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r.t. live from moscow eleven here on marina joshie welcome to the program army defectors have reportedly crossed over to file along side opposition forces in northern syria but the government insists the are armed gangs threatening the public not revolutionaries and in reaction to the state's crackdown on protesters the e.u. has imposed new sanctions on the country's largest state bank which holds but majority of syria's foreign reserves are she says are still yass more. about one hundred eighty kilometers north of the mass this is a city of on a stun the site of five days of recent deadly clashes between security forces and protesters in which at least thirty died it's close to the cities of homs and hama where most anti assad protests have been taking place evidence of fighting in

oliver stone it's plain to see there was an air of suspicion the tense mood only broken by children and now smiling but only two weeks ago these youngsters were witness to violence in their hometown like this eleven year old we heard very heavy fire we heard airplanes but didn't see them it sounded like they were flying high we were really afraid and we were crying the whole time. the child was one of the few to talk most of us on locals we met were hesitant to say anything about what happened telling us they didn't want to get into trouble the areas governor gives his explanation why the military arrived there were groups of people who had their own demands they had these demands for a little while and then it all escalated when they armed themselves to ation and become a threat to the people and that's when we decided an intervention should take place . the answer was yes we have to work here this

was probably this is their way. see here this is. what they say the. army is here. but opposition activists insist that these were not armed gangs or terrorists but army defectors so far the government has said little on the subject of decisions from the military i think it's kind of frustrating by the government and the weakening the morale. of the army look we can get more out of the syrian security forces so if they talk about the search and then it became a signal that could be there would be more of the friction so people get. armed gangs or was this kind of this will serve the purpose but under the circumstances the morale of most affected by the violence in understand is that

a ruthless. alliston in syria. working hard to coming to live from moscow still have a sour twenty one years of stagnation the little known self-proclaimed republic of trans news thirteen eastern europe remains frozen in poverty and ethnic conflict and many believe its leader is to blame. an arctic attraction we report of why an inhospitable archipelago in the arctic ocean has become a welcoming home for immigrants from around the world. the latest polls in the u.s. suggest the anti-corporate protests sweeping the country have the support of more than fifty percent of the population still there are accusations that politicians and the mainstream media are ignoring the movement started in new york a month ago occupy wall street activists have been camped out there ever since are refusing to be moved as the details on ball street all the demonstrators hundreds of them that have been camping out there and sleeping there for weeks are pulling

out their brooms their mobs he rushes to clean every there is a party parked at the park that the. reason why the demonstrators are doing this is because new york city mayor michael bloomberg paid a visit to the first italy on wednesday evening walk through and told all the protesters that they would to temporarily leave the park on friday so that it could be cleaned up now the protesters believe that this is an ad for city officials are making to remove it from the grounds that they have been camping out so they decided to take the initiative and and clean the park on their own now of course the occupy wall street movement has been referring to themselves and the majority of americans as the ninety nine percent they believe that one percent of americans the richest that live in the u.s.

basically that the vast amount of. and the disparity between rich and poor is growing deeper and deeper some facts more compiled by a variety of different organizations and new statistics include the fact that the top one percent. forty percent of america's wealth now this disparity of courting to reports is worse than it's been in the past twenty five years at its worst level with the second point is of the top one percent take home twenty five percent of america's national income and the third point is that the top one percent bones' half of the country's stocks bonds and mutual funds this is just a little brief synopsis of what is. in the morning they talk about corporate greed possibly or they talk about the economic disparities out within the

united states. now reporting there from new york and have big business movements now preparing to go international protests are due to take place in canada the u.k. and are even spreading to asia. explains why people in india are prepared to join the occupy together club. that energy that's happening in new york city and across the united states is definitely spread here to asia and actually the youth movement here has mobilized on facebook and on twitter and they are planning an actual occupy type a soul hong kong by jakarta hyderabad and even if you want a bad cell the movement in asia is growing there is a lot of support for a so here in kenya you know there and there are a lot of similarities between the goals and the massive of the people in the united

states and here in india we saw a massive anti-corruption movement here in india recently. i know hugs are. things of young people showed up to support his fast against the government so many of those people are said to come out to this movement as well and many people compare that corruption movement here in india to the arab spring and now people are saying it's a very it has very close ties to what's going on on occupy wall street people here are a little bit suspicious of the multinational companies the corporations that they're talking about over in the united states the civically american companies you see that happen a lot here a while and you have a commie might be growing the rich in india are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and it's the foreign corporations that are really benefiting from india's young workforce for you true reporting there from new delhi more contras

are joining the protests against tatts and we're closely following all the latest developments on that side are to get calm in our you tube channel of course so you can go online any time to get more coverage. lucky. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to look for asians or old today. and credit crisis europe spain has become the latest victim of a credit downgrade standard and poor's agency ascot madrid's double a rating by one notch we growth high unemployment and massive private sector debt the situation z. has also downgraded spain's rating credit worthiness of several u.k.

and swiss banks and portugal is warning its deficit cutting efforts are well off track conscious foreign minister warns of a hardship year with more pay cuts and tax increases that is a revolution has been asking people in portugal how they're dealing was what's being called a national emergency. i'm afraid i'm afraid of the future i'm afraid that. things are going to be like they are in greece right now people are here and we've been there i'm not going to be able to to have a good life to have a piece of peace and. lucia is an active member of the portuguese indignados village board movement its participants believe the government is hell bent on pleasing the rich and powerful and ignores the needs of the people there to actually do have to realize that we are not. we are not we are not going to be bad for any longer probably people are something we do know it's happening and it's

happening everywhere and spring here and greece. the worst period of unemployment in thirty years is over twelve percent rise in taxes and fall in wages are the reality of portugal's of the present situation things are so bad people are no making comparisons with cataclysmic periods in their history and looking to them for inspiration leaves the center of portugal was in a situation similar to its present state because it was lagging the capital was all but destroyed by an earthquake but one marquee people of all the reciprocate them got his touch right there managed to pull the country out of the crisis three hundred years on however if you believe everybody will be able to perform a similar monumental tough. the portuguese ignore those saying the solution is to create more jobs and cut unnecessary expenditure but the government was forced into a seventy eight billion euro i.m.f. bailout earlier this year following in the footsteps of greece and ireland to pay it back up

a series because had been introduced which will see longer working hours less holidays and even an end to the christmas bonuses which most workers enjoyed at the age when you are meant to start your life so you know have your own space your own you know. tap kids you know clearly if you can you can't do it you can't do it because you can't afford to do it and howard noxious is that it's. a natural system and the political system that is intertwined with the financial system. that is so completely twisted that conditions are like that drives a business to me is there personally the biggest thing and as the crisis grows so too do the ranks of the outraged members of the indignados people unite forgetting. the national movement. well.

then build another europe not there because it's not democratic. national governments they are not democratic. ravitch will be forever the problem is the system not the right. the call for global direction and october the fifteenth from the occupy wall street movement in new york is expected to get a loud response in portugal which for many of those who will fill the streets here it's not so much about revolution as it is about turning it into a simple fight for survival it. was. well there's much more news and videos waiting for you online so you can have calm and take a look at adding insult to injury to prey on prime minister yulia timoshenko jailed for seven years on tuesday now faces a new charges of attempting to embezzle millions of dollars fourteen years ago. and the secret life of the russian president's son is revealed as tabloids discover the

sixteen year old is in fact a t.v. personality an aspiring screen star. but otherwise it's one of the most inhospitable places in europe was summer's colder than some continental winters located in the arctic ocean for centuries the space bergen archipelago was considered unfit for year around habitation but there is a growing as surprising ethnic community making a home there is a convoy i went to see for herself. surrounded by the arctic ocean spitzbergen has no roads leading out and stab base pointer serves as a tribute to the archipelagos multi ethnic nature and well guests from moscow and london are frequent here the city that sounds the largest number of immigrants to

the archipelago is the one furthers their way. with no right holding sovereignty over spitzbergen norwegians are still in the majority of the fastest growing ethnic group here is thais they already make up about a third of the archipelagos foreign population all things to basically the lady. money and i think ties in the regions have a lot in common with people open and warm hearted. it may not have been love at first sight but they're one of the few political implications some people hark makar future norwegian has spent in the early nine hundred eighty s. in bangkok but he brought her to speech bergen a couple were a local oddity says that many more followed in their footsteps. norm time we men outgrew top to be more begin more accommodating over men's needs i guess that's why

no region manchu like to marry very girls and many have some long siblings cousins friends and their equation says now we were in norway she's become the unofficial president of the burgeoning thai community with newcomers turning to her for all sort of advice. the main friesan thai people can choose is to make money and you can earn a pretty good living here but what's more is that we are not treated like immigrants we have the same lifestyle as new regions we can travel we are treated as equals while the recent bombing and shooting massacre in norway reaganite a debate over immigration there are regions that spitzbergen say there's absolutely no place for apnic tensions on the archipelago they're all guest here and many. many. people from all kind of nations and norway have the responsibility for this fall but we have the so greg with everyone on the street you could call me live here according to the nineteen twenty agreement residents of any country can

come and live here without applying for a visa or a work permit the only condition is to have a job no reason generous social support system doesn't operate here and according to the archipelago sponsored gov that's one of the reasons behind the multi-ethnic harmony plots or intentional to discriminate that's one of the principal symbols for. what we do though is that it's record of you of. being able to provide for also love work. for your family most times come here for two or three years this young chap is one of the recent arrivals making around one thousand years dollars a month he hopes to save enough money to buy an apartment in bangkok and it meantime is all about mixing traditional thai recipes with the region staples like for you and here you know we just walk this may seem like an oxymoron but it's

actually a very good recipe for the cultural fusion that one can find here it's busy berg and now we can composure a couple three sounds thai hot time for the soap opera with a much better recipe for peaceful coexistence than any of those. policies that tend to go sour in other countries. are the. kids are going argue now and. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world at least sixteen people have killed almost fifty one in a twin blast in iraqi capital baghdad a bombs were detonated at a local market one of i want to after another as people gather to help victims of the first explosion a stronger am bigger one to claim is causing more damage and casualties a comes just a day after an iraqi capital city. it's worth the tax since august which to the lives of twenty two people. to leave you now are several hundred khadafi loyalists have

reportedly pushed back interim government forces after a day of fierce street fighting in syria but obvious home town is the last major city not in full control of revolutionary forces although they do now hold most of it earlier the interim authorities have backtracked on claims that the son deceived was captured in the seared amnesty international has urged the country's new rulers to hand if you rights abuses common under the ousted leader. silvio berlusconi is facing a confidence vote in parliament which could spell the end of his time as italy's prime minister position is challenge him to prove his governing coalition still has a majority after it lost a budget vote early on he says he has no intention of stepping down but if he loses it would almost certainly mean new elections he's faced repeated calls to resign from unions and the business community following a string of damaging sex scandals. us president barack obama has

promised the toughest sanctions will be placed on iran over allegations of plotting to kill the saudi ambassador to washington of august as he has evidence proving iran's guilt and says he will continue to mobilize the international community to ensure a further isolation and make it pay for its behavior iran has dismissed the allegations saying the charges are fabricated to deflect attention from problems and the u.s. . in the self-proclaimed republic of trance nice to have breakaway territory in the republic of moldova not much has changed since it announced independence in one thousand nine hundred ninety and there's still no solution to the ass nick and territorial conflict with an adult and some believe the current leadership is to blame are. reports. one of the poorest regions in europe and recognized as a country because the world holds presidential elections in early december but already there is serious dispute before the campaign has even started the current

leader of the self-proclaimed breakaway modo and republic of transnistria igudesman north has held the reins of power for the entire twenty one years of its disputed existence far from tiring of office his running again for a fifth term a decision criticized by moscow as a mistake possibly smearing of has created an atmosphere of personal power that has put the republic into a state of deep social and economic crisis there's a huge gap between ordinary people who are struggling and some are lost inner circle or only getting rich or. the republicans certain it's independence in one thousand nine hundred ninety from moldova which is south splits from the soviet union a year later life has been tough there ever since the breakaway region is a tiny strip of land with a half million population bordering ukraine it acts as if it's a real state with so government a military currency and constitution

a trans nice to has always been viewed by moldova as part of its own territory we're in continued political tension. in one thousand nine hundred two war broke out in which hundreds died as moldova and forces fought separatists before an internationally forged cease fire broad and easy peace since then continued efforts by russia and the international community to move over in entrance nice to an authority is towards dialogue have not borne fruit leaving tensions dangerously high for ordinary people life is tough. average earnings of just three dollars a day for those lucky enough to work with high unemployment make the area one of the poorest in europe opponents say that in the run up to the election there is a heightened climate of political fear with the current regime in no mood to relinquish power which is to let your bird to live in an atmosphere of road many

cases of political pressure work wailing and violation of laws in an attempt to discredit other countries its people and parties openly criticizing the current authorities by being put on the run. is placed in serious danger all democratic election process pro-choice just under two months before the poll it's clear the struggle for power will be far from going to pass some even warn it could be a flashpoint the latest twist in the difficult history of this troubled region a group of russian observers is had interest mr to monitor the elections following a request from the authorities that one of the ballots he's free and fair or not evokes not expected to resolve these areas long standing problems meaning the need for a lost and political resolution will remain. r.t. moscow and it's time now to see what's happening in business with your ear.

hello and a very warm welcome to a business update one of the top silicon valley's incubate us plug n play have chosen five russian startups to be part of its innovation how to plug and play which was the birthplace of google and paid all have set up a technical center and moscow together with the global venture on lines the founder of the community side and says the russian innovative companies now have access to unlimited foreign banks and capital. we invest small amount of money to be our a cunt super like a super angel but the important is not the money that being the best is the important is who invest us and because we are part of most major the seizing california the have unlimited money but it's for

us to identify the best projects and introduce that to them and then if the project is worth the money is the least problem. the russian market has said mergers and acquisitions grow close to their highest levels in a decade research company as the total volume reach sixty billion dollars in the past nine months of the year and only two thousand and seven saw more deals being done under study the majority resigned in their resource industries among them. seventy percent of gold was gold for six billion dollars and francisco told took twelve percent stake in russian company not a tech. has not had a look at the markets well is rising reversing earlier losses before a point that may show that retail sales of the u.s. climbed in september from the previous month friend lunch is trading at one hundred and eleven dollars per barrel well the double e.t.i. is that eighty four dollars per barrel. in markets a low on friday after

a credit rating downgrades of spain and european banks fueled concerned the region's debt crisis will slow global growth. in europe stocks are climbing in early trade with suze rising a quarter of a percent with be losing the gains in the index to knowledge of stocks is so offering something which after google's results more than exceeded expectations the tax is also on the rise point three percent. finally here in russia the markets have slightly retreated from the strong gains they saw in the first minutes of friday strange though investors still seem to be looking. mixed improved after four containing europe's debt crisis the r.t.s. is now edging more than half accent while the mice it's. the fall have a look at some of the divisional share moves in the mice so most of the blue chips are trading in the black the solver's burbank up more than one percent believe that

has jumped more than forty percent on a deal with unit level details and just a moment telecom is also edging higher the company may start off with the start of buyback of its shares holding a thirty percent decline in value in the last three months it's also reportedly interested in buying the only three g. operator in ukraine the deal would be worth two hundred seventy million dollars. and as we've been reporting the world's second largest maker of consumer goods you know lever is buying an eighty two percent stake in russia's leading cause medics make a killing on the deal is worth four hundred million euro the move is out of unit level stretch it to conquer past a growing emerging markets alina has a thirty percent share of russia's market. for in just to know your update for now and must first of all that site arches up com slash has since.

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