is iran's ally russia china have important interests with iran and syria they see syria not so much as important in and of itself but as a marker it's a canary in the mine shaft if syria falls you know the world in the west is going to turn on iran and they want regime change in iran even more than they wanted in syria and in many western analysts of course are asking for regime change in syria so that they can carry out regime change in iran it will weaken iran that's the i mean just you know i'm sorry but it was only a few weeks. ago or a few months ago everyone is talking about the democratic forces of syria what happened to that well the united states wants to use this sunni revolt and the arab spring in order to change the regime in syria because it will help the united states it will bring in theory it could rain syria out all right now i don't mean russia are going to go to a short break and after the show is going to continue our discussion on syrian state. and. what. there hasn't been a thing yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. the full source material

these guys spent years going into syria, out of syria, go kill americans in iraq, come back through syria to go on conjugal visits back and home. we know this. this is home. they are familiar with it. at the same time assad's strategy has been really heavily dependent on using the scare tactic of al qaeda in see. the longest goes -- the longer this goes on the longer it has taken be a reality. so that's a problem. unlike another trend, unlike the national scene council which i think is a basket case. the free syrian army is becoming effective on the ground. the operations are becoming better court needed and more lethal. they're killing more tanks. sometimes in the not so distant future, and i think we're seeing it right now, they will control territory. the assad regime can't whole territory. while it's a positive development it may spur mass defection, it will also be ungoverned space which al qaeda likes. as result some wmd, some of the chemical weapons, 40 or so that the mdc sites in syria that contain gas, vx and mustard gas may start to go somewhere else. we don't know. these are we

so there are many links that tie syria to lebanon and again and you think that's happens to syria or that happens in syria is bound to impact on lebanon so despite the exhaustion of the lebanese despite the this has those haitian policy i fear again that the conflict is spilling over into lebanon now has a lot you mentioned a lot i'm sorry gentlemen let me run out of time here and i it's all keep our fingers crossed for lebanon many thanks my guest today in beirut pittsburg and in washington and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time and remember crosstalk. pretty free. free. free. free. free bird video for your media project a free media dog r t v dot com. preview contagion a eurozone champion germany endures ratings downgrade with fears a crisis is hitting the monetary union the biggest economy. military maneuvering russia plans closer ties with china while america promises to move most with most of it was shaped to the asia pacific in the coming year. and protest peacefully ok of fortune russian lawmakers passed a bill that bugs some of the things heated

the head of syria's mission suspended all activities citing the violence and dangers rising in syria and left the three hundred unarmed un observers very weak in critical circumstance and disadvantage in syria and that's why. the mission was suspended according to the mission's chief general robert mood . deserve a shot at at least ten times and at least nine. suffered some bullets so right now it's a very dangerous circumstance of courting to u.n. officials and we saw those dangers dropped recently fresh clashes breaking out between syria's a lead to republican guard and rebels on the outskirts of damascus those clashes breaking out tuesday morning according to reports at least six people were killed this is just an example of why the u.n. believes it's too dangerous to have this mission resume at this moment but in an effort of course to quell the violence to resume kofi annan six point peace plan there will be an international action type of conference taking place in geneva on saturday at least that's what. being scheduled this is an initiative that was put forth by russia and th

so there are many links that tie syria to lebanon and again and you think that happens to syria or that happens in syria is bound to impact on lebanon so despite the exhaustion of the lebanese despite the this has those haitian policy i fear again that the conflict is spilling over into lebanon now you mentioned a lot i'm sorry gentlemen let me run out of time here and i it's all keep our fingers crossed for lebanon many thanks my guest today in beirut pittsburg and in washington and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are to see you next time and remember prost talked. to. there hasn't been a single t.v. . it is to get the maximum political act. the source material is what helps keep journalism honest we. we want to present. something else. me it is easy for. me to feed.

today daily satellite broadcast live syria a sixteen hours. any specialized information channel has not reached this level yet . the arab states and other countries are waging an informational war against syria does the syrian government media still provide a balanced and unbiased coverage do they provide an accurate picture of the situation in syria especially considering that they were not prepared for this information. and. should be said that everything about us media is in fact down to the audience if we take the side and outside syria we shall see that the audience of the syrian satellite channels has grown a little and so has the number of viewers who perceive these channels as a source to turn to the. syrian satellite channels provide live coverage for sixteen hours a day and this includes the official channels and the specialist and private. we can say what the official syrian media has taken. in the coverage of the syria has forced into those exposing the plans to undermine the strength of spirits by the syrian people i'm convinced t

this is going into syria, out of syria. they are coming back through syria. visits at the damascus airports, we know this. they are familiar with it. the strategy has been really heavily dependent of using a scare tactic. looking at this of becoming a reality. and the more chance of the indigenous that are not islamophobic come islam. unlike the national syrian council, the free syrian army is becoming increasingly effective on the ground. their operations are becoming more coordinated and lethal. there are three under and separating -- separated on the ground. this is good. and i think we are seeing that already. the free syrian army is going to take territory, and this will leave ungoverned space, which al qaeda likes, and as a result, some of the weapons, that contains sarin gas and mustard gas, they could go somewhere else. we do not know. this is a nasty program. the third trend that we are seeing is there are two purposes that regime has given us, and the plan is to create cleared land, and they are doing that, going and clearing out areas, making sure

deadly clashes in syria as u.n. officials admit their envoys peace plan is being broken on both sides dozens have reportedly been killed across the country over the weekend while foreign calls for intervention of the. other headlines from our team madrid asked the eurozone for one hundred billion euros to shore up its struggling banks and therefore becomes the largest economy to see. this plan spade avoid additional cuts imposed from outside the case of greece ireland and portugal. the crisis in the middle east two biggest countries have cemented their partnership this past week russian president vladimir putin visited china. sixteen forty five moscow time something else to do in sport now than history's big made in the world of tennis today pause here to tell you all about that and the rest of the highlights too. thank you very much kevin a big day the french open as you say without news on that plus. on the brink of history rafael nadal that's the big bjorn pulled out of six french open titles as he takes on world

is going to contribute to a civil war in syria the u.s. secretary of state said the absence of you weigh action in syria mainly due to russia's opposition makes it harder to respond to the crisis in the way the international community did in libya now these comments are clearly coming in the in light of last week's massacre in houla u.s. officials are making their words much stronger just on wednesday the u.s. 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 poin

live from our new center here in moscow this is our top stories now an attack on a pro news channel on syria kills seven after president assad declares on national t.v. the country is in a state of war. the security operation for the london olympics is overshadowing the sport the games organizers are also criticized for flaunting battleships and rockets while it seems the olympic park is still easily open to attack. and support keeps flooding in ecuador and embassies in britain and the us a bombarded with ten thousand messages asking them to grant the whistleblower asylum. i'll be back with a news team with more on those stories in half an hour from now in the meantime top looks at the escalating violence in syria and debates whether the shooting down of a turkish plane by damascus could bring about nato military involvement heated debate next in crosstalk. still. billowing welcome across town peter lavelle another push to legitimize going to war against assad the downing of a turkish military jet by syria may prove to be the tipping point allowing nato to force regime change in damascus tho

the events in syria. of course it's very strange we ask oceana and the un security council who will protect freedom of speech democratic principles and liberties how can you shut down syrian national media when the annan plan calls for free accreditation for foreign media coming to syria to cover the situation here and we have one hundred eighty media outlets from all over the world represented in syria well in that and over one hundred accredited foreign reporters permanently working here traveling freely across the country to cover the events. how can you shut down syrian satellite channels and at the same time allow foreign news services to operate freely this will result in biased coverage all this is part of the information war waged against syria but we know that eighty percent of the satellite channels dedicate thirty minutes of their news hour to syria today and a recent study shows that ninety percent of satellite coverage on syria has nothing to do with the actual situation in the country it's a

so some kind of light test in syria radar syria and responses may be also one way of getting around the un and bargo by the russian trainer on intervention in syria is to make it into an international crisis so long as the crisis finally inside syria then pass it on human and international frenchness and the global crisis situation is probably how side the borders of the country concerned can really be made if you however have an international crisis and perhaps you can find a way of pressuring russia and china to agree to action or you may say nato countries have to create our course we don't know yet except the circumstances of maybe an incident can be resolved diplomatically without any problem but of course it comes at such times time even if nobody has purpose incident it's likely to take her life and so in terms of the crisis management holds the syrian crisis because. nato countries relations with the rebels against. the u.s. officials acknowledge cia operatives are supervising the transfer of arms from turkey to syrian rebels some top politicians in the west are still trying to

to cross talk syria turkey relations i'm joined by ryan morrow in new york he is the national security analyst of the. radical islam dot org and a fellow with the clarion fund in london we have patrick case he's a journalist and political commentator at spike magazine and in beirut we cross to joseph key he is an author and columnist for gulf news all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want just if i go to you first in beirut we sing a game of chicken being played out here because this story of the shooting down of this turkish jet there's a lot of questions still to be answered here i mean are there elements on both sides looking for a showdown and if there is a showdown how do you think it will play out. well we don't know exactly what happened as of now there are claims on both sides clearly what we do know is that turkey has sent one of its jets it's very questionable that a single jet like this would fly by itself but put that aside for a second will come back to it and the syrians shot it down everybody's admitting so far that in fact

deadly clashes in syria as u.n. officials admit the envoys a peace plan is being broken on both sides dozens of reportedly been killed across the country over the weekend while foreign calls for intervention. madrid also the eurozone for one hundred billion euros to shore up its struggling banks becomes the largest economy to seek aid so far this plan that spain avoid additional cuts imposed from the outside as happened in the case of greece and portugal. also christine trade in tackling the crisis in the middle east eurasia is true because countries have cemented their partnership this week as russian president vladimir putin this is china. what is proving to be a great weekend for sports and with the latest poll is next here in our city. thank you very much but well come along to the world of sports is what we've got coming up on the brink of history rafael nadal looks to be your book record of six french open titles as he takes on world number one novak djokovic shaun the parisienne clay. up and running in denmar

all about syria, but i have a question. so many people died, and peacekeepers were there. >> i think that other event was horrible, and they thought it could never take place. thousands of people, young and old, were taken out and ethnically cleansed. if there is any good news out of something like that, it did galvanize the world into taking action to stop further acts of atrocity from taking place. i think america and our allies should be very proud that we stopped that kind of butchery and ethnic cleansing that was going on there in that country. i think it is one of the prouder moments of our ability to work together with like- minded democracies to respect human rights. yes? >> the independent researcher. what is going on with them? , the arab league? can they be more helpful? and what about saudi arabia? >> i have heard reports, published reports, that the saudis are assisting in some ways. the arab league, lebanon obviously is under the influence of hezbollah. i am trying to think you else. -- i am trying to think wh

syria now and. for the hezbollah which come from iran and any regime may come to syria now i think they believe there is a believe in this and the regime will not be a lie. and. maybe it will be neutral but it will not be allowed to. give israel. what you provide what. many. support. will be cut and let's talk about iran and of course. and its relationship with damascus it seems to be the main regional irritant for the u.s. in israel especially with iran in competition with western states over its nuclear activities do you think damascus could be a stepping stone to regime change in iran the question of course many people. no i don't think iran will change at least in the near future its position. is committed to support the syrian regime today but iran. at the end of the day it's nation. concerned about its interests and no so far the syrian regime in my opinion will be supported by iran. and iran would be against. a military operation. against syria and. remember this one is for military and that

oh and welcome across talking to people about syria goes so does lebanon with the violent crisis in syria continuing to deepen and spread can lebanon remain on the sidelines much longer and many other questions abound is syria intentionally destabilizing lebanon and are there elements in lebanon being used to force regime change in damascus. to cross-talk the wave of violence across lebanon i'm joined by robert fisk in beirut he is the middle east correspondent for the independent in pittsburgh we have typhoon goal he is a member of the answer coalition and in washington we cross to ward off he is a professor of middle east studies at the national defense university all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want robert if i go to you first in beirut there seems to be two countervailing narratives going on right now is that the the syrian free army is in lebanon causing trouble looking for our eyes to topple assad or if you like the other one you have assad and his people influencing domestic politics again in lebanon which one do you like or a ne

terrorism i think the media in syria or some media has a war on syria that has a life of its own well talking about media you know when you read stories on syria in the internet media they often end with a disclaimer saying that the exact number of the victims in this conflict cannot be known because the syrian government doesn't give access to journalists on the other hand syrian government also says that the western media is very biased especially on who they call terrorists. my first question is do you think there can be trust restored between the western media and the syrian government or this media war will only escalate while there are hundreds of journalists who came to syria during this crisis it's not true that would then give access to foreign journalists hundreds of freshened written of the game hundreds of. foreign journalists from all over the world from india china. they were as from all over the world and so it's not true all the journalists are now given access to syria. but also that there are. tens a least of the channels. made themselves part of the war on syria and

the insurgents in syria affects the situation in lebanon. who do you think is behind the syrian conflict. we have some global and arab interests clashing here and we all understand that what we don't understand is where this clash will take us in the end but we can say one thing with certain about if the syrian conflict is resolved one way or another this will effect the situation in lebanon but this is the recent events in lebanon the murder of two shakes the situation in africa the detention of saudi malawi who was later released in tripoli all these events indicate that seven forces are not only trying to flare up a conflict they want to start a wave of violence in the country who want to understand it but the big question is who stands to benefit from that. but. it's being done so that palestinians can become citizens of lebanon if lebanon is divided palestinians will eventually be able to become lebanese citizens but one who is trying to divide lebanon. i can ask you the same question external forces seek to control lebanon they seek to

let's call them the better friends of syria. not just friends of syria. we should plan coalition military operations. with an emphasis on arab forces. the uae and qatar were instrumental in libya. they are on the right side here, too. russia, iran, venezuela are acting without u.n. consent. they are not seeking our consent. they send weapons to kill the syrian people. we don't have to seek their content to help them defend themselves. we can't let the iran policy be held hostage. i'm sorry, our syria policy be held hostage to russian cooperation on iran. we can do both. we can also stop restraining turkey. turkey in the past, according to tony bodron, a colleague and friend, back in february, secretary of state clinton met with the turkish foreign minister who put forth a set of measures including creating a buffer zone, humanitarian quarter and a plan for quipping the free syrian army. clinton told her turkish counterpart no less than three times, we are not there. so we're straining the turks from doing something that's beneficial. they don't want to be

is iran's ally russia china have important interests with iran and syria they see syria not so much as important in and of itself but as a marker it's a canary in the mine shaft if syria falls the world the west is going to turn on iran and they want regime change in iran even more than they wanted in syria and in many western analysts of course are asking for regime change in syria so that they can carry out regime change in iran it will weaken iran that's them i mean just not sorry but it was only a few weeks ago is nearly two weeks ago or a few months ago everyone is talking about the democratic forces of syria what happened to that. well the united states wants to use this sunny revolts and the arab spring in order to change the regime in syria because it will help the united states it will bring inferior can bring syria out all right there i mean russia are going to go to a short break an after show or a discussion on syrian state. and. if you're followed up on my. back and i can part of. it goes back to a time when people would like out of the forces in the wild and pick up th

news in syria killed after president assad declares on national t.v. the country. the headquarters of the privately owned. twenty kilometers outside damascus. on wednesday. a u.s. senate committee passes a bill. of rights violations. by the death of lawyer. custody in two thousand and nine. the security operation for the olympics. are also criticized. my colleague bill daughters here in half an hour's time before it's crosstalk in the focus this time syria turkey and what is next poised to tear. continue. to. follow him welcome across town peter lavelle another push to legitimize going to war against assad the downing of a turkish military jet by syria may prove to be the tipping point allowing nato to force regime change in damascus though the syrians may have deliberately been sending turkey and nato a message like back off. to cross talk syria turkey relations i'm joined by ryan morrow in new york he is the national security analyst of radical islam dot org and a fellow with the clarion fun in london we have patrick case he's a journalist and political commentat

i agree with everything you told about syria. but what do you think about the fact that so many people died and peace keepers were there. i think it was a horrible event that most of us thought could never take place on europe soil. young people were taken out young and old and ethnically cleansed and if there was good news like that it we stopped that kind of butchery and ethnic cleansing that was going on in that country. frank freletcher could they be more helpful. saudis, published reports that the saudis are assisting in some ways. the arab league lebanon or io obviously is under the influence of -- who have veto power that makes it more difficult that it d did. i know there are members who are more actively involved. but whether the arab league itself because of the vetos of a couple of three countries. they -- it may be difficult to get a solid position out of the arab league as opposed to the situation. since he had tried to kill a few of the leaders of those countries. i think we have to stop. we have a panel of leaders

security council on syria expecting anything concrete from this session. well international envoy kofi annan has been trying very hard over the past few months to try to bring peace to syria with his six point peace plan that was endorsed by the security council us through a resolution but we've seen that it's made very slow progress just last week the free syrian army the leaders of it out called on mr anon to announce that his plan has failed that plan called for many things one which was a ceasefire that clearly is it holding well in syria mr non is expected that he will be talking to the security council and. suggesting that there would be a creation of a contact group where world and regional powers that have influence in both the syrian government and the syrian opposition could come together and try to broker a better kind of peace process now that that contact group would reportedly include the veto members of the security council it would also include other countries that have influence on both sides in syria and those countries include saudi arab

embassy in london putting for the latin american country to decide on his bid for political asylum syria under siege saudi troops reportedly close in on the volatile country from the south as turkish units lined up in the north pole on the eve of a controversial international crisis conference. and the e.u. agrees to a new rescue agency for banks despite opposition from germany but future taxpayer funded bailouts for banks now sets of bipartisan governments in time. live from moscow this is the with me rule research showing welcome to the program israel's news agency suggests saudi military forces are moving towards jordan on their way to syria's southern southeastern border it's all as turkish combat troops backed by anti aircraft batteries massed on the country's northern frontier was considering putting in place a buffer zone with syria also reportedly building up its forces in the area from damascus with this report. we're getting alarming reports on foreign troops being deployed at or headed towards the syrian borders from the north west and south some original media believed to hav

syria over how to solve the crisis i mean. i think that people who say such things are simply ignorant about what is really going on in syria i believe this conflict can be resolved with peaceful means it is obvious that the so-called opposition have it and the armed terrorist groups and their sponsors are no match for the syrian armed forces then why doesn't the syrian army just wipe them out. first of all they are concerned about the possible civilian casualties yeah and devastation this might entail the possible destruction of a privately owned homes public facilities such methods what's in use so that was a long time ago i believe that the entire syrian public should put an end to the hostilities with every faction of society brought to the table regardless of their various interests and aspiration the so-called opposition should sit down and negotiate because more bloodshed will only result in their own homes and families being affected by violence making reconciliation even more difficult at the moment that the internati

coming to syria to cover the situation. you know we have one hundred eighty media outlets from all over the world been represented in syria well are they not over one hundred accredited for. permanently working travelling freely across the country to cover the event that we think and how can you shut down syrian satellite channels and at the same time allow for new services operate freely. this will result in i asked countered with all this is part of the information more ways to get syria but we know that eighty percent of the satellite channels dedicate a thirty minutes of the new year's hours to syria today and a recent study shows that ninety percent of satellite coverage in syria has nothing to do with the actual situation in iraq it's all lies fabrications and what you see again or theory is that there's a real information it waged against syria with real facts being substituted by fabrication because these lies are the only way for them to achieve their objectives in their war against syria that the had about the hou

me for notion of damascus syria. we always have more stories on our website at c.n.n. dot com let's have a quick look and see what's waiting for you there right now as the united states increases its use of military drones to carry out targeted killings you are an investigator wants these aerial strikes to be better explained. by the report reveals that japan failed to disclose data on the spread of radiation from the fukushima nuclear plant last year the left some evacuees fleeing in the same direction as the harmful emissions. will get to the r.t. what of it shortly but for now egypt's muslim brotherhood is promising mass rallies in cairo's tahrir square later on tuesday to protest against the recent power grab by the ruling military council and the islamists who claim their candidate mohamed morsi won the presidential runoff say the generals are not going to step aside as expected. the military recently dissolved egypt's islamist dominated parliament and took control over legislation and there they insist they will hand over control to the new president by july firs

mission is working in syria still. the settlement plan is not making much progress recently and this is this has been discussed at the u.n. 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 a

by syria or iran as a show of strength but the u.s. outlets took it up because it suited them for the u.s. the news agency love this story because it matches their narrative you know the. regime and its supporters in iran or russia or china or. they are the ones who are. getting the conflict instead of seeking. a story you know greatly pay attention to your opinion and use agents use then that's the war of words british prime minister david cameron came out of a meeting with president putin at the recent g twenty summit saying putin no longer wanted president back in power in syria russia's foreign ministry later denied that was peace his position but was it a case of lost in translation wishful thinking on the prime minister's parts or another attempt to exert pressure on russia in the last fifteen months is being in media attack on syria that the crisis to syrian crisis is seventy percent a media so two percent on the ground so there is a quite a lot of stories every day. like for some odd of stations by just as a mother was using yo