the week's top stories here on our street is spirit of the arab spring has come to the us some say protesters anger at wall street greed and economic depression paul could find the streets of our cities are the authorities have been putting down on the demonstrations despite washington support the revolution is over. at least 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 followed months of rising tensions as the country's revolution between radical muslims and christians including at times some churches. but i think that the background very. much larry. on the bench is

really been my thing republicans are going to use that boiling point as the absence government gets an ultimatum from the international monetary fund bringing more stories because it's also raise total collapse. under woman who western media reported as being butchered by bashar al assad's regime in syria isn't television saying she is alive and well forcing and embarrassing you to her by leading outlets . this is all she's weekly review hello and welcome to the program army and we started in the us by the occupy wall street protest movement is gaining momentum across the u.s. and previously ignored by the mainstream media it's making headline news with u.s. politicians lining up to have their say protest those who blame wall street for corporate greed and run and unemployment are comparing their margins to those of

the arab spring that led to revolution in the middle east and north africa archies are a number of reports. i. 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 at least dozens of cities knew she was. 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 you here a more just society for young people coming up in all of the american people right now are suffering through 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 agree 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 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. you know the protesters are giving voice to a more broad based frustration about our financial system works but the american people understand that not everybody has been following the rules. that wall street is an example of that these days a lot of folks who are doing the right thing are rewarding a lot of folks who are doing the right thing or while the u.s. has encouraged and supported democratic uprisings in the arab world the same events

playing out at home have been met with platonic spring 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 i believe our brothers and sisters all over the world arab 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 giving up we're doing something about it three weeks into the anti wall street demonstrations the new york city police department has pumped two million dollars into overtime pay fines some critics say are being used to repress freedom two miles from the chaos of the united nations even financier and billionaire george soros who weighed in on the populist uprising and i can understand their sentiments the decision not to inject capital into the

banks but to effectively. relieve them of the bed that gave the banks. profits as they can they can sympathize with them since 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 expansion many believe this ongoing of that would be complex turning point and the whites were a mass movement towards american politicians and still working for the majority of the people passionate elected demanding democracy from the very leaderless that promoted arena or guile artsy new york. and formal street executive richard said the lack of concrete demands action if trains of the on to corporate movement that striving to restore can come across a crowded. this is actually for

a political protest movement that so young it's grown and gathered a surprising amount of support from surprising in quarters in a very very short time for example you would 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 wants a job should get a job the business people and their customers should deal with one another fairly and honestly crimes including that corporate crime should be punished and so on so if you think of it as the early stage of a movement where it's the clarion it's 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 that really and this is why they've been able i think to start to get some attention. and our correspondents in america are the very heart of the protests in new york and you can follow what they see as it happens by pulling out twitter streams and they are actually on the stockholm and also r.t. on the score merrick press and they can find the links our you tube channel as well where else he's at least a couple of just because of the latest events with some celebrities and also in one of her tweets or says that one of the peaceful demonstrators who was just lying on the ground with a protest sign has been arrested in the field. also the sound polish prime minister go on to it because already celebrating victory before the votes are counted up at the exit polls suggest his party has won parliamentary elections all the details later on l.c. . and some pages are being torn from history textbooks in france with critics say younger generations will end up not knowing enough about their own

country's past. egyptians military troops and military authorities have imposed a five hour curfew on square 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 city and turned to violence with military vehicles set on fire are holding one hundred eighty protesters and police injured thousands of patients were demonstrating based there was an spate of attacks are that churches fearing that post revolution in egypt could see also a conservative islamist rise to power with this is claimed the violence was instigated by a provocateurs security forces eventually fired shots and tear gas to disperse the protesters mark almond from the university of texas as the rest shows egypt's state has as its secular state is under threat.

and it's alarming because religious tradition. aren't. going to last you will be also you violence between cops and islamic courts american pressure in place in cities like. the time when people were originally going revolutions didn't get much attention then when the revolution came and it's at least in central cairo and peaceful. people who look. for the last one with the local christian community and it's a rude question system call it. grew from being. issued to being in this unit completed but many will be many more people we have. learned that there are significant impacts and he got initial questions that were many second rejections going all in and he would probably have a much less free. and. syria has one

that will retaliate against any country that formally recognizes the recently established opposition national council member like group is seeking international support for the six month long uprising that assad regime a fresh wave of violence has struck across the country for most of forcing a person you know. there are terrorist groups not peaceful or past is the country has had a state of chaos as many not willing cries has been rounding president assad steps down many civilians have been killed a report about why and it's casualty has forced nato busting media outlets into a surprising turn this week as r.t. is either credit reports. she was hailed as the flower of syria the symbol of the suffering under president bashar assad spruit the regime at least that's what much of the western media said after the apparent put tshering zeinab al gore's name we viewed pictures of what was done to zenit squibs and they are simply too gruesome

attack there are several western media outlets who quits the reports are whores and 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. . came to the police station to see the truth this is what i say to those line channels i'm now still alive not dead human rights groups like amnesty international jumped on the bandwagon to reporting out hosni was tortured murdered and mutilated it even claimed a mother found the body in a morgue last month all assertions is now being forced to backtrack on 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 this footage religiously shows unarmed pro sound civilians being targeted by gun toting rebels so 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 you has is now part of this pro demarco series is ridiculous they're jumping on that bandwagon is an opportunity to. create this deceptive appearance while at the same time there's a dictatorships that are aligned with them and the united nations and it's part of their empire russia and china vetoed a u.n. resolution for syria seen 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 did not rule out a replay of the libyan scenario although they said more than once they clearly

understood syria is very different to libya she will continue resisting a chance to legitimize unilateral sanctions through the u.n. security council the danger overthrow political regimes the u.s. was not created for that as opposed to vetoes a 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. . and later in the program we'll report on how the ongoing live in haifa is a factor in the lives of civilians that is incoming government forces a close air support it. cannot get out his hometown of fat cats that's why the because of the so-called liberation of the pros and india. and the u.s. led war in afghanistan and of decades the with the white house probably think that companies pull out of troops by trying to keep reports from a base in the country however which suggests

a ratcheting up of the. presidential elections have been taking place in poland what results expected later on monday at the polls suggest that the prayer party headed by prime minister donald leading with around forty percent of the votes ahead of his opponent they're also conservatives estimated to have thirty percent funded if he or it ourselves. 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 president lech kaczynski and also his party the lone justice party has managed to go on something about thirty percent of the vote this is not suddenly a victory for the next tuesday it's 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 extras have any doubts about the fact that some going to school be able to garner another color soon 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 the other party some party has managed to stay at flower for a second spell in a row and in fact this comes as little surprise to many political experts this result has been pretty much predictable because the polls have been very much happy with the way the government has been running the country for the last four years according to all the surveys and opinion polls every half week with the fact that poll has managed to survive the global recession the era in the polish power circles signified the war and spell in the russian polish relations in particular after this moulins 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 miscible those who are 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 for recapitalization or interesting more cash and banks saying an economy can be prosperous without stable and reliable financial institutions greek default wasn't turns upon appears about the sector yto exposure to the country's massive debt and ultimatum from the i.m.f. was that greece must impose budget cuts or face total collapse the stark message was after arthur has admitted of failing to accuse the key steps it to levels previously agreed in pledges for bailouts despite approving a deeply unpopular it was terrific program and those are his correspondent reports angry greeks feel the needs of the people are being neglected to satisfy the

demands of big. anger in syntagma square once again very clashes between rightly curious protest is that we go. back to. the right you know. i mean she's really been writing as a police moved in to clear the crowds some shocking scenes but one point the police chasing protesters into the metro station many others 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. seems like there's a very serious questions about the level of force being used. prior is a forty three year old journalist who's reported for many conflicts but it was in his own country where he sustained his worst injury. i just remember thinking this

is really happening english i took shelter in an enclosure just listened and one policeman who was a commander asked in a very. taking pictures i told him i was a journalist but he gave an order to flash bangs to me these are some slides picture. so to. the place he taken shelter amplified the sound of the flash bang causing almost take this injury which has cost me less his job. after the attack i will call it in march than it was in the truck my life's been like a small. investigation was launched into the incident but progress has been slow a fabulous tells the countless cases policy against heavy handed police tactics to support any kind of results we witness for ourselves the lack of discrimination when the police lash out when journalists along with his camera to the ground the rise in the level of a question seen by the police and the more extreme groups of protesters is causing serious concern with the government continuing to implement severe austerity

measures lipitor see further bailout cash pensions like sets to keep escalating i think. first. to explain. the first reaction and. the impact of the financial crisis has been played out play by play on some tightness where there are now fears that the financial crisis turn into an economic recession could bring entire year is a just the greek people to their knees surface r.t. . and poor not how a member of the european parliament or the u.k. independence party told us that leaving the eurozone is the only option for the greek people. basically the money is going to pay off their but the problem is

they're not reducing the debt. it's unsustainable we should never have been allowed to get into the euro in the first place the brutal many rules their own rules to get crease in because this was all about politics it wasn't about economics and i feel very very sure for the 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 five percent that is the answer to greece if you polls 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 passed its ten year mark with nato troops nowhere close to defeating the taliban alliance plans to quit because by the end of twenty fourteen but as jason locke now reports evidence on the ground suggests there's no rush to meet. if united states is it drawing its troops from afghanistan why is its largest

base getting bigger are you asleep forces overread to tell about a late two thousand one plug of air flow 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 volts all personnel fleets of military cargo aircraft and enough vehicles to cause traffic jams in the expansion is no way aided by scores of contractors u.s. military engineers are constructing new housing and storage facilities to make room for even more building work at work after sending an extra thirty thousand troops to afghanistan last year president obama started bringing them home this summer but with afghan forces struggling to stand alone it's likely a bit less will even planned and bases like this ones are going to shrink in time so. at least there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for tough you know deployments they can shop for everything from flat screen t.v.'s to fine

jewelry enjoy a cappuccino to grab some take out a new piece not for insurance industry tired of working in a gym they're free to go to the salon for a haircut and such although some officials have tried to limit such amenities calling them a distraction from the more the troops are happy to have them and these are extremely serious always leave not because these illegals. have a case they have the right. local afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business both inside and outside the wire grim in 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 and more crowded with threat to those living inside multiplies no matter how high it's almost become everyone it's a close call when you this can just get this much equipment personnel you saw it in the one tight spot get close it's going to destroy something or someone easy is a maybe to forget it times this is still

a war zone jason north lawn and garden variety. to libya now and fierce fighting continues and cannot attack his hometown of says interim government forces claim they've seized the main base of loyalists of the ousted nida convention center and house pensioners one of the biggest leaders national transitional council saying it will only declare liberation of the country and start moving towards democracy once the city is captured thousands have been fleeing the violence that there have been many civilian casualties and at times correspondent believes that in focusing on the battle mainstream media is ignoring a human cost 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 dollars in the u.s. so in terms of this is really in population which is a citigroup there are more than

a hundred thousand and six. thousand level three dollars and there still disability issues still there they were bombed by needle needle bomb at least half of the city including what they said were scattering solutions all across this is that cluster of all the soupy responsibility to protect leaks was theoretically the reason for. each area intervention in libya so if the good guys are being attacked like other fish forces are to be up lax what if the bad guys aren't really sure is hard to be does not apply so in terms of a proper c.e.o. this beats anything else in the market to france now and controversial chapters in history and schools that have been subjected to revisionism where critics say that and its correctness in the new has gone mad. bushnell has been running it through what's left of some of it down to pages of french history. twenty pages on the

history of black slavery and just six on the time of the poli i'm shown here sitting on a toilet for you history school books are in bridge in paris and your teachers are cool it's a political correctness gone mad it's all those bestseller on the band because the front wheels of four lives ahead. if we doing teach are a minority of 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 thunking louis the fourteenth to imperial and the podiums mocked as the colonel gadhafi of his day focus is now on the previously little known king can kumu thought of thirteenth century west africa. the purge even extends to grow it is still the world including les miserables the fictitious hugo france is already

breaking out things professor casale because it's young people have no sense of identity parents are concerned but we have to study. the worth of our history because you can't understand what happened for politics now in france if you don't 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 yo to the medieval african moline point 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 changing the school curriculum to reflect globalization. because it's important to have

a view on other world cultures such as egypt china 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 still teaching their polls they say can so in themselves to history. the new bushel altie paris. and it's almost seven thirty am here in moscow you're watching on c coming up in just a few minutes revived debate now cross talk show before the. granite with a headline.

culture is that so much like the treasures of the prophet well there's taliban bad guys just in the front again pakistan u.s. relations face are breaking for us as pakistan is hedging its bets by maintaining ties to many. a very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on the walls street they have. ladies and gents abuse. there's a chance to get a book for example the status of the human experiment is the single currency we

pursue a problem is the usability it snows the absolutely triumph the sense of global economy and it's all changelings us financial to the result is the ability to maintain our confidence in long kids and ignore the primitive wants to be seen trade imbalances receive the cheapie nations close to collapsing in sub prime loans to close hulton fail so we pull a balance again sealevel like to see us crash seven and smash the ceiling it seems the business is close to the business enough in st we are playing just programs increased saying this whole economy. is the.