possibly it's not traded now but it could be in the future. in the. top news of the week here on r.t.e. occupy wall street has marked it's two month anniversary with the president of protests all over the u.s. hundreds have been arrested pepper sprayed him beaten by the movement last looks as set on its causes ever. violent sparks up in egypt once again as a cradle of the arab spring seize tear gas and rubber bullets with thousands of protesters all across the country saying military rule is destroying the results of the february revolution. bureaucracy is sending a wave of an elected favored state power in europe as of last much vaunted democracy is seen as being placed on out of bad girl in the face of

a detonating debt crisis. plus the syrian president refuses to crack under international pressure while the threat of further sanctions and tough diplomatic attacks still fears we're about to see another movie in style intervention. you guys you've got me here live from moscow with marina joshie welcome to the program as a corporate protest escalated all across the u.s. as the occupy wall street movement marked two months since its inception hundreds were arrested this week asked police tore down activists camps over the country including word it all began in september to college park in new york however it did nothing to stop thousands gathering to demonstrate again evidence has been emerging of disproportionate police action in response to mostly peaceful protests at the university of california a group of students staging

a sit down protest where pepper spray and the guardian newspaper is reporting on a newly released video showing police which brutally beating an iraq war veteran no one man suffered a ruptured spleen. reports the crackdown always seems to be hardening the resolve of protesters. in the financial capital of the world a movement called occupy wall street is born in weeks the fight against u.s. corporate greed and wealth inequality and that infests in all fifty states i don't know make american movement not seen since the sixty's as the power of the people grows louder police force grows stronger peaceful activists beaten by the tons lined in by me and thrown to the ground unarmed activists pitched tents law enforcement launched flash grenade.

fear. being. people exercising their democratic rights. why would. you. tell. them. thousands of occupy activists have been jailed throughout the two month campaign and mass arrests of eight hundred on the brooklyn bridge garnered international attention but this image of an eighty four year old former schoolteacher pepper sprayed during a demonstration captures the crackdown activists face brought to a boil employed by economic injustice and a political system failing the majority protesters demonstrated unprecedented

resilience and then u.s. authorities began occupying the occupations one by one even activists under the pretext of health or safety concerns a raid on the head. quarters in new york came one am hundreds of armed officers destroying and displacing the heart of this democratic movement you can't evict an idea to the idea that we are that i get nine percent of americans that you know we need to resist the do influence of financial institutions the corporations rights record because of those messages that are being spread around the country what began as an occupation in a park has grown into a national movement fighting for principles the momentum has shifted much more to some large existing institutional actors like labor unions and well known community organizations that are picking up their basic message and i think that that message has got such resonance right now that people are going to turn out on the streets

around these issues whether or not there's an encampment and so caught a part of the largest the loudest turnout so far came thursday as oh don't be us churn two months old a day marked by the attempt to shut down the new york stock exchange occupations and parks and subways and heavy handed tactics by the n.y.p.d. a protest that began peacefully turned to look more like urban warfare hundreds more a rustic and by the evening more than thirty thousand activists students and labor unions showed their strength in numbers along the brooklyn bridge from new york to l.a. and just about every city in between the occupy movement has flooded the streets uniting thousands of strangers bound by common hardship and frustration two months in there is no denying this grassroots campaign has become a branch of the big apple and the social marker in america. artsy new york

and jenny dean and activists from occupy los angeles says that during the two months of its existence the movement has managed to shift media attention to the most important issues. and there are several things that i think this movement has already manifested that are very important both national level and the local level . we've managed to change the narrative here especially in the mainstream of the corporate media here in the united states and if it weren't for news organizations like russia today many of us in the united states would not be getting the news and information that's pertinent to our to our economic situation and our foreign policy we've already changed the narrative from you know justice and spending to jumps to the economic disparities in the social injustices we're seeing through our banking system and the hijacking of the corruption in the in our banking and political system so that's been an important change and that's all we have in the few months time. art is loosely defined as were the latest occupy action is

unfolding in oakland and she's sharing her impressions on her twitter feed well in her latest tweet he's reporting that more than five hundred people are gathering in an area owned by the city and brain tans this by the police prohibition they expect officers to arrive and start arresting people within hours so follow this story as breaks and twitter feed. meanwhile the cradle of the arab spring inspired her to asters all around the globe is once again seeing brutal clashes police used tear gas and rubber bullets against dozens of thousands of demonstrators who returned to where square in cairo one person's been killed and around seven hundred injured joining two days of clashes protests have been raging all across the country with demands for the withdrawal of a constitutional draft. the military of the guardian a constitutional giudice critics say it will mean

a return to the same problems under hosni mubarak's regime pascoe bar columnist and correspondent for the asia times believes a word coming out of course elections may be to. another revolution. if they repress this syria style this is going to get out of hand specially against the muslim brotherhood and if we. see any large group of what's going to need to real square with all the factions of the muslim brotherhood can use google generation everybody in this square. military dictatorship which is something that could happen within the next few weeks let's put it this way and we're going to have for you swear to interesting on these parliamentary elections to start pushing. for a few months you're going to elect their constituents the assembly and boom they go to promulgate the new gust of the country and if you simply writes from that. a lot

more still get on the program including staring the air at all these most prominent sounds finally in the hands of levy as new rulers but questions remain on whether he'll make it to the hague alive or share the fate of his father. down with the old spain looks to stamp a new future of voting booths today as a staring at poverty tax people's patience to a limit. meanwhile across the european union the ongoing debt crisis has sparked an up he will in the blocks political landscape from greece to italy to the euro crowds are on the ascended as democracy gives way to a desperate struggle for economic survival and it's only powers gone to e.u. veteran mario monti after his nomination as a senator for life to replace incumbents. wasting will time he unveils his new strategy the very day he took office more stary more cuts and more tax hikes but markets are far from convinced with debt interest rates across the e.u.

reaching catastrophic levels this week as are two sarah ferguson courts it's all providing great fodder for the unification agenda all the blogs prime financial powerhouse and here. it was never going to be easy to put it this year at seventeen countries of which are now under one currency attracted fierce criticism we've witnessed the beginning of a dishonest and tell right dangerous german president. to revive the constitution but to do it in such a way that you want to go for a referendum to keep member states some might now be wishing they'd heeded the warnings one after another the member states begin to wobble at least in the latest country to come under scrutiny we have been witnessing in less than. a growing pressure from europe and i'm talking in particular from france and germany partly the u.k.

certainly the european parliament and the commission is going to step back quite as to say first the leaders of greece and italy replaced by people who were never elected to office he made their way around brussels and here in italy with berlusconi now gone doesn't and they're paying for reforms now need to be implemented to meet. for the first time since the quizes began talks have now begun to turn to the possibility of exits from. the creation of the call euro countries like germany seem to be leading the way but i think it's not in the restroom interest of the germans to keep on going with this attitude over here where you have behaved badly we're going to punish that's not a union in the united states of america if a spade behaves badly imagine packs of behaving badly or you think obama's going to we're going to kick you out of united states of america no they're not going to be the growing sense of a bad year a group in a good year has not gone on missed by struggling countries it was clear that they

see way to spend less now face the painful stereotype measures the sense of being treated like a naughty school child any added to the growing strain. can really see it. now well so the sea. was much more france and especially germany to the times there are. let's say two to express a politically defeated not just their own countries but for europe as a whole your attentions have not caught on this by the financial markets here punish political leaders in their feet in dealing with the crisis and struggling economies like italy even the pleading for the stakes it's least being considered by many the test case for the entire a year if it fails and it could take down the entire fifth the big question now is whether or not those measures can fix the whether we'll see them going the same way as previous measures that forward by european leaders say fail to come up with

a convincing. our markets crowding down one european economy after another it's well understood across a blog that the fuses burning at a time isn't critical supply but one opinion is that there's much more at stake here and just in forcing unpopular austerity they do not believe that the. politicians in charge of the economy in findings were unable or incapable of resolving the problem from a technical point of view they could have found an agreement without the need to be just a flow. to make these reforms the problem was in the issue of european integration and european monetary system monetary union political union which is what mr monti suppose you can build up but he's trying to put on the basis of emergency and urgency which has not been clearly explained to be taught in public

because it was not we love the people who build it but certainly what is happening and what we are seeing is a very heavy within the system. we've shows all the fragility of the project as it was conceived in spain voters are today having to the polls to voice their rage against an epidemic of unemployment and poverty gripping the country polls show that the ruling socialist faction is set to give way to the popular party which is riding a wave of public discontent over uncompromising is sarah our correspondent has more from madrid. well polls have opened in the spanish general elections which has begun four months earlier than it was originally scheduled but a lot of other would not predict are predicting we got the turnout the mob high for this particular election in the country just to give you an idea at this point in time about five years out of work one and

a half million households in the country does not have a wage earner of course a lot of people are blaming the current socialist governments and the socialist party is expected to lose with the people's party coming ahead people are starting to lose hope in the choices that they have on the political arena a lot of them are saying that no matter what they do no matter who is going to come . in these elections they will not be able to get the country out of the financial and as a matter of fact political turmoil and certainly the younger people are starting to move to other countries they're going to latin america a lot of people are going to european countries so these elections will probably not bring forth any palpable results and a lot of a lot of analysts that we have spoken to are saying that in order to make things better for the country wherever is going to come to power will have to implement a lot of very unpopular decisions they will have to implement very strict measures

and that will result in people's financial situation getting a lot worse before it gets better. working there well coming out a bit later in the program iran and the frying pan. iran is pressured from all sides with the i.a.e.a. wanting questions over its alleged nuclear pursuit cleared the u.s. threatening to unleash israel if these long state doesn't drop its activities. also russia shapes its answer to the e.u. the foundations laid for the creation of a new konami glaucon eurasia bearing similarities with the european union itself to avoid its mistakes. at least two rockets. grenades have hit a headquarters of syria's governing body party in the capital damascus witnesses say the attack happened early in the morning when the building was mostly empty it comes after syria's president asad vowed not to bow down and continue his resistance to foreign pressure the country is facing sanctions from the arab league

after the bodies ultimatum for the regime to and bloodshed expired on saturday syrian human rights activists claim around two dozen people have been killed in clashes over the weekend meanwhile the country's opposition leaders are having to britain and that was reportedly approached to spearhead a diplomatic campaign against are these are about looks into the allegations. or threats pivotal role in the overthrow of moammar gadhafi britains become the new go to guy when there's 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 that russia fees it's an overreaction that could pave the way for military intervention. we suggested in order to put the right position in place all countries concerned with peaceful outcome developments and syrians should demand not only from the syrian authorities but also from the opposition to please

stop the violence the ongoing attacks of government buildings in syria look like a super. of 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 it much easier to support and adds more weight to any international threats . from house for regime change is clearly very very strong that we should learn the lessons of thousands and thousands. of the night of bombing but i. nato bombing or any other intervention any other military intervention will have even more serious consequences because of the regional threat our question of iraq the whole question of israel the ukase apparently been handed its leading role by king up the law of jordan so far the only arab leader to publicly call for and

sad to quit but the patience of ceres and other members of crucial regional brokers' is now wearing thin to the arab league suspended series membership in the free syrian army has been the main driving force behind the growing opposition movement most to 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 r t. well russia refused to back all so for president assad to step down after housing syria's opposition council in moscow earlier this week during near a meeting with foreign minister sergei lavrov he said dialogue wasn't possible without sufficient pressure on the syrian regime this hasn't prompted moscow to

reverse its stance that both sides should be engaged in these negotiations and while the opposition and the regime play the blame game some experts say the uprising is rooted outside the country we know that in most countries especially in the middle east there are special forces operating beyond the lines. and my five you name it and they can they can create a crowd if you want to put it that way they put across the border to give to the opposition or breakaway groups and then first of all look at the arab spring you get people take to destry why are they out on the street it's because they're frustrated by their government in the price hike of commodities food and petrol and loss of employment loss of housing executor so they're pretty mad this vulnerable moment when the special forces and secret service operatives intermingle with the

crowd and in some cases become this sniper is on the rooftop but it's a selective innocent victims the people in the crowd and believe that the government is carrying out this action and it becomes a rebellion. hundreds across libya have poured into the streets after the government announced the arrest of the great leader moammar gadhafi is most prominent son crowds fired guns and honk their car horns to celebrate the capture side could off the words seize along with two of his aides while attempting to flee to neighboring share is wanted by the international criminal court for crimes against humanity however the leading authorities wants to try him in the country on charges that potentially carry. the death penalty and he has pledged to provide a fair trial for safe get off me but some have their doubts this is likely to happen. it's unfortunate that since this number has been captured by think that it's because he would not. after what we have

seen what the new government the media have done. well because. you have done with his brother i don't think the people who are opposing the new regime in libya we put down their weapons and i think that this would continue on for. months to come. more at our web site r.t. dot com and here's what's lined up for you there right now in a disputed land torn apart by decades of violence there alerts hidden conflict native hindu believers who once made up the power of the population in kashmir are now a minority claiming discrimination of around the muslim majority. and there is a huge sigh of relief in the space community as a three man crew successfully docks with the international space station as the

first manned mission to fly after a rocket full of supplies crashed in august. pressure kept piling on iran this week over the country's nuclear program the international atomic watchdog has called on to iran to clear up all the outstanding questions on the matter the u.s. has promised to introduce new sanctions against the country's oil industry washington also reportedly told iran to wrap up its nuclear program by spring two thousand and twelve or it will stop holding back israel's long planned attack on the islamic republic talk of such a strike has been heard from israel in the past two weeks following the i.a.e.a. reports that fail to disprove iran's drive for nuclear weapons but dr aside mohamad randy from tehran university believes the only difference sanctions will make its expose washington's weakening influence on the situation. they've imposed sanctions . on the me an oil ministry for years now and to be iranians continue

to develop oil and gas fields they continue to develop of petro chemical petro chemical industry i don't think there's going to be any change whatsoever basically what it is doing it is that it is showing the american hand and how the americans are really unable to do anything about iran so in general the iranians feel that the americans there their strength is weakening and we even see that in the letter in the statement issued by the board it did not contain any of the major elements that the americans for seeking seem that there is a relative decline in american fortunes and american power power both at the political level as well. economic this ability to acquire economic pressure russia along with some of its posada carders has moved closer to creating a new economic body they are asian economic union is expected to be set up by

twenty fifteen modeled on the best of the european union are easy or pissed off reports on the ambitious plan. three nations twenty million square kilometers of the land one giant idea. is correct we will repeat the mistakes of the european union in our integration with conscious we're doing much to understand who we are integrating with look here are three countries sharing a common history and today we are forming a common economy starting from january first next year seventeen agreements aimed at creating a unified economic speech coming to force the eurasian union movie based on the already existing customs union between the three nations which are among the largest economies in the area three more in just six months russia and kazakhstan managed to increase their total trade well. forty percent. in case of a crisis in this configuration it's much easier even more appropriate not only to

overcome any negative consequences but term risks into possibilities. it's great twenty fifteen the union will not only have one borderline an economic zone let me switch to one currency as well. and gone or aspiring to join ukraine is sitting over a team which will be becoming a member of. this sort of cooperation means more jobs bigger salaries and a chance to boost reforms and modernize our country and that's why most ukrainians support the idea they want stability for some groups have dismissed the union as an attempt to restore the u.s. assault but experts say the difference is clear this the chill of the u.s.s.r. was built on ideology while the eurasian union will be based strictly on the economy and pragmatism. experts say that even some latin american nations like you work and venezuela me join the so-called in the future while new zealand has

already shown interest in joining as a large producer of meat with no cost from charges the benefits of being a member are simply too attractive. surely it's way too early to talk about any massive economic an industrial bridge which right all the way from europe into the pacific ocean so far only three states up for all their hats in but if the current momentum is anything to go by and more are certain to follow you go to school of art moscow tens of thousands of moscow rival yours have teamed up to worship one of the most revered ares of its christian relics the mother of god belt it's believed to have been taken from the body of mary the mother of jesus by apostle thomas the relic that cereal is stored in a monastery on mount green's will be on display at moscow's main crisis savior of the single for. more than a week orthodox believers have faced in the belts divine powers to cure infertility

and disease the occasion coincides with today's sixty fifth birthday celebrations of the patriarch of moscow our russia kirill was currently giving a special service in the cathedral. coming up we continue our series of special reports looking at the price people sometimes have to pay for living our high tech age and all that is coming after the top stories.

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