following the protests for us let's cross life in now daniel what's happening at the moment just how big is this protest. it's a big protest it really you know exposed to point wall street movements over in the states and the anti euro anti e.u. sentiment and rallies that are going on in europe protesters say there's around fifteen thousand people far more than we've seen in previous such anti e.u. rallies here in europe now they've come from all over the world not just from from france and greece and spain but also from places like canada and even the middle east really drawing attention to the fact that more attention is being paid to bankers and finances rather than the people heard this slogan saying that people should be first not finance mulching against the policies they say don't work for people they've brought together leading trade unions also organizations like greenpeace we've got the states getting into ever more debt in the euro on the verge of collapse but this is also about other interventions in the likes of libya

which they say has been wasting money which is desperately needed here back at home now we've spoken to some of the protesters here's what they have to say. i mean because i won't say gadgety people. because we don't trust. all these magic power i guess due to. the fact that there are few people are just a few people that money in the world are just. running everything running all the people all the governors of states of this world that decided they own the world and they control wanted should be we believe the people have their word should have their words not something to say. well daniel you're saying there's a big turnout in comparison to what we've seen in previous protests a big turnout there in the south of france so there must be major security operations in place for this summit tell us more about that. yes there's

a chaotic scene this helicopters overhead at the moment there's really lots of shouting also noise is police coming in here there's police on every side street very heavily armed with lots of protective gear it just in case things get violent as they have done in previous protests now france has mounted a military style look down for miles around to stop really any disruption of the g. twenty summit which is due to start later this week they've caused major disruption roads have been stopped and blocked off for miles around people here have to have badges even the local residents to get to their homes they have to have no question of anyone coming in by train for example they've been canceled this elite areas more used to feel like to the red carpets and the high heels of the cannes film festival they're really not used to this sort of aggressive style behavior in these mulches you know marching through the town now this has led as i say to violence in

the past so we'll keep you updated as they continue through nice ok thanks very much indeed daniel bushell there in the south of france well coming up later this hour baseless claims. that its president elect valves to close the u.s. controlled place in his country saying its presence there is putting them at risk. for say u.s. versus you know washington curbs funding to the u.n. cultural body after it granted a historic membership to palestine. and the information war against syria stop funding and supplying weapons to the armed gangs claiming to be the opposition and lift sanctions against president assad's regime these are the demands put forward by damascus in exchange for implementing the changes suggested by the arab league the international body has urged the regime to hope violence and start dialogue with the opposition parties cilia 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 ears the more but at the country's intelligence service has political clout in syria that's hardly state secret and says the unrest began in march protestors have accused them of violent interrogations. 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 american israel after forty eight hours of detention and torture it 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. we have three authorities in the country the legal authority of 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 the regime protestors this man whose work for the more but after 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 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. 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 it depends on the people who talk to you if you ask me as a citizen of syria i tell you 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 slice of syria but when it comes to talking about security services like anywhere the shrouded by intrigue but here their presence is so widely felt that it's not quite possible to determine just what local feel is normal and what isn't. and when twenty percent of the population is rumored to be in the intelligence service it's no wonder many prefer to keep their voices down in the light of day but within a crowd that fear is temporarily 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 one freedom of expression but we get nothing only bashar al assad is security him and enjoy that as for us we are nothing why is that i. r t. beirut based political analyst told r.t. the syrian regime fell out of favor with foreign powers which is why pressuring president assad to leave. 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 you can see the regional power hasn't been friendly to the situation is 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

acknowledges 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 of what they say in opposition and exile those are backed by the western powers some persian gulf country. western interference in the arab spring has left the middle east and north africa deeply wounded that's according to historian william bell and the full interview is coming your way this here in r.t. in the meantime here's a short previously. on a me is a far worse shape 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 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. palestinians are valid to try to join other u.n. agencies within weeks following a trial but you know where they were granted full membership but recognition comes at a price with the u.n. cultural losing nearly a quarter of its funding to the u.s. cause it's a poor response was goes criticize washington's decision saying it won't help restore a climate necessary for the resumption of peace negotiations in the middle east the vote was called a month to palestine apply to the security council for full recognition washington what common russel's which is the nation's chances for statehood a bleak but it may have success in other un bodies. 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 then 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 of so you know that but however as far as getting statehood you know you want obviously you want us 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. to that point there's a lot to benefit the law for powers and benefit from member ship in a lot of the different agencies this halloween saw the f.b.i. tell its own story it released surveillance footage of anna chapman and other alleged russian sleeper agents uncovered in two thousand and ten agency says the video shows a spy ring at work bodies put all of our reports now 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 ghost 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 sent 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. with the details now you can follow the story of russia. at the moment. and they've literally turned itself into

a london trademark or should say becoming. what we are in the story there are a lot of the moments you can find out about a russian paraglider. the. safety off the colliding with the vulture. the newly elected president of. the us air force base in his country saying it poses a threat to his own nation's security america's least for the menace facility no nukes unlikely to be renewed off the twenty 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 the mass arab race is a fairly large facility that it was opened. 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 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 mass air base are on their way to combat in afghanistan now according to the current agreement billie's of the air base costs american taxpayers around two hundred million dollars and. current agreement still meet two thousand and four the new president must back. sunday's elections with almost

sixty percent of the vote sad that his government is going on the existing agreement that they have no intention of extending release 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 started that don't want to be a target for. calming from the anime of the united states back in two thousand and six man who was killed by one of the year's servicemen at the checkpoint to base down there were rumors that american pilots dumping air fuel on the villages to. 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 fiction of the base but that and the decision was reversed rather and knowledge a decision will be implemented this time around is yet to be seen. and you can check out her twitter feed for the latest updates story in one of the latest tweet he says the u.s. military uniform is rushing off the shelves at markets across the capital in reaction to the likely closure of the space and there's plenty more from other correspondents on the general twitter feed. has passed the baton of the european central bank to. the recession europe's debt crisis and we're still rumbling on his successor is going to have to hit the ground running claim a professor of economics at erasmus university in rotterdam thinks it will be immensely difficult. to continue in the crisis. we 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 through shell heard governments were excessive in their debts however you're seeing 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 bank of credit will handle the situation and. it may be that he will also do what creature do and take these what they call unusual steps to try to stem an almost inevitable crisis. meanwhile the e.u.'s hard bargain rescue plan for greece's economy comes on the real threat as the country's prime minister pledges

to hold a referendum on the deal. you what lies behind the surprise decision where you can log on to dot com to have your say but have a quick look and see the vote looks so far well most of you say and that's thirty six percent think that the greek prime minister has made a wise step to let the population have their say thirty percent believe the move is just pure populism to deflate the protests and just over a fifth of voters say that is looking for a polished way to an honorable retirement while twelve percent of you think that the decision is a knife in the used back because to hear from dot com. the occupy wall street movement known as seventh week is drawing ever more university students into its ranks they're frustrated by the record cost of student loans and high unemployment and for many of them it will mean a lifetime of debt as artie's lives wall now 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 only able to. pay for college and this year which burns for the first time in the u.s. total student dad 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 eastern mom and dad 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 you trouble 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 the. 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 robber applebum says bailing out students rather than banks will stimulate the economy i put in more cash in the pockets of the educated middle class they're not starting businesses they're not buying cars they're not buying houses they're not starting families not having children in other developed countries getting a financial education isn't such a financial burden you have free tuition in france denmark and sweden finland they don't pay anything 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. well let's have a quick look at some other international headlines in brief before corrina joins us with the business news a passenger plane has made an emergency landing on its very important poland seven

six seven run by a polish airline was about to land on its way from new jersey when a damage wheel was discovered across circle for an hour to burn excess fuel before landing one of the more than two hundred thirty people on board was hurt. more than one hundred seven protesters have been arrested in a pool after staging a demonstration against chinese rule excels gathered for a prayer meeting and began charging china slogans and demanding independence bill to be. tens of thousands of tibetans but authorities say they will not tolerate any protests. china has successfully launched a spacecraft from the gobi desert in the country's northwest is expected to join another module within days three hundred forty three kilometers above the surface if successful it will be the first chinese docking in orbit and the launch is considered a milestone in beijing's preparations for its own space station by the end of the decade. we'll be back with the summer of our main news stories we in about. six minutes without me telling the latest business now with kareena stay with us for

that. thank you bill hello welcome to business here in r.t. with me clean and i can thanks for joining us our global markets plunge into another round of volatile trading as uncertainty comes rushing back that's after the prime minister of greece unexpectedly called for a referendum on e.u. plans to bailed out his country last week european leaders agreed to hand athens one hundred thirty billion euro bailout and a fifty percent wipe down its enormous debt but the greek move has cast doubt on whether the deal can go ahead the referendum could be held as soon as next january . even r.b.c. capital markets believe greece has played a nasty trick on that. week's summit it was a serious 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 a sizeable redemptions that it has to meet in december it requires payments of not just the current trench of truck a truck of funding but also the subsequent trench and even then it's clearly could be to scream and so and clearly this this announcement is not it's not going to help the sentiments 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 or fortunately. have a look at how the markets reacted to what's happening in greece bald prices down europe's europe's debt crisis like so it is trading at ninety dollars a barrel and brand is that over one hundred six dollars about us our stocks in the u.s. slump on tuesday greece is called a referendum on his rescue package shook investors confidence and europe's efforts to contain its debt crisis the slide heads and the. off to a poor start following one of the best october's on record the dow jones fell one

hundred seventy two points with twenty eight of its thirty components in the red european markets dive as well the footsie down two point nine percent actually nearly three percent and the dax is up nearly five percent in the red shows a single worst decline with credit agricole down eleven and a half percent societe generale falling over fourteen percent broccolis down. and russian markets and of the trading day lower as well the r.t.s. lost five percent in my eyes it's closed just under three percent in the red earlier trading has been suspended otherwise it's due to technical reasons now let's have a look at some of the individual shambles and most energy majors went down on cheaper crude with gazprom losing more than two percent banking stocks were no exception would be to be under four percent in the red and russia's telecommunications major ross telecom bought the trends of the company approved a buyback program for half a million 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 and many global economic uncertainty the performance is still expected to be better than two thousand eight 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 the general market uncertainty which is clearly hitting the population and in that environment what you have and i think why we are concerned about the throws is the impact on the currency because a good sport 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 world and in this case be a hard currency so they will switch to rubles to dollars or euros to good thing for russia this time around us was the case in two thousand and nine on the ruble depreciated quite heavily 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 become see if this continues because people are very quick to move away from what we see in this case the. 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 budget made with if who says they are now considering around twenty investment project projects and stephen geiger from skulk a foundation believes it's the right time for russia to attract cash from abroad so 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 emerging economies there are problems and developed economies are 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. that's a business update for this hour but join me at twenty three minutes past the hour with more business news here on r.t. .

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a team could have you with us top stories now at home. in the russian capital focus people. the message of thousands of protesters on the french riviera as it prepares to host the world's top leaders at a g. twenty. summit. the f.b.i. joins the halloween celebrations by sharing its own ghost stories releasing surveillance footage starring anna chapman and 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 lifted. so those are our top stories in a moment here on r.t. the summary of those in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime with damascus now the main capital of the arab spring well tells r.t. who could be pushing the middle east and north africa towards the political change that's in our special interview next.