syrian president the biggest rally in the capital for months but shot a lawsuit is still struggling to quell a nationwide uprising despite promises of reforms but his supporters say the government needs more time to push through change or still he has more from the center of damascus. voices of support yes and continuing dissent some and in 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 fear and kaffir with our lives have gathered show their support for the government that is kind of a far cry from the images we've been seeing in other cities and a country where there have been reporting watch a significant force of it out of a government protests an issue however what they get there are about where in this country political discourse and sometimes was accepted that was the very basic unit of the night they were all out her husband and young children one of many families

who braved the heat and joined 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 obviously but. ever since most people started revealing their political stance openly some people would mock me and say since when do you know about politics what do you know there are divisions among family members some are pro assad some are anti but that's how it is. it appears that apathy is becoming less of an option for citizens of a 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 books we watch the news media articles and always we want to know what i

don't think and then you have the right background and other issues about your country you got to get them or if there are those like the new i 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 imported me to 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 but i'm going to jail that hitting dead and no one would even know about it that his 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'd feel like a coward if i didn't risk my 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 everybody wants to.

keep that in the picture. while 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. damascus. to the 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 park now explains despised report of police brutality and hundreds of arrests their 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 seem 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 for balance and equality for all for all americans because that's at the core 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 hanging up any signs 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 were walking through the streets door men standing outside of the buildings were cheering them on when they got to the hole jamie diamond there was a police barricade there but they continued to demonstrate and the reason they were demonstrating and and going door to door to get to the wealthiest new yorkers holmes is because at the end of this year two percent millionaire tax 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 they're paying if they're going to be paying that mandatory tox 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 always reaping the benefits and the rewards and the common american always you know suffering the consequences . are now reporting 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're unhappy with washington and as our 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 exposed in the election system and it's in the ongoing lobbying and service 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 loss 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 government over the one percent for the one percent by the one percent perpetuates itself passes rules that allows the banks to get deregulated it restricts our democracy three years after washington gave almost a trillion dollars of taxpayers' money to bail out corporate giants unemployment in the country is over nine percent the national debt is well past the tipping point

and the congress is looking to cut essential social programs i am thousands of americans took to the streets to ask where is their bailout how can i live in a country that arrests a hundred nine mile and the people there doesn't arrest a single one of these bankers for the people what caused this who are just models not mine 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 do the 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 mona

number of occasions one of the most recent scandals involves a solar energy company celebrity 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 money trying to value elections has been 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 r t hopes of a green future face stark reality in germany in which there are no both raises fears there won't be enough sanity to go around and electricity prices could rocket . and cosmic catering 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 task one of the suspect is still at large the u.s. has already imposed sanctions on the iranian airline that flew members of an elite

force linked to the plot tehran has ridiculed the allegations saying the charges are fabricated to deflect public attention from problems in the u.s. ivan eland tells the independent institute told r.t. it wouldn't be in iran is interest to plan and assess a nation like 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 in this sounds like you know something out of bad 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 think if the iranians really did this it was really a bungled. bungled mess and also a bad thing to do because it could invite the u.s. retaliation and 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 what who is behind this and what what actually was going on. of war news around the world log on to our website r t dot com and here is what you know waiting there right now iron lady turned down a bar the jailing of ukraine's former prime minister has sparked outrage on the streets of kiev apps wad of criticism from russia the u.s. and. sophia the great russians they were found source of the.

ground the bass saber in the world after finding her way of gold at the world championships in italy. european banks should increase their reserves to withstand market turmoil that's the new crisis plan put forward by the hand of the european commission the move is designed to force banks set aside more assets to save the system probably collapse she. also wants no dividends or bonuses paid until they've done it archy's contributor dimension casino says the regulations freeze whole 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 other american basswood derivatives market there may not necessarily be direct exposure but the

whole idea of counterparty risk is you may have a deal with one bank of 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 again in 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. . different time of the articles of confederation nine hundred thirteen you had different place 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 a decentralization. germany is 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 but it's now all positive an eco friendly future well be one of blackouts disappearing in history and huge electricity costs are at least on bart

reports. germany has long had a strong green antinuclear movement but it was one accident that finally turned the tide against nuclear power there by twenty twenty two we will 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 be the germans but a closer look at the russia out of nuclear reveals there's more hope riding on its renewable replacements the natural readiness that planned eighty percent will take

forty years at least and with nuclear electricity disappearing in germany in eleven years that will leave a decades long energy gap. that's the view of energy expert claudia canford who sees only one way to bridge the energy gap and it's not green we have new. fire power plants here in order not to have such kind of blackout germans have long been world leaders in their enthusiasm for a new about energy and their disdain for nuclear power now they've taken the leap of faith but it's far from where technologies like this will be able to take over or whether in fact germany will have to resort back to the fossil fuel age 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 pretty high compared to our competitors in europe now if they go for the rock then we think we'll lose competitive noise that could lead to major industries relocating production out of germany but perhaps the greatest problem facing renewable efforts comes from the same public the back to nuclear shutdown in the first place it's easy to say you want renewables but already massive opposition is emerging to the massive power grid lines and infrastructure that will have to be built all over the country hapless acceptance i think it's a more concern as the greatest danger not the economics not to policy is support for the public acceptance all of which could leave germany very far from its green

dreams of a renewable energy system tom barton r.t. . i think all of that and other stories from around the world and there are unconfirmed reports from may be either one of one. the sun's has been captured in some officials from the national transitional council say motive. is being held by fighters laying siege to the city and there's no official proof to confirm the claims yet but does seem was a senior army officer as well as national security advisor and his capture would be seen as a major victory for the and you see. a shooting rampage at a hay or so long in a small city near los angeles has left eight people dead and nine victim is in a critical condition police caught 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 reports the gunman was targeting his ex-wife. is its ruling military

council has blamed christian religious leaders for sunday's violence which left twenty six dead general otto amar said the minority of protesters were peaceful but an armed crowd joined the group and began attacking soldiers officials and troops opened fire with live ammunition or ran over them with armored vehicles insisting drivers were state of panic trying to stay. for the adventurous spanish adventurers rather spending long and lonely months in orbit mealtimes on the international space station are at highlight but eating in zero gravity is a challenge both for the diners and the high tech chefs have to plan many on earth so artsy sandpit all over along for a tasting. after traveling at phenomenal speed for two days cramped in the small space of a soyuz 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 eating than on earth 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 life saving computer equipment the russian space agency designed this special table it is a threat to the others you know there are two heating compartments here and so this area in between is a trap for crumbs 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 per mission and at those prices it's no wonder that the people behind cosmic catering a proud of their product. as the chief designer of space food twenty three years of experience in the space food industry i can proudly say that russia's space food provides healthiest city first the most nutrition rich diet for a cause an. even the most simple food requires special care and attention this tree in moscow produces space spirit and the work which goes into making it ready for all but it is almost as high tech as the i assess itself. there is no mold in this bread you know mold spores we've developed the recipe which stops mold growth the bread doesn't go bad for fifteen months thanks to 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 types of bread gingerbread white bread that's what i have here on the table now right bread with caraway bread moscow style and didn't read those currently around one hundred sixty options for cosmonauts on board 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 the bread. taste pretty good. after a hard day's work on board the i assess it's nice to see that some of humanity's finest minds still have time to play with their food. ok i've got a yellow one for you good bright you ready ready good yummy here a couple is make you three keep on coming. these are all of the.

fun stuff well that brings us up to date for more there is our website article. let's see now what's happening and the world of business. problems a very warm welcome time for your business update despite the rubles for a look coast to last month's russian lenders have seen no hike in the conversion of rival 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 per barrel given the fact that we're seeing signs. that are stabilization in the global economy i think there is scope for the. gave the lost ground in the remainder of the year.

also we see that the policy of the central bank is more active and supporting the war so this is why i believe that there will bill is more likely to appreciate from the current level than we can. in the remainder of this year. europe some bishan to cut dependence on russia not chill gas is forcing it to look for alternative energy experts say that europe is sitting on eighteen trillion cubic meters of shale gas if developed it would reduce europe's reliance 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 our pieces so far. on should not forget that in the united states you have kind of basis of the industry which. hundreds and even thousands of trading rakes invest in europe you may have maybe fifty at my promotion for the time being and to build up an industry was a hundred and more trading rick 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 out there for the next ten years the shale gas revolution will only be a relative slow evolution in europe. let's have a look at the markets now oil is trading in the red after american petroleum institute reported that two as gasoline demand fell the most in more than five years in china exports climbed the last since february last month as imports slowed my switches drop another hoffer dollar while brant is craving at one hundred and eleven dollars per barrel. on the asian markets a climbing tracking of beach performance in the u.s. and europe and one on wednesday risk appetite is improving and the top stop the eurozone is close to a solution to it soaring debt crisis while exports farms the best performance in choko trading as you can see. jumped almost six percent and shoppers edging three

point seven percent stalks also in the black with anger and still climbing almost seventeen percent in hong kong. was 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 by weakening for signs of the eurozone debt crisis resolution has won a strong six finished two and a half percent in the black while the r.t.s. was even higher almost four percent on the rise of western from the top capital expects yes there is gradually to continue. commodity prices have been firming. so again and it looks like this relief rally can continue and we should probably expect 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 yesterday we saw men do sellers actually on our floor although we know that someone was buying. but it doesn't look like we have

a strong conviction for for the russian market us and yet. so we have time for know europe's a date for all stories and analysis local toll web site r t dot com slash business . the for.

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. we're back here with r.t. here's a look at the top stories the syrian capital hosts a massive show of support for president with calls for him to be given more time to make the promise of reform areality. and some believe that germany's move from nuclear power to renewable energy could see millions grow jobless and left in the dark. and angry and their corporate activists knock on the doors of some of america's richest as a wave of demonstrations critical of the government's loyalty to big business sweeps nationwide washington's approval ratings taking their heads with the public demanding accountability over the poor bird lobbyists influence. so was the occupy wall street movement growing all the time.