watching r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie today we take a look at the top stories so the weak and widely publicized reshuffle in the port madrid 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 our team is cutting into each other reports the pre-election period in russia may hold even more surprises. this week's headlines have been that if hootin putin made that it the news of the drops 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 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. if you think your views on russia's economic agenda differ from mine as president if you can resign. my opinions do differ from your own only take such a decision after i've talked to the prime minister. or most of service you can talk to whoever you want including the prime minister but as long as i'm the president i make the decision here. was the surprise right now between the president and putin's longtime ally aleksey kudrin left many questioning is there a split in the tandem or was it the solution is the situation with mr cooder it is a matter of discipline in government service we are a presidential republic not a problem entry point so it implements the president's policy 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 almost far more slayer wish for thing carol

on the part i was out point out of these people probably remember the times for her was myself i was a rift in the part of the world which ultimately was one of the reasons for the collapse of the u.s.s.r. and i remember before coming to power gave an interview where he basically said that russia will not survive another conflict inside. the big news of putin yet again running for president brought up so many questions that make treatment that if he had to meet top t.v. . we have to cross the t.'s and dot. to know that people trust the president and that my approval ratings are going to. the prime minister putin undoubtedly remain popular politician in our country and his rating is even higher . the election campaign has just started. a simple question which people. will know how. these decisions are

merely the recommendation of the people that's all. true by any politician of any political. election but many questions are still in the air like why would a politician like nutriment that if his approval rating is still so high in russia not seek reelection and what will the face of the e.u. 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 in politics there are many more moves to be made before the final makeup of the new government is no it's to do that shilpa art . just after president of showed x.

finance minister during the door fears arose 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 a pretty good economic situation the present if you look at the oil revenues if you do good gas if you do good gold tim roemer trios diamonds and so on russia is a very strong position in the world down to isn't really affecting russia really so far because it has reserves are over four hundred billion dollars. it can take some buffeting 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 america. well you want to marty live from moscow still to come in the program the future of palestine is clouded in intrigue was the shadow

of an imminent u.s. radio hanging over its statehood bid at the u.n. security council. eight months after the overthrow of the president hosni mubarak our deal looks out whether egyptians managed to get what they were fighting for. all that's coming to later in the program before that at least seven hundred people have been arrested after police crackdown on the ongoing wall street demonstrations in new york city dubbed the occupy wall street movement they say they're protesting against the tremendous influence and misdeeds of corporations and billionaires argues marine park now has more on this this clash and confrontation between and why 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 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 has taken place in new york in the past two weeks last weekend we saw demonstrators get maced in the piece five police 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. these americans are now saying this is their their american spring and there are they are planning to stay

down there through the end of the year and i can tell you this week by week this group of demonstrators that you know call themselves occupy wall street this group is getting bigger and bigger there's no doubt about that. now we've got plenty more from new york at you tube dot com slash r t from the latest pictures to firsthand accounts and food of clashes with police and also let us know what you think on the issue as well as the news with others and the wall street protests attract more attention will look at just what's fueling the growing anger. from governments don't rule the world goldman sachs rules the world. resonating revelation mainstream media is abuzz after an insider tells the shocking truth behind is really calling the strings in washington. 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 a default and response that it's bureaucratic machine into gear an all out effort to release more cash for athens this as french president nicolas sarkozy admits that the much criticized bailout approach is a block's last line of defense in preventing the crisis from consuming the eurozone he enjoyment is anglo margaux also announced a meeting in the coming days to finalize a radical expansion of blogs emergency cash poor but as r.t. sarah for three ports in 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 crisis with germany voting to expand the bailout fund the country looks sets to get that much needed cash injection with the help come with conditions here in greece that people say the price that is being made to pay them the new high

birding that. is the deadline day for the first to be hit with the greek government's new 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 do it but. say the extra tax which is about another three percent from people's annual income is supposed to help plug some of the massive deficit in the budget nothing more than a year's salary cuts rise in living costs people have already at breaking point the last two years almost. thirty percent 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. most of the people were not playing because they wanted to protest against

the. know there are thousands and dozens of. peoples desperation has become increasingly evident on the streets of greece violence has repeatedly prey can out between riot place and protest as she states through even more clashes his parliament and feted yet another. in the fold of any property tax where organizing all of this. to put goodies on there are. just for the. critics do not need. many people in greece now question just here it is the thing control unfortunately very very rarely there's an euro zone are the bankers. there. is mr. bunker. again and again

and again. spears 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 insights now turn to the many challenges. still faces. who will move. them to german banks. you know. just for being you know with 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 with these protests. many people have that

greece is a country now at risk of having not only a financial but the democratic deficit as well sir. the parliament building in athens and rushing to intervene in the greek crisis officials are offering solutions that will only make matters worse that's the opinion of british. you cannot tuck's your way out of recession or despair depression is simply isn't possible and the great winston churchill's quote on this trying to tax your way out of a recession is like trying to lift yourself up in a bucket by a simply call of the soon as the politicians the bureaucrats nobody else faced 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 live in a stable controlled default in the same way they must be fools

as argentina did in two thousand and two only we're down to complete and total collapse down in a structured way the european union isn't part of the solution here the u. european union is part of 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 at tampa 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 the help of k. four troops are due to lax here chefs who want a cost of a to witness the deadlock. in some parts of the world this walk you rode with probably be part of an extreme safari hold in kosovo it is now a fighting chance of. ever since july the border dispute many lives have been

dependent on this godforsaken gravel 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 course of the serbs have been very gating the road since july in response to the police checkpoints which enforce the trade embargo between belgrade and on tuesday the situation turned critical again clashes between the barricading serbs and the k. four troops led to multiple injuries on both sides gay for blame the cause for starting the violence but injured alexandre of each 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 only nato forces also claimed they used only rubber

bullets and tear gas against the protesting mob this was quickly rejected by doctors. fuelling speculation as to who remains started. from forty seven men in heavy condition gunshot wounds fractures and bruises there were not wounds from rubber bullets not a single of them had a rubber room all those wounds were caused by regular bullets which we extracted from their bodies. delegation led us to the region on friday people she gave every day to the 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 nato troops managed to disregard the un's plans is unknown but they quickly set up at the limits to their weapon. that journalists and issued should do q. who would have for anyone trying to penetrate it they've totally and openly stepped out of the un mandate and they're really really now just like during nine hundred

ninety nine during the bombing when they were the air force for the albanian separatists are now acting as their infantry so this is what we have this is a clear breach of the u.n. charter and of resolution twelve forty four it's totally destroyed their standing as any sort of a mediator belgrade has reacted with indignation and halted negotiations with kosovo until the dispute is resolved meanwhile gate for refuses to comment on their actions and bulldozed the border barricades the border is open now to serve trucks blocking a breach just be just a way to destroy 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 and or why the troops or become yet another frozen territorial

dispute lexy or sixty odd sea reporting from kosovo balkans political expert mark agusta 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've decided who they want to sponsor they want to sponsor the greater albanian project through which they see their own interest they see still the biggest military base in the world having a permanent presence in the heart of europe strategically located completing that encircled of russia which was always one of the serious aspects of a 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 all good. and the greater albanian terrorists with a 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 fields of despair thousands of farmers in india take their own lives devastated by one of the 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 for you i need you 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-mark many feel let down by the transitional military council which has so far failed to implement promise democratic reform party's an isa now we went to cairo to find out more. as it was 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 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 all in any sense getting 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 trial for 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 that has occurred since staff has come into power. actor ali simply 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 had to stick at home me for months would find them after that i was shot with a stun gun beaten with a baton ahead least only because i'm well known and now must not leave the country for thirty years according to you know if i have to seek asylum at all to stay and fight for freedom like mubarak skaf gets the support it needs to rule egypt from

bronte the aid that we get from the u.s. that one point five billion a year the easier krissy is 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 west coast history books. change for the better the arab spring is a massive opportunity to spread peace prosperity democracy egypt's sions are left reading the writing. in many areas it's in the same as before don't want differ from 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 kollek to punishment for the bit along the international bodies indorsing the bit as the european parliament which called the palestinian quest for statehood legitimate in while israel has yet again come under fire from much of the world community after approving more settlements on occupied palestinian territory riyad mansour or the palestinian envoy to the u.n. believes this simply demonstrates israel's reluctance to negotiate for peace. this illegal action is that our unity government the occupying power of responding to the international community and to the quartet which have been asking them to abide by their obligations under international law. which calls for the

three days of settlement the fact that announcing these days this illegal. step is an indication that they are not interested in what that is proposing or the international community or why didn't buy their obligation on international law and therefore they are interested in negotiating for peace they say they want to negotiate peace without conditions they are imposing all these conditions and that action speaks louder than the announcement of their desire to negotiate peace and i open air four of those struggling to make hands meet in the current age of a stair only came from the financial world this week an independent traders' revelations went viral after he had made a volatile markets play right into the hands of people like him that's not the only reason why it's confessions are causing uproar. the 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 remediate least not to shoot the messenger alessio responding crisis 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 our 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 bona fide traders even former goldman sachs employees who have said the very same thing washington is not the biggest player in this the global bankers are the biggest players the global hedge fund managers that's where the action that

is determining the outcome of this mass not the players in washington they have already seated 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 studies honesty was unexpected for surviving thrive t.v.'s george hamon story when they asked him nice questions on b.b.c. he just let it all hang out and the actual truth came across. for sony 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 could see the people around me jewels of collectively drop what you just saves perhaps there are. jaws wouldn't have dropped they only

read 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 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'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 debt service. unlike the mainstream media few here would be shocked by respondents comments like that that i was there 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 or do we. we 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 these guys these are the people who are writing the laws that obama is asking they are keeping him in power they are the ones that have finance 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 need to change in washington christine for our tea. well it's all the news for now and i'll be back shortly with a recap of our top stories don't go away.

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watching r.t. live from moscow here's a look at the top stories of the week pre-election fever grips russia with president had a forced to clarify both his power swap plans a lot of reporting and the sudden departure of the country's longstanding finance minister. seven hundred people arrested in new york as authorities adopt a zero tolerance policy towards the rapidly escalating anti wall street movement protesting corporate agreed and inequality. release on the brink e.u. down inspector scramble to secure more bailout cash for the crumbling economy with joe. still we go down as the french president warns of a new global crisis. and an explosive standoff serbian blockades at a disputed border post in northern kossovo are hit by nato troops leaving several people enjoy.