some hotel to a period some in hotels arisa. in the room. israeli soldier gilad shalit has been freed and headed over to israeli authorities after thought of years of being held captive by of osce or other captured soldiers families are surprises real is doing little to bring them home. new york police investigated over claims of excessive force during the high wall street protesters footage seemingly shows resorting to punches and pepper spray at apparently peaceful rallies plus. the speeches that as regards my return nothing is decided until the people have voted ordinary citizens always have the choice to meet leaving the last word to the people of putin says it's premature to assume he'll win the presidential election in his first interview since confirming he'll stand

again for russia's top job. and serves in northern kosovo given one more day to remove their roadblocks that is spewed border but locals say they won't give in the less kosovo police leave. one pm in moscow by much as a good to have you with us here at r t our top story after five years held captive by hamas israeli soldier gilad shalit has finally been handed over to israeli authorities but his release is costing israel more than a thousand palestinian prisoners in return the first group has already been transported from israeli jails are expected in the west bank shortly or at least policy or has the latest. in that senate has been found space chinese made military camp mild here where i'm standing at the tel know for a full space this time ago the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu have dived

salutes family has been here for some time eighty awaiting avi union with a summit i have not seen for nearly five years now this complete a third phase our feet prisoner exchange it did see some four hundred. that 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 but it doesn't complete the kind of questions that are there people are now beginning to ask in one of those questions is why has so much international media attention been put on the story of one soldier being released with some people suggesting that it is a well cheering israeli propaganda machine that manages to see this happen another concern of many israelis are raising is just whether or not this 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 let us create some kind of precedent that it will result in further israeli soldiers been kidnapped and i've been talking to the families of kidnapped and missing israeli soldiers

there's nearly a dozen of them and they say that in no way was as much attention put on finding their sons as was argued actually it and this is what they had to say. every day. comes here to a place that looks after israeli soldiers who are alone in the country who come from difficult backgrounds of 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 mashpee who disappeared one year before gilad shalit was taken hostage. i have some of those over and over again the government and the country are not doing enough for my little. proximal gave to the saudi family there are at the moment seven israeli soldiers who've been kidnapped or who missing in action now as nissan measure disappeared while hitchhiking to his army base major one of our it was captured twenty five years ago after his aircraft was shot down over live and on these are the last pictures of him alive taken in

a prison in iran guy haver disappeared fourteen years ago he was last seen at his army base one kilometer from the syrian border. it's infuriating it's an acceptable that as. for fourteen years the government still has nothing to tell us our demand is that the government bring us any information alive dead here in lebanon and syria just bring it but they've brought us nothing. so we just search and her son is still alive and while she's pleased to gloat is coming home she's disillusioned a new government that made it possible for him but not for her son. it's about media attention b.r. how he wants nearly succeeded in marketing their son we saw it as a family this was a growl as we thought it was enough 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 brought back home this will be hard because of the freakin actually campaign twenty two years his brain with family and supporters camped out here in front of the prime minister's office every morning when netanyahu 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 not doing enough for my son and the rest of those missing in action it is important for us to bring our soldiers home experience will send their sons to war we need to knock the country will do everything possible to get them dot org it's done just that in the case of gilad shalit but at what cost will militants now be empowered to kidnap and nothing is really soldier and will israel be willing to pay this price again policy r.t. jerusalem. was gauging reaction on the developments on the historic prisoner swap

you can a follower of dates on twitter which is a poll a slayer underscore our t. direct report into you from the center of the story and you can always click on r.t. dot com for footage from the various locations involved. in the exchange. new york police officers being investigated over allegations they used excessive force against occupy wall street protesters is this videotape last friday that gave the crown to one of the employees the officer thought to be a deputy inspector killing the grabbing activist from behind punching him in the face so hard that the man fell down an independent agency that deals with complaints against the n.y.p.d. says it's also looking into an officer using pepper spray on apparently peaceful protesters against a corporate campaign has been going on for more than a month now as archie's lucy confidant reports despite police handling and continuing to arrest the number of demonstrators is growing. one here in zuccotti park liberty plaza at the 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 been averted 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 the police officers on horseback riding into the crowd police officers on scooters injuring several protesters who had gathered peacefully at the demonstrations roll across the 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 and 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 have gathered to demonstrate their support for what they call a mood. against the perceived corruption in washington and wall street about a hundred and seventy five demonstrators arrested there as well despite the fact that it's a weekday despite the fact that folks have work to go to that movement does seem to be spreading whether or not it's going to have any impact on the political and economic system and united states remains to be seed but the numbers continue to grow for our t.v. i'm lucy couch in new york. well the wall street wave sweeps the u.s. over banks bursting profits it's the threat of going bust that's occupying the minds of greeks believe it or not their parliaments considering even more austerity despite workers already putting the country on stand still saying the cuts are no sure more on that coming your way soon but first. russia may find me joining the

world trade organization next month but siemens is investing one billion euros in the russian economy and china's g.d.p. figures came in worse than expected more on that and other stories in fifteen minutes time on business so. before we get to that serbs in northern kosovo have now been given till tuesday to take down their border barricades even though their removal could post trouble to flare up at any moment they were build in protest against attempts by kosovo police and assistance with the e.u. and nato forces to take over border crossings with serbia peacekeepers are ordered to access roads be clear it will do it themselves but as artie's maria financial reports the serbs own demands seem set in stone. stones and sound are the only weapons the serbs leaving in cos they have in their arsenal to make the others listen to them. the roadblocks they set up throughout the northern part of the region are making headlines and getting feedback morning but we ask you not to

produce a period when you threaten your safety of negative consequences for you and for you bastards talking about us well the only negative force present here local resident by two ways written in the flat kay for it later that international peacekeeping force in kosovo has been spreading here recently. propaganda by oh we don't want them here it was like we do want to talk to them. the mayor of the northern course of a town of leprosy which is talking to k four plunker has been among the faults i think it's 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 needed more time but me good billion police and institutions some leave northern constable and never return here but if they leave will remove roadblocks and one state if they don't meet or demands back again.

initially designed to prevent possible custom officers from reaching the checkpoints at the northern border with serbia rubble the roads have made trouble for many key for complain they have access to their troops in the north they're using helicopters to transport supplies and soldiers and the serbs themselves suffering to. disease i go for a story where they struck the ground here is still freshly dug the serbs are building roads aren't turning to for outs to reach serbia from kosovo as the main roads have been blocked with their barricades in the last several weeks the only other alternative a train but a trans only once a day and always packed so it doesn't really count this is why new bypass road. and here we thin nominal speed we've seen at least seven of them. gallery but.

the lot of reason one volunteers here has one of the costs of inserts and speaks for all of them super speed there will still. be good work there but also. we're returning to the barricades in the evening people are still there all of them have their usual jobs teachers engineers miners. but here they call themselves soldiers and use war rhetoric. this is our land we will not surrender principle truth the future through children another land that. they say one man can't win a war if you gather people may form a real force but even if their weapons i just stands and sound. refill should not see course about. that archie dot com tell us who you think is to blame for the

resurgent pressure in kosovo here's how the opinion stacks up vis our two thirds of respondents are sure it's washington that's pushing kosovo and japan independence then a fairly even split between whether belgrade is to blame for not protecting kosovo serbs or hold it against the e.u. for failing to uphold the law six percent blame prishtina for escalating the conflict and allowing persecution of the serbs lived on to. cast their vote. so i can hear putin's decision to run for the presidency next year has dominated the news in russia for nearly a month now in his first big interview since confirming he'll stay in the prime minister said having the backing of the current president and the ruling party doesn't mean the election results are a foregone conclusion. as regards my return nothing is decided until the people have voted with their are people who criticize me and to me to me beautiful they say that if your humble servant takes part in the election that would mean there would be no election at all perhaps that would be the case for

them as it would an ordinary citizen always has a choice to make so our critics might see it their own way but in this case they ought to present their platform and what's more important to me and not only to present as you would also to prove in practice that they can do these john better there is another important aspect here the most active part of the political spectrum people who talk about democratic institutions they are concerned the democratic process has made the rules back this is definitely not going to happen. well bring you more key moments from the lot of your putin's interview with russia's top caving channels in the next hour here on r.t. . the u.s. is applying one hundred special operations troops to uganda it's in their help the fight against the lord's resistance army a girly group which has terrorized the country and other parts of central africa for decades its leader is wanted for war crimes but asia times correspondent pepe escobar says the u.s. agenda in africa already goes beyond protecting civilians. first of all this is an

exchange of gifts president obama is giving it gives to the dictator ople gun from the city it was being in power for twenty five to twenty six years and he's as responsible but human rights and freedoms any effect at facts on civilians and murders attacks on civilians as joseph tony so obama senate these one hundred u.s. special forces bill this advisers so remember vietnam in one thousand sixty one sixty two it started with a bunch of advisers yet not in we know what history thoughtlessly this is a civil war in its unmapped nick war once again the us is right stepping right into the middle of a met ward it's been going on for over two decades but the bigger picture is even more impressive because this is not about who can they sell it even obama and mean it all the records already that these advisors are going south sudan and the

democratic republic of congo as well so when you look at air in central africa eighty you see the amount of oil in the amount of mineral reaches at play in when we see that china is making a real school urgently in this area and when we look at the africans agenda which is to come back china commercially by military ization of africa then you understand these one hundred the beginning of may me will be going to go this. and see what's getting the clicks this hour at r t dot com although plenty is going on in the world that could bring you down are on line humor some satirical spin on what's happening find more cutting cartoons on your t.v. website. and a skating e.s.r. velo any residents find they're having to slug it out with the invasion of raj snails from africa slowly chewing that out of house and home find out how they got there and the trouble they're causing how our teeth dot com.

preece faces another tough week with a key parliament vote on even more belt tightening still trying to convince us creditors that it deserves more cash to help avoid going bust but i agree greeks trying to resist the punishing cuts will strikes and sit ins have again ground the nation to a halt arkansas or four of reports from athens and it can. be a make or break week for a nation with an upcoming forty eight hour general strike parliamentary debate and a nice sunny decision to fight the crease is reaching the fifth k.h. . he does not have the moral compass movement it is our movement for the sort of viable of the people we've got to do really littering the capsule is part of ongoing action because he said he once again come to

a standstill flights are grounded and public transport lines to a halt i think the situation is getting out of control. the workers especially in the very very. very singular words are. twenty percent to forty percent. or more and more sanctions coming in the future. they don't see any future. own going to leaks and they statements and will fit in with an angry public . pain of a lack shown to help get the country back on its feet. from the vantage points of many euro skeptic southern european countries such as we should never have joins the single currency but of course they did and it's quite this runs deeper there are now calls for a radical rethink if the entire same project. we will have. and

europe changing. range which will mean what does that mean that means the center back acting like a serious and bank like the fed or the bank of england actually trying to reduce the recession by reducing interest rates lending to countries. either we will have the governments cooperate on their fiscal policy either we have a new marshall plan to help the economies of actually be able to compete with the euro or the euro will dissolve it's something needs governments have been desperate to avoid are searching 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 grace amongst the wage cuts and tax hikes simply serve to push the country deeper into debt years a new leaders have facing creasing the harsh criticism they continued inability to stem the spiraling debt crisis increasingly unpopular greek prime minister has once

again cooled the solidarity pleas of unity coming at a time no when the people in their parliament never seem safe our hearts. as the country continues to buy ways to boost its debt laden economy one thing remains clear but greece the rates for a cover a it's going to be a long and difficult one. athens. max and stacey discuss some unconventional methods of boosting the job market with some big ideas for the smallest people it's what's coming your way at eleven thirty g.m.t. . a 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 they would be happy to get speaking of to our snacks let's move on to the next headline have geitner fly commercial to help cut the deficit each flight and this kind cost at least one hundred fifty thousand dollars

so you could apply this is like a shovel ready project next you take timothy geitner wharf and you throw him across the country saves money it employs a lot of people at this and i'm sure it's of tim geitner wants to go from a state to new york to l.a. then he asked he tossed person to person to person in a chain not hiring new york to l.a. work or get all those progress out tim geithner would not be spending the taxpayer money and it works out we can toss them around the world and what evidence the economy by advising we are. introduced europe are. carrying out a few other stories making headlines across the globe fighters for libya's interim government are reportedly sees the town of bani walid one of colonel gadhafi these final remaining strongholds they hoisted the country's new flag in the city center and fired guns into the air in celebration party walid had been under siege for

weeks with it's difficult terrain making it hard to capture but it's not over yet fighting continues and cut off his hometown sirte which reports ten thousand civilians are trapped in the bios torn city. bomb blast near a baghdad liquor store has killed seven people wounded eighteen three of the dead police officers no group has yet admitted responsibility for the attack but the sheer. militant groups are often blamed for targeting liquor stores and cafes in the past security has improved in iraq since two thousand and six but bomb attacks still happen regularly. the thai capital bangkok facing the threat of further flooding it has hit with more heavy rain soldiers civil servants and civilians 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 nation leaving more than three hundred dead and the cleanup could cost more than three billion dollars. business news next with

dmitri stay with us here on r.t. . those who won welcome to the program 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 money will be allocated for the energy sector polluting building electricity facilities as well as the developing wind power seemed has been putting its energy into russia's atomic power industry two years ago it agreed to create a joint venture with the russia's nuclear corporation ross that some put it had to drop these plans this year when germany decided to phase out nuclear power calling japan's fukushima disaster. it's arguably been one of the longest courtships on record russia's seventeen year marathon to join the world trade organization is coming to an end going to negotiate a mostly madrid pope says the country may be on the verge of becoming

a member of the trade party next month. we have concluded. almost everything we and we are supposed to show you so we have a very few technical questions from each other still outstanding so we hope that we need. not a few months i threw a few weeks or even base in order to be able to resolve all of them we have to completely form discussion on. the second sort of trouble and formal meetings will take place somewhere and we know. and you can watch the full interview with mike fleeman belcourt interview with richard and i was in later this week sadly the markets now will is continuing its losses that's up to germany and hopes that a new debt plan may come out this week brant lenders now dropping almost a dollar lights with his declining seventy five cents to eighty five dollars seventy three cents above. the field stocks started tuesday's trading session in

the red extending losses with banks leading the losses. is down six and a half percent butcher bag is shedding one point three percent luxury goods maker l b m h is down one point seven percent the group said first quarter sales rose eighteen percent but that didn't support the stock. in asia stock star negative following the release of cooling chinese g.d.p. growth in the third quarter which is giving investors an excuse to take profit and saying is down four point two percent the banks industrial and commercial bank of china and china merchants bank pushing six and seven percent respectively at the close the shares were well in negative territory even before the release of the data well in losses overnight in the u.s. on fresh concerns surrounding europe's debt crisis finally is the picture in russia and losses are deepening yasi is down now two point two percent my six one and a half percent if you look at the main movers on the my sakes we see that it's

mainly energy shares with was near to declining a one point seven percent on foreign oil prices also down point seven percent become presided to raise first half of it and by one point seven times l m k is slightly better than the market as reported a twelve percent increase in production in the first quarter. well not all stocks shake you right now is a few tips on where to put your money from mark rubenstein at. and short term well i financials and consumer sectors and even though financial rallied quite a big consumer sector in fact didn't go out as much as the market over the past two weeks and we think there's a lot of materials there with particular like the x five we. have the shares of money to this point in financials with ing d.t.b.

now is a good chance to catch up because of their bank because all multiples will see the discount as two big big t.v. and multiples trades about thirty forty percent discount is where a bank and we think need to be is a good chance of catching up this week. briefly now so the story is russia's leading the i mean producer alan ross is boosted its first call them profit five fold to reach eight hundred fifty five million dollars the company says it comes from stronger diamond prices as well as greater demand in emerging markets like india and china russian industrial growth has slowed to its slowest pace in that two years be federal statistics service says it raised three point nine percent in september year on year losing prices than expected we fell in love with a man who weighed by concerns about global economic prospects mineral extraction of metal production but among the hardest hit analysts expect for the slowdown as export orders of fooling and the amount of retailers in russia has grown by a quarter in the first nine months of the year to reach one hundred sixty three billion dollars loans are outstripping because it's more than two to one and this

is expected borrowing to accelerate by the year's end as the russians traditionally take out loans ahead of new year holiday so this business tsotsi figure pardon is back in around fifteen minutes time with an update the headlines are next.

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