penguin's. a very warm welcome this is r.t. live from moscow i'm sure 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 demand comes despite the latest decision by damascus to allow arab league observers to monitor how the regime is dealing with the rest and recent reports suggesting that dozens of army dessert hosts have been killed by syrian troops and as artists sara first found out the situation in syria now looks more like a civil war rather than back of a government crackdown. we're here in the 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 wait a month often months they've had to endure this conflict. the ongoing violence is taking its toll best had they the real maybe who's that of being suffocated surrounded by armed groups there are many people who've been could not have had an obstacle did we do to design this homes as being described as this bring in civil war where some of the series this is fighting is breaking out it's driving through the streets there are clear signs of conflicts bullet holes in windy pains and then . there's a heavy military presence we went able to visit some of the areas where concentrated fighting was continuing it would seem too dangerous to visit. those who know their areas of the city days. movie if indeed the backdrop of. you can see the children playing here in the homes that this is the one of the major. this

conflict continues for the safety of the civilians to continue living here in 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 home. because the equal numbers of both sects much more than in other cities. held yesterday gets under way by soldiers killed by what the government says is an increase in the militant movement and on the same day with calls 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 facilitate. the. in the same time preserve our sovereignty

so really it depends on the intention do they really want to help syria or corner. 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 pros a call 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 that we need to pull away and seeing ensure that no more lies. the city of homs. and for more on the lingering a confrontation in syria i'm now joined live by dr omar they were 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 with a more insistence on foreign intervention in syrian affairs that actually shows

once again that the intentions of these pows are all part of that position is that is not an intention that is for the well being of the city of people observe. 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 in an entirely different story just to bring in arab observers 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 a regional solution so therefore it's not syria is at the core of the arab league so it's still not considered the foreign intervention when the arabs actually interfere in city and matters but the dissolution i think would be. to actually stop 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. be made more substantial be made more concrete to have an application of 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 desert as from the army any country in the world where you were 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 a weapons being smuggled into syria from places such as turkey and lebanon are

weapons being smuggled in going to the opposition a moment ago you mentioned the issue or 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 that 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 what's left what can be can be stopped can be prevented and a real concrete solution based on reforms can be implemented and that is what president president bashar al assad announced earlier and that is what he intends to do about enough of a a very base there political analyst and journalist thank you. both 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 not backing down the occupy movement gains momentum after three solid months of a worldwide crusade against global financial fraud. ten minutes past the hour now

here in the russian capital let's go to the oil rig story that capsized in russia's far east on sunday where rescue operations are continuing despite 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 people about some make ports 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. psychologists and doctors met the

survivors upon arrival filled likely be an experience that will haunt them for a lifetime a blow 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 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 program fruitless as only the numbers found dead appear to grow and angry relatives for they know just who's 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 because look for the voyage here dressed every official morning down there to talk

to him was prohibited in the winter months by all because of the heat it may have been one of 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 causes of the accident firstly it could have been due to violations of safety regulations during the tugging of the drilling rig securely the condition of the rig itself might be to blame and lastly. the decision to the rig might have been taken without consideration of the with the condition of the wreck site. the official findings will take some time but whatever the outcome for the families of those involved the little comforts come to terms losing their loved ones. spirits the hope remains a. discovery for the survivors. in russia's far east. timor continue to rescue continue the fall of the rescue

operation excuse me. a follow on twitter i will be monitoring developments as they happen step by step one of his recent tweet reports on the anger of the victims' relatives who are raising questions over why the code in the. twitter feed. 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 the news of death to the north some neighbors on high alert fearing instability in the region japan call a special security meeting south korea's military is standing 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 that the outside world. does not make. threats from the outside. 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. if.

there could be a risk of encouraging. forces in japan. and you can watch the full interview with hans blix in about a fifteen minutes 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 on line. could face a split within the ranks after using insulting words to describe his allies. were among the least offensive times he used his tongue battle reports. 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 of 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 hamsters those protesters turning out on the reports of widespread vote rigging in that december's parliamentary elections boris nemtsov one of the all going eyes 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. artist tom barton reporting right there while i do remember our website r.t. dot com is the best place to look for the latest updates videos and comment 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 nudge russia under the influence of the united states. and the protesters too far in the search for a well known group of topless activists who went missing after staging a naked demo against the russian president takes an expected turn. the e.u. missed a self-imposed monday deadline to come up with two hundred billion euro for his 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 debt fire war to become one of the last lines of economic defense but the plan

stalled on take off with britain among others flat out refusing to pump more cash into the euro their reasoning is that the eurozone should sort out its own problems but as artie's alexy reports that may be asking too much from member states who are struggling to stand on their last financial breaks. 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 a lot recently euro commission check their pensions are thought he's told them received an average pension of six hundred this is far from reality pensions and research 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 advantages in terms of if you want locking a stone even more firmly into the e.u. 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 maybe politically rather than economically but the euro what datsun party 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 by a lot of countries like greece this is now experts say this membership comes at a price you cannot afford to buy for the formula for us is very bad because we need to. march. or percentage from our g.d.p. then rich countries something more than nine percent from our budget poorest

country and now we need to pay that off my tree check 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. the government however doesn't seem to pay attention and refuses to drop out of the relief fund meanwhile members of this community say they would rather help greece with taters and four who would then see their pension money heading there 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 stoner 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 near the r.t.

business news in about five minutes from police in denver dispersed dozens of demonstrators to and 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 reports from where it all again. these are the images of america over the last three months that cops are must beat back in 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 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 restoration in anger with the very same system now i think that we've kind of injected the idea of economic inequality and see the public discourse my job to my wall street. that it would not last long enough to deliver any significant message but three months into the biggest nationwide movement to what's his name 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 could 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 where really what the media ridiculed them is

a joke they just want to party in their lives and is it trying to have burning man are they doing right. but kidding they were not. as 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 fox 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 space surely 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 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. when economic justice in america from. our team. you stay with us here in our time now for the. business operate with dmitri. thanks for hello and welcome to business on see the manful process fossilize is coming under pressure from the ongoing financial turmoil and 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 so it's a general mystic sentiment on the market people are cautious everybody is afraid that there will be a good pages of fact from financial markets really that agricultural business which

is not a 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 of all of this waste it's a very deuce demand on the market we can expect that. ten fifteen percent can be expected and we will use our window in order to. implement a maintenance and the function. so you are going to mark is this our oil house shot up over the past hour now more than two and a half dollars however for light sweet and brand that's made for cost that u.s. stockpiles are declining also adding pressure speculation of further sanctions may be imposed against iran opec second largest producer now european markets so also finally in positive territory both in london and in frank first there held by banks the fourth seed 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 this secular russia 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 sex one a half percent now driving we were of is of course energy shares gazprom one of the biggest gainers up almost three percent there. is also up moderately it's now profit rose by more than a third during the first nine months of the year reached three hundred eighty four million dollars preferred shares of national oil pipeline operator transnet there are also up three percent nine month net profit rose eighty percent to four point eight billion dollars. that's all we have time for in this edition of business we will be back in fifty five minutes time with an update rory is next with.

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with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. kaiser reports. this was the plant that was responsible for causing the world's worst industrial disaster and now it had been abandoned in a condition where it had become a source of pollution or the most recent study that was done shows that this water pollution and spread of. food continued to be more than hundred thousand people in. groups walking and. to be ten times more likely to be born with birth defects and children in the rest of the country. in the sea as little as five hundred dollars but

lifelong. unpunished. just off to here in the russian capital this is the headlines now syria's decision to let observers into the country splits the opposition groups some welcome the move while others intensify calls for outside military intervention to end the months of under arrest. 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 the freezing waters arrive in hospital.