claiming to be the opposition and lift sanctions against president assad's regime and these are the demands put forward by damascus in exchange for implementing the changes suggested by the arab league the international body as the regime to hold the violence and started talking with the opposition immediately. reports. 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 years 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 so they 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. sitting in cooley is a lawyer who deals with detention cases she says the influence of the security police extends even into the court room. we have three authorities in the country the legal authority the legislative and 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. 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of living under the emergency law in place since one thousand nine hundred sixty three in two thousand and eleven assad repealed it to appease the regime protesters this man who has worked for the more but not for twenty seven years sustained gunshot wounds in what he says was an ambush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. if this is

the wrong idea we're protecting our people but the terrorists shoot civilians and shoot us and then accuse security forces of doing such things accusations that we instill 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 but 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 depends on the people who talk to if you ask me as a citizen of syria i have 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 take part in illegal activities or carry arms or put themselves in suspicious wears well this right here is a very open and colorful slice of syria but when it comes to talking about the security services like anywhere shrouded by country 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 will want freedom of expression but we get nothing only bashar al assad and security him and enjoy that as for us we are nothing why is that. our team. meantime beirut based political analyst. he 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 to step down. i think it's a conspiracy by the regional power 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 this country has been funneling weapons and money and certain i jealous to topple the regime of president assad the president of syria acknowledged there is opposition in the country and he extend 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 same opposition an exile those are backed by the western powers and some persian gulf countries. western interference in the arab spring has left the middle east and north africa deeply wounded and that's according to historian william engdahl the full interview

is coming your way next hour here on our team but for now a brief preview. part of me is in far worse shape libya had the highest living standard in all of africa before the bombings of nato today the country is in ruins because of those bombings not because of gadhafi. 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 events. this is r.t. now palestinians are valid to try to join other u.n. agencies within weeks it follows a triumph at unesco where they were granted full membership but the moves cost the un's cultural arm a lion's share of us budget which came directly from washington. 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 three leeson for the united states it seems they've been doing everything possible to do rail the 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. now that was a gun a chicken reporting right there let's let's get some more details on what's ahead for the palestinians i'm now joined live by phone from washington rather by a washington watcher and a voice of russia radio host common russell chancy thank you for coming on the program today if we can let's just take a step back a more global look here how will washington's withdrawal of funds affect unesco's worldwide activities. oh it's going to here have a huge impact i mean you're talking about nearly

a quarter of the of you in our schools funding you know sixty million dollars that they're supposed to write a check for just next month alone this is going to it's going to have a pretty big impact in terms of the work that they do and they've been doing a lot of work in a lot of great work over the last the last decade or so actually it was only about a decade ago that the u.s. got involved again and started became a member and started assisting financially once again and i mean that's just pretty much going to. have a go downhill they're going to see the way that i wouldn't want to be said that you said a decade ago the u.s. go back in with the unesco but if it's a shortfall of what you say of sixty million how else could they fill the void. well there is some talk about other arab nations you know offering some funding as well but because of the you of the charter itself it's going to be really difficult i mean you know first of all probably won't be enough because the u.s. is obviously a big contributor but also they can't necessarily use that money for things like

you data data operations and salaries now when it comes to the public and you know it's going to be. the palestinians when it comes to them just being a moated a fully fledged member of unesco now what does that decision mean in terms of a broader palestinian bid to join the u.n. we know in recent months israel and america have been firmly opposed to it with much of the international community saying give the palestinians a chance. yeah i mean this is going to this is the first step i think in a series of steps towards u.n. membership you know the next is going to be more education and cultural organizations and and pretty soon you know we could see membership in the world health organization which they will decide they can decide to accept palestine as a member just by a simple majority vote as you know school could've so you know but however as far as getting statehood you know you want obviously you want the u.s. obviously has a veto and they're just there's no way that they're not going to be using the veto in terms of stopping statehood itself so but at the same time i mean up to that

point there's a lot to benefit the law for palestine to benefit from member ship in a lot of the different agencies now washington says that the decision undermines the goal of a comprehensive peace deal in the middle east how does this how put the resolution of the conflict when frankly we've never even heard of a resolution of the conflict in decades or since the beginning of it all really i mean surely this can't hurt. you know it's one of the arguments that you hear a lot the u.s. wants palestine to go you know to negotiate with israel in terms of the statehood but you know there's there's such large factions at such vocal factions in israel which is against any sort of palestinian statehood that has not worked in decades they have not been able to achieve that through negotiations and one of the reasons i think is because they just don't have you know they don't have the same kind of u.s. support that israel has so i mean they really are doing what they what they can in

terms of achieving statehood and i just think it's because the u.s. is just too close to israel. if israel doesn't like it and they don't obviously then the u.s. is going to do what they can to quassia i mean that's that's the real issue i mean you're absolutely right it just. they can't go through the channels that the u.s. wants them to go through in order to achieve it well as you say the u.s. is too close to israel there but as many people know that since the beginning of the obama administration there's certainly been a fair amount of tension between obama and netanyahu but president obama has repeated his support for a two state solution to the israeli palestinian conflict do you really think he backs his words with actions or is it possibly just the israeli jewish lobby in washington is just too powerful. well you know it's really is very powerful and also republicans are very you know very pro israel and in fact you have a number of republican congress people congress members saying that even this even

you accept in membership by palestine is somehow anti peace and anti israel you know it's really hard to say could be doing more but certainly politically speaking it's really rough in fact i mean this is one of the reasons why they have to be the administration has to withdraw the money is because there was legislation that was passed in the ninety's that said they will take away any funding that they provide to organizations that accept. as a state and that would mean congress would have to repeal the law as well as the administration and obviously there's just not the political will in congress at the time to do that especially in you know going into this twenty twelve election cycle washington watcher and the voice of russia radio host comment russell the chance of you thank you. hello in 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 now the agency says that the videos show that a spy ring was at work for now reports from. perhaps spookiest

over all 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 a full agent of the foreign governments now this 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. issued. 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 sent a clear message to any foreign spies wanting to operate in the united states over critics have suggested this the release of these documents is something of the

publicity stunt. reporting right now where you can follow the story of russia's film fertile on our website of course ought to dot com you can find out how the alleged undercover spy literally turned into herself into a trademark after becoming a star media attraction. at a russian paraglider miraculously escapes the claws of death have a look right here landing safely after a horrible collision with a vulture in the starting pitchers are standing by for you twenty four so. he is coming to you live from moscow now the newly elected president of kyrgyzstan has vowed to shut the u.s.

air force base in his country saying it poses a threat to his own nation's security america's least for the facility now looks unlikely to be renewed after two thousand and fourteen when the current agreement expires. explains this news came hardly as a surprise because the presence of servicemen in kurdistan is a highly charged political issue and every president had to address it in one form or another to diminish the arab raise is a fairly large facility that it was opened in kurdistan in two thousand and one to support military operations in afghanistan it represents the shortest and the most efficient route to deliver weapons and military personnel to kabul it was initially named after a new york firefighter who was killed in this town are eleven attacks later than he was changed but it's still colloquially referred to as the gateway to haven't because most of the u.s. servicemen who pass through monastir base are on their way to combat in afghanistan

now according to the current agreement the. all of the of the air base costs american taxpayers around two hundred million dollars and the current agreement still meet two thousand and fourteen when you could present an almost back to a time by of who won last sunday's elections with almost sixty percent of the vote sad that his government is going to honor the existing agreement but that they have no intention of extending the life of the base beyond two thousand and fourteen he said that the presence of foreign troops in kurdistan does not serve the country's national interest and may actually compromise the country's security in fact he said that could just andaz not want to be a target for a tourist trikes calming from the anime of the united states back in two thousand and six a courageous man who was killed by one of the year's servicemen at the checkpoint to base down there were rumors the american pilots

a dumping air fuel on the village and jason. the airbase so many people would like americans to go a few years ago russia seemed to me go all shade and reach an agreement with the kurds authorities on the closure of the base and the problem and even passed a bill authorizing the a vision of the base but than the decision was served first whether or not the decision will be implemented this time around is yet to be seen. artie's oksana boys are reporting right there well you can always check out her twitter feed for the latest updates on that story if we have look at the screen right now in one of our latest tweets she says the u.s. military uniform is rushing off the shelves at markets all across the kid at his capitol in reaction to the likely closure of the man our space and there's plenty more from her and our other correspondents on artie's general twitter feed. and now are just about twenty minutes past the hour here. has passed the baton of the

european central bank to italy's mario draghi cliche's eight years as e.c.b. head took in recession and europe's debt crisis and with that still rumbling on his successor is going to have to hit the ground running argo kléber a professor of economics at erasmus university in rotterdam thinks it will be immensely difficult for draggy to handle the crisis we think that actually will be more troops or even done through. the e.c.b. will try to or very strict who are all the on. assignment to control inflation. being reluctant to even show her government's. however you have seen that europeans central bank functions on the great political pressure no one knows what's going on not one of those with the solutions that are brought forward in the latest europe job will do their job it is great you answer

them and show it's very hard to tell how this guy these credits will handle the situation. it may be that he will also do what three show do and take each one of the core unusual steps to try to show an almost inevitable crunch. well i mean while the e.u. is a hard bargain the rescue plan for greece's economy comes under real threat as the country's prime minister pledges to hold a referendum on the deal now we ask you what lies behind the surprise decision if you look on to r.t. dot com right now you can have your say he has now how the votes are stacking up the majority almost forty percent think the greek prime minister has made a wise step to let the population have their say twenty seven percent believe the move is just pure populism to deflate protests and then a quarter say that up and drove he's looking for a pathway to an honorable retirement while they're down to the minimum here just about ten percent if you think that decision is a knife in the back. all right

a time for the world up at here an artist and other international headlines for you in brief have a look here a passenger plane has made an emergency landing on its belly at the warsaw airport in poland and the boeing seven six seven run by a polish airline was about to land on its way from new jersey want to damage real was discovered by the aircraft so called for an hour to burn off excess fuel before making the emergency landing none of the more than two hundred and thirty people on board. more than one hundred tibetan protesters have been arrested in the staging a demonstration against chinese rule the exiles gathered for a prayer meeting and began chanting and china's slogans and demanding independence for the pat on the polish 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 now it is expected to join another module within days about three hundred forty kilometers 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. ok you're up to speed on all the main news here on r.t. but not the business news starts now with korea. hello and welcome. 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 bail out his country last week you if you had leaders agree to hand out one hundred thirty billion euro bailout and a fifty percent write down on its enormous debt the referendum could be held as

soon as next january t.v. from r.b.c. capital markets believes greece has played a nasty trick. 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 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 in december it requires people to offer not just a current tranche of truck a truck a fundie but also the subsequent trench and even then it's not clear they could meet those. and clearly this this announcement 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. from a look at the market's reaction to that news oil prices are in the red and fresh worries about europe's debt crisis light sweet is trading at ninety dollars per barrel while brant is it one hundred and six dollars a barrel stocks in the u.s.

are lower taking cues from greece inspired selling in frankfurt and paris banking stocks among the worst performers j.p. morgan chase losing over five percent tech stocks are also losing ground with google shares falling two percent after the company began rolling out updates to its google t.v. service is also down yahoo is also down four and a half percent and european markets dive as well the footsies down two and a half percent in london while the down. excess fallen over for prince percent in frankfurt financials are seeing the worst decline with credit agricole down eleven and a half percent in societe generale falling over fourteen percent barclays lost nine point three percent and a sea of red across russia the r.t.s. is losing over five percent this album isaacs is down nearly three percent earlier trading has been suspended on the wires it's due to technical reasons now let's have a look at some individual channels on my six most energy majors a down on cheap oil crude with gazprom losing more than two percent banking stocks

are no exception would be should be under four percent in the red and russia's telecommunication major ross telecom is bucking the trend company approved 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 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. what people are looking for or why people are moving the money out is a general market uncertainty which is really hitting the population and in the environment what you have and i think why they are concerned about the rules is the impact on the currency because a good sport a second wave of what i would call internal captive flight which is where the population would say it's really encouraged it will move to the stronger currency

in the world in this case be a hard currency to do with which to rubles to dollars or euros a good thing for russia at this time around us was the case in two thousand and eight or nine of the ruble depreciated quite heavily is 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 see if this continues because people are very quick to move away from a weakness in this case the threat of the ruble. which is 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 found bludgeoned to meet dave who says that they are now considering around twenty investment projects stephen guy go from skolkovo foundation believes it's the right time for russia to attract cash from abroad. what's happened since two thousand and nine 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 in 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. it's a lot halfway to the south but stay with us for headline news with roy coming up next.

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welcome back you're with us here live from moscow on. the headlines now syria says it's ready to implement the demands of the arab league to be ongoing crisis but only of sanctions against assad's regime and the after. the us vs at unesco washington cubs funding to the u.n. cultural body after it granted an historic membership to palestine. and the f.b.i. joins the halloween celebrations by sharing its own ghost stories releasing surveillance footage starring. and other alleged russian spies part of my colleague daughters here in half an hour's time max keiser explains why he thinks that market speculators should bear the brunt of the blame for the world's financial turmoil the cause report is now. mum.