from. the future coverage. cool. cool nato peacekeepers are ready to enforce a shoot to kill orders in northern kosovo in their potential explosive standoff with ethnic serbs over the disputed border post. protests break out in tripoli as residents anger boils over at the behavioral armed anti-convulsant troops roaming the streets of the capital as the humanitarian situation in the besieged gadhafi stronghold of syria of course. and in the u.s. demonstrations on wall street are against corporate political influence pull out on the brooklyn bridge shutting down traffic in one direction. and the media passes it a judgment on russia's future political landscape in the wake of president didn't

get his announcement last week but he's back to keep trying to promote. in broadcasting live a direct from our central studios in moscow this is r.t. i'm sean thomas let's take a look at your top stories in northern kosovo nato peacekeepers have used shoot to kill threats to break a roadblock by sort of protesters on the border earlier attempts to remove it this week of failed and left several serbs injured the senior united nations official in kosovo has urged restraint on both sides and called for new talks artie's alexia chefs he sent us this report from the spot. on friday the k. four troops removed one of the barricades which. also was set up in order to block the police and they came for 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 believe the serbs obeyed and retreated peacefully with no violence and set up another a manmade checkpoint and they put two large trucks on a bridge that's blocking the road the access for troops into the northern part of course there was still more than ten people remain in local hospitals and neither of us 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. 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 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 that those people who were injured in those clashes were delivered to hospitals carrying gunshot wounds to the room. seven men have recondition gunshot wounds fractures and bruises they were not from rubber bullets not a single of them. all those wounds were caused by a regular bullet 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 sort of people is very strong now to show that they do not want to be part of the cost of a republic. they are telling us to leave because we have no way to leave this

is because casa is our land our home and our life it seems that we are on our 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 dispute but in reality this could destabilize the situation in the whole region. and he's alexy your shitty reporting for us they're not sticking with the story due to their recent actions in the kosovo standoff peacekeepers have lost their impartiality that is according to belgrade based political analyst alexander part which 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 their force for the albanian separatists are now 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 it's told me destroyed their standing as any sort of mediator. and i don't know how they are going to reclaim it the only way they would be able to reclaim their role would be. encourage things to go back to the way they were before but they've made it clear that they're not going to do that so in the absence of that everyone's just going to look at nato here as being firmly on the albanian side on the side of what serbia considers to be such an ist so we don't really have a mediator here anymore and that's even more dangerous i t's alexy airshow skiis in kosovo and we'll be bringing you updates as and when they happen. meanwhile you can head to our visa free video page to get the freshest pictures of this border

dispute you can watch them there or download them and broadcast quality for free and check it out on the free video that our team dot com. could take three. three. three. three. three. three. four year media project free media don carty dot com. on to libya now where thousands of people are protesting against the forces loyal to the national transitional council that have taken over the capital tripoli locals argue that the presence of troops provides little security as they follow no particularly orders and fire their weapons indiscriminately and as robert perry the editor of internet investigative magazine consortium of news says the people currently in power have suspicious links with terrorist cells. there is evidence

even going back to the very beginning note the eastern part of libya was a part of islamic radicalism some of these people have been connected to. one of the leaders who was killed recently a cheer was a libyan an e.q. from this general area and now we know that one of the leaders of the rebel forces the trouble he was also considered very close to al qaeda and was only trained by the united states for some time before he was allowed to go free so it appears that people with guns on the side of the libyan rebels are now the government or people who have this very mixed background and it's not clear how do you know when you get down to the point once the country's under the control of this force which side of this force will will be predominant. revolutionary forces say they have surrounded the city of sered a khadafi stronghold thousands of people have been fleeing the besieged city driven

from their homes by fierce fighting and a lack of essential chairman of the national transitional council said his forces have called a two day truce to let civilians that leave but heavy rocket and mortar fire have continued anyway meanwhile aid workers from the international committee of the red cross have brought medical supplies to the city rob lyons it deputy editor of the independent online magazine spiked says nader's intervention in libya has turned things from bad to worse. this is the inevitable consequence of the thing things that i got rolling back in february the year the kind of half hearted intervention was always going to end up with my last stand by gadhafi forces in fact is this is the kind of last stand that we expected in tripoli a few weeks ago that never happened and clearly there's a lot of time now and the thing about the role of the international community you know could be making things worse not some people are bombarding the city but boy actually having made such

a fuss about civilians not being injured or harshly even though they clearly healthy by saying that if given the khadafi forces a real answer to keep civilians in the city probably again so well i'm sure many of the would like to get out of there now. as we become a kind of shield by which the they can they can stay there for a long for a bit longer and as the libyan conflict shows no sign of winning many feel it is following in the footsteps of another nato led military intervention the afghan war coming up we asked new yorkers if they think the decade long fighting in afghanistan has brought any results. i don't see a goal when i really see anything changing even if we see there another hundred years for a war there for that long it better be for solving it and we better be yours a bit out of it if you think that then no. more opinions on the afghan war from the big apple just a few minutes. also ahead

a suicide epidemic hits bankrupt farmers in india as the country faces one of the worst droughts in years and we see why families think it's not nature to blame but rather the government. hundreds of people have hit the streets of portugal's two biggest cities to protest against austerity measures but that ridden country had to ask for a seventy eight billion a year old rescue package and made to avoid bankruptcy under 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 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 financial journalist and blogger dimitri kovtun 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 mean that their diet grows and at the same time they're cutting the public sector which is a huge part of their economy the contraction of the g.d.p. which makes that burden bro more and more relative to the g.d.p. economy which makes it harder for the feedback i think at this point be you for a lot of the people in europe are beginning to realize that at least greece 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 and i think that at this point they need to have a structured solution for greece rylan for portugal i think spain also and then figure out where they're going to get 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 and it could be devised that incorporates greece ireland portugal spain perhaps in a coastal kind of restructuring package here that are greece is going to have to have to unilaterally default on to new york now where thousands of protesters that have been camping out near wall street have spilled onto the roadway causing part

of the brooklyn bridge to be shut down while he's reporting brings us the latest developments from new york. this clash and confrontation between and why he did the new york city police department and thousands of protesters took place on the brooklyn bridge now these protesters that have howled camp down by roles for it have been demonstrating for about six weeks this demonstration started by wall street and then the protesters rally towards the brooklyn bridge when they got on the brooklyn bridge the police showed up and he simply cornered off both sides of the brooklyn bridge and started to move in on the protesters to make arrests for blocking traffic and disorderly conduct that some things got ugly to say the least the protesters were banging drawing drums and chanting that old world is watching police moved in they were paddy wagons brought to the scene and things got very is

a call at least one hundred people have been arrested including the new york times reporter and this is just the most recent incident that is taking place in new york in the past two weeks last weekend we saw demonstrators that maced in that these five police officers police officers using netting to our rights demonstrators that have been camped out on wall street as i mentioned the brooklyn bridge what was closed down when this incident and brooke it's a day for those that don't live in new york city let me explain to you that is a very very big deal for something like that to take place and there were i guess you can't even count the amount of police officers there right down to the sea and the crashes are ruptured and they got violent and as i mentioned or even journalists were among those who were arrested this is a group occupy wall street and our viewers are nowhere a group of americans that have called on all those that are frustrated at the nomic

circumstance in america right now and see calm down rally. and voice their opposition and that is what has the sneaky ways for the past two weeks but as that demonstration has them taking police we've seen this kind of crackdown that's been you know on the side of the york city police department against these protesters and this is evolving week by week and clearly getting much more confrontational but the overall demand is that there are they're speaking out against corporate greed and social inequality this group has been criticized by mainstream media for not having one unified message what do they want a lot of critics say what they want and i think a lot of them want different things union members have come down there to join the demonstrations we've seen we've seen you know scholars professors activists someone like michael moore even go down to the crowd to join them and one supports i think

what what brings everyone together is their frustration over the u.s. economy over the fact that there's there's people are losing their jobs people can't get their jobs people are struggling to find to find money to make ends meet also some have noted in some have said that they're americans are now taking inspiration from the arab spring protesters that that swept through. our north africa the middle east and these americans are now saying this is their their american spring and there are they are planning to stay down there through the end of the year and i can tell you this neat i lete this group of demonstrators that you know call themselves out on wall street this group is getting bigger and bigger there's no doubt about that well as the authorities are accused of trying to silence the voices on wall street or to use a mouse kaiser and the stakes here but are refusing to stay quiet in the latest edition of the kaiser report in

a look at why some are so keen to put an end to financial rumors. the world bank affairs the b o e all agree there we can't talk to theory in the financial world here's a little video clip i want to turn to and this is the former greek finance minister yeah no it's papantonio and he is that talking about this rumor is that a fifty percent. haircut and greek debt should a solution require a fifty percent haircut as as i believe the current finance minister suggested you know that gotten progressively is closer and closer if you could this be said being to do some pretty dangerous proposition for greece. antonio financial herpes 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 shouldn't fornicating with the i.m.f.

they gave you the financial herpes now you're a pariah. dmitri medvedev the latest interview has dominated the russian press in the last few days during a meeting with the chiefs of the country's three biggest t.v. stations the president explained why he's decided not to run for the office a second time or he's got to he's going off tells us what he said. 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 the latest political events in the country such as his decision not to run for a second term in office his recommendation of prime minister was even approaching 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 famous sun

newspaper really worried well known here in russia and it's partition or to go 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 it need to be different has finally announced his political plans and the plans of his stand them with prime minister vladimir putin 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 told to this point of view is not shared by the analysts that he's listed newspaper or spoke to slaughter 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 meeting with media has finally managed to cool was a deal list of the biggest where's during that upcoming presidential election next

more trouble no loss of focus is definitely on the sudden this missile girls now former finance minister alex equally who is always thought to be a key ally both of the governments and of the president's administration the commerce newspaper says that step to dismiss him like receiving more questions into what else could happen while we think of it if he's still in office now. there are analysts who say. the dismissal just shows that the president is serious in his ambition it's just too much of the problem and she oh action will be held in russia energy summer and the presidential pull be held next more cheney theme has been still and you pointed me to the media if it's still going to be up to the people to decide who gets to run the case the next despite eighty recommendation. me. political analyst vyacheslav nikonov told r.t.

that medvedev said decision not to run in the upcoming election was dictated by common sense with putin having a better chance of success and now i think the situation is pretty logical. really 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 of him so. the question is about winning the next presidential election there will not come automatically it will be a fight would use more equipped to lead the united russia in their fight presidential struggle at the same time with video is keeping his position as an important political figure potential prime minister the potential leader of the

united russia which makes him a politician with great perspective in the future and for the full version of the interview you can always log on to our website archita. indian farmers are being driven to suicide by one of the worst droughts in the living memory and many thousands are left with no harvest and huge debts say the government is doing next to nothing to help or he's pressuring reports. 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 want to cause a lot of news to the farmers are committing suicide and usually the other farmers who committed suicide rama lakshmi's 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 fair for the grieving families left behind the future is graeme going to carry on with my life and 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. all the government has a tentative deal with the high number of farmers suicide 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 package is to farmers and promise to increase the minimum rate on certain acts ports but many believe the farmers are being ignored. the government is neglecting agriculture basic information like wind power

will be there when north is not available for the farmers the government is not providing sufficient loans which is forcing for them is can open the doors of money lenders. those who've tried to beat the drought themselves took out huge loans to do it well 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 true isn't it we are leading a very sad life just sinking water levels mean these walls are useless but have left a deep hole in farmer's pockets to see 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 yet for the money lenders and financiers are frequently visiting our home and torturing us he wants to be of huge sume we don't like drama lakshmi 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 are preassure either party tell i'm gonna india and now a brief look at some other international headlines making news for you right now somali pirates have reportedly kidnapped a wheelchair bound french woman near the kenyan resort of lamu the navy and police chase to the boat carrying the victim but feared an attack could end with the seventy five year old woman drowning the kidnapping comes less than a month after somali pirates abducted a british woman and killed her husband in the same area. the second a typhoon in just a week is battering of the rain so far northern philippines forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate the first cause of landslides across the region and left at least one person dead forecasters predict the typhoon will become more powerful as

it heads towards vietnam. and like aircraft has crashed into a ferris wheel at a festival in eastern australia you know leaving two children trapped on the ride for hours musingly no one was seriously injured in the accident just before the crash happened rain had forced the majority of people off the ride the pilot said he never saw the wheel before smashing into. and ten years after the u.s. invaded afghanistan its troops are still there and still fighting the decade old war has left thousands of nato soldiers and afghan civilians dead or her finest asks new yorkers if they think the campaign has been worth it. 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 so what are they still doing there for ten years i don't know what the heck

. 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 going at things clearcut 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 very controversial question there is present times to the situation what are the pros 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 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 had great. we're in there with what

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 so 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 do you think most americans feel that way and you know i'm sure a lot of americans there were pro and anti i look at this so i mean for for a war there for that long i mean i better be for something and we better be. it's a bit out of it if 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 it unfortunately no one in power seems to be listening.

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