now as our western nations hailed libya's election as broadly liberal journalist patrick hayes believes there's little for the libyan people to be celebrating discussion it's right now. as libya continues its long march towards democracy militant rivalry talk session and continued outbreaks of violence opposing major challenges we're joined now by spike magazine journalist patrick case even extensively about libya and about what's been going on historic moments for libya really all we going to see the any concrete changes i think it should have been the story moments i mean what we what we've seen with the elections is the first time the libyan people have been able to express their voice and talk about who they want to be elected for the first time in fifty years since nine hundred sixty five should have been the story the moment it should have been the outcome of the struggle the logical outcome of the arab spring in libya last year unfortunately what we see with these elections is that this struggle for democracy this march towards democracy is here to talk about it has effectively b

covering syria are we witnessing a new generation of warfare and information war there appears no doubt western media aims to construct a consensus to provide overwhelming public support for regime change in damascus and is the truth the place casualty of this conflict. came. to cross-talk syria and the ongoing information war i'm joined by it tomorrow rabinovich in tel aviv he is a distinguished senior fellow at the brookings institution and a former israeli ambassador to the u.s. interaction we have a child leah he is a professor and dean at jindal school of international affairs and in san jose we cross the stephen zoom as he's a professor of politics and international studies at the university of san francisco all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect stephen if i can go to you first as a western narrative of this conflict in syria based on distortions manipulations lives in videotape. the overall narrative i think is pretty accurate but of course the spin always tends to lean towards western perceptions maybe it's not that there aren't severe human rights abuses by the syrian regime t

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limbering syria i mean witnessing a new generation of warfare and information for their peers no doubt western media aims to construct a concert. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. of the mission free cretaceous three terms for charges free. range month free risk free studio time free. download free blog clothing video for your media projects and a free medio dog to our teeth on tom you. download the official t. up location on the phone called touch from the choose our. life on the go. video on demand teasin blindfold comes an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. questions on the dot com. and. i mean welcome to crossfire i'm curious about covering syria are we witnessing a new generation of warfare in information war there appears no doubt western media aims to construct a consensus to by overwhelming public support for regime change in damascus and is the truth the place

and western powers are so dedicated to out the assad regime here. well you know it's interesting it was it was eleven months ago to the day from yesterday it was august eighteenth when u.s. president barack obama first said assad must go so this is not anything new western powers have been increasing their rhetoric and their pressure on the assad government many experts and analysts have their own you know their own opinions as to why but the russian ambassador to the united nations batali churkin today said frankly that you know this political pressure is not just about humanitarian reasons he believes the western countries are also trying to remove the assad government from power and move its way into iran to possibly destabilize iran to possibly have more influence in that area because syria and iran you know are our allies more you know more aligned those countries and they stand up and argue against western powers so if they if you remove one of the two key players then you know the battleground becomes that much more beneficial to those that a

for the rebellion oh it's a great deal of these gusts particularly in the western media with the brutal suppression of began actually is a mostly. quiet. demonstration against the regime. but. on the whole of these correct but with a few distortions if i could stay with you mr ambassador so there are the rebels are the good guys they wear white hats right. no question what do you mean by rebels because as has been said before there are according to some estimates about a thousand g. how these are penetrated syria who perpetrate acts of terror and nobody certainly nothing my country has a great deal of sympathy for for the jihad these so we don't say that universally all the rebels are and where white heads are good guys but if you ask most experts at this point in time there are genes to live a legitimate easy. or use the tide of history on the side of the rebels or the opposition the answer would be the larger ok thing going to turn around what do you think of the coverage of the media coverage of this conflict it is a civil war after all. well the i.c.r.c. is now calling it a civil wa

i think the way that could have been avoided would have been to not have had western intervention in march last you know the real had been a western intervention libya wouldn't be this point right now they wouldn't be having their. election we're just seeing democratic elections in egypt we've seen elections in june this year there's no reason why the libyan people couldn't have also brought about change by themselves in fact i think it takes a very paternalistic mindsets in the west that they have to step in and intervene and do this on behalf of the libyan people seen massive swathes of the army starting to defect from gadhafi and they're. sure a ragtag bunch of resistance kind of starting to step up and to challenge could have been different strongholds. particularly in benghazi it wasn't necessarily the case in the west needed to intervene the tool but in intervening in this is. the democratic initiative from the libyan people they interfered with the struggle for leadership that struggle for the future battle of ideas for the future of libyan society which is necessary in the ci

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so i mean things could have been very very quickly western intervention i think pretty much puts the struggle for democracy on ice in libya in a way that hasn't happened in egypt and tunisia you know i think there would have been a risk then you'd end up with a serious situation sort of a stalemate between the two sides and the death toll just keeps mounting i think there is a tendency of course from people and you saw this in benghazi as well when gadhafi troops were getting ever closer to benghazi and the death toll was rising the people of course do look for for anyone to help them they are desperate search at various points but the problem is when you continually have the idea of a cross when you can call for effectively a guardian angels come in and help he does want that situation and things the west didn't necessarily make it better the death toll increased considerably after nato bombs started to fill in libya and the thirty thousand people died in the in past years during the uprising a lot of that was due to western intervention. bloodless time once the west in actually int

reiront e western version of how to organize society is winning out. i think there is truth to that arment. upfted by what has happened in the middle middle east over the last couple of years. there is no doubt a call for dignity and accountability, a i also think that the nature of modern 90 --e will see this as the modern era spring unfolds, and what we have cfted in the west, itill be ry different. we fctstchmodiz, out of politics. we became the west post- reformation. in the middle east we will see the opposite. sp ie onterty it la g co b ti life. that is because there has never been a division between the muslim world. there has never even been a vocabu nar tht tee ed t th as never a split between the pope and emperor because the caliph was both. the selar leader and religious leader merged into one later. tofhia is a religion of faith only, and it was only when the pope and emperor were united with each other in alliance, that the religious authority had secular power. that's not true in the mlim wh t waveen t abind ate he i v country in that par

i mean as you say as you say we understand the western media the western media has been very gung ho with ultimately at the end of the day a total regime change the toppling of the assad regime but there are fresh calls to take decisive action on syria at the u.n. the british foreign secretary he's one of many calling for a chapter seven resolution talking all about the justification of some type of military intervention how much of a difference do you think that enter national action if indeed allowed can make at this point in syria. the whole point is that you know we use some sort of mead six five six months ago to the city and pretty easy to collapse but get back the gods. that we immediately want distant show this is a weak spot if it is substantial amount of support in the city if you can the city in michigan so what has been going on in the last five six months. it's like you know she can't see you know this is what just been happening or what influence has been on all people stuff for months now will be expected to be on the bottom of these falls the only the western countrie

this struggle for democracy this march towards democracy to talk about it has effectively been spy western intervention over the past year or so the election itself has been administered by the national transitional council which was effectively cherry picked by the west rather the than actually selected by the libyan people it's an unelected body and there have been a lot of disagreements has been a lot of protests over the past nine ten months by the libyan people who are unhappy with the lack of transparency from this government there are unhappy with the fact that the transitional council does not represent their views or the people they want to be in power and they're also unhappy with the way in which the election has been planned and the seats for the national council have been allocated a large proportion of them being allocated to tripoli and the west of libya i would touch on the problems that that's causing in a moment be said in your latest article titled libyan election on. what do you mean were it not for nato intervention last year i think these elections should really have

countries and zoo loo where we don't class the western countries are completely since king they are first hated they face political problems and difficulties and seats we are a problem for they were crises in most western and i want to hear what i want to do with them which for us i mean ends in the second half of the problem david you look a little perplexed if you want to jump in there yeah well there's two things first of all the middle class is dissolved in but it's not that fifty percent are going down and fifty percent are going up no it's about eighty to ninety percent you know are seeing their incomes stagnate or go down in the upper twenty ten and above all the upper one or two percent you know are doing well but the other thing there is this political dimension of the. it's not just technology there was also the polish move to advocate to push for free trade to dismantle any kind of protectionism so that our workers had to compete with workers everywhere else in the world this was a political decision that was unable to buy the new technologies that now made it profitable

commercial capital becomes the country's fiercest battleground russia accuses the rebels and their western patrons of leaving damascus no choice but to fight on. is the breathtaking olympic games opening ceremony kicked off british police tell a mass cyclist group to get on its bike. and saudi arabia police attacked demonstrators with clubs and live rounds as pro forma protests spread from bahrain and the united arab and. international news and comment live from the new center here in moscow this is r t with twenty four hours a day dozens of people have reportedly been killed in fresh clashes in syria's largest city as government forces step up a counter offensive against the entrenched rebels witnesses describe the scenes in aleppo as the fiercest fighting of the sixteen month conflict russia says syrian authorities need to work towards peace but can't be expected to conceive while the western backed insurgents continue to take over cities moscow accuses foreign powers of fueling the violence to bring about regime change in damascus the former head of the u.n. mission to syria says assad'

what he told us about what he and his ann did at the western wall. >>> the women's gymnastics team moves on. why was this athlete sobbing. why are there so many empty seats? our team in london. >>> red cross sounding the alarm this evening. blood supply at its lowest point in 15 years. what's behind it and what it means for the rest of us. >>> the biggest fans, best seats in the house. why can't they bear to watch? the moms and dads at the olympic games. their agony and elation. >>> good evening tonight from jerusalem where republican presidential candidate mitt romney is auditioning for a position on the world stage. this evening we feet that election day is now just 100 days from today. this evening romney and his wife ann are having dinner with an old friend, benjamin netanyahu. they worked together years ago. earlier today romney visited the western wall where he placed a prayer he had written inside the wall. tonight he delivered a speech in israel saying "we have a moral imperative to deny iran's leaders the means to follow through on their ma leff lent intentions" right beforehand

of work it's a problem in many countries notably in though your bill western europe and countries of two strong welfare states is that so work the basics of work is disappearing but it's not simply that it's also investment in new businesses investment in and here universities and so formations the development of a new intermediate professional class such as does it is that has been disappearing over the last thirty years so the problem is that fifty years ago all associates proficient old professionals who are away or kind of in the corner of the west of western countries the problem now is we have more of them are of not could only but to so on contrary is in front of us are economic poor and technological poor and poor of china and of is to an asia our problems is that we are focused turn in investment and the problem with investments is that it's not simply capitalism or big governments that are able to to to to do everything so polemic over the last thirty years is that both the big governments and both capitalism have forgotten a lot of science and technologies that we need in

and all of these western countries. hard i promise oh there's artie is critical of him standing by the artie business desk i couldn't see you again so wall street is now a moving and shaking are much like you on saturday night are a must like you are almost and now i can see marcus is talk about them because they all made a mistake and that performing a rally at the moment and that's all to the head of the u.s. federal reserve said he's called sons about the economic recovery but ben bernanke has also outlined options to ease policy postponing player and that's a good time for a. caterer to apologize i'm so sorry for interrupting you at the moment we have got this ongoing press conference here in moscow the turkish prime minister with the russian counterpart of course president putin let's have a listen and see what they say about syria. of. course the associates and we have simply exchanged data that we have noticed. it is following the incident but you know we had. a phone conversation with mr putin to me in the wake

might use it why is there an injury or why i don't know western intervention into bryant brain then. well i think syria is a strategic an important country for any trouble the rain is on syria with the reverberate across the region i think we can just go inside a country and change the head of state and well that should say you are something doing or at least yalit purse the u.s. has been doing that for at least a decade if not longer well. well i just want to point person i mean i. i mean you can make an argument if syria's a danger to our country but the definitely is danger for its own people i personally be in that country i know the political suppression in that country and what the people are going through now and how can can if i can ask your guest how can he explain the thousands of syrian people who are being killed their life being sacrificed how can he say to them that this is not. in our pricing and this is all like what the syrian regime maintains the line this is all conspirators and western backed terrorists even you want to jump in there before we go to the break or a

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it absolutely is western back in america karl america has a very clear purpose it what it's doing it again this was planned many many years ago the purpose is regime change america tolerates no independent regimes all of the countries that america goes to war against in the ones it plans to go to war against are independent governments that i'm not a one sided or even i have to many here gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on syria stay. the take. the to. get out sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you. are welcome is a big shock. to . her old stories is here. for going global. cooling the fire. to. the right. to choose your place to take your stuff to. the bit. to make your statement to. support the we're going to keep my cool street journal. and you can see the sort of. mood. welcome back to crossfire i'm here a little to mind you were talking about the syrian civil war. and. the sor

earlier today romney visited the western wall where he placed a prayer he had written inside the wall. tonight romney delivering a 1350e67 here in israel saying "we have a moral imperative to deny iran's leaders the means to follow through on their malevolent intentions." right beforehand he sat down with us. we talked about the threat of iran, the incoming fire from democrats back home over his tax returns and we talked about the all-important debates against president obama, how he thinks the president will perform. >> thank you. governor romney, mitt, it's a pleasure to welcome you to jerusalem. >> reporter: calling him mitt, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu welcomed an old friend to israel. netanyahu and romney worked together years ago, and now he's looking to send a message, that matters it at a time when a staunch american ally wrestles with what to do about iran. one of your advisers said you would respect israel's decision to strike iran on its own. would you support an israeli strike on iran? >> i think i'll use my own terms in that regard, and that is that i recogn

security council russia and china again veto a western backed syrian resolution aimed at further tightening the screws on the regime alone. pulsar riots rallies and rage in spain as the public takes a stand against cuts with thursday's million strong demos hitting a new milestone in the fight against the stereotype. and israel rounds are ran over the ball carrier suicide bombing which killed seven killing five israeli tourists but some analysts accuse tel of using it to gain international support. next tonight a quarter of an hour the company of one of the fire brands of british politics m.p. george galloway a fall of the side of the main parties he founded his own respect party and secured a seats in a by election when it's been described as the most sensational victory in pretty political history. today i'm in the parliamentary office of george galloway m.p. who around three months ago one surprise election victory in his constituency of bradford west george galloway thanks very much for talking to us today now your election your victory was a surprise to many possibly not to you what doe

western leaders want iranian scientists to stop higher grade uranium enrichment. that can lead to the development of nuclear weapons. but iranian leaders insist their nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. negotiators have failed in three rounds of talks to reach a break through. the european union and the u.s. recently increased the pressure with sanctions that target iran's oil exports. iranian officials continue to signal their defines. on tuesday the soldiers carried out test launches of ballistic missiles. the commander of the revolutionary guard said the missiles were targeting what they called iran's hypothetical enemies. >>> the united nations has begun talks on a treaty to regulate trade in conventional weapons. it's aimed at cutting off the flow of guns and tanks to countries violating human rights or engaged in war crimes. >> they always capture headlines but conventional arms are killing people every day without much attention. >> u.n. second general opened the talks on tuesday. the arms trade treaty has bee in the works since 2006. it will impose c

to a western backed syria resolution a bit further tightening the screws on the regime and low. another use of the weak wired's rallies and rage in spain as the public takes a stand against cuts with thursday's million strong demos hitting a new milestone in the fight against the state. and israel rounds in iran over the ball gary a suicide bombing which killed seven including five israeli tourists but some analysts accused television of using it to gain international support. appearing in news around the clock from moscow you're watching r t welcome to you my name's kevin now in first in our roundup of the top stories of the last seven days syria's two largest cities have become the focal points now of intense street clashes between army forces and the rebels the regime hub of aleppo is no into its third day of fierce fighting with the main battle reportedly taking place near intelligence headquarters that rebels of in the gulf the city from rural areas engaged in clashes with government troops forcing residents to flee to safety reports of sporadic fighting also continue to po

russia and china deliver a double veto at the security council of the united nations as western countries tried to pass sanctions against syria more details from new york straight ahead. also this israel's prime minister extends his blame list in lebanon saying both iran and hezbollah were behind the deadly blast in belgariad. and british intelligence points far with far with the country's security committee calling for the use of cyber warfare to tackle on line criminals. live from the new center here in the russian capital this is r t with twenty four hours a day the u.s. and its allies have failed to push an anti assad resolution through the u.n. security council for the third time russia and china have once again vetoed the motion to point nine has the latest for us now from new york. many people would say it's about time the international community stood together and did something about syria so what is moscow's reasoning for blocking yet another draft resolution. well the reasoning is simple russia has said for from the get go that he would not support any resolutions on syria that

countries and western companies as well and that's going to be released in stages over the next. because of weeks the last big leak of course the u.s. diplomatic cables cable gave all the serious files even bigger than that eight times bigger in terms of documents and a hundred times bigger in terms of data and already we're seeing some of the revelations from not being explored so wiki leaks once again showing really that it is still able to do what it does best despite the fact that today in a stone age is this fight continues r.t. sara for fourteen right now venezuela has pulled its diplomatic staff from paraguayan after being accused by the government there of meddling in its internal affairs last month's impeachment of president fernando lugo blamed for a deadly crackdown on farmers affected the country's ties with its neighbors political analyst. believes it's a sign of the u.s. promoting its own interests in the region. paraguayans suffered a coup d'etat literally on the first twenty first of june when its democratically elected president for number was ousted in a twenty

it will spread into western france and low countries too. then for central our up along the front from the alpine region to the baltic states. more intense storms today. can't really move very far east because we have this dome of high pressure. so, sort of restricting the movement. also allowing lots of heat to come up from the south. and there are heat warnings, advisories posted through, the balkans up towards poland and black sea region. now for your extended forecast. ♪ ♪ >>> our top story once again, pakistani leaders have agreed to reopen nato supply routes to afghanistan. secretary of state hillary clinton discussed the details over the phone with pakistani foreign minister karr. >> foreign minister karr has the advised her the ground lines of communication will be reopening. >> u.s. troops based in afghanistan killed 24 pakistani soldiers in error last november in a cross-border air strike. then pakistani officials blocked nato from using their roadways. clinton offered an apology for the first time. she expressed her condolences to

again, there's that late bloomer there out in western maryland.uturecast tonight at 11:00. handling it very well. by 3:00, a few showers, maybe a thunderstorm. this is probably just going to be a good old garden style thunderstorm moving through. we're technically in the risk of severe weather. so it needs to be watched. tomorrow morning, dry, dry tomorrow afternoon with a possibility of one or two popups late in the afternoon. storms possible overnight tonight. otherwise, mild low temperatures and we start off tomorrow in the upper 70s. will be a mild start. we'll have sunshine through the day. good news here, we cool off a little bit. at least the next couple of days. not only do we cool off with the temperatures, but the humidity will lower just a little bit. at least until fourth of july and the humidity will come back. high on fourth of july with a threat of thunderstorms. 96degrees, which tends to be a typical fourth of july forecast around here. >> thanks, gary. >>> the storms left destruction behind. >> and we're going to focus on the dama

well the reason russia and china both use their veto power on this western draft resolution is because they said that it put all the pressure and called for sanctions on just the syrian government russia that in order for there to be a national transition council created in syria there needs to be i die a log between the syrian government and the syrian opposition that is what kofi annan six point peace plan calls for and you know russia's position is that if the international community is only putting the pressure and consequences on the syrian government and threatening the syrian government with sanctions if it doesn't meet its requirements of a cease fire and other other items laid out in the kofi annan six point peace plan then the armed opposition is not incentivized in any way to come to a negotiating table with the syrian government and at the end of the day russia and china said that we need to get both parties at a table to begin a dialogue to put their weapons down and begin a dialogue if the security council is just only punishing one side then that is not going to happen c

actually work or artsy reporting from western australia or do those predictions of calamity in dumas tranche are a source of good our business because it clement to do there are governed nought they want to go forth no for russia kevin no maybe for the rest of the globe but for russia things are looking to buy the top and that's what the i.m.f. is saying they have the global forecast but for russia they kept on change and that's an every ago situation to be in right now so we in session want to fund what they believe now is that russia will grow four percent now to put that into perspective that's fifty basis points more than the rest of the world now the funds have warned that the european recession and the u.s. slowdown. of the global economy and the effects may become visible for russia next year and they all saying that potentially expansion could slow down so that's one to watch but right now as far as russia's concerns it's all good now let's talk about russian billionaires because i'm talking about the ones i would haul off of the angry russian pay now what's happened now is t

as well as britain and other western countries have not been able to get into sudan and exploited all resources as they have and other african states so it's an economic crisis it's also a political pressure from outside of sudan as actually causing a lot of these internal problems that are going on inside the country many of these opposition parties have been around since the end of pendants of sudan and even before that and some of them have even have power even after the nine hundred eighty five uprising the government that came to power represented some of the same forces that have been involved in sudanese politics going all the way back in one thousand fifty five thousand nine hundred fifty six when the country one it's national independence they were not able to resolve the civil war as the n.c.p. government did do they were able to reach a peace agreement with the s.p.l. and they have several agreements with the various. factions in darfur none of them i have really held firm but that's one accomplishment that the c p government did achieve and that is the conclusion of the ci