well syria and accusing nato countries of inciting violence there voted for suspension sanctions at the weekend triggering mass protests in the country the pressure piles on the regime syrian opposition coming to moscow for talks let's get more on this now from our tease a key to all of peter what is the syrian national council actually hoping to achieve with this visit. will this meeting the highest level member of the syrian opposition meeting with representatives of the russian government it will get underway at around hours time will over an hour it's on the schedule for and what they'll be hoping is that the syrian side are hoping that the russians can help them with finding a solution to the ongoing situation in the country now this is the first time the representatives of the syrian opposition or in fact the syrian government has been here in moscow for talks russia has been making good on its promise to act as

a mediator in the ongoing crisis in syria say this meeting will see the highest level representative of the syrian opposition meeting with russian officials they say that they want to open a new chapter in russian syrian relations and they'll be hoping that these talks can lead towards that happening now from the russian side there they have always said that they want to see a peaceful solution to the crisis in syria and that's one of the reasons they've been meeting with both representatives of assad's government as well as with the syrian opposition now the circle of law is expected in this meeting to call on the syrian opposition to bring about this peaceful end to the crisis in the country and to concentrate more on the well being of the people of syria as opposed to any proposed regime change you know following the decision to suspend syria from the arab league which was made on. saturday's expected to well it will be rubber

stamped on wednesday at a meeting emergency meeting of the arab league circular lover of expressed russia's dismay at the decision calling it counterproductive to a peaceful solution to what's going on in the country at the moment he also leveled the blame for this decision being made at the shadowy hundred of western governments being behind the decision by the arab league to suspend syria so all of these things will be up for discussion when the two parties meet later on today hoping to as you say a serious arab league membership expires on wednesday what will that actually mean for the country. well what it does mean syria's are of neighbors have effectively turned their back on syria you know. in a a speech the first member of the first arab leader to call for president assad to go was the king of jordan king abdullah he said if he was in assad's position he

would find himself with no other option than to step down now. the e.u. has placed further sanctions placed further sanctions on syria freezing the assets of eighteen key members of assad's government. in response to the suspension a decision to suspend syria from the arab league we've seen tens of thousands of people out on the streets of damascus. assad's protesters out there we've also seen some protests over the weekend when the decision was made outside of the saudi and qatari embassies now these two nations a countries that voted to suspend syria from the arab league that decision which will be. emergency meeting on wednesday a decision not popular with. the crowds in damascus they're saying that. they shouldn't have been suspended from not group no this is a well they're looking to bring around with these talks today in moscow is some

form a step forward if they can bring around a peaceful solution to this conflict that's going on now for eight months claiming the lives of an estimated three and a half thousand people so russia looking to put together the opposition on the pro government supporters and get them to the dialogue table and get them talking. thank you for that. russia has had long been against intervention in syria and later a former foreign minister and veteran diplomat explains why again the primakov says the lessons of libya and iraq must be learned. i don't think the west is prepared to take this action with a the security council's backing i think we're smarter now than at the time when the first security council resolution was adopted we will not adopt another resolution using big terms which could be used to legitimize in these activities. nobody knows when libya is going to recover from kills look at iraq for example

it's been more than eight years and they still can stabilize the situation the t.v. never stops reporting you casualties fifteen dead thirty dead every day in iraq explosions and so on it could happen so regularly that people get used to it we start thinking this is normal it is kills over eight and a half years of occupation there's been nothing we could do in libya it's going to be even tougher so i don't think we've had much success in libya. as the full interview with former russian prime minister primakov is here and i'm twenty minutes time on outing. new technocrat led government seeing greece and italy getting down to business to tackle their massive debts italy's prime minister designate says it's too early to determine how his country would cope with more crisis measures but he's warning people of sacrifices ahead mario monti is trying to rally parties for support some want him to go once reforms are

pushed through you know the former e.u. commissioner plans to stay until the twenty thirteen election but the clock is ticking for greece the new prime minister heading up a fifteen week coalition because the nameless faces a confidence vote on wednesday and says securing the next great out is the priority that this country must stick with us rob is that nick explores how the single currency is flaws have led some countries to ruins rather than riches. it was supposed to bring peace and prosperity for all for a while it did but now the euro is costing people their jobs their pensions and even the democratic rights from the beginning the flaws were there for everyone to see skeptics said the economies of the likes of italy and greece which is too different from germany in finland to be regulated by one system but optimism and idealism carried the day and a new currency was formed it was strong and stable and was regulated in ways the

german central bank might approve of but there in lay the seeds of the problem greece italy portugal and spain now had their hands on a strong currency and could borrow against it and unlike before the interest rates they would have to pay would be much less so they could borrow much more which is what they did italy currently has a debt to g.d.p. ratio around one hundred twenty percent greece is more than one hundred sixty percent that's a bit like somebody with an income of twenty thousand dollars a year i mean thirty two thousand on their credit card they will be bankrupt the banks won't lend them any more money the flat screen t.v. will be repossessed and will be a diet of cabbage and potatoes in the worst case the house will go. similar for a country but instead public sector pay is caught and thousands of people are forced out of jobs before the year of greece and italy always had the possibility of devaluing the currency when times were bad this had the effect of lowering total debt and of conferring a competitive advantage as products services and they became cheaper and this

stimulated economic growth it also made people poorer as the money in their pockets was worth less but crucially it did not result in mass redundancies especially not imposed by foreign powers under hard currency like the euro this option is no longer available to the indebted nations so instead they must come out and because they remain uncompetitive they cannot grow the worst of both worlds. well the politicians failed to put a lid on greece and italy soaring borrowing the question now is whether the economic hit squads can do any better. financial experts max keiser is far from convinced saying the bank is behind the scenes of continuing to play the system the night of the living death and all of these zombie bankers we can't get rid of them you can't kill them they live to bank another day they are a plague around the world and certainly in europe there are no law actions but

they're putting bankers in charge to bring about total banker domination as the world goes down a slippery slope into banker hell 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 and zero cost they don't want to spend any money to borrow money to put the outrages of bets on the table and every time they lose a bed they impose more austerity measures every time they win a bet they keep one hundred percent of the profits 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 more austerity measures more debt more fees for

bankers more financial terrorism. well coming up later in the program the torture and abuse on america's watch take tori's one time of bay prison and it's still going strong despite widespread condemnation of the bombings pledges to close it also. why that strange on earth the noise is creating a buzz among around the world. what it could mean and where it may be coming from in a few minutes. police in oakland in california have dismantled tents put up by the self-styled occupy protesters a similar attack three weeks ago the clashes which left an iraq war veteran severely injured when moving the camp forced the resignation of a top advisor to oakland's mayor saying the city is on the wrong side of the dispute after the raid the authorities allowed protesters to return as long as they

didn't set up camp miles and so. force america against social inequality and corporate greed with wall street activists in new york during induction two months since the movement began. he's has more on the developments from the west coast. we're here in downtown oakland where the occupy wall street protesters are marching back to the father that very same father from which they were addicted just hours ago now we've heard reports of the city's spending close to a million dollars and getting police departments from all across the area to come down in a big these protesters why the expense of the occupy wall street movement is going to continue to remain is very very unclear now we did see a heavy handed show of force just thirty two arrests not too much confrontation but protesters and the police behaved in a much more way than they had in previous times when we saw the excessive use of the sheer gas flash bang grenades and all kinds of other non-lethal weapons now i'm

here with leo he is one of the protesters he's been here from the start what's your sense now why is the feeling. to come out of the city realize is the last time they use leap non lethal force bers say it actually drove more and more people into the streets so by actually stepping back in small ways it makes it seem a little bit less scary that mayors actually said that she will allow us to continue to have general assemblies in the plaza as long as we can do not camp out the hours of ten pm till six in the morning right now we still have our own ciliary camping snow park so you know for the most part we're at the same place we were before two weeks ago except with a lot less tear gas and a lot less injured people we are here to stay and you know every hour every day just occupation is here to stay and we're not going away well you heard the man himself the occupation is here to stay and we had our tea we'll be covering it for you this is lucy catherine of reporting for our tea in town town oakland well

russia is warning against imposing new sanctions on iran saying the policy has outlived its usefulness the foreign minister's comments follow the diplomatic fallout from a u.n. nuclear watchdog report suggesting tehran to developing an atomic weapon has been hearing how further sanctions could backfire on america and europe. 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 there's really 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 manhattan project sort of mentality and pursue a nuclear weapon outright and you know in a lot of respects be driven into that. other alternative for the military action is full scale war which nobody can afford right now then the other path that you have is a diplomatic resolution and that's sort of the path that not a lot of people are willing to talk about but if the end goal is to solve this and not do immense damage to the u.s. and the globe there is going to have to be a day in the future when we are at the table with iran and we actually set up an agreement where iran is not able to develop a nuclear weapons capability they have safeguards on their program and you know we address some of the issues that we have concerns about and we avoid a devastating war. an undercover operation to weaken iran might already be underway as r.t. reports online we investigate claims that israel's intelligence agency could be behind an explosion at a military base in iran that killed seventeen people during

a key figure in a new defense. of cosmic journey a russian rocket is sending a crew of three on its way to the international space station after a successful launch on monday these and other stories brought your fingertips at l.t. dot com. the world's most notorious military prison is still open for business despite repeated pledges by president obama to get it closed down is ten years since george w. bush opened the kuantan of a bay facility which has been dogged by allegations of torture and abuse secretive reporter jason the appalled believes his country is betraying the principles it promotes. we're we're hypocrites were you this administration has actually fought every corpus case that has appeared in a d.c. court room so you know we're we're we're very good at preaching but not practicing what we're preaching so it's integrity it's credibility credibility is is the

number one issue right now. there is a lot of rhetoric there's a lot of promises that have been made it's political this came down to deal making with senators such as john mccain lindsey graham where they would not get behind certain policies that the president wanted to push forward unless there were promises made that first of all guantanamo would remain open that military commissions would continue i think that for the most part it's fear mongering and it's politically charged. to other world news now the. contamination in japan is proving to be worse than expected radioactive material in parts of the northeast exceeding levels falling is the first to detail the estimates of the pollution caused by the disaster and much crop production in the contaminated areas is likely

to be severely affected. the killing spree in germany is being linked to a neo nazi terrorists which the government admits went unnoticed the failure to connect and then far right with the unsolved murders of nine migrant workers and the policewoman has been described as shameful and merkel i think we came tonight when one suspect turned himself in two others committed suicide. in the one we knew confessed to killing seventy seven people has appeared in public in court for the first time but refused to plead guilty and is great because it's carrying out a shooting. page at a youth camp on the island of nutria and a car bombing it also in july but says he acted as a resistance leader previous hearings are being held behind closed doors. among the hundreds of radio stations in russia as one that seemingly out of this

world instead of music or news these broadcasts of mysterious voices and noises which have left radio enthusiastic baffled forty four percent of has been tuning in . this sound has been gripping the imagination of radio spotters worldwide for over three decades. the u.v.b. seventy six also known as the was our. first aroused my interest because it is so strange personally i think it's a legacy device that's in the in the late seventy's or eighty's. the military operations at the time it's original this is the got. the sea is been going like this since the start whenever that was. sometimes the bars are stopped and a male robotic like voice lists names and numbers in russian. and

the league is the soviet union's and now russia's contact with spies or even civilizations from other worlds. he has been a radio fantasy since his childhood he's also had his share of the buzzer but his explanation of his purpose is much more down to earth. with this sort of connection stream a reliable it will shut down in case of a large nuclear explosion but only for a few hours it's not dependent on anything and that's why it's still widely used today by the army i think the idea is pretty simple a military a radio station sends out the buzzer which is received by other army bases by stopping the buzzer operator signals that a command called of letters and numbers is about to be broadcast when the transmission is complete the buzzer sounds on again said moscow's radio's vadim

community nor were the signal used to come from a base outside of the capital but this is what we saw there and this man is the only living soul we could find. on the spot he used to work at the beach and still lives in a village nearby. but it is used to be one of the best units in the country but two years ago we received an order to shut it down when we were told it consumed too much energy there is also another similar unit still up early this could be that the legendary bars are used to be out of this building and with the signal coming from now it looks like we won't be able to find any signs of that mysterious transmitter here because the equipment was literally ripped out of the walls and floors of the building when the base was shut down things are actually still here. with the last entry dating back to me two thousand and nine.

but the sound is still there were ever it's coming from. boise through the radio ether almost as if it always has. a simple technology that's conquered the minds of thousands. of. moscow. of a strange well on the way veteran russian diplomats explains why the country is against tough military measures in the escalating syrian conflict first though let's check out the business news with you. thanks carol welcome to the business program the world's leading gas exporters european consumer countries not to hamper the development of gas infrastructure with regulations a new e.u.

directive known as the third energy package requires the separation of production transportation and sales russia's energy minister explain the problem to archie. we need to be conditions of the third interview parakeets mostly targeted pipeline guess that's why we think the pak issue is against russia and against increasing supplies for my country so we always maintain a principled position as for the other of supporters but you just can't charcoal jury and iran you'll see that the country is going through a gas should not hamper but help producers create an infrastructure to ensure delivers. the third energy package will come up at a meeting of the world's leading gas exporters on tuesday particularly affects russia's gas monopoly gasp from which opens its transportation facilities president medvedev has said the law which into the country's energy cooperation with europe. let's have a look at the markets kurt is trading near

a two day low and speculation that europe will struggle to contain his debt crisis providing some support prices expectations that are afforded by the u.s. energy department jew on wednesday may show declining fuel stop files in the u.s. flights which is now trading in nine to seven dollars a barrel while branches that are around one hundred twelve dollars per barrel. in asia the markets are trading in the red following italian foreign costs reviving concern that europe's debt crisis is spreading. and finally here in moscow as you can see the maya six and the r.t.s. are little changed in early trading on tuesday. russian equities failed to gain on better news out of europe on monday but marker of a style that metropole says the mood is improving. markets tried to move higher yesterday but basically it was was unable to do that right we think it's just

a temporary thing i think. now we have this new governments in both the land that agrees taken over and i think the rhetoric is going to come out of this new governments that are going to like way the markets and i think the focus this week is going to now change to the market statistics united states in particular today we're going to get retail sales numbers out of the u.s. again the focus this week is going to be on the statements from the new italian go mint from mr monti from a new greek government and from and on the yes mockers distance i think all three fronts mark is going to hear and see what they're like so i think a very strong chance that we're going to move high today and for the rest of the week. and sales of new cars in russia jumped by seventy five percent in the first nine months of the year that's almost forty three billion dollars worth of foreign to pricewaterhouse coopers and that's a moment local comic has made slightly more than five billion dollars meanwhile

those who assemble cost for you brands and russia have almost doubled their production making seventeen billion dollars in the process the rest is made up of imported vehicles. that's it for more europe today joining me for another business update in less than fifteen minutes time and don't forget you can find more analysis on our website our teams of com slash business.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world seeing from the streets of canada. look at the headlines now here in r.t. russia heads out to the arab league for deciding to expel syria and imposing

sanctions which sparked mass rallies in the troubled country as the pressure piles on the regime syrian opposition leaders are coming to moscow to secure support for bringing. an elected bankers and economists take the reins in greece and italy to tackle the ever rising debt levels italian premier designate doesn't see his job as a temporary fix wants to stay in charge until the twenty thirty election while greece is new leader is focusing on securing the next. thousands of american corporate protests to be defeated by arrests and great demonstrators in oakland in california back to the camp of the police dismantle their tents. treated clashes. the ramifications of what's happened across the arab world has been deeply felt internationally russia has long been against military action and to.