nine pm sunday evening here in moscow for getting thing for me kevin i know you're watching our weekly it's surrounded by the week's top stories and first on the wall street protests that kicked off in new york three weeks ago now grown into a nationwide rally engulfing a growing number of u.s. cities every day demonstrators inspired by the arab spring demanded an end to social inequality and corporate greed as there are calls for revolution that are getting louder the authorities and media are finding them harder to ignore results he's one 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 and 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. the spirit of revolution is here and so i need to be a part of what you are right now to breed 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 if 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 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 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 square we 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 people are not going to stand for corporate greed anymore and now we're getting up and we're doing something about it three weeks into the anti

wall street demonstrations the new york city police department has pumped two million dollars into overtime pay fines some critics say are being used to repress freedom two miles from the chaos of the united nations even financier and billionaire george soros weighed in on the populist uprising and surely i can understand the sentiment the decision not to inject capital into the banks but to effectively relieve them of bad. gave the banks. profits as they can they can sympathize with the. grievances spearheaded so loud and large that mainstream media outlets have been left with no other choice but to cover the protests in a matter of weeks occupy wall street the only mobilized international expansion many believe this ongoing of that would become like spawning point in the u.s.

were mass movement towards american politicians didn't work for the majority of the people and that led to demanding democracy from the very leader this that from o.t. three network i am artsy for your one former u.s. intelligence officer told me that to washington needs to watch its but because if he 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 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 by saying 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 form of our evolution initially nonviolent but with the potential to become violent. well u.s. correspondents are in the heart of events in la and keep you updated on how the protests go. lucic a fan of tweeted about a huge turnout at the protesters camp this sunday with a march planned for four pm you can follow the action on my twitter feed r.t. underscore. also later in the program a look at how financial distress is driving people on the streets of the greek capital and r.t. crew this week witnessed police violence in athens as anger among austerity hit greeks reached boiling point. also history falls victim to political correctness in france with fears that the younger generation might lose this sense of national

identity when you look at what pages are being removed from textbooks and why. the first wave of violence are swept across syria this weekend with at least fourteen people killed in clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters some of the most severe scenes came at the funeral of a kurdish opposition leader in the northeast of the country syrian authorities insist that they're targeting armed terrorist groups not police for protesters they also claim the kurdish opposition leader was killed by militants because he has he was against other foreign intervention in the country well syria has been in a state of chaos now since mid march following protests demanding pres of the steps down meantime the media race throughout the regime forced many to a surprising u. turn this week as artie's bennett reports. she was hailed as the flower of syria the symbol of the suffering under president bashar sproule regime at least that's what much of the western media said after the apparent butchering and zeinab we

viewed pictures of what was done to seen aps corpse and they are simply too gruesome to aerate several western media outlets were quick to report al gore's knees 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 out hosni was tortured murdered and mutilated it even claimed mother found the body in a morgue last month all assertions is now being forced to backtrack on 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 u.s. britain and france for un sanctions to be slapped on syria but their foundations are now looking shaky than ever this footage illegibly shows an armed sound civilians being targeted by gun toting rebels say perhaps not the peaceful opposition there from made out to be by the west that only seems to look one way this notion that the us has is now part of this pro-democracy 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 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 russia will continue resisting attempts to legitimize unilateral sanctions through the u.n. security council that aimed to overthrow political regimes the u.n. was not created for that it was opposed to the 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 on bennett's. fierce fighting for gadhafi hometown of continues in libya where revolutionary forces claim they've seized the main base of the colonel's loyalists the convention center and the university for two days now libya's interim rule has been waging one of the biggest assaults yet of the most important remaining stronghold of the ousted leader revolutionary forces claim they control most of the town the speed of the siege for three weeks now but some street battles are still raging and it was interim leaders say failure to take is the only

thing keeping them from formally declaring liberation and changing elections and i spoke to times correspondent pepe escobar told me that he believes that while focusing on this objective the mainstream media is ignoring the high noon coffee. the only coverage that you see in western mainstream media corporate media is about the advances of the so-called true revolutionary forces this is not a resolution this is a civil war which was adopted by jimmy took hours in the us so in terms of its decision population searches a city be there more than a hundred thousand of an insert six if ten thousand lets not twenty thousand there still most of the civilian population still there they were bombed by nato nato bomb at least half of this city including what they said was scattering installations all across town this is the cluster vol b. of art. responsibility to protect was theoretically the

reason for nato so you merely cherry an intervention in libya so if the good guys are being attacked by two other fish orses are to be up last but if the bad guys are ensconced and seriously sure is since r two p. does not apply so in terms of you know this beats anything else in the market thought of pepe escobar talking to me a bit earlier tonight nokia advisor to syria's president assad told us that r t. as well the company's authorities fully embrace russia and china's calls to end the bloodshed from dialogue full interviews coming up here next hour. and the majority of law should have been can are now adopted or will work to amend the constitution is under way at the problem is that some state funded and armed terrorist groups operating in our towns intelligence this makes more to people's lives very difficult and puts them in a real danger the position of the western countries encourages these terrorist groups we share russia and china's view that it's impossible to move forward

without dying by the alternative blood spilling civil war into really just. this week struggling european economies were dealt another blow by rates exaction sees the downgraded italy and spain fears over the debt crisis were also intensified by the downgrade of several british portuguese banks greece remains the biggest concern though with international creditors still not sure it's doing enough to get another cash injection. into the country's delivered an ultimatum ramp up the cuts will face total collapse so after athens admitted failing to reduce its deficit to be agreed level despite the relentlessness thirty two others left the national economy in tatters had a sort of first report the needs of the people taking second place the big bang. syntagma square once again bearing witness ok clashes between riot police here is protest is very god i think. back about. the right you know for

thank you larry. and the tensions really been my thing as the police moved in to clear the crowds some shocking scenes at one point the police chasing protests as into the train station many others hit and kicks by they supposed to be keeping control of the block 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 who'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 including us i took shelter in an enclosure just off syntagma and one policeman who i think was a commander asked in a very rude are we 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 of the pictures i took. the place he taken shelter amplified the

sound of the flash bang causing always takes all deafness and injury which is called his job. after the attack i won't call it an accident it was an attack like a small hell. an investigation was launched into the incident the 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 severe austerity measures in a bid to see further cash tensions looks set to keep escalating i think we are approaching fast and. easy to explain in.

the first reaction. of the press and the impact of the financial crisis is being played out play by play on syntagma square there are now fears that the financial crisis turn into an economic recession could bring the entire year is a just degree people to their knees surface r.t. . lack of leadership support striving towards financial collapse that's the view of investment advisor patrick young who spoke to us. the european union are trying to tick fiscal control of greece because they think that's the only way they can actually control the crisis essentially what is being fought at the moment is a battle for the sovereignty of greece the european union is too slow to get there's too little leadership and there is if he headed intransigence particularly

amongst the finance ministers but this special 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 time is running out because greece is leading the contingent that is going to kill the euro by the end of the year if we don't see positive and rapid action realistically that action means that greece needs to leave the euro because the problem is we cannot leave citizens of the european union just starve to death because it suits a troika of international lenders. patrick young than if you not checked out our web site today at r.t. dot com to neither expected it steals the show at a euro twenty twelve opening ceremony of creating a capital for a controversial feminist group gatecrashed the high profile of its more pictures of that if found see it online tonight and a coffin of creativity look at this it is easy to join the people of garner and

their belief that there is just a step into another life or thought of find out more the works of an african craftsman on display in moscow later this month. this last week the u.s. led war in afghanistan passed its ten year mark with nato troops still no closer to victory over the taliban the chorus of criticism of the occupation gets louder meantime with the latest failure stamp coming from a former german general who planned this nation's role in the operation a decade ago nato plans on a full withdrawal from the country by the end of twenty fourteen birders jason model of reports the evidence on the ground shows there is 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 tower 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 and cargo aircraft enough equals to cross traffic jams and an expansion is now underway aided by scores of contractors u.s. military engineers are constructing new housing and storage facilities to make room for even more men and 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 bases like this one aren't going to shrink anytime soon. at least there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for tough you know 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 in 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 even the. 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 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 every rock it's a close call when 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 at times this is still a war zone jason must look for a t. . white house official suggested the cia and special forces could stay in afghanistan long after the troops have left and according to brian becker of the pro peace and soko relation there's no way the u.s. would have bad in a region that 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 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. and

he will sentiments growing in britain too which has the second largest number of troops in afghanistan in london's trafalgar square the crowds mounts a decade of war to find get out now and i see a correspondent was there you can watch his reports that tito called. french history is being revised and it attempts to avoid insulting the country's minority peoples opponents of the booth though say it's the latest in a wave of political correctness the threatens to purge the country of its past and in doing so jeopardize its future he's done you a bushel europe correspondent explains. twenty pages on the history of black slavery and just six on the time of napoleon shown here sitting on a toilet france's new history school books are inbreeding parents and teachers who

cool it's political correctness gone mad this author's bestseller on the banned figures of front of boylan's ahead saw their journey 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 thunking louis the fourteenth to imperial and the pony and smoked as the colonel gadhafi of his day focus is now on the previously little known king came kumu thought of thirteenth century west africa. the purge even extends to reuters studied round the world including les miserables all through victor hugo france is already breaking up things professor casale because it's young people have no sense of identity parents are concerned but we have to study. the worth pages of our

history because if you can't understand that 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 involved schools now give ten percent of their share deal to the needy will african mali empire i studied it and what exactly is it contribution to world development. thousands of signed a petition of the french revolution lessons were replaced by the african kingdom of more than once upon which many say they've never heard of the ministry of education refused to be interviewed but gave us this statement. which arranging the school curriculum to reflect globalisation suppose being taught because it's important to have a view on the world cultures such as egypt and india the new european parliament reports back to compulsory school lessons on the benefits of the e.u.

from quote a very young age critics want kids learning less and less about their own country states which stop teaching the polls they say could saw in themselves to history. the new bush will see paris. news making headlines right now this sunday view for you a couple of stories parliamentary elections are underway in poland the current prime minister donald tusk is probably a party facing a tough challenge from former pm. a catch in ski rather voters are electing members of both the lower house and the senate the party that wins the most seats will fall the new government surveys before the elections indicated was favorites with the first exit polls expected in about two hours time something a bit offbeat a go of course in the city of brisbane australia is giving its members a new challenge to overcome killer shark half a dozen of the predators apparently were washed into the club lake from a nearby river when it flooded despite being stranded the sharks say they've been

thriving with southern even breathing the presence of the sharks hasn't scared the gulf as though even say it's a positive thing for the course whatever. five minutes away pungent politics on this channel as our excel report discovers how conservative corporations control talk radio in america and influence the election results that's to come i'm kevin zero in that so the next hour pans out in fact here on r.t. international from moscow. lose

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it's nine thirty pm sunday night here in moscow this week's top stories here on r.t. the american spring spreads across the country the demonstrators demanding an end to social inequality and corporations abuse of power however the u.s. government is up in arms against the protests despite of course washington support of revolutions over this see. this week the u.s. led war in afghanistan passed into ten year mark with a victory over the taliban in the pullout of foreign troops still a long way from reality. police and demonstrators clashed on the streets of athens after the i.m.f. seoul to make them to the country to make cuts or face collapse of the greece admitted failing to reduce its deficit to the agreed level despite the relentlessly stare of the drought. and the woman who western media reported as being butchered by bashar al assad's regime in syria says she's alive and well raising come to.