even syria says she's alive and well raising concerns of fabricated stories of 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 roundup of the top stories for the past seven days and antiwar street protests that kicked off in new york three weeks ago no growed 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 those that calls for revolution get louder the authorities and media fun of them harder to ignore out is one of the latest from new york. the collective voices of american dissent has manifested into a movement impossible to ignore occupy wall street began in the world's financial

capital but this week protests have blease to 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 in all of the american people right now are suffering to these hard economic times this seems pretty revolutionary to me. in this period a revolution is here and so i need to be a part of what you are and not a 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 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. you know the protesters are. giving voice to a more broad based frustration about how 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 aren't 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 square we can volunteer lead over our

brothers and sisters all over the world heritage 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 who weighed in on the populist uprising actually 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 sympathize with. his 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 be complex turning point in the u.s. we're about oh it's a very good politician it's working for the majority of the people but perhaps in an elected demanding democracy from the very leader this capital murder arena for diana artsy the 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 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 formal for evolution initially nonviolent but with the potential to become violent. now u.s. correspondent for the heart of events in lower manhattan keeping you updated on how the protests go found off treated to say the unofficial organizers now telling her their protests now being held in more than a thousand cities across the u.s. you can follow the action on our twitter feed r.t. underscore com. later in the program

a look at how financial distress is also driving people on the streets of the greek capital and r.t. crew in the week witnessed police violence in athens as anger among a steady hit greeks reached a boiling point. ninety people have been killed two of them policemen after christine 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 churches fearing the post revolution egypt could see ultra conservative islamist rise to power witnesses claim the violence was instigated by provocateurs security forces eventually fired shots and tear gas to disperse the protesters as what the market elman from bill can university in turkey he told me the unrest shows 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 tradition but it also is

alarming for the political future of egypt shocked was supposed to start. in six weeks time to choose a new column late last year we began to soar see violence between cops and islamic pressure and it was in cities like the exam and at the time when people were expecting a revolution this didn't get much attention then when the revolution came when it seemed at least in central cairo to be peaceful. people who will be tensions in. the room. with the local christian community and it's a real big question is he symbolically is egypt going to go from being a second. being an islamic dictatorship where it will be many more people who live . there are significant numbers and operational questions but there are many security screening who would probably be much less free when they had.

a protest also get a woman to syria to were further violence or at least fourteen people killed in clashes between security forces ninety 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 targeting 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 though said the chaos no since mid march following protests demanding president assad steps down meantime the media race to out the regime forced many in the week into a surprising new term is over but of explains more about that 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 as zeinab. we viewed pictures of what was done to corpse and they are simply too gruesome to air several western media outlets were quick to reports al

gore's 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 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 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 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 are naaman to pro sound 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 un has 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 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 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.s. 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. . later the program a report on how the ongoing fighting in libya is affecting the lives of civilians there as revolutionary forces intensify their assault hundred aphids hometown of sirte we are so aspart why the human cost of the so called liberation is often going unnoticed in the media. next the parliamentary elections are 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 you're a slow kocinski as conservatives are estimated to have about thirty percent

correspond of the next year a report. we received the exit poll results suggest that the policy of the current prime minister 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 lone justice party has managed to gone something about thirty percent of the vote this is certainly a victory for the. as 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 asterisk of 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 that.

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 have been with the fact that poll has managed to survive the global recession the era in the polish power circles signified the warm spell in the russian polish relations 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 missile but also for the strengthening ties between moscow and warsaw. you know the news this week no strike the european economies were. graded italy and spain fears over the debt

crisis five by the time. great of several british and portuguese bags. the biggest concern though with international creditors still not sure it's doing enough to get another cash injection. to 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 first reported on the needs of the people that are taking second place to big bag. anger in athens syntagma square once again bearing witness to oakley clashes between riot police and furious protest is . that. the right. and the pensions really been my thing as a police moved in to clear the crowds some shocking scenes at one point the police chasing protesters into the metro station many others hit kicks by they supposed to

be keeping control. of the message being sent by the government is one of 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 produce i took shelter in an enclosure just or syntagma and one policeman who i think was a commander in a very rude way 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 amplified the sound of the flash bang causing always takes all deafness and injury which has cost me his job. after the attack i won't call it an accident it was an attack like a small. investigation was launched into the incident the progress has been so. a

famine a list tells us the countless cases against heavy handed police tactics they need to you have 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 see further cash tensions looks set to keep escalating i think we are. easily explained in. the first reaction. from europe. has been expressed in july. the impact of the financial crisis is being played out play by play on syntagma square

there are now fears that the financial crisis turned into an economic recession could bring the entire year is a just the greek people to their knees surface r.t. athens. a lack of leadership is what's driving the e.u. towards functional collapse that's the real anywhere vestment advisor patrick young here's some more of his thoughts. 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 you there's too little leadership and there is a pig headed intransigence particularly amongst the finance ministers but 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 by the end of the year if we don't see positive and rough production 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 the troika of international lenders expert opinion from patrick young a lot more about this big ongoing story on our website of course r.t. dot com what do they want to check out these two we got for you posted tonight i don't expect it that 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 what's it got more pictures there if you'd like to check it out also talking checking out checking out in style the creative coffin carpenter who braces life by flying 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 and later this month we've got the preview pictures if you want to check them out. this week the u.s. led war in afghanistan passed a 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 coming from a former german general who planned his nation's role in the operation a decade ago nato has plans on for 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 when u.s. led forces overran the taliban 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 itself over twenty five thousand full time personnel fleets of military and cargo aircraft with enough equals 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 maybe 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 out 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 at these years. but if you have a fever the latter have

a taste of 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 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 ever rockets a close call when you this can just get this much equipment personnel consolidated into one tight spot get close it's going to destroy something or someone is. this is still. growing in britain to which has the second largest number of troops in afghanistan in london's trafalgar square the big crowds mark the decade of war with a defiant get out now message correspondent our cameras are there you can watch his reports if you didn't catch the last week.

this fighting for gadhafi is hometown of sirte continues in libya where revolutionary forces claim they've seized the main base of the colonel's loyalists for ninety 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 set is the only thing keeping them from formally declaring liberation and cheering elections a slow day to 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 a doctor. to me took hours in the us so in terms of decision population searches a city be there more than a hundred thousand in insert six if ten thousand lets 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 volbeat of art responsibility to protect was theoretically the reason for nato so you made each area an intervention in libya so if the good guys are being attacked by two other official sources are to be a plus but if the bad guys are ensconced in seriously forest and are to be does not apply so in terms of people you know this beats anything else in the market. pepe escobar the duckett child has

a french history of being revised in an attempt to avoid insulting the country's minority pupils 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 artie's europe correspondent day a bushel 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 parents and teachers who cool it's political correctness gone mad this author's bestseller on the figures of fronts of boylan's ahead of their daughter if we doing teacher and 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 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 ken 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 we have to study even the worth pages of our history because you can't understand that what happened proper it is 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. 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 the 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. 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 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 their polls they say consigned themselves to history the new bush or paris. news of the week. with just a couple of minutes time special report for you on the injustice the palestinians are facing right now being evicted from lands they've held for centuries by jewish settlers backed by the israeli army without the headlines before that though here

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of the week with. the spirit of the arab spring has come to the u.s. . wall street greed and economic depression were occupying the streets of american cities but the authorities have been cracking down on the demonstrations despite washington support for revolutions overseas. nineteen people are killed one hundred fifty injured as thousands of christian protesters clashed with police on the streets of cairo riots followed months of rising tension since the country's revolution between radical muslims and coptic christians including attacks on churches. who western media reported as being butchered by by charlotte.