a last ditch effort and bloodshed in syria the arab league demands that president assad talk to the opposition and withdraw his tanks from the streets. hosley recognition of washington holds plus david you know esko hours after the u.n. cultural arm grabs palestinians hold membership by a majority vote. how we treat mainstream media resurrects an f.b.i. case code named ghost story the sleeper sees the release of footage featuring russian sleeper agents uncovered in the u.s. last year.

noon in moscow i'm at treasure good to have you with us here on r t our top story the world waits for syria's response to be arab league's demands to pull its tanks off the streets and begin dialogue with the opposition earlier syrian president assad said he would only talk to 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 started eight months ago that death toll continues to rise argues tests are so your reports from damascus. the protests government crackdowns and 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 walls most certainly have ears there more but at the country's intelligence service has political clout in syria that's one of the state's secret and says the unrest began in march protestors have accused them of violent interrogations for the get go before i was chased and arrested by security

forces in a very tiny cell they beat me severely damaging my back and electrocuted and make use a sort of receiving money for taking to the streets they said were agents of american israel after forty eight hours of detention and torture it took all my money and belongings and threw me out into the street. sitting coolly 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 ability to split up 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living under the emergency law in place since one thousand nine hundred sixty three and two thousand and eleven assad repealed it to appease anti regime protesters this man who has worked for the more but after twenty seven years sustained gunshot wounds in what he says was an ambush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 and he 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 are protecting our people but the terrorists shoot civilians and 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 and he is free to do this and no one will chase him. if he has links with terrorists and works against the country naturally he would people at the justice we pose the same questions to the deputy foreign minister you know depends on the people you talk to if you ask me as a regular citizen of syria i put you in front of you i have never ever been asked by the secretary or anybody for something which i'm going to those who fear are either people who. illegal activity or carry arms or put

themselves in suspicious ways well this right here is a very open and colorful flights to syria like we're going to come to talking about security services like anywhere destroyed by country but here their presence is so widely felt that it's not my pocketbook to determine just what local feel is normal co-writers. 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 fear is temporarily forgotten oh yes i'll take to the streets again and again i'll raise my voice and i will fear nothing and no one one freedom of expression but we get nothing only bashar al assad is security and enjoyed it as for us we are nothing why is that. our t.v. . earlier we discussed the situation in syria with a beirut based political analyst come out me who echoes assad's opinion of the

country's unrest is part 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 with different had and that's why you can see the regional power hasn't been friendly to the situation it's taking the place inside syria actually some of these country has been funneling weapons and money and start an ideology to topple the regime of president assad the president of syria acknowledges there is opposition in that country and he extended his hand to let it come fully ation within the his country for those people who are asking for change and that's why today they have constitutional reform but there is an external power on what they say in opposition and exile those are backed by the

western powers some persian gulf country. and staying with the topic historian and author as william engdahl thinks the western interference in the uprisings in the middle east and north africa has left post revolution countries in tatters you can watch his full interview in less than half an hour here's a preview. many of them forward shape libya had the highest living standard in all of africa before the bombing so they took the day the country is in the ruins because of those by all means not because of cut off 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 rules kicked off and we did for a signal from the pentagon when to return and take control of there was a bit. palestine has for the first time gotten recognition by a un body its cultural arm has accepted it as

a full fledged member but that decision came at a price for unesco with the us cutting its funding to the organization which represents almost a quarter of its budget archy's guide agency kyon has more from washington. there certainly was a lot of jubilation in paris chairs lined up in the assembly hall where the final tally was announced but the vote either price welcoming palestine to the united nations educational scientific and cultural little bit ization means saying goodbye to as much as 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 eight obliges 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 the boat but to no avail although the u.n. body in question deals with science education and culture the vote has been 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 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 biased. we would like to know your take on our top stories today we're asking you online what the admission of palestine to you no school actually means there's more than forty percent of respondents don't think the move really signals any change for the palestinians or third think it clears the way for the country's statehood the rest about evenly

divided between whether unesco will have difficulties putting its bills or about the admission of palestine would sweeten the pill of a future possible rejection by the u.n. put on your say and cast your vote at r.t. dot com. and staying with this topic arrives you grew the editor of palestine chronicle dot com things washington's move is unfair but says unesco will continue . it's an act of could have a ship that's what exactly what it is and the sad thing is that you have many members of the congress. to give wasn't all that he said to republicans and to traffic. for the u.s. to use its iron fists are subject to carry organizations that. recognize this at this time as. there should be that international law. do not strictly membership it speaks of any organization and what its exchange and what is going to

suffer not just the palestinians don't go to new various countries if it's from the basic programs that you just can't find it throughout the years. but this is what important jim i'm going to add here and this is pretty intriguing one point cut funding to this one pulled out and you know what you this will survive and it will survive the cyprus well stay with us here on r.t. still to come tough tactics accusations of u.s. police brutality against antiwar protesters now we talk with witnesses of the crackdown plus. as likely to be a new round of volatile trading around the world as uncertainty comes russian but that's not to greece's prime minister george papandreou but the country will hold a referendum on the last minute bail until to try to contain the books that mountain more in business in ten minutes. but first china has successfully launched their unmanned spacecraft into orbit that's a key milestone in the country's drive to build an operational space station by

twenty twenty one the next two days shows you what vessel is expected to rendezvous and dock with the prototype station module for more news now i'm drawn by michael ross the finance expert at national university of singapore thanks for joining us so just how important is this launch in china's push towards and its own manned space station. well the ultimate goal for the chinese human spaceflight program is the publisher long time human space presence in space by twenty twenty as you mentioned so the shinzo eight will be not an important step to achieve this goal basically shinzo abe will attempt it will be the first time the shinzo a chinese or a time to. rendezvous and docking. on one which has a launch in september twenty ninth and basically it's another important step for the chinese to achieve the goal to having a long term presence in space how would you assess china's progress in developing

the country space program and how far is it to hide compared to the achievements racked up by russia and u.s. . well china has come a long way in terms of space technology but i still think. the country has still a long way to go basically chinese space technologies do not represent a major technology called breakthrough if you compare it with the russian american space technologies for example the space module is could be compared to the earlier russian space modules of the star you program one nine hundred seventy s. and the space station that the chinese actually envisioned by twenty twenty could be compared to what the mir was in one nine hundred eighty s. that's that however you can argue that the chinese are progressively moving toward technology called keep abilities. comparable. to both american and russian space programs so it will be put into perspective it was. basically a first time for the chinese to actually be docking procedure. for the

last decade or so china has. consequently consequently. started the thousand and three human spaceflight program and thousands size of launching to try canals in two thousand and eight. when i was in first place was so the chinese are progressively improving progressively. gradually to the american national abilities how do you see washington reacting to china's progress on this front. well basically what washington is is concerned about and the chinese space program doesn't clearly delineate distinguish between its commercial military and civilian aspects of it interesting to see that the chinese space program is basically controlled by the people's liberation army the general harmony department the p l a has basically operational control over

both men's and unmanned chinese space flights so i would argue that the u.s. policymakers are clearly concerned about the dual use of chinese space to build it . is only what do you see as the future going forward do you do you see a new space arisa merging with china versus the u.s. versus russia versus the e.u. or do you see eventual cooperation between all the programs what you think. i think the debate is a little bit exaggerated between space you know talking about space and i don't think it's a zero sum game and i think both opportunities as well as challenges so for example on the chinese latest change shinzo abe mission even going china's actively cooperated brazil and france as well in france for example provided to tell him it's for you tracking and control facilities to track the spacecraft even on the shinzo abe machine the chinese the corporation with the germans that i think they

will be conducting scientific enjoins and take experiments to get it so china is pretty much open to technology corporation and a corporation in space like c.v.s. that said however there are also challenges particularly as. it's trying to mention a certain space program has a civil and military you. remember in two thousand and seven china conducted its first anti satellite veteran status which basically it worried a lot of defense analysts and policymakers in the west so they brought up a can even challenges going down and down the road and china still has a long way to go for that it's so. important but it's not a major nice clothes so they're pending on how successful the mission will be china still has a long way to go all right thanks very much for your perspective michael rask defense expert from national university i'm sick of. this following the f.b.i. decided to share some of their own ghost stories

a code name given to the operation that saw ten russian agents uncovered in the u.s. last year and agency released surveillance video including those featuring fanfic talented chapman r.g.p. or all of our has more from moscow. perhaps spookiest overall 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 an agent of the foreign governments now this these videos are to be released coping ghost stories was released on halloween something which did raise a few eyebrows however the f.b.i. how they shoot us that this is just purely coincidental now the footage shows members of this alleged spy ring. doing such things as shopping in macy's and using laptops in popular branches of book stores the f.b.i.

saying that operation story sends a clear message to any foreign spies wanting to operate in the united states oh the critics have suggested this the release of these documents is something of the publicity stunt. for more on the story as well as all the news we're covering you can always check out our team dot com here's what's a click away right now. and do you hate ironing well who doesn't why not spray on your clothes a spanish designer showcasing dresses made of non will even fabric for those who really want their outfits to literally feel like a second scale. but first some people even second skin is too much one naked taxi driver went on a rampage damaging dozens of cars in moscow claiming he did it all in the name of.

the ever growing occupy wall street movement in the us drawing more jobless and dissatisfied college kids into its ranks the record cost of national student loans and high unemployment putting an unbearable burden on the backs of many young people archies lose wall spoke with some of those already majoring 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 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 for college and this year which hurts 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 plan to ease student loan debt we're going to make it easier for you to have one payment. at a better interest rate and this will cost it will cost taxpayers a guard 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 more money into the people 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 i put 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 or not starting

nothing in other developed countries getting a financial education isn't such a financial burden you have free tuition in france. sweden finland they don't pay anything of 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 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 know 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 few 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 was artsy. but it's not only the students who've been standing defiant on the streets as part of the ongoing anti wall street protests movements attracted thousands from all walks of life the madding economic justice and recently seen a sweeping police crackdown in parts of the u.s. around one hundred protesters are arrested nationwide in the last three days for refusing to leave their house in denver officers in riot gear used pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse crowds eyewitnesses say the police used brutal force and say off already he's related evidence to discredit some of the activists. who showed up kind of ready for 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 one protester though in fact the gentleman who's army showed a picture was shot for climbing the tree and it was actually we found out afterwards we were pepper balls they're calling them they're like eight bowls filled with a chemical agent not a river but see in a few videos we want to arrest you in particular where an officer drove his motorcycle into the crowd this one was kind of weeded out by the right wing saying look at this guy who she thought this boy probably does economic second analysis so to us those people and you can clearly tell the officer he's the gentleman you see is probably propelled backwards but then seems to enter his right foot but he jumps back onto his left foot and then in frustration he gives the offender a show at which point also comes to control start ups off the lake just some down and oscar lots of. our correspondents are on top of developments in the protests since they started in the u.s.

back in september the latest updates from them as well as comments in videos available on our twitter feed right on to the web page find out more about what's going on in the streets. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a light airplane taking off in the mexican city of tijuana has crashed into a shop near a populated street market the pilot and his seventeen year old daughter were killed in the accident along with another victim of the ground at least eight cars fire at the scene which is in a neighborhood close to the u.s.

border authorities are investigating the cause of the. protests flared in the thai capital over the government's handling of the flood crisis with many of bangkok's rural areas affected residents like use the government of sacrificing their neighborhoods to save the inner commercial district you know how it is are suffering from food and water shortages as panic is spreading and may be ongoing fight with the flood waters thailand's heavy monsoons have killed nearly four hundred people since july and severe conditions are expected to continue for some time and coming shortly join us for a walk through the wild nature of russia's remote city of hots where the icebergs survive through the summer and september sees the first snowfall coming your way in our special report check it out. in a sea of nature and discover its buzy.

communicate with the law only. test yourself and become free to. see what nature can give you on all see the. business there is actually a stay with us your art. hello and welcome to the program as likely to be a new round of football or child trading around the world as uncertainty comes rushing back that's after greece's prime minister george papandreou unexpectedly calls to hold a new referendum on the last minute bailout deal to try to contain the bloc stet mountain last week in new leaders agreed to hand athens a one hundred thirty billion euro bailout and fifty percent write down on its enormous debt and we say a no vote by its true greeks could lead to the end of the conditions membership in

the euro zone and trigger a default or a friend could be held as soon as next gen and kind of the country's first in almost forty years here and a quick check on the markets for the reaction world prices are in the red and fresh worries about europe's debt crisis lights which is trading at ninety one dollars a barrel while branches hovering at one hundred eight dollars per barrel. european markets have dropped an early trade on tuesday extending their losses as a greek referendum spurred concern that the country may default mining companies are tumbling or grow richer who's going to fracture in and across asia stocks are decreasing for a second day as china's manufacturing crew at a slower pace the nikkei share average fell one point seven percent at the close after panasonic's downbeat earnings reports community sector farms and still makers were also posting multiple notable losses. on the russian market extending earlier losses they are chairs is down over two percent while in the mice it's it's more

than mice it's is more than one percent in the red let's have a look at some of the individual share moves on the index most energy majors adonal cheaper crude with counts from losing over one percent banking stocks and no exception would be to be more than two percent in the right and. russia's telecommunications major telecom have raised early against the company has approved a buyback program worth half a billion dollars it can equal to market shares his thoughts about investment strategy for the current market. i would generally recommend where for a certain correction however i would suggest on a strategy of whining to weakness it's good for both packages and probably euro bonds which trolly no less than back with a market for speak about a russian market which a single b. i did just see holding company a which which is quite strong about the whole market

or rumors that is going to be included in the b.m.'s are russian index that's all we have time for now we'll bring you a full update in about lost time. we . will. bring you the latest in science and technology from the ground floor.

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