three. videos for your media project a free media gun to our teeth. in. a last ditch effort to end bloodshed in syria the arab league demanding president assad talk to the opposition and withdraw its tanks from the streets. costly recognition rushing to halt funding of unesco hours after the u.n. cultural body grants palestinians full membership by a majority vote. and hollowing street mainstream media resurrects an f.b.i. case code named ghost stories that sees the release of footage featuring russian sleeper agents uncovered in the u.s. last year.

one pm in moscow i met reza good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story of the world waits for syria's response to an arab league demand 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 have no links to foreign powers or what he called terrorism some three thousand people already dead since clashes began between anti-government protesters and security forces eight months ago with that death toll still continuing to rise are these tests are sillier reports from damascus. the protests government crackdowns and violence have continued to play 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 the more but at the country's intelligence service has little clout in syria that's why the state secret and says the unrest began in march protesters

have accused them of violent interrogations. before i was chased and arrested by security forces in a very tiny cell beat me severely damaging my back and me electrocuted and make use of soul of receiving money for taking to the streets they said were ages 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 to. see didn't cooley is a lawyer who deals with detention cases she says the influence of the security police extends even into the court room. we have three authorities in the country the legal authority the legislative and the executive but it is the security police who made the real decisions the court judge 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to decades of living under the emergency law in place since nine hundred sixty three in two thousand and eleven assad repealed it to appease out

a regime protesters this man who's worked for the more but not for 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 protect you know who are the terrorists shoot civilians who shoot us and then accuse security forces of doing such things accusations that we. are 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. if he has links with terrorists and works against the country naturally he will be brought to justice we posed the same questions to the deputy foreign minister you know depends on the people you talk to if you ask me as a citizen of syria i have to do it in front of you i have never ever been asked by the security or anybody for something which i am doing those who fear are either

people who. are illegal. or carry arms or put themselves in suspicious words but 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 crowded 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 here is temporarily forgot oh yes i'll take to the streets again and again i'll raise my voice and i'll fear nothing and no one freedom of expression but we get nothing only bashar al assad is security enjoy it as for us we are nothing why is there i. r t.

now earlier we discussed the situation in syria with beirut based political analysts come out. he echoes assad's opinion other countries under arrest as part of a foreign plot to topple the syrian government. i think it's a conspiracy by the regional power that they wanted to change the regime of bashar al assad they wanted at different regime different government with different had and that's why there you can see that regional power hasn't been friendly to the situation taking place inside syria actually some of these country has been funneling weapons and money and certain ideology to topple the regime of president assad the president of syria acknowledges there is opposition in that country and he would 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 or what they say in

opposition and exile those are backed by the western powers and some persian gulf country sticking with this theme historian and author f. william engdahl thinks the west's interference in uprisings in the middle east and north africa has left post revolution countries in tatters full interview coming your way in the next hour. economies were shaped libya had the highest living standard old africa before the bombing of nato today the country is in ruins because of those by all means not because of could i think. 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 waited for a signal from the pentagon when to return and take control of those events. palestine

has for the first time gotten recognition by a un body its cultural arm aches acted as a fully fledged member but the decision comes at a price for unesco with the u.s. cutting its findings of a group that represents almost a quarter of its budget or he's got a sticky and 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 comes at a 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.f.o. law passed in one thousand nine hundred obliges washington to cut off funding to unesco if it is made for palestine but nonetheless this u.n. body facing huge budget cuts voted one hundred seven four and fourteen nations

against the admission of palestine very sensitive and jubilant moment for the palestinians and it's our point with these three reason 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 but as a reminder of the popularity of the palestinian bid for full u.n. membership. application is now the 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 why it's. we're always interested in knowing what you think about our top stories and today in our online poll we're asking what the admission of palestine to unesco means is with over forty percent don't think the move will change anything significant or the palestinians or third

think it clears the way for the country statehood the rest of you can be divided between whether you vesco will have difficulties putting its bills or that the admission of i would sweeten the deal with rejection by the way god has your say. sticking with this topic ramsey approved editor of the palestine chronicle dot com things washington's move is unfair but says you know sco will survive it. it's an act of could get it published that's what exactly what it is and the sad thing is that you have many members and the congress is trying to give you any outlaws and all the conservative republican and democratic members who have been pushing for the u.s. to use its iron fists are subject to function to any organization that either they recognize this palestine as a state or giving membership and that international body to be did not really take membership it speaks of any given organization any lab at sixteen bit fat and who

is going to suffer not just the palestinians don't go to new countries that's big if it's from the basic programs that you describe that funded throughout the years this is but this is what's important jim i'm going to add here and this is president reagan at one point cut funding to this one pulled out and you know what you just so survived and it will survive the scientists will stay with us here on r.t. still to come this hour tough tactics as i do say police brutality against antiwar protesters while we talk the witnesses of the police crackdown us. as markets worldwide are sinking as investors spread so the surprise decision by the current prime minister to call a referendum on last week's new bailout package for this debt stricken country more in business in ten minutes.

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hollowing the f.b.i. decided to share their own ghost stories about the code name given to the operation that saw ten russian agents uncovered last year the agency released surveillance videos including those featuring the towel anna chapman archy's peter all of our has more from moscow but up spookiest over all is that this would each doesn't contain any actual spooks there was no charges of espionage leveled against the ten people who were arrested in the united states and chewed over last year instead they pled guilty to conspiracy to act as a mule full agent of a foreign governments know this these videos are to be released coping two 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 old 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 its operation ghost story sends a clear message to any foreign spies wanting to operate in the united states other critics have suggested this the release of these documents is something of a publicity stunt. for more on this story as well as all the news that we're covering you can always check out our t. dot com here what's on the line right now. you hate ironing well doesn't why not spray on your clothes a spanish designer showcases dresses made of non woven fabric for those who really want outfits to literally feel like a second skin. and for some people for whom a second skin is one too many and they can taxi driver goes on a rampage damaging dozens of cars in moscow but say he did it all in the name of love.

the growing occupy wall street movement in the u.s. is drawing more jobless than dissatisfied university students into its ranks the record cost of national student loans and high unemployment putting an unbearable burden on the backs of many young people are all spoke with some of the people 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 unable to pay these 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 but it will cost taxpayers a dollar but it will save you money and it will save your try 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 that which has garnered over six hundred forty seven thousand signatures if you put more money into the people they are going to spend and that will create demand it will create economic growth and it will create jobs robert says bailing out students rather than banks will stimulate the economy i put in more cash in the pockets of the educated middle class they're not starting

businesses they're not buying cars they're not. they're not starting families. 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 to issue more than two hundred dollars compare that to an average of over eight thousand per 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 all 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 and shackled to college debt for years and in many cases decades in washington artsy. and it's not only students standing defiant on the streets as part of the ongoing anti wall street protest but the movement has attracted the thousands of people from all walks of life calling for economic justice and recently seen a crackdown by police around one hundred protesters arrested nationwide in the us of the last three days for refusing to leave their camps in denver officers in riot gear used pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse crowds eyewitnesses accuse the police of using brutal force and saying authorities have been manipulating evidence to discredit after this. police showed up kind of ready for it you know before the chance one opened all totally arms of the chief

ready for war so to speak and they moved very quickly we do know that one protester the in fact the gentleman who was army showed a picture was shot for climbing a tree and those are actually found out afterwards where the pepper balls they're calling them they're like filled with chemical burn agent. i've seen a few videos want to arrest you in particular where an officer drove his motorcycle into the crowd this one. was tweeted out by the right wing saying look at this guy or see how his bike probably does that most likely know some of it. and you can clearly tell the dog certainly. body propelled backwards then seems to injure his right foot really jumps back on to his left foot and then in frustration he gives the offender a show at which point the officer comes to control start off with some down and ask lots of. our correspondence and keeping an eye on developments in the protests

since they started in the u.s. in september all the latest updates from them as well as comments and videos available all the time on our twitter stream and log on to the page and find out all the latest on what's going on on the streets. carrying out of some other stories making headlines across the globe china has successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft in the gobi desert eight is due to join another module within days in what could be the first chinese docking with a spacecraft already orbiting the earth exercise as part of the country's plans to

build its own space station by two thousand and twenty china started space flight program in one nine hundred ninety becoming the third country to send humans to space after russia and the u.s. . a light airplane taking off from 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 on the ground i've least eight cars fire at the scene that's in a neighborhood close to the u.s. border authorities are investigating the cause of the crash. protests have flared in the thai capital over the government's handling of its flood crisis with many of bangkok's rural areas affected residents of hume's the government of sacrificing their neighborhoods to save the inner commercial district the inhabitants 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 with severe conditions expected to

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another round of volatile trading as uncertainty comes rushing back up to greece's prime minister george papandreou out and expects calls for a referendum on e.u. plans to bail out the country last week european leaders agreed to hand athens a one hundred thirty billion euro bailout and a fifty percent write down of its enormous debt and the say a no vote by a security wary greeks could lead to the end of the country's membership in the euro zone and trigger is a force for interim could be held as soon as next january. that's a look at the market's reaction now oil prices are in the red on fresh worries about europe's debt crisis light sweet is trading at ninety one dollars a barrel while brant is that one hundred eight dollars per barrel and european markets are sinking extending monday's losses as a greek referendum splurged was that the country's major food mining companies are tumbling lower chinese money. in a sea of red across russia the r.t.s.

is down under four percent while my six is moving to the suns in the red let's have a look at some of the individual show moves on the minds of most energy majors a down two crews the council losing two and a half percent banking stocks are no exception but even more than three percent in the red bucking the trend is russia's telecommunications major ross telecom company has approved a buyback program worth harvard and jobs. and russia has doubled its council outflow forecast for this year just seventy two billion dollars the central bank says investors saw leaving their merging nations and made global economy concessions but the full answer is still expected to be better than in two thousand and eight when one hundred thirty two billion dollars left russia in the fourth quarter alone. some talk by and also points out that international resets are not affected by capsule flights and next was driven budget surplus will help russia

grow its resets twenty three billion dollars this year. and 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 conflicts in which we train for says they are now considering twenty investment projects seven guy care from school a foundation believes it's the right time for russia to attract cash from abroad what's happened since two thousand made. the subsequent issues that are now occurring in europe as well as the situation in the american economy i believe american investors are taking me a fresh look at russia because they realize that there are problems and in emerging economies there are problems in developed economies alike and so russia 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 or in the

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