his regime to its knees in an interview with a russian t.v. channel bashar al assad claims the campaign is being funded from abroad parties to the latest. strong words coming from syrian president bashar al assad to where the conflict this country's been going on for almost eight months now in that interview to the russian channel he did say that any attempt to destabilize the country will result in what he called an earthquake that will reverberate not just in the region but will have global implications he also stressed that syria is most definitely not libya it's a different situation altogether and he did voice out what he and his government think is a real cause of the conflict in his country. today we have hundreds of soldiers police and security forces among the dead how were they killed during peaceful demonstrations some slogans being shown no they were shot and this means 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 mines in

grenades that were put in place is packed with civilians this led to casualties in a number of cases the information obtained during the interrogation of terrorists. into syria from neighboring states become pain was funded from abroad and we have a list of those who are responsible for this since the uprising started in march of this year the government has tried to put forth some reforms and the president had said that they're planning parliamentary elections in february of next year and also they put forth this so-called multi-party law which allows other political parties outside of the ruling baath party to participate in parallel to that those those reforms that the government wants to put forward their protests of course continue according to the u.n. about three thousand or more than three thousand people have already been killed since march and we were i was in syria is about two weeks ago talking to those protesters who are continuing to go out into the streets the government again maintaining that these are the armed forces inflicting the violence for the protesters saying in fact they have by and large been peaceful and that it is the

security forces firing upon them and it is true that some of them are calling for this no fly zone to to end the violence that they see however it. be said that there are opposition voices such as the national coordinator council was shot tries to bring together the different voices in syria they're saying that while they're very critical of the reforms they've put forth by the government saying it's not enough they're also wary of calling or rather and door saying a so-called no fly zone because they do see this could just result in more bloodshed they don't want to see that in their country now the arab league of course has had been actively trying to find a solution as well trying to us speak with syrian officials they put forth a plan to president assad he said that he will be willing to talk to all of the opposition voices including those formed during the conflict however these are words for now they want to see actual negotiation table and that's not to say that i mean there the external pressure is increasing the even if there's a lot of hesitation to any form of foreign intervention our words coming from the

western leaders as well as china and russia who as you know had vetoed that u.n. resolution calling for sanctions on syria all of them are calling for a dialogue for real results to see the violence really stop and that's really been the main focus right now of the pressure coming from the outside they just want the violence to stop. reporting right now and every five minutes past the hour protesters from the occupy wall street movement face new challenges unseasonably bad weather hits the east coast alongside a sweeping police crackdown they'll now be up against plummeting temperatures and strong winds. 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 ten or under tarps that were put up over parts of sukiyaki park now just one day before this winter weather came in city firefighters easily 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 the city officials say the generators finally fire code and would have sparked a fire in the meantime occupy optimus 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 optimiser accusing new york city mayor michael bloomberg of attempting to end the occupation by creating a public health risk for these protesters that are valid 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 leave the arrest came hours after standoff between activists in the far east near the steps of the colorado capital a clash that erupted resulted in cops reportedly using pepper sticks pepper spray and rubber bullets against protesters twenty people people were reportedly arrested in what's being described as an ongoing police crime 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 start olsen was among the many iraqi war veterans taking part in the occupy oak 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 save the day and that of that growing or even more sympathy and more support for the occupy wall street movement that began here in new york city reporting from new york great important archie on its way you know week of arrests and clashes between protesters and police on sunday over one hundred people were held across the country as authorities forced activists i'll have a makeshift comes to produce a company has been a following of protests since they began six weeks ago now she tweets here the police raided the income front of the occupy wall street protesters in richmond virginia around ten people that can follow her twitter page for the latest

information. well still ahead for you this hour here nazi. soldier has been a prison for leaking secret military data we look at why this classified information is being ignored by investigators. we're still a long way from science fiction becoming. with human said single pole. we are allowed to dream in a few moments we test the waters on the way up our chances of one day going to the red. you without say now feuding russian billionaires or roman abramovich. taking their battle to a u.k. court but as he claims it robbed him of billions of dollars something the chelsea f.c. denies is expected to speak at a high court hearing on monday. reports now on what promises to be the most expensive lawsuit in history. this will be the first time

around now promote it sure mr a is the body guards are calling him opens his mouth in this hearing up until now he's get to 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 mr a for three point five billion pounds for breach of trust and breach of contract he says mr 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 the shiny my barks the sadie's they're flanked by vast aunt 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 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 an ear piece these are two of the world's richest men although the rumor is that breeze skis 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. on his i'm a better according to minutes past the hour here in moscow 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 suggest military officials approve the killing of palestinians in the west bank however those claims are not being investigated and that undermines israeli law that's according to a legal expert sorry about. in this case

a whistleblower. 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 but failed to seriously investigate the. conduct with 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 to 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. is

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download the official placation to go on the phone or i pod touch from the i.q. exams to. teach life on the go. video on demand. in life broadcasts and already says feed now in the palm of your. question on the t. dot com. day sigh of relief with a new deal reached to help greece but that doesn't mean the crisis is over portugal reportedly wants to renegotiate the terms of the bailout he received earlier this year and has also called on non european countries to help to save the eurozone. reports painful austerity cuts have hit the portuguese society. 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 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 health and social security that's a political choice in early child. legendary. seems to be sliding deeper and deeper into the depths of economic apathy what started off as a purely financial crisis is now turning into malevolent force which threatens to rock 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 the seventy eight billion euro price tag is too high to pay for this terry to cuts it goes well beyond the classroom and strikes at some of these fundamental

principles like access to justice. the government isn't paying lawyers free public legal services so there are some who have been doing it for years for free the 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 pressure. 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. what you are compelled to. do in two thousand and so good is very good and most people. who made. you there will be a lot of people but a lot more because we know that at the same time we've got even we've. reduced. it and it's more pain no gain these territories failing to stop portugal's

economy plummeting with the poor in the front line 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 for child needs money and needs at now so they are going to have to cut like time services slashed taxes hiked but portugal's still in forced to have a worse debt free show than green that's startling enough but for the people trying to survive there is to me to be part of the disaster is already this year it was cool r t. r t is coming to you live from moscow now the front runner in a critical stands presidential election. looks set to take the country's top job with almost all the ballots counted he's leading the polls with over sixty percent of the vote the current interim president of the central asian nation of those. i 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's former president who was ousted last april as a result of bloody uprisings in the capital bishkek that left in one thousand it led to massive ethnic clashes in the south that killed over four hundred people. ok let's check out some other headlines now from around the world for you this hour nato is winding up its mission over libya today that's after the u.n. security council voted last week too. remove the country's no fly zone and the coalition's campaign lead us into a leadership will assume responsibility for national security at midnight and try to restore order in a country flooded with weapons nato is mission was designed to protect civilians but it's estimated that at least thirty thousand were killed in the seven months of . a suicide bombing in the southern afghan city of kandahar has 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 and in the ensuing gunfight between insurgents and afghan security forces by the taliban claimed responsibility for the. following yet another powerful delhi usia parts of the thai capital bangkok a waist high in water while the city's commercial sector remains mostly dry thailand's prime minister hopes to be able to drain a massive body of water that's built up all around the capital out to sea before it seeps into the city center for now residents are forced to wade through deep murky water as the struggle to keep electricity and water running by the worst floods to hit thailand in fifty years and killed more than three hundred seventy people and caused billions of dollars of. australia's quantas airlines cleared their first flight out of sydney operations resumed worldwide following

a court order that resolves the company's dispute with the union the tribunal put an end to a long running conflict between the airline and workers unions over plans to outsource some of the airlines services this decision comes just two days after qantas direct was grounded one hundred two planes in twenty countries leaving thousands of passengers stranded. well october thirty first signals a landmark in history after our global population officially reached seven billion now some scientists predict that earth will be severely overcrowded in just a few decades with bitter consequences for the environment and economy it's a statistic that has inspired many to start looking far and wide for a new place to live. reports. so when next mercury too hot. too cold mars thus 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 marks 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 boat 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 is 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 modest 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 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. 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 costs 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 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. 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 or 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 arctic.

now is a population of seven billion too much for our planet that's our just a few minutes. after the business news with you. hello time for your business update russia seems to be all set to join the world trade organization it's agreed a final report on its accession russia's chief negotiator said there were still a number of technical issues but those so would be completed in a week russia also has to finalize agreements with georgia which until last week was the only country to continue to oppose russia's accession what they've now looks like we both sides will agree to a proposal mediated by this release clearing the way for russia to potentially joined by december fifteenth. 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 for louis use steps to tackle the debt crisis analysts say a side effect of the rally could be a turnaround in the capital flight from russia but there are more reasons to expect stronger rather than the weaker. while prices are high russia is exhibiting twin surpluses while the current account surplus is very high and the we have a substantial physical surplus overall i think there are reasons to believe that even until the end of this year even after the round the will we simply have there is still scope for appreciation this year and furthermore i can say we've had tremendous help flows of capital from us for 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 to be frank. let's have a look at the markets now oil prices are heading lower on monday europe's move last week to resolve greece's debt crisis sparked a rally on global pray. in course but not traders attorneys pay attention to week extension of the global economy some market watchers expect a jump in crude prices to push gasoline prices higher and undermine demand. european markets are lower in the midday session the footsie is losing one percent and the dax is down one point two percent this hour mining stocks are under pressure up to metal prices dropped and britain's second biggest bank barclays set its all to profit increase by cent beating us to mit's the bank shares have slipped into red this hour just seeing a rally earlier this morning. from the russian markets are declining as crude oil and metals for hurting the outlook for companies in the world's biggest energy

exporter let's not have a look at some individual show moves on the mice that russia's biggest oil company will snap is down more than two and a half percent burbank is losing two point five percent bucking the trend as well probably just under one percent this hour on the news it's considering a premium listing on the london stock exchange. so many of russia's sitters look the same as they did twenty years ago although with more age of ties and billboards all the while other work nations are investing heavily in making their city has sparked and attractive but in hours from business new europe believes that trend is about to catch on here. there's a boom a quiet a silent infrastructure spending in two thousand and eight the kremlin lost a one trillion dollar investment. to upgrade russia's infrastructure to modernize its own repair its and replace it where it was missing and throughout the crisis

russia's been spread. hundred billion dollars a year on the roads it's all those things are missing and it's not visible big 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 the spending which is going to continue then the outlook for the russian economy is good because sort of lift things up and make business faster. and all the news two of russia's biggest companies are getting to go to the brains behind singapore's changi airport to create an aviation harbin russia's cross into a region where a bank and basic element along with chunky will hold assets and investments worth hot billion dollars in the region which is to host the two winter olympics in twenty fourteen while the venture is planned to be up and running next year. that's all we have time for now more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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headlines syria's president bashar al assad. in an interview to russian media he also. arrested across the u.s. . people from camping overnight meanwhile a foul weather hits the east coast. robbing him of billions of dollars or something chelsea f.c. . now as the world's population hits seven billion people of our last guest if they are just simply too.