it's very rare for the u.n. to say that u.n. convoy has been deliberately targeting as this one was. >> well, that happened yesterday as we were leaving the area when shots were fired. two small rounds hit the side of their vehicle. you have to give credit to the u.n. monitor. on the ground, they're going to into a very dangerous area. they really pushed the envelope when it comes to safety. there's a variety of concrete from egypt and nepal but they believe in what they're trying do. it would be fair that the pigs that they've done in terms of carrying out their brief has been a success. the six-point plan has been a failure because of the agreement carried out on the ground. >> paul, where are they as far as you can tell as far as the diplomatic movement that's going on in new york at u.n. headquarters and comments being made by the u.n. ban ki-moon that sir yace getting close to civil war? >> well, they don't need to be told that because they can see it's around them. the reality in this country is what began as a black-on-wh

u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator. well yeah there are now british politician and civil rights activist during the last decade various top officials in the british government is most recently a big u.k. high commissioner to australia earlier the leader of the house of lords or secretary of state for international development in the cabinet rather he was the first black woman to occupy such a high position amherst work much in africa and the middle east tackling complex she was appointed the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs. years ago. some awesome welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us so well my first question is about your recent visit to syria as far as i understand you visited syria in march two thousand and twelve on behalf of the u.n. and you tried to persuade the syrian government i'm quoting the worries to allow access to all parts of syria to help people affected by the civil conflict well h

the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief spotlight will be back shortly after the break so. 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 everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm target market is a big picture. please islamists. remnant of the tyrannical. rabble to. buy it. but instead took. egypt. welcome back to spotlight i'm al gore and all of and just a reminder that my guest on the show today is via their mosques u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator but you have seen the situation the result. of the fighting on the ground with your own lies you were able to witness it is it as awful as any african war that we that but i've seen that we sometimes see in good films or is it not exactly what would you say well i'm always very careful about making comparisons because i think that t

the u.n. peacekeeping chief of a lot to who recently made those comments saying that the conflict in syria is now a civil war he is the first you want to show to have made that type of declaration following the fifteen months of violence taking place in escalating in syria now of course his words can carry a lot of political weight inside of the security council where the u.s. and its western allies are been pushing for sanctions against the assad government now this is a campaign ongoing for months now with the u.s. pretty much leading it trying to get russia and china to agree on international sanctions against president bashar al assad until this point the russia and china have opposed any type of international pressure in the in the form of sanctions instead referring to kofi annan six point peace plan and fully supporting that so of course these statements coming from a top u.n. official declaring civil war in syria can be a game changer within the security council in the days ahead you h

as u.n. observers say rising violence in syria is jeopardized they are not peace plan party speaks to a christian one in the country he claims militants are staging murders to make them look like government killings. but spotlight host of talks the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs. that's next. hello again the world with wildlife. on party. day my guest on the show is on mars. the political crisis in the middle east has affected millions of slipping the war and the people there getting back to their normal way of life but syria is still on fire with hundreds of thousands crying out for help my guest on the show today is the woman put knows how to make the victims lived at least a little bit mr valery amoss the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator. sally there are now british politician and civil rights activist during the last decade she occupied various top positions in the british government was most recently the u.k. high

u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator. well yeah there are now british politician and civil rights activist during the last decade various top officials in the british government was most recently a big u.k. high commissioner to australia earlier the leader of the house of lords or secretary of state for international development in the cabinet rather he was the first black woman to occupy such a high position as analysts work much in africa and the middle east tackling complex she was appointed the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs nearly two years ago. some awesome welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us so well my first question is about your recent visit to syria as far as i understand you visited syria in march two thousand and twelve on behalf of the u.n. and you tried to persuade the syrian government i'm quoting the words to allow access to all parts of syria to help people affected by the civil co

conflict she was appointed the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs nearly two years ago. and welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us so well my first question is about your recent visit to syria as far as i understand you visited syria in march two thousand and twelve on behalf of the u.n. and you tried to persuade the syrian government i'm quoting the words to allow access to all parts of syria to help people affected by the civil conflict well has any progress has any progress been made since then and what's the problem in that all the afraid of something i mean not letting you in we have made some progress but it's been slow after my visits the syrian authorities agree that they would lead and assessment mission to try to find out exactly what the scale of the problem was we accompany them with colleagues. from the organization for islamic cooperation the oh i see we identified at that time that we thought about a million people needed help the i.c.r.c. the international committee o

up next more topical conversation interviews a u.n. representative for human humanitarian affairs about the dire situation right now facing civilians affected by syrian unrest it's coming right up. the political crisis in the middle east has affected millions of slipping survived the war and the people there are getting back to their normal way of life but syria is still on fire with hundreds of thousands crying out for help my guest on the show today is the woman put knows how to make the victims lived at least a little bit miss valerie amoss the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator. there and now british politician and civil rights activist during the last decade she occupied various top officials in the british government she was most recently the u.k. high commissioner to australia and earlier the leader of the house of lords and secretary of state for international development in the cabinet valerie was the first black woman to occupy such a high position as amorous work much in afr

should we be involved in the u.n.? should we fund the u.n.? and i've tried to keep a balanced view where i haven't voted to leave the u.n., but i have -- been skeptical about the role it plays. keep current funding. get reforms. some of the things the u.n. has done. cuba was vice president of the united nations human rights council and china, russia and saudi arabia also serve on that council. north korea and cuba serve as head of the conference on disarmament. mugabe was just named a u.n. leader for tourism by the u.n. world trade organization. iran sits on the u.n. commission on the status of women, and formerly chaired the board of the u.n. development program and the u.n. population fund. saudi arabia is a member of the executive board of u.n. women. and so that's -- i'm not making this up. and you can't. but -- i mean that is a concern. and there's also been some international debate and discourse about having a world organization based upon shared values. democracy, freedom, rule of law. things that would make this process a little bit e

boats to actually to the subject of conditions well the u.n. says that the deployment of the humanitarian aid there is a very slow because of the conditions of the masses so what can you say that these can or what are those conditions what what are these conditions about i mean the damascus ok. our team in country have been negotiating on a number of things one is as i say the importance of being able to to go and talk to anyone that we need to. and get the aid to anyone that we need to secondly that it's important that all aid is not channeled through the syrian arab red crescent they have capacity but that capacity is being stretched russia itself for example sentences made that had to be delivered through the syrian arab red crescent the international committee of the red cross red crescent societies they're sending in aid that is being delivered by the syrian arab red crescent they're doing their own work on the ground we from the u.n. are also using that capacity so there comes a point where that capacity is so stretched that they're not a

security at the u.n. general assembly we see no alternative to this plan as a way towards a peaceful resolution to peaceful resolution i stress not the violent change of regime through confrontation with and many many people getting killed from the police we cannot allow this to happen and we need to do all we can to stop violence this is our top priority and the annan plan offers such an opportunity. for the most important thing is that it should be implemented by everybody including outside players cording to this plan on april twelfth ceasefire was achieved yes it is sometimes a broken but during the initial period the situation was more or less stabilized and thousands of people lay down arms used d.m.s. denounced by the government. and the big number of if you can reach of political prisoners were have been released even though more people who have been arrested of course an agreement was reached. between the syrian government and the un about providing access for humanitarian organisations to some p

the former u.n. chief kofi annan said if that plan fails, western leaders may have to look at other options. >> we've been reporting on how the russians and chinese feel about intervening. what support is there for that position? >> both the russians and the chinese have registered intervention at the u.n. and elsewhere. but the fact is, western leaders, too, are cautious about getting into another conflict. u.s. and the french diplomats stress that intervention can happen only on 9 condition that u.n. delegates adopt a new resolution for that purpose. syria has about 300,000 active soldiers, and there is strong unity among the operators defending president bashar al assad. these forces would provide resistance to any troops from o. on the other hand, the anti-government forces are rather weak and divided. and there is no group that can take over the power after the collapse of the assad regime. >> what are foreign powers supposed to do then? >> i think the first priority must go to preventing the ad

the u.n. peacekeeping chief who recently made those comments saying that the conflict in syria is now a civil war he is the first you want to show to have made that type of a declaration following the fifteen months of violence taking place and escalating in syria now of course his words can carry a lot of political weight inside of the security council where the u.s. and its western allies are for sanctions against the assad government now this is a campaign ongoing for months now the u.s. pretty much leaving it trying to get russia and china to agree on international sanctions against president bashar al assad to this point we russia and china have opposed any type of international pressure in the in the form of sanctions instead referring to kofi annan six point peace plan and fully supporting that so of course these statements coming from a top u.n. official declaring a civil war in syria can be a game changer within the security council in the days ahead you have to remember that ninety d

force the u.n. security council to sanction military intervention this is very obvious we can see through it very easily with a little from them. i referred earlier to de or what happened to arab observers just a month later they were called what can you do in the month but still they achieved something. and gradually they should have made for the progress build on that and the syrian government was open to receive an unlimited number of arab service their number was greater than the number of units or was we have to d.d. had almost a thousand and the head of the arab league not made this decision to recall them for some obscure reason we would have had. with the in the very good network of international presence in syria arab monitors could have been used but it could have been complimented with observers from other regions and this was a mistake and we need to realize that if that is serious of this mistakes mistaken decisions are made as soon as we have a ray of hope for peaceful resolution this

tuesday according to the u.n. and the crowds were throwing rocks and metal rods at the u.n. cars and also there were shots fired at the cars nobody was injured but clearly this increases the amount of danger surrounding the u.n. peacekeepers that are in the country to observe suppose that cease fire that was supposed to be implemented back in august next month this ninety day mandate for the syrian mission the u.n. syrian mission expires and some council members it may not be willing to renew this mandate if they feel that the u.n. observers will be in danger if they are in syria which has now been deemed a civil war and finally we're you know with each passing day we hear increasingly horrific reports of atrocities going on in syria how much pressure is there right now for an intervention into this. well there's been a lot of comments made recently by the u.s. ambassador to the united nations susan rice saying that if there cannot be consensus reached within the security council in the coming weeks on how to add more pressure on the syrian government then some countries wil

the a u.n. peacekeeping chief to who recently made those comments saying that the conflict in syria is now a civil war he is the first you want to show to have made that type of declaration following the fifteen months of violence taking place and escalating in syria now of course his words can carry a lot of political weight inside of the security council where the u.s. and its western allies are pushing for sanctions against the assad government now this is been a campaign ongoing for months now the u.s. pretty much leaving it trying to get russia and china to agree on international sanctions against president bashar al assad until this point we russia and china have opposed any type of international pressure in the in the form of sanctions instead referring to kofi annan six point peace plan and fully supporting that so of course these statements coming from a top u.n. official declaring civil war in syria can be a game changer within the security council in the days ahead you have to remembe

the u.n. peacekeeping chief of a lot too who recently made those comments saying that the conflict in syria is now a civil war he is the first you want to fishel to have made that type of a declaration following the fifteen months of violence taking place and escalating in syria now of course his words can carry a lot of political weight inside of the security council where the u.s. and its western allies are been pushing for sanctions against the assad government now this is been a campaign ongoing for months now with the u.s. pretty much leading it trying to get russia and china to agree on international sanctions against president bashar al assad to this point we russia and china have opposed any type of international pressure in the in the form of sanctions instead referring to kofi annan six point peace plan and fully supporting that so of course these statements coming from a top u.n. official declaring a civil war in syria can be a game changer within the security council in the days ah

force the u.n. security council to sanction military intervention this is very obvious we can see through it very easily with a little from the open air referred earlier to d. or what happened to arab observers just a month later they were called what can you do in the month but still they achieved something the previous night and gradually they should have made the further progress build on that and could the syrian government was open to receive an unlimited number of arab service their number was greater than the number of units there was we have to d.d. had almost a thousand and the head of the arab league not made this decision to recall them for some obscure reason we would have had a list of that and then the very good network of international presence in syria arab monitors could have been used by you of but it could have been complimented that would have observers from other regions and this was a mistake and we need to realize that that is serious of this mistakes mistaken decisions made a

the u.n. announced that syria has been included on its list of shame countries that kill recruits or sexually assault children during armed conflict. elizabeth palmer has more from the syrian capital, damascus. >> reporter: a police barricade marks the edge of the war zone. fierce fighting made syria's north highway north of homs too dangerous. but the u.n. was allowed through and we went with them. we find mile upon mile of devastation. most civilians have now fled from these towns. but suddenly a family appeared on their way out too. we're leaving if we have to walk to homs he told us. all along the road, syrian tanks with heavy artillery are dug in. some ready for action, others burnt wrecks after opposition attacks. and hung defiantly on an overpass, the free syrian army flag. the minute we stopped, out they came. opposition fighters hoping to talk to the u.n. until a syrian military helicopter showed up. the united nations says syrian forces have fired missiles from the air over the past

the goal of the u.n. is to create a world peace isn't the idea of opera and this was entirely in turkey. country and isn't the idea of stepping into in truck country dealing with what's going on within the borders of a sovereign state a huge step off from that original concept of the u.s. so i think it's definitely a huge step well it is a huge step off the original concept but what you're what you're missing a little bit is the last sixty years of history where international human rights law has come to the fore so in many respects the responsibility to protect doesn't build off of exclusively the u.n. charter nine hundred forty five but it also builds off of the whole panoply of international human rights treaties that have been developed over many many years so for example the geneva conventions that prohibit war crimes of the genocide convention the privets genocide or the international convention on civil and political rights which prohibits torture and extrajudicial killings and a whole range of oth

. >> the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon says the observers were shot at in fact. >> the u.n. has been debating the crisis in syria with the international on floyd kofi annan saying the country is on the brake -- international envoy kofi annan cindy countries on the brink of civil war. >> there was an observance for the latest systems of the violence and syria. as many as 78 were killed brutally in qubair. this unverified video was posted by the opposition which is hoping for help from the international community to end violence. the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon says those responsible must be brought to justice. and u.n. monitors were barred from visiting the village. >> i just learned a few minutes ago that the u.n. monitors were shot at with small arms. >> the peace plan put forward by the u.n. special envoy kofi annan has largely been ignored. he says that syria is on the brink of an all-out civil war and the international community must act swiftly. >> we must find a way on the common

mugabe was named a u.n. leader for tourism by the u.n. world trade organization iran sits on the un commission on the status of women. formerly chaired a joint board of the window and programs in the u.n. population fund. saudi arabia is a member of the executive board of the u.n. women. i am not making this up. you cannot. i mean, that is a concern. there has been some international debate in discourse about having a world organization based upon shared values. democracy, freedom, rule of law. things that would make this process a little bit easier. than trying to negotiate with do totalitarian regimes twho not have the best interest of free discourse and exchanges of views and ideas and the areas. i appreciate you raising this concern and making sure that we are all in. it and prepared to keep this great architecture. i took a picture of you all when we started. i tweet let a lot of people. you know, i did the headline of the hearing. thi said, if it is not broken, o not fix it. the system has worked. there is some tinkering that some o

wants to do but if the u.n. doesn't agree with the united states as you know the case of iraq or kosovo the united states just disregard in the case of syria were kofi annan peace plan showed slow progress washington is prepared to once again bypass the u.n. if the security council fails to impose more pressure on damascus and members of this council and members of the international community are left with the option only of having to consider whether they're prepared to take actions outside of the annan plan and the authority of this council. for diplomacy they have the legions apparently the united states thinks it has no need for diplomacy it has missiles and drones the u.n. was founded at the end of the second world war as a place for countries to solve conflicts through dialogue rather than gunfire however the honorable goal of maintaining global peace and security becomes harder to attain every time a member state decides to play by its own rules for ny r.t. new york. all toxic be americans eat it but taiw

well two different things one is these are the u.n. observers who went in under the kofi annan plan to observe a cease fire what we see in the last few weeks when they first went in the violence did go down what we see in the last few weeks is continuing escalation in violence so it's extraordinary difficult situation and what we've also seen is that those u.n. observers have themselves come under direct attack this is extremely worrying in terms of our humanitarian workers who have been delivering aid and support and supporting the syrian arab red crescent we have not seen them directly targeted however if you look at what's been happening to humanitarian workers across the world who are operating in some very difficult conditions and i'm extremely worried that over the last few years or more and more of them have been targeted more of them have been killed than at any time more kidnapped. one of the principles. that we expect to operate on the as humanitarian work as is respect for humanitarian principles that we're allowed to go any

sanction or u.n. condemnation of what's happening in syria but you know well as you just rightly said. what's going to happen next and they will want to nail this as well as commander in the rebel syrian army issued a cease fire to made him to damascus but the head of the rebel deny this is the opposition really deeply divided at the moment and as a possible to do business with it what do you think. well i again i mean what's true about syria has been true for the past thirty forty years there's no you know an opposition there's no we off the cieszyn to to the sharon government. you know the father who was who was running for the past thirty years he was he was very much a very strong leader who could unite the syrian government unfortunately the son is a lot weaker than the father and he's been. treated so he has not been able to establish a power base we would be in syria and that's why you see just seen a lot of this that spot and so you know that's not a strong point where there's right now we're

top u.n. officials call in the security council to pressure the syrian government while admitting that the armed opposition is stepping up its attacks as another massacre pulls the country closer to civil war. reports suggest they will need at least forty billion euros to boost its crisis hit banks meanwhile as artsy reports from ireland and now their group will country some locals are going back to the past with their currency. the euro two thousand and twelve global tournament kicks off laden with scandalous several european governments boycott the championship image human rights and race issues. what you guys are coming to life from moscow i'm marina joshie the head of the un along with the world bodies envoy to syria one more international pressure on damascus to bring about compliance with the u.n. peace plan but kofi annan also urged the increasingly aggressive rebel forces to lay down arms this comes in the wake of another massacre in syria so let's cross live now to our correspondent e

the a u.n. peacekeeping chief our a lot too who recently made those comments saying that the conflict in syria is now a civil war he is the first you want to fishel to have made that type of declaration following the fifteen months of violence taking place and escalating in syria and now of course his words can carry a lot of political weight inside of the security council where the u.s. and its western allies are pushing for sanctions against the assad government now this is a campaign ongoing for months now with the u.s. pretty much leaving it trying to get russia and china to agree on international sanctions against president bashar al assad until this point russia and china have opposed any type of international pressure in the in the form of sanctions instead referring to kofi annan six point peace plan and fully supporting that so of course these statements coming from a top u.n. official declaring civil war in syria can be a game changer within the security council in the days ahead you h

the u.n. peacekeeping chief our of a lot to who recently made those comments saying that the conflict in syria is now a civil war he is the first you want to fishel to have made that type of declaration following the fifteen months of violence taking place in escalating in syria now of course his words can carry a lot of political weight inside of the security council where the u.s. and its western allies are pushing for sanctions against the assad government now this is a campaign ongoing for months now the u.s. pretty much leaving it trying to get russia and china to agree on international sanctions against president bashar al assad to this point russia and china have opposed any type of international pressure in the in the form of sanctions instead referring to kofi annan six point peace plan and fully supporting that so of course these statements coming from a top u.n. official declaring a civil war in syria can be a game changer within the security council in the days ahead you have to re

sanction or u.n. condemnation of what's happening in syria right now the conflict in syria spilling over into neighboring lebanon where deadly sectarian clashes have broken out in several cities there's also a growing influx of syrian refugees with areas divided between supporters and bitter opponents of president assad marie ivanovna has more from lebanon. this movie house in the outskirts of tripoli in lebanon you've shown to two five syrian families running away from a twelve cities and wyland home and. we were forced to leave shelling in homs never stopped we were afraid to leave the house while in this part of everyday life we were just tired. to be to bloodshed means the just ten movies like ali have had their childhoods talents from then he now has to earn money to help his family he shows us what he does for seven dollars per week. no longer sounds like a child if you don't i want to join the rebels i want to fight refugees complain they live here in lebanon is really hard no work not enough m

u.n. observers in syria continue their investigation into an alleged at massacre in the hama province monitors have visited the side of the killings but are unable to determine how many died or who was behind the slaughter reports of violence continue to come from across the country with several bomb blasts and gun battles erupting in the capital damascus archies more if a notion and now reports. damascus last night has been hit by war some have been described as the heaviest fighting between the rebels the opposition the armed opposition and the governmental forces we've been deed been hearing sounds of explosions and how we shall ngs and separate shootings for several hours nonstop and as it's become normal for the syrian conflict we've been hearing conflicting reports on exactly what happened and why this occurred london based syrian observatory for human rights have been saying that the rebels before it all started organized a really huge anti government rally and then attacked one of

the a u.n. peacekeeping chief our a lot too who recently made those comments saying that the conflict in syria is now a civil war he is the first you want to fishel to have made that type of a declaration following the fifteen months of violence taking place and escalating in syria now of course his words can carry a lot of political weight inside of the security council where the u.s. and its western allies will argue for sanctions against the assad government now this is a campaign ongoing for months now the u.s. pretty much leading it trying to get russia and china to agree on international sanctions against president bashar al assad to this point we russia and china have opposed any type of international pressure in the in the form of sanctions instead referring to kofi annan six point peace plan and fully supporting that so of course these statements coming from a top u.n. official declaring civil war in syria can be a game changer within the security council in the days ahead you have to r

the u.n. peacekeeping chief two who recently made those comments saying that the conflict in syria is now a civil war he is the first you want to fishel to have made that type of declaration following the fifteen months of violence taking place in escalating in syria now of course his words can carry a lot of political weight inside of the security council where the u.s. and its western allies are pushing for sanctions against the assad government now this is been a campaign ongoing for months now with the u.s. pretty much leaving it trying to get russia and china to agree on international sanctions against president bashar al assad to this point we russia and china have opposed any type of international pressure in the in the form of sanctions instead referring to kofi annan six point peace plan and fully supporting that so of course these statements coming from a top u.n. official declaring a civil war in syria can be a game changer within the security council in the days ahead you have to r

peacekeeping chief mr lots you also stated we should mention that the u.n. said that three u.n. vehicles were fired upon when monitors were trying to enter the syrian town. on tuesday according to the u.n. the crowds were throwing rocks and metal rods and also there were shots fired at the cars nobody was injured but clearly this increases the amount of danger surrounding the u.n. peacekeepers that are in the country next month this ninety day mandate for this syrian mission the u.n. syrian mission expires. council members it may not be willing to renew this mandate if they feel that the u.n. observers will be in danger if they are in syria which is now been deemed a civil war. although the crisis has reached a new level political analyst among the shabby but these kofi annan has plans to remain serious and. i think the situation. very dangerous proportions and there are civilians that are being. but there were some pictures of a horrible massacre as children have been targeted and innocent civilians and i think however it's not too late to i mean i am afraid that perhaps the st

peacekeeping chief mr la to also stated we should mention that the u.n. said that three u.n. vehicles were fired upon when monitors were trying to enter the syrian town. on tuesday according to the u.n. the crowds were throwing rocks and metal rods and also there were shots fired at the cars nobody was injured but clearly this increases the amount of danger surrounding the u.n. peacekeepers that are in the country next month this ninety day mandate for this mission the u.n. syrian mission expires and council members may not be willing to renew this mandate if they feel that the u.n. observers will be in danger if they are in syria which has now been deemed a civil war. well meanwhile u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is alleging that the shipment of attack helicopters were on route from russia to syria but refused to reveal her sources turns ago and was subsequently put in an awkward position admitting it had no knowledge of any such event clinton also claimed that kofi annan who drew up the international backed peace plan for syria was also working on unseating. he sai

peacekeeping chief mr lots you also stated we should mention that the u.n. said that three u.n. vehicles were fired upon when monitors were trying to enter the syrian town. on tuesday according to the u.n. the crowds were throwing rocks and metal rods and also there were shots fired at the cars nobody was injured but clearly this increases the amount of danger surrounding the u.n. peacekeepers that are in the country next month this ninety day mandate for this syrian mission the u.n. syrian mission expires and council members it may not be willing to renew this mandate if they feel that the u.n. observers will be in danger if they are in syria which has now been deemed a civil war and meanwhile u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is alleging that a new shipment of attack helicopters will route from russia to syria but refused to reveal his sources the pentagon was subsequently put in a position between its new knowledge of any such event to those who claim that kofi annan those putting together an international team to ease the syrian out of true coups rusher in the list eve

wants to do but if the u.n. doesn't agree with the united states as you know the case of iraq or kosovo the united states just disregard in the case of syria were kofi annan fragile peace plan has showed slow progress washington is prepared to once again bypass the un if the security council fails to impose more pressure on damascus and members of this council and members of the international community are left with the option only of having to consider whether they're prepared to take actions outside of the annan plan and the authority of this council romans had known for diplomacy they had the legions apparently the united states thinks it has no need for diplomacy it has missiles and drones the u.n. was founded at the end of the second world war as a place for countries to solve conflicts through dialogue rather than gunfire however the honorable goal of maintaining global peace and security becomes harder to attain every time a member state decides to play by its own rules in a point i r.t. new york that's g

and its failures outside of the u.n. russia has repeatedly called for an international conference on syria with foreign minister lavrov saying just today in fact that moscow is ready to host such an event why do you think there is such staunch opposition to this proposal from the west or a lack of response really to kind of sitting down and trying to get through this diplomatically. well i think a lot of it has to do with. suspicion of russian motives obviously russia continues to supply syria with military aid and perhaps more importantly a degree of political support china to a lesser extent as well for iran of course i think the united states its nato partners are suspicious of the intent of bringing together people for discussion when this these forces are taking place in the background. now of course the response would be there would be no perhaps discussion if assad had no supporters the government of course would be relatively isolated and i think that's in some sense what the united states and its partners are lo

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former u.n. secretary general corp.yan has been shattered by the armed opposition. u.n. observers travel from town to town. this father is trying to get his family away from the violence. international community banks on the pleas to stop the killing. >> we call on all sides to insure the protection of civilians and e vaks to safe areas and all parties to exercise maximum restraint and facilitate the entry of u.n. observers. >> syrian president bashar assad shows little heed to end. >> we remind syrian commanders of one of the lessons from bosnia, the international community can and does learn what units were responsible for crimes against humanity, you will be held responsible for your actions, one mystery is the silence of president obama. he committed american air support, thousands more dead in syria, there is far more talk than action, john waage, cbn news. >> tom doyle is vice president and middle east director for e 3 partners a group that works with church leaders in the middle east. they are helping thousands of refugees that are fleeing into jordan and lebanon.

deadly clashes in syria as u.n. officials admit their envoys peace plan is being broken on both sides while foreign calls for intervention sound louder. spanish anguish madrid asked the eurozone for one hundred billion euros now to shore up its struggling banks and therefore becomes the largest economy to seek aid so far. also boosting trade and tackling the crisis in the middle east russia and china strengthen their partnership as president vladimir putin visits beijing. hello and welcome this is r.t. live from moscow you're watching the weekly a round up of the top stories of the last seven days with me kevin zero in this hour and first u.n. observers in syria continuing efforts to try to determine how many people were massacred in hama province on wednesday and indeed who was behind that slaughter top u.n. officials admit the peace plan is being flouted by both sides of the conflict dozens of reportedly been killed across the country over the weekend while following calls for intervention of being ramped up to. r

wants to do but if the u.n. doesn't agree with the united states as you know the case of iraq or kosovo the united states just disregards in the case of syria or kofi annan fragile peace plan has showed slow progress washington is prepared to once again bypass the u.n. if the security council fails to impose more pressure on damascus and members of this council and members of the internet. community are left with the option only of having to consider whether they're prepared to take actions outside of the annan plan and the authority of this council. for diplomacy they had legions apparently united states thinks it has no need for diplomacy it has missiles and drones the un was founded at the end of the second world war as a place for countries to solve conflicts through dialogue rather than gunfire however the honorable goal of maintaining global peace and security becomes harder to attain every time a member state decides to play by its own rules up or ny r.t. new york. times the business news now is downhill

ambassador to the u.n. susan rice said that if kofi annan six point peace plan fails and if the security council does not agree on international sanctions on syria then countries would have to consider taking independent action without the authority of the security council what that action would be is not clear because the u.s. and european countries have already imposed their own independent sanctions on syria so those words led many to speculate that the u.s. and its allies are possibly considering military action the commander of the free syrian army he has called on joint special envoy kofi annan to publicly say that his six point peace plan that's about seven weeks old cars failed and out would allow rebels to resume their military attacks against president bashar al assad and his supporters nobody from the united nations has come out and blatantly said that peace plan has failed clearly there's been a violation of the cease fire on both sides the opposition and the. also the syrian government has publ

at the u.n. and otherwise but also his entire neighborhood so i mean libya is a case where a dictator you know ended up a situation where he was standing by himself and i think that the consequences of that would be inevitable i do think that the way that that particularly the u.k. and france to a lesser extent the united states which i think you know got pulled into it a little bit unwillingly at least at the outset but the way that u.k. and france played it which was to talk very quickly about regime change after the authorization of the second security council resolution that created some serious problems for future interventions because it raised serious also among russia china and others are and we're out of time thanks so much for thanks so much it's a great conversation and you're doing great work thanks so much to see this in other conversations the great minds go to our website conversations with great minds dot com. coming up after the break the conventional wisdom tells us the saving m

wants to do but if the u.n. doesn't agree with the united states as you know the case of iraq or kosovo the united states just disregards in the case of syria we're kofi annan fragile peace plan has showed slow progress washington is prepared to once again bypass the u.n. if the security council fails to impose more pressure on damascus and members of this council and members of the international commune. are left with the option only of having to consider whether they're prepared to take actions outside of the annan plan and the authority of this council. for diplomacy they have the legions apparently the united states thinks it has no need for diplomacy it has missiles and drones the un was founded at the end of the second world war as a place for countries to solve conflicts through dialogue rather than gunfire however the honorable goal of maintaining global peace and security becomes harder to attain every time a member state decides to play by its own rules or an up or ny r.t. new york. business news now a

kofi annan, who brokered a u.n. peace plan aimed at ending the violence, said what many on the ground already know. >> i must be frank and confirm that the plan is not being implemented. >> reporter: as annan spoke, syria continued to burn. the syrian military continued its assault on towns where civilians young and old were fleeing the shells raining down, and while the international community continues to wrangle over what it can do, syrians caught in the middle continue to cry out for help. >> that is nbc, and amon joins us now from cairo. good to see you again. this latest massacre of women and children shows us again the u.n. really can't do much more to stop syria without the help of russia and china. they want tougher sanctions, but russia and china have now come out and said they're not going to go for that. where do we go from here? >> it's absolutely right. there is a paralysis now that is so evident for many people in the region. the arab countries that want to supply weapons and support to the opposition

the u.n. general assembly is debating the situation in syria following a massacre in the province of hama russia's ambassador to the u.n. is now speaking. to what he has to say representatives of our states we must rationally analyze the entire situation. laid down those steps which would make it possible to reverse the catastrophic development of events both in the region the much of the present first of all we must acknowledge that a great deal of what has been undertaken regarding the syrian crisis now is not working about the way a policy of unilateral pressure is not working on economic sanctions directed against the massacres are only i reading the humanitarian situation and are building a possibility among various groups of the population of your kind of girl demands for an immediate change are simply going you know where it is wrong of you to rely on support of those opposition groups which can find nothing better to do then to recall more foreign military interventions in their own co

wants to do but if the u.n. doesn't agree with the united states as you know the case of iraq or kosovo the united states just disregards in the case of syria were kofi annan fragile peace plan has showed slow progress washington is prepared to once again bypass the un if the security council fails to impose more pressure on damascus and members of this council and members of the international community are left with the option only of having to consider whether they're prepared to take actions outside of the annan plan and the authority of this council groans have no need for diplomacy they have the legions apparently the united states thinks it has no need for diplomacy it has missiles and drones the u.n. was founded at the end of the second world war as a place for countries to solve conflicts through dialogue rather than gunfire however the honorable goal of maintaining global peace and security becomes harder to attain every time a member state decides to play by its own rules or an up or ny r.t. new york c