade of superimposed arches the colosseum seems to express in stone the grandiose dreams of all empire-builders. but it was a most functional building-- its gates numbered for ticket holders its concentric vaulted corridors designed to funnel 50,000 spectators to their seats with maximum efficiency. built of stone, brick, and concrete the colosseum's huge oval interior offered every roman an unobstructed view of the slaughter in the arena below-- arena being the latin word for the sand that covered the wooden floor and absorbed the blood. today the colosseum impresses us more as an amazing feat of architecture than as a work of art, though it strongly i

and its western allies have not completely stepped away from using military strikes against syria as an option. foreign minister sergei lavrov said that he thinks that the syrian opposition should be forced to come to the negotiating table in order to proceed in order to proceed with the geneva two peace talks mr lavrov said that the assad government has already agreed to diplomatic efforts without any preconditions but the opposition in syria has not done the same russia believes that western countries should be putting more effort in convincing the rebels in syria to commit to the geneva two peace talks because thus far as long as the threat of military strikes has hung over the issue of the syrian conflict foreign minister lavrov believes that that has kept the opposition from coming to the table to take part in diplomatic negotiations while most of the world supported the syrian chemical disarmament deal with which russia and the u.s. shook hands on in geneva last week but investigative journalist pepe escobar says washington is trying to take credit for itself and downplay mosco

we think our differences are irreconcilable. >> this is heading the western initiative to make five western maryland counties break off and form a new state. >> the biggest issue for me is the gerrymander districts. the state, senate, and districts to ensure single party and we cannot be properly represented that way. >> he has a lot of support. in a few weeks since he launched a facebook fan page page, it has garnered more than the 600 likes. they say they are tired of being ignored by political leaders until tax season comes around. how many western marylanders really want to be left on their own? not everyone would like to be the 51st on the flag. >> we don't need to separate. this is stupid. >> what revenue do we bring in to support ourselves? even as maryland as a whole, we struggle. >> i love this state. >> he says he will not move forward unless the people really want it. if that happens, there are a number of steps that need to occur before a new state is born. >> we have to go to the maryland legislature and get their approval. >> it might be a longshot for western maryland to sece

i would argue a deliberate effort on the part of western governments to. valuables as civilians to gather and to try to present their armed militarized a position as just really ends with the guns and to argue that those civilians with the guns are entitled to the very same protections to the very same assistance as. i'm not civilians but i wonder if that's really fair and whether there is indeed no distinction between women and children fleeing across the border and all those bearded man running around with kalashnikovs not once you're a combatant you're no longer a civilian with a combatant in the form of an informal issue a formal army no we're talking about with the responsibility to protect is simply a new conceptual approach to trying to find consensus where it was so spectacularly lacking in the nine hundred ninety s. will was unfolding a horrible situations in the balkans in rwanda and elsewhere and to address the situations where governments are either attacking their own people or some civil wars exploded in which each side is attacking their own

the ball is in there on the western side at this point let me turn to the. libyan case i think you would agree with me that one of the reasons why there are so many so much skepticism with regards to our to syria was because of the libyan intervention and before we even get into these all mission creep debate let me focus on the promise of that and i heard you say on many occasions and i think it's unfairly a widespread assumption in the west that if nader and didn't intervene back than they got off the government to get off the army would have exterminated benghazi but i wonder if we can really take that for granted in the first part we argued a lot about. how the syrian conflict began and i think now it's pretty clear how the libyan conflict began because amnesty international. intervention conducted a series of investigations into all those claims of atrocities you know mass rape and the use of. firing on protesters and the fact that protestors were on on that point of time and most of that claims turned out to be false although lacking sufficient evidenc

i think the successful implementation of this plan will depend a great deal on the western ability to secure cooperation on the rebel side making sure that the x. parents can operate safely in syria that the chemical weapons convoys are not attacked by the rebels do you think that part of the deal can be secured by the west at this point of time given the unflinching support for the militarized the position that western countries have demonstrated so far was going to be incredibly difficult to implement from every possible point of view including that which you've just described and it clearly is going to require. military people on the ground to protect those inspectors and to protect the process. of getting syrian agreement to that is going to be a crucial precondition for that whole enterprise to proceed there are so many hurdles as you've sink about them just accessing the stocks making sure there is complete disclosure being confident that all the material is accounted for there are so many hurdles to discuss there's going to be a nightmare in practice i think to make this go foo

and its western allies have not completely stepped away from using military strikes against syria as. you mentioned russia a little bit earlier than that what is the russian foreign minister one to see happen in terms of progress the. peace process forward. well russia and all the big players in this in this conflict have said this conflict cannot be resolved militarily it could only be resolved diplomatically and that's why russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said that he thinks that the syrian opposition should be forced to come to the negotiating table in order for in order to proceed with the geneva two peace talks mr lavrov said that the assad government has already agreed to diplomatic efforts without any preconditions but the opposition in syria has not done the same russia believes that western countries should be putting more effort in convincing the rebels in syria to commit to the geneva two peace talks because thus far as long as the threat of military strikes has hung over the issue of the syrian conflict foreign minister lavrov believes that that has kept the opposit

officials this summer zarif a western educated former iranian ambassador to the u.n. has been called a worthy negotiating partner the appointment has been seen by some as an olive branch to the white house another optimistic development came in july when one hundred thirty one members of the u.s. house of representatives wrote a letter to u.s. president barack obama encouraging him to use the opportunity offered by president rouhani for the improvement of bilateral relations this comes as the ron's new moderate leader who has promised more freedoms at home and constructive engagement with the world travels to new york for the united nations general assembly debate however on the heels of mr rouhani as a rival the u.s. government is preparing to seize a thirty six storey meant hotton skyscraper that prosecutors say is secretly owned and controlled by the iranian government a u.s. judge has ruled that the owners of this fifth avenue building known as the alvey foundation and asset corp transferred rental income and other funds to an iranian a state owned bank a violatio

addition to a storage matter is that have been introduced all around the world that in particular western world we also see something that i would argue is a continuation of the old imperial he said john and what i mean by that is for example the united states is still very active in scheming certain military adventures for example in syria it's still unquestionably supports israel it's still involved in some sort of shady deals with the gulf states so. it is difficult to understand why would you would you think personally that we are seeing beyond of the american imperialism because although it's very expensive policies are still in place despite all the suffering you know ordinary folks subjected to yes well i mean the reason primarily is because the united states cannot just unilaterally one day decide to disengage from the rest of the world but it is slowly disengaging and if we take a look at syria for instance which you've mentioned there have been pressures from the united states actually to engage much more intensively but it has not and one of the reasons of course is that the co

the wer western weather has hern parts of japan. just in the past 24 hours we've seen 82 million still some heavy downpours. it looks like the wet weather is pulling way towards the south. most could be dry as we heads to monday. tokyo looks like the exception here. there will be some rain particularly early in the day. a bit to the south there's some heavy downpours here as well. you see this area at the satellite picture over the northern parts of vietnam. this has been given us some heavy rain as well. we have already seen some flooding so the another 24 is great but that's not going to help it at all. there's also some heavier rain >>> thank you for that. >> sit international literacy day. a reminder that it is human rights through education. but means around the world with legal rights particularly among the run. according to the u.n. education. is 123 million are illiterate. a majority of all illiterate youths are in south or west asia or in africa. >>> afghanistan succeeded in enrolling millions of people in school in the pas

media ok but just quickly my question tonight and i will not get an interview to western media outlets well i'm just telling you that i think that the whole picture is absolutely exaggerated it's not what they report is absolutely not true what they're saying is that basically everyone is being killed on the streets here one of my sensational stories. i mean i want to say i mean we i want what we want to say i'm here i mean i'm absolutely involved in all the public to t.v. you know probably one of my own not being rated by the police why am i not running a role why am i not now in new york why am i not now in london when i'm here in moore school in your studio fighting for your rights and talking about it right that's what i want to say absolutely and it's proof you're here and it's very happy to talk about it now peter just quickly you said that you were targeting russia does that mean that you don't agree with boycotting the olympics. absolutely boycott is not the right way that would punish us and of course many russian algebras asians have said they do not want to boycott to respec

income inequality in western countries in capitalist societies is now probably at its highest level is that a serious danger to the system itself it's a massive problem because number one the economy cannot continue to function without demand so we can produce way more stuff than we can consume with the given distribution of income that we have now we've been fixing with us in the short term since the one nine hundred eighty s. with credit and with government debt but both now have gotten so large that we can't use them and that's why we've deployed austerity but that's even worse than the two previous solutions that were deployed so we need something new and that new thing is the old thing it should be a return to more new deal like f.d.r. type policies and with respect to russia. and it's a view of the united states well it had a very favorable view of the one nine hundred eighty s. of the united states they felt they were viewing the united states a lot of reagan but they were not they were viewing the united states of franklin delano roosevelt it's the america today that is the ame

anastasis, which in the western tradition is called the harrowing of hell or the descent into limbo. what is very effective is that stylistically these images are connected. for example, christ wearing the blue robe with his fluttering drapery visually connects you with the movement of the two figures in the central panel the lower figures who represent-- the woman in red is eve and the figure of adam dressed in the orange. and then if you noticed the movement of their legs and arms they point and take you visually up and towards the uppermost figure of christ who stands on what appears to be doors where, in fact they are lids of sarcophagi or lids of coffins comparable to present-day concept of coffins. and then the images which you find on the screen flanking the centrally placed images of christ and the virgin and john the baptist are local saints. but traditionally, there will always be an image of the feast or a particular event which celebrated by the church. for exple, this church is called the holy trinity church and therefore you will have an icon addressing this particular

we have a formation moving into western europe. this is likely to bring severe thunderstorms across the bering peninsula. as the cold front moves into the inland region, madrid, you'll see the temperatures really dropping down. if you can recall, friday, you were seeing 29 degrees. that's a huge drop. and in munich where the octoberfest is taking place, not bad at all on saturday at 19 degrees. here's our extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo. . ♪ ♪ >>> this political rally was held in august in the kingdom of cambodia.

about 300 millimeters of rainfall in taiwan and that will be closer to the western regions. we have another storm system which will be developing into tropical storm -- now in the east of the mariana islands to ap tropical storm status in the next 24 hours. to the north, we have high pressure covering much of the continent and japan, also, is seeing very clear skies. and the skies provided favorable conditions for moon viewing last night. let me show you pictures coming from tokyo a. ideal conditions to watch the harvest full moon. many people gathered at one of the three great gardens in japan to watch the moon while they listened to japanese traditional music. meanwhile, other people enjoyed the view from a boat, together with food and beer. the full moon celebration typically takes place on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. we're going to be seeing some clear skies again today with 30 degrees in tokyo with plenty of sunshine. now, moving over to europe, the north looking quite melsy. especially scandinavian peninsula with heavy downpours affecting sw

a western war in there and decisions are still being taken on basis of western perception rather than proven facts as of now we are still learning from the damage of such orientalism watching libya aren't we. well i my own view libya is concerned is that it was right for france united kingdom the united states and others to take the action that we did in libya i understand that it's a cause of very great concern in russia that the russian government felt that they were blindsided in the security council but that. it's not a view we accept it is also the case that there was a very clear mandate from the security council which russia had endorsed in favor of that military action and i think that libya is a better place than it was before and will become an even better place so i don't think it's a parallel with libya but what you had in libya was a mass of the population pretty united against a very small pretty corrupt elite around the gadhafi. in syria you've got a very much more complicated situation it is a multi sect multi religious so you've got the alawite the shia the christians

now regarding the chemical weapons the united states and other western countries insist that it was the syrian government only that could have used the chemical weapons the russian foreign minister if there is a possibility god to chemicals could actually have been produced by the rebels in homegrown laboratories and those who are now covering for the opposition particularly for the military mind the opposition in syria were in fact contributing to its growth in the first place all no whole however mr lavrov has said that it does not seem like the western powers are interested in pursuing the diplomatic solution off the matter. this is a political and right now with some partners are trying to forcefully push forward with this syrian resolution their own edge because they understand that if chapter seven is mentioned there's a chance for them to get approval with the u.n. security council unilateral action we encourage them to keep calm and stop coming up with those allusions but put the convention for the prohibition of chemical weapons on the back burner and that prioritize u.s. goals

media ok but just quickly that question and i will not get an interview to western media outlets well i'm just telling you that i think that the whole picture is absolutely exaggerated it's not what they report is absolutely not true what they're saying is that basically everyone is being killed on the streets here what. i mean i want to say i mean we i want what we want to say i'm here i mean i'm absolutely involved in all the public to t.v. you know probably one of them well no not being rated by the police why am i not running a role why am i not now in new york why not now in london why am i here in moore school in your studio fighting for your rights and talking about iraq that's what i want to say absolutely and it's proof you're here and it's proof is very happy to talk about it now peter just quickly you said that you were targeting russia does that mean that you you don't agree with boycotting the olympics. absolutely boycott is not the right way that would punish us leitz and of course many russian algebras asians have said they do not want to boycott some of the respected t