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the meridian country club so boring sure to find this piece of the first earth i sure can pinsky switzer till closing the whole deal to leave let's go golden chico to the. 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 nothing to bring the boys home. also r.t. tonight's law and disorder the new york police officers could face punishment for harsh tactics used against anti corporate campaigners on wall street. and cost over the serbs begin to resist any possible attempts by nato to clear their border barricades and alter makes about the alliance demanding that they move all the.
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broccoli watching r t live from moscow with me kevin now in our top story at ten pm tonight it's 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 has become a celebrated cause in his home and has now been returned to israel after being held for five years by hamas the prisoner exchange has been greeted by thousands on the streets on both sides of his call asli 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 hamas is political leadership 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
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a soldier being released with some people suggesting that it is the well cheering the israeli propaganda machine that manages to see this happen a was a bomb incident at the bay to nia checkpoint where the families who had been waiting for the 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 easter to slim and the respond if we're being told that they cannot to turn to their hometowns they say to force him to go now live in gaza is sending them from one prison and 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
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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 say that they were sorry that not more israeli missing soldiers has been brought home and at their hearts out. these missing soldiers indeed this is not the only criticism that is being leveled at this prisoner exchange deal with the families of the people who were killed by some of the prisoners have now been released did petition a jerusalem high court yesterday they lost their position they say that every war you get 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
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kidnapping an israeli soldier when a price 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 their boys home certainly not done anything to the extent that it has done in the case of gilad shalit. if we date comes here to a place that looks after israeli soldiers who are known in the country who come from difficult backgrounds of being here is often more of a comfort to him and the youngsters he hopes because it brings him and that little bit closer to his son mushkin who disappeared one year before gilad shalit was taken hostage or might have said this over and over again the government and the country are now whom are from mars. rocks and gave to the saudi. there are at the moment seven israeli soldiers who've been kidnapped or who missing in action now as nissan magically disappeared while hitchhiking to his army base
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major one of our it was captured twenty five years ago after his aircraft was shot down of a livin on the face of the last pictures of him alive taken in a prison in iran guy have 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 here. but they've brought us nothing. so we just solution her son is still alive and while she's pleased to be loved is coming home she's disillusioned a new government that made it possible for him but not for her son. it's about media attention in our how he wants now he succeeded in marketing their son we saw it as a family this was a gross we thought it was enough the guy was an i.d.f.
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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 every soldier who goes to war must be taught. this will be hard because of the free gilad shalit campaign twenty two years his reign his family and the little cantata 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 unarmed dares to suit 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 parents who send their sons 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 another israeli
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soldier and will israel be willing to pay this price again policy on our team. you know it's not revoked you have your say on this big story on our website r.t. or column we're asking for your opinions on what the prisoner exchange you think will mean for attempts to bring peace and a political settlement to the middle east is what it's telling us the majority of us still figure is just an overhyped media event today which is unlikely to change anything it's been hovering around the fifty percent last couple of hours currently a little bit more a quarter of you believe the deal was a winning war public support for israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu nineteen percent of you say the deal is an undisputed victory for how massive a blow to israel and a very few of you this are optimistic about the exchange saying it will just become a step towards you saying it will rather know you said your optimistic or pessimistic whether it will be a step towards peace in the middle east because they hear that said join the debate arteaga. this is r.t. for moscow this continue to look at some of the other top stories today
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a new york police offices may give a sharp rap over the knuckles for allegedly heavy handed tactics against occupy wall street protesters and it's this video coming out of your screens now that the state last friday led to one of the inquiries the officers your approach to see that's the wrong video the officer thought to be a deputy inspector was filmed grabbing an activist from behind the other wrong pictures obviously punching him in the face and knocking him to the ground an independent agency that deals with complaints that's the right picture against new york's police say they're also looking into an officer using pepper spray on peaceful female protesters to this campaign against big business and banking in the u.s. is into this fifth week i think on the line we did talk to meghan linnik one of the organizers of the occupy wall street movement she's experienced some tough police tactics is self made and thanks for joining us on the line from new york there were a bit last minute that now we've seen these pictures just showed of you is there of of what looked like strong arm tactics used by the police do you think any members
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of the n.y.p.d. should be held accountable. thank you for having me yes i do think they should be held accountable but unfortunately we have seen police brutality in the past many times in new york city especially with protest marches these and more often than they are not held accountable and there is no repercussions for their actions so ironic isn't it that washington is always quite quick to condemn violence by police against demonstrators when it happens in other countries but not so quick when it happens on home soil rather more siloed think about. yeah and it's also ironic that when we see uprisings in the middle east. our government wants to refer to them as democratic. or protests calling for democracy but when we do it here. they want to they want to focus on the violence and they want to focus and they don't have a message for such and such or to completely double standard. for your country in
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the media knocking use. of votes basically you don't have a clear view of what you want what we're going to go you just basically sitting there. in the early days of this week it was a stronger we didn't have a clear movement a clear message that if you did it would give the people that wall street will power but i mean if you don't have this clear a strategy is just going to be seen as one job global no one you think is a danger of others and. well i think there is a clear message it's occupy wall street people are at wall street reason because we are what we want to hold big band banks and financial capital accountable for what they've done to our country and what they've done to our world and just you know in the united states the inequality gap is one of the highest in the entire industrialized world and it's banner exasperated since the financial crisis what we've seen with people losing their homes and their jobs and with the c.e.o.'s
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getting these huge bonuses these corporations corporations make a. record profits and this huge bailout is a massive transfer of wealth from the middle class and the port directly to the top one percent. of people we don't feel we live in a democracy that we can participate anymore and so that's why people are out there on wall street operating in a democratic way to try to create some sort of alternative on a small scale and hopefully we can build and grow from there not give us a lot of people the do agree with you around the world in the do listen to what you're going to say but of course it's white house wall street you really want to get listening so you're going about it the right way and you really expect any positive response from them. well you know that's the thing they're the only way we can we can ask we can't meet they're not going to concede nothing with a demand but. doesn't concede anything but power and the only power that we have is
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the fact that we are the ninety nine percent we are the majority and that's why we're coming together it would be silly to make a demand now before we had our before we have our power but it's we don't have that are growing every day more and more people are coming out by demonstrating demonstrations or getting bigger. occupy movement is spreading to cities around the country and around the world and i think we're only going to grow once we start our sort of reach its peak i think at that point as when we can actually start making our specific demand start before it got you're going to claim to be a program which you know we've been covering what was was pretty heartening where you are around the world are very closely our coverage will continue for another megalithic occupy wall street organizer thank you very much thank you. well all of america's economic problems in europe two problems there of course greece i think it's who the current financial turmoil. is nothing more about this movement it is
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a movement for the sort of over all of the people. coming up later in the program greeks lash out at the government saying the desperate battle to avert default moves the country towards an even deeper economic abyss we've got more on that for you plus gunning for gadhafi u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton makes not announce a trip to libya saying she wants to see her look at that be killed. service in northern kosovo say they will take defensive action against any need to attempt to clear their roadblocks to the border with serbia and choose there you may recall was set as the deadline for the big go and if they didn't nato said they'd force them to there's only a few hours to go it barricades were built as a protest after kosovo police and customs officials were placed in two border crossings with the help of nato forces. has been following developments in the region throughout the day. stones and sand are the only weapons the serbs leaving
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cos they have in their arsenal to make. them. the roadblocks they set up throughout the northern part of the region are making headlines and getting feedback money but we ask you not to produce a period when you threaten your safety negative consequences for us and for you bastards you're talking about us well do the only negative force present here local residents by two ways written in the flat k four and eight and that international peacekeeping force in kosovo has been sprayed in here recently look at the propaganda by oh we don't want them here it was like a pirate we don't want to talk to them he's the mayor of the northern coast of a town of leprosy which is talking to k. four drunker has been among the four delegates from serbs to negotiate with peacekeepers on dates and terms of the barricades removal case for has announced a monday deadline but than postpone it took tuesday the serbs have claimed they
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need even more time but me good billion police and institutions soon leave northern kosovo and never return here but if they leave will remove roadblocks and wednesday if they don't meet all demands again. initially designed to prevent chaos of an custom officers from reaching the checkpoints at the northern border with serbia rubble of the roads have made trouble for many case for complain they have access to their troops in the north bay using helicopters to transport supplies and soldiers and the serbs themselves suffering too. this is a go for a story where they struck the ground here still freshly dug the serbs are building roads 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 a train but a trans only once a day and always packed so it doesn't really count this is why new bypass road. of
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here within nominal speed they've seen at least seven of them to kill rule of law. the lot of reason one volunteers here is one of the costs of and serves as picks for all of them should be there also was. good but also when. we return to the barricades in the new one 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 land we will not surrender principle truth for the future for our children and motherland. they say one man can't win a war and the other people may form
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a real force even if their weapons. and stand. refreshen r.t. kosovo. hillary clinton says washington wants to see the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi captured or killed and that statement came during a surprise visit to libya out of meeting with senior members of the country's national transitional council some comments about this story today from peace calm and slow war correspondent only depend investigator thanks for being on our to international tonight really could see a case for what you make of a state with them from secretary clinton to kill gadhafi is that legitimate or even legal. i don't think so i would call that a targeted assassination i mean by any reasonable evaluation this is a call for targeted murder. it's a real change oh of policy from what we're hearing certainly from the top brass the big wigs previously because the go again saying they weren't targeting in
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particular one way what's the reason as well behind this visit by hillary clinton a surprise visit is given the still at least some resistance from gadhafi loyalists the conflict isn't officially over yet so why should. my understanding is that there's a lot of fighting in libya at present in everything almost everything we've been told and everything we see is false for the most part we're getting there just complete propaganda story about what's going on in libya why is she there clearly to make it look to the american public like we are in absolute control of libya to cover up the atrocities to. clean shiny happy lovely face on death and destruction and the clinton administration it was known for and hillary clinton has served as secretary of state. the other news that came out of as well of course. came with a money probably a student she eleven million dollars well the senate looking at spending even more
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. trouble going on the scale is there a real danger that money is going to go to corruption rather than restoration. danger it's going to go to corruption it's going to corruption absolutely there's no question that it's going to corruption these no aid that hillary clinton is bringing money in for it is not aid money this is this is private profit it's going to go to some interest that we will never find out about for the most part if we do it's not for aid it's for kyron surgeon c. it's for terrorism it's the whole idea that this is aid or it goes to refugees is just absolute nonsense although they will call it that face on it just look at what they did in eastern congo and also look at the propaganda coming out today about the so-called invasion of canyons to somalia this is the absolute pentagon propaganda hillary clinton is not. talking about in ministration that invaded the congo and killed millions of people in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine hundred ninety eight and is still involved they're involved in a war in afghanistan involved in
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a war and true in iraq involved in death and destruction in libya this is illegal it's an international war crimes oh i hear what you say that the national transitional council will get some thoughts about that they'll be talking to the representatives of other countries but i want to ask you why do you think so much attention has been given to these people who are after all only interim leaders that's the key isn't it they haven't actually been elected by anybody yet. less the way the united states does things the way israel does things and britain does things they put a puppet dictatorship in they put it they. kill off thousands or hundreds of thousands of people as in rwanda and congo and then they put in the power structure somebody who does their business like joseph kabila in the congo or me in rwanda or the transitional council in libya this is. the way that the corporate power structure and is fighting against the system and seize control of the resources in libya and seize control of the region serve their interests from libya and it's everything that the people of occupy wall street are standing
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against following the reasoning through. the libyan interim government how are they going to play their cards rather going to go in trying to establish themselves in other countries what will i do that is going to play out. that's the way all this politics plays out a. bunch of thieves and criminals get together and buildings and have special meetings and world bank money into the corporations community rip the quasar. people on a slow walk or swallow reverse the very independent investigator thank you for so clearly putting your views as you see the very good of you on the program tonight thank you. let him put his decision to run for the presidency next years dominated the news in russia for almost a month is now given his first big interview since confirming he'll stand and he's said he's got the backing of the current president and the ruling party but that still doesn't mean that election is a foregone conclusion. because as regards my return nothing is decided until the
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people have voted with their are people who criticize me and to me to be a mediator from what they see 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 with an ordinary citizen always has a choice to make so our critics might see it on way but in this case they want to present their platform much more important to me not only to presenters but also to prove in practice the big can do these channels that are there is another important aspect here the most active part of the political spectrum people who talk about democratic institutions their concerns the democratic processes may be rolled back this is definitely not going to happen. will be more like him or putin's interview with some of russia's leading t.v. channel chiefs bit later this hour here on r.t. . a number of lingering strikes across greece are getting a mentor my head of the crucial parliamentary vote on a new round of tax hikes and wage cuts the approval of
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a new austerity bill is needed to secure the next batch of a bailout loan that really come to go and bust but i agree critics believe these measures seen by their government is bringing temporary rest bided driving the country deeper into recession. but it was actually because of the baby and make or break week for a nation with an upcoming full sheet our general strike parliamentary pace antony's summit decision the fight for greece is reaching fever pitch. that he does not anymore a protest movement it is our movement for the sort of bible of the people we've got to do with littering the capsule is cause of ongoing action because she said 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 under their sing their words. twenty percent to
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thirty percent. or more and more coming in the future. they don't see any future. own going to weeks and they ate some statements from one thing with an angry public. and 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 joins the single currency but of course they do listen quite says runs deeper there are now calls for radical rethink if the entire year is same. we will have the euro zone and europe changing direction which will mean what does that mean that means the central back acting like a serious simple bank like the fate of the bank of england and actually trying to reduce the recession by decreasing interest rates lending to countries directly either we will have the governments cooperating on their fiscal policy either we
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have a new marshall plan to help the economies of the south actually 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. many of the measures implemented in greece amongst the wage cuts and tax hikes simply serve to push the country deeper into debt as they leaders have facing creasing the harsh criticism they continued inability to stem the spiraling crisis increasingly unpopular greek prime minister has once again called the solidarity pleas of unity coming at a time when the people in their parliament never seen say foreign parts of the country continues to buy ways to be laden economy one thing remains clear that
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the rates recovery is going to be a long and difficult one. are athens a sort of financial advisor for young he told me it's hard to see how greece can escape its bleak economic plight in the short term we believe it is and not. i think we're actually coming close to the end because ultimately the greek economy is in such a mess there's 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 the greek railways for example i mean the salary bill something like a hundred million euros the total amount of income is like one hundred million euro . it costs about seven hundred million euros i believe to run the railway system you cannot possibly manage to change those numbers in such
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a short period of time the simple truth is greece has too much debt no matter of belt tightening is going to change it nigh 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 balls. for soon got all the latest from choose they know exactly the champions league was very good news there tonight from moscow side said but more than about fifteen minutes time you're watching r t international with me kevin oh in the here in moscow tonight is choose the the it's now coming up to twenty seven and a half minutes past ten thanks for being with us.
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