among the main gate as high or private we view the figures in a business bulletin in about twenty minutes time. eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t with marina josh welcome to the program now arab league observers are in syria where the aim of helping to stabilize the conflict torn country they'll have a big job as reports of continuing violence suggest hundreds of people have been killed in just the last few days moscow's hoping the arab league can help stamp the bloodshed without the need for outside military interference artist sara first reports. the advanced arab league team is now in damascus they have of course to pave the way for the observer mission that 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 extremely skeptical about whether or not any real change is going to come from that arab league observers mission entering here a big concern is whether they're going to be able to cover enough rounds to get to the places where the coltan treated conflict is actually happening now 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 prevented 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 harrowing reports of violence breaking out at civilians us but these things if anything to being creasing the force of putting around two

hundred people having been killed in the past few days and as the conflict continues what we are seeing is this becoming of both sides leaving really increasingly arms increasingly bloody and certainly that team of observers are really going to have their work cut out for the everyone is 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 that many many more that are going to need to be taken before you see the situation here in syria coming down. parties are for reporting their 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 about edmund says the western media is distorting the picture of the real situation to help increase public support for war against the country. what we see here about these

atrocities five to 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 the 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 assad will 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 popper sea off the u.s. foreign policy you're looking at live playing right in front of you. subelements founder of the national security u. 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 it also

threatens to make the political fault lines and the country even wider 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 it their withdrawal of american troops from the country u.s. leaders insist they left behind a stable nation nine years after launching an invasion but joseph kishore a rider for the socialist thanks violence flaring up in the region is a product of american occupation. you know securing iraq and giving it freedom it was about securing resources and in the process. sectarian tensions 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 iraqi children. living doll is orphans just nation of infrastructure the entire society has been scarred by this occupation by this war. by the damage done to the american soldiers who served in iraq and other countries is also on accountable 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 surtees lives while reports. being in this environment. it's

killing us soldiers but surprisingly the biggest killers are not enemy combatants and fortunately inhabit the demographic in the united states kills itself 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 activist 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 last 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 veteran 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 and then all of a sudden their their bad. things happened in their families while they were gone the situation they came to 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 campaigns 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's not the military. to advertise 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 toward his message is clear don't don't become one of us. and he hopes that message will prevent students from turning into a statistic from washington liz want are. still had artesian thomas remembers the plane crash that wiped out the entire jaroslava locomotive hockey team you will spot of 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. witnesses. to history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven on our t.v. . turkey is recalling in some basket or in 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 senate offenders could face a year in prison our fine of forty five thousand euro hundreds of french turks have been protesting in front of the national a sahm boy in paris more than fifteen countries have recognized the slaughter of around one of the half million armenians but target

a nice genocide say it's up to an international committee of historians to decide what really happened here caroline a professor of political science at paris west university thinks france is move just a way of scoring political points. first of all you have to realize that it's a build good through the lower house. and then it has to go to the senate most probably it will not go to the senate before the presidential election and maybe. it will do so little political game is played by various political parties. there is historical debate genocide is not going down 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. which has sound

proposals to the state duma which could make it easier for a candidate to run for political office in russia. in his annual address to parliament the russian president suggested a number of reforms some of which could be implemented as soon as next year in 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 demanded a new poll was held the russian president promised all i would geishas are violations will be thoroughly investigated. big brother is set for a ride in oxford taxis that is if the local authorities have their way and install audio surveillance in every cab in the british city privacy activists are fighting them tooth and nail claiming people's rights will be violated and a court in another city has sent its own message by rejecting similar security surveillance there are these laura smith reports. in oxford surveillance cameras

everywhere and now in a city council scheme taxis will become the latest targets of state bugging 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're 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 and sound recording but aimed only at the driver taxi passengers will be recorded too and some who fear for their security late at night are reassured others see it as a staggering invasion of privacy i think is going to end there i think it will make

people feel a bit safer it's amazing and pretty same advice you have to talk entices just like chatty friends you know be going to. put a lot of pressure on people who behave. the ordinary innocent person probably feels comfortable etc i think there are enough surveillance camera in oxford and also i think it's quite awkward to have a video camera and everything in a taxi good we don't expect 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 abused this let's remember this is not someone's front room this is not somebody bedroom this is the back of a taxi with a to. driver in the front seat who will be

a able to overhear any conversation that you're having with a passenger or someone on fire 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 pubs for council of claim that there's a threat which exists that requires them to record not just video but also the conversations of passengers we simply don't accept that the first is great enough to warrant every part of the conversation being recorded indiscriminately rather the for example a panic button system being so it treats everybody as potential criminals. treating everybody as a law abiding citizen 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 as many at this local firm object to the blanket approach

if people used. the car as well. as in the hours are not working is a camera still going to be because they're not going to want family and friends filmed while the puzzle being what it would. whoa that is you know for them it me. to limit question why are we want to there is always a sort of fear that you know. but city council doesn't think it's going to have any trouble pushing this measure through but previously campaign is see it differently in that complaint with an independent data protection body to try and stop what they see as the further creeping encroachments of the state's prying and is innocent people's lives nor a smith books but. plenty more stories for you on our website here's what's online for you right now at our teen dot com

a ship loaded with american missiles disguised this fireworks gets busted in a finnish boars with a shipment believed to be our route to u.s. ally south korea. and the van change the world and the way it will listen to music is to be posthumously awarded a grammy find out why revolutionary achievement led to steve jobs getting the top modern u.s. music industry asked to give. now 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 a report by the u.s. government said the alliance was against what it thought was an insurgent attack and u.s. blamed the ends of the poor coordination with pakistani border forces the attack in of amber put significant strain on relations between washington and islamabad causing the pakistani government to close the border routes into neighboring afghanistan. a five point eight magnitude earthquake has

shaken christchurch in southern new zealand provoking a mass evacuation of public buildings despite the strength of the quake no casualties have been reported and no tsunami warning has been issued the city has still not fully recovered from a quake that killed almost two hundred people and caused billions of dollars of damage in february. rival palestinian factions have made a significant step towards reconciliation with the announcement a 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 while israel amassed of power in gaza in two thousand and seven leaving palestinian president mahmoud abbas to govern only the west back. in the us 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 because it 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. well our team 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 lokomotiv hockey team in russia sean thomas talks about the grief and sorrow he witnessed while covering the tragedy in the team's home town. you were hearing it on the radio in fact in the taxi on the way to work you know they were they were listening to it and everybody was it was just hitting them the gravity of what had happened. this was much bigger than

a plane crash it was much bigger than russia it was an over worldwide event. as you got to jaroslav all you felt that 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. i haven't missed a single much since i've been living and you know. i go every season and that's why it's painful. i remember we were out at the scene when it was pouring down rain it was in the middle of the day my glasses were just. fogged up with the rain

thousands of people came to pay their final respects to the team members and as soon as we finished our live shot we saw this one player in new jersey walking with two of his friends in this moment of shock in this very rare and very well moment that was 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 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 vladimir putin who came to pay his respects. the graphic images in covering the 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 and in chile who was 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 in the willingness for this team to go forward that 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 while there were funeral services and while there were rallies there were players on the ice ready to rebuild the jaroslava locomotive team so that there could be a team in the future and that was an inspiration.

brings us up to date here on r.t. business news is next. how i don't welcome to office the south take the south as for joining me now that russia has been approved for membership a local comic has on the pressure to match their foreign competitors a joint venture between truck maker yet of youth and the next an investment group is trying to push ahead by making russia's first hybrid car he'll appeal the project has also won support from the gas monopoly gas problem in acosta has one. this is the whole concept one of the two car so tastier today the doors like i'm backward sitting about a foot from the bumper and instead of your side 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. all of the you know cars have an internal combustion engine and generator they can run 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 winning cars 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 deals 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. 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 car service business r.t. . gas probably has to this bold plans to create its first electricity joint venture in western europe germany second largest utility. 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 the u.k. belgium the netherlands talks started somewhere as part of our plans to mitigate the costs of germany's decision to phase out nuclear power and ten years separately

says it's considering taking part in up to five electricity projects and of aria. let's have a look at the markets now oil is heading for its biggest weekly gain in almost two months up to well the most in a decade last week that's up the u.s. economic reports indicated that growth in the world's largest group consumer will accelerate through it is trading at just below one hundred dollars about brant is a nearly one hundred eight dollars per barrel higher asian markets rebound on friday but trading volumes of things in the region as jack as your band's markets are closed for a public holiday hole an upbeat economic picture of the u.s. is boosting sentiment up over a percent so commodity stocks notable gain. here in russia markets are. gaining on the health percent one is a little changed since the opening it's also off just let's have a look at some individual samples on the wires x.

and of you stocks are trading mixed is up half a percent well look. at the red roof hydro that is setting nearly a quarter of a percent but burbank is trading slightly up this are. russian oil company petro has put its london i.p.o. on hold until next year the company plans to list a third of its stock and raised three hundred fifty million dollars to pay off debt and increase output sources close to the offering say that the flotation has been postponed due to low demand ahead of presidential elections here in russia that's it for now i'll be back with more in about.

culture is that so much given to each musician the person on the bottom of the market with the american occupation in iraq officially coming to a close this week it's time to take stock was the war in occupation worth it for. the it is. just so. please.

welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow these are the top stories arab league observers and are serious aiming to help stabilize the conflict torn country russia hopes the peacemaker risk . damn the violence before a foreign military intervention. more u.s. soldiers are now losing their lives to suicide than enemy bullets unable to readjust to peaceful life that's causing some veterans to war and young people not to enlist.