syria's decision to let observers into the country splits opposition groups some welcome the move while others intensify calls for outside military intervention to end months of on rest. despite fading hope of finding more survivors from a capsized oil rig in russian's far east the search goes on the seventy were pulled alive from freezing waters and live in hospital. mind you words one of brushes off position leaders finds himself red faced sleep phone conversations threaten to damage his relationships with allies cowardly penguins. and russia's largest ports producer says along with its global competitors it is most likely to cut production

by terms of fifteen percent next year in order to support global prices for more on this in twenty minutes time. a very warm welcome to this is r.t. live from moscow syria could be the next subject of a foreign military intervention of some opposition groups get their way the calls for alcide help are growing louder insisting it's the only way to protect civilians from government security forces well the libya style demand comes despite the bases decision by damascus to allow arab league observers to monitor how things are not only with all the rest there have been recent reports suggesting that dozens of army desertions have been killed by syrian troops as. the situation in syria now looks more like a civil war than a government crackdown. we're here in the embattled city of homs and you can hear

heavy gunfire in the background that is really hard to hear insurances that the civilian population here live here as we call the. wait a month after month to ensure this conflicts the on going 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 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 he was slogans on walls and as 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. us in other areas of the city daily life struggles on movie it's under the backdrop of

gunfire. you can see the chosen playing here in the homes that this is day one of the major. conflict continues for the safety of the civilians they continue living here in the city the situation in homes right now is far more complex than simply what is the opposition against the regime deep seated sectarian conflicts have with their heads. from the very beginning home. because they're equal large numbers of both much more than. the 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 see. in the same time. so really it depends on the intention really want to help. was the decision being slammed by the main opposition outside the country b. s. and c. who question. 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 a rising death toll with facts and information still very hard to verify even on the ground the observers arrival here in syria will be an important step but it's going to be just one of many more that will need to follow and seeing to ensure that no more lives are lost. the city of homs in syria.

or the first 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 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-city 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 syrian opposition or at least part of the syrian opposition. and so there are positive moves with with the more insistence on foreign intervention in syria in affairs that actually shows once again that the intentions of. or part of that position is that 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 still to come this hour on the program beaten by the clock the bungles in bailout cash deadline as the clock struggles to convince member states to chip in the common good of the euro also. were going to be the transformative moment for example in economic justice in america not backing down the occupy movement gains but then after three solid months worldwide crusade against global financial . now is 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 safely brought to shore and are being treated in the local hospitals greaves that 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 tow sank everything waters for the seven p. four about some eight 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. 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 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 is to blame seem to like why did they need so many sixty seven people and then rick why what was the paths of having sixty seven people there. yes you know i'm the wife of captain kozlov you for the voyage he addressed every official morning down there to talk to him was a pretty big day in the winter months because it be here 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 wattles the investigators are looking into three possible causes of the accident firstly it could have been due to violations of safety regulations during the evening of the drilling rig signally the condition of the rig itself might be to remain and lastly that this is. the rig much have been taken without proper consideration of the weather conditions of the wreck site. but 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 so the more way experience is the hope remains alive the possibility discovering further survivors appears slim degrees c. succulent and russia's far east. but our team will continue to follow the rescue operation for instance dates jacob on twitter will be monitoring developments as they happen in one of his recent tweets here ports on the anger of the victims'

relatives who are raising questions over why the reagan tell a severe storm follow on twitter feed on our website at our time dot com. now the body of north korea's late to better leader came john l. who died of a heart attack on saturday as him put on display in pyongyang his son and successor . was there first to pay his final respects video from the country also shows thousands of mourners weeping in the streets the news the victim's death to the

north neighbors on higher fearing instability in the region to the core a special security meeting while south korea and its military is standing ready with peace on the korean peninsula depends on how much pressure the outside world puts on the north according to the former head of the un's atomic watchdog. i think it is important that the outside world. does not make them nervous barely threats from the outside knives that make them provocative we know that within artillery range for a lot 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. forces in japan.

where you can watch that interview in the fall with hans blix next hour here on r.t. . public apologies and embarrassing explanations the fate of one of russia's opposition leaders after recordings of some of his phone conversations surfaced online but has them soft his face a split within the ranks after using insulting worth to describe his allies and cowardly penguins were among the least offensive terms used on his own bottom 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 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 that 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 over its part has also added to the controversy by refusing to say where they got the recordings from but all of this is caused a great storm of controversy on the internet with people shocked by themselves words on his use of language about other opposition figures and the possible splits in russia's opposition that that could indicate. well conspiracy in russian political life isn't just a case of internal affairs check out our website dot com there we let you know washington. playing big politics in march the country under the influence.

and the protests too far. of top acts of a threat missing after staging a naked demo against the russian president takes an unexpected turn. antiballistic missile has been test fired in kansas town of part of the russian military as defense modernization and dr this is the first time the russian the history of boats has released footage of its detests the display of firepower comes amid the long lasting russian nato standoff over the u.s. backed missile defense system planned for eastern europe and taki washington says it will not threaten russian security by moscow demand for new girl guarantees it

also suggested the actions of the u.s. could undermine the recent starts nuclear reduction treaty. now the e.u. missed 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 was intended as a debt and become one of the last lines of economic defense for the story we're going to take off the books in the month of those plans help with music to look out into the year a very brief thing is that the year is a mission throughout its problems but it is. the reports that may be asking too much from the state in the 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 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. 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 advantages in terms of if you want locking your more firmly into the e.u. 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 wrasslin economically but the year award option party soon brought a painful hangover since september a story 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 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 poll suggest up to sixty percent of historians are against their 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 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. see reporting from tallinn in a store near. relations between the e.u. member states to phone as their economies the most notable examples of the exchanges between france and britain which have been getting progressively more diplomatic and that's one of the things being discussed in today's kaiser report with max 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 each other 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. now police in denver dispersed dozens of demonstrations he'd set fire to their shelters following attempts to evict them it comes all to protest as recently marred to three months since the sas the movement against corporate greed in the us ati's anasazi chicana reports from where it all began. 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 this nexus of all of our grievances was the profit motive but the fact that. the corporate sector dominated by the financial sector has our ostensibly democratic politics in gridlock and. occupy wall street has just marked its three month anniversary what we fall into on september seventeenth with this momentous moment of frustration and 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 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 a system 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 or really what the media ridiculed them as a joke they just don't have a party in their lives and isn't trying to have burning man are living 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 relax. samplers after being a victim from zuccotti park i was attempting to occupy a new public space to use as their base.

i would confronted by police about fifty were arrested and others kicked out with pretty resilient i think you know in a short amount of time and occupy surely the demonstrators plan to keep going until they see a rebound of the financial and political system in the us for the financial elite is still mourning it over everyone the economy is in trouble foreclosures are continuing to grow all the real reasons for a protest and a 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. you know archie i was. there international headlines this hour an hour and a minute's silence was held belgium as thousands remember the victims of last week she herself in the city of leisure incidents or a man go on

a rampage shooting and lobbing grenades at a crowd christmas market five people were killed and over one hundred twenty injured her father and the attacker who shot himself before the police arrived was an ex convict sentenced to firearms and drug related crimes. iraq's sunni vice president tariq al hashimi has lashed out against terrorism charges brought against them by the government he said the allegations have been fabricated and claims innocent iraqi officials issued an arrest warrant and yesterday on suspicion of running a hit squad that killed government figures the episode has increased tensions in the sunni and shia groups just days before u.s. forces complete set of tools from the culture of the. time out of his business dealings with dmitri didn't go away.

banks are less demand for potus personalise is coming under pressure from the ongoing financial turmoil in europe russia's largest potash 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 term 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 loosen a looser and ways to. reduce demand to the market we can expect. somebody to auction off ten fifteen percent can be expected and we will use the days we do in order to. implement the minutes and the function. of the markets and oil is heading up although losing some of that impulse that we've seen

before lights we are still up almost three dollars per barrel brant is up to seventy two hours on forecast u.s. stockpiles are declining and adding to the pressure of speculation that further sanctions may be imposed against iran. u.s. stocks are up that's up for a strong spanish that never housing starts surged to nine point three percent in the u.s. caterpillar is the top gainer on the balance of more than three percent. closing picture in europe now. looking positive the footsie up one percent the dax three percent in germany stocks are up after german business sentiment exceeded expectations and the food scene was weighed down by astra zeneca as its announced that it's a bad ending to a very and a cancer drugs. and in russia also a positive session of the s m i six up almost two percent at the close mainly driven by energy shares gazprom up almost four percent at the close. also up but weaker than the market up half

a percent as has its net profit rose by more than during the first nine months of the year reaching three hundred eighty four million dollars preferred shares of national pipeline operator trance nafta are up more than two percent nine months net profit rose eighty percent of four point eight billion. chairman and it's only true bias has put a figure on the gains he expects from the membership of the world trade organization at a ceremony accepting russia as a member of the trade body to buy sort of eels was nano had also received around five billion euros in state aid ahead of schedule so where additional seven point five percent of g.d.p. growth so important for for certain from the way to point to growth in north america you live for so joining the military this kind of the need still to come to the fed has improved the road for people in close to perfection but we do not expect an additional step from the government because you're on the head of the geisha nine hundred thirty below zero vote and then the big issue will be fulfilled

by the end before the end of the next year but actually they were fulfilled if you want to go december this year government all the money. and some official as vowed to defend russia against a flood of cheap foreign imports because of its joining w t o seven economy minister you often it has competition will rise up to join him but he told r.t. he'll battle on just moves beyond numbers. we can defend for more imports and unfair competition we've use existing rules to flip this so we're not creating any risk for all companies through joining neverless competition overrules growth and that's no bad thing we do need more competition bits of quality products and cheaper prices. headlines on its status.

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