people already dead since clashes began between anti-government protesters and security forces eight months ago with that death toll still continuing to rise artie's tests are sillier reports from damascus. the protests the 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 the more but at the country's intelligence service has political clout in syria that's hardly state secret and says the unrest began in march protestors have accused them of violent interrogations for a bit before i was chased and arrested by security forces in a very tiny cell to be beaten severely damaging my back and me be electrocuted and be accused of 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 in cooley is

a lawyer who deals with detention cases she says the influence of the security police extends even into the courtroom that muhammad ali we have three authorities in the country the legal authority of the legislative and executive but it is the security police who make the real decisions the court judge for their decision and i feel sorry for the judge because he is not independent. and good 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of living under the emergency law in place since one thousand nine hundred sixty three in two thousand and eleven assad repealed it to appease after regime protesters this man who's worked for the more but for twenty seven years sustained gunshot wounds in what he says was an ambush by a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're protecting all of the of 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 chase him. if he has links with terrorists and works against the country naturally justice we pose the same questions to the deputy foreign minister you know it depends on the people who talk to if you ask me . to do a different view i have never ever been by the security or anybody for something which i do those who fear are either people who. are illegal activities or carry arms or put themselves in suspicious waves well this right here is a very open and colorful flights at syria but when it comes to talking about security services like anywhere 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 fear is temporarily forgot. 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 is security enjoy it as for us we are nothing why is that i. r t. now earlier we discussed the situation in syria with beirut based political analysts come out. he echoes assad's opinion that the country is 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 a different regime different government was different had and that's why there you

can see that 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 uncertain i jealous to topple the regime of president assad the president of syria acknowledged there is opposition in the country and he extended his hand too but it comes 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 some persian gulf countries 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. economy is the far worse shape libya had the highest

living standards in all of africa before the bombing of nato today the country is in ruins because of those bombings not because of could offer. 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 revolts 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 excepted as a fully fledged member but the decision comes at a price for unesco with the us cutting its funding to the group that represents almost a quarter of its budget party's got a sticky 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 comes at

a price welcoming palestine to the united nations educational scientific and cultural organization 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 the nineteen ninety 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 sour point for the israelis than 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 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'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 there's a little 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 of statehood the rest of you can leave divided between whether you are there still will have difficulties putting its bills or that the admission of a hoot suite in the bill with your rejection by the way. your said are. sticking with this topic ramsey brut editor at the palestine chronicle dot com things washington's move is unfair but says you know sco will survive. it's an act

of courage to punish and that's what's exactly what it is and the sad thing is that you have many members and the congress is starting to give you any outlaws and other conservative republican and democratic members who have been pushing for the u.s. to use its iron fists are a selective punishment to any organization that either a group of nuns is palestine as a state or giving membership and that international body or be doing this is really a membership it seeks of any given organization any way it's extremely unfair and who is going to suffer not just the palestinians don't but in you know various countries that have been evicted from the maze of programs that you just saw that funded throughout the years this is what this one for didn't jim i'm going to out of here and this president reagan at one point cut funding to this one pulled out and you know what eunice will survive and it will survive the scientists will stay

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which brightened if you move soon from bullets to parachute. stock totty dot com. and for staying with us here on r t twelve minutes past the hour in moscow this halloween 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 taliban and chapman artie's peter all of our has more from moscow perhaps spookiest over all is that this footage doesn't contain any chills 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 a willful agent of the foreign governments now the case these videos that have been released coping skill reese post released on how we see something which did raise a few eyebrows however the f.b.i. showed 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 the popular branches of book stores the f.b.i. saying that operation ghost story sends a clear message to any florida spice wanting to operate in the united states over 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's what's online right now. do you hate ironing well who 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 and 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 unless you have rich 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 among 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 pass it will cost taxpayers a dog but it will save you money and it will save your trust 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 hands of people they're going to spend and that will create demand it will create economic growth and it will create jobs robber applebum 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 buying houses they're not starting families not having 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 a 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. there's four only. who have to is 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 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. 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 shackled to college debt for years and in many cases decades and washington. and it's not only students standing defiant on the streets as part of the ongoing anti wall street protests but the

movement has attracted the thousands of people from all walks of life calling for economic justice and recently seen a crackdown by produce around one hundred protesters arrested nationwide in the u.s. in 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 activists. police showed up kind of ready for it you know before the chants went out at all totally armed to 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 a tree and those actually we found out afterwards were ever balls they're calling them they're like filled with chemical agent. i'm seeing a few videos want to rest in particular where an officer drove his motorcycle into

the crowd this one. tweeted out by the right wing saying look at this guy this bike we did the second most. of those and you can clearly tell her. body backwards then seems to injure his right foot because he jumps back onto his left foot and then in frustration he gives the fender a show at which point the officer comes to control stop. down and also. our correspondence i've been 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 on the page and find out all the latest from what's going on.

today now to some other stories making headlines across the globe china's successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft in the gobi desert eva 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 in 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 at least eight cars caught

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 type capital over the government's handling of its flood crisis with many of bangkok's rural areas affected residents accuse 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 amid the ongoing fight with the flood waters thailand's heavy monsoons have killed nearly four hundred people since july with severe conditions expected to keep up for some time. you can join us for a walk through the wild nature of russia's remote city of a hot ski where icebergs survive through the summer and september sees the first snow fall is coming your way in our special report in about ten minutes. discovery's. ill.

communicated with the wind. and becomes. nature's can give you. but before we head to the great outdoors all the latest with the markets and more coming up with the business news next with yulia. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program global markets have plunged into another round of volatile trading as uncertainty comes rushing back that's enough to greece's prime minister george papandreou unexpectedly called 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 this a no vote by

a security wary greeks could lead to the end of the country's membership in the euro zone and trigger it default for engine could be held as soon as next january. that's a look at the market's reaction now oil prices in the red on fresh worries about europe's debt crisis light sweet is praising that 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 spurred concern that the country may default mining companies tumbling lower chinese monopod. in a sea of red across russia the r.t.s. is down under four percent while my sixes move the two percent in the red let's have a look at some of the individual share moves on the minds of most energy majors a down on cheaper crude but council losing two and a half percent banking stocks are no exception but the chief even more than three percent in the red bucking the trend is russia's telecommunications major telecom

company has approved a buyback program worth harvard and dawgs. russia has doubled its outflow forecast for this year to seven two billion dollars the central bank says investors all leaving a fortune nations and we had quote delicate moment concession to the performance is still expected to be better than in two thousand and eight when one hundred thirty billion dollars left russia in the fourth quarter alone some to buy and also points out that international reserves are not affected by capital flight and next was driven budget surplus will help russia grow its resets by 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 year that's according to the founder of the trip who says they are now considering around twenty investment projects stephen guy care from school to foundation believes it's the right time for russia to attract from abroad what's happened

since two thousand and nine. and 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 fresh look at russia because they realize that there are problems in emerging economies there are problems in developed economies or like them so russia with very low debt load. 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 meantime. but perhaps not the business program for more stories you can log onto a website a hearty dot com slash business. up to. the.

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one thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines the arab league makes a last ditch effort to end bloodshed in syria demanding that president assad's with the opposition and withdraw tanks from the streets violent progress between anti regime protesters and security forces claim something thousand lives since underestimated mark. washington stops its funding of unesco hours after the u.n. cultural agency grants palestinians full membership by a majority vote the move seen by many as a sign of growing international support for palestine is pending un statehood bid. and a real hollow tree mainstream media resurrecting a russian spy ring case code named ghost stories of the f.b.i. releasing footage featuring sleeper agents uncovered in the u.s. live here including tempered towel at a check. up next our t.v. is it's a remote set of russian islands where a population of only seven people live cheek to jowl with two.