you with us here on r t our top story the banker backlash in the u.s. is spreading with major rallies held in the washington los angeles and several other cities thousands adjoined to express their anger at economic inequality and high unemployment demonstrations started last month when protesters began pitching tents in front of the new york stock exchange under the banner occupy wall street earlier this week heavy handed police were killed using the tongs and pepper spray to disperse the crowds the aftermath of years of financial strife is causing people's patience to run out and they say they're angry at banks for triggering it in the first place one journalist who joined the campaign says the protesters will not stop demanding social and economic justice. the police did receive what is it four point three million dollars from j.p. morgan chase just a couple days ago to help secure downtown manhattan and they're really hurting themselves and their image and they're showing what oppressive force there is to people who are just trying to peacefully walk down wall street i mean all these

people want to do is they want to walk down the iconic new york stock exchange they want to walk down wall street and they're treating it they're treating us like we're dangerous terrorists so i do see the police being manipulated by these elites they're giving them money and of course they're using tactics to try to squash us but that's only going to build us and make us a lot stronger strong arm tactics used by officers spread beyond dispersing angry crowds one independent reporter trying to cover the event says she didn't get anything about close to police protection. as an independent journalist i actually had my own sort of run in with the police i was arrested on the brooklyn bridge last weekend with seven hundred other people as i was filming and so were our live stream critters i was also knocked down by a police officer on the front lines and me in the union square protests and i think it's raised a lot of interesting questions about what the role of independent journalism is you know as we sort of move forward. i mean i know that on the brooklyn bridge there

were a couple times reporters that were arrested as well but you know it's it's a little frustrating that we aren't afforded any of the protection that the mainstream media would it would be given because ultimately we are there documented something that is happening for americans even during rising unemployment and falling living standards it can seem like capitol hill lou speaking a different language the rallying cries and optimism a far cry from a once mighty you city which is now all but closed with its people on the poverty line marina porton has more from detroit. these are difficult years for our country but we are americans we are tougher than the times we live in the u.s. great recession began as a real estate crisis in two thousand and seven today it's expanded into a national job emergency impossible to ignore the purpose of the american jobs act is simple. to put more people back to work according to the u.s.

government nine point one percent of americans are unemployed yet experts say deceptive measures and statistical shenanigans are being used to mask a jobless epidemic that's far worse they even not count or time workers who are working full time or and they also don't count long term unemployed people people who've been unemployed for over six months back in time those people would have been considered unemployed but the government constantly changes the definition of who's unemployed and they do that so that the unemployment number looks lower than it otherwise would have been when part time workers and the unemployed who have given up hope are factored in the real u.s. unemployment rate increases to more than sixteen percent a more telling but often ignored statistic if they were included then you know the government would have to acknowledge that they truly have a major crisis on and on they have you so you know this is part of their problem

and the campaign it'll oust them to continue the status quo and society starts completely breaking down broken down and in ruins the city of detroit is feeling the full force of america's economic decline one in three residents live below the poverty line half of the city's public schools are closing and crime is skyrocketing the capital of the country's motor industry now has an official unemployment rate of just under thirty percent but city officials and residents legs and opiate jeffries say the real figure is. close to fifty how do you describe it it is. i think it's indicative of what's going on in the rest of the country and they're just now feeling it to heal america's economic suffering experts say us leaders need to abandon exaggerated optimism for the ugly truth unemployment is going to continue to get higher inflation is really going to get

higher and rather than trying to pretend that the situation isn't as bad as it is we need to accept how bad it is a because then we have a better chance of recognizing that the mistakes that were made us president barack obama has proposed a four hundred forty seven billion dollars plan to help percent the tape america's workforce but just like any life saving procedure recovery can only begin to take place when the condition is fully understood. artsy new york. r.t. has analysis of the theory and followed in the financial crisis online so check out our team dot com for more and also find this story. a new target for a notorious kansas bob his church the funeral of tech icon steve jobs may be picketed by the westboro congregation that's infamous for demonstrations at the burials of fallen u.s. servicemen he explained why. and addicted to crime russia considers jailing drug

users to curb the number of car katic related felonies party reports at r.t. dot com. t.v. . key suspects in the killing of russian journalist anna politkovskaya are to be charged with her murder friday it's exactly five years since. it was gunned down outside her moscow apartment the high profile case to international attention but still no convictions as artie's a category new batch over reports her family just wants to see justice served. for police who worked on this day five years ago it was a murder of a woman huff way through their shift at around four pm for a very political it was hard way through her pregnancy when she got a call her mother had been shelled out side her apartment it was

a watershed moment and there is life before and after. when you might have seen you i was well aware what kind of journalism my mother was into she would ok janelle is say if something happens to me documents are the money's here and here are all the numbers to call but we never really took it seriously i was four months pregnant the family was full of who and my mother promised that after her first grandchild was born she would still go into chechnya and take up quite a journalistic work. but quiet journalistic work is not something you would associate on the political scale with best a gated corrupt security officials and exposed to human rights violations she help people when there are cases in the highest courts in russia and in strasbourg but the irony is that five years later your own murder still remains unpunished would get us. there have been different periods in the process both busy winton people

were arrested almost simultaneously in two thousand and seven and passive when nothing was happening however the events of recent months give us certain optimism for a successful ending successful in terms of finding the mastermind of the murder i can tell you if the investigation was as active five years ago as it is now by this time we would have had more evidence. or the twenty leaven has indeed been a turning point in may prosecutors named a man who is believed to have pulled the trigger. mood of was arrested in chechnya up to years on the run and belgium and shortly afterwards investigators announced they were close to just solving one of the most high profile slayings in recent brushed. mammary. a former high ranking police official dimitri publishing co was a middleman for money agreed to organize a criminal mob consisting of four people to carry out the assassination he kept. provided the perpetrator with a gun and would organize other members of the group we also have other information

about the alleged mastermind of the killing but it's too premature to release that information which was not within the tradition you know virgie as yet aware on the political scale worked up until her death has been carrying out its own investigation into the journalists munter the newspapers deputy editors says it's good that interest in the case is so high both in russia and abroad but it's bad when it turns into pressure on prosecutors but it's much more with the influence period before we still believe that the four people my brothers and their friends who were injured. in two thousand and nine would know or in some way linked to this murder but you cannot really mcchord security for the record it was a lack of solid evidence presented in court and always happens because there was a public pressure on the prosecution to rush to judgment we think that even their races were too premature to dominate. the russian supreme court unknown to the

verdict of two thousand and nine and ordered every opening of the investigation it's a significant part of the joint but it's certainly not be ended one of the biggest challenges for investigators at this point is to find other suspects who are now on the run outside the country but just like on the political square herself her family and colleagues will never give up as they strive to find the truth it takes very little to describe someone's death in case of on the political just a dozen words on a piece of stone but these journalists life and her legacy could never feet in a forty by forty marble played. it in the direction of our team. two militants believed to be plotting a major terror attack against police were killed in a special operation in russia's republic of copper the no ball carrier it was part of a planned police assault on the suspects after

a tip off about their whereabouts militants were cornered or in a residential flat and given the chance to surrender but they were killed in a shootout with police no officers were injured the incident happened in an area that remains arrested after years of fighting and terror attacks. still to come this hour pumping progress in russia's rural heartland get close up to the pens a region where a unique heart valve factory is keeping the beat her patients around the world. but first thousands of libyan soldiers are launching a final attack on moammar gadhafi his hometown of sirte hundreds of vehicles with fighters were spotted pouring from the outskirts in the outskirts of sirte from benghazi heavy shelling happening in the area with pillars of black smoke seen rising from the city center the libyan civil war which is claimed more than thirty thousand lives was joined by nato in march with a un objective to protect civilians but the president of the arab lawyers association tells r t the high death toll proves that nato did not have peaceful

intentions. you have to remember that the resolution of the u.n. was in fact only come find to a no fly zones to imposing a no fly zones it was there to protect civilians at the end of the day we end up with nato actually going to war against the people of libya obviously the dictatorship which prevails there is no reason to because war on the people off libya by nato i think the usa britain france and the western powers are hiding now behind nato so that no one can point a finger but the figures of the casualties caused by nato bombing is really mounting two weeks ago and the human rights council in geneva the commission which was asked to investigate the situation in libya came with their report saying that they have discussed with nato nato has confirmed to go call it that they have not

had any targeting against civilians i think nato is continuing its war against the libyan people albeit that they got rid of the dictatorship but we seem to be heading to the same exercise they have done in iraq and i think russia was right in taking the position that he syria because we don't want a repeat performance whereby the un took the position in iraq and then took the position in the u. n. is not there to change regimes it may protect humanitarian purposes it might protect civilians it might stop wars but it is definitely not to change regimes. the war in afghanistan may stretch beyond thirteen years according to washington's top military commander there what started a decade ago as a mission to get the perpetrators of nine eleven has transformed into an open ended hunt for the elusive taliban as jason reports the country's growing u.s. military bases may indicate that the military is barely thinking about leaving the

country. with us live forces over at the telepathically two thousand one bugbear field is little more than the flight tower of a cracked roadway since then the former soviet base in the plains north of the afghan capital has grown into a small city itself over twenty five thousand full time personal fleets of military cargo aircraft and enough equals to cause traffic jams that expansion is no way it is by scores of contractors u.s. military engineers are constructing new housing and storage facilities to make room for even more bidding war where. there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for tell a few moment appointments they can shop for everything from flat screen t.v.'s to fine jewelry enjoy a cappuccino to grab some takeout the new pizza hut franchise and if they're tired of working out in the gym they're free to go to the salon for a haircut inside which although some officials have tried to limit such amenities calling them a distraction from the war the troops are happy to have them and these are

extremely. useful if enough to leave this planet or even have a taste of the right. local afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business both inside and outside the wire without agreement a soldier's my business would be nothing we like having them here but not everyone agrees deadly taliban rocket attacks are on the rise and as the base becomes more and more crowded the threat to those living inside multiplies no matter how high its walls become everyone gets a close call when you're this can just get this much equipment personnel it's all into one tight spot get close it's going to destroy something or someone easy as it may be to forget at times this is still a war zone jason muckler in bargain for. some former u.s. military officers are disillusioned with the afghan war lieutenant colonel karen quite koski thinks that her aim of the invasion may have been to create a platform for keeping an eye on or possibly invading other targets. in many ways

american people have not been told what we came to afghanistan to do and that mission is to build a sense which we have done and to man those bases and to operate militarily from those bases against other countries in the region that mission has actually been somewhat successful 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 democratic course never never elect 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 this is not about the afghans 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 with the permanent bases and we want to terrorize pakistan iran and be there to look out over the mountains into china. turned out as some other stories making headlines across the globe a dozen british banks have had their credit ratings cut by the moody's agency sending their shares spiraling down to include the state controlled major such as r.b.s. of lloyds t.s.b. as well as the santander and nationwide moody's thinks the government is unlikely to adequately back the banks if they fall into financial trouble the treasury chief said the look leaders want to avoid having to guarantee britain's largest banks. a pakistani doctor accused of helping the cia in a covert operation could be charged with high treason state investigators claim shock you are pretty operated a fake vaccination program to gather d.n.a. samples in the city where osama bin laden was killed and may pakistan is furious over being kept in the dark with the u.s.

mission to wipe out bin laden saying it violated the country's. sovereignty. syrian troops have reportedly crossed into lebanon and attacked local farmers killing a syrian man about five thousand refugees fled to lebanon and in recent months to escape the anti-government crackdown by security forces president assad refuses to step down and blaming the unrest on terrorists and armed gangs at least twenty nine hundred people have died in syria since the uprising started in march. there have been fierce clashes between police and students in the chilean capital a day after education reform talks collapsed at least thirty were injured including police who used tear gas and water cannons to break up demonstrators of several thousand strong student leaders said the violence was unprecedented in the five months of confrontations since demands for education reform starting. time now for russia close up to take you deeper into the culture of the world's biggest country.

continuing our travels the in penza region which is six hundred kilometers southeast of moscow the capital also going by the name pens it was founded as a small fortune in the seventeenth century on the banks of the server a river about there is also a high tech hub within its rich heritage also home to you in to a home to a unique heart valve factory saving people's lives around the world every day or he's eager went to see it his boy and his report contains footage of the life saving surgery. both inside and outside of russia the health of old navy russians and also the state of the russian medical profession often seen as something of a mixture between a joke and a horror story but they're all facts that challenge that's. just outside of. d.c. all it's official policy in the company that stuff about just about fifteen years

ago i'm. i've been so successful it's for the over forty five countries. life saving surgery the doctors are sewed in an artificial valve that will allow this man's heart to function again the construction of the deceptively simple mechanism will determine how he lives the rest of his life and if he survives at all twenty years ago all these valves had to be imported until this company opened in penza originally this was meant to be a huge producing this the soviet made theses but then when the u.s. saw collapse of course there was no demand for russian made computers so that the empty shell of a building and into something else life for russia's biggest producer oth official heart. started by a single russian physicist meddings sprung up without government support none of the small team of inventors that worked with the medical equipment manufacturer

before now seven in ten above implanted in russia come from here it may look like an over expanded workshop but the quality of its products has allowed this company to supply them to over twenty countries though here they know that success can be fleeting. and we say that we know we've had our successful invention but take knowledge she moves on we are small compared to her international rivals and so we knew we had to keep making new models just to survive. and usually for russia every new model was developed together with pensions like a heart center but doctors here admit that at first there was skepticism about the russian made piece of medical equipment. so doctors are very conservative by nature and adverse they and their patients were very mistrustful of devolves to make people try something new on themselves it was difficult but i'll tell you this twenty years ago up to two thousand and five used to die during the surgery now to

figures around. one percent of. the surgery was successful said again matching a retired army officer will be discharged within a week. i look forward to the rest of my life now i can feel the cuts but i feel my heart working better as to the volves i researched everywhere on the internet about it and it's fine i trust evolve that is inside my heart. either party pens are. going americans up next with the latest business news stay with us here on r.t. . how i welcome to our business here in our team russia's central bank is calling on the government to ensure it's maintains a balanced budget deputy chairman alex a kind of says europe's debt crisis is pushing up borrowing costs even for countries like russia which is running

a virtually zero deficit. goes to really. look his or her to be very careful about. what of course it is very much should be general fiscal situation if we refer to budget deficits in that case we're close to call for and sort of the only way one is the budget deficit has come to the markets. so if we're really on the go into effect so didn't get the super of the five zero budget office . turning to the market numbers now oil prices have raised early against brant is trading at one hundred five dollars per barrel into eighty two dollars a barrel asian stocks post strong gains amid fresh indications that europe is ramping up efforts to shore up its financial system and prevent another global banking crisis banks are notable gainers ages b.c. holdings get rallied four percent on bank of china gained a five and a half percent and hong kong european markets are trading higher this outgrowth of

footsie and the dax. pussy's up point two percent the dax is point three percent higher this hour resources stocks in supporting the full q.b.p. up one percent in real time to gaining one point three percent on stronger commodity prices however banking stocks are sharply lower after moody's investor service downgraded twelve u.k. financial institutions shares of all bank of scotland fell three point eight percent while lloyd's is down three point six percent on the news and russian markets are gaining this. is up nearly three percent and i'm isaacs is again. over two and a half percent now let's have a look at some individual shovels of a miser metal stocks are among the main game is this our m.k. is up nearly five percent while much of is adding five point three percent and local is also on the rise the company plans to invest almost twenty billion dollars on refinery upgrades in ten years. there's another nod towards the end game for

greece and other countries survival of the eurozone saxo bank chief told r.t. that there are no sovereign debt solutions solutions which members are prepared to stop we need to deal with the root problem which is that these guys do not have the ability to pay back that when they do not seem to have the you know the will show the ability to try to generate a balanced economy so how do you how do you solve these issues when you also lose competitiveness if you have internal deflation meaning that people have to go down twenty thirty forty percent and so rich that's a very difficult for any politician or you do external devaluation which means you have to leave do you assume some of you think that greece will have to leave the euro zone and potentially other countries. question energy giant gazprom is obtain a license to explore one of the country's largest undeveloped gas fields the reserves the failed are estimated at up to two trillion cubic meters enough to meet

world gaston on for eight months earlier this year gazprom but the siberian deposit from a russian british adventurer tank a b.p. for nearly nine hundred million dollars. and french energy major told tal is increasing its presence in russia with a twenty percent stake in a liquefied natural gas project and the country's north mall l n g a subsidiary of russia's biggest product gas producing nava tac is worth between fifteen to twenty billion dollars this is the second joint project developed by talk and not a. that's our latest business update but remember you can always find most stories just log on to our website r.t. dot com.

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twelve thirty pm in moscow the headlines are wall street protests that have grown in new york over the past few weeks are spreading to other major cities including washington thousands of americans are joining demonstrations against poverty and corporate greed as the country struggles to deal with the its ongoing economic crisis. key suspects in the killing of russian journalist anna politkovskaya five years ago to be formally charged with her murder investigators also say they found new accomplices her family is hopeful progress in the case will see justice eventually served. pushing the purpose instead of pulling out quickly america's cloudy afghan exit strategy overshadows the mission's tenth anniversary with a deadline expecting to be missed the top us now.