our names kevin zero in with the news tonight in first pepper spray and battens have been used against thousands of occupy wall street protesters in new york people are angry with the 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 now for artie's in new york where she's monitoring the 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 that were there as you can see in the video started swinging but taunts at the protesters and also using pepper spray against all those that were closest to the police officers clearly a nother clash taking place occupy wall street demonstrations have entered its third week now this was the pinnacle 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 ones 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 that 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 americans here's what he had to say i think people are frustrated. that the protesters or. 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 cited the campaign contributions that banks made to president obama when he was a candidate in two thousand and eight goldman sachs contributed one million dollars

more than that j.p. morgan chase contributed to obama 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 the 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 the fright the frustration it's not solely to the financial institutions report in new york then i went to a web site. asking what you think about this story or ask you what you think will be of those u.s. rallies this is what you're telling it's the majority of you say it's a lot of noise but very little action is going down a bit it was forty percent a couple hours go down to thirty eight percent the majority view tonight quarter of

you think it is going to boil over and provoke clashes with national guard reducing trouble so to. have you believe it will actually lead to any reforms are the practical folly just sixty percent of you say it is the end of president obama's first second term in office local doctor you don't call so pretty a chance to have your say let's stay to the subject no should we talk to the editor of online finance magazine alternate joshua holland is on the line from san francisco very good. thanks it's an awful as much appreciate you taking the time so then i don't know if you just heard there the majority of us tonight apolo website think that these rallies are going to have little impact on wall street life do you share that opinion. well 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 is the police reaction to what we've seen in new york city then 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 the 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 when the police when these images of police pepper 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 it does it does perhaps advance the protesters. demonstrate to say they want social justice for ninety nine percent of americans but you know the argument here is only 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 nine hundred eighty the top one percent. of the economic pie all 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 not an act of nature or something that's intrinsic to capitalism some of the protesters say that they draw their inspiration from the recent revolutions in the arab world we've seen this. taking that thought as far as it will go how do you think they're likely to go that. well i've seen a lot of people with a great deal of resolve it's also important to understand that there's a lot of different kinds of people at these protests i think that there is

a hard core group of very dedicated activists who are seeing this as a long term movement there that they're not going to give up there are certainly people who are coming in for a day or two i think that their you know their dedication may be maybe less and less strong but the protesters i've 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 of the police arrest me tonight because i've got no place else to be josh all of the financial and magazine thank you very much thanks for having me. so people 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 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 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 are viewed pictures of what was done to corpse and they are simply too gruesome to air 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 when 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 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 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 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 or the never this footage religiously shows unarmed pro sound civilians being targeted by gun toting rebels to perhaps not the peaceful opposition there from made out to be by the west that only seems to look one way this notion that the un has 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. it is

a potential cover for another libyan stahl intervention say may not be any oil this time but there's always syria 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 political motive to be to use a followed by 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 that the eurozone is falling deeper into recession finance chiefs are hammering out plans to try to safeguard the region's banks it's better now still receive forty billion euros or mergence in loans from the european central bank and 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 to fold could deal

a severe blow to europe banking sector in greece itself the latest twenty four hour nationwide story turned violent as police fired tear gas and angry crowds dentist are protesting the government imposed more cuts on its people trying to cap massive debt of some three hundred fifty billion euros the country gradual holtz's workers walked out of a general strike leaving flights grounded in hospital following an emergency staff party sarah for witness the greek capital. syntagma square once again bearing witness to the clashes between riot police here as protests these very god i think that was. the right i mean that helps i thank you larry. and the french is really been my thing as a police moved in to clear the crowd some shocking things i know one point the police seem chasing protests is into the letters station many others hit kicks by

they supposed to be key. you can control. the message being sent by the government is one of repression and fear. seems like this is raise serious questions about 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 i took shelter in an enclosure just arsenal and one policeman who i think was a commander in a very. 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 taken shelter the fight the sound of the flash bang causing always takes. after the attack and i won't call it an accident it was an attack like a small. investigation is launched into the incident the progress has been slowly.

tells us the countless cases against heavy handed police tactics and you see that 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 least and the more extreme groups the protest is causing serious concern. with the government continuing to implement said they were thirty measures needed to see that. tensions let's keep escalating i think. these are. the first reaction. to the impact of the financial crisis is being played out play by play well some tightness where there are now fears that the financial crisis turn into an economic

recession could bring entire year is a look just to bring people to their new. cautious wondering if you want more arty news stay tuned to our syria and check out our website to. keep you updated around the clock few stories you might like tonight the cia's allegedly authorized drone strikes against dangerous americans abroad but it's the citizens of home with a growing suspicions that the agency should be worried about. also i don't want to see the thriving muley modernized chechen capital grozny is it celebrates its spectacular rise from the ruins of just a decade ago. we know the threshold of the ten year anniversary of the u.s. invasion of afghanistan a decade ago oct seventh two thousand. no 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 the top general suggests more time will be needed well with means retired u.s. air force lieutenant colonel turned quite cold ski thanks for being on arctic air and isn't there a strong argument here that if you haven't 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 yeah it makes a lot of sense i think part of it is that in many ways american people have not been told what we came to afghanistan to do and that mission is to build a city which we have done and to man those spaces and to operate militarily from those bases against other countries in the region that mission has actually been somewhat successful so when it when the gun says you know we're still there we're making progress in a 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 and you know help those guys out which we have not yet done so let me get this straight all in all that as far as you're concerned 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 want 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 correspondent that's a success from obama's perspective it is not success for the american people who are very tired of this but you know the real reasons that we're going to afghanistan have never been put forward just by the talk just the original aim was to destroy bin ladin to get rid of the taliban rule to bring to bring democracy but what are the goals these days all seems to have been i don't know about you but you're also very cloudy to my mind it doesn't seem so clear cut to the more does it never was clear cut actually never was clear cut you know there weren't any afghans

on the nine eleven airplanes ok al-qaeda was minimized drastically minimized very early on many years ago long before we supposedly captured in our kill 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 another reason. or they are i think it's very obvious in a strategic military press your perspective if you look at how we're operating in the middle east and how the american military operates around the world there's a good reason in their minds while that why they're there and they plan to stay. what is your prognosis for 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 karzai in charge in december of two thousand and one as a supposed democrat 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 we were allowed to choose i think we would be long gone. you know business is not about the afghanis and it's unfortunate because a terrible terrible things have been done to that country by 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've got permanent bases and we want to terrorize pakistan iran and no be there to look out over the mountains into china well. you've just highlighted that it is really you know how long of a string is to weigh in america's going to pull as of when they do go where is the country going to head do you think. i think just as when you pull your hand out of a bucket of water what was there before will really stablish power and it will be most likely i mean i'm no expert i think most likely it'll be. cantona. as

an equal. you know it'll be much is the way afghanistan has always been rolled in the absence of imperial powers and there's nothing necessarily wrong with that. it's 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 this military bases too well we like the minerals and we like the geographic positioning that afghan provides our military it's always very good of your export call of the program retired u.s. air force of time and colonel concorde coast q thank you for being on the program thank you for having me. do it there actually. target. a ship. for. us. mission to bring peace and stability to the world. ten years ago

as it only after decades. washington threatening to leave us go without american cash is the world's education heritage group of a step closer to allowing palestine to join the u.s. give tens of millions of dollars to unesco but can't legally fund any u.n. body that the u.n. member of the culture groups agreed to put the palestinian bid to its members for approval by the end of the month it's a key diplomatic victory for the palestinians at the u.n. ahead of the vote on that stated however there's still fierce opposition from washington which sees a legitimate statement says rather a distance 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 ipod i phone an i pad he died peacefully aged fifty six after years spent 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 the side you spot the biggest online reaction for years reaching ten thousand tweets a second at one point. the nobel prize for literature is go to a swedish poet thomas was praised by the academy for his condensed translucent images which give a quote fresh access to reality his surreal books explore the in a nature of life and has been translated into more than sixty languages the eighty year old literary master will receive the award at a ceremony in december. the death toll from french will reign as the back of thailand for months in britain thirty seven millions of people as well and twenty eight provinces have been displaced by the end of this flooding overfilled dams are giving way and water logged the country's central region more rain is expected to

hit the recovering nation in the coming days. russia's help to provide security and revive the economy is. dominated talks of moscow between the country's leaders dmitri medvedev and 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 of cars the territory moscow recognize the country's independence following georgian attack on another caucasus republic south the setia back in two thousand and eight there were fears that of cars it could be next in line for an assault on the russian troops have since been stationed there in the area at 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 characteristically colorful thoughts on the world of corporate capitalism because report on the air shortly after a quote with dmitri in the latest business.

thanks kevin sets out 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 liberalisation our correspondents but in the course of is 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 which amounted to thirty five billion dollars now having said that since the beginning of this year we have seen that the a billion dollars in the country and plug in the airports in the use this opportunity to pitch to investors and lay out his economic policy by overseeing this. strategy is the state should reduce its direct presence in the economy

therefore we will gradually withdraw from the capital of state corporations by privatizing states belonging to the state we will appoint independent professionals 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 resource companies without having to deal with lots of red tape as well as the liberalization of gas exports now some analysts believe that the differences between prime minister vladimir putin the suggestion and the current administration is not that different that actually the differences are in the details he reiterated but there is a show digitalisation and muckraking nomic stability 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 this call policies know quite a constraint with the budget deficit and russia is facing the challenges from the slower growth so the global economy but amir peretz the ritz are right said that the government was not expecting a second wave all the crisis although it recognizes that the risks had increased and who isn't one to reassure investors that if worse came to worse rush out 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 bread blend is up to half dollars of more than the one hundred five dollars a barrel this is on the klein in crude stockpiles in the u.s. possibly indicating the fuel demand may be increasing 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 all supposed despite the european central bank

president john for tree sherry speaking of increased downside risk to the euro zone the second look at europe then european stocks have had a very positive session extending. gains from wednesday's very strong performance european central bank is offering new emergency loans to banks to help steady the financial system russian market spinal you saw a comeback after four sessions of deep losses the r.t.s. gaining four and a half percent my sixty four percent at the end of the first day session well logically enough gas problem was up five point three percent as were other energy shares on higher commodity prices call mine are spot scared us the outstanding form of the session eleven percent gains as you but i'll says it stopped negotiating the sale of its cool to the cent 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 r.t. kevin is next with headlines to stay with us.

if. the british stock. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy stronger for no holds the global financial headlines kaiser reports.

this is our top story. thousands of wall street activists furious being used to prop up corporate america contestants staged the biggest rally in free weeks to being joined by unions. the syrian woman seen as the symbol of the regime protel against its own people reappears and live and well off reportedly haven't. beheaded it's forced several media outlets to backtrack after giving a supposed death saturation coverage. euro zone finance chiefs that look to helping out banks that may suffer a blow from greece's burgeoning debt crisis meanwhile in athens violent protests erupted against ever toughening austerity measures. more updates or stories with me kevin.