a. syria's a decision to let observers into the country opposition groups some welcome the move while others intensify calls for outside military intervention ten months of unrest. despite 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 the freezing waters arrive in hospital. mind you words one of russia's opposition leaders finds himself red faced as a league phone conversations threaten to relationship with allies that he labeled as cowardly penguin.

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

call it week and month after month. is taking its toll and they have to remember who's there. being suffocated surrounded by armed groups there are many people who could not have had enough did we do to design this holmes is being described as bringing civil war where some of the series this is fighting his breaking out. driving through the streets there are clear signs of conflicts bullet holes and when day pains and he. has a heavy military presence we went to visit some of the areas where concentrated fighting was continuing. dangerous to visit. another where is it the fifty day life struggles on who visited the backdrop of gunfire. you can see the children playing here in a holding cell this is the one of the major. conflict continues for the safety of

the civilians. the situation in homes right now is far more complex than simply one of the opposition against the regime has a deep seated sectarian conflicts have with their heads. home. much more than. a military funeral held yesterday gets under way by soldiers killed by what the government says is an increasingly militant movement and in the same day reports from the opposition the harrowing accounts as civilian deaths around the country. make serious decision to allow the arab league to send observers the more important. to. in the same time. so really it depends on the intention do they really

want to help syria or. was 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 to destruction. with a fractious opposition 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 the issue of the name. the city of homs. and for more on the lingering confrontation in syria i'm now joined live by dr omar. based political analyst and journalist thank you for coming

on the program today so the the so-called syrian transitional council of based in istanbul is calling for a military intervention to do the members of the council really think this could help to get the country back on track and actually save civilian lives. well. they are calling for this intervention and i don't think they realize that this is going to make the situation worse and i think that. the move by the sitting government to accept the coming of. service to city is a very positive move and when one takes a positive move if there is good faith one actually welcomes a positive move when the when the city an opposition or at least part of the syrian opposition. and so there are positive moves with the with the more insistence on foreign intervention in syrian affairs that actually shows once again that the intentions of these pows and or part of that position is that is not an intention

that is for the well being of the city of people it. will soon and one hopes that the observers will function according to ethical standards and to professional standards that is they must actually see the situation on the ground in. the entire situation i mean they have to do a comprehensive overview not just a selective one so therefore they have to actually show what exactly is happening and as you have the person who actually did the tires a few a few seconds ago said that a lot of the information remains difficult to confirm so what we're expecting from these. observations is. compliments of image that would show the facts clearly that would show the casualties on both sides because apparently there is shooting on both sides and there are some serious. i'm sorry to interrupt you as

you say as you say as you are saying it's a positive thing to have arab observers coming in to settle the numbers to see you know is it really both sides that are at each other's throats but you mentioned moments ago that an outside military interference will not solve the ongoing nine month conflict in syria if that's the case then what will solve the conflict is in an entirely different story just to bring an arab observer to observe what's going on but what's the solution. yes well first of all let me just put things in context that the arab observers are part of the. solution so therefore it's not syria is at the core of the arab league so it's not considered the foreign intervention when the arabs actually interfere in city and matters but the dissolution i think would be. to actually stop with the foreign intervention that is bringing guns and money into this city and opposition and pushing it to actually become more militarized more aggressive towards the regime that is not helpful at all what is

helpful is to have the reforms that president bashar assad put on the table. being be made more substantial be made more concrete to have an application of these these changes these reforms this will take some time this will require an atmosphere that is a calm atmosphere it's very difficult for the army and for the police in syria and for the security forces to actually but if rain from arresting people who are shooting at government institutions or deserted from the army any country in the world where you would have part of the army deserted. occupying certain buildings and shooting at civilians then that would be that would actually compel the security forces to interfere forcefully and stop these people so that's what's happening right now in syria as you mentioned regarding you mentioned a moment ago about weapons being smuggled into syria from places such as turkey and lebanon where weapons being smuggled and going to the opposition a moment ago you mentioned the issue of you know could there be an outside and

external military intervention in syria it would seem to some with these weapons being funneled in that an external military intervention is already taking place. yes well this is not a direct intervention like as was the case with the nato forces in libya and i think what the part of the syrian opposition is now calling for is a direct military intervention. as was the case in the in libya direct nato bombing of of targets inside syria or government buildings of. army bases of you know the i think what they're calling from they are they have reached a point after nine months of attempting to destabilize the situation syria where they really are ready for the. full fledged war and destruction and city and that is why the sitting government is trying as much as possible to act positively and to find the positive measures to be taken in order to calm the situation down so

that such a destruction and full fledged war can be can be stopped can be prevented and a concrete solution based on reforms can be implemented and that is what pleasure president bashar al assad announced earlier and that is what he intends to do a lot of based our political analyst and journalist thank you. well still to come this hour here on beaten by the clock the u. bungles its own bailout cash deadline as the book struggles to convince member states to chip in for the common good of all of the euro. we're going to be transformative moment maybe very social and economic justice in america is not backing down the occupy movement gains momentum after three solid months of their worldwide crusade against global financial fraud. ten minutes past the hour

now here in the russian capital let's get to the oil rig story that capsized in russia's far east on sunday where rescue operations are continuing to spite fading hopes of finding any more survivors a total of fourteen have now been safely brought to shore and have been treated in local hospitals. griefs met 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 ports and their families awaiting them the moments 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. psychologists and doctors met the survivors upon arrival filled likely be an experience that will haunt them for

a lifetime. swam away from the rig a bit turned round inside capsize then i started swimming away as fast as possible in fear and then i could be drawn into the board tax 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 prefer as only the numbers found dead appear to grow and angry relatives for they know just who's to blame. why did they need so many sixty seven people at the break why what was the purpose of having six to seven people that. the action that could be done the i'm the wife of captain kozlov you for the voyage he dressed every official morning down there to talking was prohibited in the winter months because if it may have been the largest oil

rigs in russia but disappeared beneath the waves in a matter of minutes on the other what was the investigators are looking into three possible courses of the accident firstly it could have been due to violations of safety regulations during the tugging of the drilling rig secondly the condition of the rig itself might be to blame and lastly the decision to turn the rig might have been taken without proper consideration of the weather conditions of the wreck site . the official findings will take some time and whatever the outcome for the families of those involved the little comfort they still come to terms with losing their loved ones something more may experience the hope remains alive possibility discovering further survivors appears slim degrees r.t. sakhalin and russia's far east. timor continue to rescue the opera continue the fall of the rescue operation excuse me for instance our dangerous following on

twitter i have been monitoring developments as they happen step by step one of his recent tweets he reports on the anger of the victims' relatives who are raising questions over why the raid was towed in such a severe storm. twitter feed and website. is. the body of north korea's leader kim jong il died of a heart attack on saturday has been put on display in pyongyang his son and

successor was the first to pay his final respects video from the country also shows thousands of mourners weeping in the streets of the north and neighbors on high alert instability in the region. by. 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. does not make. the outside. if. there could be

a risk. and you can watch the full interview with hans blix in about a fifteen minute. public apologies and embarrassing explanations the fate of one of russia's opposition leaders after recordings of some of his phone conversations surfaced on line. split within the ranks after using insulting words to describe his allies. were among the least offensive times he used. reports. the revelations were published in life news dot breuer notoriously tabloid sensationalist websites 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 it's cowardly penguins and internet comes to 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 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 the others were falsified life news is only for its part has also added to the controlled 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 words and his use of language about other opposition figures and the possible splits in russia's opposition that that could indicate. reporting to remember.

the best place to look for the latest. common let's have a look at see what's waiting for you right now at r.t. dot com we look at how washington's man in moscow is playing big politics to niger russia under the influence of the united states. and the protesters too far. for a well known group of activists who are missing after staging a naked demo against the russian president takes effect in terms of. the e.u. missed a self-imposed monday deadline to come up. two hundred billion euro for his latest block wide bailout scheme the union fell fifty billion short of its talk it 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 but the plan stalled on takeoff with britain among others flight how we're fusing the pump more

cash into the euro their reasoning is that the eurozone should sort out its own problems but if. the reports that may be asking too much from member states who are struggling to stand on their last financial legs. 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 helm of the lot recently euro commission check their pensions are authorities told them received an average pension of six hundred this is far from reality pensions in greece which fifteen hundred we hear get around two hundred. a stone he adopted the year old 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 advantages in terms of if you want lock in your study and more firmly in into the economic advantages as 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 rosslyn economically but the. soon brought a painful hangover since september story has agreed to take part in the group in financial stability facility the body created to combat financial crisis and the bailout of countries like greece now experts say this membership comes at a price. for the formula for us very bad because. we need to. march. or. from our g.d.p. then rich countries something more than nine percent from our budget poor arrows no tree and no we need to pay off my tree check concrete 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 taters and four who would then see their pension money having 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. the r.t. business news in about five minutes from police dispersed dozens of demonstrators

who had set fire to their shelters following attempts to evict them it comes after protesters recently mark three months since the start of the movement against corporate greed in the united states. and i reports from where it all again. these are the images of america over the last three months that cops are 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 the profit motive the fact that. the corporate sector dominated by the financial sector has our ostensibly democratic politics in gridlock and owns it. all comply wall street has just marked its three month anniversary what we

volunteer on september seventeenth with this momentous moment in 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 i'll get my wall street right that it would not last long enough to deliver any significant message but three months into the biggest nationwide movement here was just sitting here 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 what the media ridiculed them as a joke that is not a party that they're 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 rocks. 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 we'll end up you know occupying to be sure the. demonstrators plan to keep going until they see a revamp of the high landfill and political system in the us the financial elite is still lording it over everyone the economy is in trouble foreclosures are continuing to grow all these real reasons for protests and the movement will

continue no matter the obstacles the goal of occupy wall street is to make history we're growing and we're going to be the transformative moment for social and economic justice in america. r.t. if. you stay with us here on t.v. time now for the. business off date with dmitri. thanks for hello and welcome to business on see the man full process fossilize is coming under pressure from the ongoing financial turmoil in europe russia's largest protest producer says it's most likely to come for an auction at the beginning of next year to maintain prices. there is and it's a general. sentiment in the market people are cautious everybody's afraid that there will be a complete. financial markets will the business which is not the fat for the day and be this way and we think that most probably in the first quarter of two

thousand and twelve we will have to do snowboarding. it's a reduced demand too much we can expect. somebody to auction off ten fifteen percent can be expected and will use of these will do in order to. function. so you are going to market is this our oil house shot up over the past hour now more than two and a half dollars however the light sweet and brand that it's made for cost that u.s. stockpiles are declining also added pressures speculation of further sanctions may be imposed against iran who picks second largest producer now it european markets so also finally in positive territory both in london and in frank first there held by banks the footsie however is still flat so positive it's way down by the drug sector shares of astra zeneca are down more than one percent the dax is gaining

with the topping the winners in this secular go rush another twenty minutes less than that to go until the end of tuesday session the l.t.s. is up one point three percent of my stocks one a half percent now driving without a freezer cause energy shares gazprom one of the biggest gainers up almost three percent their loss is also up moderately it's now profit rose by more than a third during the first nine months of the reached three hundred eighty four billion dollars preferred shares of national oil pipeline operator transnet they're also up three percent nine month net profit rose eighty percent to four point to experience. that's all we have time for on this edition of business we will be back in fifty five minutes time with.

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