our thanks for joining is new york police have reportedly used pepper spray and batons on anti wall street protesters who have been trying to break through a barricade separating them and the stock exchange demonstrations keep on spreading across the country where the rally is now entering its third week. brings us the latest from new york. 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 as 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 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 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 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 the frustration is not solely to the financial institutions. and to help us understand what's pushed crowds on to the streets across the u.s. we're now joined live by john wellington that is a filmmaker and also a contributor to the huffington post jones thank you very much indeed for a time so earlier on we just heard from the u.s. president who said he understood the frustration of the people so with the protests

hitting a third week out do you think the people are actually trying to achieve something here well is this just more of a statement. oh i think it's the beginning of something that's going to be going to the wall being. obama there's a lot of doings to knowledge this mirrors his reluctance to get. rid of the oil spill and the outrage there. i think while this may seem like. a demonstration and signs to a lot of people disease as you. were led into this. these are very hard and what the media keeps trying to do. is and try to see how much they can get them off into some top and more into this really much more that there's the reality of what people are living in a church has appeared to have a number of different goals but how strongly you know right to do thing they really are. well i think the protests are so united that they didn't even need

a common purpose to be stated as i wrote enough to post i think this was the one protest where you could ask them why they were there and they would reply why the f. to you thing. i think that there's such a common frustration and there's been so many patients stages by the us people to wait for reform a person that is best two thousand not obama had a chance and instead focused on sort of i think like. a vanity project like health care which is just going to get kicked down by the supreme court also protesters were chanting slogans about age of a sort of relation is it possible that anything of that might be cheered could take place in the u.s. from your point of view well i think people are showing up in public what they're doing is they're living power to other people so that when they recognize their presence other people know that they're not alone and i think that more than that

and more than the fact that these are the new leaders these are. taking the only means left to do which is the streets i think even more than that when you go in to protest and when you appear in public in support of a cause you don't know what ripples you're creating one of the. one of the groups i follow in my film peter plays the american legislative exchange council alec and they draft legislation that is conveniently made for ations and handed off tuesday . that religious extremist this is only kinda like this year anyways because of the protests in its carlson and the protests in cincinnati. member of l o. o over eight hundred documents of three religious leadership he reached out to the out demonstrators and i believe you're a positive change of heart and so once you're out there you don't know ripples

you're creating i think this is turning into a title yet john very very briefly from your point of view how long will it last. i think this is going to be going through we're going to go through twenty twelve elections and. the democratic party or through their actions that look to co-opt for this and are going to find a lot of resistance. there was john wellington and is filmmaker and contributor to the post john thank you very much indeed. moving on now the u.n. human rights office have put the death toll in syria two thousand nine hundred people since anti regime protests began in march however stablish ing the truth about what's really going on in the country continues to prove difficult and artie's other bennett has the story and how an apparent regime victim made an amazing grandparents. 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 xena corpse and they are simply too gruesome to air several western media outlets were quick to report al holes in these 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 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 has footage religiously shows an armed assad civilians being targeted by gun toting rebels say 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.s. is now part of the pro-democracy receipt regime is ridiculous they are jumping on their way again 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 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 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 altar into a political motive 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. on the bennetts. london. elsewhere in the world a nato led companion has sparked a decade long war some had figured this out american troops and the afghan conflict where u.s. soldiers are increasing down for an extended stay in the war torn country had stopped military commanders admit demolition would be much longer than expected. i was concerned grows that the eurozone is falling deeper into recession finance

chiefs are wondering out plans to save god the region's bonds if they announce they'll 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 and there's doubt that the next bailout installment for greece will actually go ahead and the fallout from the country's resulting default will 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 or angry crowds of anti austerity protesters the government is imposing more cuts on its people trying to cap massive debts some three hundred fifty billion euros country ground to a halt has worked as it worked out in a journal strike leaving flights grounded and hospitals relying on emergency stop. has more from the greek capital. syntagma square once again bearing witness to clashes between riot police furious protest is. that the

background here is. that you know we're back to larry. and the pensions really been my thing as a police moved in to clear the crowds and shocking scenes at one point the police seem chasing protesters into the station many others hit and kicked by they supposed to be keeping control of the block but the message being sent by the government is one of repression and fear. scenes like this raise serious questions about the level of force being used. to priors. forty three year old journalist he's reported from many conflicts but it was in his own country where he sustained his worst injury. i just remember thinking is this really happening including us i took shelter in an enclosure just or syntagma 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 has caused 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 the countless cases against heavy handed police tactics only 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 further bailout cash pensions looks set to keep escalating i think . and first. to explain.

the first reaction. from europe. has been expressed. the impact of the financial crisis is being played out blow by blow on some type of 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 surface r.t. . meanwhile german chancellor angela merkel says that both. needs to be considered as the continent's sovereign debt crisis centers but economic analyst michael moss told r.t. that berlin will be the one to suffer from its attempts to save the. it's always difficult to tell what happens if you really let greed is when corrupt or let go some banks bankrupt the banks are now all on the actu in order already and i think what they discussed in berlin or between. is to keep germany more or less as

a hostage we have to stick on the euro we have to stick on the you we cannot leave it we must stick together and give all our money until the system comes completely breaks on the other hand we have also to take account of what is the e.c.b. and when i look to the steps that were announced i can only see the e.c.b. is committing suicide our central bank is committing suicide on the one hand helping banks with billions and billions they're buying junk bonds bills and billions i mean where does this lead to it's one of the last confidence of the nail the last nail of the coffin of our central bank and that is economic analyst michael morales we're. propping up banks well. washington is threatening to leave unesco without american cash as the world's education and heritage group moves a step closer to allowing palestine to join the u.s.

gives tens of millions of dollars to unesco but can't legally fund any who own body that have made a nonmember the culture group has agreed to put the palestinian bid to its members vote by the end of the month it's a key diplomatic victory for the palestinians at the u.n. the head of the vote on it statehood however there is still fierce opposition from washington which says a legitimate state can only be achieved through direct talks with israel. and right now a quick look at the news in this hour millions around the world mourn the death of apple's co-founding genius steve jobs the man behind a conic my i pod i phone and i pod he died peacefully aged fifty six after years of battling pancreatic cancer and led apple to its position as the world's biggest computer and presided over an empire that revolutionized computing mobile phones and even listening to music the sad news sparked the biggest online reaction for years reaching ten thousand tweets a second. nobel prize for literature has gone to

a swedish poet thomas trans trauma was praised by their candidate for his kind of dance translucent images which gave a french accent story ality surreal books explore the inner nature of life and have been translated into more than sixty languages the eighty year old literally mostly tree master will receive their ward at a ceremony in december. the death toll from torrential rains that have battered thailand for months has risen to two hundred thirty seven millions of people in twenty eight tie provinces have been displaced by analysts flooding. over filled downs were given way and water logged in the country's central region more rain is expected to hit the recovering nation in the coming days. and we're now heading into the. the care anniversary of the u.s. invasion of afghanistan it was on october the eleventh seven thought that to a thousand and one wonder war that began out of the averting turnabout refused to

hand the nine eleven mastermind osama bin laden but a decade on the troops are still back and told the channel has suggested the current withdrawal deadline of twenty fourteen may still be too same for my cia officer at the literal days as washington infighting over the withdrawal of troops is having a toxic effect on the decision making process that well i think the the there are two different assessments taking place here the one assessment is a political assessment where the president of the united states who is up for reelection wants very much to make it look like the war in afghanistan is ending so he was the one that basically was pushing for twenty fourteen now if you would if you look at the assessments that the military has been making for some time now those assessments have always been much more pessimistic they have basically been in some cases said that the u.s. would be there after twenty fifteen and other cases they've said the u.s. would be there for many years with that without any date being suggested for

example the british commander in afghanistan has suggested just that that this is a war that cannot be successfully concluded so i think this is a question of the military giving its assessment which is pessimistic that a politician giving his assessment which is more optimistic for political reasons. now if you want more artsy news and coverage stay tuned don't forget to visit our website altie doc home and here are some of the stories you'll find online right now on the cia has allegedly also wise drone strikes against dangerous americans abroad but it is the citizens at home on their growing suspicions that the agency should be worried about. and also headlined to see that one of the nearly modernized chechen capital grozny hasn't celebrated spectacular rise from the ruins of just a decade ago. up next to meet a former british ambassador to syria who gives us his take on the violence in the

troubled country one he knew so well. today i'm talking to basil eastwards he's a former u.k. ambassador to syria he was serving in damascus between nine hundred ninety six out of 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 been these that asimov's 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 here 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 a viable transition to. in there i mean if assad is that a genuine opposition that could physically take control in any kind of facts it way that is the major problem the nature of 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 a u.n. paste oil embargo case on syria with threats of further action if the situation

doesn't praise what form do you think they sanctions could take and who do you think that affect the maze. 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 businessmen 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. most log in condemnation of the syrian regime thank you very much and all the top pleasure. of the movie.

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