watching our team from moscow with rico you know in this top story the eleven peer moscow time it's been hailed as an historic middle east prisoner exchange with a 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 home and there's no return to israel to be held for five years by hamas the prisoner exchange has been greeted by thousands on the streets on both sides. is following the story for us from israel 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 there they were given a hero's welcome but it doesn't complete the kind of questions that 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 soldier being released but some people suggesting that it is the well the israeli propaganda machine that manages to see

this happened there was a bun incident at the bay to mia 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 east jerusalem and the west bank and have 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 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 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 that they were sorry that not more israeli missing soldiers has been brought home and that they hearts are 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 did 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 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. comes here to a place that looks after israeli soldiers who are alone in the country who come from difficult backgrounds but being here is often more of a comfort to him than the youngsters he hopes because it brings him and that little bit closer to his son who disappeared one year before gilad shalit was taken hostage. have said this over and over again the government and the country are not doing enough for mardi neither is the media you know has the option gave to do so here. there are at the moment seven israeli soldiers who've been kidnapped or who missing in action. disappeared while hitchhiking to his army base major want to ride was captured twenty five year. to go after is

a craft was shot down of eleven on these of the last pictures of him alive taken in a prison in iran the guy have it disappeared fourteen years ago he was last seen at his army base one kilometer from the syrian border. it's infuriating it's an acceptable that after fourteen years the government still has nothing to tell us our demand is that the government bring us any information alive dead here in lebanon and syria just bring it but they've brought us nothing. who really is certain 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 p.r. how do lots nearly 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. soldier in uniform but we were wrong very very wrong. because

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 he's put in 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. 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 as parents who send their sons to war we need to know that 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 soldier and will israel be willing to pay this price again policia

our team. really inviting you to listen to what you think about this big story of the day you can on our website let us know what you think we're asking for your opinions on what you think the prisoner exchange is going to mean for attempts to bring peace in the political center of the middle east as we've been telling. you still think it's just an overhyped media event which is unlikely to change anything currently just. less than a quarter of the believe the deal was a winning war public support for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu twenty one percent of you telling us the prisoner swaps an undisputed victory for hamas in a blow to israel and the minority view are optimistic about this exchange you think it will be a step towards peace in the middle east. view from a minority there join the debate at r.t. dot com. serbs in northern kosovo said they'll take defensive action against the nato attempts to clear their roadblocks near the border with serbia tuesday was

said is the deadline for them to go and if they don't nato says they'll force them out of the barricades were billed as a protest of the course of a police and customs officials who placed the two border crossings with the help of nato and u.s. forces are. following developments in the region for us. stones and sand are the only weapons the serbs leaving cos they have in their arsenal to make the others listened to down the road blocks they set up throughout the northern part of the region and making headlines and getting feedback. morning we ask you not to participate in any event to me or threaten your safety or may have negative consequences for us and for your country bastards they are talking about us well they are the only negative force present here local resident by two ways written in the flat k four and eighteen that international peacekeeping force in kosovo has been sprayed in here recently look at their propaganda will not buy a we don't want them here don't like you buy it we don't want to talk to them. the

mayor of the northern coast of a town of lapis of which is talking to k. four bronco has been among the four delegates from serbs to negotiate with peacekeepers on dates and terms of the barricades for movable k. four has announced a monday deadline but then postponed it to tuesday the serbs have claimed they need even more time for me good 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 cost of one 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 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 forest area where they struck not always live the ground here is still freshly dug the serbs are building near 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 are the 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 this year all rule of march. i just i just i need a lot dimmer is among volunteers here his one of the cost of one serves and speaks for all of them serving the spirit i never recognized possible something i believe we did i work for them but i also was not there but i will return to the barricades in the movement people are still there for all of them have their usual jobs teachers engineers. but here they call themselves soldiers and use

war rhetoric on. this is our land we will not surrender that's for truth of the future for our children and motherland. they say one man contadina one of us that together people mad for a real force like that because even if their weapons i just tons and sound. refreshing are to kosovo. new york police officers were given a shot for allegedly heavy handed tactics against occupy wall street protest this videotape last friday that led to one of the inquiries in the office of sorts to be deputy inspector filmed grabbing an activist from beyond punching him in the face knocking him to the ground an independent agency the complaints against new york's police. to an officer using pepper spray on peaceful protest has become part against big business and banking in the u.s.

is in his fifth week now. 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 had 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 roll of prof the country it does appear that the police response is growing in force as well on monday morning we saw in seattle

a total of about nine protesters arrested after about two hundred fifty of them refused to take down their tents in the occupation there over the weekend we also saw the arrests of more than one hundred protesters in arizona in two separate occupy wall street demonstrations and in chicago as well where thousands had gathered to demonstrate their support for what they call a movement against the proceeds corruption in washington and wall street about one hundred seventy five demonstrators arrested there as. well despite the fact that it's a weekday despite the fact that 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. lucy capital in new york where a lot of america's economic problems in europe greece is adding to the current financial turmoil too. because not anymore a protest movement is

a movement for the sort of five all of the people coming up later in this program greeks lash out at the government saying the desperate battle to avert default moves the country toward me even deeper economic abyss we report. next u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says washington wants to see the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi captured or killed the statement came during a visit to libya at a meeting with senior members of the country's national transitional council i spoke to professor paul sheldon foote from california state university who's worked in a number of arab countries he told me clinton's comments come as little surprise. and don't forget who hillary clinton is in two thousand and eight if you go to youtube and type in hillary clinton obiter eighty run as a candidate for president she threaten to kill every man woman and child tourney run into 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 erm three church in the internet they would know it but they can

find it the day at youtube 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 and a soccer team inital a fee at financial times those are not in the interest of the libyan people if i don't know what the lesson is supposed to be for other leaders around the world if what more can you do for the west than the gadhafi was doing. a number of lingering strikes across greece are gaining momentum ahead of a crucial parliamentary vote on a new round of tax hikes and wage cuts the approval of the new austerity bills needed to secure the next batch of a bailout loan to prevent the country going bust but i regret deeply these measures seen by their government is bringing temporary rest but driving the country deeper into recession ever because of a very and make or break week for

a nation with an upcoming forty eight hour general strike parliamentary fate and in the senate decision the fight for greece is reaching fever pitch i was. a does not anymore a protest movement it is a movement for the sort of five all of the people we've got to do with littering the council is positive on going action the country set to once again come to a standstill as flights are grounded and public transport grinds to a halt i think the situation in greece is getting out of control. that workers especially very very. very very words are decreased 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 weeks and they statements will fit in with an angry public demand being 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 and as the crisis runs deeper there are now calls for a radical rethink of the entire year. we will have. 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 directly either we will have the governments corporator on 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 are searching to find solutions to the debt crisis to china

holds the world economy sinking further into a financial quagmire many of the measures implemented in greece amongst the wage cuts and tax hikes can simply serve to push the country deeper into debt nears a new 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 may when the people in their parliament never seem say far apart. as the country continues to find ways to base this debt laden economy one thing remains clear that the greece the rates recovery is going to be a long and difficult one sarah. athens rush advisor and analyst patrick young told me it's hard to see a growth can escape its bleak economic plight in the short term he believes more austerity measures are not the answer. 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 now what's going to happen is we're going to have to take what we call in banking terms that 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 but ima put it is decision to run for the presidency next he has dominated the news here in russia for most of months now he's now given his first big interview since confirming all stan and he said having the backing of the current president and the ruling party does not mean the election is a foregone conclusion. as regards my return nothing is decided until the people have voted but there are people who criticize me and to me to be mediated for more they say that if your humble servant takes part in the election that would mean there would be no election at all perhaps that would be the case for them as it would an ordinary citizen always has a choice to make so our critics might see is the only way that would in this case they ought to present their platform and what's more important to me and not only to presenters here but also to prove in practice that they can do these jobs and that are there is another important aspect here the most active part of the political spectrum people who talk about democratic institutions they are concerned the democratic processes may be rolled back this is definitely not going to happen . also around the world some more news in brief a bomb explosion in

a baghdad liquor stores killed seven injured eighty many of the victims were police officers but it's unclear if they were the target no groups claimed responsibility for the blast but she had militants have often been blamed for targeting security officials in shops selling alcohol in the past. cleanup work at the sites of the oil spill off the coast of new zealand has been halted again by bad weather a cargo ship hit a reef there almost two weeks ago with a salvage operation underway ever since three hundred fifty tons of oil have already leaked into the sea is a lot more on board as well the cleanup bills already cost over three million u.s. dollars for that figure expected to rise sharply. thailand's capital bangkok continues its battle against the threat of flood soldiers now racing to reinforce the city's defenses with a round of million sandbags the operation follows concerns recently erected walls may not be enough to keep the water out the thai government's also been seeking american and chinese support for relief operations become trees worst flooding in more than half

a century it's already claimed over three hundred lives. washington's to send one hundred special operations troops to uganda to help local forces fight the lord's resistance army widely regarded as a terrorist organization uganda government's been fighting the militant group for almost two decades now but asia times correspondent pepe escobar told us america has far reaching plans for that region that have little to do with protecting civilian. first of all this is an exchange of gifts president obama is giving a gift to the dictator of all gun seventy was being in power for twenty five to twenty six years and he's as responsible of up human rights and freedom and any effect at tacks on civilians and murders attacks on civilians as joseph coney so obama's senate is one hundred u.s. special forces billed as advisers so remember vietnam in one nine hundred sixty one sixty two it started with a bunch of advisers going to be about and we know what history taught us later this

is a civil war and it's and that to make war once again the u.s. is right stepping right into the middle of a net war that's been going on for over two decades but the bigger picture is even more impressive because this is not about again they sell and even obama at made it on the record already that these advisers are going to south sudan and the democratic republic of congo as well so when you look at that area in central africa and you see the amount of oil and the amount of mina riches at play and when we see that china is making me a role in this area and when we look at the africans agenda which is to combat china commercially viable military ization of africa then you understand these one hundred the beginning of may and he will be going to go the soup. pepe escobar knows visit our website for a lot more in all the stories we're covering

a lot more bring it on the tele side of things tonight their lives. only help if they live in the right place your story around the world read about the postcode lottery affecting children suffering a rare genetic disorder plus russia. doesn't just target threats from earth but also from outer space or know more about that song live from us exclusively tonight dot com. a russian woman accused of spying in the united kingdom is fighting attempts to deport her from the country catches and to deliver to denied all charges of espionage and an appeal before a special immigration commission but the twenty six year old did admit to having an affair with her former employer the m.p. mike hancock bennett's been covering the case. the question this trial is trying to

answer is was can't isn't to libya to spying for russia intelligence services was working in the house of parliament as a researcher this is a claim she strongly denies she told the court today that she's innocent and that's why she's fighting her deportation over a key point that was focused on in the proceedings earlier was her relationship with mike can call him a member of parliament she was a working as a researcher it emerged today that she was having an affair with him from two thousand and six to two thousand and ten to shortly before her arrest on suspicion of espionage now hancock was a backbench m.p.'s although he was not a prominent m.p. can get have access to sensitive documents as chairman of the all party russia committee and also as a member of the select committee for defense now this point was focused on by the home office representative they claim is that to live yet it was used as a honeytrap targeting. one for his access to sensitive documents and secondly for his vulnerability over extramarital indiscretions now again this was another claim

denied by is that of yet a now this case is being heard by three panel of three judges one of which is sustaining system even monder a former head of the m i five now this point was contested by the live yet his lawyers saying that why should a former member of the former head of the security services for britain be on this panel how can he remain impartial however that was. dismissed by the high court judges chairing the panel and those three will hear the case and they'll decide on her fate when the case concludes. looking ahead now this next half hour or so in a few minutes the spread of the occupy wall street movement discussed in our interview show spotlights coming up after a look at our top stories in a couple of minutes to. thanks for. coming to.

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stories tonight over a thousand palestinian prisoners in exchange for one israeli soldier gilad shalit returns home after a massive media campaign but others who had family members missing for years are. law and disorder new york police officers could face punishment for harsh tactics used against campaigners on wall street. begin to resist any possible attempts by nato to. move will be moved.