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 a seasonal snowstorm me hits the east coast as you can see here with up to about ten inches expected as temperatures at 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 though the movement has been picking up momentum artie's. reports on how war veterans are now helping fill. america's autumn faces covered up protestors fleeing from tear gas shot into the crowd by police. at least ninety seven arrests in 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. a 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 in a video now gone viral on the web i think i. i think you 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 cause let's find out what this means for them the fact that more and more personnel are joining us. they recognize that this is an american it's not about hippies and 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 got some

marines national guard navy seals. more the better the guardsman is outraged at the fact that marines are getting attacked at home and the cop that 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 them you're going to see a lot of protesting. and they're going to see that it's 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 like this they are going to get. i think that everybody has banded together and the rope that's being created here you know a sword will cut and if they see a church r t v or. and in the report we've just seen we saw sergeant 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 out. 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 that you know the police had no district offer him or his uniform was shocking you know the protests that decided that they would peacefully march through the streets you know you know china you know these are our streets because you know in fact the they are our streets and the police you know really going hard to. stop what we're trying to do peacefully and trying to you know i feel like they were trying to incite violence and. 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 this far as world will change the american people start to catch on they

all 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 and 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 that 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 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 time financial daves 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 of 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. heads down to occupied the bodyguard in the big apple for to you to ask protestors for their message to watch for. germany's multicultural melting pot boils over as immigration anger drives a deepening divide through community are reports from berlin. activists say syrian security forces have killed at least thirty people during a mass protests calling for the downfall of president bizarre but the regime this comes after the arab league condemned the continuing killings of civilians in the country. ministerial committee is due to hold another round of talks with syrian officials later on sunday to help end the crisis in the un 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 meanwhile in his first interview to a western journalist since the beginning of the uprising syria's president bashar al assad has borne that military action against his country would be like an earthquake for the entire region dissident syrian writer and a democracy campaigner michelle told r.t. that most of the population doesn't support for intervention. as a subtle or against military intervention whether it's a day to morrow or in ten years time even if the regime is to 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 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 philology countries. from the foundation for political

economic and social research and ancora believes that military intervention will not help to resolve the political crisis i don't think that no fly zone would be an official 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 some protesters we see that the syrian regime has been using its its length forces a lot except for the 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 of to regime strong parallels have been 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 lines in syria we see that all. from the opposition and also the fighting these groups have been living together the syrian giora if you get your feet those will 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 a policy or brings us the latest. the last demonstration back in september in early september sold a million people come to the streets of the country logan i was satisfied with that turnout and after that a lot of the protesters many of them are university students return to process and things that didn't 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 the israeli air force has

also strikes on southern gaza eleven people have been killed five of them are members of the islamic jihad organization that is what holds a sponsible 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 in 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 social protesters nicolette why are you back on the streets after a two month lull. the knesset the parliament is returning from its recess tomorrow that the day after i mean. we just hope that they'll reconsider their budgetary considerations and the problem has been that the budgetary considerations have been

about parties and politics they've been about leaving the tycoons who seem to control everything we want the budgetary considerations to consider just the general good of the country here in israel it's 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 the lows so that's what we're certainly when you hear the cries of people here and really they slogan is the people demand of social justice people here saying that the government can do what it wants to attract attention but they certainly will not give up. i'm what they say a very legitimate demands. of his policy are reporting for us they're now 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 it's 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 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's 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. i don't feel like i'm a sinner what about ninety four it was undermined by the government so i knew m.m.m. for emerged was virtually unlimited resources absolutely i'm controlled 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.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 was hard to find any commercial enterprise the streets of ukraine cities have been literally flooded with calls to join in with the. weekend do more is 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 sixty percent a month at this price only i can see it 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

roadies 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 like administer to the press in the financial markets and people looking for an exit claims his actions are legal ukraine's politicians disagree the ruling party wants current laws tightened to block them from making off with vulnerable people's nasty eggs. two thousand and eleven is a provision 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. scheme see reporting from here in ukraine. 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 eyes are eagerly turning towards hardline right wing parties after decades of multicultural policy proved an effect of the ethnic communities of the country have only grown further apart and as tom barton reports the worry is that the cultural divide will. 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. immigrants germany plus 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. 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 than you have no immigrants. it's not because of a comic reasons but it's because nobody was ready to go there because it's there always threatened one anti nazi group recently managed to do right wing concert goers into wearing their bogus t. shirts when they were washed the rightwing 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 hate crimes. of them about eight hundred violent crimes so that's also been in the top five for the year was when we put 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 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 many families now have second and third generation members with german citizenship and they're gaining political representatives who defy anyone who say's they don't belong here m p d or other part this. could not to

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 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 a route for cultural exchange or a border between essentially foreign territories tom watson r.t. . and inelegant 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 are 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 suicide car bomber struck a convoy of foreign troops in kabul hours later a man in a afghan military uniform fired at u.s. 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. past and was lower than expected reducing fears that bangkok would be 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 lives since july. moammar gadhafi is most influential son claims he's not guilty of crimes against humanity there have been in direct talks with prosecutors at the hague to bring saif al islam but his whereabouts remain unknown is wanted for suspected war crimes during that eight month libyan uprising which the u.n. says killed over thirty thousand people and ended with his father's violent death. and for more on libya you can head to our web site our team. there we have an exclusive interview with moammar gadhafi personal driver who witnessed the colonel's last moments and secret funeral he says the former libyan leaders were not scared prepared for the inevitable when the rebels 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 brigade. with. big foot the russian academy of sciences claims it is. highly likely. the ring over the land of the rising sun with japan 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 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. 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 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 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 strongman and the massive national debt some economists korea japan maybe only a few 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 who 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 lead to a hollowing out of japanese domestic industry and creates unemployment japan is

facing an extraordinary. growing. 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 products in machines to just. since 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 the plea in the red japan has the highest national debt among major economies owing almost twice as much as the economy makes in an entire year couple that with the funds needed to rebuild after the devastation unleashed by the earthquake and tsunami this year and it seems japan is

fighting a battle it may not be able to win she hurried to r.t. tokyo 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 that there is a lack of a unified agenda. returned toward 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 that there would be a precipice this week let's talk about that i would like to say you're human beings also do you see the suffering that people are going through you know what it's like we want the health insurance that you have everybody should have that health insurance we should have the basic rights in the basic care care of we the people

more than your bank account we need you to join us right because they're just people to it shouldn't be an us versus them we need your help poor 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 corporation 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 fed 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 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 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 it up this hour on sean thomas thanks for watching r.t. international back with headlines in just a few moments. wealthy

british style sun releasing some time to rise. to the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on r.g.p. . and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is our team glad to have you

with us let's pull up a. still it is true i lost my back this remain defiant in the face of the police pressure and early start of winter in new york big apple authorities are really serious campaigners commuters and power generators and safe vapors i pose the fire has. activists say at least thirty protesters are killed amid new clashes and so. as the arab league calls on damascus to end violence and protect civilians arab ministers are due to meet syrian officials on sunday going to tolerate capital doha in the attempt to resolve. plus a special hour to report the man responsible for the biggest financial pyramid scheme in russian history that cost millions their life savings is now attempting ukrainian savers to head over there are. thousands of israelis who took to the streets of tel aviv.