this is r t going to live from moscow we take a look at the top stories of the week a widely publicized shuffle in the portman of a detail of an sudden departure of the or 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 cuero fire his latest political moves but as artie's academy and her child are reports the pre-election period in russia may hold even more surprises i see with this week's headlines have been told that if putin putin made that it the news of the jumps 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 rich shuffles in the corridors of power began to move if

you think your views on russia's economic agenda differ from mine as president if you can resign him then you know what's the. use when it was my opinions do differ from yours but only take such a decision after i've talked to the prime minister has been the most absolute of you can talk to whoever you want including the prime minister but as long as i'm the president i make these decisions you're putting the surprise right now between the president and putin's longtime ally i don't see could wron left many questioning is there a split in the tandem at the solution is the situation with mr cooder it is a matter of discipline in government service we are a presidential republic not a parliamentary ones it implements the president's policies if you don't agree you should step down meanwhile many read it not as a sign of a split but of a new maturity in russia's democracy i. most were mostly wishful thinking on the

part i was a born else these people probably remember the times of the whole gorbachev when there was a rift inside the party bureau which ultimately was one of the reasons for the collapse of the u.s.s.r. and i remember before coming to power in interview where he basically said that russia will not survive another conflict it's the big news of putin yet again running for president brought up so many questions that need treatment verge of how to meet top t.v. hats to cross the t.'s and dot the i's. of course it's nice to know that people trust me as president and that my approval rating is quite high under current circumstances but i also know that prime minister putin undoubtedly remains the most popular politician in our country his 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. and putin what will happen to these

decisions by the convention these decisions are merely the party's recommendation to vote for those people that's all the choice is made by the people and these are not me a word to top saluki 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 nutriment verdi of whose 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 is finally over and they can go about their usual business but this week has shown that when it comes to the chess game of process and politics there are many more moves to be made before the final makeup of the new government is no it's to do that children on our team. just after president kennedy it showed x.

finance minister as he could ring the door of fear is a rose that the dismissal could throw the russian economy into stagnation however a london based russia an expert martin mccall you think the country has the potential to overcome financial hurdles russia has a pretty good economic situation at present if you look at the oil revenues if you do good gas if you do a good go. through materials diamonds and so on russia is a very strong position. in the world isn't really affecting russia. because it has reserves of over four hundred billion dollars. it can take some buffeting but at 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 in the program eight months after the overthrow of president hosni mubarak our team looks at whether it gyptian to

manage to get what they were fighting for. am following a summer of demonstrations laundered earth find themselves gagged by their own government after a large chunk of the city's head by protest band. the 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 fault in response to its bureaucratic machine into gear and an all out effort to release more cash for athens this french president nicolas sarkozy admits that the much criticized bailout approach is the blocks last line of defense in preventing the crisis from consuming the eurozone he. also announced a meeting in the coming days to finalize a radical expansion of the blocks emergency cash pool but as r.t. as sarah ferguson reports they all year come to nothing as the greek economy

crumbles under the weight of precedent that a stary. greece has been the poster child of the euro crisis with germany voting to expand the belo the country looks set to get that much needed cash injection with the help come with some conditions here in greece that people say the price that being made to pay is simply too high earning that. is deadline day for the first to be hit with the greek government's new special tax it's one of the measures they it's in place to try to secure the next tranche of money the country needs to avoid bankruptcy the extra tax which is about another three percent for people. supposed to help plug some of the money the deficit in the budget bill for more than a good salary cuts rises in living calls people who already agree to. points the last two years almost everybody has at least thirty percent of his salary of or of

his. era cost analysis from the opposition movement entitled pay he tells me how the me expanded rapidly in recent months as more and more people hit that financial wall before of the people most of the people were not playing because they wanted to protest against the unjust situation know there are thousands and dozens of people who will not pay because in most people's desperation has become increasingly evident on the streets of greece the violence is repeatedly breaking out between riot place and protest as she states even more clashes this parliament again feted yet another austerity measure in the fall of any property tax where organizing or. desirous to put goodies on there are. just for political reasons and critics do not need i.m.f.

many people in greece now question just here it is the thing control for sure it will be a very a leaders in your resume are the bankers. is mr. bunker . shareholders. again and again and again are the. taxpayers in the eurozone despite germany having dated positively to expand the size and power of the european pan out to fund the ready critics are questioning whether that will be enough concise now turn to the many challenges. still faces the problem will move from. other european countries then to german banks. even germany. will be you know. will be affected you will find

a solution could be just for being with pos measures failing to have the facts in this political leaders continue to struggle to convince the public the truth. still hangs in the balance these protests. continue many people hate it greece is a country now at risk of having not only a financial but a democratic deficit as well sir. outside the parliament building in athens. and 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. you cannot tax your way out of recession or depression it simply isn't possible and the great winston churchill's quotes on this trying to tax your way out of a recession is like trying to lift yourself up in a bucket by the handle

a simply call of the soon as the politicians the bureaucrats never videos face the truth of this crisis the sooner we can start to get out of it people are beginning to understand that they will be better off by defaulting on what we need to do the rest of the european union the eurozone and indeed the i.m.f. is to help the in a stable controls default in the same way they must be fools as argentina did in two thousand and two only without a complete and total collapse in a structured way the you're opinion isn't part of the solution here the european union is part of the problem it's the european union in the eurozone which has created this terrible cataclysmic problem so no it's not part of the solution mr berg 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 argues marina work now has more on this this clash and confrontation between and why he did the new york city police department and thousands of protesters took place on the brooklyn bridge 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 got ugly to say the least the protesters were were banging the drums and chanting the whole world is watching police moved in they were paddy wagons brought to the scene and things got very physical and this is just the most recent incident that has taken place in new york in the past two weeks last weekend we saw demonstrators get 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 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 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 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 you tube channel including firsthand accounts and food of clashes with police all at you tube dot com slash are. all 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 analysis there for you so you can also share your views there too and discuss it with others so that's all at youtube dot com slash. violence flared up again this week around cost of northern border as nato troops at tempted to dismantle a serbian roadblock local serbs don't recognize oppression administration as a legitimate authority and have barricaded to dispute the checkpoints that albanians seized earlier with the help of k.

four troops. to kossovo to witness the deadlock. in some parts of the world this walking road would probably be part of an extreme safari called impossible it is now a quite expansive. 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 better all to 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 enforce the trade embargo between belgrade and the meat of it on tuesday the situation turned critical again clashes between the barricading serbs and the k. four troops led to multiple injuries on both sides ok for blame the. starting the violence but injured alexandre a father of two saw it differently. 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 started. forty seven men and have a condition gunshot wounds fractures and bruises there were not wounds from rubber bullets not a single of them had a rubber all those wounds were caused by a regular bullet which we extracted from their bodies delegation. to egypt on friday a very great service but they came too late to take 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 issued should do q. who would have for anyone trying to penetrate it they've totally and openly stepped out of there you want to mandate and they're really really now just like during one nine hundred ninety nine during the bombing when they were at 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 belgrade has reacted with indignation and halted negotiations with kosovo until the dispute is a result meanwhile for refuses to comment on their actions and bulldozed to the border barricades the border is open now to serve trucks blocking a breach just meters away from the destroyed world block suggest this battle is far from over better is like this one are scattered all across northern kosovo 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 book canyon melting pot nobody knows where this standoff go. or become yet another frozen territorial dispute lexy or so to speak see reporting from kosovo. balkans political acts market gossip 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 international 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 bond still the biggest military base in the world having a permanent presence in the heart of europe t.j.

please look ated completing that encircled of russia which is always one of the serious aspects of the game plan that's what they're about they're about controlling the flow of oil controlling the security of energy supplies through this part of the 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 great albanian terrorists with the country because then the albanian maffia over the big time that's the nato plan. and find more stories comments and videos on our website r t dot com. fields of despair are 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 plans to make ukraine a destination for sex tourists during euro two thousand and twelve and their tactic

topless protests. 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 parties now we 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 between the lines where you'll find the new chapter hasn't been published ended or slightly revised we

still have the supreme council of the on poor souls of those. i cannot say that they have been. in any sense gearing this country towards democracy barak may be gone but his policies are not the most new 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 trials last six months some twelve thousand during the entire thirty year rule of mubarak average civilians are giving five to you know seven years in prison a lot of torture has occurred since staff has come into power. actor ali sabri doesn't clown around when it comes to the supreme council or scuff he has taken part in protests since day one and still has scars from being detained because the burkes were much worse he said very long they told people they had to

stick it humbly from it after that i was shocked with a stud gun and beaten with a baton ahead least only because i'm well known now most allowed to leave the country for thirty years according to law if i have to seek asylum but all stay and fight for freedom like mubarak skaf gets the support it needs to rule egypt from abroad and the aid that we get from the us that one point five billion a year the easier proceeds from from the usa. and most of it entirely goes to the to the supreme court to the to the army you know the scout and while the westboro. history books will change for the better the arab spring is a massive opportunity to spread peace prosperity democracy egypt sions are left reading the writing on the wall in many areas it's the same as before

ten twenty five on in some areas it's getting more worse and he's now a r t congress. that a special admissions committee avi un 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 at total of nine out of fifteen votes in the security council are needed to push the application through with no veto being cast at the same time at this stage now as believe america will try to stall the process to avoid vetoing the resolution among the international bodies indorsing the bit as the european parliament which cold 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

is a legal action that i need a government the occupying power of responding to the international community and to the quartet which i have been asking them to. openly gay sions that international law. which calls for the freeze of settlement of. announcing these days this illegal. step is an indication that the not interested in what is proposing for the international community or why didn't buy their obligation on international law and therefore they are not interested in negotiating peace they say they want to negotiate peace without conditions they are imposing all these conditions and that action speaks louder than announcement of their desire to negotiate peace. and coming up later this

hour 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 faraway land. where human life is ruled by nature. the distant star of planet earth you scarcely bruiser by the power. it's light in the deep permafrost. down through those you do with them. stored times are still not sure. the right to protest is something the u.k. has long upheld and the fans 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 article 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 did 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 banning 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 wants a bias past doesn't necessarily mean to say that march isn't going to happen it just means that the police 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. small doses or non-offensive 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 bars affected by the baton but if as many fear the government extend and widen the ban 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 fears cuts and pat. reagan from the workers

revolutionary party says it's just the tip of the iceberg to the talking about area curfews that talk about shutting down facebook social network sites they're talking 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 dissociation 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 right to speak out against the government and that's a dangerous precedent to set. r.t. london. we're up to date i'll be back shortly with more.

welcome back you're watching r t let's now take a look at the top stories of the week pretty lection fever grips russia with president he had a force to clarify both his power swap plans with a lot of important and a sudden departure of moscow's longstanding finance minister. greece on the brain dead inspector scramble to secure more bailout cash for the crumbling economy with just a week to go till 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 towards a rapidly escalating anti wall street movement casting corporate greed and inequality. and an explosive standoff serbian blockades at a disputed border post in northern ca civil war hit by.