you're watching the weekly here on our t.v. with me rory stewart show it's as we highlight the week's top headlines and i will start by going stateside where police in new york a violently dispersed and the wall street rally arresting more than seven hundred people after a dramatic showdown on brooklyn bridge thousands joined the movement dubbed occupy wall street it's a protest against what they call the corporate domination and. explains the action of police is likely to bring more ngo to the streets of new york this clash and confrontation between and why he gave the new york city police department and thousands of protesters took place on the brooklyn bridge the police showed up and basically cornered off both sides of the brooklyn bridge and started to move in on the protesters to make arrests that's when things got ugly to say the least the

protesters were were banging drums and chanting the whole world is watching police moved in they were having wagons brought to the scene and things got mary is a call and this is just the most recent incident that has taken place in new york in the past two weeks last weekend we saw demonstrators that maced in a nice five police officers police officers using netting to our ras demonstrators that have been camped out on wall street now these protesters have been demonstrating for about two weeks this is a group occupy wall street a group of americans that have called on all those that are frustrated over the u.s. economy over the fact that people are losing their jobs people can't get their jobs people are struggling to find money to to make ends meet and these americans are now saying this is their their american spring and there are they are planning to stay down there through. the end of the year and i can tell you this week by week

this group of demonstrators that you know call themselves occupy wall street this group is getting bigger and bigger there's no doubt about that. i thought it made a point not reporting right there let's let's get some more details on this story and talk to a radio host and author stephen leatherman joining us live now if you have called on the from chicago and thank you for joining us today so more people joining the protest in new york and other cities just how far do you think this could go. well i am hopeful this needs to come i have written so all right sure what was going on in the middle east the arab spring has in bloom but it certainly is for me it's a stain and committed very impressive scope we are across europe to go yachting greece and spain in italy in the u.k. . in ireland you know it countries it went on it was constant in america who else we're we're not a week after week after week

a road people took over the capitol building in madison wisconsin. they have been wiped out oh but it is still committed in the end get out and even though it lost so much they still coming back and now this this is the core core issue this is the most important issue a low i wonder if the people in new york in chicago or i lived in san francisco in los angeles in dallas in new orleans all over the country dozens of cities across the country my home city of boston over a thousand turned out in hunger it is just the beginning i think they know and of which were known to be out on the streets are safe i may just jump in for my when you join a very broad picture here you've mentioned the past several months of the uprising across the eurozone and the arab spring apart across parts of northern africa and the middle east as well now you are drumming up

a lot of states across america some of the activists are saying that they have joined inspiration from for example the to riff square revolution in cairo i mean do you think as you are suggesting perhaps that this is the start of an american spring that. well you don't know i certainly hope so americans owe a house one story it doesn't happen very often in the last time it happened it happened in the one nine hundred sixty s. the civil rights it happened in the sixty's in the seventy's to the mid seventy's it was to be a war on the anyone procedure for this in america was very vibrant a few years ago and then it died off we we don't see it now but you know this is a row the issue is wall street everybody knows that the bakers are. the too big to fail banks should we exist i just wrote a book about this well there are many people who've been a say in the government so already in bed with the major players here but we let's i mean we as we're talking to you have so wish and some pretty impressive footage some what some of the call violent footage of the way the police have been handling

the so-called protesters and wall street suddenly saw some bouts of violence there how would you assess their actions and would you would you see any reparations apart across washington d.c. where capitol hill seems to be fairly quiet at the moment i but this well this is what cops always do they come out on the streets you're also and he calls the police in forces for the crime bosses that's exactly what they are doesn't matter whether it's wall street protesters i.m.f. world bank meetings g. twenty meetings. the global justice protests them out in the streets because supply chain i'm a democrat of the republican national convention in two thousand in two thousand and four in two thousand and eight republicans who cops came out and bludgeon people they arrested people before the conventions even began they they locked them up so they couldn't get out of the streets that's what they cost do it between them film it brutalizes them it may stone but these people keep coming out and seven

hundred would use the rest of it will be more in the streets today i really will this is the state let me just mention the core issue that the east. people need to understand they know a lot of things are wrong but the core issue is the power of money and who controls the power of money and supreme power they had controls everything controls war and peace controls everything going on in the corporate world the bank is a wall street and the power of money they literally run. only stairs runs the government j.p. morgan chase they give america they were on the go this asked to stop people on the streets across america to understand lives and they have to demand that the power of money returned to the congress is out of call one section eight since only the congress has the what the point money doesn't say gee. this is

a bank of america only the congress does if that call is returned to congress they will have to protest to vote fake this because the bank is will be sustaining it too big to fail ones will literally be just middle and just middle if they should be in the power of money will go back to the people who are a lot more there are many people who are saying when it comes to for example the eurozone in the ongoing crisis with greece that it should just be allowed to default on forcing some sort of a reconstruction of the financial system that steve in london a radio host and author i would love to talk to you thought about all the time we have for many thanks indeed thank you very. well twenty four people have now been arrested in boston after the protest spread there as well check out of the pictures on our web site r.t. dot com thousands have been a rallying of the bank of america's main office at the company's repossession policies that are turning people out onto the streets and we're going to r.t. dot com to stay on top of the story. this week's

headlines in russia have been dominated by the planned reshuffle in the putin meditative tandem and the sudden departure of the finance minister as well it prompted an unexpected in diffuse from the president as he clarified his decision to run for office again but it's over reports the pre-election period in russia may hold even further surprises. i see this week's headlines have we have so many that it hooten hootin me that the news of the jumps was brought up polemic switch russia hasn't seen for quite some time while some criticised others applauded the tandems deal and the kings of photo shop rolled out some of their best work yet with the general mood being that the deal had been done long ago but it was an exciting for just a few days until the first rich shuffles in the corridors of power began. if you

think your views on russia's economic agenda is different from mine as president if you can resign. my opinions do differ from only take such a decision after i've talked to the prime minister. you can talk to whoever you want including the prime minister but i'm the president i make. the effort was the surprise right now between the president and the teens long time ally i don't see. many question is there a split in the tandem. the situation with mr cooder it is a matter of discipline in government service we are a presidential republic problem entry behind it so it implements the president's policy if you don't agree you should step down meanwhile many read it not as a sign of a split but of a new maturity in russia's democracy i must far more slayer wish for all the party i was out point out that these people probably remember the times for the

whole world myself i was there if their side of the board if you will which ultimately was one of the reasons for the collapse of the u.s.s.r. and i remember before coming to power gave an interview where he basically said that russia will not survive another conflict inside. the big news of putin yet again running for president brought up so many questions that make treatment that if he had to to need. t.v. has cross the t.'s and dot. it's nice to know people trust president and that my approval ratings are going to. also know the prime minister putin undoubtedly remains the most popular politician in our country and his rating is even higher in the election campaign has just started. the simple question what if people reject. what will happen to these decisions by the convention these

decisions are merely the party's recommendation to those people that's all the choice is made by the people and these are not me a word to top saluki true any politician of any political. election but many questions are still in the air like why would a politician like mitch from inventive whose approval rating is still so high in russia not seek reelection and look move the face of the new cabinet of ministers look like under him should he become pm immediately after the united russia congress many rejoiced in the fact that the country's top political queen is finally over and they can go about their usual business but this week has shown that when it comes to the chest and politics there are many more moves to be made before the final makeup of the new government is no it's to do that show one art. if you want to see the interview the president gave to the russian media in full.

on it right now to our website that's dot com and i still have in the program here are the the strife for statehood the future of palestine is clouded in with the. u.s. and. u.n. security council also reviving the revolution. toppling of president hosni mubarak and look at whether to get what it was they were fighting so hard. the endgame is rapidly approaching for greece as its government admits that it only has the cash to pay its bills for eight more days after which the only option will be default in response the e.u. bureaucratic machine into gear and an all out effort to release more cash for the. french president nicolas sarkozy admits that the much criticized bailout approach is the blocks last line of defense in preventing the crisis from consuming the whole eurozone germany's. meeting in the coming days to finalize

a radical expansion of the blocks emergency cash pool but as sarah for three ports it may all come to nothing i said greek economy crumbles under the weight of unprecedented. greece has been the place the child of the year. with. the country to get that much needed cash. for the help come. and hearing people say the price being made to pay simply. burning that. is deadline day for the first to be hit with the greek government special tax one of the measures they use in place to try to secure the next tranche of money the country needs to flee bankruptcy the extra tax which is due to doubts about another week a sense of people. supposed to help plug some of the massive deficits in the budget to move in a year's salary cuts rises in living costs people who. break in the

last two years. from the opposition me title pay he tells me how the need mints expanded rapidly in recent months as more and more people hit that financial reform. protest against the unjust situation no there are thousands and dozens of people who will not pay because. people's desperation has become increasingly evident on the streets of queens violence has repeatedly play can out between via place and protest as she states through even more clashes is parliament and feted yet another . in the fold of any property tax where organizing all of this.

to put on there are. just for political reasons and critics do not need. many people in greece now question just here it is the thing control unfortunately today very a leaders in your resume are the bankers. there. is mr. bunker. again and again and again. spears in the eurozone despite germany having baited positively to expand the size and power of the european pan out to fund the ready critics are questioning whether that. many challenges. still face if the problem will move. them to german banks. even germany.

you know. it's been not just for greece but for all the european union countries with pos measures failing to have the. leaders struggle to convince the public. still hangs in the balance these places. many people. risk of having financial but it democratic. and with the top stories of the week this is the week. now egypt's ruling military council has given in to the demands of protesters on political parties and agreed to make changes to the election law there were fears current rules could enable supporters of ousted president mubarak to come back to power in november's

parliamentary elections only comes after friday's massive protests thousands thronged. in an attempt to reclaim the revolution demanding a transfer of power to civilian rule and an end to emergency long. and i went to cairo to see what else is driving people. i think of we knew that change had come to egypt a new chapter of freedom and democracy don't judge a book by its cover when reading post mubarak egypt it's between the lines where you'll find the new chapter hasn't been published ended or slightly revised we still have the supreme council of the on top of those. i cannot say that they have been all in any sense gearing this country towards democracy barak may be gone but his policies are not for hosni mubarak's case is ongoing at this tribe you know

new figures from human rights watch claims more civilians have been forced to face military trial for the last six months some twelve thousand during the entire thirty year rule of mubarak average civilians are giving five to you know seven years in prison a lot of torture that has occurred since staff has come into power. actor ali simply doesn't clown around when it comes to the supreme council or scuff he has taken part in protests since day one and still has scars from being detained because the books were much worse he said very long have they told people they had to stick it humbly from it after that's all shot through the study on a piece of with a baton ahead least only because i'm well known now must not leave the country for thirty years according to you know if i have to seek asylum but all stay and fight for freedom like mubarak skaf gets the supported needs to rule egypt from braund

the aid that we get from the u.s. that one point five billion a year the easier proceeds from from the usa and most of it entirely goes to the to the supreme court to the to the army you know the scout. while the west boost history books will change for the better the arab spring is a massive opportunity to spread peace prosperity democracy egypt sions are left reading the writing on the wall in many areas it's the same as before don't want to hear from in some areas it's getting more worse and he's now a r t. now the libyan city of sirte is plunging deeper into a humanitarian crisis the battle for one of gadhafi few remaining strongholds shows no signs of abating on saturday a revolutionary forces claim bed completely surrounded the colonel's hometown and

his loyalist forces were being slowly forced out i mean while thousands are fleeing the besieged town driven from their homes by fierce fighting and a lack of vital supplies aid agencies say those injured and trapped are in desperate need of medical help of people dying in the main hospital because of oxygen and fuel shortages and she will activist brian becker says nato has declared mission to protect civilians is now more questionable than ever. clearly they're not protecting civilians when they're bombing cities that are considered to be pro khadafi when they're killing people not because they've done something wrong but because their own political beliefs are contrary to what nato wants in terms of the kind of government they want for libya so i think that they need to be brought to justice i think though unless there's a very strong international movement for human rights in this instance i think it's unlikely they will be brought to court but the goal of the nato powers is to carry

out regime change so that the khadafy government is gone once and forever and that there will be a new government that will not necessarily be more democratic or more humane but will be an ally or i would say in fact a proxy a client perhaps a puppet of western powers in this country that has the largest oil reserves in all about africa the ninth largest oil reserves in the world. now you can always find more stories. of course on our website. here's some of the. tactic. preparing for another great flood.

with the headlines of the week this is the week. again this week northern border nato troops attempted to dismantle roadblock several. claims the alliance forces used live ammunition. the road to dispute. with the help of four troops. has the story. in some parts of the world this rocky road would probably be part of an extreme safari hold in kosovo it is now a fighting chance of. ever since july the border dispute many lives have been dependent on this godforsaken grable road through the mountains now this is the

only way that belgrade can use to deliver food and petrol to the tens of thousands of serbs living in northern kosovo the course of the serbs have been barricaded in the road since july in response to the police checkpoints which enforced the trade embargo between belgrade and on tuesday the situation turned critical again clashes between the barricading serbs and the k four troops led to multiple injuries on both sides ok for blame the. starting the violence but injured on the beach a father of two saw it differently. we were standing by the barricade when the soldiers started shouting and shooting at us i didn't know what they were shooting with so i got scared and started running away and i was hit on the shoulder and it turned out to be a perforating. that nato forces also claimed they used only rubber bullets and tear gas against the protesting mold this was quickly rejected by doctors. fueling

speculation as to who remains started. seven men in heavy condition gunshot wounds fractures and bruises all those wounds were caused by regular bullets which we extract from their bodies nato troops we. wanted their weapons and journalists and issued. for anyone trying to penetrate it they've totally and openly stepped out of the un mandate and they're really really now just like during my teen ninety nine during the bombing when they were the air force for the albanian separatists. there infantry belgrade has reacted with indignation and halted negotiations with calls. until the dispute is resolved meanwhile gay for refuses to comment on their actions and bulldozed the border barricades the border is open now to share of trucks blocking a breach just be just a way to destroy suggest this battle is far from over better is like this one are

scattered all across northern kosovo and they pretty much reflect the mood of the local serbs it seems they would never give in and accept the fact that they're living in a self-proclaimed state and in this book canyon melting pot nobody knows where this standoff will go and in the mind of the troops or become yet another frozen territorial dispute let's. see reporting from kosovo. well alexi is bringing us a constant updates on this developing story from cause of what you can either head to our twitter feed or to get the latest from him on this border disputes having a look at the numbers right now and what is he having to say he says the crew just . waiting on the barricades ceremony being used to. staying on their land and not going anywhere. especially admissions committee for the u.n. security council has held its first meeting over the bid by palestinians for statehood it was put forward for consideration this week with

a review period expected to take several weeks a total of nine out of fifteen votes in the security council and needed to push the application through as long as no veto is issued at this stage and analysts believe america will try to stall the process u.s. lawmakers have already blocked two hundred million dollars in aid to the palestinian authority allegedly as a quote collective punishment for the bit israel has yet again come under fire from much of the world community after approving yet more settlements on occupied palestinian territory palestinian leader mahmoud abbas has told us. he's concerned the u.s. will pressure the u.n. security council members to vote against the bid the full interview coming up monday. though here's a quick preview. we knew in advance and we would be notified that washington will use its veto during the voting in all a bit it's korea that the u.s.

as the dominant wants to extend its support to israel but what concerns us most is that the u.s. wants to force all the countries that took part in the general assembly because more like in particular the members of the u.n. security council to vote against palestinian membership in the u.n. but this is the key to send for us all the member states all the security council have the right to use ole as i would put it misuse their right to have any say of course such a decision will be regrettable. all right a recap of the stories that shaped this week in just a few minutes here on. the .

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