r t what started as a citizen standoff against big banks on wall street has grown into a nationwide rally in just a couple of weeks heavy handed police tactics against protesters in lower manhattan catapulted it into the headlines and inspired more people to join in other cities as artie's merida porton 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 police to dozens of cities me she won. 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 but 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 what you are and not agree to be arrested anymore the whole entire control of the police state disappears when that happens their hard 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 protestors are giving voice to a more broad based frustration about how our financial system works the american people understand that not everybody's 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 four square we can volunteer believe our brothers and sisters all over the world the hairspring in greece and spain and we can see that it did send a powerful message ordinary 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 weighed in on the populist uprising actually i can understand the 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 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. natural expense many

believe this ongoing event would become its burning point any who wants were not smooth made its american politicians in still working for the majority of the people not cynical elected demanding democracy from the very leader this capital murder arena artsy in new york. former wall street executive richard ask out says protesters are just trying to restore the democratic basic values and that's helping to draw the crowds this is actually for a political protest movement that so young it's grown and gathered a surprising amount of support from surprising in quarters in a very very short time for example you have several very major unions joining up with this group that's primarily young people and saying that we're on the same side we support them they support us i think what they're doing is reasserting a set of values you know everybody who watches job should get

a job business people and their customers should deal with one another fairly and honestly crimes including corporate crime should be punished and so on so if you think of it as the early stage of a movement where it's declaring its fundamental values and principles then i think it's actually although it's probably intuitively accidental it's actually pretty smart of them not to get pinned down in saying we want a financial transactions tax or we want a blue ribbon investigation of wall street crime there really and this is why they've been able i think to start to get some attention. up ahead no resting for greece world bankers demand more and more austerity from athens but outside parliament police turn on a public that says it's had enough of the cuts and tax hikes that may have driven many into poverty. politically correct history of parents and teachers across france lash out at a new school books that revised historical accounts so not to insult minorities.

and the supposin syrian regime victim back from the dead after making global headlines at raising questions of accuracy and agenda in the west coverage of the conflict. but first the u.s. war in afghanistan reached its second decade this week and the worldwide chorus calling for the occupation to end is growing stronger but a white house official has 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 mog reports evidence on the ground shows there is no rush to get out. if the united states is drawing its troops from afghanistan why is its largest base getting bigger us led forces over in the taleban of late two thousand and one bug amir field is 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 that's helped over twenty five thousand full time personal fleets of

military hardware and the theaters to cause traffic jams that expansion is no way it is by scores of contractors u.s. military engineers are constructing new housing and storage facilities to make room for even more bidding war 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 ones aren't going to shrink anytime soon. at least there are plenty of home comforts from soldiers staying on for tough moment deployments we can shop for everything from flat screen t.v.'s to fine jewelry enjoy a cappuccino to grab some take out the new pizza hut franchise and if you're tired of working on a gym you'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 more the troops are happy to have them and these are extremely. useful if enough to leave this planet then we have

a case that we have that 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 everyone gets a close call when you're this congested get this much equipment personnel has all been into one tight spot get close it's going to destroy something or someone. easy as it may be to do the times this is still words. from. washington as announcement of a protracted stay at afghanistan came as little surprise to brian becker of the pro peace answer coalition he says there is no way the u.s. would abandon 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 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 and unintended consequence of the u.s. led operation in afghanistan has been the country's meteoric rise as the world's leading heroin producer exports to europe russia and asia have sparked

a new epidemic but nato troops can do little to stop it a former chief of staff to u.s. secretary of state colin powell says it's because the u.s. is less than eager to make more enemies. who benefits from this is who benefits from it in mexico and colombia and other places it's people who are heavily invested in the drug trade and i don't just necessarily mean those who are taking it there is a connection and that connection is very simple it is that the troops don't want to attack those people who are raising drugs not in any blatant overwhelming comprehensive way because that just adds to the enemy list that they have to fight they are fighting all manner of taliban now different groups of taliban they're fighting people who are just pashtun and want them out of the country who may have been a five taliban they don't want to add to that enemies list all the people who are raising drugs in afghanistan and making a profit from that. in london's trafalgar square huge crowds mark the decade in

afghanistan with a defiant get out now message watch our reports from the heart of the british capital as well as get expert opinion and analysis at r.t. dot com. europe's finances felt the chill of autumn this week with spain italy and several british banks all having their credit ratings cut as the debt crisis continues to swirl greece remains the centerpiece with the voice of the country giving it all to made him wrap up the cuts or face total collapse his dire problems in the face of growing investor and market certainty that a greek default is now inevitable something and not helped earlier this week by athens admitting it's failed to reduce its deficit. despite. drives out of left the nation's economy in tatters reports the needs of the people seem to be taking

second place to the demands of the banks. syntagma square once again. clashes between riot police here is protesting so we go. back about. the right. to larry in fact i'm attentions really be my thing as the police moved in to clear the crowds some shocking. 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 force being used. to pry a is a forty three year old journalist he's reported from many conflicts. but 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

a commander in the very. picture i told him i was a journalist but he gave an order to. me these are some pictures i took. the place he taken shelter the fight the sound of the flash bang. which. i won't call it an accident it was in the time my life's been like a small. an investigation was launched into the incident but progress has been slow a finalist 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 cash pensions looks set to keep escalating i think. it's easy to explain in. the first reaction. when we. experienced. the impact of the financial crisis is being played out play by play well syntagma square there are now fears that the financial crisis ten into an economic recession could bring entire usa just to bring people to the ne surface. investment advisor patrick young says the lack of direction at the top of the e.u. is a major factor in the spread of 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 and there's too little leadership and there is a pig headed intransigence amongst the leaders of the european union a shouldn't 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 on route the dock 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 came after the government said it's unlikely to bell out giants like lloyds and r.b.s. if they get in trouble again days later fish and other of the big three rating firms gave the thumbs down to italy and took spain score down two notches british

economist mark little wood says it's a wake up call for the 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 play all them out and one of the key things that the u.k. government is struggling with is how do we allow it by to go for the war one to fail without actually discovering the wider economy and i think that these downgrades of banks 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 in the time when the government would come to the right so it's a grim warning but in the same way as you would wish to have an almost a toy from your doctor about your state of health i think it is a welcome warning. 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 meds these big foot busted we joined a group of russian jala just who believe they were on earth a cave that may have shelter and supersize snowman for years. bloomberg a big bowl of new york's mayor takes on the terror threat with a new awesome arsenal a gun that can bring down a plane check it all out r t v dot com the. syrian security forces are reportedly open fire on thousands of mourners at the funeral of a kurdish opposition leader in the northeast of the country killing five wounding several others since the uprising against president assad began in march and estimated twenty nine hundred people have died syria's defense minister stated that 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 ivor bennett explained. 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 of zeinab al hosni we have 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 and that's 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 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 found brick ations 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 or the never this footage religiously shows unarmed sound civilians being targeted by gun toting rebels so 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.s. is now part of this pro-democracy receipt regime is ridiculous they are jumping on that bandwagon is an opportunity to get out front of it and create its deceptive appearance while at the same time there's a porting the dictatorships that are aligned with them in the united nations and as part of their empire russia and china vetoed a u.n.

resolution for syria seeing through it as a potential cover for another libya install intervention so they may not be any oil this time but there's always an ulterior motive its importance 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 altar into a political motive vetoes of 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. . russia believes there is a better way to solve serious problems that imposing more tough sanctions president medvedev says it's not up to the united nations or nato to decide the 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 as well discuss what's happening in syria with a key advisor to president assad here's what's coming your way in the next hour. in which the majority of laws that should have been passed are now adopted will work to amend the constitution is underway the problem is that some states fund and arm terrorist groups operating in our towns intelligence this makes ordinary people's lives very difficult and puts them in real danger the position of the western countries. and courageous these terrorist groups russia and china and it's impossible to move forward without time are the alternative is blood spilling civil war into religious conscience. libyan revolutionary forces claim they've seized parts of a convention center that served as

a key base for qaddafi loyalists in his hometown of sirte over 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 the city but many remain behind meaning there is a high risk of civilian casualties but for peace campaigners the fact that nato is protecting civilians by shelling certain shows the alliance is selective approach. the whole idea of the bombing was that it was meant to protect the civilians and bang goes thank god how well does he was anybody inside up to the idea that you have main killing civilians in another city or town in the amounts exactly what's happening so many times very selective about what civilians it's a pool it doesn't support those civilians up close it does a simple melody and of course we know you won't be

a total. surprise now it was about regime change that wanted to get rid of gadhafi if they could dress this up as helping civilians in libya so they would if not. they don't care about the problem i'm not it was actually happening so there will be terrible killings i'm sure and really this is a response on the scene of the people who run libya. in france the power of political correctness seems to be teaching a serious lesson for schoolchildren parents and teachers are angry at new textbooks carrying a revised historical accounts to avoid insulting minority pupils authorities daniels reports many 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 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 banned

figures of from worlds of boy lives ahead salvation falls they don't if we doing teacher of 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 round the world including les miserables look 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 for politics now in france if you don't understand the history. they want to understand and to avoid

properly legal action scene is the only way to stop the removal of national history of all of our schools now give ten percent of their share you'll to the medieval african moline point i 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 to pass being taught because it's important to have a view on the world cultures such as egypt joining 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 past they say consigned themselves to history. altie paris. coming up in a few minutes the us broadcasting brainwash where big conglomerates seem to be pulling the strings coming your way after the headlines.

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one thirty pm in moscow these are your r t headlines no withdrawal from wall street protesters harden their resolve as the movement grows nationwide and becomes difficult for the government to ignore heavy handed police tactics against the rally are seen more people join the demonstrations. the u.s. led war in afghanistan enters decade two with the white house dashing hopes of a total pullout saying the cia and special forces are there to stay this is violence reaches a peak with twenty eleven looking to become 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 targeting military leaders and intellectual. a slew of fresh credit rating in europe as spain italy and.