are your media projects free video john darche john. this is artsy and tonight new york police take hard hitting action against the biggest occupy wall street rally yet protesting against the widening wealth gap between the big corporations and the average american. he was rights groups and some media face outlets face embarrassment after a woman described as a victim of the syrian regime reappears safe and sound following reports that she being decapitated. and euro zone finance chiefs looked to help out of banks that may suffer close greece's debt crisis which is part of violent protests against have a tough thing austerity measures. welcome

says r t it's eleven pm here in moscow my name's kevin zero in with the news tonight in first pepper spray and buttons have been used against thousands of occupy wall street protesters in new york people are 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 first third week running reimport tees in new york where she's won a treadmill latest. the most recent event that took place was when the protesters that were gathered down on wall street tried to push through barricades and the police were there as you can see in the video started swinging baton at the protesters and also using pepper spray against all those that were closest to the police officers clearly i mean other clash taking place occupy wall street

demonstrations have entered its third week now this was the pinnacle of the of the largest demonstration that has taken place thus far between ten and twenty thousand people were down in lower manhattan to come out to speak out and support the activists of occupy wall street we saw more than thirty different unions we saw transportation workers nurses teachers students not only in new york city but throughout the country walked out of school to take part in these demonstrations and what these people are saying is that they are sick of corporations and financial institutions and the u.s. politicians working hand in hand while the majority of americans are suffering under an economic crisis they don't like the way that corporations are influencing politics and they believe that their elected officials need to begin working for all americans not just the richest once they're not just taking place in new york

we've seen them in boston l.a. chicago they are spreading and there is clearly a sign because u.s. president barack obama held a press conference at the white house and he addressed this issue this growing movement don it's a movement that he cannot even ignore he said the u.s. economy needs. the financial institutions to help the economy grow he did criticize the republican led congress for not imposing more regulations but he did speak directly to the frustrations of a. and here's what he had to say i think people are frustrated. that the protesters are. giving voice to a more broad based frustration about our financial system works is not just about the financial systems this is about as i mentioned corporate influence over u.s.

politics and this includes us president barack obama himself when i spoke to many of the demonstrators out on the street the cited campaign contributions that banksy made to president obama when he was a kennedy in two thousand and eight goldman sachs contributed one million dollars more than that j.p. morgan chase contributed to more than eight hundred thousand dollars to his campaign we should mention in two thousand and ten j.p. morgan chase made seventeen point four billion dollars in profits and need no taxes these demonstrators out on the streets know their numbers they have done their research they see how their campaign contributions. and the corporate rewards are going hand in hand they know their numbers and they are holding everyone accountable and that includes the u.s. president so he needs to sort of at least pay attention to what they're saying because that the frustration is not solely to the financial institutions report in

new york but i want to. ask you more you think about this story we're asking what you think will be of those u.s. rallies this is what you're telling it's the majority of you say a lot of noise but very little action is going there that really was forty percent of the thirty eight percent majority view tonight quarter of you think the anger is going to boil over and provoke clashes with national guard reducing trouble so. only nineteen percent of you believe it will actually lead to any reform of the practical volley just sixty percent of you say it is the end of president obama's first second term in office low going to up to you know probably still playing. your say the subject no she was the editor of online finance magazine alter net joshua holland is on the line from san francisco very good evening thanks very. much appreciate you taking time so then i wonder if you just heard there the majority of our viewers in a poll in our website think that these rallies are going to have little impact on wall street life do you share that opinion. but i think they're already focusing

attention on issues that have not gotten enough attention in the mainstream discourse and as such there. remains to be seen how deep that impact is but yes. i guess the flip side of this is well the police reaction to what we've seen in new york city there might that coincidentally and ironically influence the public's opinion as well well it does and again i think it brings a lot of attention to that issue one thing that protesters that i've interviewed here at occupy san francisco as you mentioned this is a nationwide movement have mentioned is that police over response is actually very good for their their so-called public relations outreach you know when the police when these images police are spraying women right in their faces or arresting hundreds of people on the brooklyn bridge i think that inspired a lot more people to go down and actually join them so ironically as it does

perhaps advance the protesters will these demonstrators say they want social justice for ninety nine percent of americans but you know the argument here is of my lost sight of the thought that this is just how capitalism works corporations make decisions whether workers bring in the profit. well you know it's funny because between nine hundred forty five and one nine hundred eighty the top one percent the the economic never took in more than twelve point eight percent of our national income and that has changed dramatically in the last thirty years over the last ten years they've averaged over twenty percent so. i don't think that it's natural i think that the protesters feel that that is the impact of specific policies that. wealthy donors are trying to have successfully enacted it not an act of nature or something that's intrinsic to capitalism some of the protesters say they draw their inspiration from the recent revolutions in the arab world we've seen this year taking very thoughtless froze it will go how far do you think

they're likely to go that. well i've seen a lot of people with a great deal of result it's also important to understand that there's a lot of different kinds of people at these protests i think there's a hard core group of very dedicated activists who are seeing this as a long term movement that they're not going to give up there are certainly people who are coming in for a day or two i think that they're you know their dedication may be maybe less and less strong but the protesters i talked to are not going anywhere soon and some of them are extremely poor and have no other prospects i mean i've talked to people who say look it doesn't matter if the police arrest me tonight because i've got no place else to be sure all of the financial and magazine thank you very much thanks for having me. several people are reported dead in the latest clashes going on to

government protesters and security forces in syria human rights groups continue to sound the alarm of multiple arrests and killings but one high profile victims made mazing reappearance these are the reports of the media's quick 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 put tshering as zeinab al hosni we have you pictures of what was done to corpses and they are simply too gruesome to air out several western media outlets who puts a report on these gruesome deaths 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 lines channels i am 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 it will cautious and phrase things a little bit more nuanced the state broadcaster says the interviews to dispel what it labels found brick ations by foreign media to serve western interests and stories like police 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 shakier than ever as footage allegedly shows unarmed 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 you has is now part of the pro demarc are really serious game is ridiculous they are jumping on their barrel where again is an opportunity to get

created this deceptive appearance while at the same time there's according the dictatorships that are aligned with them and the united nations and its partner and russia and china vetoed a u.n. resolution for syria seeing. it is a potential cover for another libyan style intervention say may not be any all this time but there's always an ulterior motive its importance 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 altering to political party of 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. as concern grows of the eurozone is falling deeper into recession finance change so hammering out

a plan to try to safeguard the region's banks it's got announced or received forty billion euros of motion saying loans from the european central bank will continue to get as much money as they need for at least a year there's doubt though that the next bailout installment for greece will actually go ahead and the fallout from the country's resulting default could deal a severe blow to europe banking sector in greece itself the latest twenty four hour nationwide strike to violent as police fired tear gas and angry crowds dentist are protesting the government imposed more cuts on its people trying to capture massive death of some three hundred fifty billion euros the country gradual holtz's workers walked out of a general strike leaving flights grounded in hospital lying in emergency staff at the center of first witness the greek capital. syntagma square once again bearing witness to the clashes between riot police here is page fifty is. that. the right to me that helps

i thank for that. i mean she's really been my thing as a police needed to clear the crowds and shocking things at one point the police chasing protests is into the next race day she and many others hit to keep space a place to eat. you can control the message being sent by the government as one of repression and fear. seems like this is raised serious questions about the level of force being used. in prior 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 close to shelter in an enclosure just. one policeman who was the commander asked in a very. picturesque i told him i was a journalist but he given. me these are some pictures or to ignore the place he taken shelter amplified the sound of the flash bang causing always

takes an. injury which is called. after the attack i won't call it an arson it was not charged like a small hell unless occasion was launched into the incident the progress has been slow a family tells us countless cases against heavy handed police tactics and. any kind of results we witness for ourselves the lack of discrimination when the police lash out when jenice along with his camera to the ground the rise in the level of aggression seen by the police and the more extreme groups the protest is causing serious concern with the government continuing to implement there are thirty measures in a bid to seek cash in six states to keep escalating i think. these are explaining to. the first reaction.

of the person the impact of the financial crisis is being played out play by play well some tightness where there are now fears that the fine. crisis turned into an economic recession the entire year is a chance to be equal to the new. cautious mining if you want more arty news stay tuned to us here and check out our web site to our tivo confidently your t.v. will keep you updated of course stories you might like tonight the cia's allegedly authorized drone strikes against dangerous americans abroad but is it the citizens of the home and their growing suspicions that the agency should be worried about more readers online tonight are to go home also and online to see the thriving newly modernized chechen capital grozny is it celebrates its spectacular rise from the ruins of just

a decade ago. we know on the threshold of the ten year anniversary of the u.s. invasion of afghanistan a decade ago on top of the seventh two thousand and one the war in afghanistan began as a counter strike for the atrocities of nine eleven but ten years on the troops are still there and the withdrawal deadline of twenty fourteen seems to be up in the air as a top general suggests more time will be needed well with these retired u.s. air force lieutenant colonel kern quite can't ski thanks for being on r.t. karen isn't there a strong argument here that if you haven't done what you've come to do after ten whole years you just as well give up. well americans don't like their word give up but yet makes a lot of sense i think part of it is. in many ways the american people have not been told what we came to afghanistan to do and their mission is to build a city which we have done to me and those places and cooperate militarily from

those bases against other countries in the region that mission is actually be somewhat successful so. you know we're still here we're making progress in the sense they're telling the truth it just doesn't ring true to americans who are told we went there to hunt down al qaeda which we did you know help those guys out which we have not yet done so let me get this straight all in all of this from your concert a good result well. i think from the pentagon's perspective it's a good result because they have a permanent military bases that they wanted and we're not leaving those bases and we can't be forced to leave so that is a success from a from a pentagon prospective that's a success from abundance perspective it is not success for the american people who are very tired of this but you know the real reasons that we're in afghanistan have never been put forward just. the original a myth of destroyed been largely to get rid of the taliban rule to bring to bring

democracy what are the goals of these though it all seems to have been over you but you're also very closely to my body doesn't seem so clear personally more does it but it never was clear cut actually it never was clear. you know there weren't any afghans on the nine eleven airplanes and. al-qaeda was near my stress to clean minimized and very early on many years ago long before we supposedly captured or killed bin laden long before that al qaeda was minimized and certainly was not operating effectively out of afghanistan so in that sense the war should have been over nine years ago in terms of what we were told but i think there's enough. the reason we're there i think it's very obvious in a strategic military christe your perspective if you look at how we're operating in the middle east and how the american military operates around russo a good reason in their minds while that why they are bigger and they plan to stay. what is your prognosis the for the real time frame to hand afghanistan back to the

afghan. i quite frankly don't think we ever intend to hand it back to any of the afghan people we put cars are in charge in december of two thousand and one as a supposed to get worker and of course never never elected a bad time a friend of a patsy of the american government and he remains there to this day. you know we had no intention of allowing the afghan people to choose if they had if you were allowed to choose i think we would be long gone. because this is not about the afghanis and it's unfortunate because a terrible terrible things are going down the country. by americans and by nato but it's not about this is about big power they can't kick us out in we're going to stay we built permanent bases or we want to terrorize pakistan iran and be there to to look out over the mountains into china. and you've just highlighted that it is really in a whole lot about a string as to when america's going to pull the women do go was the country going

to have you think. i think it just is when you call your hand out of a bucket of water what was there before well a real stove which power and it will be most likely i mean i'm no expert i think most likely it will be. an equal. you know it will be much is the way afghanistan has always been rolled in the absence of imperial powers and there's nothing necessarily wrong with that but it is certainly a form of self rule in many ways and so that's what's going to happen when we eventually leave but i am just not sure we intend to leave anytime soon we like its military bases too well we like the liberals and we like the geographic positioning there can provide our military it's always really good average per call of the program type of u.s. force colonel cohen thank you for being on the program thank you for having me.

america stands. targets the costs to the book mission the few let's move shook the mission to bring peace and stability to the a. movement ten years known as it only left to move to submit. washington threatening to leave us go without american cash is the world's education heritage group move the step closer to allowing palestine to joining the u.s. give tens of billions of dollars to unesco but can't legally fund any u.n. body that no new u.n. member of the culture groups agreed to put the palestinian bid to its members for approval by the end of the month is a key diplomatic victory for the palestinians at the u.n. ahead of the vote it stated however there are still fears opposition from washington which sees a legitimate state and says rather adjustments they can only be achieved through direct talks with israel palestinian leader mahmoud abbas supplied to the security

council for full u.n. membership you may recall back in september. elsewhere around the world tonight millions mourning the death of apple's co-founding genius steve jobs the man behind the iconic mac i poured i phone i pad he died peacefully aged fifty six off the years battling pancreatic cancer he led apple to its position as the world's biggest computer firm and presided over an empire that revolutionized computing mobile phones and even listening to music inside you spot the biggest online reaction for years reaching ten thousand tweets a second that one point. the nobel prize for literature has got a swedish poet thomas prime's from it was praised by the academy for his condensed translucent images which give a quote fresh access to reality his real books explore the in a nature of life and has been translated into more than sixty languages the eighteen year old literary master will receive the award at the ceremony in

december. the death toll from french will raise the battle to thailand five months in prison to thirty seven millions of people as well and twenty eight provinces have been displaced by the endless flooding overfilled dams have given way and water logged the country's central region more rain is expected to hit the recovery nation in the coming days. russia's help to provide security and revive the karzi an economy. dominated talks in moscow between the country's leaders that need to be very evident xander focused on the challenges facing the caucasus republic and still recovering from its long struggle for independence from georgia president of also ratified a longstanding agreement which regulates the work of russian forces on the cars in the territory moscow recognized the country's independence following georgia's attack on another caucasus republic south a setia that in two thousand and eight there were fears that of cars could be next in line for an assault on the russian troops have since been stationed there in the area but the government's request. let's look ahead what we've got lined up for you

but later this hour in a few minutes in fact max kaiser shares his coke terrifically colorful thoughts on the world of corporate capitalism because report on the air shortly after we caught up with dmitri in the latest business. with. banks given. the economic priorities of the likely next governments in the keynote speech to an investment forum in moscow the prime minister reassured investors the country would maintain strict budget discipline and would continue with the process of liberalization not correspondence but in the course arose that the forum for business. 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 amounts to thirty five billion dollars now having said that since the beginning of this year we have seen the billion

dollars of the country and live in europe with a new use this opportunity to pitch russia to investors and lay out this economic policy priorities. strategy is the state should reduce its direct presence in the economy therefore we will gradually withdraw from the capitalist state gratian but privatizing stakes in the state we will appoint independent professionals to the beads of directors of companies and states and ship parts of the prime minister's liberalize asian plan includes allowing foreigners to buy up to twenty five percent in some of resource companies without having to deal with lots of red say as well as the liberalization of gas exports now 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 differences are in the details here regenerated but there is

a show visible ization and muckraking on the stability remain is the key priority list for for the government for the next several years the only thing is that it probably will be a slightly more challenge and for the next administration to be serious this is goals because the school policies know quite constrained with the budget deficit and russia a space and the challenges from the slower growth the so called the global economy what are your parents or writs or writes about the government was not expecting a step in the way the crisis although it recognizes that the risks had increased and. susan went on to reassure investors that if worst came to worst russia would be able to cope. right now let's take a look at what's going on the markets in the final half hour of trading commodities in the u.s. so up three dollars twenty nine cents from light sweet brant blenders up two after all as of more than one hundred five dollars per barrel this is on the climbing

crude stockpiles in the u.s. possibly indicating the fuel demand may increase and the world's largest. to have to stocks now and they are also positive as jobless claims and u.s. rose less than expected last week also because of this european central bank president of poetry sherry speaking of increased downside risk to the euro zone this take a look at europe then european stocks have had a very positive the session extending gains from wednesday's very strong performance the european central bank is offering new emergency loans to banks to help steady the financial system russian market spine least saw a comeback of the fool sessions of deep losses the r.t.s. hating four and a half percent nice sixty four percent at the end of thursday session well logically enough gazprom was up five point three percent as were all the energy shares on higher commodity prices called buying our spot scared us the outstanding

form of the session eleven percent gains as near as says it's stopped negotiating the sale of its cool two percent stake in the company banking stocks were also gaining burbank around five percent in positive territory but that concludes this edition of the business news on art see kevin is next with headlines and stay with us. if. you.

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