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three pm in moscow this is r t coming to you live now with the weekly 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 having handed police tactics against the protesters in manhattan catapulted into the had binds and inspired people in other cities to join in and as our 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 blease through dozens of cities nationwide. in the big apple up to fifteen thousand. arkansas 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 young people coming up and all of the american people right now are still pretty good these hard economic times this seems pretty revolutionary to me and the spirit 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 there are credible possibilities that are open to us and certainly you can imagine a different world 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 the american people understand 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 well ordered a lot of folks who are 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 plutons 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 sway you can volunteer believe over our brothers and sisters all over the world be careful 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 getting out 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 this and. thank you. because the. decision not to inject capital into the. banks but to effectively. them off the bed. and then allowed it to. give the banks. profits and allowed them to pay. bonuses as they see i

can i can sympathize with the movements 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 the only mobilized. natural expensive medical leave this on political become explaining point any gaps were not smooth made it's american politicians instead working for the majority of the people not cynics elected demanding democracy from the very leaders that promoted. artsy new york. the former wall street executive richard ask ourselves the protesters are just trying to restore democratic basic values they're not helping control the crowds this is actually for a political protest movement that's so young it's grown and gathered a surprising amount of support from surprising 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 we're on the same side we support them they support guys i think what they're doing is reasserting a set of values you know everybody who watches job should get a job the 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 the clarity it's fundamental values and principles and i think it's actually although it's probably intuitive or 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. i've had an artsy there's no rights thing for greece while the bankers demand more and more outstanding from

apple but i'll fight parliament police turn on the public that's had enough of the constant tax hikes that have driven many into poverty. politically correct it is three parents and teachers across france watch out how to use the book which will most quickly which provides this historical accounts so they don't insult minorities. and i suppose it's syrian regime victim who is back from the dead after making quote will have more time for raising questions of accuracy and agenda in the conflicts coverage in the west. first america's war in afghanistan reached into its second decade this week and the world hard chorus calling for the occupation to end is growing louder i don't white house official has suggested that it may be far from over saying the cia and special forces could stay in that finitely as part of the global war on terror and as jason mattera ports the evidence on the ground shows there's no ross solly. if united states is drawing its troops from

afghanistan what is its largest piece getting bigger would you asleep forces overread teleported late two thousand would plug a mere feels a little more than deflate the correct runway since then the former soviet base in the plains north of the afghan capital has grown into a small city it still do over twenty five thousand full time personal fleets of military hardware crafts and the theaters to close traffic jams it expansion is no way it is by scores of closed tractors u.s. military engineers are constructing new housing and storage facilities to make room for even more building workers were after sending an extra thirty thousand troops after this in last year president obama started bringing them home this summer but with afghan forces struggling to stand alone slightly less will leave than planned and bases like this one just aren't going to shrink anytime soon. at least there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for tell a few. 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 concern for insurance and if they're tired of working out in the gym and free to go to the salon for a haircut and such although some officials have tried to limit such minute he's calling them a distraction from the war the troops are happy to have them and these are extremely. useful if enough detail this latter. case that the right. local afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business both inside and outside the wire without i dream 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 it smells because everyone it's a close call when you this can just get this what you put in personnel is all that 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 muckler in barbara for see. washington's announcement of a protracted stay in afghanistan came as little surprise to brian becker of the pro peace answer coalition he says there's no way the u.s. would have banned 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 all together 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 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 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. an unintended consequence of u.s. led operation in afghanistan has been the country's meteoric rise in the world's leading as the world's leading heroin producer exports to europe russia and asia have sparked a new app adamic but nato troops are doing little to stop it the former chief of staff to the u.s. secretary of state says that's because the u.s. is less than eager to make. 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 clear 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 and 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 phys 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 big crowds market decade in afghanistan with a fine get out now in that sense you can watch our reports from the heart of the british capital as well as our expert opinion and analysis i don't see how. the mists. just steal. the last. europe's finances felt the trail of autumn this week with spain italy and british

banks all having their credit ratings chart as the crisis rolls around that greece remains the centerpiece of the i.m.f. and boy through the country giving it all to make them to wrap up the cards face total collapse. comes in the face of growing investor and market certainty that a greek default is now inevitable something not helped earlier this week by up and admitting it's failed to reduce its deficit the agreed level by the rebound with austerity drive the nation's economy in tatters and this our first reports the needs of the people are taking place big bank finance. anger in athens square once again bearing witness clashes between rightly curious protest is was i think that the background here again. you know. and the pensions really been writing as the police moved in to clear the crowds some shocking scenes 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 suppression and fear. scenes like this are very serious questions about the level of force being used. 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 could use to shelter in an enclosure just doesn't talk much and one policeman who i think was a commander in a very rude of me taking pictures i told him i was a journalist if you give an order and i had one of the flash burns these are some flowers pictures or to you not a place he'd taken shelter amplify the sound of the flash bang causing always takes all day this injury which is cause his job. after the attack i won't call it an

accident it was an attack like a small. an investigation was launched into the incident the progress has been slow a finalist tells us the countless cases both against heavy handed police tactics and weak to support any kind of results we witness for ourselves the lack of discrimination when the police lash out on 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 receive that cash pensions like sets to keep escalating i think. and first. to explain. the first reaction. has been experienced. from some of the press from the impact of the financial

crisis is being played out play by play on some tightness where there are now fears that the financial crisis turned into an economic recession bring entire year is a not just the greek people to their knees surface r.t. . but investment adviser patrick young says the lack of direction at the top of the e.u. is a major factor in the spread of the campaign which threatens to destroy the currency . the european union are trying to cheat 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 big headed intransigence amongst the leaders of the european union asians in terms of understanding that they needed to move a lot faster on this crisis they still need to move much faster and ultimately tine 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 a 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. well it doesn't british banks are their credit ratings drop this week moody's decision came after the government said it's unlikely to balance diets like lloyds in r.b.s. if they get into trouble again as days later if it another of the big three ratings for everything comes down to italy and talks rain score down to not is a columnist mark little word says it's a wake up call for spoiled banks. what we've got to get away from in the united kingdom and actually right across the western world more generally is this idea that every single bank is copper bottoms because if they get into trouble the taxpayer will clear all them out and one of the key things that u.k. government is struggling with is how do we allow it to go for the war wounds or

fail without actually destroying the wider economy and i think that these downgrades. actually reflect the fact that we are beginning to move away from what was a hopeless and helpless situation in which basically every bank you that if they crashed in the time when the government would come to their rights it was a grim warning put in the same way as you would wish to have an only statoil most is 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 of wags at r.t. dot com if you have there right now we're also tackling some monster meths is big foot busted we joined a group of russian a yeti ologists who believe they have on earth a cave that may have shelters the super sized snowman for years. and bloomberg big bullets new york's mayor takes found a terror threat with a new some arsenal

a gun back can bring down a plane check out our deep dark pound for details. syrian security forces have reportedly opened fire at thousands of mourners at the funeral of a kurdish opposition leader in the northeast of the country killing five and wounding several others since the uprising against president assad began in march an estimated twenty nine hundred people have died in syria's defense minister stated that terrorist groups are active there and targeting military officials scientists and intellectuals and awful say those calling for foreign intervention in syria want to ruin the country and its principles and the media race to root the regime up force many into its surprising u. turn this week as artie's explained she was hailed as the flower of syria a symbol of the suffering under president bashar assad sproule regime at least that's what much of the western media said after the apparent butchering zeinab al

hosni we view pictures of what was done to xena corpse and they are simply too gruesome to air several western media outlets were quick to report child holes in these gruesome deaths 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 say to those line channels i'm now still alive not dead human rights groups like amnesty international jumped on the bandwagon to reporting out those the 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 shakier than ever as footage religiously 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 you has is now part of this pro-democracy regime is ridiculous they're jumping on ebay and away again is an opportunity to. create this deceptive appearance while at the same time there's 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 say 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 ulterior geo 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 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 did 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.s. was not created for that this will discuss what's happening in syria with

a key advisor to president also to hear some of what's to come up at two pm g.m.t. . well that. the majority of last that should have been hands are now at work to amend the constitution is underway the problem is that some state funded and armed terrorist groups operating in our towns and villages this makes ordinary people's lives very difficult and puts them in a real danger that the position of the western countries encourages these terrorist groups we share russia and china as you said it's impossible to move forward without dialogue but the alternative as gloves in civil war into really just wants . to be in revolutionary forces claimed they've seized parts of convention center would serve as a key base for gadhafi loyalists in his hometown of syria for over two days now three years into rulers have been waiting one of the biggest assaults yet on the most important remaining stronghold revolutionary forces say they now control most of

the town itself a spear through this is from oil the fighters thousands of people had last year but many remain behind meaning there is a high risk of civilian casualties for peace campaigners the fact that they are with protecting civilians by selling fear so the alliances approach is very selective. the whole idea of the bombing was it was meant to protect the civilians and blanco's no i don't think anybody signed up to the idea that you have main killing civilians in another city or town in the here and that's exactly what's happening. in terms for a selective about what civilians it supports it doesn't support those civilians who markopolos it really to create those simple reality ones and of course we know you want this war was about to change i wanted to get rid of gadhafi if i could chris isaak was hoping civilians in libya so they would if not. they don't care about

civilians and that's what's actually happening so there will be terrible killings and so i'm sure and here really this is a response well this is a we do know from libya. in france the power of political correctness seems to be teaching a serious class and for school kids parents and teachers are angry at new textbooks which carry revised historical accounts to avoid insulting minority pupils as artie's daniel gosnell 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 for all these new history school books are in bridging parents and teachers and cool it's a little cool correctness gone mad as bestseller on the band figures of france wilds of boylan's ahead. 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 thunking louis the fourteenth to imperial and the. 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 grow it is studied the world including les miserables all think to hugo france is already breaking up thanks professor casale because it's young people have no sense of identity parents are concerned we have this dead even the worth pages of our history because you can't understand what happened properly now in france you could not 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. that schools now give ten percent of their share you will to the medieval african moline point of 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 malta multiple which many say they've never heard of the ministry of education refused to be interviewed but gave us this statement. which changing the school curriculum to reflect globalisation a moment of pause because it's important to have a view on the world cultures such as egypt and india a 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 push to altie paris. where terrorists are breaking an artsy and i'll be

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very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on the wall street center they are. linking these intense on your show the case is set to get the status of the human experiment it's . let's see if we pursue this right here is what it knows the boy is allegedly trying to senseless and it's all changed lives are financial to the release is the ability to maintain our confidence in markets and don't want to be seen trade imbalances risks to keep the nations close to collapsing the supply close close khaled's and fail so we pull a balance against the little things us crash seven and smash the ceiling change the business like the television.