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been arrested artist but in a fortnight is following developments for us. the latest video that we have seen from oakland is arguably the most violent we've seen police against the occupy wall street protesters downtown oakland california resembles something of a war so on tuesday morning when the police tactics protesters with tear gas lashed her knees and rubber bullets shooting one man even in the case the quick a rubber bullets these are these officers who were in attempting to be picked the activists from their protest camp ground that they set up a few weeks ago outside city hall in overplayed approximately five hundred right police were trying to take part in a big thing after this from the campground and each time after this came back from what's being reported at least ninety seven protesters. were arrested in all of
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course this coming out or clouds of tear gas and the noise of flash grenades overwhelm the area and now the squark for the conflict with the fact that this occupy wall street movement has been growing louder has been growing larger has been blazing across the united states after launching here in new york city nearly six weeks ago now as far as what the police in oakland california say they say the camp odd that protesters set up are was illegal and they had repeatedly told the optimist's that they had to leave that camp crowd of patients also say that these had no weather choice to use the tactics they did because some of the protesters were throwing rocks and bottles at the officers and city police in oakland say that at least two officers were injured so far and no video has surfaced showing any
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activist physically attacked. any police officer. well let's get the thoughts of the lex o'brien who's behind the website which helped the first occupy wall street protests assemble miss o'brien do you think this crackdown seems like a proportionate response to what protestors are doing and understandably we don't your position in the matter but maybe the protesters have been provoking police as well as that is that a possibility. no it isn't a possibility i mean if if you look at what's been going on since september seventeenth you've seen really just stellar behavior on the part of protesters and i take issue with the word activists it's not to say that there aren't activists that are part of the occupy wall street movement but most of these people are actually citizens they're normal citizens like you and me who are concerned about the level of corruption in our government and you know they're coming to the civic square to try to find solutions because there are no solutions to traditional avenues ok and this. has become a worldwide protest as happened in
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a lot of other cities but most reports of police brutality we're seeing are coming from the u.s. why do you think that is well i think that defense contractors realize that they can sell weapons and you know machinery in armory to civil forces in the united states and the heightened sort of culture of the war on terror has created a you know it's a great excuse for city. sorry law enforcement to sort of increase their budgets this is an example of how you know by hard and soft dollars oil incompetent and wasteful special interests having served our nation's civil and military power and they spawned a host of threats to liberty and to our national security ok let's talk a bit more about the support that this movement has been gaining around the world it's been so widespread and there have been other protests before with regard to be economy but why do you think this one in particular is gaining so much traction around the world as well. well i think it's for a couple reasons i mean firstly i think the you can't say that the release of wiki
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leaks documents didn't in this sense inspire you know with the movement towards more government transparency secondly i think social media has created a challenge to the market power of traditional media and so people are getting their information through trusted networks and i think that this movement is really a movement of people across the globe for that reason ok and now it's the movement is in its sixth week and in the beginning there were talks of the protestors not knowing exactly what they wanted what do you think is this movement capable of achieving in the wrong and has that been figure out at this point. well you know it's people that ask this question as if like you know ordinary people are masters of the universe we're ordinary citizens in many cases these are acts of conscience i mean i think the question is what happens if we don't do something what happens to our nation if we do not stand up to the centralization of power and the destruction of our civil liberties you know we don't want our children growing up
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in a totalitarian nightmare and i think that's the question we should be asking ok and it can also be argued just looking at b. because of the protests that the residents stories of police brutality as you were talking about earlier it's what keeps the media attention on the protests do you think that's fair and what happens if the media loses interest well you know need some of the traditional media was human interest yes you know i mustn't you know we have to do this on our own i mean many of the people that's that sort of initiated the call knew on some level that we had to do this on our own we had to create our own media i mean you see the success of global revolution for example you know we have to do this on our own because the interests that want the institutions of our society that are the underpinnings of a democratic republic the press you know our elections the civic space they've all been fiscal lies and they're all controlled by the factions that control our government they have taken our government's power away from people so i'm not
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worried personally if the media don't cover it you know these are acts of conscience by individual citizens and hopefully you know we can. we can continue to build the kinds of infrastructure we need to build each other to make sure that our children grow up in a totalitarian nightmare. thanks very much for your thoughts there aleck's o'brian founder of the website which helped the first occupy wall street protests assemble thanks very much thank you all the occupy wall street protests are drawing from all walks of life people whose lives have been up ended by the recession they blame on financial fat cats artes in a sea of sure cannot met one of them. from riches to rags an american fairy tale gone sour eric smith walks by a luxurious manhattan hotel the chef here for six years he whipped up posh meals for the rich and famous we did banquets for. we did parties
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for the past three presidents there. the recession changed everything today eric is jobless and broke after being laid off. his ingredients have changed to we worked with. now it's lettuce and tomatoes for simple vegetable brought in a brooklyn soup kitchen where he volunteers as one of the cooks for occupy wall street. the thirty eight year old detroit native dreams of starting his own business at taco truck but doesn't have the money you know it's been a struggle. the realization that one in six americans are living in poverty. has led eric to the occupy wall street protests calling for change.
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happening all over the food he and other volunteers cook at soup kitchen chairs everybody. gets delivered to the protesters who spend day and night. eric also sleeps here at the end of the. people here. usually even though the chef is penniless in this revolution he says he's been waiting for it his entire life for. the poor and the rich. to make a difference and even though life is tougher than ever before eric says he would not choose to be anywhere else but here from relatively well off to. is not an exceptional biography to have in the west these days eric story is one of millions
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but he is one of only hundreds that have found their way here so far he said archie new york. story. it's make or break day in brussels as european leaders gathered. try and put the final touches to pull the eurozone out of its spiraling debt but the mood remains grim with a growing concern that bickering and rivalry between politicians are getting in the way. bushell is in brussels for us daniel in the past hour or so germany's approved a massive expansion of the european bailout cash pool how does that figure into the
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upcoming meeting. germany's parliament has agreed to approve the bailout fund basically as an insurance for loans taken out by nations it did happen despite insults being really thrown across the palm and even directed at angela merkel herself she was accused of loyalty to the taxpayers to get this deal through the germans of schools can be angry by any deal because. me they're angry at any deal because germany will have to pay the vast majority of any of any bailout that does come in these palm and was also suspended for a short time today there's a new there's a fight breaking out between paul and terry and being forced by brussels to take out a new round of measures silvio berlusconi offered to resign his government refused to raise the retirement age and it's need just sixty seven as france and germany have demanding he also reportedly told his cabinet there's no point in going to brussels today if he doesn't have
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a full mandate and it was the support of his cabinet government's own little things on looking good for resolution today senior diplomats will negotiations on greek write downs all proceeding very slowly officials won't banks to write off seventy five percent of their loans to greece if you lent a billion euro to athens you can forget about three quarters of that banks are obviously angry they say anything above forty percent right and europe's whole banking system is in trouble and it's really sheltering the door off to the whole says bolted but the e.u. today is also trying to raise the amount of. that the banks have to hold to avoid exactly the same crisis next time draw some conclusions so no deal for recapitalization of banks in other words banks remain vulnerable in the event of a greek default take a major hit and many are in fact expected to collapse but also unconfirmed reports that china has agreed to invest in the european financial stability fund on the one hand it's in china's interest to prevent
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a collapse of the european union and the euro because that will have. a negative knock on effect on the rest of the world economy in the other and these alone so if everything does go off ok then china will own that only its investments now while we await the promised conclusion to the euro's troubles some already looking for inspiration elsewhere etc no reports. as the talks continue to try to find a resolution to the financial crisis we've met some people who are cutting through the political rhetoric and telling it how it really is. meet soul sister and the greek hip hop he's political rap lyrics have been striking a cool with people. if you were an important is we play into protests and the squares the situation in greece is really tough and everything is reversed from what we used to know a few years ago that we use our own lyrics to show how we perceive things that are
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happening in our society. was the feeling in unison may come naturally to the greek using leaders have increasingly been failing to sing from the same page you take twenty seven different countries with twenty one different languages all with their own different histories and different forms of government you cannot take them and force them into one unitary form of government and the european project actually is dying as we look at it as the bessel continues to come up with a risky plan for the e.u. the talks have been marred by bickering amongst the member states. we now have the greeks abusing the germans they now bernie you flags in athens openly with swastikas drawn on them we have the germans slagging off the greeks as being lazy and useless and the irony of this project is far from us all becoming friends
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together in this new european house actually we're beginning to argue. in the most extraordinary way. this week struggle to do with the sturdy measures including cuts to jobs wages and pensions protesters in the streets claim is in power in brussels and acton's are to blame political gains the food and needs of the people all the politicians have to speak it's other nobody speak it's on them that's the big problem that's the big problem. everybody doing everything he wants to be left. and nobody here the people closest to this is as major political decisions and tools continue to take place behind closed doors so systema determined to take the discussion back to the streets. in the us if we get our message across to people and help them understand we feel we've succeeded
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in something we don't know where the situation is going we know why this is started but we don't know where and. when is the year using crisis mumbles on his assertions that they can't find a solution has left them standing to sound like a broken record. athens. relatives of the slain libyan leader moammar gadhafi are reportedly looking to the hague with a war crimes lawsuit against nato while they accuse the alliance of deliberately targeting but often scorned voice which they say pose no threat to civilians and later was only allowed into libya by the new when it's only to protect citizens who are the military alliance has responded to limit their decision to end its libya mission by the end of this month following calls from the interim government to stay on and as art is a nice a knowledge discovered that gadhafi is death isn't making the country safer. one of the major concerns here are why pins of firearms that are massively in the hands of
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the population here there are efforts from the end to see to try to collect them get people to reeling lead disarm and bring their weapons back but so far it doesn't look like that idea is working out we went to one collection center if you will yesterday it covers an area of tripoli and for the entire day only about ten or twelve a k forty seven have had been returned just to give you an idea of what that number means walking down one or two blocks here in the capital you can see maybe two times or three times more that amount of automatic weapons being waved around but even more serious concern here in terms of security about weapons storage arsenals unguarded warehouses full of weapons what happens if those weapons get into the wrong hands already human rights watch has expressed grave concern about ground to air missiles that could essentially hit civilian aircraft if they get into the wrong hands of the security situation here very very sensitive just
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recently some three hundred people were found murdered in sirte with their hands tied behind their back that is sparking accusations of political executions which is exactly what these former rebels were fighting against another thing that they just stinks if you will of hypocrisy of course is the way they could daffyd was killed i mean we saw the brutal gruesome footage that went viral the whole world watched including of course libyans here and although i lot of the things you're seeing are in the mass media as people just full of a lation that gadhafi has done that dead when you go out and speak to people and push them a little bit you do find that there are a lot of people here that are hesitant to express just just horrible feelings about the way he was killed not to mention the fact that he wasn't of course very disappointing to muslim tradition he was put on display for days and only after thousands of people came to see him was he. i know we very so so it's not exactly
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as it seems from afar what people feel about gadhafi we come here and actually start talking to them that however not the case in the last where you have some people very outspoken unhappy about the way the jacket was killed this was really the mass media experts are telling us that's because gadhafi with them to the grave took many of his secrets of dealings with the west. well libya's new leaders are being increasingly accused of the kinds of abuses they were rebelling against and they overthrew moammar gadhafi the number of people legibly executed in the city of sirte has risen to almost three hundred journalist james corbett who's been closely following what's happening says they are not the right people to be restoring law and order they never enjoyed the support of the majority of the tribes in in libya whereas gadhafi was obviously able to keep the country together for decades so we've gone from a regime of whatever sort that it was with that was at least stable and enjoyed some of the highest living standards in all of africa to now
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a regime that self evidently is incapable of keeping a country together without leave the military might of needed backing them up and i don't think anyone can argue that things have actually substantially improved for the libyan people in all of this so so again i'm not sure what the solution is but the i think the solution cannot be to to have more of the problem that created this whole mess in the first place which is the nato backed into see forces. all the gruesome images of gadhafi is lynching were met with cheers and applause and america's mainstream media which was quick to herald his demise as a dawning of a new libya are just going to check out it's been finding out whether dancing on gadhafi is great is justified. it started with cheers and. the joy of killing the african leaders spread like wildfire in the us media it was just a trillion dollars to get saddam and a billion dollars to get gadhafi and libya says they're going to pay back the billion that we spent to so it's going to end up being sort of free for free for
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nothing so let's get in on the ground there's a lot of money to be made in the future in libya there's a lot all to be produced no american soldier killed probably great opportunities ahead seems like the perfect new word for years but one that's meant to be a lesson to others i think it sends of an important message to other leaders in the region but i tell you that these arab dictators they are not very original just like saddam hussein caught amid a whole new market da he was a bad guy otoh many libyans would argue how bad he was for them considering what you don't people down in the social welfare and women's rights but i think the eye of the u.s. audience as presented by the media he was the ultimate evil it's a demonization every step of the way against gadhafi in the media today always one one man becomes a justification one leader of a country becomes a justification for destroying an entire country. for
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a few days the media savored the bloody music. and laughed at similarities between his character in a ditch and out of saddam hussein all the cheering about qaddafi is killing in the eye of the public effectively or raises the bad taste after the nato campaign no mention of league in civilians killed in nato strikes none much talk about that this structure in the country cost by those strikes conduct his killing is presented as a triumph a triumph which can create a perception that somehow it's perfectly ok to invade a country and help its leader be lynched but if it's presented as such a success doesn't it become more tempting to try the same methods somewhere else i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . and next hour on our t.v. peter lavelle grills his guests over whether get off his death was an execution or the logical outcome to libya's civil war. i just don't think there's any sign that
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there's a war crime involved here i don't think it's murder i think it's it's part of an ugly process that we call war the murder was in the ambulance so far as i can tell by the young libyan and you know maybe he should be he should be held responsible for that but i just don't think that the attack on the convoy is ago even the selfish never the big this was a drop of american drone plane that attacked his convoy alongside a french one war plane and these two so really this was a joint french nato u.s. murder khadafi the fact that he was technically alive that he got out as he scrambled out of his convoy hardly negates the role of the united states in his murder.
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of that debate is coming your way in just over an hour here on our team but for now though we'll get all the latest business with dmitri. thanks to you and it's a red letter day for scientists and business men working with nanotechnology in russia as moscow is hosting the fourth nanotech form as part of the drive to modernize the economy make it less the planet on natural resources business outies money the cost of it is there for. any image any tax can be printed on water and just a matter of seconds and this is just one example out of a dozen seer russia of course is not exactly known for it's a national technology industry but that's what these people here are in now trying to change it's crucial for russia to diversify its economy and find other ways to
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make money especially now when the risks are growing to global energy demand and that's why the government created a nano technology corporation called what this company is trying to do is develop the industry through cowen best man and projects with significant economic potential or social benefit so far they have approved the copilot and send all over one hundred projects worth around eighteen a billion dollars and so they of course they're looking at sue get more so when it comes to what they've actually achieved in the past four years there's a note watching the show and that's what's a war and many and right now it's crunch time for them to prove what they can do with all of that money well of course today is that what everyone's been saying is that nanotechnology is a grew a way for russia to achieve the modernization of its economy bring innovation and
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a secure cash in the long term. for let's move to the markets now the world prices are coming down from twelve week highs correcting by one dollar twenty eight cents for light sweet crude and brant is down one dollar fifty cents and it will be american petroleum institute also reported that crude stockpiles are climbing in the u.s. and therefore we see this correction u.s. markets some mostly pause observed but those somewhat lost some of the against that we've seen at the very opening this is all lifted by hopes leave you will do the right thing on the upcoming summit to solve the debt crisis during shows. scuse me boeing shares are up almost five percent after release to better than expected coarsely profits. european stocks are positive this hour the footsie is a quarter of a percent the dax point four percent higher investors are still of course waiting for the outcome of the e.u. summit drugmaker company and is the top win on the dax with the shares up more than
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five percent also the company reported strong poor silly profits and traders pretty fin in russia ahead of this summit that we've mentioned many times already in the program of course the r.t.s. however is up two point two percent this hour my six also strong two and a half percent. if we look at the main movers on the in my sixteen saw energy companies cross nafta is gaining after a reported enormous twenty six percent increase in net for the first nine months of the year emera scale energy holding is also up its first off net profit rose fifty one percent to eight hundred fifty six million dollars but weaker than the market is electronics retailer and video the company else failed to agree on the merger with its rival eldorado. in other news around one hundred russian insurance companies could be forced out of business next year due to new capital requirements
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doesn't from january company must have at least four million dollars however and the say the loss of a sixth of the country's insurers will not have too great of an impact as the companies involved are too small to affect a lot. more on our website called forward slash business we've got all stories lined up for you headlines next on.
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london california detain nearly one hundred activists arrests off with tear gas and on the grounds. that cheers and jeers over a gruesome death with western media seaforth reporting of gadhafi is killing his family wants nato to answer war crimes charges. the euro zone's fate hangs in the balance as leaders try to stop squabbling and serve up a solution instead which could see the biggest plan yet to tackle its runaway finances for the summit will open on a high note after germany approved a massive expansion. well europe's financial turmoil is intensifying calls in the u.k. to leave the struggling bloc next hour to discuss the prospects of that happening and the future of the euro zone with the british conservative party m.p. douglas carswell.
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