watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow good to have you with us now in northern kossovo nato peacekeepers have used shoot to kill threats to break a roadblock by serve protesters on the border earlier attempts to every move it this week failed and left several serbs injured artie's alexia the chef he is close to the action with this report on friday the case for troops removed one of the barricades which the serbs 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 they put 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 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 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 to the room. 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 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 cost civil is our land our home and our life it seems to 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 accusing the cost of

a service of provoking violence and the russian foreign ministry expressing deep is the 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 all 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 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 the border back in july and ever since then they've been giving them full support so they're encouraging actually the government to preach to not. headed by a caution toci who is wanted for various charges from organ trafficking to drug trafficking and they're encouraging them to more violence so they're not a peace factor at all there are total factor of war in the stabilisation artie's and it's a at a chef he is and possible and he will be bringing you updates as and when they happen meanwhile you can also have to arjun's video page to get the freshest pictures like this or that you can watch that there or download the broadcast quality all for free to check it out on a video dot com. if you. could take three. free. range from three.

three stooges free. and free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media our. people in tripoli have been protesting against the revolutionary troops that took over the city well they're angry that hundreds. men are still cruising the streets after capturing the city in late august locals argue that their process provides little security as they follow no particular order as and before over weapons that will robert parry of the editor of internet investigative magazine consortium news things that 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 tear was a libyan 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 chained 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 their control there so this force which side of this force will will be predominant . they've been a very scary forces say they have surrounded the city of sirte gadhafi stronghold meanwhile aid agencies are along with the thousands of civilians fleeing the besieged town people are being driven from their homes by fierce fighting as well as a lack of supplies rob lyons deputy editor of the independent online magazine spight

says the situation has only been made worse by nato. this is the very small consequence of the thing things that i got rolling back in february the year that a kind of half hearted intervention was always going to end up with 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 it's clearly there's a loss 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 not being injured or even directly to harvey but by saying that if given the khadafi forces a real offensive to keep 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 shield by which the that they can they can stay there for a high on for a bit longer. well with no end in sight to the libyan conflict and many are warning

it could follow the path of the afghan war that's been raging for a decade now later in the program we asked people in new york what they think ten years of fighting to have achieved. i don't. really see anything changing even if we stay there another hundred years for a war there for that long they better be for something and we better be getting something out of it do you think that's going to happen. or opinions on the worthiness of the afghan war from the big apple in just a few minutes. plus one of the worst droughts six decades forces a growing number of farmers and take their own lives look at why their families blame the state not nature. of hundreds of people have 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 to avoid bankruptcy

a lot of the bailout lisbon agreed to implement harsh cuts but is still fighting to reduce its budget deficit and another struggling eurozone state greece is trying to convince international inspectors that it deserves another portion of its bailout the greek government has pushed through pension cuts and extra taxes to try and please its creditors however if it actual journalist a blogger demands you call fanaa says the more bailouts greece receives the worse it gets for the economy. if they get the money the debt burden continues because they still run a primary deficit which means that they have to borrow money from their creditors to pay back their creditors the interest on their debt which grows at the same time they're cutting the public sector which is a huge part of their economy the contraction of their g.d.p. which makes the debt burden grow more and more relative to g.d.p. riccati work makes it harder harder back i think at this point you or a lot of the people in europe are beginning to realize. at least griefs and i think

also i portugal and ireland are into big trouble to simply continue to address the problems piecemeal the way they've been doing it i think that at this point they need to have a structured solution for greece for ireland for portugal i think spain also and then figure out what we're going to do with italy i don't know if that's a much bigger problem but i think that late late this year early next year some sort of solution would be devised that incorporates greece ireland portugal spain perhaps in a total kind of restructuring package either that or greece is going to have to unilaterally default and it's not only greeks up in arms about the situation they've been dumped into the u.s. is also witnessing agri roots in the nation's financial hub hundreds have thrown their weight behind the latest administration named occupy wall street to protest against the huge influence and the bad behavior of corporations that billionaires and associates should get out was there. testers are here for a simple reason they feel duped and defrauded by the system that land on street

greed because of the financial meltdown that led to an economic collapse one in six americans are currently living in poverty bankers were held on account and it was the people left to suffer this could be the skeleton you know 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 take these crowd seriously as police brutality started to her last weekend over eighty protesters were arrested several women were surrounded by police nabbed and maced with pepper spray but these protesters say they're willing to pay any price to get their voices heard a lot of people are 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 we would they say goes they influenced a lot of decisions which doesn't help anyone else but them. that's why everyone

else has been true to the protests together first family support maybe are beginning to wonder if this is becoming reminiscent of what america saw in wisconsin this is true for 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 see here and the growth in numbers until the real the city revenue should occur after all if the arab spring was applauded by the powers that be why not listen to a similar cry for change. he says richard and our team. was the authorities are accused of trying to silence the agni voices on wall street archie's max cars are and stacy herbert are refusing to stay quiet later this hour they look at why some are so keen to put an end to for them. rumors. the world bank the fed the be all we 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 utian require a fifty percent haircut as as i believe the current finance minister has suggested you know that i'm afraid it's muses closer because if you could this be said 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 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 oppressive stewing over president medvedev his latest interview where he explained his decision not to enter the upcoming presidential race well the president admitted he shares common goals with the mir putin and the current prime minister's high popularity levels make him the best man for the candidacy is cannot has the reaction from the papers. 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 vladimir putin for the top job and to the sudden dismissal of the now former finance minister aleksey kudrin so there's lots of analysis and opinions in saturday's press in russia opinions both positive and not so positive let's start with the crimean sun newspaper really you were well known here in russia and it's published an article

trying to show you this polish law 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 they need to do a deal has finally announced his political plans and the plans of his stand them with the prime minister while doing fortune there's 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 did newspaper i spoke to some other well known big newspaper in russia it's published an article under the title of 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 clears during that upcoming presidential election next

more try now or loss of focus is definitely on the sudden dismissal rolls now former finance minister alex equilibrium who is always thought to be the key ally both of the government and off the president's administration the commerce newspaper says that step to dismiss him like receiving more questions into what else could happen while meeting with 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 remind you the problem and she'll action will be held in russia in the g. samara and the presidential blow will be held next to more cheney didn't happen still and fourteen did leave that indeed if it's still going to be up to the people to decide who gets to run the can she next despite daily recommendation that he meet the same. political analysts vicious love they could of told r.t. that the logic and ambition have been vetted decision was clear the day it was

announced but now i think this situation is pretty logical. and mediator for both representing this same political force united russia not 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 there will not come automatically it will be a fight. is more equipped to lead the united russia in the fight in the next presidential struggle at the same time or the video 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 watch the full

version of that interview on r.t.e. dot com. devastated by drought and crops killed by chemicals farmers of india face of battle for survival well one of the dry seasons in decades has left thousands of farmers across the country with little coopt and a big debt seaver prompting some to take their own lives as artists preassure 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. 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 has 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 are not available for the farmers 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 come. 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 beings 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 the money lenders in a few months years are frequently visiting our home and torturing us we want to be huge some weirdos like rama luxe me are now the breadwinner is 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 r t tell him gonna india us now have a brief look at some other international headlines somali pirates reportedly kidnapped a will chair about a french woman near the kenyan resort of larval 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 somali pirates abducted a british woman and killed her husband at the same area. the second typhoon in just a week as battering the rains so northern philippines forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate the first calls landslides across the region and left at least one person dead before house arrest predict the typhoon will become more powerful as it

heads towards vietnam. a light aircraft has crashed into a ferris wheel at a festival in eastern australia leaving two children trapped on the ride for hours well amazingly no one was seriously injured in the accident just before the crash happened rain had forced the majority of people off the ride and the pilot said he never saw the wheel before smashing into it. it's almost ten years since american troops led the invasion into afghanistan the decade of fighting has led to thousands of u.s. soldiers and afghan civilians being killed lorri harshness quizzed 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 for wars as no

benefit so what are they still doing there for ten years i don't know what the head senator what 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. 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 what 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 and you know 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 were prone and so i i look at this way 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 less than many.

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welcome back you're watching r.t.e. live from moscow and here's a recap of our top stories a deadly situation develops in northern cos of zero as a nato implements shoot to kill orders to break the law killed by local serbs near a disputed checkpoint on the border crossing seized two weeks ago by cos of a lease aided by the alliance and since then it clashes have left several serbs injured. people of tripoli take to the streets angry at the former rebels still carrying guns in the city that's us thousands flee one of the few remaining gadhafi strongholds the city of sirte that's facing a serious humanitarian crisis. and the operation occupy wall street and that inequality and corporate influence grows in the u.s. as protests headed to their third.