yes some petrol bombs in athens to show. you in full cuts in the film he says it will control over national budgets. as the international envoy to syria warns the conflict could set the whole middle east ablaze clashes break out across the border with lebanon. and in libya the former bastion of feet is under attack again as militias launch an assault on bani walid leaving.

from a new center here in central moscow international news and comment live on r.t. scenes of violence returned to the streets of athens where police of resorted to tear gas to disperse anti austerity protesters tens of thousands of greeks voiced their anger over a new round of cuts being demanded by the country's lenders and exchange for another bailout this consigns with a general strike to the scene tens of thousands of people walking off the job for the second time this month on a justice to this from the university of the aegean who took part in today's protest says the imposed measures will only result in more social unrest. but we're facing another. wave of demo staging cuts in wages special protection pensions we are facing a new tax. disaster in the process are living conditions that can explain.

mad today with such massive demonstrations absence and we're greece people have already reached their limits they cannot stand it's the political class currently destigmatize. society and the same goes from the troika and especially europe the representatives of the european union but they're just building up the explosive material for next social experience and. simply by being passed through parliament if it has made it to mess in society and i think in the end in the end should they sing such an intense social crisis in the end they will have to chance. either way as we're just going to see such a crisis after such a crisis there's an explosion of the circs. doesn't need to do and incite. a nationwide strike in greece was time to coincide with another e.u. summit in brussels ahead of the meeting german chancellor angela merkel called for

the e.u. to be given powers to veto national budgets tom gill who's a london based writer and journalist says this idea undermines the very principles in which the union was founded. as a big time. principles that of course is part and parcel of the whole process of european integration for quite some time now. with the removal of monetary and fiscal policy from national governments effectively since the creation of the single currency there's been a huge democratic deficit and current proposals that will give more power to elected officials in brussels and. give particular amounts of power to the stronger states. is fundamentally undemocratic and is rolling back the whole principles of what european integration was about when it was founded not long after the second world war and opinion polls across the confidence comes from rebellion among the

people against their leaders but they're still not listening. and the protests continue across the atlantic. where the occupy los angeles movement refuses to be silenced a year after it was first formed we report on that later in the program. the international peace envoy to syria wants the conflict is now a threat to the whole region one of the first signs came in lebanon when apparently used machine guns to shoot into syria sparking return to. the border between the neighbors has also been restive thanks to an influx of fighters and. explains. everything no training for war getting ready for battle and possibly their doubts these young recruits are preparing for what their instructors call 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 heavy. 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 unintended 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 is safe or easy journey frequent shelling as well as a large minefield on the syrian side of the border crossings like these a deadly gamble

a gamble that lebanese sympathizers of syria's opposition are more than willing to make. this is five thousand dollars and this is 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. 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. have these jihadi is 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 elections that the syrian people

will be able to choose the officials they want and that we will win back our rights freedom of expression and political freedom exactly what that freedom looks. make me depend on who's getting the guns. lucy captain of lebanon. if. and more advanced weapons are being smuggled to syrian rebels causing concern that some could end up in the hands of is in the midst of extremists and the assad forces claim they've got hold of portable anti aircraft missiles in the been a journalist robin han as believes this is an alarming trend because of the growing support for rebels from al-qaeda we've had reports from pretty unbiased sources like many other french. medical charity who said that sixty percent of the people they bumped into in one area where they were dealing with carriages were foreign generalities and i don't know is there any doubt that

they've been fed in there quite deliberately to stokes the prising against the syrian government and not just the troller so let's let's be quite clear that there are an awful lot of syrians who do not want their country to be turned into another libya i've talked to the syrians right from the start of those i don't think they ever had that much support from many of the syrians who watched what happened to gadhafi was libya and realized that if it wasn't perfect what we what they're getting afterwards is a great deal worse than they've always been aware of and they're totally cynical about the west's motives for interfering in this and the gulf states motives for interfering in in civil strife in syria. in libya at least eleven people have been killed and scores wounded after militia linked to the defense ministry shelled bani walid it's a former stronghold of colonel gadhafi the country remains close to chaos following the western backed armed rebellion last year that toppled the nation's long time dictator and libyan political activist says that the nation is heading towards

further disarray having been largely abandoned by foreign powers. it's model division now in libya there has never been before. the militias another attack in which is a highly populated area just. caused the deaths of two children and also assume that they used chemical weapons and the divorce from the hospital on the. phone call i made with the people inside the city the city these militias are. now in control in control of libya you can see it in libya using. all the possible means. of positions you have is not really covering. the real situation in libya because they don't want to set this example for syria to say well we succeed in libya so we'll succeed in syria. i just see.

my point of view. he's currently looking into the claims that chemical weapons have been used in the attack on bani walid and we'll bring you more on this as soon as we get it. well still to come this hour thousands have been killed in u.s. drone attacks in pakistan but only a fraction of the militant islam about reveals horrifying statistics of civilian deaths we've expert opinion on the significance of these official numbers. after a short break. no one should be proud. of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes being black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the bergen archipelago don't make

a pretty picture of the guiding principle here is the worse the better that can do nine hundred eighty bearings work was a burgeoning mining community. was determined to maintain at all costs twenty degree located halfway between north america and western europe the space burden archipelago is part of norway but a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the us is ours westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union slask preserved relics. picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades it's a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russian travellers the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards if these modernization efforts i'm not very popular with tourists if you come into

a very authentic place like. it should stay the way it is that would be. i wish i mean that's the part of the a little you know authentic traditionally up to. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be honest this time to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add morning russian songs to die repertoire the audience called all they wanted to hear it was a song comfortably for now we are. live here in moscow welcome back the majority of people killed by u.s.

drone strikes in pakistan and not militants according to the country's interior minister rehman malik said that eighty percent of more than two thousand people have died as a result of strikes was civilians. from pak nationalists form by keystones first political lobbying group says washington is responsible for both the deadly drone strikes and the militants they're targeting. this is a major blow. to diplomacy and position and fox done and this is the first time that a senior official actually come out to say this make this kind of a statement that the majority are civilians who are killed by cia drones there's no evidence that the drones have actually helped buckstone control the militants on the contrary pakistan has been very much very successful lives and military in flushing out terrorist from the northern region of so wide that in two thousand and nine and clearing and cleaning up that entire area and if now we see a resurgence of some of the activity of the terrorists it is because of these safe

havens on the what i would call the american side of the border which is the afghan side of the border under the watch of the u.s. army where these terrorists who are flushed out by poxon army are maintaining arresting and training camps over there so i think the pakistani government appears now to be putting the blame in a way on the on the americans and i think that would be the gist of the report published by the fox any media today about the meeting which was a closed door meeting of the box any military commanders accusing or mentioning for the first time by the way a figure ninety six incursions from the of gun territory into parts done resulting in killing of parks and soldiers and bugs and civilians. to other international news now in the world of the colombian government and guerrilla group fark have agreed to a joint declaration to settle nearly half a century of conflict members from both sides have been negotiating in a secret venue outside oslo norway with talks expected to move to cuba at

a later point the fog movement is considered a terrorist organization but both the e.u. and the us with washington having supplied colombia's armed forces with military aid to combat the guerrillas. at least five people have reportedly been killed in the capital of yemen after a shell hit a weapons depot setting off a series of blasts that came shortly after seven al qaeda suspects died in the latest u.s. drone attack in the country south yemen has been torn by on rest since two thousand and eleven the country picked a new president at the beginning of this year but he's been unable to control military forces partly controlled by his predecessors relatives. and the f.b.i. has arrested a man who was allegedly planning 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 officials say the public was never a risk as his bomb dealers were actually f.b.i. agents undercover. well you can watch and attack the federal

reserve for running a circus with its financial policies that's coming up later today on r.t. . and co bubble is a well known gag with a clown. these are the. ten. brothers and barnum barely klout score or they learn. where funny and pretend as if they have mastery over policies that they clearly don't and they spritz each other with seltzer bottle you see that. their monetary policy bottles and they go all here's your quantitative easing. you know and they do this to each other and they say sin or all wet and wet means liquidity and the quality is good we're making a market so it's goldman sachs we're adding liquidity says j.p. morgan but you're just spitting each other what else are bottles and frick and

clowns. because reporter the late if we hear a naughty as protests in europe the american occupy movement is having to evolve to stay afloat to police crackdowns force them from city square as activists are now focusing on ways to soften the impact of the economic crisis on these remote glinda reports on one group helping citizens save their homes from the threat of foreclosure. i know it was. but i. 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 none 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 this 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 a comic 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. god 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 drove away protesters but radicalized others who are determined more than never to fight repressive forces when you have that kind of systematic institutionalized abuse of. expressing their first amendment rights it doesn't shut it down it fuels a sense slovik is an independent journalist who has been documenting occupy l.a. throughout he 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 and this family is determined to keep their american dream from fading no way you should and i would to happen and you can always show resistance. in los angeles ramon the lindo r t business coming away very shortly here in the meantime let's check out the web site couple stories for you there plenty of others to thoughts including a he of discontent egyptian schoolgirls are forced into having unwanted but not wearing a traditional headscarf. and also online at the moment twitter moves into territory by censoring an account for the first time i request of the government and the you know not secret all the details about right now l.t. .

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woke him it's a business to now russia's oil major ross nabs could acquire all of the show as in the russian branch of t. in k.b. pay taking that's total debt some more than hof of that of the soviet union we're talking sixty million dollars in toto with with this says they would but i and what the company already is it was meanwhile stepha coming the biggest oil producer in the wild nicole explains all the latest for us. rosie is playing it's called close

to its chest c.e.o. igor sachin is in new london and sources suggest he's trying to broker a deal to create the world's biggest publicly traded oil. that is in talks with me to buy a best stake in t. and pay the twenty eight billion dollars in cash and share to pay the new forces russia third largest group and its fifty percent by b.p. and fifty percent by a consortium of food russian tycoon but those two i could have easily been told the rules yeah and so it's just that they've signed a memorandum of understanding so their share in th paid b.p. is well this will likely happen in the future date rosneft is not going to have the fifty billion dollars in cash we would need on hand to complete both sides of the acquisition of one. all right let's get some background on this story that because

take a b.p. oil reserves exceed nine billion dollars almost all of the phones production situation in russia it also has a five of its own or refined reza one of them is in the ukraine and over fourteen hundred petru stations in russia ukraine. but most importantly b.p. proved itself as one of the most profitable oil companies with dividends reaching thirty eight billion dollars and not since the company was set up so that just puts it all into context for let's get over to wall street and see what's happening because stocks are indeed declining. as we can see that they are indeed mixed just now but it's pretty flat for the dow jones pretty much a movement for the not for. job with claims rose more than forecast actually now looking at a three month rise a source of great news and not much larger than expected for european stock markets

now the end of the trading day investors holding heights not a lot of movement over right now we do have five tenths of a percent for the e.u. summit taking all leaders in the region the european currency then this it was happening with the traders say you have the most traded currency proud the more one . so it is declining actually just now in anticipation of that summit falling from that one month high that we were looking at last week for the ruble is finished trading and it had a mixed performance in the session there tomorrow because they fell short of a lot of that is because oil prices are going down the u.s. jobs they came out so that is a day of the global equity markets coming up in a few minutes here on l.c. we discuss iran's nuclear ambitions on the rigid tensions with so long this is stay with us for the.

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 advanced 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 us president it's not a threat to united states iran's nuclear program is under international atomic

energy agency destruction. work that they had previously done according to the u.s. intelligence community on nuclear weapons it's been suspended so at present iran's nuclear program is not a major threat united states the concern is that it could very rapidly become one how rapidly in less than a year according to some estimates and other estimates more than a year a lot depends on whether you're talking about the production of the material the highly enriched uranium for a bomb or an actual deliverable weapon a deliverable weapon would take longer production of fissile material could you know within a few few months produce enough or for a bomb well within a few months both in a few weeks americans will be heading to the polls to vote for a new u.s. president or keep the current one in the white house many believe that israel has seen this time as a window. opportunity to strike iran dragging the u.s.

into a war is there still a threat that it would do so in the main remaining weeks i think the concern about a possible israeli strike was higher a few weeks ago the israelis are now dissolving their parliament and calling for new elections on january twenty second so this i think changes a lot of the previous calculation of people that thought the israeli government might act before the us elections i think now tend to believe wait until at least after us elections if not actually after the the new israeli elections now opinions vary do you think iran has an intention to acquire a nuclear bomb i mean this is literally the sixty four thousand dollar question you know there's a pretty 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 in other words its ability to produce a nuclear weapon.