going global hundreds of cities across the globe joined the occupy movement as people around the world say no to a culture of corporate control in rome protesters are smashing windows and setting fire to the cars. and in other news on r t syria divided seven a month long revolt seized the regime of supporting capital ready to wait for reforms while cities outside damascus want the president gone. plus ukraine's attempts to spruce up its image ahead of its hosting of the euro two thousand and twelve foot

ball championships comes under fire from animal rights groups they're accusing the government of turning straight dogs alive. it is good to have you with us here on r t we're broadcasting live from moscow i'm wrong reception we've had enough that's the message being sent from many around the world to big business and government people in almost a thousand cities are taking their anger to the streets let's try and get our heads around exactly where this all began the occupy wall street movement started in new york quickly spreading across the u.s. to l.a. and washington then global to asia joining in with the demands for change there on europe as well hundreds of cities taking part in the protests and let's have a closer look at what's happening in some of them. we've got our correspondents now

i believe in london bushnell in brussels a rino in madrid thank you all for coming on the program let's start with obviously a high level of public discontent all around the world people there in. london saying to. the slogan of the protests here in london is paid back they are of course referring to the trillions of dollars paid in bonuses to senior banking executives over the last decade or so as now in a time when taxpayers continue monies is continue to be used to bail out the banks at this time of crisis so that's what they're angry about now they've taken a protest to the center of london in the financial district the stock exchange the bank of england and here outside st paul's cathedral now they're here because they're actually being hamdeen by police caution we having some trouble covering the event actually because even though we're press an accredited pressure not actually being allowed for you know i understand from twitter there are three other police cordons in place but they've been branded as kettles that's the that refers

to the controversial police tactic handing in the protesters now these other cordons are in place outside the bank of england along stock exchange according to it's with there's a there's thousands there. are the news reports are saying is about five hundred protesters here on the steps a supposed seadrill is around five hundred they're sitting there camped out with rucksacks tents sleeping bags they say they're not going to go away they stay for as long as it takes they got blackguards here. campaigning for no cuts and things like that but as i say i can't get through the moment to actually cover the. event because the police are not letting us through their points in quite as strong arm tactics as they try to. dispel what is in large peaceful protests but it is actually adding fuel to the flames now i'm joined now by author and journalist afshin rattansi to talk more about this now action there's not much coverage from media and then the media that is here is having some problems i was wrong with the coverage of this event in the british media is it getting enough london of course

one of the epicenters of financial global capital demonstrations not just year djoko solar all the way to rome paris london of course wall street at this this demonstration very different. like the demonstrations of the late by john h. g.'s because they are targeting capitalism at the top of the city of london far more powerful arguably than the houses of parliament where we normally have demonstrations because he's the people that pay the elected representatives of the scotch would you saying this event was getting the coverage it deserves as you alluded to a very dangerous tactics by the british police they are now allowing people through the journalists through so that we get minimise numbers being covered in the mainstream media or cross the country to limit the understanding by the british people of how there are people supporting the ninety nine percent as they call them a very dangerous tactics certainly no freedom of the press today and this is the helicopters overhead police kettling chopping the protesters in and not allowing

the protesters to grow to justice rather clearly also there's a lot more protests in the recently was planned in and to begin with the media was in britain is actually ridiculous to think the government now will start taking note of people's concerns is a lot more serious than i thought it would be surely i think the british government both parties why do discredited we mustn't forget that in britain we don't have a technically an elected government no one voted for the government that is currently in power here they go on regardless bailing out bankers and so forth supporting capitalism just as the other major parties do this movement will grow and grow as it has done in the united states and we'll be watching as we see have politicians themselves more and more. think they'll actually achieve anything here what will they actually get out of this it's difficult to see how demonstrations themselves in themselves are going to change and change things because the nature of democracy is so destroyed in this country we know from the rupert murdoch

scandal the way the british police were paid off by the media themselves their civic society in this country is now super. it's so destroyed and so out of touch with the lives of ordinary people who are suffering because of the obsession the religious obsession with catching cuttings get rather than keynesian even keynesian economics. it's difficult to predict exactly. if you july's for these bridges but it you get a grip and just quickly this police tactic is that going to. get. possibly more violence that we saw with the riots in the last two months ironically the deputy prime minister sporadic did riots because of cuts before the general election i think that we're going to see more and more civil unrest on the streets of london will be on the stage action recently thanks very much speaking to r.t. that's all we got from london at the moment will continue to try and cover this event at the moment the police are allowing us to. bring you more updates from not

only the stock exchange but all said bank of england where thousands of protesters are now being handed barclays indeed the authorities are come down on you many protesters and journalists being barred from entering this gathering let's hear from the protest central in london right now to the political heart of europe over to daniel bushell now in brussels i know people around europe have been blaming the e.u. for their economic troubles any any sign of concern among the lawmakers where you are. protesters or no marching here to the central park of brussels from the european parliament building where they've been protesting they want to create an alternative polaroids what they call a people's parliament not one that serves the financial elites it comes on news that the latest banking outrage belgium's want to build its biggest banks. by the government to the courts to mr mates of course to the taxpayer five thousand euros per person and people who are furious that the c.e.o. of that bank was promised

a six hundred thousand euro bonus for last year at this point leading the bank to this crisis now there's a huge police presence here we're seeing them on horses on the points in fact and they were actually closed off so. all roads as well as the auto sources are saying they've banned the meeting of this group here of this column of this alternative called on the grounds that there's no grounding water for them now the protesters who are skeptical they think that this is just an excuse to stop them meeting because this is an international now protest people here have come from all across europe a small rose the atlantic coast from spain. all right daniel bushell from brussels as you were saying jungle protesters not just in london but where you are also being stopped from trying to get into this whole gathering here let's cross over to madrid where a really good issue is a madrid spain as a whole arena has seen a very troublesome year for the whole eurozone how much momentum is there among the activists there you know i think you're on

a rooftop you can look down and see you know tell us what's what's the scene. what i have to say that in four or four of the spanish residents the protests are actually things a means things as usual they have been essentially protesting since may sixteenth of this year in fact for several months protesters were camped down here in the main square of the spanish capital of them so they have disbanded that camp but for months they were out here they were demanding that the government do something rather than implemented a severe a stereotype measures because those have less people value jobs without homes without any opportunity for essentially a normalized people have been evicted from their homes because thousands literally have been losing their chance to pay rent the chance to pay their mortgage loans. spain has one of the highest unemployment rates in the grizzle in fact it is the highs the twenty one percent that has an immense unemployment rate for the youth citizens it's over forty five percent so of course that means that the most

energetic part of the population they get educated people are left without jobs what does that mean that means that they're going out on the streets and they're making their voices heard they are just starting to get together from different places from different neighborhoods in madrid in fact it's not just the spanish capital that's going to participate in these marches it's basically several dozens of towns and cities across the entire country but here in madrid people are meeting in their various neighborhoods because they have to have special orders that are all over the place and they're going to walk down to the center to the so it's the . one of us can right now there's still some people out there of course but there's going to be thousands literally thousands as there were months ago we're going to come here and they are going to voice their opinion on what the government is doing or rather not doing loud and clear so we still have for a very busy and very interesting day imitate of course we'll bring you more as we as we get from at this point this capital certainly the coverage is going all day

long here for this global movement parties are really going to go in madrid bushell in brussels bennett in london thank. god i think the occupy movement goes global let's say let's try and track exactly what's going on where people in almost a thousand cities eighty two countries from asia and the americas to africa in europe all united in their protests that it's a cross live to it these are live pictures right here on are coming to you from the italian capital of course rome reports of two hundred thousand people marching right now we have reports also though we're getting a bit of violent protesters smashing up some shop windows or some cars have been torched as a demo against corporate greed and austerity measures. and we've seen plumes of smoke billowing right there as you can see there is the coliseum also smoke in other parts of the capital we hear the police are out arrests are being made and

here on our t.v. we will continue with these live pictures from right now as we turn our attention to hong kong crowds have gathered in its central districts where multinational corporations have offices protesters have also taken to the streets of tokyo decrying big business and income inequality as well as directing their anger at nuclear power companies as well. in germany as well thousands marched through frankfurt to the headquarters of the european central bank while others joined demonstrations in munich and hundreds time out all across australia as well saying there are fundamental problems. corruption and the country's democracy not to be left out taiwan taiwan's capital taipei also played host to an occupy movement people were rallying outside the city's financial tower which are they see as a symbol of corporate greed also here pictures of protesters in manila in the philippines as well this is without any question a world wide event. as it continues to go global let's turn our

attention now stateside to the u.s. where the occupy wall street movement was born just a month ago in new york protesters are on saturday planning a mass march on a branch of chase bank so you close their accounts followed by a rally at the military recruitment center in times square on friday scuffles broke out between police and activists as hundreds marched to a lower manhattan at least fourteen people arrested as they headed to wall street fresh accusations of heavy handedness were leveled at the n.y.p.d. and footage emerged of a man being run over by a police another being punched in the face and all follows claims of police brutality last week when officers received a sprained protesters in new york and beating them with batons for more on the impact of this massive phenomena let's talk now to robert david steel a former american intelligence officer joining us live from washington d c thank you for coming on the program for these protests in the u.s.

are probably going to play a huge part in the two thousand and twelve presidential campaign or how do you think they can affect obama's hopes for a second time. well that the key thing to understand about these people is they're against parties they're against institutionalization of corruption we have a two party charity the united states and they have been discounting the public treasury they have basically been selling ninety five percent earmarks for five percent contributions to political campaigns. so obama is not going to leverage these people and the extreme right is completely wrong and nancy pelosi is very mentally challenged when they think that they're going to co-opt that the democrats are going to co-opt this movement this movement is against both parties there are sixty five parties in the united states only tools of them are in power and this is a similar position around the world and i think what people are starting to realize

now is that the industrial era institutionalization of what some call rule by secrecy has basically destroyed not just the middle class but the blue collar class and it should be an oxymoron the working for so these people are an alternative to the existing system they will not help obama right if we can if we can step back and take a more global thoughts from the effects this movement this global protests might have on american politics we've seen many clashes all over america but also spreading among rallies in rome at a time that we've we've seen a eruptions all over europe as a possible these protests simply going to turn into a massive wave of disorder across europe two thousand and eleven has been a terrible year for the eurozone. well you're raising a very important point and let me say first off i don't think that the violence has been instigated by the protesters i think they've been penetrated by provocateurs remember that in italy the great band was actually a cia agent to zabriskie terrorism in order to push italy toward fascism.

i don't believe that violence is coming from the demonstrators they are being provoked in the united states mayor bloomberg was forced to back down on closing the park when the occupation people out did him by cleaning by ordering in a dump truck by basically keeping the place cleaner and more orderly in the government itself was able to that is the key to success for these groups that cannot be violent they must demonstrate that governments have sales and that they are superior how do you think i do think governments should react to what's going on here i mean we're looking almost world wide of protests we're constantly getting calls and messages from people in major capitals all around the globe. any kind of action among or authorities there is a lot of these these are these protests will last on the weekend then those who do have jobs will go back to the monday job and this would just fade away and dissipate. well i am worried about the winter coming on and i am worried about the

groups being slow to understand the electoral reform is the only it's the one thing that all groups can demand and through the threat of a general strike actually and source most governments around the world are if not deeply corrupt deeply myope they are rooted in industrial era still were very in concepts of top down bureaucracy. there are some governments like the netherlands singapore and sometimes the nordics and these governments these governments if they are attentive to the movement and they are willing to to move can can change now let me point to a book review i just did it's the book is called manifesto and it's on amazon and it really explains the difference between traditional governments which are institutionalized bureaucracies to try to still type and hoard knowledge in the

alternative oh ws in my view represents the emerging alternatives for both capitalism and democracy it reflects the idea of capitalism is something that is done among individuals with moral strong ethical standards and it represents democracy as it should be rather than the inverted to tell a tarion democracy that we have now in the united states i mean if i may just jump in it's interesting how you talk about this democracy here you know you could arab spring over the past year here and there you know they're trying to get their public among these that but what does it show from the west is that a warning for what those in the arab world come to expect a former u.s. intelligence officer robert david still alive in washington thank you. throughout the day her naughty our teams our correspondents in europe the us all around the world or bring you the latest on the occupied about these i do stay with our special coverage. the truth like growing poverty.

is why there are countries waiting for hours while cutting jobs and social spending people across the globe rise up against their government's economic policies followed a worldwide action against austerity like our three. twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow to some other news now here after seven months of the regime demonstrations over three thousand killed in crackdowns the u.n. has warned that syria is heading for a full blown civil war with the rumors of army defectors joining the opposition the gap between the two sides in the conflict appears to be widening. reports while people in the capital they're calling for dialogue other parts of the country are demanding an end to the rule of president assad. well here in the center of the syrian capital it is very quiet today it's a day off for most people but of course beneath that calmness the conflict in the country goes on between the government and its supporters and the opposition and now what it one thing is clear though when we try to approach people here and bring

up the issue of the caustic it almost always turns into a heated debate a very emotional discussion depending on the standard they take it that she meets i see their appointments not all positions we don't know who they are yet syria is under attack but we will not give up. what i wish the opposition comes down be rational and go into dialogue with the regime i was the government will accept the opposition and be more open minded. but again we are going to mass the opinion we hear most here is that people are asking who is the opposition who is causing this instability and many of them bring up the words armed gangs they think that these are just people who want to destabilize the country of course this is a position that the government had taken from the very beginning of the conflict but it is a different story when you go outside of the capital went to the city of galveston it was decided five days of fighting between sick. the forces and anti-government protesters and we felt the tension there there were still

a lot of armed forces according to of course again the government they say that they were fighting against armed citizen are groups who are trying to create trouble for the locals there that according to some activists and they are saying that these are not armed groups that these were peaceful protesters as well as army defectors with a strong army defecting defector contingent in the ultra star and it's very difficult to verify. exactly what happened in the city because people are very hesitant to talk i gather still a lot of military the army still in that city a bit that is what's happening on the ground it's not very clear it's hard to get the truth on each matter but on a political level though president bashar al assad has said that he will set up a constitutional committee within the next couple of days to debate with the opposition various sides of the opposition on constitutional reform. the dialogue should have a program and a timeline we must clearly understand what kind of results we want to achieve now one of the sticking points of the constitutional reform is article eight which

states that the ruling baath party is the leader of the state and the opposition says that this no matter even if a multi-party system is introduced without repealing this article it will change anything but again that depends on the dialogue that all sides are going to have to take in full size pro and anti government's assize always say at the end of the day it's not what is said it's this is series of both sides in doing what they say it will do so it's down to the action in the next few months. artists are still reporting right here with r.t. live from moscow president dmitry medvedev has addressed his supporters today telling them russia's course of modernization will continue he is preparing to take over as head of the ruling united russia party for december parliamentary elections are to music and remember trover listening for. these meeting could be described as an informal gathering of the president with what he describes as his supporters and those ranged from musicians and bloggers to the hads of such companies as old

provider representatives from oil and gas companies those who support change supports me this was the key message of the president and the change according to me is modernisation these informal meeting with journalists and interpreters was actually the first to have to admit from a very pronounced at the united russia party congress that he would not be running for a second presidential term so in a way it was deemed place and the time to cross the t.'s and dot the i's so why would a politician whose popularity ratings with the voters are still so high give up the country's top job. i don't want to underestimate my own potential which is not usually been realised to the full actually i can frustrate the hopes of millions of people who brought me to power voted for me hopes of change as well as those people who believed in the need for our country's modernization every common use modernization and our society's modernization i feel that i'm responsible for it

and i've taken a decision to stay in politics to continue my work and the ruling party strategical on with me from the better as its new leader aims to show that the country would want to reduce its direct presence in a quantum e would want to would use. state or which promote independent professionals to the board of directors of state owned companies. reporting right there now let's get to some other headlines for you from around the world and report time for the world update here on r.t. at least nineteen demonstrators have been killed dozens injured in violent protests across the yemeni capital sanaa security forces reportedly used live rounds tear gas and water cannons right in the city center president saleh has been battling street demonstrations for months now resisting sustained international calls for him to step down. meanwhile fighting continues the lengthy battle for the city of sirte drags on several people were also injured when gunfire broke out in

tripoli for the first time since being taken by the national transitional council i would have to say the shooting began when a man was seen raising the green flag of could after his regime on a rooftop a new government is still facing pockets of resistance all across the country. natural leaders from the world's twenty richest nations are meeting in paris to try and find a fix for the world's financial woes the ministers are debating how europe should deal with its escalating debt crisis also on the agenda whether the i.m.f. should cough up more money after it's already funded about a third of the cost of bailing out struggling countries markets have seen some growth on the hope that eurozone nations will come up with a working solution to the debt crisis in time for an e.u. summit in late term. ukraine is cleaning up ready to host next year's euro two thousand and twelve football tournament but i think ludes but burning of stray dogs in immobile incinerator with locals claiming in some cases the defenseless

animals of burned alive you may find some images and alexi of the shots he's reported. he waives us president michel platini was all smiles while inspecting cleaves new stadium the ground of the huge twenty twelve football championships final match but a box of a much smaller size has been delighting the authorities in will ukraine several months ago local t.v. in the town of mrs jones capital reported approaches over twenty thousand dollar immobile crematorium destroying biological waste namely the dispensing of dead stray animals. we put this crematorium on wheels and are now able to cover large areas including neighboring towns we had many objections but they all come to nothing in our fight against bites from stray dogs and the spread of infection tens of thousands of stray animals roaming the streets of ukraine cities in this is a chance cologne hundreds of residents are bitten by dogs every year that sounds of

origins plans to first shoot the animals dead and then destroy their bodies in the morgue. but in reality it turned into gruesome killings sparking outrage among the animal protection society that initially the locals believe that the dogs are still alive but we don't have any evidence of what poison is used to kill them so we cannot say for sure the only a few should way regulating the number of these animals is to sterilize rather than to kill them and we will start demanding this happens in europe over the past few decades stray animals practically disappeared their. the enema lovers outcry had a massive response on the internet an online petition was signed by almost two hundred thousand people some of them suggesting you were twenty twelve should not be held in a country that is so cool to its creatures that have been able. to manage to cancel your two thousand and twelve is not only expected as a rule never is from citizens don't work back in two thousand and ten animal

defenders addressed officials of mr platini then as deputy prime minister kalashnikov to stop this outrage against animals it's been a year we haven't seen any results so far and it has been a sustained campaign at getting you acres chief to use his influence to stop this cruelty animal rights groups have been staging small protests against cruelty for three years but the multiplying number of those signing the petition now would alarm european football's governing body at first there had been strong doubts about ukraine's ability to host the championship some had even suggested it be moved elsewhere now with all the new stadiums in airports springing up it seems there is no going back even with all the course to deprive ukraine of the tournament but animal rights activists say they will continue putting pressure on the authorities both in here and at u.a. for to have their voice heard. and look serious ascii art see it was in from kiev

in ukraine. now do stay with us for our global coverage of the escalating occupy together protests happening right now all around the world we live in a moment. the fun the money with the business of russia is. the thing.