moscow my name is kevin owen with the news tonight and first pepper spray and battens have been used against thousands of occupy wall street protesters in new york people are angry with their 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 one important hire is monitoring the situation in new york for us. ever since the wall street protesters have been turning out to take part in 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 baton and spraying pepper spray at the 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. anti 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 out for five hours of new york city's biggest demonstration thus far to take place. or going to be organized by this group called occupy wall street not only activists out on the street but members of thirty different the unions 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 call wall street greed you know i did have a chance to go down to the wall street camp to 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 read they are very internet so. and they all feel frustrated and disenfranchised when it comes to what is happening with the economy in their own country their 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 u.s. 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 a frustration 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 our web site are 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 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 to 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 will actually lead to reform. your say online with us tonight at artesia. several people reported dead in the latest clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in syria he writes groups continue to sound the alarm of multiple arrests and killings but one high profile victims made an amazing reappearance 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 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 we have you pictures of what was done to corpse and they are simply too gruesome to air 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 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 out hosni was tortured murdered and mutilated it even claimed a mother found the body in a morgue last month all assertions is now being forced to backtrack 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 us britain and france for un sanctions to be slapped on syria but their foundations are now looking shakier than ever this footage religiously shows an armed pro assad civilians being targeted by

gun toting rebels so perhaps not the peaceful opposition they're often made out to be by the west that only seems to look one way. this notion that the u.n. has is now part of the pro-democracy regime is ridiculous they are jumping on that bandwagon is an opportunity to get out front of it create its deceptive appearance while at the same time there's a porting the dictatorships that are aligned with them in the united nations and it's 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 they may not be any oil this time but there's always an ulterior motive it's important is 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 political motive the vetoes are 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. moscow says nato has actions in libya haven't saved civilians but cause more casualties in the stead russia and china vetoed a u.n. resolution on syria over concerns the mandate could pave the way for a libya style military intervention constant kasich 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 of syria are prepared to do more in order to introduce democratic reforms in the country so the syrian nation still has a chance of

a preceding. revolution but i do not think that the worst time for libya is over probably the military action of nato has saved some lives but it's equally that many casualties. could have been avoided in this duration never took place not seeing that this military operation was the best option for the people of libya steel nato one still to stay there and i am sure that the will stay there for for many many weeks and many months is ahead and this is definitely not in accordance with the regime is illusion by the security council this resolution is obviously brutally violated by the nato countries which participated in this of duration. but as consequence of

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 he joins us now live from washington d.c. richard thanks ever so much for being on r.t. international it's really appreciated tonight if you caught it a bit earlier on about five minutes ago in the program after you 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 sense of these protests will be quote a lot of noise not much else what do you think about your take on it as well. no 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 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 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 union c.f.l. c.i.a.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 to him if you're just looking at a report you recently wrote schooled. you talking about the occupy wall street movement and that you mentioned the demonstrators got no 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 sort of going to get them anyway when they're asking for social justice for all sounds good but isn't 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 that used to be dominant in this country and and most developed democracies that says you know everybody who watch 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 declaring its 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 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 just look at the news was president obama's speaking at the moment i mean he said 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 the 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 it's 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 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 the kind of enclosure to beat people with a baton and so on even leaving aside what we think about that behavior that's created an enormous wave 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 were you watching around the world still plenty to come for you of course they say an exercise a day is always good keeps the doctor away will not only keeps the doctor away to help she work better to. seize in rushes it is a region very strongly believe that instructed all state workers to do

a workout right there and then in their offices seems to be paying off the rush of closer to. next though as concern grows of the eurozone falling deeper into recession finance chiefs are hammering out plans to safeguard the region's banks the european central bank's just announced forty billion euros of emergency loans for the doubt that the next payload installment for greece will actually go ahead and the fallout from the country's resulting default would be the severe blow to europe's banking sector in greece itself the latest twenty four hour nationwide strike to violent as police fired tear gas on angry crowds of and your started protesting the government imposing more cuts on its people trying to cap that massive debt of some three hundred fifty billion euros the country's gradual hope really as workers walked out in a general strike leaving flights grounded and hospitals relying on emergency staff sara first witness the greek capital as it boiled over. at

syntagma square once again bearing witness ok clashes between riot police here is protesting these so you don't want to take that back you. don't want that for larry. and the french is really be my thing as a police moved in to clear the crowds some shocking things at one point the police chasing protests is into the station many others hit 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 a very serious questions that. the level of force being used. to priors 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 arsenal and one policeman who i think was a commander 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 of the pictures i took. the place he'd taken shelter amplified the sound of the flash bang causing always takes all deafness and injury which is. 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 finalist tells us the countless cases against heavy handed police tactics and. any kind of result we witness 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 police and the more extreme groups of protesters is causing serious concern with the government continue to implement severe austerity measures in a bid to receive that they can tensions looks set to keep escalating i think.

to explain. the first reaction. has been expressed. the impact of the financial crisis is being played out play by play on some tightness where there are now fears that the financial crisis turn into an economic recession could bring entire usa not just decreased people to then me. ask around the world tonight millions mourning the death of apple's co-founding genius steve jobs the man behind the economy back i pod i phone and i pad he died peacefully age fifty six after years spent battling pancreatic cancer for to its position as the world's biggest computer firm who presided over an empire the revolutionized computing mobile

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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 and narrow strip of river bag today the city said sharlee example healthy safe and happy lives to go grab no one to 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 it now what would happen if you could actually make people follow through and be more healthy well officials

are no longer have to wonder because and turns out that's exactly what the government has done. getting healthier whether they like it or not every weekday morning at ten am the tannoy in state institutions across plans are begins a familiar announcement. cheerful voice or so it's worked out by now familiar exercises of the governor's instructions no one is allowed to strike or. some go beyond what's required in the swim all this it is it has returned to my youth and my youth to me when i knew of our governor's initiative but knew my constraints officials in this district have been told to leave the company car in the carriage and get on their bikes now all government business spits to form from the saddle. the head of the local administration says the initiative has not only improved health but brought officials closer to the people would move out of my ass

kicking of america can we have. one more card to help us with our gc's he said you can have three two scooters and to buy into a venture officials can observe people see who is up to what used to use 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 metaphor motorbike rider denies the accusations my abusing 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 them. the police are out in force. looking for bad children the governor has imposed a curfew for unsupervised under sixteen had no i was not i think it is a waste of police time to tell those children it 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 patrol wraps up with. the citizens of the can sleep well. safe in the knowledge that. they are healthier more confident and the streets are increasing all free. penza. had all you that's a way of putting it ok sport said few the unions got the use of yet another basketball star jumping ship from the n.b.a. to the european game but let's go across the evening's business news next from moscow with the. thanks kevin sets out the economic priorities of the likely next government in a keynote speech to an investment forum in moscow prime minister reassured

investors the country would maintain strict budget discipline and would continue with the process of liberalisation our correspondent jim acosta is at the forum for business arts. russia is a tough sell right now for investors especially after what we've seen happen with the markets according to the latest reports russia saw an 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 a billion dollars in the country and loving europe would seem to use this opportunity to pitch to investors and lay out this economic policy point overseas. is the state should reduce its presence in the economy therefore we will gradually withdraw from the capital of state gratian but privatizing states to the state we will appoint an independent professional to the boards of directors of companies with state ownership part of the prime minister's liberalize ation plan includes

allowing foreigners to buy up to twenty five percent in some of 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 the suggestion and the current administration is not that different that actually the this prince's are in the details he reiterated but there is a show digitalisation and muckraking nomic stability remain is the key priorities 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 this call policies know quite constrained with the budget deficit and russia is facing the challenges from the slower growth so the global economy but it may appear it's a ritz

a right so that the government was not expecting a second avoid the crisis although it recognizes that the risks how to increase and . susan went on to reassure investors that if worse came to worse rush out 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 meaning more than five percent the previous session brant is up of forty seven cents this hour. to move to the u.s. markets and also a positive on the. u.s. jobless claims rose less than expected last week and also this by european central bank president 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 saw a bounce back after several sessions of losses. for alpha said that my

sixty four percent if you look at some of the main movers is the outstanding gain again i just on the eleven percent as one of its main shareholders you have said it will stop negotiations on something you forty percent stake in the company envision financials are also positive. business r.t. will be back in fifty five minutes time kevin is next with the headlines to stay.

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from moscow this is our international thanks for watching us top stories tonight new york police get tough on thousands of occupy wall street activists furious that their taxes are being used to prop up corporate america protest is a stage the biggest rally in three. weeks after being joined by. euro zone finance changed look to help them suffer a blow from greece's debt crisis meanwhile in athens violent protests erupted again step a tough thing though so too much is there. and the syrian woman seen as the symbol of the regime brutality against his own people really appears alive and well after reportedly being beheaded it's for several media backtracking out there giving to the supposed death saturation coverage.