broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is r t glad to have you with us let's take a look at your top stories protesters continue to gather on the streets of new york following a showdown on the brooklyn bridge that saw more than seven hundred people arrested at the weekend the movement called occupy wall street is promising more marches against corporate greed and now war veterans are joining in to show their support. has an update from new york. what is planning to take place in the next few hours is another demonstration of protest by wall street but this one to take place directly outside of city hall now the purpose of this protest demonstrators organizers say is true the call on the city to drop all charges against italy eight hundred protesters that were arrested saturday evening those arrests took place of course where. wall street protesters marched from wall street to the brooklyn

bridge it was the largest arrests to take place in one single day here in new york city since the two thousand and four republican national convention from what we are being told in addition to that some new faces that make the scene in this gathering will be u.s. veterans soldiers members of the marines and army that have said they will be coming out to protect some of the protesters that many believe are being aggressively confronted by the new york city police department we saw an incident where women were pepper sprayed in the face by a police officer a few weeks ago and then of course these arrests that took place on the brooklyn bridge saturday evenings let's take a look back at what has transpired over the past few weeks. 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 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 quo. 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 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 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 facts on wall street determined to continue their fight against corporate domination once you are out and not afraid to be arrested any more the whole enjoy or control of the police. disappears and when that happens there are a credible possibilities that are open to us and suddenly you can imagine a different world 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 of 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. corporate president since we were told obama was for change and we got four more you know maybe four more years old billy. 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 the are doing to me pulse if it starts out wall street it is true that these demonstrators come here with a variety of different messages about what is uniting about 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. and earlier my colleague spoke to alex vitali who's an associate professor at brooklyn college and someone who actually took part in the weekend's rally he told. the ultimate aim of the protesters is to create a different political climate in the country. well there's not a 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 completely out of control and that they are responsible for an economy and i think young people in particular feel that their futures have been mortgaged before the are reaches salaries and bonuses by these wall street executives and they're looking for a long term solutions i don't think they have short term measures appear appealing

government to address anything immoral or what they're trying to do is to create a political climate where a number of political actors can start to talk seriously about this is really going to reforms that hopefully can break this kind of corrupt marriage between economic and political leaks in our city. well clash of the titans two super rich russians are facing off in a london court the billionaire owner of the chelsea football club roman abramovich is being sued by his fellow tycoon boris berezovsky for a cool five and a half billion dollars artie's lauren that brings us the details. this is a really extraordinary story and i'm. calling to a person's richest man and as you say this is a case that involves around five and a hall billion dollars we've got i'm out of it imo it's on the one hand he's become a household name in this country of course we all know him as the owner of chelsea but he's also the former governor of weights in and one of russia's most influential men and then the other hand we've got that is also he has also has had

a high political profile in moscow he was a media mogul who then fled to russia and was. awarded asylum here in the u.k. to have made various attempts to extradite him and convict him of investments in absentia so what's happened here is that the planes that the two were friends but that the friendship that the partnership collapse when he says wealth and influence became more important for him which the noise. so you have been he claims that i am all that you sent him. more than three billion dollars by intimidation him basically they suggest that they met in france and he possibly physically intimidated him into selling shares in this sitting at an oil company that they had created together with a third partner for a fraction of their market by the e.u. and the similar thing then also happened which says in a russian aluminum company. which of course his lawyers are saying that that's all

lies that there's absolutely no proof that any kind of intimidation to place his new documentary show it now this is a case that's not going to be over with quickly we're seeing in the first month that it's also giving his evidence and it's only an early november that grandma which will take the stand and say what he's got to say so we're expecting this case to last at least twelve weeks if not longer so it's really brought a battle between two enormous russian tycoons into the court here in london. so i had for you this hour one of the palestinian statehood bid of the un isn't really about. party asks the man behind it mahmoud abbas who says he's challenging of the existence of israeli settlements not the whole of israel itself. plus history of falls victim to political correctness in france with fears that the younger generation might lose its sense of national identity we look at what pages are being removed from textbooks and why. libya's new

rulers have named a new temporary cabinet of ministers to govern the country until it is fully secured their forces that continue to lay siege to the remaining khadafi strongholds in embattled seared fighting restarted after a two day cease fire the city situated on the mediterranean coast has been completely surrounded by n.p.c. fighters on its three land sides revolutionaries have gained control of most of the country but still face fierce resistance in seared bani walid and pockets in the southern desert and one eyewitness to the fighting told r.t. the former rebels care little about the wellbeing of civilians. from their own. norm coleman i don't think we're going to be actually out feature in the future are you just becoming a frequent including facts even if you want to. actually keep someone

completely act between rog forty and experience are truly believe it. or. not it's true. you could run for something you cannot. be crude and really don't want to believe it not true they are harming. careful be careful it's going to agree. the dire situation in syria turned bani walid is being ignored by the media that's the view of author and a journalist. 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 it or feel they may not like the nato backed troops very

interesting that the most advanced arsenal in the world of nato just six months on and we still haven't won the country 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 are reporting the bombing of hospitals in sirte and of course the today is approaching the end. on to other news now the former vice president of former oil giant yukos has died in moscow he was thirty nine years old but. the one time a lawyer of mikhail khodorkovsky was arrested for embezzlement in two thousand and six he was released on bond two years later because of bad health effects on ian that was suffering from aids liver cancer and tb in two thousand and ten the court dropped the case and due to the amount of time that had passed since his first arrest. and you can always find more stories comments and videos on our website or

to dot com here's what some of what we have a free online right now. political reforms that for ninety billion euro credit the i.m.f. offer of a loan to bella ruse has given rise to a sudden change of heart in minsk which has promptly released an opposition leader from jail plus. life on a soviet mars u.k. show to be adapted for russian t.v. the series aims to bring in the soviet union back to life find out more. russia has launched another glowing navigation satellite into orbit bringing the total number to twenty four it means that now it now has the same global coverage as the widely used g.p.s. system that peter oliver has the details. well this is the twenty fourth subtle eye that's being 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 do g.p.s. system produced in the united states now it has been a rocky road as well just their 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 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 that glowed us is the one for them and that they should move away from g.p.s. . the arab league has promised to help the palestinians after the u.s. and froze aid payments the american congress blocked two hundred million dollars in response to palestine as a bid for official state hood at the un the request was submitted last week and is now being considered palestinian leader mahmoud abbas told r.t. arabic the bid is not directed against israel that full interview is coming up later in the program but here's a quick 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 isolation the only thing that we want

to challenge in the legitimacy of the policy of occupation the legitimacy of israeli settlement activities this is our rights and we demand. angry parents teachers and friends to say kids could be losing a sense of national identity because of controversial changes to the school curriculum important pages of french history are being removed from textbooks to avoid insulting minority pupils bushell looks at whether it's political correctness gone too far. 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 front of boylan's ahead. if we doing teach are

a minority is the history of their adopted country they don't feel french we are already seeing riots in our streets the crusades the called in thought thing 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 to 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 understand that what happened for politics now in france you cannot 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 the schools now give ten percent of their share deal 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. have a view on other world cultures such as egypt china and india the new european polar reports compulsory school listens 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 they say in themselves to history.

look at some other international headlines for you now. a massive fire is raging at a u.s. chemical plant outside dallas texas you can see here dramatic pictures of the blaze sending plumes of black smoke into the sky there is believed to be eighty thousand gallons of potentially hazardous chemicals stored at the plant up to thirty employees who were inside the warehouse have been evacuated safely as well as people from nearby schools it is feared possibly dangerous gases could be released endangering the surrounding area. 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 the ward is not given posthumously but the organization says this time it will stand when it was recognized along to others for research into the human immune system.

american amanda knox has been cleared by an italian court of murdering her british roommate during a drug fueled of sexual assault her boyfriend. was also cleared of involvement in the death of. both found for both spent four years behind bars before their appeal was accepted by a judge who said the evidence was unreliable. and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in about ten minutes time but up next our t. sits down with the man who reignited palestinian aspirations for independence on the world stage president mahmoud abbas to discuss his views on the future of his bid for a free palestine. i

say that in light of the recent events in the arab world that have come to be known as the arab spring even as an arab league president had declared a palestinian spring the united states is against the move what is the opposition in regard to the current stones of the us when i'm. talking about the arab spring the palestinian spring the palestinian spring is happening even before it was declared opposition was an ambiguous the palestinians want the occupation to end they want to put an end to the divide these are their demands that they've always put forward we went to the un security council demanding palestine be recognized as a un member state we have had that right since one nine hundred forty seven since

resolution one eight one was adopted forming two states israel and palestine sixty four years later we want the states to actually be formed the state of israel has been created but not the state of palestine today sixty four years later we want that state to be formed israel and the us a calling our actions unilateral but when we address the entire world community all one hundred ninety three states i don't think they will see them as unilateral. actions cannot be compared to the construction of settlements on the palestinian territory this is unilateral action whereas our beds to the u.n. is not. furthermore we do not want to challenge the legitimacy of the state of israel israel is a valid state and we have recognized that 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 isolation and the only thing that we want to challenge the legitimacy of the policy of occupation the legitimacy of israeli settlement activities this is our rights and we demand it the u.s. and israel say our action is unilateral this is exactly why we have applied to the security council let's just wait and see as for the right of veto we knew in advance and we were officially notified that washington will use its veto jaring 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 u.s. wants to force all the countries that took part in the general assembly big and small alike in particular the members of the u.n. 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 all as i would put it misuse their right to veto of course such

a decision will be regrettable but we will comment on it only after it's taken not today. so that i thought that mr president some say the latest steps he had taken mark any era in the settlement process the u.s. monopoly and decision making in this region has been shattered and the palestinian issue is now open to the broader international discussion how do you comment on that could be to thread undermine your plans and what the fear of that we took to the floor at the u.n. general assembly to declare that we are a state in fact an occupied state they say we must first hold negotiations but we don't see why that. two things i mean the palestinian bid for un membership and the talks on a peaceful settlement cannot go on in parallel session to the un will mean the recognition that palestine is a country in a state of occupation that will make our position absolutely clear we are an occupied country that seeks to hold negotiations on all the issues including an end

to the armed confrontation with israel i believe this is the right way to move forward of course provided that the other side has a genuine desire to go the right way. so that the public. historic speech has resonated to melissa and society but hamas has expressed a different opinion how did you perceive their stance. and. i would not like to speak on the negative effects resulting from the position of a mass they say this was unilateral action taken without prior consultations with them but it's a totally different story you may have skipped the consultations but you have to come out with the right initiative before then any talk of unilateral action will play into israel's hands there are also voices within her mass both official and unofficial that have a different view and we're aware of them it's been a week since my speech it's a done deal so i would not want to discuss the negative consequences i want to

point out that we need to come together and start the re conciliation process the decision on that has been taken and hopefully in the near future it will be reached with a limp and the media as the allies you speech tend to emphasize you call for government reform as the main precondition of national reconciliation in what ways will the government do is formed. and. i did not say i wanted to replace the government but there is a lack of understanding of the principles of governmental constitution that we had agreed upon we talked about a transitional government comprised of independent members and technocrats it is not a government of national unity the turn. vishal government has to organize elections in the country and i'm responsible for that as head of the palestinian liberation organization at present we can discuss candidacies for transitional government membership i think any candidates nominated by fattah the people strand or any other movement is suitable as long as they fit the description of independent

technocrat if they don't fit i cannot approve their candidacies so i. mr president you have said several times the channel is going to run for another term in office is it possible that public opinion might force him position to change after you have given years toric speech. to taking part in presidential elections is not a matter of popularity i have the people support today but that might change tomorrow and i've said before that i will not run for another term another politician whom we shall all support might come into the spotlight he will gain popularity and the love of the people but that will be a result of his work and his achievements for my parts i will not change my position i've decided that i will not run for another term in office today tomorrow or in the future. thank you very much for the interview mr president thank you.

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headlines from around the world. behind the protest. allegations police used excessive force amid calls for. more than seven hundred demonstrators were arrested on saturday after marching onto the brooklyn bridge. it's all to play for chelsea f.c. owner. sues him in a london court for five and a half billion dollars claims he was intimidated into selling shares in oil company . for less than they were worth. to besiege to be strongholds.