the syrian council hosts a massive show of force of president asad with calls for him to be given more time to make a promise to perform a reality. angry and say corporate activists knock on the doors of some of america's richest of the ways of demonstrations critical of washington's loyalty to big business sweeps nationwide. and how some believe that germany's move from nuclear power to renewable energy could see millions grow jobless laughed in the dark.

am in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina josh and welcome to the program tens of thousands have come out in support of the embattled syrian president the biggest rally in the capital for months but sharia law set is still struggling to quell a nationwide uprising despite promises of reforms but he supporters say the government needs more time to push through change he says or still he has more from the center of damascus. but voices of support. and continuing dissent some fans of the deadly clashes polar opposites in their demands but in some way united by the newfound zeal to take a stand for here the fact that the spirit comfort was gathered in their support for the government that is coming up are part of the images we've been seeing in other cities around the country where there have been reporting was with me because most of it i don't see a government professional approach what they get are about where in this country

political discourse is outside the time that was the very way for everybody the. her husband and young children one of many families who braved the heat and joy the crowds in downtown damascus for god it's true that we knew nothing about politics before but now we take a stand even if i'm a sunni muslim i'm pro this president but. ever since most people started revealing their political stance openly some people with mock me and say since when do you know about politics what do you know very divisions among family members some are pro aside some are anti but that's how it is. it appears that apathy is becoming less of an option for citizens of this nation now under intense international scrutiny i never watched news i never cared you know i never never had any interest in politics but. i think most of us read it

books we watch the news media articles and on facebook we want to know what i'm looking for and then to have the right back around the issues about your thinking you can think of them or if there are those like you who are missing who are no strangers to picking a side and making it known he's long been voicing his discontent of what he calls a repressive regime and today faced. as one of his main tools in coordinating dissent coalition activism has evolved in syria for me i feel that my voice goes further down back then it started with stating an opinion that i'm going to jail it here to get there and no one would even know about it that has changed now that people are more politically aware hussein has been thrown in jail says he was tortured and finds himself constantly looking over his shoulder. i was detained for spreading the word on the violent crackdown in daraa but i feel like

a coward if i didn't risk by life while those on the streets are doing so asking for the regime to fall a call staunchly opposed by those on the other side yet. we keep the. one political curiosity and activism among syrians are growing whatever side of the divide they're on people here see the future of their country is at stake but all are adamant that future is firmly in their own hands. r.t. as massless. tell us now where scores of people have been arrested following the latest wave of public protests against excessive corporate influence in the country mass demonstrations have spread to several cities a month after the so-called occupy wall street movement first flared up in the big apple but as r.t. has more in a fortnight explains despised report of police brutality and hundreds of arrests

that rallies have remained peaceful. a few hours ago i just came back from being down on wall street in the in the park where activists have been camping out in sleeping and demonstrating for weeks now and they see him as committed to this movement as they ever have been before if anything i think the arrests have inspired them to to fight harder and stronger for their for democracy what they say for democracy for fair treatment for balance and equality for all americans because that's more of what their movement is about is among those principles that i just mentioned we did see many police officers every once in a while walk through the park where there were hundreds of demonstrators have been sleeping and they would walk through and anything down on trees that were not any signs of anything there and some of the demonstrators saw that they interpreted it

as possibly the police trying to provoke but these demonstrators are very committed to not acting violently they want to demonstrate as peacefully as possible members of occupy wall street walked through manhattan particularly down park avenue and they went door to door to the homes of the five wealthiest new york city residents and that includes the c.e.o. of news corp rupert murdoch and also the c.e.o. of j.p. morgan chase diamond and these protesters who are walking through the streets and standing outside of the buildings were cheering them on when they got to the whole jamie diamond there was a police barricade out there but they continued to demonstrate and the reason they were demonstrating it and going door to door to the to the wealthiest new yorkers holds is because at the end of this year two percent millionaire. will expire

meaning that two percent that was required for millionaires to pay. they won't have to pay anymore complain and twelve and a lot of these new yorkers say that this is an indication of how the wealthiest americans reap the largest rewards and if their pay if they're going to be paying that mandatory cuts a lot less revenue is going to be coming to new york city and new york state and the ninety nine percent with the majority of those living here are going to suffer and they say that's just an indication of the richest overlies reaping the benefits in the rewards and common american always you know suffering the consequences. of ordinary poor in their public distrust towards the u.s. government is also growing according to the latest polls more than two thirds of americans now say they are unhappy with washington and as you can reports the white house and congress are heavily influenced by equally unpopular powerful corporations. investing in politics has proved to be good business in america

just a few million dollars in contributions and some lobbying can bring it company billions in bailout loan guarantees tax refunds and other stimulus all of the expense of the every american taxpayer both in the election system and it's in the ongoing lobbying in and sort of influence industry these are powerful powerful businesses their whole business model is around using influence to break the rules of the game in their favor so far u.s. corporations have been successful in ensuring that the laws introduced to regulate wall street after the financial meltdown of two thousand and eight don't function those measures were effectively scuppered by u.s. lawmakers the corporations were also successful in keeping their tax cuts intact and finding loopholes for getting billions of dollars in refunds the us government over one percent for the one percent by the one percent perpetuates itself passes rules that allows the brains to get the regulator it restricts our democracy three

years after washington gave almost a trillion dollars of taxpayers' money to bail out corporate giants unemployment in the countries over nine percent the national debt is well past the tipping point and the congress is looking to cut essential social programs her thousands of americans took to the streets to ask where is their bailout. country there were some hundred nonviolent people and doesn't rescue a single one of these bankers or the people which caused this who are just models not live in the meantime goldman sachs one of the main architects of the current crisis is richer than ever it is a now seventeen billion dollars in bonuses alone for its staff when asked about the impunity enjoyed by the corporations president obama said a lot of that stuff wasn't necessarily illegal it was just. immoral and many agree it pretty much stays that way but not only google lawmakers come

under fire for accepting generous contributions from corporations and then acting to return the favor but the president himself was accused of bias and prone is known in number of occasions one of the most recent scandals involves the solar energy companies lingering which went bankrupt and cost taxpayers almost six hundred million dollars that's the amount that the government approved in loan guarantees despite receiving persistent warnings about the company's financial stability the deal was pushed through by a foundation which in turn was a major donor to president obama's election campaign since last year corporations have been allowed to funnel as much money as they want into political campaigns now they don't even have to disclose the amounts they spend their time trying to value elections is very serious the new law effectively gives the corporations even more influence in washington leaving many americans in fear that their voice might no longer count what drew all these people onto the streets of washington and other

cities in the us is the understanding that their government and their legislators represent the interests of the top one percent as they call them the very wealthy corporations that can afford influence in washington to skew the system in their favor. going to check on our team washington d.c. . and coming your way this hour here in our t. hopes of a green future face stark reality in germany for which there were no adults raises fears there won't be enough sanity to go around and electricity prices could rocket . and cosmic catering we invite you for a tasting to check out what's being served up in space. america is threatening iran with sanctions after alleging it was behind applied to kill the saudi ambassador to the u.s. vice president joe biden says no option is off the table charges. have been filed against iranians over claims they tried to hire members of

a mexican drug cartel to carry obvious tack on a suspect is still at large the u.s. has already imposed sanctions on the rain an airline that flew members of an elite force linked to the plot iran has really killed the allegations saying the charges are fabricated to deflect public attention from problems in the u.s. i have any on the independent institute told r.t. it wouldn't be in iran's interest to plan and assess a nationwide this. but there has to be some doubt i think just because there are so wild and they don't really fit the pattern of the codes force the the iranians have been fairly cagey about operating various places in the world and this sounds like you know something out of their movie or something i mean it's just crazy there are limited responses that the u.s. can have of course the u.s. can also use covert operations to do sinister things to the iranian regime and of course the u.s. has many more resources to do that than the iranians do that's why this whole thing doesn't seem to add up that the iranians would actually be foolish enough to do

something like this i think it gives the hawks in the united states some sort of excuse for ratcheting up the pressure maybe even including military action and certainly you have a weakened president who is who might benefit from a foreign crisis and we've seen that happen before in u.s. history so i don't i don't think the iranians really did this it was really a bungled. thing. and also bad thing to do because it could invite the u.s. retaliation it gives them an excuse to do so and i think this type of rhetoric is not good even under these circumstances i think we've got to get to the bottom of this and see what really happened and see you know what who is behind this and what what actually was going on. but more news around the world log on to our website our team dot com and here is what's waiting there right now iron lady turned joe barton the jailing of ukraine's former prime minister has sparked outrage on the

streets of kiev now for out of criticism from russia the u.s. and the e.u. . sophie of the russians they were fans or so of the ability is around the best saber in the world after finding her way to gold at a world championship in italy. european banks should increase their reserves to withstand market turmoil that's the new crisis plan put forward by the had of the european commission the move is designed to force banks set aside more assets to save the system probably collapse zamboni alvarado also wants no dividends or bonuses paid until they've done it he's contributor to metric of the regulations for its own system. if

they collapse would happen immediately there's the banking crisis for example there's counter party risk but european banks have with other american vested there it is a market there may not necessarily be direct exposure but the whole idea of counterparty risk is you may have a deal with one bank and they have a deal with another bank and that bank is exposed another bank and there's a contagion effect so that could cause a collapse in the banking system or some sort of a freeze or getting capital markets like we saw in two thousand and eight and that could result in the similar sorts of contractions in g.d.p. and things like that that we saw back with the original financial crisis but in terms of philosophically i think the debate that's going on in europe is a debate that happened in some ways in the u.s. . to the articles of confederation i think thirteen you had different areas like that and it's really during periods of crisis do we want to advocate for a solution of more control more centralization or do we want to create the centralization germany's taking the lead in europe's hands to go green promises to give up nuclear power by twenty twenty two filling the gap with renewable sources

by it's not all positive and eco friendly future well the wind of blackouts disappearing in history and huge electricity costs are reports. germany has long had a strong green new clear movement but it was one accident that finally turned the time right against nuclear power there. by twenty twenty two and the use of nuclear energy in germany so what now the green movement and its hopes for renewable energy have been given a huge boost renewables mostly wind turbines and photovoltaics better known as solar panels currently supply eighteen percent of germany's electricity indeed germany has big plans for green energy i mean to go from eighteen to eighty percent renewables after the nuclear switch off some say it's crazy to do it this way but

others say second option is to say when somebody can make it happen it will his appearance but a closer look at the rush out of nuclear reveals there's more hope riding on its renewable replacements the natural readiness that planned eighty percent would take forty years at least and with nuclear electricity disappearing in germany in eleven years that will leave a decades long energy gap and that's the view of energy expert claudia can virt who sees only one way to bridge the energy gap and it's not green we have new coal and there's fire power plants here and order not to have those kind of germans have long been world leaders in their enthusiasm for a new world energy and their disdain for nuclear power now they've taken the leap of faith but it's far from certain when technologies like this will be able to take over or whether in fact germany will have to resort back to the fossil fuel wage

ironic seeing as the nuclear switch off was pushed by an anti emissions green lobby and it gets worse as any replacement power green or not will require billions of dollars of construction expense pushing up the cost of electricity that's not good in a country like germany with such a large industrial base energy and electricity prices in germany are. competitors in europe know if they go for the rope then we think. competitiveness that could lead to major industries relocating production out of germany but perhaps the greatest problem facing new fruits comes from the same public back to nuclear shutdown in the first place it's easy to say you want renewables but already massive opposition is emerging from the massive power grid lines and infrastructure that will have to be built all over the country public acceptance i think it's

a more concern it's the greatest danger not comics not to a policy you support. and stepan's all of which could lead germany very far from its green dreams of a renewable energy system. something will get a lot of stories from around the world and there are unconfirmed reports from radio one of the science has been captured in syria some officials from the national transitional council same order thing could operate is being held by fire is laying siege to the city and there is no official proof to confirm the claims yet but it seemed was a senior army officer as well as national security adviser and his capture will be seen as a major victory for the employee see. a shooting rampage where heyer so long as a small city near los angeles is a weapon eight people dead and nine victim is in a critical condition police car the suspect as he was trying to flee the scene

finding several weapons on him the motive of the shooting remains unclear but there are records but gunman was targeting his ex-wife. if its ruling military council has blamed christian religious leaders for sunday's violence which left twenty six dead general otto maher said a minority of protesters were peaceful but an armed crowd joined the group and began attacking soldiers officials denied troops opened fire with live ammunition or ran over an hour with armored vehicles insisting drivers were speaking halleck trying to stay. for the advantage here is spanish and banter is rather spending long and lonely months in orbit mealtimes on the international space station are a highlight area in zero gravity is a challenge both for the guiders and high tech chefs have to plan to many on earth so our teams and peer all over iran for tasting. after

traveling at phenomenal speed for two days cramped in the small space of a so used rocket cosmonauts arriving at the international space station going to be package but how do you eat in zero gravity. you have to be a bit more careful while eighteen. every different piece of food that gets out of your grip will float away and you won't be able to keep track of it. to make sure cosmonauts enjoy their lunch without worrying that a rogue morsel will disappear into the inner workings of some potentially lifesaving computer equipment the russian space agency designed the special table is absolutely delist you know there are two heating compartments here and this area in between is a truck was a crumb's it works like a regular vacuum cleaner and this is important because choking on a crumb is very risky in weightlessness it can have grave consequences. all the food eaten in space has to be specially prepared here on earth that preparation

doesn't come cheap cosmonauts need three thousand calories a day the same as an olympic sprinter and providing that cost over six hundred dollars a day with most missions lasting for six months each cosmonauts grocery bill comes in at a hefty one hundred ten thousand dollars a mission and at those prices it's no wonder that the people behind cosmic catering a proud of their product. as the chief designer. twenty three years of experience in the space food industry can probably simply that russia's most food provides the healthiest sleeve first most nutrition rich diet for a cause. even the most simple food requires special care and attention this tree in moscow produces space for it and the work which goes into making it ready for all of it is almost as high tech as the i assess itself. there is no mold in this

bread no mold spores we've developed the recipe which starts small growth the bread doesn't go bad for thirteen months thanks for the special recipe and technologies we use when baking it. even when it comes to something simple like bread there's still plenty of choice for your hungry cosmonaut. all in all we make five tanks and bradleys gingerbread white bread that's what i have here on the table now arrive bread with caraway bread moscow style and integrate those currently around one hundred sixty called ameri options for cosmonauts on the international space station including all of the taste from home from soups to main courses and desserts and even the basics from salt and pepper bread. pretty good. after a hard day's work on board the sits nice to see that some of humanity's finest minds still have time to play with their food the full. bright you

really ready. yummy. this make it three people coming. these are all of arty. stuff while they're bringing us up to date for more of their website arty dot com let's see now what's happening in the world of business. how long a very warm welcome time for your business update despite the rubles from the coast to last month russian lenders have seen no hike in the conversion of rebel deposits into foreign currency on the other hand lenders burbank managed to double new deposits to over two billion dollars. given the fact that oil prices are holding up very well above one hundred dollars a barrel given the fact that we're seeing signs of better

stabilization in the global economy i think. for the ruble. the lost ground and the remainder of the year also we see that the policy of the central bank is more active and supporting the so this is why believe that the real goal is more likely to appreciate from the current level than we can. in the winner of this year. europe some vision to cut dependence on russian natural gas is forcing it to look for alternative energy experts say that you're sitting on eighteen trillion cubic meters of shale gas if developed it would reduce europe's for alliance on imports it's worked in the us where almost a quarter of energy production comes from shale gas but that story isn't likely to be repeated so far. but one should not forget the united states you have kind of the basis of the industry with. hundreds and even thousands of trading rick

investment europe you may have maybe fifty at my most all the time being and to build up an industry with a hundred and more trading rich takes time so for the next ten years whatever as a result basis it will take time to build up the respective trading industry and all that ok for the next ten years the shale gas revolution will only be a relative slow it will usually in europe. let's have a look at the markets now oil is trading in the red after american petroleum institute reported that you as an engine mount felt the most to move in five years in china exports climbs the last since libre last month as imports slowed once was a strong enough profit all of my friends rating of one hundred and eleven dollars per barrel. on the markets are climbing trucking out big performances in the u.s. and europe and one on wednesday risk appetite is improving and hopes that the eurozone is close to just solution to its soaring debt crisis all exports firms the

best performers and djoko trading as you can see g g k jumped almost six percent and sharpest edging three point seven percent stalks also in the white with anger and still climbing almost seventeen percent in hong kong. closed just two hours ahead of the opening bell here in moscow the russian markets rallied to their strongest level in almost three weeks on wednesday the growth was ordered piled weakening for signs of the eurozone debt crisis resolution has become a stronger while the mises finished two and a half percent in the black while the r.t.s. was even higher almost four percent on the rise which a western from its own capital expects guess is rally to continue. commodity prices have been firming. so again looks like this relief rally can continue and we should probably expect that to be led by again by banks and materials as was the case yesterday. i would go say that in this market it doesn't take much to bring it back

down again because you know we yesterday we saw many sellers actually on our floor although we know that someone was buying. but it doesn't look like we have a strong conviction fall for the russian rocket us and yet. so we have time for now your update for stories and analysis look i'm told website r.t. dot com slash besides. i'm going.

in two thousand and ten a special economic zone for industrial production was established in russia somalia region with a total area of six hundred sixty six to as. its investors are granted exclusive access and customs benefits which includes a five year exemption from property lands and transport taxes as well as an income tax reduction to fifteen point five percent. the special economic zone operates as a free customs zone which enables manufacturers to market their products in russia free of encouraging things the same our region is he said is currently witnessing a surge in infrastructure construction.