first of all war in syria is a primarily western nato war on syria it is not the primarily a civil war it is a part of clear and tangentially a civil war which was used and exploited by west out of power and by nato ally turkey to syria and to western policy to bring down is our side regime so what on syria is drive by is a west to control is through syria and our board using turkey is a new islamist regime in turkey the new islamist regime in egypt in libya as well as in tunisia along with already established broad regime is in the gulf and in monaco or in jordan this new alliance aims at the bringing down the last. out of nationalist the arab world after saddam hussein was brought down and cut off he was brought down so really it is a war over who controls the middle east if the nato and its allies when that are countries of the middle east will fall under western nato control for a big a distro come and if syria is able to resist this lot there's a blood drive on it that will be a setback for him a thaw and that i've been lying. in new york i had you jump in we have very different p

if you into if they intervene in syria and if the syria turned into a. protracted or longest civil war or for years then they would have to take responsibility for for that and there is also. i would mention there is also the economic dimension to this if if if turkey intervene in syria and that would damages economy that might draw it spoil it sort of on their arab street also so i think the dimension of internet of national interest sometimes coalesce with the national honor of the country a good market well how much is the rand playing in this here i mean with the united states and saudi arabia again syria is a proxy it's a it's a way to get something done ok they don't care about the syrian people i'm sorry they don't. well they have their own interests and one aspect is if you like the religious ideological common interests that you have a shiite crescent if you are running from lebanon through syria particularly into iraq and then on to iran and also down to places like bahrain and eastern saudi arabia and there is a kind of religious civil war it'

syria tension. the most fearsome storm ever to head for america has forced president obama to warn that the danger is very serious hurricane sandy which has already claimed to sixty five lives in the caribbean is tearing towards the east coast new jersey looks likely to be the worst hit and has ordered mass evacuations thousands of flights have been grounded and the subway network has been shut down in new york the national guard is trying to prevent looting. scuffles between locals i mean activists broke out in south korea over the launching of propaganda and leaflets to his northern neighbor fifty thousand leaflets with pictures of more moammar gadhafi and saddam hussein were attached to large balloons and sent over the border despite last week's warning from north korea of a military strike on the launch site if it was detected a local said they fear if you're young could implement its threat to carry out that attack. of these ten people have become victims of a suicide attack at a catholic churc

it's what syria -- what the future of syria? so my concern is how to communicate your vision, which, i mean, i'm glad i came to this it happened i'm visited d.c. i'm glad to hear the discussion. but speaking to my family, to relatives, to people in syria, i don't think the measure of the people really know what, like, what it is basically. and i think this is very important for the majority of the population to know what it is because there's a lot of fear and, you know, to stay with the -- [inaudible] it's all this safe. and so i think it's very important to exercise what it is and to communicate this especially for the majority who don't have access to the internet who don't have access to the information. and i live in north america. i have access and i still find it difficult to see what it is. so . >> thank you. >> a quick response to that important question. >> i think how we are moving this message. first of all, the mess thaj we are communicating csh it is ours and it will be as we want it to be. but there is no magical

turkey and syria keep the border shelling go away as media reports suggest uncle rod may have provided the waters now landing on its territory in the first place. live pictures from athens where protesters i gathered outside to once again to call for an end to cuts and express anger at the pending visit of germany's angela merkel. and the ruble chavez evolve unity for venezuela the longstanding socialist leader proves he is still enjoys the people support when it will fall term and six more years in power. it's nine pm here in moscow are you watching r t a live with me to have on with same turkey has again fired syria of so cross border mortar bomb strike but a turkish newspaper is reporting the shells that have been landing in turkey for six states now maybe from weapons that ankara itself provided to syrian rebels this together with reports of their separate is the mobilizing inside syria threatens to leave turkey in an awkward diplomatic position a middle east correspondent policia has the latest. what we've witnessed now is five days of increasing conflict along the turkish syrian

i wasn't doing this for syria. unless syria and the syrian people, it's a wonderful country. i'm an american. i thought this is us for the united states to develop a working relationship so they could cooperate to keep tejada said of iraq and so they could cooperate in developing an in arab-israeli negotiations unlikely to syrian israeli peace, that might lead to overall arab-israeli peace. one of the biggest missed opportunities and i've lamented almost everyday with syria and israel came so close to the peace agreement in 1999, 2000. they were this close and assad died. and something about a mistrust that caused problems, but they were this close. and if that occurred, there would've been after that a comprehensive israeli peace and i think the world will look much different. hezbollah would've been emasculated, iran would not have the influence in the heartland of the middle east. obviously the really palestinian dispute perhaps have been resolved. some say the palestinians would've lost their leverage. on the other hand, israel may have felt much more secure about it and

syria and to western policy to bring down is our side regime so what on syria is drive by's a west to control this through syria they are bored using turkey as a new islamist regime in turkey the new islamist regime in egypt in libya as well as in tunisia along with already established broyard regime is in the gulf and in monaco or in jordan this new alliance aims at bringing down the last. or arab nationalist the world after saddam hussein was brought down and got tough it was brought down so really it is a war over who controls the middle east if the nato and its allies when that are countries of the middle east will fall under western nato control for a big a distro come and if syria is able to resist. this a blood drive on it that will be a setback for him a thaw and they're lying with maple in new york ahead you jump in we have very different points of view. i have to partially disagree with flint and i mean. there are undoubtedly foreign forces at play here what he sees the continuation of the cold war in the middle east between iran and saudi arabia between sunni and shiite for

certain degree involved with syria. and that's you know what it did i mean you can criticize certainly you know if i go if i go to kind of let's look at syria because you know it before this you know before turkey's stance it could have been a mediator it could have played a very different role but it decided to go against assad so you can what do you think about that because you know the dynamic change there i mean the syrians are not going to look at the turks as being a mediator i still insist that turkey's involvement in the middle east and north africa is one that works through the new conservative partners the case of egypt and the case of libya i think prove my case. since what we see on the rise in these two countries is muslim brotherhood influence in politics and we also see a similar trend in iraq where turkey is again at odds with the government in syria turkey unfortunately has acted in a very sectarian based and has not been a positive. support for democrats is ation and institution building because i beli

by syria strike on wednesday welcomed days of mutual shed. italians theory of a mounting the descends into clashes while civil servants are marching for jobs in space. and wrongly accused russian student who was brutally beaten make an a.t.m. detention center faces a long recovery while his family says the country isn't doing anything to help. his nine pm here in moscow are you watching are the weekly with me to bomb would say turkey and syria are still sending a tillery shells over the border at each other the turkish village which was hit earlier in the week sparking a series of tit for tat strikes has been hit again on middle east correspondent polis here has the details. for the third straight day turkish artillery has fired into syria this coming just minutes after a mortar landed in turkish territory fired from syria we understand that at least eight mortars were fired from turkey into syria now according to the mayor of the turkish border town where this shell landed he says that there was very little damage other than damage to a grai

>> guest: syria's economy went through a number of changes. it went from a centralized state hood economy to a mixed economy that involved centralized aspects and some market aspects, but not in the manner that actually allowed the market to be efficient at all. >> host: when did this change occur from centralized to mixed? >> guest: most of the countries, the late developing countries, after the post colonial development, they had a period where they actually had to involve the masses in order to gain support and legitimacy. when this process, for a variety of reasons, began to create problems for the regimes and power and when external support and pressure for some of the regimes and for some of the directions that were available at the time in terms of moving towards the market economy around the 1980s took place, you saw a lot of these third world regimes or the global house begin to move from a state centered economy to a more market oriented economy, and the international financial institutions like the imf and world bank, played a role

if that continues, it will change the nature of syria's 4. -- syria's war. >> that is exactly what everyone is worried about. turkey has been hit in a tax by syria since the uprising against president assad began, but yesterday's was the most serious and it doesn't threaten to destabilize the region. >> the border between syria and turkey is long, porous, and tense. flimsy barrier to a war on a stage set for this calculation and escalation. call this is the turkish town where this. shell killed five civilians. on the syrian side, the rebels control the border post which makes them a target. at the u.n. security council, the paralysis caused by the desire of france, britain and america, to remove the regime in russia and china cost support of it means a struggle to release a statement. >> this is a great concern. turkey is a core ally of the united states and this sort of cross border military activity is very destabilizing and must be stopped. >> syria takes seriously the vote in turkey and the vote authorizing military action. >> in cases of border incidents, that happened between any two

should take advantage of the crisis in syria to deliver a defeat to syria's of. unity for us because syria plays an important role in the middle east particular right now syria is iran's only ally in the arab world it's their route to the sea it's the route for them to arm hezbollah in lebanon which threatens of course our ally israel and so seeing syria remove assad is a very high priority for us the candidates did mention russia on a few occasions although there was no specific question about russia of course that hot mike moment came up the one between president obama and the marshes this spring when the u.s. president suggested that he would be more flexible to discuss america's missile defense plans in europe after the election and for that remark the president has come under avalanche of criticism in washington criticism that came down to this basically how dare you be flexible with the russians and want to talk to them about security issues and governor romney during this debate has made a similar point of clear eyes on this i'm not going to wear rose colo

the border between jordan and syria in case violence escalates in syria and spills over the border leon panetta did not go into details as to how many troops and so on but another u.s. defense official speaking on condition of anonymity said the forces are made up of one hundred military personnel and other personnel who stayed on in jordan after attending an annual exercise in may and several dozen more have flown in since they're operating from the joint u.s. jordanian military in a center north of that americans have used for years the news about u.s. military personnel so close to syria that is boots on the ground of course suggests an escalation in the u.s. in the u.s. military involvement in the conflict even as washington pushes back on any suggestion of a direct military. direct intervention in syria also tension grow is growing on the border between syria and turkey after several days of shelling this wednesday turkey's military chief of val's to respond with more force that is a day after nato said it's ready to defend turkey this latest development with u.s. troops in jordan

what's next for syria. you know this whole this whole story with with libya and now syria syria's directly linked to libya because libya did send fighters who are being backed by the west and logistical by actual faction but this reminds me of the spanish inquisition rory where instead of you know room imposing catholicism on an establishment people who resist this is like the freedom and democracy inquisition that's really what we're looking at especially in terms of libya and syria this is the west going in directly or through its proxies or through its goal state. monarchies in order to impose western friendly regime in the country that they can then come in calling ice in a financial way particularly we're talking about private banking and public private initiatives and selling all of the assets of the country to pennies on the dollar to western countries and that's what the plan was in libya having trouble because of instability and in syria it could be much worse because in syria we're looking at a pr

has military presence if we look at syria and the u.s. military presence in the region we see that syria is pretty much surrounded militarily at this latest development with u.s. troops in jordan comes with the u.s. election presidential election less than a month away at a time when mitt romney his challenger is criticizing the president for not being aggressive enough for quote unquote sitting on the sidelines for missing the opportunity to talk and quote deliver that defeat to iran yes he actually said that so it's not clear whether this latest announcement about jordan is the administration's way of showing teeth in these in this election campaign or whether an intervention in syria is really coming soon one of the reasons why the rebels refused to settle for a negotiated solution through dialogue is the signal that they get that sense that support is on the way that there will be an intervention but everybody understands without a negotiating some of those shaded solution the bloodshed will continue so the signals that the. abel's ar

syria tomorrow. when tribal conflict will deepen, it will-- it will bring lack of security there for the coming decade. and that is to the disadvantage that will make the whole region suffer. therefore, whomever is concerned for syria, whomever is concerned for the people of syria should try to stop the fighting. secondly, a national dialogue should take place. they should decide with agreement on what to do. this is what we're following. and now we are trying to establish a conflict group, a four party group. we are expanding this group. i am personally-- i have personally spoke when certain presidents and ministers and we are trying to expand the work of this group in a better fashion. >> rose: if i may, i assume that includes turkey? i assume it includes saudi arabia, who else? >> there are many countries that can be-- that can help. the countries that are part of the nonallied movement, countries that are members of the islamic conference, they can be helpful. so far i have spoke when pakistan, w

involvement in the war in syria. may have a lot of trips to turkey and the turkey has refrained until now from crossing the border and it's ground troops of syria because it's easy to go in it's difficult to get out and the story of all the conflicts there against iraq whatever shows that you go in and the decisions taken a couple of days and then takes years and years and years to get out so i don't think that the government is really willing to open a war with the syrian government but. those two states are basically on the brink of war and this is very dangerous because we have also on the other side of the local map we have iran and we have all this talk about a possible military strike against iran nuclear capabilities so it's really kind of not. should be untied part by part so now i think it's high time to start to untie the syrian out there's a deadlock a lot of blood thousands of people being killed infrastructure destroyed by terror acts by just fighting in general it's not a country like iraq or i'll let m

and supplies go in to syria while refugees fleeing the violence come out. by no means is this safe or easy journey frequent shelling as well as a large minefield on the syrian side of the border crossings like being a deadly gamble a gamble that lebanese sympathizers of syria's opposition are more than willing to make. this is five thousand dollars and assist thirteen hundred eighteen hundred and two thousand in tripoli r.t. spoke to this arms dealer whose business was booming. people come or contact me every day we have a revolution next door for sure we are with them will help them topple assad told they do it. the weapons may be easy to come by the harder part is understanding exactly where they go a classified report uncovered in a new york times reveals that many of the arms sent to syrian rebels are ending up in the hands of hardline islamic jihad one of the leaders of the f.s.a. said yeah we admit that we infiltrated by jihadi jihad these are coming. from all over the muslim world but we don't know exactly who they are back in syria both in the train

is trying to ease tensions that are growing now really within syria but now on the border between syria and turkey. it is more important all right there were no i just hear it and see that the syrian administration has told its military to keep at least ten kilometers away from the turkish border where we've got much more on the issue of the whole syria turkey tensions as well as a timeline of events analysis. there you can also find more on the ripple effect of the on running syrian crisis ascending into its neighboring states and the world happens to be one of the in about twenty five minutes from now we talked to the country's prime minister who says peace cannot be brought to syria through weapons and foreign troops. this is. the use the latest victim of the financial people thousands of u.k. soldiers have been told not to report for duty come the new year but as often as a party boy reports when it comes to funding expensive war toys apparently britain has money to burn. the number of soldiers in the british army is being cut back by a fifth as you can see here that's quite a signi

some kind of ceasefire going on among the stakeholders in the region around syria including in syria what are your feelings as a negotiated end to this conflict still possible because it looks like a lot of people are digging their heels in and a lot of people the rebels do not want to talk so where do you think we stand right now about a peaceful negotiation well we're not in a good place but i think that in the go shaded political settlement remains the only way out of the mess. obviously bastardry he mean his role as the u.n. arab league envoy is trying to get traction with the process use a cease fire to jumpstart that. iran for its part has supported the plan the syrian government has expressed its willingness to to cooperate and something of a shift in previous policy turkey is now saying it would support this initiative it really remains to be seen whether other players not just players in the syrian opposition but whether other regional players whether the gulf arab states this would be prepared to support this and use their influence with opposition groups will the united st

we succeed in libya so we succeeded in syria. egypt of my point of view. u.s. intelligence says last month's attack on the american consulate in libya was most likely not premeditated or linked to al qaida some washington politicians previously suggested the assault in the city of benghazi left four americans standing wave more about america's troubles howling up in the country this revolution that strongly back to. now more world news coming to you from our team in moscow and that's after the break. homeland security now has robot tunas seriously robot fish the drones in the sky spying on you just weren't good enough effect they've revealed that they're going to be using robotic hummingbirds soon who how cute these things can only see you though above the water now during the one percent or less of your life that you spend swimming homeland security will be keeping you safe since nine eleven we've heard ad nauseum that we need to be kept safe so americans have given up their rights but if things got that much safer honestly has any of the stuff ushered in some

so-called friends of syria. is to understand that it is not one of the signs in the conflict that it can be solved i think russia and china are closer to this understanding then the united states or the european along and or saudi arabia. because unfortunately their stance until now has been days are numbered it has to go it's not a policy and we should try to understand that it is not by arming and financing the armed opposition to the present government in syria the dissolution will be found the armed opposition has not strengths. to dislodge president assad president seems not to have enough strength to crush the military opposition and so really you know that look so on both sides we should find people who could start to negotiate what about turkey do you think we'll see a conflict with the full blown conflict between syria and turkey or anywhere else in the region turkey can be dragged or drag itself into this conflict but i have a feeling that the leadership of turkey understands very well that if they go

., russia and syria. a pal discuss the syrian support of the -- a panel discusses russian support of the syrian civil war. this is about an hour and a half. >> we welcome all of you joining us on heritage foundation and on c-span. we ask that you turn off yourself funds as we begin recording for the benefit of today's program. the we will post for everyone's future reference. hosting our discussion today is dr. steven bucci. his focus is special operations and cyber security. he commanded the third battalion fifth special forces and also became the military assistant to donald rumsfeld. at his retirement, -- prior to joining us, he was a leading consultant on cyber security. please welcome the in -- join me in welcoming steven bucci. [applause] >> we have a very timely subjects to discuss, and i think we have a great panel of experts that will be doing be discussing to get us started. i have been interested in this because one of the first things i did was testified before congress about the weapons of ma

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of crossing the border into syria have been shipped into syria over more than a year. we don't know really we know who's paying for it and that's qatar and saudi arabia the coming into syria from turkey and coming into syria from lebanon probably coming just really from jordan and when there's some sign of weapons. weapons being divided syria by russia the cries of outrage i mean russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov admitted it and he admitted it as recently as august that russia does supply weapons to syria but only to honor longstanding contracts what's the purpose of trying to expose something that in sort of agenda. of the propaganda war i suppose that's part of what's been happening over the last eighteen months is that they've got a position and they were trying to justify. any other damage the other saw it and this is central to the problem in syria right now is that we have everyone taking the position. of being prepared to back down the syrian government can't back down because it is the government that is now faced with this kind of countrywide. groups has

nations six point peace plan for syria which. which will bring about peace through negotiations dialogue and reconciliation i don't think anybody should be involved in trying to effect regime change in syria least of all the turks who are next door and would suffer the greatest blowback all right with the latest inside analysis that is ken stone from the hamilton coalition to stop the war thank you for your time you're welcome. while turkey turns to the world's most powerful bodies for consultation and considers whether to launch a cross border military operation moscow calls on the two sides to calm tempers more on that from artesian thomas. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov that spoke at a press conference in pakistan on the subject of syria and there he said he called on syrian and turkish authorities to establish open the lines of communication between the countries to deal with these mutual issues on their shared border as well as other issues like the flow of refugees from syria in to turkey. the syrians have assured u

we organized friends with syria. we are mobilizing humanitarian support and support for the opposition. we are making sure that those we help are those that will be friends of ours for a long time and friends of our allies in the region for a long time. going back to libya because this is an example of how we make choices. when we went into libya and we were able to immediately stop the massacre there because of the unique circumstances and the coalition that we have helped to organize. we also had to make sure that muammar gaddafi didn't stay there. to the governor's credit you supported us going into libya and the coalition that we organized. but when it came time to making sure that gaddafi did not stay in power, that he was captured, governor, your suggestion was that this was mission creek, that this was mission muddle. imagine if we pulled out at that point. muammar gaddafi had more american blood on his hands more than osama bin laden. so we were going make sure that we finished the job. that's part of the rea

now for syria to they also didn't like the fact that he was. he was looking out for the interests of march fourteenth and lebanon more than he was not syria's mansour i wanted i would assume to have someone with more subservient to them as they often find the case with other lebanese politicians he was not one of those so it certainly helps them to get rid of someone like that who is investigating the death of who investigating certain syrian actions in lebanon so i think it's just goes along with the game the syrians have been playing in lebanon all along it's just more of a continuation of what they were doing because now i can is this that. if i can jump to him in character had. so sorry don let me let me just say it's just not clear to me why the results of that assassination would expect to be expected to be you know someone who would serve the interests of syria i mean the history here is that you have a very. carefully put together compromise within the lebanese government in which you know pro pro syrian and pro hezbollah people are che

eric good evening what do you make of turkey's decision today is it just a warning to syria or do you think more the first step towards fully fledged military involvement what are your thoughts well it certainly is a formal declaration that they're prepared for war but whether or not this is actually a step towards a war i think that this is much more unlikely turkey has to realize the historical folly that would be on their side if they were to engage in a war with syria that would undoubtedly rile up their own kurdish population and could possibly lead to the destruction of turkey itself so while the situation does seem quite critical and certainly is dangerous i think it's hard to believe that that turkey would be so foolish as to engage in launching a war against syria let's focus on the possible ramifications on the border i wonder what it means this vote because there are there are many syrian rebels based there do you think they may i will boldly know fully protected if you like from syrian troops. i think that's precisely the the meaning that we could read into this because th

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