the u.n. human rights council meets to force through a security council resolution on syria this after a report earlier this week claimed that four thousand people have been killed since march. while there are doubts over the objectivity of the report based on in just a few two hundred witnesses more on that coming up in a few moments. germany says there are no rapid solutions to the e.u. dead crisis and it could take years to overhaul the eurozone and save the single currency. also. twenty five thousand people marched through manhattan the lack of jobs and low

wages echoing the mood of the occupy wall street movement. and russia's r.t.s. m i six changed clothes at zero change level as investors decide to play it safe and take profits ahead of the election weekend more on this in business thirteen twenty. hour seven o'clock friday night here in moscow this is the with me rory sushant welcome to the program russia says that a united nations report on syria is not objective or based on reality and the international community is receiving biased accounts of the events in the country the un human rights council called an emergency session in light of the findings squalling for urgent action to protect civilians in syria and condemnation of alleged crimes against humanity. reports. the doubts being raised when it

comes to syria is certainly coming from russia specifically on the objectivity of the report saying that this is unilateral prejudicial and biased reports about the events of the un human rights council is getting especially because it's coming from about two hundred witnesses and it doesn't reflect the situation on the ground it has to be said though that almost all of the countries if not all have expressed concerns about what's going on in syria the question here that he is raised is on the process of gathering that evidence to condemn serious specially when calling for tougher resolution on the country again if you remember this is the third meeting a special meeting held on the situation in syria and this is also right after a fresh sanctions from the e.u. just slapped on thursday on certain individuals and organizations as well as in addition to arab league sanctions which were the toughest imposed on an arab state an arab nation and russia through all of this again maintain that sanctions they

are against all of those and would rather see the two sides in the country sitting down and still talking to the u.n. has called the situation on the ground a civil war saying that about more more than four thousand syrians have already been killed so it's not so what the doubts expressed is not so much to say that this is not happening it's so much questioning the legal process a process of gathering evidence in order to support tougher resolutions on a country because in effect this is calling the international community to come up with a strong move short of a humanitarian war as we had seen in libya so once again the questions be race now on syria reminds us of questions that have been raised before that humanitarian war was launched in libya. there is no evidence to justify the humanitarian war in libya that's the conclusion of filmmaker and independent journalists at the beginning of this story we got somebody geisha on which you know a little creative and said to the united nations human rights council and those

allegations of never been verified or check and zeus had been you was also as my tell you all follows the i.c.c. case against the media. on march seventeenth a un security council resolution one thousand nine hundred seventy three was passed imposing a no fly zone over libya. accusations were that gadhafi bombed his own people from air and land use foreign mercenaries ordered the use of rape as a weapon and killed by the thousands i can prove that there was no bombing what i know is that there is no evidence of warming and so i can tell you was a man who went to the united nations human rights council we seem angry or seem on which again was a former secretary general of the libyan league for human rights now the libyan ambassador to burn in switzerland on february twenty five he went to the u.n. human rights council to present his organization's allegations of crimes against

gadhafi is government in that session a decision was taken to freeze libya's membership in the council he underlined the number of deaths six thousand including three thousand in tripoli alone when julia asked which a gear how these claims can be verified he pointed to the former rebels now libya's government as his source here where they got that information from the libyan prime minister that mr mahmood of the warfalla tribe was on the other side of the national transitional council was the one who gave me these numbers. yet there are still those who defend the libyan intervention like this former french intelligence officer it is very likely that some crimes attributed to their feet in this conflict were farce or exaggerated but. for us in the car that he was the terrorist was a criminal on june twenty seventh international criminal court prosecutor luis a complement and his request for arrest warrants were more market offie saif al

islam and get off his intelligence chief was granted i was through the pages of the arrest warrant application most of which were redacted but among the pages soaked into the public were lists of articles to support the case one of which was which of us february twenty fifth speech the one based on information bush you give yourself said he got the empty seat but those who raised questions risked being accused of taking the side of a man seen as a brutal dictator already labeled by some world powers as the bad guy. international law even cheerleaders of the intervention admit tends to be sacrificed. in iraq but they will tell you something which is not politically correct i don't believe so much in international law is just a tool used in one. for political purposes regardless point is simply this that is such legal systems in place any claims first and foremost should be farly investigated

a point he hopes will be heard before the next humanitarian war is waged does are still your r.t. brussels. r.t. is coming to you live from moscow holding their breath and gyptian zone are waiting for the results of the country's historic parliamentary election the muslim brotherhood has already claimed victory and demanded that the new parliament form a government something the military rulers say they will not allow thousands of people remain skeptical over the ballot calling for the army to step down. as gauging the mood on the streets of cairo. this was the first of three rounds of voting for the lower house of parliament nine out of twenty seven provinces have voted including cairo and alexandria the remaining provinces will vote the rest of this month in january and then they will be voting for the upper house of parliament this entire election process will not be over before march the muslim brotherhood is showing the largest support base at this stage and this is not unexpected it is the largest the oldest and the most well organized political group

in here in egypt despite the fact that it was once banned according to the brotherhood's own exit polls its freedom and justice party is expected to walk away with some fifty percent of votes this will be followed by these salafi asked on newer which looks thick to get some twenty percent of the election ballots now there has been some concern particularly among securus that the muslim brotherhood might form an alliance with the salafi starner and the brotherhood has denied this we knew it is a much more conservative party it has a much stricter interpretation of islam and there is a massive demonstration that is being planned for today friday in turkey where it has been a tribute to the heroes of one hundred streets this is the street where forty three people were killed and more than a thousand people were injured in recent clashes between the army the police and protesters now there are twenty three political groupings who are behind today's

demonstration and talking to protesters who will be out there in tahrir square they say that the large turnout at the polls is simply and in news and people heard that the situation will improve there for as long as the military remains in power and nothing in egypt will change until the rallying point among the demonstrators or tell here has not changed and that is that the military needs to step down immediately over the past few weeks we've seen some of the worst clashes in recent months so it will be interesting to gauge the kind of anger and the kind of response coming out from the square when these elections that many here believe should not have happened when those results are announced. policy reporting right there water there's also anger on the streets of new york and as you report later here on r.t. it's over claims of glaring inequality. i work hard every day in that we don't even have to nickel to rub together to mine all the better jobs and opportunities it drives a fresh wave of protests in new york this as a wealthy few pay thirty five thousand dollars each to attend an obama reelection

fundraiser. the person essentially in charge of europe's purse strings says there's no easy fix to the euro zone's debt crisis and finding a solution will take years german chancellor angela merkel said the region needs a new financial union with stronger controls and debt regulations to prescreen off as more. the german chancellor continued pressing on the policy currently being put forward by germany and france which are the keep wears off the euro zone and the idea is to create a fiscal union which would include all seventeen members of the eurozone and perhaps all members of the european union as well it would create more essential ization off our more control over states delegates and more importantly over their debts and defacto the introduction of such a fiscal union it would also mean like the revisal of the european union france and

germany are also calling for the introduction of tougher sanctions against those countries which can't pay their bills under merkel trust that germany will not support be any idea of euro bonds well all seventeen members of the eurozone would share the responsibility for these loans germany has already allocated billions of euros to support the weaker members of the eurozone at the same time another key players of the e.u. great britain also wants to take part in the every formation process this all comes as some of the key players of the e.u. are set to meet in brussels next week of course this would include germany and france and we're expecting that they're going to continue putting forward this policy of creating the fiscal union revising the european union treaty meanwhile tens of thousands of protesters there marched in brussels against the e.u. austerity measures these protests were organized by the three major unions and it

just really shows the levels of tensions among the ordinary people ordinary europeans as the big players in politics are trying to resolve the current situation not easy going to this kind of reporting from frankfurt ok let's now i speak to robert oulds director of the bruges group against the ever closer union in europe thank you for coming on the program says a fiscal union and tighter controls are needed to save the euro the question is is there still time. well to create such a fiscal union within the e.u. under the use common procedures could take many years and it may not even be possible so it's really is largely a pipe dream unless they have some agreement outside of the you. to a creative fiscal union within the e.u. there would have to be referendums in countries like ireland perhaps even in germany and many other nation states would have to ratify it through their national parliaments which will take many years indeed they might even take years to have an

agreement on what kind of fiscal we union there would be. and what i can't attack but i can assure the issue of school unity there needs to be some degree of political unity as well british prime minister david cameron in paris now to meet president sarkozy they haven't exactly seen eye to eye in the past cameron is afraid britain will lose its influence if the e.u. is revamped and you think that non euro nations should have a say in. well odds are that david cameron was concentrating on the british economy in trying to get the economy moving within the united kingdom and him to be calling for fiscal union will is a great mistake if there is a fiscal union which will take years to build in the u. that will mean the will be the end of democracy within europe it will mean that countries will be effectively governed by the european central bank and germany cannot make thinking and the interests of the very few. european elite based in

brussels it's really dangerous i think to centralize power the euro has created a great deal of economic problems and then they're going to have you know cap more problems on to that by creating a fiscal union which will mean that government's tax and spend policy will in a sense we run form blossoms and frank first that is a deeply undemocratic move stored up for further trouble in the future when you talk about you talk about of the power behind the throne in brussels as we know across was essentially dictated the new leaders of italy and greece and in recent weeks let's talk about responsibility here it's been estimated that the british taxpayer could have to contribute some six billion euros if spain needs a bailout how fair is that considering that the u.k. isn't even a member of the euro zone. it's very unfair that the u.k. the u.k. is already contributed seven billion to arland nine billion to help with greece course you outside of some of the european union's mechanism to be contributing via the i.m.f.

fire the back door and this is costing the british taxpayer money and in the situation in britain is a great deal of debt in britain and the british government is having to borrow money from the financial markets to lend to other countries that have been profit and wasting their money and suffering economic harm as a result of the euro that is deeply unfair and it's something that britain can actually afford to do and nor nor should we the problems are with the euro and they really do need to recognise that the euro should be broken up into more manageable parts and countries have control of their own economic policies again and that way they can get growth back into europe at the moment the european economy is just stagnating because they're stuck in the strait jacket of the european single currency now moments ago you mentioned that you'd like to see british prime minister cameron focusing his attention on issues at home but the bank of england has urged british banks to build up their capital reserves to shore up against the eurozone crisis how confident is london do you think that the e.u.

can actually find a solution here. well the european union is taking years to find solutions we really recognize that these problems existed many years ago and they've just stored up this trouble for now and that all they're doing is just putting off the evil day when the euro will have to be broken up and countries like greece italy have their own currencies back and as well as germany as well. the argument the bank of england is making mervyn king the governor of the bank of england the banks need to build up their capital reserves that's really very contradictory on the one hand the british government is telling banks to loan out more money on the other hand the british economic policies but banks are not to be loaning out money to build up their reserves so there's a great deal of confusion at all levels not only within the european union but also within british economic policy we need to fight. us those and have one policy for each country that can then stimulate growth and that way we can then countries can

then deal with their debts in iraq but also director of the bruges group against the ever closer union in europe many thanks. you're watching r.t. now one person has been killed some seventy injured after a taliban suicide bomber targeted a nato military base in afghanistan the attack occurred just south of the capital kabul a suicide bomber is said to have used a truck packed with explosives and caused more concern over just how stable the country is as u.s. combat troops start their withdrawal the head of a two thousand and fourteen deadline although a substantial presence is a square to remain to train the locals dr saddam charlie from the school of international affairs in new delhi things america is only staying on in the region to serve its own interests. it's an unfortunate historical reality that long after the immediate security needs in the rat race on that or for u.s. forces is over they stay on their bill basis and then they hunker down and that is

you know typically the way united states has viewed curity through the lenses of its military bases which continue to be over seven hundred number so although there is an argument that president obama and his team are now moving towards you know an aerial based security policy where they will have only counterterrorism you know to braun's into helicopters and that they don't really want people on the ground occupying countries for a long time the reality is that the pentagon is pushing for the same or strategy where they hunker down and stay there for as long as they can so this is going to mean that even after twenty fourteen it will become a justification for the united states to stay on for much longer this is a recipe for more and more instability more and more suicide attacks more and more terror attacks and more and more casualties. the business news isn't about six minutes here on r.t. but for now i do bear in mind that r.t. dot com is always online for you with a lot more stories and eye catching videos are some of the items you'll find online right now. the questions they were asking. absolutely.

and that's when i actually got scared a russian woman who earned her right to remain in the u.k. after being wrongly accused of espionage talks about a year long battle against the british security services. but as london hunts for foreign spooks seems to be a lack of agents in its own ranks as intelligence services to recruit geeks through a code breaking game on the internet. now twenty minutes past the hour here a vast new protest away for swept through new york some twenty thousand people march demanding better jobs and economic opportunities the demonstration was organized by labor unions but the rhetoric borrowed liberally from the occupy movement which has been protesting for several months now in the united states. went to hear some of the voices of discontent. this event has been organized by the new york city labor council that is an umbrella for more than one hundred unions

and the reason these people say they're out on the street is that they are frustrated and fed up with the i think an ominous narron even to the rich and poor they see with more than fourteen million americans unemployed at the moment the one percent the richest one percent in america has tripled its wealth in the past thirty years what this shows is that the eyes sentiments that have that the buy the occupy wall street movement for over the past two months are now being voiced by labor unions at a larger scale did see labor unions join occupy wall street a month or so ago but that turnout was not as large as this one the people taking part in this that are walking around with signs and think we are the ninety nine percent we are the backbone and the working class of the united states that is being ignored for you people in this country and as you can see it's a nationally. because the people who are making making decisions now it will be

little we have. people don't come out. and make sure that we're so heard. we're caught every day. in that we don't even have to make nice to rub together. looks like you're not the only one that there's thousands of people walking the streets and i tell you work hard every day get up four thirty every morning. to do construction might get to school. better that's what it is people finally said the irony here is that on wednesday u.s. president probably was in new york city for three fundraisers for his reelection campaign one of those fundraisers more than thirty five thousand dollars per ticket to a time was so many here say that. shows. between. being

. the constituents and these great things are not achieved the crowd that you see out here almost supply by an enormous amount in the coming months. and before we hand it over to dmitri for the business let's do the world update here on r t some other news from around the world for you this hour now the u.s. senate has approved a list of harsh sanctions against the iranian central bank and oil industry with a view to stifling the country's alleged nuclear weapons program the sanctions will effectively banned foreign companies from doing business with the iranian central bank the e.u. also imposed fresh sanctions yesterday and agreed on a coordinated with drool of u.s. ambassadors from the arab nation given iran's position as a primary oil exporter many worry the sanctions could backfire on western economies . in the yemeni city of tire u.s. officials say at least twelve being killed in violent clashes between forces loyal

to the president and dissident tribesmen violence erupted early thursday as loyalist troops stormed the tribesmen stronghold in the city center the opposition want an end to president saleh thirty three year rule clashes have killed hundreds in the country since a un backed power transfer deal signed by the president failed to halt the violence . the mexican military has reportedly dismantled a huge telecommunication network used by drug cartels in the country's northern provinces the operation under cover thousands of electrical devices that gangs used to communicate and monitor military movements and this comes after six men were found gunned down in monterey on wednesday suspected victims of cartel attacks drug related violence is on the rise in northern mexico and is estimated to have killed forty thousand people in the last few years. to china now where hundreds of discount old workers gathered outside a shanghai factory in protest at mass layoffs former workers from the asian

electronics giant high piii international have been demonstrating for three days accusing the company of violating workers' rights hundreds of employees were let go after a decision to relocate manufacturing this spate of labor unrest comes as chinese manufacturers struggle with rising prices and a slump in exports. in just a few minutes here on r t we're asking whether the u.s. government can salvage relations with pakistan after misguided drone strikes continue to kill civilians there that'll be an cross-talk but first dimitri and the business. loan a warm welcome to business artsy half past seven in the evening here in moscow the russian markets ended on a flat note barely any change for the r.t.s. m i six despite all the positive news around that's because there was a wave of selling in the final minutes as investors play it safe before an election

weekend russia goes to the polls on sunday to choose who sits in parliament the election season will then be concluded with the presidential vote in early march and the week states of the global economy is having an effect on the campaign analysts say unlike previous years the government has not ramped up public spending ahead of the voting. i think it reflects that the economy's growing quite strongly on its own it reflects concern about the global environment and a desire for more prudent policy but i think it also means that we're starting out in a slightly stronger position. than other war is the second thing to say is that we are going to see some increases in spending and cuts and tax at the beginning of next year we're going to see big increase in police pay a big increase in military pay and a big heart and social contribution tax so there is already increase in spending programmed into the budget twenty twelve regardless of the result of the election.

or let's now look at the markets and really was a lot of positive movement going on in oil for example selling for the first weekly gain in three clashes between iran and the west have sparked speculation that supply from the islamic republic may be a risk while in rush hour production point one percent in november from october very smooth but it's the first time it's failed to climb in five months. and the u.s. latest jobs data is out showing the economy added one hundred twenty thousand jobs in the month of november and that means the unemployment rate is going down to eight point six percent the lowest level and two and a half years there for the dow and nasdaq up one percent. european markets were also in positive mood pretty much a bull session long investors more optimistic of the german chancellor angela merkel who made the point that officials are ready to tackle the euro zone's debt

crisis banks are the main gainers b.n.p. perry bar and recall they're up more than five percent and. also supporting the market here in russia of course higher oil prices but as i mentioned before earlier in the program. wave of selling in the final minutes of trade basically lost by. minutes of course the r.g.s. my sixty come down there back to the drawing board to square one second look at what's been moving the my sex on the main movers of course our energy shares rose snapped up point seven percent there but close to burbank was showing almost a four percent growth throughout the session but ended up just two percent and carmaker after vials of three and a half percent love reporting sales growth of just thirteen percent for the first eleven months of the year you get a call bizarre chief investment officer in capital wraps up the day for. the markets market is moving in on the was a to wait for the week there was

a news in the middle of the week about the coordinates the actions of the central bank's role divorce including federal reserve including e.c.g. about the swap rate decrease also there was a decrease of the rate by china's central bank on the other hand there was a chinese p.m.i. which game lower than expected as the lowest point seems to the nine but still it was not the influence was limited on the market so markets are very positive this week on the back of the central bank news. all right thank you very much for being with business see you can still join us around thirty five minutes time will be here with an update to stay with us. the eat. the

limits just say. smug. culture is that so much given to each musician on the market i'm going from memory i do even worse this is the state of u.s. pakistan relations after a cross border attack that left up to twenty pakistani. wealthy british scientists and. sometimes the tirelessly.