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later today here on r t. well the occupy wall street movement protesting against what it calls a corrupt global economic system and corporate greed is planning a general strike in the u.s. next we talked to a london occupy activist who says the group is only gaining force as more people understand they are being robbed by their governments. well here are some polls cathedral in london from where the occupy the london stock exchange me was fairly recently effected and we've been appears from where i'm standing to be on its last legs but luckily jamie can see for you from occupy london is here to convince me otherwise jamie thanks for talking to us today no you said yourself a nice to feel it to you that this place is almost haunted the tents used to be right that just where you are standing is the occupy movement dad's absolutely no it's obviously one of the things of the company moving is that we're allowed to put
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a lot more energy into the movement itself was actually becoming very difficult to sustain the kind as it becomes very large if you bear in mind that five months ago none of the count would last this long we're still developing our ideas of how to move forward how to use outreach to the movement to generate solidarity and otherwise really of reaching into the public consciousness to get across very simple. social environmental and economic justice so we've only just begun in that sense for that it's no coincidence that we are headed in one of the financial hearts of the london stock exchange just not very far away from here it's all bankers all still being paid that bonuses we hear about in the newspapers every day the one percent appears very much to be still in charge have you had any impact absolutely i think that there's been some measures by the government because we had such an influence on the public view of the financial system that there has been you know a leading banker who's had to turn down his bonus and. suffrage was
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made to turn back his noise to set up but i think that these are just palliative measures i think they showed that the government realized that there's a lot of public support for the issues that we're raising awareness about and so they've taken some measures to make it look as if by doing something you're absolutely right in terms of the one percent remain the one percent that's completely on top. also if you bear in mind the fact that last year of the hundred top foot say the average high royce's fault you know when to say this is everything is business as usual you're absolutely right but what's different is people are now where about this people are now entering this dialog and they're beginning to challenge the assumptions challenge for a very very long period it's all in which is that can we continue with such an unsustainable undemocratic unjust economic system safe occupy looks kind of like a sort of for that party for people who have something to lose. people in that we've been willing to sacrifice in order to achieve that goals it's very interesting question actually people are sacrificing their jobs their relationships
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not by deception many people lost their homes i've never been in a movement where people are dedicated the general portrayal of us is being people who you know joe blow some of the dole losers is absolutely. the opposite to the reality the reality is that the whole span of people from across the general public have been motivated to dedicate themselves one hundred percent solution now this is means that a very small proportion of so actually experienced activists and by far the highest amounts of us are people who just from ordinary life have gone that i want to make a stop and we have to do something about this unsustainable system and this is the movement for us to do that in five months now since you came to this area let's talk a bit about your goals a lot of people seem to have a very limited understanding of what you're actually trying to achieve take me through it is ok when we took this space so much of the fifteen. i repaired a forty eight hours spent about three and a half thousand people took part in generating what was called our initial
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statements really within forty eight hours made it very clear why we're here because are some of the more obvious ones. questioning what we see as an unsustainable economic system and on democratic economic system a political system that seems to be working with profits before people it's intertwined with the corporations. we also question the idea of regulated both days being managed by the people that meant to be regulated we also question the idea that perpetual war for resources is something that's going to destroy the planet so we made it very clear we now use our ideas to the rules you know within forty eight hours an economic system based on infinite growth but which relies on for not resources is frankly absolutely embarrassing let's broaden this out space and talk a little bit about the global economic situation if you like through the prism of you and me and the european project is constantly in the papers and it looks like it's on its last legs how do you see it playing out so that we see that as when i
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say we i mean i'm speaking as a member of occupied but it's very clear from the movement from the beginning that the economic system is on its last legs the global economic system is on its last legs about knowing months ago now we had a leading triage on the b.b.c. news lawyers who said very clearly that governments don't rule the world goldman sachs does so it's very clear to us that what's happening in europe what's happening in greece is is just a symptom of this disease and this disease is going to continue to get worse unless we actually as as people as a grassroots movement actually take control ourselves of this economic system that's been run by very few people and it's just been completely out of control by fronting about this gentleman who was saying that goldman sachs was the world's if he was reveling in it he apologized for it but he was reveling in it because he said if you understand the situation you will know how to make a huge amount of money out of the global collapse now for any human being to be in a situation where they can benefit hugely. from the suffering of the millions and
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millions in the world we should be embarrassed of being caught that human life and we should be embarrassed if we sit by and do nothing about it seems. like occupy would be in support of bailouts of countries like greece i'm thinking about the. that kind of thing but the interesting question of i'm not even i'm one person in it but i actually are not sure that the movement would support by laying out exactly where we're standing at the moment was the famous tent city university and we had a evening of solidarity with grace and there was about fifty greek people rammed in here and it's a fascinating noise and they kept going back to a very interesting point we are in a third world war and it's an economic war and the weapon is debt and i was a fascinating thing to say about revolutionary frights now i think the movement is moving more towards a revolutionary solution to the situation we're in rather than
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a reformist but there's still a lot of it's going to take but i think it's not the suasion revolution now if you look at revolutionary it's much more to do with. dispensing with with building on actions like the i.m.f. dispensing with all these organizations that have rules and regulates that the way the finance of the world is run because we believe it to be completely corrupt completely in the pockets of the people the ministry regulating and moving out and the same with governments that completely intertwined with all these financial decisions they have an ear for corporations they have an ear for global financial institutions much much more than they have been if the people of the country that meant. looking often support sat in the situation of what's happening in grace and then coming out with a statement the third world war is here and it's an economic war and that's that weapon is debt that really rang a bell with a lot of people. if you look at iceland now there's something that's quite inspiring in a sense that they absolutely ignored what i've been told to do they didn't go for being bailed out and anyway in fact at the moment they crowdsourcing their
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constitution themselves they dispense with all of the leaders they believe to be corrupt and were banging their saucepans just like in argentina until they had a leader they believed in and they go much further they're actually now chasing and wanting to bring to court those bankers who brought the country to death in the first place so let's talk and control themselves and. very very well until you get that source of crowdsourcing really work on the next mill and international scale yes now in terms of a national scale with iceland they simply crowdsourcing their constitution themselves and it's it is managing well digital technology has absolutely revolutionized the species and it certainly revolutionized the way that we move towards radical change in activism. and it's only just started so the fact is that you know i can see in the future within our long haul and the situation whereby there's a form of a form of global referendum that's that's due to digital technology if we have that i think very quickly the leaders and the people who run the financial institutions in the corporations will be put to shame because when they hear the voice of
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literally the know it you know in the sense of the plan it was annoying to one point nine percent rate i then they will be put they'll be put into the shade in the. governments in various countries to obviously a paste see you occupying place. here on a course to which the us has reportedly rolled out what he's calling a microwave weapon to disperse crowds are you making plans for dealing with a kind of technology this country has last year they bought a large water cannons to disperse dispense with demonstrators iraq to the east and i think that's kind of a scare story i know it's true that the military in the states may have bought this weapon that can use sound waves to kind of disempower people who might be in the streets i think that's a symptom of something far worse that's coming occupies the canary in the morning as far as we can see. but eventually the rest of this world will realize that they've been groped and that they are being put into subjugation completely on just
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undemocratic unsustainable financial systems and they will. become furious eventually so i think those kind of weapons may well be something to take much more seriously and say six months time or eight months time in this country the austerity measures haven't really hit as hard as they got into so whether it's easy for big. so you just stay within their own little bubble if you don't mind the words but when they start so much as cut into their actual lives comes right into their doorstep and in through their front door and cuts them away from the logic they used then i think that will be an enormous growth in people who have transformed this kind of economic justice that occupy represents jamie what's the feet high it's very very broad to the future of the occupy movement is escalation and solidarity in other words that we will continue to generate small creative ways of bringing across our message using direct action and using mice and using the media but also we were quite sort of more and more solidarity that as more and more
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people come and join us when they realize that we are all singing from the same hymn sheet. to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of the regimentation over most of the nations of europe and the shadow is an approaching upon hold up and. leave early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the forms of them evil empire that the united states is trying to do that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around the world. we don't have foreign bases
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in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in our bases are fine there are the noises our noise of those ball to us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people. since the into world war two the spaces i've been. working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions any of thing else you get everything you need. is sixty feet.
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the laugh riot in almost every political grouping in between march and russia this may day but the country's fair election movement is by its time until the weekend. with egypt set to vote for its new leader and the country's vital tourist industry is hoping to macbride a role will help and bounce back however there are concerns that islam is growing power will stifle it further as fundamentalists want to ban alcohol and beach tourism. the world's top whistleblower julian assange reveals more secrets in another blockbuster and this time he poses tough questions to the new president of tunisia was swept into power by a popular uprising to watch later today on our t.v. . straight to the world of sports with the u.n. hi there good to see you marina and the international football merry go round is in full flow once again it's certainly is a tell you all russia's top mom says he's on his way archways england look as if
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they've got a new monitor marina more of that coming up but just to stick. great to have you with us this is a plan to head few including all the stories in. standing don the russian football federation confirms to r t but dick advocaat will leave his post as national team manager following this summer's european championships. scales of justice there's drama there with the russian middleweight champion dimitri pro purse the w. . in moscow. championship strike this is a goal that while no russian premier league wants again presence in petersburg for all the rest of past weekend's highlights catch colds poor shortly. the russian
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football union has confirmed that manager dick advocaat is to stand on offer this summer's european championship the dutchman is now believed to be taking over his previous club p.s.v. eindhoven our correspondent richard from port fleet shared his thoughts about the upcoming departure. a bit surprised not surprised to be honest i mean he's always on a two plus two contract a four year contract but he had the option of leaving his post after the european championships and to be honest i don't think the russian football union they wanted months before the euro two thousand and twelve championships got underway because i didn't want to be in a similar situation to farms where they didn't keep him on a long contract and. basically to speak to any team he wishes to you even france get to finals so i really don't want to try and get a decision from up accounts before the tournament started he's actually said he hasn't he's not going to reveal the reasons for leaving his post at the moment he's going to do at least a probably after the two thousand and twelve finals but he's done very well with
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the russian team i mean he took over from conceding a very low ebb that failed to qualify for the world cup in two thousand and ten and he really took them to the euro two thousand and twelve finals but minimum of fuss they do get a new train over something we're going to return to. the sort of prince of spin. and the prices are potential. future coach especially with the world cup in russia in two thousand and eighteen in mind getting a young russian coach to try and build them up towards those points. england on the other hand looks set to name their new monitor this week west brom boss roy hodgson the man currently in talks with the f.a. about becoming the permanent successor to fabio capello the sixty four year old would be a popular choice that many fans wanting an englishman to head the country twenty twelve beyond the former liverpool on interpol's also has international form something another possible choice harvey read up as not touching who previously
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managed finland and switzerland not begrudge the move either by his closest rival for it. now is no problem roy takes the job a wish him all the bases are great guys so i've got a great job we have. a fantastic players and. great result yesterday played it was a world. no problems whatsoever i'm very lucky to be working at such a good club as tottenham and very fortunate it's very much game on now in the english premier league following the biggest game of the season last night munch mr city beating cross-town rivals united to move above them up the top on goal difference city went into the clash three points behind with just three games to go into leagues and a win was vital thanks to vincent kompany they got it the belgian rising highest right before the time whistle to head home for a warm they'll. finish shoulders united in truth appeal reflection of themselves feeling to register a single shot on goal so both sides now sit on eighty three points but should city
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when there are two remaining fixtures against newcastle and q.p.r. the title is the urge for the first time since nineteen sixty eight. two strong. and. one play for their league or one for that again. that is important that we know. of the many. so city are currently the team to catch though they are hoping their noisy neighbors will drop points on the themselves secure a maximum value at home to swansea and away to sunderland arsenal said third with tottenham a new class of closing out the top five while sixth place chelsea could yet take the fourth qualifying champions league spot if they win this year's final against byron munich on me and i think. moving to the n.b.a. hardwood where last year's runners up miami are enjoying smooth sailing so far in
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the playoffs the heat securing another comfortable win over the new york knicks take a two zero lead in their best of seven first run series one hundred four ninety four was the final score. i just tried to be aggressive early but you know the biggest thing was i was going touch is you know you must. really great job of screening for me and i. can you know make easy easy shots so there's been a gross of more. elsewhere the pacers have even there a series with one game a piece in the other completely in control during the second encounter to set the tone head of game three in florida on wednesday for reading champions dallas seven are dropped into a two zero hole in their first run series against oklahoma city. that's not boxing on russian to beat your pro bowl put his w b o middleweight title on the line right here in moscow tonight but it hasn't all been plain sailing in the build up with a spot of pre-fight drama currying at the wynn only just making the cut swing in
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a fraction of the middle with a limit of seventy two point six four kilos however his opponent japan's noble hero as she was initially over the mark up of the fight in jeopardy but she did manage to sweat off the extra kilos in the given two hour time limit. there was a miscommunication i got the wave time come fused i also use my own scales before but see it's not a big problem. well i sincerely hope the fight will be dynamic and spectacular simply because i've heard he's here to win and do everything to achieve this he's not going to duck all run so i'm looking forward to an exciting fight which way it will go we'll see in the ring. sprinter doing chambers and cyclist david miller could yet get to represent team g.b. at the upcoming london olympics the court of arbitration for sport overturning a lump a lifetime ban for them and other up late last month the british olympic association though disagree with the ruling which provides for only a minimum two year ban for any first time doping offender. i have had no pity i've
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had no athlete i've had no national olympic committee i've had nobody from the international olympic committee say that that is satisfactory it is clearly not cheating by taking drugs in sport to deny a clean athletes the opportunity to participate in the greatest sporting event in his or her life cannot warrant a sanction so light as a two year slap over the lists and never miss a games. let's head back to football where the longest ever russian premier league season got its champions this past weekend zinni and petersburg retaining their title in game week forty one for the strikes that made the difference in their clash with. the pick off the rest of the net bursting action here is goals for. the.
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finally inclement weather wasn't enough to stop the brave on the bowl this weekend during the latest installment of the summer silly sports season this is the traditional mold in mud race in essex england high winds and driving rain prevented the traditional crossing of the river block water for safety reasons however hundreds of competitors did not one little bit getting their kicks where they could raising thousands of pounds for chartable courses in the process were exactly sure who won the event put on this occasion and see if the state really was the taking part that. i'm not sure but i think i just saw marina joshie there of what i am sure about is that she's here with the news in a couple of moments time cease. leaves
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the last of the ride and almost every political grouping in between are marching in russia this may day. train labor unions are telling countries leaders of the market first i'm a lawyer details coming up at the top. of the price of a cool vote as the boy believed by its own it's obey the six all the details coming up shortly. with what it said to vote for its new leader the country's final tourist industry is hoping to have a pratik world will help a bounce back with concerns however that islam is growing power well stifle as further. at the world stop with the lower julian assange reveals more secrets in another blockbuster interview this time for the new president of tunisia to watch it later today here in r t.
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