action as the number killed in the civil conflict rises of three thousand. welcome it's a pm sunday night here in moscow you're watching the weekly here on our roundup of the top stories for the last seven days with me kevin owen and first 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 says thousands crowded into the iconic times square during the ongoing city campout against big banks that's lasted now for almost five weeks. 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 are 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 calvary and we saw in fact new york city police counterterrorism unit officers which was very confusing for the crowd again this was a peaceful demonstration several thousand protesters had 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 we 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 two protesters were sitting down peacefully the police had handcuffed them slammed them to the ground slammed their faces and 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 but extremely tense when the

police officers doubled up the barricades we were prevented from moving a left or right we couldn't go up or down we could meet up with the bigger march which is 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 kaplan of recently will of those who sees to it the seeds to get the latest on those demonstrations in a bigger hole you know so for the first time video is from times square of course you can also follow up of course. bonds as well at twitter dot com forward slash r.t. . the anti green movement attracts more attention as reports of legit groundless arrests of some predictive more violence 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 be you know but taunted you know on to hear oh 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 so what started in wall street's no spread worldwide this weekend to galvanize into action in one of the largest collective movements of its kind tens of thousands of spilled into the city streets across the world and to great protests have already taken hold in more than eighty countries of insane with europe becoming one of the main targets of public theory against banks and politicians in rome riot police that used tear gas and water cannon to disperse

violent crowds as protest to smash bang windows and torched cars proves the smoke we're seeing barreling into the sky to the coliseum in other parts of the city to also trouble in britain the police thwarted protesters efforts to set up camp outside the stock exchange in london several hundred activists heckled offices for preventing more people from joining the rally out in berlin scuffles broke out in front of the german parliament building when police removed demonstrators attention food stores our correspondents are keeping their eyes on how people are making their feelings felt around the world you can follow them to online. these people who are on the streets of madrid today they believe that their voices are in fact being heard 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. will though may so i'm seeing reports of

you from around the globe you can find it on our. site exclusively dot com. sponsored by growing poverty in southern. angers by the country's waiting for hours cutting jobs and social spending people across the globe rise up against the government's economic policies follow the world wide action against austerity. and the big news for the week on thursday the struggling you 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 member still stalling eurozone plans where nor makers rejected the proposal of hughes day in a vote that brought down the country's ruling coalition is the upgraded four hundred forty billion euro rescue of will now be able to offer cheap credit to beleaguered banks and buy up increasingly expensive sovereign debt pretty sure and

pay nigel farage believes that was forced into changing its mind. now isn't good enough 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 and they don't care how many millions of people are chucked out of the unemployment strappy they don't care about the tide of humanism misery that may cause they have got their political goals but the reality is that not only economically is this failing the book politically it's failing and what is the point actually of bailing these countries out one of the bailouts all these bailouts helping the people in greece and portugal i don't know 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 mad what we use countries need who are trapped inside this economic prison called

the euro is they need to deal. value. you're watching r t international with me kevin and we've got plenty more ahead for you this hour of course after the u.s. claims that they uncovered an assassination plot by iran we report on how analysts have questioned the evidence and why to whatever multi. next though former ukrainian prime minister yulia timoshenko feels the laws are you see grip just two days after being sentenced to seven years behind bars for abuses of power and gas deals that she sided with russia a new set of fraud charges is being lined up against the guilty verdict through 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 tymoshenko 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. the court has ruled that the demand of an attention to 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 or two machines that was one of the most influential female politicians in the world but having lost her power and now her liberty to go was furious. now although retiree and

regime or its verdict will stop me the trial showed that the constitution and justice had been trampled under throughout 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 the return of except that the legitimate. contract which remains in force which was never. used. could become the reason. for the good decision. which took place today the e.u. also doubted 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 its potential membership the european union is some years

away and i think we shouldn't pretend otherwise but we do wants the countries in europe seems to know 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 twentieth of october will now be withdrawn another criminal case was launched against him a shank or two days after the verdict was announced accusing her of shifting her own death to russia's defense ministry onto ukraine's budget fifteen years ago this only added to her image of a martyr 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 much sankoh say has been sealed as experts are now speculating that a presidential pardon is still a possibility but these protesters here are determined to stay here for at least another week in any case let's see russia party reporting from kiev in ukraine. well as are most graphically saw their tempers running high outside court after you leave to show his guilty verdict was announced now our correspondent documented what happened to right in the thick of it you'll see more pictures there on facebook dot com slash our team used footage of the angry response in kiev on our you tube channel as well for you. and it seems that gas still dry or is all over the news at the moment later in our program fire the war e.u. regulators were looking for when they raided the european offices of the russian energy giant gazprom. nato forces in kosovo and delivered an ultimatum to ethnic serbs manning the barricades at the border crossing at the

breakaway regions north they've ordered to remove the instructions on monday or say peacekeepers will step in and clear the road themselves the serbs complain that they've been given too little time to comply with this the roadblocks of no been in place for the earlier months set up in protest of nato and the u. forces taking over the checkpoint and allowing costs of customs officers to be placed there you may recall late last month some of the barricades were bulldozed resulting in violence then with peacekeepers using rubber bullets and tear gas against the serbs let's talk more about this. with nicola tenacity she's a political analyst working for the magazine new serbian political thought nicola thanks for being an arts international tonight much appreciated so what are we going to see on monday do you think is this operation going to be peaceful or are there fears of new clashes likely to be realized well there are always periods of new clashes i mean even even if we but i think the need to pull leaders are disturbed in northern part of or have asked for a moment of the action thing that they need time until wednesday and even

technically did barricades could be lifted so i'm quite sure it on monday nothing special should happen but when they all had when they you already could have quite a few. be very hard to explain to third on the barricade why they should let. a convoy through and the problem there of course is. the problem would be. impossible. and simply. simply be a lot of attention from the nato side and of course i would think that this whole operation is more of a pressure to the syrian government to apply pressure on its side to do the third and possible but what might happen very hard to predict if just the broader picture to help my understanding of it. presumably proposes to carry it out but is it

actually full within the limitations of its peacekeeping mandate. well they should be told that legally they do have a right to as they see. it in for the freedom of movement on the whole territory of cost of war but the problem is with legitimacy because the serbian authorities are thought a serb and possible to recognize nato is right and paid for and right to enforce the law in cost of war but the problem is that most need a country the need to recognise their independence are possible of visual and currently trying to implement their laws and to establish their checkpoint at the border between northern parts of one central third via and that is what is an acceptable for the serbs so caper in itself and should it be only nato convoys there would be no problem whatsoever they could all part of the problem is that they carry in themselves meaning an official from the possible government what is

case for pushing this so much potential so on the border at the moment why are they pushing this road and open up the crossing because we hear as well that they've got an alternative viable bypass route so why the big push all this to do it. well i think this is basically a political game so it's a kind of pressure that is being put on the serbian government in belgrade and i think that is the big picture here because we've had. we've had the european commission give us. sort of give us the status of candidate for e.u. some of the european institutions should be should also approve of that but there is a great deal of pressure from some of the more influential the countries on serbia do well at the as they say normalize relations with the cost of oil in order to achieve what is basically needed and that's the start of negotiations for. for the

accepting to be an e.u. so that's the basically that's the. because now the serbian government is very vulnerable to this kind of political pressure and should someone in the e.u. say that it was undermining negotiations that had within cooperate dear did it with pushing provoke i mean the serbian government was very cooperative in class avoid this point and it's very hard but it's still. stayed. because. we've lost a lot of the service of not so much for give us your take on it. for magazine new serbian political thought just broke over there at the end thanks for your time on the program. well moves towards reform have started in syria where a new constitution is being drafted following months of anti-government protests the drive through to be complete within four months president assad called for multi-party elections in february after the mobs from protesters

a bit on the streets now since march this week tens of thousands of assad supporters of cheering in support of the government in the syrian capital the rest of closed over three thousand life so far with u.n. mourning the country might be heading for a full blown civil war parties test for assiduous vote the people from both sides she said is this report. voices of support. and continuing dissent some ending in deadly clashes polar opposites in their demands but in some way united by a newfound zeal to take a stand for here the fact that the syrian capital allowances have gathered show their support for the government is going up far cry from being images we've been seeing in other cities that the country where there have been reported clashes with me security forces that are having government protests an issue however one would think it's only a matter where in this country when they call their forces have time to tell. you

the very way for you every night with. her husband and young children were one of many families who braved the heat and joined 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 members some are pro a side some are anti but that's how it is. it appears that apathy is becoming a less of an option for citizens of a nation now under intense engine. national scrutiny i never watched news i never cared you know i never never had any interest in politics but now i think most of us baby books we watch the news pretty hard to close in on facebook we want to know

what i don't think and then we have the right background and other issues about your country you can take the. yeah there are those like the new i'm saying who are no strangers to picking a side and making it known he's long been voicing his discontent at what he calls a repressive regime and today facebook is one of his main tools in coordinating 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 going to jail that hitting a dead 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. we.

get to that in the future. 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. does our cilia r.t. damascus. the rainy and president mahmoud ahmadinejad has dismissed claims by washington the 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 their suspicions washington's warned that it's committed to holding to ramp to account over it but a rather says the plaintiffs are an attempt to isolate it from the international community and those in the country say any u.s. action or will not go on a. 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 an 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 rid the saudi regime he tried he united people against some theoretical hypothetical foreign enemy the trial of russian business and the boot accused of illegal arms sales got underway in new york this last week he was arrested in thailand three

years ago in extradited to the u.s. in twenty ten if found guilty of trafficking weapons he could face life behind bars investigative journalist daniel a student believes america is determined to get a sentence which means he has a little chance of a trial even though the evidence against him is thin. the united states government is going to have a very very hard time proving that their tribute is guilty and is going to a 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 most to it is hearsay most of it he should say it's 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 and is 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 the us 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 another put him up on trial in the united states only to have baldwin and embarrass the united states i

don't think is going to happen recent raids by regulators in the european offices of russian energy giant gazprom a for small scale to review supply deals to europe industry analysts say the searches were a desperate act to pressure russia to sell gas on better terms bushel when looking for the reasons behind the rates. this event still to be one reason behind the e.u. raids on gazprom offices at the beginning of october european energy giants electricity de france and b a s f said to join russia sell stream pipeline to europe and they're said to be that this warrant for the bucco an e.u. bugs rival their success of a golf ball where tore through long last miles and the commission of law for example it's their pet 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 to 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. they say sell our gas to another company when it gets to europe but that company must make a profit on the deal and that will immediately raise the price of the homes pay analysts say the being influenced by several anti russian hardliners many of whom are upset about missing out on the opportunity to take part in big energy ventures especially baltic nations which the north stream point ploughboy policies taking russian gas straight to germany instead of complaining gas expose say they could have moved on the world with russia. lithuania's and our 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 for example signed a new deal with gazprom which will generate income and contribute to cannot mixed ability emotions that are also running hoyer my. some european politicians who want to end their reliance on russian gas disappoint efforts by moscow to diversify routes. governments. seem to think thinkable in my view 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 its biggest supply of the new bushel brussels. prime

minister putin paid a visit to beijing this last week hinting a possible direction of his foreign policy should he be elected russia's next president seven billion dollars worth of energy in technology trade deals were signed during the trip investment specialist francis believes that strengthening their ties could alter the axis of political politics and economy. the u.s. and europe join together is really dominating global politics and i think a china and russia can join together to offer a counterweight and not let them dictate the agenda around the world of course in europe and you as you would not be happy it were very inferior sent to asia china and russia kempo tap their strategic interest in political interest there would not let america to mount a staging post from afghanistan so this is where we are important for both countries. to do the connection between china russia goes deeper than just economic

deals to us r t here's in a few minutes from a veteran observer who explains the country's long held cultural ties with actually also add to it of sport dimitri will be here with the latest from the artistic gymnastics world championships just finished in tokyo i'm kevin i know that so the next half hour rolls out here on r.t. international from moscow. for. the.

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