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american anti corporate protesters are stripped of their main power supply and left out in the cold sea their ranks most to fight in the national guard. conflicts of interests germany's nationalist movement takes an increasingly hard line against the country's immigrant population with this the trends could cause even deeper social divisions. and the man who brought millions of people of their life savings back in one thousand nine hundred come up with another financial scheme once again missing cranes well beyond their imagination. it's one pm here in moscow you're with r.t. welcome to the program the top story now hundreds of occupy wall street activists will have to battle plummeting temperatures as well as corporate greed without any
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power supply new york authorities have confiscated generators and fuel from the campaign though in manhattan starting a fire safety concerns and has the latest. from here in zuccotti park liberty plaza as it's been dubbed by the occupy wall street movement here the scene of a tense standoff between city officials and protest first early on friday morning more than twenty uniformed police officers and fire department officials and to the encampment and demanded that the protesters turn over anything that may be considered a fire hazard citing safety concerns. in the end approximately six generator power generators were seized by the police several dozen canisters of fuel including that the boil for cooking now preventing fires is of course a very reasonable concern when you're dealing with again sleep at ten thirty such as what occupy wall street the cody park. become part of the same time
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a lot of people here feel that this is also a convenient way for the city to essentially crack down on the movement in a sort of backhanded manner as temperatures continue to supply it into freezing freezing degree is in fact the first snowfall of its second here and that could be the focus of the tea party over the weekend so a lot of protesters feel that this is perhaps some sort of way for the city to freeze them out to try to dampen their results or remain here so downtown new york city could be part of the force the scene of the original occupy wall street demonstration which started on september seventh even since then expired inspired similar movements all across the country in the world in fact from spokeo central wrong so as protesters continue to turn out into the streets protesting against economic inequality and what they say is corporate greed that one of the café you frequently hear here in the united states is we are the ninety nine percent are 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
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a reference in fact to one of the recent economic reports that came out here in the u.s. citing the top one percent of earners in the united states one adjusted for inflation and postdocs is actually solve their earnings for a by an astounding two hundred and seventy five percent from nine hundred seventy nine to two thousand and seven sort of further perpetrating this economic inequality and social inequality that a lot of people are simply fed up with here in the united states but you know is monitoring the situation for r.t. roots of feed is the place on the web for the quickest updates on the wall street situation. properly so heavy handedness in dealing with a protest as has dominated recent headlines when iraq war veteran scott olsen was badly injured during the key point oakland rowdy this week instance quickly went bartle and that's when his autism see choking reports and is now attracting people from all walks of american life. america's autumn faces covered up protesters
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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 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 and a video now gone viral on the web. who to risk their lives for america now part of the uprising greens and others who serve the u.s. go public in their fight for the occupy wall street because let's find out what
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this means for them the fact that more and more personnel are joining us shows that they recognize that this is an american it's not about hippies in a negative stereotype thirty year old gary briggs has served in the national guard for the last two years he's spending his short vacation at occupy wall street got some rings national guard. yeah and more the better the guardsman is outraged at the fact that marines are getting attacked at home the cop that there should be fired put 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 for years and they're going to see that their version 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
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protesters back you know. everybody has banded together and the rope that's being created here no sword will cut them so i said sure can are and your. well still to come this hour despite the threat of violence members of the occupy wall street movement refused to give up on their dreams. right now these are impossible in america for a lot of people these people need to believe their dreams must continue where journalist laura half an escape is opinion from the heart of the big. us financial woes caused by strengthening currency find out how the world's third largest economy and its exports but getting nowhere. with details on these stories in just a few minutes. germany's leading nationalist party wants all immigrants to leave and it seems the extreme views are attracting growing support in the country but opponents say the movement is giving rise to
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a balanced crime and causing a dangerous rift within society ortiz. what do these two very different pieces of music have in common and they're both performed in germany and they increasingly represent clashing forms of society here we won the. bronze germany just the illegal ones yes and after the other lovers that's the view of the national democratic party or n.p.t. here in germany they've supported many concerts attended by right wing supporters of their opponents argue they promote hatred they achieve that in some regions in east germany there are no immigrants. it's not because of a comic reasons it's because nobody wants needed to go there because it's there
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always threatened one and two nazi group recently managed to do right wing concert goers into wearing their bogus t. shirts when they were washed the right wing slogan dissolved to reveal a message urging the wearer to leave their near nazi group. however german police intelligence estimates that there are eight to ten thousand hard core militant neo 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 eight crimes. of them about eight hundred violent crimes so that's also within the top five from 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 and with more than thirty forty percent of foreign lands when
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it's just too much germany has large ethnic minority populations from turkey the arab world and beyond and 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 the n.p.t. or other party is. maps to say to me are taped in 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 or posting up banners and slogans but 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
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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 for a no fly zone over the country and aerial support from nato. planes comes off the advance announced the end of its campaign in libya that are opening he has denounced civilian casualties in syria with thirty seven people reportedly killed in friday's anti-government rallies. from the u.s. based on coalition believes that the minds of the opposition zoster that were 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 would be advanced with the support would be intervention through multiple means of the nato powers of the western powers and i think what we can tell the syrian people is
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look at what happened in libya the issue of a no fly zone sounds like go a way to defend civilians it's really a way to begin the war could begin military operations against the syrian air force or air defenses i think the first and this is the plan of the obama administration is not direct military intervention but to promote 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. but for more in-depth coverage of
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exclusive footage you can visit r.t. dot com as we look at what's online for you right now details of the gulf his dealings with western leaders could yet come to light that his son saif al islam was weak and to surrender himself to the international court. also online russian supermodel and children's philanthropist. tells the true story of orphans journey from being abandoned in mental health hospital to becoming part of a loving family in the u.s. . one of the twentieth century's most notorious a get rich quick schemes is back after going bankrupt seventeen years ago resulting in a prison term for its founder ukrainian m m m financial period it has resurfaced with a start the project once paying out the savings of millions there is to plenty of investors willing to open their wallets once again not is he has the story of. the
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twenty logan russian hit movie the pyramid depicts a robin hood of the ninety ninety's and businessman who promises well for people and confronts the oligarchs. the real story behind the split was a sad episode in russia suppose soviet history the financial pyramid called attracted millions vowing to multiply their investment many times in the end it went bust up to fifteen million people lost their life savings. 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 m.m.m. emerged with virtually unlimited resources absolutely uncontrolled so the situation was not acceptable and everything was done to eliminate it silly game of already a driving force behind the m.m. movement spent five years in prison for fraud but now the man often called the russian bernie madoff is back seventeen years now so pyramid had. faith in him
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already back with another financial thing and whilst and what he could hardly find any commercial enterprise streets of ukraine cities have been literally flooded with the calls and join in with the m.m.m. twenty eleven. we can do more is the slogan of the new complain of broady admits it is another pyramid and is a risky venture but still promises people that they will make money. there is a virtual currency called dollars which constantly goes up in price from twenty to sixty percent a month this price only i can sit some individuals exchange money between themselves without any obligations going teasin conditions it is a fundamental point when there is no legal entity who joined it can't new office in other words everything is shared between millions of private accounts that means no one can put a name to it so. financial experts in ukraine see little surprise in moderate his
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latest scheme given the rough patch the country is going through the national bank is like you know ordered to knock the depreciation of national currency is like introducing in the euro threatens a lot of people. down the government machine the bureaucracy is against something like administer to the press and the financial markets and people are looking for an exit but already claims his actions are legal ukraine's politicians disagree the ruling party wants current laws tightened to block m.n. from making off with vulnerable people's nasty ads in a moment. two thousand and eleven there's a provision in financial services and requires a license providing financial services without a license as a criminal or terms. m m m twenty 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 his previous ponzi. scheme r t reporting from here
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in ukraine. 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 and printing thoughts and lowering incomes or not so why the third largest economy in the world has found itself on the brink of a major financial crisis. thanks in many ways the japanese economy is like this fish. caught dried out frozen and now having great chunks of value sliced clean out. take the seafood industry itself japanese sushi shops are raking in about seventeen billion dollars annually with hungry customers consuming nine million tons of sees through along the way. it's an addiction repeated all around the world but it's not helping the main exporter
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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 in these companies are suffering major consequences from a strong. when the national currency is up it pushes exports down japanese goods just too expensive to compete on the wild stage and its profits disappear so people's livelihoods. that amount of growth that's stronger than and the massive national debt some economists korea japan maybe only a few years away from its own major economic crisis as is this east asian nation remains the world's number three economy the consequences of bad the big global this is something japan's political leaders are determined to avoid and many are calling for urgent action. japanese industry can probably enjoy the current seventy
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five year 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 the japanese domestic industry and create unemployment japan is facing an extraordinary economic crisis. that despite the worries of ruling party lawmakers it is not clear there is anything the japanese government can really do to prevent the soaring from believing japanese businessman stop. money. in japan the women supply industry is gradually losing its ability to sell their products and machines to just aren't selling see the world faces these conditions japanese companies have to go for whatever opportunities they can discover but
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that's not going to be easy in a country where the government itself is 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 japan is fighting a battle it may not be able to win already committed to r.t. tokyo well still to come your way russia's world renowned bolshoi theater reopens in spectacular start for a new expense every furbish right to exist as well to complete. but history has shown that training foreign military forces can have consequences for both instructor and student this pakistan accuses india turning afghanistan against it ortiz
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a military contributor. examines the subject in his latest book. there 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 india for turning afghanistan against pakistan is reason because diplomats intelligence and military officials from afghanistan are getting training in india and they are coming back indoctrinated anti pakistan views and that's what general musharraf things 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 we just had been
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doing that anti-slavery jihad in afghanistan including qaida and their associates it was only after the united states completely abandoned afghanistan and pakistan and the various students contrary to the general musharraf logic of that foreign training he sold by their foreign indoctrination it was in pakistan that i qaida militants turned out to be the most rabid anti 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 this hour train explosions have reportedly rocked the afghan capital kabul and there by city of a sort of bad in who not province a suicide bomber targeted a nato convoy in kabul killing at least three casualties were later airlifted to safety by nato helicopters several people were also hurt when explosives were
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detonated on the outskirts of the city it was injured are being treated at the scene. the heart of thailand is on flooded as a massive body of water surrounding bangkok breaks through the city's defenses and city are already under water and authorities warn the situation will worsen barriers give way three months of relentless rains have caused the worst flooding it started in decades claiming three hundred sixty lives across the country it's also with billions of dollars worth of damage by submerging homes factories and historic sites. moroccan man has been sentenced to death for carrying out the april bombing of an american favorite killed seventeen people. says they will appeal the court's conviction and denies his parents' role in a terrorist attack however relatives of the victims cried out in court for the release of the sentence in sweden to his accomplice it's limited to just four years in prison and its act show progressively peaceful morocco major tourist destination
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draws millions of visitors each year. p. o. people i was treated with america has been widely criticized for a lack of concrete commands the host of the resident or a half a list asked the protesters if they actually have a definitive message for the banks and politicians. the protesters of occupy wall street are clearly bad up with wall street and with washington so what do you think you would have to say to their would be oppressors this week let's talk about that i would like to say your human being and also do you see the suffering that people are going through you know what it's like we want the health insurance that you have everybody should have that health insurance we should have the basic rights and basic care we the people more than your banker we need you to join us because they're just people to champion us sources that we need
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your help corporate 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 cooperation well i don't have to say anything other than i don't support them how do you say the fair share to someone or something that does not know what what kind of concept this is and do qadi we practice we're a community where we share our resources people are so greedy and so. money and wealth and materialism and consumerism still have a message for all these corporate bigwigs who are taking millions and not supporting their messages and for them my message is to make sure that the soldiers that are here and they continue to believe that this conversation is important and that these people are involved in a process of constructing
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a role where dreams are possible right now dreams are impossible in america for a lot of people these people 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 times that and more interested in keeping the conversation and the power among the people themselves. well legendary bolshoi theater has finally reopened its doors after six years of refurbishment and delays tell it to thousand people took their seats for an exclusive performance at r.t.s. and katrina among them she has details now of how the grand theater made its way back to the forefront of russia's cultural stage. that's the kirby one toppled the first son in six years it rebuild every one of ation that ranks as the most meticulous and expensive indicators history and it was impressive because in the
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first place it was renovated according to the original vision of the czar so. the ramana venus to all hammer and sickle emblems were at replaced with the regional symbol of sars russia the double headed to eagle no detail was considered as sticks and seed for challenging and the least of those invited to come to russia to come to the bolshoi in this first night was very impressive among the guests who saw the whole goodbye children he has of the last skull of peter vienna oprah house called in garden i was still in the body of a day on the way here shortly before the big eloquence or started we caught up with tell an actress when he could be lucci closer first time at the bolshoi theater but not the first time in russia. you. like to.
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see. the. same time. here. i think that. this is. a truly impressive red carpet event for russian 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 bolshoi. it's good to sit back while the headlines are up next to stay with us here not.
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