i'm broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is our team glad to have you with us let's get right to our top stories a global outcry against corporate greed has risen up in almost one thousand cities worldwide people have taken their anger to the streets saying their governments have been taken over by big businesses the occupy wall street movement began in new york quickly spreading across the u.s. to los angeles denver and washington among others it has since gone global with asia joining in the demands for change in europe to hundreds of cities are taking part in the protests let's now take a closer look at what's happening around the world with our correspondents first let's get the latest from archies. in new york. this turnout here in new york is the largest that it's been in the past four weeks let's remember it was four weeks

ago when the occupy wall street movement started off here in zuccotti park where i'm standing by wall street now what these optimists are saying right now is they feel that their movement is purser very they feel that they are moving forward in a victorious kind of way now that the occupy movement has gone global thousands of people have been in and around lower manhattan are showing their support for the occupy movement or taking part in it all day a lot od thousands as i mentioned in the park where i'm standing there were hundreds that went to chase bank or earlier in the day to withdraw their money and close their accounts hundreds if not a thousand of gathered in another area of manhattan a washington square park to also echo the sentiments that have been boys voiced by the optimism of the occupy wall street movement we receive reports that at least twenty people that went into a city bank to close their accounts were arrested by plainclothes police officers

inside citibank but because in speaking to all those that have come out onto the streets today to voice their anger their frustration with with the way that the u.s. system is run here is a little bit of what they had to say. you know for from obama on her friends and anybody in congress trade or they do their congress she is the one paid for by special interests the ones who control the government visual ensure right legislation right now corporations are kind of running the government by funding political campaigns and then those politicians get into office and of course they're going to do what's in the corporation's best interests because that's who's funding them and that's who's giving the money and the people are kind of left in the dust people aren't getting what. you deserve people are still struggling they work there full time jobs they work overtime and yet there's people who can't even

carry an hour a week to work. these are the said to parents that have been a voice i hear by the occupy movement for four weeks now but in the next few hours we are expecting to see thousands gather in times square that is way where they are taking this demonstration they will be focusing also on the amount of money the u.s. has spent overseas od wars the decisions that are made when it comes to u.s. foreign policy in the decisions that these activists say are the wrong ones the ones that they say are leading the country dry believing that common american tried to while the u.s. leaders of course they believe are acting in their interests not in the best interest of all americans. there we're in new york where things started and now over to europe here's a round up from our correspondents there. well people are showing absolutely no sign of tiredness or so i would say

a couple thousand camped out here in the central square of madrid and could have been sold and here is it as we have said before it looks like a power wall street movement has inspired thousands of people across the globe well there are some who believe that it all started right here in madrid in the middle of may one thousand the people have gathered to protest against the government's austerity measures because as you may have heard the state is going through some incredibly hard financial times and they have been protesting for the last several months on and off and that we have camped out here in the square for sarah for a month and a house just the summer and these people here believe that they're actually making a change in their voices are being heard let's hear the well let's have a listen to what those activists from the fifteen m. movement had to say about their cause. of cause global utopia isn't possible changes take time but we want those who are at the top on the stand that common people who want change and how much we want it. but it was of the spirit i was job

with several months ago many of my friends are out of work in the situation is rather difficult if you do nothing nothing will change but i thought if that was and we want to transport and horizontal society we saw the arab spring then the spanish summer the american autumn and now will face a global winter look like quite a help to gold for these people here but you have to understand for them it's not just a matter of corporate domination for them it's a matter literally off surviving a lot of them have invested money and time into education we're talking about people who are twenty four to thirty five years old they're basically the these are the people who should be moving forward but they cannot afford not just or they can't get a job and therefore they cannot afford to get homes they cannot afford to start families so for them really it's a very significant issue so they are determined to make their voices heard and of course. they're at their concerns i mean was told over europe and our team has correspondents in other cities as well let's get now the latest os from mark

correspondence daniel bushell and ivor that is core and brussels and lawns and they will bring us the latest of what's happening in european countries crowds despite the cold is getting bigger and it's getting angrier sheltering slogans against the banks and the governments which keep risking them with public money also to first try to ban this grouping saying there was no running water for them which many stores an excuse to stop them getting together but they have finally given in to the weight of numbers and they now plan an all noise alternative callable they're calling which is for the people in the interests of the people not the financial elites now the latest scandal is a big big sea of one of buildings largest lenders which are has been bailed out just now by the government to the tune estimated over costing five thousand euros per taxpayer along saw it the c.e.o. of that bank being promised for last year

a bonus of six hundred thousand euros in practice for practically leading the bank to the brink of collapse no the people have also been shocked by the u.s. reaction when it was all about the significance of the protests to spokesperson for the european commission just don't sit well does it mean to us. that the e.u. employment commission adjust the protests protests to should go to frankfurt instead of brussels frankfurt being the home of the european central bank central to this euro crisis at the moment it's a national movement people are coming here from all across europe people have actually mulched for months by food for example from the likes of spain to get here seeing brussels really as the hearts of the e.u. and the problem here. for the last part the protests today have been very peaceful but the atmosphere here is just suddenly the last moments that a law. more tense that's because the police which are in still in vast numbers here

and you can see the line of police vans behind me the protesters the gathered behind there the police have been trying to disperse the last few remaining hundred hardcore protesters from the steps in front of the cathedral they say they're trying to disperse and peacefully they set up a cordon around them they're not letting anyone into that cordon bleu they want to people to leave but they did as they started to disperse those people on the on the pavement the protesters they didn't want to move they say they have a right to remain on the on the sidewalk there and to carry out their protest peacefully. when they didn't move the. actions did escalate there was a lot of pushing and shoving and arrests were made thing in see some of those pictures now a lot of shouting police have brought out dogs as well and and as the crowd chanted shame on you to the police. there the temp and the atmosphere got a lot a lot more tense now not quite sure is going to happen now because the what the police want to do is disperse these protests because they say this is private property they have no right to remain here now for the protesters earlier today

there were reports of almost three thousand people being present there certainly well over a thousand talking to them in terms of. an end goal is there kind of that's a little bit disorganized but talking to these you realize that's not really the point the point of why they're here today is because it's just to register their anger and that's really what's galvanizing all of them anger that their money taxpayers' money is continuing to be spent on bailing out banks they're angry that the people in charge of those banks are still getting bonuses and they see that as the architects of the economic disaster as it as being rewarded and also just generally angry at the way the country's being run and the phrases being continuously used today in terms of a slogan for today's action is we are the ninety nine percent they say they are there they make up the vast majority of this country they have no control over how the country's being run today they say this is their chance to strike back and is. some of them had to say. good sleeping operators subutex and sleeping bags and

i was always i couldn't secure food that first day of august days possible the slogan that began on wall street we all but ninety nine percent echoes in britain as well because we know the bankers and the boss is getting bailed out by the government and we're being forced to pay the price without. speaking to people is really amazing that you can really get a sense that they think they are really beginning to have a say here and they something will really change down to the really digging in a heels that people with stows tends to setting up can't get there or where they might not be to spend the night here but they prepared to go somewhere else because they really think this is the start of something they could change something similar to the old my wall street house if heard from arena point i'm in new york and they're prepared to stay for as long as it takes until they have their voice heard. running out our european coverage of that was ivor bennett daniel bushell

and irina staying on top of the occupy movement and earlier we spoke with alex vitali who's a sociology professor at brooklyn college in new york he's also taken part in the demonstrations and says the protesters are becoming more coordinated. well i think we have to think about this as a broad movement rather than a particular action or particular organization and i think we are seeing some more specific demands come out of particular actions here in new york city this week there were some specific demands before by some of the demonstrations including continuing attacks on millionaires and i think in many ways the u.s. is kind of late to the game that we've seen these demonstrations against austerity against corruption against concentrated economic and political power around the world and so what's important is not so much those specific demands but the fact that there is a now a connected in coeur native global movement that's calling attention to what i

think is pretty transparent to everyone which is a kind of corrupt relationship between economic and political elites around world. and so as the occupy movement goes global let's try and track what's going on and where people in almost a hundred countries from asia and the americas to africa and europe are united in protest dozens were injured in rome as italian police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds protesters smashed shop windows torched cars and hurled bottles as the demonstration against corporate greed and austerity measures turned violent a defense ministry building was also set ablaze plumes of smoke were seen it billowing in near the coliseum and other parts of the city center in berlin police clashed with protesters after they tried to break through security barriers surrounding the parliament they pulled out fences away as police tried to restore order crowds in athens waged against the bankers financier's and politicians they accuse of ruining their economy and condemning millions to poverty and hardship protesters have also

taken it to the streets of tokyo to crying big business and income inequality as well as directing their anger at nuclear power companies taiwan's capital taipei also played host to an occupy movement many rallied outside the city's financial tower where they view as a symbol of corporate excess. the echoes of this global movement have also been heard in the middle east policy here is in israel and witness to the demonstrations in tel aviv. hundreds of people are also gathering here in tel aviv where many of the faces are familiar as the organizers of the social protest movement that has been taking place across this country for several months now have given a full weight and backing to this global movement in fact as you can see there hundreds of people here they've mobilized themselves once again on line at the moment they're holding small discussion groups talking about issues such as tackling poverty being part of this international movement when you talk to people

here they say that while it's a pity that they're not really actively participating in these wall street protests they certainly support them and the protests and the demonstrations here in israel will continue to grow and till the government meets their demands i think that we need to continue and have some demonstration is the big event like this one or a smaller event but we need to keep in the mind of the people to know that we still don't have any solution we still don't have anything from the government that's a specific purpose aleutian for the situation we we are only into it the slogan occupy wall street here in israel has been translated into occupied child boulevard rothschild boulevard being the street where for nearly three months protesters pitched tents in defiance against this country's socio economic policies earlier this month those tents did come down after an extended court battle between the television minister palate and the demonstrators society here in israel we're witnessing people very much part of this global movement you need to remember that the last few months have seen the a largest demonstrations in this country's sixty

three year old history with nearly a million people taking to the streets policia r.t. television. of course our correspondents will be keeping you updated on all of the developments from the occupy together rallies in europe and the u.s. as they happen to authority for our special coverage. on to other news this hour u.n. reports say that over three thousand people have been killed in syria since anti regime demonstrations began seven months ago and the unrest is showing no sign of waning as people in the capital are calling for dialogue while other parts of the country demand the end of president assad's rule artie's filed this report for us from the syrian capital damascus. 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 now what it one thing is clear though when we try to approach people here and bring up

the issue of the casique it almost always turns into a heated debate a very emotional discussion depending on the stand that they take a. few minutes. pullman's oppositions we don't know who they are yet syria is under attack but we will not give up. the opposition comes down be rational and go into a dialogue with the regime that was the government will accept the opposition and be more open minded. but again we are going 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 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 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 still

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 city but according to some activists they are 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 the west on it's very difficult to verify the exactly what happened in the city because people are very hesitant to talk together to resole lot of military the army still in that city of 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 reforms 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 won't change anything but again that depends on the dialogue that both sides are going to have to take and what size role and see all the governmental sides always say at the end of the day it's not what is said it's this is sara the both sides in doing what they say they will do so it's down to the action in the next few months. that's arsole a reporting there from syria well here in moscow president dmitri medvedev has addressed his supporters 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's parliamentary elections you covered in a crunch over listen to. 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 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 step up to dmitry medvedev announced at the united. that he would not be running for a second presidential term he said 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 country's top job. i don't want to underestimate my own potential which is not yet i believe been realized to the full that's when i can trust straight the hopes of millions of people who brought me to power and you voted for me who pinned their hopes of change on me as well as those people who believed in the need for our country's modernization our economies modernization and our societies 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 is strategic aligned with mitchum abetted as its new leader aims to show that the country would want to reduce its direct presence in a quantum you would want to reduce its state old shirts and promote independent professionals to the board of directors of state owned companies. and more stories eye catching video blogs and analysis there twenty four seven at r.t. dot com here's just some of what's online for you right now. moscow is preparing a response to washington's planned missile defense system in europe which it sees as a threat to national security. and to find out why one of the coldest and most inhospitable places in your. now extends a warm welcome to hundreds of immigrants from around the world that's all online at r.t. to calm. in preparation for next year's at euro two thousand and twelve football

tournament ukraine is cleaning up and that includes clearing the streets of stray dogs locals say in some cases the animals are not being properly euthanized and are burned alive you may find some of the images in a lecture report disturbing the way first president michel platini was all smiles while inspecting cleaves new stadium the ground of the euro twenty twelve football championships final match but a box of a much smaller size has been delighting the authorities in rural ukraine several months ago local t.v. in the town of jones capital reported a purchase over twenty thousand dollar mobile crematorium for destroying biological waste namely the dispensing of dead straight animals. we put this cram into or among wheels and are now able to cull the 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 roam the streets of ukraine cities in this the chance cologne hundreds of residents are bitten by dogs every year the towns of 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 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 the only a few should way 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 tragically disappeared there. the animal 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 are twenty twelve should not be held in a country that is so cool to its creatures that it. demands to cancel your two

thousand and twelve is not unexpected as a rule letters from citizens don't work back in two thousand and ten animal 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 at getting you a force 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 calls to deprive ukraine of the tournament but animal rights 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 you know look at some other headlines in brief from around the world. financial leaders from the world's twenty richest nations met in paris to try and find a solution to the world's financial woes but delegates pledged to siphon cash into the i.m.f. to ensure it was able to bolster the flagging economies of the euro zone's most unstable countries the u.s. opposes the fund to coughing up more money as it's already made about a third of the cost of bailing out struggling nations france's finance minister called for decisive measures to tackle the eurozone debt crisis. meanwhile fighting continues in libya as the fierce lengthy battle for the city of seer to drags on several people were also injured when gunfire broke out in tripoli on saturday 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 khadafi his regime on a rooftop the new government is still facing pockets of resistance across the country. at least nine demonstrators have been killed and dozens injured in violent protests across the yemeni capital sanaa security forces are reportedly used to live rounds tear gas and water cannons in the city center president saleh has it been battling the street demonstrations for months resisting sustained international calls for him to stand down. iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei lashed out at the united states for accusations that the iranian government was involved in an international assassination plot in an address to supporters of the leader labeled american allegations a conspiracy against iran designed to isolate the country u.s. president barack obama says the plot to kill saudi arabia's ambassador to washington is an example of the iranian government's pattern of dangerous and

reckless behavior. well that wraps it up this hour i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments stay with our team. six six. six six me. feel. the

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broadcasting live and direct from our studios in central moscow this is our thomas let's get right to your top stories. the occupy movement goes global with almost a thousand cities across the world witnessing an unprecedented outpouring of public anger against corporate greed and financial mismanagement the largest rally was in rome with over one hundred thousand people marching. and in other news the u.n. warns that syria could be on the verge of a civil war with many in damascus backing president assad while the center continues to grow outside the capital. and ukraine's attempts to clean up its image before the euro two thousand and twelve football championships turn into a p.r. does.