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 that's with russia's help and advice president assad has been implementing the reforms that were put forward by the arab league at a meeting on the second of november to a peace deal a deal to try and broker peace in the syrian conflict no other said he left office said that 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 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 that is altered 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 u.n. resolutions when it came to the chance of imposing 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 so. to put an end to this conflict that's gone on for eight months know the estimated three thousand five hundred people killed during it. peter out of a reporting there in beirut based political analysts kummel was neat things that syria's neighbors are doing the bidding of the west by going against a mask. when we talk about the arab league we're talking about the burgeoning gulf country which actually maintain bases for the american. power of the american region order came from the united states when the president of the united states and its administration tell the opposition. lay down their arms and continue. syrian army the gulf 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 and other parts of the world still visible so here 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. to nearby iran now where moscow says sanctions have outlived their usefulness and insists it won't support any additional measures against the islamic state the statement from russia's foreign minister follows the diplomatic fallout in the international community over a un report it suggested to iran could be developing a nuclear weapon. policy director of the national iranian american council has told me earlier that new sanctions would be counterproductive could damage the world economy. there's two paths here either you do the military thing which has been presented as ok couple one off strikes and then you know it's over but in reality and what the u.s. defense secretary recently said is that the best that that would do is set iran's program back by two or three years you would see them rapidly escalate the program

they'd go into manhattan project sort of mentality and pursue a nuclear weapon outright and you know in a lot of respects be driven into that. the other alternative for the military action is full scale war which nobody can afford right now iran has not been as cooperative as they need to be and that's actually that's the game here that's what we need to be working on in terms of you know those who want to see that iran does not at some point in the future develop a nuclear weapons capability with the new sanctions that are being talked about it's actually we're at a point where we've run out of things to sanction and we're actually looking at things that are going to sanction ourselves there is talk of sanctioning iran central bank which would effectively take iranian oil off the market and you know it could put the world into economic tailspin. you with all of the life here in moscow still ahead this divided europe. the best interests of the germans to keep

on going with that you know you you have behaved badly we're going to punish that's not a unity government takeover in italy greece some question whether the interests of the people. books tough military style discipline will soon be introduced in some u.k. schools straight through to people's you from who can stop the debate with a warning it's a step too far. a number of breakthrough 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. had pushed for president's been given a bomb met on the sidelines of the summit to talk about moscow's access to the world trade organization next year they also discussed the cancellation of the cold war provision in u.s. law known as the jackson verdict and then 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 on the stars you're going to discover smiles and handshakes for the cameras didn't tell the full story. there is a tradition at apac 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 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. the u.s. has long complained that china keeps its currency artificially weak to give it a volunteer to its export is but china says that the u. one has to rise gradually to avoid harming its calling me a course of boyko explains the differences that have pulled 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 with one exception these protesters are against greed and social injustice they're against economic inequality and they are against china . i. couldn't sit down clearly 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

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 others but as china's g.d.p. continues adding nine percent a year if it gets the two 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 devolved also reflected in the country's political and economic policies 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 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 trade trade turn to be. in the eyes of the beholder. true for you but protectionist for me. i get to protect. precious. industries that well will. so it's always a dilemma as to how free it is as the euro crisis continues metastasizing through our devolved 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 at an awkward time for the united states because the united states is clearly a declining power at the same time and it's 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 not like ours at the apec summit in honolulu. it's coming up to twelve minutes past the hour here in moscow if you just joined us good to have you with us us police are losing patience with the corporate occupy movement two months after it flared up and spread across america offices in iraq and raided the protest a camp in the city of oakland dismantling tents and arresting activists bodies lucic of all of 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 masks 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 occupation as they do seem like they'll continue not here in oakland for now that was a was raided the tents were removed the 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 those 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 this sort of unchecked corporate greed the sun checked controlled by a wall street over washington and then of course has not been stopped whatsoever but there are still some developments and 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 handled 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. this 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. italy's

new prime minister mario monti has begun work on forming a new technocrat government to talk of the country's towering debt and 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 can make a difference for the eurozone. it was never going to be easy to project 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 eight constitution but to do it in such a way that you want to avoid referendums and came member states some might now be wishing they'd heeded the warnings to one after another the member states begin to wobble at least being the latest country to come under scrutiny we have we would know seeing 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 safest in the leaders of greece and italy replaced by people who were never elected to office he made their way around brussels here it is totally with berlusconi now gone he doesn't and they're 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 a cool europe because 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 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 the first three behaved 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 has not gone on missed by struggling countries lost it's clear that those who ever spent less now face a painful story to measure is the sense of being treated like a naughty school child any added to the growing strain in. community is. now well so the say it will expose much more france and especially germany to the times there i believe 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 not called on this by the financial markets here punish political leaders. in dealing with the crisis in struggling economies like italy and now cool even the new you think we are the stakes italy's being considered by many the test case for the entire a year you say it fails and it can take down the entire fifth then 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 who say fails to come up with a convincing rescue. a. well woman constantly ruffling the feathers of the world's financial hierarchy our very own max kaiser says that the former bank is now heading european governments have their own agendas well in the euro zone what we're seeing is in place of elected officials put in place an elected bankers and of course they work together they work with the central banks to keep the keys keeping interest rates near zero percent because this allows them to fund their speculations of the zero cost the main agenda is to create more debt in the eurozone they have an opportunity to bring all the balance sheets of all the countries together and create new lending facilities like the f.s.f. which is a new five trillion euro lending facility and they want to build on that to create

ten twenty trillion euro lending facilities because bankers get paid on how much debt they create never mind the fact that the pay for the debt ultimately they have to impose more austerity measures so more austerity measures more debt more fees for bankers more financial terrorism. u.k. government plans to open new schools with army style but can't 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 set 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 forty 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 line. 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 a 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 or 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 putting discipline in 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 boring cause there's no talking it's just shit works. you really focused on the wouldn't really want to. individual attention was the only thing that turned this boy's education around but with a system that prides itself on. the battle could be only just beginning i bet it's r.t. . now to some other news making headlines around the world in our world update an israeli air strike on the naval base used by hamas in northern gaza has killed a palestinian policeman and injured seven others israeli officials say 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 hamas regime. norwegian 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 right wing extremist attacked central oslo with a car bomb and then went on a deadly shooting rampage at a youth camp on the island of the previous hearings have been held behind closed doors with the main trial expected to start in april. in afghanistan the taliban is a 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 they are authentic and the security arrangements have since changed. for the moment i'll be back with some of our main news stories about seven minutes from the time we discuss the possibility of israel attacking iran's nuclear facilities this is r.t. here in moscow. what

now have we have mary a longtime israeli peace activist and a former member of the israeli parliament staff mary thank you very much for joining us here on our. what about the threat of further sanctions against iran are sanctions part of the solution or part of the problem i don't believe in thanks and frankly i think should may slow it down but if a country besides. to have a nuclear bomb. for its own fifty friends. it only

provides them sanctions hope and. i think sanctions are just a pretext for the united states and europe not to do anything but they have to do something you cannot be an american president up for reelection. this seeming to do something. to to frighten the iranians of therefore this the old talk about sanctions knowing that. but of course it does israel have the military capability to fight a war with iraq and many people don't it it's a very significant fact that all of the early security establishment not just me but all of the intelligence community. are they against an attack on. you know on the chief of the most. the former chief. said that

iran is the absolute most. ever heard in his life. my father biggest war which is one of their fault in comparable to any of the war. other there are countless. it was with iran would mean one lit israeli army of didn't have to bomb body doesn't. of nuclear installations. and. to do the job to do this it has to fly. turkish syrian jordanian so the. issue is the question. and it would risk.

reaction. certainty of the action there would be tens of tones of missile. raining down on us. in. iran your research is in lebanon maybe from us missile from gaza it would come from all directions that is. certainly not prepared. to defend to. prevent these missiles falling on us as the israeli public support a strike on iran for years it's a slight majority because one could expect. any public in any country of the word maybe except germany or supports the idea of making war is part of the incitement on behalf of the governments that you talk about because

of the growing isolation and obvious role in the international community if you tax and islamic country the whole islamic world will unite against them both shiites and sunnis has been make no different. the. connection with the arab spring democratic revolution to have a cunt with. all hostile completive we will be facing get deferred birth the next day. i think the more you think about it the more it will spoil the world and it's to pick your whole idea looks are you afraid for the future of israel. if they develop. the. data i think of the world is. reasonably secure believe. it will be

a for. a long time to come if we don't make peace with the palestinians. will become. apartheid state. this is a real danger because this is this would mean the collapse of anything we had hoped for live oh we have mary thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. thank you. legal.

culture is that so much given to each musician on the market is it the show all over again united nations nuclear watchdog the i.a.e.a. claims in a new report that iran is moving ever closer. international isolation to bring about regime change the arab league has turned its back on

president assad with the u.s. and its allies tough action to bring him. to the u.s. and china exchange tough language of a trading currency issues as the apec summit. talks of a pacific free trade area dominating the gathering with russia set to be the next hundreds. of u.s. companies put the pressure on. protesters tearing. across the country. well that was the main news for you the next we discover russia with james brown as he delves into the local life and traditions of the region stay with us here on r.t. for that now but with more news in half an hour from now. if you're traveling in the russian winter it's always good to head to somewhere will develop.