a wave of public discontent in the u.s. shows no sign of abating it's following saturday's protests where hundreds of peaceful demonstrators were arrested sparking accusations of heavy handed policing defiant anti wall street activists refused to back down saying more marches against corporate greed and social inequality are all in the pipeline. 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 sprayed 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 expect that there would be something like that again this weekend though i have no reports of 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 appeared back on wall street determined to continue their fight against corporate domination once you are

not afraid to be arrested anymore the whole entire control of the police. disappears and 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 and change. because economic disparity occupy wall street describes itself as a resistance movement inspired in part by if you counter we can follow the lead up our brothers and sisters all over the world 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 change for 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 where the they are doing that mean pulcifer it starts out wall street it is true that these demonstrators come here with a variety of different messages but what is uniting 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. both the crackdown on wall street and the existing financial institutions or run show that us 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 a certain moment is failing in 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 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

meantime james corporate editor of an independent news website says that the main question now is whether the largely supportive antiwar 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 i see that there there could be that possibility of escalation at this moment i would say that the momentum and the probably the the p.r. win is on the protesters side because no one likes to see big 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 in the privately owned banking system central banking system of the united states. another showcase of public anger is bubbling in. the joy of the people opposed to what we do know usually really cool shit taking tens of thousands of people to manchester to take part in a march against government cuts also a little bit later in the program here on our. identity crisis parents and teachers across france are enraged by 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 world markets react to athens admission that it won't be able to meet key mandated deficit lines for both this year and next year the revelation signals that a shocking degree of austerity imposed by athens on its people has failed sending the economy into a manageable contraction it's especially worrying given the e.u.

debt inspectors in greece are currently deciding on whether to release more bailout funds because the country's government has said that unless it gets that money it won't be able to pay bills for this month and he looks at just where this now puts the embattled country. will greece now default that's the million dollar question well to be more exact the four hundred fifty billion a year a question in. greece now. but could never be let's be seduced you think about greece never for granted fifty billion euros government there you need to be if you are or or i don't know what to believe. the greek government is running out of options they can keep trying to impose the state to start the measures that would likely lead to more of the violent clashes between riot police and protesters in the last weeks or months or they can instead

choose to default the year is a needed insisted that default is not enough. they're concerned that were greece to do you say it could spark a financial meltdown in the year is there's now a growing recognition that behind closed doors other options are being considered a group called is different from the cards has been on the cards now for a year and a half or two have been in the cards because when you have a dead overhang of the exorbitant size that we have here in greece it is impossible to imagine that the state here will say we can be a means by which you can reduce it so the default was always going to happen as a default speculation rumbles on it's become clear 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're 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 it

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 accumulation if 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 entered this. was. it was about one. of the. now this over one hundred fifty in 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. for people in this think of the economy not. with protests and strike action now an almost daily occurrence the greek government faces a huge crisis of confidence amongst its electorate financially in the red politically in the dark greece's population leasing their patience if greece does the fault the future of the eurozone looks extremely uncertain indeed that many people here feel but not today say is to risk their country sinking deeper into financial and economic ruin therof. athens you're with r t it's good to have your company today coming your way next hour people of his crosstalk whether social prosperity and a strong economy are still pillars of western democracy is

a pretty. we have governments that. hinder creation they hinder innovation anybody but keep it steve it's not clear to me it's fair to say that it's taking me seriously. just going to take i'm going to go into everyone on the panel is that you know we have electorates that 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 i didn't want that i mean to really end. up here risk 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 in the analyzing who is pushing them to do what is a very strange logic. and

you can catch course talking about twenty minutes but for now russia has launched another satellite into orbit as part of its global navigation project about a go alone us this means the system is now fully operational i can provide global coverage to all of our tells us more about the new arrival to the u.s. produced g.p.s. system. well this is the twenty fourth subtle eye that's been launched as part of the glue in us system twenty four the number the minimum number the glowing us 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 and not 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 old road for a glowing arse 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 now the twenty four satellites are in orbit the specialists say that glow douse can provide precise coverage up to six meters on the ground now take this for example with the g.p.s. technology so they can place you accurately within seven meters the target for glowed us now is to convince consumers and convince manufacturers of products that need global positioning technologies that glowed us is the one for them and that they should move away from g.p.s.

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just past quarter past the hour here in moscow tens of thousands marched through the north. in order to protest. the. city. golden eyes 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 force of people hey you've got the older generation saying hands off our pensions you've got to sort of middle age generation who say that their job see because as money to public service is last you've got it's a very very young who are worried that some things like no serene's and provision school education will be caught and of course manchester have a massive student population so 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 simple more we send a message to the good moments to covering all sport in particular that the people on the roads opposed to the school could still be so this is about. to put we should let the government know the majority of people opposed to what they do you know usually really cool shirts i think and just a patron to show about it to join the chinese tools that what it meant to be trying to build a movement what will bring this government down and bring in a government that doesn't offer working people now looks at a ban is that you can see here around me are calling for a strike on the thirty if that's made them but they're calling for a general strike the public sector was to down to leave wasn't sure the government just exactly what it would be like a public sector workers didn't in fact show up to work in the mornings if that's

what they're planning to do a lot of the biggest unions in the country in 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 propose a lot of them will say the prime minister david cameron yes it may say. it's more about right but i do stay with us here on our t.v. business is moments away but for now the world update here will. some other international headlines for you this hour fighting has resumed in libya's besieged city of sirte and after a two day truce to allow civilians to leave the battlefield expired nato warplanes have carried out new airstrikes revolutionary fighters continue their offensive against defiant gadhafi loyalists on the eastern front lines the city is facing a humanitarian crisis 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 has strongly denied the afghan claims that the

state's spy agency was involved in the assassination of former afghan president but one who did it up on the islamic jihad called the allegations baseless and said rabbani was pakistan's friend he was a couples chief negotiator with the taliban and was killed in a suicide bombing last month afghan officials suspect islam about behind the murder and claim they've already provided pakistan with supporting evidence. the palestinian bid for statehood is being considered at the u.n. security council a total of nine out of fifteen votes are needed to push the application through meanwhile u.s. defense secretary leon panetta during his trip to the middle east warned israel that it's becoming increasingly isolated in the region he urged the jewish state to restart peace talks with the palestinians and restore relations with turkey and egypt palestinian leader mahmoud abbas told r.t. arabic that he fears the u.s. will pressure the u.n. security council members to vote against the bid the full interview coming up right

here right here on r.t. in about ten minutes time but for now here's a preview. as for the voice of veto we knew in advance and we work efficiently notified that washington will use its veto during the voting in our bid it's clear that the u.s. as the dominant world 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 alike 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. are the two twenty pm on this monday here in moscow now whether they realize it or not french school kids are learning

a serious lesson in the power of political correctness all across the country parents and teachers are all enraged by new textbooks which carry revised historical accounts to avoid insulting minority pupils and as an artist on a bushel reports many french fear their identity 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 remembering parents and teachers who cool it's political correctness gone mad this author's bestseller on the figures of from boylan's ahead although they don't if we doing teach are a minority of the history of their adoptive country they don't feel french we are already seeing riots in our streets. the crusades the called insulting to muslims the sun king louis the fourteenth to imperial and the pony and smoked as the

colonel gadhafi of his day focus is now on the previously little known king can kumu thought of thirteenth century west africa. the purge even extends to reuters studied rumble world including les miserables look 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 can't understand what happened for politics now in france if you don't understand the history. they want to understand and to avoid properly legal action scene is the only way to stop the removal of national history. schools now give ten percent of their share the old to the medieval african moline point i've 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 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 polls they say consigned themselves to history. the new bush or altie paris. or at r.t. is coming to life from the heart of moscow to stay with us and accept yulia with the best.

hello and a very warm welcome to the business program the recent spike in economic uncertainty has resulted in a heavy selloff in the russian market fear of risk has been hitting it even harder than other emerging markets chris with a from troika dalek believes that's too to a structural weakness in the country's economy. we have a relatively weak domestic economic base compared to other big emerging markets are just we are much more vulnerable to a global recession because of the potential weakness in the oil price and the price that and demand for other commodities and the second reason why we see more volatility is because russia doesn't have a strong enough domestic capital base. you know because we don't yet have you know extensive structured pension funds and unstructured shouldn't 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 those figures purges extending the losses from a one below on concerns slowing gas economy and europe's debt fuel to mont investors expect reports to show that it's not trading in the future as badly currents of ten but lights which is trading at just under seventy eight dollars per barrel while the brown plant is that over one hundred one dollars per barrel. european stocks of pulling shop till monday after the greek government acknowledges the weekend that it will miss its deficit targets this may have to spot a starting matches. for you here in moscow the markets are trading deeply in the red truck in overseas losses a report by a more to put forward fund he says has the funds invested in boston and russia have seen cash flow in this triple employment was weighing on the sentiments are concerns us for thinking the global economy could hurt the country's mortises produces let's have

a look at some of the individual show moves in the months it's most energy majors that down this hour with gospel music over two percent the company has just announced that a place to stop gas delivered to europe by the nordstrom quite blind on the that but it's on that and the financials also on the crusher. the country's biggest lenders burbank more than the surface stand in the red but bucking the trend as truck maker from sun dot the company says it could take over one of two of its rivals by the end of the. russians are rushing to solve the country's currency as the ruble gets weaker sales reached one hundred forty five billion rubles equal to foreign help billion dollars that's the highest level since two thousand and nine whether it's still much lower than cheering the financial downturn the ruble has dropped from the to hit a low against the dollar as a camilla concession to tame to invest at the tide for risky assets. and brushes rising over gas from to cut gas prices to it has decided not to renew

a supply contract because gazprom wouldn't agree to provide a bigger discount while the contract provided a third of the eighteen billion cubic meters of gun ship from russia annually the turkish antigen minister says this should not cause disruptions toss the country's private companies could come to terms with castro if they want. is complaining that the price of russian gas has risen fifty nine percent in two and a half years. ok that's all we have time for now you are up to date for more stories check the website archies dot com slash business.

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