and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is r t with a roundup of the week's top stories to get right to our top story right now in an interview with a russian television station syrian president bashar al assad says he is willing to cooperate with all opposition parties that have emerged during the seven month uprising against his reign but he also raised questions about the true nature of the forces that are fighting against his regime. we know today we have hundreds of soldiers police and security forces among the dead how were they killed during peaceful demonstrations or because of some slogans being shouted down no they were shot down and this means we're dealing with our own people who represents the opposition i believe this question will be answered after the elections new parties emerge the local and parliamentary elections will take place soon and this will give us an answer and show who exactly represents the people regarding us and we cooperate with all political forces old and new that emerge

during the crisis because we believe that corporation has a very important thing we don't determine who are support of the population and who doesn't and we will have a more precise answer to that after the elections that as we believe will take place in february of next year we don't know whether the weapons reach syria from israel or any other state that possesses such weapons but there is evidence of mines and grenades that were put into place is packed with civilians this led to casualties in the number of cases mines also targeted security personnel police officers and soldiers there were cases of using anti-tank mines these are new and very dangerous facts now after seven months down the line since the beginning of the people in syria who possess accurate but not detailed information but the investigation shows that there was i'm small going to syria from the neighboring states the complaint was funded by foreign investors and we have a list of those who are responsible for the loss. assad also warned that the

west in that intervening in his country will cause an earthquake that will tear the middle east this statement comes as arab league diplomats made top syrian officials to promote dialogue between authorities and the opposition meanwhile united nations says that more than three thousand have been killed in the country sense at the start of protests in march and call on the syrian leader to end the violence but dissident syrian writer and a democracy campaigner michel thinks most people there. i don't want a military solution to the crisis. we're against military intervention whether today tomorrow or in ten years' time even if the regime is to ny late every one of us would still be against military intervention we fight for freedom and we don't want to add external slavery to our domestic one we don't want it to become a part of the struggle between the international and internal forces syrians are peaceful they want to progress under conditions of freedom and development and they don't want to turn into a concentration camp

a polygon for larger countries and nato is said to leave post gadhafi in libya by monday night but the regime it helped into power now faces a nationwide gun problem the national transitional council must take control over the left over arms in the country and international observers say infighting between former rebels now split over their agendas is already going on or he's a nice and now a report from libya. the war is over but the weapons are fully loaded. human rights watch has expressed grave concern about leftover armor in libya their number one fear warehouses thought to hold ground to air missiles which could in the wrong hands take down passenger aircraft it's through mate so our nato allies in the region which these weapons have been flooding libya and also libya is quite a world country anyway the population has has quite a lot of light weapons in its possession and those light weapons are becoming

a heavy burden on the national transitional council now relying on an army of former rebels for security that would try to control the bends if there's somebody who has worked and we ask him if he has a thursday show for this we are not. going to. checkpoints have been set up across tripoli to check that those carrying weapons have proper documentation and those who do have the paperwork are being called on by the national transition committee to return their arms the question now what if they don't and what does that mean for pulse gadhafi libya and its stability and now as you can see is being secured here everything is under control and the only word thing that we will make some we can is a how to give back the weapons but we see something very different i asked this head commander what the plan is to disarm the population. i swear i don't know

if you look. at the home of the sea. and a makeshift arms collection center that covers one neighborhood in the capital we are showing. you these are the weapons people brought to me today not many. walk down one block in tripoli and you'll see twice as many firearms. so you know how many weapons there are in libya i think this like to have to have incentives yeah i think everybody have a weapon some think the front of arms in the country could spell disaster ahead in the vacuum after gadhafi imposed through fault chaos as groups find out this just battles of power. what you have now in libya is schools of armed factions who have no respect for each other and who have no

respect for mates who actually either they've opportunistically used mates or to achieve some aims and nato has been foolish enough to go along with this so i think what we're going to see now is the intensification of the civil war between increasingly the factions which have overthrown with the gadhafi regime. and you see now a r t tripoli. libya's national transitional council which was never elected is now in power some of its members are executed a few loyalists and many of its fighters have links to al qaeda middle east commentator carl charo thinks libya has turned into a volatile country. people have way too much faith in the n t c which is quite obviously not in control of the situation on the ground in libya at the moment and in fact you can see the tension between the empty sea command and some of the more islamist led groups on the ground and in fact if you see some of the fighters on

the ground they have the characteristics of islamist fighters that have their long . history from afghanistan on wards so this illusion that benghazi has full control on the ground is not actually correct and i would say that the events that we're seeing them could be personal event that could be their normal run of wars but maybe another party in libya could have prevented the evolution of the us to the nation that's to delegitimize the station for change better that and down there in d.c. that still has a lot of former. associates and cronies within it so that's really the nub of the problem well colonel gadhafi may have gone but some of his secrets could still pose a threat to western leaders. the leaders most influential son saif al islam threatens to spill the beans on how libyan cash helps nicolas sarkozy and many others in the power that is if he gets his way in the war crimes court more on that in an hour's time on our team. and now to israel where recent airstrikes on gaza

have left at least ten palestinians dead the action came in response to rocket attacks on the jewish state that left one dead it is the worst outbreak of violence in months and follows a successful prisoner swap deal between israel and hamas artie's policy or brings us the details from tel aviv. one of the concerns people have is that among the hundreds of palestinian prisoners who are still in is raided jails and who still need to be released as part of that prisoner exchange deal that saw one israeli soldier return to israel in exchange for more than a thousand palestinian prisoners many of the palestinian prisoners who still need to be released belong to the democratic front for the liberation of palestine and that is one of the more palestinian groups that has claimed responsibility for a number of these rockets that have been fired into israel in recent days so there are many people here saying that this does jeopardize that prisoner exchange deal

and that it will be almost a convenient excuse for these rabies not to release the hundreds of palestinian prisoners that it is still committed to release as part of the deal they were more than twenty thousand people that took to the streets of tel aviv they were not surprised by the violence they say that this is something that has happened in the past and it is the government's way of detracting attention away from domestic problems and certainly if you look at the international media coverage the international media was much more focused on what was happening in terms of security concerns and on israel's border with gaza and then on what was happening domestically here and this is exactly what protesters say they say that they want money to not be spent so much on mean on the defense budget but full cuts they have to be made so that more money can be sustained domestically and certainly this increase in violence and the government's response in terms of the fact that it is going to give gaza a harsh hand to tracks attention away from what people here say is the ongoing situation where they have very real demands that are more often than not

overshadowed by the excuse of security concerns. as we are reporting for us there and staying with television where a court has sentenced a former israeli soldier to four and a half years in prison for releasing classified military documents some of the leaked to files that detail military officials approving the assassination of palestinians in the west bank but those claims aren't even being investigated legal expert sorry says that. israeli law. in this case a whistle blower blew a loud and disturbing whistle the military is violating international law and the directive the israeli supreme court in carrying out assassinations in situations in which they are required to try to make an arrest and so the state attorney's office prosecuted the soldier but failed to seriously investigate the conduct revealed in those documents conduct with raises serious questions about rule of law in a democratic system that pattern of behavior of violating it waters by the supreme

court because of the supreme court said that that said you must try to arrest is part of a pattern of practice within the israeli system and it's something that's very disturbing because when the army does not obey orders by the supreme court the supreme court is actually more reluctant to issue those orders because no court wants to issue orders that are going to be ignored and then of course you have a serious threat to the rule of law because in a democratic system the army is of course supposed to listen to what the system tells them to do. scores of demonstrators are supporting the occupy wall street movement have been arrested across the u.s. riot police in denver moved in detaining activists who refused to leave their camp earlier police used pepper spray to disperse the crowds at least sixty people were arrested in the states of texas oregon and california after police went in to it first forced curfews removing protesters belongings it was nature threatening demos in new york after the city was hit by an unseasonal snow blizzard however the

activists say they are ready to withstand harsh weather conditions to make their point and they've got to check out reports from washington the occupy protesters are serious in their determination. the peaceful nationwide movement that turned violent overnight in oakland. police attacked protesters with tear gas stun grenades. flash bombs and rubber bullets we had been there for weeks we had been taking care of ourselves there been no incidents with the police and they came in in one of the most terrifying shows of force that i've ever seen in my entire life and they came in and they either flushed everyone out of the camp or arrested them and then they began to systematically trample all of the tents cut them apart and this need people really really angry a former u.s. marine an iraqi war veteran was seriously injured by a tear gas canister that police fired at him and. footage of the wounded veteran

and police brutality spread quickly the shock of it galvanizing the nation and the occupy movement across the country. google says the company received requests from local law enforcement agencies to remove you tube videos of police brutality they did not comply the stronger of forcible response five establishment the stronger the movement will get the larger the protests will become the protesters. through these past six weeks of being careful not to taint the movement's reputation with violence by a march most reports suggest that this movement has been almost entirely peaceful but some in the u.s. media use the night of violence you know clinton to portray the protesters as radicals and more violence from the occupiers a lot of these people are professional educators a good number of these people are radicals no doubt about it you might ask how radical was this elderly woman in a wheelchair who was tear gassed by police or jasper father of two who's working on

his ph d. at the university of california berkeley you know they characterize you know. the perspective of the. marginal and radical and fringe in order to discredit it this moment really is about all americans it's not just about people that have a story we've been poor this is about now it's to the middle class that is starting to feel the impact of corporate greed that has run this country for so long as the movement grows bigger and more structured it's becoming harder to ignore the message of the campaigners who call themselves the ninety nine percent and protest against corporate crime and government complicity protesters tens marsh ruined throughout the country there will be more the movement is only expanding several weeks ago police crackdown on protesters with pepper spray this week it was tear gas and stun grenades protesters now want to hit big business where it hurts a general strike next week demanding banks and corporations shut down for

a day but will the police response be anyone more brutal crackdown i'm going to check our reporting for washing our teeth. in a few minutes and we report from the most anticipated cultural event in the russian capital in years. milli. dollars and six years of meticulous work. reopens after a major overhaul in our special report coming up. the whistle is blown over wiki leaks as the site is forced to suspend operations as it struggles to fight growing financial pressure. russian cargo space ship is on its way to the international space station delivering tons of supplies for the orbiting crew two months after its predecessor crashed.

a soyuz rocket sent the progress module from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan it should reach the i s s in three days delivering food and fuel and other supplies for a fee the three astronauts who are currently there a russian an american and a japanese astronaut there are only half the normal crew there right now after a similar supply module crashed after blast off in august temporarily suspending flights since the end of nasa is shuttle program in july the soyuz is the only transportation to the space station. you can get the back story on the soyuz missions as the space station's only lifeline at r.t. dot com for more there for you to discover as well. the pyramid that returns russia's most notorious financial ponzi scheme that robbed millions of their life savings in the ninety's is back this time in ukraine and it's getting

a surprising number of investors. all a matter of time the russian digital devices switch from daylight savings time ignoring a presidential decree not to put the clocks back details on our web page at r t v dot com. a crucial deal on the eurozone debt crisis was agreed to thursday in the e.u. efforts to save greece and avoid further economic collapse the banks are required to write off fifty percent of what athens owes them after european leaders decided to have the greece's private sector debt to one hundred billion euros europe's bailout fund will be boosted to one point four trillion euros in order to protect larger economies of the region you know high. van overtveldt who runs two of

belgium's leading business magazines believes it is only a temporary solution and greece needs to be excluded from the euro zone. it's just buying time this is really not the bazooka everybody has been asking for i would describe it as water this of course prevents for the moment that we really get to a kind of. relation of the greek adept level which is now growing in the direction of hundred and eighty percent of g.d.p. but you cannot call this a structural resolution to the different greek problems they are a little bit afraid to really bite the bullet here because if you look at it closely there is only one solution for greece and the truth had been put on the table already several months ago that is for greece to leave the euro zone but that is a decision everybody's afraid of and what has for example not been discussed now but which is fairly much on the mind of several of the european leaders is that there

is a huge problem brewing in portugal because this country is going down to greet the greek road quite rapidly now so if one does the action today on greece one immediately has to put a similar kind of action into operation with respect to port to go. to other stories making headlines this week whistle blowing web site wiki leaks has temporarily suspended publications in order to concentrate on raising funds the organization has been under heavy financial pressure after a boycott by the bank of america visa and pay pal they stopped doing business with of the site after a long trial excuse me trail of secret u.s. diplomatic cables were made public the founder of the website julian assange claimed of the freeze was illegal and promised to take the matter to court president of the british national union of journalists the long says hitting out at wiki leaks will not deter others from publishing sensitive material online. or been taken outside of any legal process. side of any international political agreements

yet they seem to be ability to shut down a website that some governments find troubling. it's very unclear exactly what the motivations what the power behind them and it is it's good steeply unsettling because there were other very beginning of the situation questions about. potentially members of the u.s. government had suggested or asked companies like amazon which was the first to take action against wiki leaks because they were hosting the saudis and what they may have been asked by individuals within the u.s. government so. obviously one of the issues is there aren't really any rules regarding what companies can can or cannot do with their customers companies are generally entitled to reject customers if unfortunately wiki leaks was forced to close down that we would see other sides seeking to do the same kind of thing and getting around the restrictions of wiki leaks based votes are being counted in the central asian nation of kyrgyzstan in the first presidential election since

a bloody uprising toppled former leader coming back but last spring over eighty percent of the ballots have been processed and the front runner so far as the country's prime minister a wealthy businessman almost back at home by a who's promising stability and prosperity or an interim leader. will step down later this year to make way for the winner the vote is seen as both a democratic milestone and a vital chance to repair the country's dangerous dangerous north south divide and april last year at least ninety people were killed in the capital in the unrest that ousted but he had led to massive ethnic clashes in the south that left more than four hundred people dead. and now more of today's top news stories kenyan jets have bombed the southern somali town of killing at least twelve people and wounding over fifty they were targeting islamist. rebels but somali officials claim those killed were in fact civilians including six children

witnesses say jets bombarded a militant a base and a nearby refugee camp kenya sent to troops into somalia in mid october to fight somali insurgents it blames for assaults on the border. yemen has shut down its international airport in the capital city of sanaa after several explosions rocked a nearby air force base earlier presidential loyalists troops reportedly shelled a petrol station killing at least four people dozens of others were injured in that attack north of the capital where local tribesmen now back protesters has endured months of violence that left more than seventeen hundred people. australian airline quantas has been ordered to end the bitter union dispute immediately and get back in the air the flag carrier grounded its entire fleet stranding tens of thousands of passengers and threatened to lockout staff taking industrial action but an independent work over the airline and the union should be flying again by

monday afternoon although the long running over pay and yet to be resolved the legendary glamour of. ballet has made a big comeback to the heart of the russian capital as the bolshoi theater reopened this week after years of renovation. it was at the exclusive grand relaunch to find out whether it was worth the wait and the fortune spent on it. just remade from scratch it seemed hard on paper but it appeared arduous in reality over seven hundred million dollars of state money and six years of course to bring back all people and send glory to russia's landmark theater even the president side with. the. it's been a painstaking process going through this nightmare it was not only defeat us

company but also the government on the side construction workers. site workers were the first to the theaters orchestra sang an ode to. a real truck driven on to the stage just showed the scale of renovation the theater underwent unesco has already taxed the works as unique the stage has doubled in size and not by growing wider the bolshoi has remained in its historic contours but by growing on the ground i think it's absolutely wise choice to drive with the best within the old tools of the building and try to modernize it without making it a modern building and modern looking it is definitely not kilo's of braided gold tons of crystal and hundreds of meters of silk woven by monks all setting the scene for some of the world's greatest beauties i think the fairest of the all.

right. here. is what is the word bolshoi associated with in the west of course they use this a ballet. this say. this a chandelier. that credible standing there. and of course this a rush to see the stage where the old soviet symbols now removed came the last president of the u.s. ceasar me heil gorbachev bell a legend maya p.c. at sca as well as directives from the competition world class values including last scala the vienna oprah and covent garden precious opening night tickets for the wealthy and well connected only were exclusively available for the president's office and for others happy to watch in the cheesy autumn and the opening night

show gala concert was displayed on giant t.v. screens. as the curtain came down the cheers rob will from all sides could be heard ringing inside the renovated restored. excluding the groucho but art scene. and that does it right now up ahead we hear from inside israel's political circle as to why peace feels as allusive as ever with the palestinians i'll be back with a recap of our headlines in just before that in a few moments i'm sean thomas thanks for watching r.t. international.

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