new arrests and evictions as u.s. police turn to tougher tactics against the often by movement putting undercover cops at the heart of the protest. told pro president beautiful waters an investigation into the alleged parliamentary election rigging which sparked massive rallies across russia. and feeding controversy in ukraine wing bank based across the atlantic losing customers with a credit card scheme the round of famine that killed two million.

ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me wearing a joshing welcome to the program police have torn down the last remaining occupy camp in san francisco arresting fifty five people for illegal logging in the towns have been cleared several times but sprung up again when the main occupy encampments in the city was demolished on wednesday are just going to she can has 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 to hands or structures over night the protesters were rustled out of their sleeping bags with cops outnumbering demonstrators by

about two to one of the already side some city a law which prohibits sitting or lying 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 cv laws and that the sitting has to let them continue exercising their rights but judging by how accurate the 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 banish 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.

ports from california to alaska protesters look to call attention to economic inequalities in the country and a financial system they complain is unfairly tilted towards the wealthy the police reaction that we've seen so far has been arrests of big. big chains tear gas cap was for a 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 l.a. tent city last month to find out how the protesters plans to resist them eviction and also to spy on people and this one is interesting suspected of stockpiling human weights by the way police firing on people is acquiring new dimensions in the u.s. it says it's unrelated to the occupy protests but still very interesting police here have made the first known arrests of u.s. citizens with help from a predator drone those five drone that they use in in afghanistan and in pakistan

now it used 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 dunnage down reporting there now one of the main demands from occupiers is the closure of the gap between those living the high life and those for whom struggling in a tough economy is a full time job the latest forecasts are not optimistic though because the gap appears to be widening artie's an associate of 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 reservation shoppers with big wallets lured in by the most glamorous items and ninety nine cents stores for customers count pennies happen a lot when this is all change i'm thinking it might be any and

i give them there 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 the super rich and increasingly the super poor people who are just not making in our society the idea in the what it's 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 going 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. if you catch a number you can win two hundred thousand dollars by a nice because that's not for the boat people we all are reaching people like towards 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 blissful. 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 somebody everybody can get a job. these days even if you can get some make me mother snipes works at a church and knows the face of poverty all too well what was done to you know i

mean some people are you know the. example you have when you're trying to get a good. sad b.c. 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 those who are in for it to. be but nothing left but to hope for a miracle this holiday season. and it's r t e r. and from the roots and squalor of new york to debt ridden iraq receive the troika of bureaucrats and curse had tassels just days after leaders failed to push through a deeply unpopular comic union which is already tearing the walk apart suborned at the head of the program. before that russia's president dmitry medvedev has ordered a probe into all allegations of fraud during the parliamentary election just over a week ago sounds of opposition protesters across russia held rallies over the claims calling for a complete rerun of the poll are just getting a caution of a has more presently dative issued

a direct order to council investigate all claims of violations during the parliamentary elections he also posted on facebook saying that he was quite sad this white with the way of the a rally so one said though he said that he disagrees so with these slogans on the statements that were made to during these meetings to but again he promised that only claim so profoundly shows will be counted the examines the central lectionary committee sounds that the votes world rise he counted on that all changes should be done only through the court hearings and meanwhile of these allegations of voter fraud to do 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 the last week over a twenty five thousand people gathered at the blog this where which is located very close said to be crumbling to voice their demands and the number one demand was

really the recount of the votes basically people who wanted the new allow actions to take place in the russia during the sound of these rallies no one was arrested and everything went quite peaceful meanwhile at the central election we can meet the sounds that it will not recount the votes and people dads are gathered at the square. and they promise that if their demands are not small. they will gather again in two weeks time to for their processed within a caution reporting there you're watching r t live from moscow don't forget to visit our web site for any stories you've missed it's on our t. dot com and here's a some of what's there for you today. ground control to the ira says one more russian satellite goes on duty in orbit to prop up communications between space travelers and earth plus. resolve discord south korea comes up with a new year a nuisance for its northern neighbor it plans to use christmas trees for psychological

warfare along one of the world's most militarized order. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule the day. 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 famine seemed credit card i suggest you reports on what's being seen in ukraine as a moral outrage. almost a decade zon 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 is the application for the whole of the modern credit card. will be able to allow the south asian culture and one of our branches the catastrophic nine hundred thirty two nine hundred thirty three famine claimed at least three million lives in ukraine alone with several more million burnishing across what is now central russia and kazakhstan 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 knowledge and more remember thanks to the political elite and civil organizations it is well known in

ukraine. besides there are only a few living witnesses left and there already is 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 us 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 a famine inspire. card is a blasphemy. because the idea is completely immoral it's an attempt to popularize a great tragedy and use it for commercial needs 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 kenya and ukraine ukraine is part of a commonwealth of states created when the soviet union disintegrated and in today's edition of crosstalk peter lavelle's guest discussed how the blog is becoming a growing economic force here's a quick preview of what's coming up next hour. can offer an immediate benefit subsidize the energy that's extremely important to using energy as a political weapon i thought we got over that more years out that's part of creating a common economic territory each we probably contributes i don't consider that

a particularly. what we're learning from the european union is the main problem is going to be currency. if you want to. get a national lenders and inspectors are in greece today to fresh out a new one hundred thirty billion euro bailout for the government and there is an air of special urgency as shaking your kratz freshly humbled by diplomatic failure at their brussels summit grow desperate to avert a looming meltdown and as our work is going off reports it's all just feeding the flames under the your cattle. 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 kunze paid 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 and 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 leap may take too long with some countries facing a possible referendum on the deal realize these kind of treaty adjustments will take. years because all parliaments have to prove. so that they'll not be on time to address this crisis meanwhile inspectors from the so-called troika which consists of the european commission. 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 the next who would stay put on the line with bad

loans to corrupt governments and. waiting and expecting the 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 and list bailouts and it's highly unlikely the new set of handouts for greece will be greeted with anything cheer is going out 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 americal cure it's made out to be a national consultant and author adrian somebody is among them and has taken britain side believing 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 of them stood and we still understand far better than the european colleagues the importance of national sovereignty and the importance of having a sovereign currency and 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 that must fit all in greek mythology our stories had made a bit he said anybody who was shorter than it he would stretch him out breaking bones and soon was until he would fit and if he were taller than his fed 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. look at some other stories from around the world panama for military

to return to the country he once ruled with an iron grip manual nor yet it was taken straight to prison to serve a twenty year sentence for the murders of two opponents during his rule he was extradited from france this sunday and this is the first time nor he who has visited panama a since he was ousted in one nine hundred eighty nine. the city officials say u.s. forces have left a base in the southwest of the country that they were using to service armed drones the last flight carrying personnel and equipment left shamsi base this sunday islamabad had ordered the americans out in response to airstrikes last month which accidentally killed twenty four pakistani soldiers. less weapon experts have been helping the libyan 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 and since september american experts have reportedly helps disable ever around five thousand missile launchers it's feared the free flow of weapons

may cause more of what those revolution we. are now 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. told r.t. why he thinks the two sides are failing to talk here's a preview of what's ahead in just under ten minutes time. it's not difficult to go to negotiations it's impossible. as long as israel is allowed to continue to build settlements as long as good today as government is the government we have there would be no negotiations it's not just an opinion it's the. two that i was really popular with the creation of every new settlement block israel is killing the very last opportunity of two states to do it which means they can never dream of something called the state that is the price that israel is paying.

while debra's have to date and let's now see was happening in the world of business with. hello and a very warm welcome to the program pouring high tech firms are getting funding from russia state nanotechnology corp in the recent months for a smaller house invested hundreds of millions of dollars into chinese as rally and american firms they had all the corporation on the telly to buy it says acquiring knowledge is the quickest way to develop russia's innovation 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 you know one of the best in the united states when we think in united states which we were doing but we committed 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 growth model portfolio where we're here for parameter twenty five percent so in the five percent of the russian base to hold the printer focus on the for profit commuter four hundred thirty five project again the total commitment here from. two three hundred be long and we do care about twenty five percent of the project which is. not often based. the shareholder conflict attained b.p. has led to management reshuffle with two out of three independent board members quitting the russian british oil venture former german chancellor gerhard schroder and mining industry veteran james lang have reportedly stepped down from the board after a company me to. this year b.p. has russian partners they are the british major to arbitration over its failed attempt to enter an alliance with tame p.p.p. rival boss mitt they are said the attempt to deal violated their shareholders

agreement with the fee. and a quick look at how the markets are before me this our oil is swinging between gains and losses on concerns europe might fail to take the step process although it came closer to finding the solution on friday some support is coming from iran's forced to cut production ahead of this week's opec meeting friends while it is now trading at over one hundred eight dollars a barrel while the w t i is that ninety nine dollars without. and asian shares are on the rise holding primaries gains on wall street the sentiment is also supported by her opinion leaders agreement on steps towards creating a tied to fiscal union and latest that's because you know confidence data which hits a six month high into exporters trading at the buy of toshiba is up more than three percent advancing in hong kong heavyweight h.s.b.c. is up almost two percent this hour. and finally in russia the markets

a mixed best sour after they finished last week sharply in the red the my six index has climbed one point six percent in the thoughts ten minutes of monday's sprayed the r.t.s. s. to negative the stock side yet to price in the outcome of the e.u. summit to criticize russia's markets are caught between overseas risks and local political unrest. it was go to the end of the year lot of accounts are starting to place a good start think about what they're going to do next year in. it's not the right time to start putting a lot of risk on the table anyway it's certainly not the right time when you're unsure about what's going to happen in terms of demonstrations around election results i think a lot of clients understand the situation russia is wholly different from that in the middle east north africa but there are concerns that russia's position with the rest of the world could deteriorate that for investors has does have implications russia's russian investors have always been concerned about how russia is viewed by the west and whether or not russia will welcome foreign investment does this have

implications for things like that you know we don't think so this is a done deal but it's definitely worth following that's what investors are pricing right now and that's why they're adopting a wait and see course russian market. and finally the global sports business is playing well despite the economic uncertainty accounting from prospect house coopers expects the industry's revenues to grow twenty percent in four years to almost one hundred fifty billion dollars most of the growth will be driven by sponsorship contracts ahead of the winter olympic games in sochi and the summer games in rio de janeiro. what's it familiar stories log onto our website or to dot com slash business.

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