stray dogs are alive. and broadcasting live direct from our studios in central moscow this is our team glad to have you with us 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 in 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 our tees off is there for us now.

yeah you can hear sean we're on forty thousand and seven forty one before the fire we had barricaded the area preventing everyone from from going or moving if you promise and hope to get out of here and i'm just moments ago i thought you were peacefully sitting down already said by the probably for the way you think threw them down on the floor face down and put them away and. paddy wagons as you mentioned earlier there are right here i think counterterrorism police officers here in which you might think that it's crowded mostly a peaceful crowd of families and young. folks here again as i mentioned before thousands and where it's very very confusing unclear when we can go or when we will be able to get out the police. had. actually shot me outside i should remind you that i don't recognize that at least you don't have

a and when he issued you're not allowed to remember a. very very unclear as to how or when you will be able to leave here and there's actually a whole dozen police officers on horseback in the way right now the crowd seems very complete very tight and they are camping shame shame shame at the police officers who was just arrested the peaceful protesters it's very clear what's going on down below or below me and i'm where we actually marched up here with several hundred protesters up quickly over. from washington square park people marching one commute time where the forty second street we thought would hold out the orange netting that prevented us from turning sort of over to forty three to the barricades here so i'm not quite sure what's going on down there but it seems the situation very tense and well we group of protesters reading in unison the first amendment to the police the third through that again work you get the ground we're

trapped here still very unclear how the situation including put on hold. the crowd does seem confused but very very planned very nervous. auntie's lucy cuffing offer important for us there in times square now you heard her mention about the police the latest reports say at least seventy people have been arrested after a skull broke out with the police and we have more details on what's happening on times square now from our correspondent marina important. what 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 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 need what we. want the government without our money without our partner earn money there is no country there is no government we can 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 of course we'll keep you updated on the invent in new york but now over to europe here's a round up from our correspondents covering events 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 put it on themselves and it is 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 seven 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 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 between those who are at the top trying to stem 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 we do nothing nothing will change whatever it is 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 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 to stay they cannot get a job and therefore they cannot afford to get homes they cannot afford to start families still 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 r.t. has correspondents in other cities as well let's get now the latest from mark correspondence daniel bushell and ivor bettis koren brussels and lawns and they will bring us the latest on what's happening in the european countries crowds despite the cold is getting bigger and it's getting angrier sheltering slogans

against the banks and the governments which keep restoring 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 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 use reaction when it was almost about the significance of the protests to support person for the european commission just also 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 more watched 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 go to 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 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 and they're not letting anyone into that cordon but they want to keep and 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 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 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'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 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 of how the country is being run today they say this is their chance to strike back and is . 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 i stay focused days possible of a slogan that began on wall street we are the ninety nine percent echoes 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 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 their heels of people with stows it tends to 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 heard from marine corps ny or new york and they're prepared to stay for as long as it takes until they have their voice heard. marty's ivor bennett daniel bushell and 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 billing near the coliseum and other parts of the city some museums were also forced to close down and at least one theater canceled show . tauriel a journalist and presenter says a more radical element has hijacked the protest. there were two demonstration or one huge demonstration for one hundred thousand people it was exactly the same like in my three to the indignant us people with no future but educated people with a big university degree with no old no chance and that was the majority of the people then there was another demonstration that five bonded over so-called black blogs they were in the beginning not the demonstration and they started to attack police and police reacted very mildly because they used to. smoke but not really maybe water cannons the nights the could but they're usually

the reaction of the police was a very. calm not the 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 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 played host to an occupy movement many rallied outside the cities of 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 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 illusion 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 pitch 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 tel aviv municipality and the demonstrators to safety 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. 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 libya caffein of who we heard earlier live from new york she's a reporting on what's happening on the ground including how the crowd is being kettle behind railings with one officer even telling the crowd that if they don't clear the area then 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 caustic it almost always turns into a heated debate a very emotional discussion depending on the standard they take a. few minutes i see their appointments not all 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 dialogue with the regime i was the government will accept 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 who went to the city of understand it was inside the 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 sara but according to some activists they are saying that these are not armed groups that these were peaceful protesters as well as army defectors with a strong army defecting defector contingent in the restaurant it's very difficult

to exam verify the. i think what happened in the city because people are very hesitant to talk get to resell 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 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 with the opposition various sides of the opposition on constitutional reform. the dialogue should have a program and a timeline we must clearly understand what kind of results we want to achieve now one of the sticking points of the constitutional reform is article eight which states that the ruling baath party is the leader of the state 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 sara the both sides in doing what they say they will do so it's down to the action in the next few months. parties test actually a reporting for us there are now more stories eyecatching video blogs and analysis all there twenty four seven that are to 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 underage of immigrants from around the world that's all online at our t.v. dot com. 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 report disturbing.

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 a local t.v. in the town of capital reported a purchase over twenty thousand dollar mobile crematorium for destroying biological waste namely the dispensing of dead stray animals. we put this crime a tory among wheels and are now able to cull the 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 it alone hundreds of residents are bitten by dogs every year the towns of these plans to first shooting

at them as 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 official way of regulating the number of these animals is to sterilize rather than to kill them but we will stop demanding this happens in europe. over the past few decades stray animals tragically disappeared their. 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. the demand 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 first chief to use his influence to stop this cruelty animal rights groups have been staging loud but 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 and. to have their voice heard. and look serious ascii art see 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 mad 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 serious 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 at 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 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. that wraps up your news i'll be back with

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in broadcasting live from the heart of moscow this is our. top stories. crowds in new york are involved in a standoff amid a huge deployment of police in times square at least seventy people are reportedly arrested after scuffles broke out with police this comes as 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. and in other news at the u.n. syria could be on the verge of a civil war with many in damascus backing president assad continues to grow outside the capital.