the top news of the week here on r t and occupy wall street has mark its two month anniversary with an unprecedented protest all over the united states hundreds of this point have been arrested pepper sprayed and beaten but the movement looks are set on its course as. violence or sparks off in egypt once again as the cradle of the arab spring seize tear gas and rubber bullets with thousands of protesters all over the country saying that military rule is destroying the results of the february revolution. bureaucracy ascendant a wave of unelected favorites take power in europe as the blocs much vaunted democracy is seen as being placed on the back burner in the face of

a detonating debt crisis. plus the syrian president refuses to crack under international pressure and the threat of further sanctions and tougher diplomatic attacks fears the were about to see another libyan the style intervention. of the stories that made headlines over the week this is the weekly with me reception and she called her protests escalated all across the u.s. as the occupy wall street movement marked two months since its inception but hundreds were arrested this week as police tore down activists camps all over the country including where it all began in september that of zuccotti park in new york however it did nothing to stop thousands gathering to demonstrate all over again evidence has been emerging of disproportionate police action in response to mostly

peaceful protests at the university of california a group of students are staging a sit down protest with pepper spray and the guardian newspaper is reporting on a newly released video showing police brutality and police group. do you think an iraq war veteran and opened that man suffered a ruptured spleen was also used on a sauce you're talking to reports the crackdown and he seems to be hardening the resolve of the ongoing. human tsunami of tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of new york. hundreds arrested dozens beaten dragged and abused by police thousands more protests across the u.s. on thursday the face of america's civil war against corporate greed and wealth inequality who could be part of the place where occupy wall street was born looks nothing like it did just a couple of days ago officials were hoping that a big thing the protesters would put it and to the movement but this has backfired

a day of action brought more people out onto the streets with more bigger than ever before it's absolutely historic we haven't seen something like this in america thirty forty years and it's history repeating itself the pleasure to make of it what you do see through three months of his history making two months after occupy wall street kick started in the big apple new york authorities decided to kick protesters out of their camp exposing themselves as the clueless out of touch third world and dictator that he would be this forceful eviction only added more fuel to the fire the way that we were sort of discarded like trash that our civil liberties were really run over by our billionaire mayor has galvanized a lot of people another more powerful stage of occupy wall street out of being campaigned and all over the city said we are absolutely at stage two i think what happened yesterday was we showed the world that we are strong we are numbers i'm

sure we're angry about what's going on and we want we want solutions protester see the lack of a camp the presence of police violence and the fact that officials remain deaf to demands only empower them more they don't store does so. which is cool no one. you know had really been the rule coach and their desire to stick by each other is now stronger than before big love you thank you for the research it does have. a new dawn for the occupy wall street movement has broken on the horizon mistake here circular thirteen. meantime founder of citizen journalism project called a media roots told us of the occupy protests on nearly as much trouble for the u.s. as the big banks. and if you look at the amount it's cost the broken city of oakland for this heavy handed police response upward to half a million dollars just for the latest raid and you're asking who what what the city

is costing so much banks were exempt seven million dollars from taxes just last year so banks are actually causing this city more money than the occupy wall street protests happening here disobedience is really the only way to go you see this police state forced it on and so now and people are waking up to the fact that our police is now militarized and these absurd methods of crowd control tear gas even thousands of people if one person throws a bottle or what not i think it you know ok actually it caused some anger for people who are trying to get to work but overall i think it's a great response because we're not going to take it anymore and we're not just going to step back if the cops take us out as a county park you can sort of downtown oakland we're going to reconvene and show up stronger. cut off is where the latest occupy action is that's unfolding in oakland california sharing our impressions on twitter feed if we have a look at her right now latest tweets she's reporting that more than five hundred

people are gathering in an area owned by the city bringing temps and despite the police probation they expect officers to arrive and start arresting people within hours so you can follow the story as it breaks moment by moment on our twitter feed . meanwhile the cradle of the arab spring out of egypt where inspired protests all around the globe now once again seeing brutal clashes in cairo police have been using tear gas and rubber bullets to suppress the crowds trying to take control of the country's interior ministry two people being killed at least i'd almost a thousand injured during two days of clashes protests have been raging all across the country with demands for the withdrawal of a constitutional draft that declares the military the guardian of the constitutional legitimacy critics say. i mean a return to the same problems as under hosni mubarak's ousted regime u.s. based radio host of stephen leatherman says the new military rule could ruin the

results of the winter pricing. things are worse now on the military website or will they ever were under mubarak people are a great bunch up in repression those social issues that have gone completely unaddressed their oppression is based three months of the year thousands of men arrested imprisoned tortured put into trousers a military tribunals no justice with going on in egypt apparently it is they'll be complimentary away actions the end of november an attribute that looks like the military will cause more on the presidential election until the sun time in two thousand and thirteen in the year i'm it will maintain supreme power it will pick the prime minister it will have veto power because there are in parliament. you're watching the weekly here on our t.v. it's going to join us today are coming up just a little bit later for you in the program iran in the frying iran is pressure from

all sides with the i.a.e.a. wanting questions over its alleged nuclear pursuit of clear and the u.s. threatening to unleash israel if the islamic state does not drop its activities also. down with the old spain looks to stamp a new future voting booths today as austerity and the property tax people's patience to the limit. meanwhile across the european union the ongoing debt crisis and starting up people in the blocks political landscape from greece to italy unlike the euro crowds are on the ascendant as the marker seek gives way to a desperate struggle for economic survival in italy power's gone to e.u. veteran it mary oh after his nomination as a senator for life to replace incumbent silvio berlusconi i wasting a little time he unveiled his new strategy the very day he took office more austerity 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. sara further reports it's all providing great fodder for the unification agenda of the blocs prime for powerhouse and undeclared leader. it was never going to be easy to put it this unite year at seventeen countries of which are now under one currency attracted fierce criticism we've witnessed the beginning of a dishonest and downright dangerous journey president. to revive the constitution but to do it in such a way that you would have the voice referendums in the event the states some might now be wishing they'd heeded the warnings of one after another and then the states begin to wobble its least in the latest country to come under scrutiny we have been witnessing in the last. growing pressure from europe and i'm talking in

particular from france and germany hardly the u.k. certainly the european parliament and the commission going to start the crisis is say far senior leaders of greece and italy were placed by people who were never elected to office he made their way around brussels and here it is really with berlusconi now gone doesn't. paying for reforms now need to be implemented to meet . for the first time since the crisis began talks have now begun to turn to the possibility of exits from the year eight or the creation of the cool euro countries like germany seem to be leading the way i think it's not in the best interest of the germans to keep on going with this i think you know you're right you have behaved badly we're going to punish that's not a union in united states of america if they've behaved badly imagine taxes behaving badly and you sleep obama's going to we're going to kick you out of united states of america no they're not going to guard the growing sense of

a bad year. has not gone unnoticed by struggling countries because it's clear that those who even spent most now face the painful stereotyping measures the sense of being treated like a naughty school child the. added to the growing strain in the euro community it's . now well so to say there will expose much more france and especially germany to the times there must be up to the states to to express a political leadership not just for their own countries but for europe as a whole your attentions have not called on this by the financial markets hunnish political leaders in the phaeton dealing with the crisis in struggling economies like italy and now even for the stakes it's least being considered by many the test case for the entire a year you say it fails and it could take down the entire fifth the question now is

whether or not those measures can fix the whether we'll see them going the same way as previous measures put forward by european leaders who say fails to come up with a convincing year investigate third party. i know from italy to spain where voters have started casting their ballots to voice their rage against an epidemic of unemployment and poverty gripping the country polls showed that the ruling socialist faction is such a good way to the popular party which is riding the wave of public discontent over compromising austerity correspondent i think there are just more now for. polls have opened indeed in spain and also course the socialist party which is the ruling party right now is expected to lose to the popular or the people's party however the question remains whether or not there will be huge margin between the two parties you have to understand that at this point spain is a big is in very dire situation the countries are experiencing tremendous problems of employment there are more than five million people without jobs right now one

and a half million households i did not have a wage earner at all there was a census conducted here recently and i found that in september an average four thousand people have been losing jobs daily in the country and this is of course the situation that the winner will have to deal with you also have to realize that the country has the highest unemployment rate among the young people in the entire european union in fact there is a kind of a sad job going around spain right now that majority of the pizza delivery men here have master's degree at least and of course because that is because a lot of people who do spend a lot of money on education ends up not being able to get a job so here's the deal basically a lot of people are have been saying that they're just simply not going to go to the polls because they have been disenchanted with the entire political situation they did not like the choices that either of the political parties present so this election is really going to show what is going on in the country by the number of

people who actually turn up to vote because a lot of them are simply not going to do that because they have lost faith in the country's political system. that is ridiculous reporting right there i would argue with r.t. live from moscow a lot more coming your way this hour as russia shapes its mansour to the u. the foundations laid out for the creation of a new economic bloc in eurasia similarities with the european union to avoid its mistakes. and after a decade of preoccupation in the middle east the u.s. now wants to prop up its military influence in the asia pacific region vowing to deploy a marine division to australia. just coming on quarter past the hour here in moscow at least two rocket propelled grenades have hit the headquarters of syria's governing party in the capital damascus when you say the attack happened early in the morning when the building was mostly empty comes after syria's president assad vowed not to bow down and

continue his resistance to foreign pressure countries facing sanctions from the arab league to the parties ultimatum for the regime to end the bloodshed it expired on saturday syrian human rights activists claim around two dozen have been killed in clashes over this weekend meanwhile the country's opposition leaders are heading to britain that was reportedly approached to spearhead a diplomatic campaign against assad that is either but it now looks into these allegations. after its pivotal role in the overthrow moammar gadhafi britains 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 but russia is it's an overreaction that could pave the way for military intervention. we suggested in order to put the regime in place all

countries concerned with a peaceful outcome to see some serious that the demand not only from the syrian authorities would also from the opposition please stop the violence the own doing. exams government buildings and serious looks like a suit was lost. 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. from house regimes clearly very very strong and we can learn the lessons of thousands and plowed. through the night. and nato or any other intervention then another military intervention will have even more serious consequences because of the regional threat whole question of iraq the whole question of is well 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 assad to quit but the patience of ceres other neighbors and crucial regional brokers' is now wearing thin to the arab league suspended series membership but 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 still appealing for dialogue as a way to end what they call the way violence a 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. and meantime russia has refused to back calls for president assad to step down after hosting syria's opposition council in moscow and that was just earlier this week

during their meeting with foreign minister sergei lavrov they said dialogue wasn't possible without sufficient pressure on the syrian regime but it failed to prompt moscow to reverse its starts that both sides should be engaged in peace negotiations and american political cartoonist and author ted rall believes the syrian opposition night be well instructed from abroad. obviously the armed opposition groups are not our disparate don't they're not they don't follow a unified leadership and anyway the demand is clearly not upon them. when nato got involved in libya they certainly weren't telling the benghazi based rebels not to engage in violence against gadhafi regime so clearly it's obvious which side is being picked here this is not a case keeping effort this is an effort to push out of power they'd like to use the force that words and the force of president what happened to get out feel and to saddam hussein but if that doesn't work who knows how far they'll go. and what's in

the weekly here and pressure kept piling on iran over the past few days this of course over the country's nuclear program the international atomic watchdog has called on teh run to clear up all the outstanding questions on this matter the u.s. has promised to introduce yet new sanctions against the country's oil industry washington also reportedly told tehran to wrap up its unclear program by spring of 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 for the past two weeks following the i.a.e.a. report but failed to disprove iran's drive for nuclear weapons nazis and he said now it takes a closer look at the case and found some stock reminders of another country whose alleged weapons stocks were played up as a pretext for attack. iran has long been a hot topic. but anyway the

greatest threat that america the world faces at faced was a nuclear iran but it's heated up since last week's report from the un's nuclear watchdog sparking fears iran was pursuing atomic weapons the i.a.e.a. says iran developed a high explosives initiation system a detonator with the help of a foreign expert question not current expert is called it a news story science who is the general russian and by some western nobody asked you can do the i.a.e.a. report doesn't mean hitler's and he's not russian ukrainian many years how former weapons inspector david albright talks not for his finances nuclear credentials on c.n.n. with weapons shouldered how to build of a thin hemispherical shell with holes in it and where the detonation happens and you simultaneously set off explosive pellets in a series of holes in that it will move shell and those explosive pell pellets ignite the high explosive underneath and in

a very spiritual way it compresses the core and then you get a nuclear explosion if islam is a scientist but not a nuclear specialist those who actually know dynamic that say this when you have to do it he worked in a clear facility but not every person who does is a nucleus specialist that he's actually trained to construct the airplanes to and it's not the i. question who know but journalists rajan's nevertheless all right accused is going to be on khan who specialize in nano diamonds in iran working with the iranians to help them miniaturize their nuclear warhead so they can put it on top of one of their missiles so it can be fired specter outright has a history out of pointing fingers just as for iraq was invaded he said in two thousand and two. in terms of the chemical and biological weapons iraq has those now how many how could they deliver them i mean these are big questions then

backtrack to the l a times once known w m d's were discovered in iran. if there are no weapons of mass destruction i'll be mad as hell i certainly accept the administration's claims on chemical and biological weapons i figured they were telling the truth and some u.s. politicians think non-truths could be repeating with iran but i'm afraid what's going on right now is similar to the war propaganda that went on against iraq and you know they didn't have the weapons of mass destruction but there were enough official reports implying otherwise in terms of the report there is limited information on the reason it's what it is because it's most likely that iran does not it is you know it is the case iran has not have a nuclear weapons program. diplomatic days are who could be called critics say the public especially in the us are about to be inundated with another flood of

so-called expert analysis the way are of a dangerous mideast country that's presumably hiding secret nuclear weapons and may require a military strike the difference this time it's iran not iraq and he's now an artsy moscow. tower twenty three minutes past the hour here in the russian capital we're always more at our website r.t. dot com a couple of items are lined up for you there right now khadafy is most prominent son finally in the hands of libya's new rulers and questions remain on whether he'll make it alive to the hague or share the fate of his late father. plus i once in a lifetime chance to glimpse something that truly divine queues of believers stretch for more than three kilometers here in moscow as one of the most revered of orthodox relics goes on show what russia has made of the trolls. russia along with some of its post soviet partners has moved closer to creating

a new economic body that your asian economic union is expected to be set by two thousand and fifteen it's modeled on the best parts of the european union. that's going off now reports on this plan. three nations twenty million square kilometers of land one giant a.g.a. is because we won't repeat the mistakes of the european union grecian conscious or what we're doing might understand who we are integrating with what you know three countries sharing a common history and today we are forming a common economy. starting from january first next year's seventeen agreements aimed at creating a unified economic speech will come into force the eurasian union movie based on the already existing customs union between the three nations which are among the largest economies in the polls will be an area with its dream work in just six months russia bellew's in kazakhstan managed to increase their total dri turnover by over forty percent. in case of

a crisis in this configuration it's much easier and even more appropriate not only to overcome any negative consequences but turn risks into possibilities. its plans that way twenty fifteen the union will not only have one border line an economic zone let me switch to one currency as well to you stan and stan are aspiring to join ukraine is selling i would team which will be becoming a member but. this sort of cooperation means more jobs bigger salaries and a chance to boost reforms and modernize our country and that's why most ukrainian support the idea they want stability uniform some groups have dismissed the union as an attempt to restore the u.s.s.r. but experts say the difference is clear as the shell of the u.s.s.r. was built on ideology while the eurasian union will be based strictly on the economy and pragmatism but experts say there are even some latin american nations

like you work in venezuela only join the so-called two in the future while new zealand has already shown interest in joining as a large producer of meat with no cost them 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 are throwing their hats in but if the current momentum is anything to go by and more are certain to follow it it's kind of our to moscow. and so good of you to join us here in our three washington has a valid to ramp up its military presence in australia by stationing twenty five hundred marine troops in darwin and the plans were announced this week by u.s. president barack obama during his trip to the country but this is widely viewed as washington's attempt to counter the rapid rise of chinese influence in the region beijing responded swiftly play me an expanded american military footprint in

australia it would destabilize the pacific slater and see what activist of the nuclear age peace foundation believes the u.s. is in an ongoing arms race with itself while ignoring international calls for deep militarization. forcing a great big pay to the us military industrial complex because we were originally in an arms race with ourselves russia and china were asking the us to negotiate a treaty to prevent the weaponization of space and every country in the world voted for it at the u.n. over the last few years except the united states chimey has even asked us to eliminate nuclear weapons of course chinese were threatened and they're going to build up their military to me our lack of willingness to move forward and it's being so in america like we have to be fearful of china but most americans don't know that china has been making all these he saw those two words as you know trying

to slow down the arms race. now an exciting development for a russian a football fans are heading your way in a sports bulletin in just over fifteen minutes time i was new to the soccer sorcerer might be on his way back to the country i thought of hitting who let the russian national team to euro cup bronze isn't ruling out taking over the helm of dagestan's big spending and g. that is already in ties top stars of samuel and so i don't know but i. thought i was soon shall be back with a recap of the week's top stories in just a few minutes to stay with us.