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life with me. syria could be the next subject of military intervention if some opposition groups get their way. and the only way to protect civilians from government security forces. despite the latest decision. to allow. the regime. dozens of. killed by syrian troops and as i found out. and syria now looks more like

a civil war rather than that of a government crackdown. we're here in the embattled city of homs and you can hear heavy gunfire in the background it's really hard to share insurance as the civilian population here lives here as we called to wait a month after month they've had to endure this conflict. the own getting violence is taking its toll best had they had the right maybe who's that have been suffocated surrounded by armed groups there are many people who could not have had enough who did we do to design this homes as being described as a city on the brink and civil rule where solicitor is this is fighting his breaking out. driving through the streets there are clear signs of conflict and when they paint. a heavy military presence we went to visit some of the areas where concentrated fighting is continuing. dangerous to visit. you

know the areas of the fifty day life. movie it's in the backdrop of. you can see the children playing in the homes this is the one of the major. conflict 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 a deep seated sectarian conflicts with their heads. because. yesterday gets under way. by what the government says in the militant me. and on the same day with calls from the opposition the harrowing accounts the civilians around the country. make serious decision to allow the arab league to

send observers the more important. in the same time. so. was the decision 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. but distract yourself position rising death toll with facts and information still very hard to verify even on the grounds that it's 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 call a thing that name

a lie. city upon. the first arab monitors are due to arrive in syria this week while the rest are expected by the end of december some analysts in the region are calling on them to paint a real picture of what's actually going on in the country and help prevent a full scale war prompted by the opposition and they have reached a point after nine months of attempting to destabilize the situation in 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 when the city and opposition or at least part of the syrian opposition. and so that's a positive move with with a more insistence on foreign intervention in syria affairs that actually shows once

again that the intentions of for these poles and or part of the position is not an intention that is for the well being of the syrian people the observers and i've soon and one hopes that the observers will function according to ethical standards and to professional standards i mean they have to do a comprehensive overview not just a selective one that would show the casualties on both sides because apparently there is shooting on both sides and there are some serious interventions in syrian affairs. you're watching live from moscow still to come this hour on the program by the club the e.u. bungles its own bailout. struggles to convince member states to chip in for the common good. also. we're going to be transformative moment. in economic justice in america not backing down the occupy movement gains momentum after three months of their worldwide crusade against global financial for

. now for the oil rig 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 of now being safely brought ashore and are being treated in local hospitals. with them as they arrived in the 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. four 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 to be an experience that will haunt them for a lifetime a blow my swam away from the rig a bit turned around inside capsize and 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 is to blame seem to like why did they need so many sixty seven people and then rick why what was the pattern of having six to seven people that. yes you know i'm the wife of captain because look for the voyage he dressed every official morning down there to talk to

him was prohibited in the winter months because it be 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 secondly the condition of the rig itself might be to blame and lastly the. much of. the. time. the families of those. terms losing their loved ones. their hope. for the. and i'll continue to follow the rescue operation as it continues for more. follow

twitter monitoring developments as they happen and. anger of the victims' relatives who are raising questions of why they. call. the body of north korea's. kim died of

a heart attack has been put on display. his. respects video from the country also shows a thousands of. neighbors on high alert. in the region japan called a special security meeting. depends on how much pressure. on the north this according to the former head of the watchdog. i think it is important outside the worlds. does not make them for us. from the outside might make them provocative we know that within artillery range for all of north korea so even without nuclear weapons the situation that would be a risky one. and if north korea were provoked at here. there could be

a risk also. in their. forces in japan. and you can watch the full interview with hans blix next hour here on oxy. 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 using insulting words to describe his allies. and cowardly penguins were among the least offensive times that he used as artist on battle reports. revelations were published in life news dot ru a 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 how woodley 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 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 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. well conspiracy and russian political life

isn't just a case of internal affairs if you. know you can know many other issues there we look at how washington's man in moscow is playing big politics country under the influence of the united states. and the protest too far the search for a well known group of activists who went missing after staging a. russian president takes an unexpected turn. just now tony quarter past the hour here in moscow and a missile has been testified in kazakhstan as part of the russian military's defense modernization drive this is the first time that the russian ministry of

defense has released footage of its detests the display of firepower comes amid the long lasting russia nato standoff over the u.s. backed missile defense system eastern europe and. washington says it will not threaten russia's security while moscow demands legal guarantees it also suggested the actions of the u.s. could undermine their recent start nuclear reduction treaty. watching r.t. now 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 about 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 but the stalled on takeoff among others refusing to pump more cash into the euro their reasoning is that the eurozone should sort out its own problems and as artie's

alexy go to the reports that may be asking too much for a member states struggling to stand on their last financial next. on paper these people live in one of the most prosperous economies of the baltic region reality their homeland. is the e.u.'s 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 out pensions i thought he was told they received an average pension of six hundred euro this is far from reality pensions in greece which fifteen hundred here get around two hundred. a stone he adopted the euro last january but despite a general positive attitude towards the move until now it is mostly big businesses and politicians that are really enjoying the transition there are clearly some political advantage in terms of if you want looking at stony and more firmly into

the economic advantages as well in terms of investment the support for the euro is holding up very well people seem to be to see the advantages you may be politically rotten economically but the year award option party soon brought a painful hangover since september stone has agreed to take part in the european financial stability facility the body created to combat financial crisis and the bailout countries like greece and now experts say this membership comes at a price and can not afford to buy the formula for us these are very bad because we need to. march. or or. from our g.d.p. that rich countries something more than nine percent from our budget the poorest the arrows own country and know we need to pay the debt of 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 their country's membership of the. 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 four who 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. what relations between the e.u. member states to tierra ting is fosters their economies the most notable example of the exchanges between france and britain which have been getting progressively more

undiplomatic one of the themes being discussed in today's kaiser report coming your way in approximately fifteen minutes time. better to be french the british suspense 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 is mostly in the bag all the people who are trying to do business over there the city of london are for the most part.

you can see the cars report in about ten minutes time here. police have dispersed dozens of demonstrators who actually set fire to their own shelters following attempts to evict them it comes off to protest as recently as three months since the start of the movement against corporate greed in the united states. reports from where it all began. these are the images of america over the last three months that cops are must be thanking them selves in the forehead because they've given such a 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 u.s. there's a 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 see on september seventeenth with this momentous moment going to be anger with a very serious time now i think that we've kind of injected the idea of economic inequality and see the public discourse not at my wall street. that it would not last long enough to deliver any significant message but three months it was the biggest nationwide movement there was this year's it's clear that the protesters are feeling stronger for you to be one critic said the protests would not survive until winter the. we have we can't fund education we can't fund health care but we can fund the police on these wars until the cows at what point is it enough. when does the greed stop opponents said the demonstrations would never track tens of thousands they have to see

a peaceful revolution. really what the media ridiculed them is a joke they just want a party in there when you're trying to have burning right now. but kidding they were not. many believe the uprising has transformed the feast of america it's totally changed the conversation in the united states on saturday the occupiers of new york oxford x. 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 u.s. the financial elite is still lording it over everyone the economy is in trouble for

closures 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 going to be transformative moment. for. our team. through. rose. or the business so let's get to the. some of the international headlines for you this hour trips riot police have swept through cairo's tahrir square before dawn on tuesday in another attempt to i think protesters beating them and using live. when 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 and military took power off of the former egyptian leader hosni mubarak was ousted in february. the philippine government

has shipped more than four hundred coffins to two flood stricken cities to help local authorities handle the growing number of dead almost one thousand people most of them women and children were killed by the deluge which struck the south of the country as they were sleeping dozens are still reported missing as the rescue effort continues. iraq's sunni vice president. has lashed out against terrorism charges brought against him by the government he said the allegations had been fabricated and proclaimed his innocence to iraqi officials issued an arrest warrant for him that was yesterday whole on suspicion of running a hit squad that killed 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. time now for the business dimitri is in the studio with the latest for you.

demand for allies is coming under pressure from the ongoing financial turmoil in europe russia's largest producer says most likely to cut production at the beginning of next year to maintain prices. so there is a general. sentiment in the market people are cautious everybody is afraid that there will be a good pages in fact from financial markets will that agricultural business which is not the fact for the time be that's why we think that most probably in the first quarter of two thousand and twelve we will have to reduce our borders. it's a reduced demand to the market we can expect. ten fifteen percent can be expected and will use of this window in order to. implement the same maintenance and the function. so of the markets this hour and oil is very strong

futures are high on tuesday as for costs a u.s. stockpiles are declining adding pressure speculation and further sanctions may be imposed against iran opec's second largest producer of. secular good us stocks and they're slightly down at this hour despite a positive housing report caterpillar is the top gate however some three and half percent european stock markets of positive health by banks the dax is up after a survey of german businesses this surge sentiment exceeds expectations footsie is trading flat to positive it's still way down by the drug sector astra zeneca is down as its abandoning and to a very of a cancer drugs. and this is the goes in picture in russia where the r.t.s. m i six gained almost two percent stake ago was moving the my sax energy shares were some of the strongest performers gas problem adding almost four percent at the

close on those higher oil prices that we mentioned earlier the program at carry out thought also gaining as a snap profit rose by more than a third during the first nine months of the year reaching three hundred ninety four million dollars and also preferred shares of trans dept up two point three percent . oil pipeline operates a reported a my month net profit rise eighty percent to four point eight billion dollars most interesting call from capital believes at the moment investors should stick to defensive stops. the overall expect the market unfortunately to be weak and inflows quarter falls and twelve was too driven by increased instability quite a few school instability in europe so we avoid quine's to such names who say why didn't you folks in the us names and those industries. will select the poor to retails who will stay where you fall ma you know high but

cyclical names like steels for example we are neutral on banks still life has been among both when i think you know if banking situation war will be on the pressure of billabong come later to be defensively in russian them are among. the headlines on x. that i sing with board. let's

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