the woman in the western media reported as being butchered by bashar al assad's regime in syria at the isn't television saying she's alive and well forcing an embarrassing guitar by our beds. hello and welcome to our teas weekly review and we started in the us where occupy wall street protesters have changed their slogan to a single word occupy as an anti corporate run it spread to more cities across the country angry protesters say they're fed up with growing unemployment and corporate greed but have come under attack from police riot squads as well as some politicians as aussies marine airport now reports protesters say the spirit of the arab spring has come to 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 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 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 the spirit 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 a 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 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 well worded 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 you can follow me and other

leader of our brothers and sisters all over the world carol 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 entire 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

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 has not only mobilized international attention many believe this ongoing of that would be complex burning point in the us where a mass movement towards american politicians can still work for the majority of the people in the collective demanding democracy from the very leader this happen mota . arena artsy new york. and film a wall street executive richard ask that the line of concrete demand is natural strength all the anti corporate movement that striving he says to restore democracy . 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 watches job should get a job but business people and their customers should deal with one another fairly and honestly crimes including corporate crime should be punished and so on so if you think of it as the early stage of a movement where it's declaring its fundamental values and principles then i think it's actually although it's probably intuitive or accidental it's actually pretty smart of them not to get pinned down in saying we want a financial transactions tax or we want a blue ribbon investigation of wall street crime there really and this is why they've been able i think to start to get some attention. correspondence in america

the very heart of the process in new york providing you with the latest update and i'll see you in a bit has tweeted that the end of the show organizers of the rally tell protests are now being held in more than a thousand cities follow the action our twitter feed on t.v. underscored. and of voting stations have closed in parliament where the exit polls showing the first results of parliamentary election is our report of the prison leaving the razor blades a here nancy. plus some pages are being told from the street tested since brunswick critics say younger generations will end up not knowing enough about their own countries. but now the nineteen people have been killed two of them policemen after christan protesters clashed with security forces in cairo what started as a peaceful city and turned to violence as a military vehicle set on fire and more than one hundred fifty protesters and police injured thousands of christians are demonstrating against the recent spate

of attacks on that churches fearing that post a revolution in egypt could see an auto conservative islamists rise to power and witnesses claim the violence was instigated by provocateurs security forces eventually fired shots and tear gas to desperate to despise the protesters and mark almond from. turkey says that unrest shows egypt's status as a secular state is under threat. the development of the situation is becoming very roman and it's alarming because of the religious tradition but it also has a well known glue to. those distorted selections in six weeks. late last year we began to see all seems violence between cops and islamic pressure and it is in cities i believe and at the time when people were rejecting revolutions didn't get much attention then when the revolution kind of when it seemed. to be peaceful. people who

will be. in the room. with the local christian community and ruby questions the symbolic. attention to being an islamic dictatorship where it will be many more people who have lived. there are significant camps and operational questions but there are many secular all institutions who would find themselves probably much less free than they have been for her birth if such an islamic group and. syria has warned it will retaliate against any country that formally recognizes the recently established opposition national council them brother group is seeking international support for that six miles long uprising against the assad regime a fresh wave of violence has spread across the country look at these pretty incredible refer to the current. issues they are targeting terrorist groups not peaceful protesters but entry has been in a state of chaos since mid march following christ has demanded president asad steps

down while many civilians have been killed every port about one l.h. county has forced major western media outlets into surprising the town this week as artie's either then it's explained. she was hailed as the flower of syria the symbol of the suffering under president bashar assad spruit all regime at least that's what much of the western media said after the apparent butchering of zeinab we have viewed pictures of what was done to xen apps corpse and they are simply too gruesome to arab several western media outlets were quick to report al gore's news 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 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 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 us 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 normal 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 us is now part of the 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 so they 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 u.n. was not created for that. 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 on down sadly more dramatic evidence to drive the point home on the bennetts see. and to hear the

damascus perspective on events in syria also interviewed a key advisor to president assad who alleges that foreign states may be secretly arming terrorists now operating in the country. 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 but the alternative is blood spilling civil war into religious clashes and the full interview with dr shaaban is coming your way in just under twenty minutes time plus work ordinarily on growing believe in fighting is affecting the lives of seven is. true of government forces edge closer to a symbolic trial in the battle for cattle productions hotel absurd we all have

that's why the human cost of the so-called liberation often goes unnoticed in the media. parliamentary elections have been taking place in poland were the results expected late on monday as polls suggest that the pro e.u. party headed by prime minister donald to disk is leading with around forty percent of the votes ahead of his opponent here also a good chance case conservatives as to made it to have just thirty percent our correspondent alex. we received the exit poll results suggest that the party 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 them they're toast he has not a single party can't 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 saddam will be able to garner another a coalition and be able to take his government for a second spell in the 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 they have been happy 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. other news this week struggling european economies were dealt another blow by rating agencies which downgraded italy and spain fears over the debt crisis were also intensified by the downgrade of several british and portuguese banks greece remains the biggest concern with international creditors still not sure it's doing enough to get another cash injection the imus envoy to the country has to meet with an ultimatum because of face total collapse that south africans admitted failing to reduce its deficit to the agreed level despite the place austerity drive. reports the needs of the people taking second place to big bang. syntagma square once

again bearing witness to oakley clashes between riot police and furious protest is so we go. back to. the right here. and the french it's 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 and kicked 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. 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 please i took shelter in an enclosure just all syntagma and one policeman who i think was a commander in

a very. 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 total deafness and injury which is his job. after the attack i won't call it an accident it was an attack on my life be like a small hero. an investigation was launched into the incident the progress has been slow a fireman a list 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 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 further cash tensions looks set to keep escalating i think.

first. to explain. the first reaction. of the press and the impact of the financial crisis is being played out blow 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 just to bring people to their knees surface r.t. . and paul natalee a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party told us that leaving the eurozone is the only option. basically the money is going to pay off debt but the problem is they're not reducing the debt . it's interesting the ball should never have been allowed to get into the order 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 up to your all together and look it will be the end of the world for greece argentina was the last major countries involved 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 a poll that these people are being made to suffer because of ideological decisions that were taken many miles away in brussels ten years ago this week the u.s. led war in afghanistan passed a ten year marker of nato troops nowhere close to defeating the taliban alliance plans to quit the country by the end of twenty fourteen but as jason lot like reports evidence of the ground suggests there's no rush to. 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 was little more than a flight 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 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 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 even planned bases like this one are going to shrink in time so. at least there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for tell a few 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 they have a case that the right. mobile afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business both inside and outside the wire without diagram of 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 consolidated 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 bagram for r.t. . tilley been now and fierce fighting continues and cannot attack his hometown of

that interim government forces claim they've seized the main base of loyalists of the ousted leader a convention center and hospital the offensive is one of the biggest yet with me there is national transitional council saying it will only declare the great of the country and start moving towards democracy the citizens captured thousands have been fleeing the violence there have been many thievin and casualties and at times correspondent peskov obviously that in focusing on that box health mainstream media is ignoring and i think. the only coverage that you see in western mainstream media corporate media is about the advances of this so-called true revolutionary forces this is not a resolution this is a civil war which was adopted by jimmy took powers in the us so in terms of its decision population searches acidic be there more than a hundred thousand of an insert six if ten dollars and let's not twenty dollars and

there's still most of disability population still dish they were born by native leader woman at least half of this it including what they said was scattered installations all across town this is that cluster vol the old soup eat responsibility to protect was a reticulated the reason for humanitarian intervention in libya so if the good guys are being attacked by qaddafi forces are to be applied but if the bad guys are ensconced in seriously sure is are to be does not apply so in terms of the pockets it you know this beats anything else in the market the docket chapters of french history adding revise their attempts to avoid insulting the cultures minority pupils the country the minority pupils opponents of the move say the latest in a wave of political correctness that threatens to push the country of its paused and in doing so jeopardize its future daniel bush. 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 region parents and teachers who cool it's political correctness gone mad this author's bestseller on the banned figures of fronts of boylan's ahead. if we doing teach our own minorities the history of their adopted country they don't feel french we are already seeing riots in our streets the crusades 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 came kumu thought of thirteenth century west africa the purge even extends to reuters studied round the world including les miserables all the 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 cannot understand that what happened for politics now in france you cannot understand the history. they want to understand and to avoid properly legal actions seen as the only way to stop the removal of national history of all involved schools now give ten percent of their share you will 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 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 monumental 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 poles they say consigned themselves to history then you push your arty paris. and in just a few minutes he went on to see our interview with the political and press advise l.d.c. where the president talks up a sign at shop and stay with us on that. thanks . to.

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welcome back this is on c.n.n. these are the week's top stories. the spirit of the arab spring has come to the u.s. says say protesters angry at wall street greed and economic depression multiplying the streets of american cities but the authorities have been cracking down on the dire straits and despite washington support for reminiscence of the sims. also nineteen people were killed and one hundred fifty injured as thousands of christian protesters clashed with police on the streets of cairo the riots followed months of rising tension since the country's revolution between radical muslims and christians igniting a time such as. greek public anger continues that planning for the afghan government and all to maintain from the international monetary fund to bringing more austerity console phaistos open arms. and.