isn't. peaceful protests and a rougher response u.s. police move in to arrest occupy activists a victim their camp in new york park at the anti-corporate movement's two month anniversary. moscow steps up efforts to mediate he's 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 more to do with president assad. and reaping the rewards of war british firms lined up to exploit libya's rich oil and gas reserves with lucrative contracts on offer from the transitional government

. six pm in moscow i met treasurer good to have you with us here on r t a top story the birthplace of the anti-corporate occupy movement in new york has been raided and cleared out by the n.y.p.d. hundreds of protesters camped out in zuccotti park for two months have been evicted officers reportedly used force to kick out some of the activists with witnesses saying pepper spray and tear gas were also used against them authorities removed all the tents citing health and safety concerns protesters say it's an excuse to sabotage a massive demonstration planned on thursday archy's marine important has the latest now from new york hello marina so police have been accused of using tough tactics in dealing with the occupy protesters across the country and now they're striking at the very heart of the movement in zuccotti park is this being seen as a major blow. many can argue that is significant to occupy wall street

here in new york remember this is where it can be first launched if you can you know each month he goes to. park was essentially just there are there ground zero where they have been occupying this space a public space where they have been living where they have been spending spreading their message the activists and their supporters also showing up throughout the week and on a weekend so the area where the protesters have been living has been grown so large that even tourists come down there but that is not and came to visit at one am tuesday morning a voice hundreds of police officers dozens who were dressed in riot gear that i made as secret speak three zuccotti park are early at one am on tuesday and the protesters were essentially based a blind side that they were unaware that the street what's going to take place but the officers came in and said that everybody had been evacuated the park and keep

their belongings and had to be cleaned or for health concerns that it had to be checked and swept to make sure that there was no hazardous circumstances taking place there already the city just as if they were as they were tired of the property owners of the park but all of this of course didn't unfold so easily because many of the peaceful protesters that didn't leave but many of them didn't resist they believe that they did not want they it wasn't legal for them to be taken from the parking lot of they resisted resisting out to decide themselves to trees others who formed human kind of chain around the kitchen area of zuccotti park and that's when we saw some type of aggressive tactics tikkun died a bit new york city police department because they were determined to evacuate everybody from the park one eyewitness said when police officers first came in and

they use now it's to cut through the tents waking some people up that was sleeping inside yelling at them to get out of the park and as we saw over the hours that unfolded it was. tense it is all the property inside of this park doubt was essentially thrown out of the park needed to be cleaned out of the officials say that the actors will be allowed back inside the car but they will not be allowed to bring charts tents or sleeping bags that clearly is a blow to this ongoing campaign because we did cold weather coming up in just a few weeks it's going to be very difficult for these activists to maintain their occupation without any kind of coverage such as sleeping bags and shelter any warming on and so they do believe that it is city set this up in a way to to sabotage their movement particularly because it took place at one am it didn't take place and broad daylight they were not given any notice they felt it

was a great. so two months after all this is started the movement has spread across the united states and not from the world but how much of an impact has it actually had where choosing its goals well i think that the most important thing for these activists is that they may have were established awareness and created a national dialogue about certain things such as the ninety nine percent in the one percent the huge wealth disparity between rich and poor in the u.s. and the need arguments what they call its corporate greed they talk about influence on u.s. politics and its movement has grown wide enough that occupations have basically a chance out in fifty states a country u.s. president barack obama has been forced to addressed the issue of occupy wall street the presidential candidates running on the republican ticket paul had how to talk about this during the debates this is a move that cannot be ignored but then movement has yet to really define what

exactly it wants when it comes to how the us system should change and when they demand when she became and see that change they still have a long way to go when it comes to their clear demands of laying them out all right our consumer important i live in new york thanks for that report chip. an occupy activist alexis o'brien was in new york at the time of the police raid she says the authorities heavy handed response was an infringement on civil liberties. what i saw was essentially wall to wall and cops riot gear. i've never seen so many police cars in my entire life 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 to the the cynics where to our elections are controlled by you know dominant factions that are essentially you know creating a myriad uses of a government that preys on the resources and the spirits of citizens this is the

state of our democratic republic it is in k. because of that this continued bhupen talent on the part of the cops especially coming at two am you know not a lot even arresting you know members of the press not allowing any of the press to film what was going on i think that it's essentially going to create war dissent in this country because this is not an ideological protests 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 you can't arrest an idea you know occupy to meet 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. we're keeping a close eye on the nationwide standoff between occupy protesters and police or he's losing out on all the following developments from the scene visit her twitter feed the latest information of the first and also get most of our most recent quarter

protests or lodging on the orders you can travel. hosting high profile members of syria's opposition in the latest attempt to urge them toward dialogue with their country's government is a day after the kremlin slammed western countries for backing syrian and iranian forces and their attempts to overthrow president assad artie's peter all for how small. 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 that is something that they are vehemently against they share that stance with russia this would be a u.n. resolution allowing observers on the ground in the country and allowing observers to to world see what's going on at 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 of russia and they called on the international community to help with us. we have said that we want to give a political solution to the crisis a chance and this is also the demand of the syrian people therefore we are 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 and prevent

a repetition of the libyan scenario we are in favor of a peaceful solution through negotiations 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 to the meeting all the way to stay in morocco this really leaves assad and 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 this syria had be 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 and saying nato by suspending. syria from the arab league that they would give the opposition protests

to try and implement regime change instead of trying to talk this out and finding a peaceful solution no 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. the people of syria and damascus they clearly thinking that the suspension all of syria from the arab league not the way to bring about peace in the country. britain is an 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's telling business opportunities for foreign investors archy's laura smith has more from london. the effort to talk all good saffi was an effort that was initially led by the u.k. and also france and the u.k.

sent in its airforce 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's friends 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 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 of 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 goal seem to have been

made a mockery of by this and as someone said to me last week we've gone you know we destroyed 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 ordering before nato even got involved in this we've heard reports that the national transitional council told the french that if they sent in their war planes then the libyans eventually which awards to tell the french oil company thirty five percent of all contracts are 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 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. well stay with us here on r.t. still to come this hour the radio station with something of a mysterious message. as much but as bizarre noise has sparked interest among radio and busiest the world over we take a look at what it could mean and where it comes from a few minutes. but first in italy the newly appointed prime minister mario monti is hard at work creating a controversial new technocrat government they're expected to be made up of unelected experts rather than politicians to rescue the country from its towering debt crisis once the team is put together the premier designate will face a confidence vote in the parliament that could be as soon as this week will need to work to reduce italy's deficit and boost its economic growth under immense pressure from the e.u. meanwhile in greece the new prime minister lucas papademos says he's determined to keep the country in the euro zone the new coalition government has to approve one hundred thirty billion euro bailout deal despite harsh austerity measures already

in place in the country are key business editor nick takes a look at where it went wrong for the. proud nation and their knees. it was supposed to bring peace and prosperity for all for a while it did but now the euro is costing people their jobs their pensions and even the democratic rights from the beginning the flaws were there for everyone to see skeptics said the economies of the likes of italy and greece which is too different from germany in finland to be regulated by one system but often isn't idealism carried the day a new currency was born it was strong and stable and was regulated in ways a german central bank might approve of but very elated seeds of the problem greece italy portugal and spain now had their hands on a strong currency and could borrow against it and unlike before the interest rates they would have to pay would be much less so much more which is what they did italy

currently has a debt to g.d.p. ratio around one hundred twenty percent greece is more than one hundred sixty percent that's a bit like somebody with an income of twenty thousand dollars a year i mean thirty two thousand on their credit card they will be bankrupt the banks one and many more money a flat screen t.v. will be repossessed and will be a lot of cabbage and potatoes in the worst case. it's similar for a country but instead public sector pay is cut and thousands of people are forced out of jobs before greece and italy always have the possibility of devaluing the currency when times were at this had the effect of lowering total debt and of conferring a competitive advantage as products services in labor became cheaper and this stimulated economic growth it also made people poorer as the money in their pockets was worth less but crucially it did not result in mass redundancies especially not imposed by foreign powers under hard currency like the euro this option is no

longer available to the indebted nations so instead they must cut because they remain uncompetitive they cannot grow the worst of both worlds. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe reported u.s. drone strike in pakistan's north waziristan region has killed six suspected militants intelligence officials say the drone fired two missiles at an insurgent an alleged insurgent base in the iran shah area and u.s. claims several groups linked to assaults against nato forces in afghanistan are located in the 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 the group ended the truce after the government failed to meet their demands to withdraw forces from the same they're fighting for the country's indigenous tribal people in rural poor the rebels have a violent history and in the just last year they killed more than one hundred people in a train crash i allegedly sabotaging the rails. radioactive

material in northeast japan has a exceeded levels considered safe for farming a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered an explosion in the fukushima power plant in march allowing nuclear radiation to leak into surrounding areas food production in the region likely to be severely affected by the high levels of contamination of moscow's sacked former mayor yuri luzhkov has been interrogated by the russian interior ministry over the case of about billion dollars he's thought to have embezzled from the bank of moscow two years ago case also involves luzhkov wife russia's richest woman who allegedly evaded the investigation and is currently abroad or he's jake agreed as has the latest. we had four mayor yuri luzhkov arriving in the building behind me upon the request of the interior ministry to ask the questions there is 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 elaine of a tour in a case actually dates back to two thousand and nine and then city hall portières in the bank of moscow for just under half a billion dollars investigators say that if the parts of the subalterns sargeant off disguised as a load to probe yes they said they came as a bogus company and they actually arrived they say in the account of a lane of a private and personal accounts but so far she has denied any wrongdoing in this matter yuri luzhkov laws today said that a new best data has been appointed to look into the actions of the dealings of bank of moscow at this time in two thousand and nine over also said in the future that really should remain only as a witness in this case and nothing else yuri luzhkov resigned in power for eighteen years preside over a long period change in the capital as well with a massive construction through 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 they no longer trusted. to rule over moscow million of a tour of her part well she's described as full of russia's richest woman she's also actually amassed a fortune as a real estate tycoon jury knows days of course because she had two very prominent people people still very interested in what they have to say. well shifting gears now to something a little more mysterious a strange radio broadcast coming from somewhere in russia has kept frequency followers puzzled for decades hidden transmitter simply broadcasts a series of strange beeps and buzzes stopping only to announce names in russian it leave some pondering the purpose it actually serves. to use 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 in the late seventy's or eighty's. the military operations of the time it's original this is in. the sea is going going like this since the start whenever that was. sometimes that was or stops in a male robotic like voice lists names and numbers in russian. and the league is the soviet union's and now russia's contact with spies or evil civilizations from other worlds. iraq has been

a radio fans since his childhood he's also had his share of the bother but his explanation of his purpose is much more down to earth one the affairs of the us but this sort of connection is extremely reliable it will shut down in case of a large nuclear explosion but only for a few hours and it's not dependent on anything that's why it's still widely used today by the army idea is pretty simple i knew it to be a radio station sends out the buzzer which is received by other army bases by stopping the buzzer operator signals that a command called of the letters and numbers is about to be broadcast and when the transmission is complete the tones on again yes are said moscow's radio spot in community nor were the signal used to come from a base outside of the capital but this is what we saw it and this man is the only living soul we could find. on the spot he used to work at the beach and still lives in the village nearby. but 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 but there is also another similar unit it still operates could be that the legendary buzzer used to be out of this building and with is the signal coming from now looks like we won't be able to find any signs of that mysterious transamerica here because the equipment was literally ripped out of the wars and wars of the golding when the bell was some things are actually still here journal with the last entry back to me two thousand and nine. look the sound is still there were ever it's coming from. boise through the radio ether as if it always has and always will

a simple technology that's gone through the minds of thousands. of people at the school of. moscow. the truth is out there some are baffled by mysterious radio transmissions they receive others are concerned what they might be sending because they can't know necessarily who is listening in r.t. reports online big brother taxi about to make its debut in a british city at oxford as the local council orders all nice and cabs you quickly equipped with c.c.t.v. cameras recording both audio and video plus. in a nod to our top story the occupy movement the musician who performed the anti-corporate protest anthem for barack obama and apec leaders during a stately dinner in hawaii all that and much more look away at our two dot com.

headlines and if you minutes business though next with dimitri. thanks man hello and welcome to business the top officials from the world's leading gas exporting countries are meeting in doha between them they hold more than two thirds of the world's gas reserves and summits aimed at 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 he's going to call summit is following both. some of the main issues so far have been pricing innovation and competition and it's no secret that many european countries are dissatisfied right now with russia's gas from 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 to oil to save long term gas contracts and russia's energy minister who is a you could tell right now outlined his main concerns for us. firstly it's the supremacy of the long term gas contracts with. strategery and will stick to it in future secondly it's the principle of linking natural gas prices to oil prices we believe that natural gas should not cost less than crude because natural gas ecological requirements and this should be priced in the market and if you demand is skyrocketing around the world then russia's role is crucial to meeting that extra demand also germany wants nuclear energy it will need to build power stations worth around fifteen a billion dollars and russia's energy minister already said that russia is prepared so why not a large scale today we also heard from the vice president of gas from who says that

energy demand is expected to increase dramatically and in the next twenty years there will need an extra two hundred billion cubic meters of gas and that additional lines may have to be built for the nordstrom 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 really essential for gas to iron out its differences with its european counterparts. so going to the markets now european markets. worries once again weighing on investors. on rising spanish and italian born fields the foot sea is lower taxes let down by commerce bank and i'm sure the odds. are not going to the seventeen minutes to go trading the r.t.s. is down point six percent my six point three so it's coming back to monday levels

in march by the end of the session declines in the my stocks are led by banks with bank percent in the red now actually actually changed to almost flat after that as low as two percent that's the spike reporting a five point five fold increase in profits on the russian accounting standards new poil has reversed into positive territory for a one percent. russian carmaker gets as reported a profit for the first time north of twenty eleven following a loss in the same period last year and as income reached almost fifty million dollars with a company benefiting from higher than one gaz was on the verge of bankruptcy in two thousand and nine and managed to restructure one billion dollars worth of debt and significantly constancy of the company is positive about the future of the business but if you look at the first have we had twenty nine percent growth of revenue. we came in at nine point six percent. very strong performance very strong before the

zero zero dealers please if i look at the second half will be even stronger. we will finish the project thirty two under forty billion rubles of revenue with. the headlines are next on.