the top news of the week here on artsy occupy wall street has marked its two month anniversary with an unprecedented protest all over the united states hundreds arrested sprayed and beaten with a movement it looks set on its course as a. balance of sparks off in egypt once again as the cradle of the arab spring seize tear gas and rubber bullets with thousands of protesters all across the country saying that military rule is destroying the results of the february revolution. bureaucracy ascendant a wave of unelected favorites to take power in europe as the blocks of much of wanted to mock or see it seen as being placed on the back burner in the face of

a detonator debt crisis. plus the syrian president refuses to crack under international pressure while the threat of further sanctions and tougher diplomatic attacks stoked fears we're about to see another libyan style intervention. we're highlighting the week's top stories here in our it's their weekly with me rule reception and to corporate protests escalated all across the united states as the occupy wall street movement marked two months since its inception hundreds were arrested this week as police toured down activists camps all over the country including where it all began in september that it was you coffee 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 are staging

a sit down protest. pepper spray and the guardian newspaper is reporting on a newly released video showing police brutally beating an iraq war veteran in oakland. ruptured spleen. reports the crackdown only seems to be hardening the resolve of protesters. in the financial capital of the world a movement called occupied wall street is born in weeks the fight against u.s. corporate greed and wealth inequality manifests in all fifty states i can now make american movement not seen since the sixty's as the power of the people grows louder police force grow stronger peaceful activists tons of blinded by nice and thrown to the ground unarmed after this tense law enforcement clash pretty easily. but.

here. are basic. things that. people like the democratic right. why would. you but they would. help you. get them out the. thousands of occupy activists have been jailed throughout the two month campaign and mass arrests of eight hundred on the brooklyn bridge 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 avoiding point 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 how for safety concerns a raid on the headquarters in new york came at one am hundreds of armed officers destroying and displacing the heart of this democratic movement i can't evict an idea to the idea that we are that i did i considered americans that you know we need to resist the good ones the financial institutions the corporations the right record of accountability giving 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 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. the largest and loudest turnout so far came thursday as ogilby west turn two months old again marked by the attempt to shut down the new york stock exchange occupations in 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 show 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. r.t.

me on. my jeannie dean an activist from a confide los angeles says the during the two months of its existence and 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 very important both on a national level and the local level actually we've managed to change the narrative here especially in the mainstream of the corporate media here in the united states and it worked 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 on our in our foreign policy we've already changed the narrative from you know deficit spending to jumps to the economic disparities in the social injustices we're seeing through our banking system and the hijacking of the corruption inherent in our banking and political system so that's been an important change and that's only happened in two months time. in office where the latest

occupy action is unfolding in oakland california she was sharing her impressions on her twenty four hour twitter feed prevalent here in her latest tweet so she's reporting that more than five hundred people are gathering in an area owned by the city and bringing tens despite the police probation officers to ride and start arresting people within hours you can follow the story as it breaks when odyssey when i would twitter feed. meanwhile the cradle of the arab spring egypt that inspired protesters all around the globe was once again seeing brutal clashes in cairo hundreds of thousands of return to to or square the stronghold of the uprising that toppled former president hosni mubarak that was earlier this february police have been using tear gas and rubber bullets to suppress crowds trying to take control of the country's interior ministry two people killed almost a thousand injured during two days of clashes the protests have been raging all

across the country with the current military rulers should announce the exact date when power will be had its when elected civilian government critics say it will mean a return. the same problems as under hosni mubarak's ousted regime pepe escobar a columnist and correspondent for the asia times police with the unrest coming ahead of crucial elections it may lead to yet another revolution. if they repress this syrian style this is going to get out of hand specially against the muslim brotherhood and if we see let's see a little large group of what's going to really career square with all the factions of the muslim brotherhood close to google generation everybody in this square i guess the military dictatorship there is see which is something that could happen within the next few weeks let's put it this way then we're going to have kerry a square to every single depends on these parliamentary elections to start in a few days to go on for

a few months they're going to elect their constituents the assembly and then they go to promulgate the new gustafson of the country and every single writes from that . so watching the weekly iran i see you're still a lot more to come in the program including snaring of the air could have its most prominent son is finally in the hands of libya's new rulers questions remain on whether he'll make it to the hague alive or sure the fate of his father. down with the old saying looks to stand for a new future of voting booths today they're staring poverty tax people's patience to the limit. meanwhile across the european union the ongoing debt crisis has sparked an r. he will in the blocks political landscape from greece to italy unelected bureaucrats are on the ascendant as democracy gives way to a desperate struggle for economic survival in italy power's gone to e.u. veterinarian monti to go after his nomination as

a senator for life to replace incumbent silvio berlusconi wasting 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 and starting sara for reports it's all providing great fodder for the unification agenda of the blocs prime financial powerhouse and undeclared leader it was never going to be easy to put the night year at seventeen countries of which you know on the one current think this criticism we just the beginning of a dishonest and downright dangerous journey president. by the constitution but to do it in such a way that you want to avoid referendums in key member states might now be wishing they'd heeded the warnings of the one after another this they think in two world will be in the latest country to comment recently. in the last

month. 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 is going to start the crisis is say first senior leaders of crete and italy were placed by people who were never elected to office he knew their way around brussels and here in italy with berlusconi now gone doesn't. paying for reforms now need to be implemented to meet . for the first time since the quiescence began talks have now begun to turn to the possibility of exits from the year eight or the creation of the cool europe 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 article over here where you have behaved badly we're going to punish that's not a union in united states of america they've behaved badly imagine taxes behaving

badly where 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 growing sense a bad year agreed had a good year agreed has not gone and missed by struggling countries was this clear that those who overspent this now face up to painful stereotyping measures the sense of being treated like a naughty school child then he added to the growing strain in the euro community it's only now starts to because well so to say there will expose much more france and especially germany to the times there are the must be up to us to say to to express a political leadership not just for their own countries but for europe as all your attentions have not gone on missed by the financial markets punish political leaders checking their feet and dealing with the crisis the struggling economies like italy and now cause even. for the stakes it's least being considered by many

to test case for the in year if it fails and it could take down the entire fifth the question now is whether or not those measures can. the weather will see them going the same way as previous measures put forward by european leaders. failed to come up with a convincing. and in spain voters have started casting their votes to voice their rage against an epidemic of unemployment and poverty gripping the country polls show the ruling socialist faction is set to give way to the popular party is riding a wave of public discontent uncompromising austerity course want to renegotiate results more from richard. the 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 vain is and is in a very dire situation the countries are experiencing tremendous problems of employment there more than five million people without jobs right now one and a half million households i do not have a wage earner at all in fact 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 and on the freedom of the young people in the 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 nostrils to create at least and of course because that is because a lot of people who do spend a lot of money on education end up not being able to get a job so here's the deal basically a lot of people i 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

do 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. it is a ridiculous reporting right there where you are with r t it's good to have you on a sunday coming up just a little bit later iran in the frying pan but iran is pressured from all sides with the i.a.e.a. wanting questions over its alleged nuclear pursuit cleared and the u.s. threatening to unleash israel if the islamic state doesn't drop its activities. also russia shapes its answer to the e.u. the foundations laid for the creation of a new economic bloc in eurasia similarities with the european union set to avoid its mistakes. a quarter past the hour here in moscow at least two rocket propelled grenades are for the headquarters of syria's governing bath

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 assad vowed not to bow down and continue his resistance to foreign pressure the country is now facing sanctions from the arab league after the bodies ultimatum for the regime to end the bloodshed expires 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 heading to britain that was reportedly approach to spearhead a diplomatic campaign against assad. and it reports. after its pivotal role in the overthrow of moammar gadhafi britain's become the new go to guy when there's trouble in the middle east prime minister david cameron's been handpicked his team captain for another libya style control group forcing president bashar al assad out to begin with it will be a diplomatic offensive that russia appease it's an overreaction that could pave the

way for military intervention. we suggested religion should be in place all countries concerned with peaceful outcome developments and syrians should demand not only from the syrian authorities would also from the opposition to please stop their violence. the ongoing attacks on government buildings in syria look like a civil war going on 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 it much easier to support and adds more weight to any international threats. if they are of. regime change is clearly very very strong and we should learn the lessons of thousands and thousands. of the no. nato bombing or any other intervention another military intervention

will have even more serious consequences because of the regional threat the whole question of iraq there is well the ukase apparently been handed its leading role by king abdullah of jordan so far the only arab leader to publicly call for and sad to quit but the patience of series of other neighbors and crucial regional brokers is now wearing thin to the arab league suspended series membership a 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 still appealing for dialogue as a way to end what they call two 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 out of bennett r t. now

a new twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow russia refused to back calls for president assad to step down after hosting syria's opposition council in moscow earlier this week during a meeting with foreign minister sergei lavrov off he said dialogue wasn't possible without sufficient pressure on the syrian regime this has not come to moscow to reverse its stance that both sides should be engaged in peace negotiations and while the opposition and the regime play the blame game some experts say the uprising is rooted outside the country and. we know that in most countries especially in the middle east there are special forces operating behind the lines cia mossad m i five you name it and they can they can create a dialogue crowd if you want to put you that way they put arms across the border to give to the opposition or breakaway groups and they in turn then first of all look at the arab spring you get people take to the streets in mass why are they out on the street is because they're frustrated with

a government in the price hike of commodities food and petrol and loss of employment loss of housing expect so they're pretty mad at this vulnerable moment when these special forces and secret service operatives intermingled with the crowd and in some cases become to snipe us on the rooftop and say take out selective innocent victims the people in the crowd didn't believe that their government is carrying out this action and it becomes a rebellion. you're watching the weekly here on r.t. but hundreds across libya have poured into the streets for the government announced the arrest of the late leader moammar gadhafi its most prominent son crowds fired guns and car horns to celebrate the capture saif gadhafi was seized along with two of his a while attempting to flee to neighboring niger he is wanted by the international criminal court for crimes against humanity however the libyan authorities want to try him in the country on charges that potentially carry the death penalty the

n.c.c. has pledged to provide a fair trial for saif gadhafi but some have their doubts that it's likely that. it's unfortunate that syphilis has been captured and i think it's sad because he will not stand. trial in media after what we have seen what their government have done all of that evolution and what the. media have done with his father rather i don't think that people who are opposing the new media we put down their weapons and i think that this struggle will continue on for . months to come years to come. not enough time for you to get involved here we're always interested in your opinion on the story if we go to our web site r.t. dot com we're asking you what's next for saif al islam gadhafi check out the numbers right here so here's a bit add up so far the majority think he'll most likely get the death penalty in

libya around a third of skeptical about saif gadhafi seizure believing he could still be at large but the rest are pretty what's between two opinions that he'll be tried in the i.c.c. or he'll be killed by vigilantes before there's any chance to send him to the hague do cast your vote just log on to our c dot com. pressure kept piling on iran this week over the country's nuclear program and 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 a new sanctions against the country's oil industry washington also reportedly told to iran to wrap up its nuclear program by spring two thousand and twelve when it will stop holding back israel's long planned attack on the islamic republic talks of such a strike has been coming from israel for the past two weeks following the i.a.e.a. report to fail to disprove iran's drive for nuclear weapons but

a diplomatic solution is the only way it's according to german to be from the national iranian american council but he believes that sanctions will inevitably backfire well military action were only spur on the building of atomic arms it's actually we're at a point where we've run out of things the same ship and we're actually looking at things that are going to sanction ourselves there's talk of sation in iran central bank which would effectively taking iranian oil off the market and you know it could put the world into economic tailspin there's really there's two paths here either you do the military thing that's that that would do is set iran's program back by two or three years you would see them rapidly escalate the program they'd go into. you know manhattan project sort of mentality and pursue a nuclear weapon outright and you know in a lot of respects be driven into that but then the other path that you have is a diplomatic resolution and that's sort of the path that not a lot of people are willing to talk about but if the end goal is to solve this and

not do immense damage to the u.s. and the globe there is going to have to be a day in the future when we are at the table with iran and we actually set up an agreement where iran is not able to develop a nuclear weapons capability we have safeguards on their program and you know we address some of the issues that we have concerns about and we have. a devastating war. twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow always more on our website r t v dot com let's check out a couple of the items i know if you go right in a disputed torn apart by decades of violence there lopes a hidden conflict by native hindu believers who once made up the bulk of the population in kashmir now a minority claiming discrimination from the muslim majority. but there's a huge sigh of relief in the space community as a three man crew successfully docks with the international space station it's the first manned mission to fly after a rocket full of supplies crashed in august. russia along with some

of his posts so good partners has moved closer to creating a new economic body that you're asian economic union is expected to be set up by two thousand and fifteen modeled on the best of the european union r.t.c. that's going to reports on the plan. three nations twenty million square kilometers of the land one giant idea. is that we will repeat the mistakes of the european union to gratian we're conscious of what we're doing and understand who we are integrating with the 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 region you new movie based on the already existing customs union between the three nations which are among the largest economies in the balls or your area with its framework in just six months russia bellew's in kazakhstan managed to increase their total droid turnover by

over forty percent. place would please 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 borderline an economic zone let me switch to one currency as well he's done and gone are aspiring to join ukraine is selling i would 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 you form some groups have dismissed the union as an attempt to restore the u.s.s.r. but experts say the difference is clear because neither the special 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 that even some latin american nations like you work in venezuela join the so-called u two and 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 mina member are simply too attractive. surely it's way too early to talk about anything like an industrial bridge which will stretch 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 has gone off our to. tens of thousands of believers from all corners of russia have formed a line more than three kilometers long so worship one of the most revered orthodox christian relics and that of the mother of god's belt it's believed to be taken from the body of mary the mother of jesus by apostle thomas by the relic that is

usually stored in a monastery on mount greece will be on display at moscow's main christ the savior cathedral for more than a week or thoughts believers have faith in the belt divine powers to cure infertility and disease but the occasion coincides with today's sixty fifth birthday celebrations of the patriarch of moscow and all russia i thought i was given a special service in the cathedral. now i want to stay with us for another look at the top stories are coming your way in just a few minutes.