the protesters say they're capturing the spirits of all the protests around the world or 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 and seems you wrote movements danger of the people of come here tribune across the world not just from the likes of greece and spain which are particularly suffering from the debt crisis now but also places like canada are speaking to people from the middle east who say they're all disenchanted with the way that capitalism is going the more attention is being paid by our leaders to the bankers and finance years older than to the people themselves there's organizations here like leading trade unions officially the greenpeace is another body this here around fifteen thousand say protesters have come here to these we've spoken to some of them here's what they have to say i mean because i won't say garrity people. because we don't trust. all these matters. due to.

the fact that people are just. money in the world are just. running out of people all the governors of states of this world at decided they own the world and they roll wanted should be we believe the people have their word should have their words not something to say there's a scene of chaos not just from the saw other protesters but also from the police because there's the helicopters overhead at the moment you can hear police sirens so police really have 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 cairo 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 raid the in all move vehicles ready to really stop anything the protesters tried to do so it really is a difficult scene at the moment from both sides. when you push reporting their

protests around g. twenty meetings are nothing new but james made way from the new economics 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 proof if not quite overwhelming but very very substantial mass pressure from all quarters 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 nic's is a reflection of that of course all the security precautions you know indicate just how little the g. to see this group really hurts the shouldn't be a case of the world's leaders have to be behind a great big steel framed series of 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 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 to come baseless claims the 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 the opposition and lift sanctions against president assad's regime because of 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 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 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 for a little bit before i was chased and arrested by security forces in a very tiny cell be beat me severely damaging my back and me be electrocuted and be accused of saul 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 in 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 muhammad ali we have three authorities in the country beleaguered story of the legislative and executive but it is the security police who make the real decisions the court judge with for their decisions and actual soil 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 anti regime protesters. this man has worked for the more but out 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. this is the wrong idea with protecting only for the terrorists shoot civilians and shoot us and then accuse security forces of doing such things accusations that we. are also wrong if this person has political activity without any intention of harming the country and he is free to do this and no one will chase him if he has links with terrorists and works against the country naturally justice we pose the same questions to the deputy foreign minister you know it depends on the people who talk to you 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 where's all this right here is a very open and colorful flights if syria were going to come to talking about security services like anywhere to try to buy entry 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 forgot. 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 in the security mind enjoy it as for us we are not why is that was. our team.

the international atomic energy agency investigators say they. discovered a secret nuclear plant in northwestern syria it's claimed the complex as a similar design to a u. reining in richmond plant moamar gaddafi tried 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 robbie case 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 did. for the nuclear program of syria it's not a new issue while i was there is many times in the past and now it seems that they

are renewing raising the voice against this nuclear program of syria was there it's true or not i guess in my purse on. this issue syria is an orderly jima and country as another country and like any other country in the region. is why i just. nuclear program why we don't have a nuclear program two different. very well it's debatable issue. but national. defending yourself. a good thing is. what happens. with palestine and. so. i think that syria. region have tried to have

a nuclear. nuclear program but i think that syria didn't. drive state of. production nuclear. nuclear production. just quickly just what you said you said that clearly because of the 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 paternally in 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 yes and maybe maybe nor but what the syrian regime doing same as other regimes that tried to do over the same pastor jim tried to build the nuclear luzhin

as well that was tried to build the. regime there are also no ideas that iran you are not is him. trying to build a nuclear program so what i'm trying to say. mean the main cause for defending ourselves against new possibilities from about the political question is why is the voice against the program why not nuclear the tonic. energy. and then let me just quickly also you before you we're 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 a sad opens the doors to inspectors right now and it's 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 that's. nuclear. but if the question is did that i. would reduce nuclear or not. 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 there just briefly so please can you repeat what i 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. i thought about it. and this. an international. audience but those who come. to investigate this nuclear issue it's very important for the. credibility of the assad regime in this specific matter ok robin thank you very much indeed for your time robbia case political analyst joining us live there in beirut good to hear what you have to say thank you. well israel has 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 calm us which is in control relative let's say the by default in control of gaza it's a relatively marginal group called islamic jihad jihad cannot fight israel you know it definitely is not the responsibility of provoke israel but i don't that for hamas must put the 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 cama so far has never

gone that far to say hamas itself will hold to a cease fire relative ceasefire comma so far has not stopped these smaller groups from firing these rockets doesn't do that and. i don't see it doing that unless it was afraid of an imminent invasion but the palestinians are yet to receive hundreds of those prisoners expected to be exchanged for the israeli soldier gilad shalit he's been handed back to tel aviv now do you think perhaps the latest tensions now could affect that exchange. seems very unlikely you know israel. you know i mean if there was a massive well 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 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 saying of course that between palestine and israel over the settlement issue and of course the palestinians saying look we we want the settlements construction to stop now if they don't stop there we're not going to have any talks whatsoever of course 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 in the go shooting 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 for 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 sort of goes on and build settlements this is provocative but that's the problem 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 and any way perhaps pave the way towards palestinian statehood i mean i know it's symbolic but perhaps that's 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 they 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 or palestine. and i think that you know it hurt israel and hurt america which i don't want to see happen in general but unfortunately i think good israel and america's policy on palestine is wrong and self destructive and futile and so this move getting it is a peaceful way a diplomatic way to push forward the cause of the palestinian state and push against the opposition to it i think it's good larry derfner thank you for your time political blogger joining us live there in tel aviv great to hear from you like you very much indeed. the newly elected president 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 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 kurdish president had to address it in one form or another arab 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 ten or eleven attacks later then 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 the nasty air base are on their way to combat in afghanistan now according to the. current agreement billie's all of the air base costs american taxpayers around two hundred million dollars and the current agreement still meet two thousand for the new president and almost back upon 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 that they have no intention. 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's sad that this time does not want to be a target for a tourist trikes 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 are 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 shades 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 than the decision was served first whether or not the decision of will be implemented this time around is yet to be seen. and you can check out on 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. and there's plenty more. of the correspondence general twitter feed. american troops may be pulling out of iraq but they're staying in the gulf region to wait is top of the list of countries likely to take them in and that's according to the pentagon who said stability in the middle east is a. you know if he would cross live now to jason this is news editor at antiwar dot com to discuss what's behind we deployment that jason said the u.s. is out of iraq but american army is reportedly deploying to its borders is a bomb already done with baghdad 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 applauded troop withdrawal is in some ways a bit of a smokescreen i mean will it american people fulfill that whole will they really believe that the american troops are out of a combat zone for example in iraq. more 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 m s n b c as the end of the iraq war and it has been broadly covered ever since really so i think a lot of people aren't even really aware of 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 be massive 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 be in some ways you could be accused of jus playing the electorate. 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 rx demands of the leave in the first place so i think he's trying to. have an opportunity where if this 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 of 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 kuwait doesn't border around it's not that far away from around but you've got basra a rate 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 might say that chance to control the region during 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 so interesting to hear your thoughts thank you very much indeed jason jason ditz joining us live in meting in the usa thank you thank you don. french president nicolas sarkozy has called an emergency meeting with key ministers to discuss the potential fallout from the greek crisis he also discussed the situation with the german and german chancellor angela merkel greece's pm stunned european leaders by calling a national referendum on the latest bailout deal to his economy and marco pierre

polly a financial advisor at wealth management says the biggest fear for the european economy lies in the possible snowball effect the european way of dealing with things is to fudge 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 there is much bigger financial consequences for for the rest of europe than for the rest of the world if that happens the big fear here is the snowball effect effectively a greek default 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 how they would fit 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 probably talking to me a little earlier 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 as the video shows a spy ring at work and 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 a rule for agents of the foreign governments now the case 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 sends a clear message to any foreign spice wanting to operate in the united states other critics have suggested this the release of these documents is something of the publicity stunt. will be about with a recap of our top stories in a few minutes stay with us live here moscow this is.

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way to twenty four hours a day this is all t. live here in moscow top stories now 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 at the ready israel considers a ground campaign against gaza following an escalation in rocket attacks over the last week. more of those stories and other developments for us in half an hour with me in the meantime x. kaiser explains why he thinks market speculators should bear the brunt of the blame for the world's financial turmoil because reporters next on r.t. . i'm not.