patterns 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 the will to help them and they've been rallying all over the country for the third week running when important as in new york for us which has been monitoring the situation. 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 i'm not there clash taking place. 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 straight on 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 a. and here's what he had to say i think people are frustrated and. the protesters are. giving voice to a more broad based frustration about how 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 they cited the campaign contributions that banksy 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 made 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 for the frustration it's not solely to the financial institutions. correspond to new york on a website. you can ask you what you think about these big story what do you think of these u.s. rallies it's going to be this is what you've been telling us the majority of you back up to forty percent thirty eight forty percent with a majority think it's a lot of noise with very little action so about a quarter of you think the anger is going to boil over and provoke more clashes with national guard only eighteen percent of voters believe it will actually lead

to reforms that. closely follows what was seventy percent of you saying it's going to be the end of president obama's hopes for a second term in office so it's good to your thoughts that it's not you think about so you don't comb. so they could someone who is on this subject now and talk to bestselling right ed wood barney is on the line from seattle edward very good evening to you thanks but i'll take international what is your view that the outcome of these protests what you think they're going to go. oh well it's time to say where they're going to go thank you for having me by the way. it's interesting you know the distance you just quoted from your poll eighteen percent believing it might actually bring out substantial reform and i think those those are really solid numbers considering that maybe a couple years ago that that percentage would be much much lower right now a lot of people are wondering what exactly is going on and where this is going to go but i think the greater issue at hand that people need to start addressing is

that this is a message that is getting out to people that's the important thing that's going on here that's the focus. a lot of people are seeking are very frustrated as you said the corporate bonds between the finances and the financial system and our government in the american system and what they're seeking is to get that message out to as many people as possible so that the typical american can take their anger somewhere can take their frustration somewhere and not feel so alone it's not an issue where is this going to go right now right now it's about spreading this message of solidarity that this is something that people can fight for this is something that people can affect this is not just a lot of noise this is not something that will just have come from magic this is something that can change this wall street move their cell phone was close only bold just about what three weeks ago wasn't it consists mainly of young people

strength coming from why is it big apparently more and more successful in such a short period of time it seems to be getting attention yeah well i think we can think the status quo for that actually because once it's very easy. for people to dismiss a protest there's a bunch of young unemployed kids going out there saying all money is bad corporations are bad that's not the case here this isn't calling for a dissolution of the businesses this is calling for dissolving the bonds between finances and our government and many americans understand that that's how it works most americans are very frustrated with the situation as it is now because they've seen what happened in the press in two thousand and fourteen million jobs lost they saw tens of thousands they saw hundreds of thousands of pay phones completely disseminated they saw their retirement disappear this is something that the people have are now finally understanding is the situation so it only took a couple of voices to say hey let's get together and talk about this because we

feel like we could change this and this has been garnering more and more support and the momentum is strong right now it really quickly because we're a bit out. it's being hurt but is it being heard in the right places where a billionaire investor george soros he understands the protesters and. president obama making references about it as well but is it really being heard where it needs to be. yes i think it is because it's spreading to the people again this isn't about ending corporations this isn't about ending big business this is about severing the bonds between business and government. thank you very much for being so precisely right to edward murray live from see if you have pleasure to have you on the program thank you. several people have been reported dead in the latest clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in syria human rights groups continue to sound the alarm of the multiple arrests and killings but one high profile victims may did amazing reappearance bennett reports on 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 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 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 in stories like this that have been used to prop up calls from the u.s. britain and france for un sanctions to be slapped on syria but their foundations are now looking shaky or the never this footage religiously shows unarmed sad 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 us has is now part of this pro-democracy receipt regime is ridiculous they are jumping on that bandwagon is an opportunity to get out front of it and 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 as part of their empire russia and china vetoed a u.n.

resolution for syria seeing. it is a potential cover for another libyan style intervention may not be any all this time but there's always an ulterior motive it's important as a geopolitical factor right next to israel a country which obviously america and britain and the other western powers strongly support so that would be the political motive but the vetoes of followed by a security council walkout from america over remarks during the syrian envoy speech but the u.s. promised to be back with another resolution and undoubtedly more dramatic evidence to drive the point home either bennett r.t. london. the world of nato led campaign sparked a decade long war and still ahead a few of this channel american troops on the afghan conflict where u.s. soldiers are hunting down a pretty extended stay in the war torn country as top military commanders admit their mission will be much longer than expected. as concern grows that the eurozone

is falling deeper into recession finance chief to hammering out plans to safeguard the region's banks but announced the receive forty billion euros of emergency 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 that the next payload installment for greece though will actually go ahead and the fallout from the country's resulting default would deal a severe blow to europe's banking sector in greece itself the latest twenty four hour nationwide strike turned violent as police fired tear gas on angry crowds of protesters the government imposed more cuts on its people there just trying to cap the massive death of some three hundred fifty billion euros the country's gradual halt as workers walked out of a general strike leaving flights grounded in hospitals relying on emergency staff r.t. sara firth witnessed the greek capital as it boiled over. in syntagma square once again bearing witness to ugly clashes between riot police here as

protest is very growing. i think that the background here is. the right. and the pensions really been my thing as a police moved in to clear the crowds some shocking things one point the police chasing protesters into the metro station many others hit and kicked by they supposed to be keeping control. but the message being sent by the government is one of repression and fear. scenes like this are very serious questions about the level of force being used. to prior's is a forty three year old journalist who'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 please i took shelter in an enclosure just awesome target and one policeman who i think was a commander asked in a very rude taking pictures i told him i was a journalist but he gave an order and i had one of the flash bangs thrown at me

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

experience. of the. impact of the financial crisis is being played out play by play on syntagma square there are now fears that the financial crisis turn into an economic recession could bring the entire usa not just the greek people to their knees surf city. we're on the threshold of the ten year anniversary of the u.s. invasion of afghanistan a decade ago october the seventh two thousand and one the war in afghanistan began as a counter strike to the atrocities of nine eleven but ten years on the troops are still there and the withdrawal deadline of twenty four team seems to be up in the air as a top general suggest more time will be needed about retired u.s. air force left turn and colonel current quite koski you told me earlier that the

invasion wasn't really about democracy but was motivated by very different issues. in many ways american people have not been told what we came to afghanistan to do and that mission is to build bases which we have done into may and those bases and to operate militarily from those bases against other countries in the region that mission has actually been somewhat successful and 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 they suppose it gallacher 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 they were allowed to choose i think we would be long gone. you know this 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 and we're going to stay we've got permanent bases there we want to cherise pakistan iran and be their church a look out over the mountains into china. house around the world tonight millions mourning the death of paul's co-founding genius steve jobs man behind the iconic mac ipod i phone and the i pad he died peacefully aged fifty six after years spent battling pancreatic cancer we lead our fall 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 sight of new spot the biggest online reaction for years reaching ten thousand tweets a second at one point. the nobel prize literature is going to a swedish poet thomas franz trama was praised by the academy for his condensed translucent images which give a fresh access to the history of books explore the inner nature of life and 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 tarantula rain is that of battered thailand for months of or is now two hundred thirty seven millions of people in twenty eight type provinces have been displaced by endless flooding overfilled dams of give way and water logged the country's central region more rain is expected to hit recovering nation in the coming days. time to take it more of russia now in our late edition of close up and tonight health kick. this is we're going exactly on the muppets 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 the school fortress and narrow strip of river bank today the city sets a shining example of healthy safe and happy lives but if you go grab know when 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 attorney am the tannoy in state institutions across plans and 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 slack off. some go beyond what's required. all this has returned me to my youth and

my youth to me we all of our governors initiatives. officials in this district have been told to leave the company car and the garridge and get on their bikes now all government business has performed from the saddle the head of the local administration says initiative has not only improved health but brought officials closer to the people. i asked the governor can we have one more car to help us with our gc's he said you can have three to scooters and to buy so the tree officials can observe people see who is up to what who is 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 their kids ations and my abusing human

rights but the only way i am abusing human rights is by not giving people the opportunity to do even more physical exercise. as the clock strikes ten. the police are out in force. looking for bad children the governor has imposed a curfew for unsupervised under sixteen. i do not think it is a waste of police time tom those children will be arrested and returned to their homes we haven't seen them out on the streets again and this day the removal late is a tall as the youth patrol wraps up its final round the citizens of pens they can sleep well at the last safe in the knowledge that with each passing day they're healthier more contentious and the streets are increasingly free for all you. see. now we need a former british ambassador to syria who gives us his take on events in the troubled country one he knew so well.

today i'm talking to basel eastwards he's a former u.k. ambassador to syria he was serving in damascus between nine hundred ninety six and two thousand the situation's changed a lot since then and we're going to talk about what the situation on the ground is like now mr eastwood thank you very much for talking to us today now russia have been these that assets deserves at least some credit for trying to instigate some kind of reform do you agree well if you will seriously trying he tried to little

too late and his efforts have been totally undermined by the. violence that has been used on the peaceful demonstrators so that for every. death it becomes that much more difficult to conceive of any solution which leaves him and his coterie in power so from hey you don't think there's any way back for us that i think frankly . the best one can hope for is some sort of negotiated transition. might give him a way out. but it's very difficult to see how he can stay in power in the long run in the short run yes by increasing repression he can say that . but in the longer run it's not viable transition to him that i mean if assad is that a genuine opposition that could feasibly take control in any kind of facts that way that is the major problem the nature. the opposition is

or the demonstrations is that they have been so largely spontaneous that there is no very coherent leadership and the various attempts to bring together. a leadership behind a unified proposal for an alternative have so far failed but it's becoming clearer and clearer i think to the man in the street in syria that they've got to have a good alternative proposition if regime change is to be. not only credible but to happen without massive bloodshed and destruction so that the pressure is on the various. aspects of the opposition to come together and form an alternative proposition so you think that the opposition in syria is less organized and cohesive than it is in libya it's much more complicated certainly. because

whereas in libya you have an opposition that is has come together to fight a military campaign in syria you have an opposition. that is come together behind calls for peaceful demonstrations with the sole aim of now of. removing the regime but that has not required the same sort of coordination that the opposition has to acquire in libya and what you think of me down from the outside sanctions specifically we've already seen the e.u. in paste oil embargoes on syria with threats of further action if the situation doesn't praise what form do you think they sanctions could take in and who do you think they'll affect amazed depends what the sanctions are i would hope that the sanctions will be rather carefully targeted at particular individuals.

and. that's the course that has been followed so far except for the oil sanctions basically as the net is expanded to capture more of the to big business men who have worked alongside the regime and who have probably tacitly supported it in the past. so the tendency will be will be increasing pressure on them. to ditch the regime and find some other way of securing their interests how likely do you think it is that syria could tell into another maybe a tight situation i sincerely hope that it won't what is remarkable so far is the extent to which the opposition has remained nonviolent there have been episodes of violence. which is understandable in a country where there's quite a lot of weaponry around. and violence is being used against the people. but so far

it has been largely nonviolent there are increasing calls amongst the opponents of the regime saying you know we've got to use violence i sincerely hope they will those calls will be resisted so i don't think it's going to turn into that sort of . civil war type of confrontation i also think it's inconceivable that any outside powers would want to intervene militarily in a situation which is so complicated on the ground it's very difficult to see how any sort of outside intervention would help indeed it would probably hinder because it's the one thing that might bring all the syrians together in opposition to outside intervention so i just don't see that happening i think that's well realized amongst those who are most loud in condemnation of the syrian regime presence to thank you very much not at all pleasure.

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this is our top story tonight new york police get tough on thousands of occupy wall street activists furious their taxes are being used to prop up corporate america protesters have staged the biggest rally in three weeks after being joined now by the unions. a syrian woman seen as the symbol of the regime's brutality against his own people reappears alive and well after reportedly haven't been beheaded it's forced several media outlets to backtrack giving her suppose the death saturation coverage. and eurozone finance to help out banks that may suffer a blow from greece's burgeoning debt crisis meanwhile in athens violent protests against toughening austerity measures. thirty one here in moscow.