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 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 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 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. mayor bass political analyst kamel was anything syria's neighbors are being used as the puppets 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 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 the 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 and other parts of the world still visible so here what 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 pushing the are up to play their dirty role. and you can have your say on the situation in syria with our web site r t v dot com this time we're asking whether the libyan scenario could be repeated they're long gone and have your voice heard. so far the most popular response is that nato will intervene anyway even without u.n. backing they answer no nato wouldn't dare intervene fearing bloody war in the middle east comes second some of you think that syria is too strong and assad has too much support for that while the minority so far things that nato will intervene with u.n. backing and overthrow president assad go online now and cast your vote. 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 inner international community over

a un report it's just attack iran could be developing a nuclear weapon jamal lobbed a policy director at the national iranian american count council says the news saying sions 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 stations 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 save ourselves there is talk of iran central bank which would effectively take iranian oil off the market and you know it could put the world into economic tailspin. still i have this our oceans apart at the asia pacific summit. between the u.s. and china over trading currency issues as the apec summit comes to a close and why. three astronauts are on course for the international space station and a russian site use the first crew to do so since a similar unmanned rocket crashed three months ago. the new italian prime minister mario monti is in the process of forming a new government that is set to tackle the country's economic troubles super mario

has policies have already received support from italy's main parties and big business our correspondent sara firth takes a look at the challenges ahead. it was never going to be easy the project that year at seventeen countries of which are now under one currency attracted fierce criticism we just the beginning of a dishonest and downright dangerous german president. to revive the constitution but to do it in such a way that you would have avoided referendums in like a member states some might now be wishing they'd heeded the warnings to one after another the member states began to wobble at least 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 but the crisis is safest in the leaders of greece and italy replaced by people who would never elected to office he knew their way around brussels here it is totally with berlusconi 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 attitude over here where you have behaved badly we're going to punish that's not a union in united states of america. 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 because bad year agree pretty good year has not gone on missed by struggling countries was this clear that those who have

a spend 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 if it's only now because well so the say it will expose much more france and especially germany to the times there are a big must be up to us to say to to express a politically defeat not just for their own countries but for europe as a whole your attentions have not called on this by the financial markets punish political leaders the tracking the feet in dealing with the crisis the struggling economies like italy and now cool even the new breathing for the stakes its least being considered by many the test case for the entire year you say it fails and it could take down the entire fifth the big question now is whether or not those measures can fix feet whether we'll see them going the same way as previous measures put forward by european leaders who say fails to come up with

a convincing your rescue. the. speaker of the belgian parliament lode venues says the new austerity measures plan for italy will damage social welfare and reverse the achievements of the last fifty years. we always hear about there's the one define a surprise to be so on the other hand and then there's the other social problems those are not separate issues one is totally linked to the other the only way that they going to implement financial and austerity is to attack the shoshu protection welfare everything that's been accomplished over the last fifty years i mean we are now going to put in place bankers people who cost in financial base a crisis in the first place and they're going to so-called solve it not what is happening here is not really financial reform this is a reform of societies as we know it and i am very sorry but i am but i have

a very gloomy outlook on what these people are going to do the problem is actually that democracy is functioning not very well but it is functioning and these people do not align with the people want people who do want a more social democracy they want a less for the bang they want less for the big corporations and that is something that they don't like and that is something that you prevent by so-called financial austerity. a number of breakthroughs have been made at this year's apec summit in hawaii that brought together the leaders leaders of twenty one member nations all the countries pledged to pursue a pacific wide free trade zone something the u.s. had pushed for on the sidelines of the summit president's me dividend obama met to discuss moscow's ascension to the world trade organization and the council cancellation of a cold war provision in the u.s. law which restricts trade with russia at the same time the u.s. has turned up its criticism of america's biggest economic rival china saying it

keeps its currency artificially weak to benefit its export hers china says that the u. one has to rise gradually to avoid harming its economy our correspondent on a boyko explains the mounting differences between washington and beijing. if there is any us state where the occupy movement has little chance that'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 buy 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're against china. 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. 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 all others but as china's g.d.p. continues adding nine percent a year it's. again in a half percent growth in the u.s. the reprimand seems to be internally driven conformant he's 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 with is that increasingly china rules and that's the approach washington would prefer to keep to itself 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. free trade to be. in the eyes of the beholder. treat for you protection this for me provided that i get to protect my precious. industries that well will. so it's always a dilemma as to how 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 is having trouble adjusting to what that means many chinese proverbs are difficult to translate into english he had those about money usually have exact equivalents one of them is money makes the world go

round the concept experience will be familiar to washington and progressively so to beijing it's not going to artsy at the apec summit in honolulu. police across the u.s. are losing patience with the anti-corporate occupy movement two months after it flared up and spread across america officers in riot gear raided a protest camp in the city of oakland dismantling tents and arresting activists artes on earth has 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 to it all went down rather smoothly in 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 if you ask the protesters just to stop the sort of corporate greed the son checked controlled by wall street over washington and then of course has not been stopped whatsoever but there are some 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 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. if there are two 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 can always find more stories on our website here's a quick look at what else is lined up for you at our t. dot com right now. in

a possible shot we examine video of pranksters allegedly firing from the warship that kick started the russian revolution more than ninety years ago. we look into allegations that the new york police department is targeting suspects purely by their religion that full story is online for you right now at our team dot com. now to some other news making headlines around the world and israeli air strike on a naval base used by hamas in northern gaza has killed a palestinian policeman and injured seven others israeli officials say the attack was a sponsor to a rocket fired into southern israel said several hours earlier this comes

a day after an israeli commander was quoted as saying the military is prepared to topple the hamas regime. a 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 saying he was a military commander in the norwegian resistance movement in july on there's been a big 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 utopia 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 and 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're authentic and that the security arrangements have

since changed. isis excess will blast off 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 spy used rocket carrying supplies for the i assess crashed almost three months ago artie's tom barton picks up the story. launch time with the baikonur cosmodrome that these three men have gone up to join their colleagues in the international space station but then 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 unmanned but all launches were put on hold amid 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 had 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 and we'll 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 only dream about. you can actually get a good view of the earth during the flight in the spacecraft but surely will have time to enjoy its better while on the international space station for that view and for man's future in space they say the risk is worth it. tom watson. and i'll be back with a recap of today's top headlines and around seven minutes meanwhile we discuss the possibility of israel attacking iran's nuclear facilities that's up in our interview up next you're watching our.

what now have we have mary a long time 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 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 their for this they all talk about sanctions knowing that. pleasant but they're not kosher does israel have the military capability to fight a war with iraq many people doubt it it's a very significant fact that all of these their li security establishment not just all me but all of saw the religious community. of against an attack on. you know on the chief of the mossad the former chief. so that is the absolute most. ever heard in the. world with iran.

my father biggest war with islam with ever fought in comparable to any of the war. to accomplish. it war with iran would mean one that israeli army will have to. do play installations over and. to do the job to do it is it has to fly. turkish or syrian or jordanian so the arabian. question. and it would risk. reaction. certainty of reaction there would be a tense of tone. raining down on us.

iran near resurgence. in lebanon maybe from us missile from gaza it would come from all directions. certainly not prepared. civil defense to. prevent these besides falling on us does the israeli public support a strike on iran. it's a slight majority not a big of 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 can talk about because of the growing isolation obvious role in the international community if we if you wear latex and islamic country the whole islamic world would you know to get them both shiites and sunnis would make

no different. the. connection with the arab spring democratic revolution to have a cunt with. the resort all ended. all hostile conflicts we will be facing a different out of work the next day. i think the more you think about it the more of a small the world it is to pick your whole idea looks are you afraid for the future as well. if weight of developed. for data i think of the world is. a living their basic. really really bill being. a long time to come if you don't make peace with the palestinians. is. the. state. this is

so that is the danger of this is this would mean the collapse of a new sink who had. only have mary thank you very much for joining us here on ati thank you. so much was that so much given to each musician on the mark when you see 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. please . let's

just say. six six. six six. six six six. six. six six six six six. six . past the hour here's a quick look at your headlines russia condemns foreign powers for inciting the

opposition in syria in an attempt to topple president assad rather than finding a peaceful solution this comes after the u.s. and jordan have already called for him to step down while the arab league suspended damascus on saturday and encouraged member states to apply sanctions. the changing of the guard as new prime ministers take over in italy and greece we take a look at how they hope to tackle their country's overwhelming debt critics say the new year craddock prime ministers could end up putting brussels and the euro before the interests of their own people. police in the us ramp up the pressure on the occupy movement as they crack down on peaceful protests camps and marchers across the country and officers in riot gear raided a city park tearing down tents and arresting and that's. that was the main news this hour and that's discover russia with our tease james brown as he delves into the local life and traditions of the summit.