and there you can have more of a former prime minister of guinea primakov subversion of events in just over twenty minutes time here r.t. . former libyan rebels are now chanting for syrians to follow their revolutionary path hundreds of mercenaries someone famous said to be former terrorists ready to pick up arms again to help overthrow president assad ati's oksana boyko reports from tripoli. a butcher my dad made the owner of this keep up shop in tripoli still undecided what's the most fitting term for syria's bashar al assad. tell us that it's economically the biggest game in the end the one that syria. another syria. you can't make it a lot of the people in syria. out of solidarity with their arab brothers the owners of the shah perhaps even put on display the syrian rebels tricolor but they're very firm on where the revolutionary support should be and we don't want in syria and it's all just we have a and are people such as syria now these are just let it go along if this all just we have all we have enough but i think yeah we want we. in less than three months libyan rebels have g

of former russian prime minister you get a primakov was one of the few people watching history unfold from inside the corridors of power in moscow later he shares his views on the dissolution of the u.s.s.r. . the key thing was and it was brought to go because attention and i did tell him about it too in the presence of others that one should have started with an economic treaty or if we had signed a treaty establishing a single economic space i think it would have been a step towards preserving an upgraded modernized soviet union which could have freed itself from the darker parts of its legacy that's why we should have started with an economic treaty and many in fact were ready to go along with that but even the baltic states were ready to go along with the idea of preserving a single economic space of course it wouldn't have been enough but it would have been a huge contribution to averting dissolution there's nothing today that can be similar to the soviet union in any way but integration is one of the driving forces of globalization and it's taking effect everywhere we go along w

man with inside knowledge that he witnessed on the arrival of the soviet union first hand if any primakov interview up next. to you perhaps week will seeing ones that you do not understand what still the president of the us but you are using military force in order to prevent the signing of the treaty in forcing the dissolution of the us the story nine hundred ninety one do you think it should have been. reserved at any cost. you see i don't even think there was any need for military force what could have been done that's my opinion while others may have theirs but i think that the better russian military district could have been given an order to encircle the three leaders passing their time and bill of this guy a pusher drunk and groggy on their legs just about to sign of these documents that they were jotting down on the spot and simply take them to their homes instead of arresting them and just take away these papers but this was not the key thing the key thing was and it was brought to go which i was attention and i did tell him about it too in the presence of others and that one sho

dot com still ahead former russian prime minister of guinea primakov who watched history unfold from inside the corridors of power in moscow shares his views on the dissolution of u.s. us are but first katie's up with all the business news. welcome to business with me christmas is over in most parts of the world but iraq the festive season has only just begun despite debt concerns in europe and the us shop a still slowing down and as marrying a culture of found out russian men are at the forefront of the seasonal spending extravaganza. year's eve as when the russians give gifts and this year they're going all out at least eighty one billion dollars will be spend this the somber and the fifth of that will go towards presents consumer spending is expected to increase by twenty eight percent and muscovites will withdraw twenty percent more cash than any of the month of the year that's about five hundred sixty dollars each if you are a russian woman then you can look forward to a particularly lavish gift as mandible spent twice as much i sir partners so what kind of gifts are we're looki

yeltsin, having narrowly avoided impeachment, was obliged to accept as prime minister primakov who had opposite jim tendencies and he was also anti-american but in any case, after all of the years of economic carnage under yeltsin, he enjoyed support among the population for his opposition to some of the excesses of the corruption of yeltsin in europe. he gave the prosecutor general the freedom to conduct meaningful investigations of the people who were closest to yeltsin including boris tara soft ski. he was the favorite of yeltsin's daughter tatyana. bara dean was the head of the property commission which controlled the real estate and the buildings that were owned by the kremlin. and he made serious progress in those investigations with the cooperation of the swiss. until the moment, when in an operation organized by putin he was filmed receiving a sex act from a prostitute in the company of another prostitute. that in itself would not have been so unusual, but what happened next was unusual for any country, even for russia. a video of this encounter was shown on prime-time televisi