syria's decision to let observers into the country splits opposition groups some welcome the move. intensify calls for alcide military intervention to end months of on breakfast. despite fading hope of finding more survivors from a capsized oil rig in russia's far east the search goes on and seventy were pulled alive from freezing waters are rising up. and mind your words one of russia's opposition leaders find himself breath faces the same conversations threatened to damage his relationships with allies cowardly.

a very warm welcome to you this is our life from moscow syria could be the next object of a foreign military intervention if someone position groups get their way the calls for help are growing louder insisting it's the only way to protect civilians from government security forces or the libya style the mom to a comes despite the latest decision by the muskets to allow arab league observers to monitor how the regime. there have been recent reports suggesting that dozens of army disasters have been killed by syrian troops and these artists are first part of the situation in syria now looks more like a civil war than they. were here in the embattled city of homs and you can hear heavy gunfire in the background that is really hard to. insurance is that the civilian population here lives here as we call of the week a month after month they've had to endure this conflicts with the on going violence

is taking its toll had they had their neighborhoods that are being suffocated surrounded by armed groups there are many people who could not actually had enough who did we do you to design. this holmes is being described as a city on the brink of civil war where some of the series this is fighting has broken out. driving 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 dangerous to visit. us in other areas of the fifty day life struggles on. the backdrop of them. you can see the children playing here in the homes that this is the one of the major. conflict continues for the safety of the civilians they continue living here in 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. from the very beginning home. because the numbers. are much more than. 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 the pool's from the opposition the harrowing accounts is 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 see. in the same time. so really it depends on. the decision by the main opposition outside the country yes and see. who is the

opposition inside the country has welcomed in the north. we hope it's going to be implemented on the ground as it's. it's in the protocol we remain completely against international intervention it would lead the country into destruction. just opposition rising death toll with facts in its nation 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. seeing to ensure that. the city of homs. or the first bonuses 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 going on in the country and help prevent a full scale war prompted by the opposition they have reached

a point after nine months of attempting to destabilize the situation in syria where they really are ready for a. full fledged war and destruction in syria and that is why the syrian 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 their positive moves with with a more insistence on foreign intervention in syria affairs that actually shows once again that the intentions of these pows and or part of that position is not an intention that is for the well being of the syrian people the observers. and one hopes so 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. so to come visit on the program. deadline as the clock struggles to convince member states to chip in for the common good of the year right also. going to be the transformative moment for example in economic justice in america not about paying down the occupy movement against the men to mop the three solid. like you say against global financial. now it's 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 have now been safe people to shore one of being treated in the 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. four 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 oil rig. 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 when 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 the hours spent scouring the horizon a so far program 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 purpose of having six to seven people there. yes you know i'm the wife of captain because look you for the voyage here dressed every official morning down there to talk to him was pretty bitter in the winter months 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 show or what will support 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 one secondly the condition of the rig itself might be to blame and lastly that this is

. the rig might have been taken without proper consideration of the weather conditions of the wreck site. but the official findings will take some time whatever the outcome for the families of those involved with little comfort to come to terms with losing their loved ones so the experience with the hope remains alive the possibility discovering further survivors appears slim. in russia's far east. and continue to follow the rescue operation. the follow on twitter we'll be monitoring developments as they happen and one of his recent tweets he reports on the anger of the victims' relatives who are raising questions over why the rape with. severe storm to follow a. website called.

north korea's. leader kim jong il who died. today has been put on display in pyongyang his son and successor was the first to pay his final respects or video from the country also shows thousands of mourners weeping in the streets the news of kim's death but the norse neighbors on higher fearing instability in the region japan called a special security south korea said its military is standing ready but peace on the korean peninsula how much pressure the outside world puts on the north according to the former head of the u.n.

atomic watchdog. i think it is important outside the world. does not make clear. barely threats from the outside knives that make them provocative we know that within artillery range for a lot of korea so even without nuclear weapons the situation there would be risky one. and if north korea were provocative. there could be a risk also of encouraging. aggressive forces in japan. we watch the full interview with hans blix in less than twenty minutes time here on . now public apologies and embarrassing explanation of the fate of one of russia's opposition leaders are recordings of some of his phone conversations surfaced online but has them could face a split within the ranks after using insulting words to describe his allies

hamsters and cowardly penguins were among the least offensive to. report. 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 boris nemtsov an opposition figure in which he insults fellow opposition leaders using very profane language and calls protesters how would leave 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 organizers 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 but that could indicate. well conspiracy in russian political life isn't just a case of internal affairs check out our website r.t. dot com where we look at how washington's bad in moscow is playing big politics to nudge the country under the influence of the us. and our protests to follow the search for a well known group of topless activists who went missing after staging a naked demo against the bella russian president takes an unexpected turn.

now antiballistic missile has been testifying as part of the russian military is defense modernization drive this is the first time the russian ministry of defense has released footage of its a m d taxes the display of firepower comes amid the long long russian nato standoff over the u.s. backed missile defense system planned for eastern europe and turkey washington says it will not threaten russia's security while becka demands legal guarantees it also suggested the actions of the u.s. could undermine the recent stars nuclear reduction treaty. by the e.u. west a 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 its target with political bickering paralyzing the projects the cash for with is intended as a debt if i were to become one of the last lines of economic defense for the pun

stalled on takeoff with britain among others refusing to pump more cash into the euro their reasoning is that the euro is a should sort out its own problems but as our. reports that may be asking too much from them the states 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 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 their pensions are authorities told they received an average pension of six hundred this is far from reality pensions in greece which fifteen hundred we hear get around two hundred. still only 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 locking in more firmly into the you 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 rather than economically but the year award option party soon brought a painful hangover since september as tony has agreed to take part in the european financial stability facility the body created to combat financial crisis and bailout countries like greece and now experts say this membership comes at a price you can not afford to buy. for us very bad because we need to. or. from our g.d.p. rich countries something more than nine percent from our budget 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 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 for it 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 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 near. relations between member states the deteriorating us phone as they're

called the most notable example of the exchanges between france and britain which have been getting progressively more on diplomatic and that's one of the themes being discussed in today's kinds report with monks and stacey have. better be french the british so 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 the city of london are for the most part in the abbreviated.

police in denver to speak dozens of demonstrators who set fire to their shelters following attempts to evict them it comes after protesters recently while three months since the start of the movement against corporate greed in the us ati's anaesthetised can reports from where it all began. i. think. 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 the 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 anger with america is this time now i think that we've kind of injected the idea of economic inequality and see the public discourse how come i walk through. that it would not last long enough to deliver any significant message but three months it was the biggest nationwide movement there was just too many years it's clear that the protesters are feeling stronger and more united 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. really would the media ridiculed them as a joke that is not

a party in their lives and is a trying to have burning right now. but kidding they were not. us 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 lax relax. 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 i think you know in a short amount of time and. surely the. demonstrators plan to keep go wait until they see a revamp of the financial and political system in the us the financial elite is still mourning it over everyone the economy is in trouble foreclosures are

continuing they're all the real reasons for protest 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 example in economic justice in america. r.t.e. new york. because of all the international headlines this hour and a minute's silence for help across. thousands remember the victims of last week shootout in the city of incidents or among go on a rampage shooting and lobbing grenades that a crowd there a christmas market five people were killed and over one hundred twenty injured in the incident the attack again shot himself before the police arrived with an ex convict which served a sentence for firearms and drug related crimes. troops and riot police swept through cairo's tahrir square before dawn on tuesday in another

attempt to have it protesters and using live ammunition in the process fourteen people have lost their lives in five consecutive days of clashes in the capital the demonstrations the calling for an immediate end to the rule of the armed forces the military took power off the former egyptian leader hosni mubarak was ousted. iraq's sunni vice president tadic al hunt. sony has lashed out against terrorism charges brought against him by the government he says the allegations have been fabricated out of claim his innocence iraqi officials issued an arrest warrant for him yesterday on suspicion of running a hit score that killed government think is the episode has increased tensions between sunni and shia groups just days before u.s. bases its forces rather little on the country right. now as football clubs across europe settle down for the christmas break transfer remains come under the spotlight get the latest in our sports put it in around twenty minutes right now that is going to the latest business.

and welcome to business r.t. demand for potash fertiliser is coming under pressure from the ongoing financial turmoil in europe russia's largest part of producer says it's most likely to cut production at the beginning of next year to maintain prices. there is a general. sentiment in the market people are cautious everybody is afraid that there will be a complete. financial markets move and that technical should business which is not the factor for the time being this way 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 to the market we can expect. somebody of ten fifteen percent can be expected and a wall in use of this will do in order to. implement

a maintenance and the function. of the market so we start with oil futures are heading high us stronger they're up almost free a half dollars on tuesday that's on full cost u.s. stockpiles decline and adding pressure speculation that further sanctions may be imposed against iran second largest producer u.s. stock markets are up but on a positive housing report caterpillar is talking up on the dow which is above twelve thousand points finally at caterpillar is up more. european stock markets also capturing this optimism coming from the united states helped by banks the dax is up after a survey of german business sentiment exceeded expectations for these are point nine percent still way down somewhat by the drug sector shares of astra zeneca are down as it's abandoning of area cancer drugs. and this is the closing picture in rush hour stock markets there also had

a positive session with the obvious my stocks are two percent main drivers of the growth energy shares gazprom adding almost four percent there at the close lot weaker than the market up half of the said sam profit rose by more than one during the first nine months of the year reaching three hundred eighty million dollars preferred shares of the national oil pipeline operator transnet also optics. own it's nine months net profit rose eighty percent to reach almost five billion dollars it's. now no chairman and its only two bytes has put a figure on the gains here specs from the membership of the world trade organization had a seventy accepting russia as a member of the trade body to beis revealed the us now add also received around five billion euro and stayed ahead of chateau where additional seven point five percent of g.d.p. so one point four 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 the

fed. improve the road feeling pleasurable to protection over the not expect an additional step from the government because you're on the head of a geisha nine hundred thirty billion robots and the big agency will be fulfilled by the end before the end of the next year but actually they were fulfilled and you're december this year government if you take all the money. the top official has vowed to defend russia against a flood of cheap foreign imports because of joining the world trade organization have an economy minister and they snipped off admitted competition will be rising now but he told r.t. he'll battle one just moves by other members. but we can defend the market for more imports and unfair competition we've used existing w two rules to fight this so we're not creating any risk through companies through joining neverless competition overrules new growth and that's new bird flu we do need more competition bits of quality products and cheaper prices. that's all from me for now

alice is next with that. thanks to. you.

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