it's three pm in moscow this is r t coming to you live i'm nice now with our top story the banker backlash in the united states is spreading with major rallies held 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 batons and pepper spray to disperse the crowds the aftermath of years of financial strife are constant people's patience to run out and they're angry at the 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 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. but the strong arm tactics used by officers went beyond just bursting angry crowds and independent reporter who's trying to cover the events as 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 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 of afforded any of the protection that the mainstream media would it would be given because ultimately we are there documented something that is happening. well for americans and during rising unemployment and falling living standards that can feel like capitol hill is talking a different language the rally calls and optimism are a far cry from once mighty cit one from a once mighty city i should say which is now all but closed with its people on the poverty line. has the view from detroit. these are difficult years for our country

but we are america we are the times we live in the u.s. great recession began as a real estate crisis in two thousand and seven 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 stick to stickle shenanigans are being used to mask a jobless epidemic that's far worse they even not challenge 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 not employed and they do that so that the unemployment number looks lower than it otherwise would have bad 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 to do something you know this is part of their problem ganda campaign that it allows 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 o.b. a 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. 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 her 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 new york. where he has no sense of the fury and fallout of the financial crisis online for you keep an eye on our coverage at our team dot com here's what else we've got

lined up for you there right now a new target store and a tory of kansas baptist church the funeral of technology icons people jobs will be picketed by the westboro congregation the infamous for demos that the burials of the fallen american soldiers we explain why. and addicted to crime russia considers jailing drug users to curb the number of narcotic related felonies r t reports online. because suspects in the killing of russian journalist. are to be charged with her murder on friday exactly five years probably of course there was gunned down near her apartment block in moscow a high profile case that's drawn international attention but it's still no

conviction but as you're covering the groucho reports 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 and there is life before and after it is no storm when you might leave soon you i was well aware what kind of journalism my mother was into she would ok janelle they say if something happens to me documents are 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 stop going to chechnya and take up quite a journalistic work. but quiet journalistic work is not something you would

associate on the political scale when 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 both busy when ten people were arrested almost simultaneously in two thousand and seven and passive when the thing 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 need. or the twenty leaven has indeed been a turning point in may prosecutors named a man who is believed to have pulled the trigger mahmoud of was arrested in chechnya after a year's 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 dimitri publishing co was a middleman for money agreed to organize a criminal more 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 routine you know virgie as yet aware on the political worked up until her death has been carrying out its own investigation into the journalists monta 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 are my brothers and their friend

who were in the dark and were acquitted in two thousand and nine with no or in some way linked to this murder but you cannot blame the cord injury 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 with 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 joni but it's certainly not be 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 police. 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. on the political just a dozen words on

a piece of stone but these journalists slice and tour a legacy could not a feat in a forty by forty marble plane. if you do that there are children r t. two militants believed to be plotting a major terror attack against police have been killed in a special operation in russia's cupboards you know both korea republic it was part of a planned police assault on the suspects after a tip off of their whereabouts the militants were cornered in a residential plot 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 two years of fighting and terrorist attacks. on the way this hour pumping progress in rural heartland we get close up depends a region where a unique heart valve factory is keeping the beat for patients around the world. thousands of libyan soldiers are pointing the final attack on moammar gadhafi his

hometown of sirte hundreds of vehicles the fighters are spotted point in the outskirts of here from thank god we haven't taken place in the area with pillars of black smoke seen rising on this particular libyan civil war which is claimed over thirty thousand lives was joined by nato in march with a u.n. objective to protect civilians but it's our employers association president told r.t. the overwhelming data figures prove that nato did not have peaceful intentions. you have to remember the resolution of the u.n. well. when you come find to a no fly zones do imposing a no fly zones. 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 prevails there is no reason to declare war on the people off the libya buying a talk i think the usa britain france and the western powers are hiding 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 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 axis. as 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 libya the u. n.

is not there to change or a genes 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 point out of line previously announced by nato and the white house what began a decade ago as a mission of to get the perpetrators of nine eleven has transformed into an open ended hunt for the elusive 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 work you tell it colonel perrin koski i say thinks the true 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 places 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 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 supposedly democratic course never never elected a bad time a friend of a patsy of the american government and he remains there to this day you know we had no intention of allowing the afghan people to choose if they had if 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 permanent bases and we want to terrorize pakistan iran and you know be there to look out over the mountains into china. the u.s. led campaign in afghanistan has failed to meet most of its original goals because they're shifting asked the war drags on that's according to our 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 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 at our t.v. dot com today we're asking what you make of the decade of u.s. led occupation almost half say if they meant it afghanistan's domination of the heroin market just over a third tell us that it's left america bloodied and broke and sixteen percent believe it means america can now invade neighboring pakistan while the small

remaining you think it's made the world a favor place and your voice. dot com and vote. do it america. the target. comes to. the issue of the food the food supply us more mission. the mission to bring peace and stability to the war and the ten years known as a dumb enough to move dangerous. let's take a look at some world news in grief 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 such as r.b.s. lloyds t.s.b. as well as santander and nationwide moody's thinks the government is only likely 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 back. three women share this year's nobel peace prize liberian president ellen johnson sirleaf activists they mabo we and yemen's cool car model 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 only twelve women have won the peace prize on you don't have those one hundred years. a pakistani doctor accused of helping the cia in their covert operation could be charged with high treason a state investigators claim secu 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 reportedly crossed into levanon 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 also had 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 much. time for the russia close up team to take you deeper into culture of the world's largest country. we continue to travel through pends which is six hundred kilometers east of moscow and was founded as a small fortress in the third one hundred thirty three on the banks river but there's also a high tech hardware going to its rich heritage and home to a unique part factory and saving people's lives around the world every day r.t.

if you are grown there has been to see it in action his report includes my kids by saving surgery. both inside and outside of russia the health of 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 that stereotype pair just outside of producing all official in a company that started out just over fifteen years ago and its products have been so successful exported to over twenty five countries. life saving surgery the doctors are so new in an artificial valve 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 flaw and producing all of this the soviet made the seas but then when the u.s. saw collapse of course there was no demand for russian made computers so the empty shell of a building and turned it into something else by for russia's biggest producer of artificial heart valves started by a single russian physicist committing sprung 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. and usually for every new model was developed together with. doctors here admit 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 in 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 the figure is around one percent of. the surgery was successful said again a retired officer will be discharged within a week. i look forward to the rest of my life i can feel the cuts but i feel my heart working better as to the i researched everywhere in the internet about it and it's fine i trust evolve that is inside my heart. either party. on the way soon to look at what's next for the arab world and. talk up next though with the latest business. welcome to our business update this hour thanks for joining me the eurozone

sovereign debt crisis is causing problems far beyond the borders of the countries directly involved russia which is a balanced budget 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. 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 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 old ingredients necessary to relaunch its manufacturing sector like all other advanced economies so that it would be first priority second we think that russia might want to continue emphasizing a stronger people public finances. 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 look more resilient you know if you. then let's look at the markets oil is falling trimming its first weekly gain in three brant is trading at one hundred four dollars per barrel using eighty nine cents. is at eighty two dollars a barrel gold is rising for the third day in a row as a nest and wait for the key jobs data from the us gold is trading at over sixteen hundred dollars an ounce silver has slipped into negative territory after gains it's now thirty two dollars and stocks in europe part of the flat line on friday as investors headed for the sidelines ahead of this u.s. jobless stated you later resources stocks so high on the folks here we p.p.i. up over one percent real tintin's gaining also over one a half percent on stronger commodity prices however banking stocks are shopping lower after moody's has downgraded the credit ratings of twelve u.k. financial firms including lloyds r.b.s. and suntanned their u.k.

here in russia markets are trading in the black the r.t.s. is up one point seven percent on the minus six as almost a want to have percent in the black now let's have a look at some individual shambles on lies x. metal stocks are on the rise with metro adding over five percent produce that world cup is among the main game is this it's up more than six percent that's on news over a two and a half billion dollars buyback a new coil is also gaining the company plans to invest almost twenty billion dollars on refinery upgrades and ten years. but as well as inviting russia to join to create a new oil cartel president hugo chavez says that the new organization could protect the interests of the world's biggest crude producers but it would not be a rival to opec but as well as grand ambitions for oil production in january it said it had dethrone saudi arabia as the country with the launches open or reserves its been pushing foreign partners to increase investment into its resource rich or

belt russia is part of that project and the joint venture is expected to start production in me. and russian energy giant gazprom has obtained a license to explore one of the country's largest undeveloped gas fields their reserves of coverage to field are estimated at up to two trillion cubic metres enough to meet world gas demand for eight months earlier this year gas from both the siberian deposit from russian british joint venture tangay b.p. for nearly nine hundred million dollars that's all for me this hour joins me next business news here on.

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here with artsy it live from moscow our top stories the anti 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 ongoing economic crisis. the key suspects in the killing of russian journalist on the political. five years ago are to be formally charged with her murder investigators also say they found new accomplices her family are 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.