said it tripling fees for ten thousand protesters are expected to drive the rally and this comes almost a year after a similar protests in the heart of the british capital descended into violence or bennett skipping across developments for us and the organizers were expecting up to ten thousand we haven't quite reach that number yet over the certainly a good few thousand here the numbers have swelled considerably in the last hour they have now just left they are on their march through the center of london to rules the city of london the financial district i can still hear the helicopter hovering overhead so they're not far away and what the campaign against is tuition fee hikes that will see universities charging up to nine thousand pounds per year from beginning next year the moment is three thousand increase of three times and they're also campaigning against education cuts is a government proposal that's been put through just this summer through it's going through parliament now they could see for the first time private providers offering degrees now the students are saying that's the privatization of their education and

big business will profit never ask for their own happy about a lot of placards being brandished saying our education not their business so they're very unhappy about that that's what a lot of the chants are centered on as well we've heard a lot about the police tactics leading up to these protests because this time last year the student protests ended with a lot of violence and destruction of property police have for the first time on mainland u.k. authorized the use of plastic bullets pre-authorized for a planned protest and there's already four thousand police officers on the streets here now to talk more about the process i'm joined now by chris ninan from the coalition of resistance chris thanks very much for speaking to r.t. now tell me why you hear well i'm here because education affects everyone in society and what is really going on here and why people are so angry is that the government is dismantling education as we know it they're making it. very very hard

for poor people to get to university at all they're also as you suggest introducing big business into the way that universities are run and lying through the cutting of major parts of the major cousens in university after university and why should that not happen why should business be running education education is something which is about developing human beings it's about giving people a wider perspective on society it's about it should be about learning and big business has its own priorities it's about making profits it's not about developing people and i believe education should be as broad and is for filling and creative as it can be it's about it's a class project it's about forcing working class people really out of education and as i say it's about turning universities into factories for for producing people for the big corporations given last year's violence or the equivalent protest the police have preempted what they feel be another violent outbursts and we are already in the protests we've seen a lot of anarchists there as well seemingly hijacking it what does that do if there

is any violence to the message here does it does it take away from it well i mean those are loaded terms i must say i mean people have all sorts of political views and i was under the impression that that was allowed in this country. what the announcement that was made to the incredibly provocative announcement that was made that there's going to be rubber bullets in preparation for this demonstration is absolutely outrageous i mean if anything was likely to increase the level of tension and increase the the level of distrust and the level of fear actually of the police it would have been that and they have done that and that's a terrible terrible thing no one in their right mind could possibly say that is about trying to keep the day calm the police the only role the police should be playing is to facilitate the rights to peaceful protest these protests will be peaceful unless the police in and start catching people and start harassing people . christiane and from the coalition of resistance. thanks very much thing to r.c.

. now as i say the protesters have actually moved on from here they are marching towards city london will join up with them very shortly we are keeping our dates coming on twitter though you can follow us on the london bureau will keep you updated and coming up later in the program the u.n. to finally said stop and take notice of a long lasting standoff in northern kossovo between nato as peacekeeping forces and local serbs were becoming few still living in a cage of barricades they erected in their struggle for freedom. also a mission to wash and moon is at stake and i'm not a russian grown get stuck in orbit threatening the country exam business plans to uncover the many mysteries of our solar system. and iran 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 as suggested in a leaked report by the international nuclear watchdog well

a few days ago israel spoke of potential military action against iran raising fears the i.a.e.a. findings could be a pretext to one attack. looked into the case. 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 as satellite image of a steel container that might be used to secretly cast the high explosives needed to trigger and you clear weapon 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 for 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 ford 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 air 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 iran to have nuclear weapons but what they fear is a drastic 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 our team. all the reasons for the unprecedented pressure currently mounting on iran and partly in the internal affairs of the u.s. and israel that's a view of a research fellow at the institute for security studies. well basically a lot of it has already been known through leaks etc for several years the difference now is that there i incorporated this information and it's stating that it has been

able to corroborate. what you can say in the sense that all of it is coming into a perfect storm and first of all we have this strange story of being a ring attempt to assassinate the saudi ambassador in the united states then we have the internal discussion in israel which has reached an unprecedented level where people are arguing whether there is a plan to attack iran and whether that's good or not and then we have the i.a.e.a. report which is now incorporating some of the accusations if you will based on intelligence from western countries saying that it can corroborate the pressure and the situation is much more tense than before. for all kinds of reasons for the domestic reasons of of these countries and also because of the evidence whatever it is that we have attained. well a former cia officer once head of the unit responsible for tracking asama been a lot and says america great senate news for itself with its policies in the muslim world here's a preview of the interview with michael is sure you are coming up in about fifteen minutes time. washington's enemy is an enemy that doesn't exist we're fighting and

in islam make enemy that washington believes is out to kill us because we have an election because we're free because we have women in the workplace that's an enemy that doesn't exist didn't exist when bin laden was alive it doesn't exist now america is being attacked because of its foreign policy in the in the midst of the world because of its support for israel because of its support for the saudi police state because of its presence on the your opponents and until we accept that until americans can say to each other whether you support aid to israel or not our relationship with israel is causing this war we are not going to be able to defeat this enemy. 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 promise resignation comes with a precondition however the parliament passes

a series of budget cuts to keep it sinking economy afloat our correspondent sara firth has more on what all this means for the embattled country. 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 cause soul into the danger zone it's got past that seventy percent that critical point now that's really been starchy concern because that was the trigger point which we saw ireland greece and portugal have to then seek to systems from the usa and the i.m.f. certainly a very serious situation here indeed is to say the point really a which investors start looking at the countries huge does 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 that these financial problems that italy is there are struggling with not going to be solved by a quick fix government solution when and if government happens is not going to be the answer to all those problems it's going to take a bit more than he also named success with someone in the party here a lot of people have been talking about as a possible head for whatever the new government will be and now we know even 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 along ready very unstable time another name is angela that's the name is being put forward as a possible new had 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 hear a 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 if it's really needs that bailouts is simply not that it's a very very serious time for the country at the moment. as europe and the i.m.f. grow more and more desperate to erect a cash buffer against the worsening crisis all attention is turning to the east christine legarde following up her fund raising visit to russia with a trip to china to convince beijing to pour as fast cash reserves into her agency but economists warn that china's help along the calm on its own terms the initial object to you is really how china can work more closely was on math but of course china will also have their own conditions to reciprocate themselves but there are growing concerns in china over you know how the money is going to be spent and i

think the government will have to gave the right answer to the chinese people because because it's their tax dollars the investment should be targeted more to the valuable assets to help the industries instead of writing a bland check to buy the bonds which is now rather sticky and there has not been the reasonable or for that a proper return or risk free package is being offered either by the individual country that is facing the problem all by the euro zone or the whole. and as europe stumble through a steepening debt crisis artie's peter lavelle his guest discuss whether this might be the time for the e.u. to give the reins of power back to national governments across ike is heading your way next hour but here's a short preview. if released last week were to have voted and voted for and passed it on the left the choice to the greek citizens would have meant that the greece

greek citizens would have got a veto on economic governance within the eurozone which is almost unheard of that is the good thing of this crisis is that you see real clear me moving this direction also. so you don't really see a losing their jobs as a good side to this crisis. because we know it said. it's on the streets people we know and you say there's a good thing to these crises. now the u.n. 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 christian leadership to extend its control over border crossings in the serb dominated area for months now sir protesters have been blocking roads at the crossings using barricades and an ongoing standoff with security forces and nato peacekeepers are.

deeper into the causes behind the resistance. perhaps not this venue for a wedding but this serbian couple living in northern course have all decided to get married at the barricades and. we're going to be here and there were two who will invent. this era barricades in northern kosovo have been standing for several months now for those who built them there are just a part of everyday life not only have the cost of a service isolated themselves from the case for troops but also from their unwanted . this is the famous bridge in that of it's a which splits the town into serbian and 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 tells 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 sand obstacle the k. four troops managed to demolish serbs built two piles there are times when the two poles sisters take place simultaneously. an hour. back 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 the 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 improvising 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 when you order 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. or the close of all his sin different hard times even being my buds turkey ones but series with stewed all heart tests of times and everyone and made sure of it so nice this land is the cradle of the serb culture and statehood. another deadlock in this balkan melting pot continues belgrade is still unwilling to resume negotiations with pristina which could do 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 world views they will

inherit once they grow up. r.t. reporting from course. in kosovo. technical difficulties are threatening a russian space probe heading to a martian moon and 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 of the mission is helping to shed light on how the solar system was created artist peter all over has all the details. well the mission itself is only at risk depending on what kind of technical failure it is now the launch of the the phobos grew and actually went off pretty much without a hitch it was shortly after that initial launch that problem started arising now it all depends what kind of problem is now if it's a problem with the the software on board then that potentially can be fixed however if it is a problem with the hardware the actual probe or itself well it could prove to be

the end of this mission pretty much before it's even got underway well this is a how 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 ninety six not one ended with a failure this time they're hoping to get there to the moon a focus 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 now also the probe is fitted with microorganisms so that we could see

what potential effect the journey to mars and back could have on us and that's the news and do stay with us for a business update with math that's next and are today. thanks for being with us i'm at treasure with your r.t. business bulletin well two hundred dollars a barrel that could be the worrying reality of oil prices in the future according to the financial times newspaper says the risk will come if the war of words between the west and iran over its nuclear program erupts into a full scale conflict for more on this i'm joined by jorge month to pay for the energy information agency plots for more on what's happening in the oil markets thanks for joining us here on r t so is there concern about possible conflict between iran and the west reflected in the oil price movement so far. well a little bit and of course any additional work type situation in the middle

east is bullish for prices and as we know prices have been rising as the concerns girl over nuclear capability iran but if we detach ourselves from the day to day price movements i think there are some of the trends that are a lot larger than the uranium concern and those larger trends are the slowdown that is occurring in europe the rising concerns about the ability by major governments seem europe to fund their own going to video on the likelihood that some of them one able to need lots of negations so on a net basis i think those are going to impact the oil consumption and slow down the west so much that actually is. in the middle east could also potentially be seen as negative rather than us supposed to develop many

prices so i think on the whole right now we're looking down the road. if if this situation does get worse between the rest west and iran were to stick with that topic for now what do you think the impact could be on the oil price. well the immediate impact of any war type situation in the middle east is bullish his story has told us that for a long time but i think the economy sort of saw tentative right now that war would be seen as they've worked thing we sources on actually with the markets loosing confidence so i don't think it's us clear caught see has been in the past in the past we have seen gains so flat in all thirty fifty percent in a war situation but where we are right now financially i don't think that will be possible so on our very personal basis two hundred dollars seem extremely funds for . so crude right now is edging lower but it has been rallying in

a recent days what do you think is driving the sentiment and do you think we could be headed for a new kind of spike. well there are several things going on right now one of them is the iranian concerns various as we know a lot of press coverage about the nuclear capability and maybe even military action but markets are also on edge because of a recent bankruptcy by m.f. global so there is a lot of coverage the potential short. selling there is also the pain of more volatility maybe the futures markets want to have the same kind of liquid that they have in the past so i remain that on the whole the uranium situation is just one element of many there are affecting the economy it's right now on a wild yes that is bullish there are now emerging so many negative elements all right thanks for your analysis jorge i want to pick

a global director of marketing and reporting at platts. well looking at the markets right now and first oil crude prices are trending down after seeing some gains earlier in the day light sweet currently trading at ninety five dollars per barrel at one hundred thirteen. european stock markets drop sharply investors digesting news that italian prime minister silvio berlusconi may resign after parliament approves austerity measures their new case footsie down almost two percent lead lower by admiral and h.s.b.c. the german dax also losing about two percent this. here in a russia markets continue trending trading in the red as oil prices retreat both the r.t.s. on the my six percent in the red here is a quick look at some share moves on the my sex boil majors are raised earlier games with rosneft losing more than two percent. considering the possibility of joining the russian company in developing an oil project on the black sea electricity

producer russia also down the company's revenues rose twenty percent in the first nine months of the year and russia's biggest lender spare bank no exception it's more than five percent in the red this. that's all i've got for now this hour stay with us here on our back in the next hour with more and business news any time r.t. dot com slash business.

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