asterisk grows by the thousands. you're watching r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie and we begin with our breaking news story russia and china have vetoed a u.n. security council resolution on syria they were pm backdraft called on damascus to and its crackdown on protesters or face targeted measures of moscow and beijing said this could open the door to military intervention artie's moreno work now has the latest from new york. russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin said the draft was too one sided he described the resolution as a confrontational approach taken by the european delegation and against the peaceful settlement to the crisis now this draft resolution was proposed by france

with the support of portugal the u.k. and germany but the one part of the text that many countries seem to disagree with was that that called for syria to comply with the resolution within thirty days and if it if not complied then the council would quote consider its options including unspecified quote measures many council members including china russia brazil south africa interpreted these vague terms as leaving the door open to sanctions now of course russia has one is one of many countries that has been opposed to international sanctions against syria ambassador churkin says moscow believes the violence should be stopped through internal reforms and political dialogue not external sanctions or military intervention such as the case

of libya. with a draft resolution which was not passed today was based on an entirely different philosophy the philosophy of confrontation we cannot agree with its one sided accusations against damascus we believe the threat of implementing sanctions against the syrian government is unacceptable this approach contradicts the principle of peaceful settlement of the crisis based on a common serious national dialogue should brazil india south africa and lebannon abstained from voting on the resolution but it was the united states that voiced aid. stream disappointment that the security council did not mentally adopt the resolution moving forward russia and china said that they will be working on a resolution to gether that they say will be more balanced in the case of syria now we do know that some council members wanted not only the syrian government

condemned for the violence but also a condemnation against all the anti-government protesters that may have been inflaming the violence that has been breaking out over the course of six months but that is a measure that the europeans did not want included in this resolution. more important reporting there from new york now the veto by russia and china follows three months of heated debate in new york the disagreement has split the security council but moscow is certain its action was justified let's get more from the russian capital earned our correspondent is following the story for us here now to many see the power of veto as a last resort in the u.n. security council so why has russia chosen to use it now. it's actually a rare case of russia using its veto at the u.n. security council russia has only used its power of veto seven times since the

collapse of the soviet union and in case of syria russia feels it hoss to prevent similar scenario and yet another arab state to what happened to leave after the u.n. mandate to protect civilians was implemented that resolution was passed in march with russia abstaining from the vote but the mandate was picked up by nato which sided with and to gadhafi forces in libya helping them to topple the khan and russia claims that in case so in case the u.n. mandate was misused and has vowed not to let that happen again russia is actually the only prominent member of the security council which is actively trying to negotiate a peaceful solution to the crisis in syria thus it has hosted representatives of both president bashar al assad and members of the opposition trying to notch them toward styler and russian lawmakers have also gone on a fact finding mission to see red concluding that damascus isn't about implementing

democratic reforms of promise and that it needs more time to bring them into force and all the first issue of this resolution on syria was brought up the track and estimated up turned out thousand people were killed in in in a crackdown on anti-government protesters fishel damascus claims. it's only fighting some but tourist board feeling it's already offices and doing it claims that they've killed hundreds of security officers since march this year meanwhile the u.s. and its european allies have already implemented the subtle sanctions aimed against which the more president assad and a full team to step down russia claims that such a one sided approach at that only make matters worse and that is sending a biased message all strong support for the opposition to keep fighting which is only fueling tension inside the country. ok thanks so much

for this. reporting and. sounds from renmin university in beijing says that the russian chinese veto of the security council resolution on syria will not stop the u.s. taking unilateral action against damascus i say is a very important the right decision for china russia to veto the proposal sanctions against. these here and demonstrate to use those sanctions is a nod to the best way to settle a conflict almost a complicated holding by piece for dialogue we can bring stability and peace driving all the u.s. all you men in crazy it's always the feedlots way or your industrial action so i think growth on their resolve very high probability for us will take action against syria even to the way told desertion by russia and china.

the syrian ambassador was given the floor in new york after the security council vote bashar joffrey took the chance to have a go at washington. the more. the us is used to fifty times to protect israel but it continues to threaten to use the veto power this could be considered partying and genocide. the comments saw the entire u.s. delegation headed by susan rice walk out of the meeting in protest the syrian envoy was referring to america's stance on the palestinian bid for full recognition at the u.n. the white house says it will veto any resolution to grant statehood saying that such a move can only come through direct talks between israel and the palestinians. the chinese veto on syria the u.n. security council resolution may sour relations with the u.s. even more later in the program we report on how washington is trying get back have beijing for allegedly undervalue wing of the law and taking away american jobs.

thousands of people unite against the government's latest round of austerity measures in a twenty four hour strike in greece flights in and out of the country are canceled schools closed and hospitals will be working at reduced capacity this nationwide protest comes after eurozone finance chiefs postponed greece's next bailout spawn and sarah ferguson is in athens. just a couple of hours' time you're going to be seeing the country's main labor unions leading thousands of people on to syntagma square behind me the side of the main parliament building protesting of course against the new wave of austerity measures that they see put in place we've had new announcements here in athens the job layoffs there's been tax hikes recently a really deep discontent amongst the public here flights in and out of the country have been cancelled schools and hospitals are expected to operate on emergency

staff public charter schools going to be stalled and we've seen this happen before outside parliament many many times the people protesting against these measures they're saying pushing the country into an even deeper quites this that this point the situation really is not just quit school for greece the critical for the rest of the usa as well we're already seeing a lot of concern about exactly how far they can take is going to spread and he's going to be affected by what people are starting to realize now is that it's not just going to entail all syntagma in athens we've already seen this over and that quite is now spreading into a many first gauge the another banking crisis and there's been a lot of concern criticism as well about the way that the euro is in leaders have been managing this situation about their inability ready to come up with realistic measures that are going to stop this crisis in the track and put certainly greece

back on the right track but the rest of the eurozone is slow we've heard the protesters will be telling us they saying much the same as before that they're still dealing with these measures that are put in place to try and please international lenders that really these measures are nothing more than a sticking plaster over the gaping wound that is this ongoing crisis and now really people are going to be looking to see whether there's going to be anything that can be done now for preventing this. natural crisis spreading into a very deep recession in the country and in the usa as the whole. earth reporting their investment adviser patagium says that the european union needs serious spine to the greek debt crisis much quicker if it's to stay in tact the european union are trying to take fiscal control of greece because they think that's the only way they can actually control the crisis essentially what is being fought at the moment is a battle for the sovereignty of greece the european union is too slow there's too little

leadership and there is a pig headed intransigent particularly amongst the finance ministers but they're specially amongst the leaders of the european union nations in terms of understanding that they needed to move a lot faster on this crisis they still need to move much faster and ultimately time is running out because greece is leading the contagion that is going to kill the euro by the end of the year if we don't see positive and rapid action realistically that action means that greece needs to leave the euro because the problem is we cannot leave citizens of the european union to starve to death because it suits a troika of international lenders. china has expressed its condemnation of the u.s. senate's bill on the chinese swan after it voted to allow debate on the so-called currency manipulation bill the legislation would make it easier for the u.s. to impose penalties on its trading partners washington accuses beijing under

valuing its currency to help its own ex exporters taking away american jobs but china has told us to abandon protectionism and stop politicizing economic issues the u.s. house speaker john boehner also spoke out criticizing the bill calling it pretty dangerous journalist advert harrison says america is just trying to spread the blame for the global economic crisis to other countries. well the reason to bring it up is to show that the united states government is. in order to create a self-sustaining recovery therefore the problem must be elsewhere that is the problem must be in europe it must be in china elsewhere it's not because our policies have failed course. that's really what is going on here the reality is that the us government's policies have not been successful as a result they're looking for other places to place blame or to share the blame for

the economic crisis that is global at this point but. really the united states the reason that it has a huge trade deficit not just with china but with other countries is because the private sector see with. it if the u.s. wants to address the problem of deficits that is trade deficit it really needs to look at creating policies that raise private sector savings. levy the forces have vowed to launch what they call a final attack on market obvious home town of sirte several strategic areas of the city stronghold have already been taken over by fighters or leaders national transitional council aided by nato airstrikes but colonel gadhafi is whereabouts remain unknown more than seven weeks after the capital fell to the former rebels the ongoing civil war and media began more than six months ago with over thirty thousand lives lost. her a spokesperson for the red cross who visited the region

says the situation there remains dire. we managed to get in the hospital and spend few hours to check on the hospital however the security situation did not allow us to move inside the town and see the situation of the civilians we managed to talk to the presented to us of the civilians to understand the situation they talk about lack of food water there is no electricity there is a lack of fuel in the city and there is very difficult access to medical care and no i've been same time while talking to families going out of the city of sirte i have been on the eastern side where i've talked to families displaced these people as well are living in difficult conditions because they are they are leaving just their houses to flee the ongoing fighting in the city of sirte and they are being displaced into the desert. living in a high difficult hygenic conditions and having no access to medical care and no potable water we have been calling upon all parties to the conflict despair as much

as possible to civilian people and to always distinguish between military and civilian targets. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world government troops opened fire arms tribesmen supporting protestors in the southern yemeni city of activists also clashed with security forces in the capital sanaa where over one hundred people were caught up in the fighting and killed last month meanwhile thousands took to the streets of yemen protesting the decades long rule of president saleh the uprising in yemen started in february and has reportedly claimed lives of over fifteen hundred people. chilean students have continued with demonstrations against the government calling for better public education and it's after president sebastian pinera threatened tougher sentences for protesters who occupy a school or university buildings at least twenty were arrested by riot police who dispersed the rest using tear gas and water cannon in the capital santiago and

there was law project has been seen by student groups as a provocation which works against five months of negotiations between students and the authorities. and few mexico were security forces have arrested eighteen police officers accused of working with one of the most powerful drug cartels along with those captured were nine inmates who've been part of a recent mass breakout from prison in the state of veracruz a tip off by locals led troops to a small village where the fugitives were hiding out the gang was planning to join the tories cartel which has ravaged parts of the country with killing kidnapping and extortion since last week and almost two hundred people hundred police officers have been arrested for alleged ties with illegal drug dealing. thousands of americans are gearing up for and no other day of demonstration in the u.s. capital they have been protesting for three weeks against corporate influence on government policy which they blame for the country's economic woes but even after

the police arrested hundreds of activists over the weekend the movement still picking up momentum across the united states but i'm going to reports. we don't want that not anticipating more pain where it's not very much more aggression and i think people are taking it. more than a thousand people in los angeles. chose to stand in solidarity with the occupy wall street movement. at city hall the very visible center of government in power. and demonstrators worry that the one percent who control most of the nation's wealth have gained a stranglehold over the u.s. government alexander hamilton you know referred to the people he was so afraid of as the great peace and the great peace as a way people of all walks of life had turned out for this mass demonstration here in los angeles now a lot of the protesters here say they've gotten their inspiration from the

demonstrators in new york and in athens and others are inspired by the revolution of egypt now there's still much debate about whether this is part of that revenue scenary movement here in america but one thing that people can agree on is that some drastic changes need to be made as to how this country runs from the east coast to the west coast and a growing number of places in between a collective anger is unifying people. in the windy city a group has been demonstrating outside the federal reserve bank in chicago for more than a week in boston a tent city in the heart of the financial district means occupiers can voice their discontent with corporate greed twenty four seven and i have. despite dozens of arrests demonstrators intent to show that democracy does not end at the ballot box families have also been marching in denver and san francisco

demanding radical change from the wahoo to olympia to all my hot to orlando according to the occupy together website protests are being organize. in more than one hundred cities points that the place standing behind are worth a revelation i believe their time is up i think that i think the world is recognizing there that doesn't work despite mainstream media down plain and even ridiculing the movement supporters have faith the message will be understood and you saw what happened in london they tried to make that out about a bunch of people that were just you know you know the bad apples that's humanity humanity's got to thinks about them something is room already bruised by soaring unemployment poverty and foreclosures the middle class are now being told to tighten their belts leave the many americans to finally find their voices the crowds at the beginning bigger it looks like the spreading throughout the country

and you know they had the arab spring and you know hopefully we have with us in los angeles ramon. r t. the decade long war in afghanistan is nowhere near it's and as the top u.s. commander in the country admits american troops will stay there much longer than expected some ninety thousand u.s. soldiers serving in afghanistan have been sent to leave the country in two thousand and fourteen the original withdrawal date led that that line said by nato washington have promised that all foreign troops will be out by them leaving control of the military situation to afghan authorities but author jerry van dyke who's written extensively on the subject of afghanistan says the war has only got worse over the years. there are many reasons why the united states and its allies but particular united states will stay in. the first ball is that the war is getting worse there are more i.e.d. these according to the un that is to say mines have gone off in the last few months

and only for more u.s. soldiers and marines are dying there more casualties civilian and military than any time in the ten years since foreign forces have been in afghanistan and also. the afghan national army and its police forces are not ready to take over you have a twenty four percent desertion rate in the afghan national army now the united states is letting contracts to american contractors to build barracks in various air bases around the country and shinned in the in the west perhaps to watch for the air flights over iran in mazar e sharif in the north to perhaps watch former soviet central asian republics in kandahar in the southeast perhaps watch pakistan the united states does not have any intention i do not believe to leave in the short term there are many who feel that they have to surround iran to perhaps soft containment of china nato and its allies i don't think are ready to leave this very volatile region united states

does not want pakistan to try and make afghanistan a satellite it's a very complicated very dangerous area and i do think the u.s. forces will be there for a very long time and more news videos and the latest updates can be found on our website r.t. dot com here's a taste. apple is no longer one of the world's favorite as the new i phone four s. is revealed company shares drop by more than four and a quarter percent within just thirty minutes. online drinking is becoming ever more popular as many young people in america and europe choose to stay at home and raise their glasses to their monitors instead of going out and being sociable.

and a bit later later on in our interview segment we'll talk to the president's special envoy to the north caucasus federal district before the add though let's see what's happening in business with kareen. top business update the south thanks for joining me fresh concerns over the u.s. economy has worsened the spell of the selling spree at the stock markets the u.s. fed says recent economic data shows no improvement in the world's biggest economy emerging markets are taking the biggest hit as investors pull their cash out of risky developing countries but analysts believe that if we manage to avoid a double dip recession emerging markets will outperform other global in the. emerging markets in general are much stronger fiscally they have much stronger growth that is expected in europe in the u.s. and corporations in emerging markets such as russia and elsewhere are also much stronger so you know i think once for now investors are simply wrapped up on the

concern that we could get a catastrophe if we can avoid because i asked for three weeks now it looks more likely and i think once we settle down we will see more money coming back to emerging markets faster than two developed markets global markets maybe entering a state of panic with investors paying little attention to fundamentals but justin and steve from merrill lynch says infrastructure projects are among the ones investors will not ignore. when you look at living for structure projects the traditional team is there maybe emerging markets but ultimately they all get a way to global trade whether it's parsons or trying to build freight traffic around the think a lot of investors see that was a true story on the vultures of these projects so we've probably just pulled companies they tend to be gateways to to global trade and therefore best to say i'm investing in domestic infrastructure but most of us are going to globalization on the opening of that market to new investors new companies overseas so it's an interesting way to play an emerging market but also the to do risk you want us to

get the company to providing infrastructure to support both in polls and actual right. let's take a look at the markets now oil is in the black for the first day four after zero four the u.s. gasoline stockpiles dropped five million barrels last week richard rose almost four percent up to forty eight percent in the past three days brant splendor straining at one hundred one dollars a barrel while going to the high as it's at seventy eight dollars per barrel stocks in asia are mixed on wednesday japanese shares are trading in the red with heavyweight fast retailing companies falling after a downbeat sales report japan's nikkei is dropping almost two percent reversing from opening games tokyo listed exporters are down it's only love losing one point seven percent toshiba two point three percent in the red at the top people paid one point nine percent markets in hong kong and mainland china a quote from all of us here in russia stocks open higher tests is nearly eight percent like the wise x. is up over one percent one

a half percent actually this hour heading for the first gain in four days. turmoil and the stock markets continues to press on the ruble the russian kinds has lost thirteen percent of its value against the u.s. dollar this autumn under a deal gain from for its club russia believes the ruble depreciation is not due to fundamental fact. the right now the fee that oil prices are quite comfortable level for. there are some economy and therefore robo it means that. russian the ruble has the potential to be a much stronger but. also all speculative. trends on the russian consummate is because the. banks buying cheap rubles from central bank they also take some money from the budget from the ministerial five homes and then they. have a bad on the stronger dollar. that's all the business and i'll be back with more in

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welcome back you're watching artsy breaking news here on our chalo russia and china have blocked a draft resolution on syria at the u.n. security council saying the text doesn't rule out foreign military intervention they condemn the draft as biased and on helpful to the crisis in syria moscow and beijing want a different resolution that will push opposing sides of the conflict towards dialogue. flights are canceled in and out of the country transport is disrupted and schools closed as greece braces itself for a nationwide twenty four hour strike that's in response to the government's the latest hysteria measures as eurozone chiefs pushed back the next round of bailout payments. collective anger sweeps coast to coast across america as a movement of end to corporate protesters grows by this.