you're watching r t with me and he's there now and it's two pm here in the russian capital six am in new york and the banker backlash in the u.s. is spreading with major rallies held now in washington los angeles and several other cities thousands join to express their anger at economic inequalities and high unemployment the 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 filmed using baton and pepper spray to disperse crowds the aftermath of years of financial strife are causing people's patience to run out and they're angry at the banks for triggering it in the first place but 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 well those strong arm tactics used by officers went beyond dispersing angry crowds and independent reporter who's trying to cover the event 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 of 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 are never afforded any of the protection that the mainstream media would it would be given because ultimately we are there documentary is something that is happening. for americans enduring rising unemployment and falling living standards it can feel like capitol hill is talking a different language the rally and goals and optimism are a far cry from a once mighty city which is not all but closed with its people on the poverty line . has a view 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 something you know this is part of their problem and the campaign it'll oust them to continue the status quo and society starts glee 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. 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 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 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 or set the table america's workforce but just like any life saving procedure recovery can only begin to take place when the police said it's fully understood hurry up or die on our team me or . r.t. has analysis of the fury and for a while before national crisis online for you keep an eye on our coverage of our dot com and here's a look at what else we've got lined up for you right now a new target for an of tortillas kansas baptist church the funeral of technology

icon steve jobs will be hated by the westboro congregation infamous for demo's out the burials for when american soldiers we explain why. and addicted to crime with russia considers jailing drug users to curb the number of narcotic related felonies are to report on mine. the key suspects in the killing of russian journalist on the part of course are to be charged with her murder on friday it's exactly five years since part of course care was gunned down near her apartment block here in moscow a high profile case has drawn international attention but still no conviction but as you're getting a good actual report her family wants to see justice finally 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 vienna police 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 in vera's life before and after you do snow storm when you might seem to you that i was well aware what kind of journalism my mother was into she would ok janelle you see if something happens to me documents are here the money is 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 quite a journalistic work. but quiet journalistic work is not something you would associate on the political scale with she investigated corrupt security officials and exposed to human rights violations she helped 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 but your eyes would be if you were there there have been different periods in the process busy when ten 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 on your cube. 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 of two years on the run in belgium and shortly afterwards investigators announced they were closed just solving one of the most high profile slayings in ricin brush in memory. a former high ranking police official that 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 the new doing you know virgie as yet aware on the political 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 to fear from scruples we still believe that the four people that my brothers and their friends who were in were acquitted in two thousand and nine with no or in some way and winked to this murder but you cannot really mccord's jury for the record it was

a lot of solid evidence presented in court and all this happened because there was a public pressure on the prosecution to rush to judgment we think that even their races were too premature to make. the russians supreme court unknown to the verdict of two thousand and nine and ordered a reopening of the investigation it's a significant part of the journey 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 office. 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 tour a legacy could not have a feat in a forty by forty marbled play. if you look at our children r t.

two militants believed to be planning a major terror attack against police have been killed in a special operation in russia's korea republic it was part of a planned police assault on the suspects after a tip off about their whereabouts the militants were cornered 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 took place in an area that remains restive following years of fighting and terrorist attacks. on the way this hour for you pumping progress in russia's rural heartland to get closer to the pens a region where you need a heart valve jury is keeping the beat for patients around the world. but first thousands of libyan soldiers are launching the final attack on moammar gadhafi is home town of sirte hundreds of vehicles with fighters are spotted pouring into the outskirts of spirit from god heavy shelling planes in the area

with pillars of black smoke seen rising from the center of the libyan civil war which is claimed over thirty thousand lives was joined by nato in march with the u.n. object to attack civilians but as arab lawyers association president told r.t. the overwhelming death figures prove that nato did not have peaceful intentions. you have to remember that the resolution of the u.n. was in fact only confined to a no fly zones to imposing a no fly zones it was there to protect civilians and the end of the day we end up with nato actually going to war against the people of libya obviously the dictatorship which prevailed there is no reason to declare war on the people of the libya by nato i think the usa britain france and the western powers and 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 a report saying that they have discussed with nato but nato has confirmed to go call it that they have not had any targeting against the 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 is 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 will 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 the twenty fourteen pullout deadline previously announced by nato and the white house but what began a decade ago as the mission to get the perpetrators of nine eleven has transformed into an open ended hunt for the taliban relentless militant attacks have been stepping up in recent months with several high profile assassinations and shootouts in the heart of the capital kabul so million casualties are also on the rise with afghans saying they don't trust nato to protect them some former u.s. military officers are now disillusioned with the war its on it colonel karen. ski thinks the term aim of the invasion was to create a platform for keeping an eye on or even 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 city 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 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 a suppose it democrat of 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 business 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 we've got permanent bases and we want to terrorize pakistan iran and

you know be there. to look out over the mountains in china. well the u.s. led campaign in afghanistan's failed to meet most of its original goals because they're shifting as the war drags on that's according to our team's military contributor who now assesses the situation from kabul. the initial intent was crystal clear to catch or kill osama bin laden no strings attached period but from the outset of the operation has gotten the wrong turn and today ten years later it's painfully obvious that 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. their efforts. in the pakistani afghan. tribal battles otherwise. today we would have celebrated the tenth anniversary of the mission accomplished. well let us know what you think of the u.s. campaign in afghanistan by voting at r t dot com today we're asking what do you make of the decade of us occupation almost half say if that meant that afghanistan's domination of the heroin market just over a third tell us that it's left america bloodied and broke fifteen percent believe it means america can now invade lebanon pakistan the small remaining few think it's made the world i think for a while let us know what you think top of the line add your voice at our got.

a look now at some world news in brief for you this hour a dozen british banks have their credit rating caught by the moody's agency sending their sarah spiraling down include the state controlled majors such as r.b.s. and lloyds t.s.b. as well as santander. nationwide thinks the government is unlikely to adequately back the banks if they fall into financial trouble the treasury chief says leaders want to avoid having to guarantee britain's largest. three women share this year's nobel peace prize liberian president ellen johnson sirleaf activist les mabo we yemen's cardamom were jointly recognized for their women's rights work the nobel institute in oslo commended the trio for their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women. and have won the peace prize in the past one hundred years.

a pakistani doctor accused of helping the cia in their covert operation could be charged with treason state investigators claim shaquille i freely operated a fake vaccination program to gather d.n.a. samples in the city where osama bin laden was killed in may pakistan is furious for being kept in the dark over the u.s. mission to wipe out bin laden saying it violated its sovereignty. syrian troops have reported the crossed into lebanon and attacked local farmers killing a syrian man about five thousand refugees fled to lebanon in recent months to escape the fears antigovernment crackdowns president 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. time for the russia close up team to take you deeper into the cultural world of the world's largest country.

we continue to travel through pens i would just six hundred kilometers southeast of moscow the capital is also called penza and was of was founded as a small. fortress in the seventeenth century on the banks river. there's also a high tech hub within it's rich heritage and it's also home to a unique heart valve factory that saving people's lives around the world every day . has been to see it in action this report includes footage of life saving surgery . both inside and outside of russia. ordinary 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 there are facts that challenge the. pair of producing officials in

a company that's just over fifteen years ago and it's been so successful exported to over twenty five countries. life saving surgery the doctors are sold in an artificial valve to to 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 hard because the soviet made p.c.'s but then when the u.s.s.r. collapsed of course there was no demand for russian made computers so that of the empty shell of a building and turned it into something else by for russia's biggest producer artificial heart. started by a single russian physicist meddings sprang up without government support none of the small team of inventors that worked with the medical equipment manufacturer

before now seven in 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. unusually for russia every new model was developed together with pens as local heart center but doctors here admitted that at first there was skepticism about the russian made piece of medical equipment which is so what doctors are very conservative by nature and at first they and their patients were very mistrustful of devolves to make people try something new on themselves 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 sit again match and i retired army officer will be discharged within a week which 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 in the internet about it and it's fine i trust evolve that is inside my heart. either party pens are. up next year in our see if the latest business news with kareena. howard welcome to our business update this hour the eurozone sovereign debt crisis is causing problems far beyond the borders of the country directly involved russia which has a balanced budget and healthy reserve and healthy reserves has been hit hard and its latest report the international monetary fund says that the best way to get rid of this fall into reality is to diversify we would recommend as we have always recommend that every effort be made to be less dependent on the oil and gas sectors so the policy priority to emphasize all other industries in particular the manufacturing sector

a return to competitiveness through exports and so forth russia has plenty of access to technology educated labor force all the ingredients necessary to relaunch its manufacturing sector like all other advanced economies so that that would be a first for a second we think that russia might want to continue for sizing stronger people public finances the government has set the target of four point seven percent oil deficit that is a very valid target which would make the russian economy a lot more resilient in our view. there's another nod towards the end game for greece and other countries survival in the eurozone sex are banks the chief told r.t. 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 paper good at them they do more seem to have. that we're sure of the true true true true and worried about the economy sure how do you produce old we

should issues when you also lose competitiveness you haven't shown before you should be doing that people have to go down twenty to thirty forty percent and show rich but it's a very difficult so for any posts or should all you do extra room to grow your ration which means you're actually who you assume are some of you think greece will have to you do you assume potentially other countries. no let's take a look at the markets oil turn it all is falling from his first week again in three brant is trading at one hundred four dollars for about losing ninety six cents losing actually sixty seven cents and is at eighty two dollars per barrel gold is rising for the third day in a row as investors wait for the key jobs data from the u.s. it's trading at over six hundred dollars an ounce silver has slipped into the negative territory after earlier gains and it's now close to thirty two dollars an ounce and markets in europe are trading lower the resources stocks are higher on

the footsie would be one percent rio tinto gaining over one to help decide how strong the commodity prices have a banking stocks the shelf the lower half the reason downgrade is the credit rating of twelve k. financial firms including lloyds r.b.s. and sometimes their u.k. . and here in russia markets are trading in the black the artist is up one and a half percent and the wise ics is is up just over five per cent now let's take a look at something divisional shammal some isaac's metal stocks are on the rise with metro adding over five percent put our producer is among the main gainers that's how it's up more than six percent on news of two and a half billion dollars buyback and look oil is also gaining the company plans to invest almost twenty billion dollars on refinery upgrades in ten years. russia's top diamond producers are also plans to hold at the end of two thousand and twelve or soon after the company has previously suggested it would offer up to twenty five percent of its shares to raise three billion dollars the government says it intends

to completely withdraw from this capital by two thousand and seventeen. russia's energy giant gazprom has obtained a license to explore one of the country's largest undeveloped gas fields the reserves of conflict a field estimated at up to two trillion cubic metres enough to meet world gas demand for eight months earlier this year gazprom bought the siberian deposit from russian british joint venture take a b.p. for nearly nine hundred million dollars. that's all for now i'll be back with more in less than one i'll try me.

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at your thirty pm moscow time these other top stories on our team of fancy wall street protests that are growing 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 a country struggles to deal with the ongoing economic crisis. he says. in the killing of russian journalist i'm not going to five years ago or to be formally charged with her murder investigators also say they found new accomplices her family are hopeful progress in the case will soon justice intentionally served. pushing the purpose instead of pulling out quickly america's economy and afghan exit strategy overshadows the missions tempo and.