arab league observers and or syria with russia hoping the peacemaker riskin helps down while and and stabilize the troubled country the four foreign military intervention. the five goes on more u.s. soldiers are losing their lives to suicide than enemy bullets causing some veterans to warn young people not to enlist. and british human rights groups fight for a no spies own in the world's most surveilled country calling on oxford city council not to report what's being said in taxis.

of the russian capital you're watching r t with marion joshie arab league observers are in syria with the aim of helping to stabilize the conflict torn country they'll have a big job as a reports of continuing violence just hundreds of people have been killed in just the last few days moscow's hoping the arab league can help stem the bloodshed without the need for outside military interference artists are for a three four pts. well the advanced arab league team is now in damascus they have of course to pave the way for the observer mission is expected at the end of the month they're going to be looking at the government's promises to implement that peace plan now of course many people here in the country excuse me skeptical about whether or not any real change is going to come from that arab league observers mission entering here

a big concert is whether they're going to be able to cover enough ground to get the places where the colds and try to conflict is actually happening that's been a real problem here in the country also we've been here for the past week actually getting to these areas accessing these people that are on the ground where the armed conflict is breaking out has proven extremely difficult but getting accurate information and verifying it full stop has been a major challenge we visited the city of homs and there you can hear the gunfire ringing out in the distance but ahead of the arab league team arriving here in the country we've heard very tiring reports of the violence breaking out at civilians us but they seemed if anything to being free single pulls out sitting around two hundred people having been killed in the past few days and as the conflict continues what we are seeing is this becoming both sides leaving lead increasingly increasingly bloody certainly that team of observers are really going to have their

work cut out for them that everyone's going to be very much are you paying this some form of change can now be a vote about that this is going to be an important step in the right direction but do remember it is of course just one step in many many more that are going to need to be taken before you see the situation here in syria coming down. it's our first reporting there a serious state news agency says over two thousand members of the security forces have been killed since unrest began and damascus claims recent un human rights reports alleging a brutal government crackdown are not the whole story activists of. the western media is a storing the picture of the real situation to help increase public support for war against the country. what we see here about these atrocities five house. deaths here and the so-called massacres none of these numbers are

confirmed they are actually given and if you look at the media they are actually telling you that they are getting their information from the. rebel army but they are not getting it from inside that country but of course when you look at the mainstream media at least here in the united states they are just repeating those numbers now in our four hour news websites we have been getting information from syria and these are not necessarily the supporters of saddam these are the people who are providing information to us they are there they are on the ground and then be run these stories nobody picks them up except a handful of international news outlets because it does not conform to what the group reported here in the united states that is all this is basically a makeup of a psychological warfare first of all the decision on syria was made a years ago even as the preparations began and this is a turkey on the border there there are nato air base there injured airbase may

two thousand and eleven so they have the decision they have had the decision they have been preparing for an actual war and then they begin the propaganda and the psychological warfare by trying to get the public support for an unwarranted war and that's the key pocket sea off the u.s. foreign policy you're looking at live playing right in front of you. subelements founder of the national security whistleblowers coalition talking to us from washington. now wave of synchronized bombings rocked the iraqi capital on thursday causing more uncertainty about the ability of the authorities to ensure security and also threatens to make the political fold in this and the country even why there almost twenty separate blasts ripped through the city ranging from car bombs to hidden explosives seventy two people are confirmed dead and over two hundred

injured the attacks took place a few days after that was draw of american troops from the country u.s. leaders insist they left behind a stable nation nine years after launching an invasion but joseph a writer for the world socialist thanks violence flaring up in the region is a product of american occupation. it was not about you know securing iraq and giving it freedom it was about securing the resources and in the process. so very intensions devastated the entire society and this is really the product of that you have different factions of the iraqi elite who are battling over power over control over resources including particular oil contracts and threatens to unravel into a civil war the conflict the violence in iraq is very much a product of the occupation itself and you know that's really the source of the

crisis facing iraqi politics and iraqi society i mean look at what what this occupation has produced over one million people killed by some estimates thirty five percent of rocky children. living doll is orphans just nation of infrastructure the entire society has been scarred by this occupation by this war. but damage done to the american soldiers who served in iraq and other countries is also unaccountable even when the guns fall silent and cease fires are agreed wars live on in the minds of the man and women who fought and a killer stocks them that is more deadly than the enemies they once faced such as liz walsh reports. being in this environment. it's killing us soldiers but surprisingly the biggest killers are not enemy combatants i am fortunate that the demographic in the united states kills its health pretty much

more than any other out there for the second year in a row more soldiers killed themselves than were killed in combat four hundred sixty eight soldiers took their own lives in two thousand and ten and even off the battlefield suicide rates continue to soar matha sure rose in afghanistan war veteran turn anti-war activists we come home feeling terrible despicable about what we did and what we saw sure roe is one of thousands returning from deployment feeling detached and conflicted the laws of decency don't apply to soldiers in combat and when you go back to having to apply those lost yourself all the time. you know that that for many you know leads either to the grave or to jail an average of eighteen veterans per day commit suicide and many more attempted last year twenty percent of the thirty thousand american suicides was a soldier or better and it kind of cumulated in. disaster.

in that you really start to wonder if you're ever going to be who you were again dr jan kemp says many soldiers come back feeling disconnected from the world in which they once lived then all of a sudden they're there back things happened in their families while they were gone the situation they can come back to is not often the same one that they left in fact many come back to bleak situations a quarter of the homeless in america are military veterans the unemployment rate among vets hovers over twelve percent meanwhile campaign such as army strong glorify life as a soldier and aim to entice america's young men and women. to enlist. or shooting is that the. average size since retiring from the army sharon has been committed to showing students the other side of the army

experience the side recruiters fail to show it's all part of the we are not your soldiers tour his message is clear don't don't become one of us. any hopes that message will prevent students from turning into a statistic from washington lismore or it. also has the r.t.s. sean thomas remembers a plane crash that wiped out the entire. hockey team he looks back at the tragedy in our special series on the last twelve months. there was anger there was frustration there was sadness there were tears. and the outpouring of support from everyone in the town coming to place flowers and pictures and jerseys and stuffed animals and light candles in front of the stadium where the locomotive practiced it was just amazing to see such an outpouring of support.

this is. to history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and seven on our t.v. . turkey has halted diplomatic and economic ties with france after the lower house of the french parliament passed a law making it a crime to deny the genocide of armenians in turkey in the early twentieth century if approved by the sad a fan or is could face a year in prison at fine of forty five thousand euro hundreds of french turks have been protesting in front of the national sandwich in paris more than fifteen countries have wrecked nice the slaughter round one of a half a million armenians but turkey denies the genocide saying it's up to an international committee of the story ends to decide what we're going to happen here caroline and professor of political science at paris west university thanks frances moves is just

a way of scoring political points. first of all you have to realize that it's a build good through the lower house of. and then it has to go to the senate best probably it would not go to the senate before the presidential election and maybe it would die out. so little political gain misplay have by various political parties. there is historical debate genocide has not been done there was a genocide and there's also the political games being played by various parties to get the armenian vote in the french elections every nation has to investigate its crimes in the past but establish an historical truth is the work of the story and it is not something that should be done and established by law. dimitri made a vat of a sound proposals to the state dual which could make it easier for candidates to run for political office in russia and his annual address to parliament the russian

president suggested a number of reforms some of which could be implemented as soon as next year and his speech president medvedev also touched the issue of mass protest against the results of the election earlier this month the opposition claimed the voting was rigged and now the new poll was held the russian president promised all allegations of violations will be thoroughly investigated. big brother is set for a ride in oxford taxis and that is of the local authorities have their way and install audio surveillance in every cab and the british city privacy activists are fighting them tooth and nail claiming people's rights would be violated and a court in another city has sent its own message by rejecting similar security surveillance there are reports. in oxford surveillance cameras everywhere and now in the city council scheme taxis will become the latest targets of state operations over the next few years license caps will be required to

install equipment monitoring both driver and passenger it's a fact of life in towns and cities across the u.k. that you'll being watched wherever you go on the high street in shops on public transport the surveillance along this stretch of street will only record images but the systems in taxis will record sound to effectively eavesdropping on the conversations of private citizens buses already have video and sound recording but aimed only at the driver taxi passengers will be recorded too and some who fit the best security late at night all reassured others see it as a staggering invasion of privacy i think is good idea i think it will make people feel a bit safer it's amazing i'm pretty same because i have to talk in taxi just like chatty friends you know be going to. put

a lot of pressure on people who behave. i think there are enough surveillance cameras in oxford and also i think it's quite awkward to have a video camera and everything in a taxi good we don't think to take it to be taped or you know to have to be cautious about what you say day and night recording will stop when the car engine switched on and and thirty minutes after it's turned off the council says footage will only be available to police for ongoing investigations i don't believe that it will be this let's remember this is not someone's front room this is not some bedroom this is the back of a taxi. driver in the front seat who will be able to overhear any conversation that we're having with the passenger. previously campaigners on the other hand can't understand how the council can justify this and accuse them of refusing to hand

over statistics on taxi related crime big brother watch says the move is unjust to fire billy intrusive. threats which exist that requires them to record not just video but the conversation of passengers we simply don't accept that the first is greater toward everybody should be recorded indiscriminately for example a panic button system being how it treats everybody as potential criminals. treating everybody as a. drivers will have to fork out four hundred pounds that's six hundred dollars to pay for the equipment themselves and while the council says it has the support of cappy many at this local firm object to the blanket approach if people used. is it going to be because. it's.

whoa is it me. that. oxford city council doesn't think it's going to have any trouble pushing this measure through but previously campaign is see it differently they're launching a complaint with an independent data protection body to try and stop what they see as the further creeping encroachments of the states prying eyes and is into innocent people's lives laura smith oxford. now plenty more stories for you on our website and here's what's in line for you right now at or t. dot com. a ship loaded with american missiles disguised as fireworks gets busted and finished fourth with a shipment believed to be rude to u.s. ally in south korea. and the man who changed the world way we

listen to music is to be posthumously awarded the grammy find out what revolution or reach events led to steve jobs getting the top honor u.s. music industry to give. let's take a look at some other stories from around the world the pentagon says mistakes led to nato airstrikes in northern pakistan that killed twenty four soldiers are reported by the u.s. government said the alliance was tailgating against what it thought it was an insurgent attack the u.s. blamed the incident on poor coordination with pakistani border forces attacking of them or put significant strain on relations between washington and islamabad causing pakistani government to close border routes into neighboring afghanistan. a five point eight magnitude earthquake has shaken church in southern new zealand causing a massive evacuation of public buildings despite the strength of the quake no

casualties have been reported and it tsunami warning has now been issued the city has still not fully recovered from a quake that killed almost two hundred people in fab yury and caused billions of dollars of damage. rival palestinian factions have made a significant step towards reconciliation whether now it's meant to mosque will join the palestinian liberation organization hamas and fatah also agree to hold an election next year to create a single government for both the west bank and gaza the breach between the two groups has been an obstacle to peacemaking efforts with israel hamas took power in gaza in two thousand and seven leaving palestinian president mahmoud abbas to govern only the west bank. in the u.s. republican leaders have caved in on president obama's demands to extend a payroll tax cut members of the republican led house of representatives have previously refused to vote on the extension the cunt will save around a thousand dollars a year for the average u.s.

pay packet and renew jobless benefits for millions of unemployed workers will also now avoid a significant hit to their paychecks in january. r.t. is looking back at some of the major events of two thousand and eleven and today we remember the fatal plane crash that took the lives of the entire jaroslava locomotive hockey team in russia showing thomas talks about the grief and sorrow he witnessed while covering the tragedy in the team's hometown. you were hearing it on the radio in fact in the taxi on the way to work you know they were there were listening to it and everybody was it was just hitting the gravity of what had happened. this was much bigger than a plane crash it was much bigger then. as you got to.

the personal connection of everyone in the town to the team. there was anger there was frustration there was sadness there were tears. and the outpouring of support from everyone in the town coming to place flowers and pictures and jerseys and stuffed animals and light candles in front of the stadium where the locomotive practice it was just amazing to see such an outpouring of support. to single much since i've been living and. i go every season and that's why it's painful. we were at the scene when it was pouring down rain it was in the middle of the day my classes were just. thousands of people came to their final respects. as soon as we finished our live shot we saw this one.

walking with two of his friends in this moment of shock in this very very. very special that he shared some of his feelings and his thoughts with us in a time when he was just processing what was going on. the entire community rallied around this team and speaking to the individual members of the community the fans the people who really. i felt like they knew every single one of these players. it's the most serious loss of my life like losing family. they were like family they all had something to say and they all internalized this loss. that final day inside the stadium the coffins were lined up with flowers and one by one there is a procession of people including the prime minister who came to pay his respects.

the graphic images in covering this story there's images of the plane still on fire images of them pulling the bodies from the actual crash site one of the survivors who survived the crash who is one of the stars of the team and then later to find out that he passed away just taking the hope away from this entire community. the desire and the willingness for this team to go forward to the team itself and the players and the young players really rallied and were on the ice the very next day . after the plane crash there were funeral services and while there were rallies there were players on the ice ready to rebuild the. team so that there could be a team in the future and that was an inspiration.

thank you were in the hall and welcome to our business update is solved now that russia has been approved for w t o membership a local carmakers are under pressure to match their foreign competitors and join venture between truck make a yet obviate and the next an investment group is trying to push ahead by making russia's first hybrid car the the project has also won support from the gas monopoly gas problem artie's marina costs or has the details. this is the whole concept one of the two core so here today the doors like. about a foot from the bomb and instead of your so i'd mirrors you have video cameras instead now this futuristic little yellow will cost you no more than fifteen thousand dollars and the company claims it will save you even more money in the long term. all of the oh cars have an internal combustion engine and generator but you're wrong on petrol and natural gas and of course natural gas is not only

cheaper it's also better for the environment you know auto has been showing off its pride and joy for a couple of months now and it has already secured one hundred fifty thousand orders mass production is expected to begin next spring and they plan to make forty five thousand cars a year for the. gazprom will encourage the promotion of the project in the market we see this car as a consumer of gas engines you see additional demand in the russian market experts say the russian car market could become the world's six largest by twenty twenty selling four million cars a year this will come on the back of foreign partnerships modernization and more local production with russia joining the w t o it's now more important than ever to modernize the country's current the street and these yama bills are seen as great contenders to compete with foreign auto powerhouses but car experts are already skeptical about the yos with some doubt saying they will work and others claim in

the company's designs are not practical and their prices will eventually have to go up the key here is not only to deliver what they promised but to convince russians that locally made cars can be better than foreign ones and that's not an easy task marina call serve up business r.t. . gas for the last of this fall classic rate its first electricity joint venture in western europe germany second large. utility r.v. says the parties ended talks to set up the venture after failing to agree on a deal the j.v. was planned to operate in germany u.k. belgium the netherlands the talks started in somewhere. to mitigate the costs of germany's decision to phase out nuclear power in ten years separately gospel says it's considering taking part in up to five electricity projects in bavaria. looking at the markets now all is heading for its biggest we can gain in almost two months

out three fell from the most pain a decade lots of bad stuff to do with economic reports indicated that growth in the world's largest cool consumer with us on the right like sweden is trading at just under one hundred dollars per barrel while brant is losing slightly and is trading at one hundred over one hundred seventy seven dollars a barrel. asian markets rebound on friday of a trading volume then in the region and surpasses markets have called for a public holiday all i'll be comic picture in the us is boosting sentiment is up over a percent with commodities stocks notable good news. here in russia markets open higher than my six to that point two percent the r.t.s. is gaining. half a percent this hour. and i examine this go from type of dialogue credence. i'm pretty much from or is there such a party or oil prices in the russian market is not very popular means that there

will be some credible momentum we can expect some. moves in the special or the fox before the new year in christmas it's really difficult to expect will be significant for something which you just market except for if you will have some downgrades from some of the major european sovereigns we have some. sold one of simple. that's it for the south but i'll be back in about fifteen fifty five minutes from now with more.

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