we'll look back at the past week's top stories and the latest developments this is r.t. good to have you with us this hour dozens of arrests are made in new york as police move to contain what was thought to be the largest occupy wall street demonstration in the u.s. so far that's as thousands crowded into the iconic times square during the ongoing city campout against big banks that's already lasted almost five weeks what is loosely coming off was there. i'm here in times square in new york city where this was the scene of a massive standoff by the occupy wall street protesters who were here on a peaceful demonstration trying to take their message nationwide as other cities have joined in the protests now what we saw here was a massive standoff between the police and the protesters we saw all kinds of police officers out here riot police police on calgary we saw in fact york city police counterterrorism unit officers which was very confusing for the crowd again this

was a peaceful demonstration several thousand protesters have marched here when we came here down to a forty six street we were essentially blocked off by the n.y.p.d. corralled in an area moved weren't able to move for several hours i saw several protesters arrested reportedly by the police department there was approximately seventy arrests three of them i witnessed right here on forty seven forty six and seven to protestors and sitting down peacefully the police had to handcuff them slam them to the ground and their faces in the ground they were not moving not really resisting arrest so it's confusing why the actions were so severe so tough. the standoff between protesters and police got extremely tense when the police officers doubled up the barricades we were prevented from moving left or right we couldn't go up or down we couldn't meet up with the bigger march with there's actually taking place on forty second street but the police again extremely tense

extremely aggressive but the protesters at one point we saw a group of protesters reciting the first amendment to the police and still still we were told to get out of here even though there was no place to actually go things have calmed down now but we will be on the ground reporting for our team from times square this is lucy kapur no. doubt you can follow her duces twitter feed to get the latest on those demonstrations if you are in what i think just tweets from the big apple she says continue. downtown demo and the police have stopped journalists trying to film any you can follow the tweets on twitter from the course but. the anti greed wouldn't attract more attention as reports of allegedly groundless arrests and some predict even move on and so on the streets of american cities as the marches spread from coast to coast there is going to be some kind of martyrdom in the near future we're going to see violence or rob we could argue that we

already have the violence in this country with the police pepper spraying protesters with you know innocent teenage women and being you know but tons of you know on camera this is what the alternative media showcasing right now again this is a revolution this is this is a change in psychology this is an evolution in human consciousness the people are waking up and we're demanding change this is no different from what we saw overseas in the middle east and northern africa the revolution has now come to the united states of america. well what started in wall street as nell spread of world wide this weekend galvanized into action in one of the largest collective movements of its kind tens of thousands of spilled onto city streets across the world greed protests have already taken hold in more than eighty countries with europe becoming one of the main targets of public fury against banks and politicians in rome riot police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds as protesters smashed bank windows and torched cars proves

a smoke was seen billowing into the sky near the coliseum and other parts of the city in britain police thwarted protesters efforts to set up camp outside the stock exchange in london several hundred activists had called officers for preventing more people from joining the rally in berlin scuffles broke out in front of the german parliament building when police removed demonstrators tents and stories of correspondents are continuing to keep their eyes and help people are making their feelings felt around the world and you can follow them online. these people are on the streets of madrid today they believe that their voices aren't that hard demonstrations here in israel will continue to grow until the government meet their demands the police have been trying to disperse the last few remaining hundred hardcore protesters. seen reports from across the globe just click on to the website it's r t v dot com. on thursday the struggling could breathe a sigh of relief as slovakia one of its smallest members finally voted in favor of

the expanded european bailout fund it was the only e.u. member still stalling eurozone plans when lawmakers rejected the proposal on tuesday in a vote that brought down the country's ruling coalition is now created four hundred forty billion euro rescue funds will now be able to offer cheap credit to beleaguered banks and buy up increasingly expensive sovereign debt. nodule ferrars believes that slovakia was forced into changing its mind. good. no is not acceptable in the modern european union if you say no you are made to vote again until you get the right answer which gives you a true measure of what this project's really like you must understand that i've just been in this parliamentary chamber with mr barroso these people are absolutely intent on creating a united states of europe they don't care how many millions of people are chucked out of the unemployment scrap heap they don't care about the tide of humanism misery that because they have got their political goals but the reality is that not

only economically is this failing but politically it's failing what is the point actually of bailing these countries or one of the bailouts all these bailouts helping the people in greece and portugal who they're not what they're actually doing is they're giving money to these countries to give back to our banks who over lent the money in the first place i mean the whole thing is what these countries need who are trapped inside this economic prison called the euro is they need to do you value. your with r t life here in moscow and we've got plenty more for you ahead this including the u.s. claims that they uncovered an assassination. of the evidence and the motive for there to be involvement from. former ukrainian prime minister yulia timoshenko feels the law. just two days after being sentenced to seven years behind bars for abuses of power and gas deals she signed with russia a new set of fraud charges is lined up against the guilty verdict to international

anger from russia the e.u. and the united states. judgment day for ukraine's democracy that was how some dubbed events in a key of court this week where former prime minister yulia timoshenko was awaiting the verdict over her alleged shady dealings in a gas deal with russia her supporters took to the streets in her defense before being dispersed by the police. three months of nonstop protests surrounding the case culminated in the biggest reminder yet of the orange revolution the two thousand and four uprising which made him a shango a household name. now as then there were tens of thousands in the streets naked anger and even naked activists this group staging another topless demonstration against all sides in the dispute but the main drama was inside the court especially after the judge's controversial verdict is what the court has ruled that the demand

of not to mention kill is guilty under article three six five pounds three of the criminal code of ukraine and sentences her to seven years imprisonment and denies of the right to work in civil service for three years just last year and to a shanghai was one of the most influential female politicians in the world but having lost her power and now her liberty to go was furious. that the retiring regime or its market will stop me the trial showed that the constitution and justice had been trampled on just brute i urge you to begin the struggle it's a very difficult and important moment we have to protect ukraine against the authoritarian regime don't give up. the prosecution claimed she abused power while signing gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine the accusation has raised eyebrows in moscow which insists the contracts were completely legitimate but we cannot accept that the legitimate acting contract which remains in force

which was never legally challenged. could be. the reason. for the good decision. which took place today the e.u. also dallas's president viktor yanukovych has assurances that the case had not been politicized and lashed out at ukraine's leadership experts say kiev now finds itself in a very difficult position to potential membership the european union is some years away and i think we shouldn't pretend otherwise but we do once the countries in europe ceased to get closer to europe not just in terms of membership in terms of european values like the rule of justice and this is clearly an extraordinary setback and i do think it is quite possible that the invitation for president. to come here on the twenty eighth of october will now be withdrawn another criminal case was launched against a machine called two days after the verdict was announced accusing her of shifting

her own death to russia's defense ministry on to ukraine's budget fifteen years ago this only added to her image of a monster a symbol of freedom supported by the masses and few doubt she would hesitate to capitalize on that status even if she has to wait seven years to do so just hours after a simmering tension in central kiev it is back to quiet and normal again it is unclear whether unity machine cause space has been sealed as x. parts are now speculating that a presidential pardon is still at possibility but these protesters here are determined to stay here for at least another week in any case let's see russia's state party reporting from kiev in ukraine. well as we saw their tempers run high court after unity of a shame because guilty verdict was announced and of course for i think the shift in documenting what happened right in because it is pictures are online at facebook dot com slash news footage of the angry response in kiev on you tube channel as

well. and it seems that gas deal drummer's all over the news are the moments later in our program we find out what e.u. regulators were looking for when they raided the european offices of russian energy giant gazprom. the first moves towards reform that started in syria where a new constitution is being drafted following months of anti-government protests the draft is due to be complete within four months present of the service call for multi-party elections in february the monster protest has been in the streets since march this week tens of thousands of assad's supporters have been cheering in support of the government in the syrian capital young rest is claimed over three thousand lives with the u.n. warning that the country might be heading for a full blown civil war syria spoke to people from both sides and some distance from . voices of support

yet and continuing dissent some and in deadly clashes polar opposites in their demands but in some way united by the newfound zeal to take a stand for here the fact that the syrian capital our lives have gathered at show their support for the government that is going is a far cry from the images we've been seeing in other cities around the country where there have been reported righteously security forces evidently government protests additional however what i think it's a real matter where in this country the way they called the forces have tried to tell me that was you know very basic you let's not be. allowed her husband and young children one of many families who braved the heat enjoy the crowds in downtown damascus. it's true that we knew nothing about politics before but now we take a stand even if i'm a sunni muslim i'm pro this president. ever since most people started revealing their political stance openly some people would

mock me and say since when do you know about politics what do you know there are divisions among family member. some are pro west side some are anti but that's how it ends. it appears that apathy is becoming less of an option for citizens of a nation now under intense international scrutiny i never watched news i never cared you know i never never had any interest in politics but. i think most of us read it books we watch the news media articles and on facebook with the no one pick up and then you have the right background and all the issues about kids until you can think of them are. you there are those like the new i who sing who are no strangers to picking a side and making it known he's long been voicing his discontent and what he calls a repressive regime and today facebook is one of his main tools in cordoning to dissent coalition activism has evolved in syria for me i feel that my voice goes

further now back then it started with stating an opinion but i'm going to jail that hit a good bed and no one would even know about it that has changed now that people are more politically aware hussein has been thrown in jail says he was tortured and finds himself constantly looking over his shoulder. i was detained for spreading the word on the violent crackdown in daraa but i'd feel like a coward if i didn't risk my life while those on the streets are doing so asking for the regime to fall a call staunchly opposed by those on the other side yet if it was for. me to get the job. you think. well political curiosity and activism among syrians are growing whatever side of the divide they're on people here see the future of their country is at stake but all are adamant that future is firmly in their own hands and that's our cilia r.t.

damascus. egypt's military rulers have this week issued a decree banning all forms of discrimination that's off of the worst violence this . since the february lucian which toppled president mubarak more than twenty five people killed and hundreds injured in clashes between coptic christians and security forces in current military vehicles were seen charging through the crowds while troops fired rubber bullets and tear gas and started as a peaceful demo for justice after attacks on christian churches by muslim extremists state owned media blame the christian protesters despite witnesses saying that unconnected troublemakers were behind the violence at least brother says the country's military rulers a scapegoat the religious. this is a very cynical attempt by the defacto rulers of the country the military to portray a. minority of the population and a religious minority as troublemakers when in fact all they're doing are trying to seek some justice over institutionalized discrimination that's the.

residue from them time of what barak and his policies what we are facing is a popular uprising that was a poor aborted by a military coup leaving pretty much a political and security vacuum in place and that's the context for what's happening in egypt and all the kind of sides involved don't seem to have enough authority to control the emergence to ation egypt so that void within that vacuum anything is possible at the moment. when in the next hour here in r.t. we bring you the story from chase to capture and kill of the world's most infamous drugs baron here's a quick look ahead. the longest b j how did she strike. she was trying to stall that day to. what sprung the traps they laid for him. on the radio. the surge walks around the.

always missing. one shot turned to take. the drug industry's godfather became the most want to trophy of the world to hunters. greg hunt. the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad's has dismissed claims by washington that iran plotted to assassinate the saudi arabian ambassador to the u.s. an american delegation is now heading to russia china and turkey to provide evidence to back up my suspicions washington has warned that it's committed to holding terror on to account iran says the claims are an attempt to isolate it from the international community and those within the country say any u.s. action will not go on. davey the more pressure that the united states tries to impose upon iran the iranians will push back as well the united states is being

utterly dishonest iran has absolutely no motive to carry out such an operation if you ron did hypothetically want to carry out this operation they could have done it in the middle east in an area where there are more high profile figures and where it could be carried out much easier why would iran want to create extra sensitivity with the united states so it's absolute nonsense and obviously iran gains nothing from it the only people who do gain is the united states by distracting attention way away from its problems at home such as the economic hardship that people are facing its decline in the middle east it helps israel come out of isolation it helps the saudis route the saudi regime try to unite its people against some theoretical hypothetical foreign enemy. recent raids by e.u. regulators on the european offices of russian energy giant gazprom may force moscow to review supply deals to europe industry analysts say the searches were

a desperate act to pressure russia to sell gas on better terms don't you bushell went looking for the reasons behind the raids. this event still to be one reason behind the e.u. raids on gazprom offices are the beginning of october european energy giants electricity de france and b a s f a set to join russia sell stream pipeline to europe said to be that this warrant for the bucco an e.u. bugs rival their successive. top wrong last miles and the commission of law for example it's a project but why would the e.u. want these raids to spook russia a reliable supplier to renegotiate any contracts brussels must prove irregularities in its deals with gazprom the european subsidiaries and that seems unlikely nobody really believes that the e.u. has a strong case for proving their point we see this more as a measure to increase pressure on gazprom in russia the e.u.

says it wants cheaper gas and more players on the market but his strategy may have one crucial flaw i'm going they say sell our gas to another company when it gets to europe with that company must make a profit on the deal and that will immediately raise the price of the homes pay analysts say they use being influenced by several anti russian hardliners many of whom are upset missing out on the opportunity to take part in big energy ventures especially baltic nations which the north stream pipeline point policies taking russian gas straight to germany instead of complaining gas experts say they could have moved on now worked with russia. lithuania's and her russian inertia will undermine their society politically and economically at the moment little when it is pursuing a one dimensional policy that given the problems in the euro zone will leave it regretting it did not pursue a more constructive policy with russia will guarantee for example signed

a new deal with gazprom which will generate income and contribute to a canonic stability emotions that are also running hoya. some european politicians who want to end their reliance on russian gas despite efforts by moscow to diversify routes. governments european union all seem to think thinkable. we don't need all. fortunately. there. was no immediate alternative to russian gas those stereotypes could only affect the long term relations between the european energy markets and the biggest supply of the new bushel of brussels. prime minister putin paid a visit to beijing this we continue at the possible direction of his foreign policy should he be elected russian's next president seven billion dollars worth of energy

in technology trade deals were signed during the trip that's been special as francis nunn believes that strength in that time is could alter the axis of global politics and economy the u.s. and europe join together is really dominating global politics i think i china and russia can join together to. wait and not let them dictate the agenda around the world in europe and you would not be happy in central asia china and russia canpotex their strategic interests and political interests there and would not let america to to mount a staging post for afghanistan so this is very important for both countries. the connection between china and russia goes deeper than just economic deals r.t. his later this hour from a veteran observer who explains the country's long held cultural ties. to

libya now a civil war is still a reality the national transitional government has faced new resistance in tripoli this week for the first time since the capital was taken in august several injured in gun battles with gadhafi supporters after an attempt to raise the ousted regime's green flag on the city rooftop over the town of sirte gadhafi loyalists mounted a fierce counterattack forcing back the revolution like this he's been trying to take control of the tunnels he strolled hold for months now and he said he says it will only declare full liberation once. but investigative journalist told r.t. that pursuing that goal means ignoring the high human cost. i think what's happening in sirte is really quite shocking i mean if you remove yourself from saying i support one side or support the other side what we're seeing is a full scale assault on. you know very densely populated area in which civilians are paying a very very heavy price now the reason why this is important is because the whole

basis on which nato imposed a no fly zone at the beginning of the conflict was precisely to defend civilians against military attacks and now we have if you like the allies of nato doing what their enemies were doing a few months ago and you have to begin to ask yourself where is nato now why is nato not saying these are civilians under attack by a military force we have to stop we have to stop this attack and i think what we're beginning to see is if you like is that on a reemergence of the double standards what's happening in libya now is going to be a war crime the attack on it is a war crime and i think that has to stop immediately has to be negotiation they have to be allowed to surrender but more importantly i think if they don't surrender then you put the city under siege and allow the civilians to flee and they're not and they're not doing that. the trial of russian businessman vic to boot to queues to beleaguered sales got underway in new york this week he was arrested in thailand and three years ago and extradited to the u.s.

in two thousand and ten if found guilty of trafficking weapons he could face life behind bars the seat of journalist daniel a student believes america is determined to get sentence which means he has people chance of the fair trial even though the evidence against him is thin. the united states government is going to a very very hard time proving that their target is guilty and it's going to very difficult time making the label of merchant of death stick in the court of law and unfortunately for the united states government there is very little verifiable evidence they will be able to present the most which is hearsay most of which he shot since he said she said about things which no one has ever seen and this is something that again unfortunately the team representing him right now was not in the position to deal with because they're simply not up to scratch he's not going to get a fair trial he's in the united states. the evidence how can we get a fair trial well the united states government has done everything in their power to bring him to the united states after two years in thailand and now they put him up on trial in the united states only troubled women embarrass the united states i

don't think it's going to happen to some other international news now in world cup and he very nearly twenty seven minutes past the hour in the russian capital israel has published a list of the palestinians to be freed in exchange for the country soldier gilad schalit says part of his story prisoner swap with a mass half of them are to be released on tuesday while the rest will be freed in december but i must lead it has said no agreements been reached with israel on the date of when the soldier will be handed over is expected to be returned home during the first phase of the swap. the worst flooding in thailand for half a century that's left almost three hundred people dead is continuing to wreak havoc heavy downpours and overflowing rivers have destroyed more than seven hundred thousand homes and ancient buddhist temples the country's capital bangkok has been fortified with defense walls water pumps and canals as more rain is predicted. well that's brings up to date for the moment and this week's edition of the week

will be back with a recap of our top stories for you very shortly don't go away. from .

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