russia's largest potus 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 potash 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 have some opposition groups get their way their calls for alcide help are growing louder insisting it's the only way to protect civilians from government security forces or the libya style demand comes despite the bases decision by damascus to allow arab league observers to monitor not only with all the rest there have been recent reports suggesting that dozens of ana desertions have been killed by syrian troops. the situation in syria now looks more

like a civil war than a government crackdown. but here in the embattled city of homs and you can hear heavy gunfire in the background that is really hard to gather and the sheer insurances that the civilian population here lives here as we call of the wait a month after month they've had to endure this conflict. the ongoing violence is taking its toll best had they of the real maybe who's there being suffocated surrounded by armed groups there many people who've been kidnapped have had enough recall did we do to deserve this homs is being described as just if you look bring in civil war where some of the series fiercest fighting has broken hours driving through the streets there are clear signs of conflict bullet holes in window panes and slogans on the walls there's a heavy military presence we weren't able to visit some of the areas where concentrated fighting was continuing. danger. to visit. us in other areas of the

city daily life struggles own movies and to 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 to continue living here in the city the situation in homes right now is far more complex than simply one of the opposition against the regime deep seated sectarian conflicts have with their heads. from the very beginning homes it was sick because the equal large numbers of both sects much more than in other cities. a military funeral held yesterday gets under way to 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 facilitate their visits to. in the same time preserve our sovereignty so really it depends on the intention do they really want to help syria or corner syria was the decision being slammed by the main opposition outside the country b. s. and c. . 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 and 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. on the first monitors 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 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 a fair that actually shows once again that the intentions of. or part of their

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 so to come this hour on the program beaten by the clock the bungles in bailout cash deadlines the bloc struggles to convince member states to chip in the common good of the euro also. we're going to be the transformative moment for example in economic justice in america not backing down the occupy movement against preventive after three solid months of worldwide crusade against global

financial. now as the oil rig that capsized in russia 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 toes sank in freezing waters for the seven p. for about some make port 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 or a. psychologist and doctors met the survivors upon arrival fill likely be an

experience that will haunt them for a lifetime aboard oh my swam away from the rig a bit turned around inside capsize but 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 hawk sea 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 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 purpose of having six to seven people there. yet 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 prohibited in the winter months by all or. 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 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 evening of the drilling rig signally the condition of the rig itself might be to blame and lastly. the decision to try 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 but 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 experience the hope remains alive the possibility discovering further survivors appears slim degrees. succulent and russia's far east. but our team will continue to follow the rescue operation for instance updates follow 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 raid total a severe storm follow on twitter feed on our website at our dot com. now the body of north korea's late better leader came john l. who died of a heart attack on saturday as him put on display his son and successor. was there first to pay his final respects with video from the country also shows thousands of

mourners weeping in the streets the news the victims death to the north neighbors on the high and fearing instability in the region japan called 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 to the outside world. does not make. threats from the outside might make them provocative and we know that within artillery range from north korea so even without nuclear weapons the situation 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 full 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. revelations were published in life news dot bru a notoriously tabloid and 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 so how would really 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 and 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 where we look you know

washington van i'm not scared of playing big politics and that's the country under the influence of the u.s. . and their protests too far well named group of top acts of a select missing after staging a naked demo against the better russian president takes an unexpected turn. antiballistic missile has been test fired in kazakhstan of part of the russian military is defense modernization and dr this is the first time the russian the history of boats has released footage of its tests display of firepower comes amid the long lasting russian native standoff over the u.s. backed missile defense system planned for eastern europe and turkey washington says

it will not threaten russian security well that's a demand from the group guarantees it also suggested the actions of the u.s. could undermine the recent start nuclear reduction treaty. 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 but the take home the putting them on all those plans help with music to look out into the year a everything is that the year is a mission to sort out its problems but as. he reports that may be asking too much from the state's financial legs. 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 authorities told they received an average pension of six hundred this is far from reality pensions in greece which fifteen hundred here get around two hundred. stoli 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 in 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 rather than economically but the year award option party soon brought a painful hangover since september 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 are now experts say this membership comes at a price you cannot afford to buy. for us very bad because we need to. or. from our g.d.p. rich countries something more than nine percent. poor. 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. government however. doesn't seem to pay attention and refuses to drop out of this relief and meanwhile members of this community say they would rather help greece with potatoes and forry 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. ski r.t. reporting from tallinn in a stone. now relations between the e.u. member states to rating is false is 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 so the 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 there the city of london are for the most part in the. now police in denver dispersed dozens of demonstrations he'd set fire to their shelters following attempts to evict them it comes after protesters recently marja three months is the start of the movement against corporate greed in the us r.t. is an essential because there are reports from where it all began. ah. 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 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 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 volunteer on september seventeenth with this moment this 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 occupy wall street. that it would not last long enough to deliver any significant message but three months it was the biggest

nationwide movement there what is happening here is 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 to see a peaceful revolution or really what the media ridiculed them as a joke they just have a party in their lives and is it trying to have burning man are they 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 facts relax. campus after being evicted from zuccotti park was 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 and you know occupying to be sure the. demonstrators plan to keep going 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 a protest and a 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 maybe more social and economic justice in america if. you're going to archie. who. are international headlines this hour an hour and a minute's silence was held. as thousands from the victims of last week she was

house in the city of lose incidents or a man go on a rampage shooting and lobbing grenades at a crowd christmas market if i think were killed and over one hundred twenty injured in the incident the attacker who shot himself before the police arrived was an ex-con that just sentenced to firearms and drug related crimes. iraq's sunni vice president to recal shammy has lashed out against terrorism charges brought against him by the government he said the allegations have been fabricated to claim his innocence iraqi officials issued an arrest warrant for him yesterday on suspicion of running a hit score that kills government think is the episode has increased similar i'm sure to groups just days before us for instance complete and full from the cultural . time out of his business deals with dmitri didn't go away.

last month for potus ford's allies is coming under pressure from the ongoing financial turmoil in europe russia's largest polish producer what i'll call you 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 factor from financial markets move that any cultural 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 loosen all loose. it's a reduced demand to market who can expect. somebody to auction off ten fifteen percent can be expected and will use the days we do in order to. implement policy maintenance 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 to nine point three percent in the u.s. caterpillar is the top gainer on the dow it's up 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 its abandoning varian 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 of the close watch also but

weaker than the market up half a percent as 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 transnet are up more than two percent nine months net profit rose eighty percent of four point eight billion dollars. chairman and it's only true by sas 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 vice reveals was nano had also received around five billion euros in state aid ahead of schedule where additional seven point five percent of g.d.p. so one point four percent from the way to the quantum of growth you know if you give yourself joining the military this kind of the mix of the take on that affects them through the approach of national political action over the not expect an

additional step from the government because you're on the head of a geisha nine hundred thirty billion for obama and the big agency will be fulfilled by the end before the end of the next year but actually they were fulfilled if you want to go to december this year the government has all the money. and it's all of a show has vowed to defend russia against a flood of cheap foreign imports because of its join w t o seven economy minister he offered his competition will rise after join him but he told r.t. he'll battle on just moves by our members. of us we can defend the market for more important unfair competition we've use existing w two rules to follow this so we're not creating any risk through companies through joining neverless competition overall who grow and that's new bird flu we do need more competition better quality products and cheaper prices. headlines on that tsotsi to stay with us.

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of the. it's not. a this is c yes serious this is into the observers into the country splits opposition groups some welcome the move while others intensify calls for alcide military intervention to end months of on rats. despite fading hope for finding more survivors from a count of the oil rig in russia's far east the search and goes on the seven people who were pulled on life in the freezing nurses off being treated in hospital. and mind you was one of russia's own physician.