the millstones who took someone from tree house today is the goldman turns to remember it clearly it used to be the accuser to the world the ruben's original. election fever grips russia with president to be a force to clarify both his power swap plans with my reporting and the sudden departure of the country's longstanding finance minister and seven hundred people arrested in new york as authorities adopt a zero tolerance policy towards the rapid and we ask the lady anti wall street movement protesting corporate greed and inequality. grease on the brain down into better scramble to secure more bailout cash for the crumbling economy with just a week to go to a meltdown as a french president warns of a new global crisis. and an explosive standoff serbian blockades at

a disputed border post in northern kasuga are hit by nato troops leaving several people injured. what are they coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshing today we take a look at the top stories so the week a lively publicised to reshuffle in the portman bit of tandem and sudden departure of their 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 moves but as r.t. has gotten her child reports the pre-election period in russia may hold even more surprises. this week's headlines have been all of that if you tune hootin with betty and use of the drops was brought up polemic switch russia hasn't 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 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. and if you think your views on russia's economic agenda is different from mine as president if you can resign. my opinions do differ from yours only take such a decision to the prime minister has been the most absurd still you can talk to whoever you want including the prime minister and the president by making his decision it. was a surprise right now between the president and putin's longtime ally aleksey could rent left many questioning is there a split in the tandem or was it the solution is the situation with mr krueger it is

a matter of discipline in government service we are a presidential republican problem and from pundits on it implements the president's policy if you don't agree you should step down meanwhile many read it not as a sign of splits but when you maturity in russia's democracy i almost far more slayer wishful thinking on the part of our point out these people probably remember the character of a whole world myself i was there if they said the point of view which ultimately was one of the reasons for the co-op so he uses up and i remember before coming to power it gave an interview where he basically said that russia will not survive another coffee in siberia it's the big news of putin yet again running for president brought up so many questions let me try to go to how to meet the. t.v. hats to cross the t.'s and dotting the. i's to no good people trust me a president and that my approval ratings are going to. the prime minister putin and

the remaining politician in our country and his rating is even higher. the election campaign has just started. simple question which all of our people reject it's. going well how close are these decisions by the these decisions and merely the parties recommendation to those people that's all. showing us and these are not saluting troops or by any politician or any political. election but many questions are still in the air like why would a politician like michonne advantage of his approval rating is still so high in russia not seek reelection and look to move the face of the new cabinet of ministers look like on to him should he become pm he's if you alter the united russia congress many rejoiced in the fact that the country's top political queen is

finally over and they can go about their usual business but this week has shown that when it comes to the chess game process and politics there are many more moves to be made before the final me government is no if you don't bet she'll be on our team. just after president of showed as finance minister as he could ring the door here's a rose that the dismissal could throw the russian economy into stagnation however a london based russia expert martin mccauley thinks the country has the potential to overcome financial hurdles. russia is in pretty good economic situation a present if you look at the all revenues if you do good gas if you do good gold tim roemer tails diamonds and so on russia is a very strong position the world down isn't really affecting russia really so far because it has reserves to over four hundred billion dollars. it can take some

profiting but at present economic situation it 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 in america. well you want to know if you live from moscow still to come in the program the future of palestine is a blowout an entry was a shadow of an imminent u.s. veto hangover and statehood bid at the u.n. security council. eight months after the overthrow of the president hosni mubarak archelaus out whether egyptians managed to get what they were fighting for . and that's coming to you later in the program before that at least seven hundred people have been arrested after police crackdown on the ongoing anti wall street demonstrations in new york city doug the occupy wall street movement they say they're protesting against the tremendous influence and misdeeds of corporations and billionaires argues marina park now 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 where 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 drums and chanting the whole world was 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 the ski in place in new york in the cost of weeks last weekend we saw demonstrators that maced in the the sky police officers police officers using netting to our grass demonstrators that have been camped out on wall street now these protesters have been demonstrating for about six weeks this is a group occupy wall street

a group of americans 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 need by week this group of demonstrators that you know the wall street this group is getting bigger and bigger there's no doubt about that. now we've got plenty more from new york at you tube dot com slash r t for the latest pictures to firsthand accounts and foods of clashes with police and also let us know what you think on the issue as well as this process news with others the wall street protests extract more attention will look at just what's fueling the growing anger. the government's

going to rule the world goldman sachs rules the world. they resonate in revelation mainstream media is a pause after an insider tells a shocking truth behind is really calling the strings in washington. and game is rapidly approaching for greece has its government admits that it only has the cash to pay its bills for eight more days after which the only option will be a default response that use kicked its bureaucratic machine into gear an all out effort to release more cash for athens this as french president nicolas sarkozy of mitt's out of much criticized bailout approach is a block's last line of the fans in preventing the crisis from consuming the eurozone he endure unease and all margo also announced a meeting in the coming days to finalize a radical expansion of last emergency cash court but as r.t. sarah further reports it may all you have come to nothing as the greek economy crumbles under the weight of precedent of stary. greece has been the poster child

of the euro thing. with germany voting to expand the bailout fund because if you look that's to get a much needed cash injection with the help come with some condition here in greece the people say the price being made to pay them for the new by burning that. is deadline day for the first to be hit with the greek government's nice special tax it's one of the measures they put in place to try to secure the next tranche of money the country needs to buy. but say the extra tax which is doubts about another week a sense that people on your income supposed to help like some of the massive deficit in the budget dumped more than a year's salary cuts and rises in living costs people have already at breaking points the last two years almost everybody has lost at least thirty percent of his salary or his punctual air

a cost analysis from the opposition may have been entitled pay he tells me how the need means expanded rapidly in recent months as more and more people hit that financial wall before the people most of the people were not playing because they wanted to protest against the unjust situation know there are thousands and thousands and thousands of people who will pay because in most people's desperation has become increasingly evident on the streets of greece violence has repeatedly play can out between via place and protest as she states through even more clashes this parliament than fated in yet another austerity measure in the fall and the property tax where organizing all of this. to put greece out there are. just for political reasons greece and greeks do not need i.m.f. many people in greece now question just who it is i think control our fortunately

good day very early days in your resume our bankers. is mr. bunker. being. called again and again and again all of the. facts in the eurozone despite germany having baited positively to expand the size and power of the european bailout fund already critics are questioning whether that will be enough concise now turn to the many challenges. still faces. who will move from. other european countries to german banks. even germany. and european union. find a solution could be just for being you know with past measures failing to have the

facts in this political leaders continue to struggle to convince that public interest here is a still hangs in the balance these protests. continue many people hit the grease is a country now at risk of having more than your financial but the democratic deficit as well. as the cost of the building in athens and rushing to intervene in the greek crisis e.u. officials are offering solutions that will only make matters worse as the opinion of british. you connel tuck's your way 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 can't work of the soon as the politicians the bureaucrats nobody else 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 what we need to do with the rest of the european union the eurozone and indeed the i.m.f. is to help them in a stable controls default in the same way they must because as argentina did in two thousand and two only without a complete and total collapse in the structured way the european union isn't part of the solution here the youth european union is probably the problem it's the european union and the eurozone which has created this terrible cataclysmic problem so new is not part of the solution mr berg so least of all. violence flared up again this week around cosmo's northern border as nato troops it handed to dismantle a serbian roadblock local serbs don't recognize a christian administration as a legitimate authority and have barricaded roads to disputed checkpoints that albanians seized earlier with help of k.

four troops are due to let's hear she ask you want a cost of a to witness that had mark. in some parts of the world this rocky road would probably be a part of an extreme safari in the old impossible it is now a fighting chance of. ever says july's border dispute many lives have been dependent on this god forsaken grable road through the mountains now this is the only way that belgrade can use to deliver food and petrol to the tens of thousands of serbs living in northern kosovo the case 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 meter of itself on tuesday the situation turned critical again clashes between the very caring serbs and the k four troops left to multiple injuries on both sides k. four blamed of course of the serbs for starting the violence but injured alexandre beach 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 reshooting with so i got scared and started running away and i was hit from the shoulder and it turned out to be a perforating route and i not only 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 itself fuelling speculation as to who restarted. the road or to receive seven men in heavy condition gunshot wounds fractures and bruises there were not wounds from rubber bullet will not a single of them had a rubber room all those wounds were caused by a regular bullet which we extract from their bodies not the celebration if you like to be killed on friday will shake the barricades serbs but they came too 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 a perimeter point to their weapon. that journalists and he should shoot to kill the order for anyone trying to drive a traitor they have totally and openly stepped out of the un mandate and they're really really now just like thirty 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 un charter and of the resolution twelve forty four it's told me the stronger there are standing as any sort of a mediator belgrade has reacted with indignation and halted legal she ations with kosovo until the dispute is resolved meanwhile the game for refuses to comment on their actions and bulldozed at the border barricades the brooder is open now i'm sure of trucks looking at breach just me just a way to destroy your block suggests this battle is far from over rather 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 goal canyon melting pot nobody knows where this standoff go and if. troops were to come together and other frozen territorial disputes let's see or sense to see reporting from kosovo balkans political expert market got such told r.t. that nato moved into a cost of 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 have decided who they want to sponsor they want to sponsor the greater albanian project through which they see their own interest they see can bomb still the biggest military base in the world having a permanent presence in the heart of europe trip to egypt we would play through

completing that encircled of russia which was always one of the serious aspects of their game plan 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 controlled resources that's where they can stay on the side of those whose country it was not so they will reward. the great service with the country because then the albanian mafia owed them big time that's the nato plan now find more us stories comments and videos on our website our team dot com deals and despair thousands of farmers in india take their own lives devastated by a lot of those driest seasons in decades. preparing for the great wide nose art sales again thanks to a dutch family who promised free seats for all in case of emergency.

revolutionary forty and injured back in february soon gave way to disillusionment with both the people and political forces dissatisfied with the way the country is being run postmarks many feel let down by the transitional military council which has so far failed to employment promise democratic reform r.t.c. so now we went to cairo to find out more. i think that we knew that change had come to egypt a new chapter of freedom and democracy to judge a book by its cover when reading post mubarak egypt it's between the lines where you find the new chapter hasn't been published and did it first like you've finest we still have the supreme council of the armed forces those. cults.

in any sense this country towards democracy barak may be gone but his policies are not the 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 trials the 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. 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. he said very long they told people they have to stick it only three months would from after that are shot for the stronger these are with the battle ahead.

only because a well heard and now must not leave the country for thirty years according to law if i have to seek asylum stay and fight for freedom like mubarak's cash cancer the support it needs to rule egypt from graunt that aid that we get from the u.s. that one point five billion a year the easier cases from from the usa and most of it in fighting force of the through the supreme court to the to the army you know the scout and while the west coast history books. 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 don't want to further on in some areas is getting more worse and he's now a r t. a special admissions committee on the un security council has held its first

meeting over the fate of the palestinian statehood bid it was put forward for consideration this week with a 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 veto being cast of the same time at this stage alice believe america will try to stall the process u.s. lawmakers have already blocked two hundred million dollars in aid to the palestinian authority allegedly as collective punishment for the bit along the international bodies aborting the bid is the european parliament which called for palestinian quest for statehood legitimate meanwhile israel has yet again come under fire from much of the world community after approving more settlements on occupied palestinian territory riyadh months or the palestinian envoy to the un believes this simply demonstrates israel's reluctance to negotiate for peace. this

illegal action is that are you the government. or. responding to the international community and to the quartet which i have been asking them to. under international law and that all which calls for the freeze of settlement of. announcing. in these days this illegal. step is an indication that they are not interested in what the court that is proposing or the international community or why didn't the obligation on international law and therefore they are not interested in negotiating peace a law they say they want to negotiate peace without conditions they are imposing all these conditions and their actions speaks louder than the announcement of their desire to negotiate things and i hope there are four of those struggling to make

hands meet in the current age of a stare he came from the financial world this week an independent raters revelations went viral after a he had never volatile markets play right into the hands of people live hand that's not the only reason why it's confessions are causing uproar. governments don't rule the world goldman sachs rules the world it was the comment heard around the world one that generated widespread reaction from papers and pundits alike we appreciate your candor however it doesn't help the rest of us does it but instead of talking about the comment itself most outlets really at least start to shoot the messenger alessio prices for it's called him a psychopath c.n.d. sees adjusts it might be a hoax new york magazine wonders if it is a hoax or perhaps our worst nightmare well regardless of any 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 r t in our studios we've had

several guests bonafide traders even former goldman sachs employees who have the very same thing washington is not the biggest player in this the global bankers are the biggest players the global hedge fund managers and that's where the action that is determining the outcome of this mass 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 so both parties but for the mainstream media who don't share views like these were sunny's honesty was unexpected surviving thrive t.v.'s george hamon when they asked in these questions on b.b.c. you just let it all hang out and the actual truth 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 have a confession which is i go to bed every night i dream of another recession the b.b.c. interview has now gone viral if you can see the people around me jules have collectively drop what you just say perhaps there. jaws wouldn't have dropped they only read not tell you these delights two thousand and nine and rolling stone article the great american bubble machine in it he famously describes goldman sachs as a quote great vampire 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 pay 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 debt service. unlike the mainstream media

a few here would be shocked by rest on his comments that there was for nearly two weeks these protesters have been out every day hoping to bring an end. or at least awareness to what many call a corrupt system where we. really are. and still others have argued for years that the government's actions are dictated by the big banks the very special interest in on wall street the insurance industry and he's got these are the people who are writing the laws that obama is they are keeping him in our they're the ones that if they have his campaign and the laws are being written for their benefit touche. 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 need to change in washington christine for our tea. well it's all the news for now hand i'll be back shortly with

a recap of our top stories that got away. wealthy british soil it's best not to be surprised to find accurate and. hyphen.