people across the bridge be you embark on a multi national general strike against our government's austerity policies with spain portugal greece and italy at the forefront of the protests. meanwhile the crisis and growing unemployment in the e.u. feel slogans and my brains to search for a better life a new member countries that monisha of economic turmoil. and new founded seaward rebel blog gets its first official recognition on the west front from the sun we're told so many peer supplying the opposition with weapons isn't the way.

international news and comment live from moscow this is all she with me you know i should paula hello and welcome to the program millions of european workers have united against austerity measures as a mega strike kicked off in debt ridden spain portugal greece and italy that message will be supported it are they use days as protests are expected all across the continent and on the eve of the day of action there were serious clashes between fuck true workers and whites police in italy some denia in spain and portugal the start of the strike was marred by angry crowds taken to the trades resulting in a number of under while the e.u. population is struggling to make it down to austerity message heard someone managing to flee the turmoil and find a safe haven outside the union but still on the continent is maria finished and now reports. and no slow charity house anyone in need is welcome here. in

the queue for food traditionally immigrants from somalia and are many and but and this is new some europeans as well. who want to fund the three came here from spain and even months ago after he lost his job and gained debts instead of doing it again i put out there i came here with hope i was forced to leave spain due to the economic crisis and bank recession here i work and make three thousand euros a month and i can pay my debts in spain. milena is not queuing for food she cooks originally from colombia she first immigrated to spain but the crisis pushed her move further on she now works at a cafe in always famous movie music and while she serves those who come here to admire the world famous scream she says her life if only they knew it would probably provoke an even stronger impression on the visitors. it's hard it's not as if it is the show it on t.v. you go from one country to another like

a rolling stone you have kids and nothing to feed them with and no job. in september the unemployment rate within the eurozone hit a record high of eleven point six percent in the seventeen countries united by a common currency for more than eighteen million people are now out of work that's an increase of around five thousand every day since august during the years of gross your of was and desperate need of a cheap labor force and therefore provided immigrants from all over the globe with work but with the worst economic crisis since the second world war now in the gulf in the continent not only is the label to provide jobs for outsiders it cannot even create works for locals turning the tables and sending many of those in a search for a better life abroad but you know we for example and on eurozone and only used state two factors some analysts say that have averted the scandinavian country from disaster. krohn it is. currencies in europe many people here in germany

and you know the european countries believe that our monetary system is being pressed up against a wall and this makes us weak is when the economic crisis fully engulfed greece last year brussels was on alert then a bailout treaty brought hope and relief apparently to a mature space in portugal joined the club and someone will still be others to come let's release switzerland and norway are not e.u. members they're doing better than any other european country we do denmark in the czech republic. euro countries and we never hear things about the whole system when it's steals all the major powers from states political economic diplomatic and military and give it to brussels and washington is doomed with german chancellor angela merkel saying at least five more years will be needed to recover and it's clear countries like no we will not have a deficit in labor force at least some more decades or

a brief notion r t from no we germany and france. stay with us here for our coverage of the e.u. mega strike as workers unite against austerity live updates from our correspondent in the trade and expert analysis on the union's debt plight are coming up later in the day. well they are now france has become the first western country to recognize the new syrian rebel coalition as these sole legitimate wars of the syrian people the u.s. and other european nations stop short of doing so saying the foreign based group should first show it's able to represent syrians inside the country paris also said it would look at arming the rebels are reports. the french president francois hollande said that the syrian opposition coalition would act as a temporary government in the future and he said that it would be the tosca of the

syrian opposition to now establish a transitional government and earlier in the week six gulf states recognize the opposition coalition we could tolerate foreign minister saying that this recognition now removed obstacles to the securing of weapons to the syrian opposition it is important to make a distinct parallel with what we've seeing back on the tenth of march two thousand and eleven we saw the same scenario unfolding when france was the first country to recognize the transitional national council which was essentially the opposition fighters in libya and this is what we're witnessing this parallel situation now in syria what happened in libya and following that french recognition back in libya this set the pavement for international recognition and ultimately lead to foreign forces intervening in that country the arab league which is arguably the most important body in the arab world has given a hesitant welcome to this opposition coalition it has however stopped short of recognizing it as the legitimate voice of the syrian people and then you have

members of the arab league such as iraq and lebanon that have not fully given their support to opposition fighters in their attempt to topple the syrian president bashar assad they are a number of questions and concerns still outstanding not least among them the whole question of the supply of weapons the question of foreign intervention and also the question of who makes up this opposition coalition and has for days if not weeks now been fractured by internal bickering it is essentially a patchwork of organizations and people that have very different political and religious backgrounds and affiliations so many people are asking well if in fact it is effective and how effective its connections and its ties are with the syrian opposition that is active inside syria france's full endorsement of the syrian opposition unity block comes of it fears that there is a growing number of extremists fighting on the side of the rebels and al musri from the free syrian army the military branch of the opposition told us their commanders

are not always in total control of competence. the free syrian army is not a regular army but the soldiers of the revolution some troops claim to be part of the efficacy but at the same time do not follow orders killings to police but as we are in a revolution we cannot control such you have certainly there are some extremists some gangs and some who want to take advantage of the. the new syrian rebel coalition was formed following criticism and intense pressure from the you are so some arab states dr ali mohamed atta saying treat for this syria tribune news website questions just how much it reflects the interests of the syrian people. it's very surprising that they are. now using a coalition that was on top of the request of hillary clinton as a result the syrian people. this is this doesn't make sense to me and to syria it doesn't make sense politically even the first thing this is called workers more work and that's what we want and more workers are not in favor of the city people

assume people are being killed with this we're. told it goes on because pollution is of the worst and the shows they are supplying. money to go to why our local proxies we're spending money so if you're us in the money he was holding the girls and arming training. this was the how it was to me there was some powers obviously france and the e.u. are being selective in applying the law are. not that breaks the embargo but also the they would be arming some of the extremist groups is this legal in france one of these it is possible that some countries will try to have two or three that would be in scenario books it is different then leave you have around the. whole that what happened in the middle east is beyond anybody's probably if they decide to go it's go without c. and still ahead this hour china's turn did change at the top when they said they challenge is facing defines a growing economy and what the country's new leaders kind of time called on. also

later as the occupy movement battles to keep its message in the headlines were pulled from the creative side being shunned by activists. the sex scandal that shocked america and led to the downfall of cia chief david petraeus has now also tried to in the country's top commander in afghanistan their story involving two of the country's most influential military need is could hardly come at a worse time it's unfolding just after bronco bamma won his second term in office while u.s. troops are struggling in afghanistan and she's going to check out looks at the twists and turns in the unraveling saga. this channel is just getting worse and reminds more of a t.v. drama possibly with many episodes the latest episode of the investigation into the affair between former cia director general petraeus and his biographer is the revelation of another extramarital affair now between the top american and nato commander in afghanistan general john allen and a woman named jewel kelly the very woman who officials say general petraeus says

mistress paula broadwell saw as a rival for her affections with general petraeus and wrote threatening e-mails to that jill kelley was the woman who opened this can of worms when she went to the f.b.i. in the first place and asked them to investigate the harassing anonymous e-mails that she'd been receiving the investigation led to paula broadwell's mailbox and apparently her mailbox revealed her affair with a former cia director a few words about jill kelley a mother of three a housewife living in florida they've apparently been friends with the patrice's fool for years and she turned out to be not the most intelligent woman because when she asked the f.b.i. to look into the harassing e-mails that she'd been receiving she somehow forgot that her own mailbox was also full of quote unquote inappropriate e-mails from the commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan general john allen also a married official said there were somewhere from twenty to thirty thousand pages

of those e-mails of course they did not reveal the content of those e-mails they just said there was inappropriate communication between the two this may sound like a huge manyfold family drama but it's more serious than that and a military lawyer adultery can be a crime and punishment can be time in prison although general allen will remain the commander of getting sent defense secretary panetta said that he had asked president obama to delay the general's nomination to be the commander of american forces in europe and the supreme allied commander of nato so john allen would be the third eye. galveston general who fell from grace so abruptly and so shockingly to many first it was general stanley mcchrystal resigned when a magazine quoted him saying unflattering things about the administration then general petraeus over a woman and no general john allen story of the biggest names in the war in afghanistan. defeating the truth of the trends canes and just an extramarital

affair is growing former and i find intelligence officer notch and says that the resignation of the cia boss could be the result of infighting within the intelligence community. is that you need to look like a pretty well written drama really it's with your sense that it's not a bomb that has been elected for his time or one second term they can use the groom to speak the old regime. senior generals who sort of move through the revolving door between military positions the intelligence stations one of the points that people seem to get much coverage of alex to try it. is the fact that he has been very much a really. really pushing for the idea that there should be some sort of military action against iraq so there may well have been some sort of maneuvering behind the scenes by other senior intelligence officer to try and get rid of someone that they would see as an outsider peddling a line which they don't agree with and which undermines that national stage is

going to be. opinion and speculation of what's behind this high profile scandal. has to have you also want to make of the timing and here's how opinion is divided at the moment so to say if the damning information came out to prevent general petraeus from testifying about that time in the u.s. in been god it is all over a clue to believe it's part of a bigger plot to overhaul the leadership in a number of top jobs twenty percent say they timing is their links to the u.s. presidential vote with a cover up taking place to ensure obama's reelection roughly the same number see no foul play saying it's purely patris is a mistake that led to his downfall let us know what you think on the altar page.

browsers. may miss it's in ways a nanny has daycare my daddy. does a famous reuse dance and play was oh my save. my money ransom business. resistance is not a politics but a culture. this

could stand. on its own. cultures of resistance on marching. wealthy british style. sometimes spotlights on. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our culture is that so much of a given to each musician on the bar whether syrian opposition says it has

reinvented itself and has to be recognized as a legitimate representative of the syrian people at home and on the global stage. this is as he welcome back with china's rapid rise as a global player the world is watching with anticipation as beijing is set to unveil its next generation of top politicians the new officials will be announced at the end of the communist party congress which is drawing to a close in the country's capital the big question is how do you need to show it will affect china's relations with its top political and economic rival the uighurs and political analyst professor joseph chang says conflict between the two is likely washington refuses to accept beijing's arrive. sooner or later it will become the biggest economy in the world may be true in future and maybe a bit late into the trend be for the chinese leaders worried whether the

united states will except the rise of china otherwise conflicts between the two countries the aide says that being a junior is quite worried. just recently as. this wheels. creators were used on concern among its neighbors and they tend to i bought a strategy that is strengthening their security military cooperation what the united states has. in the united states the obama administration's return to. strategy. and you can always catch up with more news online including a climbdown of criticism in the united arab emirates online who called the story of how the government of the gulf state has responded to what it calls insults against the state. and also online recent reports by amnesty international say foreigners

without documents are being exploited and even tortured in the bia with the situation getting worse and the ousting of gadhafi. three of the world's most recognized brands a starbucks google. and imus or now facing investigation in the u.k. over depriving the nation of hundreds of millions of pounds the companies are in hot water because of that toxic practices that have already been dubbed in moro point a boycott has more on the growing public outrage in britain. these are three companies that dominate the u.k. economy they have billions of pounds worth of turnover but it looks like they pay very little corporation tax to show for it and now m.p.'s are outraged by the fact that through very eager loopholes these companies that they say are acting in an immoral way are managing to dodge millions and billions of pounds worth of tax every single year and they want to try and put a stop to it now it's about getting clever accountants that find countries with

more favorable tax rates to base a u.k. headquarters in so for example google base themselves in the republic of ireland that's way that that's where they sell their advertising space from starbucks abased in holland and amazon based in luxembourg for much of the ordinary public here in the u.k. it's just not funny anymore they say that you know austerity measures are taking hold public spending cuts in the public sent really making life difficult for people and people out on the streets and this is what they told us if we're paying tax on things like that we have to foot the bill for that i guess we're paying tax and coffee as well why should they not pay the tax that we. support i guess is up to something close. to that still it would be tempting to think this.

group of these campaign is against austerity measures here in the u.k. they say that in december they're going to launch a national day of action against starbucks what they're going to do is they're going to occupy the multitude of starbucks coffee houses that we have here in london you walk down the street you see them everywhere and they're going to make them into the homeless shelter they're going to make them into refuges into pressures because that they say that starbucks have these immoral tactics and they need to give back to society. the international news now. floods across central italy have now claimed the lives. of struck some of europe's most historic sites including florence and when its victims died in similar but separate accidents where their vehicles were swept away by torrents heavy rain and unusually high tides caused the roots to swell and burst their banks. jordan has seen. the country's prime minister announced a fuel price hike demonstrations took place in the capital supported by twelve

other cities throughout the country despite criticism of the ruling model being punished by three years behind bars opposition groups have called for a popular revolution. a small plane has crashed into the sun palos airport in brazil upon a damaged his head and spine while two other passengers survived the incident with minor injuries and it's not yet clear what caused the crash but there are reports the plane failed to break what had landed on the runway. it's over a year ago now since the occupy wall street movement blossomed as a protest movement against corporate greed in the u.s. the campaign has suffered major ops obstacles to get its message across including harsh kwan downs by the authorities but now is also you in this this is a trick and explains activists are trying out more creative ways to be. an artist carving out his college debt number and walks over seventy thousand

dollars from columbia for a masters of fine arts and award winning actress teaching a class at the new york film academy what happens when you intensely focus on an object and to form a wall street employee volunteering and post hurricane sandy relief efforts do you know the name of your driver what could they possibly have in common their support for the occupy wall street movement. from day one of occupy the with the wings of the american dream and now from his brooklyn studio facing wall street no a fish or an organizer of occupy museums wants to redefine the meaning of money the other side of this sort of america sublime dream is you know all this and kind of lack of opportunity that we're starting to see you know no displays his work in shows all over the world trying to generate discussion about how an artist's work affect society had really you know been affected by the two thousand economic crash

and the our world. is just as much as on wall street and the other kind of world is a very sort of go of yourself mentality right now and i think the society is breaking apart because of that i'm living a slice of the life i used to have lunch baker contributed to occupied by starring in an independent film as the wife of ponzi schemer bernie madoff now in jail for one hundred fifty years the film ruth made off occupies wall street highlights wealth inequality through humor in this case risk made off even in the middle of zuccotti park would be concerned about things that only the one percent could possibly be concerned about blanch believes occupy give voice to a majority that wasn't heard before there has to be some kind of a new model going forward where this kind of economic disparity is. dealt with in a way that benefits everyone you can't sweep it under the carpet and ignore it anymore

need to endure something after seven years at morgan stanley alexis goldstein could no longer tolerate the greed and toxicity of wall street she quit and is now an author and an occupy organizer on wall street there's this attitude if you get screwed by somebody it's because you are stupid optimal poker playing is take your best friend for all they're worth the same is true on the street. the occupy wall street movement started as an ocean of people on the streets and in camps and that tactic of holding public spaces the police have made it at least for this their seeable future impossible we've kind of adapted in this way where we're organizing more specific themes. themes that could be while on the way to bringing much more tangible results. like hurricane relief occupy has been praised for doing a better job of the government agency feedback as well as projects like strike debt well as many as one in seven americans are founded by debt collectors occupies

raising money to try to abolish that debt burden for as many people as they can by buying distressed debt for pennies on the dollar and then wiping it out. the crowds may be gone from the streets but those fighting for the ninety nine percent continue working by themselves and in groups to put an end to the world of the powerful beating down on the voiceless and to try to build a socially responsible community. new york. coming up in just a couple of minutes our special report business want to stay with this one and. do least be to language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on our team reporting from the world talks about six of the ip

interviews intriguing stories for you here. in troy of the arabic to find out more visit arabic don't all teeth dot com. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images go world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today.

find out what's really happening to the global economy with. headlines kaiser report.

on the market it's a consulting company. before making millions of dollars at the very bottom of the ladder. speaks four languages. unmarried careerist with no children but is far from it. as she leaves the maternity ward for the eighth time mother and child are greeted by her husband and seven chilled.