poor welcome to the weekly here in artsy this sunday on the news now 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 in just a couple of weeks have a head of police tactics against the protesters in manhattan catapulted into the headlines and inspire people in other cities to join in as our teams were important 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 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 the spirit of revolution is here and so i need to be a part of what 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 protesters 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 here square you can follow me believe 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 for dinner people are not going to stand for 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 that 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 means free 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. expensive medical research this ongoing about to become turning point i mean the last were a mass movement towards american politics it didn't work for the majority of the people parsonage corrective demanding democracy from the very rigorous kept the motive for an up or die of hearts in new york. one former u.s. intelligence officer told r.t. that washington needs to watch of 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 a 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 the 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 here on r t there's no resting for greece world bankers demand more and more austerity from athens but outside parliament police turn on a public that's had enough 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 with 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 west. 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 its jason reports the evidence on the ground shows there's 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 in late two thousand and one bug amir field is little more than a flight teller in a cracked 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 to cause traffic jams and expansion is now we do away 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 leave than planned and bases like this one are going to shrink in time so. at least there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for tough year long deployments they can shop for everything from flat screen t.v.'s to find jewelry enjoy a cappuccino or grab some take on the new pizza hut franchise and if they're tired of working out of the gym they're free to go to the salon for a haircut and massage 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 they have to take. the right. local afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business both inside and outside the wire without diagram of 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're this congested get this much equipment personnel it's all 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 barbara for r t. but washington's announcement of a protected stay in afghanistan came as little surprise to brian backer of the pro

peace answer coalition he says there's no way the u.s. would have been 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 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 way 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 but

for years the united states and toward pakistan to offer more support for its war in afghanistan through blocking taliban supply routes or hunting down al qaeda cells but it's only been a token support so far with islamabad prefer him to stay on the sidelines and even assist taliban factions 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. back 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 they issue

is whether islamabad is a friend or foe. actually it's neither that's why a new definition has been coined there frenemy it means that the countries policy 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 big crowd to mark the decade in afghanistan with a defining get out now message you want our reports from the heart of the british capital as well as our expert opinion and analysis at the.

in other news europe's finances felt the chill of autumn this week with spain italy and british banks all having their credit ratings chopped as the crisis swirls around them 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 because dire calms 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 help earlier this week by athens admitting it's failed to reduce its deficit to the agreed level despite the what was lost already drive that the nation's economy in tatters and its artists are for ports the needs of the people are taking second place to big bank demands. syntagma square once again bearing witness ok clashes between what police here is

protesting so we go to take that back right here and get the right deal with that for larry. and the pensions really be my thing as the police moved in to clear the crowds some shocking scenes at one point the police chasing protesters into the metro station many others hit and kicked by they supposed to be keeping control. but the message being sent by the government is one of repression and fear. scenes like this are very serious questions about the level of force being used. to prior's is a forty three year old journalist he'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 wasn't talking and one policeman who i think was a commander 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 pictures i took. the place he'd taken shelter amplified the sound of the flash bang causing always takes all deafness and injury which is called his job . after that i won't call it an accident it was an attack on my life feel like a small house. 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 need to have any kind of results we witness for ourselves the lack of discrimination when the police lash out when journalist 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 surveyor sturdy measures in a bid to receive that cash tensions looks set to keep escalating i think. it's easy to explain. the first reaction to.

the impact of the financial crisis is being played out blow by blow well syntagma square there are now fears that the financial crisis turn into an economic recession could bring the entire usa not just the greek people to their knees surf city. well 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 the 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 it there's too little leadership and there is a pig 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 the troika of international lenders but it doesn't british banks are their credit ratings drop this week moody's decision came after the government said it's unlikely to balad giants like lloyds and r.b.s. if they get into trouble again which is days later fits another of the big three ratings for gave the thumbs down to italy and to explain score down two notches british economist mark little word says if the 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 to me because if they get into trouble the times by a will try all them out and one of the key things that the u.k. government is struggling with is how do we allow our piety to go through the wall and to fail without actually destroying the wider economy and i think that these these downgrades of banks are 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 crash then the time when the government would come to the right so it's a grim warning put in the sun why if you would wish to have an almost no system your doctor about your state of health i think it is a welcome warning we can get a grip on the world's financial fallout with our expert opinions and blogs that are dot com if you have there right now we're also tackling some monster myths is big foot pounds did we join

a group of russian young will just who believe they have on earth a cave that may have selter the super sized snowman for years. and bloomberg big bullets new york mayor takes on the terror threat with a new arsenal a gun that can bring down a plane check it out at r.t. the. syrian security forces have reported the open fire at thousands 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 assad began in march an estimated twenty nine hundred people have died. syria's the defense minister stated that terrorist groups are active there they're targeting military officials scientists intellectuals he also said both calling for foreign intervention in syria want to ruin the country and its principles and the media race to root the regime for many and to a surprising return to me as i read that report. 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're viewed pictures of what was done to seen aps corpse and they are simply too gruesome to air several western media outlets were quick to report al gore's news 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 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 our 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 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 and stories like this that have been used to prop up calls from the us britain and france for un sanctions to be slapped on syria but their foundations are now looking shaky or the never this footage allegedly shows are naaman to 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 us is now part of this pro-democracy russi regime is ridiculous they are jumping on that bandwagon 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 there 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 bennett. well russia believes there's a better way to solve serious problems than imposing get 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 although they said more than once that they clearly

understood syria is very different to libya because you 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 post the libyan revolutionary forces claim they've seized parts 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 assaults yet on the most important remaining gadhafi stronghold revolutionary forces say they now control most of the town but still face fierce resistance from boy list fighters thousands of people have left syria but many remain behind meaning there's a high risk of civilian casualties but for peace campaigners the fact that nato is protecting civilians by shelling syria shows the alliances approach is very selective. the whole idea of the bombing it was meant to protect the civilians and bang goes why does anybody inside up to the idea that you have main killing

civilians in another city or town in there and that's exactly what's happening so many times very selective about what. it supports it doesn't support those civilians who. does support and of course we know what this war was about it was about regime change i wanted to get rid of gadhafi if i could press to stop this helping civilians in libya so they would if not. they don't care about civilians apart from what's actually happening so there will be terrible. killings and so i'm sure and really this is a response well this is what we do now run lately on. the controversial wiki leaks founder julian assange told r.t. that it's a warning for everyone that the libyan intervention was solely about the u.s. and europe taking the country over the lesson for libya is that there are only two superpowers in the world was speaking like one of those the united states and

europe. have gotten together to take over a country regional justification for a no fly zone over libya has been completely abused it shows that there is no effective rule of no knight in nations is going to be a lesson to us every time that a small mandate is given. military and intelligence power as a whole. it is a slippery slope that leads to the takeover of countries or hundreds. in france the power of political correctness seems to be teaching a serious loss and 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's 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 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 band figures of front of boylan's ahead although they don't know if we doing teach are a minority is 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 for politics now in france you cannot 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 deal 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. which arranging the school curriculum to reflect globalisation one of multiples being taught because it's

important to have a view on the world cultures such as egypt 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 stop teaching maypoles they say concern themselves to history . the new bush or altie paris. going to take a short break here on r.t. and i'll be back with a recap of this week's top stories stay with us. thanks .

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live from moscow on the snow with today's headlines and the week's top stories no withdrawal from wall street the anti bank protesters harden their resolve as their movement grows nationwide and become difficult for the government to ignore heavy handed police tactics against the rally are seeing more people join the protest. the u.s. led war in afghanistan enters the decade to with the white house dashing hopes of a total pullout saying the cia and special forces are there to stay at the violence reaches a peak with two thousand and 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 in charge.