syria's opposition forms a new political body to help the rebels and their western supporters topple president assad this amid criticism that the foreign based coalition has little support within the country. meanwhile fears are mounting in the war torn syria that rebel fighters are increasingly targeting civilians over their allegiance to the government. and as the greeks simmer over even more cuts portugal but here is an angry reception for the german chancellor seen as the main force behind europe's austerity drive.

world news live from our moscow headquarters are watching our t.v. with me to see catherine of well syria's fractured opposition has managed to form a new political body to help the rebels and their foreign backers oust president bashar al assad the deal signed to the qatari capital of doha follows pressure from western and arab supporters who are also waiting to see the formation of syria's new government in exile artie's polis lior reports from the region. this comes after days of political wrangling amongst the various syrian opposition forces they have been under pressure from both the united states as well as arab governments to form this unified body it is a sixty member assembly but it really brings together a wide array of people and organizations with very different affiliations it is essentially a patchwork organization amongst the new leaders are sunni muslims as well as a christian former communist and among the rebel fighters are those coming from

very different ethnic and religious backgrounds with many asking the question whether or not that infighting and whether or not those ethnic and political differences can be put aside the goal is really to try and organize a better flow of funds and also potentially to send weapons to the syrian opposition within the country and we're already hearing from one opposition member countries such as bush and from germany the united states the car and saudi arabia have pledged weapons to the syrian opposition and this is increasing concern in the international community that what we could see happening now in syria is merely a repeat of what we saw happening in libya not so long ago at that time the opposition called for itself to be recognized as the sole legitimate government of libya and we here in the same kind of court coming amongst the syrian opposition today what happened in libya was once that recognition came from the international community if you lived to foreign intervention so now we're hearing britain has pledged that hundreds of u.k. soldiers were going to syria the situation there worsens so increasing concern that

the situation in syria well ultimately be a repeat of libya some analysts are questioning whether the newly formed rebel coalition actually represents the interests of syrian citizens. the only reason we have about almost tissue quality agreement was the threats and the cajoling and the political pressure that was put on them they had to do something this weekend do you think the west is going to show up and qatar and rangers show no resolve to know how long it will last we don't know it's been twenty one months in libya you recall and there are factions still aren't grouped together and they had the benefit of the thousand bombing runs by nato so i i think that the other problem is not the groups themselves which are very disparate but the lack of support that they've got now among the syrian people and what they have lost in terms of respect

through a lot of crimes they've committed a lot of assassinations and massacres so i think this is a last ditch effort in a sense to try to put together viable opposition and only time will tell if it's going to stick together as western and arab nations look for ways to offer more support to the rebels fears are mounting inside syria that anti assad fighters are increasingly targeting civilians over their allegiance to the current regime is maria from notion and explains. it was described as conflict on uprising at the beginning no downside left would actually ease violence calling slaughter the bloodshed we have in kind of war terrorism through proxies the dash number in the tens of thousands and it's not just man engaging in battle from both sides it's also ordinary citizens including the deliberate murder of civilians by

rebels this is mahomet's rough air i met and filmed him during my last trip to damascus this summer a prominent actor while he was now his dad killed because of his views. half syrian half of this teenager. mohamed was an ardent supporter of the regime and an active campaign against those he believed were terrorists and that it seems was reason enough to murder him. i saw his body at a hospital who could make this to him. the f.s.a. syrian rebels admitted killing muhammad he was shot dead with three bullets and. my son became the first actor a man of art to sacrifice his life on the altar of our motherland i appeal to his murderers what you did is not fair he was not guilty why should those who love the motherland be executed my son loved his mother went and he always helped people and was working a lot but none of these mattered to his killers mohamed was not the first public

figure to be targeted like those people in this least are sentenced to death by members of the syrian opposition doctors pilots actors engineers are among them and they like mark means the clock is ticking but what we have here is a kind of you know military. terror. policy if you are cooperating with this government you are so to say a dead man walking and that is of course some kind of international warfare which no civilized nation. appealed after the death of muhammad that affair his father says his proud his son became a martyr and that he believes his death was not for nothing but with no end to the murders inside eventually he may just become another in on him his face in the growing statistics. r.t. . and another sign of the conflict spreading beyond syria israel has fired warning shots over the border after syrian mortar shell hit an israeli base that's the

first time israeli forces have fired into syrian territory in more than forty years more on that story for you at r.t. dot com. another year of pain looms ahead for greece as the country's parliament approves in a stary budget which will force more binding cuts upon an already struggling population it's been a precondition from the international lenders have been delaying another bailout pass into action for months now thousands of greeks have gathered outside the parliament to voice their opposition to next year's budget dumb a gun lands from the institute of democracy and cooperation and paris says that government's hands are tied by the eagle project we can see that the kinds of

measures that have been imposed on greece for more than two years that because this crisis has been going on for a very long time these measures are actually making the situation worse why are you calling me is in three four it's been in three four through every year and the fact is that the greek political class like the rest of the euro good political class in a sense i think prisoner of its own ideology it's the prisoner of the european idealogy and this ideology exerts such a power over legal that they are opposed to do things which by any rational measure obviously counterproductive in order to preserve the european project of the euro in particular they are determined to do everything to keep the single currency intact even to destroy their own country to send you certainly before them and are

over fifty percent to put the economy into a massive recession and so on. meanwhile protests are expected in the portuguese capital where the german chancellor is set to arrive later today the country's parliament recently approved spending cuts and tax hikes which are prompted mass protests artists are for a report from lisbon. german chancellor angela merkel is making her first state visit to portugal since the debt crisis began she's going to be meeting with the country's prime minister today is the german chancellor is expecting a warm welcome today she might want to think again at the same time as these meetings take place we're going to be expecting protests to be taking place across the country and certainly in lisbon as they straight to start see measures of bits and we've seen an increase in the amount to say she laments and unhappiness with those measures now portugal's it was hoped would become the southern european success story in a sharp contrast to what we seeing taking place in countries like greece but the

reality of the situation is that portugal's facing much of the same if she's a rise in unemployment hits to the public sector all of this has really added to the public on happiness it's just approved the highest spending cuts ever in portugal's modern history and that's certainly going to have an impact this sort of cools the country already struggling in the midst of recession there is great unhappiness as well it was seen as the closeness between portugal's government and the german chancellor it's the souls of a lot of talk is the boss of a lot of people whose jokes you see it in the graffiti you'll see it later today in the protest signs the prime minister it's felt by a lot of people sometimes even the submissive to angola merkel and people are really calling for the country for their own government take charge of this not to be led by the german chancellor not just to be led by persons but to be acting in

the country's own interest in going to see these protests leaving they the protesters saying they're going to hang black cloth a cross the monuments are not really echoing the black mood that we've seen across much of europe as the euro crisis continues. still to come this hour a personal matter turning into a matter of national security. going to bring you an expert opinion on whether there's more to cia director david petraeus his resignation than simply an extramarital affair. more and more highly skilled brits are turning their backs on their homeland greener pastures abroad explain the brain. it sounds like a dragon crashing through the forest but it is in fact technology this is trees and would you believe it this machine can fall and stripped hundreds of them each day

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welcome back you're watching our team the resignation of cia director david petraeus as dominating headlines of airtime in the u.s. press while his extramarital affairs but in the spotlight some believe that there is one of the scandal. the question has to be why this scandal is emerging now why is it even embroiled in general petraeus and what information did he have that would potentially have been interesting to people who would have been interested in bringing him down and this actually we can start to get to see some of the pieces of this puzzle emerging as it becomes clearer now that that there is the indication that he will not be testifying in the upcoming congressional hearings into what happened in benghazi in september and because of that some key information about what happened in benghazi might not come to light including some interesting information that just emerged in recently that in fact last month general petraeus is alleged mistress that's of broadwell who was going around giving speeches about

how the cia enix in in benghazi was being used as a secret prison which is why it was why it was attacked in september so there are some very very big things that are emerging right now and it looks like the operation to take down but petraeus at this particular moment might be motivated by some of those backdoor political dealings rather than the sex scandal that is that supposedly made out to be. well more on the story on our website if you head over to our team dot com you can learn about the spark the investigation against a former cia boss and whether the indiscretions were actually hushed up in order to aid the obama campaign. on the for you on our web site demonstrate and donate occupy activists to push a plan to relieve hundreds of americans of their debt again all that for you our team.

britain could soon be suffering from a shortage of skilled workers that is according to recent research which shows that a number of u.k. professionals are seeking better lives overseas it also says that number has increased sharply over the past two decades archies probably boycott looks into what's fueling the briton british brain drain. london one of the global financial sense says it was even voted the best place to visit only won it last year but it looks like fewer people want to actually live in britain the u.k. home office has just released a report that says that an increasing number of executives scientists and academics are choosing to leave britain last year alone some one hundred fifty thousand cases

this isn't emigrates a day of the season and now some five million brits live abroad and don't blame the unpredictable weather or the local cuisine experts now fear that it's the high rates of taxation and the cost of living that could drive even more brits to move abroad people with the motor of the economy are people with a lot of property of approach with an education perhaps with ambition as well we need to keep them in the country you have to face a life of living in london on a very small gross wage maybe even smaller by taxation to a network that's the bit which we fail as a country and perhaps some sort of system of graduated tax allowances might help us cope perhaps most alarming for the politicians who office findings that the majority of the people outside the think you take rat race do so also in the overall lifestyle choice signalling and see from discontent with living standards here in britain that's not the answer. we still in government is hoping for

me consider moving abroad to avoid. slacking off and taking away good things from the people that owning a little bit more even though it's through hard work and dedication over here is that you work until you drop that you don't want to reward us so what's the point of continuing companies are already complaining that they find it hard to find a highly skilled profession. foreigners to work in the u.k. because of the u.k. government's count on migration in order to cut immigration into the country now the growing number of young ambitious brits talking bad but i might leave the british government wondering where all the professionals have gone. all right let's take a look at some of the other international stories making headlines right now a b.b.c. news director and her deputy have stepped aside shortly after chairman chris patten called for a radical overhaul of the corp the move follows the resignation of director general

george after one of the network's top news programs wrongly linked a former politician to child abuse allegations of course and was a won't be leaving empty handed he said to get a two million dollars severance package for his fifty four days on the job. clashes have broken out in warsaw after twenty thousand people marched to the polish capital on independence day violence has erupted after a right wing nationalist started throwing bricks as well as fireworks at the police security forces used rubber bullets and tear gas as well as baton to try to bring the situation under control and disperse the crowd two police officers were injured with several protesters detained. meanwhile a devastating bush fire has burned through southern australia and storing more than half a dozen homes the country fire service has called for extra crew crews to help battle the out of control blaze no casualties have been reported the situation is hampered

by hot dry weather in the region which is set to last all season. will kate us here with the latest from the world of sports in just a few minutes. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the client's computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet author p.d. is good for you is there of in the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other

patients shattered bones in their shattered lives with the main goal when professing designed his first brain using bicycle parts sixty years later he says invention is increasingly being used to help people what eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same six thing somebody is alive both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to the center now days seeking syringe refocus medical reasons most of them a man and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them says it usually comes down to a man's pride some of the first patient to turn to us with a leg length in the request to meet his fifteen centimeters to be still want to surgery because panos to than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point

of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries are banned in many countries and even the women allowed their precious. expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in auditors in america advertised as one seventy five hours one sixty seven or one sixty a console one eight centimeters would have brought me right to our very nice i just wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be sure it's not a big deal i hear guy is like expect to be taller just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite in dealing yet he still want to have had the surgery adding

seven more centimeters to the self-confidence she took to told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or should i call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. hello welcome to the way to school round up and here's a taste of what's coming up. marching on up at musso schools twice a tesco talk with a three one win a trip on what is a need and breathing down their necks in the russian penny any. plus trading capitals we get up close and personal with ice hockey start an exam that eventually

end up in his move to washington to moscow. and building a future we take a look at how a stake in construction boom could benefit russia as the cause. people paris to host a string of top sporting events. let's let's kick off this week show with football where i've read most or scored a goal in each half as test i won three one that combine to remain top of the russian premier league and with all the weekend's action is going to denver to apple. i just got handed one the first time defeating more than me will suffer open ten minutes into the answer while the rest is millis we poor little from the penalties. but most us work again oh in the second period. and russ was elevated the army man stood in his own for the season with a brilliant strike from outside the box jessica now on a five match winning run and remain top of the loop. i well

zoot went second on goal difference with a two one win at boulder portugal's miguel danny celebrated his return from a long term injury by teeing up alexander a new coach who fired into the net from outside the box form as any player even much sooner of snatched the ninety five minutes equaliser but alexandre kids walk off mark his three hundredth match for the st petersburg side when in the atlantic only to give the defending champions another way to make sure. i use heatings in for monday beat liverpool in europe on thursday entitlements might have been a factor as they misha was troubled at local motif however a long range effort by mc d.-ca settling on silas and a bounce that hold a goalkeeper meant the degassed onside finally broke the deadlock with twenty minutes to go but like a mighty of made it all square after a ricochet held diamond oya scored his fourth of the campaign to ensure andreas leapt to good but level on points with zinni i must give the team my team

a compliment commitment after three days. it was a very not available but the other ones who came in did a good jobs. i look bottom are doing they could do little to prevent this season surprise package terry going forward with a two one winning wasn't daunte on the job with the home side they had to get through and brazil and i. headed home he's the only man matches up and then we're going to manage to pull one back as a wrestler on the financial sports in the dying seconds but derek held on to clinch the ninth green this term. after losing admin heat in the champions league on wednesday spartacus' chances of reaching the last sixteen a slim but they bounced back in the premier league to go fever with a two nil win at home to ten men cross and are ten minutes into the second half captained me to come our of cost for it to bury the ball from close range it

sounded much to me it was shown a straight red card with fifteen minutes to go and gambar of made the extra man count from the sport to guarantee a victory for the home side. i've done but the rest because dunam a continued to improve from their wilful start by securing their sticks victoria was season at home to align and form a general strike a given granny read discovered his scoring skills as the thirty year old netted to propel deny mob to town to give the fans hope for the second quarter to convey. i hope will gain enough points to go into the winter break with our heads held high and after the break we won't be participating in a relegation battle but will be trying to secure a place in the europa league. i've two eyes former champions were being when sixth with a two nil win or was struggling with this idea that doesn't get the roman sure one of gave his side an early lead with this big dekel a diving head and these are ireland hilda the best not homemade tool for the sport

six minutes before the final whistle. and finally rest of seal their first win in seven league matches with a three nil victory over omkara former liverpool striker florence and i'm up on drug probably added the cross and went on court issued headed home to half an hour while eight in the second half court announce a lot and make it a chance to edit two more to see. three mil when much to the joy of the home fans the russian premier league season has just reached its halfway point and the title battle seems to have turned into a three horse race with j.s. got remaining on top of the table wells in need have gone joy in second with angie just three points behind so with the winter break now just a month away the battle to go into its own top is just warming up on sunday and by the have a party must go. and cya from the top of the table to the figure actually they.