the coverage. the a. top stories on our t.v. . students from all over britain gather in central london to protest against university fee increases despite the police old rising music blasting bullets for the first time on mainland u.k. . the leaning tower of death collapses on italy's prime minister berlusconi has promised resignations market pressure market panic and sat in rome as wallowing costs soaring. and. tear on says it will keep to its nuclear program tonight claims of the new reading nuclear watchdog leak report which is just it's

building whether the experts are worried the study is just a few tax break preemptive attack on iraq. the u.n. i finally said stop and takes notice of a long lasting standoff in northern possible between they've chosen peacekeeping forces and local serbs them become used to living in the cage of barricades erected in their struggle for freedom. to suffer for pm here in the russian capital this is our now our top story the reason longer and are are on high alert as an estimated ten thousand students gear up for a rally against education cuts at a tripling of russian fees well this comes almost a year after similar protests in the heart of the british capital this sunday and into violence for more on this on john live by archie's ivor bennett is keeping

a close developments for us i've heard memories. still fresh in people's minds of last year's street battle so what's going on in central london right now. all the protesters are gathering here in central london outside the university of london student union not quite the ten thousand that the organizers from the national campaign against decent cards are expecting but there are numbers around between five hundred and one thousand the moment they gathering outside here and about to start their march through the center of london but it's the organizers do say they're expecting students to be bussed in from all over the u.k. from as far afield as scotland even as as universities throughout the u.k. descend on the universe on london now while they're protesting against is their hike intuition fees that will be begin next this time next year for next academic year which will see university fees increase by three folds out to nine thousand pounds a year they're also campaigning against a government white paper which is

a proposal on higher education that will for the first time allow private providers offer degrees now for the students they see that as the privatization of their education they don't want to see big businesses profiting from that so a lot of the plan because they could be back to being brandished today with the slogans reading our education notes their business and also last year now that you mention there. that this this protest last year did actually end in a lot of violence and destruction to a number of properties in central london the students attacked for example the headquarters of the conservative party and so we've heard a lot in the recent days leading up to this protest about the police tactics now for the first time they've actually authorized the use of plastic bullets at a pre planned protest on mainland u.k. before they've only done that and reaction to things for example the riots in the summer this is the first on the back she said we are prepared to do that should this turn ugly now to talk more about this i'm joined by ben ph from the national

campaign. against peace and prosperity thanks very much for talking to r.t. now why exactly are you here good morning i am here today for multiple reasons but the main purpose of this march is an attempt to rail the government our education like paper with the her occasional paper dollars six and she sends the policy of tuition fee hikes and she's last year and introduces a market into the education sector damer this is trade to free market allow private and profit making companies to come into second large trees now when the consequence of this is government made very clear they will not be bailing out struggling universities and a lot of institutions have suffered severe funding cuts under the new education programs we have institutions such as london metropolitan eat which is actually predominately virgin falls in take and indeed since they consist of more black never minority students the entire last good university put together now this institute is actually threatened with closure and indeed university college is one of the many sixteen institutions facing the closure that what the white paper does is allows card companies to come in and fundamentally shift what education is about

if we start from the premise that education is universal social good will the white paper does actually reconfigure education be purely about the needs of the market forces to society what does it mean for the students who could be going to university next year this means many things we don't see his student threaten the closure i mean already there are hundred thousand people every year being turned away from higher education but the silly answer now spaces with over six universities threaten the closure of cigars going to exacerbate the amount of people can go to university has emerged only the universities are threatened with closure fundamentally those are catering for people from lower social economic backgrounds and black and i think minorities this program would essentially shut out the poor from the university and turn education to a commodity that only the wealthiest in our society can afford the fee increases up to nine thousand pounds next year that putting people off going to university but i think the figures are showing this in the last year we see a massive surge and you can stop occasions the university of mission service in an attempt to try and beat the rising tuition fees and this year many academics are pretty predicting a sharp drop in university with many people simply feeling it's not for them so i

think yes we're almost certain. people from the lowest as you can about run through a very that's a buzz know willing to take on as much as fifty thousand pounds but that's more of the police reaction to this now is this protest face all surprised the first time at a preplanned protest in maine in the u.k. the use of plastic bullets do you have a proportional reaction given what happened with last year's protest i think you have to remember the first of all passive bullets they have a steel core and that coated a rubber these are bullets and they kill in northern ireland by these were first developed they killed of sixty people like they take now as they may make they have caused serious injuries so this is the last known you cynical ploy by the met to treat criminalize approaches before it even happens also to scare people away from coming in actuality says very much about how hollow our democracy has become when dissent in this country is met only by threatening schoolchildren and students and we're talking about school today with weapons that can kill i mean this is not supposed to response i mean we have to ask ourselves what is more important supposing there is property damage in the city day supposing the windows of banks

are broken or do we think i do know is it justified and we think what ways nobody questions just why do we think that actually shooting people with rubber bullets is justified to protect glass windows looking guns that she know is not all we going to see some of our lives that i think is likely we will see violence i mean there's four thousand people from who are essentially the largest going to london kill them as bonds of police they turn up in body armor they turn up shields they turn up with steel buttons which they hit people they threaten use of baton rounds this room is that there's water cannon station in the city they bought horses in to charge people for the last demonstrations when students come in way requiring emergency brain surgery having been beaten so hard myself i've been beaten not very badly at the hands of the place as many of my friends who seem to save people with cerebral palsy trucks in wheelchairs and be based on the ground and this is not you know it's a the metaphors of least of the killed over three hundred people in their custody so yes i think we will see violence and as is happening every single protest in this country is always coming from the hands of the man just fundamentally this is a government with no mandate to start the measures it's also a society to pay for crisis and not create and the only way is going to be able to

do that in the coming years it's rephrasing loved. state bonds thank you very much ben beech from national campaign against fees and cause that's all we got time for the moment we will we continue to follow the process as it makes its way through central london to this to the city of london the financial district and we continue to update what updates on twitter you can follow us a long didn't you wrote don't see it all right thank you very much indeed for that update artie's ivor bennett recorded their london. and also coming up in the program for you a mission to wait marcion moon sat steak and now the russian drone gets stuck in orbit threatening the country's officious plans to uncover the many mysteries of our solar system. also we explore why those indians making less than a day a dollar per day no longer live below the bread line. now it's the end of an era for italy as prime minister silvio berlusconi declares

he's throwing in the towel after a scandal ridden decade in power is promising nation comes with a precondition however the parliament passes a series of budget cuts to keep it sinking economy afloat let's get more on this what this means for the euro zone's third largest economy from our correspondent sara for south what's the reaction to all of this has been so far is it rose good his resignation going to give italy the stability it's been eighteen for for these past few months. well it was just yesterday the prime minister berlusconi announced he'd be resigning once a budget reforms had been passed but today it's least seen as boring calls so into the danger zone it's quarter past seven percent that critical point now that's really been such a concern because that was the trigger point which we saw ireland greece and portugal have to then see bell artists distance from the usa and the i.m.f. certainly a very serious situation here indeed is also the point really which investors start

looking at the country's huge debt and realize that it is going to get to the point where it's going to be too big to pay packets that's and then investors stop lending and that would be absolutely disastrous italy which has an absolutely mammoth one point eight trillion euros of debt was extremely clear here at the moment is that these financial problems that italy is now struggling with not going to be solved by a quick fix government solution when and if you like government happens here right is not going to be the answer to all those problems it's going to take a bit more than the. next question then is what is next for italy will it commit to a precious to get out of this crisis. well prime minister berlusconi and else to day he confirmed that he'd be resigning once the budget reforms had been passed that he wouldn't be running again you'll say named. with someone in the party

who a lot of people have been talking about as a possible head for whatever the new government will be no we know that the president expected to make an announcement about a possible new interim government is not yet known is certainly clear that they it's thought that they're going to try and steer away from elections which of course is going to cause even more uncertainty. very unstable time the other name is and that's the name is being put forward as opposed to when you had he's been described as being very close to you berlusconi in the past having gone above and beyond the call of duty sometimes in his role of minister of justice that's a name that people here are looking at as he said an extremely unstable time and of course exactly what the eurozone did not want to see happening in its lead because they don't have that big bailout fund in place right now the cash at the moment it's really needs. is simply not there so very very serious time for the country at

the moment. thank you very much for keeping an eye out for us sorry sorry for the reporting live for us thank you. why ron i won't back down from its nuclear program in the face of any new sanctions so says the country's president tehran denied it was developing atomic weapons suggested a recorder by the international nuclear watchdog a few days ago israel spoke of potential military action against iran raising fears the findings could be a pretext to attack our looked into the case. now the u.n. nuclear watchdog found no smoking gun but hyped up fears that you rank continues research on nuclear weapons it doesn't say iran is building a weapon but it says it's collecting all the information it needs to sell and has a lot of technology in the international atomic energy agency claims to have the rainy and computer models of the new you were heads which the watchtower views as a possible indication that iran plans to build an atomic bomb among other evidence

as satellite image of a steel container that might be used to secretly cast the high explosives needed to trigger and you're clear right i would be very skeptical about this report that's coming out from the international atomic energy agency because the i.a.e.a. doesn't really have any intelligence capabilities of its own and if it's relying on reports that are coming from other people i would rather suspect those reports are coming from the united states and israel the president if u.s. intelligence presenting false evidence to build a case for the war in iraq raises alarm bells as to the accuracy of the atomic agency's latest report on you grant you may have a piece of evidence of some kind but that piece of evidence is subject to your interpretation as to what it means when they saw aerial photographs in iraq showing certain things they interpreted those photographs to mean something which which was it was not correct back in two thousand and three the u.s.

was adamant its evidence on iraq's weapons of mass destruction and terrorist activity was as solid as could be satellite images of a base where saddam hussein was believed to train al qaida terrorists evidence of more by lab spoke by a logical weapons aluminum tubes presented as components of centrifuges to enrich uranium all of the above proved to be a hoax. and yet it was enough to start a war that would last eight plus years until more than a hundred thousand civilians israel is considering military action to take out iran's nuclear facilities preemptively the question may now ask is could the un's atomic watchdog reforms serve as a justification from start a war with iran security experts say the consequences for such action would be catastrophic we would most likely see new kinds of attacks probably on israel as all our other groups we'd see attacks on american troops perhaps in iraq and

afghanistan even more than what we've seen so far iran i mean could retaliate in conventional terms of protests saudi arabian oil fields if you really want to see a crisis in the in your in the international economy this spike tough rhetoric coming from both israel and the u.s. many agree that washington and tel aviv are most likely to use the recorder's political leverage to try and isolate iran and possibly to put a dent in its flourishing economic relations with china no one in the international community wants you to have nuclear weapons but what they hear is a drastic unilateral action by israel with the backing of the united states that the region on fire at a time when it is as on stable as it gets millions of lives could be in danger if policymakers in washington or tel aviv if i jump the gun and start a war on grounds which are far from being transparent i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. the u.n.

head has drawn attention to the increasing attacks on serbs living in more their kossovo banking moonset of the rise was caused by the decision of christianized leadership to extend its control over border crossings into serb dominated area where for months now sir protesters have been blocking roads up the crossings using barricades in an ongoing standoff and security forces and nato peacekeepers are these are. deeper into the causes behind the resistance. perhaps not an obvious venue for a wedding but this serbian couple living in northern ca civil decided to get married at the barricades and meet or it's a little awkward get it together here and does know we're due for a wedding dance this is all well and this is distressing assuming this sort of barricades in northern kosovo have been standing for several months now for those who built them they're just a part of everyday life not only have the kosovo serbs isolated themselves from the

case for troops but also from their own wanted neighbors this is the famous bridge in which splits the town and the serbian and albanian parts it was called the bridge of friendship that was meant to symbolize that so can easily live together but the size of the barricades on the serbian part tells the whole story of how serbs are unwilling to be part of the self-proclaimed state while the cemented the barricades in the middle of it's a have become the town's main gathering spot tensions are still running high just a few kilometers. for every sound off still the case for troops managed to demolish serbs built two hundred miles there are times when the to close this is taking place and altering your sleep. an hour. and. people like you see. you know the. serbs say they have no choice but to continue barricading themselves in they believe albanians would

not hesitate to wipe them off their land forcefully health they believe by k. four troops despite constant clashes with a nato contingent and political pressure from belgrade because the serbs have become accustomed to living this cage they have built for themselves. it was hard at first when we run out of food and country but we serbs are people who used to improvise. and finding a way out we've built alternative routes through the mountains so now we can again receive supplies we've prevented a humanitarian catastrophe or do the orthodox priest of the town's brand new temple sat he has never been busier with all the people flocking in lately to pray for the well being of their families. kosovo has seen different times even being occupied by turkey ones but stories with stupid old heart tests of times and everyone and make sure that it's of no use this land is the cradle of culture and

state. another deadlock in this balkan melting pot continues belgrade is still unwilling to resume negotiations with pristina which could put grades to this standoff but while politicians clash this sort of family has little trust in diplomacy their kids may be too young to realize what it's all about and why they are being shown the barriers but there is little doubt what views they will inherit once they grow up let's see russia ski all see reporting from cause of. in kosovo. technical difficulties are threatening a russian space probe heading to a martian moon just hours into its mission the country's space agency says they will have a window of just a few days to try to fix the problems the mission was hoping to shed light on how the solar system was created arty spitter all over has the details. well the mission itself is only at risk depending on what kind of technical failure it is

now the launch of the. ground actually went off pretty much without a hitch it was shortly after that initial launch that problem started to rising at six ten minutes past six g.m.t. the russian space agency announced that there was a problem now it all depends what kind of problem it is as i said now if it's a problem with the the software on board the probe then that potentially can be fixed however if it is a problem with the hardware the actual probe it self that could pose to be well it could prove to be the end of this mission pretty much before it even got underway well this is a. hugely anticipated scientific mission from the russian space agency it's the first time that russia tried to launch something towards bars since one thousand nine hundred six not one ended with

a failure the launch of the mars ninety six mission actually went completely wrong enough and and getting to the red planet this time they're hoping to get there to the moon a phobia place that's actually been suggested as a potential future settlement for humans now they'll be taking soil samples from the surface of the moon they'll also be monitoring the makeup of the atmosphere of mars looking down on it from one of its major satellites they'll also be looking at the impact of meteorites and the impact meteorites have upon the surface of the red planet considering that we are of course considering the future of settlement on the on mars there we're looking at what actually makes up the surface of the red planet now also quite interestingly they'll be looking the probe is fitted with microorganisms that will be. scotti to determine the effect of the three good journey there and back three years of the take. that will have on living organisms

so that we could see what effect the potential effect the journey to mars and back could have on us all india may be one of the world's strongest emerging economies but not everyone is feeling the benefit and country's government insists the poverty line on less than a dollar a day is enough to get by on for millions who depend upon it artie's korea's leader has this story. in india's capital city the sights and sounds of one of the world's fastest growing economies are everywhere. intermingled with the new malls and shopping developments slums like this one are still home to about forty million people many of the people who live here however don't even count as being port thanks to a new definition that has moved in the poverty line thirty eight european per day or think that romney was works twelve hours six days a week as a cobbler you can make up to two dollars per day he sends most of his money back to

his village to support the wife and three children he left behind the fact that his country doesn't classify him as poor is shocking to him but he wouldn't thirty two rupees is the benchmark to decide the poverty line is wrong because one cannot do anything with that amount someone like me who makes three thousand rupees per month why is it hard to survive here how can someone who are only thirty two rupees survive the people behind the nation say that it's simply an adjustment based on the current economic climate according to them the new definition actually means that there are less people living in poverty in india than twenty years ago when almost half of all indians were living below the poverty line they also claim it has no impact on who can access government welfare services and many people above the poverty line also while noble i mean they're not it's not as if you know if you're below the poverty line you're poor and if you are one rupee more than the poverty line you're rich we have to do

a lot for them and that's what our strategy is but new data also suggests those living in poverty should get by on the equivalent of two dollars per month for their health and education sparking outrage across india where do you feed your family where do you look after your kids where you start them for education how is not that anywhere close to the poverty line. thirty thirty rupees is also not good enough forget about it in a piece like that he does know it's a name to it for now the debate over the poverty line is meaningless and it's like he just wants to be able to support his family. my only wish for my future is that i continue doing this work of mine without any hindrance from anyone or anything as long as the government doesn't interfere on continue doing business to feed and educate my kids focusing and depending on himself preassure either artsy new delhi india. that's it for this hour the business update with maps

is next. and that's reza thanks for being with us here on the our t.v. business bulletin well after eighteen years of trying russia's finally clear the last hurdle enjoy the world trade organization it signed an agreement with georgia which was the last country opposing its accession on thursday the working groups are expected to conclude all formal negotiations will be followed by a vote on russia's membership in december of zero trade ministers so within have to be ratified by the russian parliament barring an exceptional turn of events russia will become a member of the trade club by year's end. take a look at the markets first oil crude prices ease are raised earlier gains light sweet currently trading at ninety five dollars per barrel brant below one hundred fourteen dollars. european stock markets drop sharply investors are digesting news that italian prime minister silvio berlusconi may resign after parliament approves

austerity measures the u.k. footsies down almost two percent lead lower by admiral and h.s.b.c. . here in russia markets continue to trade in the red as oil prices retrieve the r.t.s. losing almost four percent m i six nearly three percent in the red. here's some of the quick look at some share moves on the my six oil majors erased earlier gains with rosneft losing more than three percent france's total considering the possibility of joining the russian company in developing an oil project in the black sea electricity producer e on her russia is also down the company's revenues rose twenty percent in the first nine months of the year russia's biggest lender spare bank no exception it's over four percent in the red this hour. russia's largest company gazprom has reported an eighty percent leap in profits during the second quarter and gas monopoly earned almost ten billion dollars during that period reading some forecasts i ten percent bottom line was given

a lift by increased output and stronger prices deliveries to europe jumped twenty percent this year set for a further boost out of the nord stream gas network is on line that cost more than seven billion dollars and leading russian energy consultant constantine seminar thinks it will take a decade to break even. the real time will for a total of this investment will depend on the price on the u.s. and european markets because the president sees the girl added to be the biggest prices in the european union but of course it will because the as in the west they must've been not anxious about the goal of this money away because you know that from one point of view this is the main stock holder with nothing but from another point of view with the main supply of gifts and brawn gave all guarantees that north korea will be. said firm a further now we've got more on our top story rush is a session to the w t o on our web site r.t. dot com slash business i'll be back in the next hour with more.

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