still ahead on r t occupy wall street protesters claim their movement is being treated by the cia and while the agency is denying any involvement should the cia change its acronym. why a instead that story is coming up next. that just burns your eyes right i mean it's like a derivative of actual pepper it's a product essentially aha out this is much stronger than anything you'd be by a lot of. thousands of times we're stronger than any kind of. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is. welcome to the big picture. of lindsey lowe in fact you hold the great hope that is when it meant nothing people are suggesting. you know she said she was stocked. up on. a. well as the cia behind the intense occupy wall street crackdown we may never know for sure as the agency is not divulging any information on the subject by law the cia is not allowed to be involved in domestic matters only foreign intelligence issues but after seeing the organized almost mil

well still ahead on r t occupy wall street protesters claim their movement is being infiltrated by the cia and while the agency is denying any involvement should the cia change its acronym to see why instead that story coming up next. well as the cia behind the intense occupy wall street crackdown we may never know for sure as the agency is not divulging any information on the subject by law the cia is not allowed to be involved in domestic matters only foreign intelligence issues but after seeing the organized almost military response to the demonstrations throughout the nation some are raising eyebrows as to what is behind the crackdown and who exactly is involved a lot agency d.c. based partnership for civil justice filed a request to the cia to get some answers but their request was denied now this raises many questions and to help me answer them i am joined by varied in hillard executive director of the partnership for civil justice fund welcome era when you were a classmate of this information from the cia under the freedom of information act what response did you get well it's m

recreate burning man in the streets of new york but certainly i think that you are one of many examples that we've had here on r t that show that that is just not true occupy wall street organizer and activist christina gonzales. thank you so much for having me. still ahead here on our team keeping it in the family that's exactly what north korea is doing following the death of its leader kim jong il when we come back we'll take a closer look at the young successor who is now to help. the world. welcome to the capital account i'm lauren lyster. well north korea's dear leader kim jong il is dead according to reports out of north korea he died of exhaustion while riding on a train the world is waiting to see what's next and it's becoming clear that even some of our most senior officials here in the u.s. have no idea we've also got japan voicing fears of a pop possible military escalation in the korean peninsula and a state of emergency and military alert declared by south korea or kim jong il's you. youngest son kim jong un is expected to assume power many now wonder how he will lead and to what extent her follow in his father's footsteps are to correspond to the

and christine you're watching r t well let's begin this afternoon with the latest moves in the occupy wall street movement over the weekend two camps in major metropolitan cities were shut down. you see here these are police in boston very early saturday morning taking apart the occupy camp there protesters had been there about two and a half months and only fifty people were arrested and it was a similar scene in san francisco late last week although there seventy people were arrested when this is safe police in riot gear came to the camp it gave protesters a five minute warning to clear the area and clear the rest of the camp and themselves police then apparently tore down the more than one hundred tents and threw the rest of the protesters belongings into a garbage truck. all right so clearly this is a ramped up effort by police and other authorities around the country to put a stop to the occupation aspect of this movement but those who are a part of the movement say no worries they have some strategies in the works anyways this morning in new york city protesters stood outside the goldman sa

a bunch of us here at r t were pretty active tweeters though undoubtedly our own queen of twitter is our senior producer lucic half a novelist who spent weeks at occupy wall street both in new york and oakland and just yesterday got back from russia where she was covering the protests there now she is back and in studio with me lucy good to have you on i want to talk about a few different things you just got back from moscow quite a few people have been making the comparison of the protests between what we're seeing in moscow and occupy wall street so i just want to get your take is this a fair comparison you know i really don't think it is and i'm almost surprised at the fact that i'm saying that myself because before i departed on this trip to moscow you know sort of read all the new york times articles in the mainstream media articles the time magazine the naming of the protester as the person of the year lumping in moscow with that and so i generally expected to find the same sort of situation down there what i saw really took me by surprise the large rally that took place on the twenty fourth of december you know we went there to cover that it felt a lot mo

the obstacles the goal of occupy wall street is to make history and we're growing and we're going to be the transformative moment for example in economic justice in america. r t. r now at twenty past four in the afternoon here in moscow that's got some other international headlines for you in the world update now clashes between egyptian protesters and security forces continue at the country's capital sees protests for the second day military troops and riot police swept through tahrir square to what is another attempt to evict demonstrators calling for an immediate end to the rule of the armed forces as follows friday's violence which left at least fourteen people dead the military took power off of the former egyptian leader hosni mubarak was ousted in february. the philippine government has shipped more than four hundred coffins to two flood stricken cities to help local authorities handle the growing number of dead almost one thousand people most of them women and children were killed by the dead which struck the south of the country as they were sleeping thousands are still reported missing as the rescue efforts continue. iraq's sunni vice president tari

occupy wall street movement has brought to the u.s. . it is friday december thirtieth five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine frizz out there watching r t well it is the end of december the end of the year and also we are told the end of the war in iraq throughout the day today will be taking a look at what was left behind the site the more than one hundred thousand troops that have come and gone but first a recap of some of the most significant aspects of operation iraqi freedom and a look of where it all began my fellow citizens at this hour american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. it started with a campaign called shock. and are designed to be rapid and power. at first many americans were on board with the plan in part because of this earlier announcement by secretary of state colin powell one of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence far we have on iraq's biological weapons. is the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological agents weapons of mass destruction a key factor

poverty and although the recent mass occupy wall street protests have been calling for an end to wealth inequality in the u.s. those voices continue to be ignored r. t. is honest aasia churkin a takes us to new york where the gap between the rich and poor is wider than anywhere else in america. diamonds worth millions of dollars apiece the earrings are four hundred to six hundred thousand and the necklace is two million to three million cheaper deals at pawn shops for those slightly less well off the reservation shoppers with big wallets lured in by the most glamorous items and ninety nine cents stores where customers count pennies. even this. change i'm thinking might pay me and i give them they're in the state of new york it's home to around nineteen million people it's worth three hundred eighty thousand millionaires and seventy billionaires live meanwhile three million people on food stamps new york city is split into two different worlds the richest and poorest districts in the united states are right here. perspire ready and poverty brushing by each other on a daily basis although many seem to be blissfully unaware it's being promulgated by ou

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matter the obstacles the goal of occupy wall street is to make history we're growing and we're going to be the transformative moment for example in economic justice in america. r t. so quite a few important points here about the movement's impact on the public conversation and also the spotlight now shined on police brutality in this country which has played a major role in drumming up more support not less we also can't forget that the occupy movements are still taking place all around the country and despite the police dismantling many of the occupations the movement thrives in other cities as well as to get a firsthand perspective i spoke just a little earlier with christina gonzales she's an organizer and activist for occupy wall street i asked her about the significance of this past weekend and what the three month anniversary means to her. wow this weekend was definitely amazing you know we old guys together are we saying happy birthday to ourselves it was really kind of cute actually and there were just so many people mobilizing you know we were taking over spaces there was actually a big immigrant march that happened on sunday so it was a really big week