job. and serves the northern coast of our given an extra day to remove their roadblocks at the disputed border but locals say they won't give in and last kosovo beliefs leave. a warm welcome to you live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching are two with me and he said no way our top story after five years held by hamas israeli soldier gilad shalit is now back in his home country his release is costing israel more than a thousand palestinian prisoners in return the first boss load has already reached gaza to a rapturous welcome by relatives and supporters falsely or has the latest from within israel. actually it 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 son that they had not seen for more than five years now this completes the thirst fades 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 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 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 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 on gilad shalit and this is what they had to say. every day he comes here to a place that looks after israeli soldiers who are alone in the country 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 much i have said this over and over again the government and the country are not doing enough for miles do. you know as the option it gave to the show the family there are at the moment seven israeli soldiers who've been kidnapped or who missing in action now as my son measure disappeared while hitchhiking to his army base. major want to ride was captured twenty five years ago after as a craft was shot down over lebanon these are 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 an acceptable that after fourteen years the government still has nothing to tell us our demand is that the government bring us any information is a live dead here in lebanon and syria just bring it to us but they've brought us nothing. to certain her son is still alive and well she's pleased gilad is coming home she's disillusioned in a government that made it possible for him but not for her son. given that. it's about media attention b.r. how do arts nearly 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.

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 ported back home that's what the heart of the free gilad shalit campaign for nearly two years were in his family and the plot to 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 beloved by usually be 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 a spiritual sanderson's to war we need to knock the country will do everything possible to get them back on 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.

well paul is gauging reaction and developments on the historic prisoner swap you can you can follow her on her or traduce we just paula underscore our t.v. direct reporting to you from the heart of the story and had to r.t. dot com to footage from various locations involved in the exchange. new york police officers are being investigated over allegations they used excessive force against occupy wall street protesters and it's this video that was taped and wash friday that gave ground for one of the inquiries the officer thought to be a deputy inspector was filmed dropping it activists from behind and punching him in the face so hard that he fell to the ground while an independent agency that deals with complaints against police was also looking into an officer using proper spray on a peaceful female protester the anti corporate campaign has been going on for more than a month and as lucy coffin of reports despite the police handling and the continuing

routes the number of demonstrators is growing. well i'm here in zuccotti park liberty plaza 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 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. 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 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 about one hundred 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 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 lucy kaplan of in new york. where the waves of the wall street i should say wave sweeps america over banks bursting profit is the threat of going boston occupying the greek stops right now believe it or not there foreman's considering

even more austerity spy workers already putting with humphrey on the stand still saying comics are no cure the reports. serves in northern coast of o. have now been given until 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 kosovan police and assistants with nato and forces to take over border crossings with serbia peacekeepers have ordered access roads to be cleared where they will do it themselves but as maria snow snow reports the serbs own demands are set and so stones and sand are the only weapons the serbs leaving the cost of a have in their arsenal to make others listen to them. the roadblocks they set up throughout northern part of the region are making headlines and getting feedback morning we ask you not to participate in you me or threaten your safety or me have

negative consequences for you and for your country bastards who are talking about us well the only negative force present here local resident by today's readonly flat k four and a tonight international peacekeeping force in kosovo has been sprayed in here recently look at their propaganda not by oh we don't want them here those like you by we don't want to talk to them. the mayor of the northern coast of a town of lapis of which 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 bury in police an institution. and never return here but if they leave will remove roadblocks and wednesday but if they don't meet all

demands then back again. initially designed to prevent cost of one custom officers from reaching the checkpoints at the northern border with serbia rubble on the roads have made trouble for many pay for complaining 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 they always lived the ground here is still fresh and dog the serbs are building roads are intended to froze to reach serbia from cos of zero 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 in so it doesn't really count this is why new bypass road. appear with phenomenal speed we've seen at least seven of them still carol but i just i just i mean

a lot dimmer is among volunteers here has one of the costs of and serves and speaks for all of them service to their records also was something i can't really get worked down but i also was not there but we're returning to the barricades in the evening people are still there all of them have their usual jobs teachers engineers . but here they call themselves soldiers and use war rhetoric on. them this is our land we will not surrender that's for truth the future for our children and motherland that if. they say one man con tweener one of us that together people may form a real force even if their weapons i just don't see and sound. refreshing r.t. kosovo. that r t dot com tell us who you think is to blame for the resurgent

pressure in kosovo here's how opinion is divided so far at this hour two thirds of you are sure it's washington that's pushing kosovar independence there's a fairly even split between whether belgrade is to blame for not protecting kosovo and serbs or whether to hold it against the e.u. for failing to up hold the law and finally about six percent of you blame proceed for escalating escalation of the conflict and allowing the persecution of serbs tell us where you think the root cause lies by heading home page r.t. talk. but there were putin's decision to run for the next president to president say next year has dominated the news in russia for almost 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 does not mean the election is 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 do me good if 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 but an ordinary citizen always has a choice to make so our critics might see it their own way but in this case to present their platform and what's more important to me not only to present as you all to to prove to the proctors that they can do these job that are 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 by this is definitely not going to happen i. will bring you more of the key moments of my dear putin's interview to russia's top t.v. channels in about fifteen minutes here on r.t. . the united states is deploying a hundred special operations troops to uganda 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 well its leader is wanted for war crimes but at times correspondent pepe escobar says america's agenda in africa already goes well beyond protecting civilians surest of all this is an exchange of gifts president obama is giving a gift to the dictator of will go seventy it was being in power for twenty five to twenty six years and he's as responsible of human rights and freedoms and effect at attacks on civilians and murders attacks on civilians as joseph tony so obama senate these 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 be about in we know what history taught us later this is a civil war and it's and that to make war once again the u.s. is right stepping right into the middle of a net war that's been going on for over two decades with the bigger picture is even

more impressive because this is not about to get a cell 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 the area in central africa any you see. oil in the amount of mineral reaches at play in when we see that china is making me a role 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 and he will be going to go the soup. so let's take a look at what's catching your i r t dot com this hour although there's plenty going on in the world to bring you down are online humor with some satirical perspective on what's happening by more cutting cartoons on the web site.

and escaping the cargo hold miami residents find they're having to slug it out with an invasion of large snails from africa slowly eating them out of house and home find out how they got there and the trouble they're causing at our team dot com. well greece raises another tough week with a key parliamentary vote on even more of belt tightening it's still trying to convince its creditors that it deserves more cash to help avoid going bust but angry greeks are trying to resist the punishing cuts with strikes and sit ins which of again ground the country to a halt or to start further reports. i've actually heard you guys ready and make or

break week for a nation with an upcoming forty eight hour general strike the parliamentary face and the summit decision the fight figure east's is reaching fever pitch. he does not anymore a protest movement it is a movement for the sort of five all 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 as flights are grounded and public transport grinds to a halt i think the situation in greece is getting out of control. that workers especially very angry they're seeing their words decrease by about twenty percent to forty 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 demand being 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 joined the single currency but of course they did let the crisis runs deeper there are now calls for radical we think of the entire year. we will have europe and europe changing direction which will mean what does that mean that means the central back acting like a serious central bank like the fate or the bank of england and actually trying to reduce the recession by reducing interest rates lending to come directly either we will have the governments cooperate on their fiscal policy by that we have a new marshall plan to help the economy so the fact sheet to be able to compete with the euro or the euro will result it's something the governments have been desperate to avoid. rushing 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 greece amongst the wage cuts and tax hikes have simply served to push the country deeper into debt eurozone leaders have faced increasingly harsh criticism they continued inability to stem the spiraling debt crisis increasingly unpopular greek prime minister has once again called the solidarity pleas of unity coming at a time though when the people in their parliament never seen so far apart. as the country continues to find ways to base this debt laden economy one thing remains clear that greece the road to recovery is going to be a long and difficult one sarah. athens. well max and stacey discuss some unconventional ways of boosting the job market with some big ideas for the smallest people people i should say here's what's ahead for you

next hour. 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 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 it employs a lot of people in this is untrue so if tim geithner wants to go from one state to new york to l.a. then he has tossed from a person to procure a person in a train or york to l.a. work or give all those grout tim geithner would not be spreading the taxpayer money and ever works out we can toss them around the world and i would have any job with the economy by a virus we were. introduced euro tarp. look

at some other stories dominating world news right now fighters for libya's interim government have repeatedly he's reportedly i should say sees the town of bani walid one of colonel gadhafi is last remaining stronghold they hoisted the country's new client in the center of the city and fired guns into the air funny was the had been under siege for a week difficult terrain making it hard to capture but it's not over yet fighting continues after this hometown feared reports of ten thousand civilians trapped in the bible torn city. a bomb blast near a baghdad liquor store has killed seven people and wounded eighteen. three of the dead were police officers no group has yet admitted the attack but shiite 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 occur regularly. thailand's capital bangkok faces the threat of further flooding if it's hit with more heavy rains soldiers' service civil servants and civilians are working a crime to flee to deploy more than a planned back to the cities vulnerable we're going to france it's the worst flooding in decades has swept through much of the country leaving over three hundred people dead could cost more than three billion dollars to clean up. next year an artsy it's the business with dimitri stay with us. german engineering giant siemens is going to invest a billion euros in a russian project over the next three years the company's chief says most of the money will be allocated for the energy sector including building notice to the

cities as well as developing wind power siemens has been putting its energy into russia's atomic industry two years ago to agreed to create a huge joint venture with russia's nuclear corp. but it had to drop those 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's seventeen year marathon to join the world trade organization is apparently coming to an end negotiates among seem it says the country may be on the verge of becoming a full fledged 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. and you can watch the full interview with mike fleeman we had coffee in interview with surface of announcer and later this week. of the markets now oil is still dellums continue its losses of the germany dumping hopes to new debt solution plan will come out this week brant is down fifty nine cents per barrel light sweet is just stunned eighty six dollars but that. european stocks are trading in the red with banks and leading the losses the footsies down one percent of that point three billion people ribeyes down six and a half percent bank shedding more than one percent luxury goods maker l b m h is down one hundred percent the group said third quarter sales rose eighteen percent

but that did not support the story. here's a look at the closing picture in asia stocks are negative following the release of cooling chinese g.d.p. growth in the third quarter which is giving investors an excuse to take profit notably hong kong with and saying is down four point two percent banks their industrial and commercial bank of china chinese merchants bank they're shedding six seven percent respectively this close but shares were well in negative territory up save even before the release of the data falling morse's overnight in the states and that's on fresh concerns surrounding europe's debt crisis the central topic. and here is what russia looks like it's still negative although we have seen some improvement m i six is now down just point is seven percent despite it being like around one and a half percent the previous hour the r.t.s. one half percent this is mainly due to still a drop in the world price energy majors therefore rosneft down one point seven

percent. never turkey has improved its a performance is down just half a percent it's decided to raise first of dividends by one point seven percent for gas producer and steel plant and the m.k. has raised earlier gains it's now down. one half percent after a pause in a twelve percent increase in production to. russia's energy giant gazprom has resumed production at two or oil concessions in libya the company jointly runs them with germany's windows will earlier this year gazprom halted operations in the country due to political turmoil and violence. russia's leading diamond producer has boosted its first half net profit five fold to reach eight hundred fifty five million dollars company says it comes from stronger diamond prices as well as greater demand in countries like india and china. and russia as industrial output growth has slowed to lowest level in two years federal statistics

service says rose three point nine percent in september a year and year producer prices unexpectedly fell on lower demand that swayed by concerns about global economic prospects mineral extraction and metal production were among the hardest hit sam's expect further slowdowns as of. now so we have time for on this edition of the business news on r.t. coming up next the headlines with a nice if you stay with.

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gold three blows against the wall in video for your media project a free media oh god r t v dot com. here with artsy line from moscow at two thirty pm these are top stories israeli soldiers are going to have some logic now free and back in israel after five years of being held by hamas has released in exchange for a thousand palestinian prisoners but other captured soldiers families are asking why israel's doing nothing to bring them home to. the serbs in northern coast to go are given an extra day to remove their roadblocks had a border seized by kosovo police last month but local say they won't give in and once the officers leave.