syria's new opposition lot is welcomed in the arab world but the region's main body stopped 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 israel launching cross border shelling and lebanon turning into sectarian counterattack. plus the scowl surrounding former cia chief david petraeus extends beyond an extramarital affair with the u.s. commander in afghanistan also now under investigation over thousands of e-mails to a woman linked to the caves of. germany's bid to show support for portugal's a staring drive is met with public outrage as people's patience table cuts and tax hikes runs out.

this is our take on to life in moscow now the arab league has hailed the formation of syria's new rebel coalition but stopped short of recognizing the group as a so legitimate voice of the syrian people leaders of serious exiled opposition beset by mutual suspicion and infighting formed the new blog on sunday and are now seeking full international backing his middle east correspondent policy or 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 western as well as arab states there are fears that this could set up 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 nother question about just how feasible those opposition groups 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 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. israel sowed its army has fired on positions in syria and scored direct hits in response to cross border fire the repeater confrontation is fueling fears that israel could be dragged into the syrian conflict as fighting as a race spilled over into turkey and lebanon are often visited the scene of fierce clashes between lebanese of 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 have 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 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 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 that 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 that bubbles up in the neighborhood as you can see behind me that is the area where the gunfire was coming for down here people have been killed on both sides of the stones you can see this is one of the fighting positions this street preacher has a sunni militia here in tripoli as bubble to be in 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 with. sheikh masri 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 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. can find out more about the potential fallout from the syrian conflict by logging onto our dot com there you also find a story of a syrian actor admired by millions in the arab world but whose last abuse made him a target for syrian rebels that his opposition fighters are increasingly he's appealing civilian simply for their own needs and to the government. now a fall out from cia director david petraeus his resignation continues with

a man who replaced him as a u.s. commander in afghanistan general john allen now broiled in the scandal that has stood down last friday after admitting to. marital affair the pentagon now claims general allen has been exchanging inappropriate e-mails with jill kelley the woman has initial contact with the f.b.i. lead to the tresses downfall concerns are also mounting that what first appeared to be a personal matter now has deeper implications including security leaks and of political cover up more from our washington correspondent. paula broadwell general petraeus is biographer 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 pickle is that i don't know if

a lot of you heard this but d.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 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 we've seen all over the country of 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 stall story in effect the man's judgment on 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 because targeted assassination program things that the public should want to know it's national security and it's secret but when he 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 interested. meanwhile the u.s. congress is demanding answers and they want to know why they were notified of an inquiry into such a high profile figure michael maloof a former pentagon official says the timing of the revelations and the national 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 is 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 get to higher levels is in itself a scandal it was probably a political decision to protect the president and we go after the u.s. presidential election and it appears the united states are not the united states says nineteen other u.s. states filing petitions and considering secession from the country in the find out more on this by logging on to our web site r t v dot com. also on the web site and moral business google starbucks and amazon face harsh rhetoric from british companies over pay just

a tiny percentage of taps while gaining millions in market. well we're back with more news for you in just a few minutes stay with us for that. catalonia wants to get its independence from the rest of spain locals feel that madrid texas 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 c won't have your own currency you'll 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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people are becoming desperate and it's almost like a visceral reaction a visceral reaction to these measures people that are getting angrier and angrier angela merkel says it supports the goal may have been meant as a sign of support for this thing they need to serve to highlight the. protesters message loud and clear away testers standing off against the royal family become very familiar protest gatherings in europe but perhaps not so familiar the 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 and third year of recession is the coming of parents that the country presses 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 to go is not alone of course the stories of hardship all across the usa in brussels finance ministers is 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 hearing on the streets of the country so the greeks political class like the rest of the year. in a sense i think chris is a. prisoner of the you're not you're with this. ideology exerts. 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 particular they are determined to do everything to keep the single currency picked even to destroy their own country and with greece in six economic straits people are questioning just why portugal must fully the saying. the same many economists say it's deemed to end in failure. r.t. there's been an another in doubt at a state italy at least twenty people have been injured in a fierce clashes over unemployment violence between police and demonstrators broke out in naples with warrants a thousand people taking the street boys the rising unemployment figures euro zone's third biggest economy has been hit hard by the debt crisis and now italian authorities are pointing the finger at ratings agencies for sending the economy

into chaos prosecutors are seeking trials for a number of officials from stand on importance it alice how refined says firms are often meddling where they shouldn't. intervene on something which is very much public and they go to the server and therefore. they do. some kind of. free when. and. where the market. and. the market. as bankers are also taking a flack for you as a comic was max keiser in stays or her to reveal how some in charge were never destined for a career in finance and the full program is coming to you later today. this is

a 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 or is this the only industry in the world that rewards you know if occasion and the stupid are you are the higher up you were you were raised in the organization. millions of americans are plagued by debts they can barely afford to pay back but help 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 him off are to us to

see to organize 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 and. debt buyers and debt collectors occupy wall street just goes into 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 defaults 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 or they 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 a bottle of shit 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 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 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 in gaza 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 thing at 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 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 qaida operative after lawyers claimed he would not get a fair trial in jordan the home secretary's already criticized tribunals decision pending a further appeal he'll be released on strict bail conditions which could cost the british taxpayer almost two million dollars of their own to surprise me doing that to you now capital account is coming up shortly after the break.

a sacred place rising out of the waters of the lake the law ministry is home to one hundred fifty orthodox monks mostly younger than thirty five and they've come from many different places and backgrounds to live in isolation spiritual life it takes so many hours on the road to become a monk requires both hard work and live just allocation. to become and has come as part of this preparation. however these beasts get musical. they sure are mentally sound sequences you know they want to the sound signals the flutes the herders had in the old days they needed them it wasn't just a phone but these matters didn't come naturally requiring decades of composting to bring the soil up to farming standard. this island is mostly rock. the soil

here is very thin and the monks can't just get more of it because they're surrounded by the lake so they have to work very hard in order to provide whatever food they need. to grow their own crops found their own fish and repair their own churches. but the central purpose of alarm has always been religious the main ministry surrounded by smaller primaries spread through the many archipelago the monks who know their existence is a little different from that of other ministries here we're out of the way and we do have. bill williams and song times tourist as well but only. tranquility use is hardly. disturbed. and is that combination of high religion and down to earth hard work to motivates these men.

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elite. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for monday november twelfth two thousand and twelve what happens when you take your medicine you've endured the pain but your sickness doesn't go away well you might want to ask greece out then passed a new austerity budget they've committed to public sector cuts privatization measures who grazes careening towards its sixth year of economic contraction that is six years of depression we'll get a report on the ground by greek journalist be honest paleologos live from athens and the international energy agency says the u.s. is on track to become the world's top oil producer in two thousand and seventeen

and most entirely be energy self-sufficient by two thousand and thirty five what is this forecast dependent on and what does this mean for the energy outlook and for so many political talking points we've heard over the years like this. we're still addicted to foreign oil president obama in washington all talk no action. on oh well this got plus a trillion dollars from the value of global equities was a racist after obama was reelected u.s. president according to bloomberg which notes that money managers say the drop over looks positive economic news and a likely fiscal cliff deal doesn't lawyer from peter chair of t.f. market advisors let's get to today's capital account.

the greek government yesterday passed a budget for two thousand and thirteen and they passed a structural reform package last week now these measures are to meet the conditions for the release of the next tranche of bailout money but word as finance ministers aren't in a position to make that call yet come now one of the issues to work out first is the perennial issue of how to make greek debt sustainable when in fact has become less sustainable as a result of bailout plans in numbers it looks like this greek officials say government debt will be one hundred eighty nine percent of g.d.p. next year versus one hundred sixty seven percent that was forecast in two thousand and fourteen the debt will rise to one hundred ninety two percent versus one hundred eighty two percent originally forecast and this is instead of a decline in debt that creditors were of course expecting now there is little chance of meeting a one hundred twenty percent tart.