after nine pm here in the russian capital this is r.t. now to our top story nato troops in northern kossovo have bulldozed a barricade that was set up by serbs near the border area well that's after all journalists were forced away brought in along with a promise to shoot to kill anyone trying to cross it. has sent this report. now the latest developments in the ongoing dispute at a border crossing between. serbia is that the case for troops have brought in bulldozers and demolished the serbian very kid this was the closest barricade to the border post between kosovo and serbia the case for border pushed men from the manmade barricade which was down close to the border crossing the k four 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 some of them are even pointing their weapons towards journalist towards 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 the k. four 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 they confirmed this information to us that surgeries were performed on these men to remove bullets from their bodies some say this may ask you late into 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. all political analysts alexandr belgrade told us that

nato peacekeepers are more likely to revive the war than to bring peace. they've totally and openly stepped out of the u.n. mandate and they're really really now just like during one nine hundred ninety nine during the bombing when there was the air force for the albanian separatists are now acting as their infantry so this is what we have 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. destabilizing the situation there are actually bringing conflict . everything was reasonably peaceful until they gave the green light for albanian special police forces to forcibly take the administrative border back in july and ever since then they've been giving them full support so they're encouraging actually the government to. headed by harsh in part she is wanted for

various charges from organ trafficking to drug trafficking and they're encouraging him to more violence so they're not a peace factor at all they're cold and drove the war and the stabilization. is continuing to monitor the situation in the region and you can read his latest updates from possible that's through our twitter stream and one of his latest post he says the serbs he's spoken to are determined to stay to the bitter and what you can follow us on twitter. underscore. and of course we'll be following this story as it develops and bring you all the latest updates from the spot as we get. to russia as the president's been explaining why he's not seeking a second term vet of stress that he ever deemer putin have common goals and that puts a huge popularity among russians will help achieve them should he return to the presidency next year well medvedev outlined his reasons in an extensive interview with russian

media. is in moscow and has been a boring over the yes or you go or take us through the key points of the president's next with the. well the president's met with the heads of the largest t.v. stations in russia and surely the upcoming presidential poll dominated the conversation especially in light of the the media's recent announcement that he's not planning to run for a second term in office and he recommended divides reporting the for russia's top job so no need to move you to explain to her that this is a decision was made basing on two major aspects the first one is that him and prime minister vladimir putin share their views on most social economic and political policies which are clearly being put forward both by the administration and by the government and we do have says that they are planning to continue working side by side in the future and the second aspect according to the president is based simply

on logic the reason we did it says that various polls 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 of why though in order for the current policies to go on for. him to become the next president and in that case we can see the video is planning to become the country's prime minister but we've been a very distressed that this was simply a recommendation and it's still going to be up to the people did decide who becomes of russia's next leader whilst there will be other politicians from other parties of course also to pour in this election next march. the choices made by the people and these are not me a word to be true any politician and any political force may lose an election we've

seen this happen time and again both in our country and abroad anything can happen what you mean everything has been determined that 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 we're 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 the finance minister. while he was in the united states at a conference on the following weekend movie of. future ones who didn't says that if he becomes the next prime minister of russia that doesn't seem self government due to disagreements in economic policies with the media and the president did say the finance minister saying now saying that this was

a matter of political discipline and also perhaps that. just got bored on this position but meeting with the stress of that due to the extreme the high level and caliber of secord him as an economist as a professional he will have no problem finding another job in order to serve his country in the future. and so very much for that r.t.c. this kind of reporting. well that's a scots president is getting his comments with me gee bob it should political analyst for the real news agency here in moscow mr babich so it's richard that of says he and let him or putin see eye to eye on 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 bottom of the born's of. view later to russia and outside russia

these people probably remember the times of nico gorbachev when there was a rift inside the board of buehrle which ultimately was one of the reasons for the collapse of the u.s.s.r. is not possible at all. theoretically it's possible but not with this generation because putin and medvedev saw how it happened in the late eighty's and i remember before coming to power mediated gave an interview to a russian magazine called expert where he basically said that russia will not survive another conflict inside the elites so from the very beginning i didn't believe that there was a serious rift inside the leadership of the car serious ok well there's a reason that he gave basically was saying that he admits this is ratings are much lower than vladimir putin 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 that medvedev said i am a part of the state machine. and i remember no one called that phrase probably because all these foreign donors hope that he would be something very special something quite outside this is to do with it here you know i think maybe it was serious i think you were sincere he's a part of the machine he acknowledges it he wanted the machine tool function perfectly this is one of the reasons why he was so angry with cool and i think he feels the responsibility you know russian politicians maybe some bonus very emotional people like for example yeltsin by the saddam list i walked with all of them you know. in any sense they were all men are just very tough effective managers all functioning properly prevention imperfectly is one way of putting it but i'm a dad of us also intent on 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 well i interviewed several political analysts today or on the issue and all of them said that there are several ministers inside the government we know all of them who are deeply unpopular so a lot of people a lot of people expect them to be sacked and one of these people who would've said why does it mean video segment before the election that would probably raise his 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 less. i was less conservative with his personnel than volume of which and what even put in during his two terms in office fired less officials than we did of during one term in office i just very quickly had this it go back to could run and psyching obviously ever get it did say that he couldn't possibly serve in some

other way service country what post you think he was referring to. it could be talking about. being called in today already preside the assertion of something like national banking columcille so it could be some public organization or bankers or it could be the central bank you know there were some calls to board in charge of central bank he's a liberal financier and he will find himself a job in the modern world we know all that and more the wall not only is appreciated more than effective and i would say school training. thanks very much for that analysis is a mystery dmitry babich political analyst from the news agency thank you all right well you can watch the highlights of president a vet if the interview in our next hour and of course you can see the full conversation on our website that's at our t dot com. all right we are meanwhile a thousands of civilians are trying to flee the city of sirte in libya where fierce fighting between pro and anti gadhafi forces continues now one friday former rebels

launched a barrage of rockets at the colonel's home city and i so want to be sooty from the red cross in tripoli told r.t. the fighting and the dire shortage of essential are forcing people to leave. by the situation in search we have heard accounts of i.d.p.'s about. water and electricity being cut of and a lot of difficulties with the with the water supplies with with the 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 passing through that a bridge and many of these id pieces have choosing to remain around as closely

as possible to their home town 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 are very concerned especially about their health situation right now. right well and more reaction now the a deputy editor of the independent online political magazine a spiked rabbi alliance is in london this is why i'm suffering 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 i got rolling back in february that kind of half hearted intervention was always going to end up with a kind of that last stand by gadhafi forces in fact is this is the kind of loss

that we expected in tripoli a few weeks ago that never happened and clearly there's a last stand there and the thing about the role of the international community no could be making things worse not simply by bombarding the city but boy actually having made such a fuss about civilians being injured or even though they clearly have but by saying that it's given the khadafi forces a real influence and to keep keep the civilians in the city probably a good. many of them would like to get out of there no. effect as they become a kind of a shield by which the they can they can stay there for a. little bit longer yes we're talking about these casualties i mean this city is under constant major bombardments and we hear that the casualties are mounting as user yourself as mentioned going back again to that original mandate where does this sit with that mandate of protecting civilians if at all. well i mean i think

that the problem is that if you're going to have a military intervention in some way you can't just you can't declare that you're going to protect civilians in that way but the best thing that nato could have done in the way it was either just not get involved which i would really be my preference or to 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. which didn't need to be done. to take away the gadhafi forces were always going to be much we. always emphasizing that this was a humanitarian intervention that civilians were going to get hurt actually the long war. most of them got more as 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 those those places in the south are going to take quite a while to liberate could take a long time to liberate and as well because. there are civilians and as long as the good the gadhafi forces of got nowhere else to go they've got no interest in kind of running away so. we could be in for a really really long style. but it 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 months i mean 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 off the leaders that they had previously backed unconditionally i mean this has been brought up sporadically in the past and now they're fearing islamic extremism do you think it's a bit too late for that now. well i mean even if these leaders were islamic

extremists i mean you know many of these are old gadhafi people that simply fell out with gadhafi in the past we have no idea really who these people are the point is they were picked by the libyan people they were picked by the west and they owe their allegiance now to the west they're kind of the regime you know why. they have their place in the sea 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 rob alliance deputy editor of the independent on life political magazine spight talk to us live from london thank you. well international debt inspectors are having trouble visiting key ministries in greece because angry workers are occupying them in their latest protests the delegation are in athens to

decide whether greece is fit enough for another portion of the bailout the government's last chance to agree to collapse later this month or 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 euro block is william dartmouth who's a european parliament member for the u.k. independent party mr dartmouth now the next cash injection for greece still hangs in the balance of course and we have 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 barked on the on this project which is the euro which was never going to work it was never

going to work it was based on flawed criteria even even from a mission to the euro zone was actually. was actually fogged 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 reduction in their standard of living. you have to admit though that those are the same people that we're we're talking about now they were able in the first place to bring together the eurozone maybe simply by sheer political will do you think that that kind of hold 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 not not not least to day 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 as i can put it that way into the same currency bloc with the same monetary policy it just doesn't work and it's going to fall apart now now i'm saying this now when it's very very obvious but it was also said when this thing was actually being put together that the it wasn't going to work and all these chickens are now. coming home 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 were also people like the deputy prime minister of england mr 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 the

countries outside europe including not least russia that it's a very very serious matter right but you mentioned there was almost a model but also they did recently criticize the e.u. leaders for not explaining it to citizens what's to lose 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 the single currency only too well as far as the greek people are concerned adherents to the single currency means means that means that means that means as i indicated before higher taxes lower govern expenditure and cuts in their standard of living and also for and also even even for a country like germany in fact specifically a country like germany at here's to 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 men oh alright let's talk about germany now that i mean there are there are 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 a massive part of that bailout rescue fund there must be a limit before it undermines its own credit worthiness right what is that limit. well i mean i don't work for standard and poor's and standard and poor's have actually got analysis of of credit credit worthiness wrong on several occasions as you know not just about subprime mortgages but i mean what we what i mean what i 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 nature. five financial guarantees is that they get called little just signing something up when you sign a guarantee it's highly highly improbable that it will get called and there is a limit to how much even a country like germany can produce and of course a country like france is actually much much less and there will be a long term question mark 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 rebel thank you very much for your analysis there will your dark member of the european parliament from the u.k.

independence party thanks very much. for that so how the news looks like at this hour of a first the business news with. hello and a very warm welcome to the business of david 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 where the chris with the from troika darling believes the rebels recover is not far away. my sense is what we're seeing seeing from europe now is more of an effort at least to fix the problem for now the u.s. fed has already said it will do what's necessary to try and sustain growth in u.s. economy so i think we're pretty much at the bottom of the weakness in the ruble right now 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. win it is today predicated no greek default and u.s. fed taking action to try and stimulate the economy in the ideal currency if you like for russia is probably around twenty eight or so against the dollar debts 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 spare could of capital. and it's time to take a look at the markets the european stocks ended prizes trading session in the red following the week start and fears of a global slowdown hurting sentiment concerns over chinese growth is the reason for the drop in luxury goods group prices usually focus chatters was also suffering silver mine a first meal was the top. and here in russia both horses were 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. sixteen percent during the same period let's take a look at some of the individual share moves in the my six energy stocks along with more than three percent financial spall still under pressure with dropping almost six percent on monday for much prettier reps of the day straight for us. while we're finishing under such 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 bad week and the problem for russia has been that 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 default and also what's happening in the u.s. what's the u.s. growth profile so russia scored an early tough place right now and the market selling off very very aggressively and one of the big issues has been for russia

that it had a very strong rally in the first quarter of this year a lot of liquidity came into the russian market because the oil prices 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 flows from russia since may and it's continued aggressively through september. that's all the business news from all small stores check all websites archie dot com slash besets.

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