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and beyond the occupy wall street protest movements threads rapidly across the united states thousands have flooded into the streets demanding an end to the corporate influence in 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 war demonstrations which are supported by nationwide workers' unions any york artie's an associate organ m.f. some americans will say civil disobedience is the only way to get their hassidic across. taking the big apple by storm. getting arrested by the hundreds. getting netted and pepper sprayed in the face. 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
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have many options to get their voices heard those who take specific steps to fight for change in the u.s. are largely getting annoyed and marginalized this artist and activist has been arrested twice i didn't expect to be arrested i didn't expect to get beat by the police to. incarcerate a for always and always knows with. 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 you have to stir it up to the people who noticed. the mass arrests have built up popular support for the movement. you know them for putting us through some type of abuse because it's. you know it's bringing more work some have sacrificed. more than ours in jail to fight against wall street
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many people have quit their jobs that have come here that's already happened the corporate media week three into the campout cy there 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 you're and they're more concerned with. brainwashing people american idol or sports drama pretty much anything to serve as attraction rather than the important issue. right now this is a biggie for a noticed by the corporate and political elite it's tougher than ever for those against the system to get attention with even some police officers ready to admit this protest is the way you know that. you only have billable way to do what i do and 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 and r.t.e.
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new york. all the latest and most gripping videos of the protests that rage in new york 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. chile corporations are today. 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 in the gutter. i can understand their sentiments.
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frankly. because the decision not to inject capital into the banks but to effectively relieve them of their bad assets and then allow them to earn their way out of out of a hole. gave the banks. profits and that allowed them to pay. bonuses as they see i can sympathize with even says. still ahead this hour here in our t.v. clash of the titans two russian billionaires take their cue to a london court as exiled tycoon boris berezovsky sues former france ramana over a business deal gone sour. the eurozone has postpone any decision on the next release of bailout funds for cash strapped greece and that was after
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athens announced it would not be able to me debt containment targets greece desperately needs the next tranche of eight billion euros to pay its bills if the money doesn't arrive by minute told the country will not be able to pay its debts and may have to declare bankruptcy and that's in spite of government efforts to adhere to tough and i.m.f. demands by bringing in highly unpopular staring measures for weeks the country has been hit by angry public protests and strikes our correspondent sara firth has more details from athens. here on syntagma square that the more dramatic side of this economic crisis in greece has been played out as time and again we've seen people tugging on the part of the building to the place that gets to the exhibition they say that the untouchable we find ourselves back in a position with people no really good to see both has been achieved by implementing
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these are the measures that the government has just admitted that it was able to me it's tough deficit reduction targets. throughout the whole year it's a really about what the implications of that will be the greek government have also brings in measures to put thirty thousand civil servants. in the salary for a year. at the end of the year the possibility of dismissal there are great. do you think the. billion year needed is the country to stay late actually quote it to get in the cockpit that maybe china. to hammer out the details of that now it has to be said that at this stage it will be only should you get that money because that. would be. a book about the police at this point is also about the rest of us a country and indeed the global economy that is this leader not one of the people
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not well. but. 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 out there they said we've seen job losses we've seen the cut wages and pensions these are people who no longer be able to pay cuts to people who is struggling to pay the taxes and yet the government still seem to be selfless a solution to plug up the deficit in the budget so there are concerns really about the practicalities of any of these measures having any effect long so talk about the possibility of default 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 it's a needed again to be able to pull the country out of the situation. first reporting their economist tales of going on believes the problem stam from
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a lack of central fiscal authority and dad the european central bank should step in and take the lead. 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 at 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 by each time they raise the and 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. are worried about bailing out governments that haven't performed well. libya's new rulers have named temporary
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cabinet ministers to govern the country until it is fully secured meanwhile their forces continue to lay siege to the few remaining khadafi strongholds the national transitional council now controls most of the country but still faces fierce resistance in shared shaunie lead and pockets in the southern desert after a two day cease fire to allow residents to leave and he forces camp that further attacks on oust of colonels home towns there the red cross has warned of a humanitarian disaster as a town is running out of medical supplies food and water which one eyewitness to the fighting told r.t. that and say gadhafi forces are attacking civilian homes as a porsche to take over the city at any cost. to the lies from those i call clinton. norm coleman and key words it would be the act back his house and the two in the if you. just because he supported kill gadhafi
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that this is one the stock today and you have to conclude someone to me anyhow the green flag they just police all the charge if you believe these people are coming to you or to this is not the truth that she is no. citizen can be something you cannot influence to speak of is to gluten free meals and actually to be happy for me and for me to care for the care about is sixty two today. author and journalist optionor tansey says the only point of the libyan campaign is to divide the country's resources between nato allies. 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
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they may not like it or feel they may not like the nature of 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 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 got bored after the initial explosions and the so-called attack that they're not even reporting the bombing of hospitals in search of the former soviet republic it was back to stay as best known as one of the world's largest producers of cotton bowl while the industry brings the government a fortune that is bad people remain stricken by poverty and. in our reports human rights groups say the cotton industry thrives on illegal child labor such is the fear in the eyes of these children you'd think they were picking opium not car a better car that was.
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just magical than i do you. have to. meanwhile on the other side of the world the produce harvested with illegal child labor is enjoying the glare of flashing cameras will not occur the mother daughter of those bed president is presenting her new collection forbes magazine ponders on how she's managed to be so commercially successful well i agree it is from harvard so. so so it's a really good school you know in terms of you know giving you great tools the tools of his back you stone our children as young as seven to work an average of seventy hours a week instead of going to school and then medications not the only thing they're missing out on with no heating proper bats were drinking water getting to be
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mothers are powerless some of them stood up for their kids protection they were arrested taken to cotton fields they would be forced to work in the day and would be mass raped at night. with a helpful force child labor was based on produces around one million tonnes of cotton enough to make one billion t. shirts the cotton a sold abroad except to the sixty plus retailers including levi and they have pledged not to buy those but cotton because the harvest is so abusive there's one quote sends a message to those government that is leaving children is not. but good not a karate move was also as black it stands and best suited to the un and the deputy foreign minister refutes the claims and she was also outraged when new york fashion week banned her collection from the catwalks two weeks ago but human rights groups floored. it was
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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 andijon and the jan is the bloodiest chapter in president islam karimov stew decades in office in two thousand five is forces opened fire on an anti-government demonstration killing five thousand people for all the so-called dissidents jail sentences are common behind you spent three years in prison for speaking out after his prosperous business was taken over by the president's people do not. carry most family as an organized criminal. does of the economy profitable businesses are under his control if you go to wiki leaks you'll
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see that the us ambassador calls karim m f e a princess but all this will stay just words while the war continues in afghanistan. is an important ally that everyone it will close to his crime. but leaving egypt and tunisia where 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. in the church over argentina. you want to know if you live from moscow coming up and the program a cell phone video patients in a russian psychiatric hospital sparks outrage at the lack of care for the mantle and raises questions of why it should be done to help them. two of russia's most prominent tycho's have begun a bitter legal battle in
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a london court the billionaire owner of chelsea football club is being sued by former associate boris berezovsky for a coal five and a half billion dollars just lore and it has the details. well this is a really extraordinary story and what we're talking about here are common to persons with just men and as you say this is a case that involves around five and a hall billion dollars we've got i'm on 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 the region 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 local who then fled to russia and was. awarded asylum here in the u.k. russia have made various attempts to extradite him and in fact they convicted him of embezzlement in absentia so what's happened here is that is let's keep claims
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that the two were friends but that the friendship at the partnership collapsed when he says wealth and influence became more important for a whole which than loyalty have he claims that i am all that you sent him out sold 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 their market vyvian and a similar thing then also happened which says in a russian i mean your company will solve. a crime which of course his lawyers are saying that that's all lies that there's absolutely no created any kind of intimidation to place there's no joke mentation to show it now this is the case this not going to be able with quickly we're seeing in the first months that it's also giving his evidence and it's any an early november grandma which will take the stand and say what he's got to say they were expecting this case to last at least
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twelve weeks if not longer so it's really brought a bottle between two enormous russian tycoons into the court here in london. reporting there now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world seventeen people were killed in separate gunfire and bomb attacks across iraq the deadliest assault happened almost two hundred kilometers west of baghdad when gunmen stormed the local government compound and two fourteen hostages the town's mayor and a local police chief were among those captured violence has reportedly increased in iraq as officials in the country prepare to take over after the proposed departure of u.s. troops by the end of twenty eleven. police say gunmen have killed twelve shiite muslims in a sectarian attack in a country southwest officials say militants stopped a bus on the outskirts of the city of quetta and opened fire killing a dozen people and wounding six local shiites block the main highway to protest the killings and set fire to the bus that carried the day i don't want it to hospital.
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the a task comes as afghan leader hamid karzai criticize pakistan for playing a double sided game in the fight against terrorism with the karzai is due to arrive in india for key talks over strategic agreements on security and development a visit follows a series of high profile attacks across the country many of which are blamed on pakistani militant indian officials have already pledged two billion dollars to ghana stands meets. to the u.s. now where emergency crews have almost completely contained a huge chemical plant fire south of the city of dallas it spread quickly through the facility causing a chain of explosions all staff more evacuated along with local residents and students from nearby schools the flames and were so intense that crews had to withdraw for a while to let the blaze burn itself out officials say that initial air quality test showed no evidence of dangerous contamination in the area. while
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a cell phone scandal involving patients. in a mental illness institution an award attended as again expose the long running issue of psychiatric care and rush low wages and lack of reform are blamed for the problem but a way out is much less clear you may find some of the pictures and peed all over his report distressing. scenes of psychiatric patients kissing and fighting with each other in a mental health facility in siberia these images were shot by a hospital employee something which has angered local people at the various let your mind of course it's horrible what on earth was he thinking those people are there are people with disabilities how could someone abuse them like this and then it just popped up with an internal investigation found ward attendant blood immutable cut off was the man behind the camera he's now being dismissed from his
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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 it 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 is a mystery to me that others have leapt to the defensive book of saying people have been too quick to point the finger of blame but. you don't see the attendant provoking or forcing the patients to do all those things the furniture merely features patients for the ward who are behaving this way all by themselves probably because of their mental disorders. or tendons in psychiatric hospitals like this one and not paid very well in rural areas wages can be as low as one hundred dollars per month here. is russia's representative to the world psychiatric association with over fifty years of experience he believes that low wages can draw
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the wrong people to work in hospitals. it's all a matter of how much you pay the order least their salaries are incredibly low so you can figure out for yourself what kind of people take that job is some cases they're shady individuals who seek to gratify their base instincts or to make money off the patient's attempts to put right the wrongs in mental health care are under way however experts in the field believe that these. stigma still attached to mental illness means that they don't receive enough help. the form of reform has been on and off since the late ninety's people make plans and it seems like the government allocates substantial funds but what comes out of it is a total washout much of it is because psychiatry has always been a highly controversial issue. in the case of blood to me a book is currently in the hands of law enforcement officials they're trying to determine if there's enough evidence to press ahead with criminal proceedings
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should be charged with abusing those in his care he could face up to three months in jail. well you can find all our new stories and much more on our website r t v dot com here's what's in line for you right now the i.m.f. topper of a nine billion euro alone to bail or a sudden change in minutes or an oppositional euro was quickly released from jail plus former vice president dick cheney says he expects barack obama to explain himself and apologize to the bush administration over comments he made an egyptian more than two years ago. and on this day of the world and terror at this base a beginning and launched its first ever sport may.
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be back with a recap of today's made headlines in just a few minutes before that corrino well bring us up to date on what's happening in the world of business. welcome to our business update this hour economic uncertainty has investors staying away from risky assets and in russia it has people preparing for the worst russians are rushing to sell the ruble as it gets weaker as business artie's marine acosta reports the situation is more a reflection of ill informed panic of the current economic environment. 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 hyperinflation made it impossible to put prices in rubles many people use the euros and he 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
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hints of financial turbulence people rush to convert which is what's happening now but analysts say that's making the situation worse the ruble weekend against the dollar at standing its worst quarterly depreciation in suv years it's lost fourteen percent in the past two months but it's nowhere 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 two years equal to four and a half a billion dollars the head of russia essential bank says at the ruble has been in a gradual devaluation for about two months and will bounce back soon others suggest the problem is russia's lack of net capital inflows since the crisis began and a fully domestically funded banking sector analysts are hoping the bank's tight monetary policy will prevent a further decline the bank has already spent over two billion dollars the bend in
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the ruble and its prepared to go further to stabilize the currency analysts we've spoken to say that if moshe was faced with the fries for a session in europe or the united states it would come out on small because it has learned from its past mistakes. let's take a 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 topped a big reports on u.s. manufacturing and construction spending brant blend is trading at one hundred dollars. one dollar one one hundred. all of a barrel while dummy shies at around seventy six dollars a barrel. asia shares continue to point downwards financials then exporters are losing their growing concerns about europe's debt troubles steelmakers are also notably weaker with j.f. holdings down four percent and we all still corp losing two point eight percent in tokyo in hong kong shares of anger and steel last month the percent and here in
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russia markets opened lower on tuesday morning in today's morning session the r.t.s. and mies expose in point seven percent stocks ended monday's trading session deep in the red following their biggest quarterly decline since two thousand and eight. so business update for now will be looking at how the markets are performing next hour so try me.
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welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow these are the top stories of rora spreads across the united states as thousands of angry americans demand the corporate lobby be held accountable for the economic downturn sidelined by the mainstream media protesters in new york and other cities claim civil disobedience is all they have to make their voices heard. clouds of uncertainty hanging over greenies have eurozone ministers delay the next release of funds desperately needed to keep the country clear of bankruptcy it comes after athens announced it would not be able to meet its dad reducing targets as five passing tougher staring measures. lots from the glitz and glamour of high fashion count walks to abusive child labor human rights groups blow the whistle on his back he stands cotton industry which.
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