this week's top stories here on r t the spirit of the arab spring is coming to the u.s. so say protesters angry a wall street greed an economic depression who are occupying the streets of american cities but the authorities have been cracking down on the demonstrations despite washington support for revolutions that was seen. nineteen people were killed in one hundred fifty injured as thousands of christian protesters clashed with police on the streets of cairo rides following months of rising tension since the country's revolution between radical muslims and coptic christians including attacks on churches. take that back around to. the right. on the fence it's really been writing police and demonstrators

clashed on the streets of athens after the i.m.f. seoul to meet and for the country cuts or collapse. and a woman who western media reported as being butchered by bashar al assad's regime in syria says she's alive and well raising concerns that fabricated stories are being used in a bid to topple the country's leadership. while i am in the morning here in moscow a very good morning for me kevin o.e.d. watching the weekly on r.t. our roundup of the top stories for the past seven days and he wall street protests those kids off in new york three weeks ago now grown into a nationwide rally engulfing a growing number of u.s. cities every day them as traitors inspired by the arab spring demand an end to social inequality and corporate greed and as their calls for revolution get louder . the authorities reading into fun and harder to ignore.

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 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 young people coming up and all of the emergency right now are suffering because. this seems to be revolutionary to me and. the spirit of revolution is here and so i need to be a part of what you already know to breed to be arrested any more 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. the protestors 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 or a lot of folks who are doing the right thing are 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 platonic 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 follow. the leader of our brothers and sisters all over the world we care of spring in greece and spain so 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 who weighed in on the populist uprising and surely i can understand their sentiments the decision not to inject capital into the banks but to effectively relieve them of their bad that sense gave the

banks. profits as they can if you sympathize with the census 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 not only mobilized international expansion and medical leave this ongoing of that because earning points in the us were about to sit back and college kids into working for the majority of the people. demanding democracy from the very leaders that promoted hurry up or die out artsy new york. one former u.s. intelligence officer told me that washington needs to watch his back right now 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 i think the united states right now is much more desperate than people 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 iran unless the government we store has its own integrity and starts paying attention to the public interest rather than sort of special interests i believe that we will have a form of our evolution initially nonviolent but with the potential to become violent. by us correspondence from the heart of events in keeping you updated on

how the protests go out his music fan of treated said the official organizer is now telling her that protests now been held in more than one thousand cities across the u.s. you can follow the action on our twitter feed r.t. under school. later in the program we look at how financial distress is also driving people on to the streets of the greek capital and r.t.e. crew in the we witnessed police violence in athens as anger among austerity hit greeks reached boiling point. one thousand people have been killed two of them policemen after a christian protesters clashed with security forces in cairo what started as a peaceful sit in turn to violence with military vehicles set alight more than one hundred fifty protesters and police injured thousands of christians were demonstrating against a recent spate of attacks on the churches fearing the post revolution egypt could see ultra conservative islamist rise to power witnesses claim the violence was instigated by provocateurs security forces eventual fired shots and tear gas to disperse the protesters sort of mart elman from bill kent university in turkey and

told me the rest chose egypt status as a secular state is under threat now. the development of the situation is becoming very alarming and it's alarming because of the religious division but it also has a long political. post story selection in six weeks. late last year we began to see violence between cops and all islamic courts the arrogance and pressure in public churches in cities like. the time when people were religious going revolutions didn't get much attention then when the revolution trainmen it seemed at least it was and. peaceful. people who look will be. in the room. with the local christian community and it's a real big question is symbolically is egypt going to go from being a secular occasion to being an islamic dictatorship where they will be many more

people who have recently in islamic rule and there are significant groups anderson to the operation questions there were many secular rejections all institutions who would find themselves probably having much less free will they have. if such an islamic group and. protests also get a woman from syria to were further violence or at least fourteen people killed in clashes between security forces and i think government supporters some of the most severe scenes came with the funeral of a kurdish opposition leader in the north east of the country syrian authorities insist the trial going only armed terrorist groups not peaceful protesters they also claim the kurdish opposition leader was killed by militants because he was against foreign intervention in the country seriously the set of chaos so since mid march following protests demanding president assad steps on the media race throughout the regime forced many in the week it was surprising you to. seize overground of explains more about that. she was hailed as the flower of syria a 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 and zeinab. we viewed pictures of what was done to xena and they are simply too gruesome to arab 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 that's 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 a 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 found brick ations by foreign media to serve western interests in 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 shakier than ever his footage religiously shows unarmed 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 it only seems to look one way this notion that the us is now part of the pro-democracy resteal regime is ridiculous they are jumping on their way again is an opportunity to get out front of it and create its deceptive appearance while at the same time there's supporting the dictatorships that are aligned with them and the united nations and it's part of. 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 they clearly understood syria is very different to libya and russia will continue resisting in terms to legitimize unilateral sanctions through the u.n. security council that aims to overthrow political regimes the u.s. was not created for that. the vetoes are followed by security council walkout from america over remarks during the syrian envoys speech but the u.s. promised to be back with another resolution and undoubtedly more dramatic evidence to drive the point home either bennett artsy. later in the program a report on how the ongoing fighting in libya is affecting the lives of civilians there is revolutionary forces intensify their resolve and about his hometown of sirte we are serious but why the human cost of the so-called liberation is often going on noticed in the media. next the parliamentary elections have been taking

place in poland with the results expected later monday exit polls suggest that the pro e.u. party headed by prime minister donald tusk is leading with around forty percent of the votes ahead of his opponent kaczynski conservatives estimated to have thirty percent correspond to the next year a jet ski reports. we received the exit poll results suggest that the party of the current prime minister domiciles the civic platform party has managed to garner almost forty percent of the votes something about thirty nine percent of the votes with his main competitor the twin brother of the late polish president lech kaczynski and also his party the law and justice party has managed to gone something about thirty percent of the vote this is not suddenly a victory for the michael steele has not a single party can hold a majority in parliament he will have to form a coalition with other parties to be able to form the new government but certainly no asterisks have any doubts about the fact that some going to school be able to garner another coalition and be able to take his government for

a second spell in power circles in poland and this in fact will become the first time since the communist regime and this is the communist times in poland the party somebody has managed to stay at power for a second spell in a row and in fact this comes as little surprise to many political experts this result has been pretty much predictable because the polls have been very much happy with the way the government has been running the country for the last four years according to all the surveys and opinion polls every half week with the fact that poll has managed to survive the global recession the era in the polish power circles signified the war in still in the russian pose elations in particular after this millennium tragedy when the country lost most of its political elite along with the country's president we've seen so much understanding between the two countries so much consensus and this many experts credit mr truth mr billow thanks

for the strengthening ties between moscow and warsaw. and other news this week no straw to european economies were. great it's in spain fears of the debt crisis rose five by the time. grade of several british portuguese bags remains the biggest concern there with international credit and still not sure it's doing enough to get another cash injection. of the country's delivered an ultimatum ramp up the cuts or face total collapse that's after athens admitted failing to reduce its deficit to be agreed level despite the relentless austerity drive now in the week correspondent sara firth reported on the needs of the people that are taking second place to big. anger in athens syntagma square once again bearing witness ok clashes between right place here is protest is ok.

you know that for. the french it's really been my thing as the police moved in to clear the crowds some shocking scenes one point the police chasing protesters into the net or a station many others hit and kicks by they supposed to be keeping control of the message being sent by the government is one of repression and fear. seems like there's a very serious questions about the level of force being used. prior 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 hard to increase or to shelter in an enclosure interest. and one policeman who i think was a commander in a very rude of me taking pictures i told him i was a journalist but he gave an order and i had one of the flash bangs thrown at me these are some pictures i took. the place he taken shelter amplify the sound of the

flash bang causing always takes all deafness injury which is cause his children. after the attack i won't call it an accident it was an attack like a small you know. an investigation was launched into the incident the progress has been slow a fabulous tells the countless cases both against heavy handed police tactics and weak to pull any kind of results we witness for ourselves the lack of discrimination when the police lash out when 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. that they allow cash pensions looks set to keep escalating. and fast. to explain. the first reaction.

from europe. has been expressed. from some 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 the entire year is a not just the greek people to their knees surface r.t. . a lack of leadership is what's driving the e.u. towards financial collapse that's the view anyway of investment advisor patrick you're on his thoughts. european union are trying to cheat 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 call for the sovereignty of greece the european union is too slow to push too little leadership and there is if he headed in trying to germans particularly

amongst the finance ministers could put this specially 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 rule by the end of the year if we don't see positive production realistically 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 the troika of international lenders expert opinion from patrick young a lot more about this big ongoing story on our website of course our convoy of a moment to check out these two we've got for you posted tonight i don't expect it x. steals the show to your attorney twelve opening ceremony of an in the ukrainian capital for a controversial feminist group gate crasher the high profile event we've got more

pictures there if you'd like to check it out also talking checking out early start all the creative coffin carpenter who had braces life for flight in the face of conventional funerals catch these works of american craftsman who's responsible for making his everything's their honest play in moscow later this month we've got a preview pictures if you want to check them out. 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 meantime 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 has plans on full withdrawal from the country by the end of twenty fourteen of course but as jason motley reports the evidence of the ground shows there's no rush to leave. if the united states is drawing its troops from afghanistan why is its largest base getting bigger with u.s. led forces overread to tell about it late two thousand and one plug

a mere few words little more than a flight telling the correct runway since then the former soviet base in the plains north of the afghan capital has grown into a small city itself to over twenty five thousand full time personal fleets of military cargo aircraft with enough physicals to cause traffic jams in an expansion is no way aided by scores of contractors u.s. military engineers are constructing new housing and storage facilities to make room for even more maybe more hard work 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 start going to shrink in time so. at least there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for a tough in a long deployments and you can shop for everything from flat screen t.v.'s to fine jewelry enjoy a cappuccino or grab some taken for a new concert franchise and if they're tired of working out of the gym they're free

to go to the salon for a hair cut in the side which although some of the engines have tried to limit such minis calling them a distraction from the war the troops are happy to have it leaders training. your choice leave the latter have a case that the right. local afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business both inside and outside the wire without agreement a soldier's my business would be nothing we like having them here but not everyone agrees diddly 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 much equipment personnel it's all into one tight spot get close it's going to destroy something or someone. beautiful times this is still. in vogue for t.v. . and she was it was growing in britain too which has the second largest number of

troops in afghanistan in london's trafalgar square the week big crowds marked the decade of war with a defiant get out now message a correspondent our cameras were there you could watch his reports if you didn't catch the bus last week i doubt. if. if. this fighting for gadhafi sauterne of sirte continues in libya where revolutionary forces claim they've seized the main base of the colonel's loyalists for nearly three days now libya's interim leaders have 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 that's been under siege for three weeks now libya's interim leaders say failure to take certain is the only thing keeping them from formally declaring liberation and changing elections as the data times

correspondent pepe escobar who believes that while focusing on this objective the mainstream media is ignoring a 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 adopted by the need to powers in the us so in terms of just civilian population searches a city being there more than a hundred thousand of an insurgent if ten thousand letter to a thousand they're still most of the civilian population are still there who were bombed by needle needle ball at least half of the city including what they said was covering installations all across town this is that plus through all the art to keep responsibility to protect weak schwartz theoretically the reason for needles who merely cherry and intervention in libya so if the good guys are being

attacked like other fish forces are to be up lax but if the bad guys are ensconced in seriously for instance are to pete does not apply so in terms of a park receipt you know this beats anything else in the market. the docket child has a french history of being revised in an attempt to avoid insulting the country's minority peoples opponents of the move saves 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 bush will report. twenty pages on the history of black slavery and just six on the time of napoleon shown here sitting on the toilet france's new history school books are inbreeding parents and teachers and poets political correctness gone mad this author's bestseller on the banned because of from words of boylan's ahead. if we doing teacher in minorities 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 thunking louis the fourteenth to imperial and the act as the colonel gadhafi of his day focus is now on the previously little known king . or 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 avoid been city parents are concerned we have the third even the worth pages of our history because you can't understand that what happens properly now in france you cannot understand that he's very. they want to understand and to vote properly legal action scene is the only way to stop the grim move of national history of

schools now give ten percent of their share deal to the needy will african well inquire i studied it and what exactly is it contribution to world development. thousands of signed the petition of the french revolution lessons were replaced by the african kingdom of modern words 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 moment of past being taught because it's important to have a view on the world cultures such as egypt china and india a 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 the polls they say consigned themselves to history the new bush or r.t. paris. that's news of you that we want to kevin open with you tonight just

a couple of minutes time marty special paul for you all need justice the palestinians are facing right now being evicted from lands they've held for centuries by jewish settlers but by the israeli army how about the headlines before that though here on r t international. quds. says.

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