live outside the foreign ministry so president assad made his position clear in recent days tell us more about that. that's right the president 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 were they killed during peaceful demonstrations ok because some slogans being chanted no they were shot and this means we're dealing with people we don't know whether the weapons reach syria from israel or in you know the state that possesses such weapons but there is evidence of millions and grenades that were put in place is packed with civilians casualties in a number of cases the information obtained. of terrorists smuggling to syria from neighboring states become payments 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 to help resolve the crisis. well before we look at the 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 the syrian president is concerned for the very start they claim that there are armed groups or external conspiracies fueling the violence in the country so they blame those weapons being smuggled 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 protesters i myself i've been there 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 that they are largely by and large peaceful and of course looking at the live in scenario right now are the calls for this no fly zone we've been seeing them. at least the you tube videos

that they've been posting that they are calling for a no fly zone they see the result in libya but that is one part of the opposition it's important to note as well that the national coordination council which i have 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 zone they would want to see any form of military intervention or any form of intervention in the 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 tags to the troops must first be removed by the government but having said that they still don't want a foreign intervention now as far as a the 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 at least a broad one as well as a wider regional support but they are trying what all that 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 a plan to president assad according to them 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 had existed before the uprising as well as those formed because of the uprising now just because there's a lot of hesitation on whether military or foreign intervention is worth it or there's merit to that that's not to say that there's not growing outside pressure again that 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 have had vetoed the u.n. resolution such as china and russia so again everyone calling for all of this to be resolved peacefully at least for now through dialogue right artie's talks are still a lot of 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 artie's marina port i has the latest from new york. thing durance and tenacity of new york city's occupy wall street activist was tested this weekend as a blast of fine usual winter weather moved through the big apple the 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 now those generators were presumably being used

to generate heat as many 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 their generators and their property will not be returned they demand that the city give them their property babb occupy apt 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 value to remain down in zuccotti park in lower manhattan throughout the winter by 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 lead the arrest came hours after a standoff between activists and authorities near the steps of the colorado capital

a clash 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 hold. hockey 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 get many say at 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 active is out of their makeshift camps are keepers that you seek out a novelist 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 and. will 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 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 says that maz but we are allowed to dream in a few minutes we test the waters and weigh up the odds that one day united he may

settle on the red planet. but first feuding russian billionaires romana in boris berezovsky are taking their fight to a u.k. court claims are over it robbed him of billions of dollars something the chelsea football club owner denies he's expected to speak at a high court hearing monday artie'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 show 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 final 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 is the extravagant apparatus around these two men they show up to court and so many my bucks in the sadie's they're flanked by vast onto rogers 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 age translators bodyguards each behind a computer screen outside the court room in a free corner is a big burly man with dark glasses the 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 that 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 to the press some of the documents allege military officials approved the killing of palestinians in the west bank but those claims are being investigated and that could undermine israeli law 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 instead 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 you. tell them to do. if you're looking for more in-depth stories and exclusive coverage artie's got you covered a taste of what's online right now a click away at. radioactive emissions from fukushima nuclear plant to be five times greater than authorities claim by the law and why you could stay on inhabited for years to. reach out to the failure of the president of. progress spaceship successfully block. he.

the official. from the. video. 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 the battle out it got earlier this year and it's also called on non european countries to help

save the eurozone as artie's or english go reports painful austerity measures have hit portugal heart. 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 in one school it's a political choice of financial cuts in education and health and social security that's a political choice and we think it's it's wrong. like legendary atlantis portugal seems to be sliding deeper and deeper into the depths of economic output 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 it the third country to do so after greece and ireland but for some

this 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 legal 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 for 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 to . do in two thousand and subsidies barrier the government much as to my go out yes there will be

a lot of people. more because we know that at the same time we've begun. even. reduce. 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 fortunately now has a really big budget problem for child needs money and they need to 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 is to me the economy disaster is already here it goes. it's been. the front runner in kyrgyzstan's presidential race back out look set to take the country's top job with almost all the counted these leaving 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 a vital chance to bring stability to the country former president bakiev was i was to the last april as a result of bloody uprisings in the capital bishkek leaving nineteen people dead this led to massive ethnic clashes in the south that killed more than four hundred . let's 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 to remove the country's no fly zone and the coalition's campaign there to 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 the initial goal was to protect civilians but some of the airstrikes are thought to with nonmilitary

targets and plane innocent life. a suicide bombing in the southern afghan city of kandahar claims at least four lives police say a truck filled with explosives was detonated near a 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 thai 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 our 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 tap water running the worst flooding to thailand 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 and workers unions over plans to outsource some of the airline services the decision comes two days after quantas directors grounded one hundred two planes in twenty countries leaving thousands of passengers stranded at airports. and this year's hollowing also signals signals a 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 to many to start looking far wide and even sky high for a new place to live as artie's peter all for reports. 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 thirty 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 bodie 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 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 not much 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 is. whether whatever killed it off could be dangerous to us why should we even think about

finding a new home if. rights 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's. 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 surrogate will keep on training hard in the

hope that he can do it for the dreamers piece all of the r.t. . business objects with your stay with us here on r.t. . hello and a very warm welcome to the business program russia has made yet another step towards joining the world trade organization it's a grade a final report on its accession to the head of the working career poor russia's accession said the country still needs 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 only opposed russia's accession but last week agreed to new proposals from swiss mediators presidential aide accredited 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 to the dollar that says investor risk

appetite has seen a recovery following e.u. steps to tackle the debt crisis and let's say 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 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 flows of capital from russia thus far in two thousand and eleven. there are reasons to believe it could be celebrated or even a reversal in capital flows could take place if that happens even more reasons to expect. let's not have

a look at the markets oil prices they're hedging low on monday europe's move last week greece's debt crisis sparked a rally on global trading floors but not trade as turning that tension to greek expansion of the global economy some market watchers expect a jump in crude 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 mining stocks the underbrush after metal prices dropped brick the second biggest bank barclays said it's that quarter profit increased by five percent using estimates the bank's shares are rallying three point two percent the silence. from the russian markets are declining as crude oil and metals fall perching 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 my six russia's biggest oil company of course nafta's more than one percent in the red because losing two point

seven percent bucking the trend is world com one point eight percent on the news it's considering a premium listing on the london stock exchange. though many of russia's sit. looks the same as they did twenty years ago although with more advertising billboards all the while their march and a show zine vesting heavily in making this such a sparkling and attractive benares for business new year believes that trend is about to catch on here. there's a boom a quiet assignment to infrastructure spending in two thousand and eight the kremlin lost a one trillion dollars investment program so 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 its one hundred billion dollars a year on the roads rails ports all those things are missing and 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 economic growth and because

of all this spending which is going to continue then the outlook for the russian economy is good because it will lift things up and make business faster. now internet mail daughter are you is launching a new micro block service a russian competitor to twitter twitter is increasing its audience twenty five times foster them the most popular blog service in russia live journal despite bright prospects analysts warn that it's difficult to make money on micro blogs even twitter is posting was the so far. that's all we have time for now join us in less than one hour and get more stores more websites are to dot com slash business .

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headlock. syria's president bashar al assad believes the seven month long arrest in his country has been funded from abroad and immunity to russian television he also military intervention could engulf the entire region and. scores of occupy protesters arrested across the u.s. in confrontations with police as authorities confiscate tents and ban people from camping overnight you while the bad weather hits the east coast testing activists determination to keep the anti-corporate by. feuding russian billionaires boris berezovsky and. throw their fortunes at a high cost in the u.k. court. of robbing him of billions of dollars something the chelsea football club. up next we visit a remote set of russian islands with a population of only seven people live cheek to jowl with more than two hundred bears don't miss the special report coming up.