tv [untitled] October 29, 2011 3:01am-3:31am EDT
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by the occupy wall street movement here the scene of a tense standoff between city officials and protesters early on friday morning more than twenty uniformed police officers and fire department officials entered the encampment and demanded that the protesters turn over anything that may be considered a fire hazard citing safety concerns oil or coal dust and old. point zero zero zero zero zero zero in the end approximately six generators power generators were seized by the police and several dozen canisters the fuel including a vegetable oil for cooking now a preventing fires is of course a very reasonable concern when you're dealing with a densely packed ten city such as what occupy wall street the cody park has become but at the same time a lot of people here feel that this is also a convenient way for the city to essentially crack down on the movements in a sort of backhanded manner as temperatures continue to plummet into freezing freezing degrees in fact the first snow fall is expected here in the cody the foot
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zuccotti park over the weekend so a lot of processor steel that this is perhaps some sort of way for the city to freeze them out to try to dampen their the results or remain here you know downtown new york security part was a force the scene of the original occupy wall street demonstration which started on september seventeenth and since then it's expired inspired similar movements all across the country in the world in fact from tokyo to chill wrong so as protesters continue to turn out into the streets protesting against economic inequality and what they say is corporate greed now one of the chances you frequently hear here in the united states is we are the ninety nine percent a reference to the ninety nine percent of americans who are not in the same sort of economic beneficiary condition at the top one percent earners now this is a reference in fact to one of the recent economic reports that came out here in the u.s. citing that the top one percent of earners in the united states one adjusted for inflation and postdocs is actually solve their earnings sure. bias downing two
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hundred and seventy five percent from one thousand nine hundred seventy nine to two thousand and seven further pepper trading this economic inequality and social inequality that a lot of people are simply fed up with here in the united states. or this accounting office monitoring situation for r.t. and her twitter feed is the place on the web for the quickest updates on the occupy wall street situation. or police have a hand in this in dealing with the occupy wall street protesters has dominated the recent headlines when iraq war veteran scott olsen was badly injured during an occupy oakland rally earlier this week the instance quickly went viral on the net and is artie's on a situation that reports the movement is now attracting people from all walks of american life. america's autumn faces covered up protesters fleeing from tear gas shot into the crowd by police. at least ninety seven arrests an oakland california. on tuesday night. a twenty four year old marine and iraq war
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veteran scott olsen shot in the head by a police tear gas canister unable to even see his name through. a march of solidarity with the oakland protesters in new york leads to ten arrests . protestors slammed into the ground and netted by police earlier in another marine confronts police treatment of protesters in a video now gone viral on the web. those who risked their lives for america now part of the uprising marines and others who serve the u.s. go public in their fight for the occupy wall street because let's find out what this means for them the fact that more and more military personnel are joining us shows that they recognize that this is an american movement it's not about hippies in a negative stereotype thirty year old gary briggs has served in the national guard
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for the last two years he's spending his short be cation at occupy wall street guys marines national guard and maybe. more the better the guardsman is outraged at the fact that marines are getting attacked at home but there should be fired up by. others here believe it won't be long however until the police join the crowds instead of restricting them you're going to see a lot of protesting that they're going to work twenty years and they're going to see that their pension is zero but even if this doesn't happen the movement won't be scared away any time soon with marines and other military vets pledging to have the protesters back you. know. everybody has banded together and the rope that's being created here no sword will cut an associate r.t. new york. while there still to come this hour despite the threat of violence
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members of the occupy wall street movement refuse to give up on their dreams. right now dreams are possible in america for a lot of people these people need to believe that dreams must continue web journalist larry half an astute gauges opinion from the heart of the big apple. plus one of the world's leading economies proposes an original approached bolstering greg. germany's leading nationalist party wants all immigrants to leave it seems extreme views attracting growing support in the country but opponents say the movement is giving rise to violent crime and causing a dangerous rift within society parties tom barton reports. what do these two very different pieces of music have in common they're both performed in germany and they increasingly represent clashing forms of society here
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we want. the immigrants germany just illegal ones yes now after the hour will be almost sure that's the view of the national democratic party or n.p. d. here in germany they've supported many concerts attended by right wing supporters but their opponents argue they promote hatred they achieved in some regions in east germany there are no immigrants. it's not because of economic reasons but it's because nobody wants really to go there because it's there always threatened one and the nazi group recently managed to do right wing concert goers into wearing their bogus chief shirts when they were washed the right wing slogan dissolved to reveal a message urging the wearer to leave the near nazi group. however german police intelligence estimates that there are eight to ten thousand hard core militant neo
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nazis in the country those behind the stunt say that those numbers mean germany's problem is in the top three in europe every year in germany statistically you have about fifteen thousand twenty thousand hate crimes. of them about eight hundred violent crimes so that's also in the top five in europe when we put accusations of inciting hatred to the n.p.t. they were unmoved germany is the state of the germans but if you are today you have parts in berlin with more than thirty forty percent of foreign us but it's just too much germany has large ethnic minority populations from turkey the arab world and beyond. many families now have second and third generation members with german citizenship and they're gaining political representatives who defy anyone who says they don't belong here m p d or other parties. could not just say
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to me or take to move this part of me to be german whereas most political parties are now finding candidates from the ethnic groups they represent those on the right are posting the banners and slogans with the message go back where you came from with such a political divide the potential is there for german politics to become a lot nastier it's not immediately obvious that this fruit and vegetable store is at the edge of the turkish district in berlin it looks much like a fruit and vegetable stall elsewhere in the city but the question being fought over in political debates is will this region become a route for cultural exchange or a border between essentially foreign territories tom watson r.t. . syrian protesters have called friend no fly zone over the country and aerial support from nato warplanes it comes out of the alliance announced the end of its campaign in libya the arab league has denounced civilian casualties in syria with
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thirty seven people reportedly killed in friday's anti-government rallies brian becker from the u.s. based antiwar coalition he's the commands of the opposition could spark a disastrous conflict. we're using the same lingo the same scenario the syrian opposition is borrowing a page from the playbook for libya they know that they can come to power only with the advance with the support with the intervention to multiple means of the nato powers of the western powers and i think what we can tell the syrian people is look at what happened in libya the issue of a no fly zone sounds like a way to defend civilians it's really a way to begin the war to begin military operations against the syrian air force or air defenses i think the first step and this is the plan of the obama administration is not direct military intervention but to promote
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a civil war inside of syria i think they realize that the syrian government is substantially stronger militarily and within the arab world as compared to khadafi but they can use the human beings who have grievances valid or not to be the human materiel for a civil war and i think the u.s. government officials signaling the syrian opposition and the syrian president that they should learn the lesson of libya is a clear message begin the civil war they want to weaken syria first as a as a prelude to a more direct intervention for regime change. well for more in-depth coverage and exclusive footage you can visit r.t. dot com here's a look at what's online few right now details of gadhafi his dealings with western leaders could have yet come tonight isis son reportedly plans to surrender to the international criminal court. and russian supermodel and children's for
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unsuppressed the other tells the true story of an orphaned journey from being abandoned in a mental health hospital to becoming part of another family in the u.s. . now one of the twentieth century's most notorious and get rich quick schemes is but are they going bankrupt seventeen years ago and resulting in a prison term for it's found a ukrainian based m m m financial param it has resurfaced and despite the projects once wiping out the savings of millions there are still plenty of investors willing to open their wallets once again. he has the story. the twenty eleven russian hit movie the pyramid depicts a robin hood of the ninety ninety's a businessman who promises well for people and confronts the oligarchs. the real story behind the split was a sad episode in russia supposed soviet history the financial pyramid called attracted millions vowing to multiply their investment many times in the end it
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went bust up to fifteen million people lost their life savings and a really good hope i don't feel like i'm a sinner what about m.m.m. ninety four it was undermined by the government so i knew him and emerged with virtually unlimited resources absolutely m control so the situation was not acceptable and everything was done to donate it to the game of orgy the driving force behind the m.m.m. movement spent five years in prison for fraud but now the man often called the russian bernie madoff is back seventeen years since his financial pyramid had walked the post soviet space is back with another financial scheme and was hard to find any commercial enterprise the streets of ukraine cities have been literally flooded with calls to join in with. we can do more is the slogan of the new complain at mit's it is another pyramid and is
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a risky venture but still promises people that they will make money this. is a virtual currency called dollars which constantly goes up in price from twenty to sixty percent a month this price only i can say that some individuals exchange money between themselves without any obligations gotten teasin conditions it is a fundamental point when there is no legal entity new joint account new office in other words everything is shared between millions of private accounts it means no one can put an end to it. financial experts in ukraine see little surprise in my latest scheme given the rough patch the country is going through the national bank is like you know ordered not to allow the depreciation of national currency is like introducing in your restrictions and a lot of people on. government machine the bureaucracy is again like administer to the press in the financial markets and people are looking for an exit nobody claims
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his actions are legal ukraine's politicians disagree the ruling party wants current laws tightened to block a man from making off with vulnerable people's nasty eggs m m m m m two thousand and eleven there's a provision in financial services and requires a license providing financial services without a license is a criminal offense. eleven already has one point five million investors and counting. again convinced it is a road to riches try telling that to the many millions of victims left with nothing and still reeling from previous ponzi. scheme artsy reporting from here in ukraine. and europe's debt troubles may have taken center stage this week but a crisis of a similar scale could also be unfolding in japan the country's currency the yen hit a record high hampering imports and their incomes hoary konatsu looks at why the third largest economy in the world a span itself on the brink of
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a major financial crisis. in many ways the japanese economy is like this fish caught dried out frozen and now having great chunks of value sliced clean. take the industry itself japanese sushi shops raking in about seventeen billion dollars annually with hungry customers consuming nine million tonnes of sisterhood along the way. it's an addiction repeated all over around the world but it's not helping the main exporters which has been left floundering. japanese food is the most popular food in the world and definitely i think there are many other companies like ours doing the same business and everywhere else in these companies are suffering major consequences from a strong. when the national currency is up it pushes exports down japanese
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goods just too expensive to compete on the wild stage and its profits disappear so do people's livelihoods stagnant growth the strong man and the massive national debt some economists korea japan maybe all a few years away from its own major economic crisis and since this east asian nation remains the world's number three economy the consequences of that big global this is something japan's political leaders are determined to avoid and many are calling for urgent action. jump anees industry can probably enjoy the current seventy five year into the dollar level for a little while but if this situation doesn't change over a longer period i think we're going to see japanese factories and large companies move their operations overseas places like vietnam thailand or china this would lead to a hollowing out of japanese domestic industry and create unemployment so that japan
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is facing an extraordinary. growing. despite the mores of the ruling party lawmakers it is not clear there's anything the japanese government can really do to prevent the soaring from leading japanese businessman stock money. home the. going and supply industry is gradually losing its ability to sell their product machines or to just start selling the world faces these conditionals japanese companies have to look for whatever opportunities they can discover but that's not going to be easy in a country where the government itself the plea in the red japan has the highest national debt among major economies owing almost twice as much as the economy makes in an entire year couple that with the funds needed to rebuild after the devastation unleashed by the earthquake and tsunami earlier this year and it seems
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japan is fighting a battle it may not be able to win she hurried to r.t. tokyo. still to come your way on the program russia's world renowned theater reopens in spectacular style following an expense to be sure took six years of meticulous work to complete. history has shown that straining foreign military forces can have better consequences for both instructor and student this. turning afghanistan against it. contributor of getting who show off examines the subject and his latest blog. but it isn't a shot of being the true pakistani general came out with his latest review regarding this situation in afghanistan well what a surprise he blamed him did for turning afghanistan against
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pakistan his reason because diplomats intelligence and military officials from afghanistan are getting training in india and they are coming back indoctrinated anti pakistan views that's what general musharraf things and in reality the training of military and civilian officials in other countries cuts both ways and even could backfire big time ask cia who trained their pakistani counterparts and mujahideen during the anti-slavery jihad in afghanistan including i qaida and their associates it was only after the united states completely a bandit afghanistan and pakistan that there are a students contrary to the general musharraf logic that for in training use followed by their for an indoctrination it
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was in pakistan that i qaida military it's turned out to be the most ready it and americans and it was them who turned their weapons against their masters and trainers. now for a brief look at some other stories making headlines around the world. the heart of thailand is on for the other that has a massive body of water surrounding by and call can break through the city's defenses parts of the city are already under water authorities warn the situation will worsen if pirates give way three months over lentulus rains have caused the worst flooding in thailand in decades three hundred sixty lives across the country it's also called billions of dollars worth of damage by submerging homes factories and historic sites. a moroccan man has been sentenced to death for crying out the april bombing of a cafe that killed seventeen people. mani's lawyer signs the law on
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appeal the court's conviction and denies his client's role in the terrorist attack and the victims cried out in court and they didn't seal the sentences given to his accomplice is limited to just four years imprisonment shook are relatively peaceful moroccan major tourist destination that shores millions of visitors each year. at least twenty one the people have been killed during shootouts that broke out between soldiers and gang members in mexico the fighting took place in the western states of mitchell county often gunmen opened fire on patrol several people were killed in a confrontations with one federal police officer wounded thirty five thousand people have died in mexico since two thousand and sixty to violence fueled by criminal groups. over thirty students were arrested by police in chile's capital santiago during the protests for education reform fighting broke
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out when police moved to detain demonstrators marching on the banks of the. student protesters want to revamp the education system better quality schools more accessible to mission this escalation is the latest in a series of run ins with authorities. during the five hundred ten pain. the occupy wall street movement in america has been widely criticised for a lack of concrete demands for the host of the resident show very hard for mr asked the protesters if they actually have a definitive message for the banks and politicians. the protesters of occupy wall street are clearly fed up with wall street and with washington so what do you think they would have to say to their would be oppressors this week let's talk about that i would like to say you're human beings also do you see the suffering that people are going through do you know what it's like we want
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the health insurance that you have everybody should have that health insurance we should have the basic rights in the basic care care of we the people more than your bank account we need you to join us because they're just people to be an us versus them we need your help poor personhood what is that and corporations that are have felt as though it's ok to exploit people and exploit the planet for profit and profit alone so what do you have to say to those corporations well i don't have to say anything other than i don't support them how do you say be fair and share to someone or something that does not know what what kind of concept this is and to qadi we practice we're a community where we share our resources these people are so greedy and so fair to buy money and wealth and materialism and consumerism you still have a message for all these corporate bigwigs who are taking millions and not
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supporting their messages and so them my message is to make sure that these soldiers that are here that they continue to believe that this conversation is important and that these people are involved in a process of constructing a role where dreams are possible right now dreams are impossible in america for a lot of people these people need to believe that dreams must continue that's why we're here so it seems like the bottom line is the protesters are less interested in talking to wall streeters and washington themselves and more interested in keeping the conversation and the power among the people themselves. it also goes legendary bolshoi theatre has finally opened its doors after six years of refurbishment and delays the two thousand people took their seats for exclusive performance at r.t. zakaria trove among them she has the details now of how the grand theater made its way back to the forefront of russia's cultural stage. that's the kirkby one topple
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the first time in six years it rebuild every one of ation that ranks as the most meticulous and expensive innovators history and it was impressive because in the first place it was renovated according to the original vision of the czar so for the amount of genius to all hammer and sickle emblems were at were placed with the regional symbol lazzara squash at the double headed to eagle no detail was considered as to expensive or challenging and the least of those invited to come to russia to come to the bolshoi on the first night was very impressive among the guests was solved the whole goodbye chilled the has of the last skull of peter the vienna oprah house called in garden i was still in the belly of a day on the way here as shortly before the big gala concert started with hotel with ten an actress when it could be lucci it was her first time at the bolshoi theater but not the first time in russia. soon.
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here i. saw her here. by. syria. and then i thought i was. rushing to. see a time that i've been here for five russia and. i think that some people this is just. a truly impressive red carpet event for russia and for russian theater lovers and you know as the curtain came down the cheers of bravo from outside could be heard ringing inside the renovated restored old show it . did as well the headlines are next attack away.
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the authorities confiscated their generators and fuel or they remain on a positive note as their ranks opposed to by marines on the national guard. germany's nationalist party see support for its anti immigrant start swearing in the country the critics say the trend has given rise to violent crime and could cause even deeper social divisions. and the millions of people of their life savings or nine hundred ninety is back he's once again the promising the earth and there are still plenty of people ready to invest in this quest in the enterprise. spotlight is next and this time i'm going off sits down with an energy expert this limited on what that could mean for the future. lead.
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