family who builds employee approach someone said grumpily sedona sweeten the. book royal sleep on whose homes were built shirts and cycle new children's homes the world hotels in the leaves of the t.'s available in the island resort and spa. visit because we want to mystics of the european union in our integration the easy to the shorts and the dots to some extent on situation is did friends. here ages economies of scale russia belarus and past acts that move toward creating a new trade walk to protect the region from economic turmoil. hundreds of arrests and the heavy hand of police as occupy protesters come out in force across the u.s. marking two months of corporate greed anger and. new signs of a rupture within the e.u. britain clashing with germany which wants countries to surrender more control of their own political and financial decisions.

seven pm in moscow match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story well that's dragged down economies in europe russia and some of its post soviet partners are taking steps to balance out the financial climate in the broader region here asian economic union set to create a warmer environment for trade and investment throughout the continent. has more from central moscow. this is a huge tutorial russia and kazakhstan combined put together a total area of around twenty million square kilometers and all the past twenty years or so it wasn't exactly used to its full potential sure there was the soviet union before but one of its main problems was that it was based on ideology which was one of the main reasons behind its collapse in the end while the main idea of

the region union is that it's based on capitalism while some me see that the european union is also based on capitalist values that it's not exactly going through its easiest times right now but according to presidents need to be good if it's using the experience of the u.s.s.r. and the knowledge about the mistakes made by the e.u. which could potentially make the u. region union much more powerful. move is because like we won't repeat the mistakes of the european union in our integration we're conscious or we're doing i understand who we are integrating with you know three countries sharing a common history and today will form in a common economy that is why we start not on different levels but from similar positions the european union to shorten a doctor's time which stands our situation is different i'm sure we will be able to create a solid and stable economic union. this union is being beast on the foundation of the customs union between russia kazakhstan and belarus all just three states but

its future vision is much bigger just picture of content a ration of state stretching possibly from the balkans and all the way to the pacific a huge bridge between europe and asia perhaps it's too soon to talk about that at the moment since russia was in kazakhstan just put together a committee which will be working to develop this idea further but just to give you an understanding of how effective it could be just within the framework of the customs union russia goes in kazakhstan managed to increase their total treat turnover in just half a year by forty two. percent so just think of the possibilities on our website r.t. dot com we want to know what you think about the eurasian union and what does it mean to you so far of the respondents most think it's a new way forward for bureaucrats to embezzle cash and it's almost neck and neck from there between viewers who don't have any idea what it is and those who consider it a better version of the european union the minority think it's

a reincarnation of the u.s.s.r. what do you think. of yourself. political economy professor alexander littman says the eurasian union will boost competition and help discipline the finances of member states. well the thing which is going to happen is an intensified competition between companies we observe it already now and we see that it's clearly benefits that include the increased efficiency of the russian companies as well as the companies of countries and other benefits which is clearly to be taken into account is there restoration of the existing economic ties and the creation of the russian companies have been very actively exploring to oppose soviet space in the last decade osun kazakhstan they have been present quite actively so the eurasian economic union is likely to give a boost here supporting this developments and in some sense it will create competition between governments let's also go to today many russian companies at

least claim to be considering migration to kazakhstan which has nowhere tax rates so it will discipline russian government so as well stay with us here on r t you for more details on this story including this. alleged sell business see that russia kazakhstan and belarus will be boosting their economic integration to the extent that there will be a coordination of capital budgets and monetary policies but they are very unlikely to be moving to a single currency one this in fifteen minutes in. business report coming your way after the main news walk but first hundreds of arrests multiple injuries the result of a massive day of action across the us i occupy wall street protesters tens of thousands of activists against corporate greed took part in rallies in cities across the u.s. marking two months of the movement several met with a heavy police response officers in riot gear armed with the tongs and shields were

accuser brutality against mostly peaceful demonstrators the focal point was naturally new york were crowds took to the bridges of the subway and tried to disrupt the stock exchange to make their frustration heard right he's losing kavanagh thousands. we're standing on the brooklyn bridge in new york city where the occupy wall street protesters are marching on this is the final. big is surrounded activity and that have taken place on a true month anniversary of the occupy wall street movement that began right here in new york on september seventeenth what began as a small occupation of a small park near wall street had turned into a nationwide movement that has spread to countries all across the world from toronto to was tokyo cities all across the globe but the braised and the message that these protesters are putting out which is the frustration with corporate greed and the control of the political perceive the system have they perceived by the few corporate elites by those with the means of the wealth and the inability for the average american to essentially put food on the table to live the middle class

lifestyle these are some of the demands some of the frustrations that the protesters here have expressed and it is what we are seeing spreading across the country now the events in new york city have been tense filled with extreme tension many clashes with police officers and the protesters following the raid that took place not only in new york city but across the country in many of the occupations from hope to denver to portland to all kinds of other cities to many arrests we have seen unfortunately a lot of instances of a seemingly unprovoked were challenged by the police force in many cases the protesters 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 campus and physically interact the way the occupy wall street movement was really rough 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 setting 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 why the press by the residents and by and countless americans all across the united states reporting for our team on the brooklyn bridge i mean you see you know. earlier we spoke with the lead been a 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 clearly we're seeing here is we attempt to really crush the occupy wall street movement clearly very trying to hit the protesters with the shock and awe and try to devastate them back fired and so now they're trying to find different pretext i think in the united states and with the w t o i don't see at all situation you know the this is the really learned

a lesson that nonviolent direct action and it's really very effective and the sort of open shutdown it's really sent a message to the political establishment that you know people are really seeing the two parties dictatorship and they're they're really fed up with it and there is just not going to stand for it anymore so that's what we're seeing. party correspondents are covering i could buy protests from some of america's other major cities for their latest updates and videos you should a click on our website r t dot com three hundred different pretenses authorities are checking protesters out of their occupied locations no public areas there are several people by dissidents civil disobedience to sit down just ready to get all resident in support of because our correspondents in philadelphia los angeles washington d.c. uploading their latest footage and comments on the developments from within the protests you can check it all out at our team dot com. tens of thousands of

egyptians back in tahrir square to demand that the military hand over power to a civilian government the rally that brought together islamists and secular protesters was organized by the muslim brotherhood after the government floated a controversial document bolstering the powers of the armed forces professor mark allen and an international relations expert at bill kent university in turkey thinks the muslim brotherhood has personal scores to settle with the military. the muslim brotherhood is in a position to challenge the military the question is who owns more support it seems to me the who will be trained. in moments. where there is some sort of strange situation where the military movement will seem to be needed to get. the spirit of the news complete we used. to. the generals and.

some legacy special muslim groups and you look for elections for the simple minds reasons and since these are trains and full of claims and. close and personal things going wrong in the meantime of some of the election principles i think the problem for the muslim world who may be with you is. whether if a. majority wants a much more on the other hand we see and you see the same sort of proof since normal. party who seems syria's agreed in principle to allow international observers into the country and an apparent effort to comply with an arab league ultimatum giving the country's leadership till saturday to stop the violence pressure on damascus is growing as the u.k.'s been reportedly asked by jordan's king abdullah to lead a diplomatic offensive against the assad regime and move echoes that build up though to the recent libyan operation

a direction that knockout of year mainly opposes parties over bet it has more from london. after its pivotal role in the overthrow of moammar gadhafi britain's become the new go to guy when is trouble in the middle east prime minister david cameron's been handpicked his team captain for another libya style control group aimed at forcing president bashar al assad out to begin with it will be a diplomatic offensive to russia it's an overreaction that could pave the way for military intervention. we suggested in order to begin relationship in place all countries concerned with a peaceful outcome of developments from serious to demand not only from the syrian authorities but also from the opposition to please stop the violence the ongoing attacks on government buildings in syria look like a civil war. at the 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 them much easier to support and adds more weight to any international threats. where you. learn the lesson thousands and thousands. of the no. nato or any other intervention another military intervention will have even more serious consequences because of the regional threat the whole question of iraq the whole question of israel the ukase apparently been handed its leading role by king abdullah of jordan so far the only arab leader to publicly call for to quit but the patience of series other neighbors and crucial regional brokers' is now wearing thin to the arab league suspended series membership and given presents a sad until saturday to end the violence with britain already primed this could be

the last ditch attempt at conventional diplomacy but in a position now where they have to take some back. in effect they've extended it on the region to a point yesterday another difference or another three days so perhaps they try their office as much as possible in order to get over that unity for having sort of taken action but they've gone this far beyond a position where they have to have to make good on the promise of the free market the voice of civilians about their credibility and free syrian army has been the main driving force behind the growing opposition movement most of the thinks is from the army launching their latest attack on a security base russia and china 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 cold natured 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 on to bennett's. there's

always more on the stories we're covering a click away at our dot com here's what farai right now russia's anti-gay drugs are about to get to the root of afghanistan's notorious heroin production and says the u.s. needs to do more of the details on this high tech plan our live shots. how's this for a real page turner the world's biggest party of the koran arguably one of the most decorated find out why it's come to russia. or they may both be pressing for action to resolve the e.u. debt crisis but there are procedures are worlds apart german and british leaders have been meeting in berlin to thrash out a possible solution or things or a smith reports. prime minister cameron and chance have held their meeting now and

they ended it with a short media conference at which they were all smiles nothing less than we expected i mean these are two professional politicians after all they're unlikely to sling mud at each other in front of the world's press they really seem to have made nice with each other this morning they said that they do have differences but the difference is that can be overcome and of course they're dealing with what is a economic and fiscal union essentially on the brink of collapse no cool solution to all that is basically more europe she says that there should be more integration there should be more national governments and in the you to the heel of brussels most like is in these now is the incumbent solution to the situ what's going on in europe at the moment it's less integration he says he sort of talks yearningly over a over a year in which has flexibility which is really the complete opposite to to michael's approach to germany and luxembourg now today or he's accusing me of selfishness i'm

sure miss they're saying that they want to be the case in bailouts to countries that are suffering a bit more and they say that the u.k. is quick to criticize but very slow to actually step in and help also heavily indebted countries like person who are doing markedly worse than countries like germany should just keep their mouth shut they shouldn't offer advice about how to handle the syrian crisis or various disagreements disagreements in the world of the euro some european central bank should it be a lender of last resort or not also disagreements about a tax on financial transactions merkel wants it and cameron doesn't so basic differences in approach. italy and greece is new government still fresh from the box but already enduring the unfriendly welcomes of thousands of protesters both prime ministers are committed to extremely unpopular debt solutions including budget cuts and tax hikes there's already sour furth reports unrestrained austerity may carry an even heavier price tag for future generations. students

flip to the streets across greece kusa protests ringing loud and clear and facing what they call government and the economic situation the street singing next week since i'm young it is the problem and i can pull with people close in age with me and. they feel along these students have a lot to be unhappy about it dire economic situation has seen youth unemployment hit crippling levels in the struggling economy and despite recent political labels in greece and italy they say the public and the markets remain unconvinced the devival solution has now been found but here is a need to struggling to get a handle on the crisis we come back to school we come here to the university of the carter to speak some of the youngest crisis economic minds in the country find out what they think should be done. about drought.

starts in some. cities not the world because you have a little bit of water. promoting growth in the stagnating economies of the major challenges in an age of the e.u. imposed a. technocrat government is now firmly in place mary monti and lukas happy day most runs in the arab league well set with their experience to face the tough challenges ahead but it's sixty eight and sixty four respectively spring chickens with an aging political class around them is in seemingly little room for the younger generation to have their say we have to think of the future if we want to think of the future

we have to. include young people and major criticism since the beginning of this crisis has been the inability of hear anything leaders to react quickly to the shipping economic circumstances and to adapt your reasons he could well now rest a little. completing a new prates. i think a. great economist professor yasser arafat says his country has sacrificed and sovereignty to process all but it's likely to have been in vain greece has lost its national sovereignty just like it heads under linux leadership sixty seven and so. we have this government because it was there it by the european central bank and european commission and if. quality eludes us we're going. to move to nothing new to. you how new government

which will. allow us to a degree of confidence that both major political. interest in union agreement to look at the crisis war that will be no more tragedies of the. new google here what is hard. is a sense are not. great a future or they're not an investment in turn. just like all those bridges at all hours of last year and a half. almost. and you going to. go. do you mean any one. of whom are in. either the crisis fall in the lives

of ordinary people. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe and arrest warrants been issued for former philippines president gloria arroyo charges have been filed for an electoral fraud which claim that she helped a supporter win a seat in two thousand and seven which she strongly denies arroyo was prevented from leaving the country which she tried to do earlier this week to get medical treatment accusing the government of violating her rights her condition means she's unlikely to face a jail term. an erupting volcano was attracting hundreds of tourists to a national park in eastern congo a lot of power and started flowing earlier this month now reaching heights of some two hundred meters visitors have been invited to a camp at an atlanta area that according to officials poses no risk to the thrill seekers in two thousand and two another volcano in the region destroyed an entire city district with some three hundred fifty thousand locals forced to flee the area . robust debate on u.s. politics coming your way in a few minutes on

a cross talk but first the business update with dimitri stay with us. good evening and welcome simply as insulting as we have been reporting on in the program free fullness soviet countries have agreed to create a your asian economic union russian president good of its kind of close from kazakhstan and belarus have agreed on further integration chris we've heard from julie could i look explains how the new economic bloc differs from the customs union between the countries. the existing customer community place next year simply removes. restrictions and difficulties of trading across a border between the three countries that's also it would be easier to to for a good cross between each of the three countries and because of you know what's now being talked about is closer economic policy integration so the three countries would pursue similar policy objectives which in terms of you know budget policies

currency management policies capital policies this world. cup mantri and policy budget policy objectives that's really what we're talking about we're not yet talking about for example the ultimate step which is monetary integration that's really not only gender disappoint and i think they love is the have to be a complete reassessment of what monetary integration means or how we can be done in especially in the light of what's happening in the euro zone right now. so you're going to markets this is a rising out of the euro is gaining versus the dollar. is just over ninety nine dollars per barrel brant is up almost a. mixed feelings in the u.s. at the opening the markets are hesitating without by forty two percent investors are relieved somewhat over falling born yields in spain and italy but tech stocks are a drag with the nasdaq down twenty three percent. european shares are down as renewed

frankly german spatting create concern that the region's leaders cannot agree on how to contain the debt crisis therefore see that acts are falling more than what's said. this uncertainty is also weighing on the russian market says the closing picture for you. point one percent of my sex one percent exactly was blue chips in the red it was a negative we all along the loop oil and gas problem declining one point six zero. two point two percent despite the fact that oil has been recovering and financials are also no exception though some of them better than the census but. the other news rush is a gas giant gazprom is report of its european retail sales more than doubled from two thousand and eight to twenty percent the growth was driven by the u.k. france the czech republic and it's only they accounted for around three percent of the company's total supplies to non c.i.s.

countries has promised struggling to get direct access to european consumers in order to avoid middlemen and get high revs. russia's second largest oil producer lukoil plans to treble its gas output of the next decade because as gas production investment will amount to twelve billion dollars over this period the company's vice president anything i don't says they'll be looking for gas all over the world but if you're going to go in the next decade we plan to boost our gas production to seventy billion cubic meters annually we have huge produce and russia such as the mole in the north and caspian sea deposits in the south we are already developing a huge gears build in a spray can stand when starting new produce and sell directly or so we're trying to work with gas in global. central banks are making record gold purchases seeking to diversify assets amid the economic uncertainty the world gold council says burch

has reached almost one hundred fifty tons in the third quarter that's the highest level in fourteen years russia currently holds eight hundred tonnes of called the country's central bank aiming to further increase the proportion of billion in its reserves. staying with gold if you're a private investor and are confused about how best to protect yourself in these uncertain times you are not alone exemption called for the loss of capital says even the big professional firms are not sure where to find shelter. people i've seen in the european u.s. . market it recently r.c. confused it's a situation where nobody knows what is the safe haven and many best global finance telling reviews this occasion dr see if told me that they do not have clarity regarding what would constitute safe havens and safe trades for two thousand and twelve say without the matter with the headlines of.

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