still in june occupy wall street activists remain defiant in the face of police a pressure and an early start to winter and to your big apple of shorty's earlier she was campaigners heaters and power generators saying they posed a fire hazard. activists say at least thirty protesters are killed in clashes in syria as the arab league calls on damascus to end violence. plus a special r.t. report the man responsible for the biggest financial pyramid scheme in rock history that costs millions their life savings is now attempting ukrainian savers to hand over their hard earned cash and. maybe the state governments they say they're not getting enough problem in a cheat. and

lie from the heart of moscow this is our team and i'm sean thomas and these are your top stories u.s. police are upping their efforts against the occupy movement gripping the country for a second a month in new york where the anti-corporate demonstrations began and officers are literally leaving protesters out in the cold and they've swept through the park where hundreds have been camping out confiscating power generators and gas canisters saying look they're 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 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 this week despite the violence however the movement is picking up momentum are the stuff you're tripping on reports on how the war veterans are now helping to fill the 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 all 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 . protestors slammed into the ground and netted by police earlier in other marine confronts police treatment of protesters in 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 movement it's not about hippies in the negative stereotypes thirty year old gary briggs has served in the national guard for the last two years he's spending his short vacation at occupy wall street guys marines national guard navy seals. then more the better the guardsmen is outraged at the fact that marines are getting attacked at home the crowd but better should be fired and come up by. others here believe it won't be long however until the police join the crowds instead of restricting them you're going to see a live report with protest think 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 away any time soon with marines and other military vets pledging to have the protesters back to. the right.

everybody has banded together and the rope that's being created here no sword will cut and if they see a church r.t. he or. in the report we've just seen sergeant thomas confronts members of the n.y.p.d. over their treatment of protesters there 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 disregard for him or his uniform was shocking you know across as a decided that they were peacefully marched through the streets you know you know cheney you know these are our streets because you know the 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 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 this far as world will change the american people start to catch on day about then this is this is about the ninety nine percent of america that are hardworking that are 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 i thousand are protesting across the 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 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 of this obama or the problem is the government skipping over the fact that wall street has created the economy that is devoted primarily to making money for rich people through trying financial gains 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 are true democracy and real markets 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 are so greedy and so by money and wealth and materialism and consumerism. lawyer. down to occupy zuccotti park the big forty pass protesters for their message lost. and germany's multicultural melting pot boils over as immigration anger drives a deepening defiance or can. r t reports 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 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 that military action against his country would be like an earthquake for the entire region this i don't syrian writer and democracy campaigner michelle cleo told r.t. that most of the population doesn't support foreign intervention. we're against military intervention but it's a day to morrow or in ten years time even if the regime was 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 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 development and they don't want to turn into a concentration camp a polygon philology countries. from the foundation for political economic and social research and car 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 protestors we see that the syrian regime has been using its land forces a lot except for occasional use of helicopters to shut down the protesters and the using a no fly zone like the one in libya i don't think would be an efficient way to face

with these brutal crackdown or to regime strong parallels have been a start 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 kane's well 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 groups here from the opposition and also the fighting the regime groups have been living together these syrian juror if you get your feet those will let you know a scenario like the one in libya moving on to israel now 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 his palace there brings us the latest. the last demonstration back in september and early september so

a million people come to the streets of the country to organize and it was satisfied with that turnout and after that a lot of the protesters many of them are university students returned 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 be israeli air force has also gone to strikes on southern gaza eleven people have been killed five of them who are members of the islamic jihad organization that is one holds responsible for a grad miss out it 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 on gaza to the detriment of what is happening here and with me to talk about this is nicholas simmons who is one of the protestors

nicolette why are you back on the streets after a month that. the knesset the parliament is returning from his 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 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. bolos further further thirty when you hear the cries of people hear and read a slogan is the people demand a social justice people who are saying that they got on the consumer what it wants to attract attention but they certainly will not give up on what they say are very legitimate demands. art is part of their reporting force they're now moving on it

millions of russians have 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 savers are getting in line planned over their hard earned money. explains why. the train's eleven russian hit movie the pyramid depicts a robin hood of the nine hundred ninety s. a businessman who promises well for people and confronts the oligarchs the real story behind the split was a sad episode in russia spode soviet history the financial pyramid called attracted millions growing to multiply their investment 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 well was virtually unlimited resources absolutely i'm controlled so the situation was not acceptable and everything was done to eliminate it sort of came up through 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 across space in a game already in the 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 point. we can do more is the slogan of the new complaint 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 only i can sit some individuals exchange money between

themselves without any obligations going to 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 the. 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 introduced him in your restrictions are going to understand that the government bureaucracy is against something like administer to the press and the financial markets and people looking for an axe not only claims his actions are legal ukraine's politicians disagree they're willing party wants current laws tightened to block a man from making off with vulnerable people's nasty ads m m m m m m two thousand and eleven there's a provision in financial services and requires

a license providing financial services without a license as 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. let's see russia ski r.t. reporting from here in ukraine in a country of the rising sun there are also a financial worries. here 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 near naziism as voters eyes are eagerly turning towards hardline right wing parties after decades of a multicultural policy proved ineffective the ethnic communities of the country have only grown for their part and as tom barton reports the worry is that the cultural divide will only deepen.

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 relief 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.t. here in germany they've supported many concerts attended by right wing supporters but 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 economic reasons but it's because nobody wants really to go there because it's they're always threatened one anti nazi group recently managed to do right when concert goes into

wearing their bogus t. shirts when they washed the right wing slogan dissolved to reveal a message urging the wearer to leave their near nazi group however german police intelligence estimates that there are eight to ten thousand hardcore militant near 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 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 apply you have parts in berlin with more than thirty forty percent of foreignness and 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 could not 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 are posting up 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. . and in our look at some other stories making headlines around the world. disturbing violence in south sudan where he 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 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 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's

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 under water 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 in but his whereabouts remain unknown. 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. and for more on libya you can head to our website or to dot com. there for you we

have an exclusive interview with moammar gadhafi spoke of all drivers who witnessed the finals last moments and secret you know he says the former libyan leader was not scared and prepared for the inevitable when the rebels came for him also for you on. 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 actors. within a hair of bigfoot the russian academy of sciences claims it is highly likely that the yeti really exists but of my heart you know. clouds are gathering over the land of the rising sun with japan lurching worryingly

towards a financial crisis the country's run up huge national debt as it struggles to recover from this year's earthquake and tsunami disaster. 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 having great chunks of value sliced clean. take the industry itself japanese so she shops raking in about seventeen billion dollars annually with hungry customers consuming nine million tonnes of seafood along the way. if an addiction repeated all over 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 people's livelihoods stagnant growth the strong yen and the massive national debt some economists to japan maybe only a few years away but it's own major economic crisis and says this east asian nation remains the world's number three economy the consequences of the be global this is something japan's political leaders are determined to avoid and many are calling for urgent action. 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 so it's 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. going in supply industries were actually 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 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 coupled 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 she horrific matsu 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 harvest returns to where it all started in new york to discover that every demonstrator there has a special something. the protesters of occupy wall street are clearly fired up with wall street and with washington so what it 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 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 in the basic care care of we the people more than your banker we need you to join us. because they're just people to be an us versus them we your help poor pretty 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 share to someone or something that does not know what what kind of concept this is and to qadi we practice we're a community where we share our resources these people are so greedy and so. money and wealth and materialism and consumerism you still have

a massive search for all these corporate bigwigs who are taking millions and not supporting my messages and to them my message is to make sure that the soldiers that are here but 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'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. that wraps up the news this hour on sean thomas thanks for watching r.t. international of the back of headlines and just for more.

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