win's artie's marina port ny has the latest from new york. thing durance internationally 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 campground 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 a part of zuccotti park now just one day before this winter weather came in as city firefighters seized at least six generators and dozens of cans of gas from the occupy activists in zuccotti park because those generators were presumably being used to generate heat as many this cold weather was coming up over the weekend though city officials say the generators violate fire code and would 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 add to the surge queues in new york city mayor michael bloomberg of attempting to end the occupation by creating a public health risk for these protesters that are valid to remain down in zuccotti park in lower manhattan throughout the winter by 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 activists in the far east near the steps of the colorado capital the clashes that erupted resulted in cops reportedly using pepper sticks pepper spray and rubber bullets against protesters twenty people people were reportedly

arrested in what's being described as an ongoing pulled. he's hockeytown against american uprising meanwhile the rocky horror 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 open 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 save the day that in fact garner 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 people were held across the country as a force to activists out of their makeshift camps are to produce what we seek out and i was following the protests since they started six weeks ago she tweets the police all raising the encampment of the occupy wall street protesters in richmond virginia her twitter stream for the latest information. the eurozone may have heaved a sigh of relief with new deal reached to help 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 english to reports painful austerity cuts have hit portuguese society hard. no jobs no money no chance for the future these messages have been brought by teachers striking in fortune go 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 in one school it's a political choice of financial cuts in education health and social security that's a political choice in early complexity child. like 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 its 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 society's fundamental principles like access to justice. the government isn't paying lawyers who provide free public legal services so there are some who've been doing it for

years for free but 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 of what is your capacity and do we stifle any. subsidies barriers that govern the moat as to my. yes there will be lots of people who will model because we know that at the same time we pick up. 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 portugal 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 in forced to have a worse debt ratio than greece that's startling enough but for the people trying to survive there is to me to be part of the disaster is already here even though. it's been. 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 plus. we're still a long way from science fiction becoming saeed's with human single poem on the surface of mars but meanwhile as the 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 for me in term 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 end the coalition's campaign the u.n. 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 initial goal was to protect civilians some air strikes that were thought to have hit nonmilitary targets claiming innocent lives the country's leadership will take full responsibility for national security 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 people have been killed after months of them thai government on 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. 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 state and your opponent is big and powerful it's natural for you to want to defend your homeland but it's a country where you could say. plate and any attempt to break the stability could cause a strong earthquake it could damage the whole region and 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 or 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. boris berezovsky are taking their fight to a u.k. court as ascii claims are a mortgage robbed him of billions of dollars something the chelsea football club owner deny he's expected to speak at a high court hearing monday artie's ivor bennett or ports on what could be the most expensive lawsuit in history. it's always the first time. a is the bodyguards are calling him opens his mouth in this hearing up until now he's kept the resolute silence in stark contrast to his rival mr b. . whose appearances 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 a breach of trust and breach of contract he says mr intimidated bullied him into selling his shares in the oil company for a fraction of their true value the hearings trying to establish the final details

of those deals that went on but it appears none of that was actually put into writing after all it was ninety. yes 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 that flanked by vast onto rogers 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 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 he's part 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 out of the middle east where palestinian officials have confirmed two more deaths from israeli

airstrikes in gaza the attacks come after palestinians announced a cease fire this follows a weekend of violence that saw ten people killed in gaza one in israel sarkies policy reports 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 these radio jails and who still need to be released as part of that prisoner exchange deal that saw one israeli soldier return 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 they will 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 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 here and this is exactly what protesters say they say that they want money to not be spent so much on the on the defense budget but full cuts they have to be made so that more money can be spent domestically in 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 overshadowed by the excuse to security concerns. and while israeli courts jailed

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. in this case a whistle blower blew a loud and disturbing whistle the military is violating international law and the directives 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 in a democratic system that pattern of behavior of violating it orders by the supreme court because of the supreme court said that it did that said 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 you will system tells them to do. if you're looking for more in-depth stories and exclusive footage r.t. 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 to find out on line why the evacuation zone could stay uninhabited for years to come. and weeks after the failure of its predecessor the russian progress space ship successfully blocked software to check out the footage of dot com and are you to check out. the front runner in curative stead's presidential election are. set to take the country's top job with almost all the votes counted is leading the polls with more than sixty percent of the ballot current interim president of the central asian nation a rose by

a vote 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 former president was ousted last april as a result of bloody uprisings in the capital bishkek that left nineteen dead it'll. the 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 artie's 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 top level 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 miscommunication mutual accusations and denials small wonder that now that washington is exploring all possible then use and options how to deal with the stalemate both in afghanistan and pakistan the latest safety belt for the u.s. administration was offered by michael o'hanlon them paul wolfowitz very join proposition it's called plan afghanistan alluding to plan colombia that was authorized and sponsored by u.s. administration dating back ten years ago to play on 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 area eradication of the drug fields that could and should have been replicated all mass in afghanistan. let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe after months of heavy flooding nearly 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 in damage. a suicide bombing in the southern afghan city of kandahar claims at least four lives police say a bomber detonated explosives near a checkpoint close to a u.n. aid agency killing three guards afghan security forces reportedly exchanged fire with insurgents at the side of the blast 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 resolving the company's dispute with union members the tribunal 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 of passengers stranded at airports. october thirty first signals a 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 bitter consequences for the environment and the economy it's the statistic that's inspired many to start searching far and wide for a new place for humanity 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 market so maybe one managed to dish and some water some back would cost that safe to say one hundred billion rubles preparing for these flights would cost about thirty or fifty times more and said in 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 both 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 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 sir good time 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 modest 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's off could be dangerous to us why should we even think about finding a new home when you're thinking disconnection earth's resources are finite therefore we will eventually have to either restrain population and production growth risking to lose 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. 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 surrogate will keep on training hard in the hope that he can do it for the dreamers peace all of the arctic. is a population of seven billion too much for our planet to bear that's the debate in a few minutes on our t.v. but that's first after the business news with you stay with us. hello and a very warm welcome to your business update the russian ruble has strengthened to under thirty eight to the dollar that's as investor risk appetite has seen a recovery for a fall the e.u. steps to tackle the debt crisis analysts say a slide

a side effect of the rally could be a turnaround in the capital flight from russia. there are more reasons to expect stronger rather than the weak. while prices are high and 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 one the recently have there is still stalled for appreciation this year and furthermore i can say we've had tremendous held flows of capital from russia thus far in two thousand and eleven. there are reasons to believe it could be celluloid or even a reversal in capital flows to 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 low on monday europe's last week move to restore greece's debt crisis sparked

a rally on global trading photos would not trade as a turning their attention to a week of expansion of the global economy some market watchers expect a jump in crude prices to push gasoline prices high and undermine demond. hundred pro se asian markets all over the nikkei fell point seven percent after the gang dropped from breckon gains against the dollar as a japanese government intervened in the markets to weaken the currency bank's sanger's longer than one percent. of the russian market so moema in early monday straight after their last week's rally they are just a shedding more than one and a half percent undermined six point four percent lower. than many of russia's citrus looks the same as they did twenty years ago although with more advertising billboards all the while other merchant nations are investing heavily in making this is just sparkling and attractive but an artist from business new euro believes that trend is about to catch on here. there's a boom a quiet

a silent infrastructure spending in two thousand and eight the kremlin dollars to one trillion dollars investment program to upgrade russia's infrastructure to modernize it and the parents and replace it where it was missing and throughout the crisis russia is being spent. one billion dollars a year on roads. all those things are missing and it's not visible beat but it's all going into things like transport and this is going to drive growth i mean the good infrastructure is what underpins the economic growth and because of all this spending this is going to continue then the outlook for the russian economy is good because it will lift things up and make business better faster. and internet group male dog argues launching a new micro block scientists a russian competitor to twitch up look at it twitter is increasing its audience twenty five times faster than the most popular service in russia live journal

despite bright fostex analysts warn 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 to a final report on a succession head of the working group for russia's accession the country still needs to resolve the number of technical issues but will be ready to join the w t o in a week russia also has to finalize agreements with giorgio the only country which earlier opposed russia's accession but last week reached two new proposals from swiss mediators presidential aides are quoted but of course each has said russia could join the w t o by december fifteenth. ok that's it for knowledge join us and less than one us time for another business of data and to find more stores no website are to dot com slash business.

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comes an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. the for. wealthy british style. is no time to experiment. with. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on our t.v. . eleven thirty am in moscow these iraqi headlines scores of occupy protesters arrested

across the u.s. and confrontations with police as authorities confiscate tents and ban people from camping overnight meanwhile foul weather hits the east coast testing an activist resolve to keep the anti-corporate fight alive. greek default narrowly averted but it's now another troubled the euro nation crying out for help portugal wants to renegotiate terms of its bailout raising concerns the e.u. rescue fund isn't enough to avert a new wave of debt. feuding russian billionaires boris berezovsky and roman abramovich throw their fortunes in a high cost battle in a u.k. court there is often accusing our promoted of robbing him of billions of dollars something the chelsea football club owner denies. and as the world's population hits seven billion peter lavelle asks his guess if there's simply too many of us for one planet coming up.