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who are most come to the weekly here in our to this sunday on the new snow with the latest stories from around the world and a look back at the very top stories from this week but what began as a citizen standoff against the big banks on wall street has grown into a nationwide rally of just a couple of weeks ahead of police tactics against the protesters in manhattan catapulted into the have gone and inspired people in other cities to join in and as our season apart 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 fairer and more just society for the young people coming up in all of the american people right now are suffering because these hard economic times this seems pretty revolutionary to me and then the spirit 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 you know 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 weren't doing the right thing or 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 protons pepper spray and the arrests of nearly eight hundred peaceful protesters on the brooklyn bridge a scene that reminded some of egypt's to hear square we can follow. the leader of our brothers and sisters all over the world arab spring 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 that we're giving 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 i can understand their sentiments eventually. because the. decision not to inject capital into the. banks but to effectively relieve them of that bad this. and then allow that to. give the banks.

profits and allow them to pay. bonuses as they see can i can sympathize with the scenes grievances spearheaded so loud and large that means free media outlets have been left with no other choice but to cover the protests in a matter of weeks occupy wall street has not really mobilized. from extensive medical research this ongoing attack becomes turning point in the last we're not ready to bark and since it's working for the garden the people. to democracy for the very rigorous. are enough for our hearts and for your. own former us intelligence officer told r.t. to washington needs to watch of back because if it doesn't listen to the people it could face of potentially violent revolution these are not stupid people they're very smart and they understand that at root this is about corruption in 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 to take over 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 certain percent there is no question in my mind that this is going to be a jerry dark winter in the united states and on less to government we stores its own integrity and starts paying attention to the public interests rather than to the special interests i believe that we will have a swarm of our evolution initially nonviolent but with the potential to become violent. up ahead here in archie there's no resting for greece world bankers demand

more and more austerity from athens but outside parliament police turn to the public that's how to nothing of the cuts and tax hikes that have driven many into poverty. politically corrected history parents and teachers across france lash out at new school books which revised historical accounts so they don't insult minorities. supposin syrian regime victim who is back from the dead after making global headlines raising questions of accuracy and agenda in the conflicts coverage in the us. america's war in afghanistan reached into its second decade this week and the worldwide chorus calling for the occupation to end is growing louder but a white house official has suggested that it may be far from over saying the cia and special forces could stay indefinitely as part of the global war on terror and as jason want like reports the evidence on the ground shows there's no rush to

leave. if the united states isn't drawing its troops from afghanistan why is its largest base getting bigger with us live forces over at the telephone of late two thousand and one bugbear field is little more than the flight telling the correct runway since then the former soviet base in the plains north of the afghan capital has grown into a small city itself to over twenty five thousand personnel fleets of military cargo aircraft with unethical to cause traffic jams in the expansion is no the way it is by scores of color trackers u.s. military engineers are constructing new housing and storage facilities to make room for even more good in world were after selling an extra thirty thousand troops after this it 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 are going to shrink anytime soon. at least there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for tell a few long deployments they 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 they're tired of working out in the gym they're free to go to the salon for a haircut and such although some officials have tried to limit such amenities calling them a distraction from the war the troops are happy to have it leaders plainly obvious choice leave out the line of thought here that it is. the right. local afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business both inside and outside the wire without beggarman a soldier's my business would be nothing we like having them here but not everyone agrees diddly teledyne rocket attacks are on the rise and as the base becomes more and more crowded and threats of those living inside multiplies no matter how high it's most become everyone it's a close call you this can just get this much equipment personnel it's all in the one tight spot get close it's going to destroy something or someone easy as it may

be to forget it times this is still a war zone jason mukluk in barker for a t. . but washington's announcement of a protracted stay in afghanistan came as little surprise to bryan backer of the pro peace answer coalition he says there's no way to us what event in a region that's 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 self-determination 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 strategically 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 karzai 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 and credibility for his people but for years the united states and for pakistan to offer more support for its war in afghanistan blocking taliban supply routes or hunting down south but it's only been a token support so far with islamabad preferring to stay on the sidelines and even assist how the benefactions our military analyst explores just what's behind pakistan's two sided policies. back in eighty's it was the most successful cia operation when they promoted islam ization of pakistan and to the rule of generals for the end i saw the jihad in afghanistan thirty years later the pentagon is

fighting with the consequences of that success right here. and they will be doomed to round the vicious circle again and again until their wives house will finally realize that to prevail they have to dismantle their own legacy in pakistan issue is whether islamabad is a friend or foe. actually it's neither that's why a new definition has been coined to frenemy it means that the country's policies has been torn apart in a contradiction between its past and current islam is ation. and the new challenges for the whole region. all in london's trafalgar square crowds mark a decade in afghanistan defying get out now message you want our reports from the

heart of the british capital as well as our own opinion and analysis at our. in other news europe's finances felt the chill of autumn this week with spraying italy and british banks all having their credit ratings chart as the years that crisis rolls around that greece remains the centerpiece with the i.m.f. envoy to the country giving an ultimatum to wrap up the cards or face total collapse as dire outlook comes in the face of growing investor and market uncertainty that a greek to a certainty i should say that a greek default is now inevitable something not house earlier this week by athens admitting it's failed to reduce its deficit to the agreed level despite the what was lost already tried that but the nation's economy in tatters and its artists are

reports the needs of the people are taking second place big bank demands. anger in athens in tightness square once again bearing witness to the clashes between riot police here is protesting was that was i think that the background here again the raw deal. and the pensions really been writing as the police meet in to clear the crowds some shocking scenes at one point the police chasing protesters into the metro station many others hit kicks by they supposed to be keeping control of the message being sent by the government is one of repression and fear. scenes like this raise serious questions about the level of force being used. to prior is a forty three year old journalist he's reported from many conflicts it was in his own country where he sustained his was the injury. i just remember thinking is this

really happening please if you shelter in an enclosure just doesn't talk much and one policeman who i think was a commander asked in a very rude only taking pictures i told him i was a journalist but he gave an order and i had one of the flash burns to me these are some pictures i took. place he taken shelter amplify the sound of the flash bang causing always takes all deafness injury which is causing his job. after the attack i won't call it an accident it was an attack like a small you know. an investigation was launched into the incident the progress has been slow a kind an a list tells the countless cases both against heavy handed police tactics and leaks to 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 surveyor's thirty measures they did to receive the cash tensions looks set to keep escalating i think we are approaching first. experience of. the first reaction from some of. my. experienced. friends of the present the impact of the financial crisis is being played out play by play well some tightness where there are now fears that the financial crisis turn into an economic recession could bring entire year is a look just to reach people to their knees. while investment adviser patrick young says that the lack of direction at the top of the e.u. is a major factor in the spread of that pain which threatens to destroy 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 in doing there's too little leadership and there is a pig headed intransigence amongst the leaders of the european union issue in terms of understanding that they needed to move a lot faster on this crisis they still need to move much faster and ultimately tiny is rolling 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 rough production because the problem is we cannot leave citizens of the european union just starve to death because it suits the troika of international lenders but doesn't british banks are their credit ratings drop this week moody's decision came after the government said it's unlikely it's a valid giants like lloyds and r.v. as if they get into trouble again but just days later another of the big three

ratings firms gave the thumbs down to italy and took spain score down two notches british economist mark little word says if their 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 the sole idea that every single bank is culpable some because if they get into trouble the times by will play all the banks and one of the key things that the u.k. government is struggling with is how do we allow what by total towards a fail without actually discovering the wider economy and i think that these these downgrades of. truly reflect the fact that we are beginning to move away from what was a hopeless and helpless situation in which basically every bank you could if you crashed in the time i would the government would come to the right so it's a grim warning put in the sunlight as you would wish to have and only statoil you know says from your doctor about your state of health i think it is

a welcome board. where you can get a grip on the world's financial fallout with our expert opinions and blogs are com if you have there right now we're also tackling some monster myths is the white house did we join a group of russian very young ages to believe they have on earth a cave and they have seltzer the super sized snowman for years. and bloomberg big bullets new york's mayor takes on the terror threat with a new arsenal of guns like you bring down a plane check it out at r.t. the. syrian security forces have reportedly opened fire houses of mourners at the funeral of a kurdish opposition leader in the north east of the country killing five and wounding several others since the uprising against president asad began in march and estimated twenty nine hundred people have died. syria's the defense minister if they get a terrorist act if they're targeting military officials scientists intellectual the

author said both calling for an intervention in syria want to ruin the country and the gulf and the media raise you wrote the regime for many years with i think. if i read that. 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 view pictures of what was done to zainab squibs and they are simply too gruesome to arab several western media outlets were quick to report hellholes in these gruesome death apparently the first woman killed in government custody but now it appears she's miraculously back from the dead even being interviewed on syrian t.v. . i came to the police station to see the truth 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 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 really 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 shakier than ever this footage allegedly shows unarmed pro assad 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.n. has is now part of this program are risky regime is ridiculous they are jumping on

that panel where it is an opportunity to get out front to create this deceptive appearance while at the same time there's a priority in the dictatorships that are aligned with them and the united nations and it's part of our 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 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 either bennett r.t. . but russia believes there's a better way to solve serious problems than impose they get more tough sanctions

president medvedev says it's not for 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 although they said more than once they clearly understood syria is very different to libya because you will continue resisting in terms to legitimize unilateral sanctions through the u.n. security council that aim to overthrow political regimes the u.s. was not created for that post but libyan revolutionary forces claim they've seized part of convention center which serves as a key base for gadhafi loyalists in his hometown of sirte for over two days now libya's interim rulers have been waging one of the biggest the sites yet on the most important remaining stronghold revolutionary forces say they now control most of the town but still face fierce resistance from boy less fighters thousands of people have that but many of. me behind meaning there's a high risk of civilian casualties for peace campaigners the fact that nato is

protecting civilians by shelling syria shows the alliances approach is very similar to. the whole idea of the pony it was meant to protect the civilians in banco saying how well i don't think anybody inside iraq to the idea of main killing civilians in another city or town when they appear and that's exactly what's happening so many times very selective about walks williams it supports it doesn't support those civilians who might have housing related radios some poems and of course we know you want this hollow voice a pal to a muslim regime trying judgments to get rid of gadhafi if they could just to stop this helping civilians in libya so they would if not. they care about civilians not was actually happening to the world they can tell the killings and so i'm sure . really this is a response well this is a thing from libya. controversal wiki leaks founder julian assange told r.t.

that it's a warning for everyone the libyan intervention was only about the u.s. and europe taking the country over the lessons. only two superpowers in the world were speaking why when they saw the united states and europe. together to take over the country the regional justification for a no fly zone over libya has been completely of use it shows that there is no effective. nation just. be a lesson to us every time that a small mandate is given. military and intelligence powers. that be it is a slippery slope leads to the takeover of countries or understand. in france the power of political correctness seems to be teaching a serious lesson for school kids parents and teachers are angry at new textbooks

which kerry revised historical accounts to avoid insulting minority pupils and as ours he is daniel bushell reports many french fear their identity will 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 the toilet france's new history school books are in parents and teachers who call it political correctness gone mad this all those bestseller on the banned because of front of oil and so he'd thought it if we didn't 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. as the colonel gadhafi of his day focus is now on the previously little known king came kumu thought or thirteenth century with africa.

the purge even extends to grow it is studied round the world including les miserables the ficta hugo france is already breaking up thanks 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 you cannot understand the history. you want to understand and divide properly legal action scene is the only way to stop the removal of national history. schools now give ten percent of their share your chilling 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 the multiple 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. because it's important to have a view on the world cultures such as egypt china and india the new european parliament reports but compulsory school lessons on the benefits of the e.u. from quote a very young age critics want kids are learning less and less about their own country states which still teaching maypoles they say concern themselves to history . the new push to altie paris. to take a short break here on r.t. and i'll be back with a recap of this reads top story. thank

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