and often northern possible between nato as peacekeeping forces and local serbs and then become used to living in the cage of barricades directives and their struggle for freedom. for four pm here in the russian capital this is our team now our top story police in london are on our are on high alert as an estimated ten thousand students gear up for a rally against education cuts at a tripling twisted face well this comes almost a year after similar protests in the heart of the british capital descended into violence over more on this on john live by artie's ivor bennett is keeping across developments for us ivor memories are still fresh in people's minds of last year's street battles so what's going on in central london right now. well 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

fees and get outs are expecting but there are numbers around between five hundred and one thousand at 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 as fields of scotland even as as universities throughout the u.k. descend on the universe on london now while they're protesting against is the hike in tuition fees that will be begin next this time next year the next academic year which will see university fees increase by three fold to nine thousand pounds a year they're also campaigning against government white paper which is a proposal on higher education that will for the first time allowed private providers to offer degrees now for the students they see that as the privatization of their vacation they don't like to see big businesses profiting from that so a lot of the classic gods. good to be back being brandished today with the slogans

reading our education notes there business and also last year now you mentioned 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 students attacked for example the headquarters of the conservative party and sort of 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 in reaction to things for example the riots in the summer so this is the first time the actually said we are prepared to do that should this turn ugly now to talk more about this i'm joined by ben beech from the national campaign against peace and car spent thanks very much for talking to r.t. now why exactly are you here good morning i'm here today for multiple reasons but the main purpose of this march is an attempt to derail the government our education

white paper what the her education what paper does is extend she extends 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 section five degrees now when the consequence of this is governed 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 area which is actually a predominately working class intake and it isn't a consistent more pragmatic minority in the entire last good university put together now this institute is actually threatened with closure and indeed the universe in college is one of the many as sixteen students are faced with closure now 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 all the white paper does actually reconfigure education be purely about the needs of the market what is it to society what does it mean for the students who could be going to university next year this means many. things may

not see this change and threaten the closure i mean already there are hundred thousand people every year being turned away from higher education for the simply on our spaces with over sixty universities threatened with closure walls that's going to exacerbate the amount of people can go to university as i mentioned earlier 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 is that putting people off going to university but i think the figures are showing this in the last year we seen a massive surge in you cast applications at the university of mission service in an attempt to try and beat the rising tuition fees and then this year many academics are pretty predicting a sharp drop in university with many people simply feeling is not for them so i think yes we almost certainly see people from lower socio economic backgrounds who are very dense of us not willing to take on as much as fifty thousand pounds but that's more of the police reaction to this now is this protest phase also rise for

the first time in a pre-planned protest i mean in the u.k. the use of plastic bullets has a proportional reaction given what happened at last year's protests i think you have to remember the first of all plastic bullets they have a steel core and that coated a rubber these are bullets and they kill in northern ireland where these were first develop they've killed over sixty people like they've taken our eyes they've maimed they have caused serious injuries so this is just not only a cynical ploy by the met to three criminalize a process before it's even happened also disturb people away from coming in actuality it says very much about how hollow our democracy has become when dissent in this country is my only by threatening schoolchildren and students and we're talking about school in here 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 well do we think as we now see justify the rethink what ways nobody questions just for do we think that actually shooting people with rubber bullets is justified to protect the glass windows i think that she no is not always going to see some violence that. well i think it's likely we will see violence i mean those four

thousand people from there were sent to the largest going along to the metropolitan police they turned up in body armor they turned up shields they saw not with steel box in which they hit people they threaten use of baton rounds there's rumors that there's water cannon station in the city they will horses in to charge people in fact the last demonstrations when students coming away requiring emergency brain surgery having been beaten so hard myself i've been beaten up very badly at the hands of the plays as many of my friends using disabled people with cerebral palsy drugs and wheelchairs and be based on the ground in that sense not you know the metals and least of the killed over three hundred people in their custody so yes i think we will see violence and as has happened in every single protest in this country is always coming from the hands of the met just fundamentally this is a government with no mandate for us to start the measures it is the society to pay for crisis did not create and the only way is going to be able to do that in the coming years it's repressing levels that violence ok thank you very much ben beech from national campaign against fees and cause that's all we've got time for at the moment but we will we continue to follow the protests as it makes its way through central london to the to the city of london the financial district and we continue

to. provide updates on to its you can follow us to london bureau back to you all right thank you very much indeed for that update artie's ivor bennett reporting live there london. and also coming up in the program for you a mission to a martian moon sat steak and i'm not a russian drone gets stuck in orbit threatening the country's ambitious 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 breadline. 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 his promised resignation 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 us sara what's the reaction to all of this been so far is that berlusconi's resignation going to give italy the stability it's been a king for for the 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 saw into the danger zone it's got past that 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 seek to cisterns from the usa and the i.m.f. certainly a very serious situation here indeed is also the point really a which investors start looking at the country's huge debts and realize that it is going to get to the point where it's going to be too big to pay back its debts and then investors stop lending now that would be absolutely disastrous italy which has

an absolutely mammoth one point eight trillion euros what's extremely clear here at the moment is these financial problems that italy is struggling with not going to be solved by a quick fix government solution when and if government happens here in rome 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 measures to get out of this crisis. prime minister berlusconi and else today he confirmed that he'd be resigning once they budget reforms had been passed that he wouldn't be running again he also named a successor with someone in the party a lot of people have been talking about as a possible head for whatever the new government will be and now we know that the president expected to make an announcement about a possible new government whether that will be an 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 i don't already very unstable time another name is angeline that's the name is being put forward. as a possible new head he's been described as being very close to the berlusconi in the past having gone above and beyond the call of duty sometimes in his role of minister of justice that's the name that people here are looking at as he said an extremely unstable time and of course exactly what the u.s. and 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 that is simply not there so very very serious time for the country at the moment all right well thank you very much for keeping an eye out for us. there reporting live for us thank you. my ronna 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 are suggested in a leaked report 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 an attack. looked into the case. now the u.n. nuclear watchdog found no smoking gun but hyped up fears that iran continues research on nuclear weapons it doesn't say iran is building a weapon but it says it's collecting all the information it would need to do so and has a lot of technology and the international atomic energy agency claims to have iranian computer models of nuclear warheads which the watchtower views as a possible indication that iran plans to build an atomic bomb among other evidence a satellite image of a steel container that might be used to secretly cast the high explosives is needed to trigger and you clear weapons 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 of u.s. intelligence presenting false evidence to build a case for the war in iraq raises alarm bells us to the accuracy of the atomic agency's latest report on it you ran 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 laps folk biological 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 many now ask is could the un's atomic watchdog group board serve as a justification to 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 from hezbollah or 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 that could attack saudi arabian oil fields if you really want to see a crisis in the in your in the international economy despite tough rhetoric coming

from both israel and the u.s. many agree that washington and tel aviv are most likely to use the report as political leverage to try and isolate iran and possibly to put a dandy needs flourishing economic relations with china no one in the international community wants you brand to have nuclear weapons but what they fear is addressed unilateral action by israel with the backing of the united states that could set 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 decide to jump the gun and start a war on grounds which are far from being transparent i'm going to check our reporting from washington r t. the un head has drawn attention to the increase in attacks on serbs living in northern kossovo ban ki-moon said that the rise was caused by the decision of christianized leadership to extend its control over border crossings into serb dominated area for months now serve protesters have been

blocking roads up the crossings using barricades in an ongoing standoff with security forces and nato peacekeepers are. delves deeper into the causes behind the resistance. that. perhaps not an old this venue for a wedding but this serbian couple living in northern ca civil decided to get married at the barricades and. to cool off we're gathered together here and now we're due for a wedding dance this is all well and this is way to stress that. the star 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 unwanted neighbors this is the famous bridge that it's that which splits the town into so be an albanian parts it was called the bridge of friendship it was meant to symbolize that the two can easily live

together but the size of the barricades on the serbian part sells the whole story of how serbs are unwilling to be part of the self-proclaimed state while the cemented barricades in the middle of it so 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 piles there are times when the two poles says take place simultaneously here and then. and. people like you see. 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 help they believe by k. four troops despite constant clashes with a nato contingent and political pressure from belgrade because civil servants have

become accustomed to living in this cage they have built for themselves. it was hard at first when we run out of food and petrol but we serbs are people who are used to improvise. and finding a way out we've built alternative routes through the mountains so now we can again receive supplies we prevented a humanitarian catastrophe. the orthodox priest of the town's brand new temple santa 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 be in my bed turkey ones but terry's with stude all 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 great through 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. r.t. reporting from costs. in kosovo. of technical difficulties or threatening a russian space probe heading to a martian moon just hours into its mission the country 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 artie's peter oliver 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 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 itself could pose to be well it could prove to be the end of this mission pretty much before it's 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 mars since one thousand nine hundred six not one ended with a failure the launch of the mars ninety six mission actually went completely wrong and that didn't and getting to the red planet this time they're hoping to get there to the moon a 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 make up of the atmosphere of mars looking down on it from one of its major satellites they'll also be looking at the impact that 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 born mars that 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. study to determine the effect that the three good journey there and back three years that will take what effect that will have on living organisms so that we could see what effect or 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 the country's government

insists the poverty line less than a dollar a day is enough to get by on for millions who depend upon it artie's pretty shooter has this story. in india's capital city the sights and sounds of one of the world's fastest growing economies are everywhere. but 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 poor thanks to a new definition that has moved india's poverty line thirty per day or think that romney works twelve hours six days a week as a cobbler and 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 finds 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 many people above the poverty line or. i mean they're not it's not as if you know if you're. poor and if you got one rupee more than the rich we have to do a lot for that. 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 do you send them for education how is not that anywhere close to the poverty line. thirty thirty rupees per hour is also not good enough forget about that in a place like that he does know we can survive into it for now a new law says the debate over the poverty line is meaningless in his life he just wants to be able to support his family but. it's not that 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 continue doing his business to feed and educate my kids focusing and depending on himself preassure either r.t. new delhi india. that's it for this hour the business update with maps is next. a matter as a thanks for being with us here on the r. t. business bulletin well after eighteen years of trying russia's finally cleared the

last hurdle to join 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 by trade ministers so with a nod 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 easy 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 retreat the r.t.s. losing almost four percent of my 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 games with rosneft losing more than three per cent france's total considering the possibility of joining the russian company in developing an oil project in the black sea electricity producer on 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 that's over four per cent in the red. russia's largest company gazprom has reported an eighty percent leap in profits during the second quarter the gas monopoly earned almost ten billion dollars during that period beating some forecasts by ten percent bottom line was given a lift increased output and stronger prices deliveries to europe jumped twenty first. this year set for a further boost at the nord stream gas network is online that cost more than seven billion dollars and leading russian energy consultant constantine siminoff thinks

it will take a decade to break even. the real time of return of this investment will depend on the price on the u.s. and european market because of transit fees they related to the gas prices in the european union but of course it will take on the as in the west as they might have been not anxious about the whole of this money away because you know that from one point of view. the main shareholder flows through but from another point of view of the main supplier of gas and gas prom gave all guarantees that will be not empty or . well it said fermi fur now we've got more on our top story rush is a session to the w t o on our website r.t. dot com slash business i'll be back in the next hour with more.

of this nature and discovery. communicate with the wyoming. test yourself and become free. to. see what nature can give you. a good close up team has been to the pencil creature where technological

breakthroughs save human lives. now on she goes to the sea. for unusual ways to protect nature on. where farming pioneers place local cuisine to the highest pitch. and where future developments depends on the way. russia's black sea coast should close up on our t.v. . download. the official. from the. video.

this is live from moscow here's a recap of all our top stories the high price of education draws thousands of students back to the streets of london fears a repeat of last year's riots could be on the cards. at least prime minister berlusconi has promised. and sending drones borrowing costs or. takes notice of. northern. living in. their struggle for freedom. to its nuclear program the u.n. nuclear watchdog report.