focus on people not finance the message of thousands of protesters on the french riviera as it prepares to host the world's top leaders at the 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 have found a secret nuclear facility in the country. troops of the ready israel considers a ground campaign against guards are following an escalation in rocket attacks over the last week our top stories this hour.

international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. with you 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 bushell is a nice where the protest is centered. they protest the say they're 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 occupy wall street movement in the states as well as the anti. movement in europe there are people of come here to boutros the world not just from the likes of greece and spain which are particularly suffering from the de crisis now but also places like canada spoken to people from the middle east who say they're all disenchanted with the way the capitalism is going but more attention is being paid by our leaders to the bankers and finance just rolled into the people themselves this organizations here like

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

going whether the movement 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 near boy all the side streets as i say there are police and brady in all move vehicles ready to really stop anything the protesters try to do there really is a difficult scene at the moment from both sides. plenty of bush reporting their protests around g. twenty meetings are nothing new but james meat away from the new economic foundation says this year demonstrators have a good chance of making their voice heard i think there's a chance that the pressure on the g. twenty will start to prove if not quite overwhelming but very very substantial that's pressure from all quarters and all of the leaders meeting today know the 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 this is a reflection of that of course all the security precautions that you know indicate

just how little it's missing this creep really has the should be the case of the world's leaders have to meet behind great big steel fences or the police out and all the rest of it if they enjoyed legitimacy of the people they claim to represent so yes there is a huge amount of pressure on them and there is also a shit i think the potential for change r.t. live here in moscow a little later in the program this hour we look at what awaits euro zone's rescue efforts after greece's prime minister stuns european leaders by calling for a national referendum on whether greeks want to be bailed out of their debt. also still baseless claims the current us president elect evolves to close a u.s. controlled airbase in his country saying its presence there is putting them at risk . and the information war against syria stop funding and supplying weapons to the armed gangs claiming to be opposition and lift sanctions against president assad's regime because of the demands put forward by damascus and exchange for implementing the changes suggested by the arab league the international body has urged the

regime to halt violence and start dialogue with the opposition parties to 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 and 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. before i was chased and arrested by security forces in a very tiny cell the police of you really damaging my back and me electrocuted and make you just all of receiving money for taking to the streets they said were agents of american israel after forty eight hours of detention and torture they took all my money and belongings and threw me out into the street. 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 beleaguered story below just one example and the executive but it is the security police who make the real decisions the court judge with for their decision an actual story for the judge because he's not independent. and could he believes this constant state of fear is thanks to decades of living under the emergency law in place since nine hundred sixty three in two thousand and eleven a side of the field of peace and usually protesters. this man has worked for them or been off for twenty seven years sustained gunshot wounds in what he says was an ambush by a group of terrorists and he asked him about people's fear of the mob but out and 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 and shoot us and then accuse security forces of doing such things to 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 trace him if he has links with terrorists and works against the country naturally justice we pose the same questions to the deputy foreign minister you know it depends on the people who talk to him if you ask me as a regular citizen of syria i've been to a different i have never ever been asked by the security or anybody for something which i know those who fear are either people who are part of an illegal activity or carry arms or put themselves in suspicious words all this right here is a very open and colorful flights of syria like when it comes to talking about security services like everywhere it is followed by country but here their 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 with 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 the. lesser cilia r t. the international atomic energy agency investigators say they've. discovered a secret nuclear plant in northwestern syria it's claimed the complex as a similar design to a uranium enrichment plant daffy try to build in libya however there's apparently no evidence of nuclear production at the site which is currently being used as a cotton spinning plant well for more on this i'm now joined from lebanon by raviolis sees a political analyst who's been closely following this story thanks very much for being with us here on our team now the allegations emerged just as syria is under

attack in the media and of course under international pressure is that a coincidence. yes why do. they sure for the nuclear program of syria it's not a new issue. was very many times in the past and now it seems that they are. raising their voice against this nuclear program of syria was there it's true or not but i guess my personal. about this issue of syria's regime and country as any other country in the. country and the region. is why i just. nuclear program why we don't have. two different. well it's

going to show the. national. funding. countries the last not least. was palestine and. so. i think that. region have tried to have a nuclear. nuclear program but i think syria didn't. drive of. production or nuclear. of the nuclear production but just quickly was just. you said that clearly because of a threat from israel and you're saying that syria probably would need to have some sort of nuclear deterrent back in two thousand and seven israel warplanes destroyed

a suspected plutonium production reactor in syria it was never actually proven to be a nuclear plant but does that not suggest that perhaps there was some sort of attempt to build some nuclear weapon. maybe maybe maybe nor but what the syrian regime going same as i don't wish to do. for the same pathogen tried to build nuclear luzhin. tried to build. there are also no ideas the iranian regime. trying to build a nuclear program so what i'm trying to say. mean mean cause for defending ourselves. from a political question is why the voice. program why

not. only. work and then let me just quickly. before you were talking about the timing here of course there are comparisons drawn with what happened in iraq with the suspected weapons of mass destruction there of course later proved to be otherwise isn't it vital therefore if there are any suspicions whatsoever that there have or there could be some sort of nuclear weaponry development in syria that has sat opens the doors to inspectors right now and is transparent and allows investigations otherwise we could see a similar pretext to what happened in iraq where invasion could be justified on that basis. i don't think. so but if the question is a good theory that i. would reduce

nuclear or not i guess the females are there. but it's very important therefore that there are investigations and it is absolutely clear to the international community there is no nuclear threat from syria at this stage that's that's just my last question is vital for assad to be transparent just briefly. just to say it is important for assad to invite investigators to confirm the fact that there is in no way any nuclear weaponry in syria at this stage bearing in mind what's happening with international pressure on syria now just briefly yes yes yes sir but it. will be very little. i mean international. bird could come. it's very important. credibility. in this

specific matter robin thank you very much and if your time robbia case political analyst joining us live there in beirut to hear what you have to say thank you. well israel is reportedly given approval for its military to take any action necessary to stop rockets coming from gaza after dozens were fired over the last week it could reportedly include a ground operation for more on this i'm joined live by political blogger larry derfner he's in tel aviv. now is a ground operation imminent larry. no i don't think so i don't think so at all there's not that much happening there aren't that many missiles or rockets falling in israel at all relatively speaking there's not that much happening in gaza. but the main thing is the people who are firing these missiles from gaza are not combis which is in control relative let's say the by default control of gaza it's a relatively marginal group called islamic jihad jihad cannot fight israel you know

that it is not the responsibility to provoke israel but i don't therefore hamas must put their full pressure on that group should it not be displaying the fact that it's doing so. well i would be very happy if they did expect them to do that i mean the commerce unless unless a list thomas felt that an israeli invasion were imminent comma so far has never gone that far to say comus itself will hold to a cease fire relative ceasefire but cama so far has not stopped these smaller groups from firing these rockets doesn't do that and would i don't see it doing that unless it was afraid of an imminent invasion but the kindest thing is yet to receive hundreds of those prisoners expected to be exchanged for the israeli soldier gilad shalit he's been handed back to television now do you think perhaps the latest tensions now could affect that exchange.

this seems very unlikely is you know israel. you know i mean if there was a massive blow i mean if israel was an all out war maybe what's going on now is the sort of thing that happens from time to time this is not a major a pre war kind of scenario and i don't see israel i mean israel isn't dead israel may give its word to egypt egypt israel gave its word to turkey to handles five hundred you know prisoners over i don't see israel going back on its words egypt and turkey no way we're seeing of course the deadlock between palestine and israel over the settlement issue and of course the palestinians saying look we want settlement construction to stop now if they don't stop them we are not going to have any talks whatsoever because the international community want israel and palestine to talk directly to gether now we're hearing today the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu netanyahu he's actually called for speeding up

a settlement construction in the west bank and around jerusalem that is provocative isn't it. yeah yeah but it's the way this government operates this government is a pro settlement government period it's not a government that is really that interested in negotiating with the palestinians in trying to reach an agreement because various this government is not anywhere near ready to pay the price that the palestinians and the international community consider fair and what i personally consider fair who are to make the peace and to set up a two state solution this government is not ready to make those kinds of concessions on land and settlements and borders and everything else and given the previous little girls and build settlements provided but that's ok if israel is going to give in in any way obviously there's a lot of international pressure as we saw yesterday with palestinian accession to unesco does that end any way perhaps pave the way towards palestinian statehood i

mean is it i know symbolic but it is perhaps that something to be optimistic for from the palestinian point of view forget about israel's point of view. i think it's i think it's a positive move it got a lot of support from europe there's no reason i mean i mean anybody who is genuinely in favor of a palestinian state of the two state solution should have no problem with the palestinians in palestine. and i think that you know it hurt israel it hurt america which i don't want to see happen in general but unfortunately i think israel and america's policy on palestine is wrong and self destructive and futile and so this. is a peaceful way a diplomatic way to push forward the cause of the palestinian state and push against the opposition to i think it's good larry governor thank you for your time political blogger joining us live great to hear from you like you very much in your

world. being newly elected president has failed 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 one i specifically well that's unlikely to be renewed after twenty fourteen when the current agreement expires some of boyko explains this news came hardly a surprise because the presence of few servicemen in kurdistan is a highly charged political issue and every kurdish president had to address it in one form or another the mascara braised is a fairly large facility that it was opened. in two thousand and one to support military operations in afghanistan it represents the strongest 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 chapter eleven attacks later than he was changed but it's still colloquially referred to as the gateway to happen

because most of the u.s. servicemen who pass through monastic area base are on their way to combat in afghanistan now according to the current. remember billy's all of the of these arab raise costs american taxpayers around two hundred million dollars and the current agreements run still two thousand and four when you could be president almost back upon by of who won last sunday's elections with almost sixty percent of the both sad that his government is going to. be existing agreement but that they have no intention of expanding the lease 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 want to be a target for tilly a tourist trikes calming from the anime's of the united states back in two thousand and six man was killed by one of the year's servicemen at the checkpoint to the

base than there were rumors the american pilots are dumping their fuel on the villages and jason. the airbase so many people would like americans to go a few years ago russians think to meet god reach an agreement with the courteous authorities on the closure of the base and because this problem and even passed a bill authorizing the addiction of the base but that and the decision was reversed whether or not the decision will be implemented this time around is yet to be seen . and you can check out his twitter feed for the latest updates on that story and one of the latest tweets we can see there on the screen she says the u.s. military uniform is rushing off the shelves of markets across the capital in reaction to the likely closure of the us and there's plenty more from other correspondents general twitter feed. american troops may be pulling out of iraq but they're staying in the gulf region kuwait is top of the list of countries

likely to take them in and that's according to the pentagon and stability in the middle east is a priority. cross live now to jason this is news that a terrorist and he will not come to discuss what's behind we go in there jason so the u.s. is out of iraq but the american army is reportedly deploying to its border this is a bold a really dumb way by then it doesn't sound like it it sounds like. the united states is determined to keep forces in the in the region and poised to launch attacks into iraq whether the iraqi government agrees to it or not and of course you mention kuwait as a likely place for keeping a lot of these troops they've been talking quite a while about the decision to put massive amounts of combat troops into kuwait much like they had before the two thousand and three invasion so really this. much much a poor troop withdrawal is in some ways a bit of a smokescreen i mean american people fulfill that all they really believe that the

american troops are out of a combat zone for example in iraq. well it means to be seen but i think so long as the media continues to report that they're going to be out of the combat zone most people probably believe it we saw last year when the u.s. supposedly ended combat operations by redefining all the troops in the country as non-combat troops it was touted on channels like emmett's n.b.c. as the end of the iraq war and it has bent broadly covered ever since really so i think a lot of people aren't even really aware that the war still going on but why how would the people react i mean obviously this is this is a plan and we're talking about it now but you know this clearly the nasi of protests about america's involvement in conflicts abroad and of course when body bags come back as well. politically is is putting himself in a difficult position now he's not in some ways he could be accused of jus playing electric. well he is but i think he's trying to play

a sort of middle of the fence position here because he's also coming under fire from even more hawkish elements in the republican party for seeking to. go along with the racks demands of people even the first place so i think he's trying to. have an opportunity where if is comes up in a two thousand and twelve presidential debate to say well we left iraq but we still have major combat forces in the gulf region so it wasn't really an abandonment the region ok jason one big question of course is this putting pressure on iran well that's how it's being spun but i don't think logically that it really is because if you look at a map of kuwait doesn't border around it's not that far away from around but you've got basra right in between which of course is a major shiite city in iraq so i think as far as this being

a threat to invade iran it would be a very impractical way to launch such an invasion but nevertheless the middle east is of course becoming increasingly unstable and this is a clever move is it not to create a safe haven for the u.s. military to actually take some sort of action if and when necessary and indeed as many analysts was say that chance to control the region jury in this period of instability now well that certainly seems to be the goal but whether or not they can successfully pull it off i think is really a question that's yet to be answered secretary of state hillary clinton said this was proof of an ongoing commitment to the future of the region but in reality it's an ongoing commitment to try to interfere in a region in which the u.s. track record is far from stellar ok say interesting to hear your thoughts thank you very much indeed jason jason pitts joining us live in richmond in the usa thank you

taking time. french president nicolas of course he has called an emergency meeting with key ministers to discuss the potential fallout from the greek crisis also discuss the situation with the german and german chancellor angela merkel greece's pm stunned european leaders are calling a national referendum on the latest bailout deal to his economy and marco pierre trip polly a financial advisor of r. and wealth management says the biggest fear of the european economy lies in the possible snowball effect the european way of dealing with things is the five things that patch things up and to try and sustain things and delay dealing with the fundamental issues in my view the best the best option for the greeks is to default of course that there is much bigger financial consequences for for the rest of europe and for the rest of the world if that happens so the big fear here is the snowball effect if a truly great defaults then you have to look at who actually owns the debt and

that's principally owned. 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 they will and the worry is of the snowball effect that the banks and then other european sovereigns and whether that would then lead to further defaults on a number of sovereign defaults at the same time and how many banks would be affected as well. marco putra pauli talking to me a little early here in r.t. this halloween 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 he says the video shows a spy ring at work and ortiz peter all of a report 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 instead 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 stories was released on halloween something which did raise a few eyebrows however the f.b.i. how they shoot us that this is just purely coincidental now the footage shows members of the so late spy ring. doing such things as shopping in macy's and using laptops in popular branches of bookstores the f.b.i. saying that operation story sends a clear message to any foreign spice wanting to operate in the united states over critics have suggested this the release of these documents is something of a publicity stunt. well be about with a recap of our top stories in a few minutes stay with us live here moscow this is take.

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