we're 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. while the out of 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 anti-government protesters the authorities say they are finding stream is armed groups operating in the country r.t. sara for of has been to one of the flashpoints in the ongoing unrest. and we're here in the city of homs and you can hear heavy gunfire in the background it's really hard to the sharon jury and says that the civilian population here lives here as we call it wait a month often months they've had to endure this cold flicks the on going violence is taking its toll he added that there are neighborhoods that are being suffocated surrounded by armed groups there are many people who have been kidnapped had enough did we do to deserve this holmes is being described as just if you look bring in civil war the way some of the series this is fighting has broken nose driving through the streets there are clear signs of conflicts bullet holes and when day pains. slogans on walls is

a heavy military presence we went to visit some of the areas where concentrated fighting was continuing it would be empty dangerous to visit. us in other areas of the city daily life struggles on movies and to the backdrop of gunfire. you can see the children playing in the homes that this is day one of the major. others conflict continues for the safety of the civilians continue living here in the city the situation in homes right now is far more complex than simply one of the opposition against the regime had deep seated sectarian conflicts with their heads . from the very beginning homes it was because the equal large numbers of both much more than in other cities. a military funeral held yesterday gets under way for five soldiers killed by what the government says is an increasingly militant

movement and on the same day reports 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 course. the decision to land 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 they not met or 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 countries 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

them but there are a persian gulf police 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 servant out of the total number of survivors i saw fourteen or so far being pulled alive from these icy waters and as they dock at have their wrists first experienced since this ordeal is 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 win ling if you're supposed to extreme elements in a face 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 in temperatures 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 happen very quickly one of the reasons before for that is that it filled of water before 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. taken gray's reporting there and more on the maritime tragedy in the russian far east can be found at our website art you know 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 to log on to r.t. dot 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 kenya known 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 uncontrollably weeping on the streets meanwhile north korea's neighbors are

on high alert following the news of the death fearing 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 stand off between china and america the important thing here to understand is that for example the fall of south korea being our military or it's not south korea that is our military or 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 of this 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. is 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 which is the key power in the region. the youngest son of the late north korean chief came ya known has already been named as a great successor and the people have been told to unite behind him as 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 you know 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 aren't you live from moscow still ahead of the program and nurse him down we'll look at how do we prosper the economy stoniest that struggling on the poverty line demonstrate that it's continuing growing with a blog plus. at a 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 about this book is that about twenty minutes time. three months in 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. 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 the fact that. the corporate sector dominated by the financial sector has our ostensibly democratic politics in gridlock and.

occupy wall street has just marked its three month anniversary of what we volunteer on september seventeenth with this momentous moment of restoration in anger with a very serious time now i think that we've kind of injected the idea of economic inequality and see the public discourse occupy wall street started that it would not last long enough to deliver any significant message but three months it was the biggest nationwide movement there was just too many years 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 enough. 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 or really would the media ridiculed them as a joe citizen of

a party in their twenty's and is a 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 were pretty resilient so i think you know in a short amount of time will and occupy and surely the. demonstrators plan to keep going until they see a revamp of the financial and political system in the us 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 a quick look at what's in store right now. in airports reduced to ashes in siberia with a hundred emergency worker sand to deal with a disaster to find out what caused the blaze dot com. the leader is on high alert as a flowing haul of smuggled cigarettes is stopped from crossing the border after the ferry cost him officer as well 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 hamsters and cowardly penguins well let's find out more and our t's 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 come from and what else is on them. well the good questions marina a lot of people are asking them the revelations come from the notoriously tabloid and sensationalist life news dot bru 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 and the widespread years reports of vote rigging there the recordings. of the phone tapping of recordings between him and some of his colleagues is 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 is 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 and that's also raising a lot of questions find it'll be interesting to see how the situation develops further tom darden meantime thanks very much indeed for bringing us this update. the e.u. hasn't managed to raise the four 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 as lex hears asking now reports it's 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 of 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 at the home of recently euro commission check their

pensions are authorities 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. a stone he 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 e.u. 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 rather than economically but the year award option party soon brought a painful hangover since september a 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 has now experts say this membership comes at a price and can not afford to buy the formula for us very bad because we need to.

or. from our g.d.p. rich countries something more than nine percent from our budget poor. 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. and refuses to drop out of this relief and meanwhile members of this community say they would rather help greece with potatoes and forry 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 in a store when he. has the latest e.u. crisis remedy is now under threat with the i math lacking rescue loans french politicians are conducting a war of words against britain after it refused to support the plan angle french max and stacey's target and the kaiser report later today. better than 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 sailors loaded the ship with the wooden coffins to help local authorities handle the 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 tear

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 will power to a civilian authority. in iraq show the 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 art 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 climbs 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 leave here mixing with the vet says he expects only half that. much to most of the. grocery agrees three to focus. really prefer to be more person mystic. if it will help them who are most unhappy about the music will be emotional or. many foreign firms still aren't aware that the last take precedence and russia's court metals market i say more 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 three months little more your group gets resume full immersion history she's with me as you can be sure you can even those with whom you're reading says you don't need. to be really really sure seems easy do you know or if you dream of doing it will be so you want to move this morning russian mission the russian prefer you don't usually see you know she brought the music can be tripping over your nose when you're a musician. let's have a look at the markets now chordal futures and hiring an 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 a speculation that further sanctions. may be imposed against you wrong that opec second largest producer. and european stocks are trading mixed this hour investors still worry about their internally 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 us designing a fell two point seven percent after saying it will take a charge over two drug trials and shares self-torture telecom slipped two percent after a t.n.t. formely dropped its bid to buy usa from telecom. here in russia stock markets are trading in the red the sun the archdiocese losing half a percent minus six this point three percent down let's have a look at some individual shambles this hour most blue chips are losing ground with the country's biggest lenders burbank 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 from the capital believes the moment investors

should stick to defensive stocks. overall expect some more good than. fortunately to be. in first quarter two thousand and twelve was we driven by increased instability school instability in europe so we voiced quine's to stoop to such names a high dividend stocks in the us names and those industries took the old course to selected quarter retail's who would stay away from you know high but. still for example we are neutral on banks. but i think you know if begging situation where we would be under pressure of burbank and waited to be defensively in russian and german. part us fertilisers coming under pressure from the ongoing financial turmoil in europe well says largest part of produce that it's most likely to cut

production at the beginning of next year to maintain prices there is sort of it's a general. sentiment on the market people are cautious everybody is afraid that there will be a could be just a fact from financial markets move that technical should business which is not the factor for the time being that's why i would think that most probably in the first quarter of two thousand and twelve we will have to do solve all of this so. it's a reduced demand on the market we can expect. somebody doctrine of ten fifteen percent can be expected and will use of this will do in order to. implement the same maintenance and the function. well that's it for now stay with us for headline news alert rina coming up right after this.

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science technology innovation called the news developments from around russia we've got the future covered. welcome back you're with art here is a look at the top stories hopes fate of finding out more survivors from russia's oil rig disaster which doesn't still missing two days after the drilling platform sank in icy waters that's as the last of the fourteen crewmembers found alive have just arrived back on land. signed a fracture within the syrian opposition while some welcomed the government's decision to let observers into the country either slammed the deal with the arab league there instead called.