a change of tone in syria the arab league banks the international envoy has called for both sides to lay down their arms and start dialogue with the opposition to once again reject the idea of talking to us. through the live pictures for you here on a key test of results for russia's opposition a crowd right now gathering in central moscow to protest the conduct of the presidential polls but with the long holiday weekend and political stewards we're seeing smaller numbers here than expected. also optimism about the greek debt write down proves premature death and suffers

a fresh downgrade from future ratings agency with moody's going even further and declaring greece in default. also. believe the women might turn. around the world should be accused of stoking fears to get the american public in the mood for a new war military strikes on iran a family that's going to take. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the mosque or. the u.n. arab envoy kofi annan is now holding talks with syria's president he wants to negotiate an immediate cease fire involving both the rebels and government forces opened talks let's go now to the latest pictures that we have from damascus is

where i arrived just a short while ago. also expected to meet some opposition members as part of a mission to resolve the ongoing syria crisis ahead of his visit held a meeting with the chief of the arab league both men to chance to speak. against any move to go to libya for military intervention because after israel financial reports from syria there are forces at work who hold the opposite. the joint u. and arab league envoy has announced that his mission's main goal will be to and the violence by persuading the warring sides to speak to each other has also said he believes that a solution to the country's long run crisis lies in a political settlement its hopes are fading already that this mission will succeed the leader of the syrian national council a turkey based opposition group recognized by e.u. as a legitimate for percentage of the syrian people has said that alan's comments and his idea to find their way out of crisis through dialogue are disappointing while

syrian people he said are being massacred every day here in the country but hunger you has also said that any political solution will only work in syria if it's a company by military pressure on the regime of bashar al assad calls to give more weapons to the rebels and to provide them with any help they need have become especially loud after the rebels withdraw from the baba amr neighborhood in homs heart of the conflict following the army's operation there saudi arabia and carter have been among the most active supporters of the militarization of the conflict in syria calling the idea to on the rebels an excellent one who recently heard a lot about foreign weapons says here in syria and foreign volunteers and security officers captured in hopes following claims by the free syrian army that it's already received weapons and anti aircraft missiles from the west meanwhile kofi annan has been warning that further militarization would only make things worse he

expressed in his hope that no one is very seriously thinking of using force in this situation but it seems that some are considering this as an option to gas former presidential candidate and senator john mccain has called on air strikes on syria to save innocent lives here in the country although officials. washington d. drew out military intervention as an option the u.n. estimates of the around seven thousand people have been killed in the clashes between the authorities and the opposition here in syria the clashes that's been lost and for a year now already the opposition activists have been saying all the time that the regime of bashar al assad has been suppressing syrian people civilians innocent people while officially damascus has always been insisting that it's fighting against armed terror groups operating in the country it is expected that kofi annan will spend two days here in syria will meet president bashar al assad and some members of the syrian opposition within the country it's not yet clear whether he

will travel outside damascus security forces on high alert fearing any provocations and terror attacks. from awful reporting coming your way there goes our. uprising hailed as a win of democracy turns into a grab for power. violence has become an integral part of the democratic process with politicians exploiting ethnic divisions in order to achieve their goals. and move forward on palestinian children are learning first tough lessons in life thanks to a long and hard daily journey to school. thousands are gathering in central moscow it's a protest the conduct of sunday's presidential poll which saw flooding may put in secure a third term in the kremlin well the ballot was widely seen as the most transparent in russia's history but webcams and crowds of observers monitoring proceedings activists claim they were still violations of the fighting the so you've got this

the office of the demonstration now joining us live hello to you go to you how does the got three look at the moment a big crowd and what are they asking for all this time for more year yeah well i think it's better than your house is already in full swing with the organizers are exactly how much if you're on the mountain people who are police say that. i was just one guy so we'll see how it goes but i mean here we got to this rally is idea real test so you know what to do i see the crowd was there you through it you don't like who you are any channel this year long haul where you get. to the face you will shoot i see if i end this day i'm going to see it was either because i didn't you know you should lose your daughter and i'm going to hold on to your legacy on this auction ballot fraud to a massive social campaign for my presidential election and my family had been taken in that sense i was going to follow your you know what you can't use

the rule again when you guys are polling stations double your money you have a million i was sure you know what she was doing the solutions all of these mushy alka she said. no you i left in the archive and supers during the campaign i don't notice. that societies want to go up on the album our presidential vote will seem both rallies for and against this result or you know you use a metaphor here of your was this is not a were detained come here says friday his rally where i didn't want to leave your choice imo agreed with the authorities and did not know members of the opposition party you're seeing arguments are woking the authorities which me on your. right and security measures the e.b.'s protests throughout italy if you will you know how this is going to go and why do you want to you're going to be auditioning is that you present part of the leader and your god we are you going to fall out of your mouth movements are going to nod off you're going to be one of the trees. in the protest thank you very much you have my

moments however let's get some more details on this on where russia's protest movement is heading let's talk to political analyst alexander sullivan after watching us live here on t.v. i thank you for coming on the program q. thing having just listened to the report from are you going to spin off seeing a dwindling number there is it possible the protest is starting to wane here in russia i believe that yes this is a clear sign of protests lady and i think that's because the non-systemic opposition leaders they need to show more transparency about their leaders their own leaders and more consistency with their agenda so if they have obviously achieves whites' enough successes. while the systemic opposition of obviously failed i mean the parliamentary opposition parties they have failed to achieve some tangible results with their agenda the former agenda while non-systemic opposition leaders they have achieved success and of bringing people. see to the streets and

try to attract more attention to their slogans. we are now witnessing their slogans leads to the change there is a need for a new agenda and. while there is no new agenda i believe that the majority of those people will not support because the slogan of unfair election has obviously turned into the so called weasel with the majority of the global power as i call it showing that the elections were fair and that put needs the right felicia and see as not to serve our work and solve this nice clear so unless there's a new agenda from the non-systemic opposition there will be. a tendency for waiting numbers of protesters in the streets as you say there are a number of waning protesters in the streets and you say the opposition hasn't really had a a viable option for the future but what do they need do you think to keep their

spirits up and to really push on. i believe the neat a program just like the presidential candidates by truck or a journalist you know. long. as they need a program rather than you know a collection of slogans that it's changing from time to time from you you just have to see how their claims have changed for on the fourth of december two decisive margin assistive nasr right now we are witnessing some new claims and they have no . direct impact on the political situation here in russia they do not get a lot of response from the crowds i mean not just the crowd in the street but from the electorate from they don't have populists or allies as you say as you say it might seem to some that there's a fairly outspoken minority here the continue to try and stage these these demonstrations although as we can see as we were just looking at live pictures

a second ago the crowd certainly do seem to be fading at the numbers not what they were again here the live pictures here but at rush hour is expected to see a series of changes over the next few years or including a significant renewal in the faces around vladimir putin who will we see in our. are we likely to see members of the opposition lured possibly into big politics. i believe yes we. believe faces than there are very few chances chances are that we're going to see some of the new born opposition leaders i mean but only. if there is consistency there are lots of scandalous in the opposition there is the so-called opposition the carousel the leaders you know among the leaders the old soul the government has been accused of the carousels of elections but there is obviously a carousel of lead it so we need to see the trust where the lead is popular support and when the all for something more than just slogans when they start small for

a simple program with neck loosens up implementation point that when we see a scene working rather than those. leaders you know we in the opposition then i believe governments. as president will address some of those leaders will both of them. you know still work that they can then present actual results they have any all right our political analyst. joining us live on our team today thanks very much thank you all are you going to continue to watch or live stream video from the rally on our website our team dot com and of course will be joining our correspondent throughout the next few hours for the latest updates from the bathroom to stay with us for. u.s. president obama's quest for diplomacy with iran over its nuclear program has failed to quell talks of a pending military confrontation statements from america's top defense officials

suggest a strike on tyrone is in the planning stage and could use a type of bomb that has never been seen before and i thought he was honest reports the u.s. has a rather strong record of persuading the public that war is the only way for. fish are a popular pet among us war veterans like mathis she wrote something the nerves of some of the roughly one hundred seventy thousand american soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder the u.s. army flag has one hundred eighty three campaign ribbons on those one hundred eighty three ribbons each represent wars when you compare that to the what two hundred thirty six years that we've actually been around as a country you're talking about you know a war on average of once every year and three months serving americans are on permanent standby to deploy to carry out warfare on command as the u.s. has a bone to pick one enemy after the other from the soviet union and the choppiness

threat was the most useful enemy where we are legitimate and we are completely fantastical it was always the bailable as a global conspiracy against which to justify anything smaller and sadness after the cold war the list keeps expanding allied air forces again an attack on military targets in iraq and kuwait air strikes against saddam forces our war on terror. begins and our strike and selected targets some will carry importance that undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war we should get out these air defenses with a defense budget that surpasses the military expenditure of all other countries combined . no other nation drums up war as consistently as america and while people are still responding in recovering from the violence that's committed in one place or even in the same place relaunching new operations and more atrocities in different

parts of the world the military industrial complex worth billions of dollars is largely america's driving force. deeply rooted in the system it would serve no purpose if there was no one to fight if there were no war enemies last there would be raw service sensors. mission before evening thought to many as this would reveal the economic social and cultural emptiness at home here and why the country when there are no enemies trying to put together the evil empire again do in syria what we're doing now in libya we've got to overthrow this guy the threat that iran poses us year in and year out americans are convinced that the u.s. has to remain on the defense or petrified of death by terrorism so should i don't think i think a lot of americans wish we spent more money on war finding the next target is never difficult we're in. the nation of iran as an enemy as a threat to the united states says the sister of nuclear weapons it does not exist

nation that has not attacked another in literally century seven has no capability or desire to attack ours g.d.p. with my part of the world with iran iran is the one iran it should be iran the us has been picking and choosing which countries to intervene in for centuries as the list of nations that america loves to hate expands the concept that no war or is also an option seems to have been for about the situation i don't see. the us conflicts waged across the world have left a trail of military bases in their way often not even in the countries involved in the fighting but look at the role of the global web of bases and how they affect host nations that's coming your way in a special documentary later today here on artsy. to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe. and the shadow is i'm

probing up on all. the early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the forms of the evil empire that the united states is trying to build that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around. we don't have power bases america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in in frost all bases are five there are the noises i want north of symbolism on the us at all because they're all bases but for all the people it's almost like a cancer here for these people since the end of world war two the spaces i've been . working here to

provide safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions the appeals to get everything you needed. you stay tuned for part two of the documentary that's coming your way in about fifteen minutes here. success for some default for others greece is experiencing its latest slap in the face from a ratings agency with moody's declaring athens in default on its debt that's after the country finally sealed a deal with private investors which is considered to be the biggest debt write down in history the agreement reduces the burden by over one hundred billion euros for the first avoid the doubts about the deal was fitch ratings agency was downgraded athens to quote restricted to full economic analysts next cookouts says there are still many questions greece needs to deal with aside from the debt swap deal.

there's a lot of moving parts here but the vehicle is the first part then we have structural reforms which frankly a big major forty years of private says a should process which hasn't really begun with any great momentum and then the worst part of it is the tax hikes and of course the cuts in wages the first thing you need is a little bit of stability and visibility in the sense that people are afraid to invest here because we may return to a drachma sometime soon and that could mean a devastating devaluation and a loss of money so we need some stability in the eurozone we need the list these are in for european union leaders and we ourselves here have to take some responsibility and put together a medium term economic plan so we know how to climb out of these very still despite all of these one hundred thirty billion by a package coming and despite the here of course two hundred billion still a shortfall of seven billion you don't want to make that up with taxes. although

today here in our max keiser and stacy her book reveals the scheme which helped greece markets a massive debt to join the e.u. just over ten years ago now and how we talking straight are buying to a tidy profit. secret grease alone shows two centers as client unravels on the day the two thousand and one deal was struck the government of greece bowed the bank about six hundred million euros more than that two point eight billion euro is that power owed by then the price of the transaction a derivative that disguised the loan and that goldman sachs persuaded greece not to test with competitors had almost doubled to five point one billion euros but this was greece's nine eleven the day they met on the facts it was them hacking the sovereignty and the future of a nation of greece. no martinis yes.

watching r.t. live from moscow a long dangerous trip to school and back the daily slog for a group of arab children in israel forced to watch their classmates enjoy the luxury of providing transportation and art in support of slavery explains the uphill climb it's not just on the way to class. the lessons of life come only to the absolutely children hours before the rest of the country wakes up these young arabs are preparing for a long trip to school it's a twelve kilometer walk there and back tiring difficult and more than a little hair raising it takes the children about two hours to get to school the older ones hoping the younger ones with their bags the word is dangerous and just a few days ago one of the children now the worst being knocked over by a car. they truly don't have to walk along good parks and cross many busy streets

part of the journey is on a bus but after they get off they still an hour or more of walking there late every day and exhausted even before the first listen starts the youngest is just three years old. it's because we arabs because our religion is muhammad not moses that's why everything is like this. is radio losses transport must be provided for children living far from school but because the local authorities say that families are squatting illegally on privately owned land they refuse to hope. for growth. internationally and also in israel children should have her of her education at a reasonable distance from the. proper approach of education reform their very educational system. the day after we visit the bulldozers arrive because far from wanting to

help the children one family's gone where is the day before this house stood here we come back and find this killer our children hate the police we hate the jews and you ask from where is this hate israel calls itself a democracy what kind of democracy does this to its children but on the outcome of them since the founding of the state not a single you out of a village was built and for most of the saw already in existence there is no overall plan which means that every construction is around illegal. and so with their homes up for demolition and the dream to be educated and daily triage these children are learning the hard way that some of life's most important lessons happen outside the classroom policy r t three from junction israel. wanted to explore all the stories we're covering online the let's check out what's available for you right now at r.t. dot com poland releases its final report on the air crash that killed the country's

president and most of the political elite almost two years ago i discovered the details on our website. and i'm bailing freedom iranian feminists stripped off for a calendar to promote their fight against sexual oppression and find out how the authorities respond to the provocative step all that at r.t. dot com. this is our to the central asian country of could have just experienced popular unrest long before the arab spring with two revolutions shaking the country in less than ten years but some hailed the uprisings as a triumph of democracy but others see that phrase as dangerous justification for the use of violence to gain power at any cost parties oksana boyko went to

a city that saw brutal scenes just two years ago. it's election time in kyrgyzstan second largest city candidates where the local legislature peered down from posters striving to projects the village and trustworthiness you have the streets are silent and empty and uncertainty isn't there you're a provocateur as who would use any chance to undermine peace that we have. done a former soviet republic in central asia is a promise to charles for revolutionary fever two of its previous presidents were ousted by enraged crowds each uprising was perpetrated by the west as a people's democratic awakening despite numerous casualties and widespread looting so much so that some could these people are now taking pride in their ability to settle political disagreements by force. is that we curators can wait for

a while but once you get on our nerves you better run for your life. but nowhere has this trigger happy political awakening cause more pain and suffering than in arch and ethnically divided seeking the south of the country in june of two thousand and ten vine political elites instigated fierce clashes between communities more than four hundred were killed thousands lost their livelihoods all victims of militarized politics that have become a part of the democratic process here. was beckoning of her who is that were burned and looted a year and a half ago are now being revealed. but many locals fear that politicians will once again gamble on ethnic divisions to achieve their ans respects and kurds have different political preferences but given the kurdish majority and their professed readiness to fight for their interests democratic procedures are no longer just about the country's future the many ways backs in are quite literally about life

and death. very afraid. they will again be used to scapegoat in political games many have left the city on the eve of the election for fears of riots i verge those who stay to vote like it is do to avoid any anger from the side while the sound of voter seem could be streaming to the polling stations many respects made arrangements to leave town on some kind of mood for revolution others have to seek refuge over the past three years their words a revolution and democracy have become almost synonymous but they couldn't be further apart because overrides the strongest of arguments and it always puts an end to any minute full political dialogue and this kurdistan's example shows once by alliance is introduced into the political process very soon it becomes the first rather than the last option to resort to it's not going to artsy reporting from posh. life in the russian capital this is r.t.

and a crowd has gathered right here in central moscow to protest the conduct of sunday's presidential poll which saw couldn't secure a third term in the kremlin without seeing live pictures here from navi all about street over right here in the heart of the russian capital organizers say up to fifty thousand people are expected to turn out but people least on the ground there the number. of about eight thousand right now you can see you can see people for yourselves not out of the biggest crowds we've seen in recent weeks although the presidential ballot was widely seen as the most transparent in russia's history but with webcams and a million observers monitoring the seedings activists claim there were still violations of the voting but this rally is viewed as a test for the protest movement in russia as the opposition is facing some serious problems within the ranks also it's a long weekend in the country so it remains to be seen how many protest supporters middle class russians would choose to confirm their political interests over

getting away for the holidays again live pictures for you right there on alt. so i saw on roll the sushi law from moscow back with the headlines and just. mission free couldn't take three months for charges.