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uproar spreads across the united states as thousands of angry americans demand the corporate lobby held accountable for the economic downturn. greece's future hangs by a thread as you were zone ministers delayed the next release of bailout funds desperately needed to keep the country clear of bankruptcy. plus human rights groups and blow the whistle on the card industry in the us back to stamp which they claim is the government a fortune thanks to abusive child labor. i
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am in the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshie welcome to the program from new york to boston to los angeles chicago and beyond the occupy wall street protest movement spreads rapidly across the united states thousands have flooded into the streets demanding an end to the corporate influence on government that activists blame for america's economic turmoil in the big apple where the protests began hundreds have been arrested but the activists still plan more demonstrations which are supported by nationwide workers' unions and york artie's nice to see i'm sure you know met some angry americans who say civil disobedience is the only way to get their message across. taking the big apple by storm. peter greste and by the hundreds. getting netted and pepper sprayed in the face.
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spending night and day on the far from welcoming streets of the financial district . that's the price these demonstrators are paying to get their outrage across to those holding reins of financial and political power common americans who make up most of this country who don't have access to corporate power and the media don't have many options to get their voices heard those who take specific steps fight for change in the west are largely getting annoyed and marginalized this artist and activist has been arrested twice i didn't expect to be arrested and so if you get beat by the police that is to you know get locked incarcerated for always and always knows. it's a good cause and for this movement. ignored for the first two weeks of occupying wall street the peaceful movement started taking tougher measures by getting bigger and louder the only way to get the media to notice is to be disobedient. to the people who noticed. the mass arrests have
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built up popular support for the movement by you know. putting us through some type of abuse because it's hope. you know it's bringing more work some have sacrificed more than hours in jail to fight against wall street and many people have quit their jobs have come here that's already happened to corporate media we three into the camp outsider does not pay much attention here the sunday front pages of some of america's most read newspapers or ridicules both the form and the substance of the gathering it is equal parts but truly body odor and urine they're more concerned with. brainwashing people american idol or sports drama pretty much anything to serve as a traction but it'd be important issues right now this is a big board and noticed by the corporate and political elite it's tougher than ever for those against the system to get a ten. with even some police officers ready to admit this protest is the way you
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know that's. the only. way to do it or very much of the occupy wall street movement promises to grow in the months to come and history shows that the voice of the people can't be neglected forever is that it sure can ask archie new york. all the latest and most gripping videos of the protests the rage and your are available for you twenty four seven on our you tube channel. four news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations around.
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the anti-corporate protests across the u.s. have attracted some unexpected sympathy from one of the richest people in the country prominent entrepreneur george soros said that massive bank bailouts have left some americans and the daughter. actually i can understand their sentiments eventually. because. a lot of people for instance are only small businesses who have so their credit card charges been greens from eight percent to twenty percent. and soon they were relying on that credit to run their businesses a lot lot of them actually report out of business and the same time the decision not to inject capital into the banks to effectively relieve them of their bed. and then allow them to earn
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their way out of. it. gave the banks. profits and allowed them to pay. bonuses as they see can i can sympathize with. us. and so i have this hour here in r.t. clash of the titans two russian billionaires take their few to a london court tycoon boris berezovsky former friend ramana abramovich over a business deal with sour. the eurozone has probably decision on the next release of bailout funds for cash strapped greece i was after athens announced they would not be able to me containment targets recess brigley needs the next tranche of eight billion euros to pay everyday bills if the money doesn't arrive by minute the country will not be able to pay the debts and may have to
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declare bankruptcy and that's in spite of government efforts to adhere to tough e.u. and i.m.f. demands by bringing in highly unpopular stary measures for weeks the country has been hit by angry public protests and strikes of her spawn and sarah ferguson has more details from athens. here all this in fact the square that the more dramatic side of this economic crisis in greece has played out as time and again we've seen people turning out like the part of the building the place that gets the severe austerity measures they say that they unsettle we find ourselves back in a position where people now are really asking this what has been achieved by implementing these are the stairs to measure the government has just admitted that it was a really it's tough deficit reduction targets. throughout the whole usa really about what the implications of that will be the greek government have also moved
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him over to the thirty thousand civil service or with the lead of the dutch in in the salary for a year though at the end of the year the possibility of dismissal there are great and you think that. billion years. is the country to stay if you truly quote it to here in the cockpit of a bitch. hammer out the details of that now has to be the. you get that money. belt. with the police at this point it's also about the rest of your take on things and indeed the global economy that is this lovely one that people only know what the good will come up with realistic solutions to get the country out of the situation that has been criticism from some of the analysts we spoke to you hear it on their face that we've seen job losses we've seen the cut wages and pensions these are people who no
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longer be able to pay cut to people who was struggling to pay the taxes and yet the government still seem to be certainly not a solution to the flood the big deficit in the budget so there are concerns really about the practicality of any of these measures having any of that long to talk about the possibility of we all take and as we said still a lot of public anger at the people bill that the laws are being put in a situation that is simply untenable that they can't live with the concerns really about whether you know if they need it again to be able to pull the country out of the situation. first reporting there an economist going on believes the problem stamp from a lack of central fiske both already am that the european central bank should step in to take the lead. well problems go back many years because countries throughout the eurozone. have guarded budget deficits they were not supposed to be
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able to run under a monetary union but they were allowed to run and of course it's come back to bite them i think each step along the way the europeans have resisted moving to a central fiscal authority common taxing and spending decisions and they've resisted but they've done just enough to get the time to raise the ante raise the amount the part 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 that is really a difficult issue i mean the politicians. the city is worried about bailing out governments that haven't performed well. the former soviet republic it was back to stand is best known as one of the world's largest producers of cotton but while the industry brings the government a fortune the people of us back to stand remain stricken by poverty discussion into a child that human rights groups would say the cotton industry thrives on illegal
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child labor. such is the fear in the eyes of these children they were picking opium not. a man as that was that the only lives that ever again. and that is. matters that are being sent us there. was. meanwhile on the other side of the world the produce harvested with illegal child labor is enjoying the glare of flushing cameras will not occur you know her daughter who's been president is presenting her new collection in forbes magazine ponders on how she's managed to be so commercially successful i get is from harvard so. so it's a really good score you know in terms of you know giving you good grades tools the tools of us back to stand on our children as young as seven to work an average of
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seventy hours a week instead of going to school and medications not the only thing they're missing out on with no heating proper baths or drinking water. mothers are powerless some of them stood up for their kids protection they were arrested taken to cotton fields it would be forced to work in the day and would be mass raped at night. would be helpful force child labor was based on produces around one million tonnes of cotton enough to make one billion t. shirts the cortinas sold abroad except to the sixty plus retailers including why and they have pledged not to buy courtland because the harvest is so abusive this boycott sends a message to those the government that is leaving children is not shake but good america the mobile was also expected stands and faceted to the u.n. and the deputy foreign minister refutes the claims and she was also outraged when.
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new york fashion week banned her collection from the catwalks two weeks ago but human rights groups applauded. it was a terrible message for the fashion industry to be sending that they would lend a high profile platform to the senior official of one of the world's most repressive governments the government about six years ago engaged in. the disproportionate use of force against mostly peaceful protesters in the eastern city of andi john and john is the bloodiest chapter in president islam karimov stew decades in office in two thousand five hundred forces opened fire on an anti-government demonstration killing thousand people or other so-called dissidents jail sentences are common but idea of charity spent three years in prison for speaking out after his prosperous business was taken over by the president's people
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you know. he removes family is an organized criminal mob all sectors of the economy profitable businesses are under his control if you go to wiki leaks you'll see that the u.s. ambassador calls karim dorsett and murphy a princess but all this will stay just words while the war continues in afghanistan carry more of is an important ally and everyone will close eyes to his cry of security. but leaving egypt and tunisia and were once important allies to however the arab spring showed just how quickly things can change so what today appears to be nothing more than a failed fashion show tomorrow become a failed state swept away by those silenced for too long. to integrate our team. libya's post get out the leaders have acquired a temporary cabinet ministers to govern the country until it is fully secured most
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of foggo giulio have the national transitional council also said. he would step down once liberation was complete meanwhile m.t.c. forces have gained control of most of the country but still face fierce resistance in syria by walid and pockets in the southern desert mediterranean coastal city of syria has been completely surrounded by the former rebels in their three week long attempt to take control of the town one eyewitness to the firing told r.t. that civilians are being targeted and killed by the revolutionary forces. after. birth it would be acting out the q. u r u s because he would think that if. i can keep him on any hung round. if. you leave it to.
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the troops you. could run but he cannot. be. happy we. are running. a completely. dire situation in syria and vinyl it is being ignored by the media and 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 are the people that are fighting nato because they may not like gadhafi they may not like the nato troops it's very interesting that the most advanced arsenal in the world of nato is six months old and at least eleven when their country this is all about the idea that these great powers as
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a rule can divide up the resources of the future of the libyan people why they're quiet about it the media kind of go forward after the initial explosions and the so-called attack the reporting the bombing of hospitals inserted and of course the today is approaching. i want you coming to you live from moscow still to come on the program we record why field patients and russian psychiatric ward and manny but also raises more questions about the people who care for the ill. children most prominent tycoons have begun a bitter legal battle in a london court the billionaire owner of chelsea football club. is being sued by former associate board there is asking for a cool five and a half billion dollars has the details. well this is a really extraordinary story and what we're talking about here are two persons richest man and as you say this is a case that involves around five and
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a whole billion dollars we've got romana more of it on the one hand he's become a household name in this country of course we all know him as here in charleston but he's also the former governor of process to quote the region and one of russia's most influential men and then the other hand we've got that it's not he who is also has it has a high political profile in moscow he was immediate local who then led to russia and was. awarded asylum here in the u.k. he had made various attempts to extradite him and in fact convicted him of embezzlement in absentia so what happens here is the results keep claims that the two were friends but that the friendship and the partnership collapsed when he says wealth and influence became more important for a whole which than loyalty has been he claims that i am older than she calms him i would solve more than three billion dollars by intimidation him basically they
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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 their market preview and a similar thing then also happened which says in a russian aluminum company style. which of course his lawyers are saying that that's all life that's you know that any kind of intimidation to place there's no documentation to show it now this is the case this is not going to be able with quickly we're seeing in the first months that it's also giving his evidence and they say in the early november that grandma which will take a stand and say what he's got to say they were expecting this case to last at least twelve weeks if not longer so it's really brought a battle between two enormous russian tycoon into the court here in london. now let's take a look at a lot of stories from around the world the seventeen people were killed and. gunfire and bomb attacks across iraq the deadliest assault happened almost two hundred kilometers west of baghdad when gunmen stormed
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a local government compound and took fourteen hostages the town's mayor and a local police chief were among those captured while and has reportedly increase in iraq as officials in the country prepare to take over after the proposed departure of u.s. troops by the end of two thousand and eleven. afghan president hamid karzai cuse islam a bot of playing a double sided game in the fight against militancy going to the talks in pakistan must continue karzai has vowed to focus on relations was lamb of god following the killing on september twentieth peace envoy dean rabbani whose murder was linked by investigators to pakistan providing was leading the achievements with taliban groups on behalf of the afghan government meanwhile violence continues in pakistan where government killed twelve shiite muslims in what appeared to be terry an attack. to the u.s. now where firefighters have almost contained a huge fire at
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a chemical plant south of the city of dallas and spread quickly throughout the facility causing a chain of explosions were evacuated along with local residents and students from nearby schools officials say that initial air quality tests show no evidence dangerous contamination in the area. a cell phone scandal involving patients at a mantle illness institution is barred to long lasting issues of psychiatric institutions in russia low wages and a lack of reforms are blamed for the problem by the way out of the situation is not quite clear you may find some of the images in p. all of us report distressing. scenes of psychiatric patients q.c. and fighting each other in a mental health facility in siberia these images were shown by a hospital employee something which is and. local people because. of course it's more of what on earth was he thinking those people are ill there are people with
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disabilities how could someone abuse them like this and that just popped up with an internal investigation found ward attend and blood in europe was the man behind the camera he's now being dismissed from his position but insists that he didn't force the patients to take part nevertheless questions have been raised regarding the ethics of filming ill people in this way showing he was kissing and i turned on the camera and captured it i wanted to delete the footage but i guess i forgot and how the media got hold of the footage it is a mystery to me it was like others have leapt to the defense of book of saying people have been too quick to point the finger of blame working with what they don't see the attendant provoking or forcing the patients to do all those things. patient for the wards were behaving this way all by themselves probably because of their mental disorders. ward attendance in psychiatric hospitals like this one and not paid very well in rural areas wages can be as low as one hundred dollars
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a month. is russia's representative to the world psychiatric association with over fifty years of experience he believes that low rages can draw the wrong people to work in hospitals. it's all a matter of how much you paid your lease their salaries are incredibly low so you can figure out for yourself what kind of people take that job in some cases they are shady individuals who seek to gratify dead base instincts or to make money off the patients you attempt to put right the wrongs in mental health care are on the way however experts in the field believe that the stigma still attached to mental illness means that they don't receive enough help. the former pro reform has been on and off since the late ninety's people make huge plans and it seems like big. allocate substantial funds but what comes out of it is zilch a total washout much of it is because psychiatry has always been
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a highly controversial issue. the case of blood to be had been coddled is currently in the hands of law enforcement officials trying to determine if there's enough evidence to press ahead with criminal proceedings should be charged with abusing those in his care he could face up to three months in jail peter oliver martini. and so now take a look what's happening in business kareen is here. oh welcome to our business boys and thanks for joining me we can all make uncertainty has investors staying away from risky assets and in russia it has people preparing for the worst russians are rushing to sell the war as a kept weaker but as their societies were in acosta reports the situation is more a reflection of ill informed panic than the current economic and bot. switching your savings from and national currency to a foreign one may seem like a sign of panic but that's not the case in russia since the ninety's when
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hyperinflation made it impossible to put prices in rubles many people use the euros and it was dollars instead lots of russians still have their savings in foreign currencies partly because they don't trust the ruble stability and when there's any and so financial turbulence people rush to converge which is what's happening now but analysts say that's making the situation worse the ruble weekend against the dollar and standing its worst want to lead the push the nation in suv years it's lost fourteen percent in the past two months but it's not only near the two thousand and nine financial crisis when the russian currency it lost a third of its value last month that transfers reached their highest level in sue years equal to four and a half a billion dollars the head of russia essential bank says the ruble has been in the gradual devaluation for about two months and the bull bounce back soon other
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suggests the problem is russia's like of net capital inflows since the crisis began and to fully domestically fund the banking sector analysts are hoping the bank's tight monetary policy won't prevent a further decline the bank has already spent over two billion dollars defending the ruble and this repaired to go further it's a stabilize the currency analysts we've spoken to say that if we also was faced with a fast recession in europe or the united states it looks come out on top because it has learned from its past mistakes. the fickle look at the markets now oil is losing ground after dropping to the lowest in more than a year on monday concerns about global demand trumped i'll be reporting on u.s. manufacturing and construction spending a grand glenn is trading at almost one hundred one dollars from barrel while being fairly shy and it around. seventy six to help on. here is a nation extend steep losses from the previous session point nine children
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exporters are moving in a growing concern about europe's debt troubles in japan more holdings down three point three percent need to be she financial group brought in to have percent hong kong listed banks however managed to trade mostly higher good modest gains. china russia. and two hours ahead of the opening bell in moscow russian stocks ended in one day's trading session deep in the red their biggest quarterly decline since two thousand eight. hundred thirty in the cadence at the bronze investing in russia stocks have seen cash outflow almost triple in one week. from me to be careful says he expects no good news for today's trade. we expect the markets to remain cool. under pressure as investors really know. european problems is already been said that the most probable scenario is a recapitalization of european banks and most likely
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a haircut for greek debt but it is a pretty lengthy process. as a business news for now but don't forget you can always find most always just want to. thank you. i'm going.
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in two thousand and ten because this leak and i'm exultant for industrial production was established in russia somalia region with a total area of six hundred sixty six to as. its investors are granted exclusive tax and customs benefits which includes a five year exemption from property lands and transport taxes as well as an income tax reduction to fifteen point five percent. the special economic zone operates as a free customs zone which enables manufacturers to market their products in russia free of information seems to some our region as he said is currently witnessing a sewage.

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