scores of occupy protesters arrested across the u.s. in confrontations with police is about whether test their determination to keep the anti-corporate fight go a. greek default narrowly averted but now another troubled euro nation in portugal raising concerns that the e.u. rescue fund is not enough to avert a new wave of debt. and court drama of colossal proportions russian moguls boris berezovsky iran are promoting throw their fortunes at a lawsuit worth billions of dollars. and the russian markets in their attics and on monday training and playing a rally last word in business in twenty minutes.

eleven am in moscow treasury good to have you with us here on r t our top story protesters from the occupy wall street movement face new challenges as unseasonably bad weather hits the u.s. east coast along with a sweeping police crackdown no doubt be up against plummeting temperatures snow when strong winds are teasing marina portnoy has the latest from new york. thing durance and tenacity of new york city's occupy wall street activist was tested this weekend as a blast of usual winter weather moved through the big apple the camper house 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 parts of

zuccotti park just one day before this winter weather painted city firefighters season at least six generators and dozens of cans of gas from the occupy asked if it's in zuccotti park because those generators were presumably being used to generate heat as many in this cold weather was coming off over the weekend city officials say the generators viably fire and would have sparked a fire in the meantime occupy activists are threatening to take legal action if their generators and their property will not be returned demand that the city give them their property back occupy add to this are accusing new york city mayor michael bloomberg of attempting to end the occupation by creating a public health risk for these protesters that value to remain down in zuccotti park in lower manhattan throughout the winter the upcoming winter season now

meanwhile in temporal good weekend police moved into an occupying and mentor arresting demonstrators who allegedly ignored orders to leave the arrest came hours after standoff between activists and authorities near the steps of the colorado capital a clash that erupted resulting in cops reportedly using pepper sticks pepper spray and rubber bullets against protesters i twenty people were reportedly arrested in what's being described as an on going home. these mock town against american uprising meanwhile the rocky or better it was critically injured by police during wednesday's occupy oakland demonstration is needing minor improvements doctors say that scott olsen's condition has been upgraded to fair although he remains in intensive care at twenty four year old son her minor brain damage after being hit by a police projectile scott olsen was among the many iraqi war veterans taking part in the occupy 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 state do you think that effect garner even more sympathy and more support for the occupy wall street movement that began here in new york city reporting from new york radio toward i am archie it's been a week of arrests and clashes between protesters and police sunday more than one hundred people were held across the country as authorities forced activists out of their makeshift camps producer we see thousand of those following the protests since they started six weeks ago she fleets of police are raiding the encampment of the occupy wall street protesters in richmond virginia her twitter stream for the latest information. and eurozone may have heaved a sigh of relief with new deal reached to how greece but that doesn't mean the crisis is over portugal reportedly wants to renegotiate the terms of the bailout it

got earlier this year and it's also called on non european countries to help save the eurozone as artie's are in a delusional reports painful austerity cuts i've hit portuguese society ard. 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 earning the same and don't have a place in school a stable place and once it's a political choice of financial cuts in education health and social security that's a political choice and really think it's your child. but legendary appliances particle seems to be sliding deeper and deeper into the depths of economic output a third of is a purely financial crisis is now turning into malevolent force which threatens to rock the portuguese their basic human rights earlier this year portugal got an

emergency bailout from the e.u. to deal with this group i'm sure in 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 this there is a cuts it goes well beyond the classroom and strikes at some of portugese societies fundamental principles like access to justice staffs the government isn't paying lawyers who provide free public services so there are some who have been doing it for years for free the courts can not 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 spitters are hitting the portuguese where it hurts the most in their health care the government what is your capacity then do we say forty. pounds. per year the government we now

have to made out yet there will be a lot of people. more because we at the same time we pick up. even. and it's more pain no gain these theories speeling says the 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 portugal needs money and needs at now so they are going to have to cut like big time services slashed taxes types but portugal's still on course to have the worst that ratio then brings that startling enough but for the people trying to survive there's the media economy disaster is already here in. lisbon. stay with us here on r.t. still to come as tensions between israelis and palestinians intensify we'll look

deeper into the causes and consequences behind the renewed violence was. still a long way from science fiction becoming sides with human said single pole on the surface of mars meanwhile as earth's population passes the seven billion mark some are new property options that are out of this world we'll tell you more in a few minutes. 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 to end the coalition's campaign and un mandate came after former leader moammar gadhafi launched a deadly assault on protesters nato which was operating in the country since march has been accused of breaching the terms of the resolution its original goal was to protect civilians some air strikes that were thought to have nonmilitary targets claiming innocent lives the country's leadership will take full responsibility for

national security starting tuesday their task 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 people have been killed after months of anti-government an arrest some protesters have been calling for a no fly zone over the country and 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 but one thought that syria is don't libya it's unique in terms of geography politics and history outside interference could come at a great cost to all involved if your small states and your opponents as you can powerful it's natural for you to want to defend your homeland it's a country where you could say plates co-exist and any attempt to break the stability could cause a strong earthquake you could damage the whole region in countries situation 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 all because of some slogans being shouted out no they were shot and this means we're dealing with armed 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 and boris berezovsky are taking their fight to a u.k. court he claims are motivated robbed him of billions of dollars something the chelsea football club owner tonight he's expected to speak at a high court hearing monday archy's eye for better or ports on what could be the most expensive lawsuit in history. this will be the first time around and remove it or mr a is the body guards are calling him opens his mouth in this hearing up until now it's good to resolute silence in stark contrast to his rival is to be. whose

appearance in the witness box have been loud brash and passionate after all there's a lot at stake here he's suing you say for three point five billion pounds for breach of trust and breach of contract he says mr intimidated him to lead him into selling his shares in sydney for the oil company for a fraction of the true value of 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 the ninety's russia it's not so much what's inside the court that's caught the attention here it's the extravagant operators around these two men they show up to cause the shiny my bucks c.d.'s they're flanked by passed onto rogers at least fifteen people each inside the court room which is massive it's divided into two warring factions each one is represented by three rows of lawyers legal aides translators bodyguards each behind a computer screen outside the court room in 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 maurice ports 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 in the region of between four and eight million pounds. out of the middle east where palestinian officials have confirmed two more deaths from israeli airstrikes in gaza the attacks come out or palestinians announced a cease fire this follows a weekend of violence outside ten people killed in gaza one in israel sorties parsley reports the latest escalation could work in tel aviv's favor. one of the concerns people have is that among the hundreds of palestinian prisoners who are still in israeli 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 seymour 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 raids not to release the hundreds of palestinian prisoners that it is still committed to release as pushing back you know they were more than plain two 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 cars and it is the government's way of detracting attention away from domestic problems and certainly 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 and this is exactly reproaches to say they say that they want money to not be spend so much on mean on the defense budget for cuts there to be made so

that more money can be sustained domestically and certainly this increase in violence and the government's response in terms of the fact that it is going to give gaza a harsh had tracks attention away from what people here say is the ongoing situation where they have very real demands that are more often than not overshadowed by the excuse of security concerns. well of israeli courts in jail of a former soldier for four and a half years for leaking classified military files to the press some of the documents allege military officials approved the killing of palestinians in the west bank but those claims aren't being investigated and that undermines israeli law according to legal experts sari bashi in this case a whistleblower blew a loud and disturbing whistle the military is violating international law and the directors of the israeli supreme court in carrying out assassinations in situations in which they are required to try to make an arrest and so the state attorney's office prosecuted the soldier but failed to seriously investigate the conduct

revealed in those documents conduct with raises serious questions about rule of law and democratic system that pattern of behavior violating orders by the supreme court because of the supreme court said that if they take you must try to arrest is part of a pattern of practice within the israeli system and it's something that's very disturbing because when the army does not obey orders by the supreme court the supreme court is actually more reluctant to issue those orders because no court wants to issue orders that are going to be ignored and then of course you have a serious threat to the rule of law because in a democratic system the army is of course supposed to listen to what the system tells them tells them to do. if you're looking for more in-depth stories in the spoofs of footage or he has you covered here's a taste of what's online right now at r.t. dot com radioactive emissions from fukushima crippled nuclear plant maybe five times higher than authorities claim find out online why the evacuation zones would stay uninhabited for years to come. and weeks after the failure of its predecessor

the russian progress a ship successfully software check out the footage on r.t. dot com and are you to jump to. the front runner in kyrgyzstan's presidential election almaz bachata bad luck set to take the country's top job with almost all of the votes counted he's leading the polls with more than sixty percent of the ballot current interim president of the central asian nation a roza otunbayeva it will step down later this year to make way for the winner the vote is seen as both a democratic milestone and a vital chance to bring stability to the country's former president back he was ousted last april as a result of bloody uprising some of how little bishkek that left ninety dead it led to massive ethnic clashes in the south which killed more than four hundred people on a recent visit to afghanistan and pakistan u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton talked about the cooperation necessary to fight extremism and bring about stability but our military contributor says it's the u.s.

that needs to rethink its approach to the region's raging insurgency and flourishing drug trade and the interest american complement a visit to islamabad. well led by hillary clinton and director general petraeus hasn't produced any visible breakthrough in you aspect istana relationship regarding the situation in afghanistan in fact it turns out yet another groundhog day author miscommunication mutual accusations and denials small wonder that now there washington is exploring all possible venue's and options how to deal with the stalemate both in afghanistan and pakistan their latest safety belt for the u.s. administration was all for by michael. and paul wolfowitz very join proposition it's called plan afghanistan alluding to a plan colombia that was authorized. by u.s.

administration dating back ten years ago a play on colombia essentially means shifting the gear in the reverse back to their 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 chain years however the most striking feature about this brand new plan afghanistan is the fact that they're both both have painstakingly failed to mention even announce the most successful part of american operation in latin america various aerial eradication of the drug fields that could and should have been replicated own mass in afghanistan. so you have now some other stories making headlines across the globe after months of heavy flooding yearly a third of thailand remains water logged bangkok's commercial sector largely

escaped the flood and while some parts of the thai capital are still under waist high water thailand's prime minister hopes to be able to drain the massive buildup of water surrounding the capital out to sea before it seeps into the city center for now residents are forced to wade through the deep water as thai authorities struggle to keep power and tap water running the worst flooding to thailand in five decades has killed more than three hundred seventy people and caused billions of dollars of damage. a suicide bombing in the southern afghan city of khandahar claims at least four lives police say our palmer detonated explosives here at checkpoint close to a u.n. aid agency killing three guards afghan security forces reportedly exchanged fire with insurgents and the side of the taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. australia's quantas airlines cleared their first flight out of sydney after operations resumed worldwide following a court order resulting the company's dispute with union members the tribunal put

end to a lot of running conflict between the airline and workers unions over plans to outsource some of the airline services a decision comes two days after quantas directors grounded one hundred two planes in twenty countries leaving thousands of passengers stranded at airports october thirty first signals or landmark in history after our global population officially reached seven billion some scientists predict the earth will be severely overcrowded in just a few decades with better consequences for the environment and the economy it's the cystic that's inspired many to start searching far and wide for a new place for humanity or he's peter all over gazes into the future. so when next new curie too hot glue so too cold. thus 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 one however in these times of tightening per

streams the cost of going to mars could be a problem with credits in the not so. additional tomorrow some about which cards it's safe to say one hundred billion rubles appear in produce why it would cost about thirty or thirty times more and so we took it 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 boat lee 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 north 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 a 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 not mars yet 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 facts 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 is 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's off could be dangerous to us why should we even think about finding a new home when you're. rich resources are finite therefore we will eventually have to either mystery population and production growth risking tools both or we find

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 what 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 and search of a new home. there is one obvious reason why the experiment has been so parking there the world is still a place for dreamers who dream of exciting projects that unite people the international project. is not old enough as it stands we might have to learn to deal with the soaring global population but young surrogate will keep on training hard and the hope that he can do it for the dream is peace to all of our arctic is a population of seven billion too much for our planet to bear that's the debate in a few minutes on r.t.

but that's first half of the business news if you stay with us. hello and welcome to your business update the russian ruble has strengthened to under statute to the dollar about signs investor risk appetite has seen a recovery for in full the e.u. steps to take over the debt crisis and they say a slight a side effect of the rally could be a turnaround in the capital flight from russia but there are more reasons to expect stronger rather than the weak ruble. world prices are are high russia is exhibiting twin surpluses while 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 run that we will we simply have there is still stalled full appreciation this year and furthermore i can say we've had

tremendous how flows of capital from russia thus far in two thousand love him. there are reasons to believe it could be so weighed or even a reversal in capital flows to take place if that happens even more reasons to expect the bulls front. let's have a look at the markets now world prices are heading lower on monday europe's last week move to restore greece's debt crisis sparked a rally on global trade for was but now trade has a training their attention to greek expansion of the global economy some market watchers expect a jump in crude prices to push gasoline prices high and undermine demand. comes across asian markets all of the nikkei fell point seven percent after the young dropped from breckon gains against the dollar as the japanese government intervened in the markets to weaken the currency banks saying as well of the one percent. on the russian market so more in the early monday straight after their last week's

rally they are just a shedding more than one and a half percent and minus its point four percent lower. than many of russia's serious looks the same as they. twenty years ago although with more advertising billboards all the while other merchant nations are investing heavily in making best interests and attractive when ours from business new europe believes that france is about to catch on here there's a boom a quiet assignment of infrastructure spending in two thousand and eight the prime minister one trillion dollar investment. to upgrade versus infrastructure to modernize its parents a place where it was missing and throughout the crisis russia has been spent. and remember this year karl rove. told us that this or that is not visible because it's all going into things like transport and this is going to drive growth i mean the good infrastructures are under the command of growth and

because of all this spending this is going to continue. the outlook for the russian economy is good because survival if things are a great business for faster. internet mail daughter argues launching a new microblog service a russian competitor to twitter look at it twitter is increasing its audience twenty five time passed urban the most popular service in russia live journal this time bright prospects analyst warned that it's difficult to make money on michael blogs even twitter is posting losses so far. and russia has made yet another step towards joining the world trade organization it's agreed upon the report on a succession head of the working group for russia's accession cert the country still needs to resolve a number of technical issues but will be ready to join the w t o in a week russia also has to finalize agreements with georgio the only country which earlier opposed russia's accession but last week reached a new proposal strums with mediators presidential aides are quoted porch has said

russia could during the w t o by december fifteenth. ok that sits for knowledge join us in less than one us triumph for another business all day down five more stories no website archie dot com slash business. culture is that so much of the same good news going to be made if a lot of the plane carrying ability is the world's population as the world reaches

still another population benchmark the debate continues as to whether the planning . the official ante up location chobani phone the i pod touch from the i choose option. life. video on demand all keys mind will come to. an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. com. the for. the so. wealthy british. sometimes surprise. there.