and serves in northern kosovo given one more day to remove their roadblocks that is speeded border but locals say they won't give in kosovo police leave. one pm in moscow trends are good to have you with us here on 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 are his policy or has the latest. election it has been transferred to an israeli military camp while here where i'm standing at the tel north air force base is a short time ago the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu advised salutes family has been here for some time eagerly awaiting a reunion with

a son that they have not seen for more than five years now this competes 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 but it doesn't complete the kind of questions that are that 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 the well the israeli propaganda machine that manages to see this happen another concern that 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 that this creates some kind of precedent that it will result in further israeli soldiers being kidnapped and then i've been talking to the families of kidnapped and missing israeli soldiers and these nearly a dozen of them and they say that in no. was as much attention put on finding of

a sons as was on gilad shalit 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 or who come from difficult backgrounds but being here is often more of a comfort to him than 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 said this over and over again the government and the country are not doing enough for marty neither is the media you know as the option it gave to the saudi family there are at the moment seven israeli soldiers who've been kidnapped or who missing in action nazmi son measure disappeared while hitchhiking to his army base major want to ride was captured twenty five years ago off his aircraft was shot down of eleven on these of the last pictures of him alive taken in a prison in iran guy have a 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 after 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. who we know is certain her son is still alive and while she's pleased gilad is coming home she's disillusioned in a government that made it possible for him but not for her son. it's about media attention b.r. how do lots now we succeeded in marketing their son we saw it as a family this wasn't relevant we thought it was enough the guy was an i.d.f. soldier in uniform but we were wrong very very wrong. because 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 was the heart of the free gilad shalit campaign for nearly two years his reign his family in the field has come 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. 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 as parents who send their sons to war we need to know that the country will do everything possible to get them back org it's done just that in the case of gilad shalit but at what cost will militants now be empowered to kidnap another israeli soldier and will israel be willing to pay this price again. jerusalem. paul is gauging reaction on the developments on the historic prisoner swap you can follow her updates on twitter which is at paula sleep or underscore r

t direct reporting to 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 filmed the grabbing and activists 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 the anti-corporate campaign has been going on for more than a month now as artie's lewsey calvin of reports despite police handling and continuing arrests the number of demonstrators is growing. one here in few comedy park liberty plaza and that 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 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 course 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 one thousand had gathered to demonstrate their support for what they call a movement against the proceeds corruption in washington and wall street about one hundred seventy five demonstrators or rather that there as well despite the fact that it's a weekday despite the fact that at folkestone work to go to that 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 team i'm lucy kaplan of 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 cure more on that coming your way soon but first. russia may finally join 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 and was than expected more on that and other stories in fifty 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 the removal could cause 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 have ordered access roads be cleared or they'll do it themselves but as artie's maria notion reports the serbs own demands seem set in stone. stones and sound the only weapon is the serbs leaving the cost of a have in their arsenal to make the others leeson to them. the roadblocks they set up throughout northern part of the region are making headlines and getting feedback more of us we ask you not to participate in any of them threaten your safety or me

have negative consequences for us and for your country bastards who are talking about us well the only negative force present here local resident by two ways written in the flat k four and eighteen that international peacekeeping force in kosovo has been sprayed in here recently look at their propaganda by oh we don't want them here don't like you buy it we don't want to talk to them he's the mayor of the northern coast of a town of lapis of h. is talking to k. four bronco has been among the four delegates from serbs to negotiate with peacekeepers on dates and terms of the barricades for movie k. four has announced a monday deadline but then postponed it to tuesday the serbs have claimed they need even more time let me go to the billion police and institutions to leave northern kosovo and never return here if they leave they will remove roadblocks and wednesday but if they don't meet all demands then back again and. initially

designed to prevent chaos of an custom officers from reaching the checkpoints at the northern border with serbia rubble on the roads have made trouble for many k. for complain they had access to their troops in the north they are using helicopters to transport supplies and soldiers and the serbs themselves suffering to. this days ago a forest area where they struck the ground here still freshly dug the serbs are building roads and tentative roads to reach serbia from kossovo as the main roads have been blocked with their barricades in the last several weeks the only are the alternatives a train at a trans only once a day and always packed so it doesn't really count this is why new bypass road. appeal within nominal speed we've seen at least seven of them to the rule book but this. still. leaves a lot of reason one volunteers here has one of the costs of and serves and speaks

for all of them service there are all sorts of. legal work there but also do. we return to the barricades in the evening people are still there all of them have their usual jobs teachers engineers and 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 and motherland. they say one man can't win a war but together people may form a real force even if they are weapons i just and stand. the course of. that r t dot com tell us who you think is to blame for the resurgent pressure in kosovo here's how the opinion stacks of this our two thirds of

respondents are sure it's washington that's pushing kosovo and japan independence and then a fairly even split between whether belgrade is to blame for not protecting kosovo serbs or hold it against the you for failing to uphold the law six percent blame prishtina for escalating the conflict and allowing persecution of the serbs log on to. cast your vote. for. latimer 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 stand 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 but there are people who criticize me and to me to be mediated for more 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 not only to present it but also 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 they are concerned the democratic processes may be ruled back this is definitely not going to happen. but bring you more key moments from a lot of your putin's interview with russia's top t.v. channels in the next hour here on r.t. . the u.s. is deploying one hundred special operations troops to uganda it's in the help the fight against the lord's resistance army a guerrilla 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

a gift to the dictator of will gun them civilly it was being in power for twenty five to twenty six years and he's as responsible of us human rights in any effect at tax on civilians and murders attacks on civilians as joseph cohen and so obama's senate is one hundred u.s. special forces billed as advisers so remember vietnam in one nine hundred sixty one sixty two it started with a bunch of advisers going to get out and we know what history taught us later this is a civil war and it's and that make 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 with the bigger picture is even more impressive because this is not about again that sells and even obama at made it on the record already that these advisers are going to south sudan and the democratic republic of congo and as well so when you look at that area in central

africa in you see the amount of oil and the amount of mineral riches at play and when we see that china is making me to roll school early in this area and when we look at the africans agenda which is to combat china commercially viable military ization of africa then you understand these one hundred the beginning of may me will be going to go the soup 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 it down our on line humor hub put some satirical spin on what's happening find more cutting cartoons on the r t website. and escaping the ask our go clammy residents find they're having to slug it out with a nation of large snails from africa slowly chewing them out of house and home find out how they got there and the trouble they're causing at our tea dot com.

greece faces another tough week with a key parliament vote on even more belt tightening still trying to convince its creditors that it deserves more cash to help avoid going bust but i agree greeks trying to resist the punishing cuts with strikes and sit ins have again ground the nation to a halt r.t. sorry for ports from athens it may have actually because of the baby and make or break week for a nation with an upcoming forty eight hour general strike parliamentary fate and in the summit decision the fight for greece is reaching fever pitch. he does not anymore a protest movement it is a movement for the sort of vibrant of the people we've got as you ready littering the capsule is positive on going action the country set to once again come to a standstill flights are grounded and public transport grinds to

a halt i think the situation in greece is getting out of control. the workers especially very very angry they're seeing their words decrease by about twenty percent to thirty percent. or more and more taxes coming in the future. they don't see any future. own going to leaks and they statements for one thing with an angry public demanding some sustainable action to help get the country back on its feet. from the vantage points of many us skeptic southern european countries such as greece should never have joined the single currency but of course they did and as the quizes runs deeper there are now calls for a radical rethink of the entire year. we will have. and europe changing. direction which will mean what does that mean that means the

central back acting like a serious central bank like the fed or the bank of england i'm actually trying to reduce the recession five reducing interest rates lending to come to directly either we will have the governments corporator on their fiscal policy either we have a new marshall plan to help the economies of the factory to be able to compete within the euro or the euro will dissolve it's something need governments have been desperate to avoid or sing to find solutions to the debt crisis to try and hold the world economy sinking further into a financial quagmire many of the measures implemented in grace 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 debt crisis increasingly unpopular greek prime minister has once again cooled the solidarity pleas of unity coming at

a time may when the people in their parliament never seem safe our hearts. as a country continues to fire ways to be that laden economy one thing remains clear that the greece the rates recovery is going to be a long and difficult one sarah say athens. max and stacey discuss some unconventional methods of boosting the job market with some big ideas for the smallest people here'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 divorce max 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 and employs a lot of people if this is so if tim geithner wants to go from one state to new york to l.a. then he asked he tossed person to person to person in a chain york to l.a. or forgive all those grout tim geithner would not be spending the taxpayer money and ever works out we can toss them around the world and i would have any job to screw up the economy by advising europeans. introduced euro tarp. to a few other stories making headlines across the globe fighters for libya's interim government reportedly seize the town of bani walid one of colonel gadhafi final remaining strongholds they hoisted the country's new flag in the city center and fired guns into the air in celebration bani walid had been under siege for weeks with its difficult terrain making it hard to capture but it's not over yet fighting

continues and cut off his hometown sirte with reports ten thousand civilians are trapped in the bios torn city. a 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 she . 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 if it's 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 cleanup could cost more than three billion dollars. business news next with dmitri

stay with us here on r.t. . if you're the warm 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 including building electricity facilities as well as 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 rolls 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 arguably been one of the longest courtships on record russia seventeen year marathon to join the world trade organization is coming to an end that negotiates a mix of advent of says the country may be on the verge of becoming a member of the trade body next month. we have concluded almost everything

we are supposed to say so we have very few technical questions which are still standing that we need even not a few months or a few weeks or even days in order to be able to resolve all of whom we have to completely fall in discussions. twenty seven sort of trouble and formal meetings would take place somewhere. and you can watch the full interview with in the interview with so if you should announce it later this week so you the markets now will is continuing its losses that's up to germany dampened hopes that a new debt plan may come out this week brant lenders now dropping almost a dollar lights we declaring seventy five cents to eighty five dollars seventy three cents about. competing stocks started tuesday's trading session in the red extending losses with banks leading the losses the party buys down six and

a half percent is shedding one point three percent luxury goods maker l v 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 stocks are negative following the release of cooling chinese g.d.p. growth in the first quarter which is giving investors an excuse to take profit and saying is down four point two percent lower by banks industrial and commercial bank of china and china merchant's bank six and seven percent respectively at the close the shares were well in negative territory even before the release of the data following morse's overnight in the u.s. on fresh concerns surrounding europe's debt crisis finally as the picture in russia and losses are deepening the r.t. 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 will see that it's mainly energy shares with rosneft declining one point seven percent on foreign oil

prices also down point seven percent the company decided to raise first of dividends by one point seven times l m k is slightly better than the market support of a twelve percent increase in production in the third quarter. well not all stocks are shaky right now is a few tips on where to put your money from mark rubenstein at the metropole. and short term well i financials and consumer sectors and even though financial 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 is there with particular like the x five we all like the shares of money to this point in financials with ing d.t.b. now is a good chance to catch up to the bear bank because a multiples we see the just too big to be on multiples trades about thirty forty

percent discount is where bank and we think we can be is a good chance. at this week. briefly now so the story is russia's leading diamond producer alan ross is boosted its first all of 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 output growth and slowed to its slowest pace in that two years the federal statistics service says it rose three point nine percent in september year on year producer prices than expected we fell in love with him and weighed by concerns about global economic prospects mineral extraction the metal production were among the hardest hit analysts expect for the slowdown as export orders 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 deposits by more than two to one and is expected borrowing to accelerate but. russians traditionally take out loans ahead

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three bloggers all in video for your media project a free media dog r t v dot com. one thirty pm in moscow the zero r.t. headlights israeli soldier gilad schalit who now finally free back in israel. after five years captivity at the hands of hamas his release in exchange for one thousand palestinian prisoners but other captured soldiers families asking why israel is doing little to bring them home. serbs in northern kosovo given an extra day to remove roadblocks at the border seized by kosovo police last month locals say they won't give in unless the officers stand down. new york police under investigation over claims of excessive force during the anti wall street protests some officers seen resorting to punk.