this week's top stories on our t.v. american spring spreads across the country with the u.s. government up in arms against the protesters despite washington so appalled at revolutions over things. the u.s. led war in afghanistan enters its second decade with victory over the taliban and the pullout of foreign troops scarcely in sight i also. think that the background here. and the tensions really i think police and demonstrators clashed on the streets of athens after the i.m.f. seoul to make them to the country cut paul collapse. and the woman who promoted by

western media is a victim of bashar al assad's regime in syria so she's alive and well raising concerns of fabricating stories of being used in a bid to topple the country's leadership. for the evening say pm sunday evening here in moscow you're watching the weekly on r.t.r. round of the week's top stories with me kevin now in and first i did wall street protests that kicked off in new york three weeks ago and now grown into a nationwide rally engulfing a growing number of u.s. cities every day demonstrators inspired by the arab spring demand an end to social inequality and corporate greed and as their calls for a revolution get louder the authorities and media found him harder to ignore it is more important eyes of the story. 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 policed 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. i just want to see a. more just society for young people coming up and all of the emergency right now are some pretty hard times this seems pretty revolutionary to me and. 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 enjoy or 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 and you could 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 but the american people understand that not everybody has been following the rules. that wall street is an example of that these days a lot of folks who are doing the right thing are 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 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 giving up we're doing something about it three weeks into the anti wall street demonstrations the new york city police department has pumped two million dollars into overtime pay fines some critics say are being used to repress freedom two miles from the chaos of the united nations even financier and billionaire george soros weighed in on the populist uprising and surely i can understand this sentiment the decision not to inject capital into the banks but to effectively. relieve them of the bed that since gave the banks. profits as they can thank you sympathise

even since 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 international expansion many believe this ongoing of economic spawning point in the u.s. were not cool to american politicians didn't work for the majority of the people. demanding democracy from the very leader this. bring up or die hard see on your. wall street executive richard esko told me protest to support is being driven by their bid to restore basic democratic values. this is actually for a political protest movement that 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 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 then 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 because the u.s. correspondents are in the heart of events and keeping you updated on how the protests go now do you think we can finally just. about

a huge turnout it be a protest is this sunday with a plan for full follow the action on our twitter feed all of the underscore wrote one week later in the program as well we look at how financial distress is also driving people onto the streets of the greek capital to analyse prove witnesses police violence in athens as i'm here among austerity greeks reaches a boiling point. a fresh wave of violence to swept across syria this week with at least forty people killed in clashes between security forces ninety government protesters some of the most severe scenes came at the funeral of a kurdish. opposition leader in the north east of the country syria for a insists that targeting terrorist groups and more peaceful protesters they also claim the kurdish opposition leader was killed by militants because he was against foreign intervention in the country syria's been in a state of chaos since mid march following protests demanding president assad step

down meantime the media race throughout the regime forced many into a surprising u. turn this week as we reported over bennett's got the story. she was hailed as the flower of syria a symbol of the suffering under president bush. regime at least that's what much of the western media said after the apparent put tshering as zeinab. we viewed pictures of what was done to zone eps corpse and they are simply too gruesome to air out several western media outlets were quick to report 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 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 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 trace things a little bit more nuanced the state broadcaster says the interviews to dispel what it labels fabrications by foreign media to serve western interests in stories like this that have been used to prop up calls from the us britain and france for un sanctions to be slapped on syria but their foundations are now looking shaky the never has footage religiously shows an armed 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 you has is now part of the road a marker series game is ridiculous they are jumping on the barrel where again is an opportunity to get out of it create this deceptive appearance while at the same

time there's according the dictatorships that are aligned with them in the united nations and it's part of their own russia and china vetoed a u.n. resolution for syria seeing fruit as a potential cover for another libyan style intervention so they may not be any oil this time but there's always an ulterior motive 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 and russia 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 purpose vetoes are 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. . a fierce fighting for gadhafi is hometown of sirte continues in libya where

revolutionary forces claim they've seized the convention center now a main base of the colonel's loyalists for over two days in fact libya's interim rulers have been waging one of the biggest assaults yet on the most important remaining stronghold of the ousted leader revolutionary forces claimed they control most of the town that's been under siege for three weeks now with interim leaders say failure to take said is the only thing keeping them from formally declaring liberation and shedding elections so to discuss the situation there and more generally in libya let's talk now to the asia times correspondent pepe escobar a very good evening to you thanks for being on r.t. international good if you think this latest is so we'll see libya's transitional forces take from gadhafi control as in just a matter of hours days now. well we've. seen the latest assault for the best three or four weeks this is probably twenty first liters assaults. in malaysia where the problem is this is the cluster of all the. responsibility to protect

which was theoretically the reason for needles for you merely ceria intervention in libya so if the good guys are being attacked because our fish forces are to be up plus what if the bad guys are ensconced and seriously sure is showing we don't care if there are thousands of civilians in city as well r two p. it does not apply so in terms of a pot or is it you know this beats anything else in the market a lot of the news was news are you saying that north lot of civilians did stay in there a lot of there are a lot of. locals there the media's been focusing primarily on the actions of the progress of the revolution before the battle takes but now what about the human costs the deaths of innocent civilians are going to be sunday. that's the real largely ignored isn't it absolutely because that the only coverage that you see in western mainstream media corporate media is about the adventures of this so-called true revolutionary forces this is not a revolution this is

a civil war which was taught to by the nato powers in the us so in terms of disobedient population six is a seated there more than a hundred thousand in inserting if ten thousand level twenty thousand there still most of the civilian population is still there they were bombed by nato needlepoint at least half of the city including what they said was scatter installations all across town so obviously the spark moms they do not recognize since the loot fleeing civilians in fact so there's absolutely no body count of the actual civilian population so. crazy his cause make effect and everybody is assuming ok so if certain follows or dinner next few hours or days and the problems are all solved and we can set up a government in tripoli and it's in see. peace with islam is sore actually culturally tripoli militarily and the people in civil attorney are going to accept

that it was in eastern syria libya is their rulers know it's not going to happen the war is beginning that's what i was going to say i mean. really in the last bastion of opposition here is it this is going to go on some while yet absolutely kevin and a defect is not heaviest seen anybody anywhere talking about what's going on in the southern desert of course not because nobody knew was what's going on in the borders with and in the borders we need share and this is where his resistance is being organized i talked to a lot of people who came back from libya recently in meets and especially telling correspondents and that their best information is that catherine. since february to . draw a clothes of gold to their southern desert and this gold will be destroyed with them all tribes and among the two iraqis and i will defer the resistance so we are

in the at the intermediate period war they are more or less organizing the resistance and asked of the so-called government is the status in tripoli then you wait for the real action in iraq two thousand and three stop we only have about fifty seconds pathway if you can can you put a figure on how you know how long you think nato is going to be there. trevor that's what they said and that's what they've been saying for the past few weeks in fact the last time they said this as long as there is not a shrunk should go in tripoli there this is not going to happen. for over again. could have been a program times correspondent live from brazil thank you. this week struggling european economies were dealt another blow by ratings agencies who grade italy and spain fears over the debt crisis were also intensified by the downgrade of several british and portuguese bags. remains the biggest and so rather of international

crisis and still not sure it's doing enough to get another cash injection. countries to live in all to make to ramp up the cuts will face total collapse that's after athens admitted failing to reduce its deficit to the agreed level despite the relentless austerity drugs left the nation's economy in tatters now as artists are a first reported in the week the needs of the people taking second place it seems to big bang and. anger in athens syntagma square once again bearing witness to the clashes between rightly here is protest is. that. right. and the pensions really be my thing as a police moved in to clear the crowds some shocking things at one point the police chasing protests is into the next 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. seems like this is very serious questions about the level of force being used in a prior is a forty three year old journalist he's reported from many conflicts that it was in his own country where he sustained his worst injury. i just remember thinking is this really happening. to use to shelter in an enclosure just all syntagma and one policeman who i think was the commander asked in a very rude of me why i was taking pictures i told him i was a journalist but he gave an order and i had one of the flash burns thrown at me these are some of the pictures i took. the place he taken shelter amplified the sound of the flash bang causing always tape. injury which. after the attack i won't call it an arson it was an attack like a small hail. an investigation was launched into the incident but progress has been slow a family tells us the callous cases pulls against heavy handed police tactics any

t.v. any kind of results we witness for ourselves the lack of discrimination when the police lash out when journalists flung with his camera to the ground the rise in the level of aggression seen by place at least and the more extreme groups the protest is causing serious concern. with the government continuing to implement severe austerity measures lipitor seafarer the cash tensions looks set to keep escalating i think we are approaching fast. and easy to explain in. the first reaction if you for some of. them have this kind of from europe. has been experienced. first of the press and 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 turn into an economic recession could bring entire year is

a look just to greet people to their knees so r.t. . almost all the doom and gloom are stronger slightly different maybe more upbeat about ten minutes time crushing the crisis in a very different way robert foster explores the plunging global economy stay with us to listen to this recession rockets a brand new show here on this channel r.t. from moscow. the little slicing is a u.s. crash seems imminent in smashed that ceiling fourteen trillion. in clashes in the i.m.f. in close proximity and just programs in greece that's what an economy in the language from the greek economy of the main house of management will be managing is a part of it in practice if anyone actually know what the hell's even happening. well judging brother comments or those you've seen on our you chew page you love it it's very clever stuff so in about ten minutes from now is to say. this week the

u.s. led war in afghanistan passed his ten year mark with nato troops still no closer to victory over the taliban the chorus of criticism of the occupation gets louder with the latest failure coming from the former german general who planned his nation's role in the operation a decade ago. plans on a full withdrawal from the country by the end of twenty fourteen but a choice not to live 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 in the teleport of late two thousand would bug me if it was little more than deflates hour and a cracked roadway since then the former soviet base in the plains north of the afghan capital has grown into a small city that's up to over twenty five thousand full time personnel fleets of military cargo aircraft and enough vehicles to cause traffic jams and an expansion is now with the way aided by scores of contractors u.s. military engineers are constructing new housing and storage facilities to make room

for even more million more hard work 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 it's likely that less will even 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 in a long deployments they can shop for everything from flat screen t.v.'s to fine jewelry enjoy a cappuccino or grab some take out 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 in the such although some officials have tried to limit such men and he's calling them a distraction from the war the troops are happy to have them and leaders keenly but you know you saw it leave the line there that it is. the right. local afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business both inside and outside the wire without beggarman the soldiers my business would be nothing we

like having them here but not everyone agrees diddly telephone 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 most become everyone gets a close call when you this can just get this much equipment personnel it's all into one tight spot get close it's going to destroy something or someone is. is it really beautiful good times this is still. just a month look for. a white house official suggesting the cia and special forces could stay in afghanistan long after the troops have left and according to brian becker of the answer coalition there's no way the u.s. would abandon the region that's a 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 firmly afghanistan and the surrounding countries into an american sphere 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 he was and it was growing in britain which is the second largest number of troops in afghanistan and london's trafalgar square and we've big crowds a decade of war with it and thought i'd get a message or correspondent was there you can watch his reports about tito on.

the docket chapters of french history of being revised in an attempt to avoid insulting the country's minority pupils opponents of the move oh say it's the latest in a wave of political correctness and threatens to purge the country of its past and in doing so jeopardize its future. bushell reports. 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 in breaching parents and teachers who cool its political correctness gone mad this author's bestseller on the banned because of france was of oil and so he'd thought is 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 are called insulting to muslims the thunking louis the fourteenth to imperial and the walked as the colonel gadhafi of his day focus is now on the previously little known king came kumu thought of thirteenth century with africa. the purge even extends to grow it is studied round the world including les miserables the victor hugo france is already breaking up thanks professor casale because it's young people have no sense of identity parents are concerned we have the third even the worth of our history because you can't understand that what happens now in france because of understand that he's very. they want to understand and divide properly legal action scene is the only way to stop the removal of national history of all involved schools now give ten percent

of their share the old to the medieval african mali empire i studied it and what exactly is it contribution to world development. thousands of signed a petition after french revolution lessons were replaced by the african kingdom of mana 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 globalization on amount of dollars being taught because it's important to have a view on other world cultures such as egypt china and india the new european parliament report back to 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 their polls they say consigned themselves to history then you push your parents. sunday evening the nice folks over here in

moscow it's kevin owen here with you tonight in about fifteen minutes looking ahead kate say with all the sunday night sport for including how sebastian vettel finished third in japan still managed to set a formula one record more on that than from a bit later here on r.t. from moscow.

it was created to serve public interests to inform and to entertain. to these days there's nothing easier than opening up a new media outlets but there is nothing harder than revoking its license in case of corruption. which is what. the san antonio weighs in front. of them probably is going to be going to involve in a community where you have one large corporation controlling the bill the newspaper radio stations television stations the cable outlets you told me that that sounds like democracy the public opinion versus f.c.c. broadcast blues on archie.

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