courters here in central moscow you're watching r t with me nice and now it's two pm here in the russian capital six am in new york where police in the u.s. have been filmed beating back protesters at a mass demonstration in the biggest event yet in the three week long rally called occupy wall street there are also reports pepper sprays been used and police have confirmed they've made dozens of arrests to rally thousands have been taking part in state protests to demand social and economic change activists say they're fed up they're breaking their backs at work all the wall street bankers bonuses keep flowing art is really important i have more from new york. about ten to twenty thousand demonstrators were out on this street but from what we're being told may have actually broke out when all of the crowds part of the crowd step forward in lower manhattan via wall street surge has to barricades around the new york stock exchange and officers moved in to contain the protesters from what we saw on the

video officers swatted protesters with the times sprayed them with mace or pepper spray according to some reports even one local news reporter who is sprayed with pepper spray his however man was hit with a baton things clearly getting violent down by wall street as this demonstration was carrying on all day long cops have been arrested dozens of protesters but the final tally is not yet known or t. has checked in with the new york city police department and they don't have a final tally yet now let's remind our viewers this is not the first clash between these officers and wall street protesters we saw last saturday nearly eight hundred of them were arrested in one day when they were taking part in a peaceful protest against corporate influence. on u.s.

politics against what they call corporate greed wall street greed the week before we we also saw several anti wall street protesters that are part of this group called occupy wall street they were me so in the face by a police officer police officers have used orange netting to how to get to these protesters that they say are acting disobedient civil disobedience is the term the police have used here in new york but before these clashes took place we should inform everyone that this demonstration that took place in new york was on precedented it was the biggest warned us far bob i occupy wall street that now it's because it doesn't to labor unions joined occupy wall street we saw transport workers we saw nurses we saw teachers students from universities in new york city and throughout the country all walked out of class at a certain time to join the movement that is being held in high in new york by

occupy wall street now this this movement we should remind our viewers is not just limited to new york it is caught on in cities throughout the country such as boston was angeles and chicago that's just to name a few we know one is being planned in and in washington d.c. in the next few days now this is this is clearly gaining an enormous momentum it's not just a group of activists these are now bush treated americans coming together with grievances about the way the u.s. system is structured and the way the economy is in decline and not benefiting from the common gay marriage. well we're getting your thoughts on those protests in new york here's how votes are stacking up right now at our dot com we're asking what will be the biggest result of the wall street protest almost half so far believe it

will be all noise and no action over a quarter think this will feel obama's fate as a one term president around a fifth of the voters think the anger will boil over and provoke clashes with the national guard while the wrestling will actually prompt some kind of reform drop the line add your voice now on r t dot com home page. in syria at least six people are reported to have been killed in the latest clashes between protesters and security forces human rights groups continue to sound the alarm over multiple arrests and killings but one high profile victim has made an amazing reappearance ivor bennett reports now on the media's quickfire reactions at the expense of fact checking she was hailed as the flower of syria the symbol of the suffering under president bashar assad's brutal regime at least that's what much of the western media said after the apparent butchering of zeinab al hosni we

view pictures of what was done to xena corpse and they are simply too gruesome to air several western media outlets were quick to report child holes in these gruesome death apparently the first woman killed in government custody but now it appears she's miraculously back from the dead even being interviewed on syrian t.v. . i came to the police station to see the truth this what i see to those line channels i'm now still alive not dead human rights groups like amnesty international jumped on the bandwagon to reporting our hosni was tortured murdered even claimed mother found the body in a morgue last month all assertions is now being forced back tracked on this we will endeavor to be more cautious and phrase things a little bit more nuanced the state broadcaster says the interviews to dispel what it labels fabrications by foreign media to serve western interests in stories like

this that have been used to prop up calls from the u.s. britain and france for un sanctions to be slapped on syria but their foundations are now looking shaky the never this footage religiously shows unarmed civilians being targeted by gun toting rebels so perhaps not the peaceful opposition there are one made out to be by the west that only seems to look one way this notion that the u.s. is now part of this pro-democracy russi regime is ridiculous they are jumping on that bandwagon is an opportunity to get out front of it and create this deceptive appearance while at the same time there's a porting the dictatorships that are aligned with them in the united nations and as part of their empire russia and china vetoed a u.n. resolution for syria seeing through it as a potential cover for another libyan style intervention so it may not be any oil this time but there's always an ulterior motive it's important as a geopolitical factor right next to israel

a country which obviously america and britain and the other western powers strongly support so that would be the altar into a political motive the vetoes of followed by a security council walkout from america over remarks during the syrian envoy speech but the u.s. promised to be back with another resolution and undoubtedly more dramatic evidence to drive the point home either bennett r.t. london. the syrian president's political advisor has been speaking to r.t. and says syrians want talks but western interference. decisions taken by the western countries are based not on real events in syria but rather on a task of suppressing syria as an arabic state the problem is that some steeds front and armed terrorist groups operating in our towns and villages this makes ordinary people's lives very difficult and puts them in real danger it's up to the syrian opposition to protest against foreign interference position should

participate in dialogue for the goal of reform and building a new better syria you shouldn't. listen to provokers against dialogue with the government. it's coming up to ten minutes past the hour on the way for you one step closer to being part of the u.s. we track the palestinian bid for full recognition of world body where they've just been given the nod to joy. but first greece's latest twenty four hour national strike turned violent with police firing tear gas on angry crowds of protesters the country all but ground to a halt as greeks made their feelings known about the extra cuts they faced so the country can try and plug the massive three hundred fifty billion euro debt or two sarah firth was in the capital as tempers flare. anger in syntagma square once again bearing witness clashes between what really curious protest is that i go

. back about a week the right of me that you know for larry and in fact i'm attentions really been my thing as a police moved in to clear the crowds some shocking thing one point the police seem chasing protests is into the station many others hit in kicks by they supposed to be keeping control of the message being sent by the government is one of repression and fear. seems like this is very serious questions about the level of fools being . the name. prior's is a forty three year old journalist he's reported for many conflicts but it was in his own country where he sustained his worst injury. i just remember thinking is this really happening please i took shelter in an enclosure just off syntagma and one policeman who i think was the commander asked in a very rude. taking pictures i told him i was a journalist but he gave an order and i had one of the flash bangs thrown at me

these are some pictures i took. the place he taken shelter amplified the sound of the flash bang causing always takes all deafness and injury which is his job. after the attack i won't call it an accident it was an attack like a small. an investigation was launched into the incident the progress has been slow a fireman a list tells us the countless cases against heavy handed police tactics to have any kind of results we witness for ourselves the lack of discrimination when the police lash out one journalist flung with his camera to the ground the rise in the level of aggression seen by the police and the more extreme groups of protesters is causing serious concern with the government continuing to implement severe austerity measures in a bid to receive that cash pensions looks set to keep escalating i think. to explain. the first reaction.

from europe when we. experienced. the impact of the financial crisis is being played out blow by blow on syntagma square there are now fears that the financial crisis turned into an economic recession it could bring the entire usa and not just the greek people to their knees so. well greece's financial paralysis is being worsened by the admission it won't hit its budget targets economic analyst martin hannett thinks the only way for greece to survive is to default and start fresh. if they default it may actually not be the seeing and not just graves i would think if utility falls it may also not be the same because then they are after that and start again debt free they don't have to increase taxes they can devalue their currency is have low taxes become more

competitive again so. that may actually be potentially the best solution on the other hand if they bear out everything you would sacrifice and their currency stability of the euro will we think is the most likely cause or believe if the leaders for example in germany are managing to sell that to the public. they are most likely to print and sacrifice currency stability in order to avoid this uncontrolled collapse which would be quite difficult for politicians to tear people your money in the bank is gone. well still ahead this hour keeping fit officially report from russia pens a region where the governors exercise montra is bearing the population to stay healthy by all. the palestinians have made another inroad into the u.n. by moving a step closer to joining the heritage group you know asco they can now submit their bid for approval by the end of the month it would bend on now palestinians to try

and get their monuments listed as world heritage sites the bid was given the green light despite fierce opposition from the u.s. it's a key diplomatic victory for the palestinians at the un comes ahead of the vote over its full statehood palestinian leader mahmoud abbas applied to the security council for full u.n. membership in september it's now working its way through the process. but more world news for you in brief this hour the iconic co-founder steve jobs has died after an eight year battle with pancreatic cancer he led to become the world's biggest computer firm and presided over an empire that revolutionized computing mobile phones and of course how we listen to music jobs who was fifty six only step down from apple a few weeks ago leaving the company with a bigger couch pile than the u.s. government built on the back of pioneering products from the i pod to the i phone.

mass graves containing around nine hundred bodies have been discovered by authorities in the libyan capital they're believed to be the victims of crashes between former rebels and gadhafi loyalists in tripoli the new government fighters are now pushing towards the center of sirte the colonel's hometown and one of his last strongholds the conflict has taken over thirty thousand lives since it began in february. and russia says its concerned over america's move to deploy four warships with ballistic missile defenses off the spanish coast u.s. has also sealed deals with poland turkey and romania stationed ground based missile defense elements washington claims it's to counter threats from iran and north korea that russia feels it could neutralize its nuclear arsenal moscow has repeatedly asked for written nato guarantees but has received nothing so far. well time now to take in more of russia close up and we're on a health kick today. where

in the penza region on the east european plane although most of its territory lies on the plants the capital is also called penza it was founded as a small fortress in the seventeenth century and has been growing ever since today the city is striving to be one of the healthiest and safest in russia by order of the governor. went to find out why. almost every day the government is telling us that we should eat more fruits and vegetables drink less exercise more of course many people ignore these recommendations in fact working for the government will be very frustrating always telling people to do stuff but having no way of enforcing it now what would happen if you could actually make people follow through be more healthy well officials are no longer have to wonder because and turns out that's exactly what the government has done getting health care whether they like it or

not every weekday morning attorney am the turmoil in state institutions across plans and begins a familiar announcement a. cheerful voice or so it's worked out by now familiar exercises of the governor's instructions no one is allowed to slack off. some go beyond what's required. all this has returned me to my youth and my youth to me we all of our governors initiatives. officials in this district have been told to leave the company car and the garridge and get on their bikes now all government business has to form from. the head of the local administration so the initiative has not only improved health but brought officials closer to the people. i asked the governor can we have one

more car to help us with our gc's he said you can have three two scooters and a bi so the tree officials can observe people see who is up towards who's leaving rubbish outside for example. some critics have said the government's compulsory initiatives reminiscent of those in soviet times violate people's rights but a sports mad former motorbike rider denies their kids ations. abusing human rights but the only way i am abusing human rights is by not giving people the opportunity to do even more physical exercise. as the clock strikes ten. the police are out in force looking for bad children the governor has imposed a curfew for unsupervised under sixteen. i do not think it is a waste of police time tell those children was arrested and returned to their homes we haven't seen them out on the streets again and in this day there are no

violators at all as the youth patrol wraps up its final round the citizens of pens they can sleep well at last safe in the knowledge that with each passing day they're healthier more country and their streets are increasingly free of feral youths i'm here with cullen hinchey he's been living here for fourteen years and we've just heard about all these health measures and everything else that the governor is suggesting now with somebody with an outsider perspective what's what's your take on this can you take that seriously oh absolutely i mean the governor's been very proactive a lot of investment going into new sports complexes sports programs particularly companies as well. so yeah it's been very active and this policy of hospitals been built and diagnostic census you know there's been some real results of this practice governor one of the things that the governor. did tell me is that the reason he's introducing this is to make the area more attractive for investment

a healthier workforce is a more attractive one i mean do you think that that's one of the criteria in which your body weight your people you ask them about their drinking habits their smoking habits and so on when you when you take people out absolutely i mean drinking is always a very serious thing and if anybody drinks at work or comes in drunk then they're fired immediately so that's a strict rule from my perspective. in terms of you know active in a sports it's always good for the mind that's good and healthy so people with a good regime and an active regime is used to produce better work and so yeah i'm all for it thank you colin hinchey talking about the government's health initiatives. well there is more to discover if you had to our website or to dot com here's what else is lined up for you right now the king of talk shows america larry king talk star t.v. about one of his final primetime interviews with prime minister vladimir putin.

also aligned sidelining the simpsons as the world's longest running sitcom faces the facts we explain why and draw your own conclusions are t.v. dot com. well it's been at the forefront of russian classical music for two centuries and now st petersburg's marine ski orchestra has opened the jubilate season for new york's carnegie hall. it's the second time the musicians have been invited there and this time they have performed the opening of the one hundred and twentieth anniversary season program under the baton of the night show over there. featured a number of works by celebrated russian composers including of course

a touch of course and there's more to come with the sort of concerts at carnegie hall in the coming days. now staging the olympics is the big box event but among the grassroots preparations in the russian resort of sochi is an army of volunteers the winter games are still a way off but already a band of intrepid interpreters are warming up to welcome the thousands of visitors to the games. has been to meet some of them. greetings quite an introduction. during the cinci winter olympics these people will be a special dream team and army will provide guidance and translation for all visitors . to venues will be. volunteers this is their first meeting a great chance to get to the each other to share their stories. and they're actually

using the games to come and bring. from southern russia he's new to the volunteer movement she started during the nine hundred eighty six and even though there are generations apart they're equally excited about the job. the. next year part of this group will go to london for the twenty twelve summer games i think one of the palace of. the cowboy greetings is likely to remain a secret handshake for sochi volunteers they say it won't be used to greet guests but chanting and dancing apart the voluntary helpers are taking on the task of making the games unforgettable event for all. but all they continue to get ready for twenty fourteen today is sport later this hour including

golf where tiger is trying to get out of the words again that's coming up later this hour next though let's check in at the business desk with kareena. thanks for joining me. the second largest lender d.t.b. kicks off its russia calling investment forum the event is part of russia's effort to attract foreign investment this comes at a time when the country is suffering heavy capital outflow due to financial uncertainty worldwide business hours he's moving the cost of a is that the form. convincing investors right now is that's not really a difficult task russia already sold a difficulty with the markets plunging and also according to latest reports russia and eighty percent increase in the foreign direct investment last year and that's equal to thirty five billion dollars at the same time system of the sire fifty

billion dollars has already left the country and that's three times more than in two thousand and seven also the ruble talked to a bleak us close against a us dollar in the overage sue years but the c.e.o. although he could be capital sure there are advantages as close an advantage we have compared to the thousand made is that the simple bank has moved to effectively float an exchange rate so they've allowed for bill flexibility and that prevented the big credit that showed up in the in the interest rates this is actually overall positive this actually allows the government the one thing macroeconomic stability in this form brings together businessmen from all over the world and also discuss and not only potential business deals but how to improve the market conditions and here in russia and earlier i spoke to the director also the new school of economics and he gave us his suggestions of how to improve the investment climate here fighting corruption providing protection for investors. building bill billing the fact of judiciary people there's

a ration of government companies there's again there's been announced for many many years now and eventually will cumulate from state capital as well later in the day a prime minister vladimir putin will also be making a statement and this will in fact see his first major speech after announcing his candidacy in the upcoming presidential election so move bring you all the updates on that assume this forget them. speaking of the form they can only develop a mystery of even the view in a underscored how dependent russia's economy remains on the oil price. decreases to eighty dollars per barrel russia's g.d.p. growth rate will slow down to two percent but it will still be growth at the same time if oil decreases to sixty dollars a barrel the country's g.d.p. could contract by one point five to two percent and taking a look at the markets now all this trading here for day high investors but the flow of crude stockpiles in the u.s. indicate that fuel demanding crease in the world's largest economy brant is trading

at one hundred three dollars a barrel. eighty dollars a barrel european stocks are in the black with banks leading the gains investors are waiting for the latest great decisions from the european central bank and the bank of england and other sectors carmakers also high i shares of pedrosa troyan rose six and a half percent in paris b.m.w. climb two point eight percent in frankfurt helping lead the dax to two point one percent and other spain in other news spain raise a six billion dollars in debt auction as a best to show good appetite despite contagion fears. russian markets trading in the black following strong gains in asia and on wall street both the r.t.s. and my six adding over three percent this hour let's take a look at some individual shambles of them isaac's energy mages are on the rise gas problem is gaining over four and a half percent company has delayed its euro bond listing due to market uncertainty . is almost three percent this hour banking stocks are also gaining was burbank

over four percent in the black as well. that's our latest business update this hour but don't forget you can always find most stories if you just log on to our website dot com. if. you.

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. live from moscow where it's two thirty pm the headlines new york police get heavy handed on crowds of angry protesters were demanding social and economic reforms in the u.s. thousands gathered for the biggest rally of a three week long demonstration called occupy wall street. back from the dead the syrian woman reported as the first female victim of the government's pro-democracy crackdown turns up alive and well this for several media into backtracking after giving her suppose the death saturation coverage. and violence flares up during a twenty four hour nationwide strike in greece with police restoring to tear gas to disperse crowds in athens the latest protests come as workers grow increasingly angry with.