and stocks are continuing their losing streak more and that's in business in twenty minutes. and is are now just passing five pm in moscow this is artsy welcome to the program police have fired tear gas at protesters gathered just outside the greek parliament building in athens the country has ground to a hold with workers walking out of jobs in a twenty four hour public sector strike they're furious at the government's policy of cuts all flights in and out of greek airports grounded while hospitals are relying on emergency staff. reports from the greek capital. the contrast just one hour ago and i was speaking today and then we had thousands of people just outside the parliament building you can see now lots of those people have been cleared we were just down on the streets of the front here i'll see if i can show you some of the marks left by the take us that was yes we really that was how quickly the

situation escalated very very quickly indeed we saw pockets of the protesters clashing with the riot police he moved into the center syntagma square now you can still see there are pockets of them around and about people at the moment again a little bit unsure of what to do we've got to gas in the air that horrible sort of stinging gas that has filled the air from where they set days off and you can still see them lining the streets outside the parliament building and still the pockets of the protesters here just on the streets and they've been pushed further back of syntagma after we saw those clashes right now they came today to protest against the austerity measures and we've seen these protests get violent before and unfortunately that's exactly what's happened here again today thousands and thousands of people clearing the streets very very quickly because as we said they have been here before they know exactly how quickly these things escalate we've already seen a couple of people who are needing medical attention we've got some of the ambulances just down tools the back of the parliament building as well we did see

some people on the ground receiving medical attention so really very disappointing and a very concerning for everyone involved here the main workers unions leading the strike against such as you can actually hear at the moment on the streets there's still pockets of people shouting sort of a lot of standoff with these riot police here you can feel the tensions in some of these areas happening so very concerning indeed and to what the mine workers unions would have wanted to see but unfortunately once again showing the level of discontent here in greece really the main focus here has been on trying to find a realistic approach to dealing with this crisis and people his that is that they see in these tax hikes they see their salaries cut they had a job losses in. these are the people who are being taxed and this is the money that's the place to plug the deficit and what analysts have been telling me is really how on earth can the leaders can the greek government expect to plug that deficit with money that simply isn't there and as we said you can see the level of

discontent on the street breaking out in these violent clashes that we've seen again with the riot place it's really very sad indeed they come outside the parliament building you can see very clearly feel so the widening gap here in the country between the government on the one hand and the people who simply cannot live with these measures they really one of the major challenges is going to be how if you can even regained the public support at this time because you're simply not we've been told by many people are going to be able to reestablish growth and to repeat the economy without the public support if greece pulls what everyone's been talking about all the eyelets is that they're concerned about is this domino effect and you know as we said before this is where the economic crisis really plays out this is what ends up with these people on the street with the years simply untenable measures they said that they can live with and that's the result really of these violent clashes breaking out the level of discontent extremely high and really people looking for a solution very soon because it's

a very very serious situation that they're in right now. you with are now russia and china have vetoed a u.n. security council resolution on syria the european backdraft called on damascus to end its crackdown on protestors or face quote targeted measures but moscow and beijing say they are concerned it could pave the way to a libya style military intervention. reports 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 in this draft resolution which 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's 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 you put in your p.c. what you broke with the 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 crisis based on a common serious national. brazil india south africa and lebannon abstained from voting on the resolution but it was the united states that voiced extreme disappointment that the security council did not alter 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. vetoed by russia and china follows three months of heated debate in new york where the disagreement has split the security council but moscow is convinced its action is justified. experience 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 nine hundred eighty four that is fewer than the u.k. and that's way less than the united states and the fact that most school has used this last resort shows that it's trying to prevent a similar scenario and yet another arab state to what happened in libya back in march that resolution on libya was possed russia abstained from the vote but the u.n. mandate was quickly picked up by nato which sided with and to gadhafi forces in libya

helping them to topple the colonel and russia insists that in case of libya this u.n. mandate was misused and now it has vote not to let that happen again actually russia is the only woman and member of the un security council which isn't actually trying to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the crisis in syria it has produced a representative cell for the president bashar al assad and members of the opposition trying to knock them into adulthood and russian lawmakers also want to another fact finding mission to syria which has concluded that the moscow's he's in fact trying to implement the democratic reforms which it promised but it needs more time to bring them into of course the u.s. and its western allies have already imposed a set of sanctions aimed against regime of president assad and they have called him to step down all russia stands at the point that any one sided approach could only

make matters worse and it could be sending a biased signal all strong support for the opposition to keep fighting which could only fuel attention. in that country. let's get some more details now on the situation in syria i'm joined by professor mark almond from bilking university and talking to us live from ankara thank you for joining us today the western powers have criticized russia and china for a veto in this un resolution on syria why do you think moscow and beijing have joined forces to have. been very upset by the use of the resolution and they see that this is being used as a way to enable. countries . this is just a serious what are supposed to be a. b.

c. . humanitarian intervention. you might want to. thank you. many that are saying there are geo political implications when it comes to a resolution against syria some are suggesting it's got nothing to do with any wealth in syria it's more more about regime change to fortify israel's position in the area how do you read into that who just recently israel. would know people to syria it's very interesting. to the syrians. who is it who should is syria. and syria axis.

if you change the regime in syria. and israel see it from going to shift. in the middle east. because there are more isolated one of the economies the constitution most often commented on is one of state this is required for us the truth is in iraq it was stacy's. on or off but ironically saddam hussein was going through the silly. now in baghdad he sure didn't pull. us from to do so desir and ironically the people who are as toss of the bush of us as we she was in our world or solely from ventless see him as a crypto shiite so there's a litigious religious war who are between shiites or worse one side and sunnis we have the. loose the cheers strategic a between her states it's not. competing

with food it's not in any of the syria little sliver of iraq so there's a huge christmas tree caused by now there are some that are drawing parallels between where in some way or another between iraq and syria and what about the question of libya if indeed there was a regime change in syria could we see what's happening in libya right now because many months long conflict and it still continues so i think we see the full simple idea that many people in your. path if you bring on the toughest muti courses or too little bits of health mates who go on the regime will graps the new voices are going to push it will we see how many muscle there are actually thousands of people fighting for their feet. he has some support without the nato bombing undoubtedly it seems to be the settled national transitional council. so

instead of a revolution against hate to we have a civil war between tribal groups groups and in syria it's a much more dangerous situation has nothing to do we have. divisions of loans trouble. with religious tradition and the threat of force for some the who over religious war is a huge danger. is christian doing a very good want all his insurance people seem to try to. screw over the other one intrusion in syria must say there's a to say it's one or two which is seen by some news in saudi arabia. but if i if i may i do apologize for interrupting but if my memory is very long time here just want to sideline question here now the u.k. for heritage all has agreed a deal to explore africa's largest petroleum reserves in libya the same company that's been drafting oil in iraq how can we read into that do you think indeed if

we look at some of the directors of this girl who sees instances for the journal of the british throne with special responsibilities for the middle east we do see that in the liquid we all do it all to us and if you work democratization because unfortunately very well the british americans being brought in america is a go do we think government should do that if it's supported by the people's will that's all good. from bill can university in ankara many thanks indeed. wargames are causing concern in other regions of the world as well still ahead for you here on our t.v. this hour espionage under fire russia's air defense secrets are safe for another day after an alleged spy digging up details on the anti air weapons systems. and a top military commander says the u.s. troops will endure an extended stay in afghanistan as their mission calls for a prolonged approach. now a quarter past the hour here in moscow in the united states the occupy wall street

movement is gaining support on a daily basis labor unions have now joined the chorus of disapproval all the way from los angeles to the district of columbia thousands upset with the state of the economy in the government's inability to turn things around protesting for a third week monica linda reports they are determined to be heard. we don't want that not anticipating more pain where it's not very much more aggression and i think people are taking this to read 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 controlled 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 scenario 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. i have. just

by 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 high to orlando according to the occupy together web site protests are being organize. in more than one hundred cities points that you place standing behind are worth a revelation i believe their time is that but i think that not i think the world is recognizing that doesn't work despite mainstream media down plain and even really killing 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 see humanity community's got to do thinks about them something is wrong already bruised by soaring unemployment poverty and foreclosures the middle class are now being told

to tighten their belts leading many americans to finally find their voices across at the beginning bigger it looks like the spreading throughout the country and you know they had a arab spring and you know hopefully we have with us in los angeles ramon lindo r t . y twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow russia is a federal security service has revealed it has been holding a suspected chinese spy and the man identified as a young faces charges of attempted espionage on trying to obtain information on russia's weapons you've got a press going off on us authorities say that this is a chinese man who worked here in russia as a translator for official chinese delegations and now he's accused of trying to bribe his way into getting access to secret technical documentation on the past three hundred air defense systems these federal security service says no past is

a case over to a mosque or poured actually it's reported that he was arrested just around a year ago but it's not only now that the case has been passed over to report that this story got into the media out the moment there's been no official reaction either from the chinese authorities or from the foreign ministry here in moscow but it's interesting that russia used to explore that. three hundred air defense systems to china. sort of to produce them all and so while their production here in russia has been recently suspended with the more modern and their device four hundred and five hundred air defense systems seeking ways. to go to prison for their reporting on the arrest of a suspected chinese spy here in russia you can always find more on the stories that i call my hero some of the other ones on line for you right now russia introduces a chemical castration for pedophiles to counter the increasing number of sex crimes

against underage victims i read the whole story dot com. also on line apple is no longer a favorite flavor of the new i phone four s. has unveiled in company shares suddenly dropped by more than four and a quarter percent that was inside thirty minutes. we'll get to the business in a few minutes here on r.t. but for now at ten years four hundred billion dollars and thousands of lost lives america's war in afghanistan seems to be no where near an end and the top u.s. commander has now admitted that american troops will stay there much longer than expected ninety thousand soldiers currently deployed in the country are set to start withdrawing by two thousand and fourteen general john allen said the exact number of troops to remain is yet to be discussed with the afghan authorities but their role will be a strictly advisory one however van dijk who has written extensively about afghanistan says the u.s. has a wide a goal and it's not likely to leave anytime soon. there are many reasons why the

united states and its allies but particular united states will stay in ghana stay in the first of all is that the war is getting worse or more i e.d.'s according to the un that is to say mines have gone off in the last few minutes that only four more u.s. soldiers and marines are dying there more casualties civilian and military than any time in the ten years since for a. 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 in the in the west perhaps to watch. 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 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 up to understand the satellite it's a very complicated very dangerous area and i do think that u.s. forces will be there for a very long time now as i promised for the business with. welcome to the program the russian markets all struggling to make any gains on wednesday that despite strong crude prices and growth in europe russia has taken a big hit during the latest market turmoil as investors pull their cash out of risky locations but analysts say if a double dip recession is avoided emerging markets will outperform 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 that's one thing for now investors are simply wrapped up on the concern that we could get a catastrophe if we can avoid ticketmaster if we now looks more likely then i think once we settle down we will see more money coming back to emerging markets faster to developed markets. latest market twists have many investors scratching their heads over where to put their money justin and steve from maryland suggest infrastructure projects still offer the prospect of some stability when you look at a lot of infrastructure projects the attraction of them is they may be emerging markets but ultimately they are the gateway to global trade whether it's passenger traffic all freight traffic and i think a lot of investors see that as a little chilly on the vultures of these projects so when we've privatized all companies they tend to be gateways to global trade and therefore best to say i'm

investing in domestic infrastructure but i'm also investing in the globalization and the opening of that market to new investors new companies overseas so it's an interesting way to play an emerging market but also to to do risk it by investing in a company that providing infrastructure to support both import and export trade. the russian currency has lost more than thirteen percent against the dollar since the beginning of september now over the economic ministry says there are fundamental reasons why it's likely to strengthen towards the end of the year forecasts will recover to thirteen rubles to the greenback one factor undermining the currency is the high rate of capital outflow standing at fifty billion dollars for the first nine months the sum already exceeds official predictions for the whole year who brings us nicely to the markets or oil is in the black for the first day and for after a pause but the u.s. gasoline stockpiles dropped five million barrels last week futures rose almost four percent of the pulling eight percent in the past three days brant blend is one half

dollars light sweet is a seventy seven dollars forty four cents per barrel this hour in europe markets the stock markets also bouncing high as the verses are waiting on the labor market services sector banking stocks are some of the main advances for the late rally on wall street and as u.s. futures are turning positive at the moment among major leaders shares in the bank up five point eight percent in frankfurt b. and p. partly bars up six point six in paris. moscow stock markets down over this hour flat the negative of the seeing both for games and harsh losses during the day so go to some of the individual share movers on the my sex energy majors our mix this hour gazprom still down one point three percent up point six percent thank you stocks are still on precious burbank down one percent despite global bounce back and banks. russian equities continue to share their value with

negative sentiment reigning this week the beginning of it all for capital believes investors should hold out for a further correction before buying. unfortunately what we have seen is that investor focus was completely on the european debt problem we didn't see any support to the market from positive macro data except for short term support and as far as russia are concerned it's definitely a son who chart flows and the rule of push on the market we do not feel it's it's a good idea to turn to the market i don't deal with see the market bottom and not so it is better to wait for some consolidation probably to miss some portion of profits on the way back down to. buy now and get some other towns of fifteen percent loss however again we all have to look at it at the european authorities have a solution of this problem because this is the major driver for you for global markets

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right now five thirty pm here in. the headlines now. the nation is brought to a. nationwide strike. in protest. russia and china u.n. resolution against syria which. moscow says the targeting of damascus is confrontation. thousands across the u.s. avoid. a time of soaring unemployment labor unions have now joined the chorus of disapproval. coming up next our special report from. reaching.