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one of the longest standing occupy protests council sandals is cleared by police after two months of demonstrations hundreds are arrested in the protests and. that's close to the leadership when you achieve the media. that's what dictators around the world will that is very scary protesters and the media feel a strong arm of the law but that doesn't stop some officers going in support of the office by movements of. diplomatic meltdown britain orders all or any envoys to leave the country with for you now we're down to the closure of iran's embassy in london to the response to the ransacking of the u.k.'s mission into iraq. our
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challenge for italy this of trying to tackle its debt crisis and adjust to a new prime minister taxpayers are now fighting against what they deem as unnecessary spending of public money. today on the russian capital you're watching r t was nearing a joshua welcome to the program and police in los angeles have cleared one of the last the longest stand off by camps in the u.s. hundreds of officers and riot gear drove for testers out of a park making three hundred arrests in the process following innovation in order to bring an end to a two month long occupation there earlier similar raids to place in philadelphia correspondent dan it has more. nearly three hundred people were arrested in l.a. on wednesday the police action against the protesters was not as heavy as what
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we've seen in other cities like oakland in california or new york indifference that is police used tear gas on people rubber bullets sound cannons pepper spray no this time they just record and arrest no injuries as far as we know but still almost three hundred peaceful protesters arrested those were people who refused to leave the park surrounding the l.a. city hall which they've been occupying for the last eight weeks some demonstrators climbed into some trees to avoid the vision police were using cherry pickers to take them off those trees the occupiers in l.a. received an eviction order last week officials were citing sanitation problems and property damage as reasons behind eviction order we've seen this happening all across the u.s. under different pretenses authorities that things protesters out of their occupied locations in philadelphia police in riot gear confronted demonstrators arresting around fifty people about fifty people who refused to clear
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a street over the last two months around five thousand occupy protesters have been arrested across the united states the movement is generally very in school their message was all about nonviolent from the very beginning and from the credit of the occupiers in l.a. even as widespread arrests were taking place and there were lots of emotions involved of course there and we're bogged down there this mental pain and fear that the message of the movement the vanished together with the heads in those parts the message being against corporate greed against corruption in washington and economic inequality and excesses of the u.s. financial system. there from washington well these latest arrests in a light bring the total across the whole occupy movement almost five thousand but now police are starting to defect to the other side corresponding wary of or not has been finding out why some people have been choosing to make history instead of
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making arrests. occupy wall street has become an undeniable american household name. and police crackdowns against the democratic movement have become something of the norm not so normal is seeing one side endorse the other. retired philadelphia police captain gray lewis became the game changer on nov seventeenth arrested while demonstrating with occupy protesters on the streets of new york city a twenty four year veteran was held in police custody for eleven hours and received one comment from a new york cop nobody in this one individual said that i had the testicles of an elephant although all of america's police force is part of the ninety nine percent captain lewis says cops secretly supporting o.w.m. face dire consequences by going public oh a tremendous fear of losing their job being disciplined being fired and then what
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they do everybody in the ninety nine percent figure they're police officers also they cannot risk they have children. what would they do once you're fired or no jobs available in the nighttime raid on zuccotti park and subsequent arrest of dozens of journalists covering the story are among many reasons captain lewis says he temporarily transplanted to manhattan that's as close to dictatorship when you actually the media. as with dictators around the world that is very scary brutal scare tactics such as pepper spray the tons and flash grenades canisters have been used against occupy camps throughout the u.s. open in california over. something of an urban war zone this fall leaving a war vet in critical condition and the eyes of an eighty four year old burning from tear gas oakland police officer fred chavez is the only active cop who's gone on record with his support but totally agree with occupy wall street he would tell
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us that working pro i am a part of it mind you not pursued it for the most part people are pretty sure they want to see change many believe the biggest change could calm when or if he was law enforcement officials stop suppressing the right to assemble and begin supporting it despite his arrest captain lewis is back at zuccotti park showing funding wavering support for the occupy movement standing roughly ten or fifteen feet away from him a group of new york city police officers yes they're here securing the area but some are beginning to show a little interest for the first time i had an officer break ranks yesterday at the barricade line a white officer named officer murray and introduced himself and he started asking if you question i said do you know the risk you're taking and he was so brave they said i just go america and until a supervisor order me orders me back to the line i'm going to talk with you i hope
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to get mainstream america involved the police involved realizing that we're all victims of corporate america and the fourth america has got to be stopped. r.t. new york we are closely following the protests that have been shaking up the united states on our website our t. dot com find you check out the photo reporting during the massive raid on there are violent protests and get all the latest updates from the site also on the website to. daisy's u.k. students still more than two million people in britain down tools and the largest public sector strike thirty years an. hour ride broil refurbished brushes made it will be fit for a queen fly written. early as it's goats are said to be refitted by the same furniture company that tends to her that is the only.
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the u.k. is expelling all rain diplomats following the storming of its embassy in tehran and has ordered the immediate closure of iran's mission in london and britain has already evacuated its own diplomats from the islamic states capital this comes after hundreds of hardline protesters attacked the u.k. compound into iraq pelting against windows with petrol bombs and burning british flags demonstrations follow the vote in iran's parliament to reduce diplomatic ties with london the tunisian for imposing further sanctions over its nuclear program this afternoon new measures against iran are also expected to dominate a meeting of european foreign ministers later today middle east aspirated journalists of conscience down believes this latest spat with iran is just the start the bigger question campaign. the west is no engaged in war preparations just against iran which they have been they've invaded not complied iran's two
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neighboring countries that are going to go on the one side and iraq on the other the west is engaged in a constant project of close that war in the nation against all people who resist that domination so iran and syria are different on the cards and the current conflagration will engulf the whole middle east so this has the potential for growing but that is the agenda right now very clearly they want change all across africa libya was the thought and look at the pacific and the asia region the new the the new troops new u.s. troops already sent from australia listen to clinton she is saying about the critical places for us domination is not iraq and afghanistan but in asia what's emerging right now is a his. trying for next ten fifteen years where we're britain and america i'm over going down economically and militarily i don't know china russia are merging so they're really feeling that now is the crisis period to make sure that we can dominate as much as possible through sanctions and war i mean it's. any means
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necessary i mean whether they do it through sanctions or war or funding opposition movements it's all the same they want complete domination as soon as possible no one benefits from having sanctions against iran and europeans will suffer from them as well that's the belief of sheer range of fire from the school of oriental studies at the university of london this science is a very strongly ordinary rain and this is a lose lose situation as many rain enough the shells have already stated and then i think on the one side the rainy and ordinary officials are similar to each other have been suffering for they are bored financial system and the oil industry which is the science of now but at the same time ordinary europeans going to be suffering this science is because as we see the venue science and he runs all industry the price of food is going to rise. get more perspective on the region and our
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interview show later this hour the foreign minister of bahrain charities take with r.t. on the military threats against iran's nuclear facilities and warns that but world faces catastrophe if it chooses the wrong path look at what's ahead. i don't believe these threats are blown out of proportion considering the sources which express these threats of using force they're quite real we remember israel threatening to attack from the air and indeed israel bombs nuclear missiles in the region in iraq what would keep it from attacking around the same way that this potential development is very dangerous the region will end open on the edge of an abyss of an unknown depth and with we don't want to hear any military threats against the iranian nuclear facilities or anything else all we want to see is a peaceful development the only thing required from iran is transparency in its nuclear program. some other world news in brief for you this hour syria's government has released almost
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a thousand prisoners involved in the latest protest a spy the crackdown on anti-government activists continuing nationwide new clashes iraq province reportedly killed at least six civilians and seven syrian soldiers it comes a day after turkey suspended all financial credit dealings with damascus and froze the government assets its latest country in homes sanctions on syria the u.n. estimates more than thirty five hundred people have died since the answer government protests started in march. the state of its parliamentary elections has and that official results are now set for thursday after a large voter turnout delaying the counting of ballots by one day islam is a group of muslim brotherhood which was banned under the government of former president mubarak claims it's leading the way they lecture will be spread across six weeks and final results will be announced early next year. yes porteous have discovered a six hundred new year long smuggling tala crossing the border with mexico
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a passage was used to connect the drug warehouses in tijuana and officials say the tunnel complete with elevator and transport carts is the most sophisticated they ever had to come across thirty two tons of marijuana worth sixty five million dollars were also confiscated in the operation. coming your way in the program a military mess by taxpayers' dollars one their money spent the same way the government doubts. watch what you say and how you say russians in a story are being deprived of their native language. well fed british style.
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market. i don't want to really happening to the global economy with my tax cuts are a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. guys report on our. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is on a landmark visit to myanmar it's the first trip to the country in fifty years by diplomat of such seniority and is seen as an effort to push for democratic reform there and renewed ties with its leadership the visit follows
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a decision by president barack obama to open the door to expand of ties with the political jasa later country nine hundred sixty two to two thousand and eleven myanmar was under military rule but is now transitioning to a new civilian government as part of new reforms authorities have released over two . hundred prisoners eased media censorship china martial part of the past decade and some experts are trying to use visit as an attempt to carol beijing's influence in the region. i think the u.s. would like to extend its support for the recent. political developments inside myanmar and it's one more reason even look into a larger geo political context this is about a competition with the rise of china in this part of the world especially in myanmar so i think these are two key reasons for. them to let me go
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at least the shortage i need that what we have seen me and my about being an isolated country heavily reliant on china alone is not true is no longer true in myanmar has reached out to arbil powers you know from outside account from outside the region you know as much as in the region for example to india to r.c. and as an organization and now for the us i think this is from bottom in my perspective is is kind of there was defiant its own foreign policy option so i think china we have to bear in mind we are now we have to understand also that this is an interest in business in the interest of the u.s. government class to come and you have to maintain the strategy alliance we country in this region including myanmar. italy has found itself in a severe economic crisis with the country's debt reaching over two trillion euros but every time one italians want to cut costs and create jobs the government has another plan in the works which critics say is nothing more than economic suicide
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artists are first explains. this is the f. thirty five and the plaintiff the combined if i just speed and agility for the project still in the development stage the final assembly line is supposed to be based in italy. everything's going according to plan the town of navarre is eight kilometers from the military base where the final stage of the f. thirty five cortex is supposed to take place the people here have taken for the strain they say is a waste of other talian taxpayers' money it is a very expensive project and now that we are in crisis you know that. is a. public health and so on not the joint strike fighter program o.j.
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assesses its name is a defense project based on international efforts with the u.s. the u.k. and italy just some of the participants if the united states. and that's why you. are in such a costly. it's least decision to purchase one hundred thirty one of these planes developed by american company located martin the country docks them thirteen billion euros the projects come under widescale scrutiny to being avis churchill and budgets the people in the borough get extremely against this little bit but budget was abolished. well first of all. a lot of the local politicians promised jobs and so people thought well great and then we start
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to say well you know jobs in what is very expensive and in a moment of crisis like now to spend money on these planes a moment like this is absolutely ridiculous it's making people really are angry it needs to europe now might in the year is a crisis initially itself no way to teach in europe is in debt taxpayers' here's a good time is it a country participating in military spending they don't want and don't feel they can of food we say that the now it's the right time to cut expenses and to. project we don't need. we need something else despite the government trying to win the people here either with promises it took created they remain unconvinced or the project that they call economic suicide to describe this earth party. animal to escape its obvious pass a story is making people speak their native language or risk losing their jobs but
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the law aimed at establishing a national anti threatens to silence the baltic states large russian minority as i . found out. the russian speaking fisherman catches a magic fish because my sister fulfill all his wishes in a stony him but he does not understand the language and he dumps it to this social and urges the russian minority in a story here to learn a story and in a rather amusing fashion the reality is no joke at all. all state officials are obliged to know the astronomy and language of the course of their work this is written in our language law and also applies to people working in the majority of public services. of course just like other post soviet baltic states a story has its own language inspection the body which oversees how the language law is being observed at times laying it down quite harshly the language inspection
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has the legal right to conduct spontaneous checks on anyone working in a spear and should a person fail this tanya language exam the body may then initiate the sacking of this employee human right activists say this has turned the language inspection into a punitive body. it is not that they have nothing to say it's just that they believe their voices are being silenced a story is three hundred thousand strong russian minority has been protesting at what they describe as the language inquisition some of these people either lost their jobs or are under threat of doing so because they are forbidden from speaking their native language through the so often cursed so we were never applied any restrictions on language it is done and some are free to educate in their language and i would raise the authorities have almost banned the russian language from schools besides some russian companies don't have qualified teachers who can teach physics chemistry in a study. in the latest twist five workers at an orphanage were fired for not being
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able to speak a story into the children that's in a town where ninety six percent of the population are ethnic russians. i don't want to sound rude but as long as we live in this country we have to live by the law and those people because they had been warned but did nothing. cumin rights activists acknowledge the rule of the law but stress that in the language case it is not applied properly the law doesn't put any difference between our we're almost everyone sees a. russian as their leader of language and other parts where most of the people speak historian and with such disproportion we can talk of direct language discrimination and indirect ethnic discrimination activists in the other baltic states have been gathering signatures and holding a referendum to make russian the second state language and many say they have a strong chance of pushing it through a stone year despite being criticised by amnesty international for its language
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policy he is adamant and it seems the russian minority would not catch the magic fish granting their wish anytime soon. ski r.t. reporting from thailand in a story you really a few minutes we'll talk about just how dangerous the crisis in the arab world is coming up right after this news. good morning you're watching business see the russian markets kicked off twenty minutes ago as a positive character of will look at that in just a second russia may get an unexpected bonus from the rising tensions between the western powers and iran. blends could surge to recognize. the rising tensions over iran's nuclear program have already pushed the russian crew to a rare premium over its north sea counterparts urals blend is widely consumed by european refineries on the mediterranean which are also big importers of iranian
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oil a new proposal by france to impose sanctions against the oil imports from the islamic republic could mean the markets will tighten further. the largest steel maker in russia sevastopol is sex a spin off and snored gold unit the company is also on a listing the standalone business in london there are still plans to complete the separation of its gold unit by january under the deal serviced all shareholders will be able to swap their story shares multiple can't be held by a service officer just snored gold was set up in two thousand and seven and since then a spencer over one billion dollars on buying mines in west africa have struck analysts estimate the firm's value to be around three million dollars. and that's one of the commodities like oil is trading near a two week high after the us got a result and by other central banks cut the cost of emergency funding for european
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banks to be used in liquidity has cancer driving through stockpiles in the u.s. the world's largest consumer of commodities and that move by central banks is called so is simulated stock markets around the world asian shares conjoining global gradually from wednesday welcoming the move by the central banks to slash product costs they are also soaring high on news that china has reserved a crown on greater crude large banks this has been seen as a major push on the bank you saw this in the region of more holdings up three percent in tokyo and bank of china is ten percent higher. this is the opening picture in the rush hour and after gaining more than a five percent for the r.t.s. it's now up a quarter of a percent my six games three percent on wednesday and it's now up to three quarters of trouble so. thursday i think will be day when we are we are they just seem the impact of the. efforts of the u.s.
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central banks or even the wall to reach. the u.s. will praise some of the u.s. . becoming events the major events will be on friday we're going to have the pretty girls they have their. to us for december ninth there will be meeting of the leaders of the euro zone there will be some expectations. depending on their results the markets will be searching for direction. kind of like a dialogue chinese banks now a higher credit rating than they u.s. rivals according to these as an afghan and ports this may suggest emerging markets are more of a safe haven than the established western economies but senior trader for me to its capital none of the things that might be a risky bet. i don't think there are the new safe haven although growth seems to be steaming ahead in the emerging markets i think the only safe haven at the moment
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see seems to be the greenback the dollar. money seems to be shifting out of a lot of assets and into the dollar and certainly out of gold in sort of dollars well so that seems to be the course of choice at the moment alcohol trade we're really all emerging markets because if there is any sign of slowing down in those markets then those markets could conduct down very sharply. right business r.t. will be back in fifty five minutes with an update all see the job. the books the be. the best ever with.
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