pre-election fever grades russia with president of the air force to clarify both his power swap plans with lighting the board and the sudden departure of moscow's longstanding finance minister. greece on the brink of debt inspectors scramble to secure more bailout cash for the crumbling economy with just a week to go to a meltdown with the french president warning of a new global crisis. and an explosive standoff serbian lockheed's at a disputed border post ignore the costs were hit by nato troops leaving several people injured.

it's a dam of the russian capital you're watching r.c.m. reader josh welcome to the program and widely publicized reshuffle in the put an innovative tandem and the sudden departure of your trusted finance minister have dominated this week's news headlines this also prompted an unexpected interview with the president as he took the time to clarify his latest political move spot as our t.v. presenter child reports the pre-election period in russia may hold even more surprises. this week's headlines have been all that if putin putin made that if any use of the chops was brought up polemic switch russia hasn't seen for quite some time while some criticised others applauded the tandems deal and the kings of photoshop rolled out some of their best work yet with the general mood being that the deal had been done long ago but it was an exciting for just

a few days until the first and the corridors of power began. if you think your views on russia's economic agenda differ from mine as president of. the movie about stuff. with my opinions do differ from yours only take such a decision or talk to the prime minister for so you've just been to the most absurd still you can talk to whoever you want including the prime minister and the president i make. every. one of them is that. a surprise right now between the president and putin's longtime ally could rent left many questioning is there a split situation going on there it is a matter of discipline in government service we are a presidential republican problem entry points on it implements the president's policy if you don't agree you should stand. back and even while many read it not as

a sign of splits i mean you malaysia already. seen all the parts i was out poor health care of these people probably remember the times for the whole world myself i was safe to say the point of view of the world which ultimately was one of the results of the collapse of your sister and i remember before coming to power and read it gave an interview where he basically said that russia will not survive another coffee in siberia it's. the good news of putin yet again running for president. we didn't need. the tease and we don't. have all of the deal was paying his just started. a simple question what if people reject the. words. any politician any political may lose an election we've seen this happen

time and again i think our country and anything can happen. everything has been. but many questions are still. like why would a politician like me trying to beg him for his approval rating still so high in russia to seek reelection and what will the face of the new cabinet of ministers look like on to him in his cell to the not to russia arrests made your choice in the fog of the country's top police ways is finally over and they can go about their usual business but the bulk of the week has shown that when it comes to the chess game of russian politics there are many more moves to be made before the final makeup of the new government is no. to the trial but i did see. just after president to get a show to act finance minister ali if he could ring the door fears arose that the dismissal could throw the russian economy nation however

a london based russia expert martin mccauley banks the country has the potential to overcome financial hurdles. russia is a pretty good economic situation at present if you look at the old revenues if you look at cash if you didn't go to grow materials diamonds and so on russia is a very strong position the world down isn't really affecting russia really because it has reserves are over four hundred billion dollars. it can take profiteering but at present economic situation this is quite good because the i.m.f. is expecting something like four percent growth this year which is vastly superior to the european union america. still down in the program here on our t.v. moscow rejects the latest u.n. resolution on syria saying of compromise is possible only if the council unites in their commitment to and the violence. and eight months after the overthrow of

president hosni mubarak he looks at whether egyptians managed to get what they were fighting for. for that and game is rapidly approaching for greece as its government declares that it only has the cash to pay its bills for eight more days after which its only option will be a default in response to its bureaucratic machine into gear with debt inspectors and desperate negotiations to release more bailout cash for athens the leaders of france and germany also announced a meeting in the coming days to finalize an expansion of the walk's emergency cash for french president nicolas sarkozy to fans of that use cash intensive bailout tactic as the only remaining option but as you sara for a three ports it may all your country nothing as the greek economy crumbles under the weight of unprecedented a staring. greece has been the poster child of the euro think that

a crisis with germany voting to expand the bailout fund the country looks that's to get that much needed cash injection help come with some condition here in greece the people say the pride that are being made to pay them the new high earning that . is the deadline day for the first to be hit with the greek government's nice special tax it's one of the measures they kiss in place to try to secure the next tranche of money the country needs to put bankruptcy the extra tax which is about another three percent of the. supposed to help blocks of the massive deficit in the budget bill to move in a year's salary cuts rises in living calls people who already breaking. points the last two years almost everybody has lost at least thirty percent of his salary or of his functional area cost analysis from the opposition even in title we whites

pay he tells me how the meat mints expanded rapidly in recent months as more and more people hit that financial wall before but most of the people who are offering because they want to protest against an unjust situation know there are thousands and thousands of calls for people who will not pay because. people's desperation has become increasingly evident on the streets of greece but violence is repeatedly breaking out between riot place protesters. even more clashes this parliament again pasted in yet another austerity measure in the fall of any property tax where organizing or. desirous to put carries on there are a mess just for political reasons greece and critics do not need. many people in greece now question just here it is i think control our fortunes

very very early days in euro zone are the bankers. there. is mr. bunker. again and again and again all of the. taxpayers in the eurozone despite germany having dated positively to expand the size and power of the european bailout fund were ready critics are questioning whether that. concise now turned to the many challenges. still faces if the problem will move from. countries then to german banks. even germany. will be you know. will be affected. it's not just for greece but for the european union countries. failing to have the facts of this bill

its leaders continue to struggle to convince the public the truth. still hangs in the balance these plates. continue many people have the greece's economy now at risk of having not any a financial but a democratic deficit as well. as the public building in athens the e.u. may be throwing billions in athens to prop up its economy and create the appearance of stability but the greek crisis has now grown too big to be contained that's according to. a sociology professor in athens. i think the big question facing us today is not whether we are going to default. we are going to default i mean all the measures taking by this throwing provided the european union that is to be on the i.m.f. leads one way or the other to some sort of the fall and some sort of months default

but this new fold is going to be accompanied by newest even concert which they're in the midst of some sort of so some vulnerabilities and this is a vicious circle something this must i think about the society as a country we have it sounds to default on our own terms which means immediate still but the payment for this immediate exit of greece from the euro zone from the euro meanwhile in the u.s. at least seven hundred people have been arrested after a police crackdown on the ongoing anti wall street demonstrations in new york dog the occupy wall street movement they say they're protesting against the tremendous influence and misdeeds of corporations and billionaires archy's more than a fortnight has more on this. this clash and confrontation between and why even new york city police department and thousands of protesters took place 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 baths when things got ugly to say the least the protesters were were banging drums and chanting the whole world was watching police moved in they were having wagons brought to the scene and things got very physical and this is just the most recent incident that this keep in place in new york in the past meets last weekend we saw demonstrators that nice in a nice five who use officers police officers using netting to our ras demonstrators that have been camped out on wall street now these protesters have been demonstrating for about two weeks this is a group occupy wall street a group of americans that have called on all those that are frustrated over the u.s. economy over the fact that people are losing their jobs people can't get their jobs people are struggling to find money to make ends meet and these americans are now

saying this is their their american spring and there are they are high on it 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 out by wall street this group is getting bigger and bigger there's no doubt about that. and with some eye opening financial inside on the way have a listen to this trader. the government's going to rule the world goldman sachs rules the. resonating revelation mainstream media is abuzz after an insider tells the shocking truth behind is really pulling the strings in washington. violence flared up again this week around cost of his northern border as nato troops tampa to dismantle a serbian roadblock local serbs don't recognize a christian administration as a legitimate authority and have barricaded roads to distribute it checkpoints that obey and see zero year with the help of ok for troops our dislikes here shouts he

went to kos about to witness the deadlock. in some parts of the world this walking road would probably be a part of an extreme safari in kosovo it is now a quite a transit. ever so july's border dispute many lives have been dependent on this godforsaken grable road through the mountains now this is the only way that belgrade can use to deliver food and petrol for the tens of thousands of serbs living in northern kosovo and it seems they are ready for long months of bilocate they're even building a new world surpassing the border crossing run by native state for the police force because of the serbs had been barricaded in the road since july in response to the cost of the police checkpoints which enforce the trade embargo between belgrade and the beat of its own where the decision to leave themselves isolated is in their own best interest they are committed to continue their struggle with so much to fight for to know that if you all know that we are telling us to leave because we have no

right to leave this is because kosovo is our land our home and our life so it seems that we are on our own now and they will stand our ground on tuesday the situation turned critical again clashes between the barricading serbs and the k. four troops led to multiple injuries on both sides k. four blamed the possible serbs for starting the violence but injured alexander reach a father of two saw it differently russian special edition 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 wound of my lung although my nato forces also claim they used only rubber bullets and tear gas against the protesting mob this was quickly rejected by doctors in meter it's fueling speculation as to who restarted the order for roland

martin we have seven men in a critical condition the gunshot wound right. and those were not from robert not a single one of them had a rope. to locations. between on friday people should be a very great service but they came late by the time their trucks pulled up at the border crossing before had already forced the barricades how exactly native troops managed to disregard the un's plans is unknown but they quickly set up at the limits to their weapons and journalists and issued a shoot to kill the order for anyone trying to penetrate that nato is not definitely acting as a as an occupying force there's no question about it they've totally and openly stepped out of the un mandate and they're really really now just like three nine hundred ninety nine during the bombing when there were the air force for the albanian separatists are now acting as their infantry so that's where they're not a peace factor at all they're cold

a factor of war in these third position belgrade has reacted with indignation and hope to go she ations with kosovo until the dispute is resolved meanwhile ok for refuses to comment on their actions and bulldozed the border barricades the puter is open now to serve trucks blocking a breach just meters away from the destroyed block suggests this battle is far from over better is like this run are scattered all across northern across the bow and they pretty much reflect the mood of the local serbs it seems they would never give in and accept the fact that they're living in a self-proclaimed state and in this bill kenyon melting pot nobody knows where this standoff go and in the mind of the troops or become again the frozen territorial dispute let's see or sense the sea reporting from kosovo peace analyst john locke on the situation katherine a relatively calm until the e.u. stepped in. it's the european union and the nato so-called peacekeepers

or other enforcers who have caused this problem the kosovo issue the situation in the north of kosovo is what we call a frozen conflict in other words it's an unresolved anomalous situation that has been relatively peaceful now for more than ten years and it seems that the european union is determined to make it not peaceful anymore in my view the powers of you lex which is the european union body that sent the troops there to enforce the new customs regime. i believe that you lex itself is illegal i take the view that it's the united nations which should be governing kosovo according to president told forty four and not you lex. and indeed i think one can make a case for saying that there are parallel structures now in kosovo the european union on one hand and the united nations on the other but legally speaking it should be the united nations the european union itself in

a state of advanced collapse why on earth is serbia trying to join it and why is serbia determined to sacrifice part of her own territory a very strict part of her territory for that girl expects the reality and i'm afraid of the situation where it improved until belgrade at bandon dunes this in my view suicidal girl joining the e.u. . and there are these lesser chefs isn't costa on we'll keep you updated on the situation there but you can always watch the latest videos from dead region on our you tube channel go to our use you tube channel to access all the latest news features interviews and analysis and would also like to know your opinion on of the matter and by the comments section so that's all available at youtube dot com slash our team. is.

revolutionary euphoria an age of back in february soon gave way to disillusionment with both the people and political forces dissatisfied with the way the country is being run postmen dark many feel led down by the transitional military council which has so far failed to implement promised democratic reform argues that he's now i went to cairo to find out more. we knew that change had come to egypt a new chapter of freedom and democracy don't judge a book by its cover when reading post mubarak egypt it's pretty twee no lines where you'll find the new chapter hasn't been published edited or slightly revised we

still have a concept of the armed forces those who will notice i cannot say they have been. any sense this country towards democracy barack may be gone but his policies are not for hosni mubarak's case is ongoing at this tribe you know new figures from human rights watch claims more civilians have been forced to face military trial for the last six months some twelve thousand during the entire thirty year rule of mubarak ever civilians are giving five to you know seven years in prison a lot of torture that has occurred since staff has come into power. actor ali simply doesn't clown around when it comes to the supreme council for scaf has taken part in protests since day one but i still have scars from being detained

. much worse he said very long they told me but i had to stick it humbly for months after that i was shot for the struggle between with the baton to have released early because a well known now must not leave the country for thirty years according to law if i have to i will seek asylum stay fight for freedom like mubarak's staff gets the support it needs to rule egypt from abroad that aid that we get from the us the one point five billion a year the easier proceeds from from the usa and most of it entirely goes to the supreme court to the to the army you know the scout and now the west coast. history books will change for the better the arab spring is a massive opportunity to spread peace prosperity democracy egypt since our last reading the writing. in many areas it's the same as before.

it's getting more worse and he's now a r t. russia wary of military intervention has rejected the latest version of a un security council draft resolution on syria this week saying its proposals were not taken into account the resolution threaten imposing targeted measures which could include sanctions against syria if it does not comply with u.n. demands moscow has a long insisted that the restrictions are simply a strategy to pursue regime change and do little to actually resolve the crisis jacob one birth founder and president of the washington based theater of freedom foundation says real aim of any western intervention would be putting their man in power. sanctions have never succeeded in achieving regime change which is what the u.s. goal is and then let's keep in mind that this was a dictatorship that the us government used at one time to torture canadian citizen

name a hard error they supported we barracked they support the dictatorships in saudi arabia jordan but what they're trying to achieve is to put their man in power that's the whole quest of us foreign policy so there's a lot of hypocrisy here too as well this is something that the syrian people should decide not the u.s. government it's none of the u.s. government's business this revolution's announced or of regimes should be up to the people of that country because as we all know the price can sometimes be very high in revolutions and that's why it's up to the people of that country to make that decision. i am one source comments and videos on our website r t v dot com. fields of despair thousands of farmers in india take their own lives devastated by one of the driest seasons in decades. one activist group speaks out against what they say are you a first glance to made ukraine a destination for sex tourists during euro two thousand and twelve their tactics topless for.

an eye opener for those struggling to make ends meet in the current age of a stare it came from the financial world this week and in japan and traders revelations went viral after he had been volatile markets play a ride into the hands of people like him and that's not the only reason why his confessions are causing opera or. government's going to rule the world goldman sachs rules the world it was the comment heard around the world when they generated widespread reaction from papers and pundits alike we appreciate your candor however it doesn't help the rest of us does it when instead of talking about the comments itself most recently at least not to shoot the messenger alessio forbes called him a psychopath c n b c suggests it might be

a hoax new york magazine wonders if it is a hoax or perhaps our worst nightmare well regardless of earth donny intentions the bigger question has been largely ignored was he wrong about the power of goldman sachs and why was everyone so shocked after all right here at our t.v. in our studios we've had several guests bona fide traders even former goldman sachs employees who have the very same thing washington is not the biggest player in the us the global bankers are the biggest players the global hedge fund managers that's where the action that is determining the outcome of this not not the players in washington they have already ceded control to the global banking industry wall street has been pulling the strings in washington from the get go it is the largest sector of campaign contributions and that's to both parties but for the mainstream media who don't share views like these are sunny's honesty was unexpected survive

and thrive t.v.'s george hamon when they asked him these questions on b.b.c. he does let it all hang out and the actual truth i came across. recently also sent shock waves around the world when he told the b.b.c. that most traders don't really care if and when the economy is fixed personally i've been dreaming of this one for three years i had a confession which is i go to bed every night i dream of another recession and b.b.c. interview has now gone viral but you can see the people around me jules have collectively dropped that what you just say perhaps there. johnson wouldn't have dropped the only red not july two thousand and nine and rolling stone article the great american bubble machine in it he famously described goldman sachs as a quote great them tire squid wrapped around the face of humanity relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money t.v. discussed with us recently how although people are unaware of it the big bank has

profound power in society how much you're paying for gas how much you're paying for electricity how much you're paying for your credit cards. your mortgages how much you're paying in taxes and how much of your tax dollars are going to get service i guess that unlike the mainstream media few here would be shocked by response on. that for nearly two weeks these protesters have been out every day hoping to bring in and. or at least awareness to what many call a corrupt system we. really want. and still others have argued for years that the government's actions are dictated by the big banks and very special interest in on wall street the insurance industry i mean he's got these are the people who are writing the law that obama is tapping they are keeping him in power here are the ones that are financed this campaign and the laws are being written for their benefit. as anger builds here perhaps better questions need to be

asked here so that a different message is sent to decision makers here that the system that has been sustained and protected for decades might lead to change in washington christine for r t. but brings us up to date for an hour be back shortly with more stay with us. the.