reportedly falls to the new libyan regime's fighters so they are on the smalling where loyalists of the last of the ousted leader strongholds have been holding out for weeks. and russia and the netherlands are teaming up to build one of the largest world terminals in europe among other deals more and that's in twenty minutes and business starts to. flow from watching out international a very good afternoon to you it's now three pm here my name's kevin now in our top story nato led peacekeepers have reportedly fired tear gas and protesters near a disputed border in northern kosovo today the beginning to remove barricades set up by ethnic serbs after the failed to do so themselves. on the border there shooting kosovo for us maria good day again we had a few sound problems last time hopefully this will be a bit more successful here on the ground there how would you gauge the atmosphere

could you see more violence today. well kevin mitnick face quite dramatic there where we are now. handled between a full soldier in the night and that peacekeeping force he talked about i'm compulsive going to feel in the wrong and i can see right now it's nice one hundred soldiers. who can quite frightening and unarmed on the other side of the resistance from time to time the peacekeepers are using law. called in on the crowd to disperse but the people must come here to present a case for soldiers to remove the barricades what they see as an attempt by nature to i think christian in. poland in this situation throughout culture would make sure it's even here and to see their heartland without recognizing post with.

the serbs are not ready to surrender not ready to get out of here they are ready to take. you know how as long as it's needed to that's why tension is a very high and it is. all the time you know we had these reports earlier on of to use against the serbs live in that area can you bring it so they moved the poles on the corroborate that. a while when the peace keeper season was precarious the dressing to. the front otherwise. don't go away. will be reduced and from time to time the id using not actually. right this is something like tear gas to take as same type of human being as. they also use and. they. all know. how much because they've

come here on i think just to fly people and keep them away from them and from the vehicles having. to specifically about these barricades is the whole point of this standoff at the moment is there any signs of starting to be removed. absolutely not the barricades as to where he's been for the last two months. we are talking about . track three and its tail here and say. we need to remove sleep any time soon if only they had been months. before and by. going to be working a impulsivity can you gauge how much extra one to deploy with being ruled in to deal with all this and how our deployment. and i can see the right least one rounds of course around one hundred soldiers to change or it was quite

frightening. of all. you know food riot gear the wheels some of them carry these guys a little wire come here on the. lead of them said he it was a reason and he reached convoy just around the corner i can i cannot tell you because number with a partner is here one of the subsiding of the barricades will be removed or more at the end of the day we're going to fight to keep them to the very end. to the very end exactly the main message from the conference are here live in human culture. than in customs. officers and police officers who are currently working at the checkpoints serbia at the serbs don't try to be nice as propofol that

should leave normally on the barricades in the streets and only after that last throw throws no controls what will be the. interest them message and you can see they are quite defiant and raleigh's surprise here from time to time. addressing to the crowd. holding can choose to remain peaceful and to remain calm so they look quite ready to fight to the end in the roof for most of the northern coast of on the border thanks so much and the roads are using us as well on twitter just reminding our views they keep abreast of all the latest on twitter as well as the no near their t.v. of this ongoing situation on the border they're covered on a john loughlin celine's she's a democracy and cooperation he told mccullagh english up of all of the nato movements firing up the conflict. the earth fact is that nato will k. four is not behaving as a peacekeeping force on the contrary they are igniting

a conflict they are reigniting a conflict which has been quiet now for more than ten years they are exacerbating feelings on both sides when instead what they should be doing is to allow the situation to calm down in other words nato and k. four 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 nine hundred ninety one this been going on for decades they are granting the rights to certain populations to secede from the overall unit but denying it to others what's happening today. is a direct result of this ridiculous idea that the cost of zero is an independent state or that it can be an independent state ok for and you lead us in other words the european union or for it is which. now run cost a vote illegally by the way because only the united nations has authority in coffs

both they're determined to push this a lawsuit through now 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 in the north of the problems. the big story we're keeping an eye on today greece's forty eight hour paralysis as well into its second day now in athens is witnessing another show of force outside its parliament lawmakers are preparing to give the go ahead to have more tough cuts in a desperate attempt to stave off bankruptcy eurozone leaders are reportedly ready to approve the next rescue installment at their upcoming meeting on sunday r.t. sarah furthur ports now from athens. thank you so yesterday i had the clashes between the police and the fracas of having to tell people today i'm going to show you behind me of having to stay outside the main part of the building to get everybody out in numbers from people coming that's against the all star exposes now that that's

a potentially cause in politics there is still that they will day today by gaining additional agreeable yesterday before they say against us that is that they reach breaking point a lot of the people we would talk and see down the state trying to tell us exactly what these are states the most expensive because we care a lot about the spaces that you try to create in the lives of these people everyone in the country is going to take it was meant to wage because they said to be thankful to the extent that even in some cases that may have. created in the country crippling a hide the body even has got a lot of people would finish its creation and they've got absolutely no way we're going to be seeing a legend. or you would have a little bit of the children was to me was a cranky old in the data set you straight to the excesses that there was little to do was to be made on sunday by the way just because it will.

thank you very immediate all the fighting. was about the situation as he could imagine so as the rest of the gates we would sing the situation laying out hearing thank you very very closely they say thank you yesterday where the f.a.a. was filled with slaves to take us not going to be instilling was already ordered so . thanks again. well we'll take that next charge money to take. me as they say. sarah furthur our correspondent live at the sea now it's not just to greece where economy campaign there's a dig in course occupy wall street into his fifth week the other side of the pond as well as we report later this hour we'll why the u.s. government could be the one paying the price if the wealthy keep getting richer at the expense of the average american that's to come. on the first of a launch of

a russian rocket from a western nation is produced by europe's first sat nav system is due to blanch or blast off from french guiana early on friday we're tracking its progress so to bring you live coverage of that tomorrow the. libyan fighters have taken over gadhafi loyalists final holdouts in the colonel's hometown with reports saying today that sirte has now fallen these are the latest live pictures from sirte a lot quieter now just about an hour ago we saw what looked to be like jubilant gunfire from the libyan transitional government soldiers it looked to be that they're pretty sure that sounded for them to where libya's former rebels celebrating earlier on regarding the taking of the city is of course the last symbolic step to victory over gadhafi also reports to from one arabic channel south knew that the fighters say that gadhafi could be in sirte will try and follow that up for you the libyan troops are searching the homes and buildings looking for the

colonel's loyalists as well they've already captured sixteen of his fighters along with ammunition and trucks loaded with weapons the city has been besieged for weeks of course with thousands of civilians trapped in the crossfire we heard from eyewitnesses just from the last night of the program international relations professor mark colvin told me the victory could be just the end of the beginning though for both libya's government and from nato. well it may be beginning again but probably percy into the beginning. the rivers have now taken control of the who more than coastline it will lose people lives but there are big swathes of territory deep into the snow into the desert which is not under their control and of course they certainly don't have to live in fear in his lead in some as yet on the control and so the response believe all the brutal. transitional council government in tripoli because the field has stuck to the new strategy that he's recognized that he can't fight head on against nato plus the rebels on the ground

and so he will lead sirte have given up the last two days maybe this is perhaps it was all but maybe it was a change in strategy that he wants to stop the insurgency which up with the prime minister the interim government has admitted is it was a political move have made yet find it's all drawn deeper and deeper into the desert let's come over there for a school this is sort of all there is the potential for a moment here and resistance does us a list some miraculous transformation because i mean such a takes place that everybody feels it was useless to the wrists on that will be infighting amongst different groups and will salute the continued insurgency by those who look at the fear was perfectly what was coming but even those who hated gadhafi may not feel that the who would be children and in fact i think of us all full of gadhafi if you was captured in trouble in libya could be the spoke to new conflicts where those who gather because they fear

a bit of it coming back. in who will beat the. press mark i want to move with search simply now taken we want to know what you think about this story what do you think's going to happen in libya next this is what we're telling us on our home page r.t. dot com we are running a vote better than so far more than half of you tell us that libya you think will be carved up by nato countries for its oil riches but sixteen percent of this hour believe it will herald the start of the country. democratic new future and the remaining vote split about fifteen percent each between a painful prospect for libya and the country descending into further chaos you've made your voice now so it's good to hear from you at r.t. dot com. those live pictures you're seeing there from surtur also on our web site as well if you want to see more log on to our latest from the ground in libya here's some of the other stories we've got lined up for you as well online today a safari shooter in a small town in a hole in ohio you hear me right this made all the headlines around fifty lions

cheaters and tigers killed by police after let loose on the street tell you more on life didn't catch that story from the last thing is the light on hooligans in russia's big problem those who try to blind pilots of those laser pens as they try to land their planes full of course with passengers what now they'll be facing ten years in jail. the details that are t. dot com. there's a class war brewing in the united states that's the stark warning from the occupy wall street movement this into his 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 dearly as artie's garniture can explain. a class war seemed impossible in a country where being wealthy east part of the national dream but as thousands marched 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 at

a time 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 sawing is winning the so-called one percent of winners are the nation's top corporations which this year amid the economy's very slow growth of non the less made record profits the thanks to various loopholes many of these corporations pay little or nothing in taxes the corporations say they need the tax breaks to be able to invest more and 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 the c.e.o. of the company said there were up slightly a few thousand in our upstream business over the years but not significantly not significantly on our chevron payroll a few thousand jobs for the billions of dollars in tax stimulus that the government

gave that 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 he killed wall street will be nobody helped create jobs but as one of the protesters tried to put a word of objection we call it all done all done. it's not george i'm talking to these people hold on i'm not talking to you you can. talk if you personal success and money have always being part of the american dream. the aspiration to become rich is deeply ingrained in american society and widely promoted by pop

culture but those who took to the streets have made it clear that the situation when 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 a class war i'm going to check on reporting from washington our team if you only are declared this year as one of remembrance for the country's holocaust victims but that doesn't include focusing on the brutality of the people in judah under the nazis and those artes paul asli reports next is trying to sue the survivors instead . who wants to be known as a nation of of killers lithuanian is the only language in which is even a special word coined that melancholy the shooters of jews and in world war two those shooters wiped out ninety six percent of lithuanian jewelry among the highest rates in europe but despite heavy pressure the country's gotten away without punishing a single person responsible they didn't fund because they don't want to fund they

wouldn't want to fund they were very very easy to find joseph melamed found a lost eleven years ago he published the names of thousands of lithuania implicated in the killing of jews at the time he sent the list to the lithuanian authorities asking them to investigate as many witnesses were still alive the prosecutors have only now on said him and they want him to come to lithuania dickering as we do not consider mr melamed a suspect there on this one and him to give testimony to either confirm or deny the statements he made statements among others detail in lithuanian court victories a free car course who allegedly to capitated a rabbi and put his head on a window so everyone could see a man could loose go who reportedly imprisoned some sixty jews in a garridge beaten with crowbars and forced fire hoses down their throats water was then turned on so they stomachs exploded all of this captured by german

photographers the source of the claims i witness is who survived the war they are very competent. in their help and reg. they are there would be needed but. this is not the first time lithuanian prosecutors have summoned holocaust survivors who also took part in the resistance to give testimony critics complain it's a way for us to avoid dealing with its holocaust history this is a campaign of defamation against holocaust survivors who are alive because they escaped the ghetto to join the soviet partisans the only people fighting hitler in this part of the world it is part of a campaign to revise history in the direction of double genocide the very far right model that posits that communism and naziism are equal lithuania officially recognizes that crimes committed by the soviet union and nazi regimes

are equal and is urging other european states to do the same the nazi crimes should not be excused because they feel. there were some crimes. there in comparatively worse they were genocide. they were trying to wipe out a whole people and so instead of focusing on an eighty six year old holocaust survivor many say lithuanian authorities should rather at least be opening an investigation and does it matter made faces willing to participate in an investigation for the reasons he believes and the lithuanians are trying to run from one if they really are going to. we. will bring you everything will be. and in the long run that seems the last thing the country would want. r.t. television. people of bangkok are heading for higher ground as flooding threats to small parts of the thai capital in the coming hours the problem this is declared

a national crisis the disaster is claimed over three hundred lives since august at least a third of the nation's provinces are still water logged homes factories and thousands of acres of farmland have suffered billions of dollars of damage though that figure is expected to rise and get worse more world news for marty international a peaceful march for educational reform in chile's capitals ended in a clash with riot police nearly one hundred thousand protesters gathered in santiago with students demanding higher quality public education in place of minor reforms to productize system groups of violent protesters pelted the police with rocks and stones while officers responded with water cannon and tear gas shoots education well it's been going on for several months now. president sarkozy has spoken for the first time about the birth of his new daughter revealing his profound joy and saying both mom and baby are doing well it's the first child for the french leader and carla bruni although both her children from previous marriages so of course he says his wife will later announce what france's first baby is to be called. historic launch of the first russian rocket to take off from

a western nation is to hold on now for another day we think because of fueling problems the next time to leave is on friday although ati's learned it could be pushed back even further now to the weekend but when that soyuz does blastoff it's set to carry european satellite navigation equipment bushell reports from the south american country on the big bucks project resting in russian. drivers find g.p.s. navigators can often be inaccurate and actually cartel to built up zones but the new e.u. competitor called galileo promises me to point precision even in open areas where buildings currently mosk g.p.s. coverage to send the satellites into orbit europe chosen the soyuz launcher with its own rival track record by far the most lonely. and i miss. we we are glad to hear from treasury e.u.

space chief say it shows you don't need to be complicated to succeed rational system very simple and effective it's a very good way of designing the politicians think it will launch a new partnership between europe and russia. or a country actively contributes to industrial scientific and technical corporation for example in the era speech field it is important stamp on the way to reason the level of quality of our business ties and diversification of structures the man in charge of the launch says it's for superior to the us system disappeared to be a majority of the budget which should galileo's first satellites a lifting off from french guiana the earth rotates faster here by the equates to giving an ideal catapult effect on takeoff i think you around the clear skies and you have the perfect conditions for launching into space america's g.p.s. has enjoyed a monopoly on the world's sat nav market till now with so use also behind buses on

such a g.p.s. known as gluing us competition in the sky is about to get just a little more crowded than your bush or r.t. french guiana. so max is stacy on this channel look at the corporate cousin you're also dealing distractions of a leg and a shovel of dirt on the lone suspect in public. with. three. thanks karen russian investment group soon recovered 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 the global oil trade in may potentially almost double the volumes of oil going through rotterdam the total investment in the joint project may reach up to one billion dollars but this isn't the only opportunity russia and the netherlands are involved in as our correspondent believe the cost of explaining

. the netherlands close this and economic commission some of the country's leading businessmen are over here looking to make deals and they're interested in energy agriculture infrastructure and swallows medical technologies that are also looking to get involved in russia's afterwards to modernize its infrastructure especially with suction hosting the winter olympics and twenty four c. now there was also an agreement to order water down to build and exploits an oil terminal the project is designed to become a major european logistics hub and that of transport living off of russian troops will the spike the financial turmoil around the world the dutch prime minister and urge this business elite to make contacts and find a good deals here and russia but all trade amounted to fifty eight billion dollars in two thousand and ten and in the first seven months of this year it has already

increased only fifteen percent and when it comes to a foreign investment the netherlands is second adding some what we believe in dollars to the russian economy. russia's biggest oil trader gunboat is turning to other lucrative black stuff it's taking a thirty three percent stake in the u.s. called minus signal peak for four hundred million dollars the american firm expects the corporation that will help it get into new markets and increase production says it wants to diversify from oil trading and into coal expecting demand to grow faster than korea in the next twenty years could look at the markets while has rebounded that's on the ropes the european union leaders will reach a compromise on announcing the bailout rescue for stocks however still in the red in europe and this is a looking at the to stick to the sidelines amid the uncertainty ahead of a crucial weekend a sea of red all across the board meaning all stocks are down but the folks in the

actual still holding out point four percent just in. the way russian markets are showing pretty much the same picture investors are also moving into cash dissipating a possible worsening of greece's economic situation this weekend will absolutely prove crucial for the situation on the markets financials meanwhile in russia are in pains burbank is down almost two percent bank of moscow is not showing much movement it is down point six percent despite net profit dropping seventeen fold since january to june and to rout raised earlier gains of almost completely just up a notch. so we have time for this hour in this edition of the business news but join my colleague will be in around fifty five minutes with.

wealthy british science. market. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports.

stories nato peacekeepers reportedly fired tear gas and ethnic serbs of the disputed border of northern kosovo the troops of dismantling the barricades set up by locals after they failed to do it themselves developments in libya libya's new leaders say colonel gadhafi has been captured and wounded in both legs know these unconfirmed reports come off to fighters apparently. hometown of sirte after weeks of violence thousands of civilians have been trapped in the crossfire with a new regime regarding it as the last.