video. the palm of your. new arrests as u.s. police turn to tougher tactics against the movement putting on the cover cops at the heart of the protests. called pro president give orders an investigation into the alleged parliamentary election rigging which sparked massive rallies across russia. feeding controversy and ukraine link bank based across the atlantic luers in customers with a credit card seen around a famine that killed millions. and also the shareholder conflict at the

reso british joint venture. to management from shell found out that it might have the details in business in about fifteen minutes. it is not a on the russian gavel you're watching r t we were in a joshua welcome to the program police have torn down the last remaining occupy camp in san francisco arresting fifty five people for illegal lodging the towns have been cleared several times but sprung up again was the main occupy encampment in the city was demolished on wednesday are these guys to count as more. we've seen a lot of police activity in the last three months against this occupy movement which has been generally a very peaceful movement it doesn't seem to be new saying the more we hear about dozens of arrests every week we've seen the latest surge on surge of arrests on the

west coast fifty five people were arrested over the weekend in san francisco they were protesting in front of a federal reserve building cuddled up on the sidewalk a witness said there had been no chance or structures overnight the protesters were rustled out of their sleeping bags with the cops out numbering demonstrators by about two to one authority side some city a law which prohibits setting relying on public sidewalks at certain hours of the day with the protesters argument is that the first amendment of the us constitution which guarantees freedom of speech has to outweigh those civil laws and that the city has to let them continue exercising their rights but judging by how actively police had been cracking down on protesters all across america the first amendment doesn't seem to have outweighed anything this latest police raid in san francisco has effectively cleared the city's last remaining occupy protest camp so under different pretenses authorities have been shutting down those camps throughout the

country around five thousand peaceful protesters have been arrested in the last three months many occupiers fear that their message could vanish together with those hands this monday in order to reenergize this movement they are planning to block major chords on the west coast by marching on u.s. courts from california to alaska protesters look to call attention to economic inequalities in the country and of financial system they complain is unfairly tilted towards the wealthy the police reaction that we've seen so far has been arrests of big. chains that tear gas kept was sprayed that kind of thing that something that was on the surface something that we could see on t.v. but apparently police. used other methods to deal with the protesters it's been revealed that undercover police officers infiltrated occupy at least ten city last month to find out how the protesters plans to resist and eviction and also to spy

on people and this one is interesting suspected of stockpiling human weights by the way police spying on people of wired dimensions in the u.s. it says it's unrelated to the occupy protests but so very interesting police here have made the first known arrests of u.s. citizens with help from a predator drone those drone that they use in in afghanistan and in pakistan now it seems to spy on u.s. citizens privacy advocates say giving police that much power to specially spy on anyone in the u.s. without a warrant could be dangerous. reporting there another riot clad crackdown on the occupy protests or protests through the u.s. has led to questions about how things became so violent that's woman riding fellow of the national institute believes we are seeing a blur in the line between protester and terrorist. during the late seventy's congress passed legislation called posse comitatus barring the military from

operating on american soil and now we're seeing an effort to circumvent that by arming police with military grade weaponry speaking of police funding just this year in two thousand and eleven received half a billion dollars in surplus military weaponry from the pentagon the now middle class americans in the occupy movement are facing not only pepper spray but things like the l. rad sound cannon the long range acoustic device which can blast your cranium with one hundred forty decibels shaking your skull so hard even earplugs won't stop it so what we're seeing is not only a legal blurring of the lines between criminals terrorists and protesters but something in the mindset of american policing and in their training in which the civilian population is viewed as a hostile and menacing force that can be acted against with military grade weaponry . and one of the main demands from occupiers is the closure of the gap between those living the high life and those for who is struggling in a tough economy as

a full time job the latest forecasts are not optimistic though because the gap appears to be widening she's nice to see if you're going to reports from new york. diamonds worth millions of dollars apiece the earrings are four hundred to six hundred thousand and the necklace is two million to three million cheaper deals at pawn shops for those slightly less well off investment banks shoppers with big wallets lured in by the most glamorous items and ninety nine cents stores for customers count pennies i have. this is all. i'm thinking i don't know why pay me and i give them in the state of new york it's home to around nineteen million people it's worth three hundred eighty thousand millionaires and seventy billionaires live meanwhile three million people on food stamps new york city is split into two different worlds the richest and poorest districts in the united states are right here economic inequality in the big apple

has reached crisis levels the gap used to be between the rich and the poor it's now the tween super rich and increasingly the super poor people who are just not making in our society the idea nobody is trying to help them luxury for those who can afford it is a plenty auction houses tempt the rich with the most exquisite jewelry the finest interiors and one of a kind cosmetics services it's skin rejuvenation it's very private. used to be invitation only. it is the most innovative skin care business in the world while millions are spent here just across town money is only dreamed of. you catching them but you can we. see because that's not for the ball people we all are reaching people like a wall of three a couple of days ago. present the wings perspire ready and poverty brushing

by each other on a daily basis although many seem to be blue. is fully unaware i think they ought to go get jobs and there's a lot of jobs if you really want to work you can find work the seventy five year old grandmother of seven fixing her old car with her own bare hands begs to differ folks seem to think that you know so maybe if i get the job. these days even if you can see me me me mother snipes works at a church and knows the face of poverty all too well what it was to you know i mean some people are you know the. example you have when trying to get a. saturday seat although very visible in new york the extreme gap between those well off and those struggling is a trend all across the u.s. thirty years ago the united states had less in the quality than most other advanced

industrial countries today thirty years later we are the number one we have the most extreme inequality between rich and poor and it's scattered all over the country this is what made occupy wall street protests spill out and stick around on the streets of america make those who have done real well over the over the last thirty years. give some of that back that's why some of us argue for taxes on rich rich people in this country but this is not happening any time soon more than half of the members of congress are millionaires so they're very wealthy people and all their campaigns are funded by big corporations by the wealthy they know that if they want to get reelected they're going to have to be good to the people who are giving money to their campaign this leaves behind those in need are doing fifty dollars. but nothing left but to hope for a miracle this holiday season. and especially it sure can.

and round the roots of squalor of new york to debt ridden bureaucracy the troika who bureaucrats and bankers had to athens just days after leaders failed to push through a deeply unpopular economic union which is already tearing the walk apart more and have. russia's president richard verify as ordered a probe into all allegations of fraud during the parliamentary election just over a week ago thousands of opposition protesters across russia held rallies over the claims calling for a complete rerun of the poll well for more on this let's get straight to madrid a caution of our who's in central moscow has more but who has been along the way to reaction isn't it so tell us more about what the president had to say. that's right the president's meeting with face to face shoot a direct order to investigate all the violence a claim south of violations over the voter fraud so meanwhile he also posted it on

facebook saying that he was quite satisfied to the way quite satisfied with the way of the a rally so one set in the central moscow though he said that he disagrees so with these slogans on the statements that were made to during these meetings the but again he promised that only claims of of alisha's will be count for the examines and meanwhile of these allegations of voter fraud drew thousands of people into the streets of central and moscow on saturday was really the culmination of the whole postelection frenzy that we've been observing throughout last week over a twenty five thousand people gathered at the blog this where which is located very close to the crumbling to voice their demands and the number one demand was really the recount of the votes basically people wanted the new elections to take place in russia during the sound of these rallies no one was arrested and everything went

quite. meanwhile at the central election we could be sussed that it will not recount the votes and people dads are gathered at the square. and they promise that if their demands are not smogs they will gather again in two weeks time to for their project asked. him of you thanks very much indeed for bringing us this update but even the reporting there. now one of the most painful episodes in the history of ukraine is being used by a bank in the u.s. for commercial gain it's offering customers a chance to go shopping with a famine themed credit card the reports of what's being seen in the ukraine as a moral outrage. almost a decades on ukraine still mourns those who died in the 1930's famine in the u.s.s.r. known here as the whole of the more and it's a rare example where political forces more used to in fighting put aside their

differences to unite in common cause now the ukrainian diaspora in the united states is joining in remembrance in a rather peculiar fashion to the application for the whole of the modern credit card. will be able to allow the south occasion. any one of our branches the catastrophic nine hundred thirty to nine hundred thirty three famine claimed at least three million lives in ukraine alone with several more million perishing across what is now central russia and kazakstan some one key of insist it was an act of genocide directed against ukrainians most school says it was caused by criminal agricultural policies of stalin's government but those behind the credit card project claim they're driven by remembrance motives only putting all his story debates aside you know what it's another good mechanism to have all of them or remember thanks to the political elite and civil organizations it is well known in ukraine elsewhere besides there are only

a few living witnesses left and they're already over eighteen years old. however it's not only about the intangible one percent of each purchase made with a whole the more card will be allocated to a special charity fund ukraine's main monuments commemorating the 1930's famine was built in two thousand and eight amid recession and millions of u.s. dollars were used from the state budget people behind the hole the more credit card project say that the money they raise may be used to build more monuments and memorials this apparently benign initiative however was met with an avalanche of criticism in ukraine and that's not only because there are practically no survivors left who could be helped with the money raised this political analyst says buying groceries with. an inspired card is a blasphemy. because the idea is completely immoral it's an attempt to put a great tragedy and use it for commercial needs but i can only think of a proven tragedy the holocaust but the jews are not putting it on

a credit card. in fact such an attempt was made by a us company in two thousand and nine the blue card but it had no direct reference to the holocaust and it's not so popular across the atlantic where the whole of the more card will be more successful can be seen when it hits the market in late december just in time for christmas shopping. see reporting from kiev in ukraine. ukraine is part of the commonwealth of states created when the soviet union disintegrated and in today's edition of crosstalk peter lavelle's guest discuss how the block is becoming a growing economic force here's a quick preview of what's coming up at seven thirty g.m.t. . or she can offer an immediate benefit subsidize the energy that's extremely important to using energy as a political weapon i think we've got over the years that that's part of creating a common economic target or each we probably contribute former. and the other thing

interesting because i disagree with you on this steve because i think one for what it is oh no it isn't it's going to be one of the things is that you know i think that you know when you look russia's energy policy is very intensely based on geopolitical interests so i see no need for reasons i don't consider that a picture. what we're learning from the european union is the main problem is going to be currency i think this is a very complicated multilayered jigsaw puzzle. and. international lenders and inspectors are in greece today to thrash out a new one hundred thirty billion euro bailout was the government there is an air of special urgency yes shaking your grad's freshly handled by a diplomatic failure at their brussels grow desperate to avert a looming meltdown and are going off reports it's all just feeding the flames under

. it's not easy running a business even a small one like this german company which produces isolation materials for gas turbines loans taxes salaries competition it's enough to keep any business man's head busy but many still wonder why rules different when it comes to the big book or in this case the euro. when a business takes a loan and cunt back in and says it's bankruptcy i think a state which keeps accumulating debt has to do the same it's no different from a company in that sense you don't borrow money if you know you can't pay it back but for some reason often this doesn't seem to be the case for the eurozone so let's take greece for example besides billions of euros which have already been allocated to bail it out even leaders have approved yet another tranche the aim is to have athens pay off its three hundred sixty billion euro debt preventing it from

going under and taking others with it but many fear the tactic will not work its all about physics review no matter how strong a material is like this piece of metal with the right amount of pressure it will break. and unfortunately for the euro zone the laws of physics are called universal for a reason meanwhile the pressure is rising the latest e.u. summit in brussels showed the economic crisis is creating cracks in the union britain walked out of a deal put forward by germany and france to revise the e.u. treaty and create a fiscal union with a tighter grip on finances but analysts to warn the integration may take too long with some countries facing a possible referendum on the deal to realize these kind of treaty adjustments will take. years because all parliaments have to prove. so that there must be on time to address this crisis and meanwhile inspectors from the so-called

troika which consists of the european commish. the european central bank and the international monetary fund are looking to provide afghans with a new one hundred thirty billion euro bailout i would call it lying circus the banks who are trying to save their necks who are put on the line with bad loans to corrupt governments. waiting and expecting european taxpayers to pay their bills especially the bonus bills sure christmas is big in europe but bailing out of the euro for the sake of the banks is becoming one expensive present the dozens of protests that have rocked the e.u. this year alone are a clear sign of discontent over austerity. and it's highly unlikely the new set of handouts for greece will be greeted with any first of cheer of germany.

europe minus the u.k. is now vesting all its hopes on an economic union to dispel the debt troubles but some believe that's really not the miracle cure it's made out to be international consultant and author adrian salvucci is among them and has taken britain side but waving that the loss of sovereignty will prove to be too much for most. in this particular instance i would tend to favor the british position here because britain from the very beginning understood and we still understand far better than the european colleagues the importance of national sovereignty and the importance of having a sovereign currency in what europe is now suffering many of the countries especially the smaller ones is a problem of sovereignty we will probably start seeing the euro very soon because of thing that people are realizing that the euro is a little bit like a procrustean bed a bed which is one size must fit all in greek mythology are stories had made a bit he said anybody who was shorter than it he would stretch them out breaking

bones and soon was until he would fit and if he were taller than his bed he would chop our feet and lives to make sure it would fit so in a way i think it's a greek mythology and i think it really says a very case in point where they are trying to impose a one size fits all and we have to understand that in the real world one size does not fit all. now is take a look at some other stories from around the world i'm out of us former military dictator have returned to the country he once ruled with an iron grip many take him straight to prison to serve a twenty year sentence for the murders of two opponents during his rule he was extradited from france the sunday and this is the first time noriega has visited panama since he was ousted in nineteen eighty nine. pakistani officials say u.s. forces have left a base in the southwest of the country that is they were using to service armed drones last seen wife carrying personnel and equipment left base this sunday

islamabad ordered the americans out response to airstrikes last month which accidentally killed twenty four pakistani soldiers. u.s. weapon experts have been helping the levy an army dispose of ordnance left after the revolution most of the weapons destroyed were surface to air missiles used to bring down low flying aircraft since september american experts have reportedly helped to disable around five thousand missile launchers it's feared the free flow of weapons may cause more bloodshed post revolution libya. coming up we delve deeper into the roots of the highly volatile situation in the arab world and the long lasting standoff between the palestinians and israel palestinian and he was tough and told her to you why he thinks of two sides are failing to talk here's a preview of what's ahead next hour. it's not difficult to go through negotiations it's impossible. as long as allowed to continue to build settlements as long as no

to the us government is the government we have there would be no negotiations it's not just an opinion it's the. two that i among the israeli public with the creation of every new settlement block israel is killing the very last opportunity of two states which means they can never dream of something called the jewish state that is the price that israel is paying. up next we take a look at what's happening in the world of business your is here with us. hello and a very warm welcome to the program pouring high tech firms are getting funding from russia state nanotechnology corporation in the recent months source not a has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into chinese israeli and american firms they had all the corp on the twenty two by acquiring for ing to knowledge is

the quickest way to develop russia's innovations sector we need the best and that's why you find the best in china well listen cerna you will find the best in africa will invest in africa and the birth of the united states when we think in united states which we're doing but. not to the country we're committed to transfer to russia the best available water knowledge what will be the share or foreign projects in the last model portfolio well we're here for a parameter of twenty five percent so in the focus on the right for me to hold the printer focused on the for profit community four hundred thirty five projects yeah that'll come in. here from more than a. two three hundred b. long and we do care about twenty five percent of the project which is. based. shareholder conflict. has led to management's reshuffle with

two out of three independent board members quitting the russian british oil venture former german chancellor gerhard schroeder and mining industry veteran james line have reportedly stepped down from the board after a company meeting on friday earlier this year russian partners are cheap the british made it to arbitration over its failed attempt to enter an alliance with rival rule snipped they are said the attempted deal violated their shareholders agreement with b.p. . does not have a look at the markets oil is swinging between gains and losses on concerns europe might fail to tame its debt crisis although it came closer to finding the solution on friday some supporters coming from the wrong schools to cut production ahead of this week's opec. client is now trading over one hundred eight dollars a barrel while the w t i is that ninety nine dollars. and asia shares are on the

rise following friday's gains on wall street in tokyo exporters that trading in the black toshiba is up more than three percent but advice like the funds going to hong kong heavyweight h.s.b.c. is up almost two percent. just like the one hour ahead of the opening bell here in moscow the russian markets are the shopping of the road on friday the r.t. has dropped the most in the world in the previous week while the stocks are yet to prise soon the outcome of the e.u. summit. when their own words i think the markets will continue to be driven largely by external events and in particular the markets reaction to the e.u. summit that took place on friday of course our domestic violence will be important as well with the many investors concerned about a follow up from the official publication of the central election committee's results for the duma elections if we do see some very outspoken a western criticism about the election results and. could in theory complicate the

outlook for debbie to your work session which is scheduled for later this week i'm outside of the political situation investors will pay to some extent attention to the forthcoming release of third quarter g.d.p. figures and industrial production figures for russia. let such familiar up to date more market analysis in less than fifteen minutes time for you here on archie.

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