fresh outbreaks of violence on the syrian lebanese border a dubbed the one of the key routes for smuggling weapons into the ongoing civil war . strikes triggered by a deafening cuts rock travel to european countries s.b.u. leaders are to stage yet another crisis summit in brussels. plus deadly attacks on a stronghold of the old regime in libya following reports of the country's new rulers might have carried out a massacre of pro get out his supporters a year ago. i

am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie residents on the syrian lebanese border have been forced from their homes by a series of violent clashes armed militia in lebanon apparently used machine guns to attack the syrian army across the frontier triggering a tough response that's as the expanding scope of serious conflict wasn't arrest by international mediator a lot of the where he me during his visit to beirut he called on damascus to spearhead a ceasefire claiming it will be reciprocated by rebels but as artie's lucic offered free courts with the amount of weapons falling into the hands of rebel friendly extremists looks highly unlikely. now training for war getting ready for battle and possibly their doubts these young recruits are preparing for what their instructors called a campaign to rid syria of tyranny. some of these student to be fighters haven't even held a gun until now. this is the first time i use weapons there was no need for them

before the revolution now we carry weapons to get rid of assad. weapons have yet to topple the government of president bashar al assad but they're flowing into the country with ease it's a trend that has some officials worried those will provide arms to either side only a contributing to for the me jury and the risk of an intended consequences porous borders with its neighbors make the flow of arms almost impossible to stop and lebanon's town of is one of the main gateways behind me is the way to one of the illegal border crossings between lebanon and syria weapons fighters and supplies go in to syria while refugees fleeing the violence come out but by no means as safe or easy journey frequent shelling as well as a large minefield on the syrian side of the border crossings like being a deadly gamble a gamble that lebanese sympathizers of syria's opposition are more than willing to

make. this is five thousand dollars thirteen hundred eighteen hundred and two thousand in tripoli r.t. spoke to this arms dealer whose business was booming. people come or contact me every day we have a revolution next door for sure we are with. them topple assad till they do it. the weapons may be easy to come by the harder part is understanding exactly where they go a classified report uncovered in a new york times reveals that many of the arms sent to syrian rebels are ending up in the hands of hardline islamic jihad one of the leaders of the f.s.a. said yeah we admit that we. infiltrated the jihadi jihad he's a coming. from all over the muslim world but we don't know exactly who they are back in syria both in the training camps and in the battlefield rebels talk of high hopes for a bright future. i hope that there will be free and. actions that the syrian people

will be able to want. back our rights freedom of expression and political freedom exactly what that freedom looks like may depend on who's getting the guns. r t lebanon. the syria's northern border with turkey has also become a regular scene of deadly crossfire in the latest incident and fire back in response to a mortar shell which landed in its high tide province kurdish rebels are also causing a headache for turkey threatening to retaliate to any attacks on kurds and syria professor hussein bagchi from the middle east technical university says turkey's further engagement in the syrian conflict is unfolding kurdish rebels it is related to of course. groups have know much more money. control certain parts and. the history in the last thirty years the girls say have never

been strong. has never strong. government and turkish army and also. such a large space where they can move to get their groups in. northern iraq. and coming up for you later this hour freedom of speech gets a new meaning in europe iran learns a lesson in censorship from the e.u. satellite providers gab almost two dozen of its state t.v. and radio stations. e.u. leaders are to hold yet another crisis summit in brussels while the country's worst hit by economic troubles witness a wave of fresh strikes triggered by harsh spending cuts thousands of spanish students marched in cities across the country wrapping up three days of industrial action against the slashing of the budget education that is madrid prepares to ask for another package to save its economy expected to come with further staring the

conditions in greece and nationwide general strike against yet another ten billion euro cut as the country martin andrius and believes that brussels one size fits all approach is further complicating the crisis. and maybe that is enough cash to bailout spray in but that is not enough cash to bail out all the countries that are in trouble and all the countries that will be in trouble because they will not and we spray in greece and portugal you know many more countries are coming up with problems we have now poland we have cyprus we have malta i mean it's not going to end here because it's a general economic crises so we need to see what is the problem for the different member states this is the year that the the european union is having that they propose one solution one size fits all one solution fits all and this is this will

not work because the problems are very different in greece the problem was about having a huge. public service. it's about the property bubble it's no less angela merkel understands these then there would be no solution possible. now as protest surgeon you are of the american occupy movement is having to evolve to stay afloat after police crackdowns forces from city squares activist are now trying to soften the impact of the economic crisis arches remonde galindo reports on one group helping citizens keep their homes from the threat of foreclosure. god. was. more than a year after it kicked off its movement in los angeles occupy l.a. is alive and well but in much smaller numbers my god the tents which once dominated the landscape of downtown are gone but it popped up in backyards of

struggling homeowners i would keep a woman has done for me is a home for thirty four days he had known this family was swept up in the mortgage crisis and is now facing eviction occupiers have set up barricades around the house now for now and as the going to defend their home while the family battles with bank of america the show has a meaning of people power the law enforcement is not on our side as well so if you have if you have people power and you have community support. you should you should reach out to them you should reach out to them and get a get together from the lawn in front of l.a. city hall to this foreclosed home in the san fernando valley the face of occupy and so then california has greatly transformed in the past year but the spirit of resistance remains strong among those who say they're still fighting for the ninety nine percent this is an economic war like that's what drives me to be here is not just about say one house. with. occupy l.a.

started in a festive manner and was unique in how protesters had a cozy relationship with police. was however local politicians grew tired of the demonstration and showed they were willing to use a massive police response to shut down the peaceful movement the military style raid on occupy a lazing can drive away protesters but radicalized others who are determined more than ever to fight repressive forces when you have that kind of systematic institutionalized abuse of p. . expressing their first amendment rights it doesn't shut it down if you said slow because an independent journalist who has been documenting occupy l.a. throughout you observed how the movement's inclusiveness allowed elements in which cause conflict while occupy l.a. is broken up into several community entities it still celebrates small victories

this again is the current evolution this is the edge of it this is a foreclosure resistance action and it's supported by occupy l.a. as the movement evolves this family is determined to keep their american dream no way you should and i would to have you can always show you those things. i wanted you. to know in los angeles ramon. r t. they have been i was arrested a man who allegedly planned to blow up the federal reserve building in new york the twenty one year old bangladeshi national was detained as he apparently tried to trigger what he thought were explosives stored in a car the man who was in the united states in the studio caught the attention of authorities when he was searching for al qaida contacts they supplied him with a thousand pounds of fake explosives through underground operatives the federal reserve is also next keyser crosshairs today stacy look at the surface that it's

actual policies create we know that eco bubble is a well known gag by both with the clown so. these are the schools. that these. tend they go to ringling brothers and barnum bally clown school where they learn how walk around a floppy shoes where funny beards and you know pretend as if they have mastery over policies that they clearly don't and they spread to each other with a bottle that you see that's their monetary policy or bottles and they go all the years of quantitative easing. you know. they do this to each other and they say sing or all wet and wet names liquidity and the quality is good for making the market says goldman sachs we're adding liquidity says j.p. morgan but you're just sports against other what else are bottles and frick and clowns. at least eleven

people have been reported killed as libyan forces shelled bani walid a stronghold of the country's late leader mahmoud khadafi reports suggest there were no direct clashes between the two groups but fires from the besieged city later responded with mortar rounds the attack on bani walid comes amid revelations that dozens of cut off the loyalists were massacred following his capture and killing a year ago mobile phone footage filmed by one of the militants shows a large group of detainees being abused more photos indicate many of those people were later executed the findings also imply the very same fighters that toppled gadhafi still play a major role in libyan politics while stories have failed to investigate the deaths president of the arab lawyers association says the revelations were already common knowledge. i think churchill said the first victim of war is the truth if one looks at the what the government in libya is saying what the rebels have sad well they don't indeed even the major powers that the u.s.

and britain there were all telling a lie to say the least this is this revelation is not. you know does now document it but it is not new everybody expected the number i've attended a number of hearings in the human rights council whereby people who are questioning the number of civilians who were killed by nato but i knew of the day nato and the u.s. and western. themselves involved in removing the regime without knowing to whom with whom they're in bed they have not looked at what is the possibility that after the . and to try and say that the revolution what she did is lead with some sort of policy with libya this is just not the people revolted nato jumped on board and that's the result of it so of course the human rights abuses were done by of the feet by the revolution and by nato. more on the aftermath of the libyan conflict on

r.t. dot com also online blind justice police in northern england taser and handcuff a blind man who can barely walk the cops say they thought his behavior was suspicious and his cane was a samurai sword. also on our website hungry for help fifteen million americans sign up for food stamps during the four years of barack obama's term in office it got the number of dot com. european commission has a night in order to ban iranian state channel saying that two providers acted independently previously tehran slammed the e.u. for completely jamming its nine hundred eighty v.m. radio stations were broadcast across europe a ban coincides with

a further tightening of sanctions against the country mostly targeting its financial and trade sectors in a panel filmmaker and media analyst danny schechter things that he simply doesn't want to hear a contrary point of view. i find it very troubling that television channels have been removed from the air suppressing the arends ability to tell its side of the story around is under attack not only with oil sanctions but financial sanctions there's a whole campaign underway to discredit its proposals in the negotiations that are. going up on the nuclear issue even before iran gets to make those proposals kind of a preemptive strike and now this just a few days after the european union received the nobel peace prize one of its first acts seems to have been to suppress freedom of the press and freedom of speech that is not very encouraging if you silence one side of that debate and don't even allow

its voice to be heard at all clearly it was political you know it taking us one step closer to war and this is what the seems to be about the british did this first through their off common regulator removing press t.v. from the air in england and now the e.u. is followed through with a similar ban we discussed iran's relationship with western nations with the academic austin along as well as its nuclear if its nuclear activities are anywhere as dangerous as they are presented it well here's a preview of what's coming up in less than twenty minutes time. a good read on what iran's capabilities in terms of uranium enrichment are the big question which i don't think anyone can give a highly confident answer to is does iran want a what people refer to as a threshold capability have the words of civility to produce a nuclear weapon quickly or do they want an actual deployed weapon according to

u.s. intelligence community and most other observers iran just hasn't made that decision in part because they don't need to and they want to get to that threshold capability before they make any decisions about whether to go to go farther than that threshold because there's no point making that decision early in fact it might be detected by western intelligence and so you could tip your hand before you get to that threshold so i think that decision has been made. well let's not take a look at some other stories from around the world hungary seemed to upholding demonstrations staged by far right party supporters and the roman minority thousands gathered to blame the community for many things from street crime to litter while the minority protested against a discrimination against them. counter rallies add a further strain to ask the lady tensions in the country indicating that nationalist sentiment to be on the rise. as well expelled all part of why is

diplomats from the country the decision came as a surprise for the officials involved as authorities have refused to comment on the reasons for it if a heated dispute between the two countries which started when hard why impeached its then president earlier this year widely seen as an ally of venezuela's. tunisian journalists taking to the streets in a protest against the country's policy towards the media be accusing islamize governments of trying to manipulate the press and curbing freedom of speech on the wording say in the panels of the media was one of the main achievements of the arab spring revolution that toppled the country's previous leader. while western countries lament the golden age of growth and booming consumer spending in india low standards of living can shake people's face in a broader future or just as in the tales. in a country where every one in three people is still living in poverty it's hard to imagine things are looking up but many people in india seem to think that's the

case for most notably believe that if you add in a strong. chilled the economy going to the store and that's where the people are feeling strong though and while the poverty rate in the u.s. is still less than half the rate in india some experts say that indians are actually more optimistic about their economy than those in the west. you know everybody my quality of life might not be as high but if we can see that i can prove it and it was trying to say it's a relative thing really about. so much about where you are where you can get to. and i think a lot of western economies feel like the best is past even in the u.s. . according to a recent poll almost seventy percent of indians categorized the economic situation in the country as good making it one of the top five most economically confident countries in the world in the u.s. less than thirty percent of people were positive about the economic situation while

india's economy is seen tremendous growth over the years the rate of growth has been cut in half in the last five still several polls suggest the consumer confidence is op here and many believe that's because the government has put in place reforms that's going to keep the country's economy moving in the right direction. the most talked about reform foreign direct investment would open up india to multi brand international retailers like wal-mart and tesco but recent reforms definitely makes indians more confident p.s. if you look at the protocol of one man. it does more than. be a lot of competition so i expect that things will be much better being. different of the investors that have lots of growing bones of my income old. so. you have the money on the consumer has good power so you come i mean listen to me

or you're going to buy your. optimism when the rest of the world is more cautious about what's in store preassure either r t new delhi india. growth now to the business desk where maria is all the latest business news for us so we know what's the sentiment like today well so far it's definitely positive of would like to look at the asian markets which are the only ones trading in this hour we'll see that the figures are point. over one and a half percent now what we do know is that the chinese economy grew seven point four sides in the third quarter of two thousand and twelve so that helped boost investor sentiment there and also we have another report suggests that the bank of japan may add some monetary easing at the next policy meeting there we're moving on to the equity markets and they're close at the moment but we're taking a look at ones they session and with the r.t.s. and m i six added over one percent oil price of course helped because they've been up the highest level in one week amid reports that the u.s.

economy is growing currencies now let's take a look at what's happening with the euro dollar and the ruble when it comes to the euro it is weakening against the u.s. dollar and the ruble and the mix in the previous session updated figures coming up in less than two hours from now but let's talk about the eurozone crisis and some by analysts are saying three american credit rating agencies i'll talk about these . are in fact making the crisis worse and our business editor nicole caught up with richard the haynesworth was the president of chartered financial analysts association in russia to talk about the latest round of downgrades off the spanish banks as well as the crisis let's take a listen. i think fundamentally good governance for rating agencies should be to be very negative when everything is going up and emphasize the weaknesses but when everything is going down to be very positive and i think that all of the big american agencies in following the crisis and

continuingly continuously to downgrade as the crisis worsens in fact is find a crisis they're not adding any new value they're not adding anything that investors do not know or cannot see in this counter-intuitive though i mean if let's say they adopt a voice are you doing yourself open to allegations of. not reflecting reality i think that the rating agencies from america have bought into this whole idea of everything has to be decided in the short term in the next month or two months and then if we don't get it right you know over the short term then we've got it wrong i think that this is you know short term views and is daryl a terrorist to basically economics and to the economy as a whole how much credence to give this idea that russia is picked on a bit by the ratings agencies and i think that it can be demonstrated. in fact

average rating that the rating agencies have given to russian banks is an order of magnitude lower than what it should be. the reasons for this are because i think that the foreign rating agencies under estimate the strengths of the banking system and the political system within which they work and their overweighting the negative aspects and the weaknesses. and in other news we have more details about the saga of the russian british for. the oil from of course according to the new details a r m b p both want to sell their fifty percent stakes to oil giant ross neff now the head of that will be meeting his b.p. counterpart later in london in the day and a decision is expected to be made on friday that have reportedly signed an outline agreement with twenty eight billion dollars however the agreement is not final and could be revised apparently analysts say that it was the by both halves of b.p.

could become the biggest oil producer in the world. is luna's b.p. will come for the no longer have interest in this joint venture i think next year proves never. to be completely rules new. company with a major. in the face of this. including from largest banks likes burbank so i don't think the experiencing. and that's our business and looks the sour coming up shortly here on art see we discuss iran's nuclear ambitions and its real intentions well dr austin long stay tuned for that. wealthy british style. sometimes.

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i. iran's disputed nuclear program has managed to dominate headlines for years and today as u.s. officials continue debating over a potential strike against tehran a newly released report weighs the advantages and consequences of taking military action joining me now to talk more about this topic is dr alston long the associate professor of international public affairs at columbia university he's also the co-author of a new report titled weighing the benefits and costs of military action against iran thank you very much for joining me today thanks very much it's a pleasure to be here dr long a bipartisan group of national security experts are the authors and signatories of this extensive report according to your findings is iran's nuclear program currently a threat to the u.s. .