that was our two producer lucy cavanagh reporting from our new york studio and from oakland to the big apple lucy has been on the ground following this growing movement so you should follow her on twitter at lucent half an hour for the very latest information. and of course one of the issues the protesters with occupy wall street movement are angry about is that too close for comfort relationship between wall street and washington and never before is that more apparent than with the information from the twenty ten census data it appears there have been some changes in the way we do business here in washington the biggest change is how much business is apparently being done here how much money the city now rakes in and how many people are living large as a result well according to these numbers washington d.c. now has the lowest poverty rate for any not for politan city in the country surpassing even places like tech capital silicon valley california but that's not the whole story so i decided to take a look into these numbers and what they actually mean. and the winner is washington th

we have to ask how much longer this can go on before the movement needs a new strategy artie's lucy cavanagh is on the ground in oakland is going to fill us in with all the details and a number of organizations have fallen and because brief asking the supreme court to declare the f.c.c. is indecency regulations as unconstitutional so are the rules on bad words on t.v. a little bit outdated or you have all that and more fit and i include a good dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so on saturday night c.b.s. and the national journal hosted yet another g.o.p. debate unfortunately this is the debate that probably not all that many people watched it was nestled away on a saturday night and i say unfortunately because when it comes to foreign policy which this debate focused on we can see exactly how clueless how inconsistent how outright crazy some of these candidates really are and with the exception of ron paul and jon huntsman the other candidates all seem to support waterboarding which is a form of torture as an acceptable tech

producer lucy cavanagh lucy now i know that you got to oakland over the weekend so can you give us a few details as to what exactly happened when police cleared out. sure we had actually gone to bed not knowing whether there is going to be a raid or not and two minutes literally actually around our hotel room about two am there is a mass text alert that the occupiers had sent out saying that there's credible reports of police saving at a sporting event stadium here and leaving to come towards the faucet to finally begins this raid that everyone's been waiting for we got down to the area there is about several hundred protesters most of them were standing out on the street we saw the presence of helicopters and then several hundred police officers in full riot gear descended on the plaza sensually closing off different intersections moving in after protesters and blocking off the different streets now contrary to last time they didn't really use the tear gas we didn't see any use of flash bang grenades or any of the heavy mechanized non lethal weaponry so the it by those standards was

that's rapid spread across america just had to archy's twitter stream for the latest off days from lucy cavanagh and the rest of our u.s. bureau including photos and videos from the protests. in . the arab league is demanding an immediate end to bloodshed in syria as a peace deal brokered by the organization seems to have failed dozens more anti-government activists are reported killed in the country as the army continues to suppress the protests and that's despite damascus agreeing earlier this week to stop violence against demonstrators more than a five hundred political detainees were released by the regime on saturday but bloodshed continues if you were an estimate so over three thousand people have been killed in syria since march however president assad claims his forces are fighting off insurgency from abroad political analysts come along was that things that country's been set up for regime change. i think it's a conspiracy by the regional power they wanted to change the regime of bashar al assad they wanted a different regime different government with different had and that's why you ca

exclusive video from the scene at our crew filmed on our you tube channel on our twitter feed lucy cavanagh of also keeping on top of events going on in other cities where anti-war protests are going on her latest tweets she says there's a lot of talk about possible eviction of protesters at a camp in new york's zuccotti park that could happen as early as friday stay tuned and stay updated on the u.s. protest movement with lucy's twitter feed and that he retreated at which he underscored. for the other stories here on r t nato has been i that it intends to mount preemptive strikes on iranian military facilities and this follows amounting to the series that the us britain and israel might be moving toward a policy of intervention in iran this ahead of a crucial report by the i.a.e.a. due next week that will assess the military side of tehran's controversial nuclear program political analyst chris bambery says any attempt to attack the country could lead to a fierce retaliation and a drawn out bloody conflict. anyone reading the press reports on these contingency plans been joined by the mini

scene crew all there are a click away at our tease you tube channel and our twitter stream also lucy cavanagh keeping an eye on the other cities where i am tyrone street protests have been going on the latest updates there's talk of a possible eviction of protesters in the camp set up in new york's zuccotti park that could happen as early as this friday stay updated on the protest movement with twitter feed and were read tweeting it all at our t underscore so check it out. nato denies it intends to mount preemptive attacks on iranian military facilities this follows mounting concerns that the u.s. britain and israel could be moving toward a policy of intervention toward the islamic republic that's ahead of a crucial report by the u.n. nuclear watchdog next week that will assess the military side of tehran's controversial nuclear program political analyst chris bambery from the u.k. says any attempt to attack a country could lead to fierce retaliation and a drawn out bloody war. anyone reading the reports on these contingency plans are enjoyed by the ministry of defense here in london for the

there is not only growing but they're sort of weatherizing their camp getting ready to producer lucy cavanagh joining us from oakland california and for the latest information about what's going on in oakland be sure to follow lucy on twitter it's lucy cafe. but i do want to say on this and talk about it a little deeper our team has been covering the occupy wall street movement since it first began on september seventeenth and just a little earlier i spoke with author and journalist david de graw they've is not only been a part of this movement since day one he's been calling for a movement like this for more than a year so i asked him with everything that's gone on in the past few days if this could be the beginning of the and for this movement here's what he had to say. oh absolutely not i mean there's so many people have some watching personal snowmen at this point we are in like an evolutionary phase of the movement and you know certainly it can or are the main focus of the woman probably you know this is going to evolution or cancer or offsite areas you know people who are donating analy

the occupy wall street movement with outsiders flocking to the california city are the producer lucy cavanagh is right there in the middle of the action. well actually the status fairly calm i took a walk around the perimeter this morning but testers were still sort of milling about a lot of folks leaving and we did see a lot of the city workers dropping off graffiti picking up pieces of trash from the massive band that erupted yesterday evening for the most at the moment nothing really serious happening i think people are still trying to process what really went on yesterday and the huge contrast between a b. largely peaceful march that brought thousands of people out to the port of oakland to shut down the port of oakland contrast thing that the president forced by the police department in the late hours of the evening early hours this morning ok and it sounds like this is the come after the storm a what happened last night and what led to believe cracking down and resorting to violence. well you know that the strangest thing for me is that i mean we spent literally the entire day yesterday

history for you but now let's get back to the scene in oakland today now earlier i spoke to our own lucy cavanagh she's on the ground there and give me the very latest. it was i'm standing in the what's been renamed us the us our grandson plaza the occupy the center of the i cry wall street occupy oakland movement here in california as you can see empty right now and that is because. thousand or so testers that are gathered this morning are nothing mobilizing there. are all marches that guest all say they're essentially holding several of our route the saints to shut down various banks to raise their voice protests on august eighth the general strike to significance of today an all expense of culminate in a gossip but protest scheduled against the court of oakland this is the built in c.s. order in any country in fact and what the significance of this is protesters are able to successfully shut down the courts i've heard the really. good news wall street movements they call charlie bell tower their ability to actually backed up commerce here in the u.s. and i expect this copied and other occupati

marine being severely injured our correspondent lucy cavanagh has this report from oakland. we're here in downtown oakland the scene of the occupy oakland and wall street protest that thought a little bit out of hand as you can see right here behind me the wells fargo bank branch was the scene of one of the protests at this specific area obviously the windows got smashed out we were talking to some of the witnesses they saw several people of faces were wrapped in a black sort of scarves their faces were heading in stark contrast really to the behavior of the occupy wall street protesters for the most part here in downtown oakland we have not seen this kind of destruction of property and mass and it was quite interesting actually to see some of the witnesses sort of disagreeing about these tactics you know the destruction of the means of wealth the property is this something that could perhaps gain greater attention to the cause or something that gives the protesters a bad name something that on the face of the movement exactly is now with the movement is about it's about fre

everything you've been doing in the field i bring it here this you are doing such a good job that was lucy cavanagh she is the producer really reporter who's been covering the occupy protests really from the beginning all of the country. all right so we've gone through some of the very serious financial news of the day now let's lighten it up a little. but actually our stories today are about light but we're going to give you a little bit of something more happy to end on so we're joined in the studio by dimitri craftiness our producer and shannon donahoe are the producer who's multitasking in the control room so we know times are tough and push for space a spanish cemetery has begun placing stickers on thousands of burial sites whose leases are up you heard me leases are up as a warning to relatives or caretakers to pay up or pace face possible addiction now the city's municipal graveyard have removed remains from some four hundred twenty crips in recent months into a common burial ground so. i mean is this what it's come to work foreclosing on gravesites remember spain this is actually spain spai

causing many to say there's a coronated media blackout at occupy wall street our own producer lucy cavanagh has spent several weeks at occupy wall street both in new york and oakland she is back in new york and with us now and lucy before we get started first i want to pick play a little piece of video and then we can talk about it. so there's video obviously a very shaky of a journalist being taken into custody this report of course only one of many from what we're hearing of journalists being arrested journalists who just want to get close to the scene close enough to see what's going on so lucy let's talk about this i mean a lot of these people issued press credentials and they kind of me on the scene. and it's really something that i've experienced firsthand minus the arrest part and at the risk of sounding like the whining for the state you know it's not about the fact that journalists should be treated specially and given special privileges that other people don't have but in a country that really values itself and its freedom of speech freedom of the press that often talks down to ot