syria gripped by dead north activists sound the alarm over new crackdowns despite lawless crowds in the capital of president assad global pressure on his role. in the us protesters determined to stamp out corporate greed to take their grievances to the doors of the wealthy as a huge big business of trying to buy elections. ukraine's former prime minister faces new charges two days after he got seven years behind bars for abusing power while signing contracts with moscow.

international using comment live from moscow this is. signs of discontent are still evident an unstable syria even off the thousands of regime supporters crowded the streets of the capital activists say fresh clashes between government troops and armed men in the north of the country left thirteen dead president assad promised to establish a special committee to draw up a new constitution while international pressure builds on him to step down. as the latest from the mask of. voices of support. and continuing dissent some and in deadly clashes polar opposites and their demands but in some way united by a newfound zeal to take a stand where nearly a year and a half of what was that gathered show their support for the government that is part of the image of being in other cities around the country where there have been

reported as if it's very fortunate that the government felt that the us however what they are about where in this country political discourse is outside itself to . them. yet everybody the. her husband and young children were one of many families who braved the heat and joy the crowds in downtown damascus. 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 proud this president. ever since most people started revealing their political stance openly some people would mock me and saying since when do you know about politics which is you know there are divisions among family members some are for less that some are answered 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 i never had any interest in politics but. i think most of us baby books watched news media articles and always run into them and then you have the right back around the issues about your country you can think of. if there are those like the new i who sing 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 facebook is one of his name tools in cordoning 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 it hitting it bad 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 and garra but i 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 or call staunchly opposed by those on. the other side of it was the feet. because. what medical care yeah city and activism among syrians are growing whatever side of the divide they're on people here see the future of their country is that state but all are adamant that future is firmly in their own hands. that's our silly party damascus. and we're also asking you hollow website harty dot com why president assad is still in power. is not well so far the majority of you believe that it's because china and russia have opposed outside military action against syria a little less than a quarter say that bashar al assad has more popularity and national support in

colonel gadhafi eighty percent of you think that the syrian opposition movement is clueless while the rest believe that assad's legitimacy felt his ruthless reputation as the result so far on screen good to hear from you because. they've been beaten pepper sprayed and arrested but the determination of the occupy wall street protesters is growing along with the numbers what started with a small group of activists camping outside the new york stock exchange in mid september quickly spread nationwide. is following the rallies in new york. and joins us now so it's been four weeks but it seems the process is showing little sign of calming down. that's right bill quite a little sign but you'd be surprised to hear that the occupy wall street protesters are taking part in our massive cleanup effort today on wall street all the demonstrators hundreds of them that have been camping out there and sleeping there

for weeks are pulling out their brooms their mops even toothbrushes to clean every square inch of zuccotti park a park that they've been camped out and even reason why the demonstrators are doing this is because new york city mayor michael bloomberg paid a visit to the park personally on wednesday evening walk through and told all the protesters that they would do temporarily leave the park on friday so that it could be cleaned up according to mayor bloomberg he says a lot of citizens living in down by wall street and nearby business owners have been complaining about this sanitary conditions of the park and the city would like to clean it up now the protesters believe that this is an effort city officials are making to remove them from the grounds that they have been camping out and as you mentioned for four weeks so they decided to take the initiative and clean the park

on their home beforehand so friday morning occupy wall street protesters say that they will form a human link arm in arm around the entire park to make sure that they're there their belongings are not removed from the park to make sure they are not removed from the park hundreds of them say that participate in this and if need be they said they are willing to get arrested to make sure that this city does not remove them from the grounds that they've been protesting been streaming in for four weeks so that's the response from the new york city that but what's been the reaction from washington and the corporations the activists are actually fighting against. well you know we have heard over the past few weeks last week we heard from u.s. president barack obama say that he understands the frustrations of the occupy wall street protesters and we have seen u.s. senators elected officials weigh in on this movement and of course it is

a movement that is raising awareness on friday against what they call corporate greed and corporate influence over u.s. politics and specifically the amount of money contribute to u.s. officials and the rewards that they reap from it now to give us a little bit more in depth about this story my colleague. in washington d.c. brings us the story. investing in politics has proved to be good business in america just a few million dollars in contributions and some lobbying can bring your company billions in bailout loan guarantees tax refunds another stimulus all of the expense of the everyday american taxpayer exposed in the election system and it's in the ongoing lobbying 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 of the one percent for the one percent by the one percent perpetuates itself that passes rules that allows the banks to get the regulator and restrict 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. thousands of americans took to the streets to ask where is their bailout how can i remember a country there were so hundred nonviolent people and doesn't arrest

a single one of these bankers or the people would cause this question just models not mine in the meantime goldman sachs one of the main architects of the current crisis is richer than ever it is now seventeen billion dollars in bonuses alone for its stance 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 only is known in number of occasions one of the most recent scandals involves a solar energy company selling brick 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 buy elections is very serious the new law is actively gives the corporations even more influence in washington leaving many americans in fear that their voice might no longer count or draw all these people onto the streets of washington and other cities in the u.s. 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 you know or influence in washington to skew the system in their favor. our team last. night here in moscow still ahead for you this digging deep the eurozone rescue fund gets the green light for more money but greece sees no noise

as the end of the a sturdy tunnel. system become the ultimate light snack check out what's being served up in space as a process of closing the catering that's coming up for you here on our team. but first a new criminal case is being launched against ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko she's been charged with tents from an energy corporation she headed to the ukrainian budget this comes just two days off the machine who was sentenced to seven years behind bars over her gas contracts with russia is our correspondent in kiev and actually got a ship skint. this story is very complicated and pretty dark because this case in fact refers to fifteen years ago when he was a was the head of the united energy systems of ukraine company she signed several contracts with the russian defense ministry and according to prosecutors in kiev she owes four hundred million u.s. dollars to the russian defense ministry and the essence of this new criminal case

is that she tried to put this debt on to the cranium but in this violates the ukrainian law this is of course a very interesting new twist in this saga with the trial of yulia tymoshenko two days ago she was sentenced to seven years in prison for abusing the power during the signing of contracts of gas deals with russia back in two thousand and nine this new case may only add fuel to the fire off a very tense and very furious axis of a furious reactions from all over the world we've heard reactions from the united states which condemns of the prison in the view that we heard reactions from the european union which said that a possible agreement on association between the european union and ukraine could be canceled and even an invitation for mystery on a coach to visit a meeting in brussels in a short future may also be cancelled we also heard very harsh reactions from moscow wish claim that all those gas deal signed in two thousand and nine were completely legitimate we've already heard very interesting statements from president bush who

said that in fact this particular law under which he would present could be a bullish in ukraine decriminalised by the korean parliament and thus. could be set free which also said that the criminal system in ukraine is outdated and it's to be reformed so these three four can in fact to set you free but according to many experts she will still be unable to run for president or run for parliament and will still have to repay almost two hundred million u.s. dollars in damages which she inflicted to the korean budget. expanded euro zone bailout fund has been given the final go ahead slovakia's parliament has approved the four hundred forty billion euro facility after tuesday's vote against it saw the country's ruling coalition collapse increased cash will go to struggling nations such as greece zaf inscribes to a halt in a forty eight hour strike against the government's austerity policies demonstrations last away flags during the latest in a series of run its own protests to hit the cash strapped country along with the

bailout fund e.u. leaders are seeking to prop up the banking sector the financial analysts are saying that more rescue cash is not the panacea. if you start promising anyone four hundred forty billion euros it will cheer them up for a while not expect that we'll see over the next few days or a certain amount of probably fairly short lived you for your oath at this but it doesn't address any of the fundamentals the f.s.f. itself is quite a flimsy mechanism you go to very mind that most of this money isn't cold hard cash it's promises to pay and the trouble promises to pay as you can make the promise but then when somebody actually expects the money to turn up you can see the promise evaporate very rapidly essentially since the start of twenty ten is that as long ago as it's been pretty clear to all and sundry apart from it turns out most of the leadership the greece's debt is unsustainable you're talking out country now that has one hundred eighty nine percent of its national income owed his debts there is for the sending fifteen percent of that national income on interest payments next year this is unsustainable greece at some point has to default the

real question here is whether when not to fall happens if we begin to break a very bad cycle that greece is now locked into a high debt and falling growth this is a crisis of regulation this is a failure to cleanse our most banks are due to failure to clamp down on the ways that they were trying to pass risk announce themselves the way they thought they could carry on simply printing credits and making loans to each other forevermore with no real consequences we're seeing the end of that process of thing and the banks themselves are very happy about it they don't want to suffer the losses from the gambles that they took some time ago and he defaults and i happen not saying greets that affects french and german banks not that they're not going to you k. based paints over here it's pretty much like dominoes rocking out across the continents changed me in the learn here not only were plenty more stories for you on our website hottie dot com is a taste of what's online right now the consequences of the so-called war on terror human rights groups call on the canadian government to arrest former u.s. president george w.

bush when he visits the country later this month. but one of saddam hussein's roles buttocks is going under the hammer. part of this famous statue of course from the front of what happened after it was torn del had said all to dot com was going to get to check out all our best videos on all of you tube channel. it's easy. to. see. the official altie allocation your i phone on called touch from the.

geology maek on the go. video on demand parties my old girls and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your home. on the dot com. all the world news in brief for you this world update at eighteen minutes past the hour french officials have dropped their inquiry into sexual assault claims against the former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn the prosecutor's office says though he had admitted to sexual advances towards writer tristan there isn't a sufficient evidence to support rape allegations and that of the c. of the french politician resigned as head of the international monetary fund after facing similar charges which were later dropped in the interim. troops claiming to be in control of most of gadhafi stronghold city is still facing pockets of heavy resistance from the cobbles loyalists libyan leaders of the night early reports

that one of gadhafi sons were tasm a senior army officer and security advisor has been captured in the besieged city meanwhile human rights group amnesty international has accused the country's interim leadership of torturing closeness of detainees and call for the abuse to stop. the u.s. and south korean leaders have pledged closer trade and security ties in washington d.c. to their two countries struck a long sought free trade deal president lee myung bak said visit comes as opposition continues in his home country against south korea's plans to build a naval base which many believe will be politically and environmentally harmful u.s. warships will be able to use the facility on the run and although the noise that is being built to strengthen america's presence in the region. for cosmonauts and jury a long stay aboard the international space station food is one of the few distractions from their day to day routine but preparing a meal is no easy task for scientific chefs at home and must stir up a space many of its both nutritional and tasty and hearty said peter all of

a free lunch that's out of this world. after traveling at phenomenal speed for two days cramped in the small space of a so you rock it's cosmonauts arriving at the international space station going to be. how do you eat in zero gravity. but it well you have to be a bit more careful than down here alert every little piece of food that gets out of your group with float away and you will not be able to keep track of it. to make sure cosmonauts enjoy their lunch without worrying that the road morsels will disappear into the inner workings of something tenchi lifesaving computer equipment the russian space agency designed the special table is afoot the deal is there are two heating compartments here this area in between is a trap for crohn's it works like a regular vacuum cleaner this is important because choking on a crumb is very risky and zero gravity it can have grief consequences. all the

food eaten in space has to be specially prepared here on earth and that preparation doesn't come cheap cosmonauts need three thousand calories a day and for the same isn't a lympics printer 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 and mission and those prices it's no wonder that the people behind cosmic catering a proud of their product. as the chief designer of space two twenty three years of experience in the space food industry i can proudly say that russia's place for the healthiest slave almost reached dawn because. even the most simple food requires special care and attention this factory in moscow produces a spirit and the work which goes into making it great for all that 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 of bread doesn't go bad for fifteen months thanks to the special recipe and technology 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 right bread moscow style and did a great. those currently around one hundred sixty color options because a lot on board the international space station including all of the takes from coal from soups to main courses in deserts and even the basics from salt and pepper good bread. that alters pretty good after a hard day's work on board the six nice to see the humanities finest minds still

have time to play with their food the world became a yearly one for we could write you really ready. yeah me here a couple more this make you three keep them coming. these are all over r.t. . that brings us to twenty three minutes past the hour later in the program the kaiser report card he's economics and finance show is on a mission to expose that greed first though will stay in the world of business with kareena stay with us. and welcome to business your spigots banks must raise billions of dollars in capital to withstand financial turmoil on the markets that's the plan by the e.u. commission to contain the escalating debt contagion the growing fears that banks may take losses from countries with shaky finances like greece but you get from talk of dialogue says that even the worst scenario won't have any serious effect on

russia while commodity it's us strong. well russia has limited her exposure from the of the. of those toxic for s. which such as the greek homes so russia will have a potentially limpert through crisis be for a more diverse goals don't look for years we will keep exporting real there is a world of gas of crude oil or the coated steel in the case of some small bore we in europe for a. buck or a major effect on prices that will aid is because. i see no reason for the prices to be seriously consider that because of the community being injected in there was injected a very or it's also remarkable that despite all those fears in the past two months will get below one hundred dollars per barrel. that's a look at the markets now all this trading in the red after the american petroleum institute reported that u.s. gasoline than most had more than five years in china last month export climbed the

least since february as the courts slowed light so it is trading at eighty four dollars a barrel while brand is at one hundred and seven dollars per barrel stocks in the u.s. live on thursday that were recovered off session lows with the tech stocks advancing to head over google results the dow jones is losing a quarter of a percent while the nasdaq is gaining half a percent and as well stocks fell the most among the indexes ten industry groups losing two point eight percent after disappointing earnings from j.p. morgan charts and european stocks fell on thursday led by banks lloyds banking group and world bank of scotland dropped after fitch ratings downgraded companies to a from doubling minus three and the part about was among the biggest decline is dropping six point seven percent mining companies were also down for a report of slowing export growth in china while rolls royce holdings rallied ten percent on the put state after the announced

a new joint venture with united technologies. here in russia markets finished the trading day lower wage high energy stocks bats or drugs for the international energy agency reduces global to not a forecast for twenty twelve let's have a look at some individual shambles organize that's gastro let the decline index losing two percent local added lower as well the company says it's going to spend more than ten billion dollars a year over the next decade to develop huge new projects and calling medical you raised early gains the company has reported a forty percent increase in revenues for the personality of the year michael stein from a critical wraps up today's trade. today even more concern or consolidation phase tolling the huge ten percent rally in the r.g.s. since late wednesday of last week investor sentiment has clearly improved to some extent you mean the europeans are taking a more constructive approach to solving their debt problems and given the market

improvement in crude prices from about one hundred dollars a barrel last week to close to one hundred ten dollars a barrel this week the minority shareholders of saying p.d.p. have increased their claims against british partner of b.p. they now want thirteen billion dollars compensation following the collapse of b.p.'s top two frost left initial request was a quarter back and the beginning of the year rosneft and b.p. agreed to jointly develop the rich oxy fields for b.p.'s russian partners in tanking b.p. block the deal saying it violated their bites and demanded part of the tile the minority shareholders now want compensation for the revenues they could have made if the deal had come for. itself from me or the business team here in r t would be back tomorrow with more financial news of the let's go buy a clue. the

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