syria investigates who the syrians blame for the bloodshed that's now claimed more than three thousand lives. 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 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 a little bit before i was chased and arrested by security forces in a very tiny cell to beat me severely damaging my back and be electrocuted and be accused of 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 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 courtroom mohammad of we have three authorities in the country the legal authority the legislative and the 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of living under the emergency law in place since one thousand nine hundred sixty three in two thousand and eleven assad repealed it to appease anti regime protesters this man who's worked for the more but not for twenty seven years sustained gunshot wounds in what he says was an ambush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 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 are protecting our people but the terrorists shoot civilians and 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 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 you if you ask me. to do a different view i have never ever been asked by the security or anybody for something which i am to those who fear are either people who. are illegal activities or carry arms or put themselves in suspicious ways well this right here is a very open and colorful flights if syria were going to come to talking about the security services like anywhere it is trying to buy entry 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 forgotten oh yes i'll take to the streets again and again i'll raise my voice and l. fear nothing and no one one freedom of expression but we get nothing only bashar al assad is security and enjoy that as for us we are nothing why is that i. r t. beirut based political analyst. told us here at r.t. that the syrian regime fell out of favor with foreign powers which is why they're now pressuring president assad to leave. i think it's a conspiracy by 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 easy to topple the regime of president assad the president of syria acknowledged there is opposition in the country and he extended his hand to what it 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 some persian gulf countries well western intervention in the arab spring has left the middle east and north africa deeply wounded according to a story and william and you can watch his full interview in a less than a half an hour's time here in our a preview. the use of. libya had the highest living standard 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. you with r.t. now palestinians have valid to try to join other u.n. agencies within weeks this follows a triumph at unesco where they were granted full membership but the move has cost the un's cultural arm a lion's share of its budget which came from washington has garnered you can explain. 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 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 a sour point for the israelis 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 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. 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. gun age kind of reporting right there well as you know we're always interested in your opinion if you log on to our daughter column with so we're asking you how the admission of palestine to unesco is likely to play out and see how the numbers add up here and are so you are so far forty percent don't believe the move will change anything for the palestinians just over a third think it clears the way for the country's statehood the rest are almost evenly divided between those who say unesco will now have difficulty footing its bills and those who think admitting palestine. it would sweeten the pill of future rejection by the un if you would take them i would have your say on the issue by simply knocking on c.n.n. dot com. or you know ask i was no stranger to being cut off by the us and

managed to survive without washington's handouts in the past and many believe the organization will have no trouble keeping afloat this time either. it's an act of courage to punish that's what's 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 other conservative republicans to project there's a way. for the us to use its iron fists on us for them to punish to any organization that either they recognize this palestine as a state of membership and that international body will be divorced really any membership at six in any given organization anyway it's sixteen b.n. that was just going to suffer not just the palestinians alone but you know various countries who didn't get it from their basic programs that you just want something to do with how they use this land for this one important jim i'm going to live here

and this president reagan at one point cut funding to this one pulled out and you know what units will survive and it will survive this time this well without the help you in the program here indebted and enraged because the american people have to be asleep to believe are unemployed graduates so mired with massive student lines when their frustration by joining thousands of them get by wall street protesting. and it's all change at the top of the european central bank president that we value song called appreciate stepping down off the eight years of boom bust recession and debt. this halloween saw the f.b.i. tell its own ghost story it released surveillance footage of anna chapman and other alleged russian sleeper agents uncovered in two thousand and ten the agency says the videos show a spy ring at work. now reports 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 stories course 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 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 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. well you can always follow the story of russia's femme fatale on our website at www dot com where you can find out how the alleged undercover spy literally turned herself into a trademark after becoming a star media attraction. and for some people even a second skin is too much or a naked taxi driver went on the rampage damaging dozens of cars in moscow claiming he did. all in the name of. it with r.t. life from moscow now. has passed the baton of the european central bank to italy's mario draghi. eight years as head to took in the recession and europe's debt crisis

and with that still rumbling on he is going to have to hit the ground running now let's get the view of your claim of the program economics at university thank you very much for joining us today on the program so mario draghi takes over the post at the peak of the euro's troubles do you think he's likely in any way to bring change to the wall to the to the whole more slashes more bailouts policy. now he's not on earth. rather than a no three share who's more of a hands on the person he should go in maybe that makes a difference but then again you think that actually he will be more principled even been through and the easy be will try to very strict currish holding onto a shirt. scheinman to control inflation. being reluctant to. show her. government.

well when you talk about the salvage of government excessive in their debt so the e.c.b. presidency as we know is going from france the second strongest economy in the e.u. over to italy one of the states facing hard hard times is that significant in your fear. yeah but we have seen the tree she was willing to should have battled certainty who in the end. and difficult time with tree show didn't do what he wanted to do so it does not show that having an italian you telling will also paid attention to the interest of you tell an economist these are professionals technocrats. they will do everything they can do to protect the independence of the european central bank however years seem that the european central bank crunches on the great political pressure no one knows what's going on no one knows whether the solutions brought forth in the latest euro top will do their job there is a great deal of uncertainty and show it's very hard to tell how this guy this bank

and credit will handle the situation and. maybe he will also do what three should do and take each what they call unusual steps to try to stem an almost inevitable crunch that we've had some analysts on the story suggesting that the handing of the baton is simply a rearranging of the same fun if not now greeks who have been having a terrible time for two thousand and eleven will get a referendum on the new european bailout that the other factor today's markets have already taken ahead following the news of the possible referendum violent protests suggest that many people just are not happy with what's going on it is a hard bargain agreement now on the real threat do you think. yeah it's hard to show you i mean what the greeks will do if you should have marched to protest you would expect. the resistance. to work he's got a shield of adolescence remember last week now you can if we can just for

a moment scuse me for interrupting it was just last week in the u.k. the decision of a vote on a possible referendum about leaving the e.u. now it's greece they can have a referendum i mean is it possible with often and see an avalanche effect across the across the eurozone and ultimately the e.u. . but i would have predicted that the euro is unsustainable and i think it's really a great missing major crisis in his euro and as are always expressed by by people taking these kind of actions. like the greek minister yoshiro begins to realize that the euro is a big burden for the greeks the greeks are still committed to euro they still say they want a euro but the question is whether there will need to read the price of the euro and the same can be said for the germans i myself look especially to the germans and she she how they're going to behave on the pressure i think that the germans

generally think that the price really do has been high and they may decide in the next procedure book future that the price is too high and if germany comes to does kind of inside then the euro is not so simple now i'm running right on time here forgive me for that but said the greeks could have that say why can the people of the countries donating the ballot money directly influence the decisions of their leaders do you think if there's such a big divide between the people and the politicians yeah i think show the politicians of course have more information. they're also. trying to keep in mind the should of common interest and the euro right now and your but i think the more people here in this country to now lunch. she will sort of a strange from this whole policy. sure and might mean also at you in the netherlands only in europe in germany there are people who turn against the whole project. professor claim or they have the university in rotterdam thank

you very much thank you. you with r.t. now the occupy wall street movement now into its seventh week is drawing even more university students into its ranks they are frustrated by the record cost of student loans and high unemployment for many of them middle mean a lifetime of debt as artie's a lives wealth reports. they call it the american dream because you have to be asleep to believe a 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 parents 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 pass it won't cost taxpayers a dollar but it will save you money and it will save your child 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 buy 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 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. there's only four. who have to have more than two hundred dollars compared that to an average of over eight thousand for public and over twenty eight thousand dollars for private u.s. colleges 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 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 wall artsy. and it's not just dissatisfied students people from all ages and all walks of life are out on america's streets protesting against corporate greed in the face of a police crackdown around one hundred activists have been arrested nationwide over the past three days as police attempt to tear down and remove their cameras and passing classes in denver officers in riot gear used pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds eyewitnesses claim police are manipulating evidence to discredit the protesters. who showed up kind of ready for it you know before the chance 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 the tree and those actually we found out afterwards were however it was they're calling them they're like eight balls filled with a chemical agent not river i've seen are 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 pushy couple of this by how we did a second by second analysis of it in those and you can clearly tell the dogs or at least the gentlemen you see his body propelled backwards then seems to injure his right foot because he jumps back on to his left foot and then in frustration he gives the founder a show at which point the officer comes to control start hops off the bike just him down and ask lots. all right in just a moment it's the business with kareena but for now the world update here on r.t. will start with the poll more than one hundred seventeen protesters have been arrested in the pull up of staging

a demonstration against chinese rule. gathered for a prayer and began chanting china's slogans and demanding independence for tibet and the pole is home to tens of thousands of the fact that authorities say they will not tolerate any beijing protests. china has successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft from the gobi desert into the country's northwest it's expected to join another module within three hundred forty three kilometers directly above the earth's surface if successful it will be the first chinese docking in orbit by the law which is considered a model stone in beijing's preparations for its own space station by the end of the decade. massive floods have driven thousands of people to high and dry aground in thailand's capital bangkok the few residents who refused to leave have been suffering a lack of food and clean water for six days sandbags and other barriers have been used to try and contain the floods they've been caused by heavy monsoon rains and

have killed almost four hundred people since. that is that the news for now here in our next it's the business with korea. and welcome to business here in r.t. with me good to have you with me global markets have plunged into another round of volatile trading as uncertainty comes rushing back that's after 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 on its enormous debt analysts say a no vote by staring wary greeks could lead to the end of the country's membership in the eurozone and trigger a default referendum could be held as soon as next january. let's take a look at how the markets are doing to sell oil prices are in the red and fresh

worries about europe's debt crisis like sweet is trading it's just over ninety dollars per barrel well brant is over one hundred seven dollars a barrel european markets are sinking extending of monday's losses as a greek referendum spurred concern the country may default mining companies are tumbling on lower chinese manufacturing. a sea of red across russia the r.t.s. is down five percent the trading has been suspended on the my six to two technical reasons. capital flight from russia is expected to double by the end of the year to seventy billion dollars the central bank says investors are leaving emerging the nations amid global economic uncertainty 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 the central bank also points out that international reserves are not a not affected by capital flight and exports driven budget surplus will help russia

grow its reserves by twenty three billion dollars this year. 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 fund pledging a d.v.d. of who says they are now considering around twenty investment projects stephen gager from skolkovo foundation believes it's the right time for russia to attract cash from abroad. what's happened since two thousand and eight and 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 mainly 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 ever perhaps was two years ago simply because other parts of the world have developed significant problems or in the meantime. and that's all we have here for the time being but don't forget you can

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