qatar and saudi arabia are the biggest funders of the syrian rebellion. these are two fundamentalists do you think there are in -- they're in there for sunni supremacy. nobody in syria which differentiates the party it's not like one is for the federal es papers and one is the against the federalists papers. they're not arguing over madison's interpretation as opposed to somebody else's. we've got to also keep that in mind and i think it's got to be really humble about this. i think there is acknowledge argument to be made that if we arm, if we create enough pressure on assad, that you can at least get the russians to bring him to the table. that i believe. >> rose: the russians will bring him to the table tomorrow the problem is not that the other people development want him at the table they want him gone. >> that's a solution. how did the lebanonese civil war end. it took 14 years they'd to be exhausted number one. and number two, there was defacto after cleansing. the parties were separated. >> rose: there hash political change in israel. does it matt

attacks in iraq and there were given this and we know that these two powers say that saudi arabia and qatar and the forefront of representing imperial u.s. and british interest in the region so nothing gets done up the say so of these other powers and we're witnessing the fruits of this policy today. dan the ladybird from the guardian got that one right sorry about that earlier do you think what's happening right now in iraq is sectarian tension or part of wider doesn't it. well there is discontent for sure in iraq certainly i mean you've got a situation where unemployment i believe is about a third the population now in iraq so all of these things feed into it but it's as i say it's been deliberately channeled in a sectarian direction by outside interests and if you look at the way that the occupying powers of behaved ever since two thousand and three since the start of the iraqi occupation they've done everything it seems possible to try and foment sectarian the constitution they introduced was completely based on confession identity not on national citizenship. as i said overseen an econ

we decided to call to go to qatar i said that point that we don't play in december way we have to play well you have to put some when you cease to do and they said no we're just going to use technology. you know i can understand as a player but for the fans or journalist ones outside with what support there is no corner of the technology in which see noise secure well no i don't know what is a problem to play in and was it was a moment of the season to have the best the world to push you or i don't know why but we don't play and you know we are in december we figure we will use a base moment for the world cup you have the problem of that and i think for the for the people but time is a pretty over the francis john that is for the people who can go second coming is a bit of moment for what kept him on that staying with oil rich countries derek strip pouring a lot of money into thought but football is it ok with you in your opinion when someone as it often is the case today buys a club with decades of history behind it and buys it with money we have to protected that easy is difficult be

troops withdraw at the end of twenty fourteen the statement came during president karzai is trip to qatar follows years of stalled discussions with the us pakistan and the taliban about a possible settlement where u.s. and afghan officials have long claimed that taliban forces have sanctuary across the border in pakistan something is done about denies the taliban recently announced it's ready to enter politics and has opened an office in doha washington welcome the move for the taliban has so far refused to talk to president karzai describing him as an american puppet or security analyst. my colleague has been in the wrangling between america and the afghan government is getting in the way of a solution. informal contacts have been taking place in the last couple of years but those informal talks did break down for two reasons accuse the americans on being shaky and vague. they wanted an exchange of prisoners president obama didn't want to nominate him to do with any exchange of prisoners because of mainly congressional pressure but also on the congress from his opponents secularly presid

number one is qatar with loans and investments worth $8 billion. but that's left some egyptians questioning whether one country should suddenly acquire so much nfluence, they broadcast a horale salute. >> then there's libya. in march, egyptian security forces arrested three wanted members of the gaddafi regime after a gun battle in cairo and deported two of them back to libya. three weeks later, libya deposited $2 billion in the egyptian central bank. both governments denied the events are related. >> he was on the board of the national bank of egypt. she says far too little is known about the government will use these loans. >> this complicates the problem in the future. >> egypt's third would-be savior is turkey, giving egypt $2 billion in aid, but only if egypt welcomes the army of turkish businessmen who travel with prime minister erdowan and if they buy turkish exports. so many egyptians are asking, what is the quid pro quo? what price is egypt going to have to pay for getting all these dollars? then there's another problem. egypt has to servi

it was also felt across the gulf in bahrain and qatar where people were evacuated. at least three strong aftershocks hit the same region. iranian officials reported at least 37 people were killed and more than 800 others injured. the worst hit areas have been left without water or electricity. the iranian government has declared three days of mourning. >>> in "health matters" a major breakthrough in alzheimer's research. columbia university researchers discovered a gene that is a major player in the development of alzheimer's in african-americans. the gene had been associated with alzheimer's in whites but not in blacks. researchers say this finding won't lead to a cure, but could help with early deduction. it could also lead to ways to block the gene and prevent it from causing alzheimer's. >>> after 30 years, a drug to treat morning sickness is back on the shelves. bendectine was pulled after being blamed for birth defects. it turned out to be a false alarm and false claim. the fda has now approved a new version of the drug that will be available by prescription b

a powerful tremor that was felt across the gulf region, including qatar and the united arab and -- government. it's own to the only nuclear plant but officials on the company that built it moved to a sure people the facility was unscathed. iran is often plagued by earthquakes. 10 years ago, the historic city was flattened and 26,000 killed. this quake was shallow, and about 10 kilometers. >> this earthquake was a little bit weaker than the bam earthquake. however, in this region, still significant damage on it depending on the construction of the building. him and that helps explain the high casualties, flimsy brick structures typical of the region. the government has declared three days of mourning. >> still ahead on the program -- what the dna and millions of dollars have in common. we will tell you why this could be worth a fortune. we are in geneva at the world the largest inventor show. you can syndicate knowledges that could change the world. -- c technologies that could change the world. our top stories this hour -- one of the groups fighting the assad regime in syria has reportedly pl

immigration to support that claim it off and we'll even stronger here but we need to move to the rules of qatar and saudi arabia to come to me that's a huge problem. let's talk about france's intervention you call to france going into libya a whole week and you said that in syria the west is quote unquote blindly supporting the opposition and is doing the exact same thing they did at libya at this time in secret but when france intervened in mali you were not against it why do you deem this intervention digital meant as a sure good result of a woman so this is my stance is go here and if you want either you fight against islamic fundamentalism in which case it makes sense to fight in mali but it's not normal to support the same terrorists in libya and in syria when now in a situation where our leaders are completely in my opinion insane the fight on the side of terrorists in libya and syria and again is the same target and mali this is not here and me i am pro here and that is to say i think we should not have supported and given weapons in the system the decay. august and libya who like the wa

sides to negotiate with the russians stop propping up the assad regime negotiate with saudi arabia and qatar and stop supporting the opposition this is what needs to happen or for any chance to things to calm down and have the both sides be incentivized to negotiate mark when you think about that proposition. well i think certainly again the most desirable option is for people to sit down and talk at the same time however i think that there is an obligation some people say responsibility to protect people in need the challenge is you have to do so without making the matter worse so to sit there and do nothing is the wrong answer it was the wrong answer back in the ninety's with bosnia and kosovo would be the wrong the wrong answer today in syria at the same time i disagree that red lines are somehow only one shade they are in the literature but but frankly you've got fifty shades of red when it comes to the real world and the bottom line is this may not be as clear an example of crossing a red line as some particularly some of the pro interventionist members of congress have stated this is m

troops withdraw at the end of twenty fourteen the statement came during president karzai stripped to qatar where the afghan leader said the greatest threat to the country is not the taliban but interference by foreign states years of stall discussions with the us going to stand the taliban followed america's offensive in the country and combating terrorism it's all about a recently announced it's ready to enter politics and has opened an office in doha and washington welcome the move for the taliban has so far refused to talk to president karzai describing him as an american puppet security analyst sympatric i think that the wrangling between the american and the afghan government is getting in the way of a solution. informal contacts have been taking place in doha for the last couple of years but then those informal talks did break down for two reasons accuse the americans on being shaky and vague. they wanted an exchange of prisoners president obama didn't want to have anything to do with any exchange of prisoners because of mainly congressional pressure but also the congress from his op

tend to be channels including the qatar based network al-jazeera have lost the right to report inside iraq the shia led government has revoked their licenses for allegedly inciting sectarian unrest tangents have been heating up in the country since the deadly military raid on a sunni protest camp that led see over one hundred seventy down in a series of classes in the space of one week there cadre and some from the aid organization s.o.s. a rod says the protests are deeper than just into religious classes. after ten years of occupation because we consider distil an occupation there is still no basic services people are randomly arrested they are locked up without charges they are going to church women children and men are being raped that's why the protests started by the way and so this talk about sick darian is this is is totally wrong that these are not sick tarion protests these are protests against a situation that is untenable for a forty iraqi people. that there is poverty there is unemployment there is no health care that it is a good education system has collapsed the media h

united arab emirates and some forty million pounds of building what once was a trade between the two qatar is the biggest supplier of that actual gas and i think if you kinda develop a not to ease a dependence on russia because of tension between britain and russia as well but i think we have got to put in the context of this is a return to of an imperial policy which has been spearheaded by the united states with britain truly behind and therefore decision to increase any military presence in the gulf as it was instability chris bambery thank you very much for your comments in december the u.k. chief of defense staff said that after afghanistan the gulf will become the u.k.'s main military effort and it looks like this report is proving that theory correct especially if according to receipt they could be a lot of money to be made in the gulf states for the british government. i'll be back with more news very shortly so don't go away. while. it's technology innovations all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. the international landlords in the very heart of mos

afghan president hamid karzai is in qatar where he hopes to start peace talks with the taliban the group recently announced that it is ready to enter politics and has opened an office in doha washington welcomed the move as it has long been pushing for both sides towards talks ahead of the nato withdraw at the end of twenty fourteen so far the taliban has refused to talk to president karzai calling him an american puppet but security analyst deepak through puffy thinks that it is wrangling between america and the afghan government that is really getting in the way. informal contacts have been taking place in your heart for the last couple of years but then those informal talks did break down for two reasons accuse the americans of being shaky and vague. they wanted an exchange of prisoners president obama didn't want to have anything to do with any exchange of prisoners because of many congressional pressure but also outside the congress from his opponents and secondly president karzai himself suspected that he was being sidelined because the americans were in direct touch via any cities

troops training in jordan the syrian border we already have money coming in from saudi arabia from qatar. to fund the opposition we already have but turkish government has provided facilities for the free syrian army we've already had all of those things going on and i think this is a further escalation of the sort of off to the possibility of more lawful commerce said last year at the existence and all the things we would. be a game changer for the people wanting to open it. all right when the german thanks very much for your time. take a look now at some other stories making global headlines this hour rescuers located fifty survivors trapped in the rubble of any factory building that collapsed earlier this week killing three hundred in bangladesh meanwhile hundreds of thousands of angry factory workers clash with police over the tragedy security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets as well as road blocks to end textile factories were attacked us already have come under fire for negligence after it was revealed factories in the doomed building continue on the fissures in the structur

could run for presidency in the next year's election he made the comments days after his return from qatar and with the afghan government agreed that the group can open an office in doha if they renounce terrorism and nato is pulling out his troops by the end of cars i the afghan government pushing for peace talks however the taliban are refusing to speak directly with president karzai describing him as an american puppet and they hope to use the doha office to facilitate peace talks with the u.s. contributor afshin rattansi says nato is conduct in the war zone is only helping the insurgents gain political ground. the american public may be thinking what was the point of this debris relatives of all the thousands dead they must be getting a very strange picture of afghanistan if the taliban on the mall obama is going to run afghanistan is it going to be a pullout of course lots of people are asking there hundred fifty thousand nato troops there now and already people are talking about fifteen thousand remaining on five different bases the continuous drone attacks and the atrocities committ

united arab emirates and some forty million pounds a building that once was a trade between the two qatar is the biggest supplier of the actual gas i think to be killed and developing not to ease a dependence on russia because of tension between britain and russia as well but i think we have got to put in a context of this is a return to us of an imperial policy which has been spearheaded by the united states with britain trillion behind and therefore decision to increase any military presence in the gulf as it was instability chris bambery thank you very much for your comments in december the u.k. chief of defense staff said that after afghanistan the gulf will become the u.k.'s main military effort and it looks like this report is proving that theory correct especially according to resee there could be a lot of money to be made in the gulf states for the british government. the syrian unrest could soon move close to israel's border the conflict has forced a masochist thousands of troops it's part of the israeli occupied golan heights to fight rebels in other parts of syria that's left a

actually the united arab emirates and some forty million pounds a building which was attributed to qatar is the biggest supplier of the actual gas and i think it would be kinda developing not to ease a dependence on russia because of tension between britain and russia as well but i think we have got to put it in the context of this is a return to us of an imperial policy which has been spearheaded by the united states with britain truly behind and no four. decision to increase and presence of what was once was a respond rethink you very much for your comments in december the u.k. chief of defense afghanistan the gulf will become the case main military effort and it looks like this report is proving that theory correct especially if according to resee there could be a lot of money to be made in the gulf states for the british government. of syria is becoming a security had it for the entire region the pullout of government forces from the golan heights is a major concern for israel as jihad is militants have started flooding into the lawless area right next to the border. in the. developm

and stop violence to be streamed from the syrian border specifically here we're talking about saudi qatar and turkey we know that tacky and saudi are completely entrenched in the muslim brotherhood idiology a very dangerous idiology that can legitimize any of these forces acts under the name of islam which is completely illegitimate based on a disturbing consequence of what's happening there in syria thank you very much indeed for joining us live to talk about it here on our to your son about a. bird flu panic is spreading across china and its neighboring countries many thousands of poultry being slaughtered in markets are being closed down to prevent the spread of the virus six people have died so far out of the fourteen infected raising the alarm over a possible outbreak of the new flu strain of the sean thomas has more in the virus and the panic. there is evidence of a localized type or panic specifically regarding the h seven n nine strain of the flu virus if you look at what's happening in china twenty thousand birds slaughtered from one market there from a place where the birds test

arab emirates and bruce that some forty million pounds build what once was a trade between the two qatar is the biggest supplier of that your gas i think they'd be killed and developing not to ease a dependence on russia because of tension between britain and russia as well but i think we have got to put in the context of this is a return to us of an imperial poll see what they did by no to states with britain truly behind and therefore decision to increase any military presence in the gulf as it was instability chris bambery thank you very much for your comments in december the u.k. chief of defense staff said that after afghanistan the gulf will become the u.k.'s main military effort and it looks like this report is proving that theory correct especially if according to receive there could be a lot of money to be made in the gulf states for the british government. or the misery is far from over for the survivors of a bangladesh tower block collapse in the all of the big western they were making clothes for weren't enough to compensate the victims and report on light. and dark and sore

country's current leader hamid karzai over the weekend karzai approve the opening of a taliban office in qatar on the condition that the group renounce terrorism this comes as afghanistan prepares for the pullout of nato forces next year. maybe a concerted push in the u.s. for more gun control to december's deadly school shooting but a tone in the state of georgia is going against the tide and noodle says the head of every household in nelson is now required to own a gun and the bullets local officials insist is to deter criminals while in texas and leaders are holding back from commenting on an organization that is handing out shotguns and training people to use them. the gun control debate is focus on what type of arms americans are allowed to obtain and bear and thanks to a groundbreaking technology entire gun pods can be manufactured with a license one to use students working to make sure everyone can make a gun at home as marina port my experience. from the state of the union in youngstown a while we're no workers are mastering the three d. printing but has the potential to revolutionize

sides to negotiate with the russians stop propping up the assad regime negotiate with saudi arabia and qatar and stop supporting the opposition this is what needs to happen in order for any chance to things to calm down and have the both sides be incentivized to negotiate mark when you think about that proposition. well i think certainly get most desirable option is for people to sit down and talk at the same time however i think that there is an obligation some people say responsibility to protect people in need the challenge is you have to do so without making the matter worse so to sit there and do nothing is the wrong answer it was the wrong answer back in the ninety's with bosnia and kosovo would be the wrong the wrong answer today in syria at the same time i disagree that red lines are somehow only one shade are in the literature but but frankly you've got fifty shades of red when it comes to the real world and the bottom line is this may not be as clear an example of crossing a red line as some particularly some of the pro interventionist members of congress have stated this is much m

later the iraqi government blocked ten news channels from operating inside the country including the qatar based al-jazeera broadcasters were accused of misleading and unethical coverage that stoked the religious violence with no sign of peace between the sunni and the ruling of shia communities iraq's prime minister warns the state is dragging itself into a civil war. s.o.s. iraq believes it's the terrible situation in the country as well as the government's actions that are driving people to violence. after ten years of occupation because we consider distil an occupation there is still no basic services people are randomly arrested they are locked up without charges they are tortured women children and men are being raped that's why the protest started by the way and so this talk about sick darian is this is is totally wrong that these are not sick tarion protests these are protests against a situation that is untenable for a forty iraqi people. that there is poverty there is unemployment there is no health care that there is good education system has collapsed the media has been very we

oil billionaires from around the world are this is what they're where their money is coming it's the qatar royal family it's the saudi royal family it's the russians this is the money that is coming in here it wasn't some miracle magical deregulation and cutting taxes and this and that that created that wealth so this is what sustaining it now and now going back to all of this this five hundred billion pounds that the u.k. could have had if they saved some of their money from the north sea oil reserves john hawksworth from pricewaterhouse coopers said to a significant degree the money has effectively been handed back to this and other generations since the early one nine hundred eighty s. to spend or in many cases to invest in housing or other assets so that's the other thing that she bequeath to the nation why you want to out run your debts before they come due is that the more more. more and more more it's all about speculation forget all that stuff don't don't remember it don't even know where your wealth comes from just speculate away keep on adding debts and if your price of your asse

iran china qatar saudi arabia argentina you already see security being stepped up in the country so right now where i'm standing it's a bit calm but we have to wait till the inauguration day and see what goes on. as opposition party had been calling for a recount but i actually read in the reports that a manual. actually it isn't even technically possible can you talk about this issue . because that's the main demand of the opposition they want to manual recount now there was talk spoke to some of the observers some of those involved closely with the election and there were talk of possibly a recount but now the chief of the supreme court had come out and said that's actually not possible she said those who had believed that a manual recount would be possible were deceived she said because the electoral system here in venezuela is completely automated and she also said that manual voting had been cancelled in the country because of the one nine hundred ninety nine constitution and so she said this is clearly not possible if the opposition wants to pursue this line that they are staunchly

iran china qatar saudi arabia argentina. security being stepped up in the country so right now where i'm standing it's a bit calm but we have to wait till the inauguration day and see what goes on that day. as opposition party have been calling for a recount but i actually read in reports that a manual recount actually isn't even technically possible can you talk about this issue. because that's the main demand of the opposition they want to manual recount now there was talk to some of the observers some of those involved closely with the election there were talk of possibly a recount but now the chief of the supreme court had come out and said that's actually not possible she said those who had believed that a manual recount would be possible were deceived she said because the electoral system here in venezuela is completely automated and she also said that manual voting had been cancelled in the country because of the one nine hundred ninety nine constitution and so she said this is clearly not possible if the opposition w

greed of american support certainly washington's wink of annoyed that the taliban have a office in qatar it's all ok afshin things he thought and i should return as they are contributor thank you. but he looks at it julian assange might be holed up in an embassy in london but that's not stopping him from running for election in his home country australia has appointed a high profile political campaigner to spearhead his bid for a seat in the australian senate as such just spent the last nine months confined to the ecuadorian embassy in britain where he's avoiding extradition to sweden for questioning over sex crime allegations if his absentee election bid is successful he would be sworn in a senator in july twenty fourth thing but what after ten to camber of course to do that is campaigns by led by greg barnes a form a barrister and head of the astray and republican movement he told us the surge is working leads party into bring transparency to the government and insists that it has a realistic chance of victory. it certainly stands for in your strength which is effectively the house of

united arab emirates and some forty million tonnes of building went once was a trade between the two qatar is the biggest supplier of britain of that shore gas and i think they'd be keen and developing not to ease a dependence on russia because of tension between britain and russia as well but i think we have got to put it in the context of this is a return to us of an imperial policy which has been spearheaded by the united states with britain trillion behind and therefore decision to increase any military presence in the gulf as it was instability chris bambery thanks very much for your comments in december the u.k. chief of defense staff said that after afghanistan will become the u.k.'s main military effort and it looks like mr paul is proving the theory correct especially if according to the view see they could be a lot of money to be made in the gulf states for the british government. or the boys with me but over here on the washington's diligently weaving some more web regulation to we're talking about that on our website if the government gets its way internet providers could be th

iran china qatar saudi arabia argentina we already see security being stepped up in the country so right now where i'm standing it's a bit calm but we have to wait till the inauguration day and see what goes on. as opposition party have been calling for a recount but i actually read in the reports that a manual recount actually isn't even technically possible can you talk about this issue. because that's the main demand of the opposition they want to manual recount now there was talk spoke to some of the observers some of those involved closely with the election there were talk of possibly a recount but now the chief of the supreme court had come out and said that's actually not possible she said those who had believed that a manual recount would be possible were deceived she said because the electoral system here in venezuela is completely automated and she also said that manual voting had been cancelled in the country because of the one nine hundred ninety nine constitution and so she said this is clearly not possible if the opposition wants to pursue this line that they are staunchly