but nothing is enough desperately in debt grief launch an all out strike with thousands spilling onto the streets with anger mounts over a new round of tough austerity measures and there are reports of clashes in athens . strained down still it's a desperate search for compromise in northern kosovo as nato forces stick to their ultimatum urging local for protesters to clear road blocks or be forced to go. serious through a violent with soldiers reportedly turning on each other and being killed during anti-government protests fueling fears of a full fledged civil war. plus all the money but no trop russian cops have

got to leave after the nine spying allegations in a british court but it meant she had an affair with a married and beat. you with r t live from moscow many so now i will get straight to our top story this hour a nationwide general strike has paralyzed greece in the run up to thursday's crucial vote on a brand new package of tax hikes and job cuts flights have been grounded while schools shops and factories closed amid fears that vast demonstrations are now it descending into clashes well arcee sara firth is keeping a close eye on the situation for us in and now is on it's us wife sara what is happening we're getting reports of clashes on the streets of the greek capital bring us up to date. let's leave it on to the thousands of people that say. hit

states right as always staying at the front of the building is the clashes between the protests on the right they probably thing i hate and what's happening right now princess just throwing molotov cocktails anything they can get a hand somebody. fossils in see the front of the parliament building up the right way we see the rightness of the british take us a lot of flash bangs think that by the police as well is going to see how much of that we can say you because it's getting buried and there you go you can take out going up at the front desk and getting very very tense down there and be very concerning because of the large numbers of people that attend i was down there on the space just under an hour ago and there are a lot of young people down there the yeas and nays but it turned out state of protests were out in force so obviously very very concerning indeed because this is one of the biggest protests the brisas thing is the biggest since the financial crisis started as he said hundreds of thousands you can see that again the

situation getting incredibly tense the protests against that side of the stairs and ashes there's a vase in parliament it's time to say the next couple of days until the e.u. leaders meeting at the weekend to try and discuss exactly how to get out of this financial crisis but of course you can see here that the country really increased at the moment they completely lost the public the full confidence again very concerning if you want to really how they're going to be able to meet feel this they can't be able as many people of peaceful to five stations to be should this is the case but people are saying is the name and you may think overpopulation has caused the problem rather than part of the solution and you know what you're seeing at the moment is really just put the ice that you can see just how angry they protest is our right it is of a scary thing they can kill for. they've had wage cuts they tried that site is very

very difficult for a lot of people in the country they've been describing to us exactly how it is a living under these measures and so you're saying this time good morning i even say as they stand outside the front of the parliament building crisis day sarah obviously hundreds of thousands of people are on the street clashes are developing are as we can watch unfold behind you tell us more about what some of the opposition is proposing as a result i mean does this mean greece might have to leave the euro zone are you hearing people talk about that as an option. well look people have said right from the very beginning the opposition is what was needed was an alternative plan the failure of year is a little she would pass in this situation as being one of the biggest problems easily single month to get going up there and rightly leaving here. be one of the biggest problems they said from the beginning there was a plan b. was clearly a plan b. was needed because the solutions that they have come up with have simply fails and

what you're seeing right now is the thing is playing out on the streets of athens if they don't find a solution to this tentacles of the population so that if anything we headed for we see the clashes break out it's very sad that we're staying loyal to say so because the suspicions are going all of these base a gateway and part of it this is what people are responding with the feria angry they can never be very honest and available such a solution is found there's no thanks the other solution to this crisis karmazin the greeks are very angry we see these clashes taking place but a good amount of those hundreds of thousands of people are fairly peaceful there tells about how these recent clashes broke out take us through how the so again the south. we seem to have lost their breaking news here on our t.v. the biggest protests yet taking place in the greek capital since the country began

spiraling out of control in terms of its economy and trying to not have to default nationally will join our correspondent sara firth who is there for us in athens for now though you can follow her on her twitter feed as she follows these protests and clashes taking place in athens. well sunday will see a key e.u. crisis summit which will discuss the final details on greece's second bailout however this agreement between france and germany over financial support for the state may endanger the talks berlin is pushing for banks to accept cuts of fifty to sixty percent on their greek bond holdings or paris says twenty one percent is enough financial analyst patrick young says president sarkozy is acting in his own interest. some governments particularly the french are trying to effectively just sorry financial gravity and say oh no hold your nose for

a moment this is our cheat not such a huge crisis we should get away with about twenty percent why do they say that because the problem is that ultimately these buying in france could themselves they're not being in need of government the alliance 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 governments to a mr sarkozy is terrified that he's going to lose the election next year and be thrown out of the loser palace as president. what with europe's press economic and political minds failing to get the greek economy back on track we as you what you think i should say could be a possible way out submit your votes on the art dot com on page this is what the votes are looking like so far almost half of you advise athens to follow america's footsteps and occupy an oil rich region just over a third say is up to the greeks to work harder and then last nine percent believe

greece needs to go cap in hand to the e.u. and we need more help a lot of small few back the idea of the country selling or mortgaging part of the territory to escape economic collapse top of the line how do your thing vote on r t done. well later in the program we continue our coverage from the united states which i. overwhelmed by anti wall street protest. of police tactics against peaceful demonstrators dr even more and discontented approach has theirs onto the streets of america. in other news nato forces in northern kosovo say they will step in to remove road barricades if local serbs haven't done so within twenty four hours the deadline has already been postponed twice stoking tension and uncertainty as to whether a compromise is possible in the standoff archies rufa notion is in the region for

us. the deadline set by the nato led peacekeepers in cost of a known as a four has already been press poland twice following demands from soviet communities leaders here in kosovo because of an serbs the ethnic minority in the mostly old belling populated possibly have been protesting against the bad in custom and police officers walking in the northern part of course of a many are very skeptical there about a possible way out of this conflict described believe as a dad lot and say that would either turn into another frozen territory of conflict only to more violence just days ago when some of the barricades were taken away throughout the course of eight people were injured several days ago i french officer from cave for committed suicide at the checkpoint known as yog we haven't heard any official statement about his death but this is clear that's the situation this has both serbs and albanians as well as international organizations

functioning in kosovo found themselves is played it's negative and possibly even leavell role ahead of today's meeting between all the parties been involved in this conflict we have been able to speak to deputy serbian minister for possible here and he told our chief that everybody is looking for compromise right now but at the same time no one is ready to be healed. well more reaction on that online for you right now on our to his facebook page you can watch our interview with her viewers chief negotiator in the standoff who explains why belgrade is so opposed to attempts to create a border between serbia and kosovo now you can also log on to our web site for background analysis and comments on the situation in kosovo there's plenty of other stories for you there as well including space phrases russia signs of grown ups its rival to america's g.p.s. interpol position as it plans to pump the project with billions of dollars. and we

are for you and animated and go on world headlines discover our cutting cartoons on our online humor hog all that and much more for you at our tea time. fighting across syria is claiming lives on both sides amid growing global concerns the country is edging closer to a full blown civil war over a dozen troops have been killed recently by alleged army to factors following the u.n. warning of more opposition activists taking up arms tests are sillier reports now many are still quick to only demonize the assad regime. this is the office of the trader it's one of the messages on the wall he's real and the u.s.

were able to buy you with a thousand dollars says another. this is where several opposition leaders work. higher he had been a vocal critic and had spent fourteen years in jail very bad timing he recalls like many opposition members he thinks there's really very little room for reconciliation under the current environment. vehicles troops. withdrawal that. he always has. it's like the polls. he's listening to people. he insists protestors were forced to respond to attacks by security forces and the acknowledges that now it's simply not black and white responsibility for the violence goes both ways. and so this killing civilians some civilians killing. soldiers they are son

was one of the first soldiers killed since protests began in the country he was killed in iraq on march twenty three. all foreign media acknowledged that too many of the army and national guards have lost their lives so how can some people see that on groups didn't exist you could knapp's these civilians and business like my son how could only members kill other members this is impossible they needed it says it is plainly lying. and very and the problem the moment. there is confusion about what's really going on in the formation is taken by each side and used to defend their position so if you hear only arguments from one side you like to believe that amid this atmosphere of confusion and misinformation the push for reforms continues what's in there in various forms this is another question whenever a new legislation is made we see an escalation of the security situation in syria of the keeping guns but we cannot absolutely. on the government as

i mean some circles are trying to propagate of voices from both sides are calling for dialogue to sit down and talk to the syrians themselves agree that if this crisis is to be resolved that foundation of trust should be first laid down but with each direct order syria respond the rise in an already whitening political gap that's are still your r t a mask. and in libya the new interim government has been greeting some high profile gassed u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton she would like to see colonel gadhafi captured or killed we examine why she decided to take such an uncompromising position. also coming up in iraq ulysses' skate for a modern day at robinson crusoe discovered only by challenge men fought for his life in the wilderness for over two weeks. but first

a new wave of protests in new york as anti wall street activists accuse the city's police of an excessive use of force hundreds of people have been arrested during the five week long protests across the country and police were condemned for using pepper spray loosely confident now reports the movement has got the backing of most americans. the popularity of the movement does seem to be growing not just among the demonstrators but with the regular americans as well in fact here in new york a recent poll that came out showed that seven in ten new yorkers supports the movement of identify with the big frustrations the major frustrations that the demonstrators have expressed mainly what they see as corruption in wall street in or of washington in undue influence by wall street over looked politicians and the political system in washington d.c. the nation's capital now we have seen unfortunately an increase in some ireland and heavy handed responses by the police departments here in the new york city area

we've seen of course the mass arrests over the weekend in times square as well as the rest of the spread across the country for example in seattle a total of nine protesters were arrested after failing to evacuate the campus after being asked by police to do so in chicago about one hundred seventy five protesters were arrested in arizona more than one hundred protesters were arrested after demonstrating and what they say is a nonviolent civil disobedience tactic we do know that several of the officers implicated on video with some of the violent tactics are being investigated now with the movement does not seem to show any signs of it giving up steam in fact there's a new global daily action that's being planned for october twenty ninth not just here in new york but all across the country as well as across the world in different cities worldwide we also know that the financial situation for the protesters here in new york at least has improved protesters recently announced

they have earned some three hundred thousand dollars from donations both money that's dropped and bought buckets throughout the park as well as to online donations what they will do with that money remains to be seen but they are getting more and more support it appears at least by the american people. that is our team is losing confidence they are get more news analysis in the latest pictures and comments from the u.s. occupy wall street protests on all of our social network i can't.

arrest the woman accused of spying in the u.k. has begun her fight in court against deportation cocteau's attorney vetter admits having an affair with a politician she used to work for but it's a nice accusations of being a russian intelligence honeytrap for the m p r c s i or bennett is following the case and london. the main point it was focused on in the trial so far has been cathy is to live yet his relationship with mike hancock the member of parliament she was working for as a researcher up until two thousand and ten short before her arrest and you know it's always rumors after her arrest that she was conducting an inappropriate relationship with him because he's married and has merged as facts yesterday that she was conducting an affair with him for four years from two thousand and six when they met to two thousand and ten shortly before her arrest now it also yesterday in the trial that she was actually writing about this in her diary we heard an excerpt from that about the first night they met her just when she was working as a chaperone for foreign diplomats in moscow he approached her for sex that first

night offering her a cd and money even to try and persuade her she said no but their relationship did blossom soon after that when she moved to england to study for a masters it was suggested yesterday by the representative for the government the home office which is trying to deport her suggesting that she was working as a spy that she was tasked by the russian intelligence services to work as a honeytrap targeting i can quote the m.p. because of his position it also emerged that. she was going to she had previously conducted other relationships with other senior government officials in diplomats one with a thirty year old dutch diplomat when she was eighteen and also later an affair with nato representatives as well she denies the claims that she was working as a spy she admits to the affairs but she says he's innocent that's what she's trying to fight deportation case is expected to conclude in six days time. well

during her unannounced visit to libya u.s. key diplomat hillary clinton stated washington hopes to see ousted leader colonel gadhafi captured or killed fessor paul seldon foote from california state university who's worked in a number of arab countries says clinton's attitude isn't surprising as you know already america and many others were just true economic interest in libya. which is or should i mean is it because he was doing everything that the west wanted in fact he was wasting his people's money on investments and a soccer team in italy. 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 or of the world if what more can you do for the worst than good as he was doing don't forget who hillary clinton is in two thousand if you go to youtube and type in who are

literally ruined as a candidate for president she threatened to kill every man woman and child surely run into a waste basket for. we now return to our top story the streets of athens where arguably the biggest protest in years is now descending in violence people they're venting their anger against a new package of austerity measures the country is likely to adopt as soon as thursday are to sour for those there now joins us live sorry the nation on the edge what scenes are you witnessing right now give us a look at what's happening in central africa it's a least seem to be seeing the violent clashes breaking out again between defiantly and the protests if i just say what's happening at the front of the parliament building still you could protest this mother talk cocktails in tea will survive at least we've seen takeouts already be used a lot of flash bangs going off that's the loud noises that it's right into the crowd to stun the people that as he said the biggest protest to greece has seen

since this financial crisis started it's estimated in the hundreds of thousands and i think really the situation very tense in a lot of concern about this escalating now because the people here are extremely angry about what's going on the credit things going on in parliament to try and push through even more austerity measures because the year is a needed meeting for an e.u. summit at the weekend to try and decide just what to do with this debt crisis this crippling crease i were on the streets earlier talking. the people here and there was a big turnout from the us me. that's very worried there were a lot of young people you need to stay i'll show you again what's happening outside the front you still got there is going of take asking you to get on the path saying to the concert in there was a strong the turnout today rather to say the fighting not just the speeches that country. futurity say as he could see the masses is a trying to spite there's really nowhere for them to go the streets are absolutely

packed with people not just on syntagma but all the main streets leading off that is well so it is there's nowhere really for people to run from if this situation escalates any more you can see the riot police to suring up the numbers as well they've got hundreds outside the front of the parliament building really very concerning indeed wondering exactly where this is going to end as we said the biggest protest increase seen for a long while and a lot of anger on the streets of athens said today and you of course have been covering these protests in greece throughout the year what was the last straw for these people. who we seeing happening time and again is that there's been a huge divergence between what the government says be trying to influence what the year it's a leaders have been discussing a lot of people have actually been asking for and it's really results and what you're seeing today again is huge public anger that ends in these violent clashes

a vicious cycle that they don't seem able to break they keep pushing through these measures and we keep hearing about these rescue plans and really they seem to fail every time and a lot of the people that i've spoken to here are great a lot of the analysts are heavily criticized this tax a solution to the problem they keep trying to get money from the general populations to plug this massive deficit in the budget that these people have simply have reached breaking point they take half the money there anymore what you're seeing at the moment heads day is the very tip of it behind this anger are years of us territory that the people of faith most of the average greeks are seeing their salaries cut by around thirty percent they've been job losses left by center and on top of this attack sites have really prefer untenable for the people here you've got to take our staying off again in the background i mean it really is a very tense situation it's been described as

a make or break week for grace these big decisions coming up that the people are chanting in the fantasy saying they've had enough they take all these decisions the repairs and then by the choice held by the year isn't leaders they just simply wish breaking point and a lot of them with thanks dave the chance of getting out in the crowd will we ever let this guy and their response was never the knowing to back down and we can see by the numbers that it turned out today that they're very serious about this so i definitely needed an outflow many people here in the country are calling for they said that the people have been maybe enemy the people are being made to pay for mistakes that went slowly that isn't. but there is as you said as he's a man of public anger we can certainly see that as these classes unfold on the streets of athens artie's sour for us will be there throughout the day for us and we will most certainly be crossing back to you thanks for the topic. of next business you're in r t you stay with us.

hello and a very welcome to the business update russia and most of its c.i.s. partners have agreed to create a free trade zone to simplify tribes were achieved at a meeting of commonwealth prime ministers on choose day the move could significantly increase trade between the countries it's a regular reason fifty percent of the facts top of the year to more than one hundred thirty billion dollars are chinese more in acosta has the details. this comes after two decades of debate and even though it's not a done deal it's definitely headed there and causing a lot of store and the pro says most of the c.i.s. countries have signed on and those include armenia valorous kazakhstan kyrgyzstan moldova rochelle forces ballasted took a stand and ukraine the country still thinking about it and could iser by john was that the son answered the man assad and they're expected to make a decision by the end of the year now the closer in union with the member states

has come out of where putin's priority since announcing his candidacy in the upcoming presidential elections the prime minister says that will cancel export and import duties on certain groups of goods but this has a raised concerns especially with the government considering creating a eurasian union or some say is intended to compete with the european union and the fact that the e.u. started with free trade now has some isomers on alert internally it's seen as a precursor to russia's andrew into the group c.e.o. it's specially as some of the participants are already members and the word here is it's not about competing over placing anything it's all about providing a better conditions for establishing movie joints and surprises and increasing the competitiveness of the economies involved. and a quick check on the markets oil is trading near its highest price in more than him . after goldman sachs predicted upside potential i mean signs us bird stockpiles

are increasing less rapidly than previously forecast brand plunge is trading at one hundred ten dollars a barrel while the w t i is that eighty eight dollars a barrel. european stocks are higher meat conflicting newspaper reports germany and france have agreed to further boost the euro area's bailout fund banking shares are leading the games on foot see in other news from the region moody's has downgraded spain's credit rating with a negative forecast. and finally the russian markets are moving between gains and losses as world prices fell urals crude lost one point five percent and investors here are also better europe will solve its debt crisis after the guardian newspaper forced one of rescue fund. that's it for no more business stories in less than was time for you so just stay with us.