arab league observers and or syria to find a peaceful and to the internal conflict there moscow hopes they can help stabilize the troubled country for foreign military step in. the fight goes on more u.s. soldiers are losing their lives to suicide that anime boy is causing some veterans to warn young people not to list. and british human rights groups fight for a no spies own in the world's most surveilled country calling in oxford city council not to record what's being said in taxis.

this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program arab league observers are in syria with the aim of helping to stabilize a 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 is hoping the arab league can help stand the bloodshed without the need for outside military interference are to sara for us reports. well 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 concert is whether they're going to be able to cover enough ground to get to the places where the colds and try to conflict is actually happening now that's been a real problem here in the country was 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 harrowing reports the violence breaking out of civilians that in fact these things if anything to be increasing the course of getting around two hundred people having been killed in the past few days and as the conflict continues what we are seeing is this becoming all both sides seemingly increasingly

arms increasingly bloody certainly that team of observers are really going to have their work cut out for them that everyone is going to be very much prepaying this some form of change can now be a force 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. sara first reporting there syria's state news agency says over two thousand members of the security forces have been killed since unrest began and i'm. ask his claims recent un human rights reports alleging a brutal government crackdown are not the whole story activists about as the western media is distorting the picture of the real situation to help increase public support for war against the country what we see hear about these atrocities add five to hauser. 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're 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 reporting here in the united states does all this is basically a make up 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 that this edition 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. a 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 fault lines in the country even wider almost twenty separate blast 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 the withdrawal of american troops from the country and u.s. leaders insist they left behind a stable nation nine years after launching an invasion but jeremy corbyn british labor m.p. and member of the stop the war coalition it's a very different view of what's been achieved has been a large number of deaths a huge amount of profits for arms companies a lot of oil contracts signed by western oil companies and a lot of chaos on the streets and a huge level of private mercenary security forces under the biggest u.s. embassy the world has ever see and it doesn't look to me it has been a complete withdrawal it looks to me as though there is a security presence left behind in order to protect the government that has been so happy to do business with the west this could play out into something extremely nasty over a long period it does require a democratic coming in the whole country and it does require the participation of

all those political forces in that outcome and that clearly is not happening at the present time the war was an attack on a sovereign state it was a war for regime change were in the case of britain the british parliament was told it was sold in a war for disarmament of the non-existent weapons of mass destruction and the damage it's done in iraq in the region and the civil liberties of everybody in every one of the participating countries is absolutely huge. but damage down to the american soldiers who served in iraq in other countries is also i'm countable 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 and that is more deadly than the enemies the ones faced as artie's liz wahl reports. being in this environment is killing us soldiers but surprisingly the biggest killers are not enemy combatants and fortunately inhabits the demographic in the united states that 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 mathur 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 and 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. too unless. for shooting is that enough 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 tour 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 ball park. well so they have for you know our teens shawn thomas remembers the plane crash that wiped out the entire jaroslava locomotive 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. witnesses. to history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven on our t.v. . turkey is recalling is a massacre 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 and find a forty five thousand euro hundreds of french turks have been protesting in front of the national assembly in paris more than fifteen countries have recognized the slaughter of around one and a half million armenians but turkey denies the genocide saying it's up to an international committee our story instead aside what really happened here your land a professor of political science at paris west university thinks france's move is

just a way of scoring political points which was first of all you have to realize that it's a build good thing through the lower house that are meant and then it has to go to the senate most probably it would not go to the server before the presidential election and maybe it would die out of all these so little political game is played by various political parties. there is that 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 establishing historical truth is the work of the story and it is not something that should be done and established by law. let me trim it if you have to send proposals to the state duma 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 in his speech president we have 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 a geisha violations will be thoroughly investigated. big brother is set for rides on 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 at 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 cabs 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 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 all reassured others see it as a staggering invasion of privacy i think it's good idea i think it will make people feel a bit safer it's amazing and privacy because i have to talk entices just like chatty . puts

a lot of pressure on people. i think there are enough surveillance camera in oxford and also i think it's quite open to have a video camera and everything in a taxi could we don't think 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. let's remember this is not someone's front room this is not some his bedroom this is the back of a taxi with a driver in the. front seats who will be able to overhear any conversation but will having the past five 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 unjustifiably intrusive. threats which exist that requires them to record not just video but also the conversation of passengers we simply don't accept the differences greater toward everybody should be recorded indiscriminately for example a panic button system. 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 cap is many at this local firm object to the blanket approach.

is a going to be. whoa is. me. we want to. 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. a plenty more stories for you on our website here's what's online for you right now at our dot com. a ship loaded with american missiles disguised as fireworks gets busted it finished fourth with

a shipment believed to be on route to us ally south korea. man the man who changed the world the way we listen to music is to be posthumously awarded a grammy find out what revolutionary treatments led to steve jobs getting the top honor the u.s. music industry has 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 to kill twenty four soldiers a report by the u.s. government says the alliance was retail against what it thought was an insurgent attack the u.s. blamed the incident on poor coordination with pakistani border forces the attack in a van were 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 christ church 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 hamas will join the palestinian liberation organization hamas and fatah also agree to hold an election next year to grade 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 in the west bank. and 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 has

previously refused to vote on the extension because it will save around a thousand dollars a year for the average u.s. pay package and renew jobless benefits for millions of unemployed workers will also now avoid a significant hit to their paychecks in january. our team is looking back at some of the major events of twenty eleven and today we remember the fatal plane crash that took the lives of the entire jaroslava locomotive hockey team in russia sean 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 on the way to work they were there were listening to it. it was just.

this was much bigger than it was much bigger. as you got to. the personal connection. to the team. there was anger there was frustration there was sadness there were tears. and the outpouring of support from everyone in the. pictures in jerseys and stuffed animals and light candles in front of the stadium where. it was just amazing to see such an outpouring of support. every season. we were seen and it was pouring down rain it was in the middle of the day my classes were just.

thousands of people came. 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 vladimir putin 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 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 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 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. we have

today happening in the world here. hello and welcome to a business here knotty thanks for joining me this hour now that russia has been approved for w c o membership local carmakers are under pressure to match their foreign competitors it joint venture between truck make a year of it and the next an investment group is trying to push ahead by making russia's first hybrid car a yeoman below the project has also won support from the gas monopoly gas problem artie's main acosta has more. this is the your concept one of the two corso here today the door slide backwards sort of 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 term. 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 with. 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 from the russian market experts say the russian car market could become the world's six largest by twenty twenty seven 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 more in a car service business r.t. . gas probably has to create its first electricity joint venture in western europe germany second largest. he says the parties ended talks to set up the venture after failing to agree on a deal j.v. was planned to operate in germany and belgium netherlands the talks started in somewhere as part of all these plans to mitigate the costs of germany's decision to phase out nuclear power in ten years separately gazprom says it's considering

taking part in up to five of the two is the project in bavaria. let's take a look at the markets now oil is heading for its biggest week again in almost two months after it fell the most in a text made last week that's up to us economic reports indicate that the growth in the world's largest crude consumer with similar weight flights we just trading at just below one hundred dollars a barrel while brant is at nearly one hundred eight dollars a barrel. markets in asia rebound on friday but trading volumes are then in the region as to cause markets are closed for a public holiday on the whole and i'll be going to mixed picture in the u.s. is build consensus. is up over one point three percent this hour with commodity stocks and overall give us an european stock markets open high as upbeat data from the u.s. continue to resonate obo volumes expect to be lower the head of the christmas weekend and london will trade a shortened session. pattern here in russia markets are trading mixed in the

afternoon as is gaining a point seven percent my sixth is down just under the form of a set let's have a look at some kind of a tone trembles on the minds of this hour energy stocks trading mixed gas problem as up half a percent more local and also that the pope in the red so was moved to that is setting point four percent this hours but spare bank is trading slightly. russian oil company has put its london i.p.o. on hold until next year the company plans to lift the first of a talk. we have been in fifteen million dollars to pay off debts and increase output sources close to the offering say that the flotation has been postponed due to low demand ahead of presidential elections and russia. that's the update for this hour but i'll be back with more in about fifteen minutes from. the. beach.

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