From The Guardian

The Evil Dentist speaks!:

7.36pm: Responding to criticism from other countries and calls for his resignation, President Bashar al-Assad remains defiant. He tells Syrian State TV:

Words emanating from the West to us don’t concern me, they don’t concern a president like me. It is the Syrian people who are standing side by side with the resistance. The Syrian people cannot accept orders from outside, they reject this.

They’re talking about human rights. Let’s discuss the countries that are talking about human rights. If you see their modern history like in Afghanistan, Iraq, even Libya - who’s responsible for the massacres in Libya and the victims? Millions of people have been made disabled, widowed, orphaned.

Speaking live on Syrian State TV, President Bashar al-Assad, says he is confident of the country’s security situation. He tells his interviewers:

If there is violence it should be met. Police, security, riot police, any country in the world would use these means to quash anti-social behaviour.
The solution in Syria remains a political one.

We announced a basket of reforms and our solution has always been a political one but that does not mean we should neglect the security side.

We need more focus on the reforms and also we need to achieve laws that will be satisfactory to everyone. We have to set up a deadline. We are going into a transition period on the elections. There will be a review of the constitution and even if we implement all the reforms there will still be a transitional period.
We have started to embark on a dialogue inside the government…but we need more time so people can study the reforms.