to the. hundreds arrested in new york and chicago as protesters taking part in occupy wall street marchers of need a fierce response from police. this comes as the occupy movement spreads across the world prompting tens of thousands to vent their anger at the banks they view as sapping the public purse coffeyville have to endure severe austerity measures and unemployment. and another of the top stories this week ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko jailed for seven years after a key of court finds her guilty of abuse of power but there's no end in sight as that new charges are brought against her despite the e.u. us condemning the ruling. that. he's the.

president assad of syria tries to appease protesters by promising multi-party elections and of the drafting of the new constitution while the u.n. puts the death toll after months of on rounds that more than three thousand. and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is r.t. on sean thomas let's take a look at your top stories. hundreds have been arrested across the u.s. as police moved to contain what's thought to be the biggest wave of occupy wall street demonstrations so far the ongoing city council demonstration charging wall street banks has already lasted for almost five weeks or tees off is in new york to follow it for us her report contains some footage of strong strobe light and so be

careful if you are sensitive. well we know that about a hundred and seventy five protesters were arrested early in the morning in chicago there were several hundred they were camped out in what was called a grant park they had ten set up very similar to what's been going on all across the country but police officers there have given the order to vacate by eleven pm they have not done so and so we witnessed these officers coming in cutting down tents and of course and portion of the arresting those who would not be king and this is very similar to what we saw develop right here in new york city as we were reporting earlier in times square there were massive standoff between police officers and protesters we saw police officers on horseback riding and right up really well close to where the protesters were scaring people a stomping on some people we saw a united police on scooters sort of going into the crowd or hurting some individuals several protesters were arrested before my eyes most of them were being

peaceful sitting down not really trying to do anything to interfere with the police and yet they were taken in very forcefully slammed down onto the ground face first and cops and then led away and the other incidents that we know of places actually beatings by the police with fatah younes we know that there was a proximately a total of ninety protesters now that were arrested in new york city during the course of events yesterday now aside from what happened in times square which we've been reporting on in a very intense day there was actually a massacre stand out in washington square park which is an area here college campus in new york city some of the occupy wall street protesters had gone down there they held what they call the general assembly which is their state meeting with they decide whether or not to occupy that park as well or not. doesn't know two dozen or so of them decided to stay and what we saw was and precedent to use of force i can east we started riot police regular officers around the entire park. just to clear

this area of these twenty processors or so they kicked our salad out as journalists were trying to film the incident to capture what's going on and bring to the mission to the world and the police officers actually start using strange a strobe lights flash lights to blind their cameras and this is just a clearly said there was a journalist one that we were clearly marked as reporters there were several other reporters next to me at the time we had our press. and still they were pushing us out and essentially using force to keep us from reporting the story very very unfortunate set of a very tedious hundred patients between the police and the protesters who again in a large part working on mostly peaceful and you can follow lucy's twitter feed to get the latest on those demonstrations from the heart of the action and the anti greed movement attracts more attention as reports of allegedly groundless arrests

emerge blogger christopher greene believes american cities are likely to witness even more violence as the marches spread from coast to coast. there is going to be some kind of martyrdom in the near future we are going to see violence are rough we can argue that we already have the violence in this country with the police pepper spraying protesters with you know innocents teenage women and the you know what turned you on camera this is what the alternative media is 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 what started as one determined protest in wall street has this weekend become a worldwide phenomenon galvanized into action in one of the largest collective movements of its kind tens of thousands have come out in cities across the globe protests have already taken hold in more than eighty countries with europe as one

of the focal points of public fieri against banks and politicians. in rome riot police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse violent crowds as the protesters smashed the bank windows and torched cars plumes of smoke were seen it billowing it near the sky near the coliseum and other parts of the city in britain police authority protesters efforts to set up camp outside the stock exchange in london several hundred activists heckled officers for preventing more people from joining the rally in berlin stuff is broke out in front of the german the parliament while . police remove demonstrators tents and food stalls of course our correspondents are continuing their eyes on how people are making their feelings felt across the globe you can follow them online. these people's thoughts are on the streets of madrid today if they believe that their voices aren't you heard the demonstrations here in israel will continue to grow until the government meet the demands the

police have been trying to disperse the last few remaining hundred hall it's called protesters. don't miss our on scene reports from across the globe just click on to our website r t v dot com. sponsored by growing poverty is a feeling. anger is why the country's wage unfolded as well causing jobs and social spending people across the globe loizeaux against their government's economic policies followed a worldwide action against austerity live on our t.v. . on thursday the struggling to 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 the uprated four hundred forty billion euro rescue fund will now be able to offer cheap credit to

beleaguered banks and buy up increasingly expensive sovereign debt british euro m.p. nigel for raj believes that's the. he was forced into changing its mind. no isn't good enough no is not acceptable in the bottom 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 just peed in this parliamentary train but with mr barroso these people are absolutely in creating a united states of europe they don't care how many millions of people probably unemployed it's crappy they don't care about the tide of human is misery that way 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 are one of the bailouts all these bailouts helping the people in greece and portugal know what they're actually doing is they 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 man what these countries need who are trapped inside this economic prison. is they need to do you value. and you are with r t we've got plenty head for you this hour. including an ultimatum for kosovo's it serves nato demands of the removal of roadblocks at a disputed border crossing with serbia stay with us to learn if it has the right to make that kind of request. and u.s. officials claim they have a. plot to kill the saudi ambassador to the states a case that tehran says was fabricated by the americans themselves more on this in just a few minutes. from a ukrainian prime minister yulia timoshenko feels the laws icy grip just two days after being sentenced to seven years behind bars for abuses of power in gas deal with russia and a new set of fraud charges as a lined up against her because the verdict drew international anger from russia the u.s. you and the united states as well. judgment day for ukraine's democracy that was

how some dubbed events in the key of course this week where former prime minister good to my friend who was awaiting the verdict over her a legit shady dealings in a gas deal with russia 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 in 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 both sides in the dispute up the main drama was inside the court especially after the judge's controversial verdict. the court has ruled that the demand of not to mention who is guilty under article three six five hundred three of the criminal

code of ukraine and sentences her to seven years imprisonment under nizer the right to work and civil service for three years just last year and to the shankar was one of the most influential female politicians in the world but having lost her power and now her liberty to machine go was furious. that the retiring regime it's magic to tell me the trial showed that the constitution and justice had been trampled under throughout i urge you to begin the struggle it is very difficult and simple and we have to protect ukraine against bill so it terry and regime don't give up. the prosecution claimed she abused power while citing 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 a legitimate eckstein contract which remains in force which was never legally challenged. could be. the reason. for the good decision.

was to get the e.u. also doubted president's victory on a coach's 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 as 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 cease to neighborhood to get questions here 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 yanukovych which 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 desire 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 the simmering tension in central kiev it is back to quiet and normal again it is unclear whether unity mustang or space has been sealed as experts are now speculating that a presidential pardon is still a possibility but these protesters here i did tell him to stay here for at least another week in any case let's see russia party reporting from kiev in ukraine and as we saw their tempers ran high outside court yulia timoshenko guilty verdict was announced and our correspondent documented what happened right in the thick of it as pictures are online and facebook dot com slash r.t. news we've also got footage of the angry response in kiev on our youtube channel as well. and it seems that gas

a deal dry. it's all over the news at the moment later in our program we find out what regulators were looking for when they raided the european offices of russian energy giant gazprom. iran has dismissed american claims that tehran had plotted to kill the saudi arabian ambassador to the u.s. washington insists two men connected with iran security forces turned to members of a mexican drug cartel who were in fact informants to the f.b.i. the u.s. has warned that it's committed to holding tehran to account an american delegation is now heading to russia china and turkey to provide evidence to back up their case but he run 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 the answer the more pressure that the united states tries to impose on pani iran the iranians who push back as well the united states is being out of this on this iran has absolutely no motive to carry out such an operation if

you were on their 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 this tracking 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 and try to unite its people against some theoretical hypothetical foreign enemy. the moves towards reform have started in syria where a new constitution is being drafted following months of anti-government protests the draft is due to be completed within four months president assad has called for multi-party elections in the february after demands from protesters who have been

on the streets since march this week tens of thousands of assad's supporters have been cheering for the government in that the syrian capital the unrest has claimed over three thousand lives with the u.n. warning that the country might be heading for a full blown civil war parties spoke to people from both sides and sent us this report. but voices of support. and continuing dissent some and in deadly clashes polar opposites in their demands but in some way united by a newfound zeal to take a stand where the family of the period after it was the gather to show their support for the government that is going to build up our part of the images we've been seeing in other cities around the country where there have been reporting was it becoming more so than a government protest however what they get was about where in this country olympic all the forces have tried to tell me how to find out the very basics yet every

night the. alarm her husband and young children one of many families who braved the heat and joy 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 knock me and say since when do you know about politics what do you know there are divisions among family members some are paralysed son some are anti but that's how it is. it appears that apathy is becoming less of an option for citizens of the nation now under intense international scrutiny. i never watched news i never cared you know i never never had any interest in politics. i think most of us get it books watched you speak out because it always i know i know and then you have the

right background and other issues about your country you can take. you there are those like you who i'm saying who are no strangers to taking a side and making it known he's long been voicing his discontent of 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 and same 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 feel like a coward if i didn't risk why a life while those on the streets are doing so asking for the regime to thought i call staunchly opposed by those on the other side yes it was the street. we.

give the. get. more political career also he 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 arsenal r.t. damascus. and all of you know where a military official from the transitional government claims they have been they have liberated bani walid one of the few remaining gadhafi strongholds after weeks of heavy fighting would be as new flag has been raised in the city center earlier this week of the m.t.c. face resistance in tripoli for the first time since taken in a. just several were injured in gun battles with gadhafi supporters after an attempt to raise the ousted regime green flag on a city roof and in the town of circe gadhafi loyalists mounted a fierce counterattack forcing back revolutionary fighters and un p.c.

says it will only declare full liberation once falls but investigative journalist simon a soft told r.t. that pursuing that goal means ignoring the high human costs 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 in is a full scale so. 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 the no fly zone at the beginning of this conflict was precisely to defend civilians against a military attack so 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 also billions 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 from a reemergence of the double standard it's not happening in libya now is is to going to be a war crime if 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 out of civilians to flee and they're not and they're not doing that. and if you missed any of our stories they're just a click away twenty four seven on our website at r t dot com here's some of what's there for you right now. more attention on the west bank as israeli police used tear gas to disperse palestinians protesting against security checks. and a near miss doomsday comedy l.n.h. makes its closest approach to earth find out why scientists were so concerned on our web page that our team got. recent raids by e.u. regulators on the european offices of russian energy giant gazprom may for small

social preview supply deals to europe industry analysts analysts say the searches were desperate to pressure russia to sell gas on better terms r t zero correspondent dana bash has the story. but this event still to be one reason behind the e.u. raids and goes from offices at the beginning of october european energy giants electricity to france and b a s f i said to join russia sell stream pipeline to europe and said to be that this warrant for the bucco and e.u. perhaps rival their success. both wrong and the commission of law for example it's a pet project but why would the e.u. want these raids to spook russia a reliable supplier to green go showed 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 points we see this more as

a measure to increase pressure on gazprom and 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 e.u. . analysts say they use being influenced by several anti russian hardliners many of whom are upset i missing out on the opportunity to take part in big energy ventures is specially baltic nations which the north stream point line bypasses taking russian gas straight to germany instead of complaining gas experts say they could have moved on i worked with russia. this way is anti russian inertia will undermine their society politically and economically and the moment little one is pursuing a one time national policy that given the problems in the euro zone will leave it regretting it did not pursue

a more constructive policy with russia bulgaria for example signed a new deal of gas prices which will generate income and contribute taken omics to belittle. emotions that are also running hoya. some european politicians who want to end their reliance on russian gas this points. to diversify routes. then governments the european union. seem to think think. we. 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 see brussels. nato forces in kosovo have delivered an ultimatum to ethnic serbs manning the barricades at a border crossing in the breakaway regions north they are ordered to remove the

obstructions on monday or peacekeepers will step in and clear the roads themselves the serbs complained that they have not been given enough time to comply the road blocks have now been in place for nearly a month set up in protest at nato and new forces taking over the checkpoint in a line kosovan customs officers to be placed there last month some of the barricades resulting in violence with peacekeepers using rubber bullets and tear gas against the serbs nato's actions would be legitimate if not for the fact that they also serve the interests of course of an officials says nikolai tons which a political analyst for the magazine new serbian a political fighter. legally you have a right to as they see. it in for its freedom of movement on the whole territory across the world but a problem with legitimacy because the serbian authorities are called

a certain class of or do you recognize nato is right and cape horn is right to enforce the law and in cars that were the problem is that most in either country need to tell recognize independent cost of all of this child and current currently trying to implement their laws and to establish their own checkpoint at the border between northern parts of moore in total thirty one and that is what is an acceptable cape or in itself should it be only nato convoy there would be no problem whatsoever it would all part of the problem is that they carry in themselves meaning and officials from the possible government. israel and palestine it should resolve their conflict by themselves without outside help according to the israeli foreign minister of a drawer lieberman he says there is no need for mediation from the middle east quartet made up of the un us un to russia but just barak columnist for the jerusalem post says international participation is a must to ensure lasting peace. posting this.

if it is ever. will be solved under an international umbrella of course mr lieberman is right in the ideal situation would be nothing very unfair israelis and the palestinians to sit down together and reach a peace agreement between the two of them without the need for international mediation unfortunately however history has shown this isn't going to be the case and in fact for now israel has made a peace agreement with another arab country the international community in particular of course the united states has been very much behind those negotiations if you look for example a peace really gyptian peace accord although the initial contacts were made between israeli and egyptians it needed the camp david summit and the work of president carter to finalize a deal and in the case of the palestinians or initial contacts between is on the palestinians back at the beginning of the also calls were conducted through secret israeli palestinian travels to get them to any stage towards an agreement needs an

international commitment politically as far as israel's concerned with the united states backing israel wants american backing for its security needs the palestinians on the other hand want to know that they have the backing of the arab world to me because they'll have to make if there ever is to be a peace agreement between the two sides and i'll be back with a recap of our top headlines in just a few minutes. if . you.

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