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bryson. song from feinstein pression its. stance on t.v. come. syrian activists report more victims of the regime crackdowns and claim opposition forces are being joined part only defected misrata government has gangs. of. protesters clashed with police in new york as they march to the doorstep of big business and politics go global. the european central bank says it's done only when it's time for governments to take the lead and saving. the companies . and business runs his way to act against new european energy legislation banning energy supplies from owning gas pipelines joining me on that and that this was
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a question. around the clock around the world this is our to live in moscow the total number killed in the syrian conflict now stands at one over three thousand activists say at least twelve people have died in fresh violence often security forces opened fire on protesters are calling for nationwide demonstrations in support of join the opposition the government says they're not revolutionaries but gangs that threaten the public so syria has more. about one hundred eighty kilometers north of the mass this is a city of understand the site of five days of recent deadly clashes between security forces and protesters in which at least thirty died it's close to the cities of homs and hama where most anti assad protests have been seen in place evidence of fighting in oliver stone is going to see it was an air of suspicion the dance mood
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only broken by children now smiling but only two weeks ago these youngsters were witness to violence in their hometown like this eleven year old we heard very heavy fire we heard airplanes but didn't see them it sounded like they were flying high we were really afraid and we were crying the whole car and. the child was one of the few to talk to most of us down locals mean that were hesitant to say anything about what happened telling us they didn't want to get into trouble. the areas governor gives his explanation why the military right there were groups of people who had their own demands they had these demands for a little while and then it all escalated when they armed themselves we started the situation had become a threat to the people and that's why we decided intervention should take place in . the air inside syria where it. was probably the safest place for their way and what
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a way to come work with me here so this was what was a saving away. from the archives here was i but opposition activists insist that these were not on gas or terrorists but army defectors so far the government has said little on the subject of the surgeons from the military i think that it's kind of our strategy by the government and the weakening the morale of the of the army looked with in the middle of the. rush to divorce and so if they thought i wanted to for sure. it become a signal that could be there will be more the fracture so that people that. aren't bangs always. kind of this will serve a purpose but under the circumstances the morale of most impacted by the violence in understand is that a ruthless this or syria all this time in syria. in the
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u.s. between protesters from the ok point wolf street movement and new york police fourteen people have been arrested scuffles broke out as hundreds of activists march through . streets well let's get the latest from our marina she is that in new york marina just. a more it seems to have triggered. well you know clearly we saw a new fresh wave of clashes between police and the protesters taking part in this occupy wall street movement now those clashes broke out a few hours ago as hundreds of demonstrators want to march through lower manhattan . and some marched into the street after the other were reports said there were images of police on scooters driving into some of the protesters a report of one of the protests are there for run over by the scooter that was
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driven by a police officer there were some also reports of police officers punching some of the demonstrators in it is one one taken into a scene with blood gushing from his his head and there were also reports that some of these demonstrators when they were marching through a lower manhattan are were throwing some glass bottles turning over garbage cans police say that at least one scene of the people taking part in the march were arrested now of course this is just the latest wave of clashes between police officers on the protesters camped out here for four weeks but it came after what is a huge victory for the occupy movement it was early in the morning that the protesters were supposed to be dictated from their car they've been camped out in for a day while the city said they wanted to meet up the park this was
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a request. it was made by the property owners now there was about two thousand people in lower manhattan in support of these protesters protecting that barricading them a human chain was formed around the park because the protesters said they were not going to leave they leave the park on their own and about a half hour before they were to be evacuated or removed the city made an announcement that the police would not remove them that the property owner said that they would deal with but the demonstrators directly so it is being dubbed a huge victory for them because they have been camped out here for four weeks taking part in the occupy wall street movement raising awareness about the just fattest factory felt among the majority of americans when it comes to the gap between the rich and the poor when it comes to how corporate influence over u.s. politics and this clearly is being regarded as a huge victory for the occupy movement that it continues to look here head to
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looking beyond new york what's next for this movement. well bill this is this is going to stretch way beyond america's borders with the next twenty four hours because up on saturday this movement is going to global audience six hundred cities to. seventeen countries around the world will be taking part in this type of demonstration protests have been planned everywhere from rome to london to upper lip and people are going to be gathering in different squares the streets throughout the world to be talking about their own or their rights democracy the way that they would like to see their country govern the way that they would like their elected officials to be absent are behind the people that elect them not the op the financial elites so this is not over by any means it is going to be expanding it is going to go global and of course our team
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will be covering the story. thanks very much indeed for that a knife in new york. one of the occupy wall street movement prepares to go global r.t. is closely watching the rallies taking place in europe and the us and don't miss our special coverage for you on saturday that's tomorrow october the fifteenth. destructors by drilling poverty in southern. europe by the country's waging forward as well cutting jobs and social spending people across the globe rise up against their government's economic policies followed a worldwide action against austerity light or card three. the european central bank has called on national governments to now do their part to ease the debt burden john called cliche spoke ahead of a key meeting of world finance ministers who are gathering in paris to hammer out some lucian's to the crisis our europe correspondent daniel bushell has more. the patience of european central bank does seem to be running out it says that it can't
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really take the whole burden on itself it really needs the governments to come through the european governments come through and take some actions because the latest country problems with spain it's seeing problems with its solidarity a failure of solidarity it's had a great of its rating a game which is going to make it even harder for it to raise money and pay off its debts we're expecting protests tomorrow perhaps the biggest protests so far over you will start to measure in spain now russia's prime minister has come out and said that europe's governments could solve this problem if they wanted to. a crisis is more political than a financial issue according to different estimates between one and one and a trillion dollars is leading the numbers be that the year is or you can handle it it's a political issue because in order to get out of these resources leading countries must offer a shill disability trouble. so governments in europe are accused of passing the
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blame no one wants to take responsibility but russia is one of many countries which is concerned by this because of course when the european economies are suffering the rest of the world has a knock on effects will trickle is the latest country. there it's the measures that means more taxes potentially education health costing more and we are expecting coordinated action coordinated protests across europe including in lisbon over those thirteen measures over the cuts which are thought to be extremely painful for the population now we've also seen the big tree shape saying that he does expect those governments to come through with those cuts in order to balance his budget there is a meeting today and tomorrow of the world's leading finance ministers as they try to tackle this crisis that has been in portugal the more just being too painful for the people to take these austerity measures michel. some of those
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victims of the cross i'm afraid i'm afraid of the future i'm afraid that. things going can do you like they are in greece right now people. are not going to be able to have a good life to have. lou she is an active member of the portuguese indignados the liberal movement its participants believe the government is hell bent on pleasing the rich and powerful and ignores the needs of the people they have to actually be have to realize that we are not. we are not going to take that forward and the longer problem. it's happening and it's happening everywhere and spraying here. in england the worst period of unemployment in thirty years is over twelve percent rising taxes and falling wages are the reality of portugal's simply present situation things are so bad people are no making comparisons with cataclysmic periods in their history and looking to them for inspiration in
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a few centuries ago was a situation similar to its present state because it was lagging the capital was all but destroyed by an earthquake but one that marquis people. that's his stature right there managed to pull the country out of the crisis three hundred years on however if you believe everybody will be able to perform a similar monumental task the portuguese are not those say the solution is to create more jobs and cut unnecessary expenditure but the government was forced into a seventy eight billion euro i.m.f. bailout earlier this year following in the footsteps of greece and ireland to pay it back because how that introduced which will see longer working hours or less holidays and even in the end so the christmas bonuses which most workers enjoyed at the age when you are meant to start your life. you know your own space your own you know. top kids came. if you can't do it you can't do it because you called
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do it and however noxious is that it's. a natural system and the political system that is intertwined with the financial system. that is so completely twisted that conditions here like. this this to me. personally the biggest thing and as the crisis grows so too do the ranks of the outraged members of the indignados people be united for getting nation out of national. wealth. and build another europe not there because it's not democratic they want to do national governments that are not democratic. ravish old is right but the problem is the system not right. and the call for global direction or looked over the fifteenth from the occupy wall street movement in new york is expected to get a loud response and portugal but for many of those who will fill the streets here
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it's not so much about evolution as it is about turning it into a simple fight for survival it even goes courting lispund. more coverage of the unfolding debt crisis in europe is available on our website it's an r.t. dot com also online feud there right now the main suspect in the alleged murder of alexander litvinenko says his lawyers have been denied access to information about the case that this is a month and court starts looking into the death of the former russian agent behind closed doors plus. forget lethal injections horrifying squad instead if you have a republican politician in the u.s. state of florida who even says people sentenced to death should be thrown off a bridge where you can find the full story at r.t. dot com. moscow is reportedly preparing a response to washington's planned missile defense system in europe from those comments by the incoming u.s. ambassador to moscow who said washington cannot guarantee the system would not
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target russia. has the details. washington is speeding up its plans for its missile defense system in europe despite all these alarming questions coming out of russia spe forms romania and turkey have agreed to host elements of the system on their territories and explained that the shield will be finished by twenty eighteen i fish really it's supposed to protect washington's allies in europe from potential threats coming out of iran and north korea but moscow has been sounding the alarm saying that the system could be a potential threat to its national security moscow has been proposing that this project should be a unified shield which would include russia and the united states where all would share the responsibility for the safety of each other but washington and some nato officials have been saying that this is not possible since russia is not part of
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the alliance moscow then started asking for legal guarantees from washington that this is no will not be against russia but the newly appointed u.s. ambassador to russia michael mcfaul squally say that his country has no plans of making these illegal guarantees we've already heard from russia's envoy to nato meeting that i was going to say that if this is the case that then now moscow will have to start thinking about making its own efforts to every store of the strategic balance of forces in europe and now there are also reports in the russian media from a source from the kremlin which says that russia will. be cheaper but affective way to answer washington's missile defense plans in europe so we'll see how the situation develops but i get exactly the fact that washington is not planning to back down on its anti missile defense plans. the u.s.
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president has taken affirms. against iran promising tough sanctions for the country over claims it was plotting to kill the saudi ambassador to washington to iranians were charged with trying to harm members of a mexican drug cartels are currently turned something to iran is dismissed as baseless but the record bonuses there's enough evidence of your own skills and he's calling on the international community to make it pay for its avian why further isolating on the u.s. is now considering sanctions on iran central bank promising even more pressure for society mohammad marandi from the university of tehran says he's unconvinced by the claims of involvement. in the more pressure that the united states tries to impose upon iran the iranians will push back as well for the united states of being out of the dishonest iran has absolutely no motive to carry out such an operation if you run it hypothetically want to carry out this operation they could have done it in the middle east in an area where there are more high profile figures and where it
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could be carried out much easier why would iran want to create extra sensitivity with the united states so it's absolute nonsense and obviously iran gains nothing from it the only people who do gain is the united states by distracting attention way away from its problems at home such as the economic hardship that people are facing its decline in the middle east it helps israel come out of isolation it helps the saudis the saudi regime try to unite its people against some theoretical hypothetical foreign enemy. you're watching r.t. later in the program this hour it's two decades since the self-proclaimed republic of transistor announced its independence but there's still no sign of progress in solving the breakaway state problems and explore who is to blame in a few minutes. from now let's have a quick look at some other news in brief from around the world in libya fierce
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fighting continues in colonel gadhafi hometown of sirte while gun battles have broken out in tripoli for the first time in two months revolutionary forces have opened fire at suspected snipers loyal to gadhafi well in d.c. fighters shooting began after a man was spotted raising the green flag symbolizing the regime is the first serious outbreak of violence in the capital since the then rebels seized control of tripoli in august. britain's defense secretary william fox's quit over allegations he gave a close friend access to official meetings and ministry buildings he's admitted that he brought his former best man adam where ety a long overseas trips as apologize for allowing a blurring of his public duties with personal. on the transport minister philip hammond has been appointed as the new defense secretary. the italian prime minister silvio berlusconi has survived a decisive parliamentary vote of confidence which was key to continuing his political career he faced calls for his resignation by political rivals and members
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of the business community amid a series of damaging scandals and a weakening economy and securing of the vote of confidence allows by the strength to stay in power through to the end of his term into thirteen. in the thai capital as huge effort is underway by the military and volunteers to strengthen the city's flood defenses authorities fear rain and high tides which of course huge devastation across the country could now move into bank or flash floods have killed two hundred eighty three people and devastated cities in sixty one provinces since july. and the self-proclaimed republican friends mr breakaway territory of moldova not much has changed since it announce independence and nine hundred ninety it's been a long running ethnic and territorial dispute between the two sides with little in the way of recent progress and some are saying the current leadership is to blame. reports. one of the poorest regions in europe and recognized as a country was the world holds presidential elections in early december but already
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there were a serious dispute before the campaigns even started the current leader of the self-proclaimed breakaway bulldozer and republic of trains nice turk igudesman off has held the reins of power for the entire twenty one years police disputed existence far from tiring of office his running again for a fifth term a decision criticized by moscow as a mistake possibly smear an office created an atmosphere of personal power that is the republican into a state of deep social and economic crisis there's a huge gap between ordinary people who are struggling and smearing of inner circle who are all getting richer. the republic is certain its independence in one thousand nine hundred ninety from moldova which is south splits from the soviet union a year later why it has been tough there ever since a breakaway region is a tiny strip of land with a half million population bordering ukraine it acts as if it's
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a real state with government military currency and constitution it turns nice to has always been viewed by moldova as part of its own territory meaning continued political tension. in one nine hundred ninety two war broke out in which hundreds died as moldova forces full separatists before an internationally forged cease fire roads and an easy peace since then afterwards by russia and the international community to manage the loot over an entry is nice train authorities towards dollars have not been fruit leaving tensions dangerously high. for ordinary people life is tough average earnings of just three dollars a day for those lucky enough to work with high unemployment. we the area one of the poorest in europe opponents say that in the run up to the election there is
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a heightened climate of political theory with the current regime in no mood to relinquish power which is to let you go to live in an atmosphere of. many cases of political pressure. and violations of laws in their term to discredit other countries people and openly criticizing the current authorities are being put on the run. displaced in serious danger of real democratic election approaches if you're pro-choice just under two months before the poll it's clear the struggle for power will be far from. some even warned it could be a flash point the latest twist in the difficult history of this troubled region a group of russian observer is had interest mr to monitor the elections following a request from the authorities that one of the ballots he's free and fair are not the votes not expected to resolve these areas longstanding problems meaning the need for a lost and political resolution will remain. regional r.t.
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moscow shortly will be delving into the history of russia's film industry but first it's the business news with kareena. russia says it's ready to act against new european energy legislation that's called the third package and bans energy supplies like gas from from owning gas pipelines president there has ordered energy representatives to submit proposals on how russia can keep good relations with the e.u. and contravening the new laws at the same time however analysts say not much russia can do. it's the law of european union and of course it's the idea of european union and that is why in the reality it's very difficult to press on european union we can imagine them just draw for example the supply to europe
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but of course it's a dramatic and in my opinion absolutely unreal scenario that is why we can only one method i mean only dale is the my supporters are from new york is the decision of brussels but we just want to explain our arguments because if you're paying union you make mistakes in construction then you energy policy if you look at the problem also for us and we want to explain to them that for example it will be no new investment in the new pipes this is so will not work and that's all we all know you just want to prove this mistakes but as we can see is an intellectual discussion not more. the world's second largest maker of consumer goods unilever is buying an eighteen percent stake in russia's leading cosmetics make a colleen that the deal is worth four hundred million euro and the move is part of unilever strategy to conquer a faster growing emerging market how do you know it has a thirty percent share of russia's skin care market and the company's stock price
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shot up forty percent trade on news of the deal. russia actually is one of the last consumer markets and you will reach are able to show double d. every year and this is why ruffian companies. spent a lot of money here invest the wild. thing on. let's look at the markets now european markets ended higher on friday with miners and technology stocks helping offset further losses for some banks as following a series of downgrades and warnings from brokers and credit rating agencies chairs of ericsson rose three point four percent after its mobile handset joint ventures sony ericsson broke even in the third quarter and said it still expects modest industry growth in two thousand and eleven. russian markets ended with the best weekly gain in more than one and a half years the r.t.s. and isaacs were boosted by oil and metal stocks let's have
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a look at some individual words on the last six most of the blue chips finished in the black board spread bank climbing over seven and a half percent the lender has announced it's going to increase the share of foreign activity and its profit to seven percent in three years you know has jumped more than forty percent on the deal would you believe or how the company's share price wise had to be kept because of my six trading rules north may kills also off despite the company's first half net profit plunging twenty two percent to one point eight billion dollars that's all the news i have for you from all check our website ip dot com leftists. if. you.
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