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top stories on our t.v. greek prime minister survives a confidence vote in parliament after a week of drama in athens that shocked the markets into turmoil. the day it's now turns to what happens next and what we still have secured that they. evaded the late. us police weigh in with handcuffs baton as a tear gas or put down the as a corporate all movement but activists say they're determined to stand their ground against the odds. and the political ads and hoardings are popping up all across russia as the campaign kicks off to win seats in the country's lower house of parliament.
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just after six pm here in the russian capital this is our t.v. our top story the greek prime minister will keep his job at least for now after security a crucial confidence vote for problems but the situation in the country remains far from clear george papa dreyer is now holding talks to form a temporary governing coalition and promise to step down if necessary. reports from the greek. there's a lot of confusion about what like a little government going to look like we saw promised the passenger and his government's advice that caused this nation in parliaments in the early hours of the morning it was very very close it was always going to be it was a way to match the decisions but no changes really everyone still waiting for think what the details of this will be as they separate for the devil really is in the details and so a lot of uncertainty still remains about what's going to happen now meeting for
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help guide us a bit see this political quagmire i'm joined by. professor of economics at this university. it's very uncertain what's going to happen now can you tell us a bit more about what the politicians are doing and said look he was saying they're playing political games and they're forced to do that at such a critical point the big picture is not what happened in greece is what happened yes the g twenty when they couldn't agree on anything so not agreeing on anything means that all stereotypic just will continue as the only policy coming out of the euro zone the pressure on politicians of the central if you center right because of those hysterically measures is that the leader of the right wing party wants quick lections so he could do well and not be implicated in any of the austerity packages we've had so far whereas cap and drew the leader of the center left party doesn't want to recollect this because he's deeply implicated in these policies and wants
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a national government a government of national unity so that the responsibility for the strategy package is shared but if you learn to say there is one missing out truth is that is the people of greece who have been demonstrating for the last six months from the street and really i see no solution that doesn't at least meet some of their demands for the stereotype recession more austerity measures vicious cycle being removed somehow. and politically just actually addressing the social needs of the people in this country and indeed if you feel that really is a very valid point what a lot of people are talking about here today is that is the missing ingredient the public opinion here very very disappointed at the announcement yesterday at what we seen playing out in the last week willie as he said the message of uncertainty at
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a time when everyone was hoping for was a unified front for some decisive action and that's not what we're saying it's all in of course moving forward the situation looking on increasingly unstable ground. and coming up later in the program of fighting the evil india's economy has done little more than deepen the gap between rich and poor making some resort to drastic measures. rather widespread concerns that u.s. police are becoming increasingly heavy handed breaking up the ante corporate occupy protests that have gripped the country for nearly two months now officers used force to disperse a demo at the u.s. capitol and take down tents three activists were struck by a car but the driver wasn't charged now in the californian city of oakland police unleashed tear gas and because of protesters arrested more than one hundred several people were seriously injured including a u.s. army veteran it's the second incident of police brutality the city has seen two
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weeks and meanwhile in new york where the occupy movement began protesters camped out as a party are bracing themselves for a showdown artie's movie the port meyer want to find out what authorities in the big our own have in store for them. the occupy wall street movement has cemented its presence here in zuccotti park for nearly eight weeks but now many believe that the city will try to evacuate demonstrators under the pretext of crime new york city mayor michael bloomberg is now accusing these activists of the danger in the entire community saying they are failing to report crimes that are taking place here the activists here say that they try to police minor infractions but when it comes to very serious crime or violence these activists say they do take boards to the police so media outlets have also learned that it is actually new york city police officers some at least that have encouraged criminals and people to come
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down to zuccotti park in effort to stir up some trouble the n.y.p.d. denied those accusations we did speak with a few of the high. hundreds of activists that are down here and here's what they had to say my experience has been that i stayed here and i feel safe here but i think that you know the mayor is costing big time that aren't haven't been reported what are those kind if you think the mayor is probably gearing up to make another attempt to. turn the park simply because someone walked into the park doesn't you know they're part of the movement a lot of these out with they've been critical of us characterize anyone who is within you know mile radius of this place as a protester and therefore reflective of our movement but as you can see anyone can come in here and that's fine you know we want to welcome people in but certainly because someone just up there doesn't mean they reflect what we're doing or that we promote what they're doing princeton professor and activist stop there cornell west who's been a huge supporter of the occupation movement was down here in zuccotti park r.t.
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had a chance to catch up with him to get his thoughts on what mayor bloomberg has recently said i just think he's wrong i think you're on david trying to come up with a rationalization without a convincing reason if you think there's anything criminal about you know dangerous about this thing if you didn't like i think it was section of new york city has a day and then. what it is they have a human community and every human community here still supporting oh my god yes one hundred twenty was it overall though all the activists that we have spoken with today say they feel as safe today as they have felt since day one of these occupy wall street movement they say the momentum is growing bigger it's growing louder it's growing larger and they are here to stay reporting from wall street marina fortnight our to. our correspondent lizzie caffein office also covering the occupy protesters have to artie's twitter stream for more allusive was asked to see as
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police weigh them to break up the latest protest in washington log on to her twitter feed for full coverage of b.s. events including photos and videos. one of the bad. driving the occupy movement is an increased tax on the rich that could help bolster the u.s. project a little later this hour we find out what something new yorkers think. as people get wealthier higher percentage of the they are going up until a certain point worse as you get even wealthier you want even more glory hard for mistakes of the streets of the big apple to gauge public opinion i'll stay with our team for the full results in just a few minutes. for people who want to play their part of the occupy movement but don't feel like hitting the streets saturday is the dates act it's officially back transfer day and move your money day both of which aim to deprive the big banks of their customers well let's cross to freelance writer kimberly thorpe in the us now for some insight kimberly will first of all how does this
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a national movement work what is it that people are being asked to do well today is being transferred day and not started by an artist in los angeles and it's a spin on a movement that's called move your money that has been going on for the last couple of years in the first three months of moving our money from five billion dollars in accounts were transferred today over eighty one thousand people have pledged their support to go to their banks and move their money to a credit union in a smaller course this takes time but within a few days and see how successful this move the movement was or no one eighty one thousand you said a pledge but surely i mean the big banks there really may be simply too big to be hurt by a few people closing of their economy eighty one thousand from their perspective that's not much isn't it well it isn't it isn't i mean i think that in september bank of america announced a five dollars fee on debit cards and. people were outraged this is when people
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started moving their money out of credit unions have reported some six hundred fifty thousand new members and september that's four point five billion. dollars and a posit in just the past month or so bank of america then decided to go into the five dollars transfer fee although you know we're still waiting to see what exactly is going to happen and people are so outraged. that they're committing no matter what their money and so you know eighty one thousand people is significant and move . the occupy movement has pledged to get behind the bank transfer day one hundred percent so it's ten o'clock over here but within a half hour the occupy boston who. should start partly i just wanted to ask you you mentioned the bank of america example there so they did go back on what they had planned but if for example if the banks do lose or customers and perhaps are made
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to act the way the back america did want others to grow at their expense and step in to replace them so it's like a cycle. bank of america right now owns the majority of our assets in this country so stepping up to root for the. sake of america would be difficult i think. the smaller banks you know that have a lot she came ok and you know yes sorry i just wanted to do something about an article that you had written praising a man who says no one's ever gone to hell for not paying a debt but don't you think that's somewhat of a call for national energy there. yes i think there are progressive and productive ways to fight the powers so to speak and then there are less productive ways however everybody you know it's captured their imagination it can't be captured by what would really happen if i were to walk away from thousands of dollars in debt you know a lot of us are underwater our homes are worth much less than they were when we
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bought time. and the you know our polling higher economy has been built on credit so. just walking away from your debt is something that really captures your imagination and steve kappes who was the person from the article what he did was have racked up some eighty thousand dollars on credit cards and then move to china where it can't be you know extra is not going to responsible behavior of those who just have more debt america already has a lot of debt and then just walking away from your debt is not really responsible. well one of the things that steve katz did for you know going to extreme measure to prove his point or just to get response well you could paint it that way as well is encourage people to just kind of start to fight back so if your kind of on the receiving end of harassing phone calls people threatening to take your car from your driveway and you can't drive your son to work you know but there are we there
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are ways to fight back you know a lot of businesses small businesses when they go into business part of their business plan if it doesn't work out they can file for bankruptcy a lot of people you know over the last you know hundreds of years have come to see their debt as a moral obligation something that you absolutely if you don't pay are a bad person and so steve katz in the beginning you know this was some five years ago i started by just starting a website to teach people ways to not feel that way just one more i'd like to ask you i mean these are you that you were talk. about i presume that a lot of ordinary americans are one when people choose bags they kind of have to look at the reliability of the banks and big banks are going to prove to be pretty reliable they are so it's switching to a smaller one too much of a gamble from an individual point of view you know it's not as long as it's i insured f.d.i.c insured you should be. ok let's quickly just turn to the occupy
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movement so we're seeing the police step up there a crackdown of peaceful protesters i'm just very quickly your opinion on this wire authorities appearing to take such a hard line i think the police need to figure out also a more productive way to respond to this extreme go local movement i mean we've seen it go look at movement in politics with the tea party occupy boston bank transfer day you know there's just a surge and populist energy right now and i think the police should find a more productive way to. kate thank you very much kimberly thorpe there talking to us live from boston thank you thank you are. now in russia a massive election campaign is now in full swing with seven parties competing for seats in the do my the country's lower house of parliament candidates have until december third to woo voters we have on air debates and enticing advertising on t.v. and the print media artie's got that her travel reports now on the race. well then
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that's thirty days old t.v. sets in russia we'll be talking politics politics and politics you know the. leader of the real people and socialism if that's what freedom solidarity and justice and free saying some are more. guns for the russian national. news future is with us on manners for the top political parties and of the december vote had been out for one of the most cherished key. three t.v. and radio air has just been sliced seven parties are in the running for the duma seats and while the country's main political force the united russia party is only concerned by home and the surety they'll be getting this time many are there is a pretty gesture may get into the parliament and the race is on a staunch communists are appealing to sauvie. all of communist heaven while
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a single time in one hundred years we saved the country from fascism in world war two we twice see of a culture from collapsing first in space with the liberal democrats are yet again appealing to nationalism. the russian president should be the sole ruler in the caucuses we have to eliminate the crime culture in this region and introduce curfews in some areas video surveillance is a must. while just russia comes up with a robin who plan to help with who are with the money of the reach for want to reform number one is fighting poverty and introducing tax on luxury business and country should brief really. there had been another runner in this race lobbying for both small and big businesses billionaire me how proper of hopes were high he would create a powerful lobby for western minded liberals in parliament probably of himself was
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even considering running for president of the complaint fails to deal with it field because across personality he thought that to run a party is the same as surround a business this is a strategic mistake he considered other party members have been with a great cause much longer than not as teammates for that as his subordinates and they responded by him with the right cause will take part in the polls but it's listed among outsiders one month ahead of the latch and polls suggest you're not a russia will gain at least forty three percent. and of the votes coming second our communists with fourteen percent the liberal democrats will secure at least nine percent for the other four parties it will be largely about how do you perform in t.v. debates and to secure it p. least one seat in the duma they will have to overcome an after sun threshold. very for how the united russia party is liz has even put his political future on the
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table saying he's. the country's prime minister of japan how well the parade route performs and the election booths prime minister putin is also backing united russia and has even become somewhat of a trademark of the party over the years but it sure isn't the sun brazil malachias will each receive a sparkling new tea set a welcome gift from the government the specifics of the order are exacting the search will be made from white porcelain each with a gold cream each cup must hold a certain amount of tea interesting new though not all circuits are all the same size two hundred four are key and coffee sets are tall persons all the remaining four hundred fifty are just skill down six person sets and while it's not clear which charities will win which sat sun g.o.p. discrepancy means they're not at russia party has corncrake plans for a tea party of its own following the december vote by winning pieced two hundred
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four duma seats exceeding the grouch over r t. now to some other news from around the world and we start with nigeria where series of bombing run attacks has left sixty three people killed and more than one hundred injured the assaults on the town of the two lasted more than an hour hitting several targets including a local police precinct and several churches so far there have been no claims of responsibility for the attack and this follows a military headquarters in neighboring borno state being rocked by a triple suicide bombing was blamed on the islamist group boko haram. in colombia troops have killed a top far rebel commander delivering another severe blow to latin america's longest running guerrilla insurgency alfonso cano died during a military air and ground assault there were awarded nearly four million dollars was offered for information leading to his cap for the sixty three year old took over leadership of the rebels in two thousand and eight the death of its co-founder
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. one of the top u.s. commanders in afghanistan has been sacked for making disparaging comments about the afghan political leadership general peter fuller said of president karzai and his staff were quote isolated from reality well lost in john's been quick to dismiss the statement as a personal opinion that doesn't reflect u.s. afghan relations he answered it comes as foreign troops are gradually withdrawing from the country having control over to afghan forces. and in india a massive rescue operation is underway for fifteen construction workers kidnapped by modest rebels it's the latest attack by insurgents who want to establish communism in the country well they say they're fighting for the rural poor been left out of india's big city economic boom. as this story. these are the images people recognize when they think of india as maoist rebels for almost twenty five years the group has attempted to overthrow the government in
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violence and intimidation to turn india into a communist society in their eyes the government is not taking any interest in the indigenous people of rural india the government has called the maoists the single biggest security threat to india and it's held them responsible for displacing and killing thousands of civilians but far from the jungles of india a new maoist revolution is brewing like the movement in the rural areas this one is also anti-establishment but is largely focused on overthrowing multinational companies and development the maoist argue that the arrival of multinational companies here is that's really cause further to hide between rich and poor they want to be in india without the profits of quote unquote dominating was thirty companies where everyone has access to basic right varvara the brains behind the are rising the highly educated man is in most senses the opposite of his counterparts in the jungle armed with
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a pen and paper and sitting in his relatively modern flat in hyderabad rao is seen as the intellectual leader of the maoists and a voice for a growing group of indians against globalization if the investment is from the. little bit. but the big companies and. the monday edition of the me hyderabad as a symbol for many indians of the country's booming economy and presence on the global stage the city has the biggest microsoft research and development office outside the united states and for many in the city the presence of foreign firms is welcome here providing us the opportunity and d.n.a. to get a duty locked up in india to get better and is being used by by amenities. b.m.r. you know. the wording different obligations for each leg of the markets is. while most indians aren't convinced that communism is the answer many agree that
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india needs to find a way to improve on its own i think that india has such a rich who would be a source of some mineral water but learn all that one science and knowledge let's go to human resources that we can produce and while they watch the uprisings around the arab world's favor leave it's the sub continents turn to demand change preassure either archie hyderabad india and don't forget you can access any over news at any time by visiting our website as r.t. dot com and here's what else is online for you right now in a tourist hot or group anonymous says your portly valve to take down major websites like facebook and fox network today all americans are marking national move your money day and also online for you. and the fruits of waiver a russian baby dubbed the world's seven billion citizen this summer
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a ton of oranges from south africa as a rather juicy reward to get a taste of that story at r.t. dot com. a russia simulated round trip to mars has successfully concluded after an eighteen month long test to see how a crew might cope with a long space flight with a massive experiment was carried out without ever leaving moscow artie's peter all over and tom barton watched the mission ends and met the volunteers who spent over five hundred days in isolation. after five hundred. twenty days of this trip around. we are proud to be true to prove that humanity can go to mass this is experiment to see basically the psychological effect
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a trip to mars would have on the crew and how they would work together inside such a facility now those that took part in this are looking to be part of future martian missions this over whole operation works well in international cooperation of mission the russian space agency working with the european space agency to put this experiment into into practice now the crew itself was made up from people from all around the world three of them were russian there was representatives from china as well as from france and central america who will find out a little bit what it's like on the scene where the mars five hundred module is we can now cross to tom barton who is there tom what's going on where you are well peter i remember on june the third last year watching this door behind me sealed and that was the start of the five hundred twenty days which ended when i watched them but all open at last after all that time and the crew emerged little bit white
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faced little bit bleary eyes into work into a cheering crowd after all that time they all stood together in front of microphones and they said how glad they were to work with their other crew members and to have got through what is really quite a feat of an jurors really to be in the nation and with a very strict routine day in day out for all the time i remember seeing the some bookmakers a quick way to warm the odds on that one of the crew going insane as a result of this experiment that hasn't materialized and i think they can now look forward to the d. brief period free of all those tensions. oh that was the occupy protest movements group the u.s. for a second month opinions are divided over some of its aims one of them is a tax hike for rich americans who demonstrators are blaming for the economic downturn or harshness has been on the streets of new york to ask whether people there agree.
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the general public has been vilified and the very rich lately so what does the public consider too much money this week let's talk about that more than a million too much money yeah if someone has more than a million should be a pay more in taxes yes they absolutely said yes but i want too much money so i'm not going to answer. those ten million too much too much for too much one when the limit when millions enough to have i would say if people make more than a million dollars and they have better in their bank account should they be forced to give back a moral or a moral and outs and general interestingly i saw once the answer the question do you have enough money to curve goes like this as your wealth increases so people who don't have a lot feel that they don't have enough as they as people get wealthier a higher percentage of the think they have enough until they pass certain point whereas as you get even wealthier you want even more so if you made ten million
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dollars would you i would give some of it away it's too much money are people that don't give it away and have that much in the wrong i guess it's a personal decision i just think that if you make that much money you could share with someone that doesn't have so much should they be forced to through taxes like you do in scandinavia maybe so because sometimes if you don't force someone to do something and are going to do it no matter how much wealth you consider to be obscene the bottom line is when it comes to money it's hard for anyone to not want just a little bit more. and i'll be back with a recap of today's headlines or suffer a short break. can
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