would be soon we're trying to. move some from phones to shoot. these stunts on t.v. don't come. free election fever grips russia with president medvedev forced to clarify both his power swap plans with lyme important and the sudden departure of moscow's longstanding finance minister. greece on the brink e.u. debt inspectors scramble to secure more bailout cash for the crumbling economy with just a week to go until meltdown with a french president warning of a new global crisis. seven hundred people arrested in new york as authorities adopting a zero tolerance policy toward the rapidly escalating anti wall street movement protesting corporate greed and inequality. and an explosive

standoff serbian blockades to a disputed border post in northern costa or hit by nato troops meeting several people injured. this is r t going to live from moscow we take a look at the top stories of the week of widely publicized reshuffle in the put the advent of tandem and sudden departure of the your trusted finance minister have dominated this week's news headlines this also prompted an unexpected in her view with the president as he took the time to clarify his latest political moves as r.t. is it going to mean a good child in our reports the pre-election period in russia may hold even more surprises i see this week's headlines have been aimed at if. there is it and use of the group small role as a switch russia has a. seen for quite some time while some criticize others applauded the tandems deal

and the kings of photo shop rolled out some of their best work yet but 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 rich shuffles in the corridors of power began. if you think your views on russia's economic agenda differ from mine as president if you can resign or what's the. basis for it was my opinions do differ from yours but only take such a decision after a talk to the prime minister has been almost a proof of their work you can talk to whoever you want including the prime minister but as long as i'm the president i make these decisions. with a surprise right now between the president and putin's longtime ally aleksey could read left many questioning is there a split in the tandem apostleship the situation with mr could read as

a matter of discipline in government service we are a presidential republic not a parliamentary one it implements the president's policy if you don't agree you should step down and meanwhile many read it not as a sign of a split but only a new maturity in russia's democracy. it is almost for more wishful thinking on the part of the board else these people probably remember. when there was a rift inside the port of bureau which ultimately was one of the reasons for the collapse of the u.s.s.r. i remember before coming to power. where he basically said russia will not survive another conflict inside believes the big news of putin yet again running for president brought up so many questions that need trimming birgitte how to meet talk t.v. hats to cross the t.'s and dot the ice. because it's nice to know that people trust me as president and that my approval rating is quite high in the current

circumstances but i also know that prime minister putin undoubtedly remains the most popular politician in our country at this point and his rating is even higher . the election campaign has just started let's ask ourselves a simple question what if our people reject us both me and putin what will happen to these decisions by the conventions these decisions are merely the party's recommendation to vote for those people that's all the choices made by the people and these are not new words a term solution true any politician and any political force may lose an election but many questions are still in the air like why would a politician like neutron advantage of his approval rating is still so high in russia not seek reelection and what will the face of the new cabinet of ministers look like under him should he become pm immediately after the united russia congress many rejoiced in the fact that the country's top political poison is finally over and they can go about their usual business but this week has shown

that when it comes to the chess game the process and politics there are many more moves to be made before the final made up of the new government is no it's you know that's true but on our team. just after president kennedy had showed x. finance minister isaac who drained the door a few years arose that the dismissal could throw the russian economy into stagnation however along the base russia asked martin a call you thanks the country has the potential to overcome financial hurdles russia is in a pretty good economic situation at present if you look at the order of revenues if you do it if you do the girl. group materials diamonds and so on which is a very strong position. the. isn't really affecting russia. because it has reserves of over four hundred billion dollars. it can take

nothing but a present economic situation 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. well still to come on the program eight months after the overthrow of president hosni mubarak he looks at whether it kitchens managed to get what they were fighting for. am following a summer of demonstrations wanted earth find themselves by their own governments after a large chunk of the city's head by protest band. and game is rapidly approaching for greece as its government admits that it only has the cash to pay its bills for eight more days after which the only option will be at a fall in response to. a crowded machine into gear an all out effort to release more cash for athens this is french president nicolas sarkozy admits that a much criticized bailout approach is the block's last line of the fans in

preventing the crisis from consuming the eurozone he and germany's angela merkel also announced a meeting in the coming days to finalize a radical expansion of the blogs emergency cash flow but as r.t. as sarah ferguson ports they all year come to nothing as the greek economy crumbles under the weight of president of stary. greece has been the poster child of the euro they write this with germany voting to expand the bailout fund the country looks that's to get that much needed cash injection to help come with some condition here in greece the people say the price they're being made to pay them for the new high earning that. is the deadline day for the first to be hit with the greek government's new special tax one of the measures they kiss in place to try to secure the next tranche of money the country needs to avoid bankruptcy the extra tax which is ducks but another three percent of it was. supposed to help the looks

of the matter is that the budget to move in a year's salary cuts rises in living calls people have breaking. points the last two years almost everybody has lost ark least thirty percent of his salary of or of his punctual era cost analysis from the opposition even in title pay he tells me how the need been expanded rapidly in recent months as more and more people hit that financial wall before of the people most of the people were offering because they want to protest against the no unjust situation no there are thousands and thousands of people who will wait because in most people's desperation has become increasingly evident on the streets of greece the violence is repeatedly play can out between riot place protest as she sticks to even more

clashes this part and again feted yet another of the measure in the fall of any property tax where organizing all of this. to put greece on better are you. just for political reasons greece and british do not need the i.m.f. many people in greece now question just here it is i think control unfortunately today very early in euro zone our bankers. is mr concerned. bankers are. called again and again and again are the. taxpayers in the euro zone despite germany having baited positively to expand the size and power of the year pin panned out to fund already critics are questioning whether that will be enough concise now turn to the many challenges usain still faces the problem will move

from greece and. other european countries then to german banks. even germany. most of your being you know. will be affected you will find the solution will be not just for being in congress but past measures failing to have the facts in this political leaders continue to struggle to convince the public the truth. still hangs in the balance that these protests. continue many people hate it greece is a country now at risk of having good only a financial democratic deficit as well. as the public voting in athens. in rushing to intervene in the greek crisis e.u. officials are offering solutions that will only make matters worse that's the

opinion of british godfrey bloom. you cannot tax your way out of recession or depression is simply isn't possible in the great winston churchill's quotes on this trying to touch your way out of a recession is like trying to lift yourself up in a bucket by the handle they simply call one of the soon as the politicians the bureaucrats and everybody else face the truth of this crisis the sooner we can start to get out of it great people are beginning to understand that they will be better off by the full thing we need to do the rest of the european union the eurozone and indeed the i.m.f. is to help them in a stable controls the fault in the same way they must be forces argentina did in two thousand and two only without a complete and total collapse down in a structured way the your opinion isn't part of the solution here you european union is part of the problem it's the european union in the eurozone which has created this terrible cataclysmic problem so new is not part of the solution mr

briggs said least of all. 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 dubbed the occupy wall street movement they say they're protesting against the tremendous influence and misdeeds of corporations and billionaires are his marina work now has more on this this clash and confrontation between and right 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 that's when things start ugly to say the least the protesters were were banging drums and chanting the whole world is watching police moved in there were paddy wagons brought to the scene and things got very physical and this is just the most recent incident that

is keep in place in new york in the past two weeks last weekend we saw demonstrators that maced in the these five police officers police officers using netting to our rights 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 or 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 the money to make ends meet and these americans are now saying this is 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 are out of wall street this group is getting bigger and bigger there's no doubt about that. very important

reporting there new york now we've got plenty more from new york city in our all you tube channel including first hand accounts and foods of clashes with police all at you tube dot com slash r t. well from the latest pictures of the most wide ranging opinion on the protests it's all there on our you tube channel and we've got all the latest news features interviews and else is there for you so we can also share your views there too and discuss it with others so that's all at youtube dot com slash our team.

violence flared up again this week around cos it was northern border as nato troops attempted to dismantle a serbian roadblock local serbs don't recognize a christian administration as a legitimate authority and have barricaded broach to disputed checkpoints that a baby and seized earlier with the help of k. four troops are just likes you should ask you once to kossovo to witness the deadlock. in some parts of the world this walking road would probably be part of an extreme safari possible it is now a quite. ever says 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 the course of the serbs have been barricaded in the road since july in response to the cost of the police checkpoints which in force the trade embargo between belgrade and the meeting of its on tuesday the situation

turned critical again clashes between the barricading serbs and the k for troops led to multiple injuries on both sides k. four blamed the kosovo serbs for starting the violence but dangerous alex on the beach a father of two saw it differently because of this. we were standing by the barricade when the soldiers started shouting and shooting at us i didn't know what they were shooting with so i got scared and started running away and i was hit on the shoulder and it turned out to be a perforating wound of my lung nato forces also claimed they used only rubber bullets and tear gas against the protesting mob this was quickly rejected by doctors in need of its fuelling speculation as to who really started its own forty seven man unhappy condition gunshot wounds fractures and bruises there were not wounds from rubber bullets but a single of them had a rubber wound all those wounds were caused by regular bullets which we extracted

from their bodies dilatation. to be killed on fighting. every day to the serbs but they came too late it's their trucks pulled up at the border crossing before had already forced the barricades how exactly nato troops managed to disregard the un's plans is unknown but they quickly set up at the limits to the web. that journalists and he should they should do if you order for anyone trying to penetrate it totally and openly stepped out of the un mandate and there really really now just like during one thousand nine hundred nine during the bombing when there was 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 the resolution twelve forty four it's totally destroyed there are standing as any sort of mediator belgrade has reacted with indignation and hooted legal she ations with possible until the dispute is resolved meanwhile paid for

refuses to comment on their actions and goes to the border barricade. is open to the share of trucks blocking a breach just meters away from the destroyed block suggests this battle is far from over better is like this one are scattered all across northern core civil war 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 volcano and melting pot nobody knows where this standoff go. or to come again another frozen territorial dispute let's hear a sense and see reporting from kosovo. balkans political expert market gossage told r.t. that nato moved into caso only to push its own interest and keep a military presence in the region. i do hope that the international criminal court will will have a look at least since the national criminal court claims to be very interested in

the way civilians are treated i hope that they won't make an exception for western powers in the way they treat civilians they've decided who they want to sponsor they want to sponsor the greater albanian project through which they see their own interest they see can bondsteel the biggest military base in the world having a permanent presence in the heart of europe t.g. please look a to completing that encircled of russia which was always one of the serious aspects of their game plan and that's what they're about they're about controlling the flow of oil controlling the security of energy supplies through this region they're about control nato is about control of territory and control of resources that's why they can stay on the side of those whose country it was not they will reward the organ stealers and the greater albanian terrorists with a country because then the albanian will the big time that's the nato plan. i find more stories comments and videos on our website r t dot com. the fields of despair are thousands of farmers in india take their own lives devastated by one of

the driest seasons in decades. a lot of activists rupe speaks out against what they say are you a first plans to make it rain a destination for sex tourists during euro two thousand and twelve and their attack to top let's protest. revolutionary euphoria in egypt back in february soon gave way to disillusionment with both the people and political forces dissatisfied with the way the country is being run post mubarak many feel led down by the transitional military council which has so far failed to implement promised democratic reform are to cease 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 the school calls or the armed forces because. i cannot say that they have. in any sense in this country towards democracy where a comedian can put 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 average civilians are giving fight to you know seven years in prison a lot of torture has occurred since the staff has come into power.

actor ali sabri doesn't clown around when it comes to the supreme council or scaf he has taken part in protests since day one and still has scars from being detained because the books were much worse he served very long they told people they had to stick it humbly for months after that i was shot for the struggle and beaten with bats and the head least only because i'm well known now not allowed to leave the country for thirty years according to law if i have to seek asylum stay fight for freedom like mubarak's gaffed gets the supported needs to rule egypt from abroad the aid that we get from the u.s. that 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 scouts and what the west bank

. 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 on the wall and many areas of the same as before don't want to play upon a time period it's getting more worse and he's now a r t congress. but a special admissions committee obvious u.n. security council has held its first meeting over the fate of the palestinian statehood bid it was put forward for consideration this week where the membership application review period expected to take several weeks a total of nine out of fifteen votes in the security council are needed to push the application through with no view of being cast at the same time at this stage now as believe america will try to stall the process to avoid viewing the resolution among the international bodies and or seeing the bit as the european parliament

which hold the palestinian quest for statehood legitimate meanwhile israel has yet again come under fire from much of the world community after at proving more settlements on occupied palestinian territory riyad mansour one of the palestinian envoy to the u.n. believes this simply demonstrates israel's reluctance to negotiate for peace. this may lead. you to government. or. responding to the international community and to the quartet which have been asked and. their obligations under international law. which calls for the freeze of settlement if the announcing. in these days this illegal. step is an indication that they are not interested in what is proposing or the international community or why the obligation on international

norm and therefore they are not interested in negotiating fleece a law they say they want to negotiate peace without conditions we are imposing all these conditions and speaks louder. announcement of their desire to negotiate peace. and coming up later this hour his special report about israeli peace activists who are taking a stand against forty four years of occupation of palestinian territories and illegal west bank settlements here's a preview. in the far away life. where human life is ruled by nature. the deuce to use to planet earth you scarcely deserve by the player. should lie hidden in the deep permafrost. and for those who do with. bruce stored times are still not sure.

the right to protest is something the u.k. has long up help and the fan did but now as the british government slaps a month long marching band on several london districts there are those who argue that civil liberties are under attack or kill or am it has more. the view of workers activists on the home office ban on marching is clear it's an attack on the basic democratic rights in this country through september in six areas of london anyone marching like these people to last winter is liable to be arrested and fined or even imprisoned. the ban was prompted by plans by the anti muslim english defense league seen here in luton in february to march through tower hamlets the area with the highest concentration of muslims in the country but instead of planning one march on one day the home office banned all marches in six

bars for an entire month activist richard seymour sees a wider motive once the violence pastor doesn't necessarily mean so that march isn't going to happen it just means that the posters have more powers and that's part of the wider problem but if you're restricted to a static demonstration the police have a right to pen you in. a restroom very very. small posters or for instance these people behind me are amongst the lucky few they still can march just by pure accident of geography we're here in lumberton which is not one of the six affected by the battle but if as many fear the government extend and widen the plan to take in more parts of london the scenes that you see behind me both small and large marches through london and many other cities across the country could be a thing of the past the band comes hot on the heels of widespread rioting in many english cities in august it also coincides with the introduction of government

austerity measures which some say amounts to the dismantling of the entire welfare state many say public fear of civil unrest is being manipulated to prevent unions from turning out to protest fierce cuts and pat. reagan from the workers revolutionary party says it's just the tip of the iceberg so the border area could use it or know about shutting down facebook social network sites. about it or your civil war measures because what they're doing in britain is creating a historic change in which inevitably. the majority of the population will oppose them freedom of expression and association are enshrined in u.k. and european law with the u.k. renowned for its powerful union organizations but the ban gives police the ultimate power to step in and arrest demonstrators merely for exercising their rights to

speak out against the government and that's a dangerous precedent to set your emmett's r.t. london. we are today i'll be back shortly with more. on. the.