it's just after eight pm here in the russian capital this is r.t. in northern kossovo nato peacekeepers have used shoot to kill threats to break a roadblock by sir protesters on the border earlier attempts to remove it this week failed at the left several serbs injured parties and is close to the action with this report friday of the k. four troops removed one of the barricades which. the course was set up in order to block the police and the k. four troops from gaining access to the area and we understand that more than one hundred k. four troops came over there pointed their guns at the serbs blockading this particular area and ordered them that they should leave the serbs obeyed and retreated peacefully with no violence and set up another a manmade checkpoint two large trucks on

a bridge thus blocking the road the access for troops into the northern part of course there was still more than ten people remain in local hospitals in me that i would say in the town of. after being injured into these clashes with the k. four troops we managed to pay them a visit and ask them what exactly happened on tuesday. that. we were standing by the barricade when the soldiers started shouting and shooting at us i didn't know what they were shooting with so i got scared and started running away then i was hit on the shoulder and it turned out to be a perforating wound of my lung. the most interesting fact here is that the k. four troops and nato have been trying to convince everybody that they only used rubber bullets and tear gas grenades against the angry mob to pacify them but doctors in local hospitals told us that they those people who were injured in those clashes were delivered to hospitals carrying gunshot wounds. seven

men in heavy condition gunshot wounds fractures and bruises there were not wounds from rubber bullets not a single of them had a rubber room all those wounds were caused by regular bullets which we extracted from their bodies now the serbs may have lost one of their checkpoints but they have lots more around the area we've counted more than ten different checkpoints the determination of the serb people is very strong now to show that they do not want to be part of the course of a republic. although they are telling us to leave but we have no way to leave this is because constable is our land our home and our life it seems to be on their own now and we will stand our ground there has been very harsh international response on the actions of this week here in kosovo with the united states accusing the cost

of a service of provoking violence and the russian foreign ministry expressing deepest concerns over the situation here saying that this may seem as a small as a minor border crossing dispute but in reality this could destabilize the situation in the whole region. well the actions of the native peacekeepers may only provoke and not prevent more violence that's according to belgrade based political analyst that. they've totally in all police stepped out of the un mandate and there really really now just like during one nine hundred ninety nine during the bombing when there were the air force for the albanian separatists are now the 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're 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 prishtina. headed by a caution toci who 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 there are total factor of war and destabilization artes and he is in cost of oil and will be bringing you updates as and when they happen meanwhile you can have the artist page to get the freshest pictures of this order just because you can watch them bear or download them and broadcast quality for free i'll check it out on free video dot dot com. if you. could take three days for free. range from

three. three stooges free. and free broadcast live video for your media projects free media r.t. dot com. people in a tripoli have been protesting against a revolutionary troops that took over the city well they're angry that hundreds of armed men are still cruising the streets after capturing the city in late august locals argue that their presence provides little security as they follow no particular orders and they fire their weapons at well all but perry is the editor of internet investigative magazine consortium news and he thinks people are now realizing the cost of blindly supporting the revolutionary forces there is evidence even going back to the very beginning that the eastern part of libya was a hotbed of islamic radicalism some of these people have been connected to al qaeda one of the qaeda leaders who was killed recently a tear was

a libyan and he came from this general area and now we know that one of the leaders of the rebel forces that took tripoli was also considered very close to al qaeda and was indeed been detained by the united states for some time before he was allowed to go free so it appears that the people with the guns on the side of the libyan rebels are now the government are people who have this very mixed background and it's not clear how that works out when you get down to the point of once the country's under the control of this of this force which side of this force will will be predominant. libya revolutionary forces say they have surrounded the city of sirte gadhafi stronghold meanwhile aid agencies are alarmed at the thousands of civilians fleeing the besieged town people are being driven from their homes by fierce fighting and a lack of supplies rob lives deputy editor of the independent online magazine spiked says the situation has only been made worse by nato. and this is the they

have a small consequence of the think things that they got rolling back in february the kind of half hearted intervention was always going to end up with last stand by gadhafi forces to fight 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 last and that and the thing about the interview 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 being injured or even by the hated harvey but by so it's given the khadafi forces a real defensive to keep keep the civilians in the city probably a good so well i'm sure many of them would like to get out of there no. affectively become a kind of shield by which the they can they can stay there for a high on for a bit longer. well with no end in sight to the libyan conflict many are warning it could follow the path of the afghan war this week raging for

a decade now well later in the program we asked people in new york what they think ten years of fighting have achieved. even if we stay there another hundred years for a war there for that long it better be for something you know we better be getting something out of it you think that's going to happen no more opinions on the worthiness of the afghan war from the big apple and just a few minutes. as one of the worst droughts in decades forces a growing number of farmers in india to take their own lives look at why their families blame the state not nature. the first french president nicolas sarkozy has admitted the financial failure of greece would be the failure of all of europe he again called on partners not to leave athens without help following a meeting with the country's prime minister in paris words however aren't being matched with action as the euro zone is still delaying its decision on whether to

release more of the bailout money international inspectors are trying to wade through the tide of public anger to assess whether out of this deserves another shot of the money the greek government has pushed through pension cuts and extra taxes to try and please its creditors william dartmouth an m.e.p. for the u.k. independence party says the e.u.'s obsession with the euro can only end in disaster . as far as the greek people concern out here as to the single currency means higher taxes low gov expenditure and cuts in the standards of living and also for and also even even for a country like germany in fact specifically a country like germany. 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 shouldn't be where we are now and it is because of the fanaticism of this european elite and we should look very carefully what they have

to say in the future. and they are discredited and 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 of five financial guarantees is that they get caught 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 koreans of yours which are required are actually paid up and called on and it's not only greeks up in arms about the situation they've been dumped into and the us is also witnessing the nation's financial hub hundreds have thrown their weight behind the latest demonstration named occupy wall street to protest against the huge influence and bad behavior of corporations that billionaires associate churkin out was their. testers are here for a simple reason we feel duped and defrauded by the system. pick off the financial

meltdown nomic collapse one in six americans are currently living in poverty bankers were held on account. of the beginning of this high profile activists and scholars started joining these crowds it became harder for the media to ignore these demonstrations it also became hard for most americans to know. take these crowd seriously as police brutality started to her last weekend over eighty protesters were arrested several women were surrounded by police now and may stick with pepper spray but these protesters say they're willing to take any price to get their voices heard a lot of people on the one percent you know you know a fraction of the one percent that have all the money and really all of our if you think about it because would they say goosy influenced a lot of decisions. doesn't help anyone else but them. that's why everyone else is

interested in the protests together first and support maybe are beginning to wonder if this is becoming reminiscent of what america saw in wisconsin the structure up to seventy thousand people essentially storm the capitol building because there was one of course it was also you can support that that is two hundred fifty five. any of these demonstrators are planning to speak here and roll numbers until a real he's heard after all if the arab spring was applauded by the powers that be why not listen to a similar cry for change. as the situation. allows the authorities are accused of trying to silence the agony voices of wall street artie's max kaiser and stacey herbert are refusing to say quiet next hour they look at why some are so keen and to put an end to financial rumors were. the world bank the fed to be o.e. all agree there we can't talk the truth here in the financial world here's

a little video clip i want to turn to and this is the former greek finance minister yano us papantonio and he is talking about this rumors of a fifty percent. haircut and greek debt should have some you should require a fifty percent haircut as as i believe the current finance minister has suggested . you know that i'm in fact it's me is closer because if you did this and he said dangers of a dangerous proposition for greece yes pop antonio financial harpies i mean that's and he doesn't want to talk about it understandably but the cure for a financial herpes yanis pap antonio is you've got to talk about it you've got to go to the doctor or whatever and you've got to take care of your financial harpies i realize it's embarrassing and you should have been fornicating at the i.m.f. they gave you the financial harpies now you're a pariah. the

russian press is chewing over president medvedev the latest interview where he explained his decision not to enter the upcoming presidential race well the president admitted that he shares common goals with voting for putin and the current prime minister's high popularity levels make him the best man for the candidacy. has a reaction from the paper's. well the president's interview with the heads of the three biggest t.v. stations in russia did focus on some of the most important to latest political events in the country such as his decision not to run for a second term in office his recommendation off prime minister was even a fortune for the top job and to the sudden dismissal of now former finance minister i like seafood and so there's a lot of analysis and opinions in saturday's press in russia opinions both positive and not so positive let's start with the claim of sun newspaper really were well known here in russia and it's published an article to try to show you this polish

not to go under the title of what were you after what's your ambition and the analysts that the newspaper was talking to have been saying that even though the need to do a deal has finally announced his political plans and the plans of his stand them with the prime minister why do you put in there are still a lot of uncertainty since the official political programs for the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections still have not been announced however this point of view is not shared by the analysts that these this deal newspaper i spoke to this is another well known big newspaper in russia it's probably still not to go under the title of how significant is the timing and its analysts have been saying that the media has finally managed to close the deal list of the biggest players during that upcoming presidential election next more trouble now or loss of focus is definitely on the sudden dismissal girls now former finance minister alex

equaling who is always thought to be the key ally both of the government and of the president's administration the camera newspaper says that step to dismiss him like receiving more questions into what else could happen while be the lead if he's still in office he. however there are analysts who say. the dismissal just shows that the president is serious in his ambitions just too much of the problem and she oh action will be held in russia samara and the presidential blow will be held next to more cheney didn't happen still fourteen did need to be different it's still going to be up to the people to decide who gets to run the country next despite daily recommendation that he meet a senior. political analyst viciously on the could of told r.t. that the logic and ambition of the session was clear the day it was announced but

now i think this situation is pretty logical. and mediator for both representing the same political force united russia being completely similar in not being poisons and politics and they're still pretty close here logically and politically at this point as we did if explained. is more popular then we did it himself and the question is about winning the next presidential election that will not go automatically it will be a fight could use more equipped to lead the united russia in the void in the next presidential struggle at the same time he did if is keeping his position as an important political figure potential prime minister and potential leader of the united russia which makes him a. politician with great perspective in the future well you can of course watch the full version of that interview on r.t.

dot com. a devastated by drought and crops killed by chemicals farmers in india face a battle for survival one of the dry seasons in decades has left thousands of farmers across the country with little crops and big debts even prompting some to take their own lives as artist priya schrader reports the government's ignoring this growing problem. the sun is shining on these farm lands in southern india commonly known as the country's rice bowl they may look watch but the grass is far from greener out here farmers are killing themselves in the thousands. most of the farmers are committing suicide due to the influence of the other farmers who committed suicide romola husband is one of many who succumbed to drought and debt and took his own life some of the driest seasons in decades and an increase in pesticides and fertilizers have rendered their land barren for the grieving families left behind the future is graeme. how should i carry on with my

life nothing is good for me and my children and there is no one to help us how do i bear this trouble someone needs to help us. while the government has a tentative deal with the high number of farmer suicides by compensating two thousand dollars to affected families many families say they haven't received any money and even those who have say it's not enough studies show that during the ninety's farmers were able to make around sixty dollars per acre of land every year today just about forty dollars for almost four acres of land the government has pledged billions of dollars in relief packages to farmers and promised to increase the minimum rate on certain exports but many believe the farmers are being ignored . the government is neglecting agriculture basic information like wind power will be there were not available for the foam as the government is not providing

sufficient loans which is forcing foam has to knock on the doors of money lenders. those who've tried to beat the drought themselves took out huge loans to dig wells but for many it's in vain. we are losing by making these wells but we are surviving because we are determined not to can. suicide we are leading a very sad life just sinking water levels mean these walls are useless but have left a deep hole in farmers' pockets the state banks turn their backs on those who couldn't repay their debts the loan sharks are now demanding high interest rates and won't take no for an answer you have to the worth of money lenders and finance years are frequently visiting our home and torturing us we want to pay huge sume widows like rama luxe me are now the breadwinner as tending to two acres of desolate farmland and rolling cigarettes to earn money to feed her children like her late husband she

has no one to turn to and no way out a lonely life even though there are thousands just like her preassure either party tell i'm gonna india. you're watching r t twenty four hours a day seven days a week our website is there for you with plenty of on our top stories also there right now firewall in a world famous tightrope walker tries to cross the moscow river with both his nerves and his robe beginning to wobble to find out of his death defying attempt proved successful go to our t.v. dot com plus. a portrait of the russian apartment a star but a mere putting created from thousands of tiny photos of the mona lisa again log onto our two dot com for more photos from the international art moscow fair.

and now for a brief look at some other international headlines somali pirates have reportedly kidnapped a wheelchair bound french woman near the kenyan resort of level the navy and police chase the boat carrying the victim but feared an attack could end with a seventy five year old woman drowning the kidnapping comes less than a month after a somali pirates abducted a british woman and killed her husband at the same area. the second typhoon in just a week is battering the rain so northern philippines forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate the first calls landslides across the region have left at least one person dead forecasters predict the typhoon will become more powerful as it heads towards vietnam. allied to aircraft has crashed into a ferris wheel at a festival in eastern australia leaving two children trapped on the ride for hours amazingly no one was seriously injured in the accident or just before the crash

happened rain had forced the majority of people off the ride the pilot said he never saw the real before smashing into it. well that's almost ten years since american troops led the invasion into afghanistan the decade of fighting has led to thousands of u.s. soldiers of afghan civilians being killed lorri harford missed because the people on new york streets if they believe this war story will ever have a happy ending. it's been ten years since the us bound to afghanistan as a prelude to an ongoing war a decade later has it been worth it this week let's talk about that four wars there's no benefit so what are they still doing there for ten years i don't know what the heck senator they do and i don't know it's probably another vietnam. war where the problem is not a we're not. going to win it's just

a case of more and more americans and others dying it seems clear cut see that it's not worth it i don't see a goal and i really see anything changing even if we stay there another hundred years it was worth it to hunt down al qaeda but i think we did there at the start with our special forces and for the past nine years i don't think we've accomplished much at all a very controversial question and there's pros and cons to the situation what are the pros the pros is i think that we have to make a statement that we aren't able to. seek things sitting down that we have a voice and whether it's there's more peaceful ways to present that probably how does it go on for ten years that you take a stand for ten years it's a hornet's nest there's no winner over there we have great states we're in there with them but what do we have to do. well eventually we got to bring peace and i mean that's such a nebulous thing right like how we really bringing peace to afghanistan well only

time will tell you know i don't really know enough about it to say whether it was worth it do you think that's crazy that your country's been at war for ten years and you don't know anything about it that is a problem. but yeah most americans feel that way you know i'm sure a lot of americans there but you're pro and anti i look at this so i mean for for a war there for that long i mean it better be for something and we better be. it's a bit out of it if you think that's going to happen. it seems like most people don't feel like the u.s. war in afghanistan has been worth it unfortunately no one in power seems to be listening. well that's the news for this hour i'll be back with a recap of the top stories after a short break. if

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back you're watching our live from moscow and here's a recap of our main stories a deadly situation develops in a northern cos ago as nato implemented a shoot to kill orders to break a roadblock built by local serbs near a disputed checkpoint at the border crossing was seized two weeks ago by costs and police say that by the alliance and since then the clashes have left several serbs injured. people in tripoli take to the streets angry of a former rebel still carrying guns in the city that says thousands flee one of the few remaining gadhafi strongholds the city of sirte and it's facing a serious humanitarian crisis. and operation occupy wall street and the inequality of corporate influence and grows in the u.s. as protests headed to their.