tv [untitled] October 27, 2011 5:01am-5:31am EDT
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five hundred activists of occupy wall street were walking through a lower manhattan to show their solidarity with the protesters from oakland california as it is that massive group was walking through manhattan and there were helicopters flying overhead we saw riot police come out. and arrest stream of police officers and cars following the group around there were some that scenes of police officers arresting some out because then at some point taking them down to the ground this is six weeks and to a movement that his whirlwind are larger and louder not just in new york city across the entire country in the past day or so we have seen a huge crackdown now in atlanta in occupy demonstration took place at least fifty cubits were arrested there but it was an old clinton california that this seems many say look like son to the curb in
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a war zone odd the occupy activists that to the streets in oakland california there were at least three hundred fifty of them odd got into clashes with the police and the police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the crowd trying to remove the optimus from a campground that they stablished two weeks ago in front of city hall at least ninety seven protesters who were arrested but we do know that there was one man shot in the face by rubber bullets and that was in a rocky war veteran by the name of scott olsen was a former marine two time iraq war veteran he is now in critical condition from what's being reported he was shot in the head by a police projectile and right now he's in the hospital in critical condition he was in one of the many iraq war veteran south work peacefully participating. any
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occupy oakland march so far there's not much images or visuals or video to come out that showed any of the protesters at tock tick tock even the police officers and the police in oakland california new york city and throughout the country have been criticised for using brutal force against activists that are just trying to exercise their freedom of speech but our correspondents have been at the heart of the protests and on to our twitter feed for the latest firsthand updates but meanwhile eyewitnesses in oakland have been putting footage online of the police violent response against activist well his just one of the latest videos of the instant a report in which an iraqi war veteran who's. reinvention scott olsen is. grounding a group of activists approved to help him but a policeman next be deliberately aiming at the protestors and the flash bombs thrown into the group that goes off immediately. to see someone again.
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this is from the protest are available. on our websites we've got plenty more on the story including news of a digital help for demonstrates it's not the case but i'm sure it phones called getting arrested and it's known as friends and finally a protest is being uncovered check on the details of the dot com. now european banks will write off fifty percent of greek debt the deal was reached during an emergency summit in brussels which continued well into the night among other measures the eurozone and i.m.f. will give the country another one hundred billion euro in rescue that is also agree . meantime expanding the bailout fund to one truly and you know but commenting on
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the deal with french president nicolas sarkozy said he plans to turn to china for help on friday as the c.e.o. of europe's bailout fund gets headed to beijing to talk to potential investors and some say the e.u. is going to use this expanded market so that others will have to pick up the tab for their mistakes there's plenty detail in who's going to pay because you're talking about one trillion euro and this is a lot of money even have right now it doesn't have the money that is the european central bank has the money i guess not talking about leveraging the european financial stability fund and to the other countries like china. or india or even brazil to lend to d your peers ability to fund it with a guarantee of a very european central bank so i think this is what they want to do not by
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printing money they want to use. this but believed to be different as a vehicle to borrow money from outside to finance the deficit of the countries if you don't have money you can sell your asses to raise the money or prevent already something like the americans do so what china would do would be i think they've been moved by a token amount of. your peers ability front but dave you me for playing a leading role because this is this is what do you pay in leadership have i think china can use the money. that pollute the. political influence with the european union. in future in foreign policy you know you can you deal with stand on the side of china. against china. whether the crisis
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plan is effective or not for the austerity hit greek people any help appears to be a long way off when they are finding new ways to survive in hard times sara first reports. they say that time is money for a country where cash is now in short supply time has taken on a whole different value the time bank quick change want to services and sometimes they give a painting lessons for free but they take you for free also somebody else is stating yoga the time banks just one of a growing number of service swapping alternatives that are providing people in greece another way to cope with the tough economic conditions services can include anything from language classes to babysitting all him kids' meals huge huge everything we do without money like looking after people are making things by ourselves for a country in crisis building social unity cam prefixed me hard crisis is
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a terrible thing it be creates fear it divides people from public sector workers to from private sector workers it divides richer workers to poor workers immigrant workers from home workers and that's a terrible thing. for the party networks have been a great way of bringing together large groups of people the populous slogan here in greece now is no one's alone in the crisis is asians are arranging swap shops to exchange clothes one town in greece is even started saying bharti currency we still have the memory of agricultural society in greece where people used to do things together like they would do the olive tree of my family this week and then next week we go the olive trees of your family and then the next week of the other neighbor so they would exchange services and they like that mickey gives me and her friend alexander. he's also
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a member of the time bank an art lesson it's one of the free services she provides and in exchange alexandra helps out with the gardening so the time is repaid it's an amazing way. of receiving finally by giving to the other. many greeks struggle with wage cuts tax increases and with unemployment in the country now cripplingly high there's been huge interest in the time banks and networks places in the latins cave of materials it's no wonder really that this idea of swapping gets in services has proven so popular it's building solidarity a time when the economic situation is extremely uncertain. these boss networks won't solve greece's financial problems they do provide a massive amount of support the participants it's not to respond to you can only
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crisis in the sense that it's going to overturn the god but it's giving support and comfort to both like to overturn the terrible economic policies that are being posed by the troika it's giving people support to feel that they can do something with the tough economic times leaving many greeks feeling worthless there is real value in projects like the time bank with the greek government drowning in debt these creative solutions are offering the only support but encouragement to the people here which is a time of deep recession proofing priceless commodity surf. athens . and later in the day max kaiser and his co-host stacey herbert look closely at the way greeks are venting their anger at the economic plight. is greece a failed state. and i want to answer that from right granny in this image here you see right granny well i think she's saying no greece is not
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a failed state it's an occupied state because they're not asking this question about iceland are they now know because iceland stood up to the bankers whereas greece is still being subjugated by the tyranny of the bankers and there's granny here who you see throwing rocks the police she is a good emblem for what the cops have a store for them and the politicians are greece as the things heat up in greece hopefully the banks in greece will completely collapse and this will be the only saving grace for greek sovereignty. the family of colonel gadhafi is preparing to sue nato for the air strike on his convoy that led to his violent death at the hands of n t c fighters the family lawyer said that the advances actions were clearly aimed at overthrowing the colonel and not protecting civilians while he even with gadhafi gone the country's
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future looks far from secure from tripoli and he said no way since this report. the war is over but the weapons are fully loaded. human rights watch has expressed grave concern about left arm in libya their number one fear warehouse thought to hold ground to air missile which could in the wrong hands take down passenger aircraft it's through made so our nato allies in the region which these weapons have been flooding libya and also libya is quite country anyway the population has has quite a lot of light weapons in its possession and those light weapons are becoming a heavy burden on the national transitional council now relying on an army of former rebels for security they would try to control the bends i mean if there is somebody has weapon we ask him if he has supporters a sunni or this we are not. checkpoints have been set up
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across tripoli to check that those carrying weapons have proper documentation and those who do have the paperwork are being called on by the national transition committee to return their arms the question now is what if they don't and what does that mean for parts gadhafi libya and its stability and now as you can see is being secured here everything is under control and the only word things that we will make some weekend is a how to give back the weapons but we see something very different i asked this head commander what the plan is to disarm the population. i swear i don't know if you look. at a makeshift arms collection center that covers one neighborhood in the capital we are shown this. through these are the weapons people brought to me today not many. walk
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down one block in tripoli and you'll see twice as many firearms. do you know how many weapons there are in the very. slight have to eventually get i think everybody have a weapon some think the fun of arms in the country could spell disaster ahead in the vacuum after gadaffi and post road fault chaos as groups fight out a vicious battle for power. what you have now in libya is schools of armed factions who have no respect for each other and who have no respect for may to actually either they've opportunistically used mater to achieve some aims and nato has been foolish enough to go along with this so i think what we're going to see now is an intensification of the civil war between increasingly the factions which have overthrown with the gadhafi regime with many libyans not
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yet ready to say a farewell to arms the m.t.c. which could only be good daphne with nato help is now asking the alliance to continue its mission a vivid indication of just how unstable the country is and he said now a r t tripoli the un security council is to vote later on thursday on whether nato operations in libya will end this month pepe escobar a columnist and correspondent for the asia times thinks the outlook for the country's bleak and sees comparisons between what happened in sirte with events in iraq seven years ago. at the end of two thousand and four is seriously in oktober two thousand and eleven what the marines did which was to destroy in order to save it and see a need to did to see what gaddafi didn't do when people were saying oh he's going to auk asian massacre in benghazi we need to end it here and see the syrian civil
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war in libya it's already are they will never set up a government because they're militias fighting against militias so what i predict is plunder of the libyan resources nato running libya as a kind of protectorate puppet government how many cars i style you know in. tripoli and civil war all over the place remember you can log on to our website to find out all the latest news and analysis on the air and much more besides check out our gallery to get a fresh take on serious issues from an offbeat angle to the online exclusive section on the site that's at r.t. dot com. the amount of money being siphoned off through bribes paid globally every year
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stands at almost one trillion dollars according to un estimates high level of corruption in russia makes it a serious offender but the average rate of bribes growing faster than that of inflation anticorruption campaign is gathering pace but as diapers cover explained the people involved in the biggest bribery scandals are those who seem best out of voiding prosecution. the cameraman's hands are shaking he's a police investigator who's come across one of the most ostentatious homes he's ever seen including this swimming pool adorned with press goes in the style of michelangelo what makes this raid so unusual is that the home doesn't belong to a multi billionaire but a humble head teacher well an ordinary state school in moscow. investigation has initiated a case in the court regarding confiscating constantine to trust property it's a luxury house and the mosque or region through an apartment in moscow and for
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expensive cars the man on the run became this rich in just eight is using clever schemes to steal from the school its teachers parents and the state a recent study of everyday corruption claims teachers doctors and traffic police officers are russia's worst bribe takers for the. low level corruption it's a bribe paid to settle everyday issues so it's also known as every day corruption big stalled money for traffic violations provide medical paperwork and inflate school grades making people pay through the nose people in russia say they're born with corruption and die surrounded by. a bill from literally childhood from school age get used to the idea of breaking laws when they need to get some service and that is an extremely corrupt an attitude that the only positive findings of the research is a growing number of people who consciously resist giving a bribe and a falling number of corrupt deals the average bribe is almost twice as costly as
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five years ago. when accused of corruption among his subordinates one of our former police bosses said start with yourself and stop giving bribes out of principle and start doing things legally it may be more difficult but it's worth a try. health care is the most corrupt sector and with bribes to do it over one point two billion dollars last year however the average medical bribe is. relatively small and doctors can go to jail by except in just. because they work all day every day corruption is the result of the state's failure to fulfill its social obligations low salaries promote corruption tackling this low level crime looks as if something is being done while corruption by the bigger fish goes on unchecked experts say the everyday corruption is just ten percent of the tutu the rest is initiated not by citizens or businessman but by bureaucrats the internet is full of videos like this one it is also full of stories about teachers and doctors
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getting arrested and tried but when it comes to arresting officials and their grads it seems the statistics are far less impressive gary pushed r.t. moscow. to more international news stories for you now this hour flash floods have killed at least nine people left six others missing after a trench all rain lashed italy mud and debris and are being removed from the areas affected roads and bridges were damaged with several towns in the northwest of the country cut off from the outside world rome has been on there and there are fears that heavy rains on their way to the capital. rescuers in eastern turkey have pulled out a nineteen year old man alive from the rubble four days after the quake disaster there the frantic search for survivors continues but some estimates fear thousands may have died in the disaster number of dead has now climbed to more than five hundred becomes a dozen lorries carrying aid for quake victims were due to buy survivors furious at
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not receiving supplies. a former argentine naval officer dubbed the blonde angel of death has been jailed for life for war crimes during the country's vitriol in the seventy's and eighty's of a stiff along with a dozen other military officers was found guilty of helping terri out systematic torture and murder and disappearances the worst crimes took place in one of the scientists in the navy mechanics school and so knowing that i was desperate for an estimated five thousand people were sent. by a few moments we'll have all the business news with through a statute. admission
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her welcome to business here ninety thanks for joining me the world's emerging economic powers say they all jacked cash into the euro zone to stem the debt crisis contagion china has reportedly agreed to invest in the rescue fund the head of the fund is flying to beijing on friday to discuss the country's participation and russia's also involved presidential aide says the country could contribute to rescue efforts through the i.m.f. now let's have a look at how the markets are performing up to europe agreed a wide ranging deal to fight the sovereign debt crisis here's europe where stocks saw a news that eurozone leaders cleared a key hurdle in the resolution of europe's debt they agreed to a fifty percent reduction in the value of greek debt held by private investors bank
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shares bowls of particularly strong gains across europe with societe generale of seven point nine percent in paris and daughter bank up eight percent in frankfurt oil is rebounding from the biggest drop a small bone speculation the u.s. economy is recovering investors are waiting for a report that we shall be calling expanded at the fastest rate this year in the third quarter of light sweet is trading at over ninety one dollars a barrel and brant is over one hundred and ten dollars per barrel. and russian stocks are climbing in the up to noon as well energy stocks among the top gainers let's take a look at some individual channels on the rise x. among the blue chips banks are on the rise on positive news from europe is better bank is adding over three percent stronger all the supporting energy majors gas probably up over four percent this hour and other in other sectors money needs is up nearly three percent after it reported a thirteen percent increase in third quarters net profit that's under russian
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accounting standards now wolf juggles from capital expects the positive trend to continue an advisor to cash and. i would. the moving money into a russian banks you know which are all quite cheap they're all trading it out or less than zero one times next year's book value which are quite cheap levels gazprom also looks quite brilliant especially if all it falls through with the sense that it might double its dividend payout the the stock is cheap and in any event you know and should benefit from all the strong you know strong commodity prices. but as public transport may be going electric a joint venture between was not zero and china's thunder sky group has launched production of a new generation of batteries in siberia they will enable a bus to run two hundred fifty kilometers without recharging the project is worth more than four hundred fifty million dollars and the c.e.o.
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of the venture says it has great export potential. to get its. plan may be seventy eighty percent old but says most go electric and the process is for stage and second of all the. same program for private clients you know c.b.s. producer be cut by city but there is nobody there are produced it and this is. the difference in number one in europe and one of the biggest you around the world already that's where the big interest from poland. where it became terrorists are a big country. moscow is the most prospective real estate market in europe that's according to the european regional economic growth index words looks at one hundred and five cities moscow's jump from six place to the first in just two years while st petersburg is still on ninety five five position russia's real estate market is expected to get up to eight and
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a half billion dollars of investment this year really three quarters of that and the capital has being driven by a lack of available commercial real estate and the widening of the city borders that will include more land. and that's all for this hour about stay with us for headline news coming up next.
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a march of solidarity with demonstrators in oakland a day earlier valley in california was on it interspersed with god schools using flash grenades and tear gas. pressure on e.u. leaders to take crisis solving steps upon the results as an all night summits they reached a deal to write off off a debt to the struggling country another one hundred billion in rescue loans. to doff his family and to sue nato for breaking the un mandate by striking a late colonel's convoy and as it was trying to flee the allowance is also being the entry level weapons on the libyan streets which many feared would lead to new products. next why women worldwide head to bali seeking sun and sea but also dangerous seduction. probably slept with phil.
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