activists claim that soldiers in northern syria turning against the regime the government says they are just. posing a threat to the public. cannot. be occupied together and to corporate protest movement that began in new york goes into continental demonstrations being planned in cities across the. european central bank is washing its hands of the crisis saying it's. now taken me all have more in just a few. worldwide

news twenty four seven this is r.t. live from moscow with me will research. defectors have reportedly crossed over to fight alongside opposition forces in northern syria and the government insists that just gangs threatening the public not revolutionaries on the u.n. a human rights office has raised the tally of those killed during the seventh month long uprising to now over three thousand. reports. about one hundred eighty kilometers north of the mass this is a city of understand 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 of protests have been taking place evidence of fighting in oliver stone it's plain to see there was an air of suspicion. only broken by children now smiling but only two weeks ago these youngsters were witness to violent. in their hometown and 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 to most understand locals me 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 right there were groups of people who had their own demands they had these demands for a little while and then it all escalated really arm themselves we started the situation had become a threat to the people and that's why we decided an intervention should take place in. the inside six weeks for. me this is the way you like the way i'm working with me see here this is what this. was basically we. are

here. but opposition activists insist that these were not on gas are terrorists not army defectors so far the government has said little on the subject of decisions from the military i think this is a plan for strategy by the government and the weakening. of the army. of the syrian forces so if they talk about the search and then it become a signal that could be there will be more of the pressure so he will that it's. always the kind of this will serve the purpose but under the circumstances the morale of most affected by the violence in other stun is that of loopholes just recently are in syria. you're watching on t.v. it's good to have your company today and still ahead for you this hour twenty one years all of stagnation little known self-proclaimed republican trans least in

eastern europe remains frozen in poverty and ethnic conflict many believe its leader is the one to blame. on the arctic attraction we are poor why an inhospitable archipelago in the arctic ocean has become a welcoming home with immigrants from all around the world. the latest polls in the united states 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 on the mainstream media are ignoring them when it all started in new york a month ago and the occupy wall street activists who have been camped out ever since refusing to be moved from important. 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 mom even rushes to clean it every

square inch body part of the. reason why the demonstrators are doing this is because new york city mayor michael bloomberg paid a visit. personally 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 effort city officials are making to remove them 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 u.s. 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 of courting to reports is worse than it's been in the past twenty five years at its worst level a 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 wreath a synopsis of what you think. they talk about corporate greed possibly a rebate about. economic disparities within the united states. well the big business movement is now preparing to go into

a national protests are due to take place in the u.k. or even spreading as far as asia. plains why people in india apparently joined the occupy together club and that energy that's happening in new york fitting in across the united states is definitely spread here it's. actually you could use the movement here has mobilized on facebook and on twitter and they're planning an actual occupy taipei soul hong kong by jakarta even if lama vod sells was a movement in asia is growing there's a lot of support for a syrian. there and there are a lot of similarities between the goals and the mass ijaz of the people india and i did save and here in india we saw a massive anti-corruption movement here in india recently that was fronted by i know hugs are

a word thousands 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 and 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 specifically american companies you see that have been a lot here while i guess economy might be growing the rich in here are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and it's the foreign corporations that are really benefiting from india's young workforce. right there now the european central bank says it's done enough to help the e.u. deal with its debt crisis and it's now time for governments to act and that's a spain becomes the latest credit downgrade victim with ratings agency standard and

poor's cut its score by one notch down a bushel now reports from brussels. the patience of european central bank does seem to be running out it says that it can't really take the whole burden on itself it really needs the governments to come through the european governments come through and take some action because the latest come through problems in spain it's the problems with the solidarity of failure solidarity has had a great eviscerating a game which is going to make it even harder for it to raise money and pay off its debts were expected protests tomorrow the biggest protests so far but there are measures in spain now russia's prime minister has come out and said that europe's governments could solve this problem if they wanted to. the crisis is more of a political than a financial issue according to different estimates between one and one and a trillion dollars is needed the number is big but the eurozone can handle it it's

a political issue because in order to counter those resources the leading european countries must offer a shoulder to do it in trouble takes political courage so governments in europe are accused of passing the blame no one wants to take responsibility but russia is one of many countries which is concerned by this because of course when the european economies are suffering the rest of the world has a knock on effect portugal is the latest country which new also there are two measures that means more taxes potentially education health costing more and we are expecting coordinated action coordinated protests across europe including in lisbon over those austerity measures over the cuts which are thought to be extremely painful for the population now we've also seen the job saying that he does expect those governments to come through with those cuts in order to balance this budget but there is a meeting today and some more of the world's leading finance ministers as they try to tackle this crisis has been in portugal. has been too

painful for the people to take these austerity measures marc. spoken to some of those who are victims of the crisis i'm afraid i'm afraid in the future i'm afraid . things going to be like they are in greece right now people and there will be some magic they're not going to be able. to have a good while to have peace and peace and quiet lucia is an active member of the portuguese indignados delish poor movement its participants believe the government is hell bent on pleasing the rich and powerful and ignores the needs of the people to truly help realize that we are not. going to be bad for any longer probably pointing out it's happening and it's happening everywhere and spraying. grease in. 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 now making comparisons with cataclysmic periods in their history and looking to them for inspiration leaves the century portugal was in a situation similar to this present state because it was like in the capital was all but destroyed by an earthquake but one market of all this is a 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 monumental task the portuguese and the not a single solution is to create more jobs and cuts are necessary expenditure but the government was forced into seventy eight billion euro i.m.f. bailout earlier this year calling in the footsteps of greece and ireland to pay back top of stairs 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

a life so you know have your own space around you know. tap kids you know to hear. build a life you can't you can't do it you can't do it because you can't afford to do it and howard noxious is that its. financial system and the political system that is intertwined with the financial system. that is so completely twisted that conditions of life so this this to me. personally the biggest thing and as the crisis grows so too do the ranks of the outraged members of the indignados people unite forget you for. the national review scare me for a trip to iraq. and build another europe not because they're not democratic national governments that are not democratic that ravaged all the crap the problem is deceased i'm not surprised. they called for

a global direction and october 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 he didn't. respond. it is now quarter past the hour here in the russian capital much more news of videos waiting for you online of course at r.t. dot com for example adding insult to injury actually cranium prime minister yulia timoshenko jailed for seven years on tuesday now faces new charges attempting to embezzle millions of dollars fourteen years to. the secret life of the russian president's son is revealed as a tabloid discover he's in fact a t.v. personality and aspiring screen star.

party is coming to you live from the russian capital now moscow is preparing a cheap but effective response to washington's missile defense system in europe this according to reports follows quotes from the incoming u.s. ambassador to russia saying that washington will not seek to ease moscow's security concerns over the system parties you're going to piss going off as details. washington is speeding up its plans for its eighty missile defense system in europe despite all these alarming questions coming out of russia screen forms romania and turkey have agreed to host elements of the system all military tori's in his plan that the shield will be finished by twenty eight teen officially it's supposed to protect washington's allies in europe from potential threats coming out of rogue

states such as iran and north korea but moscow has been sounding the alarm saying that the system could be a potential threat to its national security because it's planned that it will be able to intercept a long range ballistic missiles iran doesn't have them north korea doesn't have them but there's plenty of them in russia moscow has been proposing that this project should be a unified shield which would include russia and the united states where all would share the responsibility for the cd of each other but washington and some nato officials have been saying that this is not possible since russia is not part of the alliance moscow then starting asking for legal guarantees from washington that this is no will not be against russia but the newly appointed u.s. ambassador to russia michael mcfaul was quoted saying that his country has no plans of making these legal guarantees to russia we've already heard from russia's envoy

to nato would need to get our boys in who said that if this is the case then moscow will have to start thinking about making its own efforts to our east or the strategic balance of forces in europe and now there are also reports in the russian media from a source from the kremlin which says that russia will think of a cheap but affective way to answer washington's sentiments are the fans while. so we'll see how the situation develops but it will be a fact that washington is not. it's. not easy but it's kind of reporting there now weather wise it's one of the most inhospitable places in europe 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 and surprising ethnic community making their. son a boy want to see for herself. surrounded by the arctic ocean breeze bergen has no roads leading out and stabbed these pointers serves as a tribute to the archipelagos multi ethnic nature and role 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 re holding sovereignty over spitzbergen norwegians are still in the majority it be fastest growing ethnic group here is thais they already make up about a third of the archipelago is foreign population all thanks to the sleep early. morning i think guys 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 one of the few political implications some people hark

met her future in a region has burned in the early one nine hundred eighty s. in bangkok he brought her to speech bergen a couple were a local oddity and says that many more followed in their footsteps. more time could be more and he didn't more accommodating of a man's needs i guess that's why no region man here like to marry thai girls many of stump on siblings cousins friends and very quaint and says now we were in norway she's become the unofficial cross didn't of the burgeoning thai community with newcomers turning to her for all sort of advice. here the main reason 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 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 athlete tensions on the archipelago they're all guests here and many. many. people from all kind of nations in norway have the responsibility for this fall but we have the sober anything but everyone on the street 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 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 required if you have. to be able to provide for so a lot of work. for you and 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 down hard in the meantime he's also a volatile mix theme 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 grasp of the cultural fusion that one can find here at spitzbergen how we can composure a couple things sometimes hot temper has so far proven a much better vassal people peaceful coexistence but any of those. policies that tend to go sour in other countries. are the deal is gergen are now with. you or with r.t. you are from moscow about just a few minutes away now from the prisoners and those so claimed republican transistor a breakaway territory in the republic of moldova not much has changed since it

announced its independence and nine hundred ninety but there's still no solution to the ethnic and territorial conflict with moldova and some believe the current leadership has to claim parties or if a national reports on. 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 will go in republic of trans an easter egg a small know of 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 smear a lot of as created an atmosphere of personal power does the public into a state of deep social and economic crisis there's a huge gap between ordinary people who are struggling and some are not inner circle

or all are getting richer. the republic is certain it's in the pendants in one thousand nine hundred ninety from moldova which is south split from the soviet union a year later why it 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 government a military currency and constitution a train is 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 forces fought separatists before an internationally forged cease fire brought and an easy peace since then continued afterwards by russia and the international community to move the mood over and transnistria authorities towards dialogue have not gone fruit leaving tensions then

drizzly high for ordinary people life is tough. average earnings of just three dollars a day for those lucky enough to work with high employment 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 look at birds of must live in an atmosphere of fear and threat from many cases of political pressure blackmailing and violation of morals in an attempt to discredit other conflicts people and parties openly criticizing the current authorities are being put on the run. is placed in serious danger all democratic election process. just under two months before the poll it's clear the struggle for power will be far from a kid glove than 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 heading trees nice thirty morning to the elections following a request from the authorities that one of the ballots he's free and fair or not if votes not expected to resolve these areas last stand in problems meaning the need for a lost and political resolution will remain. r.t. moscow. it is a pleasure to have you with us today on the ground. with us. thanks rory very welcome to the business update the world's second largest maker of consumer goods unilever is buying an eighty two percent stake in russia's leading cosmetics make it clean and the deal is worth four hundred million euro the move it's part of unilever strategy to conquer fastest growing emerging markets could you know has a thirty percent share of russia's skincare market. and the russian market has seen

mergers and acquisitions grow close to their highest levels in a decade research company dia logic says the total volume reached sixty billion dollars in the course nine months over here only two thousand and seven so more deals being done analysts say the majority was signed in the resource industries among them because of gold bought seventy percent of paula's called for six billion dollars and francisco child to a twelve percent stake in russian company novacek. that's not a look at the markets now oil is rising reversing earlier losses before a report that may show that retail sales in the u.s. climbed in september from the previous month brand blanche is trading at one hundred twelve dollars per barrel while the w.t. i is that eighty five dollars per barrel. and in europe stocks are climbing the footsie is rising more than hundred percent and the dax is point eight percent on

the rise on the food see the. leading the gains more just talk so also offering some support after google's results more than exceeded expectations. and here in russia the markets are seeing strong gains investors to seem to be looking beat as prospects improved for containing europe's debt crisis the r.g.s. is gaining three point one percent and the arch years is gaining about two point five percent well let's have a look at some of the individual share moves in the minds of most of the blue chips trade. in the black the solids hereupon up more than two percent is gaining forty percent of the news it's being acquired by unilever and also telecom is also edging higher the company may start apply bhargava chairs forming a third sun to climb in value in the last three months it's also reportedly interested in buying the only three g. operator in ukraine to do would be worth two hundred seventy million dollars.

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