channel bashar al assad claims the campaign's been funded from abroad. and. today we have hundreds of soldiers police and security forces among the dead how were they killed during peaceful demonstrations or because some slogans being chanted don't know they were shot and this means we're dealing with people 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 in place is packed with civilians this led to casualties in a number of cases mines also targeted security personnel police officers and soldiers their work ace's of using anti-tank mines these are new and very dangerous facts no seven months down the line since the beginning of the people in syria we possess clear but not detailed information but the information obtained during the latest interrogation of terrorists shows that smuggling to syria from neighboring

states might become pain was funded from abroad and we have a list of those who are responsible for this. that eva three that are also warning western powers that any foreign intervention would help the middle east and the whole world meanwhile the u.n. any arab league have condemned the violence in syria calling for an immediate end to the civilian death toll more than three thousand people are being killed after months of anti-government. protesters from the occupy wall street movement facing new challenges as unseasonably bad weather hits the east coast along with a sweeping police crackdown there now be up against plummeting temperatures snow and strong winds are very important has the latest from new york. thing durance and tenacity of new york city's occupy wall street activists was tested this weekend as a blast of fine usual winter weather moved through the big apple the campgrounds in zuccotti park was hit with snow heavy rains and winds blowing up to sixty

miles per hour now hundreds of protesters braved the freezing temperatures huddled inside their own personal tents or under tarps that were put up over part of zuccotti park now just one day before this winter weather came in city firefighters seized at least six generators and dozens of cans of gas from the occupy activists in zuccotti park now those generators were presumably being used to generate heat as many knew that this cold weather was coming up over the weekend city officials say the generators violate fire code and could have sparked a fire in the meantime occupy activists are threatening to take legal action if there are generators and their property will not be returned they demand that the city give them their property babb occupy apte of us are accusing new york city mayor michael bloomberg of attempting to end the occupation by creating

a public health risk for these protestors that valid to remain down in zuccotti park in lower manhattan throughout the winter the upcoming winter season now meanwhile in denver over the weekend police moved into an occupying camp meant arresting demonstrators who allegedly ignored orders to leave the arrest came hours after a standoff between activists and authorities near the steps of the colorado capital because that erupted resulted in cops reportedly using pepper stick pepper spray and rubber bullets against protesters twenty people people were reportedly arrested in what's being described as an ongoing. he's crocked town against american uprising meanwhile the iraqi war veteran who was critically injured by police during wednesday's occupy oakland demonstration is making minor improvements doctors say that scott olsen's condition has been upgraded to fair although he

remains in intensive care the twenty four year old suffer a minor brain damage after being hit by a police projectile scott olsen was among the many iraqi war veterans taking part in the occupy open oakland demonstrations that ended with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets at crowds of people at least ninety seven people were arrested yet many save the event that of that garnered even more sympathy and more support for the occupying wall street movement that began here in new york city reporting from new york great important r.t. . it's been a week of arrests and clashes between protesters and police sunday more than one hundred people were held across the country as authorities force activists out of their makeshift camps r.t. producer lucy happen always been following the protests since they started six weeks ago she tweets that police are raiding the can't mend of protesters in richmond virginia follow her twitter page for the latest information. stay with

us here on our t.v. still to come while a former israeli soldier imprisoned for leaking secret military data our team looks at why this classified information is being ignored by investigators plus. we're still a long way from science fiction becoming science fact with human scent single poem on the surface of mars but we are allowed to dream in a few moments we test the waters and weigh up our chances of one day going to the red planet. but first the eurozone may have heaved a sigh of relief with a new deal was reached to help debt ridden greece but it doesn't mean the crisis is over portugal reportedly wants to renegotiate the terms of the bailout it got earlier this year and it's also called on non european countries to help save the eurozone as artie's arena reports painful austerity cuts have hit portugal hard.

no jobs no money no chance for the future these messages have been brought by teachers striking in portugal they can never have stability to be in the school. even if they are working for ten fifteen twenty years they are always earning the same and don't have a place in school a stable place and one school it's a political choice of financial cuts in education in the herald's in social security that's a political choice and we think it's it's wrong. like legendary atlantis particle seems to be sliding deeper and deeper into the depths of economic apathy that started off as a purely financial crisis is now turning into malevolent force which threatens to drop the portuguese their basic human rights earlier this year portugal got an emergency bailout from the e.u. to deal with its debt the third country to do so after greece and ireland but for

some the seventy eight billion euro price tag is too high to pay for the hysteria to cuts it goes well beyond the classroom and strikes at some of portuguese societies fundamental principles like access to justice. the government isn't paying lawyers who provide free public services so there are some who have been doing it for years for free. courts cannot be reduced to canonical entities to solve problems of large corporations they must play the role of providing legal services to citizens and promoting social peace. and this is cutting corners in education and the legal system is not enough the government spends years are hitting the portuguese where it hurts the most in their health care the government now what is your capacity then do we save money do in two thousand and subsidies every year the government most has to made though so yes there will be a lot of people who moan because we know that at the same time we've got

even. reduced. and it's more pain no gain these territories failing to stop portugal's economy plummeting with the poor in the front line the prime minister has said that he wants to keep the lower income families away from the cuts not really sure that's possible portugal now has a really big budget problem portugal needs money and needs at now so they are going to have to cut like time services slashed taxes hiked but portugal's still on course to have a worse debt ratio than greece that's startling enough but for the people trying to survive there's stickney the economy disaster is already here in those car t. this been. here doing russian billionaires or i'm on a remote and boris berezovsky are taking their battle to a u.k. court bears are asking claims are them over to rob him of billions of dollars

something that chelsea football club owner denies he's expected to speak at a high court hearing monday artie's ivor better reports on what promises to be the most expensively lawsuit in history. this will be the first time or manob remove it sure mr a is the body guards are calling him opens his mouth in this hearing up until now he's kept a resolute silence in stark contrast to his rival mr b. . whose appearances in the witness box have been loud brash and passionate after all there's a lot at stake here he's suing me say for three point five billion pounds for breach of trust and breach of contract he says mr a intimidated him bullied him into selling his shares in sydney the oil company for a fraction of their true value the hearings trying to establish the finer details of those deals that went on but it appears none of that was actually put into writing after all it was ninety's russia is not so much what's inside the court has caught the attention here is the extravagant apparatus around these two men they

show up to court and shiny my backs to sadie's that flanked by vast entourage is at least fifteen people each inside the court room which is massive it's divided into two warring factions each man is represented by three rows of lawyers legal aides translators bodyguards each behind a computer screen outside the court room in a free corner is a big burly man with dark glasses and near piece these are two of the world's richest men although the rumor is that he's part is dwindling but to give you an idea of just how much money these men have for mr hayes legal fees are thought to be the in the region of between four and eight million pounds. and is really a court house jailed a former soldier to four and a half years for leaking classified military files to the press some of the documents suggest military officials are prove the killing of palestinians in the west bank but those claims aren't being investigated and that undermines israeli law cording to legal expert sharon sari bashi. in this case a whistle blower blew

a loud and disturbing whistle the military is violating international law and the directors of 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 which raises serious questions about rule of law in a democratic system that pattern of behavior of violating by the supreme court because of the supreme court said that if 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 your system tells and tells you to do. and if you're looking for more in-depth stories and

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the front runner in kyrgyzstan's presidential election. set to take the country's top job with almost all the ballots counted he's leading the polls with more than sixty percent of the vote. president of the central asian republics will step down later this year to make way for the winner of the vote is seen as build a democratic milestone and a vital chance to bring stability to the country president barchi of was ousted last april as a result of bloody uprisings in the capital bishkek. of ethnic clashes

in the south of the country that killed more than four hundred. in a recent visit to afghanistan and pakistan u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton discussed the cooperation needed to fight extremism and bring about stability artie's military contributor of getting crews jobs says it's the u.s. that needs to rethink its approach to the region's raging insurgency and flourishing drug trade the interest american top level visit to islamabad. led by hillary clinton and director general petraeus hasn't produced any visible breakthrough in the new aspect of stand your relationships regarding this situation in afghanistan in fact it turned out yet another groundhog day of miscommunication mutual accusations and denials small wonder that now the washington is exploring all possible venue's and options how to deal with the

stalemate both in afghanistan and pakistan the latest safety belt for the u.s. administration was offered by michael o'hanlon then paul wolfowitz there join proposition it's called plan afghanistan alluding to plan colombia that was authorized and sponsored by u.s. administration dating back ten years ago plan colombia essentially means shifting did gear in the reverse back to the rumsfeld idea of the light footprint that he tried in afghanistan well there is nothing wrong with this idea of this light footprint the only question is why did it take more than ten years however the most striking feature about this brand new old plan afghanistan is the fact that both authors have painstakingly failed to mention even once the most successful part of american operation in latin america that is aerial eradication of the drug fields

that could and should have been replicated all mass in afghanistan. take a look at some other stories making headlines across the globe nato is winding down its mission over libya today that's after the u.n. security council voted last week to remove the country's no fly zone and the coalition's campaign to libya's interim leadership will assume responsibility for national security at midnight and try to maintain order in a country flooded with weapons nato which has been operating in the country since march has been accused of breaching the terms of its un resolution additional goal was to protect civilians some air strikes that were thought to be non military targets and claimed civilian lives. a suicide bombing in the southern afghan city of khandahar as claimed at least four lives police say a truck laden with explosives was detonated near a u.n. aid agency checkpoint killing three guards five other people were wounded in the

attack in the ensuing gunfight between insurgents and security forces the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. following another powerful deluge parts of the thai capital bangkok are waist deep in water with the city's commercial sector remaining mostly dry thailand's prime minister hopes to be able to drain a massive body of water that's built around the capital out to sea before it seeps into the city center for the residents were forced to wade through deep murky water is thai authorities struggled to keep electricity and tap water running the worst floods to thailand in fifty years have killed more than three hundred seventy people and led to billions of dollars in damages. and australia's quantas airlines clear their first flight out of sydney after operations started back worldwide after a court order resolving the company's dispute with union members the tribunal put an end to a long running conflict between the airline in the workers' unions over plans to outsource some of the airline services the decision comes two days after quantas

directors are grounded one hundred two planes in twenty countries even thousands of passengers stranded at airports. finally in this news block october thirty first signals not only hollowing but a landmark in history after the global population officially reached seven billion some scientists predict the earth will be severely overcrowded in a few decades with bitter consequences for the environment and the economy as a statistic inspiring many to start looking far and wide and even sky high for a new place to live as artie's peter oliver gazes into the future. so when next mercury too hot pluto too cold mars that's will do nicely as the population of earth passes the seven billion mark some of suggested the red planet as a replacement for our current blue one however in these times of tightening purse strings the cost of going to mars could be a problem in the months of

a one man expedition to mars and back would cost it is safe to say over three billion dollars preparing for these flights would cost about forty or fifty times more than a two way ticket in other words we're talking about colossal expenses regardless of the price those who have been into space say the time is right for mankind to yet again both lee go where no one has gone before everybody realizes that it's time to reach out and explore the universe beyond low earth orbit we have for many years just for ten years at least we have been on the international space station in lower earth orbit very close and we haven't been somewhere else or with people since the lunar landings which ended back in one nine hundred seventy two there's no shortage of take years to be the first to set foot on mars and potential red planet trailblazers have started their training young surrogate is still just a teenager but he's putting in the hard yards in the hope that he can help create

a potential new home for humanity millions of kilometers away martha i want to be the first to travel to mars and to other planets as well to the moons of jupiter saturn they say you can leave there in future we're still a long way from science fiction becoming science fact with human setting up home on the surface of mars even if we put the huge cost of a martian settlement to one side there are some serious hurdles to be overcome not least we have no idea if life existed there previously and if it did. whether whatever killed it off could be dangerous to us why should we even think about finding a new home if. earth's resources are finite therefore we will eventually have to either restrain population and production growth risking losing both or we find a foothold on other planets no matter how much it cost us with the retirement of nasa space shuttle the only way for people to get into space at the minute is the

russian soyuz rocket currently with the science available our chances of a global relocation anytime soon a pretty much zero however it took to weigh in central moscow the mars five hundred project is simulating the effects a mission to mars would have on a crew in search of a new home sure but it. there is one obvious reason why the experiment has been so popular the world is still a place for dreamers who dream of exciting projects that unite people international projects. is not old enough as it stands we might have to learn to deal with the soaring global population but young sergei will keep on training hard in the hope that he can do it for the dreamers piece one of our r.t. is next with your stay with us here on our city. thanks matt that's right time to delve into the world of business and russia has

made yet another step towards joining the world trade organization it's agreed a final report and its accession head of the working group for russia successions the country still gets to resolve a number of technical issues but will be ready to join the w t o in a week russia also has to finalize agreements with george we're the only country which early opposed russia's accession but last week agreed to new proposals from swiss mediators presidential aides are quoted of a quote which has said russia could join the w t o by december fifteenth. and the russian ruble has strengthened to thirty to the dollar that says investor risk appetite has seen a recovery follow e.u. steps to tackle the debt crisis and let's say a side effect of the reality could be a turnaround in the capital flight from russia. there are more reasons to expect stronger rather than the weak. while prices are high russia

is exhibiting twin surpluses the current account surplus is very high and the we have a substantial fiscal surplus overall i think there are reasons to believe that even until the end of this year even after the one the recently have there is still scope full appreciation this year and furthermore i can say we've had tremendous outflows of capital from russia thus far in two thousand and eleven. there are reasons to believe it could be so great or even a reversal in capital flows could take place if that happens even more reasons to expect will frank let's have a look at the markets now oil prices are heading lower on monday europe's last week moved to resolve greece's debt crisis sparked a rally on global trading fools but not traders the turning their attention to week extension of the global economy some market watchers expect the jump in progress is to push gasoline prices high and to mine demand. but across asia the markets to

lower the nikkei fell point seven percent off to drop from record gains against the dollar as the japanese government intervened in the markets to weaken the current see what i'm saying is lowered more than one percent. and european markets so low in early session post the footsie of the texel losing around point six percent the salah mining stocks are under pressure often message prices dropped. and the russian markets are declining us courage and oil crude oil and metals hurting the outlook for companies in the world's biggest energy exporter let's have a look at some of the individual share moves on the mindsets russia's biggest oil company will soon after isn't that right half a percent spare bonkers losing point seven percent bucking the trend just specialize a little kylie more than one unhealthy cent on the news it's consider. doing a premium listing on the amount of stock exchange. and over russia sideris look the same as they did twenty years ago although with more advertising billboards all the

while they were nations are investing heavily in making this it has sparkling and attractive but an artist from business new europe believes that grant is about to catch on here there's a boom a quiet a silent infrastructure spending in two thousand and eight the kremlin almost a one trillion dollars investment program to upgrade russia's infrastructure to modernize it and repair its and replace it where it was missing and throughout the crisis russia's been spending. one hundred billion dollars a year on the roads rails ports all those things are missing but it's not visible beat but it's all going into things like transport and this is going to drive growth i mean the good infrastructure is what underpins the economic growth and because of all this spending which is going to continue then the outlook for the russian economy is good because sort of it will lift things up and make business faster. and in the news internet group mail dot argue is launching

a new micro block service a russian competitive to twitter look at it twitter is increasing its audience twenty five times faster than the most popular blog service in russia live journal despite bright prospects analysts warn that it's difficult to make money on michael blogs even twitter is posting losses so far. that's all we have time for now log on to a website for more stories that are dot com slash business. to . all.

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twelve thirty pm in moscow these are your r.t. headlines syria's president bashar al assad believes the seven month long on the rest of his country has been funded from abroad in interview with russian media he also warned military intervention could engulf the whole region and. scores of occupied protesters arrested across the u.s. in confrontations with police as authorities confiscate tents and ban people from overnight camping meanwhile foul weather hits the east coast testing activism resolve to keep the fight alive. feuding russian billionaires boris berezovsky in rome on the album of its throw their fortunes at a high cost battle in the u.k. court there is off the excuses robbing him of billions of dollars something the chelsea football football club owner deny. u.s. troops set to exit iraq by december leaving behind a campaign that so far cost u.s. taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars up next hour he talks to a man who says the u.s. .