cause report. to the. syrian activists report live victims of anti regime crackdowns and claim opposition forces of being joined by a whole army defectors dismiss party government as gangs. and she called for protesters clash with police in new york as they march of the doorstep of big business and fail to go global. i'm here at the protest corners where despite all the grass the people here say that out it's easy by details coming out. of the european central bank says it's don't care and it's time for governments to take the lead in saving the continent economies the top stories this hour.

around the clock around the world of this is r.t. live in moscow the total number killed in the syrian conflict now stands at one over three thousand activists at least twelve of died in fresh violence our security forces opened fire on protesters were calling for nationwide demonstrations in support of army defectors who joined the opposition and government insists they're not revolutionaries but armed gangs that threaten the public so that syria has more. about one hundred eighty kilometers north of damascus is a city under a stone a site of five days of recent deadly clashes between security forces and protesters in which at least thirty died it's close of the cities of homs and hama where most anti assad protests have been seen in place evidence of fighting in oliver stone it's plain to see there was an air of suspicion it turns mood only broken by

children now smiling but only two weeks ago these youngsters were witness to violence in their home town 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 time. the child was one of the few to talk most of the song locals me math were hesitant to say anything about what happened telling us they didn't want to get into trouble i was the area's governor gives his explanation why the military arrived 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 are little shops we saw the situation had become a threat to the people and that's why we decided intervention should take place again. where inside syria for you to hear this was probably this is what their lives wait let me come work with sixty years since i

was leaving it was 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 surface from the military i think that it's kind of a strategy by the government and the weakening the morale of that of the army looked with in the middle of. a spin to force so i think i was the first sure. it became a signal that could be there will be more. so as ted people that. armed gangs or was armed with this kind of this will serve the voters under the circumstances the morale of most impacted by the violence and understand is that a ruthless so syria in serious. trouble is fled in the

u.s. between protesters from the occupy wall street movement and new york police at least fourteen been arrested scuffles broke out as hundreds of activists marched through lower manhattan to wall street reporter is in new york with the latest. those pasha's broke out a few hours ago as hundreds of demonstrators want to march through lower manhattan . and some marched into the street and now for the other were reports that there were images of police on scooters are driving into some of the protesters a report of one of the protesters there for run over by al by disputer about was driven by a police officer there were some also reports of police officers punching some of the demonstrators in that one one man taken into a party wagon was seen with blood gushing from his his head and there were also reports that some of these demonstrators when they were marching through lower

manhattan were throwing some glass bottles turning over garbage cans police say that at least one scene of the people taking part in the march or arrested now of course is just the latest wave of clashes between police officers and the protesters camped out here for four weeks but it came after what is being dubbed a huge victory for the occupy movement it was early in the morning that the protesters were supposed to be inflicted from their park that they've been camped out in for i day while the city said they wanted to clean up the park this was a request that was made by the property owners. there was about two thousand people example in lower manhattan in support of these protesters protecting them barricading them a human chain was formed around the park because the protesters said they were not going to leave it in the park on their own and about how power before they were to

be evacuated or removed from the city made an announcement that the police would not remove them that the property owner said that they would deal with the demonstrators police they have been camped out here for four weeks taking part in the occupy wall street movement raises. awareness about the dissatisfactory felt among ma the majority of americans when it comes to the capital mean the rich and the poor when it comes to corporate influence over u.s. politics and this clearly has been regarded as a huge victory for the occupy movement that it continues 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 lowball agata six hundred cities to. seventy countries around the world and we'll be taking part in this type of demonstration protests have been planned everywhere from rome to london to arbor live 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 apt to be how the people that elect them to. the on the mantle of the so this is not over by any means it is going to be expanding it is going to be going global and of course r.t. will be covering the story when a point in new york or let's get some analysis of this with him he's an activist in the u.s. now a lot of these clashes of the latest in a whole series of phones between the police and protesters could this perhaps be a sign that this movement is being wholly judged. i'm not quite there's definitely no compared to a lot of commentators our comments are just to the tea party but there's a low but more broad broader than that if anything the group is trying to

co-opt this movement is actually the democratic party they're seeking to buy this is this occupy movement and turn into an extension of the of obama's first eventually fortune so in effect we have to be seeing a political movement here a left wing on sort of the right wing tea party oh no it's i hope not because so once once that happens this is the chance for a real soul social transformation that's going to be lost on incomes if it becomes a political movement bernardo harker was writing for the new york i'm saying yesterday and is basically he's basically calling this a political disobedience this is a this is not. this is a protest against the artificial left right divide that's country specifically in the united states i don't know what kind of demands. madrid's all these. occupy movements are demanding but simply night at st they're testing a policy

a policy started by a right wing president and continued by a left wing president this is let me just quickly ask you having this is going to be a political movement but surely it needs a political response will governments around the world and as you just mentioned madrid and other countries in the we'll be seeing this campaign taking place tomorrow how will or should the government respond to this or will they. i hope they don't they don't respond to it with problems that's what i'm hoping as much and seen. you know in new york we're seeing in boston what's happening is that they're the ones using its police forces to crack down on legitimate protests there are nonviolent durkin's all and they're responding to it by arresting protesters brain and. preventing them from actually airing out there. talking about those grievances all of these protests is actually united by

a common message or is this movement somewhat disjointed with a number of different demands. many different banners campaign banners having different messages yes dearest but there is they want a unified call a common ground on the euro crisis all these politics or it's a protest against the current status it's a protest against this you know it's a test and this is controlled through priority establishment that's basically. you know both houses. of the family and it's a protest against that that's why you know i don't consider just a movement i said mother such social joe good to hear from you thank you very much indeed for joining us live in jail after a banks. one of the occupy wall street movement prepares to go global as we've just mentioned volunteers closely watching the rallies taking place in europe and the u.s. don't miss our special coverage tomorrow saturday oct fifteenth. structures

like growing poverty and certain feelings. by the country's wage inflation as well causing jobs and social spending people across the globe rise up against their government's economic policies follow the worldwide action against austerity light or card theory. and european central bank has called on national governments to do their part to ease the debt burden to appreciate spoken head of a key meeting of world finance ministers have gathered in paris to hammer out solutions to the crisis europe correspondent daniel bushell has more. the patience of european central bank does seem to be running out it says that it can't 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 is how the downgrade of its rating again 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. the crisis is more political than a financial issue according to different estimates between one and one and a trillion dollars is needed the number is big but the user you can handle it it's a political issue because in order to counter those resources leading european countries must offer a shoulder to those in trouble look takes political courage so governments in europe are accused of passing the 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 effect portugal is the latest country which is new also there are two 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 austerity measures over the cuts which are thought to be extremely painful for the population now we've also seen the tree shape saying that he does expect those governments to come through with those cuts in order to balance this 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 might just be too painful for the people to take these austerity measures michel. some of those victims of the cross i'm afraid i'm afraid of the future i'm afraid that. things are going to be like they are in greece right now people. are not going to be able . to have a good to have peace and quiet lucia is an active member of the portuguese indignados

delish board movement its participants believe the government is hell bent on pleasing the rich and powerful and ignores the needs of the people. are true to have to realize that we are not. we're not we're not. any longer. it's happening and it's happening everywhere and spraying here in greece. the worst rate of unemployment in thirty years and over twelve percent rising taxes and falling wages are the reality of portugal's great present situation things are so bad people are no making comparisons with cataclysmic periods in their history and looking to them for inspiration leaves you century portugal with a situation similar to its present state because it was lagging the capital was all but destroyed by an earthquake but one that marquee people involved in this supporting them got 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 ignore those saying the solution is to create more jobs and cut unnecessary expenditure but the government was forced into a seventy eight billion euro i left bailout earlier this year following in the footsteps of greece and ireland to paid back up the stairs because had to go introduced which will see longer working hours less holidays and even listened to the christmas bonuses which most workers enjoyed at the age when you were meant to start a life so you know your own space around you know. kids here . if you can't do it you can't do it because you can't do it and how of noxious is that it's the system and the political system that is intertwined with the financial system. that is so completely twisted that conditions.

this this to me. personally the biggest thing and there's the crisis grows so too do the brains of the outraged members of the indignados people unite for get your nation out of the national. mall. and build another europe not because it's not democratic to do national governments they are not democratic people. ravaged. the problem is deceased i'm not surprised . the call for global direction or looked over the fifteenth from the occupy wall street movements in new york is expected to get a loud response in portugal but for many of those who will fill the streets here it's not so much about evolution as it is about turning it into a simple fight for survival it goes courting the spawn. and more coverage of the unfolding crisis in europe is available on our website that's r t dot com also

online feel that at the moment the main suspect in the alleged murder of alexander litvinenko says his lawyers have been denied access to information about the case as a mountain court starts looking into the death of the former russian agent behind closed doors also following the forget lethal injections horrify squat instead if you have a republican politician in the u.s. state of florida who says people sentenced to death should be thrown off a bridge to find a full story on earth relative. to the u.s. president has taken a firm stand against iran promising tough sanctions against. country over claims it was plotting to kill the saudi ambassador to washington barack obama says there's enough evidence of iran's guilt and is calling on the international community to make it pay for its behavior by further isolating tehran well for more on this i'm now joined by clifton he's a national security reporter for think progress dot org thanks very much indeed for

being with us now is the international community does joined washington's calls to isolate iran even further after this alleged plot would actually leave tehran. well i think the answer to that really lies in the details of what type of sanctions or what type of response the united states is able to gain support from the international community in imposing the types of things that have been discussed thus far would be quite powerful and would be potentially devastating to iran's economy as my colleague ali has written our senator mark kirk has rather openly spoken about promoting multilateral sanctions on bank markazi of the iranian central bank now that could have the effect of affectively collapsing the iranian currency and devastating their economy if it's anything like what happened in iraq that brought up the infant mortality rate dramatically so i think it really but

we'll have to see what the details are of what's proposed right now i think that we're still just trying to look at the details of the allegations and see where this goes but you are talking about those sanctions on iran's central bank would they really have the desired effect or would they prove to be really highly provocative whereby i understand that some iranian officials have said they would consider that as an act of war now is that exactly what the u.s. is trying to get out of tehran that sort of retaliatory response. well you are right i mean there's no other way to see that the definitely a provocative act the united states in the administration's position is that iran has engaged in a very provocative act now i think i think a lot of us will have to do with the evidence that's brought forward to back up the allegations that have been made. as for iran's response i think there's a lot of variables there and a large part of it i believe will go back to how large of an international group

and coalition the obama administration can bring together at the united nations right now i think they will find it very difficult to to engage both russia and china and even potentially countries like india who have real commercial ties to tehran and to the government there and i think that countries like that will find it very difficult to sign onto to a response which is which is as you said seen as provocative and potentially undermining both the iranian economy and the government whatever substance there is behind these allegations obviously there's a lot of speculation about the credibility of these charges but nevertheless the u.s. is putting pressure on iran at the moment what is the overall reason behind this emotive visit to forty countries perceive nuclear threat or is it actually to push for regime change. i think that there was is and will be sort of two tracks of language you'll hear used certainly at the united

nations and when talking about multilateral sanctions framework i suspect the language will really be focused on iran's nuclear program united states may have more backing for that type of a response especially with rumors of a new i.a.e.a. report coming out next month which could have some very strong language about the nuclear program now domestically within the united states i think you're going to see a lot of language that's a very very very confrontational and speaking about explicitly about regime change already this morning at the house foreign affairs committee a number of the members of that committee in hearings they were holding about iran and syria were openly speaking about seeking regime change in tehran so as i say i think you'll see a very different set of words and language used at the international level than that used at the domestic level just briefly and finally this isn't just about the u.s. and iran these allegations of course involve saudi arabia so how would the accusations

of this foiled plot actually influence now iran's relations with the arab world. well i think that that's something that those of us who have been following this closely have continued to have real questions about and frankly some confusion about what would be the motivations for tehran to engage in this you know very poorly put together plot it would seem u.s. saudi relations have actually been strained recently especially during the arab spring when you know the united states and saudi arabia weren't always pulling in the same direction so i and many people have said that well the best thing tehran can do for themselves and they certainly have their own issues with saudi arabia is to do nothing try to stay out of it and not don't engage too much in the arab spring and let saudi us the tensions play out now these allegations and this suppose that assassination plot would seem to actually imprint the u.s. of the saudis closer together and by certainly over the over the few days we've had to see these these these allegations play out both the saudis and the americans

seem to have been speaking off the same page so there seems to be very close coordination right now between the saudis and the americans and this would seem to serve iran's interests very well in terms of its own regional ambitions you know if the national security report if i think progress dot org thank you time. thank you and to have a look at some of the news in brief from around the world in our world update in libya fierce fighting continues and covered aphids home town of sirte all come by thoughts of broken out in tripoli for the first time in two months producing forces of open fire and suspect it's not because of that the. fight it says shooting began after a man was spotted raising the green flag symbolizing. this is a serious outbreak of violence in the capital since the rebels seized control of tripoli just. britain's defense secretary leon talks is quit over allegations he gave a close friend access to official meetings the ministry buildings foxes admitted

that he brought his former best man adam warantee along an overseas trips and has apologized for allowing a blurring of his public duties with personal ne the former transport minister philip hammond has been appointed as the new defense secretary. but also it was well up there to tell him prime minister silvio berlusconi has survived a decisive parliamentary vote of confidence which is key to continue his political career he placed calls for his resignation by political rivals and members of the business community amid a series of damaging scandals and the economy and securing of the vote of confidence allows but it's going to stay in power through to the end of his term in twenty eight team. and it will try capital huge effort is underway by the military in 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 bahrain court flash floods of killed two hundred eighty three people and devastated cities in sixty one provinces and should i. call that brings up

debate for the moment here on r t i'll be back with a summary of our main news stories for you in a five minutes from now meantime crean is next with the business news stay with us live here in moscow this is r.t. . our market for business updates russia says it's ready to act against new european energy legislation it's called the third i have your package and bans energy supplies like gas from owning gas pipelines president medvedev has ordered energy represented to submit proposals on how russia can keep good relations with the e.u. and contravene the laws at the same time however analysts say not much russia can. it's the law of european union and of course it's the idea of european union and this is why in the reality it's very difficult to press on european union we can imagine them just for example the supply you are up but of course it's dramatic and

in my opinion absolutely the real scenario that is why we can only one method i mean only dale of. the mistake was for free. is the decision of brussels but we just want to explain our arguments because if you're paying union we'll make mistakes in construction the new energy policy if you look at the problem also for us and we want to explain to them that for example if there were 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 at eighty two percent stake in russia's leading cosmetics make that the deal is worth four hundred million euro as part of unilever strategy to conquer a faster growing emerging markets has

a thirty percent share of russia's skincare market in the company's stock price shot up forty percent a straight news of the deal russia or actually is one of the last consumer markets in europe which are able to show double d. every year and this is why you'll see a company has. spent a lot of money here invested walls and big huge preserves. 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 cares about it's on rose three point four percent after its mobile handset joint ventures sony ericsson broke even in the third quarter and said it still expects a modest industry growth in two thousand and eleven in russian markets ended with the best weekly gain in more than one and a half years the odds get in my eyes it's were boosted by oil and metal stocks

let's have a look at some individual channels on the classics most of the blue chips finished in the black would spare bank climbing over seven and a half percent the lead announced it's going to increase the share of foreign activity and its profit to seven percent in three years has jumped more than forty percent on the deal with the leader of the company's share price rise had to be capped because of my six trading rules nor sneak it was also off just by the company's first half net profit plunging twenty two percent to one point eight dollars. that's all the news i have for you from all check our website.

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