with me rover sushi syria's president has told russian television that the forces fighting his regime are armed and dangerous and putting civilians at risk but assad also said that he is ready to work with the opposition parties that have emerged during the months of uprising against his government auntie's to a cilia details now. 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 a 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 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 any other state that possesses such weapons but there is evidence of millions 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 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. i mean 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 two thousand people have already been killed since march and i 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 with the protesters saying in fact they have by and large been peaceful and that it is the security forces firing upon dave 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. it would be said that there are opposition voices such as the national chord nation council which shut 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 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 a 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 that even if there's a lot of hesitation to any form of foreign intervention a word coming from the western leaders as well as china and russia who as we know had vetoed that u.n. resolution calling for sanctions on syria all of them are calling for a dialogue for a real results to see that the violence really stop and that's really the main focus right now of the pressure coming from the outside they just want the violence to stop. reporting right on our five minutes past the hour here in moscow occupy wall street movement shows no signs of slowing in the u.s. seventh week scores of activists have been arrested all across america for refusing to pack up. and russia has voiced concerns over the crackdown on the treatment of protesters by the u.s. authorities. the way the occupy wall street protest is a handled is an ample illustration of double standards quite a number of our counterparts from western countries. we will never put up with

a situation when i wish them partners who have the right to ask us questions refused to discuss the problems of which there are plenty and which keeps growing. statement comes in response to building criticism from some western countries as russia moved towards its presidential election authorities in the west of trying to enforce various curfews over the weekend to prevent demonstrations from escalating further more than seventy protesters calling for political and economic changes have been arrested in the states of texas oregon and california police in denver used pepper spray to disperse the crowds there. tear gas also used to chase away protesters who say that they are ready to withstand the pressure. so busy week in the united states with multiple arrests and clashes between police and activists forced out of the camp have a look here. from off has been at the heart of the protests since they began and

weeks now bringing us all the latest developments you can look at a twitter right here says that the police have arrived at the camp of occupy wall street protesters in richmond virginia and have started to detain people at least ten arrests made so far i do make sure you can follow my twitter page for all the latest information. the russian billionaire owner of chelsea football club roman abramovich is expected to appear before a london court monday it's in connection with a five and a half billion dollar lawsuit being pursued by a russian businessman but as of ski. tycoon but as of ski claims his former associate illegally forced him to hand over the money and now he wants it back bennett reports on one of the most expensive disputes 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 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 me say for three point five billion pounds breach of trust and breach of. untracked he says mr a intimidated him bullied him into selling his shares in 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 this was the ninety's russia it's not so much what's inside that's caught the attention here it's the extravagant rages around these two men they show up to court and shiny my bucks to sadie's their flight by past on trousers 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 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 and near peace these are two of the world's richest men although the rumor is that. sports 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. right there while i still have you this hour an hour to go looking for a spacious new home scientists are way out my kinds of worrying are the planets cultivating a new life away from the seven billion people now. the un's cultural agency is considering whether to admit palestine as a member during its general assembly ongoing in paris if yes it's a budget will be cut by twenty two percent as the u.s. withdraws funding let's cross over now to live pictures here after the u.s. says it cannot fund any organization that except palestine as

a member is really strongly against the move comes ahead of a u.n. security council vote next month on the palestine's membership palestinian president mahmoud abbas addressed the u.n. in september but the u.s. says it will vote veto. his attempts rather for state recognition it is worth mentioning right here just like the un general assembly in new york the question of palestinian membership has been put on its agenda as i was saying but well as a permanent un security council member the us has a veto that it says it will exercise at the un general assembly but there is nobody that has a veto you nasco and they're all it takes is a two thirds majority of its one hundred ninety three people voting and it would get passed live pictures there are not. what are staying in the middle east and an 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 army officials approved the killing of palestinians in the west

bank however those claims are not being investigated and that according to legal experts sorry but she undermines is really low. 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 they do you must try to arrest is part of a pattern of practice within the israeli system and it's something that's very disturbing because when the army does not obey orders by the supreme court the supreme court is actually more reluctant to issue those orders because no court wants to issue orders that are going to be ignored and then of course you have a serious threat to the rule of law because in a democratic system the army is of course supposed to listen to what the usual

system tells them tells them to do. minutes past the hour here in moscow let's check out some of the international news in brief for you this hour a suicide bombing in the southern afghan city of kandahar has claimed at least four lives a truck laden with explosives was detonated near a u.n. agency checkpoint several people were also wounded in the. following gunfight between insurgents and the afghan security forces it's all about. responsibility. nato is set to wrap up its mission over the libya by midnight on monday the official end to over seven months of military intervention the responsibility for national security will be handed over to the country's interim government but now faces the difficult task of collecting countless weapons and far from civilians weapons that you. spread to eight months of civil war that ended with a violent death of libya's former leader. in yemen

a huge rock to the capital it's. the cities in. port town officials say that explosive devices were planted inside twelve fighter jets it's not yet clear how insurgents managed to get access to the heavily guarded area yemen's capital has seen months of anti-government rallies with protesters demanding an end to decades of president ali. well the front runner in the stands presidential election has claimed victory after preliminary results showed that he had gained an overwhelming share of the vote with almost all the ballots counted. by us has received more than sixty percent of the support acting president also. who is running the country since two thousand and ten will step down for the winner of the elections seen as both a democratic milestone and a vital chance to repair the country's dangerous north south divide in april last

year unrest in the capital ousted former leader back by kiev it later led to ethnic violence in the country's south in which rampaging mobs killed hundreds of men a minority respects. portugal has been struggling to stabilize its economy despite a bailout from the eurozone only at this year while the e.u. is breathing a small sign of relief over the new deal reached to prevent greece from collapse the storm is far from over and as arena go to school reports from portugal and the people there are not content with painful austerity cuts they are having to endure . no jobs no money no chance for the future these messages have been brought by teachers striking in fortune go 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 in one school it's a political choice of financial cuts in education health and social security that's

a political choice you know you think it's wrong. but legendary atlantis portugal seems to be sliding deeper and deeper into the depths of economic output what 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 society's 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 the 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 what is your capacity to. do in the power of subsidies every year the government. as to my bills so yes there will be a lot of people. more because we know that at the same time we've begun. even. 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 fortunately now has a really big budget problem fortunately it's money i don't need to now so they are

going to have to cut like time services slashed taxes hiked but portugal's forced to have a worse death ratio than green so that's startling enough but for the people trying to survive there is to me the economy disaster is already here it. has been. well to access everything we're covering and much more at any time. dot com here's what's waiting for you that right now the russian cargo space ship progress successfully takes off from the international space station two months after its predecessor crashed. dot com also want to ask well. and find out how the level of radioactive contamination around japan's crippled fukushima nuclear power could be an astonishing five times greater than.

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those who are fascinated with history. to do those who have a sweet to. those who can't live without the sky. and of course the nature of this magnificent land. this treasure. marsh. between the earth and the sky. with just a few minutes away from the business with kareena but for now on the final day of

october it's been revealed the world's population has reached a whopping seven billion it's raising concerns over the potential over crowding of our planet experts warn in a few decades the problems could become manageable with dire environmental consequences but the news is inspiring some to seek a new home somewhere far far away. so when next mercury too hot. 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 really 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 mars but 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 did. whether whatever killed it off could be dangerous to us why should we even think about finding a new home. birth resources are fine and therefore we will eventually have to either restrain population and production growth or 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. there is one of the as a reason why the experiment has been so popular the world is still a place for dreamers who dream of exciting projects that unite people but i do national project. 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. asking for your views about the growth of the world's population if you have long to r.t. dot com you can take part in our latest poll that's a look at these numbers right now today's question are what's happening now that humanity has reached the seven billion mark so far the most popular responses will drain the earth's resources and all die the answer will mean that world war three to curb the population that's a distant second some say that we should find

a way to move fast and not just a few believe we are stronger than ever as a species have to go on lines are to talk calm and cast your. just a little bit later here on our we talk to a man who says that america is wasting its cash building a false democracy in a particular country that of iraq a force korea is next with the business. welcome to our business report the south thanks for joining me 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 was still a number of technical issues to solve but those will be completed in a week russia also has to finalize agreements with georgia which until last week was the only country to continue to hold russia's accession however it now looks

likely both sides will agree to a proposal mediated by the swiss clearing the way for russia to potentially join by december fifteenth. to other stories now the russian ruble has strengthened by over eight percent in the last month to around thirty to the dollar that's as investor risk capital has seen a recovery following eve steps to tackle the debt crisis analysts 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. will prices or are hiding in russia is exhibiting twin surpluses while 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 stalled for appreciation this year and furthermore i can say we've had tremendous

flows of capital from florida 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 kubel strengths. as a look at the markets now oil prices are heading lower on monday europe's move last week to resolve greece's debt crisis sparkle the rally on global trading floors but not traders are turning their attention to the weak expansion of the global economy some market watchers expect a jump of crude prices to push gasoline prices higher and undermine. let's look at the markets in europe now they are lower in this hour of the footsie is losing over one percent and the dax is down one of the half percent mining stocks are under pressure after metal prices drop britain's second biggest bank barclays said its third quarter profit increased by five percent beating estimates of the bank's shares slipped into red this hour after seeing

a rally earlier in the morning. here in russia markets are declining as crude oil and metals fall hurting the companies in the world's biggest energy exporter let's have a look at some individual families on the rise axis our. russia's biggest oil company ross nafta is down over two and a half percent as graham bank is losing two point four percent bucking the trend. it's a one person it's on the one percent on the news it's. considering opinion listing on the london stock exchange. the russian government is putting some numbers to the help to the help it might offer to the eurozone presidential aide arkady dvorkovich says that this could mean up to ten billion dollars for the debt fund this would be done through the i.m.f. by bilateral agreements with individual countries speaking exclusively to r.t. for coverage explains why russia should want to bail out the formerly wealthy west we. need in the european package why the international monetary fund why

because most of the money could be used in different way otherwise what we would do since we are interested in this to be a communal. experience in europe stability of the month for our exports the we need to finance our own programs or own needs. and you could watch the full interview with our guide our course later in this week and our interview with sophie shevardnadze. in that group male dogs are you is launching a new dog service a russian competitor to twitter twitter is increasing its audience twenty five times faster than the most popular blog service in roseau live journal despite bright prospects analysts warn that it's difficult to make money on like zero blogs even twitter posting losses of. two of russia's biggest companies are getting together with the brains behind singapore's changi airport to create an aviation

hub in russia's cross and our region where bank and basic element along with tunji will hold assets and investments work half a billion dollars in the region which is to host the winter olympics in two thousand and fourteen the venture is planned to be up and running next year. that's all i have for you for now by joining me in about forty five minutes with more here on this is.

the official. called touch from the. video. on t.v.'s mine. and omissions feeds now in the palm of your. machine on the dot com. book about. syria's president claims the protest campaign against his

regime is being funded from abroad and the west not to get involved and the head of nato has ruled out a no fly zone over syria some demonstrations in the country have been calling for. the russian. to of the world's wealthiest men. take the good of the course and spend no money on the fight. billion dollars and he wants the money. with seven billion people now calling. scientists. new world. many believe a mosque provides the. right to live pictures here from the general assembly of the un's cultural body and kyra.