defectors have reportedly crossed over to fight alongside opposition forces in northern syria but the government insists that just a gang strengthening the public and not revolutionaries i mean you and human rights office has raised the tally of those killed during the seventh month long uprising to now over three thousand. reports on this. about one hundred eighty kilometers north of damascus is a city of under 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 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 in. the inside since we have to wait for you here this was probably this is a place where there's always what the police come work with me see here this was what you said was they see things. from our side here. but opposition activists insist that these were not on gas or to. but i mean

defectors so far the government has said little on the subject of decisions from the military i think it's a kind of for a strategy by the government to weakening the. divorces so if they talk about the friction it becomes a signal that could be there will be more defections so people that are. gangs or was so with this kind of this would serve their purpose but under the circumstances the morale of most affected by the violence in understand is that of the locals dozen or so they are in syria. and you're watching r t it's good to have your company today and still ahead for you this hour twenty one years of stagnation little known self-proclaimed republic of trans eastern europe remains frozen in poverty and ethnic conflict many believe its leader is the one to blame.

on the arctic attraction we report on why an inhospitable aki pella go in the arctic ocean has become a welcoming home for immigrants from all around the world. the latest polls in the united states suggest the 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 but it all started in new york a month ago and the occupy wall street activists who have been camped out there ever since refusing to be moved more important points. 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 moms even brushes to clean every square inch body part of the park but the big reason why the demonstrators are doing this is because new york city mayor michael bloomberg paid

a visit to the are personally on wednesday evening walk through and told all 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 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 cording to reports is worse than it's been in the past twenty five years at its worst level a 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 owns half of the country's stocks bonds and mutual funds this is just a little reef synopsis of what you can work they can about corporate greed possibly or when they talk about. economic disparities within the united states. well the anti big business movement is now preparing to go international protests to do to take place in the u.k. and even spreading as far as asia. explains why people in india apparently joined

the occupy to get the 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 type a soul hong kong by jakarta even if lama bad so the movement in asia is growing there's a lot of support for a so here in kenya you know 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 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 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 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 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 auntie's 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 country problems in spain it's the problems with solidarity of failure of solidarity it's how the downgrade of its rating a game which is going to make it even harder for it to raise money and pay off debts were expected protests tomorrow perhaps the biggest protests so far. 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 political than a financial issue according to different estimates between one and one and a half trillion dollars is needed the number is big but the usa can handle it it's a political issue because in order to gather the resources leading european countries must offer a shoulder to those in trouble take 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 is 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. 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 tomorrow of the world's leading finance ministers as they try to tackle this crisis has been talk in portugal might just be too painful for the people to take these austerity measures mike. spoken to some of

those victims of the cross and 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 not going to be able to to have a good life. lucia 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 actually be have to realize that we are not. bad for them. it's happening and it's happening everywhere inspiring. 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 a situation similar to its present state because it was lagging the capital was all but destroyed by an earthquake but one man marketable the minister for kingdom that's his stature right there managed to pull the country out of the crisis three hundred years on however if you believe anybody will be able to perform a similar monumental task 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 paid back to the 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 were meant to start a life together you know your own space your own you know. type of kid so you know . if you can't you can't do it you can't do it because you can't afford to do it

and. it's. a system and the political system that is. it is so. twisted that conditions. this to 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 national. democratic. national governments the. rabbit hole didn't grab the problem. the cries of. 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 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. 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. jailed for seven years on tuesday now faces new charges attempting to millions of dollars . and the secret life of the russian president's son is revealed. discover he's in fact a t.v. personality and screen star.

he 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. washington is speeding up its plans for its missile defense system in europe despite all these alarming questions coming out of russia spain fall into romania and turkey have agreed to host elements of the system on their territories and his plan that the shield will be finished by twenty eighteen 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 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 safety of each other but washington and some nato officials have been saying this is not possible since russia is not part of the alliance moscow then started asking for legal guarantees from washington that this isto will not be aimed 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 meeting about boys who said that if this is the case then moscow will have

to start thinking about making its own efforts to our resource 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. will be a fact that washington is not. reporting now 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 and surprising ethnic community there and i. want 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 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 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 archipelagos foreign population all things to the sligo lady of the money and i think ties in the regions have a lot in common most people are very open and warm hearted. it may not have been love at first sight but they want to do political implications some paul hawken met here future norwegian has spent in the early ninety's in bangkok when he brought her to spitzbergen the couple were

a local oddity and since then many more full on in their footsteps. tire women are brutal up to be more and beaten 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 here 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 apnic tensions on the archipelago they're all. and. many many.

people from all kind of nations norway has responsibility for this fall but we have the server admin but everyone who has signed then the treaty could come and live here according to do 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 norway's generous social support system doesn't operate here and according to the archipelago spy's 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 the truth of. what we do though is that it's required that you have. to be able to provide for so loved work and 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 this may seem like an oxymoron but it's actually a very good recipe for the cultural fusion that one can find here a schizophrenic and now we can composure a couple things some time for has so far proven a much better recipe for peaceful coexistence than any of those. policies that tend to go sour in other countries. are the only real gergen archipelago. you are with r.t. live from moscow about just a few minutes away now from the business news now in those so proclaimed republic of transistor breakaway territory in the republic of moldova not much has changed since it announced its independence and nine hundred ninety still no solution to the ethnic and territorial conflict with moldova and some believe the current

leadership is to blame parties where if a national reports on. 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 campaign has even started the current leader of the self-proclaimed breakaway moved over in republic of turns nice turn igudesman off 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 a station criticized by moscow as a mistake. smearing of as created an atmosphere of personal power that has put the public 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 all getting richer. the republic is certain its independence in one thousand nine hundred ninety from moldova which is south split 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 patrols nice to has always been viewed by moldova as part of its own territory meaning continued political tension. in one nine hundred ninety two war broke out in which hundreds died as moldova forces fought separatists before an internationally forged cease fire brought and easy peace since then continued afterwards by russia and the international community to move the mood over in and transnistria an authority is towards dialogue have not borne fruit leave intentions 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 thread 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 democratic election procedures. 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 flash point the latest twist in the difficult history of this troubled region a group of russian observers it had interest mr to monitor the elections following a request from the authorities that one of the ballot his free and fair are 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. it is a pleasure to have you with us today on r.t. to stick around next with the 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 a the deal is worth four hundred million euro of the movie a sponsor of unilever strategy to conquer a faster 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 first 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 out gold bought seventy percent of polish gold full six billion dollars and francisco told to a twelve percent stake in russian company novacek. let's have 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 blant 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 on the dykes is point eight percent on the rise on the food see b.p. and really leading the gains to come or 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 seem to be looking beat as prospects have proved for containing europe's debt crisis the r.t.s. is gaining three point one percent and the r.t.s. 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 . in the black the sol was up more than two percent is gaining a source of dissent on the news it's being acquired by unilever telecom is also edging higher the company may start to buy shares in the thirty percent decline in value in the last three months it's also reportedly interested in buying the only three g. operating in ukraine to be worth two hundred seventy million dollars. given the very high level of uncertainties associated with the global economy and also be euro zone we are concerned about the outlook for commodity prices and those

results were advised in our clients to stay away from risky sectors in specific banking in specific metals and mining stocks and we prefer to see clients invested in the more defensive sectors like oil and gas in specific state owned companies which have strong balance sheets tracked evaluations and other important features. so the business news from also more stores check all websites are to dot com slash business.

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how true but if you want a master of the headline. was in northern syria turning against the regime the government says they're just posing a threat to the public. the occupy together protest movement which began in new york. with demonstrations being planned in cities all around the world. the european central bank done its part in the debt crisis and governments now have to take the lead themselves. to stay with us russia's relationship with the silver screen it goes back decades.