glad to have you with us to our top story now protesters in the u.s. continue to gain support as rallies break out in l.a. boston and other cities across the nation among the crowds many are angry over high unemployment rates social inequality and corporate political influence artie's miniport i reports from new york at the epicenter of the events. 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 or 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 out and not. to be arrested any more the whole enjoy or 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 volunteer believe 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 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 to put president i think this is where the the are doing to me pulse if it starts on 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 part see here. as protesters in new york fight for their voices to be heard as they've won some unlikely supporters including the billionaire investor george soros. actually i can understand their sentiments.

frankly. because. a lot of people for instance are running small businesses. who saw their credit card charges being raised from eight percent to twenty eight percent. and soon they were relying on that credit to run their businesses and not a lot of them actually were put out of business and the same time the decision not to inject capital into the. banks to effectively. relieve them of bad. and then allowed to earn their way out of. gave the banks. profits and allowed them to pay. bonuses as they

see i can sympathize with you even says. and reporter allison kilkenny says it's the pent up anger of corporate america that fueling the fire and attracting supporters to the movement. but we definitely aren't seeing an arab spring movement right now but that doesn't mean it's not going to get there. it does have the youth revolutionary spirit behind it we're seeing other occupying movements beginning now we're seeing a thousands of people showing up we're seeing the involvement of prominent unions we're seeing the involvement of prominent individuals we're seeing these franchises for have across the country but when you speak to these protesters there is a definite theme got you know it is a criticism against wall street it is an anti-corporate has a message they run to get the corporate money out of politics that's the big message it's not a democratic movement this really is an anti-establishment movement corporate cash as you know influenced our politics to the point where it's completely corrupt it may just represent the one percenters they don't represent what they call the

ninety nine percent clash of the titans two super rich russians are facing off in a london court the billionaire owner of chelsea football club roman album of it 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. well this is a really extraordinary story and what we're talking about here are common to persons richest men and as you say this is a case that involves around five in the hall billion dollars we've got i'm on about a mortgage on the one hand he's become a household name in this country of course we all know him as the owner of chelsea football club but he's also the former governor of process rates in and one of russia's most influential men and then the other hand we've got that is also he who is also has had a high political profile in moscow he was immediate mogul who then fled to russia and was. awarded asylum here in the u.k.

russia has made various attempts to extradite him and in fact convicted him of embezzlement in absentia so what's happened here is critical to keep claims that the two were friends but that the friendship and the partnership collapses when he says wealth and influence became more important for a whole which than loyalty has been he claims that i hope it's essentially calmed him. more than three billion dollars by intimidation him basically they suggest that he met they met in france and he possibly physically intimidated him into selling shares in the sit next to an oil company that they had created together with a third partner for a fraction of them all and a similar thing then also happened which says in a russian aluminum company of real solid. ground which of course his lawyers are saying that that's all lies that is that you know created any kind of intimidation took place it's no joke when taishan to show it now this is a case that's not going to be able with quickly we're seeing in the first months

that it's also giving his evidence and it's only an early november that abramovich 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 back to between two enormous russian tycoons into the court here in london or trees laurent reporting for us there in london now still ahead for you this hour the destiny of the greek to bear. a lot is being decided in the luxembourg. a decision on the next round of bailout for greece is delayed but the country will not be allowed to default on its debt. and a new frontiers for the russian space program the latest a launch gives the countries that glow last sat nav system for global coverage for the first time. libya's new rulers have named a temporary cabinet of ministers to govern the country until it is fully secured meanwhile their forces continue to lay siege to the remaining khadafi strongholds fighting has resumed in seared after two days of cease fire in the embattled city

situated on the mediterranean coast has been completely surrounded by m.t.c. fighters on its three land sides revolutionaries have gained control of most of the country but still face fierce resistance in syria bani walid and pockets of the southern desert one eyewitness to the fighting told r.t. the former rebels care little about the wellbeing of civilians. from their. norm coleman i don't think we're going to be actually out feature in the future are you just becoming fluent in. if you want to. actually keep you from going to meet any green frog aged forty only credit to the new leader . or to get it through to. something you cannot. believe it cannot be true they are

forming. careful be careful it's going to be great for. the dire situation in syria and bani walid is being ignored by the media that's the view of author and journalist afshin rattansi. 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 get free they may not like the nature of black troops it's very interesting that the most advanced possible in the world of nato is six months on and they still haven't won the country this is all about the idea that these great powers as a rule can divide up the resources in 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 and of course the today ceasefire is approaching the. eurozone finance ministers have delayed a decision on the next installment of bailout cash for greece it came after greek officials announced that country would fail to meet this year's deficit cutting target however eurozone chiefs say greece will not be allowed to default on its debts says the next tranche of eight billion euros it needs to be released by mid november or the country will run out of money economist joseph. financial problems stemming from a lack of central fiscal authority. the problems go back many years because countries throughout the eurozone. had large budget deficits that they were not supposed to be able to run under a monetary union but they were allowed to run and of course it's come back to bite

them now i think that each step along the way the europeans have resisted moving to a central fiscal thore common taxing and spending decisions and they've resisted but they've done just enough to get by the time raise the ante raise the amount the pot but it's still not quite enough and the e.c.b. right now is the only institution that has the potential to step in and fix things if they want to but it's a really difficult issue i mean the politicians. the seabees worried about bailing out governments that haven't performed well. and as the troubles in the bank roll greece continue max kaiser proposes a potentially enjoyable answer to the country's woes. point six yes this is an image from bloomberg dot com but it's referring to the number of years in percentage terms since eighteen hundred greece has been in default

or rescheduling its debts and this is based on research from economist ken rogoff and carmen reinhart was played in this whole creation of the euro we know going back to the beginning they were seduced into hiding their debts goldman sachs was involved in them as part of this. drama this greek tragedy that's playing out now that greek people have been played like chumps once again throughout history this is the role that best suits them because they have been departing for fifty point six percent of their better futures market right now is actually rising because of the demand for federer on the global markets will increase greece defaults get it all they know get back to making ropes and the us better cheese olive oil and hosting big bachelor parties and bachelorette parties on those fabulous islands let's get back to where greece does best party party party.

of course the kaiser report is coming up later in the day. russia has launched another glow nasa navigation satellite into orbit bringing the total number to twenty four this now means it has the same global coverage as the widely used g.p.s. system artie's peter oliver has the details. well this is the twenty fourth saw so i that's been launched as part of the glue and 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 clone our 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 haul road for blowing 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 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 all. the specialists say the globe and us can provide precise coverage up to six meters on the ground take this for example with the g.p.s. technologies they can place you accurately within seven meet the targets that glowed us now it's 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. a brief look at some other international headlines making news now. american amanda knox has been cleared by an italian court of murdering her british roommate during a drug fueled sexual assault. boyfriend raffaele sollecito was also cleared of

involvement in the death of meredith kercher both spent four years behind bars before their appeal was accepted by a judge who said the evidence was unreliable. 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 steinman was recognized alongside the two others for research into the human immune system. angry parents and teachers in france it 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 daniel 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 call it political correctness gone mad this author's bestseller on the banned figures of fronts of boylan's ahead of their daughter 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 things professor casale because it's young people have no sense of

identity parents are concerned but we have to study even the worth pages of our history because you can 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 actions seen as 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 poles they say consigned themselves to history. paris. and that wraps up your news for this hour 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 i say in light of the recent events in the arab world that have come to be known as the arab spring as an arab league president had declared a palestinian spring the united states is against this move what is the opposition in regard to the current stance of the us when i'm not 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 at 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 un is not furthermore we do not want to challenge the legitimacy of the state of israel that 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 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 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 it of course such a decision will be regrettable but we will comment on it only after it's taken not today. so that is that mr president some say the latest steps we have 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 approach international discussion how do you comment on that could there be two threads undermining the plans. 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 the two things i mean the palestinian bid for u.n. membership and the talks on a peaceful settlement cannot go on in parallel session to the un will mean the recognition of 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 status. 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 also voices within how 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 reconciliation process the decision on that has been taken and hopefully in the near future it will be reached what 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 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 transitional 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 are 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 her position to change after her given years toric speech. 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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