striking scenes out of oakland and yet another police crackdown this after protesters shut down the entire city and a general strike so was open becoming a symbol of occupy wall street and with different approaches from coast to coast because the split and the movement. opening up a can of worms g. twenty leaders are gathered in france right now hoping to solve the world's problems but with tensions running high from protesters and the greek debt crisis leaders really solve the global economic drama. and are the drums

of war beating some say western allies are gearing up for a military action against iran so just how likely is that. and this mood was not made for locking out of u.s. ports find russian businessmen victor boot guilty of arms dealing with this case decided in the court of public opinion before the verdict was read. it's thursday november third seven pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching t.v. the occupy wall street protests are heating up in oakland the demonstrations there have attracted thousands but started off peaceful turned chaotic over night. oh please clad in riot gear used tear gas and fired pellets up

a crowd than arresting demonstrators by the dozen that means four protesters reportedly injured and hospitalized among those injured a man and woman hit by a mercedes take a look at the scene last night angry protesters swarmed a car conflicting accounts as to what exactly happened there some say the driver plowed the car into the protesters others say the driver was provoked by the activists pounding on the car and protesters have regrouped today and say that they agreed to denounce vandalism after some businesses nearby were damaged by demonstrators and the strikes the violence the chaos oakland is shaping up to be a major hub for the occupy wall street movement but outsiders flocking to the california city are the producer liz a half an hour of it is a right there in the middle of the action but actually it is fairly calm and chicago around the perimeter at this morning most of the protesters are still sort of milling about a lot of folks sleeping and we just see

a lot of the workers struggling off their feed. trash from the massive standoff at a rustic yesterday evening for the street at the moment nothing really serious happening i think people are still trying to process what really went on yesterday and the huge contrast between the largely peaceful march that thousands of people out to the port of oakland to shut down the port of oakland contrast that with the president's show force by the police department eight hours of the evening early hours this morning ok and it sounds like this is the calm after the storm of what happened last night and what led to police cracking down and resorting to violence . well you know that the strangest thing for me is that when we spent literally the entire day yesterday following the crash and searched around in the different marches they went on culminating of course the big. march in the part of oakland and and the one thing that really struck me is that we did not see any police

officers i probably counted at two police officers on scooters escorting this giant march which was taken this was a response to of course the heavy handed tactics because police officers arrested one hundred people and injured the iraq war veterans out olsen in the evening after everyone came back from a march there sort of jubilance out the sphere people were celebrating and partying diet drinking smoking dancing in the streets most of the protesters were in fact calm but there was a certain sense of that it's an education you know they they felt their power they felt that they succeeded in this task and perhaps there was an understanding of energy that it didn't with q well what ended up happening is that a group of protesters actually took over a more closed hole they want to close or employ to retake reclaim foreclosed properties several of those protesters side it's a pull out pieces of furniture out of this foreclosed homes barricade the street for a party. it was all going very well that people were just celebrating and it really

seemed like it was getting out of hand and still the whole of a sudden at eighteen i counted on bart's right pants suddenly pulled out about a block away inside it were riot police officers in full gear they all got out and sort of blockaded the street and stood information and very intimidating sight and i think what happened was the sight of that really sort of. both a lot of outrage by the registers who are very very curious that the police for the crackdown last feet and some protesters lit he says a furniture garbage cans on fire and that is when the police started marching started shooting down tear gas they say that they didn't use rubber bullets one protester actually showed us or. he in fact is it in a heavy thought material. that was pretty hefty to hold and looked quite a bit. and that is essentially what went down there was that major clash of the protesters did run away about sixty people were arrested and what in street was

this four hour long standoff with police officers actually most of the crowd stood their ground as it was just as to be a very tense situation that benchley ended up petering out but out it's all up this is where the story protesters injured and many arrests and it sounds like the protest is over in oakland there a very proactive group of protesters that are. taking part in these demonstrations they also participated in this city's strike which happened yesterday how did that strike of fact business there in oakland and what were the consequences of it. well you know most of the business owners that i spoke to a lot of them were actually out in support some of them would keep their shops open but for example they wouldn't take credit cards to go bug nose so i guess you know sticking it to the corporations and the proverbial man that small businesses were

supportive of this action you have to remember that oakland is a very different kind of that you than the rest of america it has a very radical activist history and most of the people really felt like they were coming in support of this cause of course the local needs treatment is managed to find a few small business owners who are very curious though for the strike but i think overall it was in support and again the focal point of this march shutting down the port of oakland which is the fifth largest in the country what was led spearheaded by the longshoreman very radical union that has a history of standing up for all kinds of causes and whether it's processing the war in iraq to at least for talent and whatnot and so it's a very logical like a school right for the activists to congregate armed export and shut it down but i have to say i think the biggest takeaway lessons more than we've mentioned once be it dust settles over the violence in place last night the fact that these guys were able to mobilize in such a short period of time to shut down such

a large part i think might be an inspiration perhaps to other out by washington movements to take this beyond just a park sure you know a bunch of rallies that take place a different process to offensive tactics that actually hurt the so-called one percent in their pocketbooks and if that does take place i think the consequences for us and for this movement. and then see you sort of the business owners were mostly in support of what kind of response where are we seeing from the government officials from the mayor of oakland and how are they responding. not very well as they are both. just like our conference yesterday number four words i. try to sort of smile through them in a car but you know city officials but they don't go high hopes and i think that's really the case for most of the cities that are dealing with occupy wall street movement but in new york for example rosa protesters are predominantly. the show

force by at least i think with what the. country is really used to be these kinds of movements in this day and age i think we're not she first began thought it was a bunch of protesters tired of like the cold in the rain came they would figure out what happened and it does the bigger stronger stuff in the west where across the world i think that really that much fear but fear in officials because they don't really know how to handle it you know if you crack down on these occupations to stop them growing and rest more peace less support or do you let them grow and risk getting out of town it's meant for the situation and a very good one and i think that most city officials especially the city of los angeles frankly confused as to how to handle. and that was our if you feature producer lucy counted all from the occupy wall street protests to the occupy oakland police crackdown lucy has been traveling around the country tracking this growing movement for the very latest on what's going on you can follow in her

footsteps on twitter lucie county. meanwhile protests of rage on in france as the world's most powerful leaders gather for the g. twenty summit the focus now on the escalating drama in greece european leaders leaders talking about getting greece off figure out as an attempt to rescue the currency the possibility of a looming greek default now hanging over the g twenty summit world leaders are worried that such a do you call will send shock waves throughout the euro zone and the world sparking a global recession are you correspondent a nissan now we join me earlier from around the g. twenty with the latest on the unfolding greek drama and france. well things have been developing very quickly here in france and in europe and especially all eyes in greece the greek prime minister going back and forth he was summoned on the eve of the. angle of merkel and nicolas sarkozy actually an ounce that they would have a referendum and let the people actually decide on whether or not they would make

cuts in order to receive the next batch of ballots from the i.m.f. and then it seems that behind closed doors there was very serious reprimands coming from the backbone so to say of the euro zone of course germany and france is what sarkozy calls themselves but also saying that it's greece's choice that they can go ahead and have this referendum and then the prime minister went back to the country today and all of a sudden we heard rumors about him perhaps having going to announce his resignation and then it came out that that one happened that if they could come up with an agreement on finding a coalition that they would back up on the referendum and then all of a sudden word coming that they're not going to hold the referendum and they have been able to agree on coming up with some kind of coalition in short it's a mess it's a big mess completely hijack this summit emerging companies emerging economies not blatant about it but certainly i have to be a little disappointed that at this euro crisis is taking over of course it affects

them but not as much as the richest countries and especially those european leaders so all other issues pushed off the table everyone talking about this euro crisis and then there's a confidence vote on the greek pm on friday and no one really knows where it's going to go it's appends of course who you ask get ticks think it's just moving the problem down the road that eventually greece will have to default euro kratz as they call them who very much think the euro has to be saved nicolas sarkozy calling it the beating heart of europe he is certainly a great defender of the currency saying that something has to be done we have to keep it alive and that's what they're trying to do but no concrete plan has so far been provided at least at this summit and as you mentioned before there seems to be a lot of flip flopping going around it's mass over there any idea what's going on behind closed doors that's causing this change of heart. well that's the thing i mean if you look at it blatantly merkel and sarkozy very

clearly on the eve of the summit it's up to you you make your decision but really is that what they said i mean if you look at it a little more deeper into their words between the lines really what they said was either you play by our rules or you don't get the money and this morning there was a little bit of it seems conflict within the greek government because the greek prime minister basically defended his country's right to have their say in the future of their car their currency and certainly a lot of people feel that if that referendum went ahead it would have been a no vote that greece would have defaulted and would have left the euro zone so this kind of pock received saying that greece is an independent country that it can do what it wants but at the same time pushing very toughly on them in order to have them sway in the way that europe wants to happen once had this go to save of course the euro and not have like you said this contagion throughout the. day and he said we've also been covering the protests that are going on outside of the g. twenty summit what is the latest on that are those present protests escalating are

they remaining stable i think it's fair to say that each day they're becoming quieter and quieter the first stage just before the summit they were tremendous. pictures look like ten tens of thousands of people gathered they were just first very light violence but still reminiscent of what's happening in the u.s. . and that was our correspondent and he said now only on the ground in cannes now there are fears that a crisis in greece will have ripple effects on the global economy and send countries spiraling into recession so what does that mean for the rest of us well to help me answer that i spoke to lou rockwell chairman of the ludwig nieces institute to start things off i asked him just how much danger the girl is we're alyson at this point here is his response. i hope a lot of danger i mean i hope the euro goes out of existence the euro was a mistake it was a centralizing mistake just like the european union itself is

a mistake but i think it's important to clarify what the actual issue is here in greece and the euro and all that it's not that any other greece is being bailed they would like to bail out greece it's the banks that are being bailed out of the banks that hold greek debt that bought this very risky debt paying vast interest rates expecting that they would be bailed out if if greece couldn't pay so what this of this agreement is they want to harm the greek people to put the boot on the neck of the repeal and grab grind them into the dirt so the big banks can be repaid well that's wrong we don't want that to happen if we want to rebuild on some kind of us firm basis our prosperity not only in europe but in this country then the banks have to go i mean you cannot keep propping up these banks it's destroying the euro it's destroying the e.u. those two things i think are good but it's also destroying the prosperity in the living standards of the people of europe and of the united states and of other

places in the world so the banks are out of control the banks are of course never mentioned in any of this we don't see we don't hear the banks being mentioned when there are when they're discussing this because that's all sort of the secret message and i think that we have to we have to focus on what is the trouble again also the whole question of contagion you know general motors goes out of existence not only does it not hurt the other automobile companies they're probably all having a party that they have less competition but the banks are all connected together they're all inherently bankrupt because of their fractional reserves no bank has everybody's money and it doesn't take a very large number of customers demanding their money to put any bank out of existence were it not for central banks of the e.c.b. in europe the federal reserve in this country caused vast damage bring on brooms and does these recessions and depressions in order to protect the banks so we. live in some kind of bangkok recy whether it's in europe or in this country we need to end that we need sound money we need honest banking we need an end to central

banking and by the way it is all happening they may keep this going a little bit longer in europe but the banks are so out of control so leveraged so in debt that the not enough money in the world really to fix these these are dangerous and the monstrous institutions so they have to be reformed we need massive reform and maybe this is going to be happening is this there is economic pain coming more pain we're already in pain we're already in a very serious recession in the u.s. and in europe too there's no recovery going on were things are getting worse so we only have a hope in really some kind of a serious reform it doesn't do the alcoholic any good to keep taking another bottle of liquor and a little there's going to be pain when he stops that's what's necessary and you had mentioned that you know the bad news not good for the euro zone bear but there is fear that if they don't rescue the euro that it's going to that confidence or

recession. what's your response to that the continent is in a recession but be far better to have for example the deutsche mark back in existence which was a less crazy currency less than clear these problems are all feed currencies are paper currency has but far better to have each individual country having their own their own individual currency then this those european wide currency there are some people john maynard keynes for example wanted a world currency you want to bank or and there are some people who want to that would be even worse so we want to we want political decentralization monetary decentralization as long as we have a fee a currency if we had a gold standard then of course gold is exactly the same of the same weight in sinus whether it's in the tree longo or luxembourg or venezuela that's actually what we'd like to have if we want real growth sound money. on this money and the government of the big banks and the other big institutions affiliated with governments ripping us are suddenly i found like you think the euro should be dropped just for the

currency but right now the discussion is to drop greece from the euro zone do you think it fits that is in the best interest of the year ago and to give greece a bit but i think it's probably in the best interest of greece not the greek establishment of gross's pa thought often and threatened i'm sure that would not agree it was meeting in the g twenty that had him on the rack and they were turning the wheel and at the thumbscrew on an armrest that's of course the way these people operate but i think it is in the interest of the people of europe of the individual countries of europe that the that the euro go out of existence the each country have its own it's so current that then you have germany being far sounder luxembourg being for a sounder austria being far sounder than than greece or portugal or spain or whatever is now the right to change of course everybody can get sounder but decentralization is the way this is this european central bank controlled by these girl kratz in brussels who more and more are setting up an authoritarian regime

trying to run every aspect of everybody's life in every country just like by the way the u.s. government does and here was not a good thing to have a big centralized government in the u.s. it's not a good thing to have it in in europe either we need decentralisation breakup freedom honest money sound money on this bank a great leader that is all the time we have that was a little rockwell chairman of the live with van institute. well the drums of war against iran are beating loud of the country comes under suspicion of growing their nuclear enrichment program this after a report released by un's nuclear watchdog which supposedly shows evidence of iranian nuclear activity is now the u.k. is pressing its military for action and its believe the us is gearing up for the possibility of war against iran as well so is an attack on iran on the horizon to answer all that and more i was joined earlier by a policy director for the national iranian american council jamal do you now that

gadhafi is dead i asked him a simple question is iran the next target here's what he had to say. well i would argue that what we've seen is actually more bluster than a real threat of military action. the u.n. nuclear watchdog agency has not yet released its report but this is coming ahead of the renewed push to get security council sanctions against iraq. ok so really i'd say you're saying we did we had instead report it hasn't even been released but we are getting some indication of what is in the report which it would show is evidence that iran expanding their nuclear enrichment program what do you make of that report well the report doesn't actually to my knowledge or to anybody else who has who is speculating on it does not present any new evidence it's unclear whether this is more evidence from pretty two thousand and three or you know if there are new activities but it's most people that are saying there's not a lot of new evidence it's new tone it puts forward some some details that have

been discussed previously by the. but really this is a lot of of change in tone to increase the pressure and that's why the military intervention iran is looking at this fresh as you just mentioned that it's sanctions from the u.s. you say that these sanctions are actually against the u.s. president can you elaborate on that well so the president is working to get more sanctions potentially at the u.n. but here at home the president actually face a new legislation in congress that is being called sanctions but it would actually buying a lot of his options there's a bill that just went forward in the house yesterday that would make it illegal for the president or for any u.s. officials to make contact with iranian officials without getting congressional approval fifteen days in advance and that sort of unprecedented we haven't seen the president actually told him what and about on line that the congress trying to

regulate the actions of our own president well the motive is really to do. build a wall between the u.s. and iran and any potential diplomatic outreach sort of one legislative brick at a time so if this bill becomes law there's no chance for that's honestly all we have are sanctions or war and it's really a narrowing of those options that we're seeing this is the motivation for that bill and the president's trying to do is actually go to the u.n. get sanctions there and potentially stave off the pressure at home so that he has more options with which to deal with iran and in the wake of the of this new information coming out from this report at this point would you say that war with iran is inevitable it's not inevitable there's a way out of war and that would be a diplomatic resolution but it's going to take some serious investment in talks but we've seen so far is that the president came into office promising to change course to break with the bush administration to do some serious outreach to iran but

because the domestic situation he wasn't able to invest in that for more than a year before he went back to the sanctions bush so now we see we're back on the bush trajectory we're back on this and that way now that we are back on the flash trajectory i mean how optimistic are you that this can be resolved through nonmilitary means well i'm as optimistic about that as i am that the president can actually go back to his promises two thousand and eight and invest in diplomacy and actually put forward some initiatives with iran are not some confidence going to happen before the elections because he's facing pressure you know for not being a close enough ally with israel that's coming probably from the right way it's an attack on the president but potentially after the election or even if he summons the courage before then i'm content that a diplomatic deal could be reached which is going to take some some serious work ok thank you so much jim all for your thoughts on the general of the policy director for the national iranian american council. and we will continue to follow this story as the drums begin soviet router one more question we would like to ask why

is the united states involved in selling any interventionist policies. there is war propaganda coming out of our ears in this town and it's those institutions like the heritage foundation there that are the force behind it and it's those institutions pushing for a war of grodd so why are political leaders fighting for the agendas of these pro war robbing groups will have in-depth coverage of these neo con powerhouses so stay tuned as we continue to report on the story. of the man as the merchant of death now faces a sentence of life behind bars after a jury found him guilty of dealing lap and so terrorist organizations but there is a lot of controversy surrounding the trial questions about whether or not the russian businessman had a fair trial and whether it was legal for him to be extradited from thailand to the u.s. our to correspondent. looks up the greater implications of the verdicts in this case

. years spent by the u.s. to hunt down one russian man tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash poured into a skiing operation snatched from a third country for a month of solitary confinement before a three week trial in the u.s. allegedly arms dealer viktor boot was found guilty on all four charges one conspiring to kill united states nationals two conspiring to kill united states officers and employees three conspiring to use an acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the floor the forty four year old russian air cargo business and fascinated hollywood one of our favorite people. record. and only on the other a. boot lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion long before his trial kicked off raising concerns of the fairness of

his trial this is the lord of war. the merchant of death right and you've got him in your hands right he's in custody it's a great feeling u.s. officials were relentless in their efforts to get behind bars the so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate american agents posing as far members a colombian group seen terrorists in the u.s. but not by many other countries and they knew when i met with and then arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after twice being found not guilty by thai courts the u.s. reportedly pretty dirty arm twisting thailand into extraditing him to america they're willing to flaunt every international law to get what they want and that means doing all these illegal things in the case of it's a move to extradite him or her so he kidnapped a good family also called u.s. action entrapment and kidnapping does the post by i can accept the possibility that they did do might have some information that might be of interest to someone or why

is it that other countries don't just think for themselves that there is someone who has some interesting information and why don't those governments astride those people are their territory moscow's request to send him to russia or brushed aside there was no official decision of an extradition russia cold boots extradition legal and question the validity of his conviction one of the main arguments of the defense that the u.s. lacks jurisdiction was ignored by the court wants defense says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real four members and all she was trying to do was sell to all cargo planes we can appeal to this judge. that the verdict was rendered against the weight of the evidence and that we can also proceed to the united states court of appeals but with the vigor with which booth was brought to the u.s. experts like george map who has attended every hearings say a successful appeal is unlikely leaders imaginary crimes manufactured jurisdiction and manufactured evidence the operation relentless with no resources to capture to

do to bring in for america and any right. necessary the journalist says booth is one of many victims of u.s. judicial power play that i feel that victor and his and in particular charges that were brought against him that he's innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man whether it be a russian citizen but there were troy davis to do you know sentence life or death of a prime that they didn't commit the troops why did all of those of us that is not criminal in this case the most hideous the actions currently carried out by the u.s. special services are an organized probably kasia organized crime towards the russian citizens or any other citizens of the world when they should have deemed them allegedly dangerous it doesn't even have to be it's because moscow has vowed to continue to push for votes return to russia secure who has always maintained his innocence and will keep fighting for justice but would you have muscles flexed tight to keep him in an american prison it's freezing from twenty five years.