and a look back at the week's news here on our team what started as a citizen stand off against big banks on wall street's grown into a nationwide rally in only a couple of weeks heavy handed police tactics against demonstrators in manhattan catapulted into the headlines and inspired more people in other cities to join as our teams were in a port and i reports campaigners are convinced this is just the start. of the collective voices of american dissent has manifested into a movement impossible to ignore occupy wall street began in the world's financial capital but this week protests have blazed through dozens of cities nationwide. in the big apple up to fifteen thousand americans flooded lower manhattan labor unions transport workers teachers nurses and u.s. veterans standing shoulder to shoulder with young activists spearheading a fight against us wealth inequality and corporate greed young people right now have no hope in our society i just want to see

a more just society for the young people coming up and all of the american people right now are suffering through these hard economic times this seems pretty revolutionary to me in this period a revolution is here and so i need to be a part of what you are and not agree to be arrested anymore the whole entire control of the police state disappears when that happens there are credible possibilities that are open to us and suddenly you can imagine a different world and you believe you can be an agent of change the occupy movement has gained such momentum even the president who promised change was forced to address the issue i think people are frustrated and. the protesters are. giving voice to a more broad based frustration about how our financial system works that the american people understand that not everybody has been following the rules. that

wall street is an example of that these days a lot of folks who are doing the right thing aren't rewarded and a lot of folks who are doing the right thing are rewarded while the u.s. has encouraged and supported democratic uprisings in the arab world the same events playing out at home have been met with baton pepper spray and the arrests of nearly eight hundred peaceful protesters on the brooklyn bridge a scene that reminded some of egypt's two here square we can volunteer believe our brothers and sisters all over the world care of spring in greece and spain and we can see that it did send a powerful message people are not going to stand for corporate greed anymore and now we're getting up and we're doing something about it three weeks into the anti wall street demonstrations the new york city police department has pumped two million dollars into overtime pay fines some critics say are being used to repress freedom two miles from the chaos of the united nations even financier and

billionaire george soros who weighed in on the populist uprising and surely i can understand this sentiment. frankly. because the. decision not to inject capital into the. banks but to effectively relieve them of the bed. and then allow the. gave the banks. profits and allowed them to pay. bonuses as they see can i can sympathize with. his grievances spearheaded so loud and large that mainstream media outlets have been left with no other choice but to cover the protests in a matter of weeks occupy wall street not only mobilized in. extensive medical

research this ongoing attack would be turning point i mean the labs were a mass movement it's american politicians working for the majority of the people not constant corrective demanding democracy from the very rigorous capital bring up or die out parts of new york. one former u.s. intelligence officer tells r t washington needs to watch its back because if it doesn't listen to the people it could face a potentially violent revolution these are not stupid people they're very smart and they understand that at root this is about corruption and government and corruption on wall street and until you have electoral reform you cannot restore the integrity of the u.s. government so yes there is a common cause but it's a bottom up movement and so that common cause is being voiced in many different ways i think the united states right now is much more desperate than tejpal realize we're at twenty two percent unemployment on our way to thirty percent we are at

sixteen percent below the poverty line on our way to thirty percent there is no question in my mind that this is going to be a very dark winter in the united states and on less to government three stores its own integrity and starts paying attention of the public interest rather than to the special interests i believe that we will have a swarm over evolution initially nonviolent but with the potential to become violent. up ahead no rest for greece world bankers demand more and more sturdy from adam but outside parliament police turn on a public that says it's had enough of the cuts and tax hikes that have driven many into the poor house. politically corrected history parents and teachers across france lash out at new school books revising historical accounts so they don't insult minorities. and the supposed syrian regime victim back from the dead after

making global headlines raising questions of accuracy and agenda in the west coverage of the conflict. but first america's war in afghanistan reach into its second decade this week in the worldwide chorus calling for the occupation to end grows louder a white house official suggested that it may be far from over saying cia and special forces could stay indefinitely as part of the global war on terror as jason malard reports the evidence on the ground shows there is no rush to leave. if the united states is drawing its troops from afghanistan why is its largest base getting bigger when u.s. led forces overran the taliban of late two thousand and one bug a mere field was little more than a flight tower in a cracked roadway since then the former soviet base in the plains north of the afghan capital has grown into a small city that's helped over twenty five thousand full time personnel fleets of military cargo aircraft and enough physicals to cause traffic jams in the expansion is no way aided by scores of contractors u.s.

military engineers are constructing new housing and storage facilities to make room for even more many more hardware after sending an extra thirty thousand troops to afghanistan last year president obama started bringing them home this summer but with afghan forces struggling to stand alone it's likely that less will even planned bases like this one aren't going to shrink any time soon. at least there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for tough you know long deployments they can shop for everything from flat screen t.v.'s to fine jewelry enjoy a cappuccino or grab some take out 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 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 authenticate. the right. local afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business both inside and

outside the wire without beggarman the soldiers 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 this can just to get this much equipment personnel consolidated 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 muckluck in bagram for our team. washington's announcement of a protracted stay in afghanistan came as a little surprise to brian becker of the pro peace answer coalition he says there's no way the u.s. could have bad in a region so strategically important if the u.s. military were to leave afghanistan altogether or if it were to leave iraq altogether those governments would become independent determining governments free

of foreign interference or foreign occupation that's what would happen they would form their own natural alliances with their neighbors the united states does not want that this is the great prize this is a geo strategic plea and resource rich part of the world united states is there for the long term and i think that's the real goal is to put firmly afghanistan and the surrounding countries into an american spear of influence i think the karzai government really is an extension of american power which has a masquerade the fiction of a nato cover but really it's an american power cards i of course probably cannot survive without outside support after all the outsiders the occupiers put him into power i don't think he has any real legitimacy or credibility for his people for years the u.s. implored pakistan to offer more support for its war in afghanistan be if you're blocking taliban supply routes or hunting down al qaeda cells but it's only been token support so far with islam about preferring to stay on the sidelines and even

sometimes assist the taliban factions or his military analysts to explore is just what's behind pakistan's apparently two sided policies. back in eighty's it was the most successful cia operation when they promoted islamization of pakistan and to the rule of generals the yellow hog for the anti soviet jihad in afghanistan thirty years later the defense again is fighting with the consequences of that success right here. and they will be doomed to run the vicious circle again and again until their white house bill finally realise that to prevail they have to dismantle their own legacy in pakistan then issue is whether islamabad he's a friend or foe. actually it's neither that's why a new definition has been coined the frenemy it means that the country's

policy has been torn apart in a contradiction between its past and current islam is ation. and the new challenges for the whole region. in london's trafalgar square a big crowds mark a decade in afghanistan with a defiant get out now message from the heart of the british capital as well as our expert opinion and analysis. europe's finances face the chill of autumn this week with spain italy and british banks having all their credit ratings chopped as the e.u.'s debt crisis continues

to swirl around them greece remains the centerpiece but the i.m.f. saw on boys of the country giving an ultimatum ramp up cuts or face total collapse the dire outlook comes in the face of growing investor and market certainty that greek default is now inevitable something not helped earlier this week by athens admitting it failed to reduce its deficit to the agreed level despite the relentless austerity that's left the nation's economy in tatters as are too sorry for a report that the needs of the people are taking a back seat to the big bank demands. syntagma square once again bearing witness to clashes between what police fear is protest is going to take that back about you know. the right i mean you know the central area and in fact i mean tensions really be my thing as the police moved in to clear the crowds some shocking thing one point the police chasing protests is into the metro station many others hit and kicks by they supposed to be keeping control. but the message being

sent by the government is once repression and fear. scenes like this are very serious questions about the level of force being used. to priors is a forty three year old journalist who's reported from many conflicts but it was in his own country where he sustained his worst injury. i just remember thinking is this really happening please i took shelter in an enclosure just or syntagma and one policeman who i think was a commander asked in a very rude taking pictures i told him i was a journalist but he gave an order and i had one of the flash bangs thrown at me these are some of the pictures i took. the place he'd taken shelter amplified the sound of the flash bang causing always takes all deafness and injury which has cost me less his job. after the attack i won't call it an accident it was an attack like a small hell. an investigation was launched into the incident the progress has been

slow a finalist tells us the countless cases against heavy handed police tactics and need to have any kind of result we witness for ourselves the lack of discrimination when the police lash out when journalists flung with his camera to the ground the rise in the level of aggression seen by the police and the more extreme groups of protesters is causing serious concern with the government continuing to implement severe austerity measures in a bid to receive that cash pensions looks set to keep escalating i think. to explain. the first reaction. when we. experienced. the impact of the financial crisis is being played out play by play on syntagma square there are now

fears that the financial crisis turn into an economic recession could bring the entire usa just to bring people to their knees surf city. investment advisor patrick young says the lack of direction at the top of the e.u. is a major factor in the spread of the debt pain threatening to destroy the euro currency . the european union are trying to take fiscal control of greece because they think that's the only way they can actually control the crisis the european union is too slow and there's too little leadership and there is a big headed intransigence amongst the leaders of the european union a chanst in terms of understanding that they needed to move a lot faster on this crisis they still need to move much faster and ultimately time is running out because greece is leading the contagion that is going to kill the euro by the end of the year if we don't see positive and rapid action because the

problem is we cannot leave citizens of the european union to starve to death because it suits a troika of international lenders a dozen british banks saw their credit ratings drop this week moody's decision comes after the government says it's unlikely to bellow giants like lloyds and r.b.s. if they got into trouble again just days later fairchild other one of the big three rating firms gave the thumbs down to italy and took spain scored down two notches british economist mark littlewood says it's a wake up call for spoiled banks what we've got to get away from in the united kingdom and actually right across the western world more generally is this idea that every single bank is copper bottomed because if they get into trouble the taxpayer will try all them out and one of the key things that the u.k. government is struggling with is how do we allow a bank to go through the wall one to fail without actually discovering the wider economy and i think that these. sort of actually reflect the fact that we are

beginning to move away from what was a hopeless and helpless situation nine which basically every bank you that if you crash then the time when the government would come to the right so it's a grim warning put in the saying why because you would wish to have an almost a toy from your doctor about your state of health i think it is a welcome warning. if you can get a grip on the world's financial fallout with our expert opinions and blogs at r.t. dot com and if you had there right now we're also tackling some monster myths is big footing fostered we joined a group of russian yeti ologists who believe they have on earth a cave that may have sheltered supersized snowman for years. and it bloomberg big bullets new york's mayor takes on the terror threat with a new all some arsenal a gun that can bring down a plane check out our t. dot com for the details. syrian security forces have

reportedly opened fire at thousands of mourners at the funeral of a kurdish opposition leader in the northeast of the country killing five wounding several others since the uprisings against president assad started in monday an estimated twenty nine hundred people have died syria's defense minister stated terrorist groups are active there targeting military officials scientists and intellectuals he also said those calling for foreign intervention in syria want to ruin the country and its principles and the media race to rout the regime forced many into a surprising u. turn this week as archy's bennett explains. she was hailed as the flower of syria the symbol of the suffering under president bush. regime at least that's what much of the western media said after the apparent butchering of zeinab we have pictures of what was done to corpse and they are simply too gruesome to air several western media outlets were quick to report households and these gruesome death apparently

the first woman killed in government custody but now it appease she's miraculously back from the date even being interviewed on syrian t.v. . i came to the police station to see the truth this what i see to those line channels i'm now still alive not dead human rights groups like amnesty international jumped on the bandwagon to reporting out holes in. he was tortured murdered and mutilated it even claimed mother found the body in a morgue last month all assertions is now being forced to backtrack on this we will endeavor to be more cautious and phrase things a little bit more nuanced the state broadcaster says the interviews to dispel what it labels fabrications by foreign media to serve western interests in stories like this that have been used to prop up calls from the u.s. britain and france for un sanctions to be slapped on syria but their foundations are now looking shakier than ever this footage religiously shows an armed pro sound

civilians being targeted by gun toting rebels say perhaps not the peaceful opposition they're often made out to be by the west that only seems to look one way . this notion that the u.n. has is now part of this pro-democracy regime is ridiculous they are jumping on that bandwagon is an opportunity to get in front of it and create this deceptive appearance while at the same time there's importing the dictatorships that are aligned with them in the united nations and it's part of their empire russia and china vetoed a u.n. resolution for syria seeing through it as a potential cover for another libyan style intervention so they may not be any oil this time but there's always an ulterior motive it's important is as a geopolitical factor right next to israel a country which obviously america and britain and the other western powers strongly support so that would be the political motive to be to use a followed by security council war count from america over remarks during the

syrian envoy speech but the u.s. promised to be back with another resolution and undoubtedly more dramatic evidence to drive the point home either bennett's r.t. london. russia thinks there is a better way to solve serious problems than imposing yet more tough sanctions president medvedev says it's not up to the u.n. or nato to decide any country's political course our partners in the u.n. security council do not rule out a replay of the libyan scenario although they said more than once that they clearly understood syria is very different to libya russia will continue resisting attempts to legitimize unilateral sanctions through the u.n. security council that aimed to overthrow political regimes the u.s. was not created for that. libyan revolutionary forces claim they've seized parts of a convention center that served as a key base for gadhafi loyalists in his hometown of sirte for more than two days now libya's interim rulers have been waging one of the biggest assaults yet on the

most important remaining khadafi stronghold. revolutionary forces say they now control most of the town but still face fierce resistance from loyalist fighters thousands of people have left sirte but many remain meaning there is a high risk of civilian casualties but for peace campaign the fact that nato was taking civilians vice shelling sirte shows the alliance's approach is selective. the whole idea of the homemade it was meant to protect the civilians and bang goes i think you know why does he want that anybody inside up to the idea that you have main killing civilians in another city or town. he was having so many times very selective about what civilians it's upholds he doesn't support those civilians who mock up close it with it's a crazy does the simple reality on the other coast we know you want this whole car was a balance it was about regime change i wanted to get rid of gadhafi if i could press to stop this helping civilians in libya. if not. i don't care about civilians

apart from that i'm not it was actually happening so i will be terrible killings and so i'm sure and really this is a response one that seems to be doing now run lately on. controversial wiki leaks founder julian assange tells our t.v. that it's a warning for everyone that the libyan intervention was solely about the u.s. and europe taking over the country. the lesson for libya is that there are only two superpowers in the world we're speaking my one those are the united states and europe these two super have gotten together to take over the country the regional justification for a no fly zone over libya has been completely abused it shows that there is no effective rule of. night in nations it's going to be a lesson to us every time that a small mandate is given. military and intelligence. that it is

a slippery slope that leads to the takeover of countries or hundreds then. finally in this news block in france the power of political correctness seems to be teaching a serious lesson for school children parents and teachers are furious at new textbooks carrying revised historical accounts to avoid insulting when already pupils as are he's daniel bashaw reports many french fear their identity may soon be consigned to history also. twenty pages on the history of black slavery and just six on the time of napoleon shown here sitting on a toilet france's new history school books are inbreeding parents and teachers who cool it's political correctness gone mad this author's bestseller on the figures of front of boylan's ahead saw their journey if we doing teach our own minorities the history of their adopted country they don't feel french we are already seeing riots

in our streets the crusades the called insulting to muslims the sun king louis the fourteenth to imperial and the pony and smoked as the colonel gadhafi of his day focus is now on the previously little known king can kumu thought of thirteenth century west africa. the purge even extends to reuters studied round the world including les miserables all to victor hugo france is already breaking up things professor casale because it's young people have no sense of identity parents are concerned but we have to study even the worth pages of our history because you can't understand that what happened for politics now in france you cannot understand the history. they want to understand and to avoid properly legal actions seen as the only way to stop the removal of national history. schools now give ten

percent of their share the old to the medieval african moline point i've studied it and what exactly is it contribution to world development. thousands of signed a petition of the french revolution lessons were replaced by the african kingdom of more than multiple which many say they've never heard of the ministry of education refused to be interviewed but gave us this statement. where change in the school curriculum to reflect globalisation one of the thomas being taught because it's important to have a view. on other world cultures such as egypt china and india the new european parliament reports back to compulsory school lessons on the benefits of the e.u. from quote a very young age critics want kids learning less and less about their own country states which stop teaching their poles they say consigned themselves to history. the new push to altie paris. back with a recap of our top stories after

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ten thirty am in moscow we're bringing you today's top stories here on our teeth no withdrawal from wall street the anti-bank protesters harden their result as the movement grows nationwide and becomes difficult for the government to ignore heavy handed police tactics against the rally are seen more people joining the demonstration. the u.s. led war in afghanistan enters its second decade the white house dashing hopes of a total pullout saying cia and special forces may be there to stay this is violence reaches a peak with two thousand and eleven becoming the deadliest year yet. a slew of fresh credit rating cuts paid europe as spain italy and british banks take a huge hit from investors they're increasingly worried that greece's debt contagion may have spread too widely for ballots to be affected. russia and china veto the un resolute.