tv [untitled] October 29, 2011 10:01am-10:31am EDT
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power generators and gas canisters authorities site a fire hazard but activists say it's simply an excuse to raise them out of the park as temperatures hit subzero the police force has also come under criticism for cracking down on protesters across the country the mayor of california has even been forced to apologize after demonstrators there were tear gas this week well despite the violence the movement is picking up momentum and artes and to see a churkin have reports now on how war veterans are now helping fill protester rights. america's autumn faces covered up protestors 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.
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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 can risk their lives for america now part of the uprising marines and others who serve the public in their fight for the occupy wall street let's find out what this means for the. 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 guys marines. maybe.
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for the better the guardsman is outraged at the fact that marines are getting attacked at home and that crowd should be fired. by. others here believe it won't be long however until the police join the crowds instead of restricting them . protesting. they're going to see that. zero but even if this doesn't happen the movement won't be scared to wait any time soon with marines and other military vets pledging to have the protesters back. everybody has banded together and the rope that's being created here. an associate churkin r t v or. the us author david korten has been studying the root causes of why thousands are protesting across his country he says the police cracked out of the demonstrations are only fueling anger against an unfair system. the bulk of the protesters are deeply committed to nonviolence which is extremely
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important and i think the police sometimes fail to recognize that when they attack nonviolent protesters it really exposes the 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. 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 the problem is the government skipping over the wall street has created an economy that is devoted primarily to making money for rich people through trying financial games we have to address that issue you know people are complaining that the occupy wall street
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people don't have clear demands 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 to give demonstrators in new york a chance to get their voices heard. these people are so greedy and so. money and wealth and materialism and and consumerism . an attack by army to searchers in syria has reportedly left seventeen soldiers
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dead according to human rights groups this comes after the arab league condemned the continuing killings of civilians in the country and to regime protests the arab ministers committee is due to her and another round of talks with syrian officials over the weekend to help and the crisis well the u.n. 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 believes that unlike syria and libya that is syria's 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. and 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
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the advance with the support with the 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 begin the war to 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 could offie 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 they should learn the lesson of libya is
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a clear message begin the civil war they want to weaken syria first as a prelude to a more direct intervention for regime change. a massive protest for economic justice is due to take place in be israeli capital later on saturday and it's expected to rival september's rallies which saw deeley half a million people take to the streets across the country collison writer bradley burston says even though the construction of new settlements has israelis calling for a budget review the automatic and and basically behind the scenes allocation of resources from many government ministries to new housing developments in the in the occupied territories may be very much more difficult to carry out without scrutiny the questioning has a lot to do with transparency the question has a lot to do with what actually is happening with the resources that are going to the finances are going to the settlements and even if the settlement activity is
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not blocked the fact of the of the allocations the widespread nature of allocations from many ministries and the nature of the subsidies that go out to the settlements may change people's minds of eventually about the wisdom of continuing to build their. 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 went to the war crimes court so i followed long claims he's not guilty of crimes against humanity they have been in direct talks with prosecutors up the hague to bring him in but his whereabouts still remain unknown saif al islam is wanted to answer for suspected war crimes during the libyan uprising which the u.n. says killed over thirty thousand people and ended with a violent attack of his father and i would other world news there has been a series of insurgents in afghanistan in one incident a taliban suicide car bomber struck on
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a convoy of foreign troops in kabul thirteen service personnel are dead along with three civilians and a policeman hours later a man in an afghan military uniform fired on u.s. troops in the south killing two the attacker was killed at the scene there are also reports that a female suicide bombers targeted government offices in the east. in turkey it's thought a suicide bomber calls an explosion in the south east killing at least two people and wounding many others it happened near a government building in be predominantly kurdish city of big old no one is admitting the blast but kurdish rebels have carried out similar attacks in their fight for autonomy. high tide has passed a bad call lower than expected reducing fears the city would be swamped in the worst decades nevertheless parts of the thai capital remain under water officials have asked the u.s. military to help survey the damage the prime minister said the water was expected
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to recede in the first week of november and floodings claimed more than three hundred seventy lives since july. a massive financial pyramid scheme which wiped out millions of people's life savings and russia in 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. he 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 ordinary 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 hope i don't feel
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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 m control so the situation was not acceptable and everything was done to eliminate it sort of game over 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. back with another financial scheme and while you could hardly find any commercial enterprise the streets of ukraine cities have been literally flooded with calls to join in with the. weekend do more use the slogan of the new complain at mit's it is another pyramid and is 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
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sixty percent a month at this price only i can sit some individuals exchange money between themselves without any obligations got into some 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 the depreciation of national currency is like introducing in the euro and. the bureaucracy is against. markets and people. legal ukraine's politicians disagree they're willing. to block from making off with vulnerable people.
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at the 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. and the member of an old lady 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. reporting from ukraine well if anything else smells fishy it certainly japan's economy but is the order of the day as fears grow the world's third largest economy is heading into a. crisis on able to deal with its mounting debt. and germany's on a damage limitation drive to curb a rise in neo nazi ism and nationalist groups during decades of the now defunct multicultural policy the more the country tried to unite its ethnic communities the
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more it forced them apart and voters eyes are now turning towards hardline right wing parties. and reports the worry is that the cultural divide could violently tear society. 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 a very meager unscrewing german trust illegal ones yes and after that the other day i was told 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 that in some regions in east germany there are no immigrants. it's not because of economy reasons but it's
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because nobody wants ready to go there because it's there always threatened one anti nazi group recently managed to do right when 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 the near nazi group however german police intelligence estimates that there are eight to ten thousand hardcore 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 hate crimes. of them about eight hundred violent crimes so that's also in the top five from your own report accusations of inciting hatred to the n.p.t. yes they were unmoved germany is the state of the germans but if you are today you
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have parts in berlin with more than thirty forty percent of foreignness when 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 to me or take to me this part of me whereas most political parties are now finding candidates from the ethnic groups they represent those on the right a 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
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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 tamasin r.t. . let's see what else you can check out r.t. dot com this weekend imagine oh we had a trillion dollars before you've started your first job. haggle over american students right now why are prices education is grounded rational. the russian a cinderella supermodel natalia helps bring in the real life story of a russian orphan to the wider world for helping to get published. and russia's most historic theater throws open its doors after a massive renovation. you can watch watch the highlights of the limelight set our teeth dot com.
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worried me towards a financial crisis while the country's run up a huge national debt as it struggles to recover from this year's earthquake and tsunami disaster she wanted to matsue looks at how japan's dire circumstances is leaving a trapped and teetering on the edge at. thank you 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 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
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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 do people's livelihoods stagnant growth the strong man and the massive national debt some economists japan maybe all a few years away from its own major economic crisis and since this east asian nation remains the well's number three economy the consequences of. 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
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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 creates unemployment japan is facing an extraordinary act. 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 leaving japanese businessman stock money. going in supply industry is gradually losing its ability to sell their product machines to just. the world faces these conditionals 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
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in an entire year couple that with the funds needed to rebuild after the devastation only by the earthquake and tsunami earlier this year and it seems japan is fighting a battle it may not be able to win she horrific matsu r.t. tokyo. thousands going to need to protest across america as part of the anti corporate occupy movement the mainstream media is at pains to point out there's a lot of a unified agenda always hard us returned 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 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
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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 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 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 are so greedy and so
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by money and wealth and materialism and consumerism do you still have a message for all these corporate bigwigs who are taking millions and not supporting their people and my message isn't to 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. and coming up soon artie goes backstage at the newly refurbished bolshoi to discover the ambitious engineering that led to russia's most famous bait are making a major comeback to stay with us here in our.
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