on stories on our t.v. a deadly situation develops a brother possible as nato implements shoot to kill orders at a polish roadblocks built by local serbs are a disputed checkback. people living in tripoli take to the streets and good and former rebels carrying guns into city hall people in one of the few remaining gadhafi stronghold suffer the deepening humanitarian crisis. also operation occupy wall street grows in the us against inequality and corporate influence people's fury turns towards the police following a series of arrests and so some brutal behavior. and of the media makes its

judgment on russia's political future in the wake of dmitri medvedev the interview over his decision not to seek a second term. coming to you live from moscow you're watching r t you know we begin in northern kossovo where nato peacekeepers have used shoot to kill threats to break a roadblock i served protesters on the border earlier attempts to remove it this week failed and left several serbs injured and artie's alexei a show of skiis close to the action and he sent us this report. on friday the k. four troops removed one of the barricades which because it 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 blockading this particular

area and ordered them that they should leave the serbs obeyed and retreated peacefully with no violence and set up another manmade checkpoint two large trucks on a bridge thus blocking the road the access ok for troops into the northern part of course about still more than ten people remain in local hospitals in need of it's in the town of. after being injured in tuesday's clashes with the k. four troops we managed to pay them a visit and ask them what exactly happened on tuesday. that is. 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 and i was hit on the shoulder and it turned out to be a perforated my lungs the most interesting fact here is that the case for troops and nato have been trying to do to convince everybody that they only used rubber

bullets and tear gas grenades against the angry mob to pacify them but doctors and local hospitals told us that they those people who were injured in those clashes were delivered to hospitals carrying gunshot wounds to the room. seven men have you condition gunshot wounds fractures and bruises there were not rubber bullets not a single of them had a rubber 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 serve people is very strong to show that they do not want to be part of the course of the republic. and they are telling us to leave we have no way to leave this is because constable is our land our home and our life

it seems that we are 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 using the course 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 this beaut but in reality this could destabilize the situation in the whole region well the actions of the nato peacekeepers may only provoke and not prevent more violence that's according to belgrade based political analyst. they've totally 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 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

there are actually. these stabilizing the situation there i should bring in conflict. everything was reasonably peaceful until they gave the green light for our albanian special police forces to forcibly take the administrative border control why and ever since then they've been giving them full support so they're encouraging actually the government to prishtina. headed by caution car chief who is wanted for various charges from organ trafficking to drug trafficking and that they're encouraging him to more violence so they're not a peace partner at all there are total factor of war and the stabilization. and possible and he will be bringing you updates as and when they happen while you can also have to arjun's rebuild your page get the freshest pictures the best order just you or you can watch the bear or download

a broadcast quality for free so check it out on free video are playing at the top. if you. couldn't take three days for free. range free. three stooges free. food free board to the videos for your media project and a free media gun to our team. of people in tripoli have been protesting against revolutionary troops that took over the city well they're angry that hundreds of our men are still cool. in the streets after capturing the city in late august locals argue that their presence provides little security as they follow no particular order are their weapons that well robert 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 leaders who was killed recently a cheer was a libyan and he came from this general area oh 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 trained 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 people who have this very mixed background and it's not clear how do you know when you get down to the point of once a country under their control with their service force which side of this force will will be predominant. a libyan a revolutionary forces say that they have surrounded the city of sirte stronghold

meanwhile aid agencies are alarmed thousands of civilians fleeing the besieged town people are being driven from their homes by fierce fighting as a lack of supplies robert lives deputy editor of the independent of life magazine says that the situation has only been made worse by nato. and this is the there was more consequence of the thing things that i got rolling back in february you know the kind of half hearted intervention was always going to end up with the last stand by gadhafi forces in fact is this is the last stand that we expected in tripoli a few weeks ago that never happened and clearly there's a lot in the spring about the role of the international community you know could be making things worse not some people bombarding the city but boy actually having made such a fuss about civilians and not being injured or or hurt even though they hated harvey but by so you know if given the khadafi forces a real face of the cliff keep the civilians in the city. probably against their

well i'm sure many of them would like to get out of there no. effect if you become a kind of shield by which the they can they can stay there for a high on for a bit longer. oh with no end in sight to the libyan conflict many are warning it could fall the path of the afghan war that's been raging for a decade now later the program we ask people in new york what they think ten year supply of cheap. even if we see there another hundred years for a war there for that long it better be for something you can we get over years of that if you think that's going to happen. to work the best of the afghan war from the big apple coming to you in just a few. plus hours one of the worst droughts in decades forces a growing number of farmers in india to take their own lives we look at why their families going to the states make sure. that first

hundreds of people had hit the streets of portugal's two biggest cities to protest against a sturdy mesures the debt ridden country had to ask for a seventy eight billion euro rescue package and made to avoid bankruptcy the longer the bailout the lisbon agreed to implement harsh cuts but is still fighting to reduce its budget deficit and another struggle of euro zone state greece is trying to convince international inspectors that it deserves another portion of the bailout the greek government has pushed through pension cuts as well as extra taxes to try and lose its creditors one of dartmouth m.e.p. from the u.k. independence party says that the e.u. subset should be zero and only end in disaster. for the greek people concern out here is to the single currency means higher taxes low gov expenditure and cuts in the son of the living but 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 should be where we all know. 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 these are you few men 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 calls 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 call them well it's not on the greeks or up in arms about the situation they've been dumped into the us is also witnessing at the moods of the nation's financial hard

hundreds of throw their weight behind the latest demonstration named occupy wall street protest against the huge influence and bad behavior of corporations and billionaires and archy's and associates working out was there. that the testers are here for a simple reason they feel duped and defrauded by the system and land on street greed because i guess meltdown that led to comic labs in six americans currently living in poverty bankers were held unaccountable and it was the people that suffer this could be the skeleton of the beginning of one possibly as 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 not see these crowds seriously as police brutality started to her last weekend over eighty protesters were arrested several women were surrounded by police now and nice with pepper spray but these protesters say they're willing to pay any price to get their

voices heard a lot of people are. the one percent. 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 goes they influenced a lot of decisions which doesn't help anyone else but them. that's why everyone else is going through the protests gather first hand in support many are beginning to wonder if this is becoming reminiscent of what america something was silence in the scripture or up to seventy thousand people essentially support the capitol building because there was one of the union support that it is to have. any of these demonstrators are planning to see here and grow in numbers until the real. purpose after all is the arab spring was applauded by the powers that be why not listen to a similar plan for change. the situation arity. well as the authorities are

accused of trying to silence the active voices on wall street artie's mass keyser as they see herbert's are refusing to say quiet and less than twenty minutes from now they look at why some are so keen to put an answer for that. well rumors. the world bank preferred to be o.e. all agree 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 papantonio and he is talking about this rumors of a fifty percent. haircut and greek debt should a solution require a fifteen percent haircut as as i believe the current finance minister suggested you know that this is closer because if you could be this. video games which the position for greece. antonio financial harpies i mean that's and he doesn't want to talk about it understandably but the cure for 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. and they gave you the financial harpies now you're a pariah. the russian press the string over president medvedev that latest interview where he explained his decision not to the upcoming presidential race the president admitted he shares common goals with vladimir putin and the current prime minister's high popularity levels make him the best man for the candidacy and art he's going off has the reaction from the papers. the president's interview with the heads of the three biggest t.v. stations in russia did focus on some of the more steamed borden's elitist political events in the country such as his decision not to run for a second term in office his recommendation or prime minister what do we do for the top job and to the sudden dismissal of former finance minister aleksey putin

soldier's losses and opinions in saturday's press in russia opinions positive and also positive was started with the. the sun newspaper really was well known here in russia and it's published an article try to show you this polish laura 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 the media has finally announced his political plans and the plans of his stand them with prime minister what do you put in there is still a lot of uncertainty since the official political programs for the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections still have not been anywhere else tell whether this point of view is not shared by the analysts that these these do newspaper or spoke to some other well known big newspaper in russia it's probably

still not to go under the title or for how significant is the timing and its analysts have been saying that the media has finally managed to close a deal list of the biggest queries during that upcoming presidential election next more chano loss of focus is definitely on the sudden dismissal of no former finance minister aleksey kudrin who was always thought to be the key ally both of the government's hands off the president's administration became a sun newspaper says that step to dismiss him like receiving more questions into what else could happen in the world meeting he did if he's still in office however there are analysts who say that the dismissal just shows that the president is serious in his ambitions just remind you the parliamentary election will be held in russia in the g samurai in the presidential poll be held next more jamie didn't happen still and according to even if it's still going to be up to the people to

decide who gets to run the country next despite daily recommendation that he made. a political analyst nikonov told r.t. at the logic at ambition every bit of suspicion was clear the day it was announced . no i think this situation is pretty logical. mediator for both representing the same political force united russia not being completely similar in not being twins in politics and they're still pretty close here logically and politically at this point is needed if explained. is more popular then we did it himself and the question is about winning the next presidential election that will not come automatically it will be a fight put it was more equipped to lead the united russia in detroit in the next presidential struggle at the same time he did if he is keeping his position as an

important political figure as a potential prime minister a potential leader of the united russia which makes him a politician with great perspective in the future. of course you can watch the full version of that interview on r.t.e. dot com. now devastated by drought and crops killed by chemicals farmers in india face a battle for survival and one of the dry seasons in decades has left thousands of farmers across the country but little clots and big debts even prompting some of them to take their own lives as artist reassuring to reports the government is 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 but there was a lot of the farmers are committing suicide due to the influence of the other

farmers who committed suicide rommel locksmiths 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 ground but how should i carry on with my life and nothing is good for me and my children and there is no one to help us how do you are going through this trouble someone needs to help us. all the government has a tentative deal with a high number of farmers suicide by compensating two thousand dollars to affected families and 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 when her will be there when north is not available for the farmers the government is not providing sufficient loans which is forcing foments 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 come. it's suicide we from leaving a very sad life sinking water levels mean these walls are useless but have left a deep hole in farmer's pockets the state beings turned 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 of the world the money lenders and finance years are frequently visiting our home and torturing us they want us to preach huge sume we don't like rama lection we are now the bride when arise 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 him gonna india. you're watching r.t.m. twenty four hours a day seven days a week our website is there for you with plenty on our top stories and also there for you right now fire alarm bells a world famous tired rope walker tries to cross the bosco river his nerves and his rope beginning to wobble to find out if his death defying attempt truth successful is going to argue dot com plus. a portrait of the russian prime minister vladimir

putin created from the thousands of tiny photos of the mona lisa all gods are to dot com for more photos from the international art moscow fair. and time now for a brief look at some other international headlines somali pirates of reportedly kidnapped a wheelchair bound french woman near the kenyan resort of long will the navy and a police chase the boat carrying the victim but feared an attack could end with a seventy five year old woman drowning and kidnapping comes less than a month after a small the pirates abducted a british woman and killed her husband in the same area. the second typhoon in just a week is battering the rain soaked northern philippines forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate the first cause landslides across the region and left at

least one person dead forecasters predict the typhoon will become more powerful as it heads towards vietnam. a light aircraft has crashed into a ferry israel at a festival in eastern australia leaving it to children trapped on the ride for hours amazingly no one was injured seriously in the accident well just before the crash but the rain a force of majority of people off the ride a pilot said he never saw the deal before smashing into it. well it's almost ten years as american troops led the invasion into afghanistan well the decade of fighting has led to thousands of u.s. soldiers as well as afghan civilians being killed or harshness christer people on new york streets if they believe this war story will ever have a happy ending. it's

been ten years since the u.s. 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 for wars as no benefit to what are these girls doing there for ten years i don't know what they hear that they do and i don't know it's probably another vietnam talk. war way to probably is not a we're not. the other soldier going to win it's just a case of more and more americans and others going at things clearcut see that it's not worth but i don't see it go and 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 very controversial question there's pros and cons to the situation but at the present the proses i think that we have to make a statement that we aren't able to. see things sitting down that we have

a voice in whether it's there's more peaceful ways to present that probably how do they go on for ten years do you take a stand for ten years it's a hornet's nest there's no winner over there we had great. we were 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 what it was worth there and i do even 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 here. but yeah do you think most americans feel that way and you know i'm sure a lot of americans there will be a pro and side i'll look at that's what i mean for the for a war there for that long i mean it better be for something and we better be getting something out of it do you think that's going to happen now it seems like most people don't feel like the u.s.

war in afghanistan has been worth that unfortunately no one in power seems to be listening. i'll do same with us here in r.t. for a recap of the top stories coming up a few minutes. to

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