he's on our team and nato troops bulldoze a serbian roadblock on the border with northern casa go after enforcing a shoot to kill policy here the disputed checkpoint the scenes two weeks ago. the museum is yet it has said both he and the dinner meeting would have stood for the same goals if running for the presidency but that putin's popularity among russians makes him the better candidate. of the never ending story of a stare at the greeks brace themselves for yet more cots and higher taxes as the government of the debt ridden nation tries to prove its fit for a new bailout vineet medicine.

just after nine pm here in the russian capital this is our top story nato troops in northern kossovo have bulldozed a barricade that was set up by serbs near the border area about software all journalists were forced away brought in along with a promise to shoot to kill anyone trying to cross it is an executive chef he has something to report. now the latest developments in the ongoing dispute at the border crossing between crossover and is that the case for troops have brought in bulldozers and demolished the serbian very caves this was the closest barricade to the border post between kosovo and serbia the case for both have pushed men from the manmade barricade which was down close to the border crossing ok for troops have set up a perimeter and they say that should anyone try to break it should try to penetrate

into the zone into the border crossing they will shoot to kill and some of them are even pointing their weapons towards us journalists or was the serbs who are stationed here this particular checkpoint was in the spotlight of the major violence on tuesday with more than eleven men injured in those clashes has now been removed or under control of the case for forces. now eleven men still remain in hospitals with different wounds despite that they pay for forces and nato claimed that they used only rubber bullets and tear gas grenades to pacify the crowd most of the people injured have gunshot wounds we managed to speak to the doctors in the hospitals and they confirmed this information to us that surgeries work performed on these men to remove bullets from their bodies some say this may ask related to a serious violence in particular the russian foreign ministry has already expressed deep concerns over the situation saying that it could destabilize the things in the

already stressed region the melting pot which is in the balkans and indeed everyone is watching how the. political analysts in belgrade told us that nato peacekeepers are more likely to revive the war than to bring peace. coldly and openly stepped out of the un mandate and they're really really now just like during one nine hundred ninety nine during the bombing when they were in the air force for the albanian separatists are now acting as their infantry so this is what we have so this is a clear breach of the u.n. charter and of the resolution twelve forty four all they're doing right now is that they are actually. the stabilizing the situation they're actually bringing conflict . everything was reasonably peaceful until they gave the green light for albanian special police forces to forcibly take the administrative border

control live and ever since then they've been giving them full support so they're encouraging actually the government to preach to not. headed by harsh in part she wanted for various charges from organ trafficking to drug trafficking and they're encouraging him to more violence so they're not at peace factor at all they're probably factor of war and destabilization. he is continuing to monitor the situation in the region and you can believe this latest updates from possible that's through our twitter stream and what his latest post he says the serbs he's spoken to are determined to state better at what you can follow us on twitter r.t. underscore. of course we'll be following this story as it develops and bring you all the latest updates from the. a rush as the president's been explaining why he's not seeking a second term had better stress that he and the team are put in have common goals

and that puts a huge popularity among russians will help achieve them should he return to the presidency next year i'm a bit of outlined his reasons in an extensive interview with russian media i disagree is in moscow and he has been a boring over the as you go or take us through the key points of the president's explanation. for the president's night with the heads of the media largest t.v. stations in russia and surely the upcoming presidential poll dominated the conversation especially in the light of meeting with these recent announcement that he's not planning to run for a second term in office and he recommended to avoid going to the for a russia's top job so no meeting with you to explain that this is a decision was made based on two major aspects the first one is that him and prime minister vladimir putin share their views only most social economic and political

policies which are clearly being put forward both by the administration and by the government and need to do the of says that we are providing to continue working side by side in the future and the second time pointing to the president is based simply on launching living he did says that period schools show that he himself enjoys a positive approval rating among the voters but it's prime minister vladimir putin who is truly the most popular political figure in the country and that's why it's so vital in order for the current policies to call for. him to become the next president and in that case. is planning to become the country's prime minister but you can be very distressed that this was simply a recommendation and it's still going to be up to the people get inside. who becomes of russia's next leader there will be other politicians from other parties of course also to war in this election next march. especially

choices made by the people and these are not mere words you thompson who can true any politician and any political force may lose an election we've seen this happen time and again i think our country and abroad anything can happen what you mean everything has been determined by the people decide who they should vote for whose popularity is greater only our people can make a final decision by voting for a candidate or a political force or turning them down this is what democracy is about. the president also talked about another major recent political event which is the sacking of finance minister alex the koodoo who while he was in the united states at a conference and following meeting with leaves and elseworlds all of these future plans couldn't says that if he becomes the next the prime minister of russia then couldn't doesn't see himself in that government due to disagreements in economic

policies with meet the media and the president did sack the finance minister saying now saying that this was a matter of political discipline and also perhaps that wouldn't just got bored of all this position but move them a bit of stress if you do to be extremely high level and caliber of policy would you as an economist as a professional who would have no problem finding another job in order to serve his country in the future. and serve their matches for that r.t.c. got this kind of reporting. well let's discuss president as we have comments we need you babiche a political analyst for the real news agency here in moscow mr babbage so admission of that of says he and buddy rich woods n.c.i. to wire a lot of things they have common goals but what about those rumors that there's a bit of

a rift within that tandem well i think these rumors were mostly wishful thinking on the part of the borns or. of united for russia russia and outside russia these people probably remember the times of the patrol when there was a rift inside the port of buehrle which ultimately was one of the reasons for the collapse of the u.s.s.r. is it not possible at all. you could it's possible but not with this generation because putin and madrid saw i would happen when we beat us and i remember before coming to power or maybe that gave an interview to the russian magazine called expelled where he basically said russia will not survive another conflict inside the leads so from the very beginning i didn't believe that there was a serious rift inside that he should pull the car serious ok well you know there's a reason that he gave basically was saying that he admits this is ratings are much lower than voting records and this was the reason why he wasn't running but what do

you make of that motivation is that all there is to it really well also all before coming to paul mullett of gave an interview to foreign journalists here in moscow i was also present and i remember the good of so i am of part of the state machine. and i remember no one caught a freeze probably because all these foreign donors hope that he would be something very special something quite outside this is to do with it here no i think maybe it was serious i think it was sincere he's a part of the machine he acknowledges it and he wants the machine tool or function perfectly this is one of the reasons why he was so angry with. and i think he feels their responsibility you know russian politicians maybe some very very emotional people for example yeltsin but as a journalist i worked with all of them in or. in any sense they were all tough managers very tough effective managers but all functioning properly production

imperfectly is one way of putting it but and they did have us also into modernizing i mean that's he wants to improve what he sees can be improved in terms of modernizing he says he wants to do the same with a cabinet what kind of changes do you think this means. i interviewed several political analysts to be on the show and all of them said there are several ministers inside the government when all of them who are deeply unpopular so a lot of people a lot of people expect them to be. one of these people who when said why there's a bit of second before the election that would probably raise years ratings. well you know every minister in russia has behind him a huge team and lots of private interests so it's not so easy as one might imagine but in general during his presidency i'm a bit of has shown himself to be a war. how. a lot less conservative with his personnel the volume of which and what

he would put in during his two terms in office fired less officials than we did have during lunchtime of i just very quickly and it's a good exit couldn't and psyching obviously any good of did say that he couldn't possibly serve in some other way serve his country riposte you think he was referring. it could be talking about. being a cauldron could be already preside assertion of something national banking columcille so it could be a sound public organization or bankers or it could be the central bank you know there were some calls to pull in charge of central bank he's a liberal financier and he will find himself a job with more than what we know all that and more toward not only is appreciated more of an effect here and i would say school training it's really. thanks very much for that analysis a mystery dimitri babbage political analyst from the news agency thank you right well you can watch the highlights president of that interview in our next hour and of course you can see the full conversation on our web site that's at our dot com.

that were meanwhile the thousands of civilians are trying to flee the city of sirte in libya where fierce fighting between pro and anti gadhafi forces continues now on friday former rebels launched a barrage of rockets at the colonel's home city and i saw a lot of the sooty from the red cross in tripoli told r.t. the fighting and the dire of shortage of essential are forcing people to leave. but the situation inserts we have heard accounts of i.d.p.'s about. water and electricity being cut of and a lot of difficulties with the we do water supplies with access to food and access to medical supplies and medical health services we have not been able to have the guarantees from all the sides all the parties to the conflict so we have no idea of what's going on right now in the city of sirte

unfortunately what we do know is that there are a lot of i.d.p.'s coming out people are fleeing from the city of sirte but things through that bridge and many of these ideas pieces have choosing to remain around as closely as possible to their home town and they are living in difficult conditions there are a lot of children and women also pregnant women who have difficult access to medical care so the situation is dire we're very concerned especially about their health situation right now right well and more reaction to the editor of the independent online political magazine a spike a rabbi alliance is in washington this is why and from what we're hearing from certain sounds like a full scale humanitarian crisis where is the international community to that. well i mean this is the inevitable consequence of the think things that they got

rolling back in february you know the kind of half hearted intervention was always going to end up with a kind of. force is what is this is the kind of last stand that we expected in tripoli a few weeks ago that never happened and clearly there's a lot of this thing about the role of the international community you know could be making things worse not simply by bombarding the city but boy actually having made such a fuss about civilians and not being injured or even by the media have been put by saying that if given the could duffey forces a real incentive to keep people civilians in the city probably a good. many of them would like to get out of there no. effect as we become a kind of shield by which the they can stay there for a little bit longer yes we're talking about these casualties i mean this city is under a constant need for bombardments and it week we hear that the casualties are mounting

as users yourself as mentioned going back again to that original mandate where does this sit right that mandate of protecting civilians if at all. well i mean i think the problem is that if you're going to have a military intervention in some way you can't just that you can't be clear that you're going to protect civilians in that way that the best thing that nato could have done in the way was either just not get involved which i would really be my preference to sorry or to like be decisive about that involvement but what they did was it was quite clear that having been through the process with iraq and afghanistan they were very unwilling to get involved in any kind of serious way put boots on the ground and that kind of thing and so we had a long drawn out conflict you know which didn't need to be that. what you take away the gadhafi forces were always going to be much weaker. but always came precisely that this was a humanitarian intervention that civilians were going to get hurt actually in the long run probably more civilians got to rise

a result of that and speaking of drawn out i mean we heard the libyan national transitional council saying that it will not form an interim government until the whole country is liberated i mean that is rather vague given the situation how long do you think that will take. well there could be as long as a piece of string really i mean the first places in the south are going to take quite a while to deliberate search could take a long time to liberate. as well because. there are civilians and songs that the gadhafi forces of got nowhere else to go they've got no interest in kind of running away so you know we could be in for a really really long styled mates and you. really gives more time for this kind of sense of uncertainty about exactly what the political future of libya is going to be ok and now it's been six knots and half a year after libya's conflict broke out it's now that the u.s. and its allies have decided to take a closer look at those and to get out the leaders that they had previously backed

unconditionally i mean this has been brought out sporadically in the past and now they're fearing islamic extremism do you think that's a bit too late for that now well i mean even if these leaders were islamic extremists i mean many of these are all good people that simply fell out with duffy in the past we have no idea really who these people are the point is they won't picked by the libyan people they were picked by the west and they owe their allegiance no to the rest. of the puppet regime or why. they have their place in power the fact they've got a seat at the u.n. the fact that they run the embassies now in these various different countries the fact that they recognize that's all come from the west it hasn't come from the libyan people so regardless of who they are whether this really represents a step forward for libyans is still very much open to question all right thanks very much for analysis there robert line saturday editor of the independent on life little magazine spite talk to us live from london thank you. well international

inspectors are having trouble visiting key ministries in greece because angry workers are occupying them and their latest protests the delegation are in athens to decide whether greece is this enough for another portion of the bailout the government's last chance to be to collapse later this month of the decision was suspended earlier over doubts of the country is doing enough to reduce its enormous debts well to talk about what lies ahead for the struggling europe bloc is william dartmouth is a european problem and member for the u.k. had a party this year dartmouth that's cash injection for greece still has in the balance of course and we have that inspectors requiring proof that greece is making enough cuts and boosting taxes effectively do you think they'll be convinced. well i don't think. the a proposition is all wrong in the first place i mean these are inspectors acting on behalf of the european union seeking to interfere directly in

the internal affairs of what is a sovereign state now the fact of the matter is that the european elite in blocked on the on this project which is the euro zone which was never going to work it was never going to work it was based on funding criteria even even france's admission to the euro zone was actually. was actually funded and the greek people are being or to pay the bill and pay the bill in no uncertain terms in terms of higher taxes cuts in public expenditure and drastic reductions in the some of the moving. but you have to admit though that those are the same people that we're talking about now they were able it first place to bring together the eurozone maybe simply by sheer political will do you think that that kind of all this euro zone together. well i mean i think that the lesson is and it isn't what i think it's actually what the markets think and the markets are making it very clear nor' nor' nor' at least

today that that political will is not enough there has to be an economic justification and the fact of the matter is that you simply cannot put an economic powerhouse like greece. an economic powers like germany and a country like greece which is rather less of an economic power so i can put it that way into the same currency block with the same monetary policy it just doesn't work and it's going to fall apart now no i'm saying this now when it's very very obvious but it was also said when this thing was actually being put together the it wasn't going to work and all these chickens are now cut coming coming home to roost as it were now the problem is that the fanaticism and i use the word fanaticism with some care the fanaticism of the european political establishment that says that is a say barrasso people like the deputy prime minister of england mr that mr clegg

and so on and so forth that that the fanaticism of these people are going to result in very very serious economic damage not just to greece not just to the seventeen countries in the euro zone but also to but also to the whole of europe and countries outside europe including not least russia that it's a very very serious matter right but you mentioned as i was in my dog are also there recently criticizing the new leaders for not explaining its citizens and what students if they don't keep their strike commitments a common achievements or do you think the greeks actually are committed to the single currency do you think it was explained enough to them and if it was maybe they will change their minds. well i think that people understand a single currency only too well as far as the greek people are concerned out here is to the single currency means that means it means that means it means as i indicated before higher taxes low gov expenditure and cuts in their standard of living and also for and also even even for a country like germany and france specifically

a country like germany and here is the single currency means massive transfer payments paid to countries in southern europe and what's happening is that the germans are no longer putting up with it we've already seen in finland that actually people don't like it the slovakians are demanding that they get some specific guarantees and so on and so on and so forth but i do come back to my earlier point that we shouldn't be where we are now and it is because of the fanaticism of this european elite and we should look very carefully at what they have to say in the future these are guilty men and they are discredited me. let's talk about germany now that i mean there might there there there is a split in germany some people not agree with what the government is doing however the fact remains that germany is guaranteeing about their part of that bailout rescue fund there must be a limit before it undermines our credit worthiness right what is that limits. well i mean i don't work for sudden pause and standard and poor's have actually got

analysis of credit credit worthiness wrong on several occasions as you know not least about subprime mortgages but i mean what we can certainly say is this whereas eighty six percent of the members of the german parliament voted in favor of guarantees in the bailout and so on just the day before yesterday eighty six percent of the german people are definitely not in favor of this and i know i'm on russia today but if i can refer you to a b.b.c. program that actually made that point with some clarity now the fact of the matter is that what is very worrying is that as my as my father used to say to me when i was a young man he said if you make a financial guarantee the new. surefire financial guarantees is that they get called and they're good you're signing something up when you sign a guarantee it's highly highly probable that it will get called and there is a limit to how much even a country like germany can produce because a country like france is actually much much less and there will be a long term question marks over the credit credit worthiness of france and germany

if the multiple trillions of yours which are required are actually paid up and called on rather thank you very much for your analysis there william dark member of the european parliament from the u.k. independence party thanks very much for all that so how does the site at this hour of a first the business and he's with really. i know him very well welcome to the business update growing fears of the global recession are making investors pull their cash out of risk emerging markets russia is no exception with economists saying sixty billion dollars could flee the country this year this is also adding pressure on the ruble it's lost twelve percent against the us dollar since the beginning of september however the chris we thought from troy could dilate believes the rebels recovery is not far away. my sense is of what we're seeing seeing from europe now is more of an effort at least to fix the

problem for now the u.s. has already said that it will do what's necessary to try and grow the u.s. economy so i think we're pretty much at the bottom of the weakness in the ruble right know i would believe and i would expect to see the ruble recover some of its losses over the next couple of months and i would expect to see stronger it is today predicated. in for us feds taking action to try and stimulate the economy when the ideal currency if you like for russia is probably around twenty eight or so against a dollar a day that's you know that's a good position for the ruble to be as it were in order to attract those long term capital without attracting too much there could be. that it's time to take a look at the markets the european stocks of enterprises trading session in the red following the weak start and fears of a global slowdown hurting sentiment concerns over chinese growth as science is the reason for the drop and luxury goods group prize usually focus. was also suffering

and still the mind of personal all those the top. trends here in russia both also in the red at the close for the r.t.s. it was the biggest quarterly drop in almost three years it lost more than thirty percent mice it's lost sixteen percent during the same period let's take a look at some of the individual in the my six energy stocks along with more than three percent financials balls that under pressure with dropping almost six percent tamada. straight for us. while we're finishing the end of september and it's been one of the worst. months actually the worst quarter since two thousand and eight for the russian market it's been a really really weak from the problem for russia has been. despite what's been a relatively. decent domestic case domestic story for russia it's getting hit by

uncertainty over what's going to happen in europe is greece going to fold and also what's happening in the u.s. what's the u.s. growth profile so russia scored an early tough price right now and are the markets selling off very very aggressively and one of the big issues has been for russia that it had a very strong rally and first quarter it's here a lot of liquidity came into the russian market because the oil prices are rising and those a lot of liquidity generated by q.e. two that trade is completely reversed right now we've seen extremely aggressive our throats from russia since may and it's continued to be three steps i'm not. so the business news from all small stores check all websites archies up com slash business.

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