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occupy wall street protesters that kept coming back to the city hall there the activists wanted to reestablish a tent that was torn down earlier ninety seven people have been arrested artie's miniport is following the latest developments for us to cope with a no new city really good seeds and i know these heavy handed police tactics on the anti green protesters see happening across the u.s. it seems to be getting more converts focus in what i've just been talking there about oakland what more can you tell us. well what i can tell you right now is that the scene that transpired on folded in oakland california is arguably the most violent scene we have seen thus far between us at least officers and activist activists taking part in the occupy wall street movement police had fired tear gas flash grenades and rubber bullets at protesters hitting one man in the face with a rubber bullets and now this was all taking place and unfolding as about three
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hundred fifty occupy activists did not want to leave the camp grounds that they established weeks ago in front of city hall in oakland and the police in oakland california were removing that were trying to remove them and told them they could not be there about three hundred fifty activists had set up camp there five hundred riot police reportedly went to the scene and that's when the clash took place it is being reported that police had fired off tear gas four different times now another man aside from the one that was hit in the face with a rubber bullet was caught in a cloud of tear gas this man was in a wheelchair and from what images show police police kept. lobbying canisters at him police were also seen throwing flash grenades right into a group of people that were trying to help and injured woman clearly as you mentioned this is just the latest kind of incident
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a clash between police officers and these activists a lot of police officers in new york city and throughout the country who have been accused and criticized of using little force against u.s. citizens that are just trying to authorize and use their freedom of speech now police officials say they had no choice but to use these heavy handed tactics with the protesters they said some of the protesters began. throwing rocks and bottles at police officers city officials say two police men were injured in the clash that unfolded tuesday morning in oakland california but if it's going to be the last one many people highly doubt it because as artie's been reporting the occupy wall street movement has been growing louder has been growing bigger and has been gaining a lot of support report are your friends bring us up to date with what you know this appreciated now we also spoke to independent journalist josh wolfe who
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witnessed the police crackdown on the protesters in oakland he puts much of the violence down to law enforcers having no sense he thinks of community with those who are demanding change i think that anytime the people demonstrate that they have power the. city government is fearful of that i mean we did in a democracy supposedly but when the people come together in rallies and demonstrations we always are 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 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 government this is some outside city that they're they're trying to keep the people from overtaking the city is oftentimes the 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
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like a different kind of occupation of the police occupying the city and we're seeing this in many cities around the bay or in the country where the occupy wall street protests are drawing from all walks of life these days of people whose lives have been up ended by the recession that they blame all financial fat cats in a society 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 for the rich and famous we did banquets for. we did parties for the past three presidents there are some really high end stuff the recession changed everything today eric is jobless and broke captured. on employment which. has ingredients have changed too we worked with a lot of high and. now it's lettuce and tomatoes for simple
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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. has made me think about how other people are struggling even more than myself the realization that one in six americans are living in poverty. now because lead eric to the occupy wall street protests calling for change just go from bad to worse to even worse and that's really happening all over the country the food he and other volunteers cook at the soup kitchen chairs everybody in the revolution. gets delivered to the protesters who spend day and night camping out hour to eric also sleeps here at the end of the night when there's
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a lot of people here to the cup or to find myself a sleeping bag right on 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 rich back cats in manhattan and trying to get their food out as fast as possible and make sure it's perfect for the porn and the rich. that was part of the. this is something i really don't look at the fragility 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 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 especially if you're going to parties new york. well meantime u.s. and british police have been demanding google remove a number of video clips from the internet video service you tube requests made
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before but this reportedly been a sharp rise lately in the number in the past six months let's talk a bit more about this development to talk to jim killer keys executive director of the open rights group joining us on the line from london tonight jim very good evening when officials and government asked for the removal of online videos is not blatant censorship or of i got that wrong. but i think that's a very interesting question because we actually don't know from what google has published whether these were taken down because the police requested it because google decided that they didn't want the material on their you tube website or even if there was a court order involved we're pretty sure that wasn't a court order involved because we think they would have published that but it appears that actually what's happening is that the google. policy is to remove this sort of content which i think i think actually points to corporate censorship rather than government censorship they should be waiting for the government to ask
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it caught whether this material ought to be taken down i'll just read a little bit more into this now it seems the police asked the media to provide used footage of the riots not crossing the line where media afraid of becomes police intelligence gathering. i think that's absolutely true i mean in the case of the u.k. riots i don't know what's happening in america now but in the case of the riots in the u.k. a few months ago we were asked or rather the media was asked to provide footage that they've recorded to see whether you know there was evidence of criminality there that's wrong because the media may well be asking people questions they may they need to be able to film in a way that people are you know actually respect them and don't try to attack them as some sort of surveillance hype that it completely compromises the freedom of the media if that's what material is handed over so last us an absolutely wrong thing for the police to about who fishel calls to remove these videos is put down to
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protecting people's privacy of course that their security would want to hate speech who decides where the line is drawn oh well this is this is the question and it has to be a court and open court can look at the material the media can report what's going on and if material is asked to be removed at least that is done in a publicly accountable way the problem comes i think in the situation we see now here with google is that the police are advising google here's what material might be breaking the law and then google decides to censor that material without a court order you can sort of understand that on the one hand because you tube is a it's a platform on a site it's not a search engine but really it is working in exactly the same way it's a public platform for us all to use me is wrong for google to start making those judgments with i the appearance of a court but i suppose the flip side is
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a lot of people would say that there is a need for rules of the people are protected from those who want to spread trouble via the web. yeah the there is a framework for that it is called the rule of law and the rule of law revolves courts if you remove the court from that system and just say well let's have corporate entities deciding what should or shouldn't be on the web then you stop having the rule of law and you have in fact actively vigilante justice operated by corporate entities not wrong because another story running parallel to this is been in the news last couple of days just couple of days ago we saw in way that wiki leaks is going to go on hold for now because of a long line financial institutions are shut off their donations now you've seen this story today over the internet supposed to be an open platform who's pulling the strings you think. well i think here we've see united states government pressure on those companies and again that is absolutely wrong wiki leaks probably not broken any you know ited states law and we also know that wiki leaks. you know
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that they don't they doesn't which is annoyed at the government but the government themselves really made a mistake in having such poor security that that data leaked out so they're both the government's to blame is their own fault for being so silly about the systems they set up allowing a million people access to the documents and now they're trying to put the cat back in the bag so to speak and you know that they're trying to use again pressure on corporate people to to stop wiki leaks from operating they need to take wiki leaks to court they need to establish that what they're doing is unlawful and they need to go with a court order to those companies and if those courts or court orders not to place and those companies are simply doing what the government asks them to behind closed doors then again we see a complete failure of democracy and an undermining of people's right to free speech and to organize online lies that again is vigilante justice it isn't the rule of
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law jim killing his actor director of the open rights group of the one from under the night thank you for your thoughts on this new subject today and of course are a huge future. you see for yourself what's happening in the occupy wall street protests across the u.s. footage is uncensored we gather it all we've got the footage actually from activists themselves on blogs and i see you choose dot com forward slash some really interesting footage there of what's been going on on the streets on our web site. gadhafi is the most prominent son saif al islam could appear it's a court in the hague he's reportedly ready to surrender to the international criminal court where he's wanted on charges of crimes against humanity he's been on the run since revolutionary forces took control of last week and is thought to be somewhere near libya's southern border with now this comes as relatives of the slain libyan leader look to take to bring a war crimes lawsuit against nato over alliance troops deliberately striking
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gadhafi is called oil which they say pose no threat to civilians nato was only allowed into libya you may recall by the u.n. solely to protect citizens while nato decision to end its libyan mission by the end of the month after calls from the interim government to stay on what is not his mission now i discovered gadhafi is death isn't making the country any safer. one of the major concerns here are light weapons are fire arms that are massively in the hands of the population here there are efforts from the empty seats try to collect and get people to willingly 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
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waved around but even more serious concerns here in terms of security about weapons storage arsenals on. guarded 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 the security situation here very very sensitive not 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 they just stinks if you will of hypocrisy of course is the way they could down he 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 is people just full of elation that gadhafi is dead
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that dead when you go out and speak to people and you push them a little bit you do find that there are a lot of people here that are doesn't change we expressed just just horrible feelings about the way he was killed not to mention the fact that he was of course very devoted to muslim tradition and he was put out on display for days and only after thousands of people came to see him was he finally buried so it's not exactly as it seems from afar what people feel about gadhafi how we come here and actually start talking to them that however not the case in the last three of how some people very outspoken and happy about the way gadhafi was killed especially the mass media experts are telling us that's because gadhafi with him to the grave took many of his secrets of dealings with the west. libya's new leaders are being increasingly accused of the kinds of abuses that rebelling against when they overthrew. the number of people allegedly executed in the city of sirte almost three hundred we spoke to journalist james cole but he's been closely following
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what's happening he says they're not the right people to be restoring law and order in charge of the moment. 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 the highest living standards in all of africa to now a regime that self evidently is incapable of keeping a country together without the the military might of nato 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 mess in the first place which is the nato backed see forces. those gruesome images of gadhafi as lynching were met with cheers and applause that america's mainstream media which is quick to herald his demise as the dawning of
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a new libya has got a future cannes been finding out whether the dancing on good death is grave was 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 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 great opportunities ahead seems like the perfect new world fears but 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 are big dangers they are not very original just like saddam hussein caught a middle hole will mark a da he was a bad guy otoh many of us would argue how bad he was for them considering what we
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don't see him down in the social welfare and women's rights but i think the ire of the us 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 a few days the media savored the bloody medusa's. and laughed at similarities between his capture in a ditch and out of saddam hussein all the cheering about khadafi is killing in the eye of the public affectively always says the bad taste after the nato campaign no mention of legal civilians killed in nato strikes none what you 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
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a success doesn't it become more tempting to try the same mess. it's somewhere else i'm going to check out reporting from washington art. nurse for make or break day in brussels today as european leaders gather to try and put those final touches to pull the eurozone out of its spiraling debts but the mood remains grim with growing concern that bickering and rivalry between politicians is getting in the way he's done a bushel 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 out 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 through germans of course can be angry by any deal because germany will have to pay the vast majority of any of any bailout that does come italy's polman was also suspended for a short time today there's
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a new 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 government refused to raise the retirement age and it's me just sixty seven france and 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 and it was the support of his cabinet and government own little things on looking good for a resolution today senior diplomats 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 banking system is in trouble and it's really sheltering that the world 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
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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 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 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. these these along with everything those go off ok then china will. on its investment know while we await the promised conclusion to the euro's troubles some already looking for inspiration elsewhere as sarah first now 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 great he's political rap lyrics have been striking
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a chord with people. on the back if you were an important is clearly the play of the protests and the squares the situation in greece is really tough and everything is reversed from what we used to known few years ago that we use our own lyrics to show how we perceive things that are happening in our society . was performing in unison may come naturally to the greek using leaders have increasingly been failing to sing from the same page you cannot 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 best to continue to come up with a risky plan for the ailing. to be marred by bickering among the member states.
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we now have the greeks abusing the germans they now bernie you flags in 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 together in this new european house actually we're beginning to argue and bicker in the most extraordinary way. it is greek struggle to do with the sturdy measures including cuts. jobs wages and pensions protesters in the streets claim these impairing brussels in athens are to blame political gains for the needs of the people as major political decisions in talks continue to take place behind closed doors so system is determined to take the discussion back to the streets so. athens. just like you know the riches there for the sport about twenty minutes time or so including crunch time two for russia's top two in the women's tennis that's
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long short of them tonight let's check on the latest business now dimitri's. thanks very much kevin hello and welcome to business and it's a red letter day for scientists and businessmen working with nanotechnology and russia as moscow is hosting the fourth nanotech forum as part of the drive to modernize the economy make it less dependent on natural resources business our teams what in the course of it is that for us. 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 see here russia of course is not exactly known for it's a nanotechnology 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 make money especially now when the risks are growing to global energy demand and that's
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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 so get more so when it comes to what they've actually achieved in the past four years there's a not much 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 a secure cash in the long term. right thanks marina course or for that let's take
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a look at the markets this hour well it's coming back off for a twelve week we didn't see it go up a bit by as much as a point four percent ahead of the summit but america's security mr bush is that creature was lining in the u.s. demand may be going down and therefore we see this bunch of let's put. the in the u.s. the markets mixed they did open pause this is what's trading really thin and cautious ahead of that e.u. summit everybody's. dissipating the results off and boeing shares however are showing some good gains of more than four percent after release presson expect its coarsening profits. this is the closing picture for europe with a foot see ended up half a percent of the dax and looking down by pretty much the same amount masters of course being a very cautious today drug maker merck is the top winner on the back search shares up seventy percent after the company reported strong fortunately it's. had
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a very rosy day fool russia ignoring pretty much the cautious pessimism around the world of the us is up two percent my sixty two and a half they said but to be fair i have to remember that tuesday was a bad day for russia exceptionally if we look at the main movers on the my sex role snapped is gaining three and a half percent of the close after report enormous twenty six percent increase in net for the first nine months of this year energy holding amaris case also up on good profits but embedded go was one of the few companies bucking the trend it's down as it has failed to agree on the merger with its rival eldorado. and that's all we have time for in this edition of the business news we will be back in fifty five minutes time with plenty more the headlines are next.
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over a crucible of death with the western media coverage of gadhafi killing his family now wants nato to war crimes charges. ready to read and. also from the fresh clashes is going to wall street protests spread at least in oakland california to take nearly one hundred activists to chase the rest off with tear gas and normally from around. the euro zone to fight hangs in the balance and e.u. leaders try to stop squabbling and serve a person who should instead could be the biggest get to tackle one of the finances the summit is getting underway now and it opens on a high note to germany a little earlier agreed to a massive expansion. following on from europe's financial turmoil is intensifying calls in the u.k. to leave the struggling bloc next that he discusses the prospects of that happening in the future of the euro with the british conservative party m.p. douglas carswell.
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