you're watching the live from moscow eleven here on marina joshie welcome to the program army defectors have reportedly crossed over to file longside opposition forces in northern syria but the government insists the 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 the majority of syria's foreign reserves are tests are cilia has more. about one hundred eighty kilometers north of damascus is a city of unrest on 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 is plain to see there was an air of suspicion the tense mood only broken by children 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 we saw the situation had become a threat to the people and that's why we decided an intervention should take place . where inside syria or you hear. the stun gun company this is their way of putting up work mates you see here this is what this was was it was basically. from our side

here. but opposition activists insist that these were not on gas or terrorists but army defectors so far the government has said little on the subject of decisions from the military i think it's a kind of a strategy by the government and that weakening the moral of the. security forces so if they talk about the friction then it become a sick. that would be there would be more of the friction so as to. what was there was going to serve the purpose but under the circumstances the role of most affected by the violence and understand is that of a ruthless. all this time in syria. watching r.t. coming to live from moscow still have the sour twenty one years of stagnation the

little known self-proclaimed republic of transmute in eastern europe remains frozen in poverty and ethnic conflict that many believe its leader is to blame. arctic attraction we report of why hospitable 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 and 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 even to crush it to mean that every there is

a body part the part that 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 now the protesters believe that this is an effort city officials are making to remove it from the grounds that they have been camping out so they decided to take the initiative. 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 us basically the vast amount of money and that the disparity between rich and poor is growing deeper and deeper

some facts were compiled by a variety of different organizations and those statistics include the fact that the top one percent. forty percent of america's wealth now this disparity according to reports is worse than it's been in the past twenty five years at its worst level second point is that the top one percent take home twenty five percent of america's national income and the third point is that the top one percent always half of the country's stocks bonds and mutual funds this is just a little reef synopsis of what you. make about corporate greed possibly or when they talk about. economic disparities within the united states. now reporting there from new york and to 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 are these previous reader 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're planning an actual occupy taipei soul hong kong by jakarta then even if lama vod so the movement in asia is growing there is a lot of support for a so here in india you know and there are a lot of similarities between the goals and the mass ijaz of the people in the united states and here in india we saw a massive anti-corruption movement here in india recently that was fronted by i'm

not worth thousands of young people showed up to support his fast against the government so many of those people are scared 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 these multinational companies the corporations that they're talking about over in the united states the sickly american companies you see it happen a lot here a while and as economy 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 work fourth. reporting there from new delhi a more fundraiser joining the protests against tatts and we're closely following all the latest developments on our website or to dot com in our you tube channel of course

so you can go online any time to get more coverage. the news today volunteers once again flared up. in these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are ruled the day. and credit crisis europe spain has become the latest victim of a credit downgrade standard and poor's agency has cut madrid's double a rating by one notch due to we growth high unemployment and massive private sector debt the fitch agency has also downgraded spain's rating as well as the credit worthiness of several u.k. and swiss banks and portugal is warning its deficit cutting efforts are well off

track the country's prime minister warns of any hardship next year with more pay cuts and tax increases ahead prices or a negotiator 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 there are. people i'm. not going to be able to to have a good. solution is an active member of the portuguese indignados delish movement its participants believe the government is hell bent on pleasing the rich and powerful and ignores the needs of the people to have to realize that we are not. for them. it's happening and it's happening everywhere inspiring here. the worst rate of unemployment in thirty years at over twelve percent

rising taxes and falling wages are the reality of portugal's a bleak present situation things are so bad people are no making comparisons with cataclysmic periods in their history and looking to them for inspiration in a few centuries ago was in a situation similar to its present state because it was lagging the capital was all but destroyed by an earthquake one market of all the super kingdom that's his stature 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 body. the portuguese indignados say the solution is to create more jobs and cut unnecessary expenditure but the government was forced into seventy eight billion euro i.m.f. bailout earlier this year following in the footsteps of greece and ireland to pay it back to because have 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 that you know your own space your own you know. top kids that you know. if you can't you can't do it because because you called courts. the. system and the political system that is. that is so. twisted conditions. for me. personally the biggest thing and does the crisis grows so too do the ranks of the outraged members of the indignados people. forget to mention out of. the well. democratic. national governments there. will be your problem.

with a call for a global day of action or knocked over the fifteenth from the occupy wall street movement in new york is expected to get a loud response in portugal but 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. while there is much more news and videos waiting for you online so you can call and take a look at adding insult to injury prime minister. jailed for seven years on tuesday now faces new charges of attempting to millions of dollars fourteen years ago. and the secret life of the russian president's son is revealed. the sixteen year old is in fact a t.v. personality an aspiring.

weather wise it's one of the most inhospitable places in europe with summers colder than some continental winters located in the arctic ocean for centuries the spitzbergen archipelago was considered unfit for year round habitation but there is a growing as surprising ethnic community making at home there are six on a boy who went to see for herself. surrounded by the arctic ocean spitzbergen has no roads leading out instead these pointers serves as a tribute to the archipelagos multi ethnic nature and all guests from moscow and london are required here the city that sounds the largest number of immigrants to the archipelago is the one furthers their way.

with no re 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 archipelago is foreign population all things to the sligo lady of the modern and i think ties in the regions have a lot in common both peoples are very open and warm hearted. it may not have been love at first sight but they're one of the jew political implications some people hawk met here future norwegian has burned in the early one nine hundred eighty s. in bangkok when he brought her to bergen the couple were a local oddity and since then many more followed in their footsteps. tire women are brutal opt to be more and begin more accommodating of a man's needs i guess that's why no region manchu like to marriage diary girls many of some punk siblings cousins friends and very quaint and 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 but. the main reason thai people come 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 no 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 affleck tensions on the archipelago they're all. and. many many. people from all kind of nations norway has responsibility for small but we have the server and the tea but everyone in the treaty could come and live here according to the nine hundred 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 spies governor that's one of the reasons behind the multi ethnic harmony plots or intentional to discriminate that's one of the principal symbols for the truth of. what we do though is that it's required that you have. to be able to provide for those who love to work. for you and your family most times come here for two or three years this young shaft is one of the recent arrivals making around four thousand years dollars a month he hopes to save enough money to buy an apartment in bangkok in the meantime he's all about mixing traditional thai recipes with norwegian staples like steel and beer you know we just walk basically seem like an oxymoron but it's actually a very good recipe for the cultural fusion that one can find here it's bizarre again now we can composure a couple things sound hot temper has so far proven

a much better recipe for the full take this than any of those. policies country goes sour in other countries to the point you are the only real pm to dargon our calendar. take a look at some other stories from around the world at least sixteen people have been killed in almost fifty one in a twin blast in the iraqi capital baghdad the bombs were detonated a local market one of one after another as people gather to help victims of the first explosion a stronger and bigger one to place causing more damage. and casualties comes just a day after the iraqi capital suffered its worst attacks since august which to cut the lives of twenty two people. to leave you now where several hundred khadafi loyalists have reportedly pushed back interim government forces after a day of fierce street fighting in syria that obvious hometown is the last major city not of full control of revolutionary forces although they do now hold most of

it earlier the interim authorities have backtracked on claims that the son of scene was captured and seared amnesty international has urged the country's new rulers to ambit human 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 the opposition has challenged 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. u.s. president barack obama has promised the toughest sanctions will be placed on iran over allegations of plotting to kill the saudi ambassador to washington obama says 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 in the u.s. . in the self-proclaimed republic of trans 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 will dissolve and some believe the current leadership is to blame are. reports. one of the poorest regions in europe and recognized as a country across the world holds presidential elections in early december but already there is serious dispute before the complains even started the current leader of the self-proclaimed breakaway modo and republic of trans niece terri igudesman of has held the reins of power for the entire twenty one years of its

disputed existence far from tiring of office he's running again for a fifth term at decision criticized by moscow as a mistake. 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 smirnoff inner circle who are only getting richer. the republic is certain its 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 its own government military currency and constitution the trans nice to has always been viewed by moldova as part of its own territory meaning continued political tension. in one thousand nine hundred two war broke out in

which hundreds died as moldova forces fought separatists before an internationally forged cease fire brought and an easy peace since then continued efforts by russia and the international community to move the mood over and transnistria an authority is towards dollars have not borne fruit leave intensions 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 to the birds of must live in an atmosphere of fear and threat run many cases of political pressure like mailing in violation of laws in an attempt to discredit other candidates people and parties openly criticizing the current

authorities are being put on the run or is placed in serious danger all democratic election approaches pro-choice just under two months before the poll it's clear the struggle for power will be far from a kid going to have 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 whether the ballot his free and fair or not the votes not expected to resolve these areas longstanding problems meaning the need for a lost and political resolution will remain. written off r.t. moscow. at a time now to see what's happening in business with yulia. hello

and a very warm welcome to our 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 hub plug n play which was the birthplace of google and paypal have set up a technical center and moscow to go with the global venture alliance the founder of the community site says the russian innovative companies now have access to unlimited foreign venture capital. we invest small amount of money we are consider like a super angel but important is not the money that being invested is the important is who invest it does and because we are a part in our of the most major viz seizing california the have unlimited money but it's for us to attend defied the best project and introduce that to them and then if the project is worth the i think the money is the least problem. the

russian market has said mergers and acquisitions grow close to the highest levels in a decade research company dia logic says the total volume reach sixty billion dollars in the first nine months of the year only two thousand and seven so more deals being done under say the majority were signed in their resource industries among them. seventy percent of all is gold for six billion dollars and france's total took twelve percent stake in the russian company novacek. does not have a look at the markets oil is rising reversing earlier losses before a point that may show that retail sales in the u.s. climbed in september from the previous month blanche is trading at one hundred and eleven dollars per barrel well that is that eighty four dollars per barrel. and the market so low on friday after a credit rating downgrades of spain and european banks fueled concern the region's debt crisis will slow global growth. in europe stocks like climbing in early

trade with c. is rising a quarter of a percent with be losing the gains in the index to knowledge of stocks are also offering some support after google's results more than exceeded expectations the tax was also on the rise point three percent. and finally here in russia the markets have slightly retreated from the strong gains they saw on the first minutes of friday strange though investors still seem to be looking. improved after four containing europe's debt crisis the r.t.s. is now edging more than half a percent while the maya six is. that far have a look at some of the divisional 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 you know level of the details in just a moment telecom is also edging high and the company may stop start of by.

holding a thirty percent to. client value in the last three months it's also reportedly interested in buying the only three g. operator in ukraine the jail could be worth two hundred seventy million dollars. and as we've been reporting the world's second largest maker of consumer goods to lever is buying and eighty two percent stake in russia's leading cause medics make a killing on the deal is worth four hundred million euro the movie spot of your level stretches it to conquer foster crowing emerging markets clean the house a fashion percent shelf russia's skin care market. more in just an hour and your update for now and more stores and all websites are to dot com slash business .

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here with r.t. here is a reminder of the top stories activists claim soldiers in northern syria are turning against the regime but the government says they are just on gangs posing as threats to the public the e.u. is putting more sanctions in place after a day of clashes left at least nineteen dead. the occupy together anti-corporate protest movements that began in new york goes and are continental demonstrations are being planned in canada and the u.k. asia and other cities across the globe. spain's credit takes a hit from international rating agencies with warnings of a further slide as its neighbor portugal announces toughest any measures with people actually using the government are working for the rich.