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

civilian population here lives here as we call it the wait a month after month they've had to endure this conflict. the ongoing violence is taking its toll dickie arbiter here there are neighborhoods that have been suffocated surrounded by armed groups there many people who have been kidnapped have had enough who did we do to deserve this homs is being described as a city on the brink in civil war where some of the series fiercest fighting has breaking out. joining through the streets there are clear signs of conflicts bullet holes and when day pains and he was slogans on the 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 struggles on b.s. and to the backdrop of gunfire. you can see that children play. in the holding cell

this is the one of the major. this 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 homes it was dictator in because they're equal large numbers of both much more than in other cities. a military funeral held yesterday gets under way to 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 to 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 facilitate the visits to. in the same time preserve our sovereignty so really it depends

on the intention do they really want to help syria of course. 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 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. and beirut based political analyst to come out and he believes

that those who want foreign intervention in syria don't really have any humanitarian motives to play. that country and they've been smuggling weapons and actually that 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 met our allies and i think after nine months of that international coalition western and some gulf country against 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 could we have you with us here on art's he still to come for you this hour in the program by the clock. bailout cash deadline for block struggle to convince member states to chip in for the common

good. we're going to be transformative moment maybe very social and economic justice in america not backing down the occupy movement gains momentum after three solid 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 the air support combing a vast area of ocean in a desperate hunt for the dozens still missing. greaves now has 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 start but attention now really focused on those who still haven't been found thirty seven still missing and as time lapses time passes for the discharge of finding survivors is to win ling they've been exposed to extreme elements now 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 very exposed to extreme where lowers the temperatures and 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 happen very quickly one of the reasons 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. 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. dot com. if you. are.

it is passed down here in moscow the body of north korea's late 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 a range from north korea so even without nuclear weapons the situation would be. if you look at here and there could be a risk also. 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 boris and yourself could face a split within their ranks after calling some of his allies quote hamsters and cowardly penguins artie's tom bottom reports on some words that will be hard to take back. brava nations 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 really 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 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 oh no 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. right there while i do remember 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 right now and the typhoon nears. and the protest too far well known group of activists have been missing for twenty four hours now staging one of their naked demos against the belorussian president in.

hour twelve minutes past four in the afternoon here in moscow the e.u. misstate 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 his target with political bickering paralyzing the project the cash pool was intended as a debt. 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 euro their reasoning is that the eurozone should sort out its own problems because artie's alexy got to shift the reports maybe asking too much from member states on their last financial. on paper these people live in one of the most prosperous economies of the baltic region 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 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 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 advantage in terms of if you want more firmly in the e.u. . well in terms of investment the support for the euro is holding up very well you know 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 a story has agreed to take part in the european financial stability facility the body created to combat financial crisis and bailout countries like greece has now experts say this membership comes at

a price you can not afford to buy. for us. because we need to. or or. from our. rich countries something. poor. country we need to. march richer countries the country central bank has even warned of a possible recession recent polls suggest up to sixty percent of a story inspire against the country's membership of the. government however the. doesn't seem to pay attention 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 tallinn in a store. or 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 with max states you. better be french the british says french finance minister and really this childlike behavior going on as the last resort when all else fails you throw mud pies that eat out there 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 abbreviated. the business news about an 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 and comes after protesters recently marked three months since the start of the movement against corporate greed in the united states artie's anastasio reports from where it all began. ah. 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 the facts this time now i think that we've kind of injected the idea of economic inequality and see the public discourse occupy wall street past that it would not last long enough to deliver any significant message but three months it was the

biggest nationwide movement there what is happening here is it's clear that the protesters are feeling stronger and more united than 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 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 joke just one of a party in there with him trying to have burning man. but kidding they were not. as many believe the uprising has transformed the face of america has totally changed the conversation in the united states on saturday the occupiers of new york facts right. 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 and you know occupying our base surely her 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 their all the real reasons 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 many words there's an economic justice in america. our now at twenty past four in the afternoon here in moscow that's got some other international headlines for you in the r.t.

world update now clashes between egyptian protesters and security forces continue as the country's capital sees protests for the fifth 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 after 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 deluge which struck the south of the country as they were sleeping dozens 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 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 dog sleds were vital to get around. but today they're more leisure than life line. drives people to quit their modern lives and settle in remote woods. one fires them up to survive in the freezing cold. beginning in brushes and discover the arctic

circle on r.t. . because our special report at seventeen thirty g.m.t. time now here r.t. for the latest business news with dmitri. byrne welcome to business and see the world bank's claim that russia will earn big from the world trade organization are 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 through the. course says he expects only half of that. march through most of the music signal. through increase growth three to four percent. really prefer to be more percent mystic. if it's her than. about the seventy six

would be about. one hundred. twenty four and still aren't aware that the laws take precedence in russia's courts 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 new system. you send a very well known for their own volition introducing rules with information even those with learning even through security. to prove want to assure me uncertainty is a good thing or if you dream of going to pursue you want a little warning russian recession russia before you got me through three international growth computers are going to truly love you those are your only show . time now to take a look at the markets then the crude oil futures are higher than a chronic trading on a 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 opec's second largest producer. european stock markets shaken off the bulk of early losses on tuesday that's helped by banks the forties trading flat to negative however weighed down by the of drug sector shares of astra zeneca down around two percent on the first see the dax is gaining almost three quarters of a percent with the topping the year when it's list it's adding to a half percent. russia stock markets have reversed into positive territory second to what's moving my six well some blue chips are still losing ground as you can see there's burbank down around half a percent also ag carrier air 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 oil pipeline operator transnet also up its nine month from that profit rose eighty percent to reach four point eight billion dollars demand for partners fertilizer is coming under pressure from the ongoing financial turmoil in europe russia's largest protest to do so he says it's most likely to cut production at the beginning of next year to maintain prices. there is a general mystic sentiment on the market people are cautious everybody is afraid that there will be a. financial market. that any cultural 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 so. it's a reduced demand on the market we can expect. some adoption of ten fifteen percent can be expected and we will use the days we do in order to. implement

a maintenance and function. and some of your bonus time for many people in russia which raises the question of what to do with all that extra cash. pilbeam finds out if it's better to keep your question or spend it all on christmas shopping. premium interest rates here in russia still of attractive option for savers with some smaller banks offering rates of twelve to thirteen percent and even some of the bigger more so by such a special bag often 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 of historic low 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 mid that would suggest over 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 operating in a rush 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 the january sells for a shopping spree. back around fifty five in a sign with join me thinking. this

is artie lange from hong moscow at the time your headlines now divisions within syria's fragmented opposition see some i welcome the government's decision to let observers into the country as others call the outside military intervention. despite fading hope of finding more survivors from a capsize to oil rig in russia's far east the search goes on seven who were pulled alive from freezing water has now arrived in hospital.