closer now to occupy wall street activists in the face of police pressure to move on after they have their heating and power generators seized as winter starts early in new york. activists say at least thirty protesters are killed amid new clashes in syria as the arab league calls on damascus to end the violence. plus a special r.t. report the man responsible for the biggest financial pyramid scheme in russian history they cost millions of their life savings now tempting ukrainian savers to hand over their hard cash and. maybe cut back on the streets. they say they're not getting enough. it's getting too much.

in broadcasting a direct from the heart of moscow this is our team glad to have you with us this week with your top stories u.s. police are upping their efforts against of the occupy movement gripping the country for a second month in new york where the anti-corporate demonstrations began officers are literally leaving protesters out in the cold they have swept through zuccotti park where hundreds have been camping out confiscating power generators and gas canisters saying that they are a fire hazard this comes as an unseasonal snow storm hits the east coast as you can see here with up to ten inches expected as temperatures hit subzero police are also being criticized for cracking down on protesters across the country in oakland california the mayor has been forced to apologize after demonstrators there were tear gas to this week despite the violence the movement is picking up momentum he's on associate churkin of reports on how the war veterans are now helping fill protester ranks. america's autumn

faces covered up protesters fleeing from tear gas shot into the crowd by police. at least ninety seven arrests and 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. the march of solidarity with the oakland protesters in new york leads to ten arrests. protesters 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. you 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 cause 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 it's not about hippies in a negative stereotype thirty year old gary griggs has served in the national guard for the last two years he's spending his short vacation at occupy wall street does marines national guard maybe. yan more the better the guardsman is outraged at the fact that marines are getting attacked at home the crowd that did or should be fired and coming up by. others here believe it won't be long however until the police join the crowds instead of restricting them you will see a lot of this is protesting because they're going to work for years and they're going to see that their perjury is 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. yet again i know.

everybody has banded together and the rope that's being created here no sword will cry on this i see a church in our party and your. the anti wall street protesters have seen some heavy police crackdowns with tear gas and sound grenades being used to disperse the rallies and after the iraq war veteran scott olsen was seriously injured in a protest in oakland anger against the system has only been fueled but one of the wounded marines friends emily yates who is also a war veteran thinks that violence is not the answer nobody has stepped forward and it made it it should being the police officer who threw or fired the project that day it's still the situation is still really tense i think until the city is a little. committed and fast error in judgment i feel like it's not going to foster good relationships scott situation has taught us all

you know it's a hope it will continue teaching us that violence no matter which side it's against is never a productive way to get your message across u.s. author david korten has been studying the root causes of wife thousands are protesting across his country 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 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 also mostly 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 around 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 as obama has a problem with the government skipping over the fact that wall street has created an economy that is devoted primarily to making money for rich people through time financial deeds we have to address that issue you know people are complaining that the occupy wall street 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 true democracy and real markets which which work for everyone but later in the program we give the demonstrators in new york a chance to let their voices be heard. these people are so greedy

and so. money and wealth that materialism and consumerism. boy heads down to occupied it's a coffee party in the big apple for arts and crafts protesters for them it's to wall street. and it's germany's multicultural melting pot boils over as the immigration anger drives a deepening divide minutes before. from berlin. activists say syrian security forces have killed at least thirty people during mass protests calling for the downfall of president bashar assad's regime this comes after the arab league condemned the continuing killings of civilians in the country the arab ministerial committee is due to hold another round of talks with syrian officials later on sunday to help end of the crisis the u.n. estimates more than three thousand people have been killed since march when the regime uprising began some of the protesters have also been calling for

a no fly zone over the country and aerial support from nato warplanes but this isn't syrian writer and democracy. most of the population doesn't support foreign intervention. we're against military intervention whether it's a date tomorrow or in ten years time even if the regime is to ny late every one of us would still be against military intervention we fight for freedom and we don't want to add external slavery to our domestic one we don't want it to become a part of the struggle between the international and internal forces syrians are peaceful they want to progress under conditions of freedom and development and they don't want to turn into a concentration camp polygon for larger countries and. from the foundation for political economic and social research in a car or believes that a no fly zone will not help to resolve the political crisis. i don't think that

no fly zone would be an african way to face with the assad regime because when we see the development of the protests and the brutal crackdown of the cedar ridge you may gain support tester's we see that the syrian regime has been using its its length forces a lot except for occasional use of helicopters to shut down the protesters and using a no fly zone like the one in libya i don't think would be an official way to face with peace. you know crackdown or to redeem strong parallels have been asked the libyan case and the syrian case i think this is a grave error because there are grave differences between the syrian case and the libyan case where we look at the syrian case i think it's completely different i mean if you look at it's like social fabric or the sectarian lycee in syria we see that all groups i mean from the opposition and also the fighting this regime groups

have been living together the syrian giora if you get dorothy does all that you know a scenario like the one in libya. and another israel where thousands of demonstrators protesting against a social inequality and a government spending policy took to the streets of tel aviv again after a nearly two month break party's policy or brings us the latest. the last demonstration back in september in early september so must a million people come to the streets of the country organizers was satisfied with their turnout and after that a lot of the protesters many of them are university students return to classes and things had to take a little bit of it all but certainly now what we have seen in the last few hours is not only attention on what is happening internally can be is maybe a cause has also gone to the strikes on southern gaza eleven people have been killed five of them are members of the islamic jihad organization that it was holds

responsible for a grad missile that was fired into israel earlier in the week the concern here though talking to people is that this story of social demonstrations will not be missed by many in the international community as it focuses on what is happening externally and certainly the mainstream international media is making a lot of what is going on in gaza to the detriment of what is happening here and with me to talk about this is nicholas simmons who is one of the our social protest has declared why are you back on the streets after a two month. knesset the parliament is returning from its recess tomorrow that the day after i mean. i just hope that they'll reconsider their budgetary considerations and the problem is being that the budgetary considerations have been about parties and politics been about leading the tide to control everything we want the budgetary considerations to consider just the general good of the country here in israel is very very important to realize we are not in economic recession

or a problem it isn't that we don't have enough money problem is that it's being mismanaged the government decisions about what to do the money is bad but bolo third that's worth thirty when you hear the cries of people here and we need a slogan is the people demand of social justice people who are saying that the government can do not at once to detract attention but they certainly will not give up on what they say are very legitimate demands. but he's reporting now millions of russians lost their life savings in the one nine hundred ninety s. in what proved to be a massive financial pyramid scheme and now it's back its eccentric founder is come up with another financial plan and in ukraine savers are getting in line to hand over their hard earned money so let's hear shots he explains why. the trying to live in russian hit movie the pyramid depletes 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 attractive millions vowing to multiply their investments many times in the end it went bust after fifteen million people lost their life savings. i don't feel like i'm a sinner what about him in ninety four it was undermined by the government so i knew him and emerged was virtually unlimited resources absolutely i'm control so the situation was not acceptable and everything was done to eliminate it silicium of rudy at 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 financial pyramid had walked. back with another financial fifteen and was what he could hardly 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 of rodeo admits 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 sixty percent a month this price on the i can sit some individuals exchange money between themselves without any obligations going into some conditions it is a fundamental point when there is no legal entity to join the kind in office in other words everything is shared between millions of private accounts and means no one can put a name 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 you know ordered not to allow the depreciation of national currency is like

introducing new euro threats from us and another. government machine the bureaucracy is again like administered only press in the financial markets and people looking for an exit not only claims his actions are legal ukraine's politicians disagree the ruling party wants current laws tightened to block them a man from making off with vulnerable people's nest eggs m m m m m two thousand and eleven is a prison for a national service and requires a license providing financial services without a license is a criminal offense with 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. alexi russia skee r.t. reporting from here in ukraine all occupy wall street anger as well as austerity

measures in your country of the rising sun there are also financial worries there. still with us to find out why the maldives a third largest economy may be teetering on the brink of collapse. germany is seeing a rise and we are not ism as voters are eyes are eagerly turning towards hardline right wing parties after decades of a multicultural policy proved in effect of the ethnic communities of the country have only grown for their part and as tom part reports the worry is that the cultural divide will be. 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 germany first the illegal ones yes and after that the other

day i was told that's the view of the national democratic party or n p g 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 nearly no immigrants. it's not because of economy reasons but it's because nobody wants really to go there because it's they're always threatened one until nazi group recently managed to do that right when concert goes 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 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 been in the top five for us 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 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 m p d or other party is. could not just say to me or take to move this part of live to be german whereas most

political parties are now finding candidates from the ethnic groups they represent those on the right a posting not 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 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. . now look at some other stories making headlines around the world. the serving violence in south sudan where a suspected rebel attack killed seventy five people and officials say it was a strike on an oil rich province most of the fatalities were rebel fighters but

fifteen civilians also died south sudan has been plagued by tribal violence since it began decrying autonomy from sudan in two thousand and five around three thousand people are thought to have been killed in the country this year alone. there have been a series of insurgent attacks in afghanistan in one incident seventeen people were killed when a taliban suicide car bomber struck a convoy of foreign troops in kabul hours later a man in an afghan military uniform fired at u.s. troops in the south killing two the attacker there was killed at the scene there have also been reports that a woman suicide bomber targeted government offices in the east. thailand seasonal high tide has passed and was lower than expected reducing fears that bangkok would be swamped in the worst flooding in decades nevertheless parts of the capital remain underwater officials have asked the u.s. military to help survey the damage the prime minister said the water was expected to recede in the first week of november the flooding is claimed more than three

hundred seventy lives since july. moammar gadhafi is most influential son claims he is not guilty of crimes against humanity there have been in direct talks with prosecutors at the hague to bring saif al islam in but his whereabouts remain unknown hours long is wanted for suspected war crimes during the eight month libyan uprising which the u.n. says killed over thirty thousand people and ended with his father's violence there . for more on libya head to our website or to dot com. there for you we have an exclusive interview with moammar gadhafi personal driver who witnessed the colonel's last moments see the funeral he says the former libyan leader was scared for the inevitable for the rebels and for also for you online. the consequences of the fukushima disaster will be emerging for at least several

decades the japanese government says it will take up to thirty years to completely clean up the radiation released from the real. anger within a hair of bigfoot the russian academy of sciences claims it is highly likely that the yeti really exists right of biology about. clouds are gathering over the land of the rising sun with worryingly towards a financial crisis countries that run a huge national debt as it struggles to recover from this year's earthquake and tsunami disaster she. looks out how japan's dire circumstances are leaving a trail teetering on the edge. in many ways

but 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 are raking in about seventeen billion dollars annually with hungry customers consuming nine million tons of sicily along the way. if an addiction repeated all over the world but it's no helping the main exporters which has been left floundering. japanese food is the most popular food in the world and that in italy 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 stronger you know when the national currency is up if exports down japanese goods just too expensive to compete on the wild stage and its profits disappear so

people's livelihoods stagnant growth the strong yen and the massive national debt some economists korea japan maybe all of us all right but it's own major economic crisis and says this east asian nation remains the world's number three economy the consequences of the big global this is something japan's political leaders are determined to avoid and many are calling for urgent action. on these industry can probably enjoy the current seventy five dollars 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 to places like vietnam thailand or china this would lead to a hollowing out of japanese domestic industry and creates unemployment so that 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 story from leading japanese businessman start. money. building in supply industry is gradually losing its ability to sell their products and machines to just start selling and see 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 it's the plea in the red japan has the highest national debt among major economies growing almost twice as much as the economy makes in an entire year couple that with the funds needed to rebuild after their station and least 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 continue to protest across america as part of the anti-corporate occupy movement the mainstream media is at pains to point out that there is a lack of a unified agenda or harvest returned to where it all started in new york to discover that everybody 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 you are human beings also do you see the suffering the 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 we should have the basic rights and the basic care care of we the people more than your banker we need you to join us right because they're just people too it

shouldn't be an us versus them we 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 this corporation well i don't have to say anything other than i don't support them how do you say be fair share to someone or something that does not know what what kind of concept this is andrew qadi we practice we're a community where we share our resources these people are are so greedy and so faired 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 my messages and so that my message is to make sure that these soldiers that are here and they continue to believe that this conversation is important and that these people are involved in a process so 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. now wraps up our news for this hour i'm john thomas and thanks for watching r.t. international i'll be back with the headlights in just a few minutes. thanks .

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