this is actually coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie a wave of public discontent in the u.s. shows no sign of abating following saturday's protests were hundreds of peaceful demonstrators were arrested sparking accusations of heavy handed policing to finance a wall street activist refused to back down saying more marches against corporate greed and social inequality are in the pipeline artie's more important caught up with some of those involved. a new season in a different nation the arab spring has become america's autumn and on saturday new york's brooklyn bridge reminded many of a scene from egypt to hear square. nearly eight hundred protesters were trapped cuffed arrested and jailed as thousands of activists continued their second week of occupy wall street demonstrations the

grassroots movement is campaigning against social inequality and corporate influence over u.s. politics in the interim police conduct against peaceful protesters has come into question. just last week a new york city police officer attacked occupy wall street protesters with pepper spray prompting public outrage and an internal affairs investigation many didn't believe that there would be another dramatic confrontation this weekend after what happened last weekend after four women were pepper spray while they were corralled by the police after the n.y.p.d. used heavy handed tactics punching some protesters i think many people didn't didn't expect that there would be something like that again this weekend oh no reports pepper spray being used there were thousands of people stopped and hundreds arrested arrested activists were charged with disorderly conduct and summons to

appear in criminal court. by sunday hundreds of peered on wall street determined to continue their fight against corporate domination once you are out and not afraid to be arrested anymore the whole entire control of the police. disappears when that happens there are a dime a credible possibilities that are open to us and suddenly you can imagine a different world and you believe you can be an agent of change the group says it aims to raise national awareness and change on the. because economic disparity occupy wall street describes itself as a resistance movement inspired in part by its new counterparts we can follow the leader of our brothers and sisters all over the world of the arab spring in greece and spain and we can see that it did send a powerful message ordinary people are not going to stand for corporate greed anymore and that we're getting up and we're doing something about it. and the

reason these activists are doing something on wall street rather than washington is because they say you have to follow the money begin where the largest campaign contributions donations and lobby groups come from its corporate president and we were told obama was for. four more you know maybe four years old. bush. before that his father the bush dynasty i mean corporate greed goes all the way up to the president i think this is more that they are doing to demean paul so it starts with wall street it is true that these demonstrators come here with a variety of different messages but what is uniting that what unifies them is a growing frustration over the u.s. economy social inequality and corporate influence on u.s. politics these protesters say if american leaders can't act it will be the american citizens that stand up for their rights reporting from wall street more important party here. also crackdown wall street and the way existing financial institutions

are ran show that u.s. democracy is just an empty phrase that's according to u.k. based investigative journalist tony gosling. i think we're dealing with people who are absolutely in denial they're not interested in what the ordinary people want and i think this tells us the scales are falling from our eyes this shows us that america is not a democracy they're not listening to what the people have got to say and these are ordinary people coming up with their solutions because those people charged with running our financial system have not just made a mess of things they have actually orchestrated that system in their own interest it's absolutely inexcusable for the police to be wading in in a democracy note in a democracy the police do not white into peaceful demonstrators as they have been in new york so i think this is another indication that america's democracy is actually failing us at the moment it's failing the world and it's absolutely not on for them to be going around the world so-called spreading democracy when they haven't even got democracy in their own country you know in their own government

institutions they need to be listening to what these people have got to say in the course they're not listening. bad editor of independent news websites as the main question now is whether a largely support of the entire wall street movement is likely to turn into a strong political force. as we see now of course these protests are not just taking place on wall street but are now starting to spread across the country which is a sign that there really is something going on here that will start to spread even further and and that's the type of situation that that could lead to an american spring as it's being dubbed now i see that there there could be that possibility of escalation at this moment i would say that the momentum and the probably the p.r. win is on the protesters side because no one likes to see the police going in and breaking up a peaceful protest movements like that and especially now that we're getting reports that the protesters were actually lured on to the bridge and then trapped so so it's very interesting to watch how this will play out and i think at this point as i say the protesters are probably winning in the p.r.

game but but again i think there's a there's a much larger political movement at stake here and it really does remain to be seen whether there can be some sort of coordinated action on on the on the federal reserve in the at the privately owned banking so central banking system of the united states. and another showcase of public anger as bob ling and the u k. you know if people post what you post the really cool shit taking. tens of thousands of people descended on manchester to take part in a march against government cuts also a little later in the program. identity crisis parents and teachers across france are enraged by a new school books that revise historical accounts in the name of political correctness. the greek debt crisis has taken a sharp turn for the worse as its government declares it won't be able to meet key mandated deficit deadlines for this next year revelation signals that the shocking

degree of a staring imposed by athens on its people has failed while sending the economy into an unmanageable contraction is especially worrying given that a your dad inspectors in greece are currently deciding on whether to release more bailout funds for the country the country's government has said that unless it gets that money it won't be able to pay its bills for this month r.t. sarah ferguson looks at just words this now puts the embattled country. will greece now default that's the million dollar question well to be more exact the full hundred fifty billion a year a question the tape that greece now. vote could never be lives. over four billion euros over government do you need to be. or or i don't know what to believe something the government's running out to vote

they can keep trying to impose these very few measures that would likely lead to more of the violent clashes we've seen between riot police and protest the in the last week the month all they can instead choose to default that year is a need to have insisted that default is not an option that concern that was greece to do you say. it could spark a financial meltdown in the year but there's now a growing recognition that behind closed doors other options are being considered a good hold is definitely on the cards has been on the cards and off for a year and a half or two have been in the cards because when you have a dead hot hunk of the exorbitant size that we have here in greece it is impossible to imagine that the steady steady can be a means by which you can reduce it so the default was always going to happen as a full speculation rumbles on it's become clear that there are fundamental flaws in the euro is a operation i think europe citizens have the right to know what the causes are at

the moment they are being deflected from the real causes and they are being asked to blame little greece little greece however idiotic it may have proved in the past is is and never was incapable of spearheading a global financial crisis see just who is to blame but what we are experiencing in greece today it is a financial. using a new kind of war it is an international base from all of the international financial crime syndicate for the past eighteen months the greek government has cut wages way taxes just pensions and in return received billions of year in bailout funds now as they await the next eight billion cash injection many are left wondering if it's all been worth it just to give you another number when we first. was. it was about one. of the. now it is over

one hundred fifty and the latest report of i.m.f. . says that it's going to be next year one. hundred nine so in just two years after all of this sacrifices were for the good people in this that the nation of the. this includes. protest and strike action now an almost daily occurrence greek government faces a huge crisis of confidence amongst its electorate financially in the red politically in the duck greece's population leasing their patience if greece does the folk the future of the eurozone look six dreamy uncertain indeed but many people here feel but not to the say is to risk their country sinking deeper into financial and economic ruin. athens and coming

up later this hour artie's people avail crossed of gas whether social prosperity and a strong economy are still pillars of western democracy he was a taster. we have governments that. hinder creation they endure in a very big state but steve it's not clear to me it's fair to say that state is seriously going to just take on the one thing and take i'm going to go into everyone on the panel is that you know we have electric stage voted for these kinds of programs for decades ok so don't say governments i mean if we're talking about people voting for politicians that say give me more and more and more and make other people pay for it later or maybe we can supply in some commonality there i agree with that but i didn't think i mean to really answer the major rivers you're up here go ahead i want richard in new york to go ahead yeah let me just respond to one thing that this notion that governments act as if they are the origin of what they do governments are elected and under enormous pressure from their

constituencies and to explain what governments do without and that'll izing who's pushing them to do what is a very strange logic. and. russia has launched and now they're a satellite into orbit as part of its global navigation project on us this means the system is now fully operational and can provide global coverage artie's peter all over tells us more about the new arrival to the u.s. produce g.p.s. system. well this is the twenty fourth satellite that's being launched as part of the glue in us system twenty four the number the minimum number the glow nasa needs to be able to provide full global coverage now we will see four more cloner satellites launched throughout the rest of the next year will be the required

amount which they set out to provide the best service to customers they'll be looking to use this now it's been a long haul road for a glowing us from its first development back in the eighty's as a as a development project by the u.s.s.r. it was then taken over by russia and they've been trying to get it up to speed to make it a valid rival to the g.p.s. system produced in the united states now it has been a rocky road as well just there last december three grown our satellites plummeted out of the sky into the pacific ocean setting back the development of the system and in fact this launch this twenty fourth launch that was delayed itself it has been it was put back by the crash at the end of august of this year of a progress module on its way to the international space station so this is finally happened now the twenty four satellites are in orbit it gives glowing ask global

coverage they've got to see what they can do with it now the specialists say that glow in us can provide precise coverage up to six meters on the ground now what that means is they can place you exactly where you are on the earth within six meters no take this for example with the g.p.s. technologies who say that. they can predict they can place you accurately within seven meters so they are going to have to try it the the target for glowing ass now is to convince consumers and convince manufacturers of products that need global positioning technologies that glow on us is the one for them and that they should move away from g.p.s. but we're going to have to wait to see just how successful these continuing tests are before we can see gload us as a dominant brand in global positioning systems. peter oliver reporting there well if you're still curious we've got tons of material covering every aspect of the human race to the final frontier both on our website and at youtube dot com slash r

t well from all the manned space launches of the last few years to the final missions of the now retired american space shuttle fleet plus all the failed attempts along the way and all that and more at you tube dot com slash r.t. . if. you. tend to thousands have marched through the northern border city of manchester and the other protest at a stair and cuts to public services and pensions the rally in opposition to the

governing coalition and organized by trade unions coincided with the ruling conservative party's conference in the city artie's laura and i was there. the conservative cause a conference has started ten mansion and the moment politicians and delegates started to arrive this happened overnight is estimated thirty thousand people are turning out for this march through the streets of manchester to protest what the coalition government is doing in the way of talks and you've literally got full sorts of people hey you've got the older generation saying hands off pensions you've got to sort of middle age generation who said that their job see because as money to public services is last you've got to very very young who are worried that some things like necessary means that its provisions for education will be caught and of course manchester have the might the student population you've got a lot of students turned out much like in all the marches that we've seen across the country turned out to protest against the rising cost of education i spake to

some of the people who are here to us and just why they thought it was important to turn out because simple no we send a message to the government to covering all sport in particular that the people on really to poll woodies calls to police overseas and. to put we should let the government know the majority of people who are opposed to what would you really cool shaking. a page to show about to join the push to get the chinese schools that what it meant to try and build a movement what they would bring this government down and bring in a government that doesn't offer working people now looks in a bind is that you can see here around me are calling for a strike on the thirtieth of may damn but they're calling for a general strike the public sector workers to down to leave why should the government just exactly what it would be like if public sector workers didn't in fact show up for work in the morning so that's what they're planning to do a lot of the biggest unions in the country unison yes they have all turned out here

today to say we will down tools on the thirtieth of november unless you promise that you're going to make these deep cuts in public sector funding that you'll put paid a lot of them are all states. david. boreanaz reporting there now a brief look at some other stories from around the world fight he has resumed in libya's perceive city of syria after a two day truce to allow civilians to leave the battlefield expired you know war planes have carried out new airstrikes while revolutionary fighters continue their offensive against a fine khadafi loyalist on the eastern front lines the city is facing a humanitarian crisis with people being driven from their homes by fierce fighting and a lack of essential supplies aid agencies say those trapped are in desperate need of medical help. pakistan is strongly denied afghan claims that the state's spy agency was involved in the assassination of kabul's and boy four taliban peace talks called the allegations baseless and seven ago sheeter former president of war

how to deal rabbani was pakistan's friend rabbani was killed in a suicide bombing last month afghan officials to spec this is behind the murder and claim they've already provided pakistan with supporting evidence. the palestinian bid for statehood is being considered now in the un security council total of nine out of fifteen votes are needed to push the application through meanwhile u.s. defense secretary leon panetta on the trip to the middle east has warned israel that it is becoming increasingly isolated and the region urged israel to restart peace talks with the palestinians and restore relations with turkey and egypt palestinian leader mahmoud abbas told r.t. arabic he's fears the u.s. will pressure of the u.n. security council members to vote against the bid the full interview is coming next hour here on r.t. but here's a preview. just for the right to veto we knew in advance and we would be

notified that washington will use its veto journeying devoting and all the it's clear that the u.s. as the dominant. power wants to extend its support to israel but what concerns us most is that the us wants to force all the countries that took part in the general assembly big and small like particular the members of the un security council to vote against palestinian membership in the un this is the key concern for us all the member states of the security council have the right to use or as i would put it misuse their right to veto of course such a decision will be regrettable. whether they realize it or not french school kids are learning a serious lesson and the power of political correctness across the country parents and teachers are enraged by new textbooks which carry revised historical accounts to avoid insulting minority pupils and as our teasdale bushell reports manny french

fear their advantage he will soon disappear along with their history twenty pages on the history of black slavery and just six on the time of napoleon shown here sitting on a toilet france's new history school books are in breaching parents and teachers who cool it's political correctness gone. this bestseller on the figures of from boylan's ahead although. if we doing teach our minorities the history of their adopted country they don't feel french we are already seeing riots in our streets the crusades the called insulting to muslims the son king louis the fourteenth to imperial and the. as the colonel gadhafi of his day focus is now on the previously little known king. of thirteenth century with africa. the purge even extends to reuters studied round the world including les miserables all through

victor hugo france is already breaking up things professor casale because it's young people have no sense of identity parents are concerned we have to study even the worth pages of our history because you cannot understand what happened for politics now in france if you don't understand the history. they want to understand and to avoid properly legal actions seen as the only way to stop the removal of national history of all of of course like schools now give ten percent of their shared to the needy will african mali empire i studied it and what exactly is it contribution to world development. thousands of signed a petition of the french revolution lessons were replaced by the african kingdom of more than multiple which many say they've never heard of the ministry of education refused to be interviewed but gave us this statement. where

a change in the school curriculum to reflect globalisation one of the thomas being taught because it's important to have a view on other world cultures such as egypt china and india the new european parliament reports back to compulsory school lessons on the benefits of the e.u. from quote a very young age critics want kids learning less and less about their own country states which stop teaching their poles they say concern themselves to history the new bush or r.t. paris well it brings up today here in r.t. and i'll be back with a recap our top stories shortly for that they'll take a look what's happening in business with helium. thanks mary now that's time to delve into the world of business and the recent spike in economic uncertainty has resulted in heavy selloff in the russian market.

has been hitting it even harder than other emerging markets close with a from tory could dilate believes that's just structural weakness in the country's economy. we have a relatively weak domestic economic base compared to other big emerging markets it is that we are much more vulnerable to a global recession because of the potential weakness in the oil price and the price and demand for other commodities and the second reason why we see more volatility is because russia doesn't have a strong enough to mystic capital base. you know because we don't yet have you know extensive structured pension funds and structure saving schemes as is the case in most other markets we are very reliant on foreign capital flows to a much greater extent than other emerging markets so when there is any reason for investors to be nervous about global events they will take their money out of emerging markets and we do not have the substitution of domestic money which countries like brazil india and china do have. let's take

a look at the markets now occurred as extending losses from one yellow ones concerns the slowing u.s. economy and europe's debt could cause fuel demand investors expect reports to show manufacturing in review has badly croons tumble lights which is trading at seventy seven dollars per barrel while brand blunt is that over one hundred one dollars per barrel. the markets in asia shot below on monday and reports say greece's new budget will fall short of the security targets in hong kong financials and resource stocks a leading the best sell off bank of china is down almost five percent aluminum compression of chinese losing moves and four and a half percent the solid exporters are under pressure in tokyo with so deep down in the six percent. and european stocks affording shopped on monday after the greek government stole the weekend that it blew miss its deficit targets this year just why austerity measures. can finally hit most of the markets have opened deeply in

the red truck in overseas losses a report by emerging portfolio fund research says the phone is investing in rough and stocks it seemed cash flow almost tripled in one week away most of the sentiment arkansas' drinking global economy could hurt the country more spur juices plus take a look at some of individual share moves in the minus its energy may just autumn on the main retreat just here with both gospel and false nets losing over two and a half cent and financials also under pressure with the country's biggest lenders drop on more than three percent in the right. russians are rushing to sell the country's call or see as the ruble gets weak and sales reached one hundred forty five billion rubles equal to for the whole billion dollars that's the highest level since two thousand and nine hole whether it's still much lower during the financial downturn there will drops to a two year low against the dollar in the previous quarter as a comic concession to tell you to invest. four risky assets. brush as rising over

gas from to cut gas prices turkey has decided not to a new supply contract because gas from wouldn't agree to provide a big a discount the contract provided a third of the eighteen billion cubic meters of gas shipped from russia annually the turkish and the minister says the should this should not cause disruptions as promised companies come to terms with gas from if they want ankara is complaining that the price of russian gas has risen so much in line to send into the hof gives . us all the business for now in europe today two more stores check all websites that sarky dot com slash business.

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welcome back you're watching r t here's a look at the top stories backs against a wall street brutal crackdowns of workers for social and financial justice sparks accusations that u.s. democracy is just an illusion. athens prepares for the plunge a severe austerity fails to save the greek economy with the government admitting it won't be able to meet key dictated deficit deadlines for this year. russia's orbit ambitions grow as another satellite for its global tracking system launches into space to rival u.s. produced g.p.s. systems. next on our to ring in the latest edition of our debate cross dock which sees peter lavelle and his guests exploring whether western social democracies are heading for a quick and painful death.