this is our see the top stories this hour today tear gas reportedly fired at ethnics by nature peacekeepers dismantling the barricades set by local the disputed border in northern ca some of you got the latest for you. also shut down and shouting out striking greeks browndown parliament which is likely to give final approval to more primitive comes to service it's how i was doing there. but we should have been hearing from a syrian there our correspondent of course i wish you could hear is that we will be catching up with a little bit later in the program i can very much promise you that our other top stories this lunchtime. colonel gadhafi is home town reportedly full to the new libyan regime fighters these are live pictures you're seeing now from serves the last of the elephant leader strong loyalists held out for weeks.

russia and the netherlands are teaming up to create one of the largest world seven olds in europe more than half of the around twenty two men. hello and welcome it's two pm thursday afternoon here in moscow you're watching r.t. international from moscow kevin owen without top stories is a busy afternoon ok first off a nato led peacekeepers have reportedly fired tear gas at protesters in the disputed border in northern costs about a day they're beginning to remove barricades set up by ethnic serbs after they failed to do so themselves. in kosovo is going to latest from

a very good afternoon to you can you hear me. why don't you try yet you're on the ground there can you bring us up to date and give paint a picture of the atmosphere there now we could see more violence is that still continuing. you can absolutely be completely where we are now i mean i am balling actually we are pretty locked in and out between now and important from trade for nature that people keep in fourteen profitable quarter one third quarter one third. what it looks like unfortunately technologies that is down again we've lost the line as you can see. we will try and catch up with a little bit later of course to bring you up today on the tensions today there on the border no john laughlin is from the institute for democracy and cooperation to tell her colleagues. that nato movements of firing up the conflict right now.

fact is that nato will pay for war is not behaving as a peacekeeping force on the contrary they are economically no conflicts they are reigniting a conflict which has been quiet now for more than ten years they are exacerbating feelings on both sides but instead what they should be doing is to allow the situation to come down in other words nato and pay for and the western powers who control these troops are doing what they have done throughout the entire history of the breakup of yugoslavia which began now a very long time ago in one thousand nine hundred one is still going on for decades they are granting the rights to certain populations to see it from the overall unit denying it to others what's happening today in northern ca suppose a direct result of this ridiculous idea that possible is an independent state or that it can be an independent state ok for and you lex in other words the european

union operatives which. now run kosovo he legally by the way because only the united nations has authority in parts of both their determination to push this policy through not to its logical conclusion and i'm afraid it's a very bad sign it's bodes very ill for those serbs who are hanging on to the north of the problems. it's also john locke homeless culture was not sure again the last lines were there on hope you can hear me again now to gauge the atmosphere for his bring us up to date again pose exactly what's happening on the border at the moment . wow i'm really trying to show the can actually we are now in the middle of the margins why we. need to treat people publicly that. are very high here where we are right now. guardian tension. that's trying to control treaty change

for each other to try to keep in force here. and. it's also i can see if. i can excite the raw. data right here it's going. to. fight all the calls i can be. here right now if they come here to try to i thought. i should. stay right here to. protect their rights. and indeed is. obviously there are problems there she's in a very remote area some problems the phone saying oh thanks for bearing with us we will go vote for a later on or at least a report in the can for you to hear more fully about what's going on there ok let's

get over some more news now the big story today a lot kicking off in greece forty eight paralysis into its second day and athens is witnessing another show of force outside parliament lawmakers are preparing to give final approval to even more tough cuts in a desperate attempt to stave off bankruptcy now you may recall yesterday wednesday protests all around one hundred thousand. testing and clashing with police say was probably not a day surface in athens forest either sara it feels like a lost cause for the great people i guess we can hear the noise over the shoulder their personal stopping them turning out today is it. a spider city so yesterday or the clashes between the police and the focus is having to take instead to say by me. in the stands i think of the building everybody we. think of something that's against the us terry says it's not that it's the cars involved it's this is that they will state they like any good this is the people

just. think just being done by the fire face of the left to the part of the building to the. concept think of that this time yesterday we have that rising thanks just obvious to everyone the mistake to say they don't really want to see a repeat of these violent clashes that of course they have public anger really reaching those limits the people to say against the statistics they reach breaking point i love the people we would still sit down at the state to try thank you but these are the states this is the biggest hearing about these days is that you think frankly in the lives of these people everybody in the country is in. many ways for us most people hearing many of the statistics and even more in some cases it's not that they have fights. going in the front seat sickeningly higher than they've been

because of the people with the sketch face and they feel that living a way of giving them money we see a legend of a new generation of famous people you wouldn't think a little bit just thinking such a sensitive will say is that he did it was his first day on the ice. may be something that's going to come with. the years any. thank you thank you. thank you it's nice to have the. most being sober this eurozone leaders meeting on sunday where they're going to gather to try to work out some solution to try and take this forward is anyone hopeful about will bring some end in sight. i think the feeling of my. goodness that is thanks to the exodus is that the things they did the sun started to one thousand was the thanks they guided they needed because it to me was that thanks very much.

for the fight to the already thinking that is such they said was he didn't listen. to the us thank you i guess you would think the six way said thank god fearing thank you very very nice lady sings yesterday were the ever still the speaking take us not the instinct that anybody who. thinks of the. things that need such money to take the lead right. they say that this is the full this isn't just we probably because the police it's the way stable does it get that extension money that is going to have and if you have a case study of the hazing i think that would be for the sake of the stakes steve is right thank you so much the seventy members thank you dismissing the fine the stink try to get the guys free exuding how they always think still about the love

of the experts they can see here now says that it's not just that they have this trouble high by thinking up with these incidents like this it is that whole the rest of the situation has the funds and it's the the litigated the way that it finds these things to leak the financial markets and the people here is that it was the right. that's nice that i did a little. not just. that is i think what is ok sarah french bring your sense of a very noisy situation ongoing fluid situation will be coming back to you for the course of the afternoon for more updates or for a correspondent in athens course it's not just greece where economy campaign is a digging in occupy wall street is into its fifth week now as we report later this hour in the program will reveal why the u.s. government could be the one paying the price if the wealthy keep getting richer of

the expense of the average american and the first ever watch of a russian rocket in a western nation is spoken there's no twenty four hour wait for europe's first sat nav system to blast off in french. but more a little developing news story is softening libyan fighters have now taken over gadhafi loyalists final holdouts in the colonel's hometown with reports now saying that sirte as fall and the city has been besieged for weeks these are the latest live pictures we're getting through on your screen now with thousands of civilians of course trapped in the crossfire with the new regime regarding regarding it as the symbolic last step to victory over gadhafi let's discuss it now with international relations professor mark. as i say very good afternoon to you we were just looking at the pictures there gun fire into the air celebrates gunfire i guess for the news coming through the south in the last couple of hours that finally has

being taken. for the new leadership that is taking certainly a total victory there are still pockets of loyalists resistance is this the end of it where do you think it's going to go mark. the beginning of you. to the beginning . to the. taken control of the ball with the coastline it will lose people live with their big sways of joy to keep into the center of the desert which is not under their control of course they certainly don't move cold in fear of his lead in sometimes this gets under the control and so the risk was all the brutal. transitional council was in tripoli because gadhafi has looked at a new strategy that he's ready for that because i sit on against. the rules of the ground and so when he will lead the search if i'm the last to do it this is an absolute was of midget's was

a change in strategy as he wants to start the insurgency which up with the prime minister the interim government has admitted is a possibility we have to remember after all in iraq with all the time to create so that saves from the fighting it was beginning because that of course mark would keep all these live pictures coming through from third to the celebrations from at least what people would say on the screen ear gunfire into the air as the politics play out as the to ing and fro ing how it was coated mustn't forget the huge human suffering here we're talking to an eyewitness or one of our guests on the program last night you just come back from sirte he said who talked about the desperation of the thousands of civilians who remain there what can be done for them now this is a big problem isn't the nature of who leaves for you our military and problems here is low the onus of the war the thousands of deaths for the many thousands of injuries corrosion of mips and really the nato alliance is

a suitable sponsibility to provide that but actually trying to slow the economy in function and the fals of the sewage system as you see is that the. military this is going to be detention for the vix this is one good call that the route it ensues critical of the book you can see to those with those some of the photos we've seen rooms of the. and we killed disappeared maybe we're going to believe that the tourist rules so far from seeing the incident his victory could be in schools and youths you see the libya has a tradition of feuds and in this was. great in that sense we see the rebel flag raised in the hood and is written very. easy in the story the purpose of many forestalls here is a lot about his operation as premade tell you of course all along it will continue its strikes in libya until the fighting ends what no serious taken is this the end

of the line as far as nato is concerned. will it could be because this is what we will see it is it was exactly eight hundred is it as well to put the libyan coast news there are things just for subsistence in the play for free medical information and it's just i world with a little bit of face of being wrong first intervention in libya the first use of the major media ideas of film deeper and deeper into protests that less come to the school to the best there is the potential for home good systems does us say this some ridiculous transformation because the takes place of the who has it within the system the wrists that will be it fighting amongst different groups and also the continued insurgency where those with it look at the future it was perfectly awful just from the flues week ago and they don't feel the child looked up with a bustle full of cut off if you structured well from getting in trouble the good

could be just so you conflicts with those and get them because they feel a bit of it from you go to all the passwords they want you to mug briefly for colleges wanted to talk about gadhafi and his whereabouts still are no good nonetheless who got the u.s. secretary hillary clinton just a few days ago saying that they want to see him captured or killed what's going on today and you think it will i'm sure the purpose of the meet with the. follows the laws of the world a little good although if it kills it trickles out of because with me is typical of instinct to push horses we've seen this it's used bytecode schoolgirls before the school so go to school have a look at strike may become a bit of it's look. ok professor mark almond thanks for joining us there just reminding our viewers what you're seeing on the screen there libya's transitional government soldiers say they've taken full control of the last city where gadhafi loyalists would remain holed up according to eyewitnesses and reporters you see celebrator gunfire live pictures coming through from service here on our c

international. also more on our web site of course our t. dot com log on to see the latest there and the while you're online these stories might interest you to the safari shootout in small town ohio around fifty lions cheaters and tigers you heard me right be killed by police after being let loose on the streets we've got more about that story online also the law sees of the lights on hooligans in russia who try to blind pilots with those laser pens as they try to land the airplane filled with passengers now they'll face ten years in jail not a low down it's at r t dot com. there's a class war brewing in the united states that's the stark warning from the occupy wall street movement that's now into its fifth week and shows no sign of giving up for them the yawning gap between rich and poor is getting far too wide and that could cost the government did the result is going to teach you can explain. a class

war seemed impossible in a country where being both the east part of the national green could espouse and march on wall street and in other parts of america protesting against the system that they claim works only for the benefit of the few super rich individuals and corporations many ask whether america is facing a class war that it's only when the rich are getting richer while the middle class is class a class war is being waged in a burka today unfortunately the wrong side is winning the so-called one percent of winners are the nation's top corporations which this year and the economy is very slow growth of non the last may record profits the thanks to various loopholes many of these corporations pay little or nothing in parts of the corporations say they need the tax breaks to be able to invest more in to hire more america's second largest energy producers chevron is now lobbying not to let the government tax them more and to my question how many americans has chevron hired since the tax breaks

were introduced in two thousand and four a c.e.o. of the company said they were up slightly a few thousand trained business over the years but not significantly not significantly on our payroll a few thousand jobs for the millions of dollars in tax stimulus that the government gave the economy same erika's largest corporations are sitting on more than three trillion dollars and not investing in the economy unemployment in the us remains over nine percent when we live in a nation where corporations can profit off a child dying at the same time with their parents into bankruptcy because they're trying to pay for these kids medical bills with it what does that say about our country the wall street answer to people's rage if you kill all three will be nobody held a job but as one of the protesters try to put a word objection call it all. hold on it's not your show i'm talking to these

people hold on i'm not talking to. you my. personal success and money have always be part of the american dream. the aspiration to become rich is equally ingrained in american society and widely promoted by pop culture but those who took to the streets and made it clear that the situation on the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer is not their idea of the american dream in fact it could be the end of it and the beginning of class war i'm going to check our reporting from washington. for the real world news dominating the headlines now in brief. people in bangkok heading for higher ground as flooding friends this one part of the thai capital in the coming hours the problem this is declared a national crisis now a disaster is claimed over three hundred lives and focused in the least a third of the nation's provinces is still water logged homes factories and thousands of acres of farmland have suffered billions of dollars of damage that

figure is expected to rise to. a peaceful march for educational reform in chile's capital ended in a clash with riot police nearly one hundred thousand protesters gathered inside to go with students demanding higher quality public education in place of minor reforms to the project system groups of violent protesters pelted police with rocks and stones while officers responded with water cannon and tear gas should he said you cation rallies have been going on now for several months. so not the news from syria's first couple now have their first born after carla bruni gave birth to her daughter would have paris clinic presence across he had been with his wife but missed the actual birth because the other goes through a year of crisis meeting in frankfurt it's the first child together but both had children from previous marriages the forty three year old former model is the only serving french first lady to become a mother. you saw a launch of the first run. a rocket to take off from

a western nation is to hold on for another day no apparently because of fueling problems when the soyuz does blast off though on friday it said to carry european satellite navigation equipment bushnell reports from the south american country on the big bucks project resting in russia's hands. drivers find g.p.s. navigator can often be inaccurate and actually cartels in built up zones are the new e.u. competitor called galileo promises me to point precision even in open areas where buildings currently morse g.p.s. coverage to send the satellites into orbit europe's chosen the soyuz launcher with its own royal track record by far the most. we. hear from e.u. space chief say shows you don't need to be complicated to succeed russian system very simple and effective it's a very good. design politicians think it will launch

a new partnership between europe and russia the way you country actively contributes to industrial scientific and technical cooperation for example. it is important to resume the level of quality of our business ties and diversification of structures a man in charge of the launch says it's full superior to the us system here that it could be a majority of the way to go but it should. first satellites of the earth from french guy on the earth rotates force to here by vehicle weight significant ideal catapults effect on takeoff at the year round clear skies and then you have the perfect conditions for launching into space america's g.p.s. has enjoyed a monopoly on the world certain of market till now with so use also behind buses on such a g.p.s. known as clueless competition in the sky is about to get just a little more crowded the new bush will see french guiana and of course r.t. said to bring you that historic launch lives and make sure you're here for our

coverage from french on friday at around ten thirty g.m.t. no word on the live coverage from sports in twenty minutes time we're going to have that with tennis has resumed at the kremlin cup here in the russian capital with a final places up for grabs and these are champing at the bit dated for a shortly but it's the latest lunchtime business next for moscow at one twenty four hour. oh and welcome to business r.t. russian investment group so much capital and a branch of oil trading giant vitol have one attended to build an oil terminal in rotterdam in the netherlands the fifty five hector facility in the largest port in europe is expected to take on a significant share of it will boil trade it may potentially almost double the volumes of oil going through rotterdam there's only investment in the joint project may reach one billion dollars but this isn't the only opportunity russia and the

netherlands are involved in as our correspondent buddy the cost and explain. gooden's is this an economic mission some of the country's leading businessmen are over here looking to make deals and they're interested in energy agriculture infrastructure and sports medical technologies that are also looking to get involved in russia's efforts to modernize its infrastructure especially with such you posting their winter olympics and it's once you were seen now there was also an agreement to order rotterdam to build an exploit and alterman of the project is designed to become a major european logistics not and if transport less of a russian troop well the spite the financial true more around the world the dutch prime minister and british this business elite to make contacts and find good deals here in russia bilateral trade and mounted to fifty eight billion dollars in two

thousand and seven and in the first seven months of this year it has already increased by fifty percent and when it comes to of foreign investment the netherlands is second adding some billion dollars to the russian economy. and russia's biggest oil trader good voice is turning to other new creative black stuff and seeking thirty three percent stake in u.s. coal mine a signal peak for food. hundred million dollars in american firm expects the corporation will help to get into new markets and increase production says it wants to diversify fraud trading and it's a call expecting demand growth across the been true in the next twenty. miles move to the markets first while it has a rebounded that's on the hopes that the european union leaders will reach a compromise on housing bailout rescue the latest figures i'm looking at right now it's a light sweet and brant are up something like fourteen cents whereas we have dated

figures we apologize for that european stocks however are down investors are still looking to stick to the sidelines amid the uncertainty ahead of a crucial weekend sea of red all across the board financials weighing in the footsie and manufacturing companies will you be in frankfurt in russia markets continue to march into the red but they have somewhat actually rebounded from when we last looked at them investors are moving into cash anticipating a possible worsening of greece's economic situation look at the main movers financials are in pains burbank one of the biggest losers down to half a cent bank of moscow's negative territory to its net profit of one seventeen fold in general to june into raul is also down the company impose a night for an increase in net profit for you and very briefly we have people handing over its russian retail operations to the bank french lend is selling its hope for the improving retail loans of deposits worth forty two million dollars in people rebar decided to quit retail business in russia after it got into trouble as

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