powers artist has a severe 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 years 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. 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 make use the soul 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 to. sit in cooley is a lawyer who deals with detention cases she says the influence of the security police

extends even into the courtroom that mohamed we have three authorities in the country the legal authority 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of living under the emergency law in place since one thousand nine hundred sixty three in two thousand and eleven assad repealed it to appease and to regime protestors this man whose work for the more but after twenty seven years and sustained gunshot wounds in what he says was an ambush by a group of terrorists 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 only for 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 depends on the people who talk to you if you ask me a citizen of syria i've been to a different view i have never ever been asked by the security or anybody for something which i do those who fear are either people who take part in illegal activities or carry arms or put themselves in suspicious ways all this right here is a very open and colorful slice of syria we're going to come to talking about the security services like anywhere destroyed 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's here is temporarily forgot. yes i'll take to the streets again and again i'll raise my voice and all fear nothing and no one will want freedom of expression but we get nothing only bashar al assad is security enjoy it as for us we are not why is there i. r t. meantime beirut based a political analyst. told us here about see that the syrian regime fell out of favor with foreign powers which is why then are pressuring president assad to leave . 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 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 weapons and money and certain i just to topple the regime of president assad the president of syria acknowledged there is opposition in that country and he extended his hand to what it conciliation away then the 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 of what they say and opposition and exile those are backed by the western powers some persian gulf country. well i western interference in the arab spring has left the middle east and north africa deeply wounded that's according to historian william engdahl of the full interview is coming your way this hour here on r.t. but for now a preview the. economy is in far worse shape libya had the highest living standard

in all the africa before the bombing of nato today the country is in ruins because of those bombings not because of good awfully. 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 revolts kicked off and waited for a signal from the pentagon when to return and take control of those are birds. and other interview with william dollars later this hour here on r t but for now palestinians have vowed to try to join other u.n. agencies within weeks that follows a triumph at unesco when they were granted full membership of the moves cost the un's cultural arm a lion 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 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 a sour point for these release and for the united states it seems they've been doing everything possible to do rail devote but to no avail although the u.n. body in question deals with signs 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 still reckoning to use its veto power most of the international community is for palestine becoming a full member of the un and the us position on this is considered to be very much biased. you know sco is no stranger to being cut off by the us and has managed to survive without washington's handouts in the past but he believes the organization will have no trouble keeping afloat this time either. 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 rise in other conservative republicans and to try to i mean there's really no shame for the u.s. to use its iron fists on us for them to want to do any organization that either a group of nuns established time as a state or giving membership and that international body will be doing this is

really a membership it seeks in any given organization any way it seeks to and we're just going to suffer not just the palestinians alone but you know various countries who didn't get it from the maison programs that you just glance bonded with how they used this law but this one for didn't 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 eunice will survive and it will survive this time as well. ten minutes past the hour here in moscow still to come on the program indebted and enraged. they called the american dream because you have to be asleep to believe it unemployed graduates smiled with a massive student loans vent their frustration by joining the fountains of occupy wall 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 so the f.b.i. tell its own ghost story it released surveillance footage of on a chapman and other alleged russian sleeper agents uncovered in two thousand and ten the agency says the videos that show a spy ring work on his part or all of the 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 they see these videos that have been released code name 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 story sends a clear message to any foreign spice wanting to operate in the united states other critics have suggested this the release of these documents is something of the publicity stunt. audi's of reporting right there you can always i get more details and follow the story of roger's phone fertile on our website of course artie dot com you can find out how the alleged undercover spy literally turned herself into a trademark after becoming a star media attraction. and a russian up paraglider miraculously escapes the claws of death landing safely after colliding with a vulture in mid air stunning footage. 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 and with that still rumbling on his successor is going to have to hit the ground running. a professor of economics at erasmus university in rotterdam thinks it will be immensely difficult for draggy to handle the crisis. i think that actually he'll be more principled even the preacher and the e.c.b. will try to follow our very strict chorus holding on to his. assignment to control inflation. being reluctant to step in to sell her governments

were excessive in their debts however you have seen that the european central bank functions 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's a great deal of uncertainty and so it's very hard to tell how this guy this craft will handle the situation and. it may be that he will also do what creature do and take each what they call unusual steps to try to stem an almost inevitable crisis. what you know you know the occupy wall street movement now into its seventh week is drawing ever more university students into its ranks they are frustrated by the record cost of student loans and the high unemployment for many of them it will mean a lifetime of debt. 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 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 amongst college graduates is at an all time high president obama recently announced his plans east to 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 dime 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 hands of 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 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. duration 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 issue 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 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 asian 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 but millions shackled to college debt for years and in many cases decades and washington lives wall artsy. and it's not just dissatisfied students people from all ages and walks of life 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 attempted to ted down every move ten counts in parks and prosperous in denver officers in riot gear used pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds i want to claim police manipulating evidence to discredit the protesters. who 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 no one protester though in fact the gentleman who's army showed a picture was shot for climbing a tree and those are actually we found out afterwards were ever baltic. and there like eight bowls filled with chemical burn agent not rubber bullets i've seen a few videos want to rest 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 pushy a couple this by how we did

a second by second analysis of it in those people and you can clearly tell that officer his the gentleman you see his body propelled backwards by 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 hops off the bike chases him down and ask. about five minutes now until the business news here on r t but coming up next hour max and stacey are back to on earth some of the fundamental differences between the occupy wall street protesters on the big bang because they're so angry at here's a preview of the kaiser 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 a bully 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 let me explain something if i ever throw up into a bucket of vomit if i'm part of the top one percent i can take that to the fed and 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 to spew. twenty past the hour here in moscow let's check out some other international headlines for you in brief for the world update here more than one hundred protesters have been arrested in nepal after staging a demonstration against chinese rule and the exiles gathered for a prayer meeting and began chanting and t. china's slogans and demanding independence for tibet. is home to tens of thousands of tibetans but authorities say they will not tolerate any anti 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 was 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 dryer ground in thailand's capital bangkok where the few residents who refused to leave have been suffering the 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 and of killed almost four hundred since july. but russian police arrested a giant pigeon during an unauthorized opposition march in some people but this one couldn't fly away though because he was just a man in a boat detained along with fifty other clearly human protesters the pigeon man is

a regular of opposition rallies but it was the first time he's been paged by police they've always struggled to get the federal government into their van before but managed to squeeze him in this time activists say the pigeon isn't actually part of a movement but decides to show up anyway. that's the news for now next to the business with current. welcome to our business update the sol thanks for joining me global markets plunge 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 bate out his country last week european leaders agreed to hand africa's one hundred thirty billion euros bailout and a fifty percent write down on its enormous debt referendum could be held as soon as next january. teenie from r.b.c.

capital markets believes greece has a plate and nasty trip on itself. to last week's summit it was a. hard line from european leaders saying there would not be a hard default coming out of greece with to some else what it calls into question as to whether that really will be the case or not greece has a sizeable redemptions that it has to meet a december it requires people to also not just the current trend of trying to track a funding but also the subsequent trend and even then it's not clear they could meet those speed limits and clearly this this announcement is not is not going to help the sentiment of leaders in both washington and brussels when they make those decisions in the 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 prices 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 and six dollars per barrel u.s.

stocks start off sharply lower attacking cues from greece inspired selling in frankfurt and paris the dow jones and the nasdaq down around two percent banking stocks among the worst performers j.p. morgan chase losing over five percent and bank of america is trading over four percent this hour european markets dive as well before see down nearly three percent on the my and the dax is down over four and a half percent. polls are seeing the worst decline of where credit agricole down eleven and a half percent societe generale falling over fourteen percent and partly it's down nine point three percent. and it's a sea of red across russia as well the r.t.s. is losing six percent from isaacs is down three percent earlier trading has been suspended on my sixty two technical reasons now it's revealed let's have a look at some of the individual share most of the r.t.s. most energy majors are down on 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 down four percent and

russia's telecommunication major ross telecom is sparking the trend the company has approved a buyback 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 global economic uncertainty their performance is still expected to be better than in two thousand and eight when one hundred thirty billion dollars left left the country in the fourth quarter alone. what people are looking for or why people are moving the money out is a general market uncertainty which is clearly hitting the population and in the environment what you have enough with why they are concerned about the throws is the impact on the currency because they could spark a second wave of what i would call internal captive right which is when the population would say it's really encouraged it will move to the stronger currency in the industries be hard currency to they will switch to rubles to dollars or

euros the good thing for us at this time around us will decrease and people from eight or nine of the ruble depreciated will have to be that you can do that within the banking system so we shouldn't expect the run of the banks but there will be a roman becomes too if this continues because people are very quick to move away from a weakness in this case the ruble. russians 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 if who says they are now considering around twenty investment projects stephen gaghan from skulk of a foundation believes it's the right time for russia to attract cash from abroad. what's happened since two thousand and eight 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 or like them 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 i can have will keep you up to date for now more and less than one hour drama. in the world.

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with your headlines for you now the u.s. versus washington curbs funding to the u.n. cultural body. membership to palestine. the f.b.i. joins the halloween celebrations by sharing its own ghost stories releasing surveillance footage starring other alleged russian spies. syria says it's ready to implement the demands of the arab league to end the crisis but only if sanctions against assad's regime lived. with damascus now the main capital of the arab spring william tells us here at a hottie who could be pushing the middle east and north africa towards the political change that discussion with the author is now. today we're talking. several books.