welcome you're 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 homeland has now been returned to israel after being held for five years by hamas the prisoner exchanges been greeted by thousands on the streets on both sides are his paul 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 her masters 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 soldier being released with some people suggesting that it is the well the israeli propaganda machine that

manages to see this happened there was a 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 who've been told that they cannot return 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 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 to 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 they both say it that they were sorry that not more israeli missing soldiers has been brought home and that they hearts. 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 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 after israeli soldiers who are known 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 and that little bit closer to his son mashpee who disappeared one year before gilad shalit was taken hostage we are modern no might have served this over and over again the government and the country are not doing enough for marty neither is the media you know as the option it gave to 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 lebanon these are 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. to search and her son is still alive and while she's pleased to get out is coming home she's disillusioned in a government that made it possible for him but not for her son. it's about media attention b.r. how do lots nearly succeeded in marketing their son we saw it as a family this was a growl as 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 brought back home that's what the heart of the free gilad shalit campaign for nearly two years his claim his family and supporters camped 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 parents who send their sons to war we need to knock the country will do everything possible to get them back org it's done just that in the case of gilad shalit but at what cost will militants now be empowered to kidnap another israeli soldier and will israel be willing to pay this price again. no it's not revise you have your say

on this big story on our web site r t dog 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 think is just an overhyped media event today which is unlikely to change anything it's been all going 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 ninety percent of you say the deal is a disputed victory for hamas and a blow to israel and a very few view this are optimistic about the exchange saying it will just become a step towards you saying it will rather know you said you are optimistic or pessimistic rather it will be a step towards peace in the middle east's good to hear that said join the debate our t.v. dot com. this is r.t. from moscow this continue to look at some of the other top news stories today a new york police offices may be given

a sharp rap over the knuckles for allegedly heavy handed tactics against occupy wall street protesters and it's this video coming up on your screens now that was taped last friday that led to one of the inquiries the officers you're about to see no that's the wrong video and the officer thought to be a deputy inspector was filmed grabbing an activist from behind the other on pictures obviously punching him in the face and knocking him to the ground 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 could talk to meghan linnik one of the organizers of the occupy wall street movement she's experienced some tough police tactics herself meghan 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 a verb what looked like strong arm tactics used by the police do you think any members 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 protests such as these and more often than not they are not held accountable and there is no repercussions for their actions so ironic isn't it the 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 silent what you 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 protests 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 on and they don't have a message or such and such or it's a completely double standard oh you were special your country and the media

knocking you so were so you're probably layabouts basically don't have a clear view of what you want what we're going to go you just basically sitting the . early days of this we had the it was but you are stronger we didn't have a clear movement a clear message that if you did it would give the people what wall street will power but i mean if you don't have this clear aim and strategy is just going to be seen as one jaw global mode you think it's a danger of others and. well i think there is a clear message it's occupy wall street people are at wall street for a reason because we are what we want to hold big bad 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 banned exasperated since the financial crisis and what we've seen with people losing their homes and their jobs and what these c.e.o.'s 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 most of us all the people the do agree with you around the world 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 to going about it the right way and you really expect any positive response from them . well you know that's the thing but they're the only way we can we can ask we can't make they're not going to power concedes nothing without a demand but. doesn't concede anything but power and don't we power that we have is

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 have our before we have our full power but we don't have that yet we're growing every day more and more people are coming out are demonstrating are demonstrations are 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 once our power does sort of reach its peak i think at that point as when we can actually start making our specific demand and start before it goes you're going to bring the progress you know we've been covering what was pretty happening where you are around the world are very closely our coverage will continue for another meghalaya coca-cola will street organizer thank you very much thank you. well in light of america's economic problems in europe two problems there of course greece i think to the current financial turmoil. it is not any more a protest movement it is

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 an unannounced trip to libya saying she wants to see colonel gadhafi be killed. serbs northern kosovo say they will take defensive action against any need to attempts to clear the road blocks near the border with serbia and choose there you may recall was set as the deadline for them to go and if they didn't nato said they'd force them. only a few hours to go the barricades were built as a protest after kosovo police and customs officials were placed to two border crossings with the help of nato e.u. forces are to there's been following developments in the region throughout the day . stones and sand are the only weapons the serbs leaving in costa they have in their arsenal to make the others listened to them the roadblocks they set up

throughout the northern part of the region are making headlines and getting feedback. morning but we ask you not to participate in me or threaten your safety or me or negative consequences for you and for your country bastards who are talking about us well the only negative force present here local resident by two ways written in the flat k. for and a term that 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 he's 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 movable 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 if they leave will remove roadblocks and wednesday but if they don't meet all demands then back again. initially designed to prevent kosovan custom officers from reaching the checkpoints at the northern border with serbia rubble on 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. those days ago a forested where they struck they always lived the ground here is still freshly dug the serbs are building near 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 in so it doesn't really count this is why new bypass roads

appear with phenomenal speed we've seen at least seven of them to carry the rule of march. the lot of reason one volunteers here his one of the costs of and serves and speaks for all of them should be the spirit . possible. legal work there but also. we're returning to the barricades in the evening people are still there all of them have their usual jobs teachers engineers and ayers. but here they call themselves soldiers and years of 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 that together people may form and real force even if their weapons just

and sound. reflection arty course. he was secretary of state hillary clinton says washington wants to see the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi captured or killed now that statement came during a surprise visit to libya at a meeting with senior members of the country's national transitional council who comment about this story today from keith harmon snow war correspondent and an independent investigator thanks for being on our to international tonight really could see a case what do you make of this state with them from secretary clinton to kill gadhafi is that legitimate the reason legal. i don't think so i would call that a targeted assassination i mean by any reasonable evaluation this is a call for a targeted murder. it's a real change all of policy from what we're hearing certainly from the top brass the big wigs previously because kind of going in saying they weren't targeting in particular one day what's the reason as well behind this visit by hillary clinton

a surprise visit as it 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 and everything almost everything we've been told and everything we've seen 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're in absolute control of libya to cover up the atrocities to put a clean shiny happy lovely face on the death and destruction that the clinton administration it was known for and hillary clinton has served as secretary of state. while the other news that came out of it as well of course. came with aid money probably a student eleven million dollars well the senate looking at spending even more but out. of trouble going on the scale is there

a real danger that money is going to go to corruption rather than restoration there's no danger it's going to go to corruption it's going to gretchen could absolutely there's no question that it's going to corruption the aid that hillary clinton is bringing money in for this 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 counterinsurgency it's third terrorism it's the whole idea that this is aid or it goes to refugees it's just absolute nonsense although they will put that face on it just look at what they did in eastern congo and also look at the broad began. coming out today about the so-called invasion of kenyans to somalia this is the absolute pentagon propaganda hillary clinton is not involved in. we're 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 a war and in iraq involved in the death and destruction in libya this is illegal

it's an international war crimes horrible what you say they are the national transitional council and they've been talking to to representatives of other countries but i want to ask you why do you think so much attention is being given to these people who are after all only interim leaders that's the key is that they haven't actually been elected by anybody yet let's 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. so meant a coup d'etat 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 pol bigamy in rwanda or the transitional council in libya this is. the way that the corporate power structure and is fighting against the system and to seize control of the resources in libya and seize control of the region to serve their interests from libya and it's everything that the people of occupy wall street are standing against following the reasoning through

talk about the libyan libyan interim government how are they going to play their cards where are they going to go in trying to establish themselves in other countries what will i do think it's going to play out. way all this politics plays out a. bunch of thieves and criminals get together in buildings and have special meetings and world bank money into it corporations come in and rip the place our. carbon slow walk or a small investor in very independent investigator thank you for so clearly putting your views as you see them very good to have you on the program tonight thank you. lemme 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 to end the ruling party it but that still doesn't mean that the election is a foregone conclusion. as regards my return nothing is decided until the

people have voted with their are people who criticize me and to me to remediate of 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 but an ordinary citizen always has a choice to make so our critics might see their own way but in this case they want to present their platform and what's more important to me not only to presenters but also to prove in practice that they can do this job of that or 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 rolled back this is definitely not going to happen. will bring more freedom of putin's interview some of russia's leading t.v. channel chief spirit later this hour here on r.t. . a number of lingering strikes across greece again a momentum ahead of the crucial parliamentary vote on a new round of tax hikes and wage cuts the approval of a new austerity bill is needed to secure the next batch of

a bailout loan to prevent the country going bust but i agree break critics believe these measures seen by their government is bringing temporary rest by driving the country deeper into recession. ever actually because i'm a very i make or break week for a nation with an upcoming forty eight hour general strike the parliamentary fate antony's summit decision the fight for greece is reaching fever pitch was. a does not anymore a protest movement it is a movement for the sort of viable of the people with garbage already littering the capsule is positive 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. that workers especially very very angry they're seeing their words decrease by about twenty percent to thirty percent. or more and more doctors coming in the

future. they don't see any future. own going to leaks and they statements will fit in 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 joined the single currency but of course they did let the crisis runs deeper there are now calls for a radical rethink of the entire year. we will have the euro zone and europe changing direction which will mean what does that mean that means the central bank 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 tolerate either we will have the governments corporations in their fiscal policy either we have a new marshall plan to help the economies of the factory to be able to compete with

the euro or the euro will dissolve it's something need governments have been desperate to avoid. rushing to find solutions to the debt crisis to try and halt 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 and there is a new leaders who are facing creasing the 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 seem safe our parts. of the country continues to find ways to be that laden economy one thing remains clear that greece the road to recovery is going to be

a long and difficult one. athens a sort of a financial advisor an analyst patrick young he told me it's hard to see how groups can escape its bleak economic plight in the short term we believe it emerges and not. i think we're actually coming close to the end 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 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 it and i was going to happen is we're going to have to take what we call in banking terms i 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 patrick sport soon got all the latest from tuesday night's action in the champions league was very good news that tonight from moscow side say that more than about fifteen minutes time you're watching r.t. international with me kevin oh in the here in moscow tonight is choose day of the it's now coming up to twenty seven and a half minutes past ten thanks for being with us.

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