it's all in the hands of the people putin meets the press to speak about his bid to return of russia's president and twenty twelve that interview coming up in about twenty minutes. the defined occupy wall street army has vowed to fight on against the grip of big business following 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 artie's gun if 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 detained 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 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 in times square to 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 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 leaving 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 here is my report. content 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 symbols 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 economists 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 on 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 got screwed by all of this but i don't know how i got but americans who took to the streets are looking to express themselves by means other than motivational p. shirts and 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 are 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 and there are two shirts on 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. . we were on two hundred protesters inspired by the occupy wall street movement refusing for a day to leave the heart of london's financial district campaigns across the atlantic but i guess directive of corporate greed and state cutbacks and square in front of simples procedurals will standoff between several thousand activists and police over the weekend the protests. continued as well and from the european central bank in frankfurt germany the demonstrators are sort of a tent there they say they plan to stay until the demands for restrictions on global financial institutions are met and to remind you don't get you can track the

latest developments in this protest movement other websites are covering it extensively you can find more first hand reports from the u.s. and beyond as well as expert opinion the timeline of events. structured growing poverty and driven. by the countries waiting for hours while cutting jobs and social spending people across the globe rise up against their government's economic policies followed a worldwide action against austerity live on our t.v. . nato forces have extended the deadline. for the serbs of northern coast of removed barricades near the border with serbia they've been told to clear the road blocks 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 serb 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 barricades as well as others was announced by the cost of zero peacekeeping force known as the k four on saturday it's come under general druce 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 mean 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 you keep abreast of reflections to the feed for the latest developments from kosovo she's been tweeting about rising anger amongst the barricades over the ongoing deadlock as nato forces plan maybe later on today it's a story we're following closely you keep up to date if not via t.v. on our twitter feed. spoke to political analyst exam the public should belgrade earlier he thinks if dismantles the barricades it 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 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 called civil and serbia that came for decided to assist them and this is why they need freedom of movement to actually assist a cause of all bad hands 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 crew 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 the serbs have that explicitly said that they would not 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. website you give us your thoughts on who's to blame for the conflict on kosovo's northern border is changing by the hour this is how the votes are stacking up this hour at r.t. dot com still around two thirds of the blame on washington there is little bit higher last sixty eight percent blaming washington for boosting course of those independents that's the main view tonight fourteen percent accuse belgrade of not protecting cost of and serves twelve percent say the aegis can't keep things in order six percent of you that's been pretty constant thing christine is allowing the prosecution of job voice develops open our home page of t.v. dot com. washington is to deploy around one hundred special operations troops to uganda to help local forces there fight the lord's resistance army widely

considered the terrorist group regional authorities been trying to get rid of the leader of the organization for decades and is trying to get some reaction to this cross to milton lamar these are publisher and editor in chief of the black star news investigative newspaper is on the line from new york thanks for being on our teeth nice appreciated president obama said he's sending than around one hundred of these u.s. troops to uganda do you think that's going to be enough to fight the lord's resistance army an organization which is the end of the day the ugandan government couldn't defeat for more than twenty years precisely about where the problem lies in it raises the question the world is the real motive and mission for this amounts deployment i don't think one hundred troops would make a significant difference unless there's another reason for the deployment of the hundred troops i smell a possible mission creep here ok and what was what would the reason be if it's not

as black and white as it first appears why would these hundred but you say it's a creep so it starts off with a hundred where where do you think it's going to go why do you think there they're . i think we have to what are the u.s. interests in the region because if it was a question of trying to help innocent civilians that are being brutalized the first place that most africans would expect the u.s. to want to intervene is in congo those are that's the place where precisely the militias supported by uganda u.s. clients and run they have been committing atrocities and six million people have died in that conflict i think we have to look at a more geo political. possibility here as you know southern sudan recently became independent an independent state so the sudan has significant oil fields as there is northern uganda now i think southern sudan is not in a position to defend itself militarily against the regime in khartoum and we've already seen some incursions from the regime in khartoum i think the united states

is worried that cartoon might eventually launch a full scale war and southern sudan will not be able to defend itself the u.s. is protecting its interests and primarily i see it as oil ok. red it comes at a very unfortunate time when indeed it does because the ugandans right now are actually carry outside interrupt you carry a gun there's a more focus right now on getting yes i meant to say that uganda the more focus right now in getting rid of their own dictator you know what he was signing who's been finance and supported by united states for almost twenty six years now if you take a poll i would suspect that most ugandans would prefer that the u.s. not stand in their way as they try to remove most of any from power and then eventually go after years of crime after all this thread and immediate brutal acts by crime have not been occurring in uganda since two thousand and eight. there's

a little bit to learn to learn to be speaking to the u.n. troops because he's a few little problems but how long do you think this deployment this will will go on for what's what's the likely duration do you think well you raise a very interesting question and i think you actually hit it right the nail on the head the it's a very undetermined an open ended deployment and that's why many people suspect there is a sense of mission creep here you start off with one hundred and obviously the rationale you give is that you're there to try to protect innocent civilians well we've heard that line before very recently it was concerning libya where the u.n. resolution and the nato operation was supposedly to protect civilians against massacres by the r.c. well that's as history has shown perhaps more civilians were killed by the nato

bombardment than by cut off the soldiers during this conflict so there is concern i think people in uganda are worried that there will be an escalation of hostilities and i think if you take a poll in uganda people would oppose the u.s. deployment of troops in the region milton and the publisher and editor in chief of the black news investigative newspaper thanks so much appreciated. syrians wrote in protest an arab 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 daraa arabic countries have a call over syrian government to start negotiations with the country's opposition follows a promise from president assad to draft a new constitution within four months and allow both parties parliament. demands of the protesters in the first place resulting from the rascasse for us for so that will 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 acknowledge the supreme role of the ruling baath party enjoy this coalition analogous for bashar al assad issued a decree passing the multi-party law. for a czar assad al-din this is the 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 our stamp says. 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 a 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 and the bath party is the leader of the state and. 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 articulate are going to be under review we shall have almost a new constitution where new multi-party system will be achieved without any difficulties perhaps change is coming to syria but the street protests and violent clashes have been dragging on for months some that this 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 developmental party now they are in the final stages of the out with the process of becoming an official party here in syria well after a decade of listening to promises of reform they now feel that this could be real let me set the thing for us are still here are to damascus syria. coming up next an interview with russia's prime minister and presidential candidate for the next election vladimir putin gave to several of the country's top t.v. channels here in russia he talks about why i chose to run for the kremlin again and outlines the political and economic course he thinks is best for russia.

good afternoon british good afternoon i'm open to your questions. this defeat 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 dmitri medvedev today we wanted to ask you the questions which we believe are of interest to a fellow citizens the first one was voiced both by your supporters and skeptics why are you returning to the kremlin rashid it's clear that yeah 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 it does first russian president but he's yeltsin said i never aspired to this position and it's a well known fact that 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 dmitri medvedev 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 them but an ordinary

citizen always has a choice to make 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 and soviet leader lead to depression 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 that and 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 stop short of that i didn't change the constitution to suit one man only myself that i wanted people to see that there would be no tragedy in a natural change of power but let's turn to other countries up to the end of the second world war the us didn't have any limits on the number of presidential terms mili yes franklin d. roosevelt was elected three times four times or do it over prior to that some u.s. 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 that 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 our 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 now 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 play a vital role in korea and you actually. mr putin you talk a lot about stability but stability has its negative sides as it sometimes results in nation wide stagnation. you feel about the lack of staff rotation in the government some ministers have not only produced g.p.'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 now that 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 but on what for some of it it was 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 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 saying so of course there again with their 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 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 all of 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 the goal had a lot of different sayings he's one of my favorite figures in politics you were professionally connected to france or so you might know this saying of his always choose the hardest way that you'll never find rivals there or get them. from the days of the manhattan project in one thousand forty two the university of california has been involved through the science of its provision and scientists

and their relationship to the versity you see since day one has been in charge of researching designing and testing nuclear weapons and to some extent producing weapons every single nuclear weapon inside a is arsenal was designed by university of california. we don't warm go. to the versity of california was selected as the contract because the army needed scientists to leave their versity positions. a group of protesters interrupted a university of california border regions meeting to demand the school's severed ties with the nation's nuclear weapons program.

a very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on the poles seem to be at. least intensely into the true seems to get things that the status of the human experiment is exceedingly. weeks you will see in this rap music in which it goes to the movies lives really trying to make sense of political economy and it's all changed things as financial templates each of the research scrambling to maintain a confidence in markets and thinking officer primitives wants to be seen trade imbalances recession looks to be nations close to sing a song like moon foreclosed homes people. fails whipple a banks again feel like thing is us crashing seven smashed ceilings. in the classes and the i.m.f. and construction here just programs increase the turn economy.

this is r t moscow our top stories police move in to move occupy protesters all actions taken against the tent camps in seattle that made criticism of america's media's failing to explain what's really driving people on the streets. nato forces in northern kosovo extend the deadline for ethnic serbs to remove the barricades that border checkpoints all they say they'll do it themselves. a new wave of anger erupts in syria against an arab league decision not to suspend the country from the organization and. there are people who as you mentioned the criticize me and dmitri medvedev they say that if your humble servant takes part in the election.