the. gloves are off but police in america as hundreds of occupy wall street demonstrators are arrested a nationwide clamp down two month anniversary of the movement's founding. singing from the same song sheet leaders of russia but a recent cause external meeting in moscow and stressed the creation of a new duration body modeled on the european union. britain has reportedly been endorsed to lead a campaign against syria's president assad although only diplomatic at this stage russia has sounded their god very little only in twelve feet of the violence in libya. russia is one of the biggest internet markets in europe but when it comes to

cashing in investors are still wary of the country find out why in business in twenty minutes. on air and online twenty four hours a day this is our carriage austin four hundred arrests that's the tally for the last twenty four hours as they stage an intense crackdown on a people wall street protests erupting in america and its demonstrations spanning the country come as the movement marks its two month anniversary of the thirty thousand protesters in new york on their own but they have become a testament to the staying power of the occupy wall street deals movement is however facing a synchronized clamp the local governments and own forces agencies are stunned and actually come from the brings us the latest on the biblical. we're standing on the brooklyn bridge in. new york city where the occupy wall street protesters are

marching on this is the final and the biggest around effectivity of that have taken place on day two month anniversary of the occupy wall street movement that began right here in new york on september seventeenth what began as a location of a small part near wall street had turned into a nationwide movement that has spread to countries all across the world from toronto to tokyo cities all across the globe but the greatest and the message that these protesters are putting out which is the frustration of course read the control of the political system as they perceived by the few corporate elites by those with the means and the well as the inability for the average american to essentially put food on the table to live in the class lifestyle these are some of these demands some of the frustrations that the protesters here have expressed and it is what we are seeing spreading across the country now the offense in new york city have been spans filled with extreme tension many clashes with police officers

and protesters following the lead that took place not only in new york city's but from the country in many of the occupations from old splinter to denver to portland to all kinds of other cities to many arrests. two hundred or so protesters have been arrested although we expect the numbers will be much higher once all of the information comes to bear we have seen unfortunately a lot of instances of a seemingly unprovoked the taliban by the police force in many cases the protestors were simply sitting perhaps standing in an area that's a little bit too close to the sidewalk they were met with brute force by the police department many of them slammed down onto the ground and props and physically track the way the occupy wall street movement was really crossed into the spotlight following the mass arrests there were witnesses on this very bridge the brooklyn bridge several weeks ago where seven hundred protesters were handled by police manning and arrested and massive for the most part. whether or not their message

will actually result in policy changes remains to be seen but they're certainly being heard by the press by the residents and by the for americans all across the united states reporting for r t on the brooklyn bridge i mean you see coming out. he's keeping abreast of the latest developments of the anti wall street protests and the police response to that you can check out her twitter feed for the most up to date information she's supposed to begin testing with his face covered in blood . comes from some according. to freedom speech correspondents are being arrested across the country. while a protest has gathered to show solidarity with the occupy cause some two dozen people were arrested in los angeles where several hundred gathered around some tents and keep road intersection. to see the police response firsthand more than a thousand people are here on the streets of los angeles is the financial district

we can hear the chants of occupy us now from the east coast so here in los angeles we have seen tons of these demonstrations in solidarity with the occupy wall street . movement along with several worker unions have shut down streets of downtown los angeles right next to the financial institutions which many say are to blame for the economic crisis that we're in right now there are dozens and dozens of police officers ready to take people into custody in the end two dozen people were arrested in los angeles on this international day of action but despite the arrests occupy l.a. and move it or not the church in los angeles. archie. but it's not so new york and a with a process of taking roots if they've strung up nationwide. trying to different pretenses authorities are taking protesters out of their occupy locations no public

areas and one of the interesting parts of it today at least play occupy d.c. movement has been the police presence there have been just as many officers as protesters they've been parked at every corner they had walked to with the protesters and if you take a look here in the potomac river there they are they're waiting. closely following the road for the protests in washington d.c. and philadelphia parties going to that you can and christine was noting that they just put in comments from a very sportswriter and taking place. there are straight from the play of the senior correspondent for the independent media routes news organization who believes police are purposefully going beyond the call of duty to nip the protests in the bud really well we're seeing here is the attempt to really crush the occupy wall street movement really they're trying to be a protest with the shock and awe. part of devastation and fire and so now they're

trying to find different report i think in the united states we. don't see at all situation you know the problems of the really learned a lesson. and it's really very effective and the port of oakland shut down it's really sent a message to the political establishment that you know people really think the two parties be catered to and they're really fed up with it and they're just going to stand for it anymore so that's why we're seeing. well meanwhile on a different continent the mood is much the same as a new wave of unrest test to europe tens of thousands in the streets of spain italy and greece else public anger at incessant cuts and tax hikes comes to a head during periods of effect austerity will have introduced rationed. russia along with some of its post partners will take the first steps to setting up

a new economic body the ration economic union shares the blueprints of the european union and see further integration between the region states and he said no imports . this will build on an already existing customers union between russia belarus and kazakhstan but the eurasia union will go even further it's meant to promote trade and economic cooperation with the asia pacific region and doing that by creating a new market that will unite legislation it will provide free chapel flow services and human resources some experts we've been stressing to even think and go as far as to say that this is the only way to protect those three countries from the economic crisis that's spreading across europe and around the world that. will eurasian union to become a kurd of products or services and would close between europe america foundation the union is europe's only way to survive and the current fiscal crisis will switch

over to the union will build a migration system very much like what we see with the shan can agree winter in europe but it is meant to a lower cost and tariffs also create a unified trade standards and it's expected that it will encourage businesses to invest in modernization of the three countries and also to very severely boost competition also we're hearing from from different experts that it could like i said reverse the global economic downturn that we're seeing and there's a possibility that it will expand in the future countries like ukraine could possibly join analysts they're saying that they've got a union like this existed some years back they would be in a very different situation financially today. if the project was realized they can two thousand and four when the ukrainian parliament confirmed the plan to stop watching a united economic zone i'm sure my country would have gone through the financial crisis more easily and our economy different position today. but the oficial signing will take place in the kremlin later today as russia kazakhstan and belarus

sign down to us this really start to gratian union and it was actually worth and economists around the world of course waiting to see what is. active has on the market and of course some experts say that it will ease dialogue and communication relations with the european union as. well for more on the possible repercussions of the deal let's talk to alexander lipman he's a professor of international political economy from the frankfurt school of finance and management thank you for joining us there russia is the strongest economy in the region so what's the benefit of closer economic integration with less productive states. well basically i mean that's difficult to give one short answer of the benefits of the eurasian economic union for russia well one thing which is going to happen is intensified competition between companies we observe it already now and we see that it clearly benefits include increases the

efficiency of the russian companies as well as the companies that are the posts of your countries another benefit which is clearly to be taken into account is there restoration of the existing you cannot make ties in the creation of the new ones russian companies have been very actively exploring that space in the last decade also incomes are standing have been present quite actively so the eurasia can now make union is likely to give a boost here supporting this development and in some sense it will create competition between governments what's also good today many russian companies at least claim to be considering migration to kazakhstan which has lower tax rates so it will discipline russian government itself as well so these would be three main benefits from my point of view i will there be any why the benefits of forming this bloc such as in its dealings with others like the e.u. for example. is it again would it be better bargaining power with things like the e.u. example other blocks. yeah that's to be honest not benefit of the customs union which

i would expect simply because in terms of bargaining power customs union is honestly russia plus as of now a bellows is in deep crisis and it as likely to have any serious impact. raul is an important country but its general political orientation is very far from from europe for example so i wouldn't expect any gain of bargaining power from this perspective it's rather in terms of economic ties and not of power issues we've talked about the economic ties as you say but do you think the union could give those involved a greater political weight in the future. i don't see so to be honest. simply because we have to understand if we if you look at the g.d.p. of the member countries of the eurasian economic union it is a little bit higher than the russian work if we look at the position of these

countries in the global export in the global political affairs they don't really add a lot from this perspective so i don't expect that's ok but looking further afield how do you think all the world powers and blocs will see this union do you think they'll see something competitive or fierce rivals perhaps. that's a really great question in fact and this is also one of the factors which will determine their economic effects of the union itself because currently unions in some sense of the crossroads run away which would go is open you're going if i may say so which is considering this so it's economically and politically to other kind of other large blocks to european union and also to try and which plays an immense wrote here and which also promotes economic ties of its members to these countries another way fortress eurasia if i may say so and this is clearly a case when economic benefits of the union may be. maybe some mean excuse me severely diminished so if the first week goes one should expect fruitful

cooperation if the second way is chosen unfortunately not there are signs for both the ways the first seems to be a little bit more probable today but that's a turning back to russia for a moment that russia is joining the world trade organization so how is that fifteen with this new union project. that's a difficult question we know it's yet to be honest so far we've had only one problem in terms of the w t o that is the possible membership of kyrgyzstan now russia is going to join the w t o. is very far from that and kazakhstan is also somewhat far so that means now their old union should be adjusted to the new obligations or actually accepted in the w t oh i don't think it's going to be a problem for example kazakhstan was forced to increase its customs tariffs after joining the union says russia's going to decrease them now it's not a problem for this country it may also somewhat facilitate the joining of the w t o

for other members of the customs union but our treaty works out if we don't go we have to look at that with the next year. ok we shall see lippman assistant professor of the international political economy at frankfurt school of finance management thank you for joining us today thank you very much. well russia but a recent kazakstan were once united as part of the world's biggest state u.s.s.r. but that unity ended two decades agree with the collapse of the soviet union in around fifteen minutes time we continue our series of special reports about how former member states of fed this time the focus is. twenty years ago the largest country in the disintegration of. what had been. true geology. where did it take the.

russia has once again the war on foreign powers against intervening in syria's internal unrest it comes after jordan reportedly osteen k. can take the lead in a war of words against president assad an effort to oust him from power prosecutors expressed concern that the situation is falling too much in line with the libyan scenario are things over and it is more. after its pivotal role in the overthrow of moammar gadhafi britain's become the new go to guy when there's trouble in the middle east prime minister david cameron's been handpicked as team captain for another libya style control group aimed at forcing president bashar al assad's out to begin with it will be a diplomatic offensive to russia appease it's an overreaction that could pave the way for military intervention look at look good we suggested all it would be arab initiative in place all countries concerned with a peaceful outcome develops into serious demand not only from the syrian authorities but also from the opposition at least of their violence the ongoing

attacks on government buildings in syria look like a civil war like if she and other moment there's no mention of military action from britain their offensive is purely verbal for now but that's exactly how the libyan intervention began and the timing is very similar to the opposition in syria is now militarized making it much easier to support and adds more weight to any international threats. and raising. the profile. to learn the lessons of thousands. of the no. nato or any other intervention any other military intervention will have even more serious consequences because of the regional threat the whole question of iraq the whole question is well the u.k. has apparently been handed its leading role by king abdullah of jordan so far the only arab leader to publicly call for and sad to quit but the patience of series of

other neighbors and crucial regional brokers' is now wearing thin to the arab league suspended series membership and given president assad until saturday to end the violence with britain already primed this could be the last ditch attempt at conventional diplomacy in a position now what i have to take some light. it affects the extent of the drive on the original bird like strike yesterday another difference or another three days so perhaps they're trying to offer as a side as much as possible so they could have an opportunity but having sort of taken direction that they've gone this far be very artificial but they have to have to make good on the promise of the truck otherwise that severely undermine the credibility of the free syrian army has been the main driving force behind the growing opposition movement most of defectors from the army launching their latest attack on a security base russia and china are still appealing for dialogue and the way to end what they call two way violence desperate to avoid another libya style

intervention but that chance may be fading but the wheels are already in motion for a coordinated attack it's verbal for now but when it came to libya it wasn't long before the words were backed up by weapons and bombs are the bennett party. but for more on the syrian unrest and how it began you can head to our web site that's at r.t. dot com here's a taste of what else is available there right now that i've been kicking a world war two era tank has been recovered from a river just outside st petersburg amazingly it's in good enough condition to make a great comeback was restored. allan offbeat look at the recent global headlines record bombers visit to austria latest euro crisis news artie's a cartoon gallery is a fresh perspective while putting a smile to your face. russia

wants international military action to bring an end to drug production afghanistan a call came in during a high level nine hundred contacts meeting in chicago last fiscal drugs control official warn that will be shifting from where they are produced in. the smuggling operations outside the country russia or nato to create united body comprising military officials that will toss one thing out of a production in afghanistan itself probably in the streets and turning over eight million dollars a year but it's particularly badly affected around one hundred thousand addicts during. the mood in europe is growing increasingly grim as previously right economies are brought to their knees by the books raging debt crisis but widely adopted solutions are been relentless budget cuts and tax hikes which will

spawn hundreds of protests and riots was not easy their first reports unrestrained austerity may carry an even heavier price tag for future generations. actually students have a lot to be unhappy about the dire economic situation he's seen youth unemployment killing levels in the struggling economies and despite recent political labels in greece and italy the public and the markets remain unconvinced that a viable solution has now been found here is a need to struggling to get a handle on the crisis we come back to school with country the university of the carter states some of the youngest brightest economic minds in the country find out what they think should be done there is the need of course for reforms and probably not enough because they will. have a back time fifteen twenty years so there is also the need for i

think increase public expenditure. markets so what do they think the solution is. about. to start since. it is not the will because you have a little bottle of water. for . promoting growth in the stagnating economy one of the major challenges and in a.g.u. imposed a. technocrat government is now firmly in place mary months here lucas papademos undeniably well

set with their experience to face the tough challenges ahead but at sixty eight and sixty four respectively spring chickens with an aging political class around then there's the seemingly little room for the younger generation to have their say so. or international stories in brief for you now this hour the fire after nursing home in sydney australia has killed at least three days over the residents rescue efforts were hampered when the last twenty three people were taken to hospital suffering from severe burns and smoke inhalation a fire broke out in the middle in the light of the best and sleep research on risk because. the. un's atomic watchdog has agreed a draft resolution sharply criticizing iran's nuclear activities document urges the country to comply with all its obligations and engage in dialogue that's being seen as a compromise deal as it sets no deadline for to random spot and suffer any discussion

on possible un sanctions until the spring resolutions are expected to be approved by the board he's governing board today. a few minutes. report in the post played of last year twenty years out of the u.s.s.r. but first there were let's cross to here and the latest instance. hello and a very warm welcome to the program russia has now more internet users than anywhere else in europe but when it comes to cashing in investors are still wary of the country as marina reports. this is russia's most popular website on average people spend near are seven hours in a month over fifty million people are now online in the country knocking germany from the top start figure may seem impressive but in reality only

a third of the country has regular access to the internet the main problem is infrastructure developments in such a huge country moscow and st petersburg maybe their interests fine people in other regions rely on dial up modems and low penetration of broadband in those areas as many russians are using their cell phones instead this year the number of mobile internet users has grown by nineteen percent so this is creating a new billion dollar market that is yet to be tapped by a business where there is little or no competition when it comes to buying goods online russia is a society where cash still dominates and credit card usage as low so even though there is plenty of the land for businesses providing goods and services to consumers there is still a lot of work to be done before it can really take off other than mail dot are you any yandex there are not a lot of classic internet businesses here russia's larger search engines raised one

point three billion dollars when it listed on the american stock exchange may successful short lived with shares slumping below their i.p.o. price soon after investors are interested in the potential of russia especially as internet population is expected to reach eighty million people by the end of twenty fourteen counts it's going to take time the sheer size of the country means that this. but and consumers still need convincing that their money won't disappear and that will actually get what they paid for. business r.t. . let's have a check on the markets while it's still low on fresh concerns about the eurozone economy after spanish bond yields saw which counter is speculation economic recovery in the u.s. will boost demand in the biggest who could see the w t i is trading at over ninety nine dollars a barrel while the brant plant is that one hundred eight dollars

a barrel. european stocks are falling as renewed franker germans increased concern that the region's leaders contiki on how to contain the debt crisis and its uncertainty of course is weighing on the russian markets the r.t.s. is one point four percent lower when the my sense is losing one percent the south let's have a look at some of the individual moves on the minds of most of the blue chips trading of the negative territory. is putting pressure on energy majors while financials are suffering from the eurozone death she just spoke on because losing her old one and a half percent is also lower the company says it's going to mostly pay attention to investment into new projects in order to increase production starting from next year and will produce a nafta's flash despite reports saying the company will receive new tax benefits. well central banks some making record gold purchases seeking to diversify asses the economic uncertainty in the world gold council says purchases reached almost one

hundred fifty times in the first quarter that's the highest level in forty years the list of bias includes russia thailand and believe russia currently holds eight hundred tons of gold with the country's central bank aiming through further increase in proportion of its recess. that's it for me for now drawing me less than fifteen minutes time for another business update and don't forget you can find more stories and i was so not sized archly dot com slash business.

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