syria's new opposition blog is welcomed in the arab world but the region's main body stops short of recognizing it as a sole voice of the syrian people. meanwhile syria's neighbors are increasingly being drawn into the violent conflict with israel launching cross border shelling lebanon turning into a sectarian powder attack. and the scandal surrounding a former cia chief david depressed wells way beyond their extramarital affair with the u.s. commander in afghanistan now also under investigation over thousands of e-mails to a woman linked to the case. plus germany's bit to show support for portugal to steer drive is met with public outrage as people's patience painful cuts tax hikes runs out.

this is r.t. coming to live from moscow the arab league has hailed the formation of syria's new rebel coalition but stopped short of recognizing the group as the so would judge a man voice of the syrian people leaders of syria's exiled opposition be said by mutual suspicion and fighting for in the new block on sunday and are now seeking full international backing argues middle east correspondent policy takes up a story. the six gulf states have formally recognized the new syrian coalition as the official representative of the syrian people and 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 waste and as well as arab states there are fears that this could same type a libya style scenario what we saw in libya was opposition fighters sitting themselves up as an alternative government that got the backing of the international community and ultimately led to nato airstrikes and foreign intervention so there are concerns that that might happen here in syria there was also a member question about just how feasible this opposition group is really we're looking at a patchwork of various organizations here it is made up of the rebel fighters as well as dissidents and people from all backgrounds and political affiliations 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 no should be 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 now israel says its army has fired on positions in syria and scored direct hits in response to an errant cross border fire the repeat a confrontation is fueling fears that israel could be dragged into the syrian conflict as fighting is already spilled over into turkey and lebanon are just loosely copied a visit to the scene of fierce clashes between lebanese to terry groups divided over which side is support in the bloody syrian standoff. they share a determination 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 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 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 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 steps you can see this is one of the fighting positions this street. preacher heads a sunni militia here in tripoli as bubble to been a slum to have you 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 fun 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 isn't that really if it is possible to give them a gun and some of the it's done with. 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 to seek out. tripoli lebanon. and you can find out more about the potential fallout from the syrian conflict by logging onto our car and there you also find a story of a syrian after admired by millions in the arab world but is pro acid views made him a target for syrian rebels that opposition fighters are increasingly accused of killing civilians simply for the jets to the government. the fallout from cia director david betrays his resignation continues with the man who

replaced him as a u.s. commander in afghanistan general john allen now broiled in the scandal the trail down last friday after admitting to an extramarital affair the pentagon now claims general allen has been exchanging inappropriate e-mails with jill kelley the woman who is an initial contact with the f.b.i. lead to his downfall concerns are also mounting that what first appeared to be a personal matter now has deeper implications including security leaks and a political cover up from our washington correspondent garnish town hall of broadwell general petraeus is biographer. her slush mistress gave a speech last month and in that speech she revealed details about the big ozzy 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 d.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 their 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 of scandals when they learned that there was another woman involved it got them spinning all over again with her discussions about how the lead. to stop in effect 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 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 now meanwhile u.s. congress is demanding answers they want to now why they were notified of an inquiry into such a high profile figure michael malthe 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 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 it was probably a political decision to protect the president. now we go after the u.s. presidential election at up here is the united states or not that you know i it was texas and nineteen other u.s. states filing petitions and considering secession from the country had darted up com where we've got all the details. also online immoral business google starbucks and amazon face harsh rhetoric from british companies over paying just a tiny percentage of tax while gaining millions from the u.k. market. but we'll be back with more unease in just

a few minutes stay with us. 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 independence 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 so you 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 big truly independent means answer to no one not madrid not brussels but that's just my opinion. wealthy british style it's not. right with the money. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cars are there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. as

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welcome back here with our german chancellor angela merkel received a hostile welcome in portugal has hundreds of angry protesters agreed to her in lisbon they blame the chancellor for their country's a stair to drive resulting in painful cuts and tax rises as sarah first reports many wonder why board tical is following a path which is yet to reap rewards elsewhere. these measures have been killing is doing to give us no future it's only for cattle and employment and misery so many people are becoming desperate but 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 bent as a sign of support but it seemed only to serve to highlight the. protestors message loud and clear way testers 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 the coming apparent 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 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 coolest on the streets of the capital the greek political class like the rest of the year. in a sense i think prison the. prison of the you're not you will change 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 is deemed to end in failure. r.t. there's been. another indebted state ellie 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 take the space the boys they are going to rise one figure as a result biggest economy hit hard by the debt crisis and now italian authorities are pointing the finger at ratings agencies point sending the economy into chaos prosecutors are seeking trials for a number of officials from standard and poor's and analysts power of foreign

affairs firms are often 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 when you silly. and. the russian market for. the. bankers are also taking the flak for europe's economic woes next kaiser and state herbert reveal how some in charge were never a dead. for a career in finance the full program is coming up later this hour here in r.t. . this is the 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 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 she didn't know anything about banking so don't sue her this is the only industry in the world that rewards. configuration of the stupider you are the higher up you were you were raised in the organization. now millions of americans are plagued by debts they can barely afford to pay back but health could be on the way from an unlikely source activists from the occupy movement are planning to buy up the debts from creditors and just write them off artist as he 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 strike debt 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 a buying distressed debt for pennies on the dollar and basically instead of harassing. people in debt. debt buyers and debt collectors occupy wall street just goes and abolishes this debt it 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. you're debt and then they harass you harass you harass you and if you 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 bought 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 dollars five hundred dollars one hundred dollars can abolish two thousand and it's important that we've seen the governments 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. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world israel has carried out fresh air strikes on gaza it comes in response to rockets launched by palestinian militants on saturday which injured four israeli soldiers patrolling the gaza border tell of

every spotted with tank fire and shelling killing six palestinians four of them civilians and one big net least forty palestinian militants have reportedly indicated they were ready for a truce although there's been no official response from israel. radical muslim cleric abu qatada has anyone has appeal against extradition from the u.k. to jordan the word he would face terrorism charges the judge upheld the plea of the suspected al qaeda operative after lawyers claim that he wouldn't get a fair trial in jordan he'll be released on bail conditions on tuesday after avoiding various dipper taishan attempts over the last ten years. at least forty two police officers have been killed in an ambush by cattle thieves officials say the attackers used machine guns and rocket propelled grenades local tribes have recently been stealing cattle from one another the latest incident is the deadliest assault on police in country's history. well it's over me for the moment and in

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did it. times are welcome to the kaiser report first order of business this saturday will be the second anniversary of the first dedicated crash j.p. morgan by silver dish and of the kaiser report so make sure you tune in. i swore like a prankster my banker tourette syndrome is back even measuring janie leap and diamond jaimie i'm too scared to appear on the kaiser poor tournament as give me

fricken flacks or i say say flashbacks to being a foul mouth. taker i can't stop swearing. there's a lot of use he didn't act like an oppenheimer banker on a plane oh that guy we were in first class that was classy but i never used to work for them you know we did mention a few months ago that every time we try to cover. various stories of selling various collateralized debt obligations that are quote we'll say ok we can never repeat these banker e-mails because they're so foul mouth well in our first headline max foul mouth for your friends workers who warns he will hunt down their families so let's look at this video max of a living bar he's from barclays bank senior forks trader for asia or he was until he was fired here he is confronting construction workers near his house when they woke him up too early. on you. know.

yeah that looks like a typical broker's office but you know this is why london is dropping down from being the world's financial center it's going to lose that top spot to new york on kong and even frankfurt will overtake london in a few short years so this is why they that acting out their pathological social they need to call a social order anti-social behavior order as. well as you said london is apparently going down the ranks of financial centers it's down to just like a third in terms of income and revenue to the to the revenue office here the inland revenue. in the last.