tv [untitled] October 29, 2011 8:01am-8:31am EDT
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confiscated power generators and gas canisters authority site of fire hazard concerns but activists say it's simply an excuse to freeze them out of the park step workers hit subzero the police force has also come under criticism for cracking down on protesters across the country the mayor of california's even forced to apologize the demonstrators there were gassed this week well despite the violence the movement's picking up the left is an associate forgive ever for one veteran. america's autumn faces covered up protesters fleeing from tear gas shot into the crowd by police. at least ninety seven arrests an old could 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.
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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. you those who risk 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 the negative stereotypes thirty year old gary briggs has served in the national guard for the last two years he's spending his short be cation at occupy wall street you got some rain. maybe. more.
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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 live report says 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. again and. everybody has banded together and the rope that's being created here no sword will cut an associate r.t.e. the york. u.s. author david corstens been a study of the root causes of why thousands are protesting across the country well he says police crackdowns on the demonstrations are only fueling anger against an unfair system. the bulk of the protesters are deeply committed to nonviolence which
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is extremely important and i think the police sometimes fail to recognize that when they attack nonviolent protesters it really exposes the corruption of the system and the fact that the police are fielded to protect the one percent and not to protect the free speech rights of the rest of us that actually draws more support for the protest they are finally drawing attention to the fact that we have an economy actually not only in the united states but in the world that is predominantly working for the for the one percent of people who control the financial system it is not working for the ninety nine percent we've had so much conversation in the united states fueled by corporate media focusing attention on the problem is the problem is the government skipping over the fact that wall street has created an economy that is devoted primarily to making money for rich people through playing financial games we have to address that issue you know people are complaining that the occupy wall street people don't have clear demands
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it's actually quite clear what they want they want their economy back they want their government back they want their future back and they actually want a country that operates by principles of true democracy and real markets which which work for everyone. and later in the program we give the demonstrators in new york a chance to get their voices heard. before are so greedy and so. by money and wealth that materialism and consumerism glory harmfulness heads down to occupy to copy park at the big apple for our team to ask the protesters for their passage to wall street. and germany's multicultural melting pot boils over as immigration anger drives a deepening divide through communities r.t. reports from berlin. now one
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attack by army to search areas in syria has reportedly left seventeen soldiers dead according to human rights groups this comes after the arab league condemned be continuing killings of civilians in the country and the regime protests the arab in a serial committee is due to hold another round of talks with the syrian officials over the weekend to help and at the crisis the un estimates more than three thousand people have been killed since march when the uprising against president bashar al assad began protesters have also been calling for a no fly zone over the country as well as aerial support from nato warplanes but brian becker from the u.s. based antiwar coalition answer believes unlike libya serious too strong for the alliance to intervene and that's why the west wants to spark a civil war there to bring about regime change. or 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
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be 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 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 be in 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 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 material for a civil war and i think the u.s. government officials signaling the syrian opposition and the syrian president that
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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 the regime change missions being signed off in libya this weekend the next stage of securing the surrender of colonel gadhafi is most influential son to the war crimes court so i followed claims he's not guilty of crimes against humanity they have been in direct talks with prosecutors at the hague to bring him in but his whereabouts remain unknown so i fall as always wanted to answer for suspected war crimes during the eight month the lid off rising which the u.n. says killed over thirty thousand people and ended with a violent death of his father and other world news there's been a series of insurgent attacks in afghanistan in one incident a taliban suicide car bomber struck on a convoy of foreign troops in kabul more than ten americans are dead along with three civilians and a policeman hours later
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a man in an afghan military uniform fired u.s. troops in the south killing two the attacker was killed at the scene there are also reports that a woman a suicide bomber has targeted government offices in the east. in turkey it's thought a suicide bomber cost an explosion in the south east killing one person and wounded ten others it happened near a government building in the predominantly kurdish city of big old no once admitted to bus but kurdish rebels carried out similar attacks in their fight for autonomy. this trillion airline quantas has grounded all of its fleet around the world due to an ongoing dispute with its workers more than six hundred flights have been counseled affecting some seventy thousand passengers the company says it will also lock out all employees from monday evening in a further twist of the dispute over pay and cost cutting once air france has cancelled ten the long haul flights and warned of wider disruption as
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a five day cabin crew strike gets underway. now a massive financial pyramid scheme which wiped out millions of people's life savings and russia the one nine hundred ninety s. is back its eccentric founder served time for his dodgy accounting but savers in ukraine are queuing up to hand over their hard earned money r.t.s. and executive chef explains why. the twenty eleven russian hit movie the pyramid depicts a robin hood of the nine hundred 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 went bust up to fifteen million people lost their life savings 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 m.m.m.
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emerged with virtually unlimited resources absolutely i'm controlled so the situation was not acceptable and everything was done to eliminate it see the game of already the 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 since his financial pyramid had walked the post soviet space is back with another financial scheme and while hard to find any commercial enterprise the streets of ukraine cities have been literally flooded with calls to join in with the m.m.m. twenty eleven. we can do more is the slogan of the new complain 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 see it some individuals exchange money between
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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 body's latest scheme given the rough patch the country is going through the national bank is like in order to not the depreciation of national currency is like introducing in your restrictions and a lot of people on. government machine the bureaucracy is again something like a minister told the press in the financial markets and people looking for an exit he 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 nest eggs m m m m m two thousand and eleven is a provision of financial services and requires a license providing financial services without a license is
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a criminal offense. 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 see reporting from here in ukraine all if anything else well fishy it's certainly japan's economy but it's the old decay fears grow the world's third largest economy is heading into a massive financial crisis and able to deal with its mounting debts. germany is on a damage limitation drive to curb arise a neo nazi ism and nationalist groups turn decades of the now defunct multicultural policy the more the country tried to unite its ethnic communities the more it forced them apart and voters' eyes are now turning towards hardline right wing parties. reports the worry is that the cultural divide could violently tear society
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. 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 we want. the immigrants german first the illegal ones and after the other the obvious that's the view of the national democratic. r.t. 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 economy poisons but it's because nobody wants really to go there because it's there always threatened one
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anti 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 head crimes. of them about eight hundred violent crimes so that's also been in 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 in berlin with more than thirty forty percent of foreignness when
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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 the n.p.t. or other party is. not to say to me or take to 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 up 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
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a route for cultural exchange or a border between essentially foreign territories tom watson r.t. . well let's see what you can check out at r.t. dot com this weekend imagine knowing a truly. dollars before you started your first job well that's a debt hanging over american students right now read why a priceless education is grounding graduates. of russian a cinderella super model that. helps bring the real life story of a russian orphanage to the wider world after helping to get the details published. after russia's most historic theater throws open its doors after a massive renovation with a glorious gala you can relive the events that are deep dot com.
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tsunami disaster shortie katsura looks at how japan's dire circumstances is leaving it trapped and teetering on the edge. in many ways the japanese economy is like this fish caught dried out frozen and now having great chunks of value sliced clean i'll. take the seafood industry itself japanese sushi shops who rake in about seventeen billion dollars annually with hungry customers consuming nine million tonnes of sisterhood along the way. it's an addiction repeated all 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 writing these companies are suffering major
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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 do people's livelihoods. that meant growth that strong man and the massive national debt some economists fear the japan maybe all of your years away from its own major economic crisis and since this east asian nation remains the world's number three economy the consequences of bad big global this is something japan's political leaders are determined to avoid and many are calling for urgent action mother. were japanese 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
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lead to a hollowing out of japanese domestic industry and create unemployment japan is facing an extraordinary economic. it despite the worries of the ruling party lawmakers it is not clear there is anything the japanese government can really do to prevent the soaring from leaving japanese businessman stock money. in japan going in supply industry is gradually losing its ability to sell their product machines too just aren't selling and since the world faces these conditions japanese companies have to look for whatever 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
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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. r.t. tokyo. and now as thousands continue to protest across america as part of the anti corporate occupy movement the mainstream media is at pains to point out of there is a lack of a united agenda for this return to where it all started in new york to discover that every demonstrator has a special something to say to wall street. the protesters of occupy wall street are clearly bad 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 on your human beings also do you see the suffering that people are going through do you know what it's like we want the health insurance that you have everybody should have that health insurance
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we should have the basic rights in the basic care care of we the people more than your banker we need you to join us. because they're just people to be an us versus them we need your help for 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 do qadi we practice we're a community where we share our resources these people are so greedy and so. 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 to constructing a road 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. pakistan gets slammed by the u.s. for not doing enough to root out the taliban it's all of us outside military leader claims his country isn't to blame best musharraf accuses india of helping relations between pakistan and afghanistan turned sour which he thinks is only fueling the region's insurgency our military contributor examines his claims. being the
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true pakistani general came up with his latest review regarding this situation in afghanistan well what a surprise he blamed india for tuning every ghana stand against 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 and 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 qaida and their associates
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it was only after the united states completely abandoned afghanistan and pakistan then there are students contrary to the general musharraf logic the foreign training he sold by there for an indoctrination it was in pakistan that i qaida military it's turned out to be the most rabid anti american interests and it was them who turned their weapons against their masters and trainers. got a lot more in store for you dimitris got the sports in twenty minutes time including at the russian history for the last four at the w t a ten s and it is that day that's just ahead for us about the stay with us that our team.
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a corporate protesters across america failed to stop their spread as authorities leave demonstrators in the heart of the occupy movement out of it called a place of confiscated power generators and gas heaters for pro. kowtow to new york as temperatures hit subzero. a stern warning from the arab league hits calling on syria to stop the bloodshed as dozens of civilian deaths are reported in fresh government crackdowns syria's committee is due for another round of crisis talks with damascus. and history repeating itself the man who built the biggest financial pyramid of russian history may be up to his old tricks all this time with his sights set on it festers in ukraine. all the day doesn't always end with the sun goes down as martin andrews discovers on a nighttime mission through moscow.
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