tv [untitled] October 26, 2011 11:01am-11:31am EDT
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police in oakland california have been trying hard to scare off occupy wall street protesters that kept coming back to the city hall the activists wanted to reestablish a tent camp torn down earlier ninety seven people have been arrested. 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 cell on a tuesday morning when the police attacked protesters with tear gas flash cronies and rubber bullets shooting one man even in the case that your quick a rubber bullet the a police officers who were in attempting to events the activists from their protest camp ground that they set up a few weeks ago outside city hall in overplayed approximately five hundred riot
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police were trying to take part in a big thing activists from the campground and each time the activist came back from what's being reported at least ninety seven protesters. were arrested in all of course this coming out or clouds of tear gas and the noise of plastic grenades overwhelm the area and all the way now this far 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 protesters set up are was illegal and they had repeatedly told the optimists that they had to leave that campground officials also say that we had no other choice to use the tactics they did because some of the protesters were
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throwing rocks and bottles at the officers and city police in oakland say that at least two officers were injured so far no video has surfaced showing any activists physically attacking any police officer. well we also spoke to independent journalist josh wolfe who witnessed the police crackdown on protesters in oakland he puts much of the violence down to law enforcers having a no sus of community with those who are demanding change i think that anytime the people demonstrate that they have power the authorities this city government is fearful of that i mean we live in a democracy supposedly but when the people come together in rallies and demonstrations we always or frequently see that men with a very strong arm of the law are and this is no exception this was a case where people had held his ground two weeks spreading all across the country
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and suddenly the government is seeing it as a threat and government is stepping in to shut it down most of the officers in oakland don't live anywhere near the city they don't relate to the people as if they're their neighbors they relate to them as if this is some outside city that they're there trying to keep the people from overtaking the city is oftentimes perspective that i hear when talking to police and so there really isn't a feeling of community between the police and the residents it really does feel like a different kind of occupation of the police are keeping the city and we're seeing this in many cities around the bay or in the country all the occupy wall street protests are drawn from all walks of life people whose lives have been up ended by a recession they blame on financial fat cats and associates sure k'naan that 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
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for the rich and famous we did banquets for. parties for the past three presidents there. the recession changed everything today eric is jobless and broke after. 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 protests the thirty eight year old detroit native dreams of starting his own business a taco truck but doesn't have the money you know it's been a struggle. think about. 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 in the revolution. gets delivered to the protesters who spend day and night camping out. eric also sleeps here at the end of the night. people here to the. ground usually even though the chef is penniless in this revolution he says he's been waiting for it his entire life cooking for. the four and the. this is something that's really going to make a difference in the kitchen 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
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flat out broke is not an exceptional biography to have in the west these days eric story is one of millions but he is one of only hundreds that have found their way here so far he said archie new york. well it's the law enforcement system that's part of what the protesters are rising against in the first place that's according to alexa o'brien who is behind the website which helped the first occupy wall street movement. 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 law enforcement to sort of increase their budgets this is an example of how you know hard and soft dollars disloyal incompetent and wasteful special interests have you served our nation civil and military power and they spawned a host of threats to liberty and to our national security. all our youtube channel
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lets you see for yourself what's happening at the occupy wall street protests across the u.s. we've gathered footage shot by activists themselves and it's all at youtube dot com slash r t and it's that kind of evidence that's getting american officers restless google reports an increase of requests to remove video of police brutality we've got that story at r.t. dot com. it's make or break day in brussels as european leaders gather to 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 parties daniel bushell has more on the build up in brussels. germany's parliament has agreed to approve the bailout fund basically as an insurance for loans taken by nations it did happen despite insults being really thrown across the palm and even directed it. she was accused of gnawing to taxpayers to get this deal
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through germans of course can be angry point a deal because germany will have to pay the vast majority of any of any bailout that does come poland was also suspended for a short time today there's a new there's a fight breaking out between palminteri and being forced. to take out a new round of the measures silvio berlusconi offered to resign government refused to raise the retirement age and it's me just sixty seven. in germany at the moment being he also reportedly told his cabinet there's no point in going to brussels today if he doesn't have a full mandate to know that was the support of his cabinet government own little things on looking good for a resolution today senior diplomats will negotiations on greek write downs all proceeding very slowly officials want banks to write off seventy five percent of their loans to greece so if you lent a million 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
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banking system is in trouble and it's really sheltering the door off 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 conclusions so no deal for recapitalization of banks in other words but it remains vulnerable in the event of a greek default take a major hit and many are in fact expected to collapse there will still 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 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. so that everything goes go off ok been china will. only its investments now while we await the promised conclusion to the euro's troubles some already looking for inspiration elsewhere or no reports as the talks continue to try to find
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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 sol system and the greek hip hop group he's political rap lyrics have been striking a chord with people. if you were an important is clearly the replay of the protests and the squares the situation in greece is really tough 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 happening in our society that to. us. was performing in unison may come naturally to the group you're using leaders have increasingly been failing to sing from the same page you can all 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
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government and the european project actually is dying as we look at it as the battle continues to come up with a risky plan for the e.u. talks have been marred by bickering among the member states. we now have the greeks abusing the germans they now bernie you flags things openly with swastikas drawn on them we have the germans slagging off the greeks as being lazy and useless and they are really of this project is far from us all becoming friends 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 in athens are to blame political gains needs of the people as major political decisions and talks continue to take place behind closed doors so sistema determined to take the
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discussion back to the streets. r.t. athens. and all the way in a few minutes here on our t.v. israel's foreign minister does it again he's pulling no punches in wanting palestinian leader abbas out with his thorny words coming at a prickly time for the peace process to get reaction from inside israel. relatives of the slain libyan leader moammar gadhafi are reportedly looking to the hague with a war crimes lawsuit against nato they accuse the alliance of deliberately targeting gadhafi tomboy which they say it posed no threat to civilians nato was only allowed into libya by the u.n. to protect citizens meanwhile the military alliance has postponed his preliminary decision to end its libyan mission by the end of this month following calls from the interim government to stay on as artie's a nice and now we've discovered it off these deaths isn't making the country safer
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. one of the major concerns here are why pins of firearms that are massively in the hands of the population here there are efforts from the end to see to try to collect and 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 what that number means walking down one or two blocks here in the capital you can see maybe two times or three times more of 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
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aircraft if they get into the wrong hands of the security situation here very very sensitive just 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 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 of lot of the things you're seeing in the mass media as people just full of elation that gadhafi is down 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. and only very so so it's not exactly as
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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 jackie 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 a libya's new leaders are being increasingly accused of the kinds of abuses they were rebelling against when they overthrew more market off that number of people allegedly executed in the city of sirte has risen to almost three hundred journalists james corbett has 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 that was at least stable and enjoyed some of
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the highest living standards in all of africa to now a regime that self evidently is incapable of keeping a country together without leave the military money don't need no 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 do you have more of the problem that created this whole mess in the first place which is the nato backed into see forces the gruesome images of gadhafi is lynching were met with cheers and applause in america's mainstream media which is quick to herald his demise as the dawning of a new libya artie's going to finding out whether dancing on gadhafi is grave 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 the libya says they're going to pay back the
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billion that we spent to so it's going to end up being sort of free for free for 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 greater opportunities ahead seems like the perfect new world fear one that's meant to be a lesson to others but 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 them in a whole new market da he was a bad guy otoh many of us would argue how bad he was for them considering what kind of people down the social welfare and women's rights but i think the ire of the western audience as presented by the media he was the ultimate evil i mean 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
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a justification for destroying an entire country. for 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 the 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 math. that's somewhere else i'm going to check out reporting from washington r.t. . israel's foreign minister is raising eyebrows again this time saying that palestinian president mahmoud abbas is the biggest obstacle to peace and should
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quit well it's not gone down well on either side of the door lieberman is the man who recently said the world should keep its nose out of the israeli palestinian peace process let's get reaction now from getting levy a commentator and columnist who's following at this event mr levy this is a high level especially during such a frosty period in this search for peace what do you think he's getting at here is he actually suggesting toppling abbas. i think our foreign minister is dealing mainly was domestic politics he talks to his vote to support. this very regrettable and i know that the prime minister. did not find his words suitable seeing the money as much of an obstacle for the pre-supposes in the middle east much more than mahmoud abbas. yeah i do think he actually gets support you say he talks to his supporters as he actually gets support by speaking this way.
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political power or extreme ready. to. race the motions in these very society he's doing so for many years and he will continue to do so the problem is nobody sees the program or is who nominates such a person for the most sensitive position of being the foreign minister of israel when he's really in any case has so many problems and difficulties in its foreign policy and its image to put team as the face. is really. all right. what impact do you think this will happen getting to the next stage in the israeli palestinian standoff and how's it going down with the rest of the israeli elite. in any case the peace process.
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and i don't see anything moving in the coming few. far away like never before and even if they will be some meeting the chance for any kind of progress is very very limited. you understand the. expressions is very limited. i mean it's. one of those expressions poisoning. is very bad in any case. the impact is limited but even the president himself has distanced himself and has explicitly said he's backing. in regard to what lieberman had said. but finally it's about niceties it's not about policies when it comes to. big big big gap between israeli government the current israeli government.
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palestinian authority and i don't see this give be over a bridge to. be ok just very quickly you've described lieberman as the worst israeli foreign minister ever why you think. if you take the nation and. the. biggest right wing. and you know me in a team to be. without any. experience with many. characteristics then. you can expect a very. i think it's a very very poor decision to nominate this man to be the foreign minister all right well thanks very much for your thoughts sir columnist gideon levy thanks
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again for talking to us here on r.t. . all the cross our panel focus on whether moammar gadhafi is death was a brutal execution or to be expected as a last chapter in libya's civil war that's after the business update dimitri. thanks hello and welcome to business it's a red letter day for scientists and businessmen working with nanotechnology in russia moscow is hosting the fourth nanotech forum as part of the drive to modernize the economy make it less dependent on natural resources more from mary nichols. 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 rocio force is not exactly known for it's a nanotechnology industry but that's what these people here are in now trying to
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change it's crucial for russia to diversify its economy and find other ways to 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 roosts nano i 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 no march to 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. climate in the markets this oil prices are declining after reaching twelve week. prices rose by as much as so point two percent in the day but it's really missing two reports of the crude still. in the us which is the world's biggest consumer products for the decrease. u.s. markets did open in positive territory but have lost most of the losses now. the dow jones is up just a quarter of a percent the nasdaq is down one percent boeing shares have. more than four percent in the black after release button expected profits. europe is also down in the dumps the first sees down point three percent of the dax is losing one point two investors are very cautious this hour and they are pretty good fin
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trade we're seeing because head of the european debt plan summit which is due out today drug maker company merck is still the top gainer in frankfurt shares are up more than seven percent of the country report a strong course of the earnings and this is the closing picture in russia it's all looking very positive russia demonstrating more optimism than anywhere else pretty much the r.t.s. up two percent my six two point six percent you look at the main drivers of the growth this is a row snapped up three and a half percent scaling off to report an almost twenty six percent increase in net profit first nine months of this year another good first half results was demonstrated by energy holding emma risque its net profit rose fifty one percent to eight hundred fifty six million dollars in the period bucking the trend is that of trying to retailer m. video a company is to fail to agree on the merger with its rival the rock. island
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markets are you know quite buoyant today you know basically there is a sort of positive noises coming out of the e.u. summit in addition to that the oil price is still hanging above hundred ten dollars which is quite strong and good singles from china that it may ease its monetary policy which is encouraging and later the day the market got another boost from better than expected durable goods orders coming out of the u.s. . monopoly gas from. the six billion dollars twice the amount paid a year ago it will be a record high for gas. would move the company into same leaders washers and need a. beautiful resistor. on the.
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a gruesome death with fourth of hoarding and gadhafi is killing his family. protests spread police for a hundred activists chased a rest stop with tear gas and the full rounds. leaders try to stop squabbling. which could see the biggest yet to tackle its runaway. find out says but the summit will open on a high dose after germany approved a massive expansion of the pot. and up next it's crosstalk where peter lavelle ask his guest what awaits post gadhafi libya following the nato backed rebel him that's next year in our two. wealthy.
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