very well well this is alex he live from moscow with me rory sushant protesters continue to gather on the streets of new york following saturday's brutal showdown on brooklyn bridge or so more than seven hundred people arrested by the movement called occupy wall street is promising more macho as against corporate greed and social inequality. caught up with some of those involved. the 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 here 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 as we can 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 so i have heard 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 waltz.

determined to continue their fight against corporate domination once you are not afraid to be arrested anymore the whole entire control of the police state disappears when that happens there are 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 america's economic disparity occupy wall street describes itself as a resistance movement inspired in part by its counterparts we can follow the lead of our brothers and sisters all over the world the hairspring 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 they are doing to me also it starts out wall street it is true that these demonstrators come here with a variety of different messages about 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 part see here. on our website dot com we are interested in your opinion on the occupy wall street protesters a that's a look at a vote for the moment so. the majority of you believing that we are witnessing

america's very own arab spring about a quarter consider the protesters rent a crowd asians are the same about think they are victims of police repression and a minority feel they're nothing more than simple trouble makers if you log on thought he will come right now you can have your say. well i mean time sara flounders from the converse group or international action center says the us is preaching democracy all around the world while forgetting about the rights of its own people. this is really a police effort to shut down mass the sense here see us government that claims to speak for democracy all over the world while dropping bombs on people in many many countries and here at home when people are involved in democratic protests and demonstrations against the domination of wall street representing really the interests of the vast majority of people in latest polls today's show that seventy five percent of the population is sympathetic to these protests. coming up in less

than half an hour's time here on r.t. peter lavelle and as crossed all guests discuss who if anyone is influencing the decisions taken by the governments it's a pretty. government now adays is not doing what its public wanted doing what its interest groups want at the moment those interest groups are the labor unions and this person or a big corporation gays well ok labor you. know makes an excellent piece go ahead steve sledge the job what an extraordinary. easy here let's remember one simple fact right in the united states today in the private sector that dominates our economy six point nine percent of workers are represented by a trade union ninety three and point one percent of our working class in the private sector has no union to explain government policy based on the union

movement as tiny and powerless as this is a soon to see. and you can watch crosstalk about twenty minutes time here on r.t. now as the forces of libya's new rulers continue to see of the two remaining khadafi strongholds we spoke to an eyewitness one woman from tripoli who asked that we call her selma was in beni walid a day ago speaking in a low voice and fear for her life she said former rebels care little about civilian lives. i don't think we're. actually out the two. just because i thought in fact it would have if you want it back you. have to keep going to. run it. only for you to.

you know it's true. i think it's true we cannot. afford it can. you with r.t. live from moscow now still ahead for you this hour with a palestinian statehood bid at the u.n. is a really about. the man behind it mahmoud abbas who says that he is challenging the existence of israeli settlements but not the whole of israel. plus history falls victim to political correctness in france with fears the younger generation might lose its sense of national identity look at what pages are being removed from textbooks and why. greece has admitted it's still not able to deal with its deficit key demand of its international creditors that's even

taking into account mass layoffs announced just on sunday and a new round of austerity cuts which still need parliament's approval. looks at just where this now puts the embattled nation. well greece now default that's the million dollar question or to be more exact the four hundred fifty billion a year a question. that greece now is about could never be paid let's be serious you think about greece who ever pay four hundred fifty billion euros of government there you need to be if you would or or i don't know what to believe something like the greek government is running out of options they can keep trying to impose the strict austerity measures that would likely lead to more of the violent clashes we've seen between riot police and protesters in the last weeks and months or they can instead choose to default the year is

a new leaders have insisted that default is not an option they're concerned that word greece to d.c. it could spark a financial meltdown in the usa but there's now a growing recognition that behind closed doors other options are being considered a group called is different 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 overhang of the exorbitant size but we have here in greece it is impossible to imagine that the story 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 that there are fundamental flaws in the usa and 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 and never was incapable of spearheading

a global financial crisis see just who is to blame for what we are experiencing in greece would be it is a financial. using new kind of war it is in the. financial crime syndicate for the past eighteen months the greek government has cut wages raise taxes just pensions and in return receive 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 we first. thought was about one. of the. over fifty. five. is that it's going to be next year one. hundred nine so in just two years after all of this for the people in the state of the

not. this includes in. 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 dark greece's population leasing their patience if greece does the folk the future of the year is saying look six string me i'm certain indeed that many people here feel but not today say is to risk their country sinking deeper into financial and economic ruin. athens now for more on the troubles of both greece and the eurozone i'm joined by m.e.p. paul nuttall. and i thank you for joining us today so greece has admitted that it can't meet the demands from international creditors so it is a possible the next step could be the be all end all that the country could be

abandoned to bankruptcy. well greece will have to default i mean this has been pretty obvious now for about the last year and a half what we're being told is that the discussions taking place in brussels at the moment where greece will be allowed to default by seventy five percent and in the end there really is no option that greece will have to come out of the euro will have to devalue its will be will have to be able to set its own interest rates a competitive exchange rate it's the only way the greeks can get their economy moving they can get their economy moving whilst they're trapped within the prison of the euro but actually as you say though it seems fairly obvious that yourself and maybe just as well in the eurozone and the greek is going to miss its target here greece well that is greece promises to reduce its deficit but it gets the money but then it misses a target so i why is the e.u. relenting with this bailout for an unreliable borrower just to many it just seems like it doesn't make sense because this is all of the illogical this is about creating a united states of europe to have

a united states of europe they need the code and see we knew at the start that the euro could never work without full fiscal union the problem that they had at the time was that there was no appetite for full fiscal union right across the peoples of europe there still isn't any appetite for full fiscal union so the idea that you have germany increase in the same code in c. with the same interest rates could never where the whole thing was going to fail and what we're seeing now is the whole thing the rivaling in front of our eyes and at the moment if they agree to this a billion bailout like we're being told has happened that the cabinets in athens have agreed to it will mean that thirty thousand people will have to be sacked increased over the next couple of weeks otherwise greece goes bankrupt and we've seen austerity measures being implemented all of a greece absolutely months now this year has been a terrible year and can you give me a point blank say here if more bailouts do go into athens can greece survive or is it just going to. greece is just going down we can still continue to pour good money after bad but look greece's debt is going up it's not coming down greece is

in serious serious problems but it's just one week greece i mean it's only could possibly be next and italy is a trillion pounds economy eighth largest economy in the world contagion will spread look the people who are out on the streets over the weekend in lisbon as well what i fear is that we may well have not obscuring you could end up with a mediterranean storm if things aren't sort of sort of quickly so increased we've been seeing cuts in the pensions cuts in the salaries of many months of this year tens of thousands of people out of the streets more bailout money comes in but where does the bailout money go it's obviously not going to the people is it just lining the pockets of the bankers lining the pockets of politicians where where is the money. well basically the money is going to pay off debt but the problem is they're not reducing the debt and it's it's interesting a little the problem that you have a moment is that the people in greece are suffering because of an ideological decision not taken in athens but taken in brussels and it was taken ten years ago should never have been allowed to get into the euro in the first place they broke

so many rules their own rules to get greece in because this was all about politics it wasn't about economics and i feel very very sore for the greek people the only way that the greek people will get back on their feet again is to come out of the euro altogether and look it won't be the end of the world for greece argentina was the last major country to the volt in two thousand and one between two thousand and one and two thousand and six argentina's economy grew by sixty percent that is the answer to greece i mean certainly that's a happy ending to that story there with argentina but you mentioned you keep mentioning this is ideological the united front why does the eurozone keep funneling money into athens to show that the european neighborhood is united but we just had an analyst a greek analyst and sarah for story saying that this is a war this is an international occupation being force fed by an international financial crime syndicate now many greeks say hey we don't need these bailouts we can get along fine so who is force feeding these bailouts is it indeed an international financial crime syndicate. well it's

a big ship between the international monetary fund the european central bank and of course the european commission they have three people out there all the team out there enough and at the moment and these three people are running the greek economy they're giving all to me from the greek government and i feel very very sorry for the greek people and the greek government to be perfectly honest with you because they are being dictated to by brussels and by frankfurt if you poll the polls that these people are being made to suffer because of ideological decisions that were taken many miles away in brussels ten years ago now it will not hold a member of the european parliament which i had more time to talk further about this many thanks indeed. well britain may not be part of a euro zone but its economy is suffering all the same if you log on to r.t. dot com you can find out the latest scenes from manchester where an angry crowd of thousands came out in protest to say that cuts are not the answer. you're with odds he now russia has launched another glowing us navigation satellite

into orbit bringing a total number to twenty four it means it now has the same global coverage as the widely used g.p.s. system he's pretty sure all of our house. well this is the twenty fourth subtle eye that's been launched as part of the glowing 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 that 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 old road for glow and 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 now twenty four satellites are in orbit the specialists say the globe and us can provide precise coverage up to six meters on the ground now take this for example with the g.p.s. technologies they can place you accurately within seven meters the target for gload us now is to convince consumers and convince manufacturers of products that need global positioning technologies glowed us is the one for them and that they should move away from g.p.s. . he's peter all of a right well if you get to discover more on the trips into the final frontier go into the special section dedicated to space exploration on our website at r.t. dot com is the website of course and we've got plenty of expect secular footage at you tube dot com slash. from the final missions of the now retired american space shuttle fleet to mysterious footage of u.f.o.'s our you tube channel should be your

first stop. the arab league says it will compensate palestinians after the u.s. cut its a payments america froze some two hundred million dollars in response to palestine's statehood bid at the un e.u. officials meantime say they will not follow suit statehood application was submitted to the un last week and is now being considered palestinian leader mahmoud abbas told r.t. r a big beard should not be seen as something questioning israel's right to exist or the full interview coming up at our. next hour but for now here's a preview. we do not want to challenge the legitimacy of the state of israel israel is a valid state and we have recognized it if the arab peace initiative had been adopted fifty seven arab and islamic states would have followed suit and recognized israel that means that we support the existence of the state of israel and do not

want to challenge its legitimacy or seek its. the only thing that we want to challenge and the legitimacy of the policy of occupation the legitimacy of israeli settlement activities this is our rights and we demand. you with r.t. moments away from the business news with kareena but for now whether they realize it or not french school pupils are learning a serious lesson in the power of political correctness across the country parents and teachers are enraged by some important pages of france's history being removed from new textbooks to avoid insulting minority pupils and as our he's done your book to reports many french people fear their national 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 in region parents and teachers who

cool it's political correctness gone mad this author's bestseller on the banned figures of france was of boylan's ahead on their journey they don't know if we doing teach are a minority is 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 came kumu thought of thirteenth century west 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 can't understand that what happened for politics now in france

if you don't understand the history. they want to understand and to avoid properly legal action seen as the only way to stop the removal of national history of all of our schools now give ten percent of their share yo to the medieval african mali empire 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 town has been 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 a couple of our top stories are coming away in just a few minutes that'll be after corrina. business up there. hello and welcome to our business update this thanks for joining me the recent spike in economic uncertainty has resulted in a heavy sell off in the russian market fear of risk has been hitting it even harder than other matching markets chris way far from the dollar believes that stu to 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 and demand for other commodities and is 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 unstructured saving schemes as is the case in most other markets we are very reliant on foreign capital flows to a much greater extent and those are 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 have a look at the markets now all prices are low on concerns that the slowing u.s. economy and europe's debt could curve if you were to my best is expect reports to show manufacturing in the u.s. barely poor in september light sweet is trading at seventy seven dollars a barrel and brant blend is that just over one hundred dollars per barrel now wall street is fully and able to hold on gains briefly recorded in choppy trading that

tough to report showing slightest wrongly u.s. manufacturing activity with approval process put exxon mobil corp down. and european stocks are falling sharply with banks leading losses that some reports greece will not meet its deficit targets this year banking stocks among the biggest falls are concerns about their exposure to greek government debt in the u.k. shares. and barclays down for point seven percent and world bank of scotland is down by five percent in germany commerzbank all seven percent while deutsche bank is three percent lower. and here in russia stocks and monday's trading session deep in the red them to their biggest quarterly decline since two thousand and eight weighing on the sentiment concerns that a shrinking global economy could hurt the countries a lot of these producers a report by emerging portfolio fund research says the funds investing in russia is dogs have seen cash outflow almost triple in one week now let's cross to some

individual shed most of them are six. majors fellow with gazprom losing over a percent of the company has just announced that it plans to start gas delivery to europe for the north stream pipeline on the eight. potentials are also under pressure for the country's biggest lenders bear bank losing over two and a half percent and drug maker farm standard you've raised turning against the company said it could take over one hundred two of its rivals by the end of the year market analysts unanimous in the downward trade fearing the eurozone crisis. continued concerns about the european dip problems nothing as yet has been resolved and obviously ministers we've history in mind of non-delivery from european authorities were quite bearish on the on the. e.u. finest ministers expecting nothing to really come. from the from that meeting was a pretty subdued we would have stocks down anywhere between two and five percent

across the board in russia. that's our business update for this back with more and forty five minutes from now drug. dealers.

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now at seven thirty pm here in the russian capital we see the headlines now the forceful breakup of iraq and the rest of the wall street protests gathering steam in america people are frustrated over the state to be economy and corporate influence and politics say it's time now for an american spring. white deal with its deficit in time to meet a deadline set by e.u. creditors that's despite multiple rounds of austerity cuts already implemented by the government and of mass layoffs announced on sunday. and russia's the latest launch of a navigation satellite brings the number of its units in orbit to twenty four the system is now at full strength. all right in half an hour's time i will be manning the helm here.