focus on people not finance the message of thousands of protesters of a french riviera as a protest to host the world's top leaders at a g. twenty summit. from one crisis to another the arab league reportedly persuade syria to end the violent crackdown on protesters just as u.n. investigators claim to affirm a secret nuclear facility in the country. f.b.i. joined the halloween celebrations by sharing its own ghost stories releasing surveillance footage story and a chapter on another alleged russian spies our top stories this hour.

international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day thousands of anticapitalist some marching in the french riviera ahead of the g. twenty summit in cannes groups of international activists are urging the leaders of the world's top economies to focus on people not finance our eternal bushell is a nice where the protesters set. they protest to say that capturing the spirits of all the protests around the world either they will achieve their goals without violence it's really do you know it's the okey postals street movement in the states as well as the i'd seen you movement in europe there are people of come here to blue across the world not just from the likes of greece and spain which are particularly suffering from the day crisis now but also places like canada us towards people from the middle east who say the rule disenchanted with the way the capitalism is going the more attention is being paid boy leaders to the bankers and finance years older than to the people themselves this organizations here like

leading trade unions officially greenpeace is another body this here around fifteen thousand say protesters have come here to these we've spoken to some of them his well they have to say i'm here because i want to say cavity people. because we don't trust. all these names. the fact that people are just. going in the world are just. running out of people all the governors of states based world decided they own the world and take control what it should be we believe the people have. to have their workshop something to say there's a scene of chaos not just from the saw the protesters but also from the police because the helicopters overhead at the moment you can hear police sirens. police really of mounted this military style operation to shut down and stop any of the

protesters going where they don't want them to go that includes kind where the g. twenty summit takes place but also some of the more sensitive areas of nice which is just mere boy all over the side streets as i say there were police radio moves vehicles ready to really stop anything the protesters try to do there really is a difficult scene at the moment from both sides. protests around g. twenty meetings are nothing new but james midway from the new economic foundation says this year demonstrators have a good chance of making their voice heard i think there's a chance the pressure on the g twenty will start to improve if not quite overwhelming with very very substantial amount of pressure from all quarters all of the leaders meeting today no to go back to their countries when the summit is over and and see populations increasingly discontented with the way they've been running the world in the way the crisis is being handled up until now i think what you're seeing in leaks is a reflection of that of course all the security precautions you know indicate just

how little a gentle city this really hurts the shouldn't be the case of the world's leaders have to be behind the great big steel fences or the police out and all the rest of it if they enjoyed the legitimacy of the people they claim to represent so yes there is a huge amount of pressure on them and there is also a ship i think the potential for change r.t. committee live from moscow with the twenty four hours a day still to come on. find out what awaits the euro zone's rescue efforts after the greek prime minister stuns european leaders by calling for a national referendum on whether greets want to be bailed out of their. baseless claims the president elect develops to close the u.s. controlled airspace in his country saying its presence there is putting them at risk. of stories to come but first end of 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 international body has urged the regime to halt violence and start dialogue with the opposition parties syria has more. the protests 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 he beat me severely damaging my back and me bill which could make you 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. city in cooley 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 beleaguered story of the legislative and the executive but it is the security police who make the real decisions the court judge awaits for their decision and i feel sorry for the judge because he's not independent. here and couldn't believe this constant state of fear is thanks to decades of living under the emergency law in places like hundred sixty three in two thousand and eleven a subbie field of peace and usually protesters this man who's worked for the more but after 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 we are protecting only for the terrorists shoot civilians and shoot us and then accuse

security forces of doing such things accusations that we do 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 he will be brought to justice we posed the same questions to the deputy foreign minister you know depends on the people you talk to if you ask me as a citizen of syria i tell you a different view i have never ever been asked by the secretary or anybody for something which i'm going with those who fear are either 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 to syria but when it comes to talking about security services like everywhere it is founded by intrigue but here the process 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 forgot oh yes i'll take to the streets again and again i'll raise my voice and i'll fear nothing and no one 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. israel has reportedly given approval for its military to take any action necessary to stop rockets coming from bill is that after dozens were fired over the last week it could reportedly include a ground operation with more only possible implications i'm joined live by political analyst jeffrey laurenti jeffrey great to have you here on r.t. thanks very much and people being with us now what can we expect what can we expect

from the latest confrontation does it threaten to spiral into perhaps a logical think what are the tensions here but the egyptians who say they've been given a twenty four hour grace period israel is to try to get all of the palestinian militant factions in gaza in line on a cease fire say that the israelis. on plans for a much wider operation if this doesn't work so we may well see an escalation ironically just a couple days after there was this much vaunted cease fire agreed to over so what you're saying this is actually israel's response perhaps though not just to the cease fire but also to the unesco full membership of palestine to the united go when i say should i mean is that israeli message perhaps being sent to the palestinians on that no i think these are two separate tracks because we're talking in gaza. and it's the palestinian authority president abbas who has bedeviled the israelis i this successful entry the first of the un specialized agencies.

you know what can we talk about this unesco decision it clearly came at a high price with washington cutting off funding and doesn't you know scope care about those financial consequences but you're talking about you and how it will end in our journey at will is that you're just a secretary and they've been terrified about the prospect of a washington funded car or supposedly mandated i had one nine hundred ninety four vision of law a member states however frankly are tired of being pushed around. oh washington on an issue in which washington's control of the peace process twenty years later is still not resulted in the peace agreement the spin promised and held on the horizon and this is seen by a large number of states although not all of the europeans or even most of them as a needed still are trying to get the palestinians what in their view is their fair

just recognition on the world stage if we see this over you when it sees through the other two ask you about the other un agencies i mean if palestine wants to apply for example to the well health organization and other agencies and and their excepted and we still get more whole negative pressure from the us in some ways could that back in the us and we could perhaps see the us being sidelined away from the un system altogether in the future it is very clear that in fact the big risk for the obama administration is that the palestinian driver recognition across the un system will have the us sitting in a corner marginalizing itself because of this congressional mandate and either president obama has to find some legal justification or excuse that he has created lawyers just say we are not bound by this sixteen year old legislative an act or he's going to find the us out from being able to lead and all of these u.n.

agencies to which he has been the most committed american president since jimmy carter but obama is being pressured by the israeli jewish lobby then to washington in washington i mean is he just stuck between a rock and a hard place. well let's put it this way the u.s. congress is even more fervently pro israel than the rest of the world community and all you want but it's is pro. and that creates the reader for a huge train wreck inside washington and president obama is a politician we know where the quotes are you know where the votes are in the united states going into what's going to be a tough presidential election he is more it gets true the defense of the israeli interests as defined by the chair is the current israeli government he would be able to show for more progress with a different governing coalition in jerusalem but he stuck with the quote partner that he has just pointed me in briefly do you think there's any real chance that

joining unesco will actually boost palestine's chance of its bid for statehood just briefly. well no what it does do is allow the palestinians here is your guess though is to be able to show themselves as a state actor applied for cultural heritage goods and education programs and such but no girl not if they're a larger politics they have the votes in the us they don't yet have the votes in the security council great to have your thoughts on this jeffrey thanks so much for your time political analyst jeffrey from the sentry foundation think tank joining us live there in new york thank you for your time. french president nicolas sarkozy is called an emergency meeting with key ministers to discuss the potential fallout from the greek crisis and also discuss the situation with german chancellor angela merkel and it comes after greece's pm stunned the european leaders by calling a national referendum on the latest beno deal to his economy well let's turn live to market pitch plenty he's

a financial advisor car in the wealth management to find out what he thinks europe's economic prospects right now thanks a lot for being with us mark and now recent violent protests in athens showed the likely outcome of people voting in the referendum indeed recent polls suggested a no vote would that no vote actually destroy the e.u.'s hopes of saving the eurozone. world probably in its current form i've been saying for some time that the the euro is unsustainable in its in its current form and this may well finally bring it to a head i think the europeans have been patching things up and patching things up and it's now getting to the crunch point and the deal that was reached last thursday was was a nothing be all really because it doesn't address the fundamental issues that there is too much. debt in the u. and it's unsustainable and you have these countries at different speeds and really that leave the eurozone is not aligned you talk about the crunch point

exactly what comes next then what obviously the problems there with greece should it perhaps the fault and therefore leave the eurozone have we reached a real climactic stage now in this saga. of course of course i think we reached this stage some time ago but there the euro the european way of dealing with things is that the five things that patch things up and to try and sustain things and delay dealing with the fundamental issues. and. in my view the best the best option for the greeks is to default of course that there is much bigger financial consequences for the for the rest of europe than for the rest of the world if that happens but if we're talking about what is in the best interest of the greek people then then then as probably the best outcome so those consequences being who takes on next greek debt that that that all of that obviously it's going

to be wiped off but somebody's got to be accountable for i mean what are those financial consequences on the rest of the eurozone members then if greece does deform. well the big fear here is the snowball effect effectively great defaults then you have to look at who actually owns the debt and that's principally . by other sovereigns by the e.u. and by by the banks and pension funds and the consequences of that is that it would make the financial system the banking system much less stable and the worry is of the snowball effect and how that would affect other. other european. banks and then other european sovereigns and whether that within lead to further defaults on a number of sovereign defaults the same time and how many banks would be affected as well affectively a huge huge credit crunch so it was. clearly you don't want this to happen do you

don't want the greek default what leaders do at this stage clearly there's going to be a referendum well if that referendum goes ahead and they do turn it what but what was should e.u. leaders do can influence the greek people. are all are their hands tied in a hopeless about this because clearly they're making noises saying this could really be a disaster and he could indeed scuppered the euro bailout plan. well it many would say that with the greek default has been delayed until the that the germans the french banks can can actually deal with it can can the e.u. leaders do something more well yes what needs to happen is a restructuring of the eurozone either those countries which are not truly aligned which is the peripheral countries and leave the euro or there is further. a political and fiscal integration in europe those are the those are the possible solutions as there is a third possible solution which is

a lot more printing of money now. europeans could print money and monetize the debt but that would then send the inflation spiral that there is no there is no easy solution to that but that you have to come to terms with the fact that there is too much debt too much sovereign debt and they will not all be repaid some of it is going to have to be written off and there is going to be pain and suffering to actually go through that process or a market thanks very much indeed markets probably a financial advisor wealth management joining us live there in london good to hear thoughts on this thank you. well we always welcome your opinion so don't hesitate to log on to r.t. dot com to say what you think lies behind the greek prime minister's surprise decision to hold a referendum on the e.u.'s hard bargain rescue plan let's see how the vote looks so far well most of you think at this stage forty percent we can see there on screen thinking that the greek prime minister has made a wise step to let the population have their say twenty eight percent believe the move is just pure populism to quell protests and sixteen percent say the problem is

looking for a pathway to an honorable retirement but an equal part of you think that the decision is a knife in the news back. international atomic energy agency investigators say discovered a secret nuclear plant in northwestern syria it claimed the complex has a similar design to your reign in richmond plant market happy trying to build in libya however there is apparently no evidence of nuclear production at the site which is currently used as a cotton spinning plant where for more on this some joined by dr david hope and his british activist dr hope and thanks very much indeed for being with us now these allegations coming during these allegations come to a very difficult times for syria which is already under immense international pressure so what do you make of the timing here firmly with the stuff that you know the first to go see is for you we go again the lame pretext for

bombarding iraq were weapons of mass destruction a second thought is this a label syria still holds on the golan has both cards a large nuclear armory. and the weapons to deliver the some thousands of miles closer they are the rockets they're also the dolphins of marines which was supplied by germany troops which were given by germany. to israel and it is said that he actually has been enlarged so they can take a nuclear armed cruise missiles all this is stuff that i do not know but i would be diffuse stations of any story arising now about nuclear weapons chemical weapons general there were things in syria now because syria is in the crosshairs very evidently he drew

a comparison with iraq and of course the invasion on the pretext that weapons of mass destruction were indeed there but later that was proved otherwise do you think therefore it's vital the president said it's open and transparent and no allows inspectors in straight away to prove that there are no nuclear weapons in syria well if i was president assad and i'm reminded of course he's a medical colleague of mine is not some ologist i would be rather wary about letting any inspectors in because the inspectors went into iraq for years on school and i'm told that one of the tasks was of at identifying the defense installations in iraq ended and the mission full of physicians will learn. we've mentioned iraq and i'd like to say this we speak of weapons of mass destruction what does be effective is whatever weapons were used illegally by the this vast alliance of america the u.k. and whatever. the one million fewer people were there is

over three million people who are all being maimed. nine hundred thousand women with five million children often and four million people who are displaced flues do not weapons of mass destruction chillingly what is. let's talk about the suspicions about the past investigations or indeed the possibilities of serious thinking and clear weapon when one would ask why would they want to have one in the first place well i just indicated to them just across the land is a country which often uses them as bloodthirsty language and has only counts in massive nuclear armory i do know about his chemical if he has chemical or germ warfare weapons went in there that mordechai vanunu the is a friend and that man spent twelve years in solitary confinement having tried to le

world the israel was army so head on so for nuclear weapons it is ironic we should be talking about syria when the israeli nuclear honoree has never been inspected. and i'd like to really on the line of this by going back to syria. there was an alleged nuclear facility that was told. by the israelis. that. in two thousand and seven the story was the installation had been fitted out by north korea which seems highly unlikely the source for such a sophisticated. solution and that's why no bugs i did hear of and usually work and i do this is for research

reactor cool to do with heat here which were supplied by the chinese when we could talk more next but sadly we're out of time thank you very much indeed for your thoughts on this thanks for joining us a bit closer thank you talk to david how can you have project what is tony is like that would happen in the u.k. where the news now this 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 and he says the video show was spoiling it work a lot is peter all of the reports now from moscow. 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 and said they pled guilty to conspiracy to act as a willful agent of the foreign governments now the case these videos are to be released coping good stories course 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. the new elected president has failed to shut the u.s. air force base in his country saying it poses a threat to its own nation's security america's least forty percent as you know it's unlikely to be renewed after twenty fourteen when the current agreement expires. explains this news came hardly a surprise because the presence of servicemen in kurdistan is a highly charged political issue and every christmas present how to address it in

one form or another the mass arab raised is a fairly large facility that was opened in kurdistan in two thousand and one to support use military operations in afghanistan it represents the shortest and 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 time or eleven attacks later than it was changed but it's still colloquially referred to as the gateway to have a because most of the u.s. servicemen who pass through the nasty air base are on their way to combat in afghanistan there are quoting to the current agreement the lease of the of the arab race costs american taxpayers around two hundred million years dollars and the current agreement iran still meet two thousand from the new president almost back upon by of one last sunday's elections with almost sixty percent of the vote sad

that his government is going to use. 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 said that is not what to be a target for tilly a tourist tracks calming from the anime's of the united states back in two thousand and six curtis man was killed by one of the year's servicemen at the checkpoint to the base that. there were rumors that american pilots are dumping air fuel on the villages and jason. the mass airbase so many people would like americans to go a few years ago rushed into any gosh aid and reach an agreement with the kurdish authorities on the closure of the base and they could just call them and even passed a bill authorizing the addiction of the base good band the decision was served

first rather and now the decision will be implemented this time around is yet to be seen. and you can check out our son his twitter feed for the latest updates on that story and then one of our latest tweets she says the u.s. military uniform is rushing off the shelves of markets across a critic of the reaction to the likely closure of the space and there's plenty more from her and other correspondents on general twitter feed. well i'll be back with a recap of our top stories from in just a few minutes from now stay with us live here in moscow.

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