into the unrest that's according to the kremlin russia's foreign minister says western countries are trying to stir up syria's opposition to topple president bashar al assad. 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 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 serves his 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 put on the decision to suspend syria from the arab league now the last nation to be suspended from the arab league libya and of course stuff that is altered in the outside military intervention something that russia again was opposed to any military intervention that went far beyond the parameters that were laid out in u.n. resolutions when it came to the chance of imposing a a u.n. resolution on syria russia blocking that decision 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 all over there let's get some more perspective and analysis from the east with a blog call shero cole good to see hear all r.t. now damascus that said it would solve its own problems but then agreed to implement an arab league plan is that not a sign that it's sending a signal of weakness that foreign interference in syria can and will be accepted. absolutely this is why i think this move by syria was completely unpredictable and out of the blue and i think it's a sign of this orientation of the current administration in syria they allowed if you like of principle their sovereignty to be violated and then they

didn't go on to implement the decisions which i think obviously force the arab league to up their game so to speak but it was a big concession and i think it's quite clear indication of the kind of instability and disorientation in the current administration in syria about what's happening today the e.u. has only just slapped more sanctions on damascus sanctions will they really help bring about a solution to this crisis. well i think this is the interesting thing people talk of a western plan for regime change and i think quite the opposite is actually happening is the west is doesn't really quite to nor what to do with this situation and it's running out of sanctions to impose that acknowledges it won't be effective but at the same time he wants to be seen as if it's doing something and any sort of we've heard hints that there is a collision between the arab league and the west and particularly the united states the words escalating the regime change and i don't think quite honestly that's

what's on the table if you look at the arab league initiative actually what it calls for is not regime change it goes for dialogue between the opposition and the syrian government and that actually extends a lifeline for the current syrian regime and talks rather than of regime change it talks of a negotiated form of certain settlement that might end up in the current regime stain because that clearly told us that view is indorsed by russia isn't it according to negotiations russia has been actively mediating a peaceful solution. for this conflict for months now but clearly that help from the arab league may well help their cause to promote some sort of dialogue or not. well it depends what the desired outcome here i mean let's look really at the stew ation that we are facing i don't presume to speak for the syrian people but the kind of the slogan or the program for which president assad came to power was reform has had eleven years in power and we haven't seen the reform unless you

consider reform to be computers in shopping malls obviously there's a lot of people in syria that don't feel that's enough and they want political change and i feel that's a legitimate aspirations now if you look at it from this point of view to see that any kind of negotiated solution that will end up in a dilution of documents or in change might not be the desirable outcome that your correspondent just said three thousand five hundred people have died for. another war is of course islamist forces they've been able to bolster their positions in post revolution tunisia egypt and libya just how dangerous is this trend now could we see that happening in syria. listen all possibilities are open but let's kind of take those claims with a pinch of salt because i think the islamists have been went out of their way particularly in tunisia to say that they accept that there is a pluralistic kind of political scene now emerging and they would like to respect

that to a lesser extent in egypt but we haven't really heard what they are about in syria and part of the problem is we haven't seen a lot of the syrian regime hasn't allowed political voices to be heard very clearly what i think is the ultimate kind of message to ensure that this doesn't into deteriorate in any form of kind of further bloody confrontations in syria is generally taking on board the aspirations for people in for change and if that includes a certain islamist component then let that be represented in a democratic fashion but while maintaining that all the external agents seeking to kind of many relate to what's gone certainly don't have the interest of the syrian people in the kind of top priority but their own interest and in this instance i feel the lowest common denominator is stability rather than reform or change in syria you're talking about they should acknowledge the people's aspirations for change assad has said look he is reforming russia's ignores the fact that he needs

a bit more time to carry out those reforms why is the international community running out of patience with that and indeed the people there in syria themselves they're not listening to his promise of reforms. let's distinguish very clearly between the international community and the arab league on the one hand and the people on the other hand because we can't even make a further distinction between the people going out every day and every friday to kind of quiet for their political aspirations and whatever have emerged in terms of leadership in syria in my opinion the opposition leadership and leaders have failed to represent the spirit of the people and they have been i wouldn't has. i hate to use the word cowardly so in terms of the external observers they seek to further their own interest and to kind of our over that will ensure stability in the middle east and for various reasons there's no scope to go into over here but to the syrian man and woman on the street you can't say you've had eleven years of this

rule you have to wait more you and i and russia and america and anyone else can say that message to them. call thanks very much and if your thoughts we'll leave it there live from london middle east broader culture shero joining us live on r.t. thanks we're always interested in your opinion as well on our web site do you think that syria will follow libya's fate you can go to war dot com and join in with our latest poll that somebody can screen and see what results a lot so far well most popular responses that nato would intervene anyway even without u.n. backing you know nato wouldn't dare intervene very bloody war in the least comes second and some of you think that syria's too strong assad has too much support for that while the minority thinks that nato will intervene with u.n. backing in the overthrow of president assad. crossed your vote because of your. this is all to you live here in moscow could have you with us still ahead this hour

a devoted europe. in the best interest of the germans to keep on going with this i think it over you you have behaved badly we're going to punish that's not a union as new governments take over in italy and greece some question whether they'll have the interest of ordinary people but hard. a number breakthroughs to be made at this year's apec summit in hawaii with twenty one member nations present including australia canada and japan all the countries pledged to work towards a pacific free trade zone something the u.s. has pushed for president medvedev in a bomb and met on the sidelines of the summit to talk about moscow's accession to the world trade organization next year also discussed the cancellation of a cold war provision in u.s. law and known as the jackson vandyck and then it restricts treatment options with russia and the same time the us has turned up the heat on its biggest economic rival china was of course one of the 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 support each other in the back and joke around but this year journalists were surprised to see that this older 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. u.s. has long complained that china keeps its currency artificially weak to give an advantage to exporters but china says that the new one has to rise gradually to avoid harming its economy and our correspondent on a boy who explains the differences that appalled 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 in wall street big week socializing at the apec summit the only place people are willing to occupy 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 was was who incidentally the mood at the podium was similarly hostile i think we can benefit from trade with china and i want certainly to continue cultivating a. a constructive relationship with the chinese 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 others but as china's g.d.p. continues adding nine percent a year against the seat and a half percent growth in the u.s. the reprimand seems to be internally driven conformities one of the top values in the chinese meal default also reflected in the country's political and economic policy if it's not that china doesn't play by their 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're pretty much washington would prefer to keep it. 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. it's free for you but protection for me provided that i get

to protect my precious. industries that well will. 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 its old adage about he who pays the piper china is really in the driver's seat in many respects and this is coming out 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 mining makes the world go round the concept experientially familiar to washington and progressively so to beijing it's not like ours at the apec summit in honolulu. u.s.

police are losing patience with the anti corporate occupy movement two months after it flared up and spread across america officers in riot gear ready to protest a camp in the city of oakland dismantling tents and arresting activists. as the latest. we exceed crackdown after crackdown it seems like the crackdowns are definitely increasing beginning with right here in oakland as soon as we got there 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 and seeing in oakland today it all went down rather smoothly and peacefully just by a lot of nervous tension in fact protesters gave my camera and i 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 plaza was raided the tents were removed some protesters were just burst 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 are using tear gas flash bang grenades all kinds of non-lethal projectile weapons that end up injuring the iraq war veteran scott olsen and 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 where it really counts is if you ask the protesters just to stop the sort of checks corporate greed the son checks controlled by wall street over washington and then 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. that's country and so surprisingly so because again when you think of the united states you don't really think there are third world images and unfortunately in some of these cities and towns that's exactly what 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 that is what a lot of those people have told us in our travels covering this movement you see coming off talking to be a little earlier well still ahead for you this hour although there were a lot of course for the international space station and a russian soyuz the first crew to do so since a similar rocket crashed three months ago. the first italy's new prime minister mario monti has begun working on forming a new technocratic government to tackle the country's tarring debt an economist and

former e.u. commissioner you know has to implement structural economic reforms to pull italy out of its financial chaos. first takes a look now at whether a new man at the top can make a difference for the eurozone. it was never going to be easy the project that night 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 like a member states some might now be wishing they'd heeded the warnings one after another the member states begin to wobble at least being the latest country to come under scrutiny we have been witnessing in the last at least one 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 for what it's going to start but the crisis is safe the leaders of greece and italy replaced by people who were never elected to office he knew their way around brussels and here it is totally with berlusconi now gone he doesn't and 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 with countries like germany seem to feel it in the way but i think it's not in the best interest of the germans to keep on going with this attitude 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 when you think obama's going to we're going to kick you out of united states of america no they're not going to do that with the growing sense of a bad year a group in a good year

a great has not gone on missed by struggling countries was this clear that those who even spent less now face up to painful stereotyping measures the sense of being treated like a naughty school child any added to the growing strain in. well so the say there will was much more france and especially germany to the times there must be up to us to say to to express our political leaders not just for their own countries but for europe as a whole tensions have not gone on by the financial markets punish political leaders . dealing with the crisis the struggling economies like italy and now even with. the stakes italy's being considered by many the test case. it fails and it could take down the entire. the question now is whether or not they can fix the weather

will see them going the same way as previous measures put forward by european leaders. failed to come up with a convincing. some other news making headlines around the world israeli airstrike on a naval base used by hamas in northern gaza has killed a palestinian policeman and then just israeli officials say 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 regime. who confessed to killing seventy seven people has made his first public appearance in court carrying out the massacre refused to plead guilty . right wing extremist attacks. and went on a deadly shooting rampage at a youth camp in the island of. his previous hearings have been held behind closed doors with the main trial expected to start in april.

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 we can confirm they are authentic and that the security arrangements have since changed. a successful blast off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan and 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 s.s. crashed almost three months ago ortiz tom bottom picks up the story launch time at the baikonur cosmodrome these three madelyn 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 i.s.a.'s and it plummeted back to worth with a bang it was a manned but all launches were put on hold but worries about the safety of soyuz rockets now the only link to the space station crew since the last u.s. shuttle flight in july. this crew of their launch date set back their relatives were especially nervous after the progress crash 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 that the rocket was lifted into place on its

launch pad we could see the rocket taking off the watch approach. but. 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 only dream about. you can actually get a good view of the earth during the flight and the spacecraft but 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. . twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow but with some of our main news stories in five minutes now on the tash is next with the business news. it's twenty five minutes past ten pm here in moscow welcome to the business program

italy has no choice but to exit the euro zone and bring back its national currency even if that means the collapse of the single currency so says prominent economist nouriel roubini also known as dr doom. six months there is a very solemn order to go we've always been inside there's a job to do for that reason to get all the physical and financial difficulties we. want to moral that may be the two of us that are to reduce it's probably don't want more of them let me go to sites of the eurozone each one off of the nodes of the eurozone gunboats applied legalize the breakup of the eurozone. that let's now see how global equities are trading european debt continues to weigh on wall street which is widening its losses the dow and the mastic losing more than three quarters of a percent the sour. european indices were unable to sustain it earlier games that were

due to some optimism about italy it has started building a new government this was the end of the day half a percent lower germany's dax closed more than one percent down. and here in russia the markets ended monday's session want to positive the r.t.s. and the my six were up just a notch. and here are some of the biggest movers of the day gal's problem and other energy blue chips were quite robust during the day but ended the trading session the losses lugol's also in the red the company on monday reported an eighty percent increase in net profit for the first nine months of the year but investors were disappointed by declining production quotas gold continued its last week's losses on lower precious metal prices. russia's economic expansion is accel rating for the first time since last year g.d.p. was up four point eight percent in the third quarter compared to around three

percent in the previous one now it's due to stronger consumption helped by a rise in lending but it's too early to celebrate analysts expect a slowdown toward the end of the year as production declines and external demand shows no signs of recovery. guitars and toss devise stake in the arctic liquefied natural gas project russia's gas producer nova tech they've all project is expected to produce around five million tons of ellen g. the year it starts production that's twenty sixteen and reach a fifteen million tonnes by the year twenty eighteen qatar's energy minister mohammad al saud a says the country is keen to take part in this project. is very much interested in the system. generally and we can you can see the moment. when you put into politics and we are going to be to stick.

to. speak. for you. we are. in the discussions in negotiation. and that's all the latest from the business team i'll be back in about fifteen minutes.

the machine would be so much brighter if you knew about songs from phones to impressions. for instance on t.v. dot com. could have you with this is life here in moscow top stories now moscow blamed syria's increasing international isolation on western plans 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 apec summit comes to a close in hawaii sipek free trade area dominated the government with russia set to be the next post. u.s. police turn up the heat on. arresting activists is a crackdown on the movement escalates across the country. about when the summary of the main news stories for you this hour in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime we discuss the possibility of israel attacking iran's nuclear facilities our special interview next. with now have a long time israeli peace activists.