free. and free blog video for your media project free media r t v dot com. there is new opposition bloc is welcomed and the arab world bugs recognize the region's main body stopped short of breath nies ing it as the sole voice of the syrian people. meanwhile syria's neighbors are increasingly being drawn into violent conflict with israel launching cross border shelling and lebanon turning into sectarian power cat. plus germany's bid to show support for portugal's hysteria drive is met with public outrage as people's patience with painful cuts and tax hikes are down. and a scowl that ousted cia chief david petraeus goes beyond a secret mistress it's now a matter of national security and political intrigue. at

a study out of the russian capital you're watching r t with me arena josh the arab league has hailed the formation of syria's new rebel coalition but stopped short of recognizing the group as a soldier and voice of the syrian people leaders of syria's exiled opposition beset by mutual suspicion and infighting formed a new blog on sunday at are now seeking full international backing middle east policy or joins us live for more paul though the rebel coalition did not get full recognition from the arab league it did get it from some other nations so what more can you tell us about about the countries that support it. well the six gulf states have formally recognized the new syrian coalition as the official representative of the syrian people and they include parade kuwait qatar saudi arabia and the united

arab emirates the foreign minister of qatar has said that this recognition will remove obstacles that will ultimately be able to secure arms for syrian rebels the coalition does look set to set up a so-called government in exile if indeed this happens this will have the backing of western as well as arab states and it is something that we have seen particularly countries like the united states and france called for in the past there are fears that all of this will lead to a maggot in libya scenario where we saw opposition fighters there as stablish a government in exile they call themselves the official and legitimate government of the people and this city the basis for western involvement and nato airstrikes so there are concerns that that will happen there was also a nother question about just how feasible opposition group is really we're looking

at a patchwork of various organizations it is made up of rebel fighters as well as dissidents and people from all backgrounds and political affiliations questions also being asked just how much contact and just how much influence versus the grouping has with syrian opposition fighters on the ground it has been marred by bickering over the past few weeks and months indeed this is an organization that does not have internal unity what is important is that the arab league that is notably one of the most important bodies in the arab world has hesitantly welcomed this new coalition it does say that it is a primary to negotiate it but it has not gone as far as to say that it is the legitimate representative of the syrian people and then you have members in the arab league such as iraq and lebanon who have not fully given their support to the syrian opposition they are reluctant to deal with just some nights the syrian president bashar assad. all right paul thanks so much indeed for bringing us this

of a policy or if it is correspondent now political analyst to lou rockwell believes that by offering full support for the syrian coalition for nations maybe hijacking the initiative i'm glad to see that this collection of corrupt dictatorships is instructing the syrian people as to who their representatives ought to be but the representatives of the saudi arabian people of the bahraini and people or people of qatar or charge of the rest of these dictatorships so what it outrages 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 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. has its army has fired oppositions in syria and scored a direct hits in response to aaron cross border fire the repeat a confrontation is fueling fears that israel could be dragged into the syrian conflict as fighting as already spilled over into turkey and lebanon the coffin of visited the scene of fierce clashes between lebanese sick tearing groups divided over which side they support in the bloody syrian standoff. they share at a terminations a 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 and this is literally the front line of the. neighborhood in tripoli right across the street out the window that's the 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 up 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 will 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 a new sectarian tensions leading to the worst fighting since lebanon's civil war

ali food is the spokesperson for the arab democratic party which has its own loyal militia here in. the asad regime falls this area will turn into a dangerous product this is what we're trying to avoid. i asked him whether disarming might be an option to avoid more bloodshed. but 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. this is one of the fighting positions this street. reacher heads a sunni militia here in tripoli as bubble to be in 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 fire with. sheikh

mansour he accuses the syrian government of 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 then we're 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. i can find out more about the potential fallout from the syrian conflict by logging on to our dot com there you'll also find the story of a syrian actor admired by millions of the arab world but he's pro ass of use made him a target for syrian rebels that his opposition fighters are increasingly accused of killing civilians simply for the early engines to the government. there in towns

where no margot received a hostile welcome and portugal as hundreds of angry protesters greeted her in lisbon they blame the chancellor for their country's astaire drive resulting in painful cuts and tax rises and as artists are first reports many wonder why four to go is following a path which is yet to reap rewards elsewhere. these measures have been killing is due to give us no future it's only for carriage and employment and misery so many people are becoming desperate and it's almost like a visceral reaction a visceral reaction to these measures people and are getting angrier and angrier angela merkel says it to portugal may have been there as a sign of support for the scene daily to serve to highlight the. protesters message loud and clear protesters standing off against the riot police 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 it's 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 are echoed all across the usa in brussels finance ministers and 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 cause few of the streets of the capital the greek political class like the rest of the year. in a sense i think chris. christie of the you're not you're watching this. ideology exerts such a power 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 checked even to destroy their own country and with greece and say die economic straits people are questioning just why portugal must follow the saying. the same many economists say it's deemed to end in failure. r.t.

there's been now in another and out of state italy at least twenty people have been injured in fierce clashes over unemployment violence between police and demonstrators broke out of naples with more than a thousand people taking the streets to voice their outrage rising unemployment figures. has been hit hard by the debt crisis and now italian authorities are pointing a finger at ratings agencies for sending the army into chaos prosecutors are seeking trials for a number of officials from standing force and said alice power. far after meddling where they should. have been something which is very much public and. therefore it is convenient that they do. have some kind of. free.

market for. the. now as bankers are also taking the flak for europe's economic woes max geyser and stays with her to reveal how some in charge were never destined for a career in finance the full program is coming up next hour this is female banker in spain the bank key a banker who didn't understand anything a former director of the banking giant who's implosion for spain to seek one hundred billion euro bank bailout has admitted she doesn't know anything about finance and she said in testimony before criminal court in madrid that she had qualifications and chemistry nothing she didn't know anything about banking so don't sue her this is the only industry in the world that reward you know if occasion and the stripper you are the higher up you were you were raised in the

organization. and we counter in the us presidential election and it appears the united states are not that united have ninety nine other us states filing petitions and considering secession from the country had to r.t. dot com where we've got all the details. plus an immoral business google starbucks and amazon face harsh rhetoric from british companies overpaid just a tiny percentage of tax while again millions from the u.k. market cap on line for details. catalonia wants to get its independence from the rest of spain locals feel that

madrid texas all of catalonia economic success is a way putting the region into debt trust me working hard only to have it all taxed away is very aggravating i can see why people are frustrated but the people who want independents. i have a very odd slogan catalonia a new european state so let me get this straight you want independence but you want to stay in the e.u. is that what you mean what exactly would that change that's not really gaining independence that shifting dependencies staying in the e.u. means you won't have control of your borders you'll still be on the euro c. won't have your own currency you will be able to establish your trade standards those will be dictated to you by brussels and if you don't like the austerity measures from outsiders like in madrid then you might want have a conversation with the greeks because being an independent country in the e.u. won't save you from people messing with your finances all i'm saying is that being truly independent means answer to no one not madrid not brussels but that's just my opinion.

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you're watching are the live from moscow now the fog from cia director dave the trances resignation continues days after the decorated military chief stood down following an extramarital affair the scandal now widens with an investigation launched into the current commander of u.s. and nato troops in afghanistan according to the pentagon general john allen has been exchanging inappropriate e-mails with a woman whose earlier appeal to the f.b.i. ultimately led to the trestles downfall concerns are also mounting that what first appeared to be a personal matter could have more to it including security leaks and a political cover up more from our washington correspondent. 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 if a lot of you heard this but the c. and extend actually had taken a couple of living 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 the 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 about the administration the media here of course have seen all over the tree a scandal when they learned that there was another woman involved it got them. spinning all over again we heard discussions about how the level of testosterone affects the man's judgment all kinds of things they savored 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 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 that it's got reporting there i mean while 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 moore wolf a former pentagon official says the timing of the revelations and the initial secrecy could be politically motivated at least the attorney general should have been informed he works 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 it was probably a political decision to protect the president. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world israel has carried out fresh air strikes gaza it comes in response to rockets launched by palestinian militants on saturday which injured four israeli soldiers patrolling the gaza border tel aviv responded with tank fire and shelling killing six palestinians four of them civilians and one that at least forty palestinian militants have reportedly

indicated they were ready for a truce although there's been no official response from israel the. radical muslim cleric abu qatada has won his appeal against extradition from the u.k. to jordan worth he would face terrorism charges the judge upheld the plea of the suspected al qaeda operative after lawyers my name if you wouldn't get a fair trial in jordan he'll be released on strict bail conditions on tuesday after avoiding various different attempts over the last eight years. forty two police officers have been killed in an ambush by kenyan. officials say the attackers used machine guns and rocket propelled grenades local tribes have recently been stealing cattle from one another and the latest incident is the deadliest assault on police and country's history. well ahead here in our breaking the set sheds light on why some u.s. states want to part company with a country. which

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every traveler who comes here asks the spirits to make their journey easier give them strength and fulfill their dearest wishes virtually undiscovered by tourists until some twenty years ago i was horny as quickly becoming a magnet for nature lovers and few real sick others but those used to five star pampering and maybe end for a surprise the islands infrastructure has yet to catch up with the growing demand you're quite some way from civilization here accommodation on the island is very basic so you can forget about the or even running water for most people a tent is the on the eruption. but for those who come here it's exactly what they're looking for. util you and your need to buy coal can be unique trip of a lifetime and the locals say once you've seen it you'll be coming back again and

again. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a donut. concludes the longest and while this campaign in our history colors on the left well that may be changing magically before our eyes that some traditional red states with twists and turns that have been the hallmarks of this campaign i want you to watch to do because you've never seen anything like this until.

i'm out in march so this is an interesting new residence in almost two dozen states are now petitioning the white house to feed from the u.s. you heard me right to speak one person who filed a petition in texas even cited the abuse of civil rights in the case of the n.b.a. and t.s.a. as his reasoning but i would wager to say that he's a minority these are the states filing you for the session more than half of them are southern states does it look familiar or good this map of the historic felt. interestingly enough with the exception of virginia is every single state that was in the confederacy is now on board with this petition and ironically these are the some of the very same states plagued with institutionalized racism to this very day i can't just help but wonder if this effort is not just about obama's policies

because if it were why didn't we see this kind of initiative during the bush administration i mean after all the policies are pretty much still the same look obviously i'm no fan of obama but the most vocal criticisms about him are based in bigotry and racism and unfortunately that's what the media gives the most credence to and frankly i'm sick of it you are too afraid to set. the tone where you are going to be like the. last wednesday's hazy post-election hangover clip of the news that california's prop thirty seven had been defeated take a look. and let's take a look at proposition thirty seven it also failed we heard a lot about this one it would have required many genetically engineered foods to be labeled as being genetically engineered.