all of this tracking the various attempts by police and other officials to suppress the press josh stearns is an associate program director at free press he's in northampton massachusetts. hey there josh how many examples are actually out there of the numbers in the process of journalists either being arrested or pepper sprayed or being kept out of the way i wish i could count the number the total press suppression is. almost impossible to count this point right now we know that twenty six journalists have been arrested and thirteen of those who did it in just the last week in new york while and i want to talk to you about what you've seen in terms of the methods in which journalists are being prevented from covering occupy wall street across the country of course their arrest as you mentioned there are also journalists i read being put in chokeholds but it seems like so many are simply just blocked access talk a little bit about this that's right that's one of the most agri things here is the fundamental and direct meaningful way in which the york city conspired to keep journalists out of

might as well figure out a better way to deal with it as a program director and free press that josh stearns want to thank you so much for weighing in on everything you've written us. also had here on r t it's time for some chinese take out american style u.s. lawmakers are putting on their boxing gloves and taking swings this time in the form of economic theory mongering coming up we'll take a look at the real motives behind this great tension. with the loans back you raised all the way to about with that nothing people are suggesting she's told her you'll see. she said. r t is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. well it's now official the super committee the team of six democrats and six republicans charged with cutting one point two trillion dollars from the budget is a super failure president obama announced just a short time ago that the committee did not reach an agreement and he said he will veto any attempts to eliminate the automatic spending cuts that go into effect as a result o