sure you get your feet was not going to be in would be in his promises it's a question so few people seem to be asking but one prime minister one prime minister putin brought up six months ago what is the real purpose of nato mission in libya in light of moammar gadhafi is does take a closer look at the path of nato is planned and whether this was where it always that was destined to lead. i once upon a time he was the western world's best friend a meeting with some of the world's top leaders now an enemy of the light a change of heart. on the ground keep growing with more and more people frustrated at a system that will ward wall street punishes main street but as the movement picks up steam and funding some are starting to wonder we're following the money take it . and as occupy wall street movement grows so does the income gap in america so at what point do those who continue to make more and more money start to feel bad or

at least stop wanting it as other stuff or will examine the chain changing view of wealth. it's thursday october twentieth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you are watching our t.v. our top story colonel moammar gadhafi who ruled libya for forty two years has been killed in his hometown of sirte although along this picture captured from a cell phone video has been shown to people around the world with rebel fighters claiming victory it obvious death comes two months after libya's capital tripoli was taken over by those rebels and seven months after the united nations security council resolution called for a ceasefire and authorized military intervention to protect civilians there was action was soon taken over by nato that is how the involvement in libya started.

certainly things began to change and then of course with today's news of gadhafi killing and i want to listen now to a speech given by russian prime minister vladimir putin denmark a process months ago we essentially last hour at the change in mission in libya and questioned who have the right to make a car they can within the coalition say destroying good therapy was not their goal then why bomb his palaces now some officials have claimed eliminating him as was in fact their goal who gave them that right did he have a fair trial returning to the no fly zone the bombings are destroying the country's entire infrastructure when the so-called civilized world uses all its military power against a small country destroying what's being created by generations i don't know if that's good. so we were all in deeper now into the history of this and how the gulf his relationship with this country has changed our decor slant was wrong breaks it all down for us. today's events bring to

a close the forty two year reign of this ruthless dictator the blood of have so many lives on his hands there is a hope for the. images smothered across cretin's of celebration a libyan leader moammar gadhafi that. is. the middle east as a. revolution. once despised as a sponsor of world terrorism only years later will mark a dock is friendship with the western world blossoms ties between the united states . take over. recent years senator john mccain reminisces over a time span with the libyan leader and two thousand and nine he tweeted late evening with colonel gadhafi out is a ranch in libya interesting meeting with an interesting man less than a decade ago secretary of state conde elisa rice announced the u.s. was restoring full diplomatic relations with libya former british prime minister

tony blair had no qualms doing business with gadhafi and italian prime minister silvio berlusconi got cozy with him i do united nations summit in rome and here is president obama shaking hands with him at the g. eight summit in italy the libyan leader also got close with british prime minister gordon brown and from politics to pop stars icons from mariah carey beyond say have performed for the libyan leader all the while western leaders were well aware of the atrocities being committed by gadhafi it was no secret that in the mid ninety's an estimated twelve hundred political prisoners were massacred there was no talk of intervention that there was talk of oil deals. well the relationship turned sour early this year when the nato launched military operations against libya. today a victory for the last the death of a dictator of a good friend turned out to me. in washington live on our t.v.

. so what specifically changed that made him go from here on to villain that is a question i posed earlier to michel chossudovsky director of the center for research on globalization here's his take on libya and much much more but i think the crucial issue which is devoted to this war is that libya has three point five percent of global oil with that war than double those of the united states of america it's the largest oil akali. it african confidence it is also the way to central africa i think we should understand this is a war a because it is a war to confiscate. although it is a war to confiscate the financial transparency. of the libyan regime

paribas the war which of course when the or some kind of proxies with a baby all those. i think that is really the issue this is a country which has not followed the last of the law and. we like because we are not the president of the united states is the role model for kids speech this afternoon is an absolute it's part of line he's telling the. little but issue with the rather scary and the buffet which was created by nature. with mark penn style but i spoke to both replies by the number for the claim and then tell us that that goes with million casualties they were proud provisions. and a lot of the images that you just showed by the group of gold which cut off it was busted. by by you know by these rebel forces which in fact

documents are largely integrated by al qaida but isha nonetheless michelle in the ass on the flipside of this question it certainly is you know i hear what you're saying in terms of the u.s. wanting to have control of that oil reserves but why now certainly and there was plenty of oil there back in in two thousand to twenty that mass atrocities these killings going on in libya under gadhafi you know why didn't the u.s. get invent one why now. well i don't but question of could not relate to the doctor because i think it is a separate issue if you insist go back to what general wesley clark stated several years ago way discuss a rose by the sequencing of come trees which which would be candidates for military intervention and that included syria libya iran iraq and so on and.

the list is part of the lives we wrote but it is the country to become. as if the growth parade on the us. for once. and in this regards it's a product of the same thing as is war now we see it on the ground which is very important we don't have a lot with the mediterranean right through to central asia so this is a this is a post-war period. goes beyond iraq are withdrawn and not the coalition is talking about humanitarian operation which would be directed against the area of the war. on the military agenda let's talk about occupy wall street i know you've written about this and in particular about your concern about how this movement may be defined and by whom one of the symbols we often see at occupy wall street is

this clenched fest this is an image that has been associated. we keep seeing it and occupy wall street but this has been associated with movements and ukraine iran serbia georgia all kinds of different different countries around the world you can see these examples just how similar the symbols are and i know you were a little bit about this talk to me about is this just a coincidence. but no no it wasn't it was just being subject back with education and maybe related to what's happening back. in those areas economic social cried with the well. there is a look at this a grassroots group of people who industry. who are committed i believe the problem to already with one another and know that this is the bridge that. we think the got the congress but however. this is something right now being about

occupy wall street is that the leaders are invisible and accent stays with you three. is essentially the symbol of our initially back in but they're being used in various government revolution now the fact that the. united states and the occupy wall street i think have to be examined but those were not really that organization. modeled age was in fact brought in the united states and was actually a breath thing. in new york but michel i mean we have had numerous protesters on our show and they all want to make clear that the reason that you don't see the leaders is because there are no leaders they say this is a leaderless movement what if there's you know just speaking the truth that that we

don't see any leaders and because there aren't any. you know with the repeal of car color. and if it changes to be implemented you need to you need an organization you need a program you need leadership which eventually build a bridge but we have to look at who is behind this because with this initiative overnight. if you look at the result or very. recent minutes we're so on and i think that kansas. was and broke as a consulting and has the i i i could see some of it out of the best strategy and but when the whole suffers when the line when it started brutalizing people are. now compared to couldn't agree the payroll.

i think is a very you know creative boot in that people can expense that view but ultimately if we work through without the song we have to question the legitimacy of those not only though i found that although the role and who comes to the port au prince obviously very confident of a do this is warren buffett our goal is to do what martin buffett and al gore. are not the solution bever problem there are other names and there's other names being mentioned as well michel george soros of course another one that whether or not he's had anything to do with what we've seen so far with occupy wall street a lot of people predicting that he might step and and help with the funding do you think that that could happen. well i called that you're going to love little for. going to you know in the next few weeks what i say is that you cannot wage

a war against actually this and then our. war three it's going to help to the bill off the wall street big bad you know what we're running out of line and i want to get in one more question you were mentioning greece and what's going on there a lot of changes i know the e.u. summit there's been some changes in terms of a possible de lay on the limb merkel has just said in terms of making any decisions just last question real briefly what do you see as happening in the coming days and weeks in terms of greece and really the chaos that that's happening in that country right now based on their economy was the bulk of the very difficult but if we draw it analyses with me in the occupied or. the roof in a breeze that's very well as they saw or the gathering of the new york and bases now that one is an organized right which in effect refuses the policy agenda let's

just deliver the it would be nice with which i'm well on and it is for the station again the political brah. that. again this all has it so i know it. is very difficult how this is going to how we have to look at all this because of this crisis. financial. and world markets that we're giving them. you know about with ninety nine percent of you would dearly love. to hear dollars but is he going to change all records thankfully but. if we want to buy we have a sovereign direct really good. friends rolled out of these low three speculators which. are right michelle thousand ask you when we

get you on here we always like to pick your brain on a wide range of subjects we shall talk about the is the director of the center for research on globalization thanks so much for joining us and as protesters from greece to the united states express their anger some here in the country are trying out frustration into only going to profit and occupy wall street and are going to safiya churkin to found out businesses in new york as well as around the country have been catching up with the movement popularity to make an extra buck. could the occupy wall street trademark yarn its way to becoming a successful business street companies big and small have been swarming to the encampment like bees to honey you're right. there are ninety nine percent effective occupy condoms helping americans fight against being screwed. over the great orders that we have so. do you think that sort of like if you don't want to

make sure these protesters don't have babies then their numbers don't grow. that's a little funny there are over three thousand items of occupy wall street merchandise payne's t. shirts and even an occupier's hygiene kit starting at twelve bucks a pack of billable for purchase on e bay. first time medo sauce floats around and pepperoni and occupied the pizza. and neighborhood special sold a few steps away from where the camp is set. up i meet with the governing party either actually just with their first encounter venture with regular pies are twenty two dollars the occupied pizzas are on sale at fifteen bucks this pizza looks good but let's find out if they have the true face of revolution so we have it for pete's sake here and it's cold you know occupy people. i think you're not

listening to i just read on t.v. but she. appears a little greasy but i can take the potential of change and it's all revolutions are cold. as you got back at the masters it's a slight recovery yet here's my here's my protesters don't seem to mind that businesses are using the occupy wall street name to stir up sales are the reason why this movement is so successful is because people in business and people who periodically profit off the sexploitation are. also on the way things are working they see everyone is just trying to keep afloat in a terrible economy this is something you know i guess we're going to be trying to make their own minds i mean. just family is going to keep your doctor turned. mom and pop shops are using the name of the movement to me feels like yeah people make it a couple of bucks here it is not to compared to the goldman sachs far too few have

much too much and so many have so little is exactly why the protesters are out here a little help from businesses spreading the word is that r t. so how do your art see it's the rich versus poor the income gap in america continues to grow more and more people are getting sick of it quit the well things need to run and hide golden cave well this cuts coming out next.

mr. well i want to get back as we do nearly every day here at r.t. with a look at the latest in the occupy wall street movement along on the short of it is that the movement is still going on and it's all rowing but i want to examine one of those issues so many have taken to the streets to fight against and that is the growing gap between the rich and the poor in this country it is a result many protesters say of a broken system are the corresponding guy in a chicken takes a look at bob says so in this report. a class war seemed impossible in a country where being wealthy east part of the national dream but as thousands marched on wall street and in other parts of america protesting against the system that they claim works only for the benefit of the super rich individuals and

corporations many ask whether america is facing a class war better to talk with the rich are getting richer while the middle class is class a class war is being waged in a burka today unfortunately the war on saudi is what the so-called one percent of winners are the nation's top corporations which this year and meet the economy's very slow growth of non the less made record profits but thanks to various loopholes many of these corporations pay little or nothing in the corporations say they need the tax breaks to be able to invest more in to hire more america's second largest energy producers chevron is now lobbying not to let the government tax them more and to my question how many americans has chevron hired since the tax breaks were introduced in two thousand and four the c.e.o. of the company said speech there were up slightly a few thousand in our upstream business over the years but not significantly not significantly on our chevron payroll

a few thousand jobs for the billions of dollars in tax stimulus that the government gave the economy say marriage has largest corporations are sitting on more than three trillion dollars and not investing in the economy unemployment in the us remains over nine percent where we live in a nation where corporations could profit off a child dying at the same time with their parents in a bankruptcy because they're trying to pay for these kids medical bills. what does that say about our country the wall street answer to people's rage if you kill wall street will be nobody held great job but as one of the protesters tried to put a word of objection call on all. on hold on it's not your shark monkey i'm talking to these people hold on i'm not talking to you you can monkey i'm not talking to you personal success and money have always been part of the american dream the aspiration to become rich is the plea ingrained in american society and widely

promoted by pop culture but those who took to the streets and made it clear that the situation when the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer is not their idea of the american dream in fact it could be the end of it and the beginning of a class war i'm going to check our reporting from washington our king. all right so let's dig deeper into this idea of class warfare some have soffits no center of the debt that is actually being waged against the wealthy the job creators by the out of control unemployed people who have nothing better to do than start fights well earlier i spoke to richard asked out senior fellow of the at the campaign for america's future and here is part of our conversation about that you know it's funny because what these guys are really doing whether they intend to or not and yes i do support them what they're really doing is pushing for changes in our economy that would actually be great for the kinds of businesses that we think of

as a typical american success story you know the someone with a better idea that steve jobs in a garage building a new kind of computer or somebody you know because what we have now is a system where wall street has forty percent of our corporate profits and they make a lot of that money by not lending or by betting against the success of certain businesses so we have an unproductive economy based on speculation and money for money's sake as opposed to what we always think of as the good old american such a success story where you build america a better mousetrap in the world comes to your door if you both i'm a better mousetrap today you probably not be able to raise the money to start your company and if you did people are so strapped because of wage stagnation and unemployment that they wouldn't be able to buy it so if you really believe in the american dream you also believe that what these guys are pushing is the right thing to do for the printer and let's talk about the american dream i mean you know on

one hand everyone likes a good rags to riches story of people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps you mentioned steve jobs that's a great example of presidential candidate herman cain likes to talk about his story but what about richer people who literally drip with wealth you know their family for generations have been wealthy in so many countries it seems that. wealth is not flaunted in the way that it is here people might have money but they don't necessarily you know buy several yachts are over fancy cars now is the case here do you think richard that in this country who very wealthy are looked down upon by the masses are they hated or are they just mired. well you know i think it's changing and i think that one of the reasons that the really wealthy as you call them were able to get so many tax breaks and so many other privileges over the last few decades has been because the culture kind of idolized them you know one oliver stone made his movie with gordon gekko michael douglas character he wrote him as

a villain any and he says he was horrified because i was on wall street then and all the guys there thought he was a hero because he didn't care about anything except making money and he thought it was great so we had about twenty years of idolizing the most flagrant and extreme wealth even if you didn't do anything to deserve it kind of the way we think about celebrities now so you know i think it's come to the point where yes everybody seems to pretty much agree that steve jobs did a very impressive thing but when it comes to let's say lloyd blankfein head of goldman sachs or jamie diamond or j.p. morgan chase they're not building anything they're not hiring people they're not creating jobs or making our lives better they're getting bailed out by the government so that they can trade off other people's gains or losses and seize more and more control of the economy that's wrong and it's kind of stuff i think that's an interesting point that you think perhaps at one point it was ok and worse if

people were worse if that were extremely wealthy but the things are changing and i think that if i had to take a guess one of the main reasons would have to be this growing gap about the inequality in income within this country you know i think once in a while though and we talk about it all the time the race in america getting richer . for getting poor once in a while it is good though to see how this country compares to other countries in terms of wealth on a global scale so i want to put this graph up on this basically shows ultra high net worth individuals we're talking people with net assets of bob's fifteen million dollars out of all the countries up here the u.s. totally dominates being home to forty two percent of the group i want to get your take richard what do you think we should glean from figures like that you know certainly we can talk and talk about how this country of the u.s. is suffering our economy's suffering but when we see this we still have a lot of rich people there. well we have plenty of rich people but you know the

interesting thing is there's even maps of the inequality in this country now among rich people we talk about we are the ninety nine percent but if you take the ninety ninth percentile though that average taps for him shows five hundred thousand dollars in income according to the last study but if you go to the ninety nine point nine percent file it's more than four times as much and if you went beyond that i'm sure it would continue to get more and more and even that was richard just goes to your fellow at the campaign for america's future. over anger over inequality in the united states to greece where folks there are more than a greek over the latest austerity measures calling for a revolution just how serious are the protestors are sisera france is on the ground and in the thick of things including syria. people i can be back very quickly also intact the slides we could take as being used in the crowds

we're not sure exactly what the setting up but everyone just trying. to stop by the riot police. holroyd troops. it's almost too left all of this will defeat and lead to more focus. and that's what a lot of people said they wanted to take to be peaceful once again. in the crowd this speech here really very shocking we seem to visions of months of protests and styles today everyone united completely in their opposition to the government. hold all the political system of groups and for little. people hit the phillips tree the angry we see not anger reaching boiling point time and again here on the streets of athens. it's an extremely volatile situation that they're arrested yet and the i think it's going to be watching this very closely

because this isn't just a problem that affects greece it is a situation a thanks here tie your it's like that was our t. correspondent sara for reporting on the ground in athens greece and that is going to do it for now for more on the story as we cover get r.t. dot com slash usa or you tube done com slash r.t. america thanks for watching we'll be back in a half hour and christine frezza. going below and. we'll explain the right to be these folks are you know she says she's a star. and the.