also president obama apparently authorized covert support for the syrian rebels in their violent drive to oust president assad just as russia and america's closest ally britain tried to bridge divisions over how the crisis should be resolved. they were screaming out. in the most brutal my. mother says the u.s. threatened her in an exclusive interview in ecuador where she met the country's president as part of the whistleblowers asylum played more about this to. welcome this is r.t. from moscow my name's kevin now in our top story eight pm here kofi annan is standing down from his role as syria envoy blaming finger pointing and name calling at the u.n. security council has been the key figure in the international hopes to negotiate a diplomatic solution to the crisis in the stricken country let's get the latest comment now from washington to go to a chorus one of their garniture can get a big news in the last what is the u.n. saying about resignation tonight. well kevin breaking news indeed in a statement by the. secretary general ban ki moon he said mr and heading formed him of his int

would intervene if the syrian government were to use chemical or biological weapons on syrian civilians and britain echoed america's. sentiments we also see the west is planning they say for a post assad era but meanwhile this violence is still escalating and the security council has not reached any kind of consensus so you're dealing still with a deadlock among the international community but they're also at least trying to handle the humanitarian situation in syria so clearly a lot of issues on the agenda for the u.n. security council to be discussing. apart from calls on syrian officials to defect yukos william hague has promised an extra three million pounds to help the country's refugees with thousands fleeing into neighboring states it seems the measure will do little to stem the immense influx of displaced people are reports now from jordan. exhausted and drained there's not much for these refugees to do besides sweltering under the scorching desert sun children from the violence back home in syria they walked for days in the heat to get here and so they come in numbers and under

and the syrian people discreetly need action. there continues to be finger pointing and name calling in the security council and quits as the international mediator of assyria blaming deep divisions at the un his decision threatens to throw peace efforts now into a tailspin. meanwhile it's emerged that president obama apparently authorized covert support for the syrian rebels in the violent uprising justice rusher and america's closest ally britain try to bridge divisions over the crisis plus. they were screaming at it in a most brutal way. julie the mother says the u.s. threatened to a certain exclusive interview in ecuador where she met the country's president as part of the whistleblowers a silent place. hello and welcome. kevin owen it's now nine pm here in moscow kofi annan is standing down from his role as syria's envoy blaming finger pointing and name calling at the u.n. security council and been the key figure in the international hopes to negotiate a diplomatic solution to the crisis in the stricken country live now to n

among the active syrians now. the majority is not active yet and those can. have us to vote from time to time what is going on how are you doing that. yes they are questioning themselves but i believe this is a reaction will come there which will come to an end sooner or later. because it's not a real culture or real sort of this you know history for the syrian people thank you very much for three q. . my parents really truly honestly believe that what had happened was as a result of my father's exposure to agent orange i was born with multiple problems . i was missing my leg and my fingers and my big toe on my right foot i use my hands a lot in my artwork i find myself drawing my hands quite a bit to me for my hands you know just as if anyone would. but they do tell a story they tell us story of. the oxen. wealthy british style. restaurant on the title of the times well you know right now the. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my stronger for a no holds barred lo

the battle for control of the syrian capital is intense. the assad government has been using fighter jets against the rebels. there is also heavy fighting in the north. and in the northwest. more and more assyrians are deciding to flee the violence. -- more and more the syrians are deciding to flee the violence. there is a sharp rise of people crossing into turkey, with peaks of 5000 people per day. there are more who cannot make it across. >> there are lots of people on the syrian side. they don't have passports, so they are not allowed to cross. >> from what we saw, there were more than 2000 refugees waiting across the border. we saw people sitting and sleeping on the ground. they had no toilets, water or food. >> turkey is already hosting around 80,000 refugees and says it can't take many more. it has suggested the u.n. create a safe zone inside syria to protect people from the fighting. >> while the fighting continues at home, a syrian opposition officials are making plans for a post-assad syria. >> have drawn a road map of democratic r

earlier today, syrian prime minister riad hijab said the syrian regime is collapsing. this, it's coming a week after he defected to jordan. on monday, united nations observers in syria planned both government forces in the armed opposition for the increasing civilian death toll in syria. the escalating conflict has magnified the refugee crisis, both internally and in neighboring countries. more than 4000 people entered turkey in recent days, bringing the total number of syrian refugees there close to 60,000. there are tens of thousands of syrian refugees in neighboring lebanon as well. to talk more about the situation in syria, we're joined by omar dahi, assistant professor of economics and hampshire college. he was born and raised in syria and just returned from a research trip to lebanon looking at the consequences of the syrian uprising. still with us from cairo is "democracy now!" correspondent sharif abdel kouddous. his article on his recent trip to syria was published in "the nation closed on monday called, "on the ground in zabadani, a syrian town in revolt." sh

. >> how small, peaceful protests marked the syrian rebellion. -- sparked the syrian rebellion. >> one of the first protests in damascus against president assad pierre find out how they now see their country's future. >> i am definitely ready to die. many of the syrian people are prepared just to see assad go. >> julien assange has been granted asylum in ecuador. we ask where he goes from here. >> and life after the party -- one empoverished london district is struggling with a mixed legacy from the olympic games. hello. the narrative in syria these days is familiar to us. we have seen the violence, accounts conflicting on what is going on, and watch people flee to safety across the border. let's find out what it looks like to the people " 18 months ago were first to call for demonstrations in damascus. >> damascus, january, 2011. news reaches the syrian capital of the demonstrations in tahrir square in cairo. six long sets -- six young syrians -- muslims and christians -- post an invitation on facebook 28 and a demonstration of support -- to attend a demonstration of support. >> the c

it is only in control of 30% of syrian land. >> the syrian government disagrees. these images, reportedly from rustan, shows the full force of the military offensive, and the violence is displacing more serious. the u.n. says it is looking at ways to step up its humanitarian efforts. >> we have a situation where there is an ongoing humanitarian crisis. three months ago, we thought that there were about 1 million people who were in need of assistance. we are having to revise the number to about 2.5 million. >> the u.n. says over 150,000 people have fled to iraq, lebanon, turkey, and jordan where refugee camps are growing by the day. >> in jordan, the german development minister has visited one of the camps. he announced a sharp increase in relief for syrian refugees and pledged 20 million euros in aid. >> we have this report from the turkish-syrian border on a wounded syrians who have been getting medical attention from the group of international physicians. >> traveling along the turkish- syrian border in the direction as aleppo. it is not tinges, these men tell m

turkey's pitch for a syrian intervention hits a dead end at the u.n. nato countries warning they might simply pass the security council. plus republican mitt romney except he's a nomination presidential candidate with a promise to show russia back but critics like that is not his greatest. online on screen international news and comment live from our new center here in moscow russian billionaire a man of. top of a high profile jewel with a london based compatriot in one of the most expensive cases in british legal history the judge dismissed the multibillion dollar challenge from controversial tycoon boris berezovsky and the trial which offered a rare glimpse into the lives of the super rich more in the case from smith and london the final verdict in this case found against a body so good results which means that he won't receive then all the more than five point six billion dollars that he was asking for. but i want to promote himself in court this morning. was he a relieved looking very upbeat saying that he had full confidence in the british legal s

speculation that turkey may intervene in the syrian conflict. just south of the border in the syrian city, rebels are holding their ground against government forces. better training is paying off. the rebel fighters speaking in this amateur video is a woman who joined the free syrian army in june. i met her over the border in turkey. she told me about the covert military training here that many rebels have now received. >> the training is really a professional. you can only sleep four hours a day. you have to climb mountains, you have to -- it is very hard. and they train you of weapons. >> it is here in southern turkey had the most important covert training and coordination center for the syrian rebels as reported to be based. there has been no confirmation from the turkish government. no one has been willing or able to tell us exactly where the center is. but we have been told the turkish military is running it and it is reported that saudi arabia is also involved. >> it is possible the center is in this huge american airbase. the united state

i want to play to you something that the syrian deputy foreign minister had said during the talks that was grossly missed interpreted and exaggerated in fact in some of the news headlines there are. recommending resignation as a condition before conducting any dialogue means that you can't attend to the matter at hand the dialogue can discuss any problem i do we are ready to talk about anything even this question can be discussed but a resignation before any mechanisms in place for the syrian people to express their opinion is a democratic approach. but as you can hear right there which was talking about is the need to remove any kinds of preconditions such as for example other requirement to present bashar al assad stepping down before some sort of a peaceful solution could be negotiated that is not what was reflected in the news coverage of the talks on tuesday between the the syrian delegation and the russian government of course we do have to keep in mind that the press conference that had taken place was in arabic as they were translated to russian and then into english but what t

remain poles apart over the syrian issue as artie's laura smith now explains. it's unlikely to be an easy meeting prime minister cameron will reportedly use this opportunity to press president putin again over ending violence in syria the two countries have taken opposing views over the conflict britons calling for the removal of president assad and un sanctions on syria while russia maintains talks are the only way the leaders meetings also taking place as reports emerge that the u.k. is closest ally barack obama has signed a secret order authorizing the cia and other u.s. agencies to support the rebels fighting against president after the moves likely to cause outrage with russia but insists there should be no foreign intervention in the syria conflict or taking the last time cameron and person met the british leader claimed hussein had changed his stance on syria and had explicitly called for president assad to go it might have been wishful thinking or lost in translation but either way russia denied that was the case causing embarrassment to cameron since t

protesters angry at hillary clinton's visit who promises another five and a half million dollars to the syrian rebels as she discusses plans for a future without president the sand. syria's rebels plan to fight back meantime in key parts of the country's second city of aleppo while the u.n. backs the observer mission with a veteran algerian diplomat touted as the new peace envoy. and the u.s. says it's our interests around shows there's no in nuclear weapon in the works yet but a leading paper reports that an israeli strike on iran could be imminent. if just joined us warm welcome to this is r.t. live from moscow eight pm here now my name's kevin irwin and first washington stepping up plans for syria's post a sad future and getting ready for worst case scenarios including a possible chemical weapons attack u.s. foreign policy chief hillary clinton is in turkey as i'm kristie threats to weigh in with force if it feels threatened from across the border washington's also pledged a further five and a half million dollars in aid to syrian rebels bringing the total end to eighty two million total fu

representatives of the syrian armed opposition in washington one the u.s. to push through a no fly zone over the country saying the time has come to bind the hands and feet of the ousted regime. in egypt is looking east the leader of a country which for decades has been a close ally of the united states to china hoping to bad billions of economic deals from. the british immigration system is under fire after more than one hundred fifty thousand illegal immigrants but compound accounted for after arriving in the country. in the russian capital you're watching a group representing the free syrian army to washington and trying to talk americans into pushing through a no fly zone over the volatile country the so-called syrian support group says the time for the move has come as a claims there's been a sharp increase in the use of airstrikes against rebels by government forces activists have kept reporting heavy shelling and air raids by the syrian army across the country including parts of the capital damascus recent reports of mass death in the capital caused

would intervene if the syrian government were to use chemical or biological weapons on syrian civilians and britain echoed america's. sentiments that we also see the west is planning they say for our post assad era but meanwhile this violence is still escalating and the security council has not reached any kind of consensus on how to deal with the problem so you're dealing still with a deadlock among the international community but they're also at least trying to handle the humanitarian situation in syria so clearly a lot of issues on the agenda for the u.n. security council to be discussing but it's not only the u.n. that's divided there's also no consensus among the syrian opposition let's now talk to bus market money who's been a prominent member of the syrian national council but resigned this week or prompted you to leave the syrian national council what why have you been disappointed in areas. of the council are the same as the ones i pursued there is no difference there the real reason is that i feeling the work from inside the council is not effective enough i believe there is m

it's a marriage that president obama that paranoid authorized secret support for the syrian rebels and their violent drive to oust president. also video was rooms where would show executions pro-us of supporters by syrian rebel fighters side of the war often ignored by the foreign media plus. they would scream. in the most brutal way. julian assange his mother says the u.s. threatened her son an exclusive interview door where she met the country's president as part of the whistleblowers asylum plea. six pm in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie welcome to the program u.s. president barack obama apparently authorized covert support for the syrian rebels to help them oust president reports of a secret order allowing the backing of the cia and other agencies follow washington's warning that the current finding in syria will be and nail and its cost and the syria issue came into focus at a meeting between president putin and the prime minister of washington's closest ally great britain well let's talk now to laura smith has been following the talks and along the coast

very important meeting and the iranians said that the or the syrian opposition was the seat of the syrian opposition agreed to negotiate in two to to engage in dialogue this could be area of hope but let's hope that clinton's visit did not true in that ok thanks to the program. for the syria tribune take it. egypt's president of iran the sebring ordered his two top military officials the defense minister and the chief of staff to resign no explanation was given yet for why this happened one of them the defense minister hussein sent previously been egypt's interim ruler after the ousting of hosni mubarak last year he also served in the defense role of the mubarak for nearly two decades and get be replaced now by abdul fattah el-sisi will also take charge of the country's powerful military council islam is president mohammed morsi is also what comes of the army's amendments to the constitution that gave top generals wide ranging powers the muslim brotherhood relationship with the country's military have been strained since last year's uprising always comes as a gyptian security forces say t

top members of the syrian government say political transition in syria can only be achieved through dialogue at a meeting in moscow they say as russia walls against democracy imposed by force. attorneys say they're being banned from talking about torture and silence that's military tribunals are the pretrial hearings for five september eleventh terror suspects are to begin later this week. and google denies any accusation is a bribe to bloggers to make them support the web giant in a high profile court case. news from russia and around the world this is our see with me thanks for joining its first syria's deputy prime minister says foreign military intervention would be an infringement on the right of the syrian people to decide their own future the colemans came after a meeting with russia's foreign minister in moscow to look at a political solution to the ongoing crisis but as i listened cough enough now reports western media came up with a rather different picture of what was actually discussed. i want to play to you something that the syrian deputy foreign minister had said during the ta

over the head with the syrians have been told to public relations. talk about those chemical weapons you're mentioning there obama says that the use of them by the assad government would lead to direct military action from the us could it really get to that would the u.s. really sideline the u.n. if it came to that i would hope not it's a very extreme position but you know as an old guy has a historian old workers and things i see the armies stumble into words of possible armed conflict here united states has no strategic interests in syria what this is all about and ron and the fact that the u.s. is in a very sensitive election year where there's pressure on the obama administration to do something the republicans are screaming do something and so let's hope that these threats and verbal it's very dangerous americans do not realize that syria instance close to russia as northern mexico is to the united states secondly how will the united states know of some barrels of mustard gas for example of being moved around from one site to another it would be

all because circumstances of the syrian creature. circumstances what happened and why we're here to answer it is number two yes day after day the circle and the fighting in syria is. coming some kind of a proxy war now they off today very easy number one and the only group in the opposition. are becoming more and more hostages in the hands of their allies. are losing their. independent decision. they cannot apply what they think or believe and because they need support in arms nomination and fine until. it's at or etc etc freedom can mean very different things to. many different people and the footage that we often get from the north of the fighters. shouting allahu akbar . there are also reports that they are fighting for the creation of their islamic state. and my question to you is is there any danger that in search for greater political freedoms syria may lose other forms of freedom for example faucheux religious gender freedom and you know all those other aspects of dignity and freedom is simply very frankly yes there is a possi

kurdish organization has been given autonomy by the syrian government to. be one step toward fighting against turkey and uniting kurds in turkey and in other neighboring countries. i think the people in the west to be very happy that ended up in a mess of civil war and a breakup of the country and a lack of competition and by. the claim that they really care one bit about humanitarian concerns as it is a gross right pushing your thoughts paul sheldon foote professor at california state university full intent thank you for being with us. all right still ahead for you this hour a look at the roots of radicalism. we investigate the spread of islamic extremism in russia and whether it's being fueled from abroad that's in a few minutes right here on our team. the syrian delegation has walked out on a session of the nonaligned movement in tehran after egyptian leader mohamed morsi called the syrian regime oppressive in his speech morsi added that assad's government had lost its legitimacy and urged attending nations to support the rebels antiwar activist sara flo

>> when the syrian army opens up against the refugees trying to cross we fire to the syrian positions to keep them from firing at the refugees so it is not an engagement between the two armies exempt for a week ago where the syrian army were firing at syrian refugees where they killed a young boy and wounded several others in the firefight to stop them from continuing the killing of the rest of the syrian refugees, there was an engagement against the syrian army that resulted i think in the death of two syrian soldiers. >> rose: do you worry this could get out of hand. >> not from our side. i mean, there is strict fire control, when i met them, when i spent time with the boys several nights ago, that night, the syrians old fire against our positions and the commander pa made a point of not answering back simply because i was visiting that night and they didn't want to give the impression i gave the go to fire. >> these boys are amazing, the company that i met had had 13,000 refugees go through their position in the past six weeks, that battalion has had 30,000 refugees go through them

the draw fightings instigated a mass exodus of syrians into neighboring countries the u.n. says at least one hundred seventy thousand people have already fled his policy reports from the jordanian border. security here is tight and border controls are very very effective and this is a way for a man to deal with the growing influx of syrian refugees into this country now according to jordanian estimates at least one hundred and fifty thousand syrian refugees are currently in jordan they're being housed in refugee camps along this border and the jordanian government has build forts in the process of building another one but the situation in those camps is alarming and has caused humanitarian groups to talk about a humanitarian crisis we know that the camps are overcrowded people there have little to no access to water and electricity at the same time to close this has broken out in the jordanian health ministry is talking about health risks they were clashes last week between some of those refugees trying to break out of those camps because they actually can't leave them with

with the kofi annan plan or the geneva arrangement the stance of our friends and the attitude of the syrian government is that which is published a resolution calling for national reconciliation will. about therefore how would you respond to people who say they won't negotiate with a government whose military machine has been raising serious it is to the ground how was that as a precondition for dialogue and we're going to nick what have i done sort of let what. beyond recently violence has been employed by each of the warring parties over there because we start regarding such statements as a precondition then dialogue will never take place civil wars in lebanon and algeria have shown that sooner or later the warring parties do come to negotiate with each other so the syrian people do have a chance but if only we get down to reconciliation without delay we might avoid having to pay an immense price for our country's war torn economy. common sense and wisdom call for sitting down at the negotiating table as soon as possible are to share without imposing any preconditions that will only imped

mean this is not a forum in syrians who are not interested in this the syrian people are of very. peaceful peaceful people and they managed to live together for centuries since riis . without any problem so the violence we're seeing no it's not a syrian products i went to daraa. which. which was the bit the year before where the trouble started. also that it's near to the jordanian border it's not a coincidence that the trouble started at the border there. at the border town because this underlines once again the influence from abroad i mean. if the situation in syria was really. a syrian. or a city and problem. trouble would have started from. our homes a lot of. outside forces and governments are interested in the to destroy syria why because you have to remember the city has a very strategic position in the area in the middle east in the region i think the main targets as a matter of fact is. because iran is such a powerhouse in the region it's so strong. they know that to take out iran first they have to take out syria and i'm quite convinced if they would succeed to destroy s

outlines a possible military plan against syria as rochelle warns against democracy bob bombs while syrian officials talk peace in moscow. they suspected on there's a brevig sympathizer is charged with plotting a copycat massacre in your czech republic just days before the norwegian mass killer is due to appear his first day. and washington slammed for al qaida style tactics trying to those wanting to help victims dead in previous american drone raids. hello and welcome to our team this tuesday i'm karen tara and it's six o'clock here in moscow now moscow does believe that syria has chances of reaching peace despite parliament's inside and outside the country syria's ongoing crisis and ways of ending the bloodshed came under scrutiny for top syrian officials in moscow and across the atlantic president obama said washington could use military action if there's any sign the syrian government much tried to deploy its chemical or biological weapons for more on this now we're joined by our tease of lucy call phonology live from moscow to see how do the statements by barack obama fit in with mos

based syrian social club says it's not clear what this aid will be used for. only yesterday a turkish member of the parliament said that ambulances used to clear wounded persons from inside syria into turkey are actually taking ammunition and weaponry to inside syria it does go back to mr hague statement he said that's communication communication devices will be sent in order to warn civilians against impeding impending story government attacks or who's going to be warning them are there satellite images that are going to be passed to the ground all those communication devices be released into civilians or will they be sent to rebels and will they be used as they are intended who can guarantee that you can guarantee that body armor is going to be used not to assassinate political opponents in front of t.v. cameras just like what they did with the burger if only you know we needed a little bit more transparency with this. most of the twenty seven children forced to live in catacombs in central russia by an islamic sect have been sent to orphanages they spent ov

understand the wake up call to the old security council saying its members on doing enough to counter the syrian crisis fears mounts the conflict torn country will sink it deeper into violent. activity is a row call for an all out war on the government which had these of ignoring debilitating domestic issues while wasting millions on settlement construction in disputed territory. and a new wave of protests that hit the rain leading to more wild downs on the descent with dozens of people arrested and the injured after they demonstrations calling for political reform. international news live from moscow this is all she was me you lash above all of thanks for joining us russia asked criticize the new u.n. resolution on syria as one sided supporter of the armed opposition moscow says the non-binding motion passed of the journey was somebody does nothing to ease the conflict this comes after the un envoy to syria kofi annan announced he was stepping down casting doubts over the future of the peace effort and citric and has more from new york. this resolution apart from condemning the security council

and also after the headlines a former syrian politician who's suffered for speaking out t.l. lines why his country is struggling.

to confront the syrian government. knows the region relies on support. they would walk upon the picture. the situation in syria would exacerbate the core issue and also. began a year ago. you can hear what you need and syria is where if you. think there is a possibility if syrian government could be repercussions for what of course we could very much obliged one of their orders for each reading level. is already having a sunni government helping with daily attacks. on shia muslims so the consequences of what is going on and this is more support for those he sure . is involved. predictable they could go anywhere later they head of the syrian friendship association tells r.t. that it's no coincidence that syria's violence spilling out in neighboring states. to belief is that the violence what we're seeing you know this has nothing to do with the forum this has to do with destroying the people who also have a lot of testimonies from people in syria that a lot of the rebels members of the syrian free army are foreign nurse so the violence we're seeing no it'

among the active syrians now. the majority is not active yet and those can. have us to vote from time to time what on earth is going on how are you doing that yes we are questioning themselves but i believe this is a reaction will come there which will come to an end sooner or later because it's not a real culture or real sort of this here history of the syrian people thank you very much for a time thank you carol. wealthy british style. is not on trial for. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's conjure for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our. old started here. for going global and now it's pulling viral. log in. the right to. choose your place take your stuff and. needs to. make your statement. spread the word. occupy wall street alone. to fly isolation and prejudice. to fight aging. take a risk. do it with caution. learn to fly. jump to the top. ignore the pain. stage a show. headlines tonight for marty fre

government and the syrian military the russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin i did address the security council and raised the issue of the fact that the unilateral sanctions that western countries including the u.s. britain france those sanctions that they've placed on syria are only hurting the syrians that there was a post is due to sanctions imposed by the u.n. security council have nothing in common with the actual efforts to assist a settlement of the syrian crisis because the lives of simple citizens and denied them the opportunity to meet their own mentor needs and fully enjoy basic human rights this is not only our conclusion but it is also of an independent commission in syria we call upon nations sanctions against syria to immediately list them we view the efforts of some individual states to use pseudo humanitarian arguments that suggest of either financial meant. technical or logistical support to illegal armed groups and unacceptable but the u.s. and its western allies have underscored as late as this eat this meeting taking place security council that

sends a wake up call to its own security council saying its members aren't doing enough to counter the syrian crisis as fears mount of the conflict torn country will sing deeper into violence. activists in israel call for an all out war on the government which they accuse of ignoring to debilitating domestic issues while wasting millions of settlement construction in disputed territories. a new way of approaches to brain leading to more crackdowns on dissent but dozens of people arrested and injured after the demonstrations calling for political reform. this is our t.v. broadcasting to live from the heart of moscow and karen tara thanks for joining us now russia has criticized a new u.n. resolution on syria as one sided and supportive of the armed opposition but also says the non-binding motion passed at the general assembly does nothing to ease the conflict as comes after of the un envoy to syria kofi annan announced he was stepping down casting doubt over the future of the peace effort and that's the see it should get one has more from new york. this resolution apart from condemning the sec

for the syrians is only half funded so at this point the u.n. doesn't even have the resources that it needs to take care of the humanitarian concerns within syria and this is despite all the funding that the u.s. and its western allies say they are providing and donating to the syrians so clearly you have a very complicated situation here but we did hear western countries or just the security council there about her senate calling once again for syrian president bashar al assad to step down britain and france the foreign ministers of those countries today made a new call encouraging for more defections within the syrian government and this. syrian military so you have a situation where the security council is still divided the russian ambassador to united nations vitaly churkin i did address the security council and raised the issue of the fact that the unilateral sanctions that western countries including the us britain and france those sanctions that they've placed on syria are only hurting the syrians and could be exacerbating that the humani

the syrian crisis is unfolding at a turning point in history that i like to compare to the suez crisis the us soviet standoff marked the demise of the old world with where the u.k. and france enjoyed had to mend and the emergence of a new bipolar world early today the opposition of russia and china is what is in the end of a uni polar world with the new world order is yet to take shape today international relations are going through a painful metamorphoses should be there's a lot of chaos and disagreement and this brings both positive and negative implications for the syrian crisis and one of the downside to this phenomenon is that the global balance of power is still taking shape you'll notice the continued hostilities in syria what the u.s. and europe want to say are you seeing these hostilities or follow the familiar yugoslavia scenario the shipments of bloodshed makes it impossible for various groups to co-exist peacefully within the syrian nation but this is why the current international situation is so dangerous however it also creates an historically unprecedented opportunity fo

would intervene if the syrian government were to use chemical or biological weapons on syrian civilians and britain echoed america's sentiments so here we see the rhetoric is escalating over circumstances which the west say would lead to their intervention we also see the west is planning they say for a post assad era but meanwhile this violence is still escalating people are getting hurt and the security council has not reached any kind of consensus on how to deal with the problem so you're dealing still with a deadlock among the international community but they're also trying to handle the humanitarian situation in syria that is escalating so clearly this will be a wide range discussion taking place in just a few hours at the u.n. security council. reporting live from new york thanks for that. jordanian security forces a massive refugee camp on the border with syria are on high alert after two hundred refugees turned on the guards over the conditions there the government says anyone responsible for violence will be deported it appears that dealing with the immense influx from syria is

syrian opposition group tries to use the nonstop flow overboard some government shelling and air raids to urge washington to impose a no fly zone over syria a move always good tested by russia and china. egyptians looking east the leader of the country which for decades has been a close ally of the united states test china hoping to bag billions of economic deals and. the british immigration system is under fire after more than one hundred fifty thousand illegal immigrants come on account of their bribing the country. a group representing the free syrian army in washington is trying to talk to us into pushing through and no fly zone over the volatile country the measure has always been opposed by russia and china which believe it would destabilize the situation even further rebels though once to bind the hands of feet of forces by taking advantage of nonstop reports claiming an increase in government airstrikes and artillery shelling a hailstorm of foreign media criticism against a mask this was also caused by a recent report of mass deaths in the capital suburb but the release of shoc

this 6-year-old was the first syrian child to die in the exodus. killed by syrian troops as his family fled. jordanian soldiers responded with covering fire. i went to visit his mother in the border town. she and her two boys are now living with another syrian family here. they are all too scared to show their faces. >> there were 31 of us, and we reached the area between the jordanian and syrian borders. when we got there, suddenly we were fired upon. we were at the back of the group. suddenly i saw them on the ground. he fell down after the first shot. >> the drawings of children living in this house dealt terrible stories of violence that left behind. but this family fled months ago, and she tells me she will not go and live in the tented city. >> i will never live there. i will go back to live under gunfire rather than living in a tent. we will be breathing dust, not air. this is no life at all. >> even the u.n. admits no one would choose to live here. many refugees we met in transit centers are refusing to move in. syrians are still welcome, b

army and syrian people? >> oh, absolutely. i think the international community had a moral responsibility to prevent these types of massacres we're seeing. they had a moral responsibility to prevent what is now really genocidal proportions of killing and the international community failed to act. the united nations has been paralyzed through russian and chinese vetoes but i think nations could have done far more. >> rose: as you know, at some point early on there was some notion on the part of other governments that he might have within him some reform tendencies. did he ever, is the first question, and secondly is he simply a reflection of power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely? >> well, i think initially when he assumed the presidency i believe he was optimistic. i believe he had good intentions and wanted to see reforms implemented. what he actually provided were cosmetic reforms that benefited mainly the middle and upper classes where this popular revolt started was with the lower classes,

night in the free syrian army has not withdrawn. i was fighting with them. we have killed one headed syrian soldiers and destroyed tanks. >> for more we're joined by reese erlich, a freelance foreign correspondent brit he joins us on the phone from antioch and the turkish-syrian border. welcome to "democracy now!" what are you reporting on? what is the scene on the border? what's the most recent interviews were with refugees from aleppo who told me about horrific carnage as a result of missile and artillery attacks on neighborhoods. apparently, the patter is if a neighborhood -- the pattern is if a neighborhood was the victim of a takeover or a previous demonstration there, the civilian neighborhood is bombarded from the air or by artillery. it has forced a lot of people to leave. one of you an estimate was 250,000 just over the last week or so -- one u.n. estimates was to under 50,000 just over the last week or so >> can you describe the camps? >> the camps in turkey are what you traditionally think of as refugee camps with tents t

people by the syrian government and the factions involved with that conflict till now the u.s. president has really caused quite a stir with those comments on monday saying that the united states would reconsider its opposition to military intervention in syria if the government of president bashar al assad employs chemical or biological weapons there and according to the u.s. president this would be a so-called a red line which would have bring the united states physically in terms of force into the conflict now in the in the syrian government does possess an extensive stockpile of chemical and biological weapons and hans threaten to use them is the country came under foreign attack of it's unclear whether this is mere saber rattling by both sides but of course it really complicates efforts to find a diplomatic solution to this ongoing escalating crisis something that moscow has really been pushing for from the start now the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov on monday also reiterated his opposition has his warning of four and that no unilateral solution is possible or cou