and it's all in the hands of the people putin meets the press to speak about his bid to return as russia's president in twenty twelve that interview coming up in around twenty minutes from now. welcome you watching our team from moscow with me kevin though in this hour it's just after midnight here now and first the defined occupy wall street army has vowed to fight on against the grip of big business after a weekend of arrests and scuffles with police across the u.s. the movement is now a month old is building widespread support on four continents he's going to teach you can has the latest on these 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 a confrontation with with the police over parking kampman 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 have taken 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 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 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 report. their discontent loud. 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 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. i would think 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 embolden the chair the end of the greatest system known to man and replace it with what who cares let's nap the protests and wall street or 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 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 all 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 and makes it clear that they are not rooting for one particular party it also warns

against quote political machines and their p.r. slick's taking control of the protest message one word to describe these ongoing protests from the beginning is frustration on their team shirts on cardboard on the backs of pizza boxes as we've seen people express that frustration but as 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 washington are to. the wall around two hundred protesters inspired by the occupy wall street movement refusing for a third day now to leave the heart of london's financial district like their fellow campaigns across the atlantic their anger is directed at corporate greed and stake . a square in front of some paul's cathedral for standoff between several thousand of it's simply so over the weekend protests to continue from the european central bank in frankfurt germany the demonstrators there set up a tent camp and say they plan to stay until their demands for

a strict about global financial institutions are met. you keep track of the latest developments on this protest movement on our web site. you can also far more first hand reports from the u.s. got expert opinion for you about it and a timeline of events. sponsored by growing poverty and hunger. by the 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 they've been told to clear the roadblocks by early tuesday or face forced removal parties rif an option has been following the border dispute. the clock is ticking for the serbs living in cost of

a on tuesday the ultimatum passes for them to remove the very case 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 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 the 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 very case as well as others was announced by the cost of zero peacekeeping force known as the k. four on saturday it's commander general met with the mayors of four northern kosovo 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. resulted in 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. across you keep cross the latest from the roof martians we're going to twitter for you to get the latest developments from kosovo for you if you've been knighted by the right time for a bunch of pages that local nato forces for there may be later today as they were crossed the two about two to three. but really to political a mental exam the public she's from belgrade who thinks if for dismantles the barricades would contradicted 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 absolutely no problem with the serbs anywhere in kosovo before july twenty fifth there was really no reason for k. for 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 our call civil and serbia that came forward decided to assist them and this is why they need freedom of movement to actually assist a cause of albany is in the building their illegal state belgrade is trying to keep it all peaceful they can they can 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 who is actually using force for no reason at all and if the case for moves there they'll be the ones using force to cross or serbs explicitly said that they would not use force and if their 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 cost of all the websites not you give us your thoughts about who you think is to blame for the conflict in kosovo northern border this is what you've been telling us about the dope on that set up shop stacks up ok almost two thirds of you sixty eight percent it's up a bit in the last couple of i. think that washington is to blame for boosting kosovo's independence forty percent if you like he's done a great of not protecting cost of twelve percent of you saying the economy keep things in order of six percent of you this take pushed in the leisure persecution of natural voice to that shot make

a change if you want to the ballots page called so it's good to hear. washington's to deploy around one hundred special operations troops to uganda to help local forces fight the lord's resistance army widely considered a terrorist group regional authorities have been trying to get rid of the leader of the organization for decades or for more analysis on this let's talk now to journalist and writer person written about this very story on our website thanks very much for being with us and good seed tonight so after two decades it begs the question why has the us decided that now is a good time to send troops to uganda. a good question when do you think it is that this is a humanitarian mission i would like to sell you a hundred ten so yellowcake uranium or. new commander of africa and the u.s. africa command or their cindy sheehan has a new job well known german guy creech air force base in uganda it's

a bet. it's that oil and other resources. hugely resource rich hugely oil rich southern sudan or western uganda eastern congo huge oil field in september there was a conference in kenya building a pipeline to bring the oil from this region out to the indian ocean what good is it going to go again with everything that's gone on with the arab spring that we're seeing in libya that we're seeing in syria at the moment the way the pan out is just the right time to be doing something like this if there's ever a right time of course resumes and all that bit of timing doesn't. yes yes it does and in fact i was speaking to some ugandan friends. in an online forum last week and i suggested that they had been holding these marches walked to where

walk to pray about the soaring cost of food and other basic necessities and uganda since the beginning of the year and stage an occupy event so that they would be on the map of how to apply of interest in the world and the response was we're close to having it could in time here are some some kind of a coup within the army and there are police you have only armed with riot gear on every corner so i mean i know that's not common i know that's uncommon that that we're hearing that during the you learned in the election which be commonwealth and servers declared pretty much of a fraud how do you think this is going to win those special troops get the hundred of them or so but. it is going to tensions up you know eliminating terrorists and protecting civilians of been cited as reasons for intervention the possibly can about iraq think about libya but often this is a huge civilian loss of life are we going to see that he had you think also

scenario. twenty what happened last time in two thousand eight hundred thousand nine and beginning in two thousand and nine. cents in close cooperation lightning thunder contributed a million dollars worth of fuel satellite organized interacted the separation into north eastern congo where there had just been these huge oil discoveries the result reported by i.p.s. the institute for policy studies was. six thousand casualties one hundred eighty thousand refugees and when you talk in this region about one hundred eighty thousand refugees. you need to go on to dance tell me this people are going to die because a lot of the war did in this region die in. i.d.p. internally displaced persons camps or refugee camps. hunger disease other kinds of shit and garrison thanks ever so much for thoughts of the program much appreciated

and doris in there who's written extensively about love story on a website if you need this i have an essay about incense or two thousand well us in africa. love going to military this sunday now all afraid we're out of time but for he was only ever showing that the she got the plug thank you ok. when i was syrians are out in protest of merab league decision not to suspend their country from the organization footage released by the opposition shows hundreds on the streets in the southern province of there are many countries have a called on the syrian government to start negotiations with the country's opposition it follows a promise from president assad to draft a new constitution with and for months at a low multi-party parliament the key demands of the protesters but it's not his tests are sort of found out first in damascus for some but just will not be enough . calls for a change in the forms seven months in. 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 role of the ruling baath party and joined its coalition in august for bashar al assad issued a decree passing the multi-party law. for dean this is a moment he has been waiting for the chance to add 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 us 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 m.c.c. 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 all that under the conditions and that recent deadly clashes in cities like other stand 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 articulate and more dangerous articles in the constitution that articulate are going to be under review we shall have almost a new constitution where the new multi-party system will be achieved without any difficulties perhaps change is coming to syria but the street protests and violence clashes have been dragging on for months some that they will 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 yet with the process of becoming an official party here in syria well after a decade of listening to promises of reform bill. now feel that this could be real let me set the thing for us are still here are to damascus syria. programs continue coming up next an interview russia's prime minister and presidential candidate for the next election vladimir putin gave to several of the country's top t.v. channels he talks about why he chose to run for the kremlin again in outlines the political and economic course he thinks is best for russia.

good afternoon pretty good afternoon i'm open to your questions. defeats in the recent convention of the united russia party made the political situation in the country much clearer just a couple of weeks ago we had a chance to discuss that with russian president dmitry medvedev today we wanted to ask you the questions which we believe are of interest to our fellow citizens the first one was voiced both by your supporters and skeptics why are you returning to the kremlin issue it's clear that i am aware of the wave of questions and comments in this regard that appeared on the internet in online and print media and here's what i would like to sing as i've mentioned many times and as first russian

president but he's yeltsin said i never aspired to this position it's a well known fact initially when this offer was made i explicitly expressed doubts over my ability to handle such a huge workload and enormous responsibility for the fate of the nation but once i take up a job i do my best to complete it or at least to yield maximum results. but there are people who as you mentioned the criticize me and dimitri mediate if they say that if your humble servant takes part in the election that would mean that there would be no election at all perhaps that would be the case for then but an ordinary citizen always has a choice to. so our critics might see it their own way but in this case they ought to present their platform and what's more important not only present it but also to prove in practice that they can do this job better there are others who say that we're in for a period of stagnation similar to the time when soviet leader lead to brazen it was in power. i do not want to sound too critical there were indeed many achievements

but in fact i do not recall any of the post-war soviet leaders who would be as hardworking as myself or the incumbent president dmitri medvedev i don't remember any of you people you know they couldn't i knew money they couldn't due to their physical condition and a lack of understanding of what needed to be done they might well have done something but they didn't have a clue or enough will for that we can also refer to the experience of other countries i didn't try to hold on to power and you know it perfectly well although i could have easily taken advantage of the constitutional majority of the ruling and i had russia party to amend the constitution but i stopped short of that i didn't change the constitution to suit one man only myself until i wanted people to see that there would be no tragedy in a natural change of power but let's turn to other countries that were up to the end of the second world war the us didn't have any limits on the number of presidential terms mean only yes franklin d. research that was elected three times four times or do it the other prior to that

and some us presidents ran for a third time but if i'm not mistaken none of the attempts was successful except for franklin roosevelt who was elected president four times running he stood at the helm throughout the or deals of economic depression and the second world war and was elected four times because his policies were effective. but the exact number of terms and years in power do not really matter it helmut kohl spent sixteen years in power in west germany he wasn't president but his post was actually the most important executive job in the country the same goes for one of the former canadian prime ministers another look at post-war france where a president could have been elected for seven years without a limit on the number of terms it was just recently that france introduced amendments into its constitution and cut it down to no more than two five year terms very similar to what we have in russia you know what does that mean when a country is facing difficult and hard times when it's recovering from a crisis and getting back on its feet if these pillars of stability including in

politics that played a vital role in korea and you actually. mr putin you talk a lot about stability the stability has its negative sides as it sometimes results in a nationwide stagnation how do you feel about the lack of staff rotation in the government some ministers have not only produced g.b.'s results over their terms in office what they produced was a series of failures do you think the fact they are still in office might be a sign of a standstill in the country you know what else you have of their frequent reshuffles in the government or a sign of weakness they indicate that officials are either incapable or unwilling to accept personal responsibility they keep passing it around like a hot potato if you have to try everything you can to make an official work before you decide to dismiss him one more thing when we choose people for certain jobs we always try to make a good thought out choice does not always work out perfectly of course and in these

cases we are forced to let people go this is true to put on. some of it is still the best way to avoid too much of a standstill in your staff policy is to get rid of some of your old allies who are no longer working efficiently your predecessors gorbachev and. they never hesitated to drop off the ballast in the this is actually the reason why. politicians especially notable political figures are always essentially alone general the gold and winston churchill spoke of this do you perhaps feel the need to let go of some of the people you've been working with in past years alternatively will things go a different way which is perhaps easier to envision in russia with current kremlin residents moving to the white house and vice versa resulting in no changes if you're staying still so of course though. there loneliness is not related to staff policy it has nothing to do with appointments and reshuffles it is there but let me tell you what causes it is prominent political figures cannot let anyone near themselves if they're not allowed to favor certain people over others their

decisions cannot be based on personal sympathies and they have to be based on to special impartial analysis and the will to take responsibility if at the same time we cannot go to extremes there has to be a degree of succession in power we cannot start by playing games we can't go and dismiss the parliament just because someone on television or some print journalist said we have to that would not be serious we have to look at the people who are making their third or fourth attempt to resolve problems they've been working on and if they're tired with their performance was adequate we have to find some other place where they can apply their efforts talent and experience once their positions are open we bring in new people with fresh ideas and motivation to implement that open this is what we're planning to do we have a lot to learn from the great politicians you mentioned they each had plenty of experience in politics i would even say they were philosophers as well as politicians de gaulle had a lot of different sayings he's one of my favorite figures in politics if he were

professionally connected to france so you might know the saying of his always choose the hardest way that you'll never find rivals there or.

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team from moscow top stories tonight police move in to move occupy protesters all actions taken against the tide comes in seattle had made criticism america's media is failing to explain what's really driving people on the streets. of forces in northern kosovo extend the deadline to remove the border checkpoints all they say they'll do it themselves. and a new wave of anger erupts in syria against an arab league decision not to suspend the country from the organization. but there are people who as you mentioned the criticize me. they say that is.