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around the clock around the world this is r.t. live in moscow a global outcry against corporate greed has risen up in almost a thousand cities worldwide people have taken their anger to the streets saying their governments are being taken over by big business he's on the bennett is following the rallies in london. the mood of discontent is definitely spread to london it seems like it's here to stay at the moment is around a thousand protesters gathered in the square behind me the police have set up a cordon hemming the protesters in there but i've just been inside there speaking to some of the protesters and there's almost a carnival atmosphere going on they're saying it is finally their chance to have their say in the slogan they're putting on this protest today is paid back and what they're referring to is what they're saying is the trillions of dollars that's been paid in bonuses to banking executives over the last few years was at the same time their money the taxpayers' money is being used to bail out these banks and so they're blaming the bankers who've got us in this situation they're saying somehow
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they're the ones being rewarded now earlier i do have have a chance to speak to some of the protests this is what they had to say. we're here because the upper classes in england have completely degradative the lower classes they have made this banking crisis and we're still paying for it students i'm going to pay fifty six thousand pounds of my own university education intuition fees the slogan that began on wall street we are the ninety nine percent oppose in britain as well because we know the bankers on the bosses are getting bailed out by the government and we're being forced to pay the price for this is not just about the bankers this is about capitalism making coffee globally it doesn't happen overnight but it started. with a police presence today has been massive earlier they were employing a controversial tactic known as cattle in whereby they seal off the protesters came the mean using a police cordon. and they say it is a method to just to defuse the situation to try and keep violence to
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a minimum however these protesters have been peaceful throughout it was never their intention to be violent and they say that tactic is a controversial one because it merely incites violence it prevents other protesters joining up now they have managed to join up an earlier actually julian assange screen appearance here there are some other high profile protesters here in campaigners as well including billy bragg reportedly julian assange spoke to the to the press who are waiting there he lashed out at the bank saying that. the problem is that these small minority of the rich are keeping a hiding assets from the population these claiming london as the biggest culprit and clearly a lot of other people share that same view this around a thousand people approach protesting here outside along the london stock exchange . and they're setting up tents camps and they're saying they're willing to stay here for as long as it takes so clearly they're saying it's now time for there to have their say. on the ballot reporting there from london now the u.s.
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is where the occupy wall street movement all began it started with a tiny group of activists camping outside the new york stock exchange in mid september people were protesting against fact cats pocketing bonuses while american taxpayers were struggling to make ends meet while report nine has been following the rallies since then. clearly does this movement is just force the people here in zuccotti park right now with me where i'm standing are feeling that they won their major victory yesterday their first major victory when the city the mayor of new york city michael bloomberg wanted to temporarily evacuate they clean their park thousands of people came down here in support of this occupy movement and the last minute the city retracted and said that these protesters can stay and they are staying they have stayed i have to say in the past four weeks we've been covering this movement this is the largest crowd i have seen das far people of all ages all
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races our religions coming down here with with with the same frustrations with the same support but it's not just limited to this crowd there are a few hundred protesters that marched down to the chase bank a few hours ago some some protesters were moving their their money from the bank to take to withdraw their accounts others protesters protests taking place in other parts of the city but it's all leading up to a mass convergence that's being planned to take place in times square in a few hours and thousands are plenty of people are expected to watch the turnout in times square there's a huge police presence right now around zuccotti park here in wall street and the new york civil liberties union says that legal observers will be walking with the protesters all day long to observe what is taking place and of course that moves being made because of all the clashes that have have taken place weekend after weekend between police and the peaceful protesters but i've spoken to some people
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here today they say this is not they don't consider themselves protesters any longer they consider themselves revolutionaries they consider themselves the ones that catapulted a movement here in new york to one that has now spread all over the world people all over the world uniting with one same message and not some. equality they want the huge gap between the rich and poor to narrow they want corporate influence over politics not just in the u.s. but all over the world and and this is the message they've been speaking for several weeks now and it's a message that has gone global. new york and a lot of the anger about europe's financial meltdown has been centered on brussels the political heart of the e.u. and activists there are determined to make those in power listen analogies daniel bushell is in the belgian capital. protesters have come here they are turning up at the central park in brussels from the european parliament building where they've march from they want to create here an alternative paul what they call
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a people's parliament which doesn't serve the financial elites but the also it is a saying that they actually bans protesters from camping here on the grounds that there is no running water available for them no protesters have been saying this skeptical that this is the real reason they just want an excuse to stop the the all sorts he said to stop them getting here and not the grouping here you know the reaction has also shocked from the european union itself officially when almost about the significance of the protests a european commission official all said how does that concern us so disregarding their concerns and also people have been shocked that the e.u. employment commissioner joked the protesters should go to frankfurt the home of the european central bank instead of brussels the police reaction is also being called excessive here right police on horseback turned back a group of protesters who actually voice it was a member of the european parliament to join him in the parliament here in brussels
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for discussions to discuss their concerns and we've been speaking to some of the protesters who have come from different cities a politician should speak for the people and not for the bankers i think if we stay if we can start there should be a really good beginning here you people sending in students. the need telling the difference and we. need to feed again to see them that they can just. reach a. bank i think oh and. yes there is that table and there's the people that actually need to be trying to save the banks not the people that ferries and this is an international movement people have marched here some four months to actually get to this because this is considered the heart of the problem the e.u. headquarters if you like people of come from as far as spain. and the course really is in madrid for us people out here have been have been camping out on the streets of various cities not just in the capital madrid for months in fact when the
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movement first began the fifteen m. movement which took its name from the fifteenth of may when the protests began in spain after their sturdy measures have been implemented people after that have been camping out here for several months i am and put to them so which is essentially the heart of the status capital and people the protesters have actually set out camps here way and they were here for months trying to make their voices heard and those voices have been heard by some of the political parties in spain as some of the politicians have been. have been talking about the issues which the which the protesters have brought up those issues of course are the astaire it measures the lack of employment especially for for the young people in spain as the country has won its has the highest youth unemployment rate in europe it's over forty five percent so those young and educated people are the ones who are taking to the streets in protest of what's happening in the world and some people world over have been saying that in fact the movement occupy wall street actually may have been
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inspired by what has been happening in this space over the last couple of months and it wasn't just in one city that movement has. taken over several cities it has spread over to the neighboring portugal and even to italy a country where the protest movement hasn't really been so significant we haven't heard about it on the news until probably today when hundreds of thousands of people literally there have been reports that a hundred thousand people have turned out to the streets of rome and the protests took a violent term you people have been throwing paper bombs and they have been violently dispersed by police or what we're hearing police have used water cannons tear gas in order to get to get protesters off the street but that hasn't been that easy because people have actually taken to the ministry of defense in the italian capital they have been attacking those various shops and. buildings financial institutions throwing rocks setting cars on fire we're still waiting for anything like that to happen in madrid we're hoping that things are going to be just now
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actually right police vehicles have started to move in to. where protesters will be converging in about a couple hours and of course we'll bring you all pictures and all the information concerning the latest protest movements in europe as soon as we get them. so as the occupy movement goes global let's try and track what's going on where at the moment people in almost a thousand cities and eighty two countries from asia and the americas to africa and europe united in the protests in germany thousands marched through frankfurt to the headquarters of the european central bank while those joint demonstrations in munich in cologne crowds in athens raged against the bankers finances and politicians the queues of ruining their economy condemned the poverty and through greed in hong kong people gathered in the financial district to run the buildings of multinational corporations protesters have also taken to the streets of tokyo trying big business and income inequality it was directing their anger at nuclear
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power companies. capital also played host to an occupy movement and he rallied outside the city's financial times which they view as a symbol of corporate greed. i'll just remind you throughout the day our correspondents in europe and the us will bring you the latest on the occupy together rallies stay with us here live on our team for all of that special coverage. like growing poverty and hunger. by the countries waiting for hours while cutting jobs and social spending people across the globe rise up against their government's economic policies follow the worldwide action against austerity live on our t.v. . the news this hour at twelve minutes past the hour hand in russian capital after several months of anti regime demonstrations and over three thousand killed in
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crackdowns the un has warned that syria is heading for a full blown civil war and with rumors of on the defectors joining the opposition the gap between the two sides in the conflict appears to be widening as artie's test reports while people in the capital are calling for dialogue other parts of the country a 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 a call thick in the country goes on between the government and its supporters and the opposition now what it one thing is clear though when we try to approach people here and bring up the issue of the cause they could almost always turns into a heated debate a very emotional discussion depending on the stand that they take and she certainly it's unreal i see that there are appointments not all positions we don't know who they are yet syria is under tight threat storms but we will not give up. position comes down be rational and go into a dialogue with the regime i was the government position and be more open minded.
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but again we are to mask 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 state 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 we went to the city of understand it was a side of five days of fighting between security forces and anti-government protesters and we felt the tension there there were so a lot of armed forces according to of course again the government they said that they were fighting against armed groups who were trying to create trouble for the local cell but according to some activists they're saying that these are not armed groups of these were peaceful protesters as well as army defectors with a strong army defecting defector contingent in all just on it's very difficult to verify the exactly what happened in the city because people are very hesitant to talk together so a lot of military the army still in that city
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a but 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 the 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. 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 the opposition says that this matter even if a multi-party system is introduced without repealing this article it won't change anything but again that depends on the dialogue that both sides are going to have to take and both sides pro and anti a governmental sides always say at the end of the day it's not what is said it's the sincerity of both sides in doing what they say they will do so it's down to the action in the next few months. down here in moscow president dmitri medvedev has
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addressed his supporters telling them russia's course of modernization will continue he's preparing to take over as head of the ruling united russia party for december's parliamentary elections. listened in. this 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 all cover 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 dmitry medvedev is modernisation these informal meeting with journalists and interpret nurse was actually the first to admit from a vet if announced at the united party congress that he would not be running for a second presidential term so in a way it was the 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
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country's top job. and he said. i don't want to underestimate my own potential which is not years i believe been realized. that's why i can frustrate the fictional millions of people who brought me to power and you voted for me who pinned their hopes and dreams as well as those people who believed in the need for countries modernization that our economy is modernization and our society is my musician like you 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 bed as its new leader aims to show that the country would want to reduce its direct presence in quantum e would want to would use. state a wish and promote independent professionals to the board of directors of state owned companies. coming your way later in this hour animal rights activists are all fired up over reports that ukraine is preparing to host euro twenty twelve by
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throwing stray dogs into incinerated. to speaks of the russian man who survived not one but two of the country's worst terror attacks we have the full story in just a few minutes from. now for a look at some of the headlines in brief from around the world and financial leaders from the world's twenty richest nations met in parents to try and find a solution to the world's financial woes the delegates pledged to siphon cash into the i.m.f. to ensure it was able to bolster the five economies of the euro zone's most unstable countries the u.s. opposes the fund coughing up more money as it's already met about a third of the cost of bailing out struggling nations france's finance minister called for decisive measures to tackle the euro zone crisis. demonstrators have been killed and dozens injured in violent protests across the yemeni capital sanaa security forces reportedly used my gas and water cannons in the city center
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president saleh has been battling street demonstrations for months resisting sustained international calls for him to stand down. fighting continues in libya as the lengthy battle for the city of sirte drags on several people. out in tripoli for the first time since being taken by the national transitional council witnesses say the shooting began when a man was seen raising the green flag of the gadhafi regime on a rooftop government is still facing pockets of resistance across the country. iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali lashed out at the united states for accusations that the iranian government was involved in an international assassination plot in an address to supporters the american allegations a conspiracy against iran designed to isolate the country u.s. president barack obama says the point to. washington in this example. the iranian government's pattern the dangerous and reckless behavior. ukraine is
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cleaning up ready to host next year's euro two thousand and twelve football tournament but that includes the burning of stray dogs in a mobile incinerator with locals claiming in some cases the defenseless a defenseless animals a burned alive you may find some images and actually report disturbing. you atheist president michel platini was all smiles while inspecting cleaves new stadium the ground of the hewer 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 a local t.v. in the town of capital reported a purchase over twenty thousand dollar immobile crematorium for destroying biological waste namely the dispensing of dead stray animals. we put this crime a tory among wheels and are now able to cull the knowledge areas including neighboring towns we had many objections but they all come to nothing in our fight
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against bites from stray dogs and the spread of infection tens of thousands of stray animals roam the streets of ukraine cities in this the chance cologne hundreds of residents are bitten by dogs every year the town's authorities planned to first shooting animals dead and then destroy their bodies in the morgue. but in reality it turned into gruesome killings sparking outrage among the animal protection societies. 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 that the only official way of regulating the number of these animals is to sterilize rather than to kill them and we will stop demanding this happens in europe it proved efficient over the past few decades stray animals practically disappeared. the animal lovers outcry had a massive response on the internet and online petition was signed by almost two hundred thousand people some of them suggesting you are twenty twelve should not be
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held in a country that is so cool to its creatures that if you have the demand to cancel euro two thousand and twelve is not unexpected but as a rule letters from citizens don't work back in two thousand and ten the noble defenders addressed officials of mr platini who then as deputy prime minister kalashnikov. to stop this outrage against animals it's been a year and we haven't seen any results so far and it has been a sustained campaign. to use his influence to stop this cruelty animal rights groups have been staging small protests against school day 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
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activists say they will continue putting pressure on the authorities both in kiev and. to have their voice heard. r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. by the way more stories are catching video blogs and and analysis for you all twenty four seven dot com here's just some of what's online for you right now is preparing a military response to washington's planned missile defense system in europe which it sees as a threat to national security. on the website of the moment you can find out why one of the coldest and most hospitable places in europe now extends a warm welcome to hundreds of immigrants from around the world that's all online for you. living through the nightmare of north caucuses terrorism twice russian so he suffered the horror of seeing his wife and son die in the beslan school siege several years later he was
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badly injured in the huge market bombing. the question of the met the man whose life has been torn apart by terror. some say that lightning never strikes twice but there is one man who knows that's not true. i still can't talk about those three days we didn't eat didn't sleep we just waited the entire city was gripped with fear my two sons and my wife were hostages if getting caught up in one horrific act of terror was enough sygate ha suffered. was. over i felt like i was floating and then i heard a loud crash i was lying in the grains i tried to get home but i couldn't i saw five or six bodies next to me all of them were wounded those are the memories of
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just one man fate hasn't been kind to him most people remember the russian republic of north the says he has two biggest terror attacks from t.v. reports and through them both until september two thousand and four forty six year old sas he had everything he wanted from life a loving family two sons and a job again joy but in a flash that life was gone his wife and his eldest son were burnt to death on the last day of the infamous three day beslan school see children as the shoulders i should have gone to the identification of my son which i couldn't see when i told my brother to look at his left and she had a birthmark fear that's how we knew it was him his second son was shot in the lap while trying to escape but managed to crawl out of the flames alive but still gay can never forget the horror of those days after the siege he was granted disability status due to postural massive depression and has been unable to work for the last
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seven years but for state of gay and north the sub it wasn't over on the ninth of september two thousand ton the capital was shaken by another deadly act of terror lest both playing central markets was bombed without warning killing nineteen people and the morning fate puts it again right in the middle of it. several shards of shrapnel were removed from his lax he was taken to moscow for an operation to save his eyesight after that he spent several weeks in hospital as part of a rehabilitation program nearly alfre one these days as familiar with terror acts but only from news reports and that's ask closest most people average gats and sergey wishes he was one of them and how is your life now moving as you call this life i don't believe thirty percent of the time can be i guess over one depression and then falls back into the next. ciggies life was ripped apart through no fault
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of his own but now he only prays he finds enough strength to rebuilt it. in the courts now are reporting from north the sense here. we'll be back with an update on our top stories in just a few moments here on auti stay with us life here that'll be in about three minutes from now.
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