huge crowds in new york are involved in a standoff amid a huge deployment of police in times square at least seventy people are arrested after scuffles broke out police believe this comes as if the occupy movement goes well with almost a 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 that syria could be on the verge of a civil war with many in damascus backing president assad while the dissent continues to grow outside 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 after an animal rights groups accusing the government of burning stray dogs alive. and broadcasting live from our studios in some form of this is our team glad to have you with us so 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 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 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 new year's eve sized crowds have gathered archies that lucy craft off is there for us now. and then. do you. think everyone comes from boeing or rooting. out how here in times where. there were people. that the for the for the way threw them down on the floor face down and put them away and he fighting back and as you mentioned earlier there are right here counterterrorism here when you think the crowd their. families and young. yes i mentioned before thousands in a very brave thing unclear where we can go when we will be able to get out. there.

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well. leading in unit and first amendment. to the. ground. here will be very unclear at this point one. he. but really very. and he's reporting for us there in times square now you heard him mention about the police the latest reports say at least seventy people have been arrested after those who broke out with the police and we have more details on what's happening on times square now from our correspondent kareen important. but sparked the tension was probably the fact that the and why 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 for power 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 they're going to very powerful message. i think it sends a message because we're going to continue to people are just going to keep going and it's going to keep building until we can come to some instructing do working. it's time is time for people to get with me what we need what we. are the

government without our money without our partner earn money there is no thank you there is no government work and we give it back it's not quite clear why the amounts 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 fall and in a nonviolent way but of course the police presence that is turning out in times square is clearly creating a very tense environment of course we'll keep you updated on the events in new york but now over to europe here's a round up from our correspondents covering events there. well people are showing out slowly no sign of tiredness or still i was a couple thousand camped out here in the central square of madrid and put this on and it is here is it as we have said before it looks go our compound 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 it well let's have a listen to what those activists from the fifteen m. movement had to say about their cause. of cause who you talk to isn't possible changes the time between those who are at the top understand that the common people who want change and how much we want it. but it was the business i was job to several months ago many of my friends are out of work in the situation is rather difficult if you do nothing nothing will change. that is promised and we want

a transparent horizontal society and we saw the arab spring then the spanish summer the american autumn 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 combination for them it's metal 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 cannot afford to get homes they can all 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. there are 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 respond is daniel bushell and i've heard that it's council are in brussels and lawns and they will bring us the latest of what's happening in european countries crowd to

this but the cold is getting bigger and it's getting angrier sheltering slogans against the banks and the governments which keep rescuing them with public money also teach first tried 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 the whole noids alternative callable with a calling which is for the people in the interests of the people and not the financial elites now the latest scandal is a big big sea of one of goldman's 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 e.u.'s

reaction when it was all about the significance of the protest a spokesperson for the european commission just also does it mean to us. 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 is lead to national movement people are coming here from all across europe people have actually marched for months by food for example from the likes of spain to get here seen brussels really as the hosts of the e.u. and the problem here. for the large part the protests today have been very peaceful but the atmosphere here is just suddenly lost the moment the law. more tense that's because the police which are in still in pass numbers here and you can see the line of police vans behind me the protesters 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 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 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 is there the temp of the atmosphere got a lot a lot more tense now not quite sure is going to happen now because of what the police want 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 make an end goal is their kind of pass

a little bit disorganized but talking to these you realize that's not really the point the point of why they here today is is because it's just to register their anger and that's really was galvanizing all of the manga 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 is being rewarded and also just generally angry at the way the country is 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's being run so they they say this is their chance to strike by this. some of them had to say no to sleeping operate to suckle takes a sleeping bag so he knows of they can secure food that first day of yoga stays possible the slogan that began on wall street we are the ninety nine percent oppose

in britain as well because we know that the bankers and the bosses are getting bailed out by the government and we are 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 and they something will really change down to the reading in a heals of people with those tents they're setting up camp kids there where 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 high wall street as 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. right he's either been a daniel bushell and in their reporting for us from europe staying in europe rome also witnessed occupy wall street movement protests turning a 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 billowing near the coliseum and other parts of the city some museums were also forced to close down at least one theater canceled show. tauriel a journalist and presenter says a more radical element as hijack the protest. there were two demonstration one huge demonstration on one hundred thousand people it was exactly the same liking my dream of the indian young people with no future but they took a people with a. university degree with no hold no chance and that was the majority of the people then there was no other way mostly from the five hundred of the so-called black blocks they were in the beginning of the demonstration and they started to attack police and police reacted very mildly because they used.

small no really maybe water cannons the night stickered but their yearly the reaction of the police was very. calm not to not exaggerate. 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 around 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 big business and income inequality as well as expressing anger at nuclear power companies and taiwan's capital taipei also play host to an occupy movement many rallied outside the city's a financial tower which they viewed as a symbol of corporate excess. the echoes of this global movement have also been

heard in the middle east artie's polis leader 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 attacking 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 tell the government meets their demands i think that we need to continue and have some demonstration here they'll dig a vent 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 are 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 our last child boulevard struggle of our being the street where for nearly three months protesters pitched heads 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 municipality and the demonstrators the city 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 policy r.t. tel aviv and you can keep up to date minute by minute with our correspondents covering the protests on their twitter feeds this is the latest from lucy cavanagh who we heard earlier live from new york trees are reporting on what's happening on the ground including how the crowd is being settled behind railings with one

officer even telling the crowd that if they don't clear the area someone is going to get heard. other news this hour with over three thousand people killed in syria since anti regime 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 demanded the end of president assad's rule artie's arcelor filed this report 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 casket it almost always kerensky into a heated debate a very emotional discussion depending on the standard they take. that means i see

their appointments of positions we don't know who they are yet syria is under turf responses but we will not give up. what i was the opposition comes down be rational and go into dialogue with the regime that was the government will accept the opposition and be more open minded. but again we are in to mass the opinion we hear most here is a 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 who went to the city of other star and it was a site of five days of fighting between security forces and anti-government protesters and we felt the tension there there was a lot of armed forces according to of course again the government they say that they were fighting against armed groups and were trying to create trouble for the local cell that according to some activists said 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 and it's very difficult to verify these are the exam. i think what happened in this city because people are very hesitant to talk to get a result not 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 the president bashar al assad has said that he will set up a constitutional committee within the next couple of days to debate the with the opposition various the size of the opposition on constitutional reform. a dialogue should have a program and a timeline we must clearly understand what kind of results we want to achieve now one of the sticking points of the constitutional reform is article eight which states that the ruling baath party is the leader of the state and the opposition says 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 one size role and see all governments the size always say at the end of the day it's not what is said it's this is series of both sides in doing what they say they will do so it's down to the action in the next few months. are g.'s tests are silly reporting for us there are now more stories i capture 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 all of minority got caught. up in preparation for next year's euro two thousand and twelve football tournament ukraine is cleaning up and that includes clearing the streets of stray dogs which local say in some cases the animals are not properly

being euthanized and are burned alive now just a quick warning you may find some of the images and alexi is reported to strip. he waives us president michel platini was all smiles while inspecting kiev's 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 a local t.v. in the town of recent shuns capital reported a purchase over twenty thousand dollar mobile crematorium for destroying biological waste namely the dispensing of the stray animals. we put this crematorium on 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 citizens in this a chance alone hundreds of residents are bitten by dogs every year the sounds of the routines 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 weigh regulating the number of these animals is to sterilize rather than to kill them and we will start demanding this happens in europe. over the past few decades stray animals practically disappeared their. the enema lovers outcry had a massive response on the internet an online petition was signed by almost two hundred thousand people some of them suggesting you are twenty twelve should not be held in a country that is so cool to its creatures with. the demands to cancel your two

thousand and twelve is not unexpected as a rule letters from citizens don't work but in two thousand and ten animal defenders addressed officials admit to pluck me and 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 to use his influence to stop this cruelty animal rights groups have been staging loud with 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 at u.a.

for to have their voice heard alexi russia ski r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. now for a look at some other headlines in brief from around the world. financial leaders are 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 is 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 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 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 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 as the united states and the united states for accusations that the iranian government was involved in an international assassination plot and an address to supporters of the leader labeled american allegations a conspiracy against iraq 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. that wraps up your news i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments stay with archie. lose

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