Syria Conflict Escalates as Regional and World Powers Debate Assad's Future 1 of 2
Dodany: Feb 7, 2012
Od: democracynow
Czas: 10:35
democracynow.org - Syria is seeing some of the worst violence of the 11-month uprising against Bashar al-Assad amid an ongoing international standoff over how to respond. Assad's forces have launched what appears to be one of their fiercest assaults on the flashpoint city of Homs to date. Both the United States and Britain have closed their embassies in the Syrian capital of Damascus and withdrawn diplomatic personnel, citing safety fears. As the crisis escalates, Russia and China are facing criticism for blocking a U.N. Security Council resolution backed by the United States and Arab League calling for a political transition in Syria. To discuss the situation in Syria, we're joined by Patrick Seale, a leading British writer on the Middle East and author of "Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East." "It's at least a two or possibly a three stage crisis. Internally in Syria, the situation is getting worse by the day," Seale said. "At a higher level, there is a struggle between the United States on the one hand and its allies, and its opponents like Russia and China. ... Then there's a third level, possibly, of Arab Gulf states like Qatar, for example, even Saudi Arabia behind it, who are obsessed and worried by Iran and they think that Iran might stir up Shiite communities in the region." Watch part 2 of 2: http://youtu.be/67au9trTS5s To watch the complete daily, independent news hour, read the transcript, download the podcast, and for the additional Democracy Now! reports about Syria, visit http://www.democracynow.org/tags/syria FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/democracynow Twitter: @democracynow Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/democracynow Listen on SoundCloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/democracy-now Daily Email News Digest: http://www.democracynow.org/subscribe Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today, visit http://www.democracynow.org/donate/YT
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Tagi: democracy now dn headlines news politics amy goodman syria bashar assad arab spring homs hama damascus free syrian army saudi arabia iran israel us obama russia china human rights protest patrick seale asad struggle for the middle east
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Pissedoffpeasant Wypowiedź:
Feb 8, 2012 - lol damn Hillary is looking rough as hell, apparantly living on a diet of pure evil has a negative effect on ones outward appearance, its like the transformation of the emperor in star wars but in super slow motion.
RachelDerGolem Wypowiedź:
Mar 7, 2012 - The bad news is that Syria will turn into a huge civil war killing millions of people. The good new is that Amy Goodman will write a best selling book, blaming it all on Jewish Republicans.
mispistoleros Wypowiedź:
Feb 7, 2012 - Syria: Seasoned Libyan, Iraqi, Afghani and Dagestani "Al Qaeda" mercenaries, armed with US and Israeli weapons, financed by the House of Saud and Emir of Qatar, smuggled in thru Lebanon and Turkey, all for an agenda which has nothing to do with human rights or the aspirations of the Syrian people. This is about staging the invasion of Iran. Ms. Rice, the world finds disgusting the US veto of the UN resolution condemning Israel's egregiously criminal Operation Cast Lead. 911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB.