a last ditch effort to end bloodshed in syria the arab league demanding president assad talk to the opposition and withdraw his tanks from the streets. costly recognition washington halts funding of unesco hours after the u.n. cultural arm granted palestinians for membership by a majority vote. we entreat mainstream media resurrecting an f.b.i. case code name goes stories seeing the release of footage featuring russian sleeper agents uncovered in the u.s. last year. of an am in moscow i am not trends are good to have you with us here on our t.v.

our top story of the world waits for syria's response to the arab league demands to pull its tanks off the streets and begin a dialogue with the opposition earlier syrian president assad said he would only speak with parties that have no links to foreign powers or what he called terrorism some three thousand people already killed since clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces flared out eight months ago with that death toll still rising or at least tests are so your reports from damascus. to protest the government crackdowns in violence that 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 wools most certainly have ears more but not because she's intelligence service this political clout in syria that's one of the state secrets and says the best began in march protestors have accused them of violent interrogations for going to the school i was chased interested by security force.

in a very tiny cell severely damaging my back and me electrocuted e.q. the soul of receiving money for taking to the streets they said were agents of america and israel after forty eight hours of detention and torture they 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 court room that. we have three authorities in the country the legal authority the legislative and executive but it is the security police who make the real decisions the court judge awaits for their decision and i feel sorry for the judge because he is not independent. in court 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to decades of living under the emergency law in place since nine hundred sixty three in two thousand and eleven assad repealed it to appease after regime protesters this man who's worked for the more about for twenty seven years sustained gunshot wounds in what he says was an ambush by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 not accusations that they are behind the violence detentions and torture. this is the wrong idea we're protecting only of the terrorists shoot civilians you shoot us and then you 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 and he is free to do this and no one will trace him and if he has links with terrorists and works against the country naturally he will be brought to justice we pose the same questions to the deputy foreign minister you know it depends on the people who talk to him if you ask me. a different view i have never ever been asked by the security or anybody for something which i do those who fear are either people who. are illegal activities or carry arms or. it's well this right here is

a very open and colorful slice of syria but when it comes to talking about security services like anywhere it is shrouded by intrigue but here their presence is so widely felt that it's not quite possible to determine just what local feel is normal and what isn't. 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 forgot oh yes i'll take to the streets again and again i'll raise my voice now if you're nothing and no one one freedom of expression but we get nothing only bashar al assad and security enjoyed it as for us we are not why is there i. r t. well really are we discuss the situation in syria with a roof over there. was me who echoes assad's or paying enough the country's own

arrest as part of a foreign plot to topple syria's government. i think it's a conspiracy by a regional power they wanted to change the regime of bashar al assad they want to have different regime different government with different had a nice life you can see that regional power hasn't been friendly to the situation taking place in syria actually some of the country has been funneling what pens and money and start can i got to topple the regime of president assad the president of syria acknowledged there is opposition in that country and he extended his hand to become fully aware then the his country for those people who were asking for change and that's why today they have constitutional reform but there is certain external power or what they say in opposition and exotic those are backed by the western powers some persian gulf countries. and staying with this theme historian

and author aphelion angle thinks the west's interference in the uprisings in the middle east and north africa has left post revolution countries in tatters that full interview coming your way next hour. called me is a far worse shape libya had the highest living standard old africa before the bombing so that made up the country is in ruins because of those bombings not because of good life and. the economy of 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 script off and we did for a signal from the pentagon when to return and take control of those events. palestine has for the first time gotten recognition by un body and its cultural arm except it is a fully fledged member but the decision comes at a price for unesco with the u.s.

cutting its funding to the organization which represents almost a quarter of the group's budget he's got into chickie on has more from washington. 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 and the price well from the palestine to the united nations educational scientific and cultural little bit ization means saying goodbye to as much just plain 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 the nineteen ninety five largest washington to cut off funding to unesco if it is made 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 with

these release and 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 in the vote it's being seen as very much political as the first step is 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. we'd like to know your take on our top stories today we ask on the line what the admission of palestine to you no school means just under forty percent don't think the move will change anything for palestinians a third think it clears the way for the country's statehood the rest was evenly divided between two options whether unesco will have difficulties no putting its bills or the admission of palestine would speak in the pillow future rejection by

the u.n. or don have your say. about staying with this topic ramsey bruited editor of palestine chronicle dot com things washington's move is unfair but says you know sco will continue. it's have to go to fifty one issue and that's what exactly what it is and the sad thing is that you have many members and the congress is starting to pay out wasn't all that conservative republicans handing back to members who have been pushing for the u.s. to use its iron fist are slim to punish me to any organization that either a group of moses palestine as a state or giving membership to that international body will be dissolved is really a membership it speaks of any given organization anywhere its exchange bad and what is going to suffer not just the palestinians don't go to new numbers countries that do business from mazing programs that you dislike funded throughout the years just

like look at this look important to my drinking you out of here and that is president reagan that's one point cut funding to this one pulled out and you know what you this will survive and it will survive the stock as well and keeping with those top three parter sorry syed ahmed advisor to the palestinian president things are recognition now you know sco increases international pressure on the us and our allies to follow suit. and you kind of get the united states of america celebrating the arab spring going into the square in egypt and shaking the hands of demonstrators seeking democracy while banning palestinians from having their own democracy on their own independence that's your last act and that's totally unacceptable what's also though this is the fact that the united states of america has in the past and both in the for the cinema for the about it would crack aide now we hear about foreign secretaries secretary clinton is calling upon congress probably consider this position i certainly hope not the american administration

would we would reconsider this and that the issue of full financial for that would not be off and the for the for me and i am then for national information to consolidate for the salient independence will not be subjected. to hold by a slight share thoughts if anything has to be thought of endorsement now there is an international invoice added to the palestinian voice and i think this voice or be addressed and addressed carefully. and still to come here on r t tough tactics as accusations of police brutality against and wall street protesters now we talked with witnesses of the u.s. crackdowns plus. as likely to be a new round of bullets trading around the world doesn't substitute comes rushing back not soft to greece's prime minister george papandreou that the country will hold a referendum on the last minute bail until to try to contain the books that's mountain more in business in ten minutes.

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thanks for staying with us here on r.t. twelve minutes past the hour and last hour this hollowing the f.b.i. decided to share some of their own ghost stories that's the code name given to the operation that saw ten russian agents uncovered in the country last year the agency released surveillance videos including those featuring famous. chat men out there requests of an information request or computer all over has more on this from moscow. perhaps spookiest over all is that this footage doesn't contain any actual spooks there was no charges of espionage leveled against the ten people who were arrested in the united states in june of last year instead they pled guilty to conspiracy to act as agents of the foreign governments know this these videos that if we release code name school reese was released on halloween something which did raise a few eyebrows however the f.b.i.

. this is just purely coincidental now the footage shows members old spy ring. doing such things as shopping in macy's and using laptops in popular branches of book schools the f.b.i. saying the operation. clear message to any foreign spice wanting to operate in the united states oh the critics have suggested this the release of these documents is something of a publicity stunt it was leveled at this group that they really didn't send any sensitive information didn't send any information really of notes in fact some security analysts said that the information that was passed they were accused of passing between the united states and russia they could have gleaned from reading the new york times on the morning. covering available twenty four seven a click away at r.t. dot com. right now. you hate it when you're ironing sure

why not spray on your clothes a spanish designer showcasing dresses made of non woven fabric for those outfits to literally feel like. but for some people even that is too much as a naked taxi driver went on a rampage and damaging dozens of cars in moscow and claiming he did it all in the name of. the growing occupy wall street movement in the us drawing more jobless and dissatisfied college kids into its ranks record cost of national student loans and higher unemployment putting it unbearable burden on the backs of many young people are to lose while spoke with some of those already facing a future in debt. 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 and college graduates it's this thing that eventually you'll have to kind of face it until 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 unable to. pay for college which burns 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 eastern that we're going to make it easier for you to have one payment. at a better interest rate and this will last but it will cost taxpayers a gun but it will save you money and it will save your trite 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's who eliminate student debt which has garnered over six hundred forty seven thousand signatures if you put more money. they're going to spend and that will create 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're not starting nothing in other developed countries getting a financial education isn't such a financial burden you have free tuition. in france and. mark in sweden finland they don't pay anything for public universities and when they do paddy the price tag isn't as shocking as it is in the u.s. twenty one countries in europe for which we have data. there's only four who have

to wish and more than two hundred dollars compare 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 schools are charging thirty five to forty five thousand dollars a year and we myself personally i work at two universities and i get 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 like millions shackled to college debt for years and in many cases decades in washington liz wall artsy. of course it's not only students who have been standing defiant on u.s. streets as part of the ongoing anti wall street protests but the movement that has attracted thousands of people from all walks of life demanding economic justice has

recently seen a police crackdown around one hundred protesters arrested nationwide in the last three days for refusing to leave their house in denver officers in riot gear used pepper spray rubber bullets to disperse the crowds eyewitnesses accuse police of using brutal force and say authorities are manipulating evidence to discredit activists. police showed up kind of ready for it you know before the tents were not at all totally arms of the t.v. and ready for war so to speak and they moved very quickly we do know that no one protester the effect of the german army showed a picture was shot for climbing the tree and it was actually we found out afterwards were covered walls they're calling them they're like bowls filled with a chemical agent not river i've seen a few videos one arrest you particular when an officer drove his motorcycle into the crowd this one was kind of weeded out by the right wing saying look at this guy

where she caught this by how we did a second by second analysis you know it's those people and you can clearly tell the officer he's the gentleman you see is right propelled backwards but then seems to enter his right foot because he jumps back onto his left foot and then in frustration he gives the offender a show at which point the altar comes to a controlled stop hops off the lake just some down and oscar lots are u.s. correspondents have been keeping their eye on developments in the protests since they started in september of latest updates from them as well as comments videos available on our twitter feeds a lot on to the web page more about what's going on in the streets.

turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe china successfully launches an unmanned spacecraft in the gobi desert in the country's northwest zero eight is due to join another module within days and would be the first chinese docking with a spacecraft already orbiting the earth exercise part of the country's plans to build its own space station by two thousand and twenty china started its space flight program in one thousand nine hundred incoming the third country to send man into space after russia and the us. protests flared in the thai capital over the government's handling of its flood crisis with many of bangkok for rural areas affected residents accuse the government of sacrificing their neighborhoods to save the inner commercial district and have been suffering from food and water shortages panic spreads amid the ongoing fight with floodwaters thailand's heavy monsoons

have killed nearly four hundred people since july with severe conditions expected to continue for some time. and joining us for a walk through the wild nature of russia's remote city of a hot square iceberg survive through the summer and september season's first snow is coming your way in our special report later here's a cretin. the observe nature and discover its beauty. the communicate with the wind only. test yourself and become free. be seen walking nature can give you an all see the. there is a special here where you stay with us. thanks

much a very warm welcome to the business are likely to be our new round of volatile trading around the world doesn't certainty comes rushing back off to greece's prime minister george papandreou unexpectedly called to hold a referendum on the last minute bailout deal to try to contain the books that mountain last week leaders agreed to hand athens the one hundred thirty eight billion euro bailout and fifty percent write down on its enormous debt and this a new vote by its charity wary greeks could lead to the end of the country's membership in the euro zone and. on the referendum could be held as soon as next january and could become the country's first in almost forty years. plus have a look at the markets for the reaction world prices are in the right on fresh worries about your us debt crisis lies and just reading at around ninety two dollars a barrel while branch is offering a one hundred sixty eight dogs and of course asian stocks are decreasing for

a second day as china's manufacturing grew at a slower pace the nikkei and the hang seng up both losing almost two percent exporters are among the main retreat as in japan with toyota down one and a half percent in vsam over two percent in the red hot at the honda is screening around point eight percent it has posted that just six percent we've seen a profit drop which now the last quarterly matched analysts from the past and banking stocks are under pressure in hong kong with bank of china down two percent . and the russian markets are heading down with the arches losing over two percent to quine's in the my six which is losing under one percent this is led by mining shares let's have a look at some of the individual show moves here on the my sets most energy majors are down on cheaper crude the losing one percent they can still some no exceptions as their bond down one point eight percent and the trend is. telecommunications

major ross telecom the company has approved the buyback program worth a billion dollars. russia's direct investment fund is going to strike five billion dollars worth of deals by the end of the here that's according to the founder of the found me trip so they are now considering around twenty investment projects to the gaga foundation believes it's the right time for russia to attract cash from abroad what's happened since two thousand and eight and the subsequent issues of that 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 and i mean leverage in economies there are problems and in developed economies alike and 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 have developed significant problems in the

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