babyhood two three collection of clothes. made. believe was a movie medicine it was promised for. the general conference as does the. draft resolution and. its members. this story they tell us which has achieved its first full membership to the u.n. agency but the u.s. meantime nearly a quarter funding in response. firing back syria's president claims the campaign against his regime is being funded from abroad and warns that the west not to mess with his country. russia. two of the world's a wealthiest men. take the billion dollar dispute to

a london court and spare no money a little. bit seven billion people now calling the scientists worried the planet can cast their eyes to a new world where humans could once. global news twenty four seventh's this is r.t. live from moscow with me showing the cultural of the united nations has accepted palestine as a fully fledged member it's the first time palestinians have achieved for starters to any u.n. body. couldn't pay for its decision with a major in funding. what he's done you portugal will explain all this brother daniel so over two thirds of unesco members. voted in favor of limiting palestine

u.s. is now over twenty percent of the agency's budget. well washington says the vote goes against its jurisdiction and israel's foreign minister said israel does oppose any such bid by palestine to the un body but it doesn't have much leverage israel doesn't have much political or financial leverage on the world stage in such actions like this one now the united states and israel all considered lawyers and they break this washington those tend to back israel and enforce its decisions on the world stage. the palestinians had already gained elevated status of observer entity at the un general assembly do you think today's admission to unesco could have any bearing on palestine's bid for full un membership. it's the clearest indication so far of the united states will veto any such application by palestine next month meaning there is

a meeting next month of the un security council if palestine does go ahead with its full speed so those vote does bring palestine a step closer to full membership but so long as the united states maintains its total opposition this seems a little chance for it to get to that goal last month palestine. full application with the united nations with us opposition so for saying that it will oppose any such bid by palestine for its own state all right daniel bushell there live in brussels thank you. we are always are interested in your opinion so we are asking you right now what does palestine's acceptance to unesco mean to r.t. dot com to take part in our latest web poll looking at the numbers right now the vast majority believe it changes very little for palestinians on the ground the second most popular is the view that it paves the way for statehood but there's a time between those who say it sweetens the pill of future rejection by the un and

those who think that now you know sco will have trouble paying its bills do you go online and cast your vote. or syria's president has told russian television that the forces fighting his regime are armed dangerous and putting civilians at risk. also said he is ready to work with the opposition parties that have emerged during the months of uprising against his government nazis to syria reports. 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 for 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. how were they killed during peaceful demonstrations

some slogans being chanted no. and this means we're dealing with people we don't know with syria from israel or any other state possesses such weapons but there is evidence of. this lead to casualties in a number of cases the information of. terrorists. from neighboring states. from abroad and we have a list of those. since the uprising started in march of this year the government has tried to put forth some reforms and the president has said that they're planning problem entry 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 i was in syria just 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 that the protesters say in fact they have by and large have been peaceful and that it is the security forces firing upon that 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. he 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 could forth by the government saying it's not enough they're also wary of calling or forcing a so-called no fly zone because they do see that 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 external pressure is increasing that even if there's a lot of hesitation to any form of foreign intervention 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 the main focus right now of the pressure coming from the outside they just want of violence to stop. reporting right now to the world's richest man to look in a multi billion called lawsuit a london court but it has been listening to other expensive aldermen so joins us now live with the so you. over choose the man hoping to keep hold of his money but he was the one in the dock today what did he have to say. well this is the first time around a row which has actually given evidence in this trial has already been going on for

four weeks for the first time is actually and is now in the trial and fascinating to actually because this is the one of the world's richest men with an estimated fortune of over ten billion pounds and until now he's rarely speaks publicly i've never heard him speak and to see him actually in the dog and for all the press it was fascinating because i would say no one's really heard him speak before and seem reduced to being just another member of the public really put in the dog food on the spot and being grilled was absolutely fascinating now none of the details of the actual case have been discussed just yet because he's only been given evidence for a small fraction of the session so far in the case is of course mr berezovsky as soon as there are an obit alleging that he was for he was blackmailed to sell to sell his shares in sydney and co-founded the oil company story for a fraction of their true values and none of that was actually discussed because this is the cross section and it's clearly designed cross-examination clearly designed to actually unsettle mr abbott and to discredit him really and it's

already starting to worry you can see mr abbott marriage was unsettled he's visibly blushed at the beginning of the questioning what was in fact focused on was his early biography surprisingly enough but emerged in just a small fraction of the of the hearing he was given evidence for the details listed in his biography by sitting there. were actually untrue said that he had graduated from the moscow road construction academy and this emerged to actually be completely fabricated although he studied there he never actually graduate so it was these details have no real bearing as such but on the details of that case they are designed to unsettle him and discredit him. i've a you've got a couple of minor details there but let's step back for a moment with the two men at the center of this case are normally hidden behind great walls of secrecy other than the small items you've mentioned already but has their appearance in court anything else anything new to speak of. well this is the

first chink in what's a very thick layer of armor really just seeing mr average there having to say that something that he previously said was in actually untrue because these men arrived call in huge entourage is mr berezovsky always arise in a black my bag blacked out windows mr parks his car his stillness sadie's and black range rover around the corner he always arrives with a huge entourage of lawyers translators legal aid bodyguards the courtroom itself is packed it's just a dispute between two people but it's packed with three layers each behind each man of fifteen or more legal aides translators lawyers and such outside the court and bodyguards around on the corners all the all all all the buildings with black down glances he pieces it's fascinating to watch because these are two of the richest men in the world really although the rumor is that boris berezovsky party is dwindling to a mere five hundred million pounds and and to give you an idea of just how much

money is being pumped into this case will the legal fees for mr admission rumored to be between four and eight million pounds so but it's a fascinating peak really behind this curtain of money and mystery but i think you'll get a lot more explicit as this case goes on because i've had a little peek at the witness statements from mr album which has been released to the press in just the last few hours and it seems that it is he's expected to the fact that. mr berezovsky were in fact. business partners in the first place and he maintains that he was not a criticism and so it's going to make a really fascinating viewing in the next few weeks or artists are going to their life in london when you thanks. with r.t. now the occupy wall street movement shows no signs of slowing of the u.s. as the now enters its seventh week scores of activists have been arrested across america for refusing to pack up their camps and russia has voiced concerns over the

crackdown and the treatment of protesters by u.s. authorities. it's the way the occupy wall street protest is handled is an ample illustration of double standards quite a number of our counterparts from western countries are pursuing we will never put up with a situation when our western partners who have the right to ask us questions refused to discuss their own problems which there are plenty of them which keeps growing. statements come in response to building criticism from some western countries as russia moves toward its presidential election authorities in the us are trying to enforce various curfews over the weekend to prevent demonstrations from escalating further more than seventy protests 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 batons and tear gas were also used to chase away protesters who say they are ready to withstand the pressure.

so it was a week in the united states where the multiple arrests and clashes between police and activists are forced out of their camps but all these are lucy half an hour has been at the heart of the protest since they began to bring you the latest development so here's a twitter feed she tweets that police arrived at the occupy wall street protesters in richmond virginia and started detaining people so far at least ten arrests have been made and you can follow her twitter page for all the latest information. well i still have you this hour here on r.t. looking for a spacious new home scientists a way of mankind's options for exploring other planets and cultivating a new life away from the seven billion people we now call. portugal has been struggling to stabilize its economy despite a bailout from the eurozone earlier this year while the e.u.

is breathing a small relief over the new deal to prevent greece from collapse the storm is far from over as artists are really going to score reports from portugal the people there are not content with painful austerity cuts that they continue to have to endure. 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 once it's a political choice of financial cuts being able cation the herald's social security that's a political choice and who thinks it's wrong. but let's do this particle seems to be sliding deeper and deeper into the depths of economic out with the third it 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 this began showing 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 these theories because 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 to provide free public legal services so there are some enjoy 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 speeches are hitting the portuguese where it hurts the most. their health care bill good. luck is your capacity to save money in two thousand and so good is the government you know has

to made. you there will be a lot of people. because we know at the same time we pick up even. though we'll reduce. and it's more pain no gain the spirit is 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 fortunately it's money and it needs it now so they are going to have to like big time services slashed taxes hikes but portugal's still on course to have a worse debt free show then greece that's startling enough but for the people trying to survive there's that meeting you called to me disaster is already here it involves school r t. why we're coming here live from moscow new york trial of

victim the russian business woman accused of international arms trafficking and supplying weapons to terrorists is now close to a conclusion he was arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after a sting operation by the u.s. and flown to new york to face trial for more on this let's cross live our talk or for the church going to live for us in new york cooper see you so what exactly is victimhood accused of. well lori we've got your boots is accused of conspiring to kill american citizens and conspiring to internationally smuggle drugs including to a colombian group called for which is deemed terrorist in the united states we have to remember that group was arrested in two thousand and eight as you mention but he was arrested in a sting operation conducted by the united states drug enforcement agency where special agents were posing as members of this group and trying to lure him into a business deal with them so that they could promptly arrest him now the

prosecution says that should face from twenty five years to a life sentence behind bars whereas his lawyers see that the only thing good was doing was trying to sell too old cargo planes to these people and according to groups lawyer was perfectly aware that he was not exactly dealing with members of the fart group and we're expected to hear the verdict in the hours to come and this is something that could potentially make or break richard boots we have to remember that earlier in september in a similar case or another russian businessmen was sense of twenty years behind bars to look so let's take a step back here for a moment and i really get a broader scope of this whole case has been full of controversy hasn't it. that's absolutely right laurie basically the hunt for viktor good has been going on for roughly a decade before his arrest in thailand in two thousand and eight we know that u.s. agents have spent tens of millions of dollars in attempts to build this operation

to arrest victor boot while he was peacefully living in moscow actually and then catching him in thailand and reading him over to the united states and what really seems like a hollywood movie they snatched him away in the middle of the night from thailand where technically his legal document still remains we have to remember that type courts found not guilty twice but still he was taken to the united states where he has been facing a trial for the last three weeks and the controversy started really a long time ago because this man was dubbed the merchant of death in the united states way before he was even taken here with even a hollywood film made about this man and the judge was even forced to make the jury sign a pledge that they would not look this man up on the internet because unfortunately for boots in the court of public opinion in the united states he is most likely already lost this case. will be coming to you with a different developments all this argues and i see you're going to live in new york

thank you. all right as you would argue let's take a moment to check out some international news for you this hour the world update a suicide bombing in the southern afghan city of kandahar as least four knives a truck laden with explosives was detonated near a u.n. agency checkpoint several people were wounded in the blast and ensuing a gunfight that urban came on between insurgents and the afghan security forces for now the taliban has claimed responsibility. nato is said to wrap up its mission over libya by midnight on monday it's marking the official and to its military intervention the responsibility for national security will be handed over to the country's interim government it now faces that difficult time. ask of collecting companies weapons and firearms from civilians weapons weapons use rather excuse me became widespread during the eight months of civil war that ended with a violent death of libya's former leader moammar gadhafi. in yemen huge

blast rocked an airbase outside the capital sanaa. used to shut down the city's international airport officials say that explosive devices were planted inside twelve fighter jets it's not yet clear how insurgents managed to access the heavily guarded area yemen's capital has seen months of anti-government rallies with protesters demanding an end to decades of presidents eligible. well 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 overcrowding of our planet but experts warn in a few decades the problem could become unmanageable with dire environmental consequences but the news is inspiring some to seek a new home somewhere far far away. as more. so when next mercury too hot. too cold mars 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 gloom in these times of tightening purse strings the cost of going to mars could be a problem in the not so a one man expedition to mars and back would cost it is safe to say over three billion dollars repairing 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 boldly 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 north orbit very close here we haven't been somewhere else or with people since the

lunar landings which ended back in one thousand nine hundred eighty two there's no shortage of teachers to be the first to set foot on mars and potential red planet trailblazers have started their training young certainly still just a teenager but he's putting in the hard yards in the hope that he can help create a potential new home but humanity millions of kilometers away not mars i want to be the first to travel to mars and to other planets as well to the moons of jupiter saturn you see 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 is 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. once resources are finite therefore we will eventually have to either restrain population and production growth risking losing both or we find foothold on other planets no matter how much it cost and. 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 and 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. as it stands we might have to learn to deal with the soaring global population and young sergei will keep on training hard in the hope

that he can do it for the dream as usual of a party. to. korea is next. here welcome to our business the russian government says putting some numbers to the help might offer your presidential aide are paying about college says this could mean up to ten billion dollars for the debt fund this could be done through the i.m.f. agreements will be above it all countries. as well. russia helping the eurozone mixed with political and financial sense europe is russia's largest trading partner so ensuring its recovery could only be positive for this country's wellbeing will be no winners should the e.u. be fed to the wolves but it's not all financial all truism russia will be seeking some sort of reassurances as to the structural reforms in europe's most indebted nations also buying european bonds offers russia the prospect of diversifying its

reserve holdings which are now dominated by u.s. treasuries on the downside money that does go for the aid is not available to be spent at home although economists suggest it is not enough to make a real dent in russia's plans i also say you know we're talking about ten billion dollars which can be important for maybe a specific country in a in the european union zone but for russia to take into account the central bank reserves five hundred billion dollars we are really talking about you know rolled them on a financial decisions politically there's also miles to be meet russia wants closer relations with western europe to coming to its rescue in its hour of need can only be to its credit something which may come in handy when discussions focus on matters closer to russia's heart such as energy relations. and russia seems to be all set to join the world trade organization it agreed a final report on the succession process chief negotiator said there will still a number of technical issues to resolve 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 oppose russia's accession however it now looks like both sides will agree to a proposal mediated by the swiss clearing the way for russia to potentially join it by december fifteenth. looking at the markets now u.s. starts open sharply lower with wall street relinquishing some of its recent rise bangsa lower morgan stanley and citi group dropped more than three percent following declines of european levels. oh and for more a slump over one and a half percent toothpaste losses and companies most tight economic growth stocks in europe are lower in midday trading traders await more news on plans to tackle the eurozone debt crisis banks among the biggest decliners shares of barclays fell point nine percent in london after the bank said its third quarter profits increased by five percent beating estimates mining stocks are weighing on the footsie with and done to resources and xstrata who's in over five percent here in

russia markets continue to the negative trends at the close as crude oil and metals fall hurting the outlook for companies in the world's biggest energy exporter as i look at some individual shareholders right now banking stocks are no longer mainly traders with the country's biggest lenders a bad bank losing over three and a half percent fertiliser world carly you raised earlier games it's considering a premium listing on the london stock exchange bucking the trend is russian british one venture a tank a b.p. the company has acquired a forty five percent stake in brazilian for a project called one billion dollars. that's all for now stay with us for headline news coming up next.

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