divisions within the syria's fragmented opposition see some welcome the government's decision to let observers into the country as others call for outside military intervention. despite fading hope of finding more survivors from a cup sized russia's far east the search goes on seven who were pulled alive from freezing water arrive in hospital. mind your words one of russia's opposition leaders finds himself red faced as a leaked phone conversations threaten to damage his relationships with allies he labeled it cowardly penguin.

global news around the clock this is r.t. live from moscow with me. syria could be the next subject of a foreign military intervention if some opposition groups get their way their calls for outside help are growing louder insisting it's the only way to protect civilians from government security forces the libya style demanded comes despite the latest decision by damascus to allow arab league observers to monitor how the regime. recent reports suggesting that dozens of army desert as have been killed by syrian troops and as sara first found out the situation in syria now looks more like a civil war rather than a government. here in the in the city of homs and you can hear heavy gunfire in the background it's really hard. the civilian population here lives here as we

call it to wait a month to month they've had to. deal is taking its toll he added that there are neighborhoods that have been suffocate. surrounded by armed groups there are many people who've been kidnapped had enough what did we do to deserve this holmes is being described as a city on the brink of civil war the west on the series this is fighting has broken out. driving through the streets there are clear signs of conflicts bullet holes and when day pains and slogans on walls there's a heavy military presence we went able 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 own movie it's in the backdrop of gunfire. you can see that shows are playing here in a holding cell this is day one of the major. others conflict continues for the

safety of the civilians if they continue living here and this is the situation in homes right now is far more complex than simply what is the opposition against the regime has a deep seated sectarian conflicts have with their heads. from the very beginning to home. because they're equal large numbers. much more than. a 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 reports 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 see. in the same time our sovereignty so really it depends on the. corner.

was the decision being slammed by the main opposition outside the country yes and see the course of. the opposition inside. 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 there 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 pull away and seeing to ensure the name or lives. the city of homs. beirut based political analyst to come out and they believe that those who want foreign intervention in syria don't really have any humanitarian

motives to play. country and they've been smuggling weapons and they actually they feel they lost what they hope for they can change the regime in syria today their their dream of a change in the regime and collapse and of the regime not matter our allies and i think after nine months of that international coalition western and some gulf country again syria syria was able to fast and prevail over all the obstacle opposition they don't want they want to still continue the process and causing instability inside syria. so good to have you with us here and still to come for you this hour in the program by the clock. deadline struggled to convince member states to chip in for the common good.

we're going to be transformative moment very social and economic justice in america not backing down the occupy movement gains momentum after three months of worldwide crusade against the global financial front. and now to the oil rig that capsized in russia's far east on sunday and rescue operations are continuing despite the chances of finding any more survivors being close to zero so for all the ships with support combing a vast area of ocean in a desperate hunt for the dozens still missing. the latest. on the boat this just stopped behind me just seven hundred 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 of stepping 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 for the discharge of finding survivors is to win the link if you're supposed to extreme elements in the face of a second night at sea rescue so far found that all the lifeboats mean that there are no there's no shelter for any potential survivors to take cover in very exposed to a stream an owner's attention and minus ten degree celcius here colder our set see 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 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. groups right there what our team will continue to follow the rescue operation for instance up there just follow jake up on twitter monitoring developments as they happen you can see right here expecting comments from the survivors who are now receiving a little treat follow artie's twitter feed and our website r.t. . if you. ten minutes past the hour here in moscow the body of north korea's veteran leader

kim jong il who died of a heart attack on saturday has been put on display in pyongyang his son and successor kim jong un was the first to pay his final respects video from the country also shows thousands of mourners or weeping in the streets the news of the north's neighbors on high alert fearing instability in the region japan called a special security meeting while south korea said its military is standing ready but peace on the korean peninsula depends on how much pressure the outside world puts on the north this according to the former head of the un's atomic watchdog i think it is important that they are outside the world. does not make. threats from the outside by to make them provocative in the north korean situation first of all we know that within the range from north korea so even

without nuclear weapons. the risk is. if you look at here there could be a risk also of. forces in japan. and you can watch the full interview with hans blix in about twenty minutes here on. now public apologies and embarrassing explanations the fate of one of russia's opposition leaders after recordings of some of his phone conversations surfaced online morrison itself could face a split within the ranks after calling some of his allies quote hamsters and cowardly penguins artie's tom barton reports on some words that will be hard to take back. the revelations were published in life news dot grew a notoriously tabloid sensationalist website 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 leave kind wins and internet comes to those protesters turning out on the reports of widespread vote rigging in that december's parliamentary elections boris nemtsov one of the all denies of the protests has hit back saying that this is criminal and 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 muses owner 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 shocked by themselves words and his use of language about other opposition figures and the possible

splits in russia's opposition that that could indicate. a member of our website dot com is the best place to look for the latest updates videos. let's take a look and see what's waiting for you there right now and the clash of the titans a billion dollar legal battle between two now and a russian tycoon. and a protest too far well known group of activists have been missing for twenty four hours now staging one of their naked demos against the belo russian president in. twelve minutes past four in the afternoon here in moscow the e.u.

missed a self-imposed monday deadline to come up with two hundred billion euro for its latest block wide bailout scheme the union fell fifty billion short of its target with political bickering paralyzing the project the cash pool was intended as a firewall to become one of the last lines of economic defense for the planet stalled on takeoff with britain among others refusing to pump more cash into the. reasoning is that the eurozone should sort out its own problems as artie's alex you got a few reports that may be asking too much from member states on the last financial . on paper these people live in one of the most prosperous economies of the ball to greet him in 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 a lot recently euro commission check our pensions are authorities told they received an average pension of six hundred this is far from reality pensions in

greece fifteen hundred 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 truly political advantage in terms of if you want lock in your stone you have more firmly into the you know we could plant it uses 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 wrasslin economically but the. brought a painful hangover since september a story has agreed to take part in the european financial stability facility the board create you. to combat financial crisis and countries like greece and 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

. or. from our g.d.p. rich countries something more than nine percent from our budget poor. country we need to pay off my trichet concretes 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 pay attention 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 stonier 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 stone in. relations between the e.u. member states are deteriorating as fast as their economies the most notable example of the exchanges between france and britain which have been getting progressively more diplomatic and that's one of the themes being discussed in today's kaiser report. better to be french the british sprenger finance minister and really this childlike behavior going on as the last resort when all else fails you throw mud pies at each other on the playground right it's a roast beef versus the frogs going on 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 in the city of london are for the most part in the bridge. business news about eight minutes away here on our team for now police in denver dispersed dozens of demonstrators who had set fire to their shelters following attempts to evict them it comes after protesters recently marked three months since the start of the movement against corporate greed in the united states and associates are going to reports from where it all began. 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 restoration in 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 how come i walk through. that it would not last long enough to deliver any significant message but three months it was the biggest nationwide movement there what's happening 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 what the media ridiculed them as a joke they did not have a party in their lives and isn't trying to have burning right now. but kidding they were not. this many believe the uprising has transformed the face of america that's totally changed the conversation in the united states on saturday the occupiers of new york facts right. camp list 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 and you know. surely other demonstrators plan to keep going until they see a revamp of the financial and political system in the u.s. for the financial elite is still mourning it over everyone the economy is in trouble foreclosures are continuing here all the real reasons for 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 example in economic justice in america. r t. r now at twenty past four in the afternoon here in moscow that's got some other international headlines for you in the world update now clashes between egyptian protesters and security forces continue at the country's capital sees protests for

the second day military troops and riot police swept through tahrir square to what is another attempt to evict demonstrators calling for an immediate end to the rule of the armed forces as follows friday's violence which left at least fourteen people dead the military took power off of the former egyptian leader hosni mubarak was ousted in february. the philippine government has shipped more than four hundred coffins to two flood stricken cities to help local authorities handle the growing number of dead almost one thousand people most of them women and children were killed by the dead which struck the south of the country as they were sleeping thousands are still reported missing as the rescue efforts continue. iraq's sunni vice president tariq al hashimi has lashed out against terrorism charges brought against him by the government he said the allegations have been

fabricated and proclaimed his innocence iraqi officials issued an arrest warrant for him yesterday on suspicion of running a hit squad that killed government figures the episode has increased tensions between sunni and shia groups and just days after the u.s. forces withdrew from the country. and today we are inviting you to a winter kingdom we give you a glimpse of another realm ruled by snow and biting cold. here in bygone days sleds will find tools to get around. today even more leisure than lifeline. drives people to quit their modern lives and settle in remote woods. one finds them up to survive in the freezing cold. beginning in russia's new discover the arctic circle on r.t. . course our special report at seventeen thirty g.m.t.

time now here r.t. for the latest business news with dmitri. trenin welcome to business the world bank's claim that russia will earn big from the world trade organization being played down by a top official here the global lender says the national g.d.p. mid-term will jump more than three percent from the entry to the trade body which was accepted by other numbers on friday but russia's chief negotiator to the vet called says he expects only half of that. marks to most of the mystic signal is a gross room crease three to four percent. really prefer to be more percent mystic. if it's been. about the same music server would be emotional lower. one point per person

many still aren't aware the w.t. laws take precedence and russia's courts metals magnate alexei much of the soft told r.t. the world trade body accepted the country as a member as you mentioned on friday and the boss of the steel giant severstal expects entry to spur much fairer decision making in russia's legal system. eastland of free will mourn those who for their own volition the species because of the pollution even those with early humans with regard. to cruel want to assure me uncertainties are good news or if you dream of going to pursue you want a little warning russian recession russia before you got me through three international growth computer going to be sure you love your little seven year old new show. timeouts take a look at the markets then the crude oil futures are urging higher than a two and a trading on tuesday oil is up for the second day on forecasts u.s. stockpiles are to decline adding pressure is speculation that for the second

sanctions may be imposed against iran open its second largest producer. european stock markets shaken on the bulk of early losses on tuesday that's helped by banks footsies trading flat to negative however weighed down by the of drug sector shares of astra zeneca down around two percent on the footsie the dax is gaining almost three quarters of a percent with the topping your witness list it's adding to a half percent. brushes stock markets have reversed into positive territory secular books moving my six well some blue chips are still losing ground zero see there's burbank down around half a percent also ag kariya florida slipped into negative territory its net profit rose by more than a third during the first nine months of the year reaching for a hundred and eighty four million dollars and preferred shares of pipeline operator

transnet also up its nine month for net profit rose eighty percent to reach four point eight billion dollars the manful partners fertilisers coming under pressure from the ongoing financial turmoil in europe russia's largest protest producer says its most likely to cut production at the beginning of next year to maintain prices . there is so it's a general mystic sentiment on the market people are cautious everybody is afraid that there will be a could be just a fad from financial markets. that any cultural business which is not a factor for the time being that's why we think that most probably in the first quarter of two thousand and twelve we will have to do so. it's a reduced demand on the market we can expect that somebody doctrine of ten fifteen percent can be expected and will use the days we do in order to. implement a maintenance and the function and set of your bonus time for many people in russia

which raises the question of what to do with all that extra cash. will be finds out if it's better to keep your question or spend it all on christmas shopping. premium interest rates here are still of attractive option. with some smaller banks offering rates of twelve to thirteen percent and even some of the bigger more such spag offering raise of up to nine percent compared with the poultry one percent being offered in the us to many european banks this seems like it's a bug that all depends on how quickly prices go up and how well the ruble performs now currently inflation is out on the story of seven cents now that's jude to stay stable through to two thousand and twelve a welcome relief from years of being in the rates that would suggest

a five percent on your money on the outlook for the ruble is relatively benign although such is the economic outlook that any must call with a level of cab yet another warning here that it is indeed the small the banks are offering these high interest rates now they're in an overcrowded market and coming into play next year the new capital requirements which the central bank is saying will push out up to thirty banks others the nine hundred and thirty operating. so if you have an appetite for risk then there is opportunity to be made from these high interest rates but if not there's always at the january sells a shopping spree. or a business back around fifty five want to sign with an update to join me thinking.