great. comfortable. you. so much the. pepper spray despair and the will to use it police mace of peaceful student protest at a california university as an optional crackdown on the occupy movement intensifies . italy gives final approval to its new prime minister tasked with bringing order to the country's finances while in spain and voters are prepared to pay the leader they hope will be their financial savior. tens of thousands of egyptians return to tahrir square calling for the military to relinquish its rule after a controversial paper proposes to make its power permanent.

three pm in moscow and that trends are good to have you with us here on r t our top story police in the u.s. have used pepper spray against students taking part in an occupy campaign and university of california davis demonstrators have been ordered to remove their camp but after refusing officers showed up and tore down the tents artie's guided she has more. didn't think babies were peaceful we were testing social inequality and tuition hikes when they were surrounded by police and pepper spray the footage coming from there is it's astonishing you can see how a police officer used pepper spray on students who were peacefully sitting on the walkway and sprayed with blankets one time and then went back to spray them once again our police also paintball guns and students faces people who were saying how resolutely their fellow protesters were treating other students like old clint where they were tear gassed where the war veterans were injured or new york where

police are strong that has shown such brutality yes he still protesters that you know shot the whole world i number of journalists were arrested even after they showed their credentials my colleague lucy can cook arness was struck by police baton forty news helicopters were prevented from bringing live coverage of the air our prior sent their treatment that they received from the police more than four thousand peaceful protesters have been aggressed that nation right in the last two months more than four thousand any other country great that would be internationally reprimanded for violating from the rights but ironically it doesn't seem to be the case that it comes to the united states a country that creek is freedom of expression people are told has been so holy justice and the overwhelming influence of large corporations over decision making in the country under different frequencies of authorities and making progress there is out of there on the patients and this is happening all across the nation a lot of the pastors are young people old never has american had so many college

graduates these are people feel that they for some reason have less opportunity and their parents they might cost more in a court now has more. this image of twenty three year old staff great speaks to the widespread debt epidemic among american college graduates desperate to find work right now i can't even get a job. oh it's for minimum wage i've tried it at a local motel there's nothing i've made versions of my resume is just begging for any sort of work walking around in starbucks mcdonald's i mean a thing like i did when i was seventeen it makes me think well why did i even go to college if this is what it's ending up with armed with a master's degree in geography and one hundred thirty five thousand dollars in student debt great two hundred dollars in monthly food stamps and sells textbooks on e-bay for making extra cash and struggling graduate lost both her parents by the

twelve i'm approximately two months behind on my rents i have no idea how to catch up. we freaking out about this i frightened of being evicted but no matter how much she loses she's obligated to keep paying back her five loan to sallie mae america's largest private lender it took out forty thousand dollars in loans from already owing sixty five thousand i just graduated a couple of months ago twenty five thousand dollars in interest came out of nowhere unlike federal loans private loans can adjust interest rates as high as lenders want and don't offer consumer protection and can based repayment is not an option with any private loans neither is deferment for the unemployed for example right now and desperately looking for work and selling main wants payments they want me to pay about seven hundred dollars a month great as one of millions of americans and haunted by student debt but very few have any other option to issue costs have risen six hundred percent since nine

hundred eighty and most of the top ivy league colleges cost fifty thousand dollars per year steph curry is pioneering occupy student debt a movement calling for u.s. congress to reinstate consumer protections that would keep private lenders from pushing millions of americans into default so it's a default after defaults after the fall and once you defaults that's a black mark on your. better player for a way because two months cannot be discharged in bankruptcy there is legislations take the straight away in two thousand and five maybe lobby for spending millions on millions on lobbyist student debt in the us is nearing one trillion dollars already even pretty decent housing the nation's credit card debt and today a generation of americans find themselves in slave to banks and armed with a diploma that no longer carries easy job during a fortnight artsy new. sun activists say the more authorities try to silence protesters voices the more powerful those voices get the reality of those there are

and the moves that are diverse as as we've ever seen it before and they represent a larger scope but there is a political agenda to fight back against this growing and grew movement and the issue is that the more that that political agendas that advance the more that they try to quiet the movement the more they do try to isolated the group the bigger it grows and the more and the stronger grows and we know that they're not going to stop the motivations they're the movement is real the message is clear and the diversity is very clear with them that movement is so maybe you're not going to see camps where you're going to see more protests you're going to see more actions are going to see more targeted approaches we're going to see people move from one set up organization to another set of mobilization and i think that that's very important but the key here thing is not that because they're in one place and because they have been dispersed that this movement is over that it was only about a sort of occupation but this movement has a real interest in real inner should be high and that there are particular of

messages that have to be the literate and as long as those messages and that action has not changed the longer that this movement will continue. later this hour a success or failure. it's a little given two months bro does that do any of. the bikers minds plea put if we had out into the streets of new york to find out whether the occupy movement is likely to leave a lasting imprint on u.s. history. but first italy's new prime minister mario monti has unveiled his plan for sweeping economic reforms after winning a final confidence vote in parliament he called the situation the country a serious emergency with rome currently grasping first ability against the financial gales of europe's debt store. he now faces such challenges as ending in demick tax evasion attempting to kickstart growth and this task though will be made

more difficult by his euro political pedigree which isn't sitting well with italians concerned by brussels influence and meanwhile in spain which is coming under similar pressure the mood also tense with the economy dominated parliamentary elections set for tomorrow in madrid though there is even less certainty with no candidate offering a comprehensive solution to raging unemployment or financial stagnation as our correspondent reports. there are two main parties contending for the elections at the moment the socialist party which has been found in spain right now and the people's party most analysts predict that the people's party will win the majority of the vote however over the past couple of days that we have been observing especially here in the dritte does not look like any party will actually win with a majority vote and here's why little postcards have been springing up here and they're encouraging people to leave their gold playing to basically that is an indicator of the fact that people will become disillusioned with any of the choices

they made on their political table as a matter of fact the socialists have been in power for the last several years and they have been the people who are being blamed for not noticing the economic downturn for not reacting to the crisis properly and plunging spain in turmoil now just a reminder the country has one of the highest employment rate in europe it's more than twenty four percent according to one of the spanish research companies in september a goal of the four thousand people have been losing their jobs in spain every single day more than five million people in the country do not have a provider for their homes so of course when you look at this extremely bleak situation in the country the elections a lot of people believe will not make a difference by there have been numerous protests out in the streets people from all walks of life teachers students professors so whether or not the vote will bring forth any probably results or any positive results of course remains to be

seen and unfortunately for spain a lot of people believe the situation will get worse before it will get better. as a spanish look for a leader capable of resolving the nation's many problems the real solutions may rest with more than just one person according to u.k. pace journalist and political author alan woods but the cool experiences he of the recent crisis demonstrates the impossibility of unifying economies which would pull him in radically different directions they all agree that there's there's a need to do something but when it comes to the concrete to proposals of what is to be done of course is build no dream of the top all going to go of the old in with the of course with little bunkers that instance of course the ducks are the big fuss and still the fins but it was sure that saw the germans we may be witnessing the beginning of a process which could lead to the breakup of the not just of the youtube but what of the you need you to show which we could not because it was for every country in europe including germany but we are also for the united states with the world

economy which is what would be should be telephoto as the e.u. nations labor to preserve their endangered banking sectors max kaiser s.t.c. herbert focus on how some banks are using their newfound immunity to but i thought their balance sheets kaiser report coming out about thirteen hundred g.m.t. here's a preview. they blame themselves that's was fantastic about having customers when i was working on wall street you lose the money and they blame themselves that's fantastic you just keep still on their money and they keep crying about. me help me relieve me of my money in the guilt they're just still money now and pretty soon they'll still money accompanied by and knocked on the head and thrown into prison that's what happens when you are kleptocrats around the system either it's in greece ireland america the u.k. this is their methodology.

in cairo riot police have torn down tense and arrested protesters in tahrir square . where demonstrators had been overnight there following a massive rally on friday when tens of thousands demanded the full transfer of power to a civilian government the military has been in control since the uprising that toppled president mubarak demonstrators fear it's rule may become permanent they were calling for the withdrawal of the proposed document that declares the military the guardian of constitutional legitimacy its approval would mean the army generals would keep a significant influence on law making and policies even after a new president comes into office and protest was arranged by the country's most organized political group the muslim brotherhood and supported by islamists and secular activists alike a u.s. based radio host stephen leatherman thinks military rule could prove in a lot of run to be a greater evil for egypt then we barak. things are worse knowing that the military it were under mubarak people are

a great. british because social issues have gone completely unaddressed through oppression is based three months of the year two thousand being arrested in prison tortured put into trials in military tribunals no justice is going on in egypt apparently it is still be complimentary o. actions the end of november it looks like the military junta will close won't of presidential election until sometime in two thousand and thirteen in the inner room it will maintain the supreme power it will be the prime minister who killed everybody to power the whole world goes out and probably it's. there are the arab spring protesters voice their demands and troubles in various forms including slogans and banners but for some music became the preferred means of protest but authorities powerlessly reports a politically charged song could easily backfire on the singer. they came on to the

arab streets in the millions inspired by. the call for change their hopes for a better future struck a chord for all but it didn't take long before disappointment and fear sit in. times in the french revolution less than four. chopping heads. but this time around it took even less in egypt the military will differ a pace mubarak doesn't only come from the old order but has been criticized for changing precious little in the lives of ordinary people now understand the killed food it's impossible to be complex. to many. political parties. to the problem of the autistic everywhere the music they hope to write plays on is the only reminder of the social changes promised by the protests. music reflects people's grievances and the

streets in the country. but for now those grievances are far from resolved the song a syrian singer for him to shoot a national hero with his call for syrian president bashar al assad to step down and he paid the ultimate price for his protest yoicks ibrahim was found with this threat total down a river is adding that vocal cord had been removed a clear message to those who dared to speak out and those who enthusiastically chanted after him understood the meaning all too well we are freezing but. i think it will have been about what will happen in syria what will happen in syria remains uncertain and in libya the story continues to unfold with no clear picture yet of how the story will end you tube is awash with protests suns that have sprung up across the arab world the. most.

throughout the. expression. is your purpose. is the people who put in just the words we. want. you exposed to sort of. stuff like. this song comes from the heartbeat of it all tunis with the arab spring began to despite the talking of its president the country remains consumed by social and economic problems i don't think the protesters can. get achieve their. defeated. and so the music plays on the hopes are fading that their evolutions would bring real change and the only harmony to be found is confined to the airwaves policy r

t tel aviv u.k. is officially started talks with the syrian opposition as pressure builds against bashar al assad earlier britain was reportedly approached by jordan to spearhead a diplomatic campaign against the president's regime pressured by the air of the damascus has agreed to allow international observers to enter the country and help stop the bloodshed but the violence shows the all signs of letting up with reports that at least twelve civilians were killed when security forces fired on protesters after friday prayers meanwhile france has already said it's too late for the regime to try and save itself by carrying out reforms war correspondent eric margolis says it's all part of the build up to the outside stepping in. it certainly looks like the beginning of the new that's our intervention i'm surprised frankly turkey has decided to. drop russians and slow its neighbors to the jury in the sense that sticking its neck out to washington it is.

time. he does because it's a key ally of iran and a key supporter. little not the sort of. washington's abu through along with the saudis and his release and wherever you are wise in washington to new jersey where you're going to if you look through she wants to take its place and downhill google's intervention now you know there's such eagerness to get iran he is syria the coalition has been i think it's true. stay with us here at r.t. still to come on forced from their native land decades of conflict in these disputed kashmir region hides more suffering that it seems as the native pundits say they now face discrimination from the muslim majority. but first the u.n. nuclear watchdog has passed a resolution calling on iran to clear up outstanding questions about its atomic program russia warns it should be used to intensify dialogue not inflame tension

between the i.a.e.a. and meanwhile the u.s. has reportedly said it will stop deterring israel from a long planned attack on iran if tehran's nuclear pursuits our it finished by spring two thousand and twelve shirin shah and activist against intervention says it would be futile for iran to develop a nuclear weapon and or risk being fatally targeted by other nuclear states. iran has stated time and again that it doesn't want to produce a nuclear bomb the new president i'm not in the set. they sent me that it's just. to produce one or two bombs in the face of housing by. it's exists in the western countries and also regarding. israeli nuclear weapons this is this israel remains the sole entity in the region. possess nuclear weapons more than two hundred stuff them and that is to venting the whole region the middle east

region from becoming. mass destruction feasible. if you miss something on our air you can always check out our dot com where you'll find all the stories we're covering and more here's what's a click away right now. a locket that could kill you long before you hear it washington test missiles six times faster than the speed of sound potentially able to reach any target on the planet within an hour also we're down for his judo skills russia's premier vladimir putin shows the world he's fairly slick on the ice as well check it all out at r.t. dot com. on friday russia belarus and kazakstan signed an agreement on deep integration between the countries paving the way to create a united economic body exclusive interview to r.t.m.

voice of russia radio the blocks likely boston victory explained how the union is going to avoid the financial agony the e.u. is currently facing the full interview coming up at twelve thirty g.m.t. here's a preview. in terms of scale and depth of integration. perhaps the only alliance i can compare her to was the merger between our three countries today the current situation for the eurozone is facing internal economic problems it's helped us to identify proper ways to integrate and courtney's financial and monetary policies of crisis has undermined once it was if you go so far as creating a single currency union we must exercise tight control over budgets monotreme tax policies and national level it's. turning back to the us where occupy campaigners are struggling against authorities attempts to break down the movement already harvest also known as the resident takes to the streets of new york to find out what legacy it's likely to leave.

has that have all street movement achieved its goal of creating a shift in the system or is it slowly becoming a blip but history probably won't remember this week let's talk about that i think they've brought some attention to the issues that nobody really wants to talk about so. if it becomes part of the conversation here i think they've accomplished something but there's still a lot of work to do i'm hopeful that they'll continue with their efforts and they will get. people think it will make a big difference so i think they'll think about it for a while and then go back to. the bikers means they put it up but i think that's one of the problems no one really knows what the reason is other than because people lot of problems do you think if they had a leader that would help them define what their movement and i think if they were that organized a cry of jobs it wouldn't be some way around wall street i'll be honest with you i

don't know what the message is so clearly they haven't communicated bad well not at all though how they're going to get out in history. i don't think that we've made in history down the road it's going to be there it's not significant. feel like i think map again it always is to everybody something they feel passionate about significant but so well there's it's not every revolution starts with someone just getting to sort of to say i don't care what happens to me i'm going to make a change and then hopefully other people add on to that so what's the next step how do they add on. i don't know i guess you get the middle class that's kind of comfortable that doesn't see that is a real problem because they're comfortable you either get them involved or uncomfortable if you think they're going to go out when it starts now and i hope so because then i'll i'll feel better about it because the the worse conditions they endure as we go along i think the more all feel supporting of it that they need to go through a little bit more and then has to be able have a chance that moment remembering them two months protest doesn't do it but you've

got to stick it out but they're not you think i keep my wall street movement has achieved its goals the bottom line is it will be interesting to see if the protesting continues when the snow arrives. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe venezuelan president hugo chavez has national guard troops to help police curb violent crime that's threatening to spiral out of control more than three thousand soldiers were sent to the streets of the country's capital and to surrounding states venezuela has one of the highest murder rates in live in america a figure that's tripled over the last and kate despite remaining the country's most popular politician ahead of next year's presidential race chavez has been criticized for his hair record in fighting crime. former philippine president gloria arroyo has been arrested in her hospital room she's accused of a leper a fraud but denies all charges claiming the government's fabricated the case for

political reasons already it was the second former philippine president to face trial here i was to predecessor joseph estrada was sentenced to life in prison for corruption. media reports citing libya's interim government claimed the most prominent son of the late leader colonel gadhafi has been arrested in the south of the country save all islam is wanted for crimes against humanity at the international criminal court the chief prosecutor at the hague earlier warned he might be trying to flee libya with the help of mercenaries heading to neighboring these air he's been on the run since nato airstrikes on the city of sirte that led to his father's capture and execution it's not the first time safe gadhafi is reported to have been arrested. two decades of violence gunfire and death hover in the air over kashmir a vast area of disputed land claimed by both india and pakistan but the years of conflict have overshadowed another ongoing struggle with native panda it's claiming

the face daily discrimination from the muslim majority artie's priya sridhar reports on every corner in his neighborhood vicky gans you can feel mosques women dressed in jobs and now you working at home while butcher shop it's part of the culture of streaker kashmir ever since one thousand nine hundred nine when an alleged hypocrisy on backed insurgents began in the area today ninety five percent of the people living in kashmir are muslims. a hindu from the caste known as pandit is one of the exceptions we face many problems the biggest being the destruction of those who know from the post the way to shoulder the responsibilities of money through the use of various and your huge. family's house was burnt down during a period of particularly communal violence the indian government has said that around two. hundred pundits were killed in the ten years since the insurgency began but other organizations say the number of killings could be as high as three thousand as a result ganju witnessed

a mass exodus of his people in the past twenty years hundreds of thousands of pundits have migrated from kashmir causing the population to shrink from one hundred thousand to around three thousand while many have started to come back most they still face discrimination despite obtaining a master's degree since his father's death ganju says he has been unable to hold down a steady job and it's been living in a tiny on his room with his mother and brother and because of their tiny numbers in kashmir many pundits like him believe they will always be largely ignored by those in political power there is news and if you give him a thumbs up the packages will resume with some possibility otherwise even the relieving the few families we will soon have because you know i think i will leave with. other pundits however are more optimistic v.j. sauce left the kashmir valley or more than twenty years ago he's now back and is looking forward to a chance to reconnect to is cast and we have

a chance to fight back because this is my right and nobody can deny that whether he's a from the european minority i don't think his players and this. while sas of knowledge is the struggle his people have been george he has faith eventually more pundits will decide to return we expect. not basically this is a. small thing to say in next ten years i'm heading off one hundred years the question many pundits will be stupid i may not be here but the question to ponder name will be and i believe taking pride in their religion and returning to their roots france sridhar r t srinagar india. coming up r.t. post one of the most scandalous russian politicians in the spotlight ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections find out who after the headlines.