stray dogs alive. broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is r t certainly glad to have you with us let's get right to your top stories 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 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'll be hearing from our correspondents around the world but first we're going to go back to new york in times square where a huge police presence including anti-terrorism units have been deployed as almost

a new year's eve size crowds have gathered artie's lucy craft often has been there for us. how did you do any conflict or do you think i'm very transparent i do want to share that. i'm going to the streets i'm actually from that what is. on fourteenth street and that's exactly what they're trying to barricade breaking the area up in the front that showed what hundreds of people behind each barricade between. you know out here and right t.v. counterterrorism officer and everything right at fourteenth street and we've seen operators on quarterback. situation that if we. try get higher rank and train i'm going to get our team has been playing we're going to meeting right now because drinking and. police work out. in front of. protesters. contradictory by the police officer has been arrested and hangs up and

taken away it doesn't look like letting us. know that there is a market in the market marker for out there on forty second street but we are gathered here on a book i'm going to let your light. champing at the we talk with her asking for permission to have the march when the courts have a permit to be here and it isn't necessarily against the law it's a little bit confusing out here while we are corralled and here but holding holding the ground at the moment i'm trying to get rid of our. arteries there's a cafe off reporting for us and there and we have more details on what's happening there in new york for that we go to marina port with the latest. what sparked the tension was probably the fact that the n.y.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 the sidewalks were packed everybody standing shoulder to shoulder there were also helicopters flying in the air overhead above the crowd this was a crowd that while i was there was protesting peacefully there were police officers telling 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 and i think it's a very powerful message. i think it sends a message that is going to continue that people are just going to keep joining and it's going to keep building until we can come to some constructing constructive working solution time and time for people to get what they what we what we.

want the government without our money without our hard earned money there is no country there is no government because we work and we give it back 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 but what is clear is that these activists remain while i was there to stand their ground and hopefully this will all end in a nonviolent way but of course the amount of police presence that is turning out in times square is clearly creating a very tense environment. for us there in new york and of course we will be keeping you updated on all of the events there in new york but now over to europe and here is a round up from our correspondents covering the situation there. well people are shelling out slowly 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 spain is going through some incredibly hard financial times and they have been protesting for the last several months on and off and that they 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 between those who are at the top on the stand the common people who want change and how much we want them wonderfully but it was not just because i

was job several months ago many of my friends are out of work in the situation is rather difficult if we do nothing nothing will change but i thought if that was and we want a transport and horizontal society we saw the arab spring then the spanish summer the american autumn and now will face a global winter a look like quite a have to goal 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 to they cannot 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 r.t. has correspondents in other cities as well let's get now the latest from mark

correspondent daniel bushell and ivor that is count who are in 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 angry a shouting slogans against the banks and the governments which keep risking them with public money all solti's first tried 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 what they're calling which is full the people in the interests of the people not the financial elites now the latest scandal is a big big sea of one of the old jim's largest lenders which are has a big 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 bank

to the brink of collapse no the people have also been shocked by the e.u.'s reaction when it was almost about the significance of the protest a spokesperson for the european commission just goes to what does it mean to us. 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 is international movement people are coming here from all across europe people of actually more just 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 few moments got a. more tense that's because the police which are in still in fast 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 but they want to people 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 and arrests were made thing in see some of those pictures now a lot of shouting police have brought out dogs as well and as the crowd chanted shame on you to the police there the temp of 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 as 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 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 is because it's just to register their anger and that's really was galvanizing all of the anger that they're money taxpayers' money is continue 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 of how the country thing run today they say this is their chance to strike back and it's. some of them had to say good sleeping operate to subutex a sleeping bag so you know there was i couldn't secure food that was bogus days

possible of a slogan that began on wall street we all but ninety nine percent echoes in britain as well because we know the bankers on 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 then something will really change down to the really digging in name heels of people with stows tents they're setting up camp if they're aware they might not be to spend the night here but they're 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 marine corps no new york and they're prepared to stay for as long as it takes until they have their voice heard artie's correspondents covering events in europe bennett daniel bushell and irina coolish go there now sticking with europe a role model 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 shop windows and torched cars before being dispersed by police using tear gas and water cannon plumes of smoke were seen to billowing near the coliseum and other parts of the city some museums were also forced to close down and at least one theater canceled the show. a journalist and presenters says that a more radical element has hijacked the protest. there were two demonstration or one huge demonstration oh one hundred thousand people it was exactly the same like in men three to those people with no future but educated people with a. university degree with no open no chance and that was the majority of the people then that was a no other than with each of the five on the so-called black blogs they were in the

beginning of the demonstration and they started to attack police and police reacted very mildly because they used to. know really maybe water cannons that night but they're usually the reaction of the police was a very. calm not that not exaggerated. and taking a look now at other protests worldwide as we see how far the demonstrations have spread protesters gathered in berlin sparking clashes between police and demonstrators after they tried to break through security barriers surrounding the parliament in athens thousands rallied outside the parliament raging against the bankers financier's and politicians they accuse of ruining their economy and condemning millions to poverty people have also taken to the streets in tokyo protesting against a big business and income inequality as well as expressing anger at nuclear power

companies and taiwan's capital taipei also played host to an occupy movement many rallied outside the city's financial tower which they view as a symbol of corporate excess. the echoes of this global movement have also been heard in the middle east or he's policy here is in israel and witnessed of the demonstrations in tel aviv. hundreds of people it was a 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 until the government meets the demands i think that we need

to continue in 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 and purpose aleutian for the situation we we are only into it but so can occupy wall street here in israel has been translated into occupied child boulevard 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 extensive 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 largest demonstrations in this country's sixty three year old history with nearly a million people taking to the streets policia r.t. television. minute with our correspondents covering the protests on their twitter

feeds the is the latest from lucy cavanagh's that live feed from new york she is reporting on what's happening on the ground including how the crowd are being cattle to behind railings with one officer even telling the crowd that if they don't clear the area then if someone is going to get hurt. two other news in this hour with over three thousand people killed in syria since anti regime of demonstrations began seven months ago the un rights chief has warned that the country is heading for a full blown civil war 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 tests are simply a 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 and she meets with. pullman's positions we don't know who they are yet syria is under attack but we will not give up. i was the opposition comes down be rational and go into a dialogue with the regime i was the government 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 you 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 locals there 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 so 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 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 both sides pro and anti government says sides always say at the end of the day it's not what is said it's this is sarah the both sides in doing what they say they will do so it's down to the action in the next few months. reporting for us there now you can get more stories i count in video blogs and analysis all there twenty four seven at r.t. dot com here's just some of what's online for you right now. moscow's are preparing a response to washington's planned missile defense system in europe which it sees 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 on line at

r.t. dot com. in preparation for next year's at euro two thousand and twelve football tournament ukraine is it cleaning up and that includes clearing the streets of any stray dogs which locals say in some cases the animals are not being properly euthanized and are burned alive you may find some of the images in the lex report disturbing. 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 crematorium for destroying biological waste namely the dispensing of dead stray animals. we put this crime of tory 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 cologne hundreds of residents are bitten by dogs every year the towns of these 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 that the only officials way regulating the number of these animals is to sterilize rather than to kill them and we will stop demanding this happens in europe improved efficient over the past few decades stray animals practically 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 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 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 here and. to have their voice heard. see reporting from kiev in ukraine now let's take 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 to coughing up more money as it has already met about a third of the cost of bailing out struggling nations francis the finance minister called for decisive measures to tackle the eurozone debt crisis. meanwhile fighting continues in libya as the fierce that lengthy battle for the city of seargeant 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 the gadhafi regime on 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 of 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 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. and a quick update from new york the latest reports say at least seventy people have been arrested after scuffles broke out with police i will be back with a recap of our top stories in just few moments stay with our to.

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these funds don't totty don't come. and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas let's take a look at your top headlines our top story huge crowds in new york are involved in a standoff admitted huge deployment of police in times square at least seventy people are arrested after scuffles broke out with police this comes as the occupy movement goes 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 of the u.n. war in syria could be on the verge of a civil war with many in damascus and backing president assad while dissent continues to grow outside the capital.