again as a citizen the standoff against the big banks on wall street has grown into a nationwide rally in just a couple of weeks heavy handed police tactics against the protesters in manhattan catapulted into headlines and inspired others to join in other cities as artie's marina porton i reports campaigners are convinced this is just the start. 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 police 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 and then this period of revolution is here and so i need to be a part of once you are not a breed to be arrested anymore the whole entire control of the police state disappears and when that happens there are credible possibilities that are open to us and certainly 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 protestors 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 are awarded 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 ordinary people are not going to stand for the corporate greed anymore and that 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 weighed in on the populist uprising and surely i can

understand the sentiment. thank you. because the. decision not to inject capital into the. banks but to effectively relieve them of the bad. and then allow the. gave the banks. profits and allowed them to pay. bonuses as i say 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. now for expansion many believe this ongoing that that would be turning point i mean the last were

a mass movement towards american politicians to work for the majority of the people not consonant corrective demanding democracy from the very rigorous that promoted brain up or die out marxist new york. one former u.s. intelligence officer tells r.t. that washington should look out because of 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. stay with us here on r.t. up ahead no resting for greece bankers demand more and more austerity from athens but outside parliament police turn on a public that's had enough of cuts and tax hikes that have driven many of them into the poorhouse. politically correct in history parents and teachers across france lash out at a new school books that revise or store collect counts so not to insult minorities . and this is a code of syrian regime victim who is back from the dead after making global headlines raising questions about accuracy and agenda in the west coverage of the

conflict. but first america's war in afghanistan has reached into its second decade this week the worldwide chorus calling for the occupation to end growing louder but a white house official suggests 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 mog 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 the u.s. led forces over in the taliban of late two thousand and one bug amir field was little more than a flight to correct runway since then the former soviet base in the plains north of the afghan capital has grown into a small city itself over twenty five thousand full time personnel fleets of military cargo aircraft and enough vehicles to cause traffic jams that 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 bidding war where 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 and bases like this one aren't going to shrink anytime soon. at least there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for tell a few more deployments they can shop for everything from flat screen t.v.'s to fine jewelry enjoy a cappuccino to grab some take at the new pizza hut franchise and if they're tired of working out in the gym they're free to go to the salon for a haircut inside which although some officials have tried to limit such amenities calling them a distraction from the war the troops are happy to have them and these are extremely well you know if enough do you feel this way then we have a case that the right. local afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business both inside and outside the wire without agreement

a soldier's my business would be nothing we like having them here but not everyone agrees deadly taliban rocket attacks are on the rise and as the base becomes more and more crowded the threat to those living inside multiplies no matter how high its walls become every rock it's a close call when you this can just get this much equipment personnel can solve it into one tight spot get close it's going to destroy something or someone. maybe the for due time this is two words she said month loan from. washington's announcement of a protracted stay in afghanistan came as little surprise to by brian becker of the pro peace answer coalition he says there is no way the u.s. could have banned in a region that so strategically important if the us military were to leave afghanistan altogether or if it were to leave iraq altogether those governments would become independent self 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 clean 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 spirit 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. employed pakistan to offer more support for its war in afghanistan are very few blocking taliban supply routes for hunting down al qaida cells but it's only been token support so far with his lama blood as lama bad for him to stay on the sidelines and even assist taliban factions at times our military analyst explores

what's behind pakistan's to face policies. back in eighty's it was the most successful cia operation when they promoted. back to stand 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 will finally realize that to prevail they have to dismantle their own legacy in pakistan then the issue is whether islamabad is their friend or foe. actually it's neither that's why a new definition has been coined the frenemy it means that the countries

policy has been torn apart in a contradiction between its past and current islam ization. and the new challenges for the whole region. in london's trafalgar square big crowds market a decade in afghanistan with a defiant get out now message ouattara forth from the heart of the british capital as well as our expert opinion and analysis. europe's finances felt the chill of autumn this week with spain italy and several british banks all having their credit ratings chopped is the debt crisis whirls around them greece remains stuck in the middle with the void of the country giving an ultimatum cuts or face total collapse the dire times in the face of growing

investor and market certainty that agree default is now inevitable something i'm not helping earlier this week meeting it's failed to reduce its deficit. despite the relentless austerity drive that's what the nation's economy in tatters. reports the needs of the people are taking a back seat to the demands of the banks. syntagma square once again. clashes between police here is protesting so i don't think that the background here is. the right deal for larry and in fact i'm attention's really been my thing as the police moved in to clear the crowds some shocking thing one point the. protest is into the metro station many hit by they supposed to be keeping control. but the message being sent by the government is one of repression and fear. seems

like this is very serious questions about the level of fools being. the prime isn't . it for many conflicts. that it was in his country where he said. i just remember thinking is this really happening i took shelter in an enclosure just talking and one policeman who i think was the commander in the very. picture i told him i was a journalist but he given. me these are some pictures i took. the place he'd taken shelter the fight the sound of the flash bang. after that i won't call it an accident it was my life be like a small. an investigation was launched into the incident that progress is being slowly found the nellis tells us the countless cases against heavy handed police tactics and you see you have any kind of results we witness for ourselves the lack

of discrimination when the police lash out when journalists along 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 see that they can use sentiency excepts to keep escalating i think we are brought in fast breaking point in the news of the explaining to form a pledge was a call for the you know the first reaction to for some. given out there we. will be forever exposed has been expressed. first of the press and the impact of the financial crisis is being played out play by play on syntagma square there are now fears that the financial crisis ten into an economic recession could bring entire usa not just the greek people to the new.

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 that threatens to destroy the 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 there's too little leadership and there is a pig headed intransigence amongst the leaders of the european union issues 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. that auction because the problem is we cannot leave citizens of the european union just starve to death because it suits the troika of international lenders. dozen british banks saw their credit ratings

drop this week moody's decision comes after the government said it's unlikely to bail out giants like lloyds and r.b.s. if they get into trouble again days later fetch another of the big three ready 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 culpable because if they get into trouble look time will play all the way out and one of the key things that the u.k. government is struggling with is how do we allow it by to go through the wall when to fail without actually describing the wider economy and i think that these. actually reflect the fact that we are beginning to move away from what was a hopeless and helpless situation which basically every bank you that if you

crashed then the time when the government would come to the right so it's a grim warning but in the same why as you would wish to have an only statoil from your doctor about your state of health i think it is a welcome warning. you can get a grip on the world's financial fallout with our expert opinions and blogs at r.t. dot com if you click there right now you can see we're also tackling some monster myths is bigfoot busted who joined a group of russian yeti ologists who believe they have on earth dictate that they have shelter and super size snowman for years. bluebirds a big bowl its new york's mayor takes on the terror threat with a new austin arsenal a gun that can bring down a plane all the details that are dot com. 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 march some

twenty nine hundred people have died syria's defense minister stated terrorist groups are active they are 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 artie's i for bet explains. she was hailed as the flower of syria the symbol of the suffering under president bashar assad's brutal regime at least that's what much of the western media said after the apparent butchering and zeinab holes in the pictures of what was done to zeniths corpse and they are simply too gruesome to air several western media outlets were quick to report sound holes in 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 hosni was tortured murdered and mutilated even claim to a 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 shaky the never this footage religiously shows an armed pro assad civilians being targeted by gun toting rebels so perhaps not the peaceful opposition there have been made out to be by the west that only seems to look one way this notion that the u.s.

is now part of the pro-democracy receipt regime is ridiculous they are jumping on that banner where again is an opportunity to get out front of it and create this deceptive appearance while at the same time there's a porting 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 it may not be any oil this time but there's always an ulterior motive it's important 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 altar into a political motive for vetoes of followed by a security council walkout 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. on the bennetts. russia believes there's

a better way to solve serious problem than any problems that imposing yet more tough sanctions president medvedev says it's not up to the united nations 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 you 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 the danger overthrow political regimes the u.n. was not created for that. libyan revolutionary forces claim they've seized parts of the 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 loyalists fighters thousands of people have left circuit any remain behind meaning there's a high risk of civilian casualties but for peace campaigners the fact nato is

protecting civilians by shelling sirte shows the alliances approach can be selective. the whole idea of the bombing was that it was meant to protect the civilians and bang goes on how why doesn't anybody anybody inside up to the idea of main killing civilians in another city or town in their peer amounts exactly what's happening so many times very selective about walks opinions it's a pulls it doesn't support those civilians who might i was in the trade does some poll numbers on and of course we know you want this war was a proud it was wow regime change i wanted to get rid of gadhafi if i could just to stop was helping civilians in libya so they would if not. they don't care about civilians apart from i'm not was actually on going so we will be terrible killings and so i'm sure and really this is a response on the scene for people who now run lately on. controversial wiki leaks

founder julian assange tells r t that it's a warning for everyone that the libyan intervention was solely about the us and europe taking over the country. the lesson for libya is that there are only two superpowers in the world was speaking my one those are the united states and europe these two super have gotten together to take over the country the regional justification in the balloon boy a no fly zone over libya has been completely abused it shows that there is no effective rule of. night in nations it should be a lesson to us every time that a small mandate is given. military and intelligence. that it is a slippery slope it leads to the takeover of countries all understand. in france the power of political correctness seems to be teaching a serious lesson for school kids parents and teachers are angry and new textbooks

carrying revised historical accounts to avoid insulting minority pupils as artie's daniel bush reports some french fear their identity may soon be consigned to history as well. twenty pages on the history of black slavery and just six on the time of napoleon shown here sitting on a toilet from says new history school books are inbreeding parents and teachers who cool it's political correctness gone mad this author's bestseller on the band figures of front of boylan's ahead saw their journey if we doing teacher and 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 came kumu thought of thirteenth century west africa. the purge even extends to reuters

studied rumbled 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 we have to study even the worth pages of our history because you can't understand what happened or politics now in france if you don't understand the history. they want to understand and to avoid properly legal action seen as the only way to stop the removal of national history of all of our 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 once upon which many say they've never heard of the ministry of education

refused to be interviewed but gave us this statement. we're changing the school curriculum to reflect globalization monomer past being taught because it's important to have a view on the 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 paws they say consigned themselves to history the new bush or arty paris. headline soon in just over fifteen minutes sports with andrew farber including who's still number one in the formula one stay with us.

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thirty pm in moscow we're getting the week's top stories here on r t no withdrawal from wall street anti-bank protesters harden their resolve as the movement grows nationwide becoming tough for the government to ignore heavy handed police tactics against the rally are seeing more people join the protests. the u.s. led war in afghanistan enters decade two with the white house dashing hopes of a total pullout saying cia and special forces are there to stay this as violence reaches a peak with two thousand and eleven becoming the deadliest year yet. russia and china vetoed the un resolution on syria calling for political dialogue instead of tough sanctions on president assad's regime meanwhile the syrian government says terrorist groups are active in the country and targeting military leaders and intellectuals. a slew of for.