tonight on r t new york police take hard hitting action against the biggest occupy wall street rally protesting against the widening wealth gap between the big corporations and the average americans we report also human rights groups and some media outlets face embarrassment after a woman described as a victim of the syrian regime appears reappears indeed safe and sound following reports that she'd been decapitated chemical the story there for you tonight. the euro zone finance chiefs look to helping out banks that may suffer a blow from greece's debt crisis which is part of violent protests against have a tough thing austerity measures.

welcomed this is r.t. it's eight pm now you're in moscow my name's kevin irwin with news tonight and first pepper spray and battens have been used against thousands of occupy wall street protesters in new york paper angry with a government for favoring banks and corporations while doing little to help them and they've been rallying all over the country for the third week running out is not important ira's want to trim the situation in new york for us. ever since all street protesters have been turning out to tea party demonstrations that what happened most recently is that during a demonstration there was a certain amount of protesters that tried to push through barricades and at that point police started swinging their times and spraying pepper spray at protesters i mean you could just see that in the video it was

a bit of mayhem we heard people in the crowd screaming the officers were telling protesters get back move back clearly there were injuries and overall from what is being reported so far twenty eight people were arrested arrested but dozens clearly were injured or near people that were injured because it was quite chaotic now this of course is not the first incident that we've seen of clashes between police officers and protesters last week nearly eight hundred people were arrested in one day the week before we saw female wall street protesters just standing around when a police officer came up and mace those women in the face this incident that took place most recently of course came after five hours of new york city's biggest demonstration thus far to take place and we're going to be organized by this group called occupy wall street not only where activists out on the street but members of

thirty different view joined the fight so did students so we saw between ten and twenty thousand people walking through lower manhattan joining this fight against corporate influence over u.s. politics against what they called wall street greed i did have a chance to go down to the wall street camp camp area where these purchases have been sort of sleeping for nearly three weeks and i will tell you this they are they are well bred they are very internet so. and they all feel frustrated franchise when it comes to what is happening with the army in their own country they're very matter of corporate influence over u.s. politics the amount of money corporations and financial institutions donate to political candidates presidential candidates and then they say that favors are

returned back and that is why they believe that corporations and banking institutions are profiting now are paying zero taxes or very little taxes and while the common american is struggling three years after the financial crisis what they want right now is accountability they they want the wealth disparity in the u.s. to close for things to become a little bit more balance for not just the richest one percent of the us to reap the rewards they want for this country to be more economically and socially balanced and not see what they're demanding and clearly you see that this is the first ration that's being shared by many people of many ages not just in new york city but all over the country. what do you think about this story we're interested to know tonight on a website called that's the question we're asking you our viewers what do you think the outcome of those u.s. rallies are going to be in this is what it's telling us so far the majority of you

seem sure will be this is just a lot of noise but very little action that's forty percent to be the quote of the mean time think the anger will boil over provoke clashes of the national guard feel a bit of those clashes already twenty percent of the voters see it as the end of president obama's hopes for a second term in office and only seventy percent you believe it actually lead to reform the purchase of your say online with us tonight. several people are reported dead in the latest clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in syria it will rights groups continue to sound the alarm of multiple arrests and killings but one high profile victims made an amazing reappearance it is over bennett reports next to the media's quickfire reaction to a dramatic story at the expense of checking the facts. she was hailed as the flower of syria a 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 as zeinab

al hosni we view pictures of what was done to song apps corpse and they are simply too gruesome to take care of several western media outlets were quick to report al gore's knees 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 and that's 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 out hosni was tortured murdered and mutilated it even claimed to a mother found the body in a morgue last month all assertions is now being forced to backtrack on we will inevitably be a 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 and stories like

this that have been used to prop up calls from the us britain and france for un sanctions to be slapped on syria but their foundations are now looking shaky than ever his footage religiously shows an armed pro sound civilians being targeted by gun toting rebels say perhaps not the peaceful opposition they have been made out to be by the west that only seems to look one way this notion that the u.s. is now part of the pro-democracy regime is ridiculous they are jumping on the barrel where again is an opportunity to. create this deceptive appearance while at the same time there's a dictatorship that are aligned with them in the united nations and it's part of. russia and china vetoed a u.n. resolution for syria seeing through it as a potential cover for another libyan style intervention so they may not be any oil this time but there's always an anterior motive its importance is as

a geopolitical factor right next to israel a country which obviously america and britain and the other western strongly support so that would be the altar into a political narrative 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. i didn't it are seeing london. natives actions in the libya haven't saved civilians because more casualties instead russia and china vetoed a u.n. resolution on syria over concerns the mandate could pave the way for a libya style military intervention concent of course the choice of head of the state duma foreign affairs committee says western powers should not take sides in the conflict. we definitely. see that it's not just just black and white with the government or the ruling thor it is which are bad and the opposition which is

fairly good it's much much more complicated the thought it is all syria are prepared to do more in order to introduce democratic reforms in the country so the syrian nation still has a chance of the preceding. revolutions but i do not think they have the gerstein for libya is over. the military action of nato has saved some lives but it's equally that many casualties. could have been awarded in case this duration never took place i do not seeing that these military operation was the best option for the people of libya to steal. one still to stay there and i am sure that the will stay for for many many weeks and many months ahead and this is definitely not in accordance with the. by

the security council this resolution is obviously brutally violated by the nato countries which would dissipate and this of curation. russia's concept of a charter right let's get some reaction out of our top story those wall street protesters in new york will bring into the equation into the conversation for wall street executive richard esko joins us now live from washington d.c. richard thanks ever so much for being on r.t. international it's really appreciated tonight i don't know if you caught it a bit earlier on about five minutes ago in the program after we saw the report as reported by these marches in the latest we asked our viewers what they thought basically they said that these protests the majority for the sense of these protests would be quote a lot of noise not much else what do you think about that but your take on it as well. you know it's actually not i mean i think every protest has a large element of noise to it that's inherent in the process but i think that this

is actually for a political protest movement that's so young and it's not much more than two weeks old it's grown and gathered a surprising amount of support from surprising quarters in a very very short time for example you have several very major unions joining up with this group that's primarily young people and saying that we're on the same side we support them they support guys we're going to help them any way we can we have and a union of nurses coming out to give them medical help and advice we have transport workers offering all sorts of advice we have other large union stepping in now and saying they speak for us and i speak for them the head of our largest coalition of unions e.f.l. c.e.o. expressed his support so this to have that kind of. working people's groups like unions expressing such solidarity with the student led movement so early in the process is it really fascinating development and rather impressive

back what is the message strong enough i'm just looking at a poet you recently wrote schooled. you talking about the occupy wall street movement in that you mention the demonstrators who don't know specific demands on wall street because they say that i would empower the bankers even more but at the end of the day of course is that strategy going to get them anyway when they're all going for social justice for all sounds good but isn't about too much of a broad brushstroke we never ever live in a perfect world. well sure i mean you know i think if that's one way to look at it if you were to say that utopia was their platform they're never going to get it in this life i think we could probably agree on that but i don't think that's exactly what's going on here i think what they're doing is reasserting a set of values they use to be dominant in this country and and most developed democracies that says you know everybody who wants a job should get a job business people and their customers should deal with one another fairly and

honestly crimes including corporate crime should be punished and so on so if you think of it as the early stage of a movement where it's the clarity it's fundamental values and principles then i think it's actually although it's probably intuitive or accidental it's actually pretty smart of them not to get pinned down in saying we want a financial transactions tax or we want a you know a blue ribbon investigation of wall street crime there really and this is why they've been able i think to start to get some attention and still couldn't know the news was president obama's speaking at the moment i've been saying on this very subject that he understands the public's concerns about the financial system then goes on to say that the u.s. still nonetheless needs a strong effective financial sector for the economy to grow so i guess he isn't really listening to what they're saying. well i would say that he is probably continuing to try to do

a rather delicate dance he has been trying to do for some time which is not alienate the banking industry or the financial sector that is able to give unlimited contributions to any political candidate including him or his opponents while at the same time not alienating the base of voters who overwhelmingly in this country according to polls want to see indictments of wall street crimes and a closing of corporate tax loopholes and that includes most republicans so i think the president is is trying to take a nuanced position and that it's the job of demonstrators or other citizen activists who feel the way these demonstrators do to make that less possible for him to do and frankly i think the fact that he's had to hansard the question after two weeks is also a sign of there's something going on richard just want to ask you very briefly quickly about the police's response if you think it's been too brutal. well i think that there are a couple issues there one is this sort of at the cole and more all i would say you

know some of the police have been out of line and have been too violent and too brutal probably a very small minority of all the police themselves but it's also been a morality it side i think a huge tactical mistake for the mayor of new york and his police force because if you assume as i do that their objective is to make these demonstrations go away that was exactly the wrong thing to do to spray the. women who are already trapped behind a kind of enclosure to the people with a baton and so on even leaving aside what you think about that behavior that's created an enormous way of public safety and sympathy and is i think backfired already on the mayor and his police well it's a story we're following very closely it's been really good richard esko former wall street executive writer and blogger as you have you on the program tonight thank you. my pleasure thank you. ok it's exactly quarter past eight moscow time

thanks for being with us review watching around the world still for you to come for you of course now they say an exercise a day is always good keeps the doctor away but not only keeps the doctor away to help she works better too because that's what authorities in russia is it is a region very strongly believe it instructed all state workers to do a workout right there and then in their offices seems to be paying off to russia closer to. next though as concern grows that the eurozone falling deeper into recession finance chief plans to safeguard the region's banks and european central banks just announced forty billion euros of emergency loans for them is that the next payload installment for greece will actually go ahead and the fallout from the country's resulting default would need a severe blow to europe's banking sector in greece itself the latest twenty four nationwide strike to violent as police fired tear gas on angry crowds of and you're stripping protesters the government imposing more cuts on its people trying to cap that massive debt of some three hundred fifty billion euros the country's brought

a hole really as workers walked out in a general strike leaving flights grounded and hospitals relying on emergency staff sara first witnessed the greek capital as it boiled over. and doing nothing in its entirety the square once again bearing witness to the clashes between riot police here is greater fees i don't think that you. feel that that's really. i mean functions really been my thing as a police meeting to clear the crowds and shocking things at one point the police seem chasing protests is into the letter a station many others hit kicks by they supposed to be keeping control the message being sent by the government this one from christian and fear. seems like this is very serious questions that. the level of force being used. to priors is

a forty three year old journalist he's reported from many conflicts. but it was in his own country where he sustained his worst injury. i just remember thinking is this really happening including us i took shelter in an enclosure just. and one policeman who i think was the commander asked in a very rude. taking pictures i told him i was a journalist i did give an order and i heard one of the flash bangs thrown at me these are some of the pictures i took. place he'd taken shelter amplified the sound of the flash bang causing always takes all day and injury which is cause. after the attack i won't call it an accident it was an attack like a small. investigation was launched into the incident the progress has been slowly . tells us the callous cases against heavy handed police tactics in the city have any kind of results for ourselves the lack of discrimination when the police lash out when journalists along with his camera to the ground the rise in the level of

aggression seen by the least and the more extreme groups the protest is causing serious concern. with the government continuing to implement said they are stairs he measures in a bid to receive cash tensions looks set to keep escalating i think. first . to explain the performance. from. experience. first of the. impact of the financial crisis has been played out play by play well some tightness where there are now fears that the financial crisis turned into an economic recession bring entire usa not just the greek people to any. elsewhere around the world tonight millions mourning the death of apple's

co-founder of the genius steve jobs the man behind the economy i pod i phone and i pad peacefully age fifty six after years of battling pancreatic cancer. to its position as the world's biggest computer firm who presided over the empire the revolutionize computing mobile phone to even listening to music the side view sparked the biggest online reaction for years reaching ten thousand tweets a second. nobel prize for literature is going to swedish poet thomas trans drummer was supposed to be for his condensed translucent images which give a quote fresh access to the other thirty it's real books explore the in a world of being translated into almost fifty language use. the eighteen year old the true master will receive the award at a ceremony in december. a website are always a place you get more in-depth coverage in all the stories you saying here and a lot more too there's a quick look of what would go a minefield in my r.t. told to the king of talk shows that larry king opposed to discuss the highlights of his career including his exclusive interviews with levine uprooted. there's the

russian resort city of sochi prepares to host the twenty fourteen winter olympic games an army of volunteers interpreters gathers in the city is as well ahead of the big event that's coming up in a couple years. from taking more russian o two in closer and today run a health kick. let's take a quick look at that map in we go and take you six hundred kilometers from moscow to the pens a region famous for its natural beauty and strong cultural traditions the capital also called pens it was founded in the seventeenth century as a small fortress in a narrow strip of rubble bag they the city said the shining example the healthy safe and happy lives. and learn the secrets of their success. almost every day the government is telling us that we should eat more fruit 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 you know what would happen if you could actually make people follow through i'd be more healthy well officials are no longer have to wonder because in penza that's exactly what the government has done . getting healthier they like it or not every weekday morning at ten am the tannoy in state institutions across kansas begins a familiar announcement. cheerful voice recited sort of by now familiar exercises the governor's instructions no one is allowed to strike or. some go beyond what's required. so this is this has returned my youth and my youth to me you know you love our governor's initiatives when you might and.

officials in this district have been told to leave the company car in a carriage and get on their bikes now all government business has to form from the saddle. because of the local administration says initiative has not only improved health but brought officials closer to the people would work at all i asked a girl from marin county high. one more card to help us with our g.c.'s he said you can have three two skaters and they're buying into the tree officials can observe their people see who is up towards leaving rubbish outside for example. some critics of some of the government's compulsory initiatives reminiscent of those in soviet times violate people's rights but a sportsman for motorbike rider denies the accusations. of using human rights and 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.

police are out in force. looking for bad children the governor has imposed a curfew for unsupervised under sixteen it's. not i think it is a waste of police time target those children was arrested and returned to their homes we haven't seen them out of the strains again and on this day there are no violators at all as the troll wraps up the fight all round the citizens of the can sleep well a lot safer in the knowledge that. they are healthier more compared with streets are increasingly free. pedal you that's the way of putting it ok sport said through the cell union's got news of yet another basketball star jumping ship from the n.b.a. to the european game but let's go across there's even is this news next for moscow .

thanks kevin set out the economic priorities of the likely next government in a keynote speech to an investment forum in moscow and prime minister reassured investors the country would maintain strict budget discipline and would continue with a process of liberalization a correspondent in the course who is a forum for business r.t. . russia is a tough sell right now for investors especially after what we're seeing happen with the markets according to the latest reports russia saw and eighteen percent increase in foreign direct investment last year which amounted to thirty five billion dollars now having said that since the beginning of this year we have seen the of the of dollars of the country and got in europe would seem to use this opportunity to pitch a rush to investors and lay out his economic policy by overseas measures to keep those structure is the state should reduce historic presence in the economy

therefore we will gradually withdraw from the capital of states corporations but privatizing states to the states we will appoint independent functions to the directors of companies with state ownership. part of the prime minister's liberalize a simple and clued alone foreigners to buy up to twenty five percent in some resource companies without having to deal with lots of red tape as well as the liberalization of gas exports you know some analysts believe that the differences between what prime minister vladimir putin a suggestion and the rights of ministration is not that different that actually the differences are in the details here regenerated with their knees ation vigil ization and muckraking on instability remain is the key priority is for for the government for the next several years the only thing is that it probably will be slightly more challenging for the next administration to be serious this is goals

because the school policies know quite constraint was there was the budget deficit and russia a space and the challenges are from the slower growth so fault of wunderlich on what amir peretz the writs are right so that the government was not expecting a step in the way the crisis although it recognizes that the risks how to increase and. who isn't going on to reassure investors that if worse came to worse russia would be able to cope. all right let's move to the markets now where it was trading up again light sweet gaining another dollar been in more than five percent the previous session brant is up for forty seven cents this hour. to move to the us not good sunday also a positive on thursday as the u.s. jobless claims rose less than expected last week and also this by europeans until bank president does not want to show you speaking of increased downside risk to the

region speaking of europe european stocks in the life with banks leading against the european central bank is offering new emergency loans to banks to help steady the financial system therefore the optimism and russia finally sort of bounce back after several sessions of losses and he has ended up for office at the price six four percent if you look at some of the main movers are spots here is the outstanding gain again i just on the eleven percent has one of its main shareholders you have roused said it will start negotiations on selling a forty percent stake in the company envisioned financials also positive. results he will be back in fifty five minutes time kevin is next with the headlines the state.

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