then the princess in bangkok radisson hotel my dream hotel bangkok so if it sells i'm tara grant going cold and pacific otoh by remembering who told blanco close it isn't even called. pending action the international community pushes syria's president to fulfill demands from the arab league to end the bloodshed and start talks with directly the opposition. but u.s. averse there's a unesco washington curbs funding to the u.n. cultural body after it granted an historic membership to palestine. the f.b.i. joins in the halloween celebrations by sharing its own ghost stories releasing surveillance footage starring i know chapman and other alleged russian spies.

well why news twenty four seven this is r.t. live from moscow all eyes are on syria and as the world awaits president assad's response to the arab league's demands to hold violence launched dialogue with the opposition the president had earlier promised to talk to his opponents but only those with no links to foreign powers. investigates who the syrians blame for the bloodshed that's now claimed over three thousand lives. the protest 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 out the country's intelligence service has political clout in syria that's where the state secret and says the unrest began in march protestors have accused them of violent interrogations.

before i was chased and arrested by security forces in a very tiny cell they beat me severely damaging my back and me bill which you couldn't make use this all of receiving money for taking to the streets they said were agents of american 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 mohamed mohamed other we have three authorities in the country the legal authority abilities for example 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's not independent his brother will see it could 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to decades of living under the emergency law in place since nine hundred sixty three in two thousand and eleven assad repealed it to appease as usual protesters this man who's worked for the more but up for twenty seven years sustained gunshot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 that we're protecting our people who are the terrorists shoot civilians who shoot us and then accuse security forces of doing such things accusations that we knew 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 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 as a citizen of syria different i have never ever been asked by the security or anybody for something which i am those who fear. people who. are illegal activities or carry arms or put themselves in suspicious ways all this right here

is a very open and colorful flights of syria but when it comes to talking about security services like anywhere it is followed by country but here their presence is so widely felt that it's not 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 the crowd that here 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 and security enjoyed it as for us we are not why is there i. r t. meantime beirut based a political analyst come all i need told us here at r.t.

that the syrian regime fell out of favor with foreign powers which is why then are pressuring president assad simply. 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 taking place inside syria actually some of this country has been funneling what pens and money and certain ideology to topple the regime of president assad the president of syria acknowledges there is opposition in the country and he extended his hand to the consolidation away then his country for those people who were 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 in exile those are backed by the western powers and some persian gulf

country. well the western interference in the arab spring has left the middle east and north africa deeply wounded that's according to historian william angle of the full interview is coming your way this hour here on r.t. but for a preview the. economy is in far worse shape libya had the highest living standards of africa before the bombing of nato could the country is in ruins because of the bombings not because of good enough and. the economy of egypt is in dire straits the military remains in control they were the military high command of egypt was sitting in the pentagon when the rewards kicked off and waited for a signal from the pentagon when to return and take control of also birds. and the interview with a billion dollars later this hour here on r t but for now palestinians have vowed

to try to join other u.n. agencies within weeks it follows a triumph at unesco where they were granted full membership but the move to cost the un's cultural arm a lion's share of its budget which came directly from washington guy nature can explains. 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 is 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 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 and for the united states it seems they've been doing everything possible to do rail the vote but to no avail how those 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 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. roll are going to go is no stranger to being cut off by the u.s. and has managed to survive without washington's hideouts in the past but it would be the organization will have no trouble keeping afloat this time either. it said

it could have a ship that's what exactly what it is and the sad thing is that you had many members of the congress is starting to give ross and other conservative republicans ending up. for the u.s. to use its iron fist marsland punch to any organization that either. this palestine as a state. or should get that international body who deals in membership it seeks in any given organization any way it seeks. and which is going to suffer not just this mysterious young but you are his country's biggest it is from the basic programs that you just can't function without the years just like this one important jim i'm going to out of here and it is pretty intriguing at one point cut funding to this one pulled out and you know what you this will survive and it will survive the stock's well time now ten minutes past the hour here in moscow it's all

the time of the program indebted and enraged. they call it the american dream because you have to be asleep to believe a unemployed graduates mired with massive student loans vent their frustration by joining the fountains of the people i was street protesters. and it's all change at the top of the european central bank with push a stepping down after eight years of boom bust recession and debt crisis. this halloween and saw the f.b.i. tell its own ghost story it released surveillance footage of chapman and other alleged russian sleeper agents uncovered in two thousand and ten the agency says the videos that show a spy ring work for his brother who 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 unlawful

agents of the foreign governments now this these videos are to be released coping 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 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 the publicity stunt. parties are reporting right there well you can always i get more details and follow the story of roger's phone from it all on our website of course r.t. dot com you can find out how the alleged undercover spy literally turned herself

into a trademark part of becoming a star media attraction. and a russian up paraglider miraculously escapes the claws of death safely after colliding with a vulture in mid air stunning footage artsy dot com. ten minutes till the business news here on r.t. but for now. has passed the baton of the european central bank to italy's mario draghi shares eight years as e.c.b. head took in recession and europe's ongoing debt crisis without still rumbling on his successor is going to have to hit the ground running our joe claimer a professor of economics out erasmus university in rotterdam thinks it will be

immensely difficult for the iraqi to handle the crisis. we think that actually will be more principled even preacher and if you will try to hold our very strict course holding on to its. assignment to control inflation. being reluctant to step in to sell her church governments were excessive in their bets however we have seen that the european central bank hunkies on the great political pressure no one knows what's going on no one knows with the solutions brought forth in the latest euro top will do their job there's a great deal of uncertainty and so it's very hard to tell how this guy this act of craft will handle this situation and. in maybe he will also do what he showed to take these what they call unusual steps to try to

stem an almost inevitable crisis. for what you're not so you know the occupy wall street movement now its seventh week is drawing ever more university students into its ranks they are frustrated by the record cost of student loans and high unemployment but for many of them it will mean a lifetime of debt so it's easily as well ports 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 find a face but until then you kind of pretend it doesn't exist because if you did then it's it's a bit daunting that the majority of youth or unable to pay these pay for college which birds for the first time in the u.s. total student that 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 cost but it will cost taxpayers a guard but it will save you money and it will save you time 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 out obama says bailing out students rather than banks will stimulate the economy and create 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 not starving them not. 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 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 jewish and more than three hundred dollars compared that to an average of over eight thousand for public and over twenty eight thousand dollars for private u.s. colleges ninety 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 better over the past few decades to asian has. over four hundred percent this year alone the 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 but millions shackled to college debt for years and in many cases decades in washington artsy. and it's not just the satisfied students from all ages and walks of life out on america's streets so 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 tent camps in parks and cross was intended officers in riot gear used pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds i want to claim police manipulating evidence to discredit the protests. police showed up. ready for you know before the chance were not at all oh totally arms of the g. and ready for war so to speak and they moved very quickly we do know that one protester the german army should was shot for climbing the tree and those actually

we found out afterwards were terrible. on them they're like almost filled with chemical. i've seen a few videos particular. drove his motorcycle into the crowd this one whoosh. so you look at this guy was you. know we did the second most excellent. and you can clearly tell the gob survives that you know she was probably worse than seems to injure his right foot because he jumps back onto his left foot and then in frustration he gives the founder a show at which point of her comes to control start. just come down and ask. about five minutes now until the business news here on t.v. but coming up next hour of x. and stacy are back to on earth some of the fundamental differences between the a keep our eye wall street protesters and the big bankers they're so angry at is a preview of the kind of report. you see there politely protests around the world

or you can scream and shout and get your way first headline here max banks stocks. you know we have a trillion something european wide bailout and the bankers were happy their shares soared so this is moral hazard times moral hazard it's a moral hazard to the answer's degree and the worse you are paying back your loans the cheaper the interest rate gets and the more money you get how do i get that deal in other words when it's placed on the safe harbor never throw up into a bucket of vomit if i'm part of the top one percent i can take that to the fair to get a billion dollar loan as that as collateral but if i'm in the bottom ninety nine percent all i've got is a bucket of spiro. twenty past the hour here in moscow let's check out some other international headlines for you and pretty for the world update here more than one hundred sabbaton protesters have

been arrested in nepal after staging a demonstration again. chinese ruled the exiles gathered for a prayer meeting and began chanting and he china's slogans and demanding independence about the poor is home to tens of thousands of the better this little forty say they will not tolerate any and see beijing protests. china has successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft from the gobi desert in the country's northwest it's expected to join another module within days some three hundred forty odd kilometers right above the earth's surface if successful it will be the first chinese docking in orbit the launch is considered a milestone in beijing's preparations for its own space station by the end of the decade. massive floods have driven thousands of people to higher and drier ground in thailand's capital bangkok where the few residents who refused to leave been suffering a lack of food and clean water for some six days now sandbags and other barriers

have been used to try and contain the floods they've been caused by heavy monsoon rains have killed almost four hundred since july. but russian police arrested a giant pigeon during an unauthorized opposition march some people but this one couldn't fly away though because he was just a man in a boat detained along with the other clearly human protesters the pigeon man is a regular of opposition rallies but it was the first time he's been paid why police they've always struggled to get the federal intervention before but managed to squeeze him in this time i can just say the pigeon isn't actually part of a movement but decides to show off. that's the news for now next to the business with current. welcome to office operate the sol thanks for joining me global markets plunge into

another round of volatile trading as uncertainty comes rushing back after greece's prime minister george papandreou unexpectedly called for a referendum on e.u. plans to bail out his country last week european leaders agreed to hand after his one hundred thirty billion euro bailout and a fifty percent write down on its enormous debt referendum could be held as soon as next january. t.v. from r.b.c. capital markets believes greece has played and nasty trick on itself. in last week's summit it was a pretty serious hard line from european leaders saying there will not be a hard default coming out of greece with this announcement it calls into question as to whether that really will be the case or not greece has sizable redemptions that it has to meet of december for that requires people to offer not just occurrence trench of profit growth of funding but also the subsequent trades and even then it's a clearly could needle spirits and clearly this this announcement this is nothing to help the sentence of leaders in both washington and brussels when they make

those decisions be short term we're going to see a lot more volatility a lot more uncertainty a lot more seesawing as we have seen over the past week so fortunately. let's have a look at the market's reaction to this to this news all prizes are in the red all fresh worries about europe's debt crisis light sweet is trading at ninety dollars per barrel while brant is that one hundred six dollars per barrel u.s. stocks start off sharply lower attacking hughes from greece inspired selling in frankfurt and paris jones and the nasdaq are down around two percent banking stocks are among the worst performers j.p. morgan chase is losing over five percent and bank of america is trading over four percent this hour european markets dive as well the footsie down nearly three percent on the night and the guy is down over four and a half percent. those are seeing the worst decline were pretty ugly call down eleven and a half percent societe generale falling over forty percent and barclays down nine point three percent. and it's a sea of red across russia as well the r.t.s.

is losing six percent to my success down three percent earlier trading has been suspended on a six to two technical reasons now it's received let's have a look at some of the individual shelves of the r.t.s. most energy majors are down cheaper crude with gas from losing more than three percent actually more than four and a half percent this hour banking stocks are no exception with the t.v. down four percent and russia's telecommunications major ross telecom is sparking a trend the company has approved a buyback a buyback program worth half a billion dollars. 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 nations amid a global economic uncertainty the performance is still expected to be better than in two thousand one hundred thirty billion dollars left left the country in the fourth quarter alone. what people are looking for why people are moving the money

out of general market uncertainty which is clearly hitting the population and in the environment what you have and i think why they are concerned about the rules is the interim council because it is progress second with what i would call internal capital flight which is where the population would say it's really currency will move to the stronger countries in the world in this case be a hard currency so they will switch the rubles to dollars renewables the good thing for us and this time around us will be some people in eight or nine of the ruble depreciated will have to be he said you can do that within the banking system so we shouldn't expect the run of the banks but there will be a run on becomes see if this continues a people are very quick to move away from what we see in this case the threat of civil. 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 fungus human says they are now considering around twenty investment projects given gaga

from skulk of a foundation believes it's the right time for russia try to cash from the profit what's happened since two thousand and nine. and the subsequent issues of are now occurring in europe as well as the situation in the american economy i believe american investors are taking a new fresh look at russia because they realize that there are problems and in the mean emerging economies there are problems in developed economies or like them 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 meantime i can and will keep you up to date for now more in less than one hour jacking up. the world.

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