because it's. what. began the journey. where did it take. flashback to iraq some experts that claimed baghdad had weapons of mass destruction now endorse i.e. suggestions that are ron is developing the bomb. anti-government free syrian army reportedly launches a major assault on a loyalist base near damascus this is the arab league turns up the heat on president assad despite his pledge to hold talks and continue reforms. out but not down a string of forceful addictions of anti-corporate occupy protesters across the u.s. spells to stop that amid from gearing up to shut down wall street.

stellar welcome the international space station crew joined by three new members as a soyuz rocket safely delivers its cosmic travelers to orbit. six pm in moscow live match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story there's been a new twist in the controversy surrounding last week's u.n. report into iran's controversial nuclear program and includes the mention of a mysterious foreign expert who western media claims to be russian saying he's helping iran build an atomic detonator artes and he said not a way explores the i.a.e.a. findings and where they may lead. a human has long been a hot topic. but. the greatest threat that america in the world faces at faced was

a nuclear iran but it's heated up since last week's report from the un's nuclear watchdog sparking fears iran was pursuing atomic weapons the i.a.e.a. says iran developed a high explosives initiation system a detonator with the help of foreign experts question that current expert is called the mystery scientists and russian by some western media even though the i.a.e.a. report doesn't name him and he's not russian but ukrainian and here's how former weapons inspector david albright talks sutta scientists nuclear credentials on c.n.n. what he showed him how to build of a thin hemispherical shell with holes in it and it where the detonation happens and you simultaneously set off explosive pellets in a series of holes in there with shell and those explosive pell pellets ignite the high explosive underneath and in a very spiritual way it compresses the core and then you get a nuclear explosion just any land is a scientist but not

a nuclear specialist those who actually know donegan per say this. is because he worked in a nuclear facility but not every person who does is in a clear specialist he's actually trained to construct the airplanes and it's not the i.a.e.a. that is question you know but journalists audience nevertheless albright accuses the young guy who specialize in nano diamonds in iran of working with the iranians to help them miniaturize their nuclear warhead so they can put it on top of one of their missiles so it can be fired oh bright has a history of pointing fingers just before iraq was invaded he said this in two thousand and two. in terms of the chemical and biological weapons iraq has those now how many how could they deliver them i mean these are big questions then backtrack to the l a times once known w m d's were discovered in iraq.

if there are no weapons of mass destruction i'll be mad as hell i certainly accepted the administration's claims on chemical and biological weapons i figured they were telling the truth and some u.s. politicians think non-truths could be repeating with iran and i'm afraid what's going on right now is similar to the war propaganda that went on again still iraqi you know they didn't have. weapons of mass destruction but there were enough official reports implying otherwise in terms of the report there is limited information a lot of the reason it's what it is because it's most likely that iran does not it is you know it is the case of iran does not have a nuclear weapons program therefore magic days are who could be called critics say the public especially in the us are about to be inundated with another flood of so-called expert analysis be aware of a dangerous mideast country that's presumably hiding secret nuclear weapons and may

require a military strike the difference this time it's iran not iraq and he's now artsy moscow. we're as interested in your opinion today we're asking if you think the nuclear allegations against iran are justified go to our web site r.t. dot com and check out our latest online poll vote if you like here's how the odds stacked up i always think iran should be allowed to go nuclear but about a third seeing the planes as a western led campaign some think probably but evidence is sparse and if you think and if you believe that iran is in fact a building a bomb go online cast your vote. turning now to syria where army defectors have reportedly attacked a major military base near the country's capital it's the highest profile strike on loyalist forces since anti-government unarrest darted back in march the free syrian army fighting against the rule of president bashar al assad now claims to number

more than twenty five thousand november is already becoming the bloodiest month of the entire conflict with the death toll so far reported more than three hundred the escalation of violence comes as the arab league readies to confirm syria's exclusion which is expected to carry even more sanctions damascus is already under a broad set of penalties from the u.s. and the e.u. for cracking down on protesters some observers think go for it influence only works to aggravate the situation. increasingly the arab league one of the representatives in many ways over the middle east and people you know you have saudi arabia bahrain . you know how does the done similar things throughout the syrian government is to you know basically i think. the international community and i think really enough said if they are effectively kind of pandering to western interests because they really america is no longer feels it can this if you so authority in the region in

the same way that you see so you know hide behind groups like the arab league like the u.n. like the i.e. some of the other day who are doing weapons inspections and most serious. and iran at the moment in order to china effect simply go behind the scenes be dishonest use these kind of organizations i don't like puppet groups to kind of voice their own interests western interests and i think that's really problematic alternately it should be for the arab league representative of middle eastern people a tool to determine what happens in syria should be for the syrian people to to really get engaged in their struggle to overthrow the tazer should they so choose and anything any external intervention be it un observers or anyone else who starts meddling in syria is also going to make the situation worse. they're with us here on our he still to come the eurozone teetering on the brink investor confidence shaken as europe's debt crisis spreads to other heavyweight economies while greece and italy fight for their survival by. rocket man or russian soyuz successfully

reaches the international space station jewboy it seems with the crew there said the reports. but first anti-corporate occupy protesters have returned to new york as a part is a car park but without their tents or sleeping bags new york supreme court ruled demonstrators can no longer camp out there for the night meaning the two month long occupation of the far apart is effectively over police in riot gear score storm these are party tuesday morning tearing down tents and evicting hundreds of activists it was using to leave more forcibly removed amid allegations that officers you sound patterns are spraying tear gas on authorities cited health and fire hazards as the reasons behind the move protesters think it's a lindsay excuse to keep them out before the movement's too much anniversary date and they say acid rally will shut down wall street arche christie is out with so how much of an impact occupy has made since it started. you could

say it started with a whisper a call by canadian activist group and busters that spread on facebook i. hate i this very spot wall street is this i mean it's crime but before long that response turned into a rule. a collective anger and wall street corruption had growing income inequality in america and that a system in which government policy is often dictated by corporate greed before long the crowds brought police. and police brought pepper spray. that story brought on more protesters and a few days later seven hundred of them were arrested on the brooklyn bridge.

instead of scaring people away scenes like this. outraged the masses and before long occupy movements multiplied from los angeles. to chicago. to boston. and just about everywhere in between the mood grew darker as authorities threatened to clear the ten city at zuccotti park at the last minute they were allowed to remain after cleaning the park themselves. occupy times square was next and brought scenes like this is not where. the government is. iraq war veteran shamar thomas a fighting what had become in his eyes widespread police brutality he appeared on our show a few days later there saying if you want to fight go to iraq go to afghanistan what do you mean by this you know to hurt the citizens that you swear to protect

you know is this kind of you know a contradiction to the oath that you take and then there was occupy oakland here you see another veteran scott olsen standing peacefully. within moments he is hit in the head with a tear gas canister fractured his skull and left him in pretty good condition while . this shot a spotlight now shining bright on the role of police all the while the protests spread much to the dismay of authorities who over the weekend evicted encampments once again in oakland. and in portland. st louis to name a few and new york's zuccotti park the heart of the movement also clear for the first time since the the movement. now many worry what's next for occupy d.c. so one of the first things they did here is to clear this part of the park protesters tell me they've moved their tents closer to one another they say they've

condensed their efforts because they want to stay focused they want to stay organized i think there's a chance that some of the protesters on the other occupations around the country could wind up here on k. street because this is one of the last places and very few clashes with police in washington christine prison r t. so nerveracking time for the euro zone is borrowing costs rise for governments almost all across the single currency states investors are losing faith that a possible solution to your crisis can be proud this is it will use a newly appointed leader mario monti has unveiled his government which will be sworn in later on wednesday other data experts and bankers will take charge of the country and monti himself will leave the finance ministry as a role as well as the role of the premier they'll have to push through tough austerity measures to bring italy's debt crisis under control in greece the finance minister has urged the new government urgently to ratify the rescue package and

avoid bankruptcy but as our correspondent daniel bushell found out running a country for a lot more than a background in economic. greece's new leader used to be voice presidents of the european central bank it's a nice new premier is also an explain cause and as it's goldman sachs says he's first. proof he's there it's a helpful loop playing because these people normally one of the first thing he said if i we have to seek financial stability of course will take care of the social problems that is just double speak if you have a government led by a banker like that he wasn't even elected in the first place and he's not going to seek reelection so he can do whatever he pleases without having to feel he's just going to go back to his previous. after two or three years but the suits the e.u. says the institute for democracy in corporations john local and brussels is put into men who continue with the. not support the public the way they're pretty

decisions did. you actually have office the moment he suggested a referendum on the debt package and berlusconi had to leave office the moment he said particularly and so poor under your it be useful to have insisted on elected officials taking charge in italy and greece all of those countries' leaders questions the reforms being imposed on them but the slope and brussels up to charges of being dictatorial and the democratic one politicians think this is a warning to all e.u. leaders who try to help their population oppose all spending cuts and you have to go all of it can be done in italy. it can be done in greece it's only a matter of time. before it can be done anywhere else get financial analyst mix cause of things going because of the very worst sort to put in charge at this time people say well the bankers know best what the bankers are the ones who have stole all the money so are we going to give them more ability to steal more money and

oppose more austerity measures that's insane but there are signs the e.u. may have gone too far with anger boiling over at so vigil spirity measures demanded brothels seventy people have been injured in protests in italy while greek civil servants and teachers walked out of their jobs on tuesday over wage and pension cuts i think this is gearing up for more violence that's another public demonstration on thursday in brussels the new cultural fourteen. for more on the euro debt crisis we'll talk live with johan bent over about editor in chief of the leading business magazines he joins us from brussels good to speak with you again so we've had portugal ireland greece italy now the crisis appears to be spreading for france a meeting of belgium the netherlands appears to be getting through. agonise well with its government cause of boring me to dangerous levels how much trouble would you assess the eurozone in right now. well i think we're in a lot of trouble and this has to do with several elements the first of it of course

is that we are still faced with a situation where the structural handicaps of the monetary union are not pure and we don't have a political union and everybody should know by now that trying to have a monetary union that works well we doubt a political union that doesn't work secondly there's a crisis of public finances practically all the eurozone members are in the longer term on a fresh course with their public finances and this is certainly the case for countries like gold and france and i think that's what the making markets very nervous the combination of know yours for the structural handicaps of the working of the monetary union and countries. facing enormous difficulties in keeping their public finances their budgets under control and your fear is that there has been

a lot of talk there apparently been endless meetings and suddenly which we e.u. leaders trying to solve the crisis but the solutions they've come up with haven't worked well so far in your opinion what is the best way to resolve the crisis. well as i mentioned just before the only way to bring these prices to an end is to do two things first of all to take the big quantum leap as mario draghi the new president of european central bank described it not so long ago the quantum leap it was versus a political union is the first thing you need to do and let us define very well what we mean here by political union that means that in terms of social economic and financial issues the member states of the eurozone are almost losing their an entire sovereignity that's the basic point of secondly we need plans from all the euro member countries euro zone countries we need plans in which they outline in

a very credible way how they will bring under control especially the spending side of their public finances so about the eurozone states themselves there have been calls to expel some of them from the union do you think this will have an effect on the rest of the bloc will it be a positive or negative. you mean by expelled from the ice leaving the euro zone oh yes yes well i think countries like greece and more and more also poor to go should should leave the eurozone because there's no other way out what do we see this country's and let's take the example of reese we see an ever deepening recession we may or we must talk today off the deep question an economy contracting by something like eight percent on the yearly basis you cannot keep your budget under control in that kind of economic contraction the only way to solve the situation is true a massive devaluation of the currency equals through that medicine you can bring about an increase in foreign the nans that stimulates your economy. so i

agree governments have been replaced by former bankers a year or so to speak do you think they can really make a difference to the lives of the ordinary people their country or do you think they'll succumb to the pressure to protect the euro at all costs no i don't think they can make a difference for the for the citizens of their countries because of what needs to be done has to be done and that means of course that a lot of spending cuts will have to be put through in both of these countries and let's not forget that both of these technocrats mr parker the musing in athens and mr monk the room still have to go through the parliament to get approval of the things they want to push through so at the end of the day the big risk is that we will see the same political fights that we saw before when the former prime ministers in both countries were still in power all right gotta leave it there you

know how about over a bell editor in chief of trends and knocking magazines to belgium's leading business publications good to talk with us. i'm going now to some other stories making headlines across the globe at least sixteen at least sixteen people have been killed in a u.s. drone strike in pakistan officials say missiles hit two compounds in a village in the northwest of the country the region is considered a taliban stronghold hours before the strikes militants attack an army checkpoint in the same region with rockets killing one soldier wounding another pakistan has frequently criticized u.s. drone strikes as a violation of the country's sovereignty. and them. in a western china minibus on its way to kindergarten co-write it head on with a truck killing eighteen children two adults the bus only had nine seats but was reportedly carrying sixty two youngsters many of them were taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition that fishel say the crash was caused by the bus being so heavily overloaded. and. president hamid karzai has demanded

foreign troops end night raids and stop detaining civilians addressing it council tribal elders he was also critical of nato claiming its departure in two thousand and fourteen will be good for the country powers i pledge to restore national sovereignty after growing increasingly angry over u.s. military action that resulted in civilian deaths. the u.s. is expanding its military presence in australia with a total of twenty five hundred troops expected to arrive over the next few years plan was invalid by president obama australian prime minister julia guillard seen by some as an attempt to offset china's growing global infinit influence beijing has immediately questioned whether bringing in u.s. ships aircraft and vehicles would help stability in the region. lots more coverage on our top stories every twenty four hours a day seven days a week at our team dot com here's what's a click away right now muslims hoping to serve in the u.s.

military stuck in the middle of a fiery debate find out what one state politician is saying about their right to fight also wildlife. x.-men are in the mire russia's the russian capital former top official testifies about a billion dollar fraud allegations against him find out what he said on our g dot com. finally in this news block after two days of space travel in a soyuz rocket two cosmonauts headed astronaut have arrived safely at the international space station they were warmly greeted by their russian american and japanese counterparts who they're due to replace our piece peter all of her has more on the mission you can see right now the full six months of the it says at the moment they speaking with mission called they arrived well not

a long time ago. just basically checking in with mission control stretching their legs you have to remember these guys have been trapped inside a tiny so you smoke you will. best part of just over two days we can have a look now at the moment when they tend to get into the international space station but the hatch opening. we should see. cosmonauts appear the three men that have entered into the international space station have had a bit of a wait to get up there their mission was delayed by two months berths they did make up some of that so i would probably there were nine minutes early when it came to docking with the space station so. obviously for me to say i'm a totally even ition and daniel burbank all on board the international space station safe and sound the reason that this mission was the made by two months was due to the crash of a soyuz rocket carrying

a supply module to the international space station at the end of august now that so use rocket is a similar type of rocket that's used for months spaceflight now they were going to take any risks when it came to if there was any technical problems with the soyuz they tested it they took it apart they put it back together they tried several unmanned missions they all went off without any kind of a problem so they decided to go ahead with the mound mission at the so used to make twenty two rockets taking off on monday docking successfully with the international space station today and all the crew on board safe and sound. but don't go anywhere dimitri is up next with a business update stay with us. thanks man hello and welcome to business our team this is a premature to suggest russia and ukraine have reached an agreement over gas prices that's according to prime minister putin's office and then this appears to

contradict reports from key that a deal has been done ukrainian media have been quoting a price of two hundred and thirteen dollars per thousand cubic meters that is a substantial reduction on the four hundred dollars plus would have been joule however moscow says negotiations have not been concluded ukraine's already made it clear it is willing to settle accounts in rubles rather than dogs out. access into the world trade organization means russia will have to alter some of its existing contracts with foreign companies in particular in the car industry as artie's million of course are explains. right now russia isn't a good place financially and is prepared to compromise to make it inside the w.c.l. that's the view of the bladder here puts a new says russia is in a much better position than many of its european pounds of cards the country's g.d.p. grew four point two percent in the first nine months of the year and it's not sexy at the moment jitters suit gold plate quicker than me here of course the country is

not immune to that crisis taking place beyond its borders which is why it's actively seeking ways to help the prime minister says there's a need down through the international monetary fund nobody comes to russia's imminent accession that up until carmakers are and main concern black americans and says the government will have to change some words and system contracts with answer international companies this year the government already promised transparency several foreign companies including the word gold strike in and bruno and exchanged a great so symbol week one hundred thousand cars a year and using mostly locally made poland know the benefits are expected to last on through my mind but one of the it still means that they could be lifted earlier the prime minister says compensation will be paid to meet russia's promises to investors and it's just one of the many things that needs to be ironed out as the country joins the trade paul be so good at the markets in particular the

commodities market because light sweet is up but almost a hundred and one a dollars per barrel old it's up more than one dollar one dollar forty two cents this is the first time it's over the one hundred dollars a barrel threshold since april this year and that's despite the american charlie institute saying food stockpiles in the u.s. are expected to rise by more than one million barrels just the past week brant is still down one dollar and cents. so you can look at the what's happening in the markets in europe and they're still down the footsie is point six percent last of the bank of england said u.k. growth outlook of worsens the dax is even more down more than one percent furred day of losses as an opinion for our genes slumped off a constant attention to ourselves. moscow's still not seeing that much support from

those higher oil prices the audience is down three quarters of a percent of my sex by a of a percent cyclical so what's happening most now is actually seeing some positive movement but just an hour ago when the oil prices were low on the list with power we did see was snapped up more than one in the hospice said the best part scared as an outstanding player the coal miner has announced the buyback with a premium of sixty percent to the market price and this is of course providing support of more than nine offices to the stock. and that's it for now we will be back next hour with an update since around fifty five minutes time the headlines next.

culture is that so much given all the huge news that is there any time the market serious money as a major has read out any military operation against syria though this could change of a change on the ground. british .