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 at 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 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 its 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 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's the exulted 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 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 the beirut based political analyst kamel was anything 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 gulf country which actually maintained bases for the american they meant then 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 to lay lay down their arms and continued to shoot 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 another part of the world still visible so here we look at that the west is interesting in maintaining its interest and keeping the balance in check they lost iraq they want to compensate for it in syria and now it's actually bush

and i are up to play their dirty role to nearby iran now when moscow says sanctions have lived 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 at the national iranian american council told me earlier that the new sanctions would be counterproductive and could damage the world economy. there's two paths here either you do the military thing which has been presented as ok a 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 you know 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 here with all to you live here in moscow still ahead a divided europe. and also books and the top military style discipline will soon be introduced into u.k.

schools to straighten out pupils but a new front opens up in the debate with a warning it's a step too far. italy's new prime minister money and monti has begun working on forming a new technocrat 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 a corresponding sort of takes a look at whether. the top can make a difference for the eurozone. it was never going to be easy to put it this year at seventeen countries of which are now under one currency this criticism we've witnessed the beginning of a dishonest and downright dangerous german president yeah 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 to one after

another the member states became too vocal i think 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 is safe on the leaders of greece and italy were placed by people who would never let office their way around brussels here it is totally with berlusconi now gone doesn't that paying for reforms now need to be implemented to meet the elite and. for the first time since the crisis began talks have now begun to turn to the possibility of exits from. the creation of the cool euro 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. 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 be done because sense a bad year i agree pretty good you're a great he's not going to miss by struggling countries lost it's clear that these he waved a spent less now facebook page for thirty measures the sense of being treated like a naughty school child may be added to the strain. 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 attention to this by the. hottest political leader is the king that beats in dealing with a crisis the struggling economies like italy and now cool stuff we think we should

stay it's nice being considered by many the test case for the entire a year you say it fails and it can take down the entire fifth 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. a. well woman constantly ruffling the feathers of the world's financial hauraki our very own mexico says that the form of bank has no heading european governments have their own agendas well in the eurozone what we're seeing is in place of elected officials put in place unelected 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 nevermind 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. 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 the worse of these other bennett 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 for the 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 he 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 that there is 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 of the new school where every teacher will be a former soldier uniform inspections and military style roll calls will be 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 and all them 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 a ruler because they're bored putting discipline in isn't the answer and just on the tone this opinion 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. scenes closer and closer isn't talking it's just shoots works so you need to be focused on it wouldn't really want to go to do list and individual attention was the only thing that turned this boy's education around but with a system that prides itself on conformance see the battle could be only just beginning i've been it's. a number of breakthroughs have been made at this year's apec summit in hawaii with twenty one member nations present including australia canada and japan where the countries pledged to work towards a perm pacific free trade zone something the u.s. have pushed for president obama met on the sidelines of the summit of moscow's

accession to the world trade organization next year they also discussed the cancellation of a cold war provision in u.s. law known as the jackson ban a commitment that restricts trade relations with russia at the same time the u.s. has turned up the heat on its biggest economic rival china and as our correspondent on the stars your chicken i 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. 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. on the border explains the differences that have parv 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 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 similar to look hostile i think we can benefit from trade with china and i want certainly to continue cultivating a. a constructive relationship with the trying is 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 here against the heat 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 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 pretty much washington would prefer to keep it. as the us 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 true for you but protectionist 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 have 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 kind of 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 raided to protest a camp in the city of oakland dismantling tents and arresting activists ortiz lucy coming off as the latest. we exceed crackdown after crackdown it seems like the crackdowns are definitely increasing beginning with right here in oakland 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 vinegar 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 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 oakland 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 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 say is it if you ask the protesters just to stop this sort of checks

corporate greed the sun checked 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. 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 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 that is what a lot of those people told us in our travels. coming off talking to me a little earlier on r.t. now to some other news making headlines around the world in our world update this hour and israeli air strike on a naval base used 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 in. the norwegian man who confessed to killing seventy seven people has made his first public appearance in court he admitted carrying out the massacre but refused to plead guilty in july anders breivik a right wing extremist attack central oslo with a car bomb and 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 details would allow it to launch precision attacks afghan officials originally denied the papers were real but now confirm they are authentic and that the security arrangements have since changed. brings up to date for the moment i'll be back with a recap of today's top headlines in about seven minutes from now meanwhile we discuss the possibility of israel attacking iran nuclear facilities that's in our special interview coming up next this is all in moscow.

what now have we have mary a long time israeli peace activist and former member of the israeli parliament mr mary thank you very much for joining us here on our. what about the threat of further sanctions against iran all 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 want to help 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 for reelection so if this seeming to do something. to frighten the iranians of therefore this they all talk about sanctions knowing that. pleasant but most caution does israel have the military capability to fight a war with iraq many people don't it it's a very significant fact that all of these the early security establishment not just me but also of the religious community. of against an attack on. iran the chief of the mossad the former chief. said that the lawn is the absolute most. warmest year on. my father biggest war which is one of the ever for in comparable to any

of the war. to accomplish. it war with iran i mean one that israeli army will have to. of nuclear installations over and under gaunt. to do the job to do it is it has to fly. turkish or syrian or jordanian or so the arabian. which is the question by itself and it would risk. reaction. certainty of reaction there would be attempts of. raining down on us. iran your research is

in lebanon maybe a from us missile from gaza it would come from all directions. certainly not prepared. to defend to. prevent. falling on us does the israeli public support a strike on iran or. it's a slight majority not a big one could expect. any public in any country of the word maybe except germany or supports the idea of making war it's part of the incitement on behalf of the government stepped in talk about because of the growing isolation obvious role in the international community if if you wear latex 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 in. resawing that. whole hostile complex we will be facing get different out of work the next day. i think the more you think about it the more it will spoil the world and it's to pick the whole idea looks are you afraid for the future as well. developed. think of their lives. reasonably secure militarily vill be for. a long time to come if you 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 and. oh yes mary thank you very much for joining us here on our team thank you . please. just so.

the influence of the truth. technology innovation all these developments around russia we've got the future covered. live from moscow this is good to have you with. syria's increasing international

isolation. to bring about regime change arab league has turned its back on president assad with the u.s. and its allies calling for tougher action to bring him down. change of the goal of his new prime minister take over an increase we take a look at how they hope to. critics say the new prime ministers could end up putting brussels and the euro before the interests of their own people. and u.s. police put the pressure on anti corporate occupy protesters tearing down tents and arresting activists as the crackdown on the two month long movement escalates across the country. that's it for the news that the news continues in less than thirty minutes from now in the meantime. about the reasons behind the world's interest in iran's atomic industry after a u.n. report announced the country might be seeking to obtain nuclear weapons crosstalk is next.