israeli soldier gilad shelley freed after five years being held captive by hamas in exchange for a thousand palestinian prisoners but other captured soldiers families ask why israel's doing nothing to bring them home. new york police investigate over claims of excessive force during an anti wall street protest has footage of seemingly shows resorting to punches and pepper spray peaceful rallies plus. as regards my return nothing is decided until the people have lives of ordinary citizens always have the choice to make. leaving the last word to the people why did you putin says it's premature to

assume he'll win the presidential election in his first interview since confirming hill said again for russia's top job. for the. serbs in northern kosovo given an extra day to remove roadblocks at a disputed border but locals say they won't give in a less police stand down. here and in moscow i matras are good to have you with us here on r t our top story after five years held captive by hamas israeli soldier gilad shell lead is now free and it's costing israel are a thousand palestinian prisoners in return the first group has already been transported from israeli jails these are live pictures we're looking at now of a bus full of palestinians going back and being returned to their loved ones and in the west bank but for more on this let's go live to our he's policy are standing by

for us in tel aviv so par what's happening to shall eat now. well the latest news we have is that gilad shalit has been transferred to an israeli military camp while here where i'm standing at the tel north air force base a short time ago the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu arrived shallots family has been here for some time eagerly awaiting a reunion with a senate they have not seen for more than five years now let's complete the first phase of the prisoner exchange it did see some four hundred and seventy seven prisoners released before daybreak today they were taken to two points one on the gaza border and another in the west bank that it doesn't completely kind of questions that are there people are now beginning to ask and one of those questions is why has so much international media attention been put on the story of one of soldier being released but some people suggesting that it is well cheering the israeli propaganda machine that manages to see this happen another concern that

many israelis are raising is just whether or not those price is too high now certainly the surveys show that the majority of israelis do support the exchange but in private discussions many israelis are fearful that this creates some kind of precedent that if more result in further israeli soldiers been kidnapped and i've been talking to the families of kidnapped missing israeli soldiers there's maybe a dozen of them and they say that in no way was as much attention put on finding their sons as was on gilad shalit and this is what they had to say. if we date. comes here to a place that looks after israeli soldiers who are alone in the country or who come from difficult backgrounds being here is often more of a comfort to him and the youngsters he hopes because it brings him that little bit closer to his son he disappeared one year before gilad shalit was taken hostage. i have said this over and over again the government and the country are not doing enough for mardi. gras gave to the show that. there are at the moment

seven israeli soldiers who've been kidnapped or who missing in action. now this new son magically disappeared while hitchhiking to his army base major one of our it was captured twenty five years ago after a craft was shot down of eleven on easel the last pictures of him alive taken in a prison in iran guy have it disappeared fourteen years ago he was last seen at his army base one kilometer from the syrian border. it's infuriating it's acceptable that after fourteen years the government still has nothing to tell us our demand is that the government bring us any information alive dead here and lebanon and syria just bring it up but they've brought us nothing. to solution her son is still alive and last she's pleased to be allowed is coming home she's just illusion to no government that made it possible for him but not for her son. it's about

media attention in our how he wants now we succeeded in marketing their son we saw it as a family this was a growl as we thought it was enough the guy was an i.d.f. soldier in uniform but we were wrong very very wrong. this is a country that depends on its army for its survival is an unwritten code that every soldier who goes to war must be deported back home this will be hard because of the free gilad shalit campaign twenty two years his way in his family and the police to come out here in front of the prime minister's office every morning when the time they are left his home he was reminded about the soldier who could not return to his beloved by you really i'm not embarrassed to say that the government and the country are now doing and after my son and the rest of those missing in action it was important for us to bring our soldiers home as spiritual sanderson's toward.

the country will do everything possible to get them back or it's done just that in the case of gilad shalit but what cost will militants now be empowered to kidnap and murder israeli soldier and will israel be willing to pay this price again policy r.t. . well as gauging reaction and the developments on the historic prisoner swap you can follow her twitter stream which is paulus leader underscore r t direct reporting to you from the heart of the story head over to r g dot com for footage from various locations involved in the exchange. new york police officers being investigated over allegations they used excessive force against the occupy wall street protesters is this videotape russ friday gave gave credence to one of their inquiries the officer thought to be a deputy inspector filmed grabbing an activist from behind punching him in the face so hard he fell to the ground and independent agency that deals with complaints

against the n.y.p.d. says it's also looking into an officer using pepper spray out apparently peaceful female protesters the anti-corporate campaign has been going on for more than a month now as are fuses and calvin are reports despite police havilland and continuing arrests the number of demonstrators is growing. well i'm here in zuccotti park liberty plaza as it has been dubbed by the occupy wall street protest movement here in new york city this was the scene of thousands of demonstrators who had converged over the weekend to show their support for what they called an international day of rage that's all occupations and demonstrations spread not only across the united states but across the world thousands have converged in times square where they were peacefully demonstrating only to be met with an unprecedented show force by the new york city police department approximately ninety protesters were arrested for partaking in those demonstrations we also saw instances of police officers on horseback riding into the crowd police officers on

scooters injuring several protesters who had gathered peacefully at the demonstrations prolife profit country it does appear that the police response is growing in force as well on monday morning we saw in seattle a total of about nine protesters arrested after about two hundred fifty of them refused to take down their tents in the occupation there over the weekend we also saw the arrests of more than one hundred protesters in arizona in two separate occupy wall street demonstrations and in chicago as well where thousands had gathered to demonstrate their support for what they call a movement against the proceeds of corruption in washington and wall street one hundred seventy five demonstrators arrested there as well despite the fact that it's a week take the spite the fact that folks out of work to go to the movement does seem to be spreading whether or not it's going to have any effect on the political and economic system in the united states remains to be seen but the numbers continue to grow for our t.v. i'm to see it happen of in new york well the wall street wave sweeps america over

banks bursting profits is the threat of going bust occupying greece thoughts right now they're all immense considering even more austerity despite work has already put in the country on stand still saying cuts are no sure we report on. but for serbs in northern kosovo have now been given till tuesday to dismantle their border barricades even though their removal could cause trouble to flare at any moment they were built in protest against attempts by kosovo police and assistance with nato e.u. forces to take over border crossings with serbia peacekeepers have ordered access roads to be cleared or they'll do it themselves because r.t. is maria if it ocean reports of serbs own demands seems set in stone. stearns and sound are the only weapons they seriously even in close to they have in their arsenal to make the audience least into them the roadblocks they set up throughout the northern part of the region and making headlines and gets in feedback. morning

we ask you not to produce a period. of negative consequences for you and for the bastards and we're talking about well the only negative force present here local residents by two ways written in the flat k. four and eight and that international peacekeeping force and close of a has been spread and here recently you could do propaganda buying one of them here it was like a bird. the mayor of the northern course of a town of leprosy which he's talking to kay for plunker has been among the four delegates from serbs to negotiate with peacekeepers on dates and terms of the barricades removal case for has announced on monday deadline but than postpone it to tuesday the serbs have claimed they need even more time. initially designed to prevent cost of and custom officers from reaching the checkpoints at the northern

border with serbia rubble the roads have made trouble for many key for complained they had no access to their troops in the north they are using helicopters to transport supplies and soldiers and the serbs themselves suffering to. theirs i go for a story where they struck the ground here is still freshly dug the serbs are building roads and tentative roads to reach serbia from cossotto as the main roads have been blocked with their barricades in the last several weeks the only are the alternative train but a trans only once a day and always act so it doesn't really count this is why new bypass roads of here with a nominal speed we've seen at least seven of them. here already but i just i just i need a lot of reason one volunteers here here's one of the costs of and serves and speaks for all of them should be on the street there. but i.

work there i also i. will return to the barricades in the evening people are still there all of them have their usual jobs teachers engineers and ayers. but here they call themselves soldiers and years of war rhetoric. this is our land we will not surrender plans for truth for the future for our children another land that if. they say one man can't win a war that together people may form a real force even if their weapons i just sounds and sound. reflection are to the course of zero. but argy dot com tell us who you think is to blame for a surge and pressure in kosovo here's how the pinion stacks up right now two thirds of respondents think it's washington that's pushing kosovo independence

a fairly even split between whether belgrade is to blame for not protecting the kosovo serbs or whether to hold it against the e.u. for failing to uphold the law finally about seven per cent blame prishtina for escalating the conflict and allowing the persecution of serbs tell us where you stand by clicking at r t dot com. a lot of your putin's decision to run for the presidency next year has dominated the news in russia for nearly a month now it's the first big in his first big interview since confirming he'll run again the president the prime minister said having the current backing of the president and the ruling party doesn't mean the election results are foregone conclusions. because as regards my return nothing is decided until the people have voted but there are people who criticize me and to me to be mediated from what they see that if your humble servant takes part of the election that would mean there would be no election it will perhaps not be the case but then you can ordinary citizens always have the choice to make so our critics might see a lot in this case they look to present their platform much more important to me

not only to presenters you have to prove in practice that they can do these jungle better there is another important aspect here the most active part of the political spectrum people who talk about democratic institutions their concerns the democratic processes maybe rules but this is definitely not going to happen. and more of the key moments invited me in the interview to russia's top t.v. channels coming your way later this hour here on r.t. . the united states is deploying a hundred special operations troops to uganda its that it's to help the fight against the lord's resistance army guerrilla group which has terrorized the country and other parts of central africa for decades its leader is a wanted war criminal but asia times correspondent pepe escobar says america's agenda in africa already goes well beyond protecting civilians. first of all this is an exchange of gifts president obama is giving a gift to take

a terrible gun sippin it was me in a car for twenty five country six years and he's as responsible. human rights and any effect at that so insidious and murders attacks on civilians as joseph cohen and so obama's senate is one hundred u.s. special forces bill this advisers so remember vietnam in one nine hundred sixty one sixty two it started with a bunch of advisers going to be about it and we know what history taught us later this is a civil war and it's an ethnic war once again the u.s. is right stepping right into the middle of a net the war that's been going on for over two decades the bigger picture is even more impressive because this is not about to generate cells and even obama and made it on the record already that these advisers are going to south sudan and the democratic republic of congo as well so when you look at that area in central

africa eighty you see the amount of oil in the amount of million to reach it's at play and when we see that china has made you need a role politically in this area then when we look at the africans agenda which is to combat china commercially play a military is asia of africa then you understand these one hundred the beginning of may he will be going to go this. let's check on how it's getting the most clicks over an r.t. dot com has plenty going on in the world to bring you down our online humor hub put some satirical perspective on what's going on find out more cutting cartoons at our teen dot com. and escaping the s. cargo miami residents find they're having to slug it out with an invasion of large snails from africa slowly media and out of house and home how they got there and the trouble they're causing at our t.v. dot com.

greece facing another tough week with a key parliamentary vote on even more belt tightening it's still trying to convince those creditors that it deserves more cash to help avoid going bust but i agree greeks are trying to resist the punishing cuts with strikes and sit ins that had again growing the country to a halt as arkansas refer reports from athens. because of a deep and make or break week for a nation with an upcoming forty eight hour general strike the parliamentary fate underneath the senate decision to fight greece is reaching fever k.h. . it is not anymore about this movement it is a movement for the sort of five all of the people we've got as you would be littering the capitalist cause of ongoing action she said to once again come to a standstill flights are grounded and public transport lines to

a halt i think the situation in greece is getting out of control. the workers personally very under very singular words are. going to push thirty percent. or more and more countries coming in the future. they don't see any future. own getting toolbox and they need some statements who will fit in with an angry public demanding some sustainable action to help get the country back on its feet. from the vantage points of many euro skeptic southern european countries such as greece should never have joins the single currency but of course they did let the crisis runs deeper there are now calls for a radical rethink of the entire project. and europe changing direction. which will mean what does that mean that means the central bank acting like

a serious bank paid to the bank of england and actually trying to reduce the recession by reducing interest rates lending to come directly either we will have governments cooperating on their fiscal policy either we have a new marshall plan to help the economies of the faction to be able to compete with the euro all the euro will dissolve it's something the governments have been desperate to avoid rushing to find solutions to the debt crisis to china holds the world economy sinking further into a financial quagmire. many of the measures implemented in greece amongst the wage cuts and tax hikes has simply served to push the country deeper into debt is a need is to face increasingly harsh criticism they continued inability to stem the spiraling to a crisis increasingly unpopular greek prime minister has once again called the solidarity pleas of unity coming at

a time may when the people in the parliament never seem safe. as the country continues the highways to that laden economy one thing remains clear that greece the rates recovery is going to be a long and difficult one. at. some unconventional ways of boosting the job market with some big ideas for some of the smallest people here's what's coming your way out a lot in thirty g.m.t. . lawmaker wants to repeal dorf tossing ban to create jobs bill workman a republican state legislator in florida said all that it does is prevent some dwarfs from getting jobs that would be happy to get speaking into our snacks let's move on to the next headline have geitner fly commercial to help cut the deficit each flight of this kind cost at least one hundred fifty thousand dollars so you could apply this is like a shovel ready project max you take timothy geitner at the wharf and you throw him

across the country for a flight saves money it employs a lot of people of this is tim geithner wants to go from a state to new york to l.a. then he asked he tossed from person to person in a chain york to l.a. recorded all those progress tim geithner would not be spending the taxpayer money and every works out we can toss them around the world i want to have any time to screw up the economy by applying some european. introduced euro tarp. so you know some other stories making headlines across the globe fighters for libya's interim government have reportedly seized the town of bani walid one of colonel gadhafi the last remaining strongholds they hoisted the country's new flag in the city center firing guns in the air bani walid had been under siege for weeks but it's difficult terrain making it hard to capture but the fighting is not over

yet continuing in could obvious home town of sirte with reports of ten thousand civilians trapped in the war torn city. thailand's capital bangkok facing the threat of further flooding if it is hit with more heavy rains soldiers civil servants and civilians all working frantically together to deploy more than a million sandbags to the city's vulnerable northern defenses the worst flooding in decades swept through much of the country leaving more than three hundred dead and could cost more than three billion dollars to clean up. the trees up next with the business news stay with us here on r.t. . madeleine welcome to business artsy german engineering giant siemens is going to invest a billion euros in russian projects over the next three years the company's chief says most of the mine will be allocated for the energy sector including building

allergists the facilities as well as developing wind power seemed has been putting its energy and to russia's atomic power industry two years ago it agreed to create a huge joint venture with russia's nuclear corporation ross out some but it had to drop these plans this year when germany decided to phase out nuclear power following japan's fukushima disaster. it's under review in one of the longest courtships on record russia's seventeen year long marathons and showing the world trade organization is coming to an end now that we negotiate and i've seen the very core of says the country may be on the verge of becoming a member of the trade body next month we have concluded. almost work we are supposed to do so we have very few technical questions which are still standing so he has a. few months supply few weeks or even in order to be able to resolve all of them you have to completely fall in discussions.

so conservative or. formal meetings with. and you can watch the full interview with mike fleeman better call in interview with sophie shevardnadze later this week so you the markets will is continuing its losses after germany dampened hopes the new dare plan will come out this week brant is just below one hundred and ten dollars per barrel this hour light sweet is setting fifty one cents. european stocks have started tuesday's trading session in the red with banks leading a loss there's been people ribeyes down six and a half percent pushing bank is shedding one point three percent luxury goods maker elvia of h. is down one point seven percent the group said first quarter sales rose eighteen percent but i was enough to support a story. in asia stops or negative following the release of cooling chinese g.d.p.

growth in the first quarter just nine point one percent which is giving investors an excuse and a profit banks in hong kong are in for the chill with industrial and commercial bank of china and china merchants bank shipping six and seven percent respectively the sale but shares were well in the territory even before the release of the days of falling losses overnight in the u.s. on fresh concerns surrounding europe's debt crisis. look at a rush and the picture here is also colored red cards years is that one point three percent of my six point eight percent this is because of the huge drop in the oil price and therefore energy majors are trading in negative territory rules they're using two point three percent over tech quieted almost two percent there the company has decided to raise first hard evidence by one point seven times nobody but six steel plants is still slightly better than the market if you could say that

about a drop of harper percent reported a twelve percent increase in production in the first quarter. or not all stocks are shaky right now for a few tips on where the smart money is going not rubinstein from i've seen that report is providing us with some ideas. but in short you are well. financials and consumer sectors and even though financials rallied quite a big consumer sector in fact didn't go up as much as the market over the past two weeks and we think there's a lot of material there with particular like the x five we. have the shares are all for not meeting this point in financials we think needs to be now is a good chance to catch up there's a bear bank because all multiples will see the just called is too big because you'd be on multiples trades about thirty forty percent discounters their bank and we

think we can be is a good chance. this week. in other news rushes leading diamond producer. that is first off net profit five fold to eight hundred fifty five million dollars it heavily says it comes from stronger diamond prices as well as greater demand in emerging markets like india and china russian industrial output growth has slowed to its slowest pace in two years the federal statistics service says it rose three point nine percent in september year on year loser prices unexpectedly fell on lower demand weighed by concerns about global economic prospects mineral extraction and metals production were among the hardest hit areas and this expected for the slowdown and its export orders are falling. and positive news now the amount of retail loans in russia has grown boy a quarter in the first nine months of the year two hundred sixty three billion dollars loans are outstripping deposits by more than two to one analysts expect

borrowing to accelerates by the year's end as the russians traditionally take out loans ahead of the new year with dates and i concludes this edition of the business news on we will be back in around fifty minutes time headlines are next. you.

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