one pm in moscow i'm at treasury good to have you with us here on r t our top story the banker backlash in the united states is spreading with major rallies now held in washington los angeles and other several large cities thousands joined expressing their anger at economic inequalities and high unemployment demonstrations started last month when protesters started pitching tents in front of the new york stock exchange under the banner occupy wall street earlier this week heavy handed police were film using batons and pepper spray to disperse the crowds the aftermath of years of financial strife are causing people's patience to run out and they say they're angry at the banks for triggering it all 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 given the 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 went beyond dispersing angry crowds one independent reporter who's tried to cover the events says she got anything but police protection. as an independent journalist i actually had my own sort of run in with the play as i was arrested on the brooklyn bridge last weekend with seven hundred other people as i was filming and so were our live stream crews i was also knocked down by a police officer on the front lines in the 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 of afforded any of the protection that the mainstream media would it would be given because ultimately we are they are documented something that is happening for americans enduring rising unemployment and falling living standards it can feel like capitol hill is speaking a different language the rallying calls and optimism are a far cry from a once mighty city which is now all but closed with its people on the poverty line or. has the view from detroit these are difficult years for our country but we all know america we are the times we live in the u.s. great recession began as a real estate crisis in two thousand and seven he gave it 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 something you know this is part of their problem and the campaign it'll last them to continue the status quo and society starts clearly 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 an 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 u.s. leaders need to abandon exaggerated optimism for the ugly truth unemployment. going

to continue to get higher inflation as you begin 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 because then we have a better chance of recognizing the mistakes that were made us president barack obama has proposed a four hundred forty seven billion dollars plan to help first step to take america's workforce but just like any light saving procedure recovery can only begin to take place when the dissent is fully understood or enough more niamh artsy new york. and r.t. has analysis of the theory and fallout from the financial crisis online so click on r.t. dot com for more and check out what else we have on our web site for you. a new target for a notorious kansas bob just church the funeral of tech icon steve jobs will be picketed by the westboro congregation that's infamous for demonstrations at the burials of

fallen u.s. servicemen we'll explain why. and addicted to crime russia considers jailing drug users to curb the number of narcotic related felonies or to reports online check it out. the key suspects in the killing of russian journalist anna politkovskaya are to be charged with her murder friday this is exactly five years since politkovskaya was gunned down outside her moscow apartment high profile cases draw international attention but still no convictions but as artie's a cattery ranch over reports her family finally wants to see justice done. for police who worked on this day five years ago it was a model 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 leave here are you that i was well aware what kind of journalism my mother was into she would ok janelle if say if something happens to me documents are the monies here here are all the numbers to call but we never really took it seriously i was four months pregnant the family was full of hope and my mother promised that after her first grandchild was born she would still go into chechnya and take up quiete 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.

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 i would have had more evidence on your own 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 after years on the run in belgium and shortly afterwards investigators announced they were close 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. not with you know virgie as yet aware on the political worked up until her death has been carrying out its own investigation into the journalist's munter the newspapers deputy editor 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 who were my brothers and their friend who were in. his in two thousand and nine would know or in some way you know linked to this murder but you cannot really mccord's theory for the record it was a lack of solid evidence presented in court and always happened because there was a public pressure on the prosecution to rush to judgment we think that even their

arrests were too premature dominico. the russians supreme court unknown to the acquittal verdict of two thousand and nine and ordered a reopening of the investigation it's a significant part of the johnny but it's certainly not the end 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 scare 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 fit in a forty by forty marble played. it sit in the back chill for r t. two militants believed to be plotting a major terror attack on police have been killed in

a special operation to russia's cabrito ball-carrier republic it was part of a planned police assault on the suspects after a tip off on their whereabouts the militants were cornered in a residential flat and given the chance to surrender but they were killed in a shootout with the law enforcement no officers were injured the incident happened in an area that remains restive following years of fighting and terror attacks will stay with us here on r t still to come pumping progress into russia's rural heartland and you get close to the pens a region where unique heart valve factory is keeping the beat for 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 are spotted pouring in the outskirts of sirte from benghazi heavy shelling is happening in the area with pillars of black smoke rising from the city center the libyan civil war which is claimed so far 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 figures prove that nato did not have peaceful intentions. you have to remember the resolution of the u.n. was only confined to a no fly zones to imposing a no fly zones it was there to protect civilians at the end of the day we are now with nato actually going to war against the people of libya obviously the dictatorship which prevails there is no reason to because a 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 in the human rights council in geneva the commission which was asked to investigate the situation in libya came with a report saying that they have discussed with nato but nato has confirmed to go

court 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 big data ship 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 general john allen says u.s. troops will stay in afghanistan even after twenty fourteen's polo deadline

previously previously announced by nato when the white house what started a decade ago was a mission to get the perpetrators of nine eleven has transformed into an open ended hunt for the elusive taliban well it was militant attacks have been stepping up in recent months with several high profile assassinations and shootouts in the heart of the capital kabul civilian casualties are also on the rise but afghans saying they don't trust nato to protect them some former u.s. military officers are disillusioned with the war intended colonel karen quite koski thinks the true aim of the invasion they 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 bases which we have done 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 a supposedly democratic course never never elected back 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. u.s. led campaign in afghanistan has failed to meet most of its. original goals because they're shifting as the war drags on according to our his military contributor assessing the situation from the afghan capital. the initial intent was crystal clear to catch or kill osama bin laden no strings attached period

but from the outset the operation has gotten the wrong turn and today ten years later it's painfully obvious bad it has diggin aerated into their mission creep be that open ended commitment and no graceful exit inside for the united states forces or peace and security for the afghan people the w. bush administration. has ignored the key principle keep it simple stupid advocated by the u.s. special operations command and undermined and somewhat dodged that efforts in that pakistani afghan. tribal battles. otherwise. today we would have celebrated the tenth anniversary of the mission

accomplished. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe three women will share this year's nobel peace prize liberian president ellen johnson sirleaf activists layabout bowie and yemen's topical carm on world jointly recognized for women's rights workdays the nobel institute in oslo commended the trio for their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and other contenders for this year's prize including wiki leaks founder julian assange and u.s. military officer accused of leaking him the data bradley manning. a dozen british banks have had their credit ratings cut by the moody's agency sending their shares spiraling down they include the state controlled majors including r.b.s. and lloyds t.s.b. as well as 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 leaders want to avoid having to guarantee britain's largest banks. a

pakistani doctor accused of helping the cia in their covert operation could be charged with high treason state investigators play. operated a fake vaccination play gather d.n.a. samples in the city where osama bin laden was killed and they pakistan is furious over being kept in the dark over 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 in recent months to escape the fierce anti-government crackdowns president assad refuses to step down blaming the unrest on terrorists and armed gangs at least twenty nine hundred people have died in syria since the uprising started in march. time now for russia close up to take you deeper into the culture of the world's biggest country.

continuing our travels in the penza region six hundred kilometers southeast of moscow the top of the all so-called penza was found in a small fortress in the seventeenth century on the banks of the sorra river but there's also a high tech hub within its rich heritage and it's also home to a unique heart valve factory saving people's lives around the world every day or he saw it in action his report includes footage of the surgery. both inside and outside of russia the health of old new russians and also the state of the russian medical profession are 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 the d.c. all it's official policy in a company that started out just over fifteen years ago and the brothers have been so successful it's cool to over twenty five countries. lifesaving 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 was soviet made p.c.'s but then one day u.s. saw of course those know them on the russian made computers so that the empty shell of a building into something else by for russia's biggest producer of artificial 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 and ten of them planted 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 our international rivals and so we know we have 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 which is so obscure 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 one in five used to die during the surgery now to figures around one percent of. the surgery was successful said again.

officer will be discharged within a week. i look forward to the rest of my life i can feel the cuts better feel my heart working better i was to the i researched everywhere on the internet about it and it's fine i trust evolve that is inside my heart. either. see. in just over an hour martin gets a cultural kick out of moscow he heads to the renowned pushkin museum which has its centennial next year. when the museum was founded one of its main objectives was to become i g case the institute for local students many of the exhibits on display inside the museum are exact copies of the original masterpieces from all around the world and were commissioned and created specifically for the pushkin museum in this room for example you can see replicas of some of the most famous greek statues and sculpture between the fourth and first centuries.

already has your cue john take it in moscow are coming your way in a little bit more than an hour first though a look at the struggle for palestinians in the west bank and the jewish settlers but first business news with current. hello and welcome to our business update with me thanks for joining me russia's central bank is calling on the government to ensure it maintains a balanced budget deputy chairman and says that europe's debt crisis is pushing up borrowing costs even for countries like russia which is running a deficit. there's a really. so the case for her to be very careful about that. but of course it is very much should be gentle fiscal situation if you're her budget deficit in that

case we have to somehow finance it and the only way to finance the budget deficit is come to the markets. so if we're really not go into debt in that case you have to have zero budget deficit. there's another nod towards the end game for greece and other countries survival in the euro zone sex a bank's chief told r.t. that there are no sovereign debt solutions which members are prepared to stomach. we need to deal with the root problem which is that these guys who normally have the ability to prepare a good bit of the do more seem to have the. ability to try to cure in a way to problems becoming sure how do you produce old usually issues when you also lose competitiveness you have internal before you should be doing that people have to go down twenty thirty forty percent and so rich it's a very difficult so for any posts or if you or you do extra room to grow richer

which means you're actually who you are sort of from everything reachable her who you are from potentially other countries the richer more. let's look at the markets now or this falling trimming its first week again in three branches trading at one hundred and four dollars a barrel losing ninety six cents. as trading at eighty two dollars a barrel gold is rising for a third day in a row as investors wait for the key jobs data from the us gold is now trading at around sixteen hundred dollars an ounce silver has slipped into the negative territory after earlier games it's now close to thirty two dollars an ounce and european markets reverse to the negative to stop opiates as a miser it's a losing a quarter of a percent resources stocks are high on the footsie though with b.p. up one percent and we'll turn to gaining one point three percent that's all stronger commodity prices however banking stocks i shall be lower after moody's has downgraded the credit rating of twelve u.k. financial firms including lloyds r.b.c.

and santander u.k. and russian markets are gaining this so the out tests is to have one point eight percent and i'm isaacs is up one and a half percent let's have a look at some individual share moves on them isaac's metal stocks are on the rise much zero adding over five percent producer paul kali's among the main game is this hour it's up seven point six percent that's on news of the two and a half billion dollars buyback a little call is also getting the company plans to invest almost twenty billion dollars over finally operates in ten years. russian energy giant gazprom has obtained a license to explore one of the country's largest undeveloped gas fields the reserves of conflict fields are estimated at up to two trillion cubic meters that's enough to meet world gas to month eight months earlier this year gazprom bought the siberian deposit from russian british joint venture tehan k p p for nearly nine hundred million dollars. well that's all for this hour but i'll be back in about

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one thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines the anti wall street protests that have grown in new york over the past few weeks spreading to other major cities including washington thousands of americans joining demonstrations against poverty and corporate greed as the country continues to deal with its ongoing economic crisis. the 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 two accomplices her family's hope of progress in the case will eventually see justice served. pushing the purpose instead of pulling out quickly america's cloudy afghan exit strategy overshadowing the missions tenth anniversary with the deadline expected to be missed the top u.s. military commander there says the.