things of discontent are still evident in unstable syria even if the thousands of regime supporters crowded the streets of the capital activists say fresh clashes between government troops and 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 damascus. but voices of support. and continuing dissent some and in deadly clashes polar opposites in their demands but in some way united by a newfound zeal to take a stand where you're on the fence here and capture it well our lives have gathered show their support for the government that is far cry from the images we've been seeing in other cities around the country where there have been reporting watches in effect ready for setting government protests however what they are about where in this country the forces sometimes tell you that was the very day for you that

night it was. her husband and young children 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 pro this president. ever since most people started revealing their political stance openly some people would mock me insane since when do you know about politics what do you know there are divisions among family members some are progress and 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 books we watch the news. bit odd because you know baseball and i know. that

he had the right background and all the issues about your country you can think of them are. you 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 and what he calls a repressive regime and today facebook is one of his main tools encouraging me to dissent. activism has evolved in syria for me i feel that my voice goes further now back then it started with stating an opinion that i'm going to jail that hit a good bed 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'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 yes it was. good to be with. you. 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 that future is firmly in their own hands. that's our cilia r.t. damascus. and we're also asking you hun a website called president assad is still in power while gadhafi is not well so far the majority of you believe that it's because china and russia have opposed outside when attraction against syria and in less than a quarter say that bashar al assad has more popularity and national support. eight percent of you think that the syrian opposition movement is clueless while the rest . of his ruthless. reputation as the result so far on screen good to hear from you

dot com. 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 the report is following the rallies in new york. and joins us now so it's been four weeks but it seems the protests are 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 park the park that they've been camped out in the 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 the protesters that they would have to 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 town by wall street and nearby business owners have been complaining about the 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 as you mentioned for four weeks so they decided to take the initiative and clean the park on their own 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 they'll participate in this and if need be they said they are willing to get arrested to make sure that the city does not remove them from the grounds that they've been protesting demonstrating in for 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 and last week we heard from u.s. president barack obama say that he understands the frustrations of the occupy wall street protesters we have seen u.s. senators elected officials weigh in on this movement and of course it is a movement that is raising awareness and fighting against what they call corporate greed and corporate influence over u.s. politics specifically the amount of money corporations 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 and other stimulus all of the expense of the average 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 the 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 nonviolent people and doesn't arrest a single one of these bankers or the people would cause those 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 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 phone is mana number of occasions one of the most recent scandals involves a solar energy companies 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 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 or draw people onto the streets of washington and. 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. r.t.t. washington d.c. . digging deep the eurozone rescue gets the green light from. greece sees the end of the tunnel. light snack. up in space. that's coming up.

but first a new criminal case is being launched against ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko she's been charged with the deaths from an energy corporation she headed on to the ukrainian budget this comes just two days off the was sentenced to seven years behind bars over her gas contracts with russia is our correspondent in kiev. this story is very complicated and pretty dark because this case in fact refers to fifteen years ago when he. 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 shouldn't this violates the ukrainian law this is of course a very interesting new twist in this saga with the trial of. 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 of very tense and very furious act is a very furious reactions from all over the world we've heard reactions from the united states which condemned the presenting of you to go wish 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 me to visit a meeting in brussels in a short future may also be cancelled we also heard very harsh reactions from moscow which claimed 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 was present could be a bullish in ukraine decriminalised by the ukrainian parliament and thus. could be set free you know which also said that the criminal system in ukraine is outdated

and needs to be reformed so these three four can in fact set 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. expended eurozone 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 says africans growing store holding a forty eight hour strike against the government's austerity policies demonstrators marched away flags during the latest in a series of run its own protests to hit the cash strapped country well 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 a panacea. if you stop promising any one four hundred forty billion euros it will

cheer them up for a while not expects that we'll see over the next few days or a certain amount of probably fairly short lived euphoria of at this but it doesn't address any of the fundamentals the f.s.f. itself is quite a flimsy mechanism you've got to bear in mind that most of this money isn't cold hard cash it's promises to pay and the wood 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 evaporates very rapidly essentially since the start of twenty ten is that was long ago 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 country now that has one hundred eighty nine percent of its national income owed is dead so there is forecast to be 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 it will be big enough to break the 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 collect undoubtable banks are doing a failure to clamp down on the ways that they were trying to pass risk amounts and sells the way they thought they could carry on simply printing credits and making loans to each other forever more with no real consequences we're seeing the end of that process the thing and the banks themselves are very happy about it they don't want to suffer the losses from the. so they took some time ago and he defaults it might happen let's say ingrates effect french and german banks start to they're not going to. base banks over here it's pretty much like dominoes rattling out across the continent james me way talked him into learning here or not he will plenty more stories for you on our website dot com here's 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. thirty one of saddam hussein. is going on about how much that's part of this famous statue of course to find out

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questions on the dot com. other world news in brief in our 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 though he had admitted to sexual advances towards writer. isn't sufficient evidence to support relations and earlier this year the french politician resigned as head of the international monetary fund after facing similar charges which were later dropped in new. troops claiming to be in control of most of gadhafi stronghold still facing pockets of heavy resistance from the colonel's loyalists libyan leaders have denied earlier reports that one of gadhafi sons were tasm the senior army officer and security advisor has been captured in the proceed city meanwhile human rights group amnesty international has accused the country's interim leadership of

torturing closeness of detainees and called for the abuse to stop. the u.s. and south korean leaders have pledged closer trade and security ties in washington d.c. to the 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. although seoul denies it is being built to strengthen america's presence in the region. for cosmonauts enjoying 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 in the stir up a space many of it's both nutritional and tasty. all of for lunch but out of this world. after traveling at phenomenal speed for two days

cramped in the small space of a so you rockets 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 on earth every little piece of food that gets out of your grip will float away and you will not 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 so it is a thought to delist it off so there are two heating compartments here in this area in between is a trap for crumbs it works like a regular vacuum cleaner this is important because choking on a crumb is very risky in zero gravity it can have grieve 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 and 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 but mission and those prices it's no wonder that the people behind cars make catering a proud of their product on the cusp of a person as the chief designer spice food with twenty three years of experience in the space food industry and i can proudly say that russia's place food provides the healthiest safest most nutritional rich diet and more because america. even the most simple food requires special care and attention this factory in moscow produces space bridge and the work which goes into making it ready for all that is almost as high tech as the i.x.'s itself my booth knew that soon. there is no mold in this bread no mold spores we've developed a recipe which stops small growth the bread doesn't go bad for fifteen months

thanks for the special recipe and technologies we use when baking it with eternity even when it comes to something simple like bridge there's still plenty of choice for your hungry cosmonaut. all in all we make five types of brownies gingerbread white bread that's what i have here on the table now right bread with caraway bread moscow style and are great. currently around one hundred sixty options because i'm not on board the international space station including all of the tastes from home from soups to main courses and desserts and even the basics from salt and pepper the bread. alters pretty good after a hard day's work on board the i.s.a.'s 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 right you ready ready good job yeah me here

a couple is make it three keep them coming. these are all over artie. that brings us to twenty three minutes past the hour later in the program the kaiser report hardy's economics and finance show is on a mission to expose fact to greed first though will stay in the world of business with kareena stay with us. hello 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 and bonds from countries with shaky finances like greece but you getting over lanka from tuukka dialogue says that even the worst scenario won't have any serious effect on russia while commodities are strong. russia has limited for exposure to the rule of those toxic for. such as

the greek bonds so russia will have a potential there. but through prices you for them would you vs girls don't look for that we will keep exporting real there was a war that was a guess of cold or the cold which even in the case of some slowdown in europe for a. major first comes from prices that all ages because. the reason for the pressures to go she has to consider it. because you really think being injected will be injected themselves injected. or it's also remarkable that despite all those fears in the past two most oil didn't go 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 most had more than five years in china last month export climbed the least since february as the ports show slowed light sweet is trading at eighty four dollars a barrel while brant is at one hundred and a half and dollars

a barrel stocks in the u.s. live on thursday the 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 but as well stocks fell the most among the indexes ten industry groups losing two point eight percent after disappointing earnings from j.p. morgan chase and european stocks fell on thursday led by banks lloyds banking group and world bank of scotland dropped after fitch ratings downgraded twelve companies to a from doubling minus the n.p.p. was among the biggest decline is dropping six point seven percent mining companies were also down following a report of slowing export growth in china while rolls royce holdings rallied ten percent of the put say after it announced a new joint venture with united technologies. here in russia markets finished the trading's a war waged by energy stocks bads or thoughts that's after the international energy

agency reduced its global to a lot of forecast for twenty twelve let's have a look at some individual shambles alkalis that's led the decline on the index losing two percent look all ended 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 polly michael you raised earlier games the company has reported a forty percent increase in revenues for the first nine months of the year michael stein for much prettier wraps up the day's trade. today in the markets saw a consolidation phase tolling the huge ten percent rally in the r.t.s. since late wednesday of last week investor sentiment has clearly improved to some extent given 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 k b p have increased their

claims against british park now b.p. they now want thirteen billion dollars compensation following the collapse of b.p.'s top withdraw snapped the initial request was a quarter that and the beginning of the year rosneft and b.p. agreed to jointly develop the rich oxy fields of b.p.'s russian partners in tanking b.p. to block the deal saying it violated their bites and demand that part of the tie up the minority shareholders now want compensation for the revenues they could have made if the deal had come. well that's all from me and the business team here in our team would be back tomorrow with more financial news until then it's goodbye and good bye.

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