baard look at the global financial headlines tune in to gaza report on archie. in the. hundreds arrested in new york and chicago as protesters taking part in occupy wall street marches that meet 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 while people have to endure severe austerity measures and unemployment. and in other top stories this week ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko is jailed for seven years after a kiev court finds her guilty of abuse of power but there is no end in sight as the new charges are brought against her this fight the e.u. and us condemning the ruling. and it wants to. be.

president assad of syria tries to appease protesters by promising multi-party elections and of the drafting of a new constitution while the u.n. puts the death toll after months of unrest of more than three thousand. in broadcasting live direct from our studios in central moscow this is our team sean thomas cloyd have you with us. hundreds have been arrested across the u.s. as police move to contain what's thought to be the biggest wave of occupy wall street demonstrations so far the ongoing city campout demonstration targeting wall street banks has already lasted for almost five weeks artie's lucy coughing off is in new york to follow it for us her report contains footage of strong strobe

lighting so be careful if you're sensitive. well we know that about a hundred and seventy five protesters were arrested early and the morning in chicago there is several hundred there 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 the police officers there had given them the order to vacate by eleven pm they have not done so and so we witnessed police officers coming in cutting down tents and of course unfortunately arresting of those who would not baking now 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 a really close to where the protesters who are scaring people a stomping on some people we saw a united police arm 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 to do anything to interfere with the police and yet they were taken and very forcefully slammed down onto the ground face first and cocked and then led away and the other incidents that we know of that took place is actually beatings by the police with the times we know that there was approximately 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 intensely there was actually a massive stand up in washington square park which is an area here a college campus in new york city and some of the occupy wall street protesters have gone down they are they held what they call the general assembly which is their big meeting where they decide whether or not to occupy that park as well or not it's about a dozen or two dozen of several of them decided to stay and what we saw was an unprecedented use of force by police we saw a riot police

a regular officer surround the entire park. just to clear the area of these twenty protesters or so they kicked us out without a struggle as we were trying to build a big incident to sort of capture what's going on and bring that information to the world and the police officers actually start using the strangest strobe lights flashlights to blind our cameras this is just by the fact that they really said that it was journalists one that we were clearly marked as reporters there are several other reporters next to me at the time we had our press. and still they were pushing our salads and essentially using force to keep us from reporting the story very very unfortunate set of a very tedious how to dance between the police and the protesters who again in a large part were being on mostly peaceful and you can follow lucy's a twitter feed to get the latest on those demonstrations from the heart of the action and the anti green 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're going to see violence are rough we do argue that we already have the violence in this country with the police pepper spraying protesters with you know innocent teenage women in the you know but taunted you know on kero this is what the alternative media is showcasing right now i mean this is a revolution this is this is a change in psychology this is an evolution in human consciousness and 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 and what started as one determined protest in wall street has a vis 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 theory against banks and politicians in a rome riot police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse violent crowds as the protesters smashed bank windows and torched cars plumes of smoke was seen in the billowing into the sky near the coliseum and other parts of the city in britain police thwarted protesters efforts to set up camp outside a stock exchange in london several hundred activists heckled officers from preventing more people from joining the rally moving on to berlin as you can see here scuffles broke out in front of the german parliament building when police removed demonstrators tents and food stalls of course our correspondents are continuing to keep their eyes on how people are making their feelings felt across the globe you can follow them on line. these people who are on the streets of madrid today they believe that their voices are in fact being hurt the demonstrations here in israel will continue to grow until the government meet face

to mont the police have been trying to disperse the last few remaining hundred hogs called protesters. don't miss our scene reports from across the globe just click on to our website r t v dot com. doctored by drilling poverty different. countries waiting for. putting jobs and social spending people across the globe rise up against their government's economic policies follow the world wide action against austerity live on our team. on thursday the struggling. 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 euro zone plans when lawmakers rejected the proposal on tuesday in a vote that brought down the country's ruling coalition the upgraded 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 farage believes that. was forced into changing its mind. now isn't good enough no is not acceptable in the bottom european union if you say you know you're made to vote again until you get the right so which gives you a true measure of what this project's really like you must understand that i just peed in this parliamentary chamber with mr barroso these people are absolutely intense creating a united states of europe they don't care how many millions of people totally unemployment strappy they don't care about the tide of human is misery that they cause they have got their political goals but the reality is that not only economically is this failing but 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 not 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. does economic prison call these they need to do you value. and you are with r t and we've got plenty ahead for you this hour. including an ultimatum for kosovo's serbs nato demands the removal of roadblocks at a disputed border crossing with serbia to stay with us to learn if it has the right to make that kind of request. and u.s. officials claim that they have boiled it in iranian plot to kill the saudi ambassador to the states a case that tehran says was fabricated by the americans themselves on this in a few minutes. former 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 deals she signed with russia a new set of fraud charges is lined up against her a guilty verdict drew 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 course this week where former prime minister yulia tymoshenko was awaiting the verdict over her alleged shady dealings in a gas deal with russia who 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 the 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 draw and i was inside the court especially after the judges country were showing earnings when the court has ruled that the demand of not to mention kill is guilty under article three six

five hundred three of the criminal code of ukraine and sentences which is seven years imprisonment and denies you the right to work and civil service for three years just last year a jewish ankle 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 of marital retiring regime or its magic truth taught 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 man and you 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 we cannot accept that a legitimate extreme contract which remains in force which was never legally

challenged could become the reason. for the good decision. which took place today in the e.u. also douses 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 as 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 since tonight to get crisis in 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 transit 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 debt to russia's defense ministry and to 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 where the eula tymoshenko space 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's state party reporting from kiev in ukraine. and as we saw there tempers ran high outside court after yulia timoshenko as guilty verdict was announced. and of course i wanted to like see our trusty document of what happened right in the thick of it as pictures are online at facebook dot com slash r.j. news we've got footage of the angry response in kiev on our youtube channel as well

. and it seems gas deal drama is all over the news of the moment later in our program we find out what new 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 the two men who 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. was warned has warned that it is committed to holding piranha to account an american delegation is now heading to russia china and turkey to provide evidence to back their case up but he says the claims are an attempt to isolate it from the international can international community and those within the country say any u.s. action will not go unanswered. the more pressure that the united states tries to impose upon the run 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're on 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 figure than where it would be carried out much easier to lie would iran want to create extra sensitivity with the united states so it's absolute. 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 people are facing decline in the middle east it helps israel come out of isolation it helps the saudis saudi regime tried united spiegel against some theoretical hypothetical foreign enemy. 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 complete within four months president assad has called for multi-party elections in february after demands are from poor protesters who have been on the streets since march this week tens of thousands of assad supporters have been cheering for the government in the syrian capital rest has claimed over three thousand lives with the u.n. warning that the country might be heading for a full blown civil war artist as are still you spoke to people from both sides and sent us this report. voices of support. and continuing dissent some hands in deadly clashes polar opposites in their demands but in some way united by a newfound zeal to take a stand where the period after it was the gathered show their support for the government that is coming up are part of the images we've been seeing in other cities around the country where there have been reported last week because it was a government protest however what i think it was really about where and this

country political discourse is outside the time i shut out the very basis of the night the globe was. her husband and young children one of many families and brave the heat and joy the crowds in downtown damascus but 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 careless 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 news media articles and always want to know right now and then he had the right background and other issues about your country you can think of and. yet there are those like the new i hate saying we're 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 coordinating dissent coalition activism has evolved in syria firmly i feel that my voice goes further now back then it started with stating an opinion but i'm going to jail it here to get there and no one would even know about 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 for his quiet life while those on the streets are doing so

asking for the regime to fall or call staunchly opposed by those on the other side yes it was to. me to give the. give them time. for political career acidy 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. that's our cilia r.t. damascus. although libya now where a military official from the transitional government claims that they have liberated bani walid one of the two remaining khadafi strongholds after weeks of heavy fighting libya's new flight has been raised in the city center earlier this week of the m.t.c. faced resistance in tripoli for the first time since the capital was fake. in august several were injured in gun battles with gadhafi supporters after an attempt to raise the ousted regime flag on

a city rooftop and in the town of sears' to dauphin loyalists mounted a fierce counterattack pushing back revolutionary fighters into the sea says it will only declare full liberation once shared files and investigative journalist simon a soft told r.t. that pursuing that goal we need signaling the high human cost. i think what's happening in sirte is really quite shocking i mean if you if you remove yourself from saying i support one side or support the other side what we're seeing inside is a full scale so on. up 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 this of all where is nato now why is nature not saying these are civilians under attack by a military force we have to stop we've got 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 totally a war crime and attack on such is a war crime and i think it 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 i doubt if somebody has to flee and they're not and they're not there in minutes. well 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 tension on the west bank as israeli police used tear gas to disperse palestinians protesting against security checks. and chool mortal enemies russia's last czar and the icon of the communist revolution seems to have put their differences aside to mark

their friendship with a drink but the police didn't appreciate the move to rewrite history to find out more on our website or to the. 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 archies europe correspondent daniel bushell has the story. this event still to be one reason behind the e.u. raids on gazprom offices at the beginning of october european energy giants electricity to france and b a s f a said to join russia sell stream pipeline to europe and the said to be the this warrant for the blue co an e.u. bank's rival their success is. both wrong 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 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 and 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 number that they say sell our gas to another company when it gets to europe that company must make a profit on the deal and that will alleviate the raise the price of the e.u. . analysts say they use being influenced by several anti russian hardliners many of whom are upset by missing out on the opportunity to take part in big energy ventures especially baltic nations which the north's three point one point policy say can russian gas straight to germany instead of complaining gas experts say they could have moved on the world with russia. this way is anti russian inertia will

undermine their society politically and economically and the moment little one is pursuing a one dimensional policy that given the problems in the euro zone will little regretting it did not pursue a more constructive policy with russia bulgaria for example find a new deal of gas problems which will generate income and contribute take an onyx to billet emotions that are also rolling hoyer. some european politicians who want to end their reliance on russian gas disappoints efforts to diversify routes. governments european union. seem to think thinkable. russian all unfortunately. there. was no immediate turn to russian gas those stereotypes could only affect the long term

relations between the european energy markets and its biggest supply of unusual auntie brussels. you know forces in kosovo have delivered an ultimatum to ethnic serbs manning the barricades at a border crossing in the breakaway regions north their order to remove the obstructions on monday or peacekeepers will step in and clear the roads themselves . the serbs complain of they've been given too little time to comply the roadblocks have now been in place for nearly a month so up in protest at nato and you forces taking over the checkpoint and the long process of and customs officers to be placed there late last month some of the barricades were born resulting in violence with peacekeepers using rubber bullets and tear gas against the serbs made those actions would be legitimate if not for the fact that they also serve the interests of course of an official says and are such a political analyst for the magazine new serbian all the political thought. legally

you have a right to as they see. the poor its leader movement on the whole territory of cost of war but a problem with legitimacy because disturbia not directly that god is third in class that would be recognized nato is right and people is right q in course the law enquires the war but the problem is that most neither country the need to tell recognized an independent possible or visual and currently trying to implement their laws and to establish here is checkpoint at the border between north and got some more in total thirty out and that is what is an acceptable for the third so paper in itself and should it be only nato convoys there would be no problem whatsoever to get all part of the problem in carrying them fell out meaning an official from the possible government. egypt's military rulers have this week issued a decree banning all forms of discrimination that is after the worst violence there

since of the february revolution which toppled president mubarak more than twenty five people were killed and hundreds injured in clashes between topic christians and security forces in cairo military vehicles were seen charging through the crowds while troops fired rubber bullets and tear gas it had started as a peaceful demo for justice after attacks on christian churches by muslim extremist state owned media blamed if the christian protesters despite witnesses say that unconnected troublemakers were behind the violence middle east blogger karl charo says the country's military rulers are scapegoating the religious minority. this is a very cynical attempt by the defacto rulers of the country the military to portray . a minority of the population and religious minority as troublemakers while in fact all they're doing are trying to seek some justice and overturn

institutionalized discrimination that still residue from the time of war barak and his policies what we are facing is a popular uprising that was of course aborted by a military coup leaving a 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 emergency situation in egypt so that void within that vacuum i mean nothing is possible at the moment. and that wraps things up this hour i'll be back with a recap of our top headlines in just a few minutes. of

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