police sweep through the occupy l.a. camp arresting almost three hundred people but the anti corporate movement is still gaining momentum picking up support from the other side of the barricades. moscow denies kosovan serbs of russian passports book promises paid off the pals and plead for citizenship to escape discrimination and hostility from ethnic albanians. e.u. foreign ministers agree on more sanctions against iran which is facing further isolation following an attack on the british embassy in tehran our top stories this hour.

international news in comment twenty four hours a day this is r.t. one of america's longest running occupy camp stations at los angeles city hall for over two months has been cleared by police almost three hundred people were rounded up by officers in riot gear who for start the protesters after they ignored and eviction order the city also cleared over twenty five thousand tons of paper and personal belongings from the plant around fifty people also arrested when a protest a camp in philadelphia was a victim protesters allowed warning of a winter of discontent sunny to turn their attention from the rallies and marches promising tense to make reprints in the spring the mixed movement is also seeking to define more specific goals of attract more supporters and of course what report now has been finding out recent converts or even being recruited from the ranks of the police. i 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 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 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. west face dire consequences by going public call it tremendous fear of losing their job in discipline being fired and then what do they do everybody in the ninety nine percent has that fear and police officers also they cannot risk they have children . what would they do once you're fired or no jobs available 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 but that's close to a dictatorship when you actually the media. as with papers around the world and that is very scary brutal scare tactics such as pepper spray the tongs and flash grenades canisters have been used against occupy camps throughout 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 operative cop who's gone on record with his support but totally agree with occupier. even to understand what i can broker i am a part of the ninety nine percent for the most part people are peaceful and i want to see change 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 there are 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 and introduced himself and he asked me if you question i said do you know the risk you're taking and he was so brave they said this is still america and until a supervisor ordered me back to the line i'm going to talk with you i hope to get mainstream america involved the police involved realizing that we're all victims of corporate america and that america has got to stop. r.t.

new york. moscow has pledged aid to course of the serbs who it says face a desperate situation the foreign ministry has criticized authorities in kosovo for violating the rights of the minority there serbs say they face discrimination and hostility from ethnic albanians and nato peacekeeping forces in northern cross over there's been little peace in the region since july that's when a standoff started between nato forces and serve protesters putting up barricades to prevent cars of an officials taking control of border checkpoints the foreign ministry says moscow will do what it can to help. ease the serbs in kosovo desperate situation effacing levitate a ship or soup called republic of course of those who are threatened with being stripped of live basic rights such as local self administration that's why the president gives all of them to be provided with humanitarian aid not rebuild churches russia will continue its diplomatic efforts to help protect the interests

of serbs living because of. russia's response to a plea by the serbs to grant them russian citizenship thousands had submitted their signatures to the russian embassy in belgrade and a corresponding put on their travel to cause i don't see why many opted for such a drastic measure. weren't allowed to board georgia which first started walking around the roads of kosovo with his writing who paid attention after all he was just a nobody refugee a man who lost his job as a lawyer and his home when he was driven out of pollution up by kosovar albanians in line nine hundred ninety nine now everyone here knows who hears since the summer around a hundred thousand people or most of the kosovo serbs are signed up for his petition cause a plea for russian citizenship. we don't want to live in russia but belgrade is two weeks to protect us the minority here that's why we hope that russia will step in

to help us same as the americans and the europeans have supported the interests of the albanians in kosovo postmen their use of which rich there's constant blackouts low wages and ethnic violence are a normal part of life here yet he says he will not leave and nor will his three children because this is where they spend their entire lives for him citizenship as a last resort. we live in constant fear every year we see greater and greater intentions from the albanians to drive us out even to the few areas where there are still serves their country has been recognized by the west but we are no part of it just like belgrade moscow has refused to recognize the old bailey and controlled kosovo as an independent state following its conflict of serbia in one nine hundred ninety nine and a declaration of independence three years ago and the petition has gained attention in moscow it is going to this is an unprecedented outpouring of desire to become russian citizens so there is no past guidance on how to deal with this situation

what would we do think this is alarming and a direct result of how western forces have tried to deal with the problem by favoring one of the sides meanwhile serbs in kosovo continue to build barricades around their pockets of population ready to stay off the only one trying to force them out whatever the rights and wrongs of the conflict that happened here in one thousand nine hundred nine you can't help but feel for the serbian minority here in northern possible surrounded by hostility increasingly abandoned by belgrade ignored by the international community so their belief or russians as a jew perhaps should be taken literally on the side of just how desperate the situation has become people are to see kosovo. still ahead here in r t first hurdle technocrats having their leadership tested early and massive strike with bells on the walkout who got more cards to secure yet another bailout also. the question asking more ups and at least two

and that's when i actually got scared at. the russian woman accused by britain of being a spy talks about a year long battle against the u.k.'s security service. those stories still to come but first foreign ministers from europe of agreed to impose fresh sanctions against iran over its controversial nuclear program ahead of the talks in brussels british foreign secretary william hague called for increased economic pressure and isolation on iran's financial sector of course but it's a silly as mine. well coming out of the e.u. foreign affairs council today fresh sanctions indeed have been put on iran specifically on thirty nine individuals and one hundred forty one organizations they've been put on a sanctions list of asset freezes as well as visa bans this is a rather watered down version of what some countries in the e.u. would have wanted to begin with for example the u.k. and germany had been calling for definitely stronger sanctions and earlier this

week france had been urging e.u. countries to immediately impose a acid free and asset freeze on the central bank of iran as well as suspend imports of oil from the country however this didn't go down well with some countries such as spain and greece and italy because they significantly rely on rain at all and they have said there will be no sanctions on oil in iraq this is coming at a time when their economies are already battered as it is so divisions among e.u. countries clearly this is coming on the back of course of an angry a u.k. after hardliners had stormed the embassy in tehran the u.k. had already withdrawn its ambassador to the country and this move was followed by france germany and the netherlands in support of that support of the u.k.'s move it showing bare condemnation of that attack on the embassy now all of this again is coming after that report that came out earlier this month in november so this is

still part of that big umbrella where they want to introduce fresh sanctions because that report suggests that iran had been pursuing nuclear ambitions which is not peaceful this is something that has vehemently and has repeatedly denied. and polar a phony from the attorney and think tank the c.e.o. appealing foundation told me earlier he thinks the west is trying to reshuffle the whole middle east. the entire situation is very very strange i mean we are in the presence of activities on the iranian soil which look like the beginning of a sort of war relationship and it's not really sure they want a region change in iran it is a chess game iran is a key player for the reshaping of the entire middle east and the united states know very well that without iran they will not shaped the middle east middle east that in the new concept geopolitical conception is much bigger than the original one

that we knew from the nineteenth century. description so it is a matter that goes from afghanistan down to even morocco so all this area has to be reshaped i do not think there is an interest from the major western country which is the united states to engage in any warfare with iran at this stage and in the interest of a number of european countries to broaden further. the e.u. is also ramping up the pressure on iran's allies syria imposing a fresh set of sanctions on individuals as well as the energy and financial sectors there it comes in the way computed measures from the arab league aimed at halting the violent crackdown on anti-government protesters well let's get more on this from fergus hodgson he's a policy advisor with the future of freedom foundation in the u.s. . in one of your articles you said if trade promotes peace then sanctions stifle it why do you think this logic isn't being followed by the western states who are pressuring pressuring syria with really tough measures in an attempt to

stop the violence there surely these tougher measures. the residents of syria but not the people or the nations that are opposing them in other words is just politically easy and the political elite who push these policies are not willing to take on real causes that would help the people of syria such as offering amnesty a long winter coming immigrate to those countries or leave. their also assuming great effectiveness to policies and ignoring the destructive impacts which really have a lot of goods and prosperity for people who live in syria. if the sanctions don't prove to be effective what next military intervention do you think some say that the syrian situation could be very similar to what happened in libya. exactly this point given that assad is very unlikely to sit or stand down or be threatened without foreign intervention even.

that's a shame it looks as if we've lost our connection there with fergus clearly we had a pretty good connection at the start we'll see if we can get back to him a little later that was fergus hodgson and apologies for that break in our interview. other news now greece has ground to a halt as public service employees walk out of a new page cuts job suspensions and the merchants and property tax protests as the first major test for the new technocrat leadership in athens which secured the next e.u. bailout tranche by pledging to go forward with austerity. thousands of people went out of athens main square while the strike closed schools disrupted public transport and that hospitals rely on emergency staff when state and humanitarian want the euro zone is just ten days to stabilize a single currency and stem the crisis well the european central bank said it's ready to play a bigger role but nations should play their budgetary policies closer together and i'm sure a list you have over tells us that economic governance is needed but country's

sovereignty could be sacrificed in the process. the sense of urgency certainly has not only to do with greece's it has to happen in overall in the monetary union there are a lot of countries on the pressure don't forget for example the situation of portugal spain problem is also very much on the table and then of course there is the italian problem it's very basic you can't have a functioning monetary union without a political union that's a choice you have to make and you can't have run without the other that has been very much proven now in the last two years of crisis what we do lack is political authority now of course that needs to be build up there are graphically but we have cornered ourselves so much in this europe crisis that we don't have the time left to build up the political union in a normal democratic way so we will have to do it in another way that is through the representatives of the different countries being the heads of governments of the

different countries it still leaves a lot of questions with respect to the democratic value of all this on the table but there's no more choice either you do that or you let the euro and the monetary union go down the drain. by the way we've got more stories and videos for you at r.t. dot com that's my web site online all the time here's a taste for you as tony is large and russian minorities say they're having their voices silenced as the government forces people to speak at stone ian paul risk losing their jobs. and a robin hood policy to hack a group switching for a traitor u.n. server and join forces to steal from the banks in order to give to charities for more on that story had to r.t. dot com. and feel barack obama told russia's president he had no intention of signing any legally binding documents on the missile shield in europe of the sport pushing hard for some kind of agreement until an overcomer explains

obama's willingness well according to president's made video during a bilateral meeting that was held behind closed doors between him and president barack obama the us president has said that there would be no political gain for the u.s. in such a decision in providing russia with any legal agreements that nato is anti missile defense shield in europe will be posing any threat to russian security force nato has been saying all this time that the main purpose of the shield is to protect nato countries from potential nuclear threats coming from iran and north korea but the shields will be covering a large part of airspace over russia so it could not speak not say russia's concern of course there was a response to that earlier this week that russian president dmitry medvedev launched a radio location system not aimed against the west as heat and precise himself but located at russia's western western most points in the region of killing rods and russian president so that he's still willing to use that radio location system

together with nato to targets common threats and goals however if nato is not willing to negotiate and corporate it could be a first step for russia to building its own and famous so defense shield adding a strike missile to russia's borders strike missiles that are called a scum there nato has already labeled as s twenty two or so once again the president says that's he doesn't want this to be the case and the last thing russia would want to do to be forced to do rather is to pull outs from the security arms reduction treaty the president and president barack obama signed some two years ago that she see that signified the reset of relations between the two countries this issue ending of the cold war but if it's its security continued to be threatened that that will be the case. poor intelligence and paranoia about russia was behind

the spies scandal involving a russian woman in the u.k. but severe suspect culture has got to live up to who had a deportation order against her over ruled by a tribunal this week she spoke exclusively to r.t. about her experiences while on the investigation from the very beginning i realized that they don't know anything about russia they don't speak russian language the questions they were asking were absolutely stupid and that's when i actually got scared it extremely scared not because there was an interglacial going on i five but because they were unprofessional they locked any knowledge about the area they were working in and they were extremely paranoid during my cross-examination by all asking a question how can you speak english language if you are not a spy they don't know that children learn english language now in school from the age of seven sons even where everybody knows that putting was k.g.b. agent and that is the the extent of the information about russia as i believe it

there was arrested a year ago after claims she was trying to siphon information during an affair with a british m.p. she worked for. was a member of the defense committee the british government so it regarded her as a threat to national security in london tribunals have a rule she could stay in the u.k. after deciding that was genuine. time to update you on other world news this hour in our world update egypt's islamists claim that leaving the polls in the first round of the country's landmark parliamentary elections were the official results have not yet been announced the military council that's been in power since the ousting president mubarak and pedigree says the new parliament won't be able to dismiss the latest appointment by mr all comes during his government. over five hundred members of a pakistani religious party took to the streets to express their rage over a nato airstrike that killed twenty four soldiers right in this but u.s. . nato and american slogans outside kharaj his press club since friday daily

protests have been held in pakistan's major cities mostly organized by is a must and right wing party it's in response to the airstrikes the pakistani government close crucial border supply routes used by nato and ejected american troops from a military base. in kabul has exploded north of baghdad killing ten an interim over twenty people the blast occurred in the town a palace where the iraqi government staging a major ceremony to mark the end of u.s. military presence local authorities imposed an immediate curfew on investigating who was behind the blast terrorist attacks are becoming more frequent in iraq ahead of the imminent departure of thirteen thousand u.s. troops at the end of the year. or so i was up late this bolton was on the cusp of creating a landmark coalition government after an eighteen month political deadlock six parties agreed on a new administration headed by any idea who is a french speaking socialist. for the formation of

a government of been hampered by linguistic feuding between the country's french and dutch speaking communities. ministration has been in effect since the resignation of the previous government in two thousand and eleven. it was the web site wiki leaks has been releasing sensational information on the multi-billion dollar global spying industry the database contains hundreds of documents shining a light on the methods being used by secret services all over the world. with the details well maybe there are two hundred eighty seven of them that have already been released but that's just the beginning according to wiki leaks and they detail what wiki leaks is calling mass surveillance that's going on on a global scale they say that ten years ago this is an industry that really didn't exist but that nine eleven provided essentially a license for companies to start developing spying systems that basically affect all of us and now there are one hundred sixty companies in twenty different countries all developing this software and it's an industry that's completely

unregulated i just sort of bring it down to the basics julian assange said you know he did a quick survey around the room in this press conference this morning and he said who here owns an iphone or uses g. mail or has a blackberry and puts their hands up and he says basically you know you are under surveillance and that is without a doubt these systems are able to spy on e-mail they're able to track to track what you look at on the internet they will to track keystrokes what you search for in a google search for example and telephones are inherently trappings of voices in their own right you're carrying around a device that enables people to know where you are any given time is also software that can be remotely installed on your telephone to record conversations that you have and also mazie to take photographs of you and whoever you're with and said them to who was deceived in the relevant agencies the cia apparently has is using

software which can detect a voice print and match it instantly and know who it is you're speaking to identify callers on the telephone and in fact our source has been working on this for some time and he told me when i interviewed him some months ago that facebook was a perfect tool for the cia that the cia exactly track everything that was going on via facebook this is software that's being made by western companies and it's not being used anymore to track individuals they they were pains to point out that is. so you subtract whole communities whole ethnic groups whole nations surveillance on an industrial scale and that sounds didn't have any advice to us as to how we could protect ourselves against this kind of tracking he said that's counterintelligence software must be developed but it hasn't been developed yet more while it's coming out as i say on tuesday or smith and a little later next kaiser dills behind the financial headlines to find out of the public is being told the truth about the world economy before that credence in with the nation's business.

hello and welcome to business news here in r.t. thanks for joining me the european union has agreed to discuss exempting russian companies from some of the provisions in its new energy regulations the so-called third energy package requires the separation of energy production transit and sales something russia strongly opposes during the course of a reports of the meeting between russia's energy minister sergei shmuck co and europe's energy commission are going to alter the talks between the two have stalled since may and today was the first time since then that both sides try to argue their case now even though there was no resolution the european commissioner did say that amendments could be considered to the third energy package next year and this is crucial for russia because the package does require the separation of gas transit production and supply going against everything that russia's gas markedly gas from the stands for the same type europe is currently trying to build

its own pipeline trying to lessen its the pendants on russia its main gas supplier and this is seen as the main rival to russia's south soon project and even though russia insist it's far more efficient than the pipeline does have europe's seal of approval so right now russia and gastro are trying to get the trans european network status for sound stream which will increase confidence in european investors many analysts believe that eventually we will see a compromise from both sides because not only is europe essential to russia to maintain its profits but europe itself sees a russia as an entire group part of its energy provision. but look at the markets now european markets go and shop in trade on thursday that's after a key index grayle to break a significant resistance level pretty volume low as to profits from the previous sessions rally bank stocks turned out along the worst performance. exposed in the

salt in their hearts here in russia markets posted moderate gains with both reality has a noise it's an issue nearly two point four percent in the bloc let's have a look at some individual was that oil majors and the low world look or last around one point two percent russia second largest oil producer plans to invest three billion dollars in two thousand and twelve and fourteen as it seeks to revive hall and gas production growth gazprom gains three point four percent over reports that the company plans to pay record high dividends in the upcoming years financials who are mostly higher with bt bank adding over two percent. manufacturing activity in russia is speeding up the age of the seat purchasing managers index rose to almost fifty three points and given birth a reading about fifty signals growth in the sector h.s.b.c. says risks of stagnation have diminished new orders are on the rise. however that's mostly due to a stable well priced and state investment well that's it for now but for

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