a last ditch effort to end the bloodshed in syria the arab league demands that president assad talk to the opposition and withdraw tanks from the streets. costly recognition washington halts its funding of unesco hours after the u.n. cultural agency granted the palestinians full membership by a majority vote. america media savers the resurrection of a case of code named goes stories as f.b.i. releases by dio's petri russian sleeper agents uncovered in the u.s. last year.

eight am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story the world awaits for syria's response the arab league demands to pull the tanks off the streets and begin dialogue with the opposition earlier syrian president assad said he would only talk with parties that he said have no links with quote foreign powers or terrorism assad's security forces have killed some three thousand people over the last eight months with that death toll death toll still mounting archy's tests are reports from damascus. the protests government crackdowns and violence are continue to plague parts of syria the capital damascus is still largely sheltered from but beneath the calm many will remind you that in syria was most certainly have ears the more but at the country's intelligence service has political clout in syria that's where the state secret and says the unrest began in march protestors have accused them of violent interrogations that before i was

chased and arrested by security forces in a very tiny cell beat me severely damaging my back and electrocuted the accuser sort of receiving money for taking to the streets they said were agents of america and israel after forty eight hours of detention and torture it took all my money and belongings and threw me out into the street. city and corey is a lawyer who deals with detention cases she says the influence of the security police extends even into the courtroom. we have three authorities in the country the legal authority of the legislative and the executive but it is the security police who make the real decisions the court judge with for their decision and i feel sorry for the judge because he is not independent. and could he believes this constant state of fear is thanks to decades of living under the emergency law in place since nine hundred sixty three in two thousand and eleven assad repealed it to appease anti regime protesters this man who has worked for the more but after

twenty seven years sustained gunshot wounds in what he says was an ambush by a group of terrorists we asked him about people's fear of the mob but accusations that they are behind the violence detentions and torture. this is the wrong idea we are protecting our people but the terrorists shoot civilians who shoot us and then accuse security forces of doing such things accusations that we instill fear also wrong if this person has political activity without any intention of harming the country or conspiring against it and he is free to. do this and no one will chase him but if he has links with terrorists and works against the country naturally he will be justice we pose the same questions to the deputy foreign minister you know depends on the people who talk to him and i know journalists would like you shouldn't commute with him if you ask me as a citizen of sr i will tell you a different view i have never ever been asked by the second if you or anybody for

something which i don't know those who fear are either people who. illegally. or carry arms or put themselves in suspicious waves what is right here is a very open and colorful slice of syria but when it comes to talking about security services like anywhere it is for all of my country but here their presence is so widely felt that it's not possible to determine just what local feel is normal. and when twenty percent of the population is rumored to be in the intelligence service it's no wonder many prefer to keep their voices down in the light of day but within a crowd that's here is temporarily forgotten oh yes i'll take to the streets again and again i'll raise my voice and i'll fear nothing and no one will one freedom of expression but we get nothing only bashar al assad and security and enjoy it as for us we are nothing why is there i. r t.

now earlier we discussed the situation in syria with a root based political analyst come hell or wasn't he he echoes assad's opinion that the country is under arrest is the result of a foreign plot to topple the syrian government. i think it's a conspiracy by regional power they wanted to change the regime of bashar al assad they wanted a different regime different government was different had and that's why you can see the regional power hasn't been friendly to the situation taking place inside syria actually some of this country has been funneling weapons and money and certain ideology to topple the regime of president assad the president of syria acknowledged there is opposition in that country and he extend his hand to the conciliation within the his country for those people who are asking for change and

that's why today they have a constitutional reform but there is an external power what they say i'm a position an exile those are backed by the western powers and some persian gulf country. historian author and western critic f. william m. dollar thinks the uprisings in middle east then north africa were instigated by the west and left the poster of all countries in tatters the full interview with him coming up in about twenty minutes. the events of the so-called arab spring have been planned years back this thing has the state department and u.s. intelligence all over it and it's an old peaceful twitter revolution of the bunch of kids who have a dream of american style democracy yourself and your economy is in far worse shape libya had the highest living standard old offer for them so they took the country is in ruins because of those bombings not because it could offer. the economy of the egypt is in dire straits the military remains in control they were in the

military high command of egypt was sitting in the pentagon when the revolts picked off and waited for a signal from the pentagon when to return and take control of those events. palestine has for the first time ever gotten a recognition by a un body its cultural arm has accepted as a full fledged member but the decision comes at a price for unesco with a us cutting funding to the group which represents almost a quarter of its budget chickie and has been. there certainly was a lot of jubilation in paris cheers went up in the assembly hall where the final tally was announced but the vote problems i'd have price welcome in palestine to the united nations educational scientific and cultural organisation needs saying goodbye was not just twenty two percent of the organization's budget washington as being the agency's biggest contributor so far and the state department has

confirmed that they will stop sponsoring the organization on what grounds a u.s. law passed in one thousand nine hundred ninety obliges washington to cut off funding to unesco if it admits palestine but nonetheless this u.n. body facing huge budget cuts voted one hundred seven four and fourteen nations against the admission of palestine a very sensitive and jubilant moment for the palestinians and it's our point for these three leeson for the united states it seems they've been doing everything possible to do rail to vote but to no avail although the u.n. body in question deals with science education and culture the vote is being seen as very much political as a first step as a reminder of the popularity of the palestinian bid for full u.n. membership that application is now pending before the u.n. security council where the united states is threatening to use its veto power and most of the international community is for palestine becoming

a full member of the u.n. and the u.s. position on this is considered to be very much by its. rulers eager to know your take on our top stories today were us you know on the line what the mission of palestine to unesco means just over forty percent of you don't think the move will change anything for palestinians our third think it clears the way for the country's statehood and the rest are evenly divided between two opinions one of us who will have difficulties voting its bills or the admission of power so i would sweeten the pillow future rejection by the un have your say by logging on the ark you got cast your vote. ramsey approved editor of the palestine chronicle dot com thinks washington's move is unfair but says you know sco will survive it. it's they have to punish and that's what exactly what it is and the sad thing is that you have many members and the congress is starting with the outlaws and all the other conservative republican hanging project members who have been pushing for

the u.s. to use its iron fist starts for them to punish them to any organization that either a group of moses palestine as a state or giving membership in that international body will be denied strictly membership it ceases any given organization anyway i'm extremely and bad and who is going to suffer not just the palestinians who don't but in you know various countries that believe that it's from the mazy programs because you dislike funded throughout the years this is why this is what is important to my going to out of here and this is pretty intriguing that's one point cut funding to this one pulled out and you know what you this will survive and it will survive this side as well and dr sabry sidearm an advisor to the palestinian president thanks the recognition that unesco increases international pressure on the u.s. and allies to power suit. but you kind of get the united states of america are celebrating the arab spring going into the behavior square in egypt and shaking the

hands of demonstrators seeking democracy while banning palestinians from having their own democracy in their own independence that's active and that's totally unacceptable what's also into this is the fact that the united states of america has in the past both up in the palestinian i thought of the world cup aid now we hear that foreign secretary secretary clinton is calling upon congress to reconsider this position i certainly hope that the american administration would reconsider this and that the issue of for financial threat would not be off and the palestinian and the international intervention to consolidate for the syrian independence would not be subjected in order. to hold by such a threat so if anything it has to be totally endorsement and ollie's and international voice added to the palestinian voice and i think this voice ought to be addressed and addressed carefully. stay with us here on r.t. still ahead tough tactics accusations of us police brutality against anti wall

street protesters now we talk with witnesses of the crackdown. on discovery. communications with the wild. and become free. nature can give you. the. wealthy british style. time to. market finally. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into khan's report. thanks for staying with us here on our team well our team well this halloween the f.b.i. decided to share their own ghost stories the code name given to the operation that saw ten russian agents uncovered last year using c. released surveillance video showing those showing those entering famous fan fertile anna chapman were for on this we're joined live by our he's here all over here in moscow hi peter so what's so swoopy about this but it tells me well perhaps. it doesn't really contain any spooks the ten that were arrested in june of last year were not actually charged with any espionage crimes they would charged with the conspiracy to. the representatives of

a foreign government know the cache of videos shows the called ghost stories released on halloween of course which has raised a few eyebrows shows the the ten alleged spice indulging in such nefarious activities is shopping in a season new york and opening laptops in well known branches of bookstores now the group which of course includes anna chapman probably the most high profile of the ten who were arrested and sent back to russia. they apparently show them. the livery information to their handlers. and this is something they say has faced quite a few eyebrows as people have looked and drawn comparisons in this report to this group and the cambridge five where is kim philby and the rest of his coconspirators has passed since that information from the british government to the soviet union

union in the one nine hundred forty nine hundred fifty s. certain security analysts have suggested that the information gleaned about the united states that was passed to moscow from this particular group could have been gotten from reading the new york times on the morning. of course this is released on halloween is possibly a freedom of information request in the united states called ghost story since as has really been tell dealt with this something of a well not wanting to say comic story pushed along those lines anyway. the the the news coming out is this apparently they met with their handlers sending this information as a safe from quite prominent locations most of those who took part in this alleged spy ring have kept themselves to themselves since they returned to russia only chapman that really made herself something of a public figure she's became of course

a media celebrity here following her return to russia. right here all her life for us in moscow thanks. well for more on this story as well as all the news we're covering you can always check out our web site r t v dot com here's what's a click away right now. ironing well why not spray on your clothes a spanish designer showcasing dresses made of non woven fabric for those who want outfits literally to feel like a second skin. and for some people a second skin is just too much and naked taxi driver went on a rampage damaging dozens of cars in moscow claiming he did it all in the name of love.

the ever growing occupy wall street movement in the u.s. is drawing more jobless and dissatisfied college kids into its ranks the record cost of national student debt and high unemployment are putting an unbearable burden on the backs of young people are t's lose wall spoke with some of those already facing a future in it. they call it the american dream because you have to be asleep to believe that student debt is crushing the american dream for millions of students am college graduates it's this thing that eventually you'll have to kind of face but until then you kind of pretend it doesn't exist because if you did then it's it's a bit daunting vast majority of youth are only able to pay these pay for college and this year which birds for the first time in the u.s. total student debt has surpassed one trillion dollars now more than the nation's credit card debt this as unemployment amongst college graduates is at an all time high president obama recently announced his plans easton loan that we're going to

make it easier for you to have one payment. at a better interest rate and this will cost but it will cost taxpayers a dollar but it will save you money and it will save your truck but his plan won't help millions of americans already drowning in debt and it excludes private loans which is where many students run into trouble due to their high interest rates move on dot org launched a petition to eliminate student debt which has garnered over six hundred forty seven thousand signatures if you put your money into the people they're going to spend it and that will reduce demand it will create economic growth and it will create jobs robert applebaum says bailing out students rather than banks will stimulate the economy by putting more cash in the pockets of the educated middle class they're not starting businesses they're not buying cars they're not buy houses they are not starving. children in other developed countries getting a financial education isn't such

a financial burden you have free tuition in france denmark and sweden finland they don't pay anything at public universities and when they do pay the price tag isn't as shocking as it is in the u.s. twenty one countries in europe for which we have data. is only for. or who have jewish and more than two hundred dollars compared that to an average of over eight thousand for public and over twenty eight thousand dollars for a private u.s. college as many cost much more the average teacher charging thirty five to forty five thousand dollars a year and we myself personally i work at two universities and i net about. twenty eight thousand dollars a year and it's not getting any better over the past two decades to asia has skyrocketed over four hundred percent this year alone the cost of college shot up over eight percent occupy wall street protesters camped out here and across the nation say this is yet another example of rising inequality with millions shackled

to college debt for years and in many cases decades in washington liz wahl r.t. . and it's not only students who've been standing defiant on u.s. streets as part of ongoing anti wall street protests but the movement has attracted thousands of people from all walks of life demanding economic justice and has recently seen a sweeping police crackdown around a hundred protesters arrested nationwide in the last three days profusion of caps in denver officers in riot gear pepper spray and rubber bullets this cursed crowds eyewitnesses a huge police of using force fabricating evidence against. police showed up kind of ready for it you know before the tents were not at all totally arms and achieve and ready for war so to speak and they were moved very quickly i had to leave sites and be updating the website live but we do know that one protester was

shot for climbing a tree and those actually we found out afterwards were pepper balls they're calling them they're like people's filled with chemical burn agent not i've seen a few videos want to rest in particular where an officer drove his motorcycle into the crowd this one was kind of tweeted out by the right wing saying look at this guy crazy how hard is blake how we just second by second analysis of it you know you know it's those big and you can clearly tell her dogs are it's the gentleman you see is not a propelled backwards then seems to enter his right foot because he jumps back onto his left foot and then in frustration he gives the fender a shot at which point the officer comes to control stop ops off the lake chases him down and oscar lots. our u.s. correspondents have been keeping their eye on developments in the u.s. protests since they started last month our latest updates from mel's with them as well as comments videos available on our twitter feed you can log on to the web page and find out more about what's going on in the streets of the u.s.

. it's. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the greek prime minister george has called for a shock referendum on the second debt rescue deal reached last week e.u. leaders agreed to hand athens one hundred thirty billion euro bailout and a fifty percent write down on its enormous debt analysts say a no vote by austerity weary greeks could lead to the end of the country's membership in the euro zone and triggered a fall but vote could be held as soon as next january and would become the country's first in almost forty years. china successfully launched

an unmanned spacecraft in the gobi desert in the country's northwest eighty is due to join another module within days of what could be the first chinese docking with a spacecraft already orbiting the exercise as part of the country's plans for building its own space station by twenty one it was trying to started its space flight program in one nine hundred ninety becoming the third country to send humans into space after russia and the us. protests flared in a thai capital over the government's handling of the flood crisis with many of bangkok's rural areas affected residents accuse the government of sacrificing their neighborhoods to save in a commercial district of the city thailand's heavy monsoon floods of killed nearly four hundred people since july with severe conditions expected to keep up for some time. join us for a walk through the wild nature of russia's remote city a hot square the iceberg survive for a summer in september sees the first snow fall that's coming your way later today

in our special report. discovery. communicate with you want to. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you on on the. business next week stay with us here on r.t. . it's not a very well welcome to the program that's likely to be a new round of all the tile grading around the world doesn't certainty comes rushing back that softer christmas prime minister george papandreou go in expecting his son but the country will hold a referendum on the last minute bailout deal to try to contain the books that

mountain i must say a no vote for throw greece into bankruptcy and default. which brings us to the markets or oil prices in the red on fresh worries about europe's debt crisis lights which is trading at around ninety two dollars a barrel while branches globe one hundred nine dollars a barrel the sound turned to cross asia stocks are decreasing per second day as china's one of the trend grew at a slower pace the nikkei and the hand signs of both losing more than one percent of the summer. and two hours ahead of the opening bell here in moscow the russian markets finished monday's trading session in the red sox so a correction holding strong gains in the end of the previous week weighing on the sentiment were negative economic data from italy on local commodity prices. russia's direct investment fund is going to strike five billion dollars worth of deals by the end of the kit that's according to the founder of the fund let image me triple says they are now considering around twenty projects stephen guy care

from skulk a foundation believes it's the right time for russia to extract cash from abroad what's happened since two thousand and eight and the subsequent issues are now occurring in europe as well as the situation in the american economy i believe american investors are taking a fresh look at russia because they realize that there are problems in virgin economies there are problems in developed economies or like them so with a very low debt load. and a very strong economy is more attractive than it perhaps was two years ago simply because other parts of the world that develop significant problems are in the meantime. let's also know from all stories log on to a website our chief business see. if. it's. the books.

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