the u.n. human rights watchdog seeks a resolution to force syria to protect its civilians after a report claimed four thousand people have been killed in eight months of bloodshed . while there are doubts over the objectivity of the report based on a just the views of two hundred witnesses more on that coming up in a few moments. germany predicts it could take years to overhaul the debt stricken eurozone and save the single currency and. a thousand strong sweeps through new york to demand more jobs and better working conditions echoing the occupy movement our top stories this hour.

international news and comment around the clock around the world this is r.t. russia says a united nations report on syria is not objective all based on reality and the international community is receiving biased accounts of events in the country the un human rights council called an emergency session in light of the findings calling for urgent action to protect civilians in syria and condemnation of alleged crimes against humanity syria has more. 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 doesn't reflect the situation on the ground

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 race is on the process of gathering that evidence to condemn serious specially when called for tougher question lucia 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 you when 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 resolution 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 the 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 journalist. beginning of this story we got somebody. united nations human rights council and. as allegation of never been verified or check and zeus had been you was also as my tell you all follows your i.c.c. case against me be. 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 all i know is that there is no evidence of warming and so i can tell you was a man went to the united nations human rights council we see him and wish we we're seamen which again was the 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 un 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 asked which he 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 we. have khadafi for us in the kind of he was the terrorist was a criminal on june twenty seventh the international criminal court prosecutor luis a compliment at his request for arrest warrants for more market offie saif al islam and get off his intelligence chief was granted. 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 against every twenty fifth speech the one based on information bush or herself 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. 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. for political purposes regardless point is simply this with 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. the person essentially in charge of europe's purse strings says there is no easy fix to the eurozone 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 artie's europe is going to have has more. the german chancellor continued pressing on the policy currently being put forward by germany and france which are the keep winners of 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 de facto 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 until merkel stressed that it germany will not support the 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 and other 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. europe is kind of reporting there let's not talk to michael ross he's an economic analyst and author of the book the currency crash what we've heard the

monetary chief saying the eurozone is just about a week left to find a solution and now angela merkel is saying that it will take years does the region have years to tackle this crisis. now we in fact don't have years we have only days in order to solve this crisis and with the words of under an american today we can see that acquires is not sort of every week we have a new emergency meeting every week we haven't used every week you have new hopes and nothing happens so this is the prognosis of forecasts for the e.u. summit next week and when markel says no to euro bonds this means nothing else then to the euro because you must not be an economist to know that the common currency cannot work without a common bond market so all because of the fact that germany is not permitted to pull out of the euro under the we don't want euro bonds and with our bureau bonds

the euro work why doesn't she want those euro bonds she stands against the whole era zone on this idea they say that collective boring is possibly the answer surely that is a good thing isn't it to help nations ease their debt burden by everybody sharing the problem. but these euro bonds will only trigger a process to pull out money from germany and put it into the other countries the other countries of course have to do their housework they have to do their duty is in order to keep their economies in good shape but this is no more or less too late that means on the other hand there of course are depending on euro bonds the european bond market when it comes to italian spanish or greece bond is already cut from the international. money supply so. there is something to do but if under american law we don't want bombs then there

is obviously no solution and interpreted in to do in this way they choose is ok then we need some more years this year's this time this is not left so this will finally lead to the breakup of the euro is that her stance more about political survival because clearly the germans aren't happy already with they as taxpayers bailing out weak euro zone members and for her to take this stance against the euro bonds is that not more of german self interest than the rest of the eurozone. i think most of the germans of course are not aware what it means if the euro is color of course we will also have big big problems afterwards but on the other hand i mean when you go back to the founders of the euro they wanted their single countries will go together will melt together and will be fiscal union or whatever economic union but we had time ten years time nothing happened and now you want to do it all in a hurry this of course is not possible because that we see you know was predicted

it was programmed it was forecast many times by experts michel i have the problem why is this idea of fiscal union not possible is it because governments and people will simply object to being overridden and govern purely by brussels and losing their own autonomy and sovereignty it's all we're going to see a rebellion here from those countries. i think the time is just not ripe for it this is the best expression in europe we are twenty seven different countries with different cultures and different ways of living and of course we don't want to be ruled by brussels nobody wants us all to the germans on one day and this is the real problem we have with this common currency it is not backed by the several governments if you want to have a common currency you have to have one single rulership in europe brussels for example but nobody wants it so we are in a contradiction we are called the sec so i don't know how you will solve this

problem it is a fact that if you have a common currency you have to have a centralized government but this nobody wants to greece don't want it to germans don't want it and maybe a lot of the french don't want this well michael in the lodge of your book currency crash clearly very prophetic you're saying this could happen within days it'll be very interesting to talk to in a few days from now pretty grim views from you at this stage thank you very much indeed michael ross there joining us live in berlin thank you. still to come here on deadly blast in deadline run up as casualties on the rise in afghanistan we look at how the situation in the region will change after foreign troops withdraw in twenty fourteen. i work hard every day that we do nickels to rub together demand for better jobs and opportunities drives a fresh wave of protests in new york because a wealthy few pay thirty five thousand dollars each to attend an obama reelection

fundraiser. holding their breath egyptians are now waiting for the results of the country's historic parliamentary election the announcement of the two day voting has been postponed twice and is expected within a few hours from now artie's porter she's live in cairo no official results yet but the islamists are already celebrating. well there are no official results yet the latest word is that the election results will be made at around eight o'clock this evening local time but no one here is holding their breath those results already more than forty eight hours too late but as you say people are really celebrating and by people i mean the muslim brotherhood it's posted on its website that it expects to walk away with some fifty percent of the votes now this is not a big surprise the brotherhood is the largest the most well organized and one of the longest standing political groupings here in egypt but perhaps what is

a surprise is the strong showing of the slough of our new a group now very predicting that they will receive some fifty percent of the vote and according to their spokesperson they will impose a strict religious rule on the parliament if indeed the parliament is given the powers to actually do anything this has raised concerns particularly among six of us they talking about a strong islamised move of this country the the elections are with the usual reports of irregularities you have been hearing stories from the stories that the brotherhood has been giving people food and money to vote for it there's also been concern expressed that many of the candidates simply lacked the experience to run an effective enriching campaign in terms of voter turnout of the figure being bandied about as roughly seventy percent a very strong showing but if you talk to people here in tough the square they say that people turned out in large numbers largely because they have the hope and the i didn't isn't that things really can change in this country but just about

everybody here in turkey is telling me that that hope is badly placed that things were made much the same because the rallying call tripping here behind me has not changed in terms here and that is for the military to step down immediately within the cells and to boycotted the vote of course but jim how are they actually viewing the outcome at this stage. well there are several thousand people here one i'm talking to you they there for the million man march but they're. had fifteen selves there was a symbolic demonstration earlier today friday with people marching through the square holding coffins and that was to remember the forty three people that were killed in nearly two weeks of violence and roughly more than a thousand people were injured when you talk to people here though they are really angry and they remain as angry as they were a week two weeks ago at the security forces who they say were using illegal tear gas fifty rounds of live ammunition that were used and happy with aleksey that was shown to police by the police so the roof here remains quite volatile although on

the other hand the numbers are dwindling so you get a sense of the momentum starting to fade as the weeks continue the second round of this first phase of the elections will be held next week m.m.'s the third round this will be held in january only very poor provinces here in egypt have finished voting for that you know house of parliament and even we have a much better instrument of exactly how the political parties have done but the fact that the major urban centers have now cast their ballots and it certainly does look as if these numbers have come out from the find that does fit the scenario how the other provinces are likely to vote for us live thanks very much indeed for that live update from cairo no doubt more from paula throughout the day here on r.t. . one person has been killed and some seventy people 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 it's cause more concern over just how stable the

country is as u.s. combat troops start their withdrawal ahead of the twenty eight fourteen deadline well there was substantial presence is expected to remain to train locals not just room charlie or from the school of international affairs in new delhi thinks 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 red. right on that are for u.s. forces over there stay on there will be bases and then they hunker down and that is you know typically the united states has view all data curity through the lenses of its military bases which continue to be all that seven hundred number so although there is an argument that president obama and his team are now moving towards you know an area will be a security policy where they will have only counterterrorism we know two braun's and two 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 old 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. r.t. dot com is always online for you with a lot more stories and eye catching videos here's some of what you'll find there right now. the questions they were asking. absolutely stupid and that's when i actually got scared that a russian woman who earned the right to remain in the u.k. after being wrongly accused of espionage talks about a year long battle against the british security services. also on the website at the moment as london hunts for foreign spokes there seems to be a lack of agents in its own ranks as intelligence services seek to recruit geeks through a code breaking game on the internet more on that online at r.t. dot com. a vast new protest wave swept through new york as some twenty thousand

people marched demanding better job and economic opportunities the demonstration was organized by labor unions but the rhetoric borrowed liberally from the occupy movement which has been protesting in the us for months it is more important i heard 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 ivy konami disparity between the rich and poor the sick 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 nothing that by the occupy wall street movement for over the past two months are now being voiced by labor unions at

a larger scale we 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 for a misspent are walking around with signs and say we are the ninety nine percent we are the backbone in 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 they will with little we have less people don't come out now and make sure that we're so heard. we're caught every day. in that we don't even have to make these 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 which you can strive to send my kids to school. better that's what it is people

finally said all the irony here is that on wednesday us 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. many here say that. that shows the are different between the elected officials in the united states and what is being voiced by the od the constituents and they say that if things are not changed the crowd that you see out here will multiply by an enormous amount in the coming months according to new york marina for ny r.t. . now let's check out some more news from around the world in our world update the u.s. senate has approved a list of harsh sanctions against the iranian central bank an oil industry with a view to stifling the country's alleged nuclear weapons program the sanctions were 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 withdrawal of us from the arab nation given iran's position as a primary oil exporter and many worry the sanctions could backfire on western economies. in the yemeni city of taiz officials say at least twelve people are being killed in violent clashes between forces loyal to the president and dissident tribesmen violence erupted early thursday morning as loyalist troops stormed the tribesmen stronghold in the city center the opposition want an end to present salaries thirty three year reign of violent clashes have killed hundreds in the country since a un backed car transfer deal signed by the president failed to halt the violence. hundreds of survivors of one of the world's worst industrial disaster held a protest in india angry chemical sponsorship of the london games company was responsible for a lethal gas leak that killed an estimated fifteen thousand people in bhopal in one nine hundred eighty four protest as burn effigies of two members of the olympic

committee on the now abandoned site of the disaster activists accuse the chemical company of failing to clear the contamination caused by the tragedy. also in our world update the mexican military reportedly dismantled a huge telecommunication network used by drug cartels in the country's northern provinces the operation uncovered thousands of electrical devices that gangs used to communicate and monitor military movements this comes after six men were found gunned down in monterey on wednesday suspected victims of cartel attacks drug related violence is on the increase in northern mexico and is estimated to have killed forty thousand in the last few years. i'll be back with the some of our main news stories in just over five minutes from now in the meantime the business update is next with dmitri. banks bill 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 the weeks of the global economy is having a bleak effect on the campaign and this 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 in 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 part and social contribution tax so there is already some increase in spending programmed into the budget twenty twelve regardless of the result of the election. so going to the markets and oil is heading for its first weekly gain in

three although it has lost most of the steam clashes between a rally in the west have sparked speculation that supply from the islamic republic may be at risk meanwhile russian oil production slipped point one percent in november from october failing to climb for the first time in five months. latest jobs in the u.s. shows that the colony added one hundred twenty thousand jobs in the bringing the unemployment rate down to eight point six percent and that's the lowest level in two and a half years that's why we're still seeing a lot of positive sentiment in the united states dow jones and nasdaq one hundred percent. european markets are also high this verse is also optimistic of the german chancellor angela merkel made the point fishers are ready to tackle the euro zone step crisis banks and resource stocks especially well performing a b. and p. and they are up twelve percent and eight percent respectively. russia ended the

week flat as a versus cashed out before the election we can but overall the odds he has gained nine point four percent the my six six point seven percent in five sessions. well let's take a look at some of the individual share movers on. the mice sex most of the blue chips were recovering from losses seen in the morning at the end of the sessions burbank is up two percent after vassar ways one of the biggest losers down three percent after a pause in sales growth of just thirteen percent for the first eleven months of the year to get a call bizarre chief investment office capital wraps up the day. the market market is moving in on the positive wave for the week there was the news in the middle of the week about the coordinated actions of the central banks are all divorced including federal reserve including e.c.b. 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 came lower than expected it's the lowest point since of 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. coming up next on the headlines with bill dog do stay with us for.

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