ally that he labeled as cowardly language. and russia is already reaping the first fruit from its recent vision to the world trade organization as the head of the country's nanotechnology corporation reveals to business out to more on this in twenty. five pm on tuesday here in moscow this is artsy with me rory sushi welcome to the program 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 and system that's the only way to protect civilians from government security forces the libyan style demand comes despite the latest decision by damascus to allow our oblique observers to monitor how the regime is dealing with the rest being a recent report suggesting that dozens of army deserted has been killed by syrian

troops and authorities sara first found out the situation in syria now looks more like a civil war rather than that of a government crackdown. but here in the embattled city of homs and you can hear heavy gunfire in the background that is really hard to share insurance is that the civilian population here lives here as we call it the wait a month after month they've had to endure this conflicts the ongoing violence is taking its toll he added that there are neighborhoods that are being suffocated surrounded by armed groups there many people who've been kidnapped had enough did we do to deserve this homs is being described as a city in the bring in civil war where some of the series this is fighting his breaking out. joining through the streets there are clear signs of conflicts bullet holes and when day pains and 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. those who know their areas of the city daily life struggles own b.s. and to the backdrop of gunfire. you can see that shows i'm playing here in the homes that this is thing one of the major. conflict continues for the safety of the civilians if they 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 deep seated sectarian conflicts have with their heads. from the very beginning homes it was sick to read because they're 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 facilitate their visits to syria and in the same time preserve our sovereignty so really it depends on the intention do they really want to help syria or corner syria was the decision being flattened by the main opposition outside the country yes and see the course of. 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 the observers 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 no more lives are lost sir. the city of homs. meantime a beirut based political analyst come out wasn't he believes that those who want foreign intervention in syria don't really have any humanitarian motives at play. that country and they've been smuggling weapons and they been 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 their regime and collapsing of the regime did not materialize and i think after nine months of that international coalition western and some 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 cause instability inside syria watching r.t. still to come for you this hour on the program by the clock of the e.u. bungles its own bailout cash deadline as the book struggles to convince member states to chip in for the common good of the eurozone also. we're going to be transformative moment maybe for example in economic terms if in america not backing down the occupy movement gains momentum after three solid months of the worldwide crusade against global financial for. six minutes past the hour here now to the oil rig that capsized in russia's far east on sunday where rescue operations are continuing despite hopes of finding any more survivors they are fading a total of fourteen have now been safely brought ashore and are being treated in local hospitals. some of them as they arrived in port. dry

land and the end of a nightmare for the weary few on board this ship rescued from a horrific ordeal in which friends and colleagues were lost they are among the few to be found alive after an all rig on the toast sank in freezing waters for the seven p. thought about some make port and their families awaiting them the moment will no doubt be one of intense relief but their tale of survival differs greatly to that the majority of those aboard this ill fated or a. psychologist and doctors met the survivors upon arrival fill likely be an experience that will haunt them for a lifetime aboard my swam away from the rig a bit turned around inside capsize then i started swimming away as fast as possible in fear that i could be drawn into the vortex but those found alive you can see that in comparison they are the fortunate few dozens are still missing in the icy

hoxsey following more than two days of searching planes are flying sorties to try and locate those lost and they're being accompanied by boats in the area but the hours spent scouring the horizon so far program fruitless as only the numbers found dead appear to grow and angry relatives for they know just who is to blame and seem to like why did they need so many sixty seven people at the rig why what was the purpose of having sixty seven people there. yes you know i'm the wife of captain kozlov before the voyage here dressed every official morning down there to talk again was pretty bitter in the winter months by all because if it may have been one of the largest oil rigs in russia but disappeared beneath the waves in a matter of minutes on the shore in other words the investigators are looking into three possible causes of the accident firstly it could have been due to violations of safety regulations during the talking of the drilling rig signally the condition of the rig itself might be to remain and lastly. the decision to try the rig might

have been taken without proper consideration of the weather conditions of the wreck site. or you but the official findings will take some time and whatever the outcome for the families of those involved the little comfort they still to come to terms with losing their loved ones something more may experience as a hope remains alive the possibility discovering further survivors appears slim jake agrees r.t. sakhalin in russia's far east. continue to follow the rescue operation and updates just follow up on twitter. developments as if. you want to report on the anger of the victims' relatives raising questions over why the. follow on twitter feed. on our website.

ten minutes past the hour here in moscow the body of a north korea's late veteran leader kim jong il who died of a heart attack on saturday has been put on display. his successor kim jong un was the first to pay his final respects video from the country also shows the thousands of mourners weeping in the streets of kim's death but the north's neighbors on high alert fearing instability in the region japan called a special security south korea said its military is standing ready but.

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 the outside world. does not make. any threats from the outside knives that make them provocative in the north korean situation first of all we know that within artillery range from north korea so even without nuclear weapons the situation would be. if you look at here there could be a risk also of encouraging. forces in japan. and you can watch the full interview with hans blix next hour here on out public apologies and embarrassing explanations the fate of one of russia's opposition

leaders after recordings of some of his phone conversations surfaced online morris and your self could face a split within the ranks start according to some of his allies hamsters and cowardly penguins. reports on some words that will be hard to take back. the revelations were published in life news dot bru 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 the 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 were 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 website www dot com is the best place to look for the latest updates videos and comments so let's have a quick look and see what's waiting for you there right now look at how washington's man in moscow is playing big politics in. the country the way the. protest too far. topless activists have been missing now twenty four hours after

staging one of their make. the belorussian president. nearly quarter past the hour now 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 approximately fifty billion euros short of its target with political bickering paralyzing the project the cash pool was intended as a debt fire wall 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 and as artists reports that may be asking too much from member states who are struggling

on the last financial fix 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 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 some political advantage in terms of if you want locking your stone you're 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 you know people seem to be you 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. he created to combat financial crisis and countries like greece and now experts say this membership comes at a price and can not afford to buy the formula for a very bad because we need to. march high. or. from our g.d.p. rich countries something more than nine percent from. the 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 historians are

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 stony. well relations between e.u. member states to tear rating as fast as their economy is 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 and stacey. letter to the 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 eats 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. while we are about seven minutes away from the business news here on r.t. but for now police in denver dispersed dozens of demonstrators who had set fire to

the shelters following attempts to evict them it comes off the protesters recently marked three months since the start of the movement against corporate greed in the united states is an associate now reports from where it all began. these are the images of america over the last three months that cops are must be asking 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 fall into on september seventeenth with this momentous moment of preparation anger with the banks this time now i think that we've kind of injected the idea of economic inequality and see the public discourse occupy wall street last friday that it would not last long enough to deliver any significant message but three months it was the biggest nationwide movement there was this thing here 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 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 joke they just want to party in their minds and is

a trying to have burning right now. but kidding they were not. 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 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 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 lording it over everyone the economy is in trouble and foreclosures are continuing their only real reasons for protest 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. dimitris here in a minute with a business but for now and ballistic missile has just been testified on as part of the russian military is defense a modernization drive the display comes amid the long lasting russia nato standoff over the u.s. backed missile defense system to eastern europe. demands that we go guaranteed the system will not undermine the country's security suggests that the actions of the u.s. could undermine the recent start treaty. all right let's get to some other headlines from around the world for you this hour time for the world update here troops and a riot police swept through cairo's tahrir square before dawn on tuesday in another

attempt to evict protesters severely beating them using live ammunition in the process fourteen people have lost their lives in five consecutive days of clashes in the capital the demonstrators are calling for an immediate end to the rule of the armed forces the military took power after the former egyptian leader hosni mubarak was ousted in february. 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 effort continues. roxas sunni vice president tariq al hashimi has lashed out against terrorism charges brought against him by the government of the allegations had been a fabricated and proclaimed his innocence iraqi officials issued an arrest warrant

for him yesterday on suspicion of running a hit squad to kill the government figures the episode has increased tensions between sunni and shia groups just days before u.s. forces complete their withdrawal from the country. ok time now for the business news dimitri joins us next. thanks rory ross now the chairman anatoly chubais is has put a figure on the gains he expects from the membership of the world trade organization at a ceremony accepting russia's a member to the trade body sure vice revealed it had also received around five billion euro in state aid and of schedule. where additional seven point five percent of g.d.p. so one point five percent from the way to the point of growth you know if you give yourself joining the military there's so kind of the needs of the to come to affect them through the road or they think the shock or the protection over the not expect

an additional step from the government because you're on the head of a geisha and funded so to be on the robot and in the legation it will be fulfilled by the end before the end of the next year but actually they were fulfilled if you want to go to december this year the government takes all the money. and a top official has vowed to defend against a flood of cheap foreign imports because of joining the w t o deputy economy minister and. competition will rise after joining but he told r.t. he'll battle on just now by other members. mean you know what we can defend the market for more imports and unfair competition we've used existing w.t. rules to fight this so we're not creating any risk through companies through joining neverless competition overall who grow and that's no bad thing we do need more competition bits of quality products and cheaper prices. all right let's take

a look at the markets this hour crude oil futures trading higher edging higher in the electronic trading on tuesday while it is up for a second day in a row that's on forecast u.s. stockpiles are declining out of pressure is speculation that further sanctions could be imposed against iran and that's opec second largest producer. it's moved to russia there's one more hour left of trading in the r.c.s. and the my stocks are heading up moderately cyclical what's moving the my six gazprom is gaining more than two percent on high oil prices araf lot is also up point eight percent its net profit rose by more than a third during the first nine months of the year reaching three hundred eighty four million dollars and preferred shares of national oil pipeline operator chance now after also up its nine month net profit rose eighty percent to reach four point eight billion dollars bucks international call from would also capital believes at the moment of vesta should stick to defensive stocks as the overall expect the

market unfortunately to be weakened in first quarter two thousand and twelve word to be driven by increased instability school instability in europe so we avoid quine's to stoop to such names see why didn't you spokes you know those industries course who selected who to retails who would stay with you from you know. say steels for example we are neutral on banks. both we think you know if begging situation where we would be on the pressure of billabong conway going to be a difference of name in russian. there are four potters first allies is coming under pressure from the ongoing financial turmoil in europe russia's largest causes producer says it's most likely to cut production at the beginning of next year to maintain prices there is so it's

a general. sentiment on the market people are cautious everybody is afraid that there will be a fad from financial markets. and that any cultural business which is not the factor for the time being that's why and 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 from the market who can expect that somebody doctrine of ten fifteen percent can be expected and will use that they will do in order to. implement until it's a maintenance and the function. next up on i see the headlines with rory if you stay with us if we can.

thank you.

soon which brightened a few. songs from fans to parachute so. these friends don't talk t.v. dot com. five thirty pm here in moscow you without t.v. are your headlines for you now a divisions within syria's fragmented opposition to see some welcomed the government's decision to let observers into the country and others call for outside military intervention to end months of unrest. despite a fading hope of finding more survivors from a capsized oil rig in russia's far east the search goes on seven who were pulled alive from freezing waters arrive in hospital.