we're going to be the transformative moment for example in economic justice in america despite police have you had the nurse on critics warning the corporate protests could not last until the winter three months on the occupy movement is still gaining momentum. worldwide news live in the center of moscow this is artsy with me role research showing 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 sign the arab league protocol allowing observers to monitor a regional peace initiative to end of 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 fighting extremist armed groups operating inside the country so forth it's been to one of the flashpoints in the ongoing unrest. we're here in the embattled city of homs and you can hear heavy gunfire in the background it's really hard to share insurance is the civilian population here live here as we call it wait a month after month they've had to endure this conflict. is taking its toll he added that there are neighborhoods that are being suffocated surrounded by armed groups there many people who have been kidnapped had enough did we do you to deserve this homs is being described as a city on the brink in civil war the way some of the series this is fighting his breaking out. joining through the streets there are clear signs of conflicts in window panes and. as

a heavy military presence we went to visit some of the areas where concentrated fighting was continuing it would be dangerous to visit. us in other areas of the city day life struggles on movie it's under 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 to 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 home. because the numbers. are much more than. the military funeral held yesterday gets under way for five soldiers killed by what the government says is an increase in the 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 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 yes and see. 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 into 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 that enable lives. the city of homs. and i mean time beirut based the political analysts to come out believe that the opposition's call for foreign intervention is not about protecting civilians but rather about pursuing its own gangs their dream of a change in their regime and collapsing of the regime not met her 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

them but there are a 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. you're watching live from moscow two days now after an oil rig capsized off russia's far east coast the search for any survivors has become desperate dozens of still missing in the freezing waters while seven of the survivors found of now arrived back on land that jacob group says met them in the port of the coastal region nearest to where the tragedy occurred. on the boat this just stopped behind me a servant out of the total number of survivors i saw fourteen or so far been pulled alive from these icy waters and as they docked have their wrists first experienced since this ordeal stephy on to dry land no doubt there is a sense of relief in the air 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 for the discharge of finding survivors is dwindling if you're exposed to extreme elements to 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 as to why so far this actually occurred in the first place the whole rig sank within about just twenty minutes on sunday have a very quickly one that reaches before for that is that it field of water there for 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. and more on the maritime tragedy in the russian far east can be found at our website r.t. 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 fail to abort the life just log on to our team dot com to find out. the. north koreans are paying their last respects to their late longstanding leader kim jong il who died of a heart attack at the age of sixty nine on saturday his death was only announced on monday. since send shock waves all around the country and the whole region a stream of mourners including his son and successor kim jong un passed by an open coffin it's expected the leader will be buried in about a week's time 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 south korea says its forces are currently combat ready but some experts believe peace on the korean peninsula is determined not by relations between the north and south rather by the standoff between china and america. the important thing here to understand is that for example the korea being our military or it's not south korea that is our military 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 be asking ourselves will the military the north korean military which are very powerful one million strong army who are building a reserve nuclear arms ballistic missiles will they really be subordinated to the new government or will they have a larger stance of these probably the key question is how will all of this on what

will china china has a very special relationship with north korea it's all about a strict father versus a problem. that 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. well the youngest son of the late north korean chief kim jong un has already been named as the great successor and the people have been told to unite behind him but as independent journalist tim short told us with the secrecy surrounding the new leader it's hard to guess what is tenure what actually 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 the symbol of their regime and this is a clear you know successor symbol they can they can use to continue their power. now eleven minutes past the hour here in moscow you're watching are still ahead for you in the program immersed in debt look at how a seemingly prosperous economy estonia is in fact struggling on the property line demonstrating the discontent of growing within the bloc. and business looking to

analyze what gains and benefits the us will get from becoming a member of the world trade organization join me for that and more in our business but less than. three months in and it seems that no one is backing out the occupy movement in the united states is celebrating yet another anniversary as it continues to defy critics and gain momentum and i see it is in new york with . 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 gridlock and it owns it. occupy wall street has just marked its three month anniversary what we volunteer on september seventeenth with this momentous moment of frustration and anger with america is this time now i think that we've kind of injected the idea of economic inequality and see the public discourse occupy wall street. that it would not last long enough to deliver any significant message but three months it was the biggest nationwide movement the west has been in years it's clear that the protesters are feeling stronger and more united than to be 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 can 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 and their message 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 facts right. campus after being a victim 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 and you know occupy and surely the. demonstrators plan to keep going until they see a revamp of the financial and political system in the u.s. the financial elite is still lording 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. are. now a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital and i do remember there's always plenty more stories on our website a quick look now at what's in store at this moment but an airport. in siberia with one hundred emergency workers sent to deal with the disaster find out what caused the. protest to follow a well known group of activists have been missing for twenty four hours now after staging one of. the better russian president in mexico.

it's good to have you with us today here on our team the personal phone conversations of a key or. russian opposition leaders have been leaked on the internet it's creating a storm of controversy. off to have called protesters who attended a rally against parliamentary elections hamsters and cowardly penguins let's get some more details on this artist is joining us now live from central moscow a time so this is likely to be a major blow for opposition supporters where of the recording has come from and what else can you tell us is actually on. the revelations were published in life news dot grew a notoriously tabloid and sensationalist web site in russia and they concern six

hours of private phone conversations recorded boris nemtsov an opposition figure in which he insults fellow opposition leaders using very profane language and calls protesters how would leap penguins and internet hamsters those protesters turning out on the reports of widespread vote rigging in december's parliamentary elections boris nemtsov one of the all denies of the protests has hit back saying that this is kremlin phone tapping and that they've been released these phone conversations to try and discredit him and to split the opposition he doesn't ever admit that some of the phone conversations did happen and he's apologized for any insult caused in those but he says that others were falsified life news is only for its part has also added to the controversy by refusing to say where they got the recordings from and all of this is caused a great storm of controversy on the internet with people shop to buy themselves

words and his use of language about other opposition figures and the possible splits in russia's opposition that that could indicate. they live in central moscow thank you. 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 many analysts as an indication of wider cracks within the block and it. reports little surprise some nations just cannot afford to pay the membership bill. on paper these people live in one of the most prosperous economies of the baltic region 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 fifteen hundred we here 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. 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. brought a painful hangover 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 this is now experts say this membership comes at a price you can not afford to buy the formula for us is very bad because we need to

. much. or. from our g.d.p. rich countries something more than nine percent from our. 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. and refuses to drop out of this relief fund meanwhile members of this community say they would rather help greece with potatoes and 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. and that's the latest the crisis remedy is now under threat with the i.m.f. lucking rescue loans french politicians are conducting a war of words against britain refused to support the plan the anglo-french. target and the kaiser report here on our thoughts coming your way next hour. better to be 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 bank all the people who are trying to do business over there in the city of

london are for the most part. before we get a career with the business attire for the world update here on our tour some of the headlines from around the world this hour hundreds of coffins have been shipped to the southern philippines where massive floods of killed almost a thousand people sailors loaded a ship with wooden coffins to help local authorities handle the increasing amount of effort to 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. in clashes between protesters and military troops who have moved into a fifth day in cairo where more than a dozen people looking killed since friday security forces have used tear gas and live rounds as they try to contain that 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 a sit in to demand egypt's military rule hand power to a civilian. iraq's shia led government has issued an arrest warrant for vice president tariq alpha shamy total reason charges state run television aired what it said were kind of questions by alleged terrorists linked to the vice president a man who said they had been on paid by sheriff's office to carry out attacks on officials and police officers and the warrant has also led to fears of escalating sectarian tensions right now let's turn over to kareen and she joins us next with all the business news. thank you rory it's twenty three past two pm here in moscow welcome to our business updates world bank claims that russia were 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 the. vet says he expects only half that. march through most of the music. room trees grow three to four. really prefer to be more person mystic. if it's. more than. about the same as the mystics of a would be emotional or. so bold. bias has put a figure on the games he expects from membership of the world trade organization at a ceremony accepting russia as a member of a trade body why it's revealed it was not or had also received around five billion euros in state aid ahead of schedule. this is where the additional so important

five percent of the g.d.p. grew so important for so from the way to report the rules you know you knew before so joining that would be wrong but that's so kind of the needs to go to the good of the feds to use them through the road will be linked to berkshire in the little textbook than additional steps probably go on because to go in the british and from the third would relieve them for a vote here and do the big issue for the beautiful view by the end before the end of the next year but actually they were both heels if you will in december this year go a member really all the money. let's have a look at the equity markets now cruel futures edged high in electronic trading on she was day to reaching ninety five dollars a barrel for those up the second day on four counts that u.s. stock piles declined adding pressure is speculation that further sanctions may be imposed against iran take second largest producer. of stocks in europe shake off the balkan burney losses on tuesday helped by banks the footsies trading lower while the dax is gaining over a quarter of a percent the shares of b.m.w.

up to now half percent and dine adding one point three percent drug sector is weak shares of astra zeneca down over three percent. and russian stock markets are trading in the red this hour the r.t.s. is losing two point eight percent to minus six is down two point seven percent let's have a look at some individual shamble on the mars express our blue chips are losing ground with the countries that have biggest lenders barebacked are down over one and a half percent air carrier air flight is gaining its net profit rose by more than a third during the first nine months of the year reaching the three hundred eighty four million dollars and preferred shares of national oil pipeline operator transnet are also off its nine months have profits rose eighty percent to four point eight billion dollars flexing shushing call for also capital believes at the moment investors should stick to defensive stocks. overall expect some market them fortune to be weakened. in first quarter falls and twelve words we driven by

increased instability quite a few school instability in europe so we avoid coins to stoop to such names say why didn't you folks in the. industries. who selected who are to retails who would stay with you from you know why but. for example we are neutral in banks. or think you know if begging situation would be on the pressure of burbank and waited to be defensively in russian mirman . to run for potus fertilisers coming under pressure from the ongoing financial turmoil in europe russia's largest potash producer says its 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. that actually cultural business which is not the fact 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 reduce our borders. it's a reduced demand on the market we can expect. somebody of ten fifteen percent can be expected and will use of the window in order to. implement it so it's a maintenance and function well that's it for this hour i'll be back and more and about fifteen minutes from now so i mean that i think.

wealthy british scientists some. of the titans. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines into a report. if

you are just joining us a very warm welcome here this is our team live from moscow and your headlines no signs of fracture within the syrian opposition. when the government's decision to let observers into the country slammed the deal with the arab league they are instead calling for an arab military intervention to protect civilians while the syrian authorities persist fighting extremist groups. hopes fade of finding any more survivors from rushers of oil rig disaster.