still. occupy wall street activists remain defiant in the face of the police pressure and an early start to winter in new york. activists say at least thirty protesters are killed in the new clashes in syria as the arab league calls on damascus to end violence. plus a special hour to report the man responsible for the biggest financial pyramid scheme in russian history but cost millions their life savings is now tempting ukrainian soldiers and they are harder task and. the case may be on the streets protesting the government spending they say they're not getting enough by the minute. and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas

let's take a look at your top headlines u.s. police are upping their efforts against the occupy movement gripping of the country for a second month in new york where the anti-corporate going to stations 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 as comes as an unseasonable snow storm hits the east coast as you can see here with up to about ten inches expected as temperatures it's 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 gassed this week despite the violence though the movement has been picking up momentum parties started tripping up reports on how war veterans are now helping fill coaster ranks. americans on him he says covered up protestors 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. 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 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. 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 guys marines national guard navy seals. yan more the better the guardsman is outraged at the fact that marines are getting attacked at home but drop that good or should be fired and hung up by. others here believe it won't be long however until the police join the crowds instead of restricting that we're going to see a lot of protesting they're going to work for 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 to wait any time soon with marines and other military vets pledging to have the protesters back. again i know. everybody has banded together and the rope that's being created here no sword will cut and so

i see a church in our party. and in the report we've just seen we saw sergeant show mark thomas confront members of the n.y.p.d. over their treatment of protesters later he spoke to us and told us why he felt he had to speak up. scott olsen is you know a patriot to this country and he you know decided to go out and stand up for the people he chose to protect in iraq so to see you know the police had no disregard for him or uniform was shocking you know the protests the decided that they were peacefully marched through the streets you know you know chanting you know these are our streets because you know. they are our streets and the police are you know really going hard to. stop what we're trying to do peacefully and trying to you know not feel like they were trying to incite violence inside you know be disorderly but everybody kept it peaceful nobody you know did any sort of violent

acts toward the police but. in my twenty five years on this earth that was one of the greatest things that i've ever been a part of as far as change the american people start to catch on about this is this is about the ninety nine percent of america that are hardworking that you know good citizens that go to you know go to work every day come home and take care of their kids this is this is about the america that we all know what love. us author david korten has been studying the root causes of why thousands are protesting across this 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 it actually draws more support for the protest they are finally drawing attention to the fact that we have an economy actually it 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 of this obama or the problem of the government skipping over the faster that wall street has created an economy that is devoted primarily to making money for rich people through trying financial james we have to address that issue 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 of are true democracy and and real markets

which which work for everyone. and 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 their materialism and consumerism. and what harvest heads down to occupied by the big apple for our tita asked protesters for their message to watch. germany's multicultural melting pot boils over as immigration anger drives a deepening divide through community in part from the reports from berlin. activists say syrian security forces have killed at least thirty people during mass protests calling for the downfall of president bizarre but charsadda 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 the crisis the u.n. estimates more than three thousand people have been killed since march when the anti 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 meanwhile in his first interview to a western journalist since the beginning of the uprising syria's president bashar al assad has borne military action against his country would be like an earthquake for the entire region he said in syria and arriving to democracy campaigner michelle keeler told r.t. that most of the population doesn't support for intervention. as a side we're against military intervention but this is a tomorrow or in ten years time 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 external slavery to our domestic law 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 and development. i don't want to turn into a concentration camp a polygon for larger countries and we pass from the foundation for political economic and social research and ankara believes that military intervention will not help to resolve the political crisis i don't think that north fly zone would be an official way to face with the assad regime because when we see the level of the protests and the brutal crackdown of the cedar ridge you may gain some protestors we see that the syrian regime has been using its length for since i'm not 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 brutal crackdown or to redeem strong parallels had been

a start with with 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 when 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 lysine syria. all groups. from the opposition and also the fighting this regime groups they are believing together the syrians or if you could do or feel those we'll let you know a scenario like the one in libya. and now to israel where thousands of demonstrators protesting against social inequality and government spending policy took to the streets of tel aviv again after a nearly two month break artie's of costlier brings us the latest. the last demonstration back in september and early september so most eight million people come to the streets in the country organizers was satisfied with that turnout and

often got a lot of the protesters many of them are university students return to process and things had to take a little bit of it all but said he now what we have seen in the last few hours is not only attention on what is happening internally here from the israeli air force has also gone to the strikes on southern gaza eleven people have been killed five of them who are members of the islamic jihad organization that it was holds responsible for a grad missile that was fired into israel in earlier in the week be concerned here though talking to people is that this story of social demonstrations will not be missed by many in the international community as a focuses on what is happening externally and certainly the mainstream international media is making a lot of what is going on in gaza today for most of what is happening here and with me to talk about this is nicholas simmons who is one of the os ocean protasis nicolette why are you back on the streets after a two month drought. knesset the parliament is returning from his recess tomorrow

that a day off i mean. we just hope that they'll reconsider their budgetary considerations and the problem is being that the budget considerations have been about parties and politics they've been about raising 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 a problem isn't that we don't have enough money problem is that it's being mismanaged the government decisions about what to do with the money is bad but those good up over thirty when you hear the cries of people here and read a slogan is that people demand of social justice people here saying that the government can do what it wants to detract attention but they certainly will not give up. and what they say are very legitimate demands. of his policy reporting for us they're moving on millions of russians lost their life savings in the one nine

hundred ninety s. and what proved to be a massive financial pyramid scheme and now it's back its eccentric founder has come up with another financial plan and in ukraine a savers are getting in line to hand over their hard earned money. explains why. the twenty levon 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 sports was a sad episode in russia supposed soviet history the financial pyramid called attracted 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 cynical but about ninety four it was undermined by the government and u m m m four emerged as virtually unlimited resources absolutely i'm control of the

situation was not acceptable and everything was done to eliminate it see the game of rudy 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 seventeen years. pyramid had walked across space is back with another financial scene and when asked what he could hardly find any commercial enterprise the streets of ukraine cities have been literally flooded with calls to join in with 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 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 search some individuals exchange money between themselves without any obligations guarantees and 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 that means no one can come into 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 the depreciation of national currency is like introducing a new euro threat and then other people understand. the bureaucracy is against something like administered through the press in the financial markets and people looking for an exit of o.t. 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. you know ma'am two thousand and eleven is a prison and financial services and requires a license providing financial services without a license is 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. alexi russia skee r.t. reporting from here in ukraine or from kiev to japan in the country of the rising sun there are also financial worries there. too with us to find out why the world's third largest economy may be teetering on the brink of collapse. germany is seeing a rise in neo nazi ism as voters our eyes are eagerly turning towards hardline right wing parties after decades of multicultural policy approved an effect of the ethnic communities of the country have only grown for their part and as tom dart 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 just the illegal ones yes one after the other the other still 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 of bare bones argue they promote hatred they achieve that in some regions in east germany there are nearly no immigrants. it's not because of economic reasons but it's because nobody wants redy to go there because it's they're always threatened one anti nazi group recently managed to do right wing concert goers into wearing their bogus t. shirts when they watched the right wing slogan dissolved to reveal

a message urging the wearer to leave the neo 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 one of the top five from here was 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 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 n.p.t. or other party is. could maps to just say to me or take to me 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 the 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 and 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.

. and in our look at some other stories making headlines for you around the world. disturbing violence in southern sudan where i suspected rebel attack killed seventy five people 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 declaring autonomy from sudan in two thousand and five around three thousand people were thought to have been killed in the country this year alone. there are going to 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 us troops in the south killing two the attacker was also killed at the scene there have also been reports that a woman suicide bomber targeted government offices in the east. highlands

a 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 do 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 has claimed more than three hundred seventy alive since july. moammar gadhafi is most influential son it claims he's not guilty of crimes against humanity there have been in direct talks with prosecutors out the hague to bring saif al islam in but his whereabouts remain unknown all islam is wanted for suspected of war crimes during that eight month libyan uprising which the u.n. says killed over thirty thousand people and ended with his father's violence there . and for more on that libby can head to our web site our team. there we have an exclusive interview with mark personal driver who witnessed the

colonel's last moments and secret funeral says the former libyan leaders were not scared or cared for the number of letters came for him 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 video. with a pair of big foot russian academy of sciences claims it is highly likely to be yes he really does exist find out why a dark. clouds are gathering over the land of the rising sun with japan lurching worryingly

towards a financial crisis the countries are run up a huge national debt as it struggles to recover from this year's earthquake and tsunami disaster she. looks at how japan's dire circumstances are 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 off. take the industry itself japanese sushi shops raking in about seventeen billion dollars annually with hungry customers consuming nine million tons of sisters 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 else in these companies are suffering major consequences from a strong. when the national currency is up a push is 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 korea japan maybe all a few years away from its own major economic crisis and says 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. billie's industry can probably enjoy the current seventy five year into the dollar level for a little while but if this situation doesn't change over a longer period i think we're going to see japanese factories and large companies

move their operations overseas places like vietnam thailand or china this would lead to a hollowing out of japanese domestic industry and create unemployment 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 leading japanese businessman start. money. there in japan know when an supply industry is gradually losing its ability to sell their products and machines just aren't selling and since the world faces these conditions 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 is the police 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 shorrock matthew r.t. tokyo now is that dozens 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 well let's 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 that there would be a process this week let's talk about that i would like to say your human being but 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 their health insurance we should have the basic rights and the basic care 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 you have to say to those corporations well i don't have to say anything other than i don't support them how do you say be fair and share to someone or something that does not know what what kind of concept this is and to qadi we practice where a community where we share our resources people are so greedy and so by money and wealth and materialism and consumerism you still have

a message for all these corporate bigwigs who are taking millions and not supporting my messages and so that 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 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 hear 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. not upset of those sour on sean thomas thanks for watching r t international on the back with have once again just a few moments. to

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