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one of the. one of the longest standing occupy protest camps in los angeles is cleared by police after two months of demonstrations hundreds are arrested and the protests and. that's most of the british are you actually the media. the bigger the world will that is surely surely the protesters and the media feel a strong arm of the law but that doesn't stop some officers swaying in support of the odds if i move next. diplomatic meltdown britain orders all or any envoys to leave the country within forty eight hours and announces the closure of iran's embassy in london in response to the ransacking of the u.k.'s mission and teheran.
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and other challenge for italy in the midst of trying to tackle its debt prizes have adjusted to the new prime minister taxpayers are now fighting against what they deem as unnecessary military spending. this is r t coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program police anil sandals have cleared one of the last and longest standing off by camps in the u.s. hundreds of officers some in riot gear drove her tasker's out of a park making three hundred arrests in the process following innovation in order to bring their hands to a two month long occupation there our correspondent is to count reports. nearly three hundred people were arrested in l.a. on wednesday the police action against the protesters was not as heavy as what we've seen in other cities like oakland in california or new york indifference that
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is police used tear gas on people rubber bullets sound cannons pepper spray no this time they just performed a wreck 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 includes trees to avoid addiction police were using kerry pickers to take them off those trees the occupiers in l.a. received an eviction order last week officials are citing sanitation problems in crossing the damage as reasons behind eviction order we've seen this happening all across the u.s. under different pretenses authorities of things taking 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 has been generally very peaceful their message was all about nonviolence from the very beginning and to 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 and this man who many fear that the message of the movement to banish together with peds in those parts the message being against corporate greed against corruption in washington. inequality and excesses of the u.s. financial system kind of reporting there are now these latest arrests in a light brings a total across the whole occupy movement almost five thousand but now police are starting to defect to the other side on a very important has been finding out why some people have been choosing to make history instead of making arrests. aki pro ball street has become an
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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 bray lewis became the game changer on nov seventeenth arrested while demonstrating with occupy protesters on the streets of new york city the twenty four year veteran was held in police custody for eleven hours and received one comment from a new york cop nobody talk to me this one individual said that i had touched an elephant although all of america's police force is part of the ninety nine percent captain lewis says cops secretly supporting the us 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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do they do everybody in the ninety nine percent figure and 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 close to a dictatorship when you exclude the media. that's what the papers around the world that is very scary google scare tactics such as pepper spray tons and flash grenades canisters have been used against occupy camp route the u.s. oakland california resembles 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. to agree with you. even if there were about broke i am
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a part of the ninety nine percent for the most part people are peaceful and i want to see changed many believe the biggest change could calm when or if u.s. law enforcement officials stop suppressing the right to assemble and begin supporting it despite his arrest captain lewis is back at zuccotti park showing unwavering 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 have an officer break ranks yesterday at the barricade line a white officer named officer murray and introduced himself and if you question i said you know the risk you're taking and he was so brave they said this is still america and until a supervisor ordered ordered me back to the line i'm going to talk with you i hope to get mainstream america involved the place involved realizing that world of
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corporate america and america has got to be stopped. r.t. new york. we are closely following the protests that have been shaking out the united states on our website our team dot com don't mind stamped out the photo reports taken during a massive raid on the file a protest and get all the latest updates from the site and also the world web site for you today. david kay students still have more than two million people in britain down tools in the largest public sector strike it's thirty years. old so the war will respond to the russians maybe it will be fit for a queen but with really as its votes are said to be refitted by the same furniture company of a chance through her madison the legal minds in. the
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u.k. as a spelling already and diplomats following the storming of exams seem to iran as the order of the immediate closure of iran's mission in london britain has already evacuated its own diplomats from these lawmakers state's capital this comes after hundreds of hard line for testers attacked the u.k. compound into iran pelting the gates of windows with petrol bombs and burning british flags the demonstrations call a vote in iran's parliament to reduce diplomatic ties with london in retaliation for imposing further sanctions over its nuclear program discussing the new measures against iran are also expected to dominate a meeting of european foreign ministers later today italy's tax burden journalists and content down believes this latest spat with iran is just the start of the bigger western campaign. the west is now engaged in war preparations just against
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iran which they have been they've invaded iran through neighboring countries like afghanistan on the one side and iraq on the other the west is engaged in a constant project. constant war and domination against people who resist their domination so iran and syria are different on the cards and become a conflagration will engulf the whole middle east that this has the potential for growing but that is the agenda right now very clearly they want major change all across africa libya was the start and look at the pacific of asia region the new the new troops new u.s. troops already sent from australia listen to clinton she is saying that the critical places for us domination is not iraq and afghanistan but in asia what's emerging right now is a historic time for next ten fifteen years where britain an american movie going down economically and militarily i don't know china russia emerging so they are really feeling that now is the crisis period to make sure sure they can dominate as
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much as possible through sanctions and war i mean it's all it's all you know it's any means 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 now when barefoot's from having sanctions against iran and europeans will suffer from them as well and that's the belief in five from the school of oriental studies at the university of london to science is a very strongly ordinary iranians this is a lose lose situation as many to rein in other cells have already stated and then i see those on the one side the rain in ordinary officials similar to each other have been suffering for they are cut. and the oil industry which has been signed so much but at the same time ordinary plans are going to be suffering this science says because as we see the the new science and he runs on industry the price of
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food is going to rise. and more perspective on the region and our interview show this hour the foreign minister of bahrain shares he steak with r.t. on the military threats against iran's nuclear facilities and warns that the world faces tester feet if it chooses the wrong path a quick 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 this potential development is very dangerous the region will end open on the edge of a little bit of an unknown 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.
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u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is r.l. 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 where new ties with its leadership the visit follows a decision by president barack obama to open the door to expand ties with a politically isolated. from nine hundred sixty two until earlier this year on the ahmar was under military rule but is now in a transition to a new civilian government as part of new reforms authorities have released over two hundred political prisoners and ease media censorship shortly before clinton arrived in the country the chinese vice president held talks with more on military cooperation china has been a country so partner over the past few decades and some experts say the washington's high profile trip is an attempt to counter beijing's influence in the region. i think for us the us reply can extend its support for
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the reason you put co political development inside myanmar and it's one more reason even look into a larger political context this is about a competition with the rise of china in this part of the world especially in so i think that. these are two key reason for the current receipt of them to let me go at least shortish our news that what we have seen me and my about being an isolated country heavily on china is not true is no longer true in myanmar has reached out to our bill powers you know from outside the country from outside the region you know as much as the region for example to india as an organization and now toward the u s i n b c's from zero to me in my perspective is is kind of day was defined on foreign policy option so i think we have to bet you margaret that we have to
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understand also that interest in this is in the interest of the us government the last to come and. alliance country in this region including myanmar coming your way in the program here in r t terms die watch what you say and how you say rushing to restore you are being deprived of very good language. it's what has found itself in a severe economic crisis where the country's debt over two trillion euros but at a time when italians want to cut costs and create jobs the government has another plan in the works which critics say is nothing more than economics so aside r.t. sarah firth explains. this is the end thirty five we played the combined down the five feet legitimacy to the project still in the development stage final assembly line is supposed to be based in italy.
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everything's going according to plan the town of navarre is a kilometer from the military base but the final stage of the f. thirty five project its place to take place the people here have taken for the state they say is a waste of alitalia taxpayers' money until very very expensive project and now that we are in crisis you know that. entirely is patting their pensions. school education. public health and so on not the killing strike fighter program ok as that is its name is a defense project based on international ethics the u.s. and u.k. in italy just some of the participants if need for united states. must be. true. and that's why you. are such a costly venture a sleaze decision to purchase
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a hundred and thirty one of these planes developed by american company looking at massive to set the country back some thirteen billion a year and the projects country wide scale speech me being a fish and even pleasure it's the people in the bar elvis leads being played against that but project it wasn't the main issue with the all the. well first of all. a lot of the. politicians promised jobs and so people thought well great i then we started saying well you know when jobs in water it's very expensive when 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 very it means to europe now might in the year as a crisis initially itself know if you teach in your audience indents taxpayers here is a bit tired of the 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.
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expenses and to. project we don't need. we need something else like the government trying to win the people here over with promises of job creation they remain unconvinced all the project that they call economic suicide to describe this era. of our weekly. brushes airspace the fans forces have officially began their duties for the first time president retributive propose the creation of the new fans body last year under one unified command of brings together air and missile the fan systems as well as early missile warning and the precepts cosmodrome in the hunger squeege and the system is capable of destroying enemy ballistic missiles detecting and responding to threats to russia from space as well as launch spacecraft more than three thousand military and civil personnel will be joining the unit that's the
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latest salvo from russia going with washington nato over a proposed missile the fam system in europe which moscow sees as a threat to its national security. a look at some other stories from around the world this hour of last in iraq a town has killed at least ten people and wounded dozens officials say car bomb exploded in a street market and kali's early on thursday the local authorities imposed an immediate curfew and are investigating who was behind the blast terrorist attacks have been can become more frequent in iraq after the recent announcement that the remaining thirteen thousand u.s. troops are scheduled to pull out of the country by the end of the year. syria's government has released nine hundred twelve prisoners involved in the latest protest despite a crackdown on anti-government activists nationwide new clashes in a dark province purportedly killed at least thirteen people it comes
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a day after turkey suspended all financial credit dealings with damascus it's the latest country to impose sanctions on syria the u.n. estimates more than thirty five hundred people have died since the protests started in march. the first stage of egyptians are the men three elections has and an official results are now set for thursday after a larger voter turnout delayed the counting of ballots by one day its laws were muslim brotherhood which was banned under the government of president mubarak claims it's leading the way the election will be spread across six weeks while results will be announced early next year. u.s. authorities have discovered a six hundred meter long smuggling tunnel crossing under the border with mexico the passage was used to connect the drug warehouses in tijuana and san diego officials say the tunnel complete with elevator and transport carts is the most sophisticated
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they ever had to come across thirty two tons of marijuana worth sixty five million dollars were also confiscated in the operation. in a move to escape its past history is making people speak the native language or risk losing their jobs but the law aimed at establishing international and city threatens to silence the baltic states a large russian minority as are. found out. a russian speaking fisherman catches a magic fish it promises to fulfill all his wishes in a stone ian but he does not understand the language and he dumps it through this social ad urges the russian minority in a story or to learn a story on in a rather amusing fashion the reality is no joke at all. all state officials are obliged to know the estonian language in the course of their work this is written in our language law it also applies to people working in the
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majority of public services. 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 has the legal rights to conduct spontaneous checks on anyone working in a new spear and should a person fail the language exam the body may then initiate the circling of this employee human right activists say this has turned a 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 her 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. the so often cursed so we were never applied any restrictions on languages were free to
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educate in their language nowadays 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 on. the latest twist five workers at an orphanage were fired for not being 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 if those people because they had been want nothing. cumin rights activists acknowledge the rule of the law but stress that in the language case it is not applied properly because of the law doesn't put any difference between narva were almost everyone sees russian as their native 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 another
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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 despite being criticised by amnesty international for its language policy is adamant and it seems the russian minority would not catch the magic fish granting their wish anytime soon. r.t. reporting from thailand in a story. bring here today's headlines in just a few moments before that i will take a look what's happening a world of business with an interesting this. next green russia may get an unexpected bonus from the rising tensions between western powers and iran the country's benchmark e.u. rules play and could surge to recognize above brant the conflict over iran's
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nuclear program have already pushed russian troops to a rare premium would seem counterpart urals bland is widely consumed by european refineries on the mediterranean which are also big importers of iranian oil you proposal by france to impose sanctions against oil imports from the islamic republic could mean the markets will tighten further. the largest steel maker in russia sevastopol is set to spend all of its north gold units the company's also eyeing listing the standalone business in london severstal plans to complete the separation of its called units by january under the deal severstal shareholders will be able to swap their stocks for shares annoyed calls currently held by a set of styles of cigarettes known goal was set up until two thousand and seven and since then has spent over one billion dollars on buying mines in west africa and context analysts estimate the firm's value at around three billion dollars through to the markets now in the world is trading near choose week in the us
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federal reserve and five other central banks cut the cost of funding. the boost in liquidity as the calton rising crude saw profiles in the u.s. the world's largest consumer again that move by the central banks are also pushing shares higher in asia they are welcoming the central bank to slash the costs in europe stocks are also shoring up because of news from china that it's cutting its reserve ratio from large banks and this has been seen as a major push for banking stocks in the region or more of a holding pattern a three percent in tokyo guy contraband is ten percent. this is the opening picture here in the here in europe in europe we have the full sea up a quarter of a percent the dax down by a third of a percent because on the previous session we had the dax gaining almost five
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percent of the. russian markets are continuing their rally from wednesday we are two years up point four percent a nice six three quarters of a percent the second look at what's moving the nice xmas the blue chips are trading in the black energy majors are over by gains of price of gas problems up almost one percent financials also caused revici's one point eight. and now the second magnates is also on the rise by just i'm not sure i'm not sure retailers plannings raised three hundred fifty million dollars in additional public offering. thursday i think we are we are they just seen the impact of the. efforts of the central banks are in the world to reach. the priests of the us dollars coming their way and so the major events will be on friday we will have the per year olds they have the unemployment to us or the december ninth there will be meeting of the
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leaders of the euro zone it will be some expectation. depending on the results markets will be searching for direction. chinese banks now have a higher credit rating than the u.s. rivals according to the assessment of standard imports this may suggest emerging markets are more of a safe haven than the established western economies but senior trader for media capital manoj ladwa thinks that might be a risky bet to make others think well the new safe haven although growth a seems to be steaming ahead in the emerging markets i think the only safe haven at the moment so you seems to be the greenback the dollar. money seems to be shifting out of a lot of assets and into the dollars certainly out of gold and silver dollars also that seems to be the choice of the moment of trade we're really all emerging markets because if there is any sign of slowing down in those markets then those markets could come back down fairly sharply. all right we will be back in fifty
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