prosser cautions against international calls to change in syria as the us and e.u. urge president to step down. most who says the syrian regime needs time to implement promised changes and should be given the chance to sort out its political future from all enjoying the reef motion of from damascus in just a few moments. and it's black friday on the markets another day of global stock sell off the u.s. shares one again after sharp falls in europe and asia amid new fears of a world recession. because it's twenty years to this day since an attempted coup by a group of hardline communists against me. helped bring about the end of the soviet

union. and swimmers in russia's far east are gripped by terror after two people were savages price starts in just two days attacks that have never been seen there before. right from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching are two with me and he said now it's eight pm here in the russian capital seven pm in damascus and russia has refused to back the call made by the u.s. and e.u. urging syria's leader to step down moscow believes president should be given time to implement promised reforms and that the country should be left alone to sort out its own political future. russia's position has

always been clear syria definitely needs reforms detainer is definitely needed required in this country but president assad needs time to do god. syrian leadership needs time to implement its reform program put significant steps towards that have already been taken the state of emergency has been lifted the higher court of state security was a college degree allowing citizens to form peaceful demonstrations was accepted syrians should negotiate not fight and the opposition as well as the regime is responsible for making. russian believes that external pressure on president bashar assad could only deteriorate things here on the ground and. as transition to democratic state at the same time russia has all the time to reach rating that eve present our side doesn't keep his promises in that case based social community to react to russia's delegation is a jew is

a mask is very soon on saturday to try to find out exactly what is going on here on the ground and see how assad is full feeling these promises while the situation on the ground he is here it is very complicated and i have to emphasize that the call from the u.s. and e.u. call the syrian president to step down comes just hours after president bashar assad has announced that the military operation in syria is over and have promised more reforms we've witnessed the army is troll we've seen at least thirty tanks live in the city and inside the city we haven't seen any ministry lacked police has returned to duty meanwhile we are receiving reports and the run media reports that based on information received from protesters and local residents that's the army is still. on the. in latakia and even the reports that.

the soldiers are firing from type to time to peaceful demonstrators but i have to emphasize and this is very important that these reports are very hard to very far because international journalists are not allowed to move freely here in the country as the syrian government says because it's dangerous. but james corbet editor of an independent news website says russia can play a key role in preventing the situation in syria from repeating what we're seeing now in libya so extremely important right now to to watch how russia's position in this unfolds because obviously we are entering into unthinkable times where the idea of military intervention in syria is on the table only a major force like russia seems at this stage capable of really preventing a repeat of what we saw in libya which of course started out as the u.n. security council resolution one thousand seven hundred three of the fly zone which

immediately became a bombing so we've seen how this is just a stepping stone to a later phase and unfortunately the the type of rhetoric that we've seen especially with all of the even major neato powers yesterday coming out with cameron and sarkozy and merkel and for and obama and clinton all coming out simultaneously telling assad that he needs to step down it's exactly the type of preparatory phase that we saw in the lead up to the libyan campaign so i think the parallels are there. well the israeli military and guards are exchanging deadly fire after a series of attacks allegedly by palestinians on thursday seven israelis were killed after a bus and civilian vehicles and soldiers were targeted in the south of the country but for more on this we're now joined live from tel aviv by counter terrorism expert dr carmona thank you very much for joining us this evening all of this comes ahead of a u.n. vote on palestinian statehood what the palestinians possibly want to escalate the situation now ahead of that vote.

there are various policies are going to. some of them are not interesting. they want to destroy these overhead one. point of view. or the decision of the united nations is irrelevant and perhaps even. by the way this is also the view of some. countries like iran and syria so it is possible to here we have a. nation that is you then the concern. exactly the palestinian authority is the invention. of the nations and also perhaps. the peace process between israel or the peace agreement between israel and egypt we just know the fall of mubarak regime is a very sensitive period. out of raised thirty years of war with russia and

cooperation is not clear told a good new egyptian government. called the agreement and. normal relations with israel. if we're going to bring in other issues that are sabotaging the peace process like egypt let's talk about settlements it's seen that israel is sabotaging the peace process by expanding on. settlements and i promise i want. to look at least your settlements is not going to be a long time issue but if you look to the last year for instance the police the authorities decided not to continue the negotiations with not a real government and they are not supporting the government in this issue but the government was the first one to stop concretely the signals for ten months and during all these ten months there was no negotiations so only after ten months

president abbas decided to come for one or two encounters in washington and that's all so on the two parts there is a problem on the issue of settlements i think that the palestinian leadership is not ready to compromise the fact is that abu mazin government did not compromise with the previous government of. the law or militancy believe me we just are today not causation they discussed a lot. even agreement because the palestinian side did not want to compromise of issue not only show borders but especially on the issue of the refugees and the status of jerusalem that's going back to that u.n. vote on palestinian statehood it seems likely that it will be vetoed and even if it isn't a veto it's not say it's not probably go ahead and ignore whatever decision is made in new york at the u.n. . i'm not sure that there is a really go completely but i think also also many countries which are supporting

the vote at the united nations they understand that in the end without negotiations would not be any agreement. by the way when the first night vision assembly ninety forty seven to sign about the petition kristina's did not accept it. and so after the six day war of the palestinian and also a school. they did not accept any negotiations or reason and so this is a historically very difficult issue and without negotiations i don't think that the palestinian would have a independent state and by the way they are divided between the west bank and still totally controlled and the gaza and we see what happens in gaza hamas has an agreement on paper with the palestinian authority that it is not implemented this no prime minister there is no government a common government of the fattest and the hamas more which means that also the

palestinians are not so happy with their cooperation and israeli government for a second thousands of israelis are protesting against their government's economic policies is the kind of search you know i think distracted us people from domestic province perhaps. sorry i didn't this asking if perhaps some of this violence is how nice it is if the violence is helping to distract the people who are protesting who are not happy with the israeli government is it distracting them. it's it's clearly it's clear that. this strike because the people first of all want to leave and then they want to leave a good life. is not helping this situation but i think that this movement is a very profound movement social political realm it's. not completely

political but still it's a mass movement and the moment the conditions meet the people will return to the streets or they will return to negotiating with the government. resolder for instance the doctors which were on strike they decided to stop the strike because they understand that they have really people which were injured. dozens of people injured in the town. is that there. is a day we have a look at this in major cities you know. people who oppose the border want. to lead their lives and then economic lives right live from tel aviv counterterrorism expert dr annie carmen thank you very much. it's twenty years ago to the day since eight communist hardliner stage a coup to overthrow. the then president of the soviet union but while it fell to

topple the governments it's widely seen as a pivotal factor in the u.s.s.r. eventual collapse artists on barton takes a look at how it changed the course of soviet history. if you turned on your t.v. set in moscow on the morning of the nineteenth or this one nine hundred ninety one this is what you would have seen tchaikovsky's swan lake. why are so many muscovites because on the streets this is what was really happening. there was confusion and panic even among the tank crews themselves. who ordered to march towards moscow i thought i'd figured out when i get there as we weren't given any information as to what was happening or soviet leader mikhail gorbachev had been shot in his holiday home in the crimea a state committee on the state of emergency declared itself in charge it was made

up of high ranking communist party officials including the head of the k.g.b. gorbachev's vice president and the defense minister they were terrified that gorbachev's democratic reforms and the union treaty due to be signed on the twentieth of august would give so much power away from the center to the soviet republics it would destroy the soviet union. but it was an act of treason on the part of good which often yeltsin and this circle our right treason they were going to ruin our country. in a press conference later that day they said that gorbachev was ill and that they would take over in his absence but their show wasn't convincing on the nineteenth of august vice president kennedy and i are on the other members of the emergency committee sat in this very spot as he delivered his statement the assembled journalists noticed that his hands were shaking then one twenty four year old

journalist blew his official words right out of the water. got a bottle of tell me do you realize that you've conducted a quote it had. very convincing. because just man. i mean while on the streets the russians supreme soviet building the white house had become the center of resistance to the coup boris yeltsin the president of the russian part of the u.s.s.r. had convinced some of the tank crews to switch sides people flocked to join him and demand charts return because if yelton tells you that was the yeahs of your commander traitors and enemies whose always will you have be as night fell on the twentieth of august the curfew ordered by the cool denies is raised fears of an assault on the white house when armored vehicles began moving through a row tunnel in the night protesters disillusioned with the communist party rose up

to defend their hopes of democracy. of kamar son dimitriy was killed you want what police are now down to the right where he is friendly demetriades to drag him away morgan machine rode over my sons had and killed her to marry as well. to convert failed and what's more it destroyed trust in the communist party which was then banned russia in november one thousand nine hundred one by the end of the year the very system they sought to keep alive the soviet union had ceased to exist dumbarton r.t. . well despite the fact that it happened twenty years ago there are still some people out there who aren't aware that the u.s.s.r. is no more like arjen dot com for all the details of where you'll find out how some of them are in fairly high paid places or at least almost there republican presidential candidate michele bachmann believes that the u.s.s.r.

still exists and continues to pose a threat to you let's. call it one line for you president will go chavez wants to bring back all the export of venezuelan gold back to the country to protect it from financial turmoil turn the possible consequences of that action that are dot com. but your feelings on the world markets continues as u.s. stocks remain volatile newly released economic data has made grim reading for american traders over the last week domestic manufacturing fell to its lowest point since two thousand and nine while the housing market is in a slump and unemployment spiraling let's cross live to new york to talk with our correspondent there in a fortnight and she joins us now we know of course that it's mayhem out there just

how bad is it. well it looks to be pretty bad and that forecasts the most recent one is coming from morgan stanley goldman sachs and j.p. morgan chase all three banks in the past day have released reports slashing their expectations for u.s. and global growth now morgan stanley believes that the global economy is hovering close to a recession j.p. morgan chase says the risk of recession has been elevated now this news of course will only cause investors to lose even more confidence and trust in the markets in the u.s. here and around the world we've been seeing that play out with all the volatility hitting the markets around the world and of course the debt crisis in europe is causing great concern for investors all the drama and debate that took place here in the u.s. caused a lot of concern so much so that credit agency s. and p.

downgraded the u.s. its credit from aaa to double a for the first time ever in history and so all of this of course is not easing the mindset of of americans living in the u.s. hoping that job numbers job opportunities will increase we have to remember unemployment here in the u.s. is is above nine percent nine point one percent one million people lost their homes in two thousand and ten and another million are expected to have their homes foreclosed on this year so if people are not confident in the market every day folks are not going to spend their money all of this is tied together all of this is systemic and of course the united states being the world's largest economy whatever happens here in the u.s. does affect the world we saw that nearly three years ago in two thousand and eight with the financial crisis and collapse and we saw how it had a ripple domino effect around the world and right now many people are wondering why

for three years. later after all the promises all the stimulus plans all the tax cuts nothing has changed and it as long as there's a lack of confidence or very little trust it's hard to believe them predict that the u.s. economy and the rest of the world economy is going to bounce back any time soon it's right every day it seems to look worse and worse will continue to keep track of it were reported i live from new york. but look now at some world news in brief for you at least forty people have been killed and over one hundred injured when a bomb exploded at a mosque in the kimberley region in northwest pakistan witnesses report a teenage boy detonating advice during traditional friday kurds many of the injured are in serious condition and no group has admitted responsibility yet but taliban and al-qaeda militants are active in the region. through his eyeglass have rocked the afghan capital kabul close to

a counter compound run by the british government the explosion set off a five hour long gun battle between security forces and insurgents with at least ten people killed the taliban which has claimed responsibility as it was marking the anniversary of afghanistan's independence from u.k. president hamid karzai made no mention of the attacks during events to mark the anniversary urging his people to unite and move the country towards a better future. the classic horror movie jaws has become a reality and russia's far east which has been terrorized by a marine predator a cash reward has been offered by the local authorities for the capture of the shark that savants two people are very pushed over tells the stories of the victims who are lucky to be alive. nothing like this has ever happened here before russia has never seen a shark attack let alone two in two days this sixteen year old boy was diving one hundred meters off shore when it appeared the young man's wet suit served as

protection and saved him from death with both his legs were severely wounded. who cry help help the shark would be glued but it was died out so some guys went out on to do use of him and really firstly only a day earlier at twenty five year old man lost his forearms trying to defend his wife when the couple was saved witnesses were shocked at what they saw but i would ask it was really scary a country even describe it the man's hands were chewed off and the boat was full of blood. the attacks happened in the far eastern primordial region as shares a border with north korea it is known for its beaches and clear water and swimming here has always been safe dangerous sharks don't usually go that far north in the sea of japan scientists believe the predator was a white shark and man eater and are trying to work out what it was doing here. this type of shock really comes to. it's

a species that lives in trouble go on subtropical waters of the ocean but with global warming they're now starting to move more and more to the all out of roughly three hundred sixty spaces of sharks just over thirty are known to be dangerous to humans the rest are either too small only fifty did but most experts agree that any shark with sharp enough teeth and longer than one point two metres can cause serious injuries especially if there's food or blood in the water and while scientists are looking for the reasons for these recent attacks the swimming season in the area is over at least for the time being carried over r.t. moscow. back with a recap of our top story shortly before that green green is here with the latest as it. her welcome to our business update the south thanks for joining me russian stock

markets lost about fifty billion dollars in a week because of companies included in the my six index has decreased by ninety percent since august first in a western from out hong says the russian forces are just following the global trend . it's the same as you're seeing on a global scale it's really a market that is now driven by fear. the increasing concern that a state of the global another global recession took a real hold on the markets yesterday and what clients are trying to do is to try to figure out where we go from here because there's so many on certain factors right now to some extent you can argue that the current situation is actually more to korea's that it was in two thousand and seven given that policymakers are running out of options and china has their own problems in trying to sort of cool down their economy and then you have different policy options in europe and the u.s. u.s. is probably going to try and stimulate where's europe where there's a lot of other services on top of that i think you know little looking forward i

mean if you look at what's going to happen in europe over the next couple of months you're going to have about four hundred fifty billion euros to be paid. by you or some countries by the before the end of the year two hundred fifty billion of those come due in september and october so i think for those two months we're going to continue seeing responsibility the good news i would say though is that we don't see the same kind of panic selling that we saw in two thousand and eight. ok let's take a look at the figures now here is wall street the markets are mixed there with the dow trading in the red in the nasdaq point three percent in the black hewitt packard is topping losers list on the dow down twenty percent that's after the world's largest computer maker unveiled plans to sell its personal computers business its line of smartphones and buy u.k. software company autonomy for eleven point seven billion dollars markets in europe where we covered the worst of the day's polls after a steady a start the u.s. yes the footy ended over a percent in the red while the german tax was down two percent earlier markets were

sharply lower with form of more than three percent or more for some leading indexes some banking shares were hit again with lloyds down over five percent in london and france this being people are about pounds of me any foreperson. and here's moscow the markets have recovered here from earlier sharp falls but still ended and the read the article is close to half a percent down and i'm isaac's and it just under four percent lower but still better we've seen during the day now here's this not chart of the markets movers on my six energy majors were among the main decliners nickel and rolls now we're down to end of the day two and a half percent in the red bucking the trend though with gazprom that managed to reverse into the blackout trading two and a half percent lower in evening session and banking stocks the worst hits bear bank lost nearly because the. prices are slightly up after an almost six percent decline on thursday concerns about global economic recovery

a weighing on crude over the we could all it's giving some support to it like what is trading at eighty two dollars a barrel and brant is trading at nearly one hundred eight dollars a barrel and a quick look at the precious metals gold is trading at a new record high level as uncertainty about the global economy is pushing investors back to safe havens for prices now at about one thousand eight hundred fifty five dollars per ounce and silver is gaining three hundred percent and is trading at forty one dollars per ounce. it's been called the largest infrastructure project in europe the first part of the russian but north stream gas pipeline. for a witness the final stages of construction. well this is the very last weld in the first line of the north stream pipeline there's a hundred thousand of these in this line this one for the golden well not only

because it's the final one that also because the rest of them have been tested when they've run water through the pipeline that previously this one has to be golden because it's going to get its first test when they feed a russian natural gas for the first time directly to the earth and that's going to be happening very shortly i joined september is not only the world's longest pipeline a bit twelve hundred kilometers long is also the nature withstand extrusion conditions including temperatures as low as minus fifty degrees celsius a huge amount of time has gone into the preparation and planning of this nearly fifteen years since the initial plan to put in place it travels under the cultic state across a need to know exactly and the five states russia finland sweden denmark and germany and it's been described as an example of multilateral cooperation in energy currently russia supplies around a third of europe's just and there are concerns that once the north stream

pipelines are fully operational europe will become even more dependent on the russian hydrocarbons now russia's anstice by saying that this is really a new stage in energy and gas security they're going to be able to bypass transit countries and the problems that we've seen in the past and have direct delivery of russian natural gas to the year of paying customers. ok sorry for quoting from the languid region that sold me business news for now but for most stories you can always call that side that started out called nationalists thanks for.

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