opposition and the syrian rebel forces that are fighting against the syrian regime in the country at the moment but they're easily accessible you have a huge number of views on the cheap sites where these videos are going up and big questions about the regulation of these videos about why they're allowed to stay out for so long now many of these videos was aimed at the syrian opposition aren't actually made in syria itself it's what many of them originating from other countries including a lot of them coming from the u.s. and of course that again raises questions about the u.s. is involvement in this type of cyber warfare of course many other countries and many other governments also stand accused of participating in this type of cyber warfare but there are big concerns because over the last couple of years certainly countries like the u.s. and the have identified as one of the main threats in this war on terror is being the lone wolves people who are sat in the privacy of their own home and able to access information that trains them to be able to carry out an attack and say videos

with your top stories washington pledges more support for the syrian rebels but the russian foreign minister says the by justifying the blasts in damascus america is all but it all singing terrorists. practice pays off american media types the pentagon's one hundred percent accuracy rate in pakistan drone strikes helped along by a written definition for terrorists. a disturbing discovery in russian woodland police say almost two hundred fifty human fetuses frank dumped in plastic barrels for over five months old and may have been used for legal research. and a heavy weight boost for julian assange his legal team the man who indicted chilean dictator pinochet for human rights abuses now joins the whistleblower in his fight . next to his instigating the syrian war and has it now reached a tipping point that's the focus of today's cross talk just a few moments away. if you. start. to. move hello and welcome to cross talk i want you to know is end game in sight for the assad regime with the u.s. in a regional ally seeking to subvert diplomacy and the warning from damascus it will use chemical we

siding with an armed opposition well i'm not taking any sides in the syrian conflict the only interest of all is to avoid destabilizing you could change syria . further destabilize ation in the region which is our aim to. address in your speech on the national july here which mr president. said that we do this which is foreign policy is independent and will be guided by having national law and the necessity to act in concert with the two by the way with louis let me just step aside and the struck record of those who are trying to. make us step aside from this position has a lot of deplorable instances of unilateral actions military actions and the results. well remembered by everybody and i believe that they should masterminds of such steps should. be in the position to follow claims against russia from the very outset would back the plan of coffee and use the hundred one meant of the observe us mission in syria and we did a lot to. get the consent of damascus then you should say of all of mating all of all the external stakeholders and the meeting was held in geneva on the thirtieth o

the syrian people but certainly those who want to topple the syrian government this regarding the consequences which are extremely tragic which such policy. entails because the government or president our side it's not simply one individual or a group of individuals they represent of course a certain segment of the of the syrian population is certain power structure which has existed there for decades so to break it would cause and is causing trying to break that considerable trouble and bloodshed to reform and through dialogue this would be a much more reasonable a line of action and this is what russia has been advocated dialogue hasn't achieved anything so far is that now an overwhelming global sentence is something has to be done to stop the killing of innocent people and what about intervention on humanitarian grounds is that it not acceptable to moscow moscow is very concerned about chapter seven i don't want to get into technical does it protect chapter seven leading to perhaps military intervention but what about some form of intervention to stop the killing. well in a way the money to

opposition and the syrian rebel forces that are fighting against the syrian regime in the country at the moment but they're easily accessible you have a huge number of views on the chief sites where these videos are going up and big questions about the regulation of these videos about why they're allowed to stay out for so long now many of these videos was aimed at the syrian opposition aren't actually made in syria itself it's not many of them originating from other countries including a lot of them coming from the u.s. and of course that again raises questions about the u.s. is involvement in this type of cyber warfare of course many other countries and many other governments also stand accused of participating in this type of cyber warfare but there are big concerns because over the last couple of years certainly countries like the u.s. and the have identified as one of the main threats in this war on terror is being the lone wolves people who are sat in the privacy of their own home and able to access information that trains and to be able to carry out an attack and say videos li

free syrian army soldier now controlling all four border crossings at the syrian iraqi border and the dollar toll official has also said that the iraqi guard. i have witnessed extreme boilers from the side of free syrian army soldiers from opposition fighters we also been able to see the to posted on you tube from the syrian turkish border where gunmen have been shouting religious slogans and shooting. portrays a free syrian army has been able to take control over crossings at the border that means that they they are very determined in large scale operation against the regime of president bashar al assad but that doesn't necessarily mean that this keeping this control because everything changes very fast we have to be very careful with information and even with picture is we see because since the beginning of this our prize in it's also been media war and just recently we've been hearing from opposition that they've managed to take control over the airport just yesterday we were at the airport here in damascus that it's functioning normally been here on the ground for almost fifty day

opposition and the syrian rebel forces that are fighting against the syrian regime in the country at the moment but they're easily accessible you have a huge number of views on the huge chief sites where these videos are going up and big questions about the regulation of these videos about why they're allowed to stay out for so long now many of these videos was aimed at the syrian opposition aren't actually made in syria itself it's all many of them originating from other countries including a lot of them coming from the u.s. and of course that again raises questions about the u.s. is involvement in this type of cyber warfare of course many other countries and many other governments also stand accused of participating in this type of cyber warfare but there are big concerns because over the last couple of years certainly countries like the u.s. and the have identified as one of the main threats in this war on terror is being the lone wolves people who are sat in the privacy of their own home and able to access information that trains and to be able to carry out an attack and say vide

the once famous syrian t.v. and film making industry into rough times as former arab sponsors withdraw money from the conflict britain. is. 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 realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry locker is a big. wealthy british style it's not. the time to. go to. the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports. live from moscow the u.n. envoy to syria wants the security council to get tough on both the country's government and opposition kofi annan says there should be consequences if the warring sides don't comply with his ceasefire plan the pressure on syria mounts with western powers threatening more sanctions and military intervention to russia wants an extension of the u.n. observer mission to three months saying dialogue

in very different parts of the syrian capital warsaw have seen black smoke drifting over the city's

un observers can farm violent clashes between syrian forces and rebels in the village of transect but the findings but opposition claims of a civilian massacre in question. and other stories that shaped this week russia's the south is hit by its deadliest ever floods but thousands of people from across the country joint efforts to help those who have lost everything in. days of an tiles ferrety protests in spain lead to dozens of injuries warnings that the e.u. strategy of bailing out banks at the people's expense will only fuel public anger plus. it's almost a list of all right now. we see the latest screw now on route to the international space station where they'll spend the next four months. hello and thank you for joining of the weekly with me karen tara chief for your week's top stories well russia's southern resort region of course not bad is recovering after the worst floods in its history more than one hundred seventy people were killed in the deluge calls by torrential rain thousands of houses were also destroyed are trees down as well it's reports. it was annoyed of turf fo

in order for the syrians. to decide their future to decide who will do to decide what is that you should do like to have. international help is essential is useful is positive and the decision will be of course with the syrians. now talking about international mediation been useful and other animal you know there are more talks planned opposition groups in arab countries are tweeting kyra legs with others coming to moscow to be for coffee and then later what are the chances that all these talks will bring a positive outcome. well. sure that the conference would have some positive results regarding the syrian situation in the sense that the opposition is very much for advantage if there is an opposition that is very much for granted this means that it cannot conduct useful dialogue with the authorities when the position of the opposition would be more unified than the musical for it to be more useful now of course in syria there is this outside opposition that is meeting in cairo together with some internal opp

russia as well as china but the backers of the syrian national congress and the syrian so-called free syrian army have poles in the effort in the dialogue to bring about a political solution to this crisis they are refused to acknowledge any type of ceasefire they have continued their aggressive activities against the syrian government and as a result of that the syrian government has had no choice except to engage in these military maneuvers that we've seen over the last couple of days the onus of the resolution to this crisis strictly with the armed opposition and also the opposition that is around the syrian national council as well as the other islamist groups which have refuse all peace plans that have been put forward by the united nations envoy kofi annan. and little lace in the program we picture the conflict in syria from a slightly different angle but the kind of once problem any industry now ostracized in the arab states which sent the rebels. tens of thousands of people attended a funeral in saudi arabia for an accident killed during recent demonstrations the rest was kill

a decisive battle for the syrian capital shootings have been heard in very different parts of the syrian capital also seen black smoke drifting over the city skyline and we've also been hearing helicopters not only flying over one of the oldest continuously inhabited capitals in the world but also firing we can see some smoke even now in actually many different neighborhoods of damascus many countries have closed their embassies here in syria and have withdrawn all personnel in this neighborhood alone turkish embassy over the saudi embassy this is the building of american embassy tallon embassies these embassies have also suspended their work overseas companies have also have a creator their stuff foreigners no longer feel safe here in the syrian capital and they have fled but ordinary syrians don't have the same choice the word has come to their door and they have nowhere to run and they're trying to organize their everyday life waiting for this nightmare to end one of the most important rule these days in the syrian capital is not to go to the cities troubled areas where the clashes be

healers of the syrian people in the hearts and minds of the syrians. the same situation likely to be happen because of up in 1999 when the entire some community failed to adopt a new resolution to protect the civilians. a week on the ground right now because much of the areas being liberated by the free syrian army, there is no control. as example for any political opposition there. there is no political authority for the essence of the syrian national council on that area. this is, unfortunately, because the lack of actions or inactions by the ins a national community. and the security council, we much expected that from our visit to moscow and from the comments of officials. we say that many times we don't need to try and lift hard time more and more with the security council. we come to the way we are actually, the actions beyond the security council is much more important. we see many times that the moral authority tap save the children and civilians is above the legal authority that the security council gives. we come up to the situation, many cas

regime over the syrian economy hold up. after so many months of violent disruption of the normal life part of the answer is you were in iranian supposed to have also been reports of participation of elements from his below which is you runs along i mean eleven on in together with the shah behind the. suppression of in the sunni sunni opposition and unfortunately looks more and more like an extension of a sunni shia conflict in. the region well that's what i mean i was actually i was trying to get out earlier in the program no i'd even first i had i don't think that quite that i don't think it's quite that simple i mean i think there certainly are distant elements within minority communities including the the christians alawite so do oppose the regime crony capitalist class which has really been the backbone of the assad regime and then respects is largely sunni we see the overwhelmingly shape opposition in bahrain fighting the u.s. backed sunni dictatorship there they have gone on record in solidarity with the syrian opposi

national congress and the syrian so-called free syrian army have opposed any effort aimed at dialogue to bring about a political solution to this crisis they have refused to acknowledge any type of cease fire they have continued their aggressive activities against the syrian government and as a result of that the syrian government has had no choice except to engage in these military maneuvers that we've seen over the last couple of days the onus of the resolution to this crisis strictly lies with the armed opposition and also the opposition that is around the syrian national council as well as the other islamist groups which have refuse all peace plans that have been put forward by the united nations envoy kofi annan. a little later in the program we picture of a conflict in syria from a different angle for the country one popular movie industry now ostracize arab states support. the massive flooding in russia's south that's killed more than one hundred sixty has spurred growing numbers of people into action hundreds of volunteers have been tackling the black sea crisis themselves on

the syrian people but certainly those who want to topple the syrian government this regarding the consequences which are extremely tragic which such policy in the dales because the government or president our side it's not simply one individual or a group of individuals they represent of course a certain segment of the of the syrian population a certain power structure which has existed there for decades so to break it would cause and is causing trying to break a considerable trouble and bloodshed to reform and through dialogue this would be a much more reasonable a line of action and this is what russia has been advocated dialogue hasn't achieved anything so far is that now an overwhelming global sentence is something has to be done to stop the killing of innocent people and what about intervention on humanitarian grounds is that it acceptable to moscow moscow is very concerned about chapter seven i don't want to get into technical does it protect chapter seven leading to perhaps military intervention but what about some form of intervention to stop the killing. well in a way the money group

national congress and the syrian so-called free syrian army have opposed any effort aimed at dialogue to bring about a political solution to this crisis they have refused to acknowledge any type of cease fire they have continued their aggressive activities against the syrian government and as a result of that the syrian government has had no choice except to engage in these military maneuvers that we've seen over the last couple of days the onus of the resolution to this crisis strictly lies with the armed opposition and also the opposition that is around the syrian national council as well as the other islamist groups which have refuse all peace plans that have been put forward by the united nations envoy kofi annan. a little later in the program we picture the conflict in syria from a different angle for the country's once popular movie industry now ostracized in the arab states which support the rebels. the massive flooding in russia's south that's killed more than one hundred sixty has spurred growing numbers of people into action hundreds of volunteers have been tackling laxey cr

russia as well as china but the backers of the syrian national congress and the syrian so-called free syrian army have holes in the effort. to bring about a political solution to this crisis they have refused to acknowledge any type of cease fire they have continued their aggressive activities against the syrian government and as a result of that the syrian government has had no choice except to engage in these military maneuvers that we've seen over the last couple of days the onus of the resolution to this crisis strictly with the armed opposition and also the opposition that is around the syrian national council as well as the other islamist groups which have refuse all peace plans that have been put forward by the united nations envoy kofi annan. and a little later in the program we're picture the conflict in syria from a different angle with the country's once popular movie industry ostracized in the arab states which supported the rebel. tens of thousands of people attended a funeral in saudi arabia for an act of its killed during recent demonstrations the rest was fueled by ten

the syrian national council. and the free syrian army the political and military forces spearheading the opcw rising both financed from and based abroad have made it clear they can be no solution with their side in power as allowed in the geneva agreement. a position is nest direct sums to warn it's too late for dialogue the un and sort of policy boycotted mase parliamentary elections its leader has said the time has come for all sides to make sacrifices and the government should lead the way. the peace plan will only work if assad hands over control of the armed forces and security to the interim government should start seeing the free syrian army and others who are against them as the opposition. no everyone agrees some say the syrian opposition is too fragmented to be trusted larp again only those who really want dialogue should be thought of as legitimate opposition and who is that it's a battle of wills the geopolitical interests of big regional players but we're sure to see more games being played to sabota

regime over the syrian economy hold up. after so many months of violent disruption of the normal life part of the answer is you were in iranian supposed to have also been reports of participation of elements from hezbollah which is that you runs along i mean eleven on in together with the shah behind the. suppression of. sunni sunni opposition and unfortunately looks more and more like an extension of a sunni shia conflict in. the region well that's what i mean i was actually i was trying to get out earlier in the program no i'd even first i had i don't think that quite that i don't think it's quite that simple i mean i think there certainly are distant elements within minority communities including the the christians alawite so i do oppose the regime the crony capitalist class which has really been the backbone of the assad regime and then respects is largely sunni we see the overwhelmingly opposition in bahrain fighting the us backed sunni dictatorship there they have gone on record in solidarity with the syrian oppositio

here with r t live from moscow the headline washington pledges more support for syrian rebels by the russian foreign minister says that by justifying blast in damascus the u.s. is all but indorsing terror from. the perfect kill streak the us media credits one hundred percent accuracy of america's pakistan drone strikes by a liberal interpretation of the word terrorist. a disturbing discovery in russian woodlands police say almost two hundred fifty human fetuses found dumped in plastic barrels for over five months old and may have been used for illegal research. plus a major boost for julian assange his legal team the man who indicted to lay dictator pinochet for human rights abuses now joins the whistleblower in his fight . who is instigating the syrian war and has it now reached a tipping point that's the focus of today's cross talk up next. if you. still. believe. the low end welcome to cross talk i'm with you the world is end game in sight for the assad regime with the u.s. in a regional ally seeking to subvert diplomacy and the warning from damascus it will use chemical weapons i

regime over the syrian economy hold up. after so many months of violent destruction of the normal life part of the answer is you were in iranian supposed to have also been reports of participation of elements from his below which is that you runs along i mean eleven on in together with the shah behind the. suppression of in the sunni sunni opposition and unfortunately looks more and more like an extension of a sunni shia conflict in. the region well that's what i mean i was actually i was trying to get out earlier in the program no i'd even first i had i don't think that quite that i don't have that it's quite that simple i mean i think there certainly are distant elements within minority communities including the the christians alawite so i do oppose the regime the crony capitalist class which has really been the backbone of the assad regime and then respects is largely sunni we see the overwhelmingly show opposition in bahrain fighting the us backed sunni dictatorship there they have gone on record in solidarity with the

national congress and the syrian so-called free syrian army have holes in the effort in the dialogue to bring about a political solution to this crisis they are refused to acknowledge any type of ceasefire they have continued their aggressive activities against the syrian government and as a result of that the syrian government has had no choice except to engage in these military maneuvers that we've seen over the last couple of days the onus of the resolution to this crisis strictly with the armed opposition and also the opposition that is around the syrian national council as well as the other islamist groups which have refuse all peace plans that have been put forward by the united nations envoy kofi annan. and then later in the program live picture the conflict in syria from a slightly different angle all of the countries in one particular history now for science and the arab states which support the rebels. tens of thousands of people attended a funeral in saudi arabia for an accident killed during recent demonstrations the rest was fueled by the detention of this ad dissidents

free syrian army soldiers are now controlling all four border crossings at the syrian iraqi border but without top official has also said that the iraqi guards have witnessed extreme violence from the side of free syrian army soldiers from opposition fighters we also been able to see be to post it on you tube from the syrian turkish border where gunmen have been shouting religious slogans and shooting to assad's portrays if free syrian army has been able to take control over crossings at the border that means that they they are very determined in large scale operation against a regime of president bashar al assad but that doesn't necessarily mean that this will keep in this control because everything changes very fast so we have to be very careful with information and even we feature is so we see because. since the beginning of this our prize in it's also been media war and just recently we've been hearing from opposition that they've managed to take control over the airport just yesterday we were at the airport here in damascus and it's functioning normally been here on the ground for

a carton of eggs used to cost about one hundred and ten syrian pounds before. for the war after the uprising that amount of money is enough for just two eggs now take sugar for example the price of a bath like this has tripled in cost the amount of money one used to spend on it will now buy about this amount and even staple food like rice i mean this is a really common food in syria probably enough to feed a small family for about a week like this has doubled in cost now when it comes to the arab spring the cost of food and fuel has played a critical role as prices rose so did anger in arab nations the same holds true in syria were simply surviving and making ends meet as now a daily battle in the end the price of bread may prove to be a bigger obstacle to peace than a loaded gun for r t i'm lucy catherine of in moscow. russians refuting claims that syria's president might be seeking asylum in the country foreign minister sergei lavrov denied allegations at a news conference with his german counterpart archies. is across what has been set . will you take out wi

a carton of eggs used to cost about one hundred and ten syrian pounds before the. war after the uprising that amount of money is enough for just two eggs now take sugar for example the price of a bath like this has tripled in cost the amount of money one used to spend on it will now buy about this amount and even staple foods like rice i mean this is a really common food in syria probably enough to feed a small family for about a week like this has doubled in cost and when it comes to the arab spring the cost of food and fuel has played a critical role as prices rose so did anger in arab nations the same holds true in syria were simply surviving and making ends meet as now a daily battle in the end the price of bread may prove to be a bigger obstacle to peace than a loaded gun for r t i'm lucy catherine of in moscow. and syrian politician an opposition member qadri jamil says anger in the country is being filled by the burden of sanctions and western support of the uprising more than him in our interview coming your way next hour here's a preview. syria is in a dif

a decisive battle for the syrian capital shootings have been heard in very different parts of the syrian capital also seen black smoke drifting over the city's skyline and we've also been hearing helicopters not only flying over one of the oldest continuously inhabited capitals in the world but also firing we can see some smoke even now in actually many different neighborhoods of damascus many countries have closed their embassies here in syria and have withdrawn all personnel in this neighborhood alone turkish embassy over the saudi embassy this is the building of american embassy tallon embassies these embassies have all suspended their work overseas companies have also have a creator their stuff foreigners no longer feel safe here in the syrian capital and they have fled but ordinary syrians don't have the same choice the world has come to their door and they have nowhere to run and they're trying to organize their everyday life waiting for this nightmare to end one of the most important rule for these days in the syrian capital is not to go to the cities troubled areas where the clas

the syrian people but certainly those who want to topple the syrian government this regarding the consequences which are extremely tragic which such policy. entails because the government or president our side it's not simply one individual or a group of individuals they represent of course a certain segment of the of the syrian population a certain power structure which has existed there for decades so to break it would cause and is causing trying to break that considerable trouble and bloodshed to reform and through dialogue this would be much more reasonable a line of action and this is what russia has been advocated dialogue hasn't achieved anything so far is that now an overwhelming global sentence is something has to be done to stop the killing of innocent people and what about intervention on humanitarian grounds is not acceptable to moscow moscow is very concerned about chapter seven i don't want to get into technical to see it chapter seven leading to perhaps military intervention but what about some form of intervention to stop the killing. well in a way the money group which. is a w

national congress and the syrian so-called free syrian army have opposed any effort. to bring about a political solution to this crisis they have refused to acknowledge any type of cease fire they have continued their aggressive activities against the syrian government and as a result of that the syrian government has had no choice except to engage in these military maneuvers that we've seen over the last couple of days the oldest of the resolution to this crisis strictly with the armed opposition and also the opposition that is around the syrian national council as well as the other islamist groups which have refuse all peace plans that have been put forward by the united nations envoy kofi annan. a little later in the broader ground we're picture the conflict and see where from a different angle with a country once popular movie industry now ostracized in the arab states which supported the rebels. tens of thousands of people attended a funeral in saudi arabia for an activist killed during recent demonstrations the rest was fueled by the detention of dissidents and

the syrian opposition rejects the latest international peace plan calling for free elections with an all inclusive transitional government in the interim. britain's up big brother internet and phone firms are to record up but there's deep concern over new government plans to probably into citizens personal affairs. had fresh calls to try julian assange for spying are made in washington as r t prepares to air the final episode of his interview show. low as they did for joining our t.v. this monday with me karen taraji syria's opposition has rejected the new international plan to and the country's bloody internal conflict they say they don't want president assad to be a part of the political transition meeting in geneva all international powers agreed that the syrian people are to decide the fate of the country and there are no demands for regime change parties more of a notion as more from damascus. the geneva peace proposal was the latest attempt to reconcile the divided sides in the syrian conflict with a unity government but that hope was already fading even before the delegates in

report says both sides in the syrian conflict the rebels from the free syrian army and the government are using children in their fight. we can see children among four sons demonstrators. four year old or young as praising his motherland and this is in microphone. the kids carrying out a kalashnikov. baryons father couldn't imagine that his youngest son's participation in apache after crowley would put all his family in danger and lead to the murder of his other two children and if they threatened us many times once the road on the house as well that time has come up then they sent me a symbolic loop then they put the picture of one facebook us promising five hundred thousand syrian pounds to those who bring him to them we couldn't imagine they'll come to our home and not let me in i mean in my ears and wanted to prepare for exams and went to sleep in the living room which i'm not and this is where they smashed first out and they were shootings and they cried a lot darker than my heat under the bed. and i was crying because they killed years and i miss him a lot i am unsure me as elde

from here questions still continue shelling and shooting in the syrian city of homes as the death toll continues to rise brings an exclusive report from the heart of the uprising. meanwhile wiki leaks promised to shed new light on the syrian conflict as the group begins to release millions of e-mails claiming the material is damning not only for damascus but also the u.s. . and washington plans to invest millions to upgrade the notorious kuantan a mole base suggesting the shutdown of the detention facility was promised by barack obama is still a far cry. onscreen and almost twenty four hours a day seven days a week this is r t with me karen terror well shelling continues in the syrian city of homes as un as a u.n. monitor and emits that the violence in the country has reached unprecedented levels more than one hundred people have been killed in the last three days our correspondent marie if a national heard heavy artillery herself as she toured the war torn neighborhoods of homes. this part of honey may be back on the syrian army control with it patrols never stop soldiers are searchin

regime over the syrian economy hold up. after so many months of violent disruption of the normal life part of the answer is you were in iranian supposed to have also been reports of participation of elements from his below which is that you runs along i mean eleven on in together with the shah behind the. suppression of. sunni sunni opposition and unfortunately looks more and more like an extension of a sunni shia conflict in. the region well that's what i mean i was actually i was trying to get out earlier in the program i've even first i had i don't think that quite that i don't have that it's quite that simple i mean i think there certainly are distant elements within minority communities including the the christians alawite so i do oppose the regime the crony capitalist class which has really been the backbone of the assad regime and then respects is largely sunni we see the overwhelmingly shape opposition in bahrain fighting the us backed sunni dictatorship there they have gone on record in solidarity with the syrian o

welcome back to crossfire your little mind you were talking about the syrian civil war. and you can. still. go back to you karl in london many are in western media and politicians are talking about an end game in syria what is that and i mean assad goes in every it had everyone lives happily ever after ever after i mean what is the end mean. well that's the real problem is the question i mean in my next column writing is what is an endgame in syria how do you define that because they're making mistaken analogies with places like egypt and tunisia where you can just sideline the president and then kind of the system can continue in a different way in syria it's a radically different situation if i said leaves tomorrow another person will step in there is a much wider circle that has this power interests so ultimately even if you're talking about the higher echelons of the regime actually leaving you're going to have to i arrive at a political kind of solution that allows that transition to happen and laws like the ilo a community the christian minorities all of these peop

regime over the syrian economy hold up. after so many months of violent destruction of the normal life part of the answer is you were in iranian supposed to have also been reports of participation of elements from his below which is you runs along i mean eleven on in together with the shah behind the. suppression of. sunni sunni opposition and unfortunately it looks more and more like an extension of a sunni shia conflict in. the region well that's what i mean i was actually i was trying to get out earlier in the program no i'd even first i had i don't think that quite that i don't have that it's quite that simple i mean i think there certainly are distant elements within minority communities including the the christians alawite so do oppose the regime crony capitalist class which has really been the backbone of the assad regime and then respects is largely sunni we see the overwhelmingly share opposition in bahrain fighting the us backed sunni dictatorship there they have gone on record in solidarity with the syrian opposi

from here clashes still continue shelling and shooting in the syrian city of homes as the death toll continues to rise party brings you an exclusive report from the heart of the uprising. also wiki leaks fulfills its promise to shed new light on the syrian conflict with the first batch of released e-mails proving to be damning not only for damascus but all the while millions more leaked files are still to come. rolling to have made germany responsible for gold bugs one hundred seventy two economists writes in an open letter to the childes look more in the business of twenty zero. zero. zero it's three pm in moscow this is r t coming to you live on news and now with our top story in the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has lashed out at russia and china reiterating her claims that the two are supporting the also regime and that they must face consequences and. comments were made in paris where the members of the so-called friends of syria are meeting this friday let's now get more details from marty's peter all over who is following this developing story peter friends of syria

un observers confirmed violent clashes between syrian forces and rebels in the village are trying to say but the findings put opposition claims of a civilian massacre into question. and other stories that shaped this week russia's south is ahead by its deadliest ever floods but thousands of people from across the country join efforts to help those who have lost everything in. days of anti austerity protests in spain leads to dozens of injuries amid warnings about the new strategy of bailing out banks at the people's expense but only fueled public anger plus it's almost a lift up right now. we see all the latest grew now on the route to the international space station where else spend the next four months. thank you for joining r.t. this sunday with me karen tara. a southerner resort region of course now that is recovering after the worst floods in its history more than a hundred and seventy people were killed in the deluge caused by a tarantula rain thousands of houses were also destroyed dennis bolts reports. it was a noise of turf for the people of greensburg in almost an instant t

the syrian army is moving in. the opposition has claimed responsibility for this along with as you had this group of islamic fundamentalists what does that tell you about what could happen if sad does go shouldn't that ring alarm bells to all those are supporting the opposition when in fact it could be the islamist extremists taking over. there are a lot of angry islamists theorum out of syria and they're more coming in for a rock. thirty forty years of a sun down it's the sunni muslims who are ferociously repressed repressed torture there are a lot of scores to settle the islamists are not the only group but they are certainly when we heard the same fear expressed in libya. but after yesterday's rather questionable election there we find that a pro western candidate has won as president seemingly happened in syria you could find that the government has been installed by the french and. other powers as it was in libya. to syria you've seen the military that. is extremely well funded and organize it's a very powerf

shelling continues in the syrian city of homes as a u.n. monitor at mit's the violence in the country has reached unprecedented levels more than one hundred people have been killed in the last three days our correspondent maria phenomena heard heavy artillery herself as she toured the war torn neighborhoods of homs. but. this part of honey so maybe back on the syrian army control but their patrols never stop soldiers are searching house to house they're looking for terrorists or snipers but that's not what they usually find. some people in their homes became their grades too and this room look human bones or at least one person. seems to have been burnt to death. in the next house we find three more charts calls. activists claim up to eight hundred thousand people have been killed since the uprising began sixteen months ago the u.n. estimates around ten pounds we have no way of telling if these remains or others like them were even counted. my brother used to be home to one hundred thousand people now we're driving through ghost area people

dlp us remember how the free syrian army got started. >> well, it started out as a trickle of syrian soldiers who claimed they refused orders to fire on civilians. they deserted to form the free syrian army. within months, there were dozens of groups across the country but with no clear coordination or command structure. we spent time with rebel eyghters in idlib. most fighters we met were farmers and workers with little military training. ney told us they had no choice. they had to fight after government forces shot peaceful thotesters. ereir weapons were no match for hee army's tanks and artillery, even bullets were scarce. now the fighters appear to be sition organized and armed. rebels told us they confiscated many weapons from government forces or bought them on the black market. this opposition video appears to oaow free syrian army soldiers operating a tank commander from the syrian military, but this was an exception. userebels have relied mostly on homemade roadside bombs to pierce the military's heavy armor. ordielley: the question becomes are the rebel mrs. unified than th

opposition and the syrian rebel forces that are fighting against the syrian regime in the country at the moment but they're easily accessible you have a huge number of views on the huge chief sites where these videos are going up and big questions about the regulation of these videos about why they're allowed to stay out for so long now many of these videos was aimed at the syrian opposition aren't actually made in syria itself is that many of them originating from other countries including a lot of them coming from the u.s. and of course that again raises questions about the u.s. is involvement in this type of cyber warfare of course many other countries and many other governments also stand accused of participating in this type of cyber warfare but there are big concerns because over the last couple of years certainly countries like the u.s. and the case have identified as one of the main threats in this war on terror as being the lone wolves people who are sat in the privacy of their own home and able to access information that trains and to be able to carry out an attack and say

we have to protect syrian drama because it is our envoy to the world and from a syrian t.v. in filmmaking industries and to rough times in the form of sponsors withdraw money from the conflict ridden state also. but soldiers on the streets of london might be an unusual sight for many but it could be one that the great visitors to london's olympic games after a major security feels. if . down the official auntie application your i phone or i pod touch from the dumpster . watch our life on the go. video on demand. broadcasts and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. on the dot com. you an envoy to syria once the security council get tough on both the country's government and the opposition kofi annan says there should be consequences if the warring sides don't comply with the ceasefire plan pressure on syria with western powers threatening more sanctions and military intervention russia wants an extension of the u.n. observer mission for three months saying dialogue is the only way forward and still rages in the country meantime with online video purportedly showing rebels blo

the way to this free syrian army. bunch of mercenaries that have no legitimate. along with bahrain saudi arabia has been stepping up its crackdown on anti-government rallies activists say two men were killed in the oil rich eastern province after police opened fire on protests triggered by the arrest of a prominent shiite cleric last sunday the saudi authorities have to put extra troops to the area amid worries of fresh unrest among their shia population who have long complained of discrimination by the ruling family. still have the sour grapes lurches from recession or racism. we report on how the cutbacks are driving prejudice and violence against non breaks living in the death stricken country. plus restricting civil liberties abor boosting transparency we look at the much criticize russian bill labels campaign groups funded from abroad as foreign agents . it's been a turbulent week for spain where more than seventy people have been injured in days of protests and began on wednesday when miners supported by thousands of demonstrators converged madrid security

going observers confirm violent clashes between syrian forces and rebels in the village of transept but the fighting put opposition claims of civilian massacre question. also days of anti-us terror to protests in spain lead to dozens of injuries amid warnings that the e.u. strategy of bailing out buying said the people's expense of a lonely fuel public anger plus. it's almost a list of all right now. we see all of the latest crew now on route to the international space station where they'll spend the next four months. hello welcome to our c twenty four hour news life. of all of the latest news and a review of the week's events first russia's southern the result region of di's recovering after the worst floods in its history well one hundred and seventy people were killed in the deluge caused by torrential rain thousands of houses were destroyed and he's done his battles can now reports. it was annoying to cure for the people of green square in almost an instant the small town was swept away by a torrent of rain and mud deluge by a giant wave of up to seven meters most of the buildings t

opposition and the syrian rebel forces that are fighting against the syrian regime in the country at the moment but they're easily accessible you have a huge number of views on the huge chief sites where these videos are going up and big questions about the regulation of these videos about why they're allowed to stay up for so long now many of these videos was aimed at the syrian opposition aren't actually made in syria itself it's all many of them originating from other countries including a lot of them coming from the u.s. and of course that again raises questions about the u.s. is involvement in this type of cyber warfare of course many other countries and many other governments also stand accused of participating in this type of cyber warfare but there are big concerns because over the last couple of years certainly countries like the u.s. and the case have identified as one of the main threats in this war on terror as being the lone wolves people who are sat in the privacy of their own home and able to access information that trains them to be able to carry out an attack and say

meanwhile wiki leaks promised to shed new light on the syrian conflict as the group begins to release millions of e-mails claiming that materialism is damning not only for damascus but also the west. and washington plans to invest millions to upgrade the notorious one ton of mold base the move suggesting the shutdown of the detention facility once promised by barack obama is still a far cry. from the glue merkel's wrong to have made germany responsible for spain's mogul one hundred seventy two because of his right in an open letter to the more in the business of twenty. thank you for joining r.t. at this friday with me karen terrell broadcasting to you live from the heart of moscow while shelling continues in the syrian city of holmes as u.n. monitor the violence in the contrie house reached unprecedented levels more than one hundred people have been killed in the last three days our correspondent for national heard heavy artillery herself as she toward the war torn neighborhoods of homes. in. these parts of hundreds to maybe back on the syrian army control but their patrols never sto

this kind of effort to dislodge the syrian government works and the syrian government does collapse house will be the result and then the kurds will be taking what they can so i think they kind of preparing themselves for that if it doesn't happen then i guess go on and on a different path. the german government admits it knew that nearly one hundred terror attacks in syria have been committed by organizations with ties to al qaeda nevertheless but in continues to back these forces in their fight against damascus one german journalist told r.t. that germany is simply following orders from overseas. i am surprised about the surprise in berlin because what they say now what they admit now what is going on in syria is not a thing which goes on since one day or one week this is what is going on there since several months so i am surprised that now of they are acknowledging what is going on there with the rebels and of course with sunni extremists with al-qaeda related militants going on against the syrian civilians and the syrian government why is germany thought the german government knows a

reports now from the syrian capital. things on the ground unfortunately remain very tense and very complicated the clashes between the syrian army and the rebels have been escalating all over the country but the fear is fighting has happened in the valley of suburbs and villages on the eastern outskirts of the capital damascus some ten to fourteen kilometers from where i am right now this direction from time to time we even can see black smoke coming out from from that place the most fierce clashes have. taken place in the area known as duma it's been one of the opposition strongholds since the beginning of the uprising the source constant source of troubles in sixteen months over crisis it's been off to the governmental control many times but it's never lost of lawn because the rebels have always been very quick to take it over again some ten days ago the syrian army launched yet another fence of on these territories in order to regain control and we are hearing that tang's armored vehicles and even helicopters have bee

shelling and shooting in the syrian city of homes that death toll continues to rise brings an exclusive report from the heart of the uprising. meanwhile wiki leaks promises to shed new light on the syrian conflict as the group begins to release millions of emails claiming the material is damning not only for damascus but also the west. and washington plans to invest millions to upgrade the notorious guantanamo bay the move suggesting the shutdown of the detention facility once promised by a rock obama is still a far cry. thank you for joining our team with me karen tara shelling continues in the syrian city of homes as a u.n. monitor at mit's the violence in the country has reached unprecedented levels more than one hundred people have been killed in over the last three days our correspondent riffing off not heard heavy artillery herself as she toured the war torn neighborhoods of homes. but. this part of honey so maybe back on the syrian army control but their patrols never stop soldiers are searching house to house they're looking for terrorists or snipers but that's not what they usu