bad weather hits the east coast along with a sweeping police crackdown they'll now be up against plummeting temperatures snow when strong winds are teased maria port and i has the latest from new york. hinderance and tenacity of new york city's occupy wall street activist was tested this weekend as a blast of fine usual winter weather moved through the big apple the campgrounds in zuccotti park was hit with snow heavy rains and winds blowing up to sixty miles per hour now hundreds of protesters braved the freezing temperatures huddled inside their own personal tents or under tarps that were put up over part of zuccotti park now just one day before this winter weather came in city firefighters seized at least six generators and dozens of cans of gas from the occupy activists in zuccotti park now those generators were presumably being used to generate heat

as many knew that this cold weather was coming up over the weekend the city officials say the generators violate fire code and could have sparked a fire in the meantime occupy activists are threatening to take legal action if there are generators and their property will not be returned they demand that the city give them their property babb occupy optimiser accusing new york city mayor michael bloomberg of attempting to end the occupation by creating a public health risk for these protestors that value to remain down in zuccotti park in lower manhattan throughout the winter the upcoming winter season now meanwhile in denver over the weekend police moved into an occupying camp meant arresting demonstrators who allegedly ignored orders to leave the arrest came hours after a standoff between optimists and authorities near the steps of the colorado capital the clashes that erupted resulted in cops reportedly using pepper stick pepper

spray and rubber bullets against protesters twenty people people were reportedly arrested in what's being described as an ongoing. he's hockeytown against american uprising meanwhile the iraqi war veteran who was critically injured by police during wednesday's occupy oakland demonstration is making minor improvements doctors say that scott olsen's condition has been upgraded to fair although he remains in intensive care the twenty four year old suffer minor brain damage after being hit by a police projectile scott olsen was among the many iraqi war veterans taking part in the occupy oak oakland demonstrations that ended with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets at crowds of people at least ninety seven people were arrested get many safety of that and that of that garnered even more sympathy and more support for the occupy wall street movement that began here in new york city reporting from

new york great important iowa r.t. it's been a week of arrests and clashes between protesters and police sunday more than one hundred were held across the country r.t.s. producer lucy catherine of has been following the protest since they started six weeks ago you can follow her twitter page for the latest information on occupy wall street. well the eurozone may have huge a sigh of relief with a new deal reached to help greece but that doesn't mean the crisis is over portugal reportedly wants to renegotiate the terms of the belo it got earlier this year and it also called on non european countries to help save the eurozone as our teams are in a delusion reports painful austerity cuts have had portuguese society hard. no jobs no money no chance for the future these messages have been brought by teachers striking in portugal they can never have stability to be in the school. even if they are working for ten fifteen twenty years they are always learning disabled and

don't have a place in school a stable place in one school it's a political choice of the national cuts in education health and social security that's a political choice and we think it's it's wrong. but legendary atlantis particle seems to be sliding deeper and deeper into the depths of economic apathy what started off as a purely financial crisis is now turning into malevolent force which threatens to drop the portuguese their basic human rights earlier this year portugal got an emergency bailout from the e.u. to deal with and debt the third country to do so after greece and ireland but for some the seventy eight billion euro price tag is too high to pay for the hysteria to cuts it goes well beyond the classroom and strikes at some of portugese societies fundamental principles like access to justice. the government isn't paying lawyers who provide free public legal services so there are some who have

been doing it for years for free the courts cannot be reduced to canonical entities to solve problems of large corporations they must play the role of providing legal services to citizens and promoting social peace. and this is cutting corners in education and the legal system is not enough the government spends years are hitting the portuguese where it hurts the most in their health care the government what is your capacity to. do in two thousand of subsidies barrier the government much as to my go out yes there will be a lot of people who will model because we know that at the same time we've begun. even. and it's more pain no gain these territories failing to stop portugal's economy plummeting with the poor in the front line prime minister has said that he wants to keep the lower

income families away from the cuts not really sure that's possible fortunately now has a really big budget problem for child needs money and needs it now so they are going to have to cut like time services slashed taxes hiked but portugal's still on course to have a worse debt ratio than greece that's startling enough but for the people trying to survive there is dignity economy disaster is already here in. lisbon. stay with us here on r t still to come tensions between israelis and palestinians intensify our team looks deeper into the causes and consequences behind the renewed violence plus. we're still a long way from science fiction becoming science fact with human said single poem on the surface of mars. meanwhile the earth's population passes seven billion some looking at property options that could be out of this world i'll tell you more a little bit. but first nato is mission over libya winding down despite calls from

the interim leadership for the operation to continue this after the u.n. security council voted last week to remove the country's no fly zone and the coalition's campaign the u.n. mandate came after the former leader colonel gadhafi launched a deadly assault on protesters nato which has been operating in the country since march has been accused of breaching the terms or of the resolution its initial goal was to protect civilians but some airstrikes are thought to have hit nonmilitary targets and claimed innocent lives the country's leadership will take on full responsibility for the national security situation starting tuesday they are tasked with rebuilding and restoring order in a country flooded with weapons. the un has condemned violence in syria calling for an end to the civilian death toll more than three thousand have been killed after months of anti-government unarrest some protesters have been calling for a no fly zone over the country aerial support from nato in an interview with

a russian t.v. channel syrian president bashar al assad warned that any foreign intervention could engulf the whole region. that syria is don't libya it's unique in terms of geography politics and history outside interference could come it's a great cost to all involved if your small states and your opponent is big and powerful it's natural for you to want to defend your homeland it's a country where you could say. plates current system and any attempt to break the stability cuckoos a strong earthquake it could damage the whole region in countries situated far from syria and if that happens in the middle east you could have a global impact today we have hundreds of soldiers police and security forces among the dead how they killed during peaceful demonstrations well because of some slogans being shouted out no they were shot and this means we're dealing with people but the information obtained during the latest interrogation of terrorists shows that there was arms smuggling to syria from neighboring states the campaign

was funded from abroad and we have a list of those who are responsible for this. feuding russian billionaires or mob or more between boris berezovsky are taking their battle to a u.k. court their results he claims are robbed him of billions of dollars something the chelsea football club owner denies he's expected to speak at a high court hearing monday or better reports on what promises to be the most expensive lawsuit in history. this will be the first timer manob remove it sure mr a is the body guards are calling him opens his mouth in this hearing up until now he's get to resolute silence in stark contrast to his rival mr b. whose appearance in the witness box have been loud brash and passionate after all there's a lot at stake here he's suing me say for three point five billion pounds for breach of trust and breach of contract he says mr a intimidated him bullied him into selling his shares in sydney the oil company for a fraction of their true value the hearings trying to establish the finer details

of those deals that went on but it appears none of that was actually put into writing after all it was ninety's russia it's not so much what's inside the court that's caught the attention here it's the extravagant apparatus around these two men they show up to court and so many my bucks in the sadie's they're flanked by vast entourage is at least fifteen people each inside the courtroom which is massive it's divided into two warring factions each man is represented by three rows of lawyers legal aides translators bodyguards each behind a computer screen outside the court room a free corner is a big burly man with dark glasses the near piece these are two of the world's richest men although the rumor is that. port is dwindling but to give you an idea of just how much money these men have for mr hayes legal fees are thought to be the in the region of between four and eight million pounds during to the middle east gaza's reeling from

a barrage of israeli airstrikes that left at least ten dead the attacks the worst in many months prompted palestinians to announce a cease fire israeli prime minister denies a truce was in place and says the strikes were in response to gaza aggression as are his policy reports latest escalation in violence could play into the hands of israel. one of the concerns people have is that among the hundreds of palestinian prisoners who are still in these radio jails and who still need to be released as part of that prisoner exchange deal that saw one israeli soldier returned to israel in exchange for more than a thousand palestinian prisoners many of the palestinian prisoners who still need to be released belong to the democratic front for the liberation of palestine and that is one of the palestinian groups that has claimed responsibility for a number of these rockets that have been fired into israel in recent days so there are many people here saying that this does jeopardize that prisoner exchange deal and that it will be almost

a convenient excuse for these rabies not to release the hundreds of palestinian prisoners that it is still committed to release as part of that deal there were more than twenty thousand people that took to the streets of tel aviv they were not surprised by the violence they say that this is something that has happened in the past and it is the government's way of detracting attention away from domestic problems and certain if you look at the international media coverage the international media was much more focused on what was happening in terms of security concerns and on israel's border with gaza and then on what was happening domestically here and this is exactly what protesters say they say that they want money to not be spent so much on me on the defense budget but full cuts they have to be made so that more money can be spent domestically and search for me this increase in violence and the government's response in terms of the fact that it is going to give gaza a harsh hand to tracks attention away from what people here say is the ongoing situation where they have very real demands that are more often than not by the

excuse of security concerns. if you're looking for more in-depth stories then exclusive coverage r.t. has you covered here's a taste of what's a click away at r.t. dot com. radioactive emissions from fukushima has crippled nuclear plant maybe five times greater than authorities claim find out online why the evacuation zone could stay uninhabited for the year plus. for the failure of its predecessor russia's progress spaceship successfully blasts off for the i assess check out the footage on r.t. dot com and our you tube channel. the front runner for kyrgyzstan's presidential election almas back album. looks set to take the country's top job with almost all the ballots counted he's leading the polls with more than sixty percent of the vote current interim president of the central asian nation the roza otunbayeva will step down later this year to make way for the win the vote is seen as both a democratic milestone and

a vital chance to bring stability to the country former president was ousted last april as a result of bloody uprisings in the capital bishkek that left ninety dead that led to massive ethnic clashes in the south that killed more than four hundred people. on a recent visit to afghanistan and pakistan u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton talked about that cooperation needed to fight extremism and bring about stability but artie's military contributor says it's the u.s. that needs to rethink its approach to approach to the region's region server insurgency and flourishing drug trade then when american. visit to islamabad. led by hillary clinton and director general petraeus hasn't produced any visible breakthrough in the new aspect of stand your relationships regarding this situation in afghanistan in fact it turned out yet another groundhog day of miscommunication mutual accusations and denials small wonder that now the

washington is exploring all possible venue's and options how to deal with the stalemate both in afghanistan and pakistan the latest safety belt for the u.s. administration was all for by michael o'hanlon and paul wolfowitz they're joined proposition is called plan afghanistan alluding to plan colombia that was authorized sponsored by u.s. administration dating back ten years ago plan colombia essentially means shifting did gear in the reverse back to the rumsfeld idea of the light footprint that he tried in afghanistan well there is nothing wrong with this idea of this light footprint the only question is why did it take more than ten years however the most striking feature about this brand new old plan afghanistan is the fact that both

authors have painstakingly failed to mention even once the most successful part of american operation in latin america their aerial eradication of the drug fields in color and it could and should have been replicated on mass in afghanistan. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe after months of heavy floods nearly a third of thailand remains water logged bangkok's commercial sector has largely escaped the flooding while some parts of the thai capital are still under waist deep water the red cross and other relief organizations warn of secondary risks from flooding that presents including widespread disease residents have been forced to wade through deep waters to get to precious resources as thai authorities struggle to keep power and tap water going the worst floods to thailand in fifty years have killed more than three hundred seventy people and caused billions of dollars of damage. the trial of the ousted egyptian leader hosni mubarak has been

postponed to late december amid demands from a prosecution for a new judge the eighty three year old former president standing trial in occupations he ordered violent crackdowns on protesters during the uprising that ended his rule mubarak denies the charges and continues to appear in court. the owners of australian based quantas airlines say they'll resume the normal flight schedule after a court order ending their industrial dispute with union members a tribunal's put an end to a long running conflict between the airline and workers unions over plans to outsource some of the airline services the decision comes two days after quantas directors grounded one hundred two planes in twenty countries leaving thousands stranded at airports. and israel and president hu go chavez sent a message of solidarity to former brazilian leader louis inacio lula da silva is

fight against cancer the sixty six year old will start chemotherapy treatment for throat cancer next week his doctors say the immensely popular former brazilian president is in very good condition and chances of a full recovery are excellent during his eight years of leadership brazil's economic growth and political stability. russia's city of kaliningrad has opened a new page in history as it hosted the birth of the world's seven billion human beings some scientists predict earth will be severely overcrowded in just a few decades with bitter consequences for the environment and economy a statistic that is inspired many to start looking far and wide for a new place to live artie's peter all over gazes into the future. so when next mercury too hot. too cold mars that's will do nicely as the population of earth passes the seven billion mark some of suggested the red planet as a replacement for our current blue warm however in these times of tightening purse

strings the cost of going to mars could be a problem in the marts of a one man expedition to mars and back would cost the chief to say one hundred billion rubles preparing for these flights would cost about thirty or fifty times more than a two way ticket in other words we're talking about colossal expenses regardless of the price those who have been into space say the time is right for mankind to yet again bodie go where no one has gone before everybody realizes that it's time to reach out and explore the universe beyond low earth orbit we have for many years just. for ten years at least we have been on the international space station in lower earth orbit very close and we haven't been somewhere else or with people since the lunar landings which ended back in one nine hundred seventy two there's no shortage of take years to be the first to set foot on mars and potential red planet trailblazers have started their training young surrogate is still just

a teenager but he's putting in the hard yards in the hope that he can help create a potential new home for humanity millions of kilometers away. i want to be the first to travel to mars and to other planets as well to the moons of jupiter saturn they say you can leave there in future we're still a long way from science fiction becoming science fact with human setting up home on the surface of mars even if we put the huge cost of a martian settlement to one side there are some serious hurdles to be overcome not least we have no idea if life existed there previously and if it is. whether whatever killed it off could be dangerous to us why should we even think about finding a new home this was one good thing is going to earth's resources are finite therefore it will eventually have to either restrain population and production growth risking tools both or refine footholds on other planets no matter how much it costs. with

the retirement of nasa space shuttle the only way for people to get into space at the minute is the russian soyuz rocket currently with the science available our chances of a global relocation anytime soon a pretty much zero however it took to weigh in central moscow the mars five hundred project is simulating the effects a mission to mars would have on a crew in search of a new home sure but it's not like there is one obvious reason why the experiment has been so popular the world is still a place for dreamers who dream of exciting projects that unite people international projects. is not old enough as it stands we might have to learn to deal with the soaring global population but young sergei will keep on training hard in the hope that he can do it for the dreamers piece all over r.t. . because those days where we are stay with us here on r.t. .

thanks matt that's right time for your business update on the russian ruble has strengthened to under thirty after the dollar that's as investor risk appetite has seen a recovery following steps to tackle the debt crisis analysts say a side effect all throughout could be a turnaround in the capital flight from russia. there are more reasons to expect stronger rather than the week. while prices are high russia is exhibiting twin surpluses the current account surplus is very high and the we have a substantial fiscal surplus overall i think there are reasons to believe that even until the end of this year even after the one the recently have there is still scope full appreciation this year and furthermore i can say we've had tremendous flows of capital from russia thus far in two thousand and eleven. there are reasons

to believe it could be celebrated or even a reversal in capital flows could take place if that happens even more reasons to expect full strength. let's have a look at the markets now oil prices are heading lower on monday europe's last week moved to resolve greece's debt crisis sparked a rally on global trading floors but now traders are turning their attention to the weak expansion of the global economy some market watchers expect the jump in crude prices to push galston prices higher and undermine to mind. under cross asia the markets are trading mixed this summer in japan the government has entered the foreign exchange market driving the u.s. dollar figure sharply higher first for us we may case early losses and pushed export oriented stocks higher but in hong kong stocks are trading in the red sign is shopping one percent for the week full court records in the region. and just an

hour ahead of the opening bell here in moscow the russian markets rallied last week with the r.t.s. edging over ten percent on the my six five percent energy and banking stocks were among the key movers. although by the end of the week the equity rally took a pause for breath that says invest as to profits fulling the shop gains made after europe's proposed by a lot market casas from which creates a bank's looks ahead to the coming trading sessions and what stocks to watch. for russia it's going to be a quiet week we have actually where we're expecting to see inflation numbers which might come down from the september i think you believe you know six point nine percent it might come down a bit we're expecting less for a stock so i would actually be keeping an eye on this very bank as we heard news from german graph saying that probably station may be ready when the stock price about one hundred rubles and also if you know if there is some result in europe if

you keeps going boss if very bank is one of the high be the names that investors have complained on the recovery of russia in general and it's been oversold interview so we expected to have a good run towards the end of the year if things hold positive you. know many of the russia city has to look the same as they did twenty years ago although with more advertising billboards all the while all the fortune nations sign vesting heavily in making this it is sparkling and attractive but an artist from business new europe believes that trend is about to catch on here. there's a boom a quiet a silent boom in infrastructure spending in two thousand and eight the kremlin launched a one trillion dollars investment program so upgrade russia's infrastructure to modernize it and repair its and replace it where it was missing and throughout the crisis russia has been spending upwards of one hundred billion dollars a year on the roads rails ports all those things that have been missing and it's not visible be but it's all going into things like transport and this is going to

drive growth i mean the good infrastructure is what underpins economic growth and because of all the spending which is going to continue then the outlook for the russian economy is good because it will lift things up and make business faster. that's it for now another business update unless someone else for you.

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u.s. in a confrontation with police authorities confiscate tents and ban people from overnight camping meanwhile foul weather hits the east coast testing activist determination to keep. going. greek default narrowly averted but it's now another troubled euro nation crying out for help portugal wants to renegotiate terms of its bailout concerns that the rescue fund is not enough to avert a new wave of debt. feuding russian billionaires romana boris berezovsky throw their fortunes at a high cost battle in court. over robbing him of billions of dollars something chelsea f.c. owner denies. up next we visit a remote set of russian islands where a population of just seven people live cheek to jowl with two hundred bears don't miss our special report.