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welcome you're watching r.t. from moscow with me kevin though in our top story the eleven pm for you the defiant occupy wall street army has vowed to fight on against the grip of big business following a weekend of a rest and scuffles with police across the u.s. the movement is now a month old is building widespread support on four continents and he's gonna teach you can has more now on the latest flare ups. some alarming news coming from seattle police there began evicting occupy seattle demonstrators who were camping out in one of the city's parks this monday morning police told the protesters they had to move their tents those who refused to comply were arrested and the tense in the park were all brought down we're getting reports around half a dozen people were arrested in seattle this monday morning protesters have to fight for space essentially for their right to be out protesting in other major cities in the united states in san francisco five were arrested after
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a confrontation with with the police over a parking campaign we've seen a lot of action over the weekend in chicago an estimated one hundred seventy five people were arrested in new york an unprecedented number of people marched to times square the march itself was peaceful however once it arrived at times square a group of protesters were trapped by police barricades and held for several hours on able to move to the right or left or get out police force the crowd back nearly trampling some of the protesters police scooters went over several people a total of ninety two arrests were made in the course of the occupy wall street actions in new york over this weekend the protesters who are taking to the streets in dozens of cities in the u.s. say they will stay as long as it takes to and economic injustice each and every one of these protesters is out there with their own grievances but the general theme is take money out of politics they feel their government represents the interests of the very few wealthy rather than the ninety nine percent is the demonstrators call
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themselves since last year corporations have been allowed to funnel as much money as they want into political campaigns in the u.s. the new legislation means they don't even have to disclose the amounts they spend and also the new law and political donations effectively gives the corporations even more influence in washington leading many americans wondering whether their voice is being heard now on different ways and means through which the protestors are trying to get their message across your is my record. their discontent loud brief. and graphic thousands of americans have resorted to banners and t. shirts to get their message across that a frustration with what they see is the government acting on behalf of big corporations rather than the people message which the protesters say their media failed to deliver the media feels like these kinds of events don't deserve coverage sometimes all you get when you do something this is
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a photograph and so it's very important for the message to be seen those simple oftentimes handwritten messages that people carry on their chests have often been subject to mockery what is the sign of occupy wall street brother that most of the five of the people that i would talk of what does that mean. it seems the only fault of these people is presented in the american media is that they don't all have a degree in economics and finances and are not able to explain their grievances in professional economies terms various groups emboldened to cheer the end of the greatest system known to man and replace it with what who cares let's nap the protests on wall street are mindless and when you ask people in wall street what they want they don't know the acts that took place over the last thirty years with regards to national debt and debt within the system generally all of these things are very complicated and difficult for the general public to understand and
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people in the media and people on wall street like it that way because if you don't understand it then you know you don't get what happened but the american people know that they've gotten hosed they've lost their jobs they've seen them offshore to china they've lost their houses they saw a huge run up in home prices that are collapsed and people are saying you know what i know that i've got screwed by all of this but i don't know how i got screwed but americans who took to the streets are looking to express themselves by means other than motivational pieces. it's an banners which as graphic as they are hardly convey the full message of the movement the demonstrators are spreading their own paper now called occupy wall street journal which details what they're unhappy with that makes it clear that they are not rooting for one particular party it also works against quote political machines and their p.r. slick's taking control of the protest message one word to describe these ongoing
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protests from the beginning. on their cardboard on the backs of pizza boxes as we've seen people express that frustration that is the movement grows the ways of getting their message across also much more and as people here say this paper is just the beginning i'm going to check our reporting from last r.t. . meantime around two hundred protesters inspired by the occupy wall street movement are refusing for a third day to leave the heart of london's financial district like their fellow companies across the atlantic their ideas directed at corporate greed and state cutbacks a square in front of suppose cathedral so a standoff between several thousand activists and police over the weekend protests to also continue to do for the european central bank in frankfurt germany the demonstrators there of set up a tent camp and say they plan to stay until the demands for restrictions on global financial institutions are met. the latest developments on this ongoing protest movement on our web site. there you can find more first hand reports from the u.s.
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and beyond expert opinion about it and a timeline of. growing poverty and women. by their countries waiting for you as well cutting jobs and social spending people across the globe rise up against their government's economic policies follow the worldwide action against austerity live on our t.v. . nato forces have extended the deadline for the serbs of northern kosovo to remove barricades near the border with serbia the been told to clear the roadblocks now by early tuesday or face forced removal. has been following the border dispute. the clock is ticking for the serbs living in cos of a on tuesday the ultimatum passes for them to remove the barricades they erected on the main roads of this serve dominated north protesting against christian as attempt to set up customs in this area and to prevent cost of and police officers
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and custom officers and officials from reaching the checkpoints at the northern border with serbia but we haven't seen any sign of the removal work so far roadblocks are still there where they've been for the last two months and tensions are boiling as people are getting more and more exhausted and aggressive the deadline to take away these barricades as well as others was announced by the cost of zero peacekeeping force known as the k. four on saturday its commander general druce met with the mayors of four northern coast of towns claiming k four need these roads as it needs access for its troops in the north it's currently transporting its soldiers and delivering food fuel and water for those of them stationed in the northern part of kosovo by helicopters which is a very expensive means of travel last month some of the barricades. results in and
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violence peacekeepers used rubber bullets and tear gas against the serbs the circumstances are right now very complicated and what may look peaceful for now could explode at any time. you can follow twitter feed from the latest all the other from kosovo she's been tweeting about rising anger among serbs the barricades over the ongoing deadlock as nato forces propose to follow twitter feed for all the latest updates. i spoke to political analyst alexander provigil belgrade he told me things if dismantles the barricades that would contradict that stated peacekeeping mission. they're there to enforce the peace and that's all but k. four for since the end of july has actually been undertaking to help the albanians round out their own sovereign state against un resolution twelve forty four so they've overstepped their mandate if they weren't doing that they would have
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absolutely no problem with the serbs anywhere in kosovo before july twenty fifth there was really no reason for pay for it to be in the north everything was peaceful it was only when the albanians sent to their special police forces up north to establish a border between a hospital in serbia that came forward decided to assist them and this is why they need freedom of movement to actually assist costs of all bands in the building their illegal state belgrade is trying to keep it all peaceful they can break and try to they can only appeal to individual countries and to worldwide public opinion because everyone is very resolved in belgrade and in northern cross of all to have this resolved in a peaceful way and i think the important thing is that we can see that crew is actually using force for no reason at all and if ok for moves there they'll be the ones using force to close the service of that explicitly said that they would not
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use force and if there are barriers are removed they would just put up new ones but they were all do it peacefully so it's really public opinion is the last i guess defense of the peaceful demonstrators in northern coastal now on our website and give us your thoughts on who's to blame for the conflict in kosovo is northern border this is what you're telling us is i was just talking about tito caldwell was two thirds of you put the blame on washington for boosting kosovo's independence fourteen percent accused of not protecting kosovo says this change but over the last twelve percent of you say the e.u. can't keep things in order six percent say prishtina allows the prosecution of says what do you think you've not taken part in this so far so it's. if we are the pilots and home page r.t. dot com. washington has to deploy around one hundred special operations troops to uganda to help local forces there fight the lord's resistance army widely considered a terrorist group regional authorities been trying to get rid of the leader of the organization for decades now let's get some reaction to this u.s.
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move and talk to john glaser assistant editor of the website antiwar dot com john thanks we're going to r.t. international tonight could see now the authorities in uganda say they only they didn't ask for american support on this but nonetheless they welcome it why do you think washington's decided to get involved at this time. well first what we need to do is eliminate obama's justifications for going in first of all he said it was a humanitarian mission because the l r a are very violent people that's true but the united states is minister ring and is party to and is ignoring comparable atrocities in other parts of the world so we know that humanitarian aid is not real . sudan many other places and the other justification he said was that it was in our national security interest but that's only true if you use his orwellian version of that word that phrase what it really means is that it's in the interest
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of the ugandan president who is widely considered to be an illegitimate sort of dictatorial power in the in the ugandan government. and the ugandan military has been fighting al shabaab in somalia which is sort of one of america's main missions in somalia right now and we've basically been bribing him with millions of dollars and military equipment to help fight in a proxy war against al shabaab that's really the reason we were going in to help him with the problem he has with with the l r a doesn't have anything to do with a direct threat to the american national security or a humanitarian threat what he says to this measure is only a short one he says america doesn't get bogged down in another conflict will he be able to want to that pledge. you know what this has all the ingredients of a prolonged military quagmire it's possible that the one hundred combat
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troops which some of the most elite american forces around can go in there cut the head off the snake of joseph koni the leader of the l r a and then leave but what's more likely especially if we think about previous interventions in that region is that more bloodshed occurs and mission creep could possibly come and start to change the mission into stabilizing the region or you know training the ugandan military to fend for themselves the way that we're doing in afghanistan supposedly so all of this leads to questions about exactly how long this will last and i think that we're better we'd be good to be skeptical of exact. this limited mission in a short time period that obama's framed for us and the broader picture here at the same time was all this the pentagon saying isn't it's confirming troops will remain in the region and surrounding countries south central african republic democratic republic of congo how do you think the local populations in those countries and the
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broader region as a whole feels about the american presence there. well i don't doubt it lee occupation forces from abroad tend to frustrate people tend to cause a lot of hatred but i mean this is an example so in two thousand and six we intervened to fight the l r a but we intervened by sending a proxy force that was a lot of. forces that were trained by the u.s. those guatemalan forces were killed and the leader was beheaded by the. fast forward three years in two thousand and nine we intervened again by coordinating multiple raids on l.r. a encampments with the ugandan army and it was a disaster the ugandan the l r a went through many escape routes avoided those raids and then that i'm going on a killing spree that led to around six hundred to nine hundred extra civilians
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being killed and raped and pillaged and it was it was sort of compared to poking and prodding a hornet's nest. got very angry and one on a killing spree so if people have any sense of the possible consequences of angering the way in creating more bloodshed they'll be very concerned about us forces all right joe glaser thanks for your thoughts on the program says there's a website antiwar dot com. syrians are out in protest of not of league decision not to suspend their country from the organization footage released by the opposition shows hundreds on the streets of the southern province of the. country's have however called on the syrian government to start negotiations with the country's opposition that follows a promise from president assad to draft a new constitution within four months and allow multi-party parliament the key demands of protesters results. damascus. we have no.
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plans to change. in the forms seven months. one of those calls is to create a real pluralistic political system since nine hundred seventy two politics was only open to parties that acknowledged the supreme ruler of the room back party enjoy this coalition and others for bashar al assad issued a decree passing the multi-party law. prisoner side al-deen this is the moment he has been waiting for the chance of a new voice to syrian politics. we're applying to become a political party so we can be more effective we can influence parliament access and help create laws defend them and this is the new law allows parties that are open to all syrians regardless of ethnicity and religion and are not affiliated with organizations outside of syria but the newly formed internal opposition the national coordination council or n.c.c.
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will not participate it's not about us not wanting to participate it's about them not being serious about these reforms there's no environment for dialogue the violence must stop political prisoners must be released even though they passed the multi-party law and will draw up a new constitution they do all that under their conditions and in recent deadly clashes in cities like understand and live the president appointed a committee to draft a new constitution within four months one sticking point is article eight which states that we bath party is the leader of the state and society the opposition argues this undermines the essence of multiple parties you know some some people in the in the party leadership have come to the conclusion that article eight and more dangerous articles in the constitution that article eight are going to be under review we shall have almost a new constitution where a new multi-party system will be achieved without any difficulties perhaps change
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is coming to syria but the street protests and violent clashes have been dragging on for months some that when they were not. stop until bashar al assad steps down so is it simply too little too late. meetings like this happen on a daily basis for those in the national development party out there in the final stages of the out with the process of becoming an official the liberal party here in syria well after a decade of listening to promises of reform they now feel that this could be a real let me set the thing for us are still you are to damascus syria. let's take a quick look at a few stories mullah catch up with online in more detail tonight at r.t. dot com for most of the story about a pot night club being evacuated for a burst pipe filled the dance floor with boiling hot water it left five critically injured. website to find out how people turn tables in the lifeboats live. on the deadly game follow the story of a russian double agent who played ball with british intelligence beauty tales of legs on the death of two.
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for some illnesses here in russia where you live visit matter of life and death one debilitating genetic disease suffered by children's very treatable but only if your postcode is the right one party's examine a boy reports. for most parents there's hardly anything more sickening than seeing their child in a hospital bed but not for exxon average drop that runs through these i.v. line outs to her hold her son will have a chance in life very few people believed would find the money somewhere deep down i think i knew that everything will be fine. one bottle of this drug costs more than exxon is husband makes in the year and their seven year old boy needs four
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bottles each month diagnosed with hunter syndrome pedia lacks a crucial that how to channel toxins out of his body there's no cure but with the treatment that's available the sions can leave well into their thirties and beyond the eight years without this therapy have already damaged his organs but now we have hope of not only stemming the negative symptoms but also reversing some of them they're all region in a very perilous family leaves is an impoverished subsidized area in central russia the only other patient here with conscious syndrome died earlier this year after his mother's frantic search for funds for someone who was at the funeral so as it drove their decision to move to a treatment providing when is the policy rather than counting the generosity of the local administration but now did their real region is on board she's terrified that her relocation idea will strike other unfortunate families the local authorities
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have her there over one million years dollars to buy drugs for peta richard last till the end of next year this is a huge lifesaver for the boy's parents and his doctors but they get very reluctant to talk about that they're not superstitious this brave the parents of children with the same condition from the last generous regions of russia tried to move their kids here and in russia the hunter syndrome is low. three support is chances on continuing treatment the power the gravy on the number of children for completing. since the city of moscow started providing treatment for this rare condition a few years ago the number of patients has tripled mainly through migration and it will continue to rise cessna's john amaechi unless russia introduces countrywide coverage for hunter syndrome his son was the first in russia to get the drug she
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believes all six children should be entitled to it regardless of where they happen to be born. i was lucky to live in a city that agreed to take care of my child but cringe every time i have to talk to mother whose baby is denied the treatment i do realize that i love my child costs a lot but who didn't choose this illness if we could we would definitely have to do something cheaper. and now after the procedure he is beaming with energy a fan of action figures shows me his favorite hero. i love him because he is strong you can take down all the monsters he goes on to model it in clay at one point he's plus to sign hero falls flat on his back but peter is quick to prop it up the kind of reaction many parents dealing with hunter syndrome still waiting to get from their country so the boys aren't see a real region in central russia overturns ok for now looking ahead in
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a couple of years time people of all of his guests explore drove occupy wall street protesters out onto the streets to spread the revolutionary favor all over the world first photo sculpture with one of our business units here. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program for direct investments into russia have grown twenty percent so far this year the results have been outlined by russia's prime minister vladimir putin at a meeting of the forget investment advisory council archies morgan acosta has the details. this was an opportunity to review the success of foreign investment in russia as well as brainstorm how to improve the climate that's just hearsay there and courage but russia's a growing domestic market but are still concerned with the lack of transparency in the political legislative and administrators and vironment now they want the government to make it easier for foreigners to invest here they mention the
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migration policy the customs union and taxes all areas that still need some more work to be done dozens are becoming nations were handed over to my minister vladimir putin and he's concerned promised to the spirit of the process of modernization and that was the case not the economy but also simplify bureaucratic procedures and lower end minutes a sort of barrier such track and more investment you know what because we are getting ready to start the common economic zone of russia belarus and kazakhstan next year this deeper integration will allow us to coordinate currency policy unify customs rules and ease bureaucracy we will continue to support both domestic and foreign investors improve the business climate and seek a substantial increase in investment activity because of the rockets we will let me at putin said that this year the russian economy won't make up for the loss during the financial crisis he pointed out that capital flight remains an issue but there's only one way out ambassador valid for mass that markets will investors here
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said that there remain optimistic about russia's future and the majority of them believe that russia will become more attractive for the company in the next three years and more than half are all. any considering expanding their operations. let's have a look at the markets oil has slipped from his ties point in the month as germany just crossed hopes for a swift trans ocean step process as realistic branches losing more than one dollar to trade at one hundred ten dollars per barrel right it's crazy helping to six dollars per barrel. in value out of stocks so low off to wells fargo the losses to us home lenders slumped and germany dumped optimism for a quick fix to europe's debt crisis. in europe stocks closed down with the debt one point eight percent in the red that says the german government spokesman said european leaders will not provide if we can do to the debt crisis they are meeting next weekend london's footsie finish top of something low one. hundred in russia
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the markets closed deeply in the red off just seeing strong gains last week they are just most to one hundred percent while the mice extended over two percent in the rise let's take a look at some of the individual shot moves in the might suggest burbank or raised gains ending two percent down the bank has confirmed it will buy alliance lives insurance business and brush up on them to be bucking the trend will support the metals the company has started a road show for an additional shot issue offered goes a listing in london on the rules committee gold was in the negative territory off trick reported twenty two percent decline in fast net profit so mark rubenstein from i've seen match report says investors are stuck between two conflicting trends at the moment. and one is the expectation of. serious action on the part of their european union governments and markets is awaiting the details of the plan that will address the eurozone issues would share the details should be. held in the
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course of the week so that pushes the market higher than the other hand there was a profit taking which basically a result of a very strong market rally last week so these two tendencies they basically flood with a charge in the market and as a result the market could move much of the good thing for there are some argue that the commodity prices they pretty much stand the levels where they closed last week which are required. trips up the business program local into a website our business.
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culture is that so much on the same you're going to make a lot of people a variant of berkeley area of great discontent all across the globe people are protesting against the political economic and financial status quo is this because of a. wealthy british style sign that says it's now time to buy the findings. of the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on our t.v. . news today violence is once again flared up. saying these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today.
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because in live from central moscow you're watching r t international top stories police move in to move occupy protesters on the actions taken against the tent camps in seattle i mean criticism america's media is failing to explain what's really driving people on the streets. nato forces in kosovo extend the deadline for ethnic serbs to remove the barricades an important checkpoints or they say they'll do it themselves. and a new wave of anger erupts in syria against not a big decision not to suspend the country from the organization. guest zone in next on who's in the firing line stoking the.

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