our top story huge crowds in new york are involved in a standoff amid a huge a speed of deployment of police in times square including anti-terrorist units this comes as the occupy movement it goes a global with almost one thousand cities across the world witnessing an unprecedented outpouring of public anger against corporate greed and financial mismanagement. and in other news the u.n. warns syria could be on the verge of a civil war with many in damascus backing president assad while the center grows outside of the capital. and ukraine's attempts to clean up its image before the

euro two thousand and twelve football championships turned into a p.r. disaster for animal rights groups accused the government of burning stray dogs a long time. broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is our team glad to have you with us i'm sean thomas let's get right to our top story 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 have been taken over by big business the occupy wall street movement began in new york quickly spreading across the u.s. to los angeles and 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 we will be hearing from our correspondent around the world but first we're going back to new york and times square where

a huge police presence including anti-terrorism units have been deployed as almost new year's size even size crowds have gathered at lucy calvin office there for us now. well but it's ok lucy what is happening there it's obviously confusing lots of energy give us a sense of what's happening on the ground. i'm fierce. and for the police if they see a person saying everyone come from pulling over moving them. out and hearing i'm just moments ago i thought the first two were people who think that the police the way things threw them down on the poor face down. and for me so wait and. see what i can thank you mentioned earlier there are we here i think the police officers here with me think the crowd is mostly of. families and young.

some elderly folks here and. again as i mentioned record albums and where very very confusing unclear where we can go or when we'll be able to get out. there. and. actually. that i don't like that didn't make you don't have a year and like he is going to last through. these very through how or when we will be able to leave here there's actually. simply more. in the way right now but he very can feel very proud and i think the campaign shame shame shame but we certainly have to read you. what are below me and i'm way are we actually are here with. protesters obviously over at protests or from. hard people march one times where forty

second street we saw that the old people aren't yelling that prevented us from turning people. over to. the variegated so i'm not quite sure what they are but it seemed to place a very time when. we. really. being in the first amendment. ok. here we are going on. but very very very nervous. when you have many people. out there with their. hair right thank you very much. reporting for us there and staying with this breaking news at this hour we are keeping on top of thousands of protesters from the occupy wall street protest who made their way to times square

are reportedly being penned in behind police barricades our correspondent was also there now marina you have just been in times square can you tell us what sparked all of the tension. you know i think that would sparked the tension was probably the fact that the and my p.d. the new york city police department was overwhelmed with the unprecedented amount of people that turned out in support of this occupy movement i don't think even journalists were prepared for a crowd this large as as you mentioned before speaking with lucy it's it's very similar to the size of a crowd that turns out for new year's eve this sidewalks were packed everybody standing shoulder to shoulder a lot of excitement but also frustration excitement that people were looking at one another to see that this is support is spreading wider for the occupy wall street movement but of course that support centers around frustration frustration with the

way elected officials are leading this country and the fact that the majority of these people believe that they do not recall the benefits of the rewards of what decisions are being made in washington but but times square going back to what lucy was just illustrating and talking about i think the one thing i could add is the fact there were also helicopters flying in the air over head above the crowd if this was a crowd that by i was there was protesting peacefully they were all coming together echoing the sentiments that we've heard all week long but as mike hammer and i were managed to find our way out from one of the side streets to get out of a barricade area there were police officers. some some protesters if you leave now you won't get hurt one journalist had his press pass confiscated by the police officers because he for failing to remain on the sidewalk we did see some paddy

wagons come in we did see some riot police before the environment got as tense as it has i did get an opportunity to speak with many people in the crowd i wanted to i want you to take a listen to what some of. people had to say and why they were in times square let's play that. i think is going to very powerful message. i think it sends a message that is going to continue we're just going to keep joining and it's going to keep building until we can come to some constructing. working solution it's time it's time for people to get what they what we need what we. want the government. money we got our hard earned money there is no country has no government we can support and we get it back. you know it's not quite clear why the amount of police officers and counterterrorism units have turned out in times square and are trying to break apart this demonstration because

while i was there there were not any confrontations there were not there was not much chaos nothing seemed to have been very provoking from the side of these protests are seeing in court and the occupy movement as lucy said and we should underscore there are families there there are children there there are young citizens there and older ones this is a crowd of a different that has a range of people there that are demonstrating peacefully and while we're trying to understand why so many many police officials have turned out we hear sirens sirens here in the city of about a half a mile away it's not understood quite yet but what is clear is that these activists remained while i was there to stand their ground and hopefully this will all end in a nonviolent way but of course the police presence that is turning out in times square is clearly creating a very tense environment thank you very much correspondent. who's been there in times square keeping us updated on all of the events thank you very much. now we

will keep you updated on all of the events in new york but now over to europe here is round up from our correspondents who are covering events there. well people are showing absolutely no sign of tiredness or still i was a couple thousand camped out here in the central square of my dread and were then 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 kept out here in the square for sara 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 say here well let's have

a listen to what those activists from the fifteen m. movement had to say about their cause. of cause a move to utopia isn't possible changes take time between those who are at the top understand the common people who want change and how much we want to. winners really but it was not just because i was job with several months ago many of my friends are out of work in this 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 also and now will face a global winter a 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 are the people who should be moving forward but they cannot afford not just or they can't

get a job and therefore they are fortunate enough to get homes that are for just 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 are being was told over europe and our team has correspondents in other cities as well let's get now the latest from mark correspondent daniel bushell and i've heard that is core and brussels and want 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 excuse to stop the 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 know the latest scandal is a big big sea of one of the buildings largest lenders which has a bill del 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 banks to the brink of collapse no the people of most of it short by the e.u.'s reaction when it was all about the significance of the protest a spokesperson for the european commission just bolted what does it mean to us. to the e.u. employment commission a joke the protest protest 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 the 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 seen brussels really as the hosts of the you are the problem here. for the last part the protests today have been very peaceful but the atmosphere here is just suddenly the last. moments got a lot more tense for us because the police which are in still in fast numbers here and you can see the line of police vans behind me the protests together 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 get me to leave but they did as they started to disperse those people on the on the paving 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 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 and the temp of the atmosphere got a lot more a lot more tense now not quite sure is going to happen now because what the police wanted to do is disperse these protests because they say this is private property they have no right to remain here and as for the protesters earlier today there were reports of almost three thousand people being present there certainly well over a thousand pound 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 was galvanizing all of them hanging their money taxpayers' money is continuing to be spent on bailing out banks they're angry at the people in charge of those banks are still getting bonuses and they see that as the architects of the economic disaster as it is 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 of how the country being run so they they say this is their chance is right. this is what some of them had to say about two or three people operate decide who takes a secret ballot so the nose of the guy can secure food that has the longest days possible of a slogan that began on wall street we all but ninety nine percent oppose it in britain as well because we know the bankers and the bosses are getting bailed out by the government and we're being forced to pay the price without speaking to people is really amazing that 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 we still tends to sitting on can't get their way they might not be to spend the night here but that are paying 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 heard from marine corps no new york and they're prepared to stay for as long as it takes until they have their voice heard archie's ivor bennett a daniel bushell and even a coalition keeping up on events in europe for us now sticking with europe abrahm also witnessed occupy wall street movement protests during the turning violent as tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the italian capital venting their fury against corporate greed demonstrators smashed a shop windows and torched cars before being dispersed by police using tear gas and water cannon plumes of smoke were seen at billowing it near the coliseum and other parts of the city some museums were also forced to close down at least one the feeder council show. a journalist and presenter says that more radical element has hijacked the protests. there were through a demonstration or one huge demonstration a one hundred thousand people in the words exactly the same like in my three. those

people with no future but educated people with a. university degree who is not open or to. and that was the majority of the people then there was another demonstration the five bandit of a so-called black blogs they were in the beginning of the demonstration and they started to attack police and police very naively because they used tear gas it's not poems but you know really maybe water cannons nights the bacterially the reaction of the police was very very. calm and not a not exaggerated. and of course you can keep up to date minute by minute with our correspondents covering the protests on their twitter feeds this is the latest from live tweet from new york. she is reporting on what's happening on the ground including how the crowds are being careful the behind railings with one officer

even telling the crowd that if they don't clear the area that someone is going to get hurt. and on to other news of this hour with over three thousand people killed in syria since anti regime demonstrations began seven months ago the u.n. rights chief has warned that the country is heading for a full blown civil war rested showing no sign of winning as people in the capital are calling for dialogue while other parts of the country demand of the end of president assad's rule parties as are sillier 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 kartik 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 car think it almost always turns into a heated debate a very emotional discussion depending on the standard they take through the woods i

see. north pole positions we don't know who they are yet syria is under attack for a strong sense but we will not give up. what i was the opposition comes down to be rational and go into a dialogue with the regime i was the government position and be more open minded. but again we are in 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 of armed gangs they think their keys 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 you went to the city of galveston it was the site of five the. 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 say 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 restaurant it's very difficult to verify. exactly what happened in the city because people are very hesitant to talk and get there is still a lot of military the army still in that city 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 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 the size of the opposition on the constitutional reform or the wording of the dialogue should have a program and a timeline we must clearly understand what kind of results we want to achieve that 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 won't change

anything but again it has on the dialogue that both sides are going to have to take and the size zero and see all the governments aside i 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 it will do so it's down to the action it next few months she's the terms are so we are reporting for us from damascus and syria now here in moscow president dmitri medvedev has 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 it's not that he listened 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 gandhi called quiver 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 nos was actually the first step up to dmitry medvedev announced at the united russia party congress that he would not be running for a second presidential term if it so either 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 you have the country's top job. i don't want to underestimate my own potential which is not yours i believe in realized to the full actually i can trust rate of millions of people who do voted for the weekend hopes of change on me as well as those people who believed in the need for our country's modernization of our economies modernization and our societies modernization i feel that i'm responsible for it and i take any decision to stay in politics to continue my work and the ruling party is to teach and with me from the very 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 always promote independent professionals to the board of directors of state owned companies. and more stories are capturing video blogs and analysis all of their twenty four seven at r.t. dot com here's just some of what's online for you right now. preparing a two of response to washington's plan a missile defense system in europe which it seems as a threat to national security. and find out why one of the coldest and most inhospitable places in europe. now extends a warm welcome to hundreds of immigrants from around the world that's all online at r.t. dot com. in preparation for next year's euro two thousand and twelve a football tournament ukraine is cleaning up and that includes clearing the streets of stray dogs which locals say in some cases the animals are not being properly euthanized and are burned alive now just one you might find some of the images in

the next year shots news report disturbing. he waives us president michel platini was all smiles while inspecting cleaves new stadium the ground of the euro twenty twelve championships final match but a box of a much smaller size has been delighting the authorities in rural ukraine several months ago a local t.v. in the town of lisa jones capital reported a purchase over twenty thousand dollar mobile crematorium three destroying biological waste namely the dispensing of the stray animals. we put discriminatory 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 roaming the streets of ukraine cities in this a chance alone hundreds of residents are bitten by dogs every year and sounds of

thirty's 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. 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 tragically disappeared there. 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 were trying to twelve should not be held in a country that is so cool to its creatures that the. demands to cancel your two thousand and twelve is not only expected as a rule never some citizens don't work back in two thousand and ten animal defenders

addressed officials of mr clarke you need 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 us to use his influence to stop this cruelty animal rights groups have been staging loud small protests against cruelty put three years but the multiplying number of those signing the petition now who are european football's governing body at first there have 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 but 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 at u.a. for to have their voice heard a look see russia ascii art see reporting from here in ukraine. for

a 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 the 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 coughing up more money as it has 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 syria 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 of the green flag of cafes regime at a rooftop the new government is still facing pockets of resistance across the

country. at least twelve demonstrators have been killed and dozens injured in violent protests across the yemeni capital sanaa security forces reportedly used live rounds tear gas and water cannons in the city center president saleh has been battling 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 that 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 they wrap things up this hour but i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments stay with r.t. .