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are leaving behind. and it's good to have you with us on this day live from moscow with me roll recent shame some of the largest yet occupy protests have erupted across america paralyzing his west coast from the blocked port of oakland to the northern shipping hub of seattle thousands upon thousands of disenchanted occupy movement activists have taken to the streets again in defiance of a police crackdown our correspondent dan h. can has more seattle police used flash bang percussion grenades to disperse protesters who blocked an entrance to a port of seattle facility police said multiple people have been arrested they did not specify how many though those protests were part of a national effort to block so west coast for truck eight thousand. and spoke to

took on boards from california to alaska to disrupt what they described as an economic machine that benefits the wealthiest individuals and corporations and that's pretty much that's been the occupiers message from the very beginning they marched on boards in san diego los angeles oakland portland seattle tacoma and courage in alaska the protesters cared for in need managed to disrupt the work of those major ports on the west coast in oakland before there was almost entirely shut down same in portland in l.a. they effectively blocked trucks from approaching the board by doing that the occupiers hope to keep the message of the movement alive as they say they say they're targeting corporate greed and government complicity now a bit about why court the court has to say they want to cling to the profits of goldman sachs goldman sachs owns half of one of the world's largest transportation

and shipping out for the occupiers it's a way to make a point to get back at this huge bank which has very much contributed to the financial crisis in new york occupier so marched in solidarity with their fellow protesters on the west coast they took their message to goldman sachs directly marching around the banks little lower manhattan headquarters almost two dozen people got arrested during you know what looked like a peaceful demonstration there in houston seeing solidarity demonstrations twenty people arrested so far as already said being quite successful in cracking down on those peaceful protesters across the united states this man doing their camps a big thing demonstrators around five thousand more than five thousand peaceful protesters have been arrested in the last three months of those arrests the only me you can be heard live anymore that's what it seems like it seems to be to become.

have become business as usual dozens of demonstrators get arrested every week over the weekend you know seventy people were arrested in san francisco now as occupiers are being forced out of their occupied locations in parks and plazas all across america and members of the movement want to make sure that their message doesn't manage to get the window stands there. he's gone a chicken and reporting what are these latest protests have come as a surprise to many those who predicted that with the demise of occupy towns the movement would just fall away but felipe massa seen a journalist who's been covering the group believes that the police crackdown has been a trial by fire and protesters passed it with flying colors after an incubation period with the occupy movement really messaging and getting the message out across the country the following the media blackout and then they began ridiculing it then they cannot be ignored the police cracking down in order to divert across the country and now what's been happening in october for example and other across the

country is that people are taking action into their own hands and they're really sending a message to the system through the power brokers in the country that business as usual mark and today will be another mass showing of power and solidarity by the occupy movement. as they unfold across the west coast. we are to live from moscow are still to come just a little bit later in the program here europe's financial crisis just drags on the british prime minister explains his e.u. treaty veto to parliament that's greece goes cap in hand to austerity inspectors and once again. crowds of pro to much protesters stormed the court building in ukraine's capital kiev where the former prime minister is challenging seven year sentence. the race for the presidency in russia has taken

a new twist the country's third richest man says he's running for the country's top job in march business minute mikala profit off ousted from the leadership of the right wing right cause party just ahead of the recent parliamentary poll is optimistic about his second attempt in big politics sarah for ports. well mikhail prokhorov called his decision to join the race for the presidency perhaps the most important of his life now it was an unexpected move from the russian billionaire he made his money in finance and metals it's estimated that he's the third richest man in russia and in the past he's perhaps been better known for buying an american basketball team and for his exploits as russia's most eligible bachelor but in recent times we've seen him playing the political field in the summer he agreed to lead the right course party as a new political movement a businessman and intellectuals now he quit that in september and he said that he's

been preparing for his presidential bid in the months since that business split he also said he'd be. at the middle class is his call electorates now he'll be running as an independent candidate in the presidential elections that will be happening in march of course his announcement coming against the backdrop of tens of thousands of people taking to the streets on the weekend to demand a rerun of the parliamentary elections now this happened last week when we saw parties win seats in the united russia the communist party affair russia and the liberal democratic party now president medvedev is going to be meeting the leaders from these parties later on today in a post-election meeting and of course we'll be keeping the state and all the latest information from that as the when it happens. chances of victory are uncertain but some analysts say the very least to bring some fresh blood into the presidential race it makes the boy interesting because he's

a very good mother to issues of finance you know he's a businessman he's a sports personality he's internationalist so therefore he's a name that people would recognize and he would bring some. useful vigor if you like to the proceedings one would expect. to articulate some views from a purely economic point of view you haven't much experience of politics but you could argue about finance you could argue about the way ahead for russia he may in fact attract the new class of the young professionals the under thirty five's and so on they want a voice. of me if i can offer that but of course being an extremely rich man he's not going to attract the poorest population so i would see it was really going for the new middle class young professionals of the people who would like to be. and a letter our business takes a look at the effect that presidential bid has had on his financial enterprises katie companies. dropped after he announced he was going to be president think here

in the company i think we'd put it was gold and media holding r.b.c. but of us don't last three percent on monday. around nine percent however it didn't have that most of its last days although those didn't have much of an impact on the russian stock market as companies are not included in the top performers bull market in business in ten minutes time. watching our t.v. now hundreds of protesters have gathered outside ukraine's highest appeal court inside the country's former prime minister's conviction for abuse of power is being challenged you later shankar was trying to avoid spending seven years in jail and. that's the story from here. either tymoshenko ukraine's former prime minister is hoping that her seven year prison term which she received in october the eleventh for abusing her power when she signed gas deals with russian two thousand and nine

would be revoked by the highest appeal court in ukraine which has just started reviewing this case experts say this may take months they are uncertain on whether when this reviewing will happen whether the appeal would be rejected or approved in any case acts birds have little doubts that the appeal would be most likely denied and even if such thing happens as the hyperreal court says that the appeal is granted then. has several other criminal cases launched against her including a case for tax evasion including a case for the unlawful usage of money which ukraine received from signing the key all to protocol as well as several cases launched in connection with her business more than fifteen years ago when she ran the united energy systems of ukraine company and struck deals with the russian defense ministry the only reason she may leave the detention center as many experts say is her very poor health condition

sources close to you that i'm ashamed to report that she has very serious spinal disease and also possibly a blood disease and she can hardly walk and she has to be carried by guards when she leaves her cell in detention center so the situation around her is very uncertain several hundred supporters of units have gathered here in front of the court twice as many policemen are here they are pushing and shoving each other all the time so the atmosphere here is as electrifying and as loud as always in the last several months since the huge machine called case ended its final it's a culminated stage anyway the defense of you it was saying we're defending wars as well as her supporters believe that this case is politicize has been orchestrated by president victory on the court which himself and they demand that their. susanka has to be freed immediately the authorities at the same time are adamant that the case is being conducted in full accordance with the country's law and so we've been seeing this stalemate for the last four months or so and we are not expecting this

to end anytime soon so the tension is pretty high concerning the story of ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko. reporting right there and he is keeping you up to date on the. his twitter stream you know one of his latest tweets as we can see here he says it may be days before the final vote is delivered since one can't be announced in his absence and she's currently ill i don't hesitate to log on to our web site www dot com for more analysis and comments and here's what else is lined up for you there right now. find out how a post office chief in moscow live to make sure that local pensioners get their winter payments despite being shot by rangers. also secret no more iran says it will design its own cutting edge spy craft based on the brand new american stealth drone it shot down over the country this month.

twelve minutes past the hour here in moscow the war in iraq is coming to an end as barack obama with the withdrawal of u.s. troops set to conclude within weeks he was speaking at a joint news conference with iraq's prime minister he's on an official visit to washington obama said the troops are leaving a sovereign self-reliant iraq behind but iraqis say after almost a decade of occupation country has simply been cast adrift and thomas reports as two thousand and eleven draws to an end in historical chapter for iraq and the u.s. is finishing as well the occupation is over but. i'm glad that there are miracles are leaving who are still concerned because of to the troops leave we do not know what will happen next meanwhile despite all the efforts by the u.s. there is doubt that anything significant has been accomplished in implementing a new form of democratic government but i think that's why.

this is. the appropriate. thing to. do. more done from said downstairs and that's i want to talk for generations iraq has been plagued by sectarian violence now moving forward there is concern whether different parties can agree to work together for the benefit of the country and the problem of the with the u.s. forces but i know. for sure that the from the call to pick. up now the problem. why did the transit voted to cut. this in their view and this is what we are so one of the problems here in iraq is that the infrastructure it was already crumbling but as the conflict progressed it was all but destroyed now the people living here say there's a lot of rhetoric about rebuilding but the political infighting and corruption is blocking any real progress on the military is getting pretty big foot and i thought

that and this is done see yet another new projects going people here. good to see the see the security just a little is that the this is that i think over and beyond the political challenges there has been an exodus of critical thinkers and educated talent in the country a much needed resource for any developing nation we hear people working in need to see the world and education really everything so we need not you still believe i'm ready to go on are going. to take on medicare. will not what i want to look doing ok sure ok we will leave but you'll come to me. leaving you rockies in a position of continued reliance on american resources in baghdad sean thomas r t.

one of the founder of the future of freedom foundation jacob told us that iraqis will never put up with a regime that was brought into power by an. vitus this nine year war and occupation has been an absolute disaster you killed a countless number of people with this invasion occupation you've got us regime that is dictatorial in every sense of the word there incarcerating people without trial hold in them and definitely i mean it's part of a dictatorship that just happens to be democratically elected and there's people there that are never going to accept a regime that came into existence complements of a foreign empire that went in there invaded it without any cause and then what happens with it if iraq decides to go totally independent and oppose the u.s. government then what happens with all those arm is just another recipe for a giant mess. well we have spoken to the former indian ambassador to iraq who

thinks that the u.s. withdrawing troops the country does not mean an end to washington's presence there the full interview coming your way next hour here on r.t. but for now a preview. i don't see this. is actually i think it's just the shuffle of the cards so as to speak because the american not going very far they're just going to quit which is mexico and you can always come back because the bases will be kept intact and as i mentioned with a twenty thousand strong u.s. embassy most of the staff except for that always be there and secondly they have made sure that there is no air force so they don't control the airspace airspace. by the americans. which means that you can be in force whenever you want however you. are about seventy minutes away from the business but for now russia's foreign minister has accused

the west of bias concerning the unrest in syria speaking at a news conference to get out of said it's wrong to criticize one side of the conflict for violence while the knowing the crimes of the other parties a good person off was following the conference for us the foreign ministers of russia and syria which is one of the key members of the arab league have called on soon to allow monitors from the organizations into the country and actually also said that if it wanted then representatives and observers from the bric countries meaning brazil russia india and china could also join them and eat to foreign ministers of called on syrian authorities to cooperate and negotiate peacefully with the opposition in the country but at the same time russia's foreign minister has criticized what he says is a one sided approach by some western states to the situation there since according to him some groups within this. all the opposition are using very hostile

unpeaceful aggressive tactics which is only rocking the boat and worsening the crisis even further that's. our partners who are calling on us to be decisive don't want to condemn violence committed stream is groups which have become increasingly active in syria in the city of homes several blocks have been occupied by militants they regularly attacked army posts as well as administrative buildings hospitals schools police patrols and public transport i think there's no doubt that their goal is to provoke a humanitarian crisis to have an excuse to call for outside intervention. russia's chief diplomat also stressed once again that the scenario could not be repeated in syria and reminded that russia and china are putting forward a very draft resolution on syria to the un security council which condemns the violence going on there but does not give way to any foreign intervention and

said if there if some western states think of the entire opposition in syria including these armed militants as of fighters or democracy that approach reporting tool is inadequate and he also accusing russia of hampering the work of the security council on this madman or is immoral. r.t. if you're going to sort of reporting now twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow british prime minister david cameron has taken a stand in parliament to defend his firm no to a new european union treaty he said the changes were not in the country's interests and lacked sufficient financial safeguards in southern europe meantime a debt ridden greece at a round of meetings with international austerity inspectors seeking a new tranche of a debt bailout dr hartley all the chief economist at standard chartered bank says with the latest rescue at. the eurozone is just heading deeper into crisis the euro

can't survive in its current format what we saw last week apart from the u.k. veto was once again a cop out from the european leaders they haven't come up with a comprehensive solution so we're seeing a further muddle through i don't think it's going to collapse but difficulties will remain to survive in its current form the euro area needs to become a political union the germans have a clear mandate but what we saw last week we didn't see enough comprehensive action to remove all the immediate worries overhanging either the european economy itself or the euro currency itself. watching r.t. you know google is at the center of a spy scandal the internet giant is accused of compromising u.s. national security it's all because of one of its maps shows a classified airbase used for testing top secret military jet drones investigative journalist ross baker things this case exposes the hypocrisy of washington. what the news organizations that that spotted this saw and have published is

a photo that very clearly shows what seems to be a drone the super secret drone on a secret air base near yucca lake in nevada and of course this is the type of technology that the united states government is desperately trying to keep away from prying eyes we know with this recent development with iran having commandeered and then taken down a drone and now they're reverse engineering it and learning about all the parts that then governments are under pressure like never before how are they going to keep their secrets governments themselves are extremely hypocritical they want to know everything about us and of course those drones are doing the exact same thing that the google satellites are doing their zooming all the way in and they can actually see people's be it was that who's doing what you're taking pictures of everything so they want to be able to essentially prying into everyone's lives and

have no one brought into what they're doing. coming up shortly here on r.t. a fresh if expressive perspective on the state of the world's economy that's in the cards a report that will be after katie with the latest from the world of business. hello welcome to the business program the gas dispute between russia and ukraine except to be resolved just as winter arrives the media and ripples the size have come to a draft agreement on forming new joint ventures this would offensively guarantee russian access to the ukrainian gas transport network in return for a cut price of gas supplies from all on joy by. gave probably one thousand. now tell me it's likely ukraine will give some control of its transit network in return for cheaper gas. well i mean you know yes century i mean that's what i would

expect to happen because if you look at the countries existing obligations under existing legally binding contracts i don't think that you no longer term the country will be able to meet those obligations the one way to address those concerns here still see a chorus of the control over the gas that i support network or the gas but i'm or can be the nation of gas but i'm in the european consumer what it also allows you to do or here store shift some of the responsibility for funding the snap for funding the maintenance of this way and that work it's not do it's but those help are there. ok now what about mosco then what would be the main advantages for moscow in gaining control of the cranes gas supplies. well i mean they mean to me an advantage would be that if a gasp and you know with or without the. controls the network that allows gaspin to ensure. that he liable gas supply to you it up especially in the middle of the heat

in c. as i'm what that also allows us to do is it allows us to get the lousy gas from but then surely not to invest in expanding its that one spot additional capacity outside of ukraine so for example it might make you know the likely twenty to thirty billion dollars south plant project unnecessary. now as we've been saying gas problem and not to have been discussing setting up this joint venture is would this be a most stable orion's when they're just doing a deal on gas price well i mean in terms of in terms of that interest i think you know what we've seen that with the kind of deal that gas because it is only signed with it is the more stable network is that i mean is the more stable framework for deals of these kind is where the country completely cedes its control over the gas pipeline system in the exchange for a drastic improvement something gas prices i mean as one of the two are in this if you might see as i am put out control in the pipeline system where it's going to be

you know the shareholding in the system will be able to split between gas but i don't know if the gas and you know and the consortium of european consumers but i still think that you know what you see in the framework you've seen in the game and what is the most stable and sustainable system i can if most of the town secure the transit through the well that councilman needs for the south stream pipeline. and i mean in my view it's essential to would because think about it i mean gas supplies to europe anywhere between countries on sixty five in the country and fifty billion cubic meters a year if you will secure you know hundred b.c.m. pounds of capacity through ukraine has through that fifty b.c. i'm sort of fifty five b.c. i'm still in the white steam and you were essentially have european gas supply completely cover it up to two hundred plus b. c m on top of that if you secure their king in private system with fairly minimal investments you can that each year on the downs of capacity two hundred forty b.

c m which what was a gentle kind of nameplate capacity and finally how do you see european gas demand developing in two thousand and twelve. i expect europe and gas demand to be good at you know two or three percent a year probably in a part of this is coming from germany's decision to shut down nuclear power plant but a bigger question for me is what does that mean for our gas while it is going forward and i think those are going to be no those are going to be massively in the next year and the reason for that is because of the disparity in pricing between l. and g. going to europe and l. and g. going to the pacific basin european coal on russian pipeline supply and gas is going to increase that i magically and then in a way whereby you know this year gas plant was going to deliver about country and forty billion cubic meters to europe for next year my expectation is that there's going to be in the close of country and. i thank you very much indeed that. gas when it snows cats with i thank you for joining us. i carry off the still sing

choose a training session in the red following on from overseas losses by three also on the mind set so now all i've got one has said says have a look at some individual shadows on the my sax all mages are among the main game is this hour with left up a send off and precious metals mine up the last gold is bouncing back from the losses they lost three percent on monday all trades maisha holdout russian billionaire the teleprompter all announced he would roll to the presidents day and still make us have a stall is in the red for the news of a possible merger revival of. us if we may i won't be back next how about that for may join my colleague kareena she'll be back providing a little business news.

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