the noises that we just you hear like popping sounds it's a take us going off on the other corner syntagma. almost immediately you just get a huge surge of people coming posture i mean you can barely me. this is a really intense experience and you sort of when you're right in the center of it i can't tell you what it's like to be around people that angry that angry that they feel to a point where they're having to turn outs and these sort of clashes abrupt i mean it's really scary because it's not just. a small hall cool. these people you know old people young people completely normal families that are turning up that have just reached the point where they don't know what to do anymore. we literally found ourselves in the center. just side of one of the streets as all the riot police started pushing back late at the anarchists these guys are backing down you know the people sort of running at them and throwing rocks and metal and it was just it was absolutely. five is going off in different parts in time and everyone was just sort of running around thinking very very you know it's and we w

it was just still think syntagma very very close to central square at the year anything quite as rumbles all grief as once again found itself the focus of international attention and it seems like everyone had an opinion about it that you honor him and going off and finishing to . coming back and getting a phone call to say that we needed to do another one at that exact moment we could hit the noises that we just you hear like popping sounds it's a take us going off on the other corner syntagma. almost immediately you just get a huge surge of people coming policy i mean you can barely me. this is a really intense experience and you sort of when you're right in the center of it i can't tell you what it's like to be around people that angry angry that they feel to a point where they're having to turn outs and these sort of clashes abrupt i mean it's really scary because it's not just. a small hall cool. these people you know old people young people completely normal families that are turning up that have just reached the point where they don't know what to do anymore. we literally found ou

saying as well here today on syntagma square such different scenes to some of the ones that we seeing today of course is people get ready to celebrate new year's celebrations perhaps a temporary reprieve friend was being stastny an extremely hard hit for the people here and looks set to be another tough one in twenty twelve all right all life for us and so many things. i still have for you this hour here on our what changes would you like to see in two thousand and twelve. noble borders and more borders let's just all be one country. this is so difficult to travel. hours to go before the new here. just hits the streets of new york to get some two thousand and eleven and two thousand and twelve. plus you can also get a firsthand account of the year's major events from the r.t. correspondent. as they happen testimonies waiting for you on our web site www dot com. this is. history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shape two thousand and eleven. a quarter past the hour in moscow let's turn our attention to syria now where the two largest opposition groups have agreed to unite aga

and thank you so much for joining us again i'm going to speak in the sun on syntagma square and you were talking about putting an end to this vicious cycle if bailouts and debts and austerity measures at the end of the year we enter any closer to being an end in sight for the euro crisis no. we're in a very deep. and recession under snow just greece is the whole euro zone is just about to enter an official face of recession so no there's no light. at the end of the tunnel this is what we're experiencing out of old were being told we're going to experience next year which means another here. is exactly the proof of the failure of this. that's why we need a radical tentative these things cannot go on anymore in this way it's a society in despair people are in despair. unemployment has roots and seen before eleven public spending has been cut. salaries minus thirty minus thirty five percent we're being told we're going to endure maybe more ten more years. to reach that level when we have the first time we were told we had to take six so dirty misery so there's no end in sight when we see th

going off in different policy syntagma everyone was just sort of running around thinking very very lowest and we were just stunned to be honest i mean it just going from one hundred in the space of sort of twenty minutes and you know we found ourselves right and i remember just saying just keep filming this is keep filming it and i made it very hard to get people to pretend that it may be that difficult to find out. about it. as we. the people. there. trying to reports and eventually to take us to a sort of a became sort of mid sentence just thinking oh my god i just can't breathe anymore . and i remember seeing the fishes in the car and getting caught in the middle of the to you guys and just thinking oh that's just. thing coughing and spluttering in. do you remember being quite in virus about that then we realized that it obviously that clip caught a lot of people's attention. and i think it actually felt good that it was striking a chord with a lot of people because at that time still there was very much a sense in europe in the way it was being reported that you know this is a problem

will be both have been gathering in syntagma square throughout the evening in the greek capital which will both come twenty probably just two hours time under. through hours time now the software has been this point of the mouse protests throughout the year and actually something a lot more like it sounds in moscow with these far worse lots of protests monson tear gas but that running country has seen its fair share of violence like i said gas and destruction let's talk to sara for a few days enough and has been covering the greek protests throughout the year and thanks for being with us this new year's there must be a different feeling on things that must wear now that compared to the rest of the year people are coming to celebrate i assume. that's not you know first of all a very happy new year if you will in most cases i must increase but here in greece still think in fairness to celebrate treat me isn't as cheap a latent as in pastas because of course it's been an extremely tough year for the people who. like debts like bad lousy at bias thirty matches that have really affected ju

job oprah ponens and activists famous contemporary insurrections include to rear square in egypt syntagma square in athens and of course wall street in new york now the occupy movement speaking of wall street is really seen as the latest worldwide manifestation of this giago phenomenon and just to give you a little reminder as of november seventeenth the media page of occupy together listed more than twenty six hundred occupy communities and towns and cities and that's worldwide now occupy. wall street is seen as the first time that the job a movement really moved to the epicenter of finance before that as you can tell from the other examples i gave you in the view of job of the insurrection could be conflated with other ills perceived like the role of mubarak in the case of egypt or the kleptocracy as perceived in greece and that financial experts and smart viewers is giago. now as i just showed you as occupy wall street saw a massive day of action yesterday and we saw images like these from new york of protests and arrests and police violence and some of the footage right there you can