stir up syria's opposition to topple president bashar al assad ortiz peter all of a has the details. circular for all of us said in a statement expressing russia's dismay at the decision to suspend syria from the arab league he said thus with russia's help and advice president assad has been implementing the reforms that were put forward by the arab league in a meeting on the second of november a peace deal a deal to try and broker peace in the syrian conflict now. said he left office said this the decision to suspend syria from the arab league is counterproductive to a peace deal saying that the this decision really sends a message to the syrian opposition to to continue fighting against president assad's on the pro government forces in syria not getting them to the table to discuss a peaceful resolution to this now russia has tried to mediate in the past and has

offered it services members representatives from both the syrian leadership and the syrian opposition have been here in moscow for talks and in fact in the next couple of days a senior syrian opposition member will be here in the russian capital for further talks to try to bring about that peaceful solution on wednesday we're expecting to see that rubber stamp on the decision to suspend syria from the arab league now the last nation to be suspended from the arab league was libya of course stuff exulted in the outside military intervention something that russia again was opposed to and military intervention that went far beyond the parameters that were laid out in un resolutions and when it came to the chance of imposing a a u.n. resolution on syria russia looking at sishen from going through we're also seeing the reaction from the syrian people tens of thousands out on the streets of damascus across syria protesting against this decision to suspend syria from the

arab league they want to find a peaceful solution to put an end to this conflict that's going on for eight months now with an estimated three thousand five hundred people being killed during it. peter of reporting there are a beirut based political analyst kamel was new thinks that syria's neighbors are doing the bidding of the west by going against damascus when we talk about the arab league we're talking about the burgeoning goal of a country which actually maintained bases for the american they maintain the power of the american in the region order came from the united states when the president of the united states and its administration tell the opposition not. lay down their arms and continue to shoot syrian army the growth country they're not looking to because they don't have one and the united states cannot talk about democracy because there are crimes in iraq another part of the words still visible so here

when we look at the west is interesting in maintaining its interest and keeping the balance intact they lost iraq they want to compensate for it in syria and now it's actually bush and iraq to play their dirty role. you're with your moscow still ahead this hour a devoted europe. knowing the best interests of the germans to keep on going would be over you you have been. going to punish that's not a union as a new government takeover it's an increase some question whether the interests of ordinary people at. this year's apec summit in hawaii wrapped up with the twenty one member nations from the pacific rim making a number of breakthroughs that includes a pledge to work towards a pan pacific free trade zone something the u.s. pushed for president obama met on the sidelines of the summit to talk about moscow's accession to the world trade organization next year they also discuss the

cancellation of a cold war provision in u.s. law known as the jackson van a commitment that restricts trade relations with russia the same time the u.s. has turned up the heat on its biggest economic rival china as our correspondent in the stars a chicken to discovered the smiles and handshakes for the cameras didn't tell the full story there is a tradition at summits where leaders get together and where national costumes for a photo opportunity it's really a fun time for leaders to pat each other on the back and joke around but this year journalists were surprised to see that this old photo op in hawaiian shirts never happened and we were hearing that this is because china was refusing to put on the whole one shirt so it really looks like the united states had a hard time during these last two days at apac in honolulu convincing china not only when it comes to economic issues but really issues of the wardrobe as well and this is something that many analysts are not surprised to see because the u.s. currently doesn't have a lot of leverage when it comes to dealing with china as china of course is the

largest foreign creditor for the united states holding over one trillion dollars in u.s. debt. the u.s. has long complained that china keeps its currency artificially weak to give an advantage to its exports but china says that the u. one has to rise gradually to avoid harming its economy or correspond to explains the differences that have piled up between washington and beijing. if there is any us state where the occupy movement has little chance it's probably why despite the high concentration of politicians and wall street big wigs socializing at the apec summit the only place people are willing to buy here on mass at the beach is this one exception these protesters are against greed and social injustice they're against economic inequality and they are against china. i. mean sudan clearly the mood at the podium was similar to look hostile i think we

can benefit from trade with china and i want certainly to continue cultivating. a constructive relationship with the trying his government but we're going to continue to be firm in insisting that they operate by the same rules that. everybody else rules rules and again rules as a country that's been ruling the roost for decades the united states has never been shy of policing all others but as china's g.d.p. continues adding nine percent a year again and a half percent growth in the u.s. the reprimand seems to be internally driven conformant he's one of the top values can be trying to wall also reflected in the country's political and economic policy if it's not that china doesn't play by the rules it's actually quite the opposite what the united states seems to have an issue rip is that increasingly china rules and that they pretty much washington would prefer to keep it south as the u.s.

president hailed his new free trade asia pacific pact as a win win to boost trade in the region some in china took it as a predator effort to change rules made game free trade tend to be. in the eyes of the beholder. treat for you protection that's right i get to protect. precious. industries that well will of our own personal national interests so it's always a dilemma as to how free it is as the euro crisis continues metastasizing throughout the world and china is asked to shoulder the load many analysts say the west should keep in mind it's all that age about he who pays the piper china is really in the driver's seat in many respects and this is coming at an awkward time for the united states because the united states is clearly a declining power at the same time and is having trouble adjusting to what that

means many chinese proverbs are difficult to translate into english here those about money usually have exact equivalents one of them is money makes the world go round the concept experientially familiar to washington and progressively so to beijing it's one of my guards in a bit apec summit in honolulu. still ahead for you this party on their way three astronauts are on course for the international space station and a russian soyuz the first crew to do so since a similar unmanned rocket crashed three months ago. that's still to come first italy's new prime minister mario monti has begun work on forming a new technocratic government to tackle the country's towering debt an economist and former e.u. commissioner he now has to implement structural economic reforms to pull italy out of its financial chaos of course takes a look at whether a new man at the top that can make a difference for the return. it was never going to be easy to put it this year at

seventeen countries of which are now under one currency attracted fierce criticism we've witnessed the beginning of a dishonest and downright dangerous german president. to revive the constitution but to do it in such a way that you want to avoid referendums in key member states some might now be wishing they'd heeded the warnings to one after another the member states began to wobble at least being the latest country to come under scrutiny we have been witnessing in the last long. growing pressure from europe and i'm talking in particular from france and germany hardly the u.k. certainly the european parliament and the commission is going to start the crisis the safest in the leaders of greece and italy replaced by people who were never elected to office he knew their way around brussels here it is totally with gagne

now gone doesn't. paying for reforms now need to be implemented to meet tough. for the first time since the crisis began talks have now begun to turn to the possibility of exit from the year or the creation of the cool europe countries like germany seem to be leading the way but i think it's not in the best interest of the germans to keep on going with this i think you know over here where you have behaved badly we're going to punish that's not a union in united states of america if a state behaves badly imagine taxes behaving badly what you think obama is going to do we're going to kick you out of united states of america no they're not going to do that the growing sense of a bad year agree pretty good year has not gone on missed by struggling countries was this clear that those who haven't spent less now face up to painful stares he measures the sense of being treated like a naughty school child any added to the growing strain in. community if it's only

now well so the say there will expose much more france and especially germany to the times there and they must be up to us to say to to express a political leadership not just for their own countries but for europe as a whole your attentions have no gold on this by the financial markets punish political leaders to try king the feet in dealing with the crisis the struggling economies like italy and now cool stuff even though you breathing to the stakes it's least being considered by many the test case for the entire a year you say it fails and it could take down the entire fifth the the question now is whether or not those measures can fix things whether we'll see them going the same way as previous measures put forward by european leaders. fails to come up with a convincing year investigate. the. u.s. police and losing patience with the occupy movement two months off flared up and

spread across america offices and good radio protests to camp in the city of oakland this month intense and arresting activists all teams loosely coupled to covering the high demonstrations and joins me now live from oakland in the states that you see two months in know thousands of producers of still come across america calling for an end to corporate greed what's he going to going to take to stop them then do you think. i'm not quite sure and i think that's the million dollar question that most of the officials at these different city and states are asking themselves because again we exceed crackdown after crackdown it seems like the crackdowns are definitely increasing beginning with right here in oakland earlier today we went out there there was a lot of speculation about a potential raid over the past few days and so we don't know if there was going to be any different today and of course as soon as we got there i saw officers again fully dressed in riot gear moving in on the protesters but interestingly enough there wasn't the same type of clashes that we've sort of grown accustomed to in

seeing in oakland to it all went down rather smoothly end peacefully just by a lot of nervous tension in fact protesters gave my camera night these mass that are soaked and been are it's quite a quite a stench to protect against tear gas none of that was used but those occupations they do seem like they'll continue not here in oakland for now that was a was raided the tents were removed some protesters were just first but i guess the most important thing to watch here in oakland is what happens in the aftermath because of course we saw just a few weeks ago that there's tremendous photographs that made them look almost like a war zone somewhere abroad where police were using tear gas flash bang grenades all kinds of non-lethal projectile weapons that ended up injuring the iraq war veteran scott olsen so we will be watching to see whether there's going to be a repeat of that kind of violence in the aftermath of the raid and we do know that protesters. planning and gathering in just a few hours will be on the ground trying to see how things develop their movements

in a single city but it soon spread worldwide how much of an impact has it made so far where it really counts you know it's a really debatable question i mean where it really counts is if you ask the protesters just to stop the sort of checks corporate greed the sun checks controlled by wall street over washington and that of course has not been stopped whatsoever but there are some some developments that sort of make it seem like this movement is spreading is having some sort of an impact for example in the mainstream media discourse you hear a lot more discussion about income inequality social injustice this sort of financial distinction between the top one percent income earners in this country and the rest of the people that don't seem to be making quite as much and it does seem like perhaps in the coming months hala titian's can no longer ignore this movement perhaps we'll see sort of like what happened with the tea party where politicians will be forced to take on some of these ideas and talk about sort of

moving away from this wealth inequality that really is so significant in this country and so surprisingly so because again when you think of the united states you don't really think of a third world image is that unfortunately in some of these cities and towns that's exactly where it's developed into where people can't afford their schools they can't afford their homes they can't afford to find a place to live and in fact i think that's in part why these occupy wall street protests have been so popular not only is it an outlet for people's their rage and emotions but in fact it's a place for some of the lower income folks to come and get free food free health care a place to get away from it all and a community that actually does a step that is what a lot of those people have told us in our travels covering this movement we see thanks very much indeed for not coming of mine from oakland in the u.s. thank you. we're not some of the news making headlines around the world in the world up. it's an israeli airstrike on a naval base used by hamas in northern gaza has killed a palestinian policeman and in just seven others israeli officials said the attack

was in response to a rocket fired into southern israel several hours earlier this comes a day after an israeli commander was quoted as saying the military is prepared to topple the last regime. in the region man who confessed to killing seventy seven people has made his first public appearance in court carrying out the massacre but refused to plead guilty in july and is brave you are right we must attack central oslo with a car bomb and then went on a deadly shooting rampage at a youth camp on the island of. his previous hearings have been held behind closed doors with the main trial expected to start in april. in afghanistan the taliban has obtained leaked government documents in kabul the papers include security arrangements for president hamid karzai and several cabinet ministers the group published the twenty seven pages on its website claiming the details would allow it to launch precision attacks afghan officials originally denied the papers were real but now confirm that authentic and that the security arrangements have since

changed. the u.k. government plans to open new schools with army style boot camp discipline to control disruptive peoples the measure was proposed after several cities including london were rocked by riots in august supporters believe it will whip unruly teens into shape but others think it will just make them worse than it has more. as the going gets tough the tough get going army boot camps are the places step out of line it's this culture of self control the government now wants to bring into schools so it's calling on the cavalry well former soldiers to swap the front line for the front of a classroom following the riots across the u.k. the government fast tracking troops into teaching as a way it says to restore adult or thora t. wants to provide more male role models even giving teachers new powers to use physical force as a way to control disruptive pupils it's not a bad thing for children to know where they stand. if they step this side of the

lie they will be punished accordingly if they stay on the right side of the lie. in the confines of the law and they will not be punished it's a line few would dare cross with a teacher like this afghans going to be headmaster at the new school where every teacher will be a former soldier uniform inspections and military style roll calls but with the polish of a strict routine when you can maintain discipline in the future war which is the most high pressured situation you can maintain discipline in a classroom in oldham but with corporal punishment now a step closer many fear it will push an already alienated youth further away i think they would start building their own gang as they've done towards the police now i've seen the police behave towards our kids is to gangs isn't it if you could say the police are a gang it would be the army case kids i think they would become more unruly this charity takes in problem people's the state system chucks out and turns their lives

around according to teachers here it's about finding the right kind of stimulation rather than just cracking the whip they become unruly because they're bored but in discipline it isn't the answer just on the tone this is yes but actually making sure to go something at their own level for this sixteen year old that happened to be art he was expelled from school after what he'll only refer to as an incident and is still too afraid to be identified back then he was on course to fail all his exams but after just a year here he passed fourteen a far cry from someone supposedly too disruptive to teach. more discipline for children in schools do you think that would have worked for. only one. class of poor and cause there's no talking it's just it works. so you can focus on the door don't really want to go today listen again individual attention is the

only thing that turned this boy's education around but with a system that prides itself on conformant see the battle could be only just beginning either bennett's r.t. landed. a successful blastoff from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan has sent three cosmonauts aboard a russian spacecraft on their way to the international space station it's the first launch since a similar unmanned soyuz rocket carrying supplies for the ice s. crashed almost three months ago. picks up the story. launch time with the baikonur cosmodrome these three men have gone up to join their colleagues on the international space station but they're late and unhappy about why it is a risky business you can never eliminate risk altogether that that's the bargain that you make for the privilege of flying humans in space and accomplishing what they do up there on the twenty fourth of august a supply rockets engines failed on its way up to the us and it plummeted back to

worth with a bang it was unmanned but all launches were put on hold with worries about the safety of soyuz rockets now the only link to the space station crew since the last u.s. shuttle flight and july said this crew of their launch date set back their relatives were especially nervous to talk to the progress crush what do you think about your husband's launch coming up so soon. it's too difficult it's better not to talk about it. the crew themselves though accept the dangers as part of the job. because we're upset about the accident of course but every big project has some room for failure unfortunately this is not completely avoidable but we shouldn't dramatize the situation. and so it was the rocket lifted into place to launch pad we could see. the rocket taking off now watch the progress.

with deep sighs of relief all watched as the rocket blasted successfully into orbit leaving the crew to experience what all the rest of us are really treatment about. you can actually get a good view of the earth during the flight and the spacecraft surely will have time to enjoy it better while on the international space station for that view from ams future in space they say the risk is worth it tom barton r.t. . meanwhile a technical failure has place huge question marks over russia's first interplanetary mission in fifteen years the ground probe which was bound for mars successfully last week but soon malfunctioned and is now adrift in earth's orbit specialist claims of engineers have only two weeks to fix the fault before the batteries run out the emir popkin from russia's federal space agency says they will battle to

resolve the problem until the end. of the moment we're looking for ways to fix the situation the chances of mending the probe are not that great but as long as there's a chance we're going to be fighting for the spacecraft there are seven and a half tons of fuel in the tanks at the station and they're certainly going to blow up during re-entry into the atmosphere the chances of any part of the craft reaching the surface a very small. whole lot more information about russia's interplanetary space vessel was current on our website that's available for you all the time online r.t. dot com well i'll bring you the recap of today's headlines that'll be after the business news with natasha stay with us for that live here in moscow. it's twenty five minutes past eight pm here in moscow welcome to the business program italy has no other choice but to exit the euro zone and bring back its

national currency even if that means the collapse of the euro so says prominent economist nouriel roubini also known as dr do. six congolese three saddam told you to leave that he's been inside because it lead to different degrees and you get all the fiscal and financial difficulties. more of them will be made to address the larger if you subscribe to the public that's one more of them may have two sides of the eurozone even off of them as if the eurozone done by itself likely implies a breakup of the eurozone. and let's now take a quick look at the equity markets wall street is trading in the negative territory both the dow and the nasdaq i'm losing the around the quarter percent this hour. and european indices are unable to sustain it earlier games that were due to some optimism about italy that has started building a new government the footsies down three clues in the percent germany's dax is

losing almost two percent. and here in russia the markets ended the day pretty much what the r.t.s. and the my sex are just cannot touch. and here are some of the biggest movers of the day gazprom and other energy blue chips were quite robust during the day but they ended the trading session with new losses lukoil was also in the red the company on monday reported the crease of eighty percent a net profit for the first nine months of the year but investors were disappointed by declining production part of school continued its last week's losses on more precious metal prices mark rubenstein wraps up the day's trading. you started off on a good note and. then the sellers came in and were basically looking flat now but i think this is just the beginning and i think the big story this week is going to be very strong for dynamics on the balance for the whole week of the

basically the positive changes that we saw or in europe over the last few days the change in leadership in both seattle in greek. i think that's what the markets wanted to see and i think now the mark is waiting for strong rhetoric from both new governments in terms that they're ready to start implementing their cost cutting budget cutting measures and bush growth and i think once this retore comes into the market i think the market is going to appreciate that. version alan many of giant roofs sols third quarter net profit as more than double to two hundred ninety million dollars year on year bounce after higher product prices and appreciation of the ruble helped push its overall revenues however first deputy c over this last fall of yield says the quarter's main achievement was a reduction in operating and finance costs. which we achieved to fill the quarter and we're going to keep this result so if there is a doctrinal follow cost quite significant reduction if we compare it with the

second quarter of a fortune to that drop in part of your press just to give us a reality to show a much better result in most of the second quarter but as you see with that result of the last year a difficult to say what we. will keep that you don't want to at the same level and the difference and think what we say in the low cost position is low because for low scores producer it's hard to see the situation on. and that's it from the business team i'll be back with an update in about fifteen minutes.

the timing with the. stories now. syria's increasing international isolation

to bring about regime change the arab league has turned its back on president assad with the u.s. and its allies calling for tougher action to bring him. turning up the heat the u.s. and china exchanged tough language over trading currency issues as the apec summit come to a close and why talk of a pacific free trade area dominated the government with russia to be the next host . the crew of three heads into orbit on a russian soyuz rocket which is now the only way to reach the international space station the first manned mission for almost three months since a similar rocket crashed shortly after liftoff. we discuss the possibility of israel attacking iran. interview next. with me i have only had to marry a long time israeli peace activist and a former.