he's available in hyatt regency an. israeli soldier gilad shalit who is now free and back in israel after five years of captivity in gaza but the families of other missing israeli soldiers say the government is doing is nothing to bring their boys home. also in the program law and disorder a new york police officers could face a punishment for harsh tactics used against the corporate campaigners on wall street. because of an surge began to resist any possible attempt by nato to clear their border barricades to make mines demanding big move all be moved.

welcome you watching our team from moscow is kevin over here this hour at nine pm moscow time and our top stories been hailed as an historic mideast prisoner exchange with the first group from a total of over a thousand palestinians being swapped for just one israeli soldier gilad shalit who's become a celebrated cause in his homeland is now been returned to israel after being held for five years by a prisoner exchange and greeted by thousands so on the streets on both sides of sleaze following the story from israel force. this does close the first phase of this prisoner exchange some four hundred and seventy seven prisoners has been transferred to gaza and the west bank they have been welcomed by families and by her masters political leadership and there they were given a hero's welcome 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 a soldier being released but some people suggesting that it is the well tuned israeli propaganda machine that manages to see this happen and there was one incident at that rate too near the checkpoint where the families who had been waiting for the loved ones to come were told at the last moment that they would not be crossing through there they were so angry they started throwing stones at the israeli soldiers they responded with tear gas and water cannons but we don't have any reports of injuries at this stage there is also some anger among those prisoners who do not come from gaza who come from eastern resulin and the west bank and have been told that they cannot to turn to their home towns they say that force them into the now living in gaza is sending them from one prison an israeli jail to another prison guards are among those who are being freed are people who were imprisoned without trial we caught up with a ukrainian woman who has been in jail for the last nine years and we understand that she was imprisoned because her husband was charged with terrorism we spoke

with her mother. it's a miracle that these two countries reached an agreement and i'm very happy that my daughter is among the first ones to be freed see how many years irina spent here it was twelve years nine of them in prison i think her love only got stronger i'm sure she's looking forward to meeting us and knows that we love her there we're hoping for the best. here at the air force base the israeli prime minister and defense minister have given addresses they both state that they were sorry that not more israeli missing soldiers has been brought home and at the heart. are with these missing soldiers indeed this is not the only criticism that is being leveled at this prisoner exchange deal with the families of people who were killed by some of the prisoners have now been released did petition or to recent high court yesterday they lost their position they say that every worried that this kind of prisoner exchange not only comes at such a high price but also sets a precedent where palestinians in the future will look at the advantages of

kidnapping an israeli soldier when the points to be paid is so high there is also criticism being leveled by families of the missing soldiers they say that the israeli government has done little to nothing to try and bring the big boys home so we're not done anything to the extent that it has done in the case of gilad shalit . if we date new her lovely 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 and the youngsters he hopes because it brings him and that little bit closer to his son mashpee who disappeared one year before gilad shalit was taken hostage. over and over again the government and the country are now doing and after mardi. gras actually gave to the show you. there are at the moment seven israeli soldiers who've been kidnapped or who are missing in action and as me

some measure disappeared while hitchhiking to his army base major one of our it was captured twenty five years ago after his a craft was shot down of eleven on base 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 improving it's inacceptable 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. so they've brought us nothing. course ill solution her son is still alive and while she's pleased to learn just coming home she's disillusioned a new government that made it possible for him but not for her son. it's about media attention we are how you lots nearly succeeded in marketing their son we saw it as a family this was

a growl as we thought it was now that guy was an i.d.f. soldier in uniform but we were wrong very very wrong. and. this is a country that depends on its army for its survival is an unwritten code that if we soldier who goes to war must be taught. this will be hard because of the free gilad shalit campaign for nearly two years his friends family and supporters can count 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. the government of the country are now doing and after my son and the rest of those missing in action it is important for us to bring our soldiers home disappearance was sanderson's to war we need to nod 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 another israeli soldier and

will israel be willing to pay this price again policy r.t. . it's the big story of the day we want to know what you think about it on our web site r.t. dot com thanks for letting us know if you have done so far the question we're asking is whether you think a prisoner exchange what you think it will mean for attempts to bring peace and a political settlement to the middle east is what i've been telling us this chart robin for eyes majority of you respond out of it after last think it's just an overhyped media event which was unlikely to change anything horribly the deal was. so winning more public support for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu twenty percent think the deal's an undisputed victory for hamas and a blow to israel rest of you out of the exchange will become a step towards peace in the middle east thanks well you know you think r.t. dot com is the place of the. new york police officers may be given a sharp rap over the knuckles for allegedly heavy handed tactics against occupy wall street protesters but if this video was

a tape last friday that led to one of the injuries inquiries the officer thought to be a deputy inspector was filmed grabbing an activist from behind punching him in the face and then knocking him to the ground the independent agency that deals with complaints against new york's police says it's also looking into an officer using pepper spray on peaceful female protesters to have a campaign against big business and banking in the us has entered his fifth week meantime and if you do seek out enough reports the movement's becoming more popular . one 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 where cross the world bells and type of person 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 as the demonstrations roll of cross 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 a 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 over thousands have 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 weak day for spike the fact that out 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 lucy kaplan of in new york. it's a story we're following very closely i mean like you know america's economic problems always problems in europe to greece adding to the current financial turmoil. it is not anymore a protest movement it is a movement for the sort of arrival of the people coming up later in the program for you greeks lash out at the government saying with a desperate battle to avert default the country towards an even deeper economic abyss because my comment coming from have story two. plus gunning for gadhafi u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton makes an unannounced trip to libya saying she wants to see colonel gadhafi killed. serbs in over kosovo say they will take defensive action against any nato attempts to clear their roadblocks near the border with tuesday will set is the deadline for them to go and

if they didn't nato said they would force them now the barricades were built as a protest after kosovo police and customs officials were placed it two border crossings with the help of nato only forces arctics griffen option has been following developments in the region. stones and sand are the only way serbs leaving in cos they have in their arsenal to make the 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 produce a period. of negative consequences for you. bastards talking about us well do the only negative force present here local residents of a to laze region in the flat k four and eight and that international peacekeeping force in kosovo has been spreading here recently you could do propaganda by oh we don't want them here those like you part we don't want to talk to them. the mayor

of the northern coast of a town of leprosy rich is talking to k four plunker has been among the four delegates from serbs to negotiate with peacekeepers on dates and terms of the barricades removal key for has announced a monday deadline but than press tuesday the serbs have claimed they needed more time. to bury in police and institutions to leave northern kosovo and never return here if they leave remove roadblocks and wednesday but if they don't meet our demands we do them back again. initially designed to prevent cost of and customs officers from reaching the checkpoints at the northern border with serbia rubber all the roads have made trouble for many key for complain 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. this days ago a forest through where they struck the ground here is still freshly dug the serbs

are building roads and tentative roads to reach serbia from kosovo as the main roads have been blocked with their barricades in the last several weeks the only other alternative for 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 they've seen at least seven of them to kill rule book. i. believe lot of reason one volunteers here has one of the cost and serves and speaks for all of them serving the right things possible to. be. good but also. we return to the barricades in the evening people are still there all of them have their usual jobs teachers engineers liars.

but here they call themselves soldiers and use war rhetoric. this is our learned we will not surrender plans for truth the future for our children and motherland. they say one man can't win a war the together people may form a real force even if their weapons. and sand. refreshen r.t. course of. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says washington wants to see the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi captured or killed in that statement came during a surprise visit to libya and meeting with senior members of the country's national transitional council to get some comments on this from professor paul sheldon foote from california state university has worked in a number of arab countries professor thanks sir artie tonight could see you know till now the u.s. leadership had been adamant admit that the gadhafi wasn't the specific target why this change now this very public change saying the here it is

a legitimate target and it is legitimate to do so. well it's illegal for americans to kill current leaders i'm sure the warmongers in the obama administration or argue that he's a former leader and therefore he's fair game. but don't forget who hillary clinton is in two thousand and eight if you go to youtube and type in hillary clinton nobody really run as a candidate for president she threaten to kill every man woman and child in turkey run into a wastebasket there and ashtray there was no outrage because most americans didn't hear it in the major american media unless there was doing to international media such as your own or sri church in the internet they would know it but they can find it today and you too interested to hear what you think sect fickling said decided to make that visit today i don't announce these it because the still at least some resistance from gadhafi loyalists in the conflict isn't officially of. where this

adventure started in france think this isn't the by the old model administration to some american furthur prince on a success they run in addition to saying they killed bin laden they want to say next year in obama's campaign for reelection that they brought a great victory in libya. have turned this visit to secretary clinton also announced that the u.s. is going to hand over eleven million dollars a pack east if they didn't cheat but you know we've seen this kind of thing before money sometimes often falls into the wrong hands thinking about afghanistan for example is revenge of the happening in libya. big time eleven million is peanuts. when the nato forces have destroyed huge numbers of homes destroyed the economy killed huge numbers of innocent civilians and they claim that gadhafi might have threatened to invade one city in libya i mean well where was nato when israel performed

a massacre and where is nato today when saudi arabia is performing massacres in bahrain. we'll have a million dollars well will not cover the day we do it in you know let's look at what the u.s. wants from libya looking at it from history from a strategic point of view what kind of relations is the u.s. looking for with a country now we were really heavy control over the resources of libya where as you know already america russia to try to and many others who are urgent true economic interest in libya which is are slim is it because gadhafi was doing everything that the west wanted in fact he was wasting his people's money on investments in a soccer team in italy financial times those are not in the interest of the libyan people. but i don't know what the lesson is supposed to be for other leaders around

the world to what more can you do for the worse than gadhafi was doing well so get tough he's out of favor the interim leaders currently in favor of course they are only the must be stressed interim leaders why is the u.s. paying of so much attention is they aren't really there officially yet they're certainly not elected this is a strange definition of martyr see i mean these people were selected by fruits to be imposed on the people would be a boy of course there is nothing democratic about this democratic people the world should be outraged by what has happened with nato. first poso them foot from california state university thanks ever so much for being on our team international good to see tonight. a number of lingering strikes across greece again a momentum out of a crucial parliamentary vote on a new round of tax hikes and wage cuts the approval of a new austerity bills needed to secure the next batch of a bailout to prevent the country going bust but i'm greek roots believe these measures seen by their governments bring temporary rest by driving the country deeper into recession. yes because thirty and make or break week for

a nation with an upcoming forty eight hour general strike the parliamentary days and in the senate decision the fight for greece is reaching fever k.h. . he does not anymore a protest movement is a movement for the sort of i've all of the people. littering the capsule is part of ongoing action because she said to once again come to a standstill as flights are grounded and public transport scorelines to holt's i think the situation is getting out of control. of the workers personally very. interesting their words are. going to push for. more and more doctors coming in the future. they don't see any future. own going talks and they send statements in whole thing with an angry public non-doing 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 lose the quite as runs deeper there are now calls for a radical rethink of the entire same project. we will have. and europe changing direction which will mean what does that mean that means the central back acting like the serious and preparing the fate of the bank of england and actually trying to reduce the recession by decreasing interest rates lending to come to me either we will have the governments corporation and their fiscal policy why do we have a new marshall plan to help the economies of the sad fact sheet to be able to compete with the euro or euro will dissolve 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 that many of the measures implemented in greece amongst the wage cuts and tax hikes simply serve 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 no when the people in their parliament never seen so far apart. as the country continues to find ways to boost its debt laden economy one thing remains clear that greece the road to recovery is going to be a long and difficult one sarah. athens. so to explore what the future holds for greece and the rest of the eurozone financial

advisor and analyst patrick journeys to use in poland snipe trick good evening to explain on r.t. to. a correspondent paid their. meaning were belt tightening in greece strikes by public servants and other unions against these austerity measures that are opening the services there how far do you think this will go it rumbles on doesn't it especially if the government approves more cuts. well look i think we're actually coming close to the end really kevin because ultimately the greek economy is in such a mess there is simply nothing can be done i mean what we're trying to do here is to take the world's most obese person and give them a crash diet so they're going to turn into i don't know cindy crawford by the end of next year i mean it's simply impossible you can't do that with a greek real waste for example i mean the salary bill something like one hundred million euros the total amount of income is like one hundred million euros and in total it costs about seven hundred million euros i believe to run the real way

system you cannot possibly manage to change those numbers in such a short period of time the simple truth is greece has too much debt no matter of belt tightening it's going to change it nigh what's going to happen news we're going to have to take what we call in banking terms our haircut on the debt and ultimately it's not going to be cutting of the hair a lot of people are going to be left so what boss leslie put as ever ok just talk me through the next but i wanted to ask you about germany's pushing for banks isn't it to accept cuts of fifty to sixty percent on the greek bond older says twenty twenty one percent so enough do you think this disagreement is going to affect sunday's e.u. meeting where those final details about greece's second bailout are expected to be discussed where you see the problem here we have because it's a huge ripple effect not so the readers can understand the listeners to understand i mean give us a haircut is basically when you say well that asset we bought a year ago it's. oh dear bets off in his prime we just lost it

just. we are as a lark a click this has already basically said that effectively greek debt is devalued by fifty percent however some governments particularly the french are trying to effectively defy financial gravity and say oh no hold your nose for a moment this is actually not such a huge crisis we can get away with about twenty percent why do they say that because the problem is kevan that ultimately these binds in france could themselves end up being in need of government bailout and the french government don't want to do that because the french government are deeply concerned about their own credit rating for the french government and mr sarkozy is terrified that he's going to lose the election next year and be thrown out of the in these a palace as president now if it goes as far as what germany wants in the greek debt

is written off by as much as sixty percent what effect that going to have on the rest of the european economy thought about france they want the rest of it well the year's affectively the first impact it's going to have is on the banks because the bind sought after then tell the truth and admit how much money they've lost and some by and so are going to need to be bailed out. by their governments or by some form of european union funds in order to make sure that the banking system stays alive and then that's a huge concern we know that for instance staunch of i'm being worried so much they've been lobbying the german government sent please please please don't come out and announced that we believe that there should be a haircut but the truth is there will be a haircut but i'm still going to have to cut back if banks cut back that's ultimately going to be less credit than the economy looking at it from the best starting point it at the worst some point it could mean that banks actually go out of business although actually i would caution restraint here i don't think it's going to end up doing that but ultimately. what the european economy needs is

growth and actually keppen in all of the months we've been talking we've never once addressed the growth question and that's the big worry for europe right now i because haircuts need less lending means less a couple economic growth so as far as your concern when it comes to greece whatever's on the table at the moment and we also hear some of the eurozone countries or of portably are planning on tightening the financial supervision of athens well whatever you think it's slow going to dead horse here i mean you know we can supervise i mean certainly the dollars needs of the improve supervision of the greek government but frankly we can all lift a thumb in the air we have it in the direction of athens and tragically we have a pretty good idea what the balance sheet is it simply isn't sustainable and it's a tragedy because ultimately you know greek pensioners who didn't work all their lives are now ultimately finding themselves in deeply deeply difficult circumstances and we can't take away from the human price here that is a huge worry for everybody out there at the moment and ultimately something has to

give and what is going to have to give is that the greeks are going to have to repeatedly it's at least part of their debt and in fact what we're hearing at the moment is the greeks are saying or at least we're hearing rumors that they're going to talk about coming out of this meeting and they're going to allow greek to greece to default on how tough of their debt will to put in perspective even if the greeks don't repay half of their debt they'll still basically heart the same amount of debt as the united kingdom or germany neither of whom are exactly countries that have been saloon bar ruling over the course of the last few years. final question so does this mean oh i'm asking from a not for a layman's point of who does this mean if the worst happens they are going to leave the eurozone they are going to leave the euro well interesting to me it looks as if the european union is not trying very hard to keep greece in the euro but a lot of them some form of fault on their debts and actually that is possible because if you think i did in this. same sense in america

a few years ago orange county in california got them selves into all sorts of difficulties and in fact the council went bankrupt but ultimately they didn't have to leave us dollars alone and in case you think this is a silly example i would point out like the economy of orange county it's a point the same size as the economy of greece which tells us all we need to know about california i suppose but if we look at it this way greece does not have to leave the euro if the european union shows some flexibility but ultimately it is going to have huge drama for cations going forward because the european you don't need to have a big wall on a lot of protection to make sure that italy and other nations can sell the government almost before the end of the year so that we don't actually see the euro including i'm falling apart for young joining us from poland financial advisor and expert as we say thank you for being on the program is really good to have you here have your explanations and explaining it clear it's to us what's going on thank you

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