a wave of anti-war protests engulfed turkey with activists accusing the government of being a u.s. stooge as an authorized possible military action against syria. the u.k. military aims to balance its books by laying off thousands of soldiers while still throwing billions at malfunctioning military machines. plus fourteen years of textbooks socialism are put to the test in venezuela as hundreds of thousands flood the capital in support of which august ahead of sunday's elections.

you want to live from moscow i'm marina joshie what began as a peaceful anti-war demonstration turned ugly in the turkish capital ankara after riot police moved in to disperse the crowd officers fired tear gas and used water cannons as well as smoke grenades against the activists with many bystanders also getting caught up in the mail thousands also poured into the streets of istanbul to demonstrate against the policies of turkey's ruling party using it up saying to the tune of the u.s. the wave of popular discontent was sparked by the parliament's approval of cross border military action into syria which could pave the way to a full scale war more of that from marty's middle east correspondent policy or. of the chanting slogans that syria is all framed and that we are against war but they clashed with police who landed up firing rounds of tear gas at them more people are concerned that the border tensions could disintegrate into

a regional conflict on tuesday the turkish parliament held a closed door emergency. session in which a bill was overwhelmingly passed that allows the turkish military to carry out cross border operations against syrian targets now this is in period when that you know it has been defended by the turkish government it says it has the right to defend itself it is a pains to point out that this is not a declaration of war and that ankara will operate in conjunction with international bodies the turks are responding to a syrian move to that was fired on wednesday it killed five citizens two of them women and three of them children while they were preparing a meal turkey immediately responded by firing into syrian territory and this offensive continued until the early hours of thursday morning by all accounts they were civil city soldiers who were killed too if you also responded by going on the

offensive in the political arena an emergency meeting of nato who was hold on wednesday so as i say an extremely volatile situation that we're keeping close watch on. t television and turkey says it has no intentions to start a war with syria but political analysts covering the middle east charminar want he says and doesn't necessarily have to engage in direct military action against the embattled state to defeat it. turkey's declared war on syria long time ago this is aired on endeavor to lose the war they've supplied weapons and they've supplied training assistant they've harbored you know gunmen in jihad just on their territory so so you know turkey's at a situation no crossroads where they cannot seem to get the international system they need to sort of you know do a last question against the assad regime and they cannot get a un security council resolution to authorize these things and this may be you know setting the groundwork a pretext for

a back door into military intervention because of course turkey then caught it can call on its nato allies to to assist and it's essential to the nato allies who would anyways do you know a military confrontation with the assad regime if there was a un security council resolution so now and there are questions about this is this the false why you know operation to to sort of set the ground for military intervention there's been many false narratives over syria i think this is just another one of the iran's most powerful body has called for restraint from both ankara and damascus as a strongly decried serious deadly attack on turkish sentence isomer in a fortnight has got the latest from the un security council in new york. well the u.n. security council agreed and issued a presidential statement strongly condemning wednesday's mortar attack by syria on a turkish border town that as we already heard as killed people in injured several

others the council called on the syrian government to fully respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbors and the called on all concerned parties to exercise maximum restraint a presidential statement issued by the council also demanded that quote such violations of international law stop immediately and are not repeated mortar fire from syria had its in turkey on wednesday and that's when the security council began deliberating this presidential statement earlier on thursday the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon also voiced his alarm at escalating tensions along the syrian turkish border and the u.n. itself there's a lot of divisions over how to solve this crisis that it escalates and everybody within the security council in the u.n. is trying to ease tensions that are growing not only within syria but now on the border between syria and turkey marina for not reporting there and now a timeline of events and more analysis on the stories available on our web site r t v dot com and there you can also find more on the ripple effect on running syrian

crisis sending to its neighboring states. well iraq is one of them and then a couple of hours from now our team talks to the country's prime minister who says peace can be brought to syria through weapons and foreign troops. the british army is the latest victim of the country's seemingly endless a sturdy drive with eight thousand fewer u.k. soldiers reporting for duty come the new year but as artie's pollie boyko reports when it comes to funding expensive war toys britain apparently has money to burn. the number of soldiers in the british army is being cut back by a fifth as you can see here that's quite a significant reduction is going to mean the smallest british army said. before the napoleonic wars eight thousand u.k. troops face christmas unemployed civilians defense secretary philip hammond insists the cuts a necessary to balance the defense budget yet at the same time the u.k.

is committed to remaining one of the biggest military spending is in the world well any modern army even if it cuts its troops needs up to date equipment but take a look at these the british government has spent some two billion pounds on developing remote control attacks drones since two thousand and seven but home grown u.k. drones don't have a good track record how about the watch keeper drone this nifty piece of military equipment has already cost the u.k. taxpayers eight hundred million pounds it was meant to be up and flying by now it isn't yet ready and now running two under half years late the want to keep its predecessor it was a drone called the phoenix that proved so unreliable that an army suckles it became known as the bugger off because it often left on missions never to return the phoenix was such an epic fail that it was used as an example of the quote dismal failure of the british drone for systems engineering students in one u.k.

university and the cost of this techno flop two billion pounds in fact the ministry of defense is attempt to balance its books has actually contributed to an increase in spending on equipment something those troops facing their final paycheck in the coming weeks will find hard to stomach. r.t. . now more stories features videos and analysis is in store for you on the web including madoff in the big apple jewish and christian activist groups response to an anti islamist poster campaign with a message of tolerance. an eleven year old boy from northern siberia has made a mammoth discovery on covering a thirty thousand. a year old animal buried in permafrost.

after a long and bitterly fought campaign venezuela is now braced for presidential elections on sunday but both candidates in common which obvious and he's rivalry has certainly made the most of their last day on the trail as are often have discovered after fourteen years in power and the president can still draw a crowd. that

. travis is rivalry take a previous has been described as the opposite of the incumbent president to nearly every policy for starters capricious ones to private eyes of an s. well an economy is against almost all welfare programs and is a diehard supporter of israel and south american political analyst adrian salut he says it's no surprise washington wants to see chavez out. he has taken

a stance which is very highly respected throughout many of these of latin america showing that the united states. not just in the middle east but more wide and not so much the countries that are attacked by the united states especially at a time when in two thousand and eight the united states has reactivated the fourth south atlantic fleet and they now have a very strong military presence throughout latin america in the south atlantic just as they have engineered insurrection and civil war which seems to be washington's specialization now with the so-called arab spring many theater here and that in america we will be seeing a latin american spring with different characteristics but where the united states will meddle in the internal affairs of punches like that is with us and they will even snigger and activate a generalized latin american spring this will be turmoil social unrest and even civil war. and our battle for power this time in the us saw incumbent obama all at

scene probably take a look at why the president's first televised tufnell left his supporters cold while some critics slammed the entire u.s. election system for a lack of or your choice. the riney that takes your breath away treating across the scholars over the monish who do know the biggest salt lake in europe and more than two hundred species of birds that are also it is them are on the verge of extinction on these islands in the south of russia they find shoptalk before my brain trust a part of the world paladins as well as other species at the monish who do low feed on faith these birds are waiting for their parents to bring them food to the best.

ash for them is in a small area is a lake with the water is relatively fresh as fish cannot survive in the salt of the month and the lakes get insulted every year the monish with the lows and all to fishel reservoir which was field in the nine hundred fifty s. in the areas hot climate the water evaporates quickly and the local saw as natural sultanate stakes over. the drying out of the lake. of the world's biggest populations of most things. there are four hundred of the animals here protected. it's a place of peace and calm in recent decades dozens of canals of around here to cultivate the locals taps broad grassy plains may be useful for humans but it does badly hit many species of the animals here for instance so i guess antelopes just some forty years ago there were more than two million. now people

brought to the brink of extinction this region has been full thousands of years but now in a relatively short space of time diversity of creatures is sweat and all farmed by men. wealthy british. headlines to two name .

welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow the us presidential candidates barack obama and mitt romney have addressed the earth supporters following their first t.v. debate poll showed romney overwhelmed incumbent obama in the dual commanding the ninety minute debate but rocky anderson presidential candidate for the justice party things two parties alternately dominating us politics is unhealthy for

america. i left the democratic party and helped form the justice party because now the republican and democratic parties are simply one do awfully they have a stranglehold on our electoral system from the stage of getting on the ballot all the way through the debate process and they have both been bought and paid for by the same special interests we have a plutocracy not a democracy in the united states where our government is for sell to the highest bidder romney would bring us along the same path that led to the economic disaster in two thousand and eight with huge tax cuts for the wealthy enormous deficits if low unemployment rates and president obama has a pathetic record he's the only president that has presided over three years of unemployment of over eight percent that absolutely can be changed who we know that

that's what the american people want it's simply that we don't have those elected to office that are willing to take on those special interest. political cartoonist and columnist ted rall says americans are seeking a new policy vision for the nation. it's very hard to tell to see how mitt romney can overcome the lead in the key swing states that obama currently enjoys we considering the state of the economy over the last four years is saying something about the ineptitude of the romney campaign now that said he did outperform expectations last night and you know he's still in games if he continues to surge and does better in the future debates it's possible that despite my vote will be able to turn against obama and go for romney in a two party system that's all we really have what was very strange is how the democrats who typically identify better with the poor and downtrodden failed to

humanize point of view you know obama talked constantly about how the different approach rather than having a different vision americans don't want a different approach they want to different vision and we want solutions mitt romney talked about the people who are hurting in the midwest people who are unemployed who he met and asked for his help that's the kind of thing that obama should have done it's really politics want to one and somehow he was just really are. also the latest edition of artes debate that sets the first t.v. debate between romney and obama to find out where the president went wrong for shouts coming your way very shortly in fact next hour. now eighteen elementary school students have been killed in a landslide in southwest china medics police and military personnel are searching for any survivors trapped under the rubble of a landslide came down early in the morning hitting the school and nearby houses and blocking a river over eight hundred people were evacuated from the region although holiday

in china the children still went to school to make up for the days they had missed because of an earthquake which hit the region last month. massive rival demonstrations are expected in jordan's capital amman and around two hundred thousand. orders of king abdullah's reforms about fifty thousand backers over the opposition muslim brotherhood party are expected to gather for peaceful rallies to the same venue on friday earlier the king dissolved parliament clearing the way for new elections and he pledged to introduce more reforms aiming to avoid arab spring style unrest the country has already faced nearly twenty months of protest with people demanding more say in how the state is run. dozens of doctors nurses and hospital officials were arrested across the u.s. over allegations of fraud they are accused of illegally gathering information about participants of the government's medicare program the data was used to submit bills

for treatment and medication that wasn't needed or never took place this allegedly allowed the medical personnel to pocket four hundred thirty million dollars. a desperate picture is emerging in an indian region once dubbed the country's breadbasket a flourishing farming community has seemingly given in to drugs with addiction wanting tainting almost every part of life there are pretty shooter has the story. almost two thousand kilometers from the war zone in afghanistan and women like smith rocor are fighting a battle of their own in punjab india. my son lives with me we lost his father to drugs and recently lost his brother to drugs everyone in the neighborhood is brought to you taking up drugs and it's my son or i am who are. you going into. once known as one of the most prosperous states in india punjab is now one of the biggest drug trafficking hubs in the world officials say most of the confiscated

drugs are coming from nearby afghanistan the largest global producer of opium and the situation is getting worse the united nations has reported that opium production has more than doubled in afghanistan since the united states. it's invaded the country in two thousand and one it critics say that nato and the united states have not done enough to eradicate the narcotics producing poppy fields which they say is the afghans biggest source of income. is such bankrupt lead used to its condition. trysts. of resistant to anything you see the community is hardened it's of so much so they're not going to lose and do look nice you know stop going to await the drug addiction problem and things obvious becomes so bad that at spirit say that one in

three people are actually addicted to drugs and in this area alone people say that seventy percent of the people that's when the ages of fifteen and thirty five are visits it drugs and that's not good news for these women smithville course community has now become known as the village of widows because of all the men who have died from drug addiction. now many bring their children to this school where sixteen percent of the six hundred fifty children are orphans most of their parents died from drug related debts mainly through private donations they are all able to get an education for free but it's little consolation for what many fear could become a lost generation in punjab if more action against drug trafficking isn't taken again if something happens to my son will happen to the family where will we go can i bring them up my so. far from the bullets and explosives in afghanistan and the

people of punjab wonder how they too can escape the war that has started to impact millions of their own preassure either r t it's or india. all right let's talk business now i'm marina has always been looking for. ways to make the gas market in the region more transparent now they have a new plant so we're more do you know. basically they want to make sure that there are universal prices in the region and also they want their member countries to disclose their energy contracts so by march we're talking about the following year what they'll have to do is provide the commission with their oil and gas the us so starting from next year the e.u. commission will also be able to take part in all the energy talks the move comes amid the e.u.'s antitrust investigation into gas forms pricing strategy in europe and last week lattimer putin expresses downs over the economic efficiency of europe's energy rules so that's the latest on that now let's take

a look at some international markets asia still the only one traded right now and there we see enough of the figures are still in positive territory the neck a bit flat everyone is waiting to see what will happen in the u.s. because we have a jobs report that is expected to come out later and the day will be watchin that now let's say with samsung electronics because it has reported record profits in the third quarter that was driven by strong sales of the galaxy smartphones the electronic giants operating profit jumped to ninety one percent to seven billion dollars and that's almost double last year's figure and higher than analysts expectations but it's not all peachy for some soon as it is currently battling apple over patent. also facebook says the number of active monthly users has top one billion it's roughly half of the internet users in the world and a double the social network scored two years ago the average age of a facebook user is twenty two and their country of origin is likely to be brazil

india or indonesia analysts say the latest milestone raises questions whether facebook can profit from its giants user base. all right now here in the russia it's now less than an hour before the opening bell was seen in the previous session we saw some losses. over half a percent for both the arts yes and the my stocks in the red there was mainly due to a slight volatility in the oil price and of course some concerns coming out from the euro zone if we move on and take a look at the currencies will see that the euro is still weak and in against the us dollar remains flappers hour when it comes to the ruble figures from the previous session again where it was a mixed picture for the currency basket now in other news i want to talk about ratings agency because it says spain's biggest threat is its intensifying recession spain has resisted making requests for aid even though it's expected to see its economy shrink this will result from the current the high unemployment and massive spending cuts and fitch has a triple b.

rating from spain right now with an negative outlook. and this is how business looks this hour back to you all right thanks very much indeed for this and coming up in just a few minutes here in r.t.e. our special report called living the silent spring stay with us. to download the official. to choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch on t.v. any time. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

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