church in new delhi who to. aid the who to carry conviction among the close of the maidens believe that paul was a married religious and she from there was punished but they precocious. nato peacekeepers ready to enforce a shoot to kill orders in the northern kosovo in the potentially explosive standoff with ethnic serbs over a disputed border post. in the us demonstrations on wall street against corporate and political influence is still out on the brooklyn bridge shutting down traffic in one direction around five hundred people have reportedly been arrested. and protests to break out in tripoli as residents anger the boils over at the behavior of armed anti gadhafi troops roaming the streets of the capital this as the humanitarian situation in the end of a siege to gadhafi stronghold of seer worsens. and the media passes

judgment on russia's a future political landscape in the wake of president medvedev is announcement last week that he's backing put it to return it to the kremlin. and broadcasting live direct from the heart of a moscow this is r.t. glad to have you along this eclipse to top stories in northern kosovo nato peacekeepers have used a shoot to kill threats to break a roadblock by sir 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 but he's alexia chef he sent us this report from the spot. on friday the k. four troops removed one of the barricades which. of course was set up

in order to block the possible police and the k. for troops from gaining access to the area and we understand that more than one hundred eighty four troops came over there pointed their guns at the locating 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 lead to large trucks on a bridge that's blocking the road the access ok for troops into the northern part of course there was still more than ten people remain in local hospitals in the middle of it 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 those people who were injured in those clashes were delivered to hospitals carrying gunshot wounds to the room forty seven men in heavy condition gunshot wounds fractures and bruises that were not from rubber bullets but a single of them had a rubber all those wounds were caused by regular bullets which we extracted from their wives now the service 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. they are telling us to leave but we have no way to leave this is because constable is our land our home and our life it seems 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 course of the serbs 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. due to their recent actions in the course of a standoff nato peacekeepers have lost their impartiality that is according to belgrade based political analyst alexander private. 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 they were 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 resolution twelve forty four it's totally 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 if they actually. encourage things to go back to would 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 succession it's so we don't really have a mediator here anymore and that's even more dangerous countries alexei yosh as he is in kosovo and we'll be bringing you updates as and when they happen. meanwhile you can head to our teaser free video page to get the freshest pictures of this

border dispute you can watch them there or download it in broadcast quality for free check it out on a free video dot r t v dot com. could you take three. free. free. free. free. free books mediocre for your media projects a free media don carty dot com. hundreds of people have hit the streets of oh 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 lisbon agreed to implement harsh cuts but is still fighting to reduce its budget deficit and another struggling euro zone 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 coconuts 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 neither 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. which makes the debt burden grow more and more relative to the g.d.p. economy which makes it harder harder for the great back i think at this point 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 it i think that i piss 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 and it 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 have to unilaterally default. tensions are also brewing across the atlantic in new york thousands of protesters that have been camping out near wall street have spilled onto the roadway causing the part of the brooklyn bridge to be shut down according to reports five hundred people have been arrested during the demonstrations artie's marina 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 the royals have been demonstrating for about six weeks this demonstration started by wall street and then the protesters rally ten went to 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 the protesters were were banging drawing drums and chanting the whole world is watching police moved in they were having wagons brought to the scene and things got very physical last weekend we saw demonstrators get maced in the piece 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 oh when this incident and brought 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 that went down to the scene 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 aware a group of americans that have called on all those that are frustrated about the economic circumstance in america right now it's an come down rally and voice their opposition and that is what has been taking 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 the evolving week by week and we're only getting much more confrontational. the overall demands is that there is there are there is 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 works and they want and i think a lot of them want different things union members have come down there if you join the demonstration we'd see and we've seen you know scholars professors optimus someone like michael moore even go down to the crowd to join them and one supports i think what rings everyone together is partially ration 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 and 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 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 week by week this group of demonstrators that you know

call themselves occupy wall street this group is getting bigger and bigger there's no doubt about that. and coming up with new yorkers if they think the decade long fighting in afghanistan has brought and it was uls. i don't see really see anything changing even if we stay there another hundred years for a war there for that long it better be presumably you know we better be goes a bit out of it i think that's going to happen no. more opinions on the afghan war from of the big apple in just a few minutes. also ahead a suicide epidemic kids bankrupt farmers in the end. as the country faces one of the worst droughts and years that we see why families think it's not nature to blame but rather the government. 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 a little security as they follow no particularly orders and fire their weapons indiscriminately and as a robert perry the editor of the internet in the post to give that magazine consortium news says the people currently in power have suspicious links with terrorist cells. there is evidence he did and 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. 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 that took tripoli was also considered very close to al qaeda and was indeed detained by the united states for some time before he was allowed to go free so it appears that the people with the guns on the side of the libyan rebels are not a 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 of once the country's under the control

this is force which side of this force will will be predominant. really in revolutionary forces say they have surrounded the city of sea are taking a stronghold thousands of people have been fleeing of the besieged city driven from their homes by fierce fighting and a lot of essential the chairman of the national transitional council says his forces have a call day to 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 to the city rob lyons a deputy editor of the independent online magazine spiked says nato is intervention in libya has turned things from bad to worse. this is the very small consequence of the think things that i got rolling back in february a year that kind of half hearted intervention was always going to end up with last time by kicked off its forces in fact is this is the kind of last stand that we

expected in tripoli a few weeks ago that never happened and it was clearly there's a lot in this thing about the rose leaves national community no could be making things worse not simply by bombarding the city put oil actually having made such a fuss about civilians and not being agent. even though they clearly hardly. if given the khadafi force is a real answer to keep keep the civilians in the city probably against their will i'm sure sure many of them would like to get out of there know. their facts as we become a kind of shield by which the they can stay there for a high on for a bit longer to be tryna get absolute a sense of you has dominated the russian press in the last few days during a meeting with the chiefs of the countries that three biggest t.v. stations the president explained why he's decided not to run for the office a second time r t z what he's going after is 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 off prime minister was even watching for the top job and to the sudden dismissal of now former finance minister aleksey cruden 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 kind of sun newspaper really was well known here in russia and it's published an article to try to show you this polish not to go under the title of what were you after what's your ambition and the analysts that the newspaper was talking to have been saying that even though dmitry medvedev has finally announced his political winds and he plans of his stand them with prime minister why do important there's still a lot of uncertainty since the official political programs for the upcoming problem

entry and presidential elections still have not been announced however this point of view is not shared by the analysts that he is this did you speak for or spoke to slaughter 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 queers during the upcoming presidential election next more true now lots of focus is definitely on the sudden dismissal now former finance minister aleksey kudrin who is always thought to be the key ill i both of the government and of the president's administration the commerce sun newspaper says that staff to dismiss him like receiving more questions they do what else could happen well meaning if he's still in office. however there are analysts who say. 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. seven or any presidential poll be held next more cheney didn't happen still and according to the media it's still going to be up to the people to decide who gets to run the can she next despite eighty recommendation that me as a. political analyst have been off told r.t. that movie decision not to run in the upcoming elections was dictated by common sense with a prudent having a better chance of success but now i think this situation is pretty logical. and mediator for both representing the same political force united russia not being completely similar in not being poisons and politics they're still pretty close to logically and politically at this point is needed if explained. is more

popular then you did it himself. the question is about winning the next presidential election will not come automatically it will be a fight which is more equipped to leave you know there's russia in their floyd presidential struggle at the same time he did if he is keeping his position as an important political figure as potential prime minister and potential leader of the united russia which makes him a politician with great perspective. future. and for the full version of the interview with the president you can always log on to our website r t dot com. now a brief look at some other international headlines making news for you now. somali pirates have reportedly kidnapped a wheelchair bound a french woman near the kenyan resort of long move the navy and a 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 a less than

a month after somali pirates abducted a british woman and killed her husband in the same area. the second typhoon in just a week is a battering of 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 are predicting the thai food will become more powerful as it heads towards the 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 incident just after or just before the crash happened rather rain had forced the majority of people off the ride the pilot said he never saw the real before smashing into it. indiana 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 or she's pretty sure the reports. the sun is shining on these farm lands in southern india commonly known as the country's rice but they may look much but the grass is far from greener out here farmers are killing themselves in the thousands on the. move to 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 fair for the grieving families left behind the future is ground but 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 have been through this trouble someone has to help us. while 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 well 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 when north is not available for the farmers the government is not providing sufficient loans which is forcing foam is on the doors of money lenders. those who've tried to beat the drought themselves took out huge loans to take 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. who is right 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 the state banks 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 heard that the money lenders and financiers are frequently visiting our home and torturing us we want to be a huge tsunami we don't like rahm election we are now the proud winners tending to two acres of desolate farmlands 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 artsy tellem gonna india. ten years after the u.s. invaded afghanistan it's the troops are still there and still fighting the decade

old war has left thousands of nato soldiers and afghan civilians dead or hard for us to ask 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 the word that this week let's talk about that for wars is no benefit to what is a school doing there for ten years i don't know what the hell. 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 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 proses i think that we have to make a statement that we aren't able to. seek things sitting down that we have a voice in whether it's there's more peaceful ways to present that probably how does that 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 were in there with them but what do we have to do. well eventually begin to bring peace and i mean that's such a nebulous thing right like are 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 or not you know do you think it'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 you know i'm sure a lot of americans you're prone and so i i look at this way 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 and that's going to happen. it seems like most people don't feel like the u.s. war in afghanistan has been worth it unfortunately no one in power seems to be listening. twenty four hours a day seven days a week from our website is there for you with plenty of our top stories online also there for you right now. one activist group speaks out against what they say are you the plans to make ukraine a destination for sex tourists during the euro two thousand and twelve their tactic topless protests. and how one that twelve year old girl is breaking barriers and the world records in the male dominated sport of power lifting the story online.

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