moscow the total number killed in the syrian conflict nell stands at well over three thousand activists say at least twelve people have died in fresh violence after security forces opened fire on protesters were calling for nationwide demonstrations in support of army defectors who joined the opposition the government insists they're not revolutionaries but armed gangs that threaten the public 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 home town 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 are locals remapped 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 run the 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 and we saw the situation had become a threat to the people and that's why we decided an intervention should take place in. the end so i would say it's reality or it. was the son of god because many of us this place were there to explain what basically come work for me to see here this was you know was basically playing a role here are still here now it's time 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 the surface from the military i think it's a kind of a strategy by the government. weakening the morale of the. good of the forces so if they talk about the friction. it became our signal that could be very will be more the fracture so instead people that. are armed gangs or was so with this kind of this will serve their purpose but under the circumstances the morale of most affected by the violence and understand is that a ruthless does or syria and syria. occupy wall street protesters have won their first battle after a mass cleanup effort by new york city officials was counseled activists against corporate greed considered it an attempt to undermine the month long rally you see

the center of events in new york. thousands at least two to three thousand ended up turning out here in soko de park behind me the crowd is a little bit smaller now they have gone on a protest march near wall street we actually just gotten reports of a clash with police but the massive massive turnout is really fueled i guess speculation by the police department by this administration the mayors of ministration here in new york that. with so much media attention so many people they really couldn't afford another instance like what we saw two weeks ago where unprecedented number of new yorkers were arrested as part of the wall street occupy wall street occupation so i think there was a lot of fear that clashes could happen and part of all of this is the fact that these protesters most of the ones i've spoken to are determined to stay regardless of what the police does one man who i spoke to yesterday when we were really expecting some c.t.'s clashes had this to say take a lesson it's

a pretext to. pay attention to come here and move people out and then set new conditions about moving back in it's just a it's the move to do swaps in this group so we pretty much understand what's going on here we have twenty four seven clean up around here all the time and there aren't really any issues but we're going to make a big effort to get because we had rain everything show you know we've got a wet fart board and it's. a good clean up you know that really has been the attitude for most of the people that we've spoken to here protesters for scrubbing the floor sort of hands and knees but really it's not about sanitation it's not about the cleverness of the park it's about the fact that these movements are spreading across america they're popping up in hundreds of cities across the country and folks simply the establishment the police departments the politicians they're nervous they have not seen this kind of unprecedented movement in the united states and at this point it does not show any sign of dwindling we do know

that up to over fifteen going to be the big data was. this is when the situation expected to spread but massive protests planned all across the country including here in new york the occupiers plan on staying here in zuccotti park they plan on urging in times square in the evening which should be very interesting to watch a lot of police presence in times square and a lot more potential for clashes because we have to keep in mind most of the arrests most of the confrontations with the police have been when protesters leave this area and walk down the streets that it's the police here a lot more of an excuse so to speak to. put people in corners and try to stop the movement that way but for now the folks here are determined to stay we've seen terrible weather reno they have not been deterred by that so be very interesting to see how this plays out and whether he can play out peacefully or whether we'll see further crackdowns like we've seen for example in denver yesterday in seattle and

across the country. the occupy wall street movement prepares to go global closely watching the rallies taking place in europe and the u.s. this forthcoming weekend don't miss our special coverage on saturday october the fifteenth. until the. country's. people. against their governments. worldwide action against austerity. the european central bank national governments to do their part to ease the. spoken head of a key meeting of world phone and ministers who are gathering in paris to morrow solutions to the crisis in europe correspondent. 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 a government strong through the european government to come through and take some actions because the latest country problems with spain seeing problems with its solidarity or failure solidarity is how the downgrade of its rating a game which is going to make it even harder for it to raise money and pay off its debts we're expecting protests tomorrow perhaps the biggest protests so far over you will start to measure in spain now russia's prime minister has come out and said that governments could solve this problem if they wanted to but when you might a. crisis is more political than a financial issue according to different estimates between one and one and trillion dollars is needed the number is big but the eurozone can handle it it's a political issue because in order to get out of these 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 will to go is the latest country which. 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 claude trichet saying that he does expect those governments to come through with those cuts in order to balance this budget there is a meeting today and tomorrow of the world's leading finance ministers as they try to tackle this crisis that has been in portugal might just be too painful for the people to take these austerity measures michel. some of those

victims. i'm afraid i'm afraid i'm afraid that. thing is going to be like. lucia's in the 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. we are. and. it's happening. here. the worst rate of unemployment in thirty years is 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. but one market. 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 to. the portuguese are they not those say the solution is to create more jobs and cut unnecessary expenditure but the government seventy eight billion euro bailout earlier this year following in the footsteps of greece and ireland to paid back. which will see longer working hours less holidays and even listened to the christmas bonuses which most workers enjoyed at the. top of kids. if you can't do it you can't do it because you can't do it and.

its. financial system and the political system that is intertwined with the financial system. that is so completely twisted conditions. 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. and build europe not because it's not democratic national governments that are not democratic. rabbit old is that your problem is not the prize. but a call for a global day of action or looked up at the fifteenth from the occupy wall street

movement to new york is expected to get a loud response from portugal but for many of those who will fill the streets here it's not so much about evolution as it is about turning it into a simple fight for survival in. lisbon. more coverage of the unfolding debt crisis in europe is available on our website dot com also on line for you at the moment a wave of criticism and fears of cold war like tensions on the korean peninsula as washington plans a new base for its navy in south korea also online. imagine a job where you do nothing but sleep and get paid one hundred fifty dollars a day for doing it position really is all of that would you believe right here in moscow on the full story and. well back to one of our top stories now the ongoing ronnie's of the occupy wall street movement in the u.s. for more on this i can now talk to william bell he's author of go. money rule

street and the death of the american sentry he joins me now from frankfurt. so the protest is one their first victory to count will straight after a massive cleanup effort was cancelled what will this do to the mood of the movement when it add more impetus. well what's clear if you if you monitor this closely there's some talk that these demonstrations in wall street are being encouraged by people trained by the obama administration or financed by george soros in a sense it doesn't really matter because the spotlight has been put on the source of the problem in the world economy and world financial for the last four years namely a handful of g gigantic banks that have simply hijacked the economy in the populations of the world for their own interests and that to put the spotlight on that i think is absolutely brilliant and what's interesting this movement is taking on a life of its own i just talked with sean maguire

a journalist friend of mine with the sovereign independent in ireland and he reports on enormous groundswell that's taking place in dublin demonstrating every day for three weeks now against the banks and the press has finally been forced to acknowledge the existence of the reality and cover it and to cover it fairly honestly so this thing is. bursting out everywhere and i think it's one of the most encouraging signs that we've had since the crisis broke in two thousand and seven just briefly explain your comments earlier about a bomber and soros the element that. well it's been mooted about that too a former member of the obama white house has been training many of the wall street demonstrators in forms of. you know peaceful action against wall street and in a bid to kind of boost the fortunes of the democratic party for the upcoming election there have been rumors that foundations tied to george soros and such circles have been financing some of these organizations as

a counterweight to the republican tea party movement which is financed by big oil money of the koch family and such things like that. in a sense i don't think it really matters at this point because it's taken on a dynamic of its own and by putting the focus on wall street and six to seven banks gigantic banks that are simply too big to save they're not too big to fail anymore. it brings up the question why haven't we done what the swedes did in one thousand nine hundred two when the government stepped in nationalized the bank drew a ring fence around the problem institutions until they could be sorted out and kept the real economy of sweden functioning and that's what has to happen in the u.s. that's what has to happen in ireland that's what has to happen in portugal in these various other countries are he's talking just briefly about those questions those countries around the world we know that the protests will be indeed going global on saturday with rallies planned in hundreds of cities in the u.s.

europe asia and africa but is this really a sign of something big could it just fade away. well it you can always fade away but i think the people doing this have to really think what's behind it you know occupy wall street that's a that's a nice slogan but what are you going to do and when you have your people inside the banks they don't know how to run a banking system most of them they're firemen they're working people secretaries students and so forth but the point is. what is the problem that these banks have caused and what is the solution to that problem the the previous bush administration said we don't nationalize in america that's a socialist solution that's rubbish to nationalize as the swedes did in other countries have done is this is the only true capitalist solution to the failure of dysfunction of captains institutions they have to suffer the consequences just funny you a little are applauding the motives behind this movement is there not a danger that it could be hijacked by on

a case oh i don't think i think that if it were hijacked by atticus i would suspect police provocateurs rather than or f.b.i. or something like that that's a that's a favorite tactic to try to discredit peaceful and well meaning opposition but i think that i think people are becoming a little more sophisticated about some of these old tricks. you know hijack are not hijacked the point is the focus has been turned on the real problem and not on these these synthetic false problems like the tea party movement was it was trying to that was a hijack but now we're getting into some interesting territory i think. economic research a lot from fact that thanks very much indeed for your thoughts thank you. well moscow's reportedly preparing the response to washington's planned missile defense system in europe it fun and comments by the incoming u.s. ambassador to moscow he said washington cannot guarantee the system wouldn't target russia well if he got this kind of has the details. washington is speeding up its

plans for its missile defense system in europe despite all these alarming questions coming out of russia spain palling to romania and turkey have agreed to host elements of the system on their territory and it's planned 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 iran and north korea but moscow has been sounding the alarm saying that the system could be a potential threat to its national security 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 that this is not possible since russia is not part of the alliance moscow then started asking for legal guarantees from washington that

this estate 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 illegal guarantees 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 a 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 a fact of way to answer washington's and use all the found supplies in europe so we'll see how the situation develops but it's definitely a fact that washington is not planning to back down on its anti missile defense plans. and would like to know what you think of these. we're covering here you can

log on to our website it's not a dot com to take part in all ages online poll where we're asking why you think the talks between russia and the u.s. over missile defense failed well here are the results on screen so far thirty seven percent are convinced it's all because the makers need to sell their weapons almost a third say the u.s. is to blame because it would compromise twenty four percent believe russia in the u.s. is just natural enemies who would never agree on anything and a minority think it's because russia is de monsoreau reasonable tell us what you think cast your vote at r.t. dot com. the us president has taken a firm stance against iran promising tough sanctions for the country over claims it was plotting to kill the saudi ambassador to washington to iranians were charged with trying to hire members of a mexican drug cartel to carry out the attack something to iran is dismissed as baseless but barack obama says there is enough evidence of iran's guilt and is calling on the international community to make it pay for its behavior and further

isolating turn around the u.s. is now considering sanctions on iran central bank promising even more pressure by society one hundred marandi from the university of tehran says he is unconvinced by the claims of iranian involvement. in the more pressure that the united states tries to impose our pani iran the iranians will push back as well the united states of being part of the dishonest iran has absolutely no motive to carry out such an operation if you ron did hypothetically want to carry out this operation they could have done it in the middle east in an area where there are more high profile figures and where it could be carried out much easier why would iran want to create extra sensitivity with the united states so it's absolute nonsense and obviously iran gains nothing from it the only people who do gain is the united states by distracting attention away away from its problems at home such as the economic hardship that people are facing its decline in the middle east it helps israel come

out of isolation it helps the. saudi regime try to unite its people against some theoretical hypothetical foreign enemy. now let's have a quick look at some other news in brief from around the world before we get the business news from korea in libya fierce fighting continues in colored aphids hometown of well battles have broken out in tripoli for the first time in two months and forces of the suspected snipers loyal to gadhafi one m.t.c. fighters says shooting began after a man was spotted raising the green flag symbolizing the ousted regime support serious outbreak of violence in the capital since the then rebels seized control of tripoli in august. italian prime minister silvio berlusconi has survived a decisive parliamentary vote of confidence which was key to continuing his political career would face calls for his resignation by political rivals and members of the business community amid a series of damaging scandals and a weakening economy the securing of the vote of confidence some miles but it's

going to stay in power through to the end of his term in twenty thirty. that's why capital a huge effort is underway by the military and volunteers to strengthen the city's flood defenses authorities fear rain and high tides which of course huge devastation across the country could now move into bangkok flash floods have killed two hundred eighty three people and devastated cities in sixty one provinces since july. very shortly we'll be delving into the history of russia's film industry but first as promised as the business updates with kareena. hello and welcome to business this hour russia says it's ready to act against new european energy legislation it's called the third energy package and bans energy suppliers like gas from from owning gas pipelines president medvedev has ordered energy representatives to submit proposals on how russia can keep good relations

with the e.u. and contravene the new laws at the same time however analysts say there's not much there's not much russia can do. it's the law of european union and of course it's the idea of european union and that is why in the reality it's very difficult to press on european union we can imagine them just for example top the supply to europe but of course it's dramatic and in my opinion absolutely the real scenario that is why we go only one method i mean all new day a lot is the my supporters who if you would be new is the decision of brussels but we just want to explain our arguments because if european union maybe you speaks in construction then you and you pull to see if you will be the problem also for us and we want to explain to them that for example it will be no new investment to the new pipes this is will not work and we all may just want to prove this mistakes but as we can see

as an intellectual discussion more. let's have a look at the markets now boilers rising reversing earlier losses after the group of twenty and i'm f official said that the washington based lender main quest resources to be used to stem the e.u. debt crisis when blend is trading at one hundred fourteen dollars per barrel. and that eighty six times our u.s. retail sales data give stocks a boost as investors await european debt crisis response retail sales rose over one percent in september boosted by strong auto purchases also giving stocks a list earnings reported by search engine google with shares rising six point three percent and european markets ended higher on friday with minors and technology stocks help you know helping offset for the losses for some banks that's following a series of downgrades and warnings from brokers and credit rating agencies shares

of ericsson rose three point four percent after its mobile handset joint venture sony ericsson broke even the third quarter and said. it still expects modest industry growth in two thousand and eleven. and here in russia markets and with the best weekly gain in more than one and a half years will supply of oil and metals stocks they rallied on bet's europe's debt crisis will be contained the r.t. has gained a three point eight percent all of my six and over three percent in the black and let's have a look at some individual channels on the line six most of the blue chips were trading in the black berry banks soaring over six and a half percent the lender has announced it's going to increase the share of the share of foreign activity in its profit to seven percent in three years has jumped more than forty percent its highest on record on the deal with unilever and the company's share price rise had to be capped because of because of my six trading rules and norris neko is also on the rise that's the spike the company's first half

net profit plunging twenty two percent to one point eight billion dollars. that's all the update we have for you but stay with us for headline news coming up next. on.

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