signs of a fracture within the syrian opposition while some welcomed the government's decision to let observers into the country either slammed the move and call for an arab military intervention. hopes feta finally adding more survivors from russia's oil rig disaster with a dozen still missing two days after the drilling platform sank in i see waters. north koreans are paying their last respects to the early way too long standing leader kim jong il while the neighbors of the reclusive nuclear states stay on high alert fearing his death will spark instability in the region. were going to be the transformative moment we're social and economic justice in america

. despite critics warning the anti-corporate protests would not last until winter and police have a hand in this three months on the occupy movement is still gaining momentum. one pm in the russian capital you're watching r.t.m. arena joshie some groups in syria's opposition say they want an arab military intervention to quote protect civilians from government security forces they spoke after damascus signed an arab league protocol allowing observers to monitor a regional peace initiative two and months of bloodshed part of the opposition dismissed the deal as a stalling tactic syria has been increasingly isolated under sanctions from arab states the u.s. and the e.u. over its crackdown on the. protesters the authorities say they are fighting stream

is armed groups operating in the country r.t. sara for of has been to one of the flashpoints and the ongoing unrest. we're here in the city of homs and you can hear heavy gunfire in the background it's really hard to share insurance as the civilian population here live here as we're called to wait a month after month to ensure this conflicts with the on going violence is taking its toll. that there are neighborhoods that are being suffocated surrounded by armed groups there are many people who have been could not have had enough did we do to deserve this holmes is being described as a city on the brink in civil war where some of the series this is fighting has broken out. driving through the streets there are clear signs of conflicts bullet holes in window panes and and slogans on walls there's a heavy military presence we went to visit some of the areas where concentrated

fighting was continuing it would seem too dangerous to visit. other areas of the city daily life struggles on movie it's under the backdrop of gunfire. you can see the chosen playing here in the homes this is the one of the major. this conflict continues for the safety of the civilians. living here in the situation in homes right now is far more complex than simply one of the opposition against the regime deep seated sectarian conflicts with their heads. from the very beginning. because their numbers. are much more than. the military funeral held yesterday gets under way five soldiers killed by what the government says is an increasingly militant movement and on the same day the pool's from the opposition the harrowing accounts the civilian deaths around the country.

make serious decision to allow the arab league to send observers to the more important this is naturally we want. to. in the same time preserve our sovereignty so really it depends on the intention do they really want to help syria or corner. was the decision by the main opposition outside the country b s n c. the opposition inside the country has welcomed in the north. we hope it's going to be implemented on the ground as it stated in the protocol and we remain completely against international intervention it would lead the country to destruction. with a fractious opposition and rising death toll with facts and information still very hard to verify even on the ground if that is a rival here in syria will be an important step but it's going to be just one of

many more that we need to fully and seeing to ensure the name or lives. the city of homs. they were based political analyst kamel was able to use the opposition's call for foreign intervention is not about protecting civilians but pursuing its own gains their dream of a change in the regime and collapsing of the regime did not matter allies and i think after nine months of that international coalition western and some gulf country against syria syria was able to stand fast and prevail over all the obstacle that has been brought by these country i think there is a map that has been drawn for the middle east and they wanted some somehow for the regime of assad to topple and i think the way things are going it didn't please

about the arab persian gulf and they didn't please what they call the opposition and that's why you see they don't want they want to still continue the process and to geisha and causing instability inside syria. two days after an oil rig capsized off russia's far east coast the search for any survivors has become desperate dozens are still missing in the freezing waters while seven of the survivors found have now arrived back on land greaves has met them in the port of the coastal region nearest to where the tragedy occurred. on the boat this just stuck behind me a seven out of the total number of survivors some fourteen or so for being pulled alive from these icy waters and as they dock would have their wrists first experienced since this ordeal was stephy on to dry land no doubt there is a sense of relief in the air chiefly for those who have been involved in this from the very starts but attention now really focused on those who still haven't been

found thirty seven still missing and this time lapses time passes the discharge of finding survivors is to when they've been exposed to extreme elements and faced a second night at sea rescue so far found all the lifeboats mean that there are no there's no shelter for any potential survivors to take cover in exposed to extreme elements contentious minus ten degrees celsius here colder our set c. now we're looking into reasoning so why so far this actually occurred in the first place the whole rig sank within about just twenty minutes on sunday happened very quickly one of the reasons before for that is that it filled of water therefore capsized and sank a full of proper investigation has already started and so have criminal proceedings and they're looking into why exactly this oil rig was being towed in such bad

weather conditions. jake agrees reporting there and more on the maritime tragedy in the russian far east can be found at our website are two dot com one of the survivors who was airlifted to a hospital on saturday has told the media the horrifying story of the oil rig sinking and explain why so many people failed to board the lifeboat it's a log onto our com to find out more. north koreans are paying their last respects their late long standing leader kim jong il who died of heart attack at the age of sixty nine on saturday his death was only announced on monday and has sent. shock waves around the country and the whole region a stream of mourners including his son and successor kim yon own passed by an open coffin the late leader will be buried in a week and images from the world's most reclusive nation also show thousands of people and control the weeping on the streets meanwhile north korea's neighbors are on high alert following the news of the death hearing it will spark instability in

the region japan's government has called a special security meeting while south korea said its armed forces are combat bready but some experts believe peace on the korean peninsula is determined not by relations between north and south but by the standoff between china and america the important thing here to understand is that for example the south korea being on military alert it's not south korea that is our military although it's the united states that is actually using south korea as a beachhead ever since the end of the korean war the other hand we have to understand or should really be asking ourselves will the military the north korean military which are very powerful one million strong army four million reserve nuclear arms ballistic missiles will they really be subordinated to the new government or will they have a larger stance and is probably the key question is how will all of this unfold what will china do china has

a very special relationship with north korea it's sort of a love hate strict father versus problem. here as i cannot see how are. these things because north korea will undoubtedly not do that which china does not allow we have to always interpret north korea within the scope of the regional geopolitics of china so which is the key power in the region. the youngest son of the late north korean chief kimi on own has already been named as a great successor and the people have been told to night behind him this independent journalist tim shorrock told r.t. with secrecy surrounding the new year it's hard to guess what his tenure will bring he's only been around for three years in the public light he went to school in switzerland apparently he knows a lot about how the internet works and he knows a lot about social media but beyond that we know very little except he's been appointed a four star general and it did take kim jong il who just passed quite

a few years to actually gain total acceptance with the power structure there with the powers that be there in the in the party in the government to actually you know take firm control so obviously he has no military training very very this year or next to zero military experience but i think what these two leaders this closely held leadership in north korea once is a symbol of their regime and this is a clear you know successor symbol they can they can use to continue their power are you watching r.t. live from moscow still ahead of the program and nurse and dad we'll look at how we prospered the economy stoniest that struggling on the poverty line demonstrate that it's continuing rolling with a blog plus. at our business desk here would continue to analyze blood gains and benefits russell will get from the coming of that of the world trade organization joining a play that was stories out of this bill is that about twenty minutes time. three

months eighteen and it seems no one is backing out of the occupy movement in the u.s. is celebrating another anniversary as it continues to defy critics and gain momentum artie's us here is a new york with more. these are the images of america over the last three months that cops are must beat themselves in the forehead because they've given such life to this movement not welcome by authorities a movement against wall street wealth inequality and government corruption exploded in new york and spread all across the us the nexus of all of our grievances was the profit motive but the fact that. the corporate sector dominated by the financial sector has our ostensibly democratic politics gridlock and it owns it. occupy wall street has just marked its three month anniversary what we

fall into on september seventeenth with this momentous moment of restoration in anger with the facts this time now i think that we've kind of injected the idea of economic inequality and see the public discourse how come i want to try to get that it would not last long enough to deliver any significant message but three months it was the biggest nationwide movement there what's it mean here is it's clear that the protesters are feeling stronger and more united to one critic said the protests would not survive until winter they have we can't fund education we can't fund health care but we could fund the police state and fund these wars until the cows come home at what point is it you know. when does the greed stop opponents said the demonstrations would never track tens of thousands they have i would love to see a peaceful revolution. really would the media ridiculed them as a joke that is not a party in their lives and is it trying to have burning right now. but kidding they

were not. many believe the uprising has transformed the face of america it's totally changed the conversation in the united states on saturday the occupiers of new york extract. campus after being evicted from zuccotti park. attempted to occupy a new public space to use as their base. but confronted by police about fifty were arrested others kicked out with pretty resilient so i think you know in a short amount of time well and. surely the. demonstrators plan to keep going until they see a revamp of the financial and political system in the us or the financial elite is still mourning it over everyone the economy is in trouble foreclosures are continuing they're all the real reasons for the protests and the movement will

continue no matter the obstacles the goal of occupy wall street is to make history and we're growing and we're going to be the transformative moment for social and economic justice in america. r.t. new york. remember there is always plenty more stories on our website and a quick look at what's in store right now. in airports reduced to ashes in siberia with one hundred emergency worker sam to deal with a disaster to find out what caused the blaze dot com. leader is on high alert as a flowing hall of smuggled cigarettes is stopped from crossing the border after the ferry cost him officer the tree across the river.

the personal phone conversations of a key russian opposition leader have been leaked on the internet creating a storm of controversy boris nemtsov is alleged to have called protesters who attended a rally against parliamentary elections how stars and cowardly hang wins well let's find out more and our team is tom barton joins us live from moscow. so tom this is likely to be a major blow for opposition supporters so where have these recordings com from and what else is on them. all the good questions marina a lot of people are asking them the revelations come from the notoriously tabloid and sensationalist life news dot brew website and they focus on six hours that they managed to obtain all of recordings of boris nemtsov who's an opposition leader one of the more famous opposition leaders and one of the organizers of the huge protests that have erupted since the december early

december election results on the wires spreaders reports of vote rigging there the recordings. of the phone tapping of recordings between him and some of his colleagues. they they contain his use of a lot of very profane very rude language about some of his fellow opposition figures and they also catch him saying that some of the protesters that came to the demonstrations were nothing but internet hamsters and cowardly penguins a lot of animal metaphors there i think he's trying to say that they didn't really have a will of their own. the there is a lot of questions also being asked about where these recordings come from precisely the owner of life news has refused to tell the media where he managed to get all these phone tapping conversations from the nazi also raising

a lot of questions by and it will be interesting to see how the situation develops further down by. in the meantime thanks very much indeed for bringing us this update. the e.u. hasn't managed to raise the full amount of rescue loans needed to help its indebted members the failure to come up with the cash is being seen by mary-alice as an indication of wider cracks within the block and as lex hears asking now reports it's a little surprise as some nations just cannot afford to pay the membership bills. on paper these people live in one of the most prosperous economies of the baltic region the reality their homeland. is the poorest country and after spending a year being part of the euro zone these people say the positive changes they were promised are nowhere to be seen recently euro commission check their pensions i thought he's told they received an average pension of six hundred this is far from

reality pensions in greece which fifteen hundred we hear get around two hundred. still only adopted the euro last january but despite a general positive attitude towards the move until now it is mostly big businesses and politicians that are really enjoying the transition there are clearly political advantages in terms of if you want locking in more firmly into the economic advantages as well in terms of investment the support for the euro is holding up very well people seem to be to see the advantages you may be politically economically with the euro what gumption party soon brought painful hand over since september story has agreed to take part in the european financial stability facility the body created to combat financial crisis and bail out countries like greece and now experts say this membership comes at a price you can not afford to buy formula for us very bad because we need to.

march. or or. from our g.d.p. rich countries something more than nine percent from our budget poorest country we need to pay off march richer countries the country central bank has even warned of a possible recession recent polls suggest up to sixty percent of the story inspire against the country's membership of the. government however doesn't seem to. and refuses to drop out of this relief fund meanwhile members of this community say they would rather help greece with potatoes than for it would then see their pension money heading their adopting the euro soon or later was a necessary condition for a stone you to join the european union but being part of the european financial stability facility was not in the agreement and while economists are speculating

whether stone you should continue its membership in this organization ordinary people are left to wonder why they have to pay someone else's debts. reporting from tallinn in a store when he. has the latest e.u. crisis remedy is now under threat with the i map lacking rescue loans french politicians are conducting a war of words against britain after it refused to support the plan angle french max and status target and the kaiser report later today. better than the french the british so french finance minister of course any sane person would rather be french and british just look at a recent study that came out about facebook users seventy five percent of british facebook users feature photos of themselves drunk ok that should tell you something about that country all the policy makers are drunk mervyn king is mostly in the bag all the people who are trying to do business over there the city of

london are for the most part in the abbreviated. well here's a look at what else is making news around the world hundreds of coffins have been shipped to southern philippines where massive flash floods have killed almost a thousand people say they were slow to the ship with the wooden coffins to help local authorities handle be increasing amount of dead efforts continue to help survivors and those displaced by the floods but search operations have been hampered by the damage to infrastructure the red cross estimates over eight hundred people are still missing. violent clashes between protesters and military troops have moved into a fifth day in cairo were more than a dozen people have been killed since friday security forces have used baton steerer gas and live rounds as they try to contain stone throwing demonstrators protesters have been trying to tear down

a brick wall the army set up to block access to parliament the deadly confrontation began when troops cracked down on the sit in to demand egypt's military power to civilian authority. iraq's government has issued an arrest warrant for vice president. on terrorism charges state run television aired what it said were confessions by alleged terrorists linked to the vice president the man said they have been paid by high shimmies office to carry out attacks on officials and police officers the warrant has also led to fears of escalating sectarian tensions. brings up today here in our if you would see that happen in the world of business carried us here. hello welcome to our business update this hour thanks for joining me world bank claims that russia will big from the world trade organization are being played down

by a top official here the global lender says national g.d.p. mid term will jump more than three percent from entry to the trade body which was accepted by other members on friday but the chief negotiator to lead. says he expects only half that. much to most of the music scene. so gross we've increased those three to four percent. really prefer to be more present mystic. if it will help them we will be most unhappy about this the music will be emotional laura so it's a bold. one point were. many foreign firms still aren't aware that w t o last take precedence and russia's court metals market i say one of the shop told r.t. the world trade body expected except it sorry the country as a member on friday and the boss of still trying to restart expects entry to spur

much surge decision making in russia's legal system. thank you so many free will move your group it's resume pollution species it means you can finish meaning you can even do this with your reading skills are going. to be really informational. easy to read or if you dream good you'll be sure you want to lose the screen version of mr zimmerman prefer to go to julie she you know she broke computer can be tripping over your loose when you're a nation. let's have a look at the markets now chordal futures edged hiring and electronic trading on tuesday but stay below ninety five dollars a barrel oil is up for the second day on the forecasts that u.s. stockpiles declined citing pressure as speculation that further sanctions. may be imposed against you wrong that's opec second largest producer. and european stocks are trading makes this hour investors still worry about the return of the sovereign debt crisis after meeting european union finance ministers yesterday the footsie is

trading flat the dax is half a percent higher this hour shares of astra zeneca fell two point seven percent after saying it will take a charge over two drug trials and shares self-torture telecom slipped two percent up to eighty and he fully dropped its bid to buy t. mobile usa from telecom. hayward russia's stock markets are trading in the red this town the office is losing half a percent minus six this point three percent down let's have a look at some individual travels this hour both good chips are losing ground with the country's biggest lenders bank down almost five percent there kerry airport is gaining its net profit rose by more than a third during the first nine months of the year reaching three hundred eighty four million dollars on preferred shares of national oil pipeline trends nafta are also off its nine months net profit growth eighty percent to four point eight billion dollars bucks in searching call for capital believes the moment investors should

stick to defensive stocks. overall expect some more good than. fortunately to be we can influence quarter to four and twelve was we driven by increased instability few school instability in europe so we voiced quine's to stoop to such names and say why didn't you spokes in the names of those industries to cause to select the poor to retails who would stay with you from you know high but cyclical means like steels for example we are neutral on banks still lags be but i think you know if banking situation globally would be on the precious barebone come later to be defensively in russian mirman. to modify part as fertiliser is coming under pressure from the ongoing financial turmoil in europe russia's largest part as producer says its most likely to cut production at the beginning of next year to

maintain prices. there is so it's a general. sentiment in the markets people are cautious not everybody's afraid that there will be a contagious in fact self confidence when markets move and that technical should business which is not the factor for them because that's why i would think that most probably in the first quarter of two thousand and twelve we will have to do so bored of the subway system there and see that it used to demand from the market would come expect that. ten fifteen percent can be expected and all user base i would do in order to. implement and so it's a maintenance and function. well that's it for now stay with us for headline news the rena coming up right after this.

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