new york following saturday's brutal showdown on brooklyn bridge that saw more than seven hundred people arrested the movement called occupy wall street is promising more marches against corporate greed and social inequality the largest many important i 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 am 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 back on wall street determined to continue their fight against corporate domination once you are at not agreed to be arrested any more the whole enjoy or control of the police. disappears

and when that happens there are credible possibilities that are open to us and suddenly you can imagine a different world 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 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 presidencies we were told it was for. for you know maybe four years old. bush.

before that his father the bush dynasty i mean corporate greed goes all the president i think this is where the the are doing to mean paul superstars 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 than party here. and on our website r.t. dot com we're interested in your opinion on the occupy wall street protesters and so far the majority believe we're witnessing america's own arab spring less than a quarter consider the protesters are victims of police repression fourteen percent think they are rent a crowd agents and of minority field. nothing more than troublemakers. to r.t.

dot com and have your say. call to discuss the ongoing protest in the us i'm now joined live from new york by alex of vitality was an associate professor at brooklyn college and someone who actually took part in the a weekend's a rally mr vitality here in new york oh what's the feeling in the streets right now well i think there's a lot of interest in what's going on down there on wall street and i think in particular people are going to be interested to see what happens when these days when many labor unions and well known non-governmental organizations and said do you tend to join her it's ok but you're also organizing another protest against the police this treatment of protesters what do you expect it to achieve and isn't that veering away a little bit from the original grievance against. well actually the demonstration about the policing issues took place last friday and a couple thousand people demonstrated one police plaza and that demonstration was

not were nies by the occupy wall street protesters which is fly well known academics and lever leaders artists writers to tell the police that they are being watched and that they will be held accountable for their treatment of the occupy wall street demonstrators ok as you probably heard our correspondent there on the ground covering the a protest there are a variety of grievances being aired but what exactly are the protesters calling for i mean do they know what they want. well i can't speak directly for the demonstrators but today they did issue a statement that outlined a number of core principles and i think for the american people there are some other lot of mystery about what's going on down there there's a clear sense the united states that the power of wall street is clearly out of control and that they are responsible for an economy and i think young people in particular feel that their futures have been mortgage to pay for the outrageous salaries and bonuses earned by these wall street executives all right. even says

that i mean there were there doing the protests during opening and closing valves it a symbolic way to show their anger but then what concrete actions are they expecting from the government. well i think they're looking for long term solutions i don't think they have a set of short term measures that they are healing or government to address i think in large for what they're trying to do is to create a political climate where a number of political actors can start to talk seriously about significant reforms that hopefully can break this kind of corrupt marriage between economic and political elites in the united states ok and the rally has already been dubbed the american spring i mean we saw some protesters are holding posters their course it derives its name from the arab spring it was primarily a frustration about the government again going back to that why are they protesting at wall street that i mean it was the government who had provided. so-called through the bailout given backers a lifeline right well i don't think it's directly analogous to the arab spring i

think it started more like the indignance movement in spain with the young people who eliminated from both. politics and from the big political institutions labor unions and cetera but what it's morphing into i think is something more like what's been going on in greece which is a kind of movement against a politics of austerity that benefits wall street and so that's why we're seeing more labor support more support from community organizations who feel that they're being asked to take big cuts in services so that wall street can continue to enjoy all kinds of tax breaks and giant bonuses ok let's talk about media coverage shoddy you think that this story has been getting the media coverage it just serves. well i think in the last week or so we've seen certainly an increase in the volume of media coverage but unfortunately so much of the media coverage has focused either on just the police repression or on saying that this has no demands it's not well

organized center which i don't think is really true i think if the media want to know what the demonstrations are about they should go and talk to the demonstrators and they seem reluctant to do that ok just very quickly since you are in new york mayor bloomberg had said that he had not given a definitive answer on whether he would allow the uncapping to go watch how do you see that panning out if the protesters will not be allowed to continue doing what they're doing well first of all it's not entirely up to the mare our constitution guarantees for free assembly and speech and they are in a public space that is not directly under the mayor's control however if we do see extensive police repression an attempt to see the square you know one possible outcome will be the retaking of other species with the support of an even broader group of demonstrators so i think that's part of the reason that the city has been reluctant to stronger enforcement action. for analysis there alex vitale the associate professor at brooklyn college talking to us live from new york. thank you

for that on your. next hour our teams of peter lavelle and his cross guests discuss who if anyone is influencing the decisions taken by government so here's a preview for you. government. is not doing what its public wanted doing what its interest groups want at the moment those interest groups will lead to unions. or more of big corporations who plays well. labor unions or trade makes an actual steve go ahead steve. what an extraordinary. year 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 fantasy. now as the forces of libya's new rulers continue their siege of the two remaining gadhafi strongholds we spoke to an eyewitness a woman from tripoli who asked that we call her was in bani walid a day ago and speaking in a low voice in fear for her life she said the former rebels care little about the well being of civilians. lies from the rebels i believe clinton. cullinan key words would be actually how they chose the man. just because he supported kill gadhafi because if you want the second you're talking keep the bullies to langley the green flag is just. the charge if you believe these people are suffering due. to this is not a trust issue is no touch the citizens we just need we cannot do this because this

is losing the eagles were absolutely. true they are happy for me and careful they care about is history today just. will for more we're joined live from london by author and journalist option a reponse c.m.'s or a poncy we spoke to eyewitnesses you heard there from bonnie will good who claim that civilians are under attack by both nato and x. rebels but isn't that just the collateral damage we see and any conflict. what you're reporting is certainly backing up what human rights watch found after interviewing detainees who were tortured let alone the bombing of a hospital everson a hospital in this is what nato are involved in an action which is obviously contrary to the u.n. resolution which is supposedly mandated to go in and overthrow the government of gadhafi we're getting reports of electric torture electric shock torture being used by these revolutionaries who exactly other people that are fighting nato because

they may not like gadhafi they may not like the nato backed troops it's very interesting that the most advanced arsenal in the world of nato is six months on and they still haven't won the country here six months on but nato says there's no plan to end operations soon do you think the alliance is going to stick around for years perhaps. well i think some people are already have their eyes on the bigger prize of course libya's oil and certainly the i don't think he calls himself the president but anyway julio and jabril these two people on the transitional council are already saying they intend to move on to the big advocates of privatization. that's really what seems to be a vote here it doesn't really matter whether. you know that was the real name or any of the others who were being tortured by major back troops don't like it what's important here is is the oil and with all the contracts goes it's very disturbing

picture at the moment and i think frankly they wouldn't care if the place was in any case one addition to the disturbing picture of a jewish man quoted as being banned from opening a synagogue in libya who exactly is winning with the beauty of talking about who is winning i mean there is appears to be a rift between members of the national transitional council mainly between islamists and moderates who do you think is likely to win this power struggle and will they be will they be able to form a government i mean isn't that. goal. but what is worrying is that islam is to maybe being bought off and they will go into some sort of government the privatizers the schools the hospitals the education system the water supplies and basically libya will become like most african countries i.m.f. privatization and world bank indebted except as your question does. does make me think these twenty thousand. that america lost in afghanistan the last time around

we can bring down a commercial airliner you can see from that that nato and the revolutionaries are just trying to win the country without very much care for the future as regards the people they want the oil contracts that's what it's about ok well going back to what's happening on the ground i mean. civilians being killed or you were mentioning earlier that torture is being a violent things are happening namely you mentioned electrocution electrocution why is a world of silent about that and is there perhaps proof to back that. electorate torture and it was found to be the case by human rights watch which is a pretty well accredited and geo organization after maybe interview they were able to name the detainees who were being tortured because they were afraid of reprisal attacks by the nature backed revolution and. their silence about that. well i think there's been silence about africa in fact because

a lot of the. a lot of the intimidation from people saying is against black africans we heard this in the beginning days of the war people saying these are black with series i think some people are even saying they're going to resemble some sort of apartheid state the african continent had nothing to do with this this is all about the idea that these great powers as of old can divide up the resources and the future of the libyan people why they're quiet about it the media kind of go forward after the initial explosions and so-called attack that they don't even reporting the bombing of hospitals and so on and of course the two day cease fire is approaching because it's ok if there's a lot of things going on in libya right now it's quite hard to predict the future but maybe you you can try do you think it will be a united nation state or perhaps split by tribal differences just briefly i think i think certainly the threat of civil war is ever present but even if even if the

united states you know if you can do in france and italy wanted the country split up and the oil resources to be worked out for the rest of the country why does it even matter if the fighting continues but of course these plans of these powers make as we've seen so many times in recent years don't always go to plan and the worrying thing for president obama and prime minister david cameron in the conference actually is that. they don't go to work in recent years as we see in afghanistan and iraq and this could be a long haul in which case they're not going to be any ground troops. but there are going to be these twenty thousand the last missiles we know about lockerbie and libya how many commercial airliners do you think rebels against these rebels may break down over north africa thanks very much for analysis there as always author and journalist afshin rattansi thank you. alright well though this news just in

the former vice president a former oil giant you cause has died in moscow at age thirty nine but city ehrlich sanjana wants a partner of the head had a call it was convicted of a vessel magic two thousand and six he was released on bail two years later as his health significant is worse and it has been reported that nixonian had aids because of his ongoing treatment in two thousand and ten the court dropped his case due to the amount of time that had passed. also ahead for you this hour whether palestinian statehood bid at the u.n. is really about r.t. ask the man behind it mahmoud abbas who says he's challenging the existence of israeli suttle that's not the whole of the israel. russia has launched another gloss navigation satellite into orbit bringing the total number to twenty four it means it now has the same global coverage as the widely used. largest peter all over the details. well this is the twenty fourth saw so i it's being launched as part of the glue in us system twenty four the number of 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. 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 blowing ups from its first development back in the eighty's 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 did. g.p.s. system produced in the united states though 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 gload us now is to convince consumers and convince manufacturers of products that meet global positioning technologies that glowed us is the one for them and that they should move away from g.p.s. . well if you're eager to discover more on trips into the final frontier log on to the special section dedicated to space exploration on our website i've also got plenty of spectacular footage that you tube dot com slash our take. from the final missions of the now retired american space shuttle to mysterious footage of u.f.o.'s. should be your first stop. if you. knew.

they are league says it will compensate the palestinians after the u.s. cut its aid payments america froze two hundred million dollars in response to palestine statehood bid at the u.n. officials say though that they won't follow suit the state application was submitted to the un last week and is now being considered palestinian leader mahmoud abbas told r.t. arabic the bill should not be seen as something that israel's right to exist for the full interview is coming up on our team in about ten minutes but here's a preview. and then one of the we do not want to challenge the legitimacy of the state of israel israel is a branded strange and we have recognized the arab peace initiative had been adopted fifty seven arab and islamic states would have followed suit and recognized israel and that means that we support the existence of the state of israel and do not want

to challenge its legitimacy or seek its own solution the only thing that we want to challenge and the legitimacy of the policy of occupation the legitimacy of israeli settlement activities this is all rights and we demand. a brief look at some other international headlines now a massive fire is raging at the u.s. chemical plant outside dallas in texas you can see dramatic pictures of the blaze sending black smoke into the sky there's believed to be eighty thousand gallons of potentially hazardous liquid stored at the plant but the blaze is spreading quickly putting surrounding areas in danger residents and students at a nearby elementary school were told to stay inside as possibly dangerous gases could be released. the nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to a canadian born scientist three days after he died the nobel committee only found

out ralph steinman had passed away from cancer after the announcement was made and the word is not given post humus leap but the organization says this time it will stand steinman was recognized alongside two others for research into the human immune system. about to knox was launched a tearful appeal in the italian court against her conviction for killing her british roommate the court will give its ruling within the next few hours and expectations are high that knox will walk free from court after d.n.a. evidence in the case was challenged knox and codefendant rafael solicitor were convicted of murdering meredith kercher in two thousand and nine but they've always insisted they are innocent. i'll be back with a recap of all our top story shortly but first to business news with kareena. and welcome to business thanks for joining me 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 because we've heard from troika dollar believes that skewed 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 of a. to a global recession because of the potential weakness in the oil price and the price and demand for other commodities and to 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 sitting schemes as is the case in most other markets we are very reliant on foreign capital flows to a much greater extent than 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. to take

a look at the markets now european stocks ended lower on monday with banks leading losses on reports greece will not meet its deficit targets this year banking stocks among the biggest fallers on concerns about their exposure to greek government debt in the u.k. shares in barclays fell four point seven percent of world bank of scald the last five percent germany combers bank fell seven and a half percent deutsche bank last week. and russian stocks and monday's trading session deep in the red after the biggest quarterly decline since two thousand and eight weighing on a sense of concerns a shrinking global economy could hurt the country's commodities producers a report by emerging power for you fund research says the funds investing in russian stocks have seen almost triple in one week now let's take a look at some individual shareholders sell them why six most energy majors fell with gazprom last losing over one percent the company has announced that it plans to start gas deliveries to europe by the north stream pipeline on the back of

a financial as were also under pressure with the country's biggest lenders a bad bank finishing over two and a half percent in the red and drug maker standard it raised money against the company says it could take over one or two of its rivals by the end of the year market analysts are united. downward trade fearing the worst crisis. continued concerns about the european debt problems nothing as yet has been resolved and i was seeing this. week history in mind of non-delivery from european authorities were quite bearish on today's meeting and. you find us ministers expecting nothing to really come. from that meeting or there's a pretty subdued. stocks down anywhere between two and five percent across the board in russia that's all the business for now for more stories check our web site r t v dot com slash business.

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