nato peacekeepers ready to enforce a shoot to kill orders in the northern kosovo in the potentially explosive standoff with ethnic serbs over disputed border posts. protests break out in tripoli as residents anger boils over at the behavior of armed anti-god on the troops and roaming the streets of accountable for this as the humanitarian situation in the siege khadafi stronghold of syria worsens. and in the u.s. demonstrations on wall street against corporate political influence are still out on the brooklyn bridge shutting down traffic in one direction around four hundred people have reportedly been arrested. and of the media passes judgment on russia's

future political landscape in the wake of president gives announcement last week that he's backing putin to become a. top news stories headlines in commentary from moscow this is r.t. glad to have you along let's take a look at your top stories right now in northern kosovo nato peacekeepers have used a shoot to kill threats to break a roadblock by sort of the protesters on the border earlier attempts to remove it this week 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 alexi of cesky sent us this report from the spot. on friday the k. for troops removed one of the barricades which. was set up in order to block the police and make

a fortune 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 blocking the road access ok for troops into the northern part of course there was still more than ten people remain in local hospitals and 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 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 they came for 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 who have a condition gunshot wounds fractures and bruises they were not from rubber bullets not a single of them had a rubber hold those wounds were caused by a regular bullet which we extracted from their violence. 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 course of a republic. and they are telling us to leave because we have no way to leave this

is because constable 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 accusing the crossover serbs of provoking violence and the russian foreign ministry expressing deep 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 due to their recent actions in because of the stand off of nato peacekeepers have lost their impartiality that's according to belgrade based political analyst alexander 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 was the air force for the albanian separatists. there

infantry so this is what we have this is a clear breach of the u.n. charter and of the resolution twelve forty four told me destroyed they are standing as any sort of a 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 actually. 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 is just going to look at nato here as being firmly on the albanian side on the side of what serbia considers to be such a mess so we don't really have a mediator here anymore and that's even more dangerous but he's alexy our shasta is in kosovo and we'll be bringing you updates as and when they happen. meanwhile you can head to our tease free video page to get the freshest pictures of this border dispute you can watch them in there or download and broadcast quality for free

check it out on a free video done r.t. dot com. mission. could you take three or four chargers free. range from three. three. three. young old free broadcast live video for your media project free media down to r.t. dot com. on to living now where thousands of people are protesting against the forces loyal to the national transitional council they have it taken over the capital tripoli well calls argue that the presence of the troops provides little security as they follow no particular orders and fire their weapons indiscriminately and as robert perry the editor of the internet investigative magazine a consortium of news says the people currently in power have suspicious links with terrorist cells there is evidence he didn't going back to the very beginning that

you shouldn't part of libya was a hotbed of islamic radicalism some of these people have been connected to. one of the leaders who was killed recently a cheer was a libyan from this general area and now we know that one of the leaders of the rebel forces there to tripoli was also can see. very close to a kite it was indeed 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 not the government but are 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 the country's under the control of this this force which side of this force will will be predominant will be in revolutionary forces say they have surrounded the city of syria take it off the stronghold thousands of people have been fleeing the besieged city driven from their homes by fierce fighting and

a lack of essential the chairman of the national transitional council says his forces have called a two day truce to let civilians leave but heavy rocket and mortar fire continued anyway meanwhile aid workers from the international committee of the red cross have brought medical supplies into the city rob lyons deputy editor of the independent and online magazine spiked says nato intervention in libya has turned things from bad to worse. this is the there are small consequences of the thing things that i got rolling back in february 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 in this 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 and not being injured or harshly even though they clearly

healthy. it's given the khadafi forces a real sense of to keep the civilians in the city. probably a sure many of them would like to get out of there and i. think become a kind of a shield by which the they can they can stay there 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 in 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 and really see anything changing even if we stay there another hundred years for a war there for that long it better be for something you know we better begin sort that out of it the thing that's going to happen no more opinions on that be afghan war from the big apple just a few minutes. also ahead a suicide academic bankruptcy farmers in india as the country faces one of the

worst droughts in years we see why families that think it's not nature but rather the government to blame. hundreds of people have hit the streets of portugal's two biggest cities to protest against austerity measures the debt ridden country had to ask for a seventy eight billion euro rescue package in may to avoid bankruptcy under the bailout bill has been agreed to implement harsh cuts. but is still fighting to reduce its budget deficit and another struggling euro zone state greece is it trying to convince international inspectors it deserves another portion of its bailout the greek government has a pushed through pension cuts and extra taxes and to try and please its creditors however financial journalist and blogger dimitri kovtun us 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

paid back their creditors the interest on their debt which mean that their diet 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. the debt burden bro more and more relative to the g.d.p. economy which makes it harder how to pay back i think at this point the you or 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 for ireland 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 we could 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 tensions are also growing across the atlantic in new york 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 according to reports four hundred people have been arrested during the demonstrations. brings us the latest developments. this clash and confrontation between and why he the new york city police department and thousands of protesters took place on the brooklyn bridge now these protesters that have held camp down by roles for have been demonstrating for about two weeks this demonstration started by roles free and then the protesters rally towards the brooklyn bridge when they got on the brooklyn bridge the police showed up and basically 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's when things got ugly to say the least are the protesters were banging drawing drums and chanting the whole world was watching police moved in there were paddy wagons brought to the scene and things got very

physical last weekend we saw demonstrators get maced in that these five police officers police officers using netting two are rats demonstrators that have been camped out on wall street as i mentioned the brooklyn bridge one 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 clashes erupted 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 in a where a group of americans that have called on all those that are frustrated about the economic circumstance in america right now to some calm down rally and voice their

opposition and that is what has been in place for the past two weeks but as that demonstration has been taking place we've seen this kind of crackdown that's been you know on the side of the. new york city police department against these protesters and this is evolving week by week and clearly getting much more confrontational but the overall demands that there are they're speaking out and 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 you can go down to the crowd to join them and one supports i think what rings 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 swept through. our north africa the middle east and these americans are now saying this is there they are american spring and there are they are planning to stay down there through the end of the year and i can tell you this week by week this group of demonstrators that you don't call themselves on wall street this group is getting bigger and bigger there's no doubt about that. well as the be authorities are accused of trying to silence of the angry voices on wall street parties max keiser and stacy herbert are refusing to stay quiet in the latest edition of kaiser report next hour they look at why some are so keen to put an end to financial rumors. but the world bank preferred to be 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 in greek debt should a solution require a fifty percent haircut as is i believe a card from iran's minister to suggest that you know the government it's me is as close to a close if you could this be said babysitters begins with this proposition for greece he asked pap 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 finances 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. dimitri

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 has decided not to run for office a second time or he's you got a piece 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 vladimir putin for the top job and to the sudden dismissal of the now former finance minister aleksey cruden so there's loss of analysis and opinions in saturday's press in russia opinions both positive and not so positive let's start with the kind of sun newspaper really were well known here in russia and it's published an article

trying 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 media has finally announced his political plans and the plans of his stand them with prime minister why didn't 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 he's listed newspaper or spoke to some other well known big newspaper in russia is 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 a deal list of the biggest queries during the upcoming presidential election next more trying to focus is definitely on the sudden this missile has now former

finance minister aleksey khuda who is always thought to be the key ally both of the government and of the president's administration the camera sun newspaper says that step to dismiss him as receiving more questions into what else could happen well be that he did if he's still in office. 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 energy center and the presidential poll be held next more cheney didn't happen still and fourteen she'd need to be if it's still going to be up to the people to decide who gets to run because she next despite the recommendation for. me to see. political analyst at the new can of told r.t. that movie that i was decision not to run in the upcoming elections was dictated by common sense with putin having a better chance of success and now i think the situation is pretty logical. and

mediator for both representing the same political force united russia not being completely similar in not being poisons in politics they're still pretty close he'll logically and politically at this point is needed if explained. is more popular. did it himself and the question is about winning the next presidential election will not come after medically it will be a fight he was more equipped to lead united russia. in the next presidential struggle at the same time it is keeping his position as an important political figure as potential prime minister and potential leader of the united russia which makes him a good politician with great perspective in the future and for the full version of

the interview you can always log on to our website or to dot com. indian it farmers are being driven to suicide by one of the worst droughts in living memory and many thousands left with no harvest and huge debts say the government is doing next to nothing to help but he's pretty sure the reports. the sun is shining on these farm lands in southern india commonly known as the country's rice they may look watch but the grass is far from greener out here farmers are killing themselves in the thousands. and most of the farmers are committing suicide and usually includes all 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 bare for the grieving families left behind the future is graeme 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 you are bearing the struggle someone needs 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 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 package is to farmers and promise 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 is not available for performance the government is north koreans for

should loans which is forcing foments 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 farms 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 you have of the books the money lenders and financiers are frequently visiting our home and torturing us we want to stop a huge tsunami windows like rama laxmi are now the breadwinner it's tending to chew acres of desolate farm lands 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 prius sridhar r t tell i'm gonna india. now a brief look at some other international headlines for you somali pirates have reportedly kidnapped a wheelchair bound a 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 a kidnapping comes a lesson then a month after somali pirates abducted a british woman and killed her husband in the same area. the second of typhoon in just a week is battering the rain soaked northern philippines forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate but first because 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. a light 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 just before the crash happened of rain had forced what majority of people off the ride the pilot said he never saw the wheel before smashing into it. ten years after the u.s. invaded afghanistan is troops are still there and still fighting with decade old war has left thousands of nato soldiers and afghan civilians dead laurie harshness to ask new yorkers if they think the campaign has been worth it. it's been ten years since the u.s. armed to afghanistan as a prelude to an ongoing war i think it later has it been worth it this week let's talk about that four wars as no benefit so what are these girls doing there for ten years i don't know what the heck. they do and i don't know it's probably another

viet nam. war where the problem is not a winner. the other soldier going to win it's just a case of more and more americans and others going 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 very controversial question 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. 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 women over there. we're in there with them but what 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 or 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 but you're pro and anti i'll look at this what 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 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. twenty four hours a day seven days a week our website is there for you with plenty of our top stories also there right

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