bashar al assad's regime in syria appears on television saying he's alive and well forcing an embarrassing. meeting that. had welcome to all of you i'm here national hollow and was started in the us where the occupy wall street protest movement is gaining momentum across the country previously ignored by the mainstream media is now making headline news with u.s. politicians lining up to have their say protesters who blame wall street folks corporate greed and unemployment comparing that nauseous to those of the arab spring that led to a revolution in the middle east and north africa. with. 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 and 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. the spirit of 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 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 you know the protesters are. giving voice to a more broad based frustration about how our financial system works that the american people understand that not everybody has been following the rules. that wall street is an example of that these days a lot of folks who are doing the right thing are awarded a lot of folks who are doing the right thing are rewarded while the u.s. has encouraged and supported democratic uprisings in the arab world the same events playing out at home have been met with baton pepper spray and the arrests of nearly eight hundred peaceful protesters on the brooklyn bridge a scene that reminded some of egypt's to hear square you can follow me believe our

brothers and sisters all over the world the care of spring in greece and spain and we can see that it did send a powerful message ordinary people are not going to stand for corporate greed anymore and 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 the 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 become like any point in the us were about currents of american politicians in some work for the majority of the people in that letter to demanding democracy from the very leader this capital murder rate up or down artsy new york. and one former u.s. intelligence officer told me that washington needs to vote because if it 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 to 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 form over evolution initially nonviolent but with the potential to become violent . and our correspondents in america are the very heart of the brits as in new york and you can follow what they see as it happens but for now twitches tree as they are at all to underscore color and also r.c. underscore america there you can find a link to our you tube channel well ti's leaves the comfort of discusses the latest events with some celebrities also in one of her tweets she says people are coming

to the big apple to protest from all over the states along with their families. also later this hour the polish prime minister donald two schools already celebrating victory before the votes are counted though as exit polls suggest this party is one parliamentary elections of the details later here not seen. plus some pages are being torn from history textbooks and fronts with critics saying younger generations will end up not knowing enough about that own country's past. egyptian military authorities have imposed a five hour curfew on a square downtown cairo this follows violent clashes between christians and security forces that have left at least twenty three people dead do of them policeman started as a peaceful sitting turned to violence with military vehicles set on fire and more than one hundred eighty protesters and police injured thousands of christians were demonstrating against a recent spate of attacks on their charters clearing that post revolution egypt

it's the ultra conservative islamists rise to power witnesses claim the violence was instigated by provocateurs security forces eventually fired shots and tear gas to disperse the protesters and to mark almond from a bill pending university in turkey it says that arrest shows egypt's status as a secular state is under threat. the development the situation is becoming very roman and it's alarming because religious tradition biblical says a woman. in six weeks. late last year will be going home to see violence between cope and. pressuring coptic churches in cities like alexander and at the time when people were really expecting a revolution this didn't get much attention then when the revolution came and it seemed least in central cairo two hopelessly peaceful. scene crowds and chanting people who will big tensions across egypt the renowned place like arcelor with the

local christian community and it's a real big question see symbolically is egypt going to go from being a secular dictator ship if you like to being an islamic dictatorship that may well be many more people who would be happy to live with a limit moving host or a significant groups ten percent of population questions but there are many circular rejections only all institutions who would find themselves probably very much less free than they had been for the birth of the shift such as iraq and. syria has warned it will retaliate against any country that formally recognizes the recently established opposition national council then braley group is seeking international support for that six month long uprising against the assad regime a fresh wave of violence has swept across the country with at least forcing people reportedly killed the rebel forces there says they're targeting armed terrorist groups not peaceful protesters the country has been in a state of chaos since mid march following protests demanding president assad steps down while many civilians have been killed a report about one x.

casualty has forced major western media outlets into a surprising to turn this week as r.t. as i have a benefits 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 of zeinab al hosni we view pictures of what was done to xena corpses and they are simply too gruesome to air 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 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 this footage religiously shows an armed sad 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 has 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 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.n. was not created for that was 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 undoubtedly more dramatic evidence to drive the point home either bennett r.t. . later in the program reporting how the ongoing really been fighting is affecting the lives of civilians as the interim government forces edged closer to

a symbolic triumph in the battle his hometown of sirte casper's why the human cost of the so called liberation often goes unnoticed in. the u.s. led war in afghanistan and to this decade to you would white house promising a complete truth by twenty four reports from a base in the country however which suggests about a new. parliamentary elections have been taking place in poland with the results expected later on monday as a poll suggests that the pro e.u. party headed by a prime minister. with around forty percent of the roads ahead of his opponent also kaczynski is conservatives estimated to have just thirty percent our correspondent has the latest. we received the exit poll results suggest that the party of the current prime minister. stood a 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 president 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 aspirants of any doubts about the fact that some don't want to school 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 every have been with the fact that paul 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 in berlin chancellor merkel and president sarkozy declared they were united on plans to recapitalization or injecting more cash into ailing banks saying an economy come across press without stable and reliable financial institutions but actual greek default hasn't testified he is about this sector due to exposure to

the country's massive debt and ultimatum from the i.m.f. warns that greece must impose new budget cuts of face total collapse the storm message comes after us and submitted failing to reduce the huge deficit levels previously agreed to just played out and despite approving a deeply unpopular austerity program as are his correspondence our reports and recruits of the elected to satisfy the demands of the. anger in athens syntagma square once again bearing witness to clashes between riot police and furious protesters so we go to take that back around to. help her thank you larry. and the pensions really be my thing as a police moved in to clear the crowds some shocking scenes at one point the police seem chasing protesters into the station many others to hit and kicked by they supposed to be keeping control of the block but 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 priors 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 some target and one policeman who i think was the commander asked 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 of the last pictures i took. the place he'd taken shelter amplified the sound of the flash bang causing always tasteful deafness an injury which has cost me less his job. after the attack i won't call it an accident it was an attack my life's been like a small hell. an investigation was launched into the incident but 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 both 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 we are first. to explain. the first reaction. of the person the impact of the financial crisis has been played out blow by blow on some type of square there are now fears that the financial crisis turn into an

economic recession could bring the entire year is a not just the greek people to their needs surface r.t. athens. natalee member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party told us that leaving the eurozone is the only option other going . basically the money is going to pay off debt but the problem is they're not reducing the debt and it's it's unsustainable we should never have been allowed to get into the order in the first place they broke so many rules their own rooms to get greece in because this was all about politics it wasn't about economics and i feel very very sore for the greek people the only way that the greek people will get back on their feet again is to come out of the order altogether and look it won't 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 the polls that these people are being made to suffer because of ideological

decisions that were taken many miles away in brussels ten years ago. this week the u.s. led war in afghanistan posset stand him up with nato troops nowhere close to defeating the taliban that laurence plans to quit the country by the end of trying to fourteen but as jason muckluck reports evidence of the ground suggest there's no. if the united states is drawing its troops from afghanistan why is its largest base getting bigger when u.s. led forces overran the teleport of late two thousand and one bug a mere field is 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 over twenty five thousand full time personnel fleets of military cargo aircraft and enough equals to cause traffic jams that expansion is no way it is 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 though with afghan forces struggling to stand alone it's likely that less will even planned bases like this one aren't going to shrink anytime soon. at least there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for tell a few more deployments they can shop for everything from flat screen t.v.'s to fine jewelry enjoy a cappuccino to 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 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 and these are timely but you know you can always leave out the latter and have it take. 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 deadly taliban rocket attacks are on the rise and as the base becomes more more and. you threat to those living inside multiplies no matter how hard it's become everyone gets a close call when you're this can just to get this what you put in person no it's all they do want to. get close it's going to destroy something or someone easy as it may be to forget the times this is still worse and jason more clued in bargain for to. find out and he was sentiment is also growing in greece which is the second largest military contributor to the war in afghanistan in london's trafalgar square big crowds marks that time with a defined get tired now message for marching on to downing street i'll respond to those that i want has reported opposite all call. for. if.

it's only been now in fierce fighting continues in cattle qaddafi's hometown of sirte interim government forces claim they've seized the main base of loyalists of the ousted leader convention center and hospital the offensive is one of the biggest yet with leaders national transitional council saying it will only declare liberation of the country and stop moving towards democracy once the since he is captured thousands have been fleeing the violence by the have been many civilian casualties and asia times correspondent at the end of a heavily that in focusing on the mainstream media is ignoring. 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 tomato growers in the us so in terms of its decision population searches a city be there more than a hundred thousand in 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 gulf are to peak responsibility to protect was theoretically the reason for nato as humanitarian intervention to libya so if the good guys are being attacked michael duffy forces are to be a plus but if the bad guys are ensconced in seriously sure is are to be does not apply so in terms of people you know this beats anything else in the market to france now and controversial chances in history textbooks used in schools where that being subjected to revisionism with critics saying that political correctness in the new has gone mad he's done on bush has been thumbing through 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 banned figures of fronts of boylan's ahead. if we doing teacher and 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 rumba 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 for politics now in france you cannot understand the history. they want to understand and to avoid properly legal action seen as the only way to stop the removal of national history. schools now give ten percent of their share the old to the medieval african. i've 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 one of multiples being told because it's important to have

a view on the world cultures such as egypt and india the new european parliament reports but 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 poles they say concern themselves to history. the new bush or altie paris. and in just a few minutes he will not see a fascinating siberian republic while the five thousand kilometers from where locals still believe in spirits and turn to shaman for help but before that how about what they have like. all.

even the rocks of their skin should land the sacred. magic is the essence of life. whether it is a buddhist prayer. or a shamanistic ritual. crossroads of two religious. faith is strong and spirit is hard.

welcome back to this week's top stories when i see this period of the arab spring has come to the u.s. so say protests as angry at wall street greed and economic depression keep lying to streets of american cities but they also always have been cracking down on the demonstrations despite washington support for revolutions overseas. twenty three people were killed and one hundred eighty injured as thousands of christian protesters clashed with police on the streets of cairo the riots fall among some rising tensions since the country's revolution between radical muslims and christians including at times is. the woman of the western media report that is being butchered by bashar al assad's regime in syria he is on television saying she's alive and well forcing an embarrassing u. turn by beating the leading out of that's the headlines up next take an exciting trip with all sorts of mountainous south central siberia where the world's deepest laid by comets located on the web as strong local belief in the polish spirit.