peaceful protest but a rougher response u.s. police move into arrest occupy activists inflicting their camp in new york in a park ahead of the anti-corporate movement's two month anniversary. moscow steps up efforts to mediate peace in syria hosting members of the country's opposition urging them to hold talks with the assad regime. the leaders of the delegation say that they are against foreign intervention in the country but stressed that they will have nothing to do with president assad's. plus are reaping the reward open war british firm has lined up to exploit libya's rich oil and gas reserves with lucrative contracts on offer from the transitional government. has

demand for natural gas is expected to grow dramatically in the coming decades and russia is trying to maintain his grasp on this key market find out what it is doing in the business of twenty. five b.n. in moscow why matras are good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story the birthplace of the anti-corporate occupy movement in new york has been raided and cleared out by the police hundreds of protesters were protesters who were camped out in zuccotti park for two months have been evicted and banned from coming back to stay officers reportedly used force to kick out some of the activists with witnesses saying pepper spray and tear gas were also used authorities removed all the tents citing health and safety concerns protesters say it's an excuse to sabotage

a mass demonstration planned for thursday archies marina portnoy has the latest from new york. is where it campaign began nearly two months ago and subsequently stretch out the nation and. so at one am tuesday morning when hundreds of peace officers dozens of them clad in bright peer into zuccotti park it was somewhat of a secret suite the activists were not foot notified and they knew of this when the cops came in with flood lights and sirens and demanded that all of those occupiers that had been living there about two hundred or so leave immediately and removed their property from the park i've witnessed says he saw cops using pocket knives to cut off in the tens units and people force leaving and he kelly for them to get out many of the protesters did the biggest peacefully many of them were shocked they didn't realize what was happening what was going on hundreds of cops were

surrounding them but other activists did resist some tied themselves to trees and there was a video that's been seen and shown in the film of some of their resisting object is being manhandled by the police. seventy people thus far have been arrested and some eyewitnesses say that sound cannons for use by me and y p d to try to evacuate anybody any of the occupy act is that we're resisting to leave the park is that he says that activists will be allowed back in the park after it's cleared out but that they will not be allowed to bring intense tarts or sleeping bags clearly making this circumstance a lot more difficult for for the activists to occupy the park with the winter weather approaching but for now hundreds if need be it maybe not thousands of activists have marched about nine blocks north to police called police square and

that is where unions are reportedly good will be showing up to join protesters so if anything this have this is maybe rallied more support for the for the for the movement but at the same time it has been a huge blow. more perspective on this what's go live to occupy activist alexis o'brien live york thanks for being with us so you were in the park when the police started their raid what did you see happen actually i was i was on pine and broadway i got the sort of notification that the park was being rated at about two am and i raced down to occupy wall street but the blocks like sort of two blocks of. the the park was blockaded and we were blocked from zuccotti by about a two block grammar around the park. and what did you see i mean what kind of what i saw was essentially wall to wall where we stand cops riot gear.

i've never seen so many cars in my entire life every single parking spot was taken up and all around wall street i mean on it's a temper seventeenth you know the n.y.p.d. blockaded and occupied wall street and essentially you know they had mounted cops on wall street. and you couldn't really get anywhere near zuccotti so there was about a mass of five hundred people that ended up with humiliating applying broadway and they were eventually dispersed by a rush on the part of the n.y.p.d. towards them what's been the reaction from you when the other activists and you plan for any kind of resistance or anything like that well activists is a funny word to me most was these people actually aren't activists they're just normal ordinary citizens i'm not an activist some a citizen yes certainly resistance couldn't dissent yes i mean i think that americans have no choice but to essentially raise these grievances with government

because our government has been controlled by factions you know every institution of society from the press in the pacific square to our elections are controlled by you know dominant factions that are essentially you know creating a nearly ills in abuses of a government that. on the resources and the spirits of citizens. so the police have faced criticism for some of the tactics that they used have you been surprised by the way they've been gone about trying to dismantle what are peaceful protests or have relations with the police been up to this point what they're doing is essentially tyrannical i'm not surprised by it you know the system to prevent it from exercising the rights of peaceable assembly in new york city and across the nation because the horse established to serve and protect civil society now justifies an increased budget with you know armaments using the war on terror as a sort of rationale for those increased budgets and many of the forces have become

you know like the n.y.p.d. and become essentially counter intel paramilitary forces so i'm not surprised you know when you think about just a couple months ago it was reported to police commissioner had confirmed that a cia officer was even working out and he said of course i mean this is the state of democracy in our you know in the this is the state of our democratic republic it is indicate the want to this point i mean do you think the police have been patient and respectful of the protesters up to this point it appears as though the police including mayor bloomberg at the top of the administration have been very tolerant of the protesters staying in the park and being allowed to use the facilities. what a tolerance of the protesters this is not a permission granted by some kind of overlord for the first amendment you know we're talking whether or not you know even the public agrees or disagrees citizens united states have the right to peaceable assembly now you know what the strategy

of the mare is with regards to zuccotti park i mean obviously his. you know his his girlfriend is on the board of that property. you know i'm a founder of an organization that interests riginal called occupy wall street in and we suggested that the public sidewalk there was a far stronger assertion of first amendment rights but easement laws in new york you know now that this sort of activity has sort of developed and mature it's not as black and white issue so we don't need permission from the u.s. government or from any law enforcement official to peaceably assemble to address government with our grievances what do you think's going to happen on thursday we're hearing reports that there will be a massive march. i think that the discontinued brutality on the part of the cops especially coming out to a and you know not even arresting you know members of the press not allowing any of the press to to film what was going on i think that it's

essentially going to create at war dissent in this country because this is not an ideological protest this is a protest that is based on people actually experiencing the consequences of a government that preys on the resources and the spirits of citizens but how long do you think we expect the occupy protests to continue. it depends on what we talk about new york city you know just in general the occupy protests as a concept is this going to shutdown going to be the end of it in places like new york in oakland or do you think it's going to keep building as a movement and continue on. you can arrest an idea you know occupy to me individually is the civic square in america and i doubt americans are going to continue to allow our civic square to be taken from us that belongs to the citizens or will be revealed. all right i'll guess we'll look forward to that all right so brian occupy activist thanks for joining us from new york thank you so much we're

keeping an eye on this story on the nationwide standoff between the occupy protesters and police for the video on the protests a lot on for you tube channel archies lucy calvin office following developments from the scene because of her twitter page to get the latest information and updates first. moscow's hosting high profile members of syria's opposition in the latest attempt to urge them toward talks with the assad regime it is a day after the kremlin criticized western countries for attacking syria and hiring

forces in attempts to overthrow president bashar al assad a couple latest on this remark he's here all over outside the foreign ministry hello peter so moscow has been trying to bring both sides in syria to the table for months now what's the significance of this latest push. well what we've heard from the syrian opposition delegation today is very interesting indeed they said this they would like to see a u.n. resolution put in place now this u.n. resolution would not be a resolution allowing any foreign military intervention not is something that they are vehemently against they share that stance with russia that this would be a u.n. resolution allowing observe is only ground in the country and allowing observers to to see what's going on the embattled cities that are still under siege in syria now they. also said that they would continue to keep on calling for the resignation the stepping down of president bashar al assad and they called on the international

community to help with us they don't want as they said they don't want any foreign military intervention but they are calling all the nations of the world to ask assad and tell assad to step down now they said as a glimmer of hope of getting people to a table to discuss things and talk the situation out they said that they were willing to negotiate with anybody whose hands would not a bloodied. in their own words essentially the long and short of it seems to be that the syrian opposition here in moscow today are willing to talk which is not suicide. we have said that we want to get a political solution to the crisis a chance and this is also the demand of the syrian people therefore we're calling on those countries that want a peaceful outcome to put pressure on the president to step down we do want to prevent any military involvement in the syrian crisis intervention repetition of

the libyan scenario we are in favor of a peaceful solution through negotiations. here is no president assad has been backed into a corner running out of allies even among his neighbors and in the arab impact as. well that's right on saturday the arab league announced that they were going to suspend syria from their organization now that suspensions are expected to be rubber stamp today meeting on wednesday in morocco this really leaves assad on syria alone in the arab world we heard from the king of jordan king abdullah saying that if he was in assad's position that he would be considering stepping down himself. the news that syria had he would be suspended from the arab league was greeted with dismay here in russia the story minister sergei lavrov saying that it was. counterproductive to an ongoing discussions of peace and to getting people to the table to talk this out saying by suspending syria from the arab league that

they give the opposition in protests to try and implement regime change instead of trying to talk this out in finding a peaceful solution now the news that syria would be suspended from the arab league caused thousands of people to take to the streets of damascus and other cities across the country protesting against this we saw some protests outside of the embassies of saudi arabia and qatar two nations which voted to suspend syria believe the people of syria and damascus saying clearly thinking that the suspension olf syrian from the arab league not the way to bring about peace in the country right artie's peter all of our live in moscow thanks for that report. britain is in pole position to take the lion's share of the spoils of libya's vast postwar oil reserves london city executives have been offered lucrative oil and gas contracts as the national transitional council is touting business opportunities to

foreign investors are he's laura smith has more from london. the effort to topple gadhafi was an effort that was certainly initially led by the u.k. and also france and the u.k. sent in its air force and it also used its navy to make a naval blockade around libya and now the national transitional council in libya is saying that it will be rewarded and these are not just words we've seen a couple of trips in the last two weeks or so earlier this month the u.k. department of trade and industry in ledge of working party to libya to have a look around see what needed doing what needed rebuilding and now the national transitional council has come to london to hold a meeting with top city business executives to drum up interest in what they're calling massive opportunities to rebuild libya so what we're seeing really is this direct correlation between participation in the effort she exactly and contracts

that are awarded afterwards we know that libya has the biggest oil reserves in africa but this seems to give more fuel to that argument seems to make it more obvious that the constant professions of this humanitarian goals seem to have been made a mockery of by this and as someone said to me last we form you know we destroy and now we get the contract to rebuild the place and that there is this seemingly direct correlation as i say and we also heard at the time of reports of evidence of force ring before nato even got involved in this we've heard reports that the national transitional council told the french that if they sent in there was planes then the libyans eventually which awards to tell the french all companies thirty five percent of all contracts up for grabs and for the u.k. of course which which is looking like it could be one of the main players in this this is turned out to be excellent business and estimates vary as to how much the

the war cost the u.k. but it was sort of settled around half a billion dollars now and now we're looking at thirty billion dollars in contracts up for grabs over the next ten years so it certainly looks like an excellent investment. stay with us here on archy's still to come the radio station with something of an enigmatic message. don't sound like much but this bizarre noise has sparked interest among radio enthusiasm around the world we take a look at what it could mean and where it's coming from in a few minutes. turning first to some other stories making headlines across the globe a reported u.s. drone strike in pakistan's north was near a standard region has killed six suspected militants intelligence officials say the drone fired two missiles on an alleged insurgent base in the miranshah area and u.s. claims several groups linked to assaults against nato forces in afghanistan are located

in that region pakistan's tribal areas have been hit by more than sixty u.s. drone strikes since the start of the year. maoist rebels in west bengal india have called off a month long cease fire a group says they're fighting for the country's indigenous tribal people in rural poor gouty continue to stand against the government until all anti malice operations have stopped the truce started in october after the group held peace talks with a government appointed mediators. radioactive material in northeastern japan has exceeded levels considered safe for farming a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered an explosion at the fukushima power plant in march that allowed nuclear radiation to leak into surrounding areas food production in the region is likely to be severely affected by the high levels of contamination. moscow's sacked former mayor u.t. luzhkov has been interrogated by the russian interior ministry over the case of around

a half billion dollars thought to have been embezzled from the bank of moscow two years ago case also involved involves a loose cobbs high profile life russia's richest woman who allegedly evaded the investigation is currently abroad or he's jacob greaves has been following developments. we had formed there yuri luzhkov arriving in the building behind me upon the request of the interior ministry to ask the questions there's a witness to give evidence now that last about four and a half hours after he left he did promise to return again for further questioning in the future in this case here also seeking to question his wife elena bitter in a case actually dates back to two thousand and nine and then city hall bought shares in the bank of moscow for just under half a billion dollars investigators say that if the parts of siphoned off disguised as a load to probe yes they said they came as a bogus company and they actually arrived in the count of elaine about her and her

private and personal accounts so far she's denied any wrongdoing in this matter your english course law is beaking today said that a new best gate has been appointed to look into the actions of the dealings of bank of moscow at this time in two thousand and nine was so said in the future that really should remain only as a witness in this case and nothing else yuri luzhkov who reside in power for eighteen years preside over a long period changing the kaffirs as well with a massive construction boom that ten year old came to an end just last year september on the back of allegations of corruption and really his quarter final completion after prison expressed he no longer trusted. to rule over moscow. for her thoughts while she's described as force of russia's richest woman she's also actually amassed a fortune as a real estate tycoon jury in those days of course construction boom so two very prominent people people still very interested in what they have to say. mysterious

radio broadcast coming from somewhere in russia has kept frequency followers puzzled for decades a hidden transmitter just broadcasts a strange series of beeps and buzzes stopping only to announce the names in a russian it leaves some wondering what purpose it actually serves or he tunes it. the sound has been gripping the imagination of radio spotters worldwide for over three decades. the u.v.b. seventy six also known as the was our. first aroused my interest because it is so strange personally i think it's a legacy device that's in the late seventy's or eighty's. the military operations of the time it's original and it got.

the sea has been going like this since the start and whenever that was were sometimes the water stops and the male voice lists names and numbers in russia. is the soviet union's and now russia's contact with spies or evil civilizations from other worlds. u.s. law has been a real fans since his childhood he's also had his share of the wiser but here's a simple mission of this purpose is much more down to earth one the size of the set and this sort of connections to stream a reliable it will shut down in case of a large nuclear explosion but only for a few hours but it's not the plan is not anything that's why it's still widely used today by the army the idea is pretty simple a military radio station sends out the buzzer which is received by other army bases by stopping the buzzer operators signals and then

a command called off the letters and numbers is about to be broadcast and when the transmission is complete the buzzer sounds on again you just lost said moscow's radios departing community nor were the signal used to come from a piece outside of the capital but this is what we saw it and this man is the only living sor we could find. on the spot he used to work at the beach and still do it illegally each year by. the looks of that it is used to be one of the best units in the country but two years ago we received an order to shut it down we were told it consumed too much energy there is also another similar unit it still lottery this could be that the legendary was used to be out of this building and with is the signal coming from now it looks like you won't be able to find any signs of that mysterious transit we're in here because the equipment was literally ripped out of

the walls and floors of the girl being on the bell but some things are actually still here where journal would be. the leading back to me thousand and nine. but the sound is still there were ever it's coming from. boise through the radio ether of as if it always has always will a simple technology that's conquered the minds of thousands. he got this little. some are baffled by receiving mysterious radio transmissions others are concerned what they might be sending out because they can't know who is necessarily listening in the reports on why the rather taxi is to make its debut in a british city of oxford as the city council or the all license cabs to be equipped with c.c.t.v. cameras book courting both audio and video plus. more

on our top story the occupy movement and the musician who performed the anti-corporate protest anthem for barack obama and apec leaders during has dinner and why all that and more. in a few minutes we take a look at the race for seats in russia's parliament but first the business news with dmitri. thanks matt top officials from the world's leading gas exporting countries are meeting in doha between them they hold a more than two floors of the world's gas reserves and there's some of the same that balancing the interests of both producers and consumers another discussion of

similar topics is underway in moscow at the annual gas of russia for business out sees money in the course of the spilling of. some of the main issues so far have been pricing in the race and competition and it's no secret that many european countries are dissatisfied right now with russia's gas because it links its import rights to oil prices and many believe that given the current market conditions russia should rethink its pricing of formula at the same time today ministers meeting in doha are considering returning to apply swing toil to save long term gas contracts and russia's energy minister who is in qatar right now outlined his main concerns for us on the spoke with a firstly it's the supremacy of the law. and will stick to it in future secondly it's the principle of linking natural gas prices to oil. we believe that natural gas should not cost less than

a crude just because. the market energy demand is skyrocketing around the world. meaning that i actually demand also germany wants those nuclear energy it will need to build power stations worth around fifty billion dollars and russia's energy minister already said that russia is prepared to see. large scale and we also heard from the vice president of gas. energy demand is expected to increase dramatically in the next twenty years they will need an extra three hundred billion cubic meters of gas and that additional lives may have to build gas pipeline when it comes to the immediate future gas from has already forecast an increase in european cells next year of around eight per cent and of course will be more volumes now with a newly launched north stream gas pipeline so it's a really essential for gas from to iron out its differences with its european

counterparts. on this move from gas to. trading near a two day speculation that europe will. struggle to maintain its debt crisis providing some support for prices rights protections that of course by the u.s. energy the problem drought on wednesday may show declining fuel stop in the u.s. light sweet is down thirty eight cents brant is actually up twenty cents for european markets a low of euro zone debt worries once again weighing in on the best this and all eyes are on the rising spanish and italian bond yields for fancies down of a center that says down one point nine percent declines and backs are led by your bank and i'm sure on the outs. here moscow the markets are down also with the odd one point two percent lower than my six heart of percent not so the situation has improved since we last looked at it still banks some of the biggest losers with burbank declining was that the sense carmaker after vast is a lower around true percent that's the spite reporting of net profits and why five

in hard times of poor russian accounting standards lukoil is also down half a percent on the world. that's all for now the headlines are next to stay with us. a little.