ten pm sunday evening here in moscow and you're watching the weekly on our round of pov the week's top stories with me kevin no internet and first early wall street protesters 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 the social inequality in corporate greed and as their calls for revolution gets louder the authorities media are finding them harder to ignore art is more important as more from your. 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 this period of revolution is here and so i need to be a part of that once you are not afraid 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 suddenly 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. that the protesters

are. giving voice to a more broad based frustration about our financial system works 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 awarded 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 you can follow me lead up our brothers and sisters all over the world the care of 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 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 this 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 passing the buck to demanding democracy from the very leaders that promoted hurry up or die out artsy new york. from wall street executive richard esco says protest is supposed 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 us i think what they're doing is reasserting

a set of values you know everybody who wants a job should get a job business people and their customers should deal with one another fairly and honestly crimes including corporate crimes should be punished and so on so if you think of it as the early stage of a movement where it's the clarion 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 you 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. well u.s. correspondent for the heart of events in lower manhattan for you keeping you updated now the protests go but is lucic a funnel for tweeted that the unofficial organizers of the rally tell her protests are now being held in what can a thousand cities follow the action on our twitter feed are. also looking ahead to

god later in the program a look at how financial distress is also driving people on the streets of the greek capital these days to an arctic crew witnessed in the week police violence in athens as anger among the thirty hit greeks reached boiling point. plus history fall victim to political correctness in france with fears the younger generation might lose its sense of national identity we look at what pages are being removed from textbooks and why. the fresh wave of violence are swept across syria this weekend with at least fourteen people killed in clashes between security forces and antigovernment protesters some of the most severe scenes came with the funeral of a kurdish opposition leader in the north east of the country now syrian authorities insist that their trial getting armed terrorist groups only not peaceful protesters they also play in the kurdish opposition leader was killed by militants because he was against foreign intervention in the country seriously in a state of chaos though since mid march following those protests demanding present

step down main time the media race throughout the regime forced many into a surprising u. turn this last week as either bennett explained for arctic. 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 we 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 reports 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 our hosni was tortured murdered

and mutilated it even claimed to 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 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 or the never this footage religiously shows are naaman to pro assad civilians being targeted by gun toting rebels say 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 receipt 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 importing 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 our partners in the un 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 un was not created for that. the vetoes of followed by 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 key advisor to syria's president assad told r.t.

the country's authorities fully embrace russia and china's calls to end the bloodshed through dialogue. the majority of laws that should have been passed are now adopted work to amend the constitution is underway the problem is that some states fund and arm terrorist groups operating in our towns and villages this makes ordinary people's lives very difficult and puts them in 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 dialogue the alternative is blood spilling civil war into religious clashes. what if you like the coach the falling through with dogs i can tell you is coming your way just under twenty minutes time tonight and also the company from the program to report on how the ongoing fighting in libya is affecting the lives of civilians there right now as revolutionary forces intensify their assault on gadhafi his hometown of sirte we are so exposed why the human cost of the so-called liberation

is often going on notice to the media. just last week struggling european economies were dealt another blow by ratings agencies who downgraded italy and spain fears over the debt crosses were also intensified by the downgrade of several british and portuguese banks greece remains the biggest concern though with international creditors still not sure it's doing enough to get another cash injection the i.m.f. envoy to the countries delivered an ultimatum ramp up the cuts or face total collapse that's after athens admitted failing to reduce its deficit to the agreed level despite a relentless austerity drive this left the nation's economy in tatters and those are two sort of first though the needs of the people taking second place to big bank the. syntagma square once again bearing witness to ugly clashes between riot police and furious protesters. background to. the right that you know the thank you larry. and the tensions really

been my thing as a police moved in to clear the crowds some shocking thing at one point the police chasing protests as into the station many others hit and kicked by they supposed to be keeping control. 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 in a letter 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 increase i took shelter in an enclosure just and one policeman who i think was the commander asked in a very rude we're 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 last pictures i took. the place he taken shelter amplified the sound of the flash bang causing always tasteful deafness an injury which has

cost me less his job. after the attack i won't call it an accident it was an attack my life's been like a small hell. an investigation was launched into the incident the progress has been slow a fireman a list tells us the countless cases both against heavy handed police tactics and need to have pulled 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 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 fair that they allow cash tensions looks set to keep escalating i think we are in first. to explain. the first reaction. to. this kind of anger.

has been experienced. of the person the impact of the financial crisis has been played out play by blow on syntagma square there are now fears that the financial crisis turn into an economic recession could bring the entire year is a not just the greek people to their knees surface r.t. athens. the greek people are suffering because of mistakes made by politicians of athens only a scope lies outside the euro zone serves member of the european parliament. basically the money is going to pay off debt but the problem is they're not producing that and it's it's unsustainable we should never have been allowed to get into the euro in the first place they broke so many rules their own rules to get greece in because this was all about politics it wasn't about economics and i feel very very sore for the greek people the only way that the greek people will get back on their feet again is to come out of your all together and look it won't be

the end of the world for greece argentina was the last major countries to falter in two thousand and one between two thousand and one and two thousand and six argentina's economy grew by sixty percent that is the answer to greece if you poll the polls that these people are being made to suffer because of ideological decisions that were taken many miles away in brussels ten years ago i'm from our side r.t. dot com let's see we've got lined up a few expected acts sales the show in europe twenty twelve opening ceremony in the ukrainian capital are part of a full five minutes group gatecrashed the high profile when they discover the federal government is going to check them for you checking out checking out in style the creative coffin carpenter braces life by flying in the face of conventional food rules catch the works of this african craftsman responsible on display in moscow later this month we've got a preview pictures it's interesting. this 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 with the latest failure stand coming from a former german general who planned his nation's role in the operation a decade ago nato plans on a full withdrawal from the country by the end of twenty fourteen but as jason model of reports the evidence on the ground right now 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 taleban of late two thousand and one bug a mere field is little more than a flight tower in 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 helped over twenty five thousand full time personnel fleets of military and cargo aircraft with enough equals to cause traffic jams in the 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 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 bases like this one are 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 hair cut in the sides 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 or thought they have a case that the right. local afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business both inside and outside the wire without by agreement a soldier's 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 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 easy as it may be to forget at times this is still a war zone jason muckluck in barbara for r.t. . and a white house official suggested the cia and special forces could stay in afghanistan long after the troops have left according to brian becker to the pro peace coalition there's no way the u.s. would abandon the region so strategically important if the us 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 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 swear it's 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 sentiment growing in britain which has the second largest number of troops in afghanistan in london's trafalgar square big crowds marked the decade of war with a defined get out now message a correspondent was there you can watch his reports about tito combs well.

it's fighting for gadhafi is hotel and of so it continues in libya where revolutionary forces claim they've seized the main base of the colonel's loyalists the convention center and the universe stay for two days now libya's interim rulers have been waging one of the biggest as yet of the most important remaining stronghold of the ousted leader revolutionary forces claim they control most of the town that's been under siege for three weeks now but some street battles are still raging maybe as interim leaders say fail if it takes is the only thing keeping them from formally declare in liberation and shedding elections times correspondent pepe escobar believe that while focusing on this objective the mainstream media the dooring the high human cost. 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 resolution this is a civil war which was at the top to. me took hours in the us so in terms of decision population searches acidic be there more than a hundred thousand of an insert six. ten thousand let's not twenty thousand there still most of the civilian population still dish they were bombed by nato nato bomb at least half of this shooting clue thinks what they said was scouting installations all across town this is the cluster vol the art. responsibility to protect was theoretically the reason for nato so you mean each area intervention in libya so if the good guys are being attacked make other fish orses are to be up lax but if the bad guys are ensconced and seriously sure is our to be it does not apply so in terms of you know this beats anything else in the market.

world news in brief you now live event happening at the moment two soldiers have been killed and thirty others injured in riots which erupted in cairo is the latest live picture going through from egyptian t.v. a number of military vehicles have been set on fire. there tonight as thousands of christians demonstrated against a recent attack on a church. post revolution egypt goes the transition of power there is still the minority christians accused military rulers of failing to deal with the growing hostility befall them towards them this to say these are the latest live pictures coming through from egypt tonight since we get on a story we will keep you close are the parliamentary elections are underway in poland the current prime minister donald skins his party is facing a tough challenge from former pm kocinski voters relate to members of both the lower house and the senate the party that wins the most seats were for when you government surveys before the elections indicated two screws favorite with the

first exit polls expected in about an hour. on a lighter note what kind of a golf course near the city of brisbane australia is giving its members a new challenge to overcome killer sharks half a dozen predators apparently were washed into the club lake from a nearby river when it flooded despite being stranded the sharks seem to be healthy enough you can see they're thriving some are even breeding breeding we hear however the presence of the sharks hasn't scared off the gulf as they say it's good publicist posted the popularity of the course of the shots away from the case they go to retrieve those balls now the darker chapters of french history of being revised in an attempt to avoid insulting the country's minority pupils opponents of the move say it's the latest in a wave of political correctness that threatens to purge the country of its past and in doing so jeopardize its future europe correspondent daniel bushell explains more . 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 in thought thing 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 round the world including les miserables 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 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 moline point i've studied it and what exactly is it contributing 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. we're changing the school curriculum to reflect globalization monomer past being taught because it's important to have a view on the world cultures such as egypt joining 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 are learning less and less about their own country states which stop teaching their paws they say consigned themselves to history the new bush or arty paris. sunday evening the ninth of october moscow is kevin i am with you tonight in about fifty minutes time kate school the sunday night sport including news of a charity football match here in moscow was some of italy's fondness for my players coming up here on r.t. .

if. it was created to serve public interests to inform and to entertain. these days there's nothing easier than opening a new media outlet but there is nothing harder than revoking its license in case of corruption on. when just to. stand out on t.v. it will be in trouble. if the problem is we can involve in a community where you have one large corporation controlling the daily newspaper

radio stations television stations the cable outlets but you told me that that sounds like democracy public opinion versus f.c.c. broadcast blues on r.g.p. .