syria's president bashar al assad believes the unrest in his country has been triggered from abroad is an increasing international calls to end the violence. scores of occupy protesters arrested across the u.s. in confrontations with police as foul weather tests their mettle to keep the end type or break might go in. a court drama of colossal proportions russian moguls boris berezovsky and ron are below average throw their fortunes into a lawsuit worth billions of dollars. and russia has made yet another step towards joining the world trade organization this month and business in about twenty minutes.

one pm in moscow i matras are good to have you with us here on r t our top story syria's president question the true nature of the opposition forces trying to bring his regime to its knees interview with a russian t.v. channel bashar al assad claims that campaigns being funded from abroad from iran as we're joined live by iraqis test. live outside the foreign ministry so president assad made his position clear in recent days tell us more about that. that's right so the presidents of syria president bashar al assad had said very strong words especially says these words he had said to the international media let's listen to what exactly he had to say. today we have hundreds of soldiers police and security forces among the dead how we killed during peaceful demonstrations or because some slogans being shot you don't know they were shot and this means we're

dealing with armed 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 nine's and grenades that were put in place is packed with civilians this led to casualties in a number of cases the information obtained during the latest in syria gratian of terrorists shows that of those arms smuggling to syria from neighboring states become pain was funded from abroad and we have a list of those who are responsible for this and we've seen months of unrest in syria what's being help resolve that and to help resolve the crisis. well before we look at ib actions being taken by the two sides it's important to see the positions they have taken because it's these positions they keep referring to when they justify the actions they take us far as the syrian president is concerned for the very start they claim that there are groups or external conspiracies fueling the violence in the countries and they blame those weapons being smuggled in through their borders arming those supposedly armed groups that are shooting on civilians

and this is why they say it's necessary to bring in the security forces to protect civilians of course it's a different story when you talk to the a protestors i myself i've been there at two weeks ago talking to some of those protesters who went out on the street and they are adamant that it is the security forces that are hurting them that they are largely by and large peaceful and of course looking at the live in scenario right now the calls for this no fly zone we've been seeing. videos of a been posing that they are calling for a no fly zone they've seen the result in libya but that is one part of the opposition it's important to note as well that the national coordination council wish i've spoken to as well in damascus today they're very critical of what the government is doing very doubtful of the reforms that the government is putting forth but they also are questioning the merits of a no fly so they would want to see any form of military intervention or any form of intervention in a country hoping that the situation will be resolved internally for example the n.c.c. had refused to participate in the multi-party system put forth by the government

saying that the tides and the troops must first be removed by the government but having said that they still don't want foreign intervention out as far as a protesters who are calling for that nato a no fly zone is concerned nato officials have said that the libyan scenario it's unlikely to work in syria first of all there's no international support at this point a broad one as well as a wider regional support but they are trying what all the all the sides are trying to do is try to bring the two opposing sides on to the negotiating table the arab league has also put forth applied to president assad according to. that they had put a two week deadline for assad to respond to these calls for talks and they're waiting hopefully today they said that they will get a response from president assad he said that he is willing to talk to opposition those who existed before the uprising as well as those who are because of the uprising now just because there's a lot of hesitation whether military or foreign intervention is worth it or there's merit to that that's not to say that there's all growing outside pressure again but

the call is for dialogue and the pressure is coming not just not just from the western countries but also from the two countries that had vetoed the u.n. resolution such as china and russia so again everyone calling for all this a result peacefully at least for now through dialogue all right are these talks are still alive from the foreign ministry in moscow thanks for that report. protesters from the occupy wall street movement face new challenges as unseasonably bad weather hits the u.s. east coast alongside a sweeping police crackdown that i'll be up against plummeting temperatures snow and strong winds argues marina portnoy has the latest from new york. hinderance intern acidy of new york city's occupy wall street activist was tested this weekend as a blast of usual winter weather moved through the b. apple a campground 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 a 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 those generators were presumably being used to generate heat as many dead business cold weather was coming up over the weekend city officials say the generators violate fire code and would have sparked a fire in the meantime occupy activists are threatening to take legal action if their generators and their property will not be returned they may demand that a city give them their property bad occupy activists are accusing new york city mayor michael bloomberg of attempting to end the occupation by creating

a public health risks for peace protesters that value to remain down in zuccotti park in lower manhattan throughout the winter the upcoming winter season now meanwhile in temporal the weekend police moved into an occupying can't mention 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 proper state pepper spray and rubber bullets against protesters twenty people were reportedly arrested in what's being described as an ongoing. he's hockeytown against american opp rising meanwhile the rocky horror veteran who was critically injured by police during wednesday's occupy oakland demonstration is needing 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 son for minor brain damage after being hit

by a police projectile stunt olson was among the many iraqi war veterans taking part in the occupied oakland demonstrations that ended with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets at crowds of people at least ninety seven people were arrested get many say the event that event garnered even more sympathy and more support for the occupy wall street movement that began here in new york city reporting from new york radio horton i am archie it's been a week of arrests and process between protesters and police sunday more than one hundred people were held across the country as authorities force activists out of their makeshift camps are people who says he was following the protests since they started six weeks ago she tweets that police are raiding the encampment of the occupy wall street protesters near richmond virginia follow her twitter page for the latest in. stay with us here on our still to come

a former israeli soldiers been imprisoned for leaking secret military data we'll look at why this possible information is being ignored by investigators plus. we're still a long way from science fiction becoming science fact with human said single poem on the says that modest but we are allowed to dream in a few minutes we test the waters in a way out the odds that one day you know one of the many subtle on the red planet. but first here doing russian billionaires romana and boris berezovsky are taking their fight to a u.k. court there is also claims are over it's robbed him of billions of dollars something the chelsea football club owner deny it's he's expected to speak at a high court hearing monday archy's ivor bennett reports on what could be the most expensive lawsuit in the history. this will be the first time or manob remove it from mr a is the bodyguards are calling him opens his mouth in this hearing up

until now he's get the 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 it's not so much what's inside the court that's caught the attention here it's the extravagant operators around these two men they show up to court and shiny my books the c.d.'s they're 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 a three corner is a big burly man with dark glasses an earpiece these are two the world's richest men although the rumor is that barry's court is through in dealing 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 israeli court has jailed a former soldier for four and a half years for leaking classified military files the press some of the documents allege military officials or approved the killing of palestinians in the west bank but those claims are being investigated and that could undermine israel you are according to legal legal expert sorry. 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 orders 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 usual system tells them tells them to do. if you're looking for more in-depth stories and exclusive coverage archies got you covered a taste of what's on our in right now a click away at our turned on the radio rock you the emissions from fukushima nuclear plant to the five times greater than authorities claim that although i invite you back in ration zone could stay on inhabited for years to. resolve the

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now with. the eurozone may have heaved a sigh of relief with a new deal to reach our deal reached to help greece but that doesn't mean the crisis is over portugal reportedly wants to renegotiate the terms of a bad lot it got earlier this year and it's also called on non european countries to help save the eurozone as artie's really boost their reports painful austerity measures have hit portugal part. no jobs no money no chance for the future these messages have been brought by teachers striking in portugal they can never have stability. 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 the national cuts in education health and social security

that's a political choice and we think it's it's wrong. but legendary appliances particle seems to be sliding deeper and deeper into the depths of economic output but started off as a purely financial crisis is now turning into a 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 gargantuan debt the third country to do so after greece and ireland but for some it's seventy eight billion euro price tag is too high to pay for these terry tickets it goes well beyond the classroom and strikes at some of portugese societies fundamental principles like access to justice. the government isn't paying lawyers who provide free public legal services so there are some who've 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 spencers are hitting the portuguese where it hurts the most in their health care. bill what is your capacity. barrier the governor. has to made out will be a lot of people. more because we know that at the same time we pick up. even. and it's more pain no gain these theories speeling to still 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 fortunately now has a really big budget problem fortunately it's money and it needs it now so there are

going to have to like time services slashed taxes but portugal's still on course to have a worse than three show them greece that's certainly not much for the people trying to survive there is the greedy economy disaster is already here in girls' school r t. the front runner in kyrgyzstan's presidential race back out looks set to take the country's top job with almost all the balls counted these are leading the polls with more than sixty percent of the vote current interim president of the central asian nation roza otunbayeva will step down later this year to make way for the winner of the vote is seen as both a democratic milestone and of chance to bring stability to the country president barchi of was i was the last april as a result of bloody uprisings in the capital bishkek leaving nine people dead the slogan massive ethnic clashes in the south but killed more than four hundred. take a look now 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 term move the country's no fly zone and end the coalition's campaign there libya's interim leaders will assume responsibility for national security at midnight and try to restore order to 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 initial goal was to protect civilians but some airstrikes are thought to with nonmilitary targets and planes innocent of. a suicide bombing in the southern afghan city of khandahar claims at least four lives police say a truck filled with explosives was that the u.n. aid agency checkpoint killing three guards five others were wounded in the attack and the ensuing firefight between insurgents and afghan security forces the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. following another powerful deluge parts of the type capital bangkok are waist deep in water while the city's

commercial sector though remains mostly dry thailand's prime minister hopes to be able to drain on massive body of water build up around the capital out to sea before it seeps into the city center for residents are now forced to wade through deep water as thai authorities struggle to keep electricity and stop water running the worst flooding to hit island in fifty years has killed more than three hundred seventy people and led to billions of dollars in damage. and australia's quantas airlines cleared their first flight out of sydney after operations resumed worldwide following a court order resulting the company's dispute with union members the tribunal put an end to a long running conflict between the airline workers unions over plans to outsource somebody's airline services the decision comes two days after profits directors grounded one hundred two planes in twenty countries leaving thousands of passengers stranded at airports. and this year's hollow wien also signals signals are landmark in history after the global population officially reach seven billion

some scientists say the earth will be severely overcrowded in a matter of decades with severe consequences for the environment and economy it's a statistic inspiring and many to start looking far wide and even sky high for a new place to live as artie's peter all for ports. so when next mercury too hot too so too cold mars that 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 the 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 thirty or fifty times more than a two way ticket in other words we're talking about a colossal expenses regardless of the price those who have been into space say the

time is right for mankind to yet again oatley 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 orbit very close here 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 and he's putting in the hard yards in the hope that he can help create a potential new home for humanity and millions of kilometers away not much i want to be the first to travel to mars and to other planets as well to the moons of jupiter saturn 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 a huge cost of a martian settlement to one side there is some serious hurdles to be overcome not least we have no idea if life existed there previously and if it is. whether whatever killed it off could be dangerous to us why should we even think about finding a new home. that's resources are finite therefore we will eventually have to either restrain population production growth risking losing both or we find foothold on the planet no matter how much it cost us with the retirement of nasa space shuttle the only way for people to get into space ability is the russian soyuz rocket currently with the science available our chances of a global relocation anytime soon are pretty much zero however took the way 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 but if. there is one obvious reason why the experiment has been so parker the world is still a place for dreamers who dream of exciting projects that unite people international projects. as it stands we might have to learn to deal with the soaring global population but young surrogate will keep on training hard in the hope that he can do it for the dreamers these are all of the party business objects with you're still with us here on r.t. . all are very well welcome to the business program russia has made yet another step towards joining the world trade organization it's a great a final report on its accession the head of the working group for russia's accession set the country still meets 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 georgia the only country which opposed russia's accession but last week agree to new proposals from the us presidential aide attractive but quaritch has said russia could join the w t o by december fifteenth. and the russian ruble has strengthened by over eight percent in the last month to around thirty two the dollar as investor risk appetite has seen a recovery fall louis used to tackle the debt crisis and was so a side effect of the rally could be a turnaround in the capital flight from russia. there are more reasons to expect stronger rather than the weaker. world prices are high russia is exhibiting. 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 that will recently have there is

still scheduled for. this year and furthermore i can say we've had from flows of capital from russia thus far in two thousand and eleven. there are reasons to believe it could be so or even a reversal in capital flows could take place if that happens even more reasons to expect google strength. so have a look at the markets oil prices are heading lower on monday europe's move last week greece's debt crisis sparked a rally on global trading fools but not trade has turning their attention to the expansion of the global economy some market watchers expect a jump in for prices to push gasoline prices higher and undermine demand. and european markets all low up first the footsie on the jaxa losing more than one percent that's our mining stocks under pressure after metal prices dropped brick the second biggest bank barclays said it's

a lot of profit increase by life percent using estimates the bank's shares are rallying three point two percent the solid. on the russian markets are declining as crude oil and metals fall 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 mice it's russia's biggest oil company of course nafta's more than one percent in the red because losing point seven percent back in the trend is world car they are going point eight percent on the news it's considering a premium listing on the london stock exchange. i don't many all russia sitters look the same as they did twenty years ago although with more advertising billboards all the while all their merge nations sign vesting heavily in making this is startling and attractive benares from business new europe believes that trend is about to catch on here. there's a boom a quiet assignment to an infrastructure spending in two thousand and eight the

kremlin that was the one trillion dollars investment program to upgrade versus infrastructure so you modernize it parents and replace it where it was missing and throughout the crisis russia has been spread for it's one hundred billion dollars a year on the roads or it's all those things that have been missing and it's not visible but it's all going into things like transport and this is going to drive growth i mean the good infrastructures around the growth and because of all the spending of this is going to continue. the outlook for the russian economy is good because survival if things are right is mr foster. now internet mail culture are you is launching a new microblog service a russian competitor to twitter twitter is increasing its audience twenty five times. the most powerful blog service in russia lived during all this point bright prospects unless one that it's difficult to make money on my current ones even twitter posting what's the so far. that's all we have time for now join us in less

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