big global noise to say no to all star of the mass protests kick off in the over thirty countries with europe among the loudest and angriest just as the e.u. scoops up the nobel peace prize. turkey closes its airspace to syrian civilian flights in a tit for tat move after the grounding of a syrian track which i suspect that if carrying russian weapons to damascus. and one of the pussy ron paul group members walks free but her two bandmates continue their two years in prison for hooliganism over their feet will stand.

hello welcome to r t this sunday with me karen taraji while the global noise movement is underway a worldwide protest in some thirty countries in which crowds are calling for an end to austerity the biggest demonstrations so far have been in spain just hours after the e.u. won this year's nobel peace prize and as i like see it a ship's crew reports from madrid things aren't looking too peaceful right now in europe. the union needs scored nudists have over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation and democracy on human rights in europe but is this the peace they're talking about tear gas fascist flags and massive furious crowds of the most common sites across the award winning continent lately protests like this will echo in thirty five countries across the world over the next several weeks the global and so i o.

sorry to voice only in spain alone hundreds of thousands have been voicing their anger ever since the government announced more painful budget cuts for next year everything with spending are is now unemployed and this grim story is pretty much the same for portugal and greece tom is one of the leaders of the protest movement in madrid he says people have just about had enough behind it the crises and capitalist system right now in spain france private debt into public that and these causes huge cuts but big spending and health system and it took a shit and it's affecting millions of poor people it's producing huge unemployment and it's producing and whole social best composition of the whole society with so many going against the system across europe at times clashing violently with the police the decision to award the e.u. with

a peace prize has raised many eyebrows this is like giving the prize to frankenstein for being the best monster created during the past twelve months there's only one contender for the peace prize this year and that's julian assad the fact that he did not win this prize is will be an eternal stain on the nobel committee no one has done more to push peace than julian assange should be getting this award from this committee the fact that they turn to a bunch of machines and technocrats and the a hero is an embarrassment they should go back to making dynamite. this is a war it is even more questionable to some because of the e.u. is rather dubious peacemaking record and that moreover the current financial turmoil is the biggest danger to peace europe has been bombing libya and europe has been bombing syria europe isn't bombing afghanistan or iraq yugoslavia a few years ago yes it's because they're trying to say ok guys we're giving you a whole year together europe has been spending money they don't have that's going

to have to stop that is going to cause more riots in the streets more social unrest more governments failing even countries failing and perhaps even people pulling out of the euro could lead to war again in europe in two thousand and nine barack obama won the same award having been in office for only two weeks that was before he sent more troops to afghanistan and waged war in libya but as the latest nobel peace prize award is debated worldwide protesters in spain seem to care little about the prestige than their own survival calls for independence are heard loud and clear in the country's largest and wealthiest region cut the lumia a clear indication the continent is losing that unity which the nobel committee has decided to. see reporting from madrid in spain. turkey has now closed its airspace to syrian civilian flights going in a similar meltdown damascus earlier this week turkey intercepted

a syrian passenger plane claiming a character russian made and missions for government forces moscow says the cargo was only electronic equipment for radar stations and all of it was legal and reports. they pointed their guns at those hungover those put those on the ground then they drove us back to the plane into the. bruised arms in better dignity with an international scandal thrown in on top of all in the name of peace at least that . the stance taken by the turkish authorities when they tried to justify force for the grounding a syrian plane on route from moscow to damascus us. we in turkey only want peace and safety in this region that is our desire but we would never have an incentive to start a war and garage hasn't revealed exactly what was in the cargo of that plane though they do insist it was russian made a mission and technical equipment something moscow the mentally denies. that was

certainly no armaments on this plane and they simply could not have been any ideals the aircraft was carrying a cargo that was being shipped from a legitimate russian supplier to a legitimate customer in a legitimate way there was a cargo of electrical supplies for radar stations this is dual purpose equipment but it is not barred by any international conventions surely neither do turkish officials say where they received the tipoff about the suppose it weapons on board somewhere though have their suspicions this is washington telling prime minister do one who says he's so independent to go in and go for it down the use the f. sixteen s for all its peace mongering talk and righteous outrage over russia's supposed unwillingness to help out in peace efforts and corrupt peers to be surprisingly open when it comes to supporting one side in the syrian conflict the rebel fighters it is supporting the rebels it's allowing us. to this we wanted to.

enter syria. lebanese journalist uniform was described what she believed to be an arms delivery on the border between turkey and syria. the scene was surreal barbed wire and dark clean filled with all of trees armed men and in flashing lights from the trucks packed with weapons each syrian group takes its share in leaves i was asked not to film but the immensity of the scene move the journalists. you know was interrogated for days by turkish officials before being released when she was back in lebannon should realize the incriminating pictures she'd filmed on the turkish syrian border had been wiped while she was in custody some believe turkey still in the towards president assad has little to do with the situation in syria and everything to do with iran's ambitions was devilish in this country as a major political player turkey is preparing its own for its one hundredth

anniversary twenty twenty three it was the whole campaign of a very ambitious platform of how turkey has been doing so for nine is going to position itself as a global power on cries establishing itself as a regional boss threatening a full out war with syria and openly violating iraq use over into by bombing kurdish bases not exactly what bond what feats of diplomacy so in turkish officials to speak of peace and stability in the region their words are drowned out by the sound of an exchange of fire with their neighbors in tel aviv r.t. . and ahead this hour security forces once again lash out at peaceful protesters they are demanding political reforms of the monarchy reinforces times with its powerful military backer great britain. and as one of the posts you are protestors is freed on appeal what's behind the decision that's just ahead.

it always amazes me the lengths that people go to for things that are pointless people camped out for a week waiting for a new i phone that will be archaic by next year when the next one comes out every black friday many thankfully not all americans celebrate this holiest of shopping days by waiting outside of a wal-mart in the early morning to fight over trendy plastic gifts for their children that they're too young to appreciate hey even i'm willing to sometimes wake up early in the morning to drive downtown and pay twenty five bucks for parking to watch a football game under cations but just imagine a world where we actually were willing to wake up early and stand a big crowd for something say more important than some stupid gizmo or the sake of our favorite sports team just imagine iraq and that world would be yeah maybe standing around at some protester collecting signatures won't do anything we can't

be naive enough to think that big corporations will bow to ten people with signs bought spending days worshiping at the altar of the i phone gods certainly won't improve your country but that's just my opinion. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for langley you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up the film these are the images the

world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations to rule the day. today's news and this week's major headlines live from our team in moscow karen tara. while separatists in belgium are hoping to gain control of the country's industrial harbor the wealthy port city of antwerp the flemish nationalist leader is a strong contender for mayor in sunday's local elections the poll seen as a test for a belgian unity but increasing hostility between it's two deeply divided communities since the euro crisis began let's talk now to belgium politician philip quiesce who's the euro m.p. for flanders thank you so much mr quest for joining our team now tell us how strong

is the support for independence in flanders and can we eventually see belgium are falling apart. well that's a possibility you'd stiffle to measure the support for the idea of flemish independence but the idea is gaining ground that it's the most important thing because we are having a lot of problems known belgium we see that france is the federal government doesn't have a majority on the flemish side in the federal parliament although flemings make up the majority of the population in belgium the federal government doesn't have a majority in flanders and that's of course is a problem it's a problem of democratic deficits and this means this government doesn't have a real democratic legitimacy in flounders voted for come something completely different that we are getting now with this federal government so taking into consideration everything you just said realistically can flanders actually go it alone. oh it certainly can and flanders is an economic

economically socially powerful prosperous region we have we are already if we have a flemish nation we have a french people you have to know that belgium is an artificial country you it's really two separate countries already within belgium we see a completely different political consensus on the flemish on the world will lose and flanders would be perfectly able to have to have an independent state and be a member of the you know european union for its now what about the e.u. what do you think you would benefit if flanders of catalonia of scotland if they're all free to develop on their own. well that's up to the catalonians and the people from scotland etc to you know to decide for themselves what we want is flanders to be independent and you know i'm not speaking talking about the general rule in

europe what i'm interested in is the situation in belgium and what i'm advocating what my party is advocating is having an independent flemish state this solution my not might not be the ideal solution in other countries or for other peoples i'm talking about flanders so you're saying it would benefit the e.u. i just want to make that clear. will benefit i think will it could you know if you take into account that both of them is already government level that's not really you know constructive it's not needed it's a useless government level between you know the flemish government and the e.u. why should we have a state when we see that flanders is already competent as a region for agricultural policy etc all right live from brussels belgium your m.p. philip klaus thank you for your time ok. iran says it might

consider limiting its enrichment of higher grade uranium if it's allowed to have fuel for research reactor it's a revival of a previous offer to try and break the talks a deadlock over the country's nuclear program but germany wants to continue getting tough urging the e.u. to heighten the already crippling sanctions let's get the thoughts of professor side mohammad marandi from tackling university. professor side mohammad marandi thank you for joining our team now how would you assess iran's move here why is it conceding. well iran's policy hasn't changed. it is as it was before the iranians are willing to be more open and allow more intrusive inspections and they're willing. to talk about enriching uranium at twenty percent under certain conditions but in general nothing

has changed and increasing sanctions by the west will only make things more difficult because iranians see the sanctions that are being imposed by western governments as inhuman their intention is to make ordinary iranians suffer in the past the europeans try to hide behind the united states allow the americans to do the dirty work but now they're very just as much involved as the united states and this is something that iranians cannot forgive or forget now this proposal comes a day before the e.u. could adopt even tougher sanctions on iran to hinder what it thinks is the building of nuclear weapons is the offer a sign that the sanctions are hurting iran maybe a little too much. professor site can you hear me mr monti the sanctions are hurting ordinary iranians and if that is objective let there is no doubt that the europeans and the americans

want ordinary iranians to suffer to feel shortages of medicine for food starts to become more expensive for people to lose their jobs that is the objective because they're basically trying to prevent iran from importing and exporting anything that's why they shut down the central bank and that's why they're trying to force third countries from even doing trade with iran so the intention really is to to disrupt the iranian economy as much as possible possible and of course for people to die just like what they did with iraq the difference here though is that iran is not iraq it is a much more powerful country it has a very strong economy and the people really are united behind the nuclear program because the universe the nuclear program is iran sovereign right iran has never been in breach of then p.t. and the iranians will only this will only make iranians more angry with the west and the iranians recall that in the one nine hundred eighty s.

these very same western countries violated human rights in iran by giving saddam hussein chemical weapons to slaughter ordinary iranians as well as iraq he's an iraqi kurds now do you think it is only the nuclear issue that is on their minds or do you think perhaps foreign powers have other geopolitical control in mind. again in iran there is a consensus that this is not this doesn't have much to do with the nuclear program the issue is iran iran's independent iran is a country that will not bow down to the western powers and the europeans and americans want to run to near like saudi arabia like most. of the other countries in the region. and beyond perhaps but but i think what it merely does is that a turn to ronny and away from europe in the united states for

a very long time iranians have much more incentive to build friendly relationships with asian countries with latin american countries with african countries and there is no look there's very little incentive anymore to work with europeans especially the way in which they treat the run it's even young iranians who study abroad more more than ever before are travelling asian countries to study rather than europe and on the other hand i think this disgust many people outside of iran and many countries would take this into account that western countries could use the same tool against them on other occasions to put pressure on them to make them abide by western demands so i think there will be a lot of incentives for independent countries to to do to begin to remain friendly with iran to do trade with iran and i think it hurts the western brand universally by continuing to carry out these really crimes against humanity because

that's their job to make ordinary iranians suffer all right professor say mohammad marandi from the university of tehran thank you. arab all of them is under way in bahrain after protesters clashed with police on friday in a fresh anti-government rally in the capital excuse me that was a fresh anti-government rally now despite the tear gas and stun grenades hundreds of peaceful protestors are refusing to back down in their calls for democracy. at least ten people were arrested in the latest rally uprisings began in february two thousand and eleven when the country's shi'ite majority demanded that longstanding sunni leaders step down britain though has signed a. terry treaty with the kingdom seen as a sign of support for the under fire regime dominic of a cab from justice and development movement believes western nations have too much

to lose from reforms obviously doesn't send a particularly fantastic message when you're sending weapons to a country that is using weapons against its people on a daily basis to kill to injure to crush protests to crush essentially democracy but i think. the reason why why the u.s. and other countries do that is because they want to keep the brain as an ally seen as an ally of western countries and therefore they want to try and keep that relationship what these governments don't realize that they are too few to realize they have a huge amount of leverage they have a lot of ability to convince about right or to pressure them into reform perhaps they misunderstand the strength they have will perhaps you know that they're scared that their interests which are tied up in that region could be damaged if they you know if there were a democratic change but the reality is the people of bahrain of calling for democracy they're calling for change but doesn't have to be against the western interests actually i could be very much in the interests of the west and i know the rest of the world the democratic and stable country wednesday saw

a turning point for the pussy riot protesters when one of the group was freed on probation although her two bandmates will stand present they've been jailed for religiously motivated hooliganism in august after their aunt performance and russia's main orthodox cathedral artist polly boycott has the story. a media frenzy breaks out any pussy riot court hearing the same old faces as supporters and critics gathered for the herring after emerging from her successful appeal everyone wanted a piece of the one band member released on probation but somewhat savage remained tight lipped even how you lawyers to do the talking. about the storm i'm happy that i managed to help a person but i just did my job. last week the now freed band member fired her original legal team her new defense change strategy arguing in court that their

client didn't take part in the now notorious punk prayer in most cases maine orthodox cathedral she was in fact chewed out by gods before she got the chance to join her bandmates in the so-called protest start that argument was accepted by the court some trial observers believe that the strategy of the original pussy riot defense team wasn't to produce the women sentences but rather to expose flaws in russia's judicial system for all the world to see by switching to lawyers that focused on her personal case some might say that she walked out of court for a while her fellow band members went back to jail so. i think she decided to get some real lawyers the won't be fighting in order to humiliate russia in the face of the worst but the truly free. one major russian. says they've been flooded with calls from foreign promoters offering to organize a pussy riot world tour that could earn up to six hundred million euros western and

russian celebrities have called for the women's release an international considers them prisoners of conscience free pussy riot t. shirts are all the rage. that's the way you attract attention. look at the way would always dress look at the look at all the. world we can do as well as that or we could do something different. to the idea of going into a cathedral. because that. would in fact be something reduce with the media circus in full swing and the current requests pouring in brand pussy riot isn't set to go away any time soon. r t moscow. based scars of the iraq war are still visible on the faces of its children all mine read how

a recently revealed report shows that british and american ammunitions are being linked to a shocking rise in birth defects after the u.s. led invasion. was how's this for a marine corps ukraine's training up bottlenose dolphins and reviving an old soviet project to patrol the seas with military mammals. sunday is election day in russia with millions of people deciding on candidates ranging from regional heads to local officials and for the first time in eight years voters get to directly choose their governors by democrats and i reports this day russian voters are judging for themselves who takes charge of their regions now more than twenty two millions of russians are expected to arrive at the polling stations and choose from an unprecedented number of candidates what is so interesting about this day is that it was introduced to a following last december's ways of government protests the biggest in russia's

recent history people during the protest were demanding changes to the current election system they also wanted to bring back direct regional elections into see more representative song b. opposition in parliament at the time than president dmitry medvedev of crappy old system regional officials handpicked by the. and also made it easier for new political parties to emerge giving a more competitive complection to the local elections just the introduction of elections for regional governors is now being implemented gradually and this is a very important step in the creation of a civil society institutions is giving more responsibility to the bleachers and could also increase the level of professionalism of the elected officials as they sat before this thing goes voting day takes place for the first time in the last eight years and gives russians an opportunity to choose for themselves who they believe is worth the governing now some more headlines from around the world today

gunmen have opened fire at a mosque in a remote nigerian village killing at least twenty people the attackers targeted the worshippers as they left after prayers muslim extremist spoke a whole rom are suspected of the massacre they're known for targeting fellow muslims who do not follow their strict form of islam. a fireworks show in eastern china has ended with a blast that injured over one hundred people the display went tragically wrong when rockets misfired and exploded into a crowd of onlookers none of the wounded have life threatening injuries but five people had to stay in the hospital thousands were attending the show to mark the opening of an international industrial exhibition. moreton e l's president has been injured after his own patrol shot at him by mistake troops opened fire at the presidential motorcade as he was returning home from a trip the leader was slightly injured but later appeared on t.v. to say he's fine the friendly fire as the government called it sparked

assassination rumors which the president's refute it. from space age to a more biblical style story sound as we meet a russian builder of a modern noah's ark that's after the break. looters that takes your breath away a few tourists travel to these paul it's no prepackaged comfort but the joy of the wild is guaranteed guineas a zoology professor he works in the us and travels to these remote areas in russia every summer as he says he can't find untouched landscapes like this anywhere else in the world we're going off the list below sea line if i go wrong the wrong and

surprise you will go straight to the water and so we did. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot agrees the here by every small river. where the bears are fishing but they have a very concise well to be able to see that we have to keep an eye a wind down at him and the distance between them and us i told i could be dangerous so we're going to just a shell but the record. and quiet we went but the wind was not on our side and the bear got away another local resident to haiti's peace being disturbed here is this callous sea eagle it has a wingspan of two and a half meters it ness only here in russia far east because of the bundles of salmon and seagulls which feed the giant bird in his study.