welcome because we can review imus you know and we started in the u.s. where occupy wall street protests have changed the slogan to a single word occupy as article for its run is spread to most cities across the u.s. where protesters say they're fed up with growing unemployment and corporate greed but have come into place why it's cause as well as some politicians as well as his marine important i reports protests to say the spirit of the arab spring has come to. 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 in all of the american people right now are some pretty good 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 not a breed to be arrested anymore the whole enjoy or control of the police. disappears when that happens there are credible possibilities that are open to us and certainly you can imagine a different world if you believe you can be an agent of change the occupy movement has gained such momentum even the president who promised change was forced to address the issue i think people are frustrated and. you know the protesters

are. giving voice to a more broad based frustration. about how our financial system works but the american people understand that not everybody's 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 on board 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 believe over our brothers and sisters all over the world the carob 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 now we're getting up and we're doing something about it three weeks

into the anti wall street demonstrations the new york city police department has pumped two million dollars into overtime pay fines some critics say are being used to repress freedom two miles from the chaos of the united nations even financier and billionaire george soros 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 the only mobilized international expansion many believe this ongoing of that would be complex burning point and he was worried

about that oh it's a very good politician it still works for the majority of the people in the collective demanding democracy from the very leader this happened motor three network diane hart see the new york. and one former u.s. intelligence officer told me that washington needs to watch its back because if it doesn't listen to the people it could face a tension violent of a myth. 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 to the public interest rather than to the special interests i believe that we will have a form of our evolution initially nonviolent but with the potential to become violent. our correspondents in america are very hard to the end of the protests in new york and you can follow all they see as it happens by supporting our twitter streams they are at policy under scott column and also on c underscore america and that you can find a link to our you tube channel where r.t. is least the council of discusses the latest events with some celebrities also and one of her tweets she says people are coming to the big apple to protest from all over the states along with their family. also this hour the polish prime minister

donald too is because already celebrating victory before the votes are counted as opposed to just his party's one parliamentary elections all these years later here on r.t. . classism pagers the big one from history textbooks in fronts with critics saying younger generations will end up not knowing enough about their own country's past. so as the egyptian military authorities have imposed a five hour curfew on talkative square and downtown cairo this follows violent clashes between christians and security forces that have left at least twenty three people dead two of them policemen and what started as a peaceful sit in turned to violence with near trivial set on fire and all of the hundred eighty protesters and police injured thousands of christians were demonstrating against the recent spate of attacks on their churches fearing that post revolution egypt could see ultra conservative islam is to rise to power witnesses claim the violence was instigated by provocateurs security forces eventually fired shots and tear gas to disperse the protesters and mark almond from

the bill county diversity in turkey says the rest 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 religious tradition but it also has a well known. six weeks. late last year we began to see violence between. pressuring is in cities like an exam and at the time when people were really 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. crowds and chanting people who will be tensions in egypt around the room and. with the local christian community and it's a really big question is he symbolically is egypt going to go from being a secular dictator ship if you like to being an islamic dictatorship and may well

be many more people who would be happy to live islamic rule and there are significant groups of ten percent of the population questions that there are many secular egyptians many who would find themselves probably pretty much less free than they had been. 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 briley group is seeking international support for the six month long uprising against their side regime a fresh wave of violence has swept across the country with at least thirteen people reported a code through an isolated issue they're targeting armed terrorist groups not peaceful protesters the country has been in a state of chaos there is made large protests demanding president assad steps down while many civilians have been killed every kind of report about one of the casualty has forced major western media outlets into a surprising to turn this week as r.t.s. i bet it explains. 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 al hosni we viewed pictures of what was done to xena corpses and they are simply too gruesome to take there are several western media outlets who are quick to report al holes 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 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 and stories like this that have been used to prop up calls from the u.s. britain and france for un sanctions to be slapped on syria but their foundations are now looking shaky or the never has footage religiously shows are naaman to pro assad civilians being targeted by gun toting rebels say perhaps not the peaceful opposition they were from made out to be by the west that only seems to look one way this notion that the u.s. is now part of that pro-democracy russi 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 as part of their empire russia and china vetoed a u.n. resolution for syria seeing through it as a potential cover for another libyan style intervention so they may not be any oil

this time but there's always an ulterior motive our partners in the u.n. security council do not rule out a replay of the libyan scenario although they said more than once that they clearly understood syria is very different to libya russia will continue resisting in terms to legitimize unilateral sanctions through the u.n. security council that aimed to overthrow political regimes the u.n. was not created for that purpose the vetoes are 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 planet. late in the program a report of how the ongoing the been fighting is affecting the lives of civilians there as interim government forces edge closer to a symbolic triumph in the battle for cannot conduct his hometown of sirte we ask experts while the human cost of the so-called liberation often goes unnoticed in the media. the u.s.

led war in afghanistan and is a decade too with the white house promising a complete pullout of troops by twenty fourteen report from a base of the country however which suggests rather the opposite. parliamentary elections have been taking place in poland with results expected later on monday as a poll suggests that the pro e.u. party headed by prime minister is leading with around forty percent of the vote ahead of his opponent. conservatives estimated to have thirty percent correspondent . 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 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 asked for self and he doubts about the fact that some don't go to school be able to garner another a 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 half week 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. german and french leaders have agreed on measures to save european banks at a meeting berlin translight merkel and president sarkozy declared they were united on plans for recapitalization all interacting more cash into ailing banks saying an economy can be prosperous without stable and reliable financial institutions but actual greek default hasn't testified fears about the success due to exposure to the country's massive debt. mason from the i.m.f. warns that greece must post budget cuts or face total collapse the stock message comes after sons admitted failing to reduce the huge deficit to levels previously

agreed in pledges from bailouts despite approving a deeply unpopular austerity program that after his correspondent reports angry greeks the needs of the people are being neglected to satisfy the demands of big. anger in syntagma square once again bearing witness to clashes between riot police and furious protesters so we go to take that back to. the right. i mentioned 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 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 conflict zones 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 rude 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 swans. pictures are to. the place he taken shelter amplified the sound of the flash bang causing almost tehsil deafness an injury which has cost me less his job that they are after a truck and we call it an accident it was in a truck my life's been like a small. investigation was launched into the incident the progress has been slow a finalist tells us the countless cases both 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 pensions looks set to keep escalating i think. to explain. the first reaction. of the person 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 usa not just the greek people to their knees surface r.t. . and investment advisor patrick young says that european leaders have been to

slowing tackling the greek crisis leading the closer taken on that disaster. the european union are trying to tick fiscal control of greece because they think that's the only way they can actually control the crisis essentially what is being fought at the moment is a battle for the sovereignty of greece the european union is too slow in doing it there's too little leadership and there is a pig headed intransigent particularly amongst the finance ministers but they're specially amongst the leaders of the european union nations 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 contagion that is going to kill the mural by the end of the year if we don't see positive and rapid action realistically that action means that greece needs to leave the euro because the problem is we cannot leave citizens of the european union to starve to death

because it suits a troika of international lenders this week the u.s. led war in afghanistan past that's ten year mark with nato troops nowhere close to defeating the taliban their plans to quit the country by the end of twenty fourteen but as jason whitlock reports evidence of the ground suggests there's no rush from . 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 runway since then the former soviet base in the plains north of the afghan capital has grown into a small city itself over twenty five thousand full time personnel fleets of military and cargo aircraft and enough equals to cause traffic jams and an expansion is now underway aided by scores of contractors u.s. military engineers are constructing new housing and storage facilities to make room for even more men and more hardware after sending an extra thirty thousand troops

to afghanistan last year president obama started bringing them home this summer but with afghan forces struggling to stand alone it's likely that less will 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 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 of 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 believe the latter then we have a case that right. michael 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 most become everyone gets a close call when you're this congested get this much equipment personnel it's all into one tight spot get close it's going to destroy something or someone easy is a. this is. sentiment is also growing increasingly wish as the second largest military contributor to the war in afghanistan and london square big crowds marks the tenth anniversary with a defiant message before marching on to the downtown to downing street. is reported to.

be. toony been now and he is fighting continues and cannot adopt his hometown of sirte interim government forces claim they've seized the main base of loyalists of the ousted leader the convention center and hospital deference of as one of the biggest yet within the beds natural positional council saying only declare liberation of the country and start moving towards a democracy one of the city's captured thousands have been a fleeing the violence but they have been many civilians casualties asia times correspondent have asked have often leads that in focusing on the battle the mainstream media is ignoring the hype calls 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 the nato powers in the us so in terms of its decision population search is a city big there are more than

a hundred thousand of an insert six if ten dollars in all that's not twenty dollars and there's still most of the civilian population still there they were bombed by nato nato bomb at least half of the city including what they said was scattering installations all across town this is the cluster vol the r two p. responsibility to protect league schwartz theoretically the reason for nato is clear many cherry 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 and seriously sure is since r two p. does not apply so in terms of people you know this beats anything else in the market to pounce noncontroversial chant isn't history textbooks used in schools they're being subjected to a revision as i'm with critics that political correctness in the new has gone mad what he's done on the show has been. what's left of some of the docket pages of

french history. 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 on their journey 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 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 grow it is studied round the world including les miserables all to victor hugo france is

already breaking up things professor casale because it's young people have no sense of identity parents are concerned but we have to study even the worth pages of our history because you can't understand that what happened operatic dicks 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 the old to the medieval 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 are learning less and less about their own country states which stop teaching their polls they say consigned themselves to history. altie paris. gildas r.c.l. still ahead for you this hour our interview with the political and press advisor of the syrian president before the top back for another look at the top story.

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says on c.n.n. these are the week's top stories these spirit of the arab spring has come to the u.s. so say protesters angry at whole street greed and economic depression could find streets of american cities but the authorities have been cracking down on the demonstrations despite washington support for revolutions overseas. also twenty three people were killed and one hundred and eighty injured as thousands of christian protest has clashed with police on the streets of cairo on the bounce of rising tensions since the country's revolution between radical muslims and christians including at times on churches. greek public anger continues at boiling point as they are seen as government gets an ultimatum from the international monetary fund bringing more sturdy consul phase terrible crimes. under woman who western media reported as being butchered by bashar al assad's regime in syria.