police sweep through the occupy los angeles camp arresting almost three hundred of the anti corporate movement is still gaining momentum and picking up support from the other side of the barricades. moscow denies the russian passports a promise is a plea 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 story this.

international news and comment twenty four hours a day this is r.t. one of america's longest standing occupy cam stations at los angeles city hall for over two months has been cleared by police almost three hundred people were rounded up by officers and not riot gear forced out the protesters after they ignored and eviction order and city also cleared over twenty five thousand tons of debris and personal belongings from the park around fifty people were also arrested when a protest a camp in philadelphia is a victim protest as well warning of a winter of discontent planning to turn their attention to rallies and marches promise intends for make a reappearance in the spring mix movement is also seeking to define more specific goals and attract more supporters and as a correspondent has been finding out recent converts are even being recruited from the ranks of the police. occupy wall street has become an undeniable american household name ok that 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 talking about 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 the u.s. based dire consequences by going public call a tremendous fear of losing their job being disciplined being fired and then what 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

a far there are 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 that's close to a dictatorship when you actually the media. has with dictators around the world and that is very scary google scare tactics such as pepper spray the tongs and flash grenades canisters have been used against occupy camp route the us 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 but totally agree with occupy. you told us they were talking about i am a part of the ninety nine percent but most people are peaceful they 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 the spiders or as 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 had an officer break ranks yesterday at the barricade line a white officer named officer and introduced himself and he started asking 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 police involved realizing that we're all victims of corporate america and that america has got to be stopped. r.t.

new york moscow has pledged aid to kosovo subsume it says face a desperate situation the foreign ministry's criticize authorities in kosovo from fallen ating the rights of the minority the subsidy they face discrimination hostility from ethnic albanians and nato peacekeeping forces in northern kosovo has been little peace in the region since july that's when the standoff started between nato forces and protesters putting up barricades to prevent kosovan officials taking control of bullet checkpoints the foreign ministry says it will do what it can to help. is the will to steal the serbs in kosovo only their sprits situation we're facing with it take a ship of the so-called republic of course of those who are threatened with being stripped of their basic rights such as local self administrator not so that's why the president who did it has ordered them to be provided with humanitarian aid and also help rebuild all the docks churches russia will continue his diplomatic

efforts to help protect the interests of serbs living in cars is going to get out see. russia's response to a plea by the serbs to grant them russian citizenship thousands and submitted their signatures to the russian embassy in belgrade and of course igor ivanov never traveled to kosovo to see what many opted for such a drastic measure. weren't allowed to board georgia's first started walking around the roads of kosovo with his writing who paid attention after all he was just an elderly refugee a man who lost his job as a lawyer and his home when he was driven out of by kosovar albanians in the one nine hundred ninety nine and now everyone here knows who he is since the summer earn one hundred thousand people almost at a cost of serbs have signed up for his petition their cause a plea for russian citizenship. we don't want to live in russia but belgrade is two weeks of 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 but if you should which are rich there's constant blackouts low wages and ethnic violence are a normal part of life here yet he says he will not leave 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 of the few areas where there are still serbs their country has been recognized by the west but we are no part of it just like belgrade moscow has refused to recognise the albanian controlled kosovo as an independent state following its conflict was 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 be this is an unprecedented outpouring of desire to become russian citizens so there is no past guidance on how to deal with this situation

but we do think this is alarming and the director. sort 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 anyone trying to force them out whatever the rights and wrongs of the conflict that happened here in one nine hundred ninety nine you can't help but feel for the serbian minority here in northern kosovo surrounded by hostility increasingly abandoned by belgrade ignored by the international community plead for russian citizenship or how it should be taken literally for the side of just how desperate the situation has become. hard to see kosovo. return to one of our top stories here on r.t. this are the occupy wall street movement in its struggle against police crackdowns and pressure from local authorities or for some insight into a movement we can talk to deborah sweet she is the director of the world can't wait

it's an organization that campaigns gives us wars and repression while police made many arrests in los angeles and philadelphia but we didn't see any brutality or tear gas is this a good sign perhaps the officers of finally learned how to deal with protesters. well i guess that's thanking someone for being raped and gently or still and from carefully the main point here is that through government authority. little jim nantz thank him very throws down. there was retaliating or not i think is the subject that's still under debate and certainly here and heard stories from both philadelphia in los angeles about hope and protestors were treated and their rights disrespected the main issue here is that all across this country the i.q. patience that has so much expressed. indignation and anger of people

in this country have lost the interaction of the country and the globe if you will and i would be in unity with people playing all over the world have shut down by a worker apparently not just local government spying in collusion with the federal government from los angeles to kill again if you can we your and many places in between. but then there are reasons expressed for example by the mayor of los angeles the behavior of the forces of course are coming to question but the behavior of those who are occupying those cabs is coming to behavior he's saying that he have the utmost respect for people's rights because the occupy protests we're not respecting others what's your view on that would be is there always going to be some justification in new york it was when we know it was homelessness well

yes you call her i.q. and a big percentage so go especially in los angeles where actually people without homes so now homeless he or one who have traditionally the right here in los angeles have been. and complex things along with people making political protests and i'm quite in good hands then you know is that you patience it's the nestles it's the end of criticizing now just a moment criticizing the whole economic. harm in this country and elinor's the problem is targeted. potion. destroying in new york city are being places are continually disrupted this sense to do it. and it doesn't have to do anything to the occupiers geographical

or any ways in which they were infringing on the rights of others. can we just talk about that message of course the movement has been criticized for lacking focus on what is real goal and issues are apparently now they're saying that they want to establish more specific goals what are those going to be how will they overcome this and amount of confusion and lack of focus. i think people around the country understand that. which is why just. over four weeks inspired by cairo and chinese medicine are the places where people go great things in the public sphere trying to reclaim once the lost their. homes or their homes or just capitalism deborah let me just quickly ask you briefly we saw the emergence of the tea party of course political element there i know that

the the occupy wall street has a very different political message but do you think this could be the start of a political movement do you think politicians will take notice and that could be the start of something like the tea party but obviously with a different message. politicians start to worry and they're right. and they haven't been able to figure out how to even get into this the know the accusation and i hope because the message. is much more profound and something that can fit into the to the system in this country i think there's an increasing sophistication probably occupying us to look at not just taking a tax policy it's going to work in. a country a sign yesterday we had an amazingly important protest against. the war machine. next week will be protesting the republicans so we're going against. a good number of good to talk to

you thank you very much indeed for joining us live here in r.t. debra sweet there thank you thank you. foreign ministers from europe of agree to impose fresh sanctions against iran over its controversial nuclear program as international pressure on terror on increases and measures target a hundred eighty iranian individuals and organizations the moves come just days off one hundred. the protesters attacked the u.k. embassy in tehran occupy it for several hours and respray callus off for iran resolved to reduce diplomatic ties with the u.k. following its decision to impose further sanctions the violence pointed britain to close the iranian embassy in london and bring its own diplomats. only from the italian think tank and see i.p.i. foundation told me earlier that he thinks by new sanctions the west is simply trying to reshuffle the whole middle east. the entire situation is very very strange and we are in the presence of activities on the iranian soil

which look like the beginning of a sort of war type 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 shaping of the entire middle east and the united states know very well that without iran they will not for a shape the middle east middle east that in the new concept the geopolitical conception is much bigger than the original one that we knew from the nineteenth century. description so it is an area 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 was the country which is the united states to engage in any warfare with iran and the stage and in the interest of a number of european countries to go any farther. the e.u. is also ramping up the pressure on iran's ally syria imposing a fresh set of sanctions on individuals as well as the energy and financial sectors

it comes in the wake of punitive measures from the arab league aimed at halting the violent crackdown on anti-government protesters damascus has already dubbed the sanctions economic war u.n. . human rights party i should say escalated over four thousand people have been killed in more than eight months of unrest saying the country is now in civil war the latest figure comes just a day before the merchants a u.n. meeting on the crisis earlier this week a un report accused government forces of committing crimes against humanity in their actions against the constraints is this a collective is frankly lemmas told me that he believes sanctions are useless i don't think sanctions are going to bring down the regime because the regime infantry and nationalistic and i think there's enough of the population that takes i'm groucho this western interference in terms of the sanctions. they will also

resist and i think that history going back to iraq and before teachers because sanctions you know are not really affective in changing the behavior of a regime they're dramatic they're for local consumption i know the u.s. congress is thrilled with these sanctions against syria and against iran but in real political terms i don't see the fruits of you know of those efforts and obviously both sides have got to find another way to defuse these. dangerous situations sanctions are just going to work i played. greece's ground to a halt as public service employees walk out of a new paid job suspensions and emergency property tax the process is 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

a sturdy thousands of people went out in athens main square while the strike closed schools disrupted public transport and hospitals rely on emergency staff and wednesday the humanitarian chief warned the eurozone is just ten days to stabilize a single currency and stem the crisis meanwhile the european central bank said it's ready to play a bigger role but nations should tie their budgetary policies play together a natural analyst you have van overtveldt says that tighter economic governance is needed the 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 do with what is happening overall in the monetary union there are a lot of going to resign under pressure don't forget for example the situation of portugal the 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 you that's a choice you have to make and you can't have one without the other that has been

very much proven now in the last two years of crisis and what we do lack is political authority now of course there needs to be build out there are graphically but we have cornered ourselves so much in this euro 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 is no more choice either you do that or you let the euro and the monetary union go down the drain. well we've got more stories and videos for you at r.t. dot com it's online all the time my website here's a taste it's no use large russian minority say they're having their voices silence does the government forces people to speak stone you or risk losing their jobs. and

a robin hood policy to hack a group which infiltrated the u.n. service joined forces to steal from the order to give to charities for more it's of . poor intelligence and paranoia about russia was behind a spy scandal involving a russian woman in the u.k. that's a view of suspect the two years after you had it or you had a deportation order against over ruled a tribunals earlier this week she spoke exclusively to our society about her experiences well under investigation from the very beginning and realize that they don't know anything about russia they don't speak russian language and the questions they were asking are absolutely stupid and that's when i actually got scared at extremely scared not because there was an interglacial with my five but because they were unprofessional locked any knowledge about the area they were walking in and they were extremely paranoid during my cross-examination all asking the 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 so even only everybody knows that putting was k.g.b. agent and that's the very extent of the information about russia. so to leave it there was arrested a year ago after claims she was trying to siphon information during an affair with the british m.p. she worked for i can call it was a member of a defense committee british government said it regarded her as a threat to national security along the tribunal however ruled she could stay in the u.k. after deciding there if it was genuine. that. the main news for you here on r.t. for the moment with the summer of our main news stories in about eight minutes from now the meantime r.t. talks about foreign minister about his views on the situation in the arab world he says bringing democracy in the rule of law to the gulf states was never going to be

easy that's next here on r.t. . yes let's start with the syrian dossier some say the corporation council the arab states the gulf plays a larger role than it's intended to in resolving this crisis sometimes it even substitutes the arab league key believe its position could help the god knows

this crisis is very important and very dangerous syria is one of the security pillars in the region if syria is stable and secure its citizens would live peacefully and quietly with today's events in syria however are quite scary the people die daily and a number of cities are in chaos and on security some areas are peaceful but generally there are big problems in the country the arab league assumed responsibility for resolving this crisis and interacting with the conflicting sides let's look at libya where the international intervention took place the arab states acted according to the progress there in syria's instance it was the into our to intervention especially on the part of the council states it was intended to resolve the crisis in the interest of our entire region i hope that we the arabs and residents of this region will be able to resolve our problem on our own or at home and that we can do i understand you correctly that you're against any intervention is serious situation except for regional forces. that you.

are right firstly nobody outside this region wants to intervene in resolving this very complicated problem the consequences of an intervention would impact all countries of the region keeping this in mind we believe that the syrian leadership and opposition forces should reach a solution without direct intervention with support of the arabic community and the neighboring arab states. and. in your opinion what should be the main contents of the program of maintaining military political impasse food security in the persian gulf states if you have external threats. there are many and you all of us here one thing's for certain. maintaining security in the region is a large responsibility for the entire world our region and its economic and energy resources are very important for the economy of the entire world of the u.s. china and russia this region should be stabled out the council states such as iran iraq egypt yemen pakistan india and turkey are all interested in preserving

stability in this region and they bear a certain responsibility for it and nothing neither does the council have a body for coordinating all adequately responding to the security threats which we're discussing today now going to. the council states don't see a need for establishing this body the council itself is this body recently especially in view of the events in bahrain the council proved to be a consolidated force which understands its responsibility to the world community in maintaining security and stability in the region a good example is the economic help provided to bahrain and oman by the council's members in the instance of an external threat to security and stability in the peninsula shield force which was established to respond to any danger to come into force in less than a month the council will hold a very important meeting the first summit since the turbulence of the arab world. he said at this summit we dispersed one since the revolution the so-called arab spring what is the kingdom of bahrain think about these events. how to get out of

not bahrain's position on the arab spring revolutions was clear as comprehensive from day one even before the events in bahrain itself after the meeting in istanbul our crown prince stated the changes which are taking place in the entire arab world are very important and significant these changes should be successful as we have to ensure that they don't result in an escalation of tension in a number of countries however some of the ones aren't related to the arab spring particularly i mean my country bahrain these events hadn't happened in the history of the countries protest movement before demands had been expressed in the past but the recent events occurred to from pretext it's also worth mentioning that this spring is not limited to arab states and indeed started in the arab world in tunisia then moved into the arab heart egypt hurt received its title put it what it really state within our borders many countries out there are in need of a so-called arab spring which is yet to reach them the arab spring gives

a warning and you have the duality set you have a deep belief that threats of an air attack on a rainy of facilities a real order there of intent to escalate tension that region so as the push countries towards buying additional weapons some are saying that it's blown out portion. i don't believe these threats are blown out of proportion considering the sources which expressed 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 and a lot would keep it from attacking around the same way that this potential development is very dangerous in the region will end up on the edge of an abyss of an unknown depth and where 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 this is a regular requirement we confirm arounds right to a peaceful nuclear energy of all kinds today we have the i.a.e.a.

report on iran's research on the military use of nuclear energy this is very dangerous as it's a threat to the whole region thank you very much for taking part in our program. just so. just some.

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