welcome you watching our team from moscow is kevin owen here this hour at nine pm moscow time in 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 there's no been returned to israel after being held for five years by a mass prisoner exchange has been greeted by thousands on the streets on both sides paula slee is following the story from israel for us. 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 masses 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 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 and they was it one incident at the bay to nia checkpoint where the families who had been waiting for their loved ones to come we're 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 east jerusalem and the west bank and have been told that they cannot attend to their hometowns they say that forcing them to go now and live in gaza is sending them from one prison and israeli jail to another prison gaza among those who are being freed are people who were imprisoned without trial we caught up with an eight 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 that we're hoping for the best. here at the air force base the israeli prime minister and defense minister have given addresses that both sued that they were sorry that not more israeli missing soldiers have been brought home and that they harm. a with these missing soldiers indeed this is not the only criticism that is being leveled at this prisoner exchange deal the families of people who were killed by some of the prisoners have now been released didn't petition the jerusalem high court yesterday they lost that position they say that they're very 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 price to be paid is so high there is also

criticism being leveled by the families of the missing soldiers they say that the israeli government has done little to nothing to try and bring their boys home certainly not done anything to the extent that it has done in the case of gilad shalit. every day he comes here to a place that looks off to 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 and that little bit closer to his son mushy 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 mardi neither is the media you know as the option it gave to disown the 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

a craft 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. close who really 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 p.r. how do lots nearly succeeded in marketing their son we saw it as a family this wasn't we thought it was enough the guy was an i.d.f.

soldier in uniform but we were wrong very very wrong. and then. 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 that's what the heart of the free gilad shalit campaign for nearly two years his brain his family in the fall to camp 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 beige 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 spirits who sanderson's to war we need to knock the country will do everything possible to get them back or it's done just that in the case of gilad shalit but at what cost will militants now be empowered to kidnap and nothing israeli soldier and will israel be willing to pay this price again policy

r.t. . it's the big story of the day we don't know what you think about it on our website 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'll mean for attempts to bring peace and a political settlement to the middle east is what you've been telling us there's a chart unraveling for eyes the majority of humans gone down a bit after last think it's just an overhyped really a event which is unlikely to change anything a quarter believe the deal was a. so winning more public support for the. twenty percent disputed victory in a blow to israel rest of you ok exchange will become a step towards peace in the middle east thanks well you know what you think is the place to do. your police officers might be given a sharp rap of the knuckles for allegedly heavy handed tactics against occupy wall street protesters and 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 with independent agency that deals with complaints against new york's police says it's also looking into an officer using pepper spray and peaceful female protesters to have a campaign against big business and banking in the us has entered his fifth week i was on his reports the movement's becoming more and 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 but across the world thousands have converged in times square where they were peacefully demonstrating only to be met with an unprecedented show force by the new york city police department approximately ninety protesters were arrested for partaking in those demonstrations we also saw

instances of police officers on horseback riding into the crowd police officers on scooters injuring several protesters who had gathered peacefully as the demonstrations pro a profit country it does appear that the police response is growing in force as well on monday morning we saw in seattle a total of about nine protesters arrested after about two hundred fifty of them refused to take down their tents in the occupation there over the weekend we also saw. the arrests of more than one hundred protesters in arizona in two separate occupy wall street demonstrations in chicago as well where thousands had gathered to demonstrate their support for what they call a movement against the perceived corruption in washington and wall street one hundred seventy five demonstrators arrested there as well despite the fact that it's a weekday despite the fact that folks out 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 team and lucy capita in new york it's a story we're following very closely and in light you know of america's economic problems problems in europe to greece adding to the current financial turmoil. it is not any more a movement it is a movement for the sort of over all of the people coming up later in the program for you greeks lash out at the government saying the desperate battle to avert default moves the country towards an even deeper economic abyss because my comment coming from a story to. us 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 made two attempts to clear the road blocks 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 in two border crossings with the help of nato and the forces are to riff an option has been following developments in the region. stones and sand are the only weapons the serbs leaving in cost of eight have in their arsenal to make the others listen to. 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 any round me or threaten your safety or me of 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 nato led 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 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 move all k. four has announced a monday deadline but than postpone it took tuesday as serbs have claimed they need even more time for me good to bury in police and institutions to leave northern kosovo and never return here but if they leave we'll remove roadblocks and wednesday but if they don't meet all demands we put them back again. initially designed to prevent kosovan custom officers from reaching the checkpoints at the northern border with serbia rubble of the roads have made trouble for many k. four complained they had no access to their troops in the north they're 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 is still freshly dug the serbs are

building roads tentative roads to reach serbia from kossovo 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 roads appear within nominal speed we've seen at least seven of them still carry the rule of march. i'll. be glad to marie's among volunteers here his one of the costs of and serves and speaks for all of them should be a spirit they were possible. really good work but mostly. 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 that's for the truth the future through children and motherland that. they say one man come to in a war that together people may form a real force even if they are weapons i just sounds and sound. refinish now t. kosovo. 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 of meeting with senior members of the country's national transitional council because of comments on this from professor paul sheldon foote from california state university's works in a number of arab countries professor thanks sir big night could see you know until now the u.s. leadership had been adamant that gadhafi was disputes ific target why this change now this very public change saying that it is

a legitimate target and it is legitimate to do so. or it's also you know 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. don't forget who hillary could nurses in two thousand and eight if you go to youtube and type who are equally nobody really run as a candidate for president you threaten to kill every man woman and child in tourney run and. what a waste basket or an ashtray there was no outrage because most americans didn't hear it in the major american media unless they're listening to international media such as your own or most research in the internet they would know it but they can find it today at youtube interested to hear what you think sexy clinton decided to make that visit today an unannounced visit 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 is an attempt by the old model

administration to put some american furthur prince on a success they run it 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. now during this visit to secretary clinton also announced that the u.s. is going to hand over eleven million dollars a package strictly didn't but you know we've seen this kind of thing before that money sometimes often falls into the wrong hands thinking about afghanistan for example is no danger of that happening in libya big time eleven million is peanuts . the nato forces have destroyed huge dungarees of homes destroyed the economy killed huge numbers of innocent civilians on the claim that gadhafi might have threatened to invade one city in libya i mean well where was nato when israel performed a massacre in gaza where is nato today when saudi arabia is performing massacres

in bahrain. eleven million dollars won't will not cover the damage done in libya 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 they want. heavy control over the resources of libya. well as you know already america russia to china and many others large interests economic interests in libya which is actually amazing 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 a financial times those are not in the interest of the libyan people i don't know what the lesson is supposed to be for other leaders around the world of what more can you do for the west the 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 leader is why is the u.s. paying them so much attention as they aren't really there officially yet well they're certainly not elected this is a strange definition of marker see i mean these people were selected by fruits to be imposed on the people libya going to force there is nothing democratic about this democratic people the world should be outraged by what has happened with nato . first poll show them foot from california state university thanks ever so much for being on oxy international good to see tonight. a number of lingering strikes across greece a getting 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 agree greeks believe these measures seen by their governments bring temporary rest by driving the country deeper into recession. i've actually got somebody and make or break week for

a nation with an upcoming forty eight hour general strike the parliamentary fate and in the senate decision the fight figure isa is reaching fever pitch. that he does not anymore a protest movement it is our movement for the sort of vibe all of the people with garbage already littering the capsule is cause of ongoing 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. 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 and statements will fit in with an angry public demanding some sustainable action to help get the country back

on its feet. from the vantage points of many euro skeptics 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 a radical rethink if 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 faith or the bank of england and actually trying to reduce the recession by reducing interest rates lending to come to me either we will have the governments corporations on their fiscal policy either 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 that many of the measures implemented in greece amongst the wage cuts and tax hikes has simply served to push the country deeper into debt is a leader to face increasingly harsh criticism they continued inability to stem the spiraling debt crisis is increasingly unpopular greek prime minister has once again called the solidarity pleas of unity coming at a time now when the people in their parliament never seem say 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. r.t. athens so to explore what the future holds for greece and the rest of the eurozone most cross note a financial advisor and analyst patrick your he's joining us in poland tonight

patrick good evening thanks being on r.t. the group picture we had a correspondent pate there. really more belt tightening in greece strikes by public servants and other unions against these austerity measures that are crippling the services there how far do you think this will go it rumbles on doesn't it especially if the government approves more cuts first date. 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 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 the greek railways 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 railway 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 is going to change or not what's going to happen is 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 somewhat bald nicely put as ever ok just talk me through the next but i wanted to ask you about germany's pushing for banks is it to accept cuts of fifty to sixty percent on the greek bond older though says twenty twenty one percent said nuff 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 will you see the problem here we have because it's a huge ripple effect one so the readers can understand the listeners can understand i mean viewers a haircut is basically when you say well that asset we bought a year ago it's. oh dear perhaps off in his prime we just lost our signal for it

just so we know it's on the marketplace 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 banks 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 if it goes as far as what germany wants in the greek debt is written off by as much as sixty percent what effect is that going to have on the

rest of the european economy talk about france there what about the rest of it well the thing is affectively the first impact it's going to have is on the banks because the banks or have to then tell the truth and admit how much money they've lost and some buyouts are going to need to be bailed out at that stage 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 deutsche bank have been worried so much they've been lobbying the german government saying please please please don't come out and annoyance that we believe that there should be a haircut but the truth is there will be a haircut banks are going to have to cut back if banks cut back that's ultimately going to mean less credit than the economy looking at it from the best sound you pointed out at the worst sound 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 kevin 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 made 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 a portably 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 there dogs need to be improved 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 not ultimately finding themselves in deeply deeply difficult circumstances and we can 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

repudiate its 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 the meeting and they're going to allow greek to greece to default on half of their debt to put out in perspective even if the greeks don't repay half of their debt they'll still basically have the same amount of debt as the united kingdom or germany neither of whom are exactly countries that have been slow in borrowing over the course of the last few years patrick one last final question so does this mean oh i'm asking from a not for a layman's point of it is this main the if the worst happens they are going to leave the eurozone they are going to leave the euro well interesting leigh 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 default on their debts and actually that is possible because if you think about it in the. same sense in america a few years ago orange county in california got themselves 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 the economy of orange county is up by 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 drum of the cations going forward because the european union need to have a big wall and a lot of protection to make sure that italy and other nations can sell the government formed before the end of the year so that we don't actually see the euro including and falling apart and joining us from poland financial advisor and expert as we say thank you for being on the program is really good to have your explanations and explaining a bit clearer to us what's going on thank you all right this is r.t. in a few minutes we bring a special report on how social networking in our growing love of the internet makes

it even harder to protect our privacy is a big issue but before that the headlines coming up with me kevin in just a minute or two time on our international.

thanks for joining us rob you're watching around the world this is our top story over a thousand palestinian prisoners in exchange for one the israeli soldier returns home after a massive media campaign but other israeli. law and disorder that new york police could face punishment for harsh tactics used against. wall street. and the cost of a. possible.