syria's main opposition bloc is welcome to the arab world but the region's made body stop short of recognizing it as the sole voice of the syrian people. meanwhile syria's neighbors are increasingly being drawn into the violent conflict with islam launching cross border shelling and lebanon turning into a sectarian power attack. plus germany has been to show support for portugal stare and drive is met with public outrage as people's patience with painful cuts and tax hikes runs out. on the scale that ousted cia chief david vitter as goes beyond a secret mistress it's now a matter of national security and political intrigue. me

out of the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program now the arab league has hailed the formation of syria's new rebel coalition but stopped short of recognizing the group as a so with voice of the syrian people leaders of serious exiled opposition beset by mutual suspicion and infighting formed the new united bloc on sunday following relentless pressure from the west and its allies his family is now saying international recognition to remove obstacles and sending arms to rebel forces six gulf states have already given their full backing to the coalition but some experts believe the oil rich nations are simply pursuing their own agenda. and i'm glad to see that this collection of corrupt dictatorships is instructing the syrian people as to who their representatives ought to be about the representatives of the saudi arabian people of the border. any and people or people of qatar charge of the rest

of these dictatorships so what an outrage that they're the course they're just a subsidiary of the pentagon and of the cia this is part of the long term plot by the u.s. by britain by france by turkey by israel they want to libya syria and i'm no fan of assad i might say but. the good things are watch words after gadhafi in libya they're going to be much worse if they succeed in overthrowing overthrowing assad this opposition group there are many of them are libyan al-qaeda types they're from other countries they're not syrians they're foreign fighters so no i don't i don't think whatever is wrong with assad i think that the people of syria tend not to want outsiders to be telling them what to do they fear these so-called rebels just as much as they fear their own government and my guess is they don't want foreigners occupying and running their country. now israel says its army has fired on positions in syria and scored direct hits in response to air and cross border

fire the repeat a confrontation is fueling fears that israel could be dragged into the syrian conflict as fighting has already spilled over into turkey and lebanon artistic often a visit to the scene of fierce clashes between lebanese are divided over which side to support in the bloody syrian standoff. they share at a terminations to fight to the death but this isn't syria it's lebanon the conflict has crept across the border leading to death and destruction here in tripoli we're standing here you can see the almost complete destruction of a home this is literally the front line of the. neighborhood in tripoli right across the street out the window that's the bubbletop in a neighborhood where the largely sunni community has been has been clashing with the largely allawi community that is based here it's actually not very safe for us to stand here we've been told by the owner of this apartment that they're still taking casualties in the fighting could really flare out but at any moment out of

range of the snipers we speak to the homeowner and allawi militia man the misery has only hardened his resolve to fight against neighbors who he says pose a mortal threat. these people have one objective and that is to have an islamic emirate in the north and militia organizations like hezbollah we won't give up arms as long as thought exists. this is been a flashpoint for years a sunni stronghold next door to an alawite community but strife in syria has unleashed new sectarian tensions leading to the worst fighting since lebanon's civil war. is the spokesperson for the arab democratic party which has its own loyal militia here in. the us of them is a regime falls this area will turn into a dangerous product but this is what we're trying to avoid. i ask him whether disarming might be an option to avoid more bloodshed. we're not afraid while we were filming the lebanese army was overseeing

a shaky cease fire but the sandbags are still out awaiting the next battle we're in the neighborhood as you can see behind me that is the area where the gunfire was coming down here people have been killed on both sides of the instance you can see this is one of the fighting positions this street preacher has a sunni militia here in tripoli as bubble to been a slum to have evolved with these guns. showing off his guns he says he's ready to use them again at a moment's notice. we are ready to defend ourselves and to fight for. sheikh masri accuses the syrian government a fermenting violence against the sunni's and that's why he says support for the uprising goes far beyond empathy. systems to the free syrian army then would do it within our capabilities if it is possible to give them a gun and some bullets done with happy. however the syrian war plays out it's clear

that the outcome will have repercussions far beyond its borders in tripoli the battle lines have been drawn and neither side seems willing to back down lucy caffein of tripoli lebanon. well you can find out more about the potential fallout from the syrian conflict by logging on to the golf course and they're also find the story of a syrian actor admired by millions in the arab world but. pro asad views made him a target for syrian rebels as opposition fighters are increasingly accused of killing civilians simply for the early ages to the government's. german chancellor angela merkel received a hostile welcome in portugal as hundreds of angry protesters greeted her in lisbon they blame mrs merkel for the or country's astaire drive a resulting in painful cuts and tax rises as artie's sara first reports many wonder why portugal is following a pass which is yet to reap rewards or. these measures have been killing us do they

give us no future it's only for carriage and employment and misery so many people become desperate that it's almost like a visceral reaction a visceral reaction to these measures people of god getting angrier and angrier angela merkel says it supports the goal may have been meant as a sign of support for this scene daily to serve to highlight the. protestors message loud and clear way testers standing off against the riot police at the site that's become very familiar protest gatherings in europe but perhaps not so familiar portugal here until recently have been much more tolerant of the strict austerity measures that have been imposed on them but as you can see here portugal's patience is really running out with record levels of unemployment now at fifteen percent and the country about interest third year of recession is becoming apparent that the country persons had to eat could be

a southern european success story is now struggling to survive we talk about cuts to jobs we talk about the search measures what does it mean to be living through that right now in portugal it means they don't see any future for my child we are getting angry because the government don't care. about people put two goals not alone of course these stories of hardship all across the usa in brussels finance ministers it desperately trying to come up with a way to pull greece back from the brink of bankruptcy with athens having just approved yet another round of cuts this is the coolest of the speech if it happens to the greek political class like the rest of the year. in a sense i think christine the. prisoner of the you're not you're watching this. ideology exerts such an. over people that they are prepared to do things which by

any rational measure obviously counterproductive in order to preserve the european project the euro in particular they are determined to do everything to keep the single currency detect even to destroy their own country and with greece and say die economic straits people are questioning just why portugal mistily the saying. the same many economists say it's deemed to end in failure. r.t. there's been now in another indebted state italy at least twenty people have been injured in fierce clashes over unemployment violence between police and demonstrators broke out in naples with more than a thousand people taking to the streets to voice their outrage at rising unemployment figures the euro zone's biggest economy has been hit hard by the death

crisis and now it's well you know sorties are pointing the finger at ratings agencies for sending the economy into chaos prosecutors are seeking trials for a number of officials from standard and poor's as power for us as the firms are often battling where they should. be something which is very much public and. therefore. they do. some kind of. free when. the russian market. and. the. as bankers are also taking a flack for europe's economic woes max geyser and stays however to reveal how some in charge were never destined for

a career in finance and the full program is coming up later date. this is a female banker in spain the bank key a banker who didn't understand anything a former director of the banking giant whose implosion for spain to seek a hundred billion euro bank bailout has admitted she doesn't know anything about finance and she said in testimony before a criminal court in madrid that she had qualifications and chemistry she didn't know anything about banking so don't sue her this is the only industry in the world that rewards you know the cation of the stupid or you are the higher up you were you were raised in the organization. what you are the fallout from cia director david petraeus his resignation is continuing days after of the decorated military chiefs to down following an

extramarital affair concerns are mounting that what first appeared to be a personal matter could have more to it including security leaks and political cover up more from our washington correspondent got it to come. paula broadwell general petraeus is biographer slosh mistress gave a speech last month and in that speech she revealed details about the bin ghazi attack that were at that time unknown to the public she gave the speech at the end of october fifth now when everybody knows that she had an affair with a general many are guessing whether those details that she revealed in her speech were part of their pillow talk take a listen i don't know a lot of you heard this but the c. and extend actually had taken a couple of libyan militia members prisoner and they think that the attack on the consulate was an effort to try to get these prisoners back so that it's still being vetted the challenging thing for general to translate is that in his new position he's not allowed to communicate with the press by the way the cia adamantly denies the allegations that they held prisoners at the consulate in benghazi and nobody at

that point heard anything about the cia holding prisoners in benghazi but everybody knew about the access that paula broadwell had to the general because she was his biographer now it turns out that she had an even greater access to the general when general petraeus resigned he cited his own extremely poor judgment and some are wondering whether that poor judgment was just about the affair or it could also be about having shared more with his mistress than just pleasant moments together there's another twist to this story apparently paula broadwell was not the kind to keep things to herself the f.b.i. were investigating her allegedly caressing e-mail sent to another woman who also happens to know general petraeus and as officials here are saying that's how they found out about the affair general petraeus was idolised the public had to go through a similar trauma if you will with the other again and then general who was also idolized in many ways general stanley mcchrystal he fell from grace and resigned

when the rolling stone magazine quoted him saying unflattering things around the administration from the media here of course we've seen over the various scandals when they learned that there was another woman involved it got them. spinning all over again with her discussions about the level of the stock story and the fact that man is judgment and all kinds of things they savor every detail of this story and one thing that was actually said to watch is that. what the agency and i mean the cia is actually doing doesn't get that much coverage things like how they pick the targets for this targeted assassination program things that the public should want to know if the actual security and it's secret but when it comes to the director's bedroom all of a sudden everybody wants to know and the media are there to question every detail of the affair as far as let's say collateral damage from cia drone strikes not as interesting. meanwhile the u.s. congress is demanding answers they want to know why they were notified of an

inquiry into such a high profile figure michael maloof that former pentagon official says the timing of their of revelations and the initial secrecy could be politically motivated at least the attorney general should have been informed he worked after all the f.b.i. works for him they report directly to him and certainly the director of national intelligence should have been informed not on the evening of the election but should have been informed almost immediately when they came across some very incriminating information it's been my experience that when something like this occurs the person who's the target is suspended from clearances is told to take thirty days off and while they investigate further and the bosses are informed immediately the fact that this was did not occur in patrice's case and it occurred almost immediately after he became the cia director i think smells of political intrigue and the fact that. this wasn't even reported for months. to the higher

levels is in itself a scandal was probably a political decision to protect the president. that's right. movement. hundreds of us citizens of the financial burden. on our.

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mission. critical three. storage. arrangements three. three. three. the old free blog video for your media project free radio dot r.t.e. dot com. welcome back you're watching r.t. going to live from moscow that the b.b.c. is struggling to restore viewers' trust after wrongly accused a british politician of child abuse the broadcasters have news and her deputy are the latest to step aside just days after the director general quit and turn away

the b.c. investigation has revealed what it called unacceptable failings in the production of the flawed report arches or smith reports from london. the director general george and wessel resigned over the weekend saying that it he felt it was the owner of both thing to do but what might not be seen as the honorable thing to do is that he's currently taking all four hundred fifty thousand pounds of his yearly pay packets despite having been in the job only fifty four days and of course much of that fifty four days he spent some would say ineffectually trying to fight these fires to keep on breaking out the b.b.c. and that money will be paid by the taxpayer just the latest thing is these allegations by a man called steve meso who said that he was repeatedly sexually abused as a child by a senior politician that was reported on the b.b.c.'s flagship current affairs program news night and all only after that was this steve mess and shown

a photograph of lord mcalpine and he said oh no actually i'm sorry i was mistaken it wasn't him after all that haven't been enough in itself of of the jimmy savile scandal again newsnight had done an investigation into jimmy savile who was a much loved children's entertainer back when i was growing up which essentially exposed him as a paedophile that program though was spiked by b.b.c. leadership they were ordered to drop it at least in part because other parts of the b.b.c. were preparing a programme that said how wonderful jimmy savile was done of course it's not just news that the b.b.c. does they do a range of programs nature documentaries etc etc so it has been a much loved it loved institution and people hope i think that this change of management will will make that be so again let's have a listen to what they say i still follow b.b.c. news and business yeah i still i still just as easily say we wouldn't deter me from using b.b.c. is an easy thing you see a g.p. here on the search is something that really is the unfortunate you can't control

the child i was asian from member station so i still trust me by broadcasting what i hear going into the latest news we will really be free. well was. the b.b.c. over a number of years has made a series of blunders being involved in a number of decisions which have strained somewhat poor judgment. to do with the reporting of the conflicts in the middle east and also an incident surrounding syria where the b.b.c. used a photograph that was taken in iraq in two thousand and three but used it to illustrate a massacre in the syrian city of houla and there was also back in two thousand and three a very serious instant where a b.b.c. journalist revealed to david kelly was the source for his report that the government had sexed up the dossier on the weapons of mass destruction in iraq which of course led to the invasion of iraq. to being outed in that way was subsequently found dead again in the wake of that the director general resigned but

this is this is an erosion of trust really that's been going back. and a week after the us president a presidential election and it appears the united states or not that you know says nineteen other u.s. states violent petitions and considering secession from the country had to r.t. dot com where we've got all the details. plus in moral dismas google starbucks and amazon face harsh rhetoric from british m.p.'s over pay just a tiny percentage of tax while getting millions from the u.k. market. millions of americans are plagued by debts they can barely afford to pay back by how could be on the way from an unlikely source activists from the occupy movement

are planning to buy up the debts from other creditors and just write them off parties associates are going to has the details. haters must have been hoping that occupy wall street has fallen off the face of the earth or at least the face of the national arena this is not been the case at all for months now this project has been in the works occupy wall street has been trying to come up with a system where they can do what they can their share of the action to try to help so many americans who are just completely burdened by debt and what it entails is buying distressed debt for pennies on the dollar and basically instead of harassing . people in debt. buyers and debt collectors occupy wall street just goes into volatile as this debt wipes it out completely and we caught up with the former wall street employee and now occupy wall street activists alexis goldstein and she broke it down for us take a listen normally like if you default on the loan there's all these collections agencies that can buy your debt and then they harass you harass you harass you and

it's like three percent of the people they get the money from the way they do ok because they buy the debt for pennies on the dollar so what we're doing is we're trying to buy a million dollars worth of debt which only cost fifty thousand dollars because it's pennies on the dollar and abolish it and so people will get a phone call saying you know instead of getting a phone call from a collections agency they'll get one phone call saying hey occupy wall street got your debt it's been abolished the idea behind strike debt they say that fifty thousand dollars could abolish a million dollars in debt but it's small donations that they're really counting on twenty five bucks can abolish five hundred dollars one hundred dollars can abolish two thousand and it's important that we've seen the government of the united states bail out corporations with this particular idea occupy wall street is hoping that this is a bailout of the people by the people and they're hoping that this will start some sort of movement to really where people try to help themselves from the bottom up and just throughout the country. i'll take

a look at some other stories from around the world israel has carried out fresh air strikes in gaza in response to rockets launched by palestinian militants tensions have been escalating since saturday when four israeli soldiers patrolling the border with gaza were one that tel aviv responded with tank fire and shelling killing six palestinians four of them civilians and when they get at least forty palestinian militants have reportedly indicated they were ready for a truce although there has been no immediate response from israel. radical muslim cleric abu qatada as one is appeal against extradition from the u.k. to jordan where he would face terrorism charges he's plea was upheld after patatas lawyers claim he would face a fair trial in jordan he'll be released in the u.k. on bail on tuesday after a case that has lasted for over ten years. now at least forty two police officers have been killed in an ambush by kenyan cattle seems officials say the attackers used machine guns and rocket propelled grenades local

tribes have recently been stealing cattle from one another latest incident as the deadliest assault of police in country's history. i had here in r.t. our special report on the worst and dust real accident in india's history stay with us for part one of this report. good lover a jury of your mccurry was eighty two. building the world's most sophisticated.

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