that and they can't get a job a struggle getting that much harder in the land of opportunity arena portnoy r.t. new york. under next in the program our interview with american academic jean sharpe whose book is described by some as a landmark work on nonviolent revolution that's just after the headlines here not. this is claude. allen sing on the edge of past and present and. mixing reality as nothingness. but if you enter this time. the mystery of supernatural will reach you. shana know siberia on our t.v. . welcome back this is our she and this is the week's main news tehran claims the us any israel will both behind the assassination want to rein in nuclear scientists in the city in an effort to block the country's atomic program adding further to mounting tension between america and the islamic republic. syria's president assad releases the first political prisoners held during ten months and rest a while international pressure intensifies with the u.n. secretary general calling for violence to end. my heart all's.

says moscow will carry on searching for ways to end violence there were in the portnoy has been following the latest meeting at the u.n. security council in new york. there has been a lot of discussion taking place primarily because a european arab draft resolution was circulated to the u.n. security council members in which it calls for the syrian president bashar al assad to transfer power to his deputy while a unity government is formed and prepared for new elections cording to reports his draft text calls for a political transition in syria it also says the security council could quote adopt further measures if syria does not comply with the terms of the resolution now of course this is just a draft text that was written up by france and britain in consultation with morocco germany portugal the united states and qatar this is a draft that is just beginning to be discussed by the security council members we do know that the russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin expressed . deep disappointment with the draft indicating that he does not believe that the international co

ati's marina portnoy has more. long before he became us president or a nobel peace prize winner barack obama was a constitutional law professor we have never been more energized and united was thank you thank a civil liberties champion turned charismatic candidate.

crowd was trying to seize one of the city's buildings to make it their new have quaters artist marina portnoy has more. it began around saturday afternoon when roughly two hundred fifty occupy occupy activists in oakland california began demonstrating in the streets and as hours passed the crowd grew stronger and stronger up to roughly twenty two thousand people strong ultimately what the goal was for this demonstration is for protesters to take over and the abandoned building where they wanted to create their new headquarters because as our viewers may remember crossed the country in the united states just a few months ago police departments are removed activists from their camps and this was an attempt for oakland optimist to set up a new headquarters but as the crowd grew stronger and larger and then to late the police in oakland began firing tear gas and flash grenades at the occupy activists at least nineteen of those protesters have been arrested oh plume police say that we officers have been injured according to the police they say members of the crowd began throwing things at times at

obama's pre-election vow to shut it down by the beginning of two thousand and ten artie's marina portnoy reports. long before he became u.s. president or a nobel peace prize winner barack obama was a constitutional law professor we have never been more energized. thank you. a civil liberties champion turned charismatic candidate who vowed to reverse the abuses and policies of his predecessor george w. bush four years later many civil rights advocates who once cheered yes we can are finding themselves saying no you can't not only has the obama administration blocked torture accountability and refused to investigate and prosecute. he's he's basically maintained indefinite detention he's revived military commissions. and as we've seen as well he has expanded targeted killings so they've increased under the obama administration many fold and he's even authorized the killing of a u.s. citizen so you know i think yeah we're in a you know there is a bad state of civil liberties under the obama administration world renowned author and scholar noam chomsky believes the obama administration has ch

voicing their anti iran rhetoric in front of america's influential jew which community as it is marina portnoy reports. america almost never misses an opportunity to praise its ally ironclad commitment and i mean ironclad to israel's security has meant the closest military cooperation between our two countries in history or point a proverbial punch at its greatest adversary but there be no doubt. america is determined to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon and i will take no options off the table. however for many american jews and israeli supporters barack obama's war of words against tehran doesn't go far enough it's none of the simply states i'm committed to israel security you have to promote policies that commit you to show that you're serious about his security israel through these actions feels that obama is not committed to doing everything this power to stop iran from having nuclear weapons iran is a in this an existential threat to israel and obama should be saying. so publicly that he will support israel in whatever military action they stay necessary more inclined as preside

says moscow will carry on searching for ways to end violence there really portnoy has been following the latest meeting at the u.n. security council in new york. there has been a lot of discussion taking place primarily because a european arab draft resolution was circulated to the u.n. security council members in which it calls for the syrian president bashar al assad to transfer power to.

wave of hope four years ago now faces a drop in popularity among this illusion democrats as maria portnoy has been finding out. three years ago one historic campaign turned u.s. politics into a pop culture phenomenon in. the world the democratic candidate achieved unprecedented support international fame and a record breaking six hundred fifty million dollars in donations. thousands of new yorkers celebrated the victory clutching an enormous american flag hand sewn by obama supporters but the winds have changed and the very same democratic symbol waved in honor of the president elect in no way each straight from a straight has been donated to a movement that became a phenomenon in two thousand and eleven other about twenty people holding up david moved organize the flag project after being inspired by obama rhetoric a dream shattered by the subsequent years of politics as usual curly what's inspiring me as up as a lot of us like that that's the thing that's inspiring you know like that's why i brought the fight so ws and the thing that inspired me about it is the fact that it's a grassroo

rhetoric has testified noticeably over the course of the current presidential race and as artie's marina portnoy explains some politicians are putting political points and the support of the jewish community ahead of the u.s. national interest. america almost never misses an opportunity to praise its ally ironclad commitment and i mean i inquired to israel's security has meant the closest military cooperation between our two countries in history first point a proverbial punch at its greatest adversary butt.

that and they can't get a job a struggle getting that much harder in the land of opportunity arena portnoy r.t. new york. live from moscow this is to have for you this hour sniffing out. why i want to go where borders relying on a four legged friend to help fight crime. i raced against the clock as well and truly underway in europe the leaders of the single currency as two most powerful countries are doing everything in their power to try and prevent a meltdown and the collapse of all they've worked for the german chancellor is today meeting the french head of the i.m.f. in berlin hoping to find a way forward despite a growing call for more action and less banquets on a monday i'm going to merkel and nicolas sarkozy also called on the greece to move forward with promised structural changes or risk losing the next installment of badly needed belt out money athens warned at last week that default was a possibility which could result in it. even the euro altogether europe is now working to hammer out a new treaty agreed at a summit in december and leading to top of fiscal control of making bu

meeting there in new york at the moment and we'll also hear from marina portnoy who is our correspondent following the meeting at the moment let's get more reaction on what's going on in and around syria from neil clark he's a u.k. based journalist and contributor to the guardian newspaper joining us there in the u.k. western countries want to put pressure on russia to back their draft resolution that is what's happening at the moment will they succeed. they don't succeed i think it was very very bad if they do succeed because i think the resolution is not a real attempt to so serious serious problems in a peaceful way it does pave the way for intervention nato which is a great concern and i think it's not very helpful with the calls for assad to go because you know president assad does how support within syria sizable support there was an example there was an opinion poll kind of a month ago showed he had over fifty percent of the support of syrians who didn't want him to stand down there's also been a major progress demonstration in syria and it seems to me that the western powers are

he is marina portnoy there reporting from new york it's good to have you with us today still to come on the program a bitter sweet victory for the euro that is twenty five e.u. nations agreed to a new treaty making it a sanctionable crime to abuse deficits this comes while the czech republic joins the u.k. in rejecting the much hyped proposal. from the philippines a finds itself in the middle of a how a struggle between two global giants turning the battle of wills to its own advantage. and to corporate protesters from the occupy wall street movement in washington gearing up for tough police action they passed a deadline set up by local authorities to remove camping equipment from the city's squares but artie's lives while discovered the activists are still remaining loyal to the cause. so we are here at macpherson square where protesters have been occupying the park since october throughout the demonstration about one hundred tents have been pitched here the national park service has repeatedly slapped these notices on tents here macpherson square informing protesters that they can

portnoy has the story. winter morning in the south bronx new york city outdoors the temperature is near freezing indoors. seventy seven year old alison many otis is bundled up brewing a pot of coffee and raising the heat just enough. to take the chill out of the air the retired grandmother of seven lives alone on a fixed income and each winter as federal programs continue to be slashed the struggle to afford comfort gets harder i call it add screaming and waving i mean all they do was raise raise raise raise and i mean it's the same dollar you get in so how far can you push it one hundred gallons of oil one hundred fifty gallons of oil is about the. right now about close to six hundred dollars however venezuela has been stepping in to make alice's life a bit easier by delivering one hundred gallons of free heating oil each winter she is a four year beneficiary of the citgo venezuela heating oil program which provides free heating oil to five hundred thousand americans living in low income neighborhoods and

that and they can't get a job a struggle getting that much harder in the land of opportunity arena portnoy r.t. new york. times next in the program our interview with american academic jean shaab whose book is described by some as a landmark war k'naan violent traveling that's just half the headlines hailing out . it's not about spilling blood. just the war of the barricades from one side and fears blockade from the other. invisible border has cut people from the land for twelve years. the conflict that divided serbia into two hostile parts is still not over. welcome bob this is oxy and his that weeks him a new terror on planes the u.s. and israel what was behind that fascination on a rainy new class scientist in the city an effort to prevent the country's atomic adding further to mounting tension between america and based on microscopic. also more pressure on syria the enemy of consol because the first our visa to open a call for foreign military intervention the country well it keeps its forces all stunned by along the border with its former ally.

accidents shocking data coming from the national center for health statistics and authors marina portnoy reports it's fair to pharmaceutical firms prioritising profit of people's lives. america is regarded as a country with a ravenous appetite for consumption today a widespread fondness for pharmaceuticals has turned the us into a nation of pill poppers bipolar depression doesn't have to consume news here's me and here's my depression you know when you feel the weight of sadness you may feel exhausted hopeless and anxious according to the u.s. government anti-depressant use among americans has increased nearly four hundred percent in the past two decades published reports find that one in five adults take at least one drug for mental health disorders with over fourteen billion dollars in annual sales anti-psychotics remain america's top selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs this is a medical journal dr harriet fraud believes big pharma has manufactured a climate of insanity by manipulating and even creating illness for capital gains the advertising strategy is to have a big gia

afghanistan and pakistan they will soon start to be used here in the united states and as artie's marina portnoy shows us instead of invading people's cities and towns and he used to invade their privacy. they are the cornerstone of america's military arsenal dropping bombs on bosnia pakistan afghanistan libya and yemen a manned aerial vehicles known as drones have become the trademark of washington's war missions targeted assassinations and spying operations overseas but today the local police departments using unmanned spy plane said to catch suspects the remotely piloted war weapon is flying domestic u.s. local police and federal officials are increasingly using drones under the auspices of keeping citizens city police departments are using them in the united states or not i think almost two hundred sixty six applications that have been approved for police departments to use drones as aerial surveillance devices drones can be armed with a wide range of surveillance technology including high powered zoom lenses and infrared ultraviolet images. as the u.s. government flies prying eyes through t