school you watching our team our names kev you know in our top story thousands of student demonstrators have marched on central london venting their anger over education cuts and a tripling of chew ition fees it comes almost a year after a similar protests in the heart of the british capital descended into violence let's catch up no that is either bennett he's keeping across developments for us there in london ivor hi what's going on in the center of the city now did the organizers get the level of support they were hoping for at the end of the day. they certainly did there's thousands of people here who have come from universities all over britain some as far afield as scotland i'm at the finish line here this is what the planned finish line anyway and literally in the last twenty seconds or so before i started going live on air there the police has started letting the protesters through that the big question was until the last for the last thirty minutes was what happens next the protesters arrived here and there was time to get more there was time to get on rest and the police were holding them here and then they just decided to let them go now the protests is continuing their route through

and further into into central london towards the financial district we don't know where they're going to go yet this thousands more to come they queuing they banked up all the way along the pro the route they've they've come past and balls past the occupy london protest pastor found the square in further west in london with another square they also want to point actually today in a most flash mob style as the protest went past the square several protesters ran into which drew up some of those pop up tents and started occupying the square and chanting there's some protesters they there but as i say thousands others continue their march through the city now while they're campaigning against is jewish and fee hikes which will take effect next year we'll see you university fees triple up to nine thousand pounds per year and also the campaign against education cuts is a government proposal that will see for the first time private providers being able to offer. university degrees now i caught up with some of the protesters earlier

and it's all they have to say. education cuts don't have a hill i mean this is something we eat we really need the government to do because they're going up a whole generation of working class students who are going to university was just one of. so that they have a listen now to basically saying please try we're doing whatever we can we're just honest you perfectly please just stop what you're doing and revise the trains leave the government things that make money on the people rather than themselves the name and and the whole reason why this is happening is not all and that's great i just want to make sure that i got my name and they said i have a job and. so that's the thing they're campaigning against education cuts and what they're calling the privatization of their education their banners their slogans today the the the slogan of today's protest is our education not their business of course though i have a memory still fresh in people's minds of our last year street battles what's being done to prevent a repeat of those things and to keep security. there's been

a lot said about the police tactics used today they have in the run up to this big three authorize the use of plastic bullets not the first time that's happened in met on mainland u.k. for a planned protest that has happened in reaction to riots and before but this is the first time to have an unplanned for a planned protest however that hasn't been used yet it's been the last for very peaceful a couple of arrests made as police tried to on mass protest that's a new rule in the wake of the recent riots in the summer but as i say the last part in a peaceful protest but of a party atmosphere in the center of the protests people playing drums chanting singing songs things like that but there is the fear amongst the police certainly that this could turn violent as four thousand police officers here someone horseback and then several with riot gear if it turns out because that's in reaction to of course what happened last year there was a lot of destruction done to buildings police were overrun by students. who

attacked the conservative party headquarters the party of prime minister david cameron but i spoke earlier to chris nine i'm from the coalition for resistance and he said that. the police authorizing the use of plastic bullets is really a provocation but needn't be done. 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 they would have been that and they have done that and that's a terrible terrible thing no one on in their right mind could possibly say that is about trying to keep the day the police the only role the police should be playing is to facilitate the rights to peaceful protest. and the big question is though

what happens next this was the planned end time and the planned ends bought but as i say the police are just because the sheer numbers of protests this so great into the three to five thousand they're going to let them through gradually further into the city of london and then we'll have to see what happens next the protesters don't seem to be calming down at all they'll carry on campaigning and making themselves heard and will continue to to update followers on twitter. you can follow us on r.t. london bureau continue to tweet with pictures too of what's going on here absolutely thanks ever so much of a bell in there our correspondent in london ok well still to come on the program this wednesday night nato peacekeepers take over a serbian barricade erected in northern kosovo as a long lasting standoff in the region between pay for forces and local serbs continue while the many roadblocks already start blending into the scenery we've got more on that coming up also. story about a mission to

a martian moon at stake unmanned russian drone gets stuck in orbit threatening the country's ambitious plans to one cover that many mysteries of our solar system that said for you to. iran won't back down from its nuclear program in the face of any new sanctions so says the country's president denied it was developing atomic weapons as suggested in the latest 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 artie's guy can looked into the case. basically a lot of it has over the be known through each and such for several years the difference now is that there 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 watch star 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 e.u. ran 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 one 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 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 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 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. . now it's the end of an era for italy is from silvio berlusconi declares he's throwing in the towel after a scandal ridden decade and his promise resignation comes with a precondition however the parliament passes a series of budget cuts to keep it sinking economy afloat hoping to talk to a guest all about that very shortly pilar of fire another shift on the line no how low can you hear me.

a few communication problems there get in the line good we can see you now thanks a bit of a lot better late than never now for some time now investors have made no secret of their desire to save berlusconi. yet now that he's on the way out we saw those interest rates in the tally and that today that disastrous seven percent that's the thing that nobody wanted to see what's going on. well certainly what we see on the financial ground is the effect of very. strong speculative movements that is going on now for several months over the child in the economy and the child in state the nation of mr berlusconi has been pushed if not forced from outside of the chilly claiming that the depth to g.d.p. ratio was unsustainable in fact the problem of italy ease of course the debt but the major one is no growth the absence of growth which is imposed by the

policies at european level in the most the german disease on how to handle the monetary union this is causing a total of balance in the country so this is something that goes far beyond the case of mr berlusconi himself he may have been he may have been a problem at a certain point for he's our attitudes but it is not the real issue at stake now is the point at stake is the role of italy as such it is a nation all together in the future of the european system and even in the mediterranean space so what is happening is a big pressure to try to change the government with a more complacent one that may be in for some one sided the measures which i

request. it's european level and by the i.m.f. but on the other hand also to normalize italy to the interests of foreign powers let me just get this straight briefly so you're saying it's. the right decision that he's going isn't really maybe the man that should be taking things forward and give everything you've said is needed now. the feeling that mr berlusconi has offered to now his resignation which will come probably either in the coming hours or in a few days after the adoption of the fiscal law of the country but this will not solve the problem because anyway if a government of correlation or of national unity is somewhat imposed of the nation . this does not reflect the will of the population and the measures measures that will be undertaken by the government will be very hard on the people of easily

therefore it is to be expected a strong reaction from either side of the political spectrum on the left as well as on the rights because what has been done is really pushing in in a way which is similar to what has happened to greece and that in fact bro to mr papandreou to call for a referendum about europe but i just want to ask you about these are rights that hit seven percent today you think we're going to see more of that sort of things i've been saying since what back in one thousand nine hundred nine is it was a blip or is it going to continue. i think we are edging towards a very dangerous area which is that of the spread of the high spread with the german bombs which of course will create an impossible situation in the stock market and in the bond market so if these continue like it is in

these hours to grow the spread. the effect of this would be the collapse of the system but this will create a couse in the country instead of a solution where it's going to play out we're going to be six months hence you think. i don't know in six months what happens we should also see we should also see what happens to the other partners in europe within the next six weeks maybe not six months so italy is now used very easily as a scapegoat because of the peculiarity of its prime minister but infects these way of acting to words sovereign states can backslash very harshly on the european system ok thanks ever so much with this power of policy development. thank you very much. or i will get more of what this means no fear is a third largest economy from our correspondent sara firth.

while expected to describe these announcements this is certainly caused a frenzy was the reaction has there been so far bring us up to date with what you know. well we've seen a lot of concern today that it's least related to easing culchie to be stuck into a death spiral from which there might be navy turnout we saw today it's these foreign cost past that thirty one percent threshold now that's extremely significant because that was the trigger point which we saw countries searches ireland portugal and greece when they passed it have to then ask for assistance and the agency bell assistance from the usa and the i.m.f. now it's also significant because it's the point at which investors have their risk threshold and they start to look at countries such as this really with a very large debt and ask with interest rates that sort of level whether or not the country is going to be able to pay back what it is and investors will then stop

lending and that would be absolutely disastrous for a country such as italy with such an extortionate debt level at the moment now investors will see going to be looking very very closely at whether the eurozone is going to be able to have the resources to lend to italy in the eventuality that the lenders do stop and at the moment there's a lot of concern because that mechanism is simply not in place we saw that big bailout fund the eurozone leaders are trying desperately to this is still not finalized and the cash is simply not in place and that could really prove to be a major problem in this ongoing financial situation here ok underwater explicitly there we just heard one of you about it because look ahead six months could be looking ahead six days at the moment another leader likely to prove more resilient than berlusconi who is that going to be who is on the cards do we know. well we see the situation developing at the moment had an extremely unprecedented rate really

the year is a quite a spreading from one country to the next from the financial situation to political situation of course italy has been a different now we know prime minister berlusconi has said he's going to step down once this budget reforms have been passed he said today he has no plans to stand for elections that he said he called for elections in february and he also put the name forward angeleno that someone who is quite close to berlusconi in his government is the minister of justice now of course is uncertain exactly what is going to happen because the decision about when elections are going to be held doesn't lie with prime minister berlusconi and it lies with the italian president and he's yet to come out and say exactly what his plans are whether they'll be elections or possibly some kind of interim government now of course we need to remember is that an interim government at this point early elections is that solution a certainty that they're going to be able to push these necessary measures through

that of course such a problem in the first place and this is really what causes so much concern amongst the marketplaces is whether it's really has the political will to push through these measures and it was very very clear today is a new government and how and when that will be formed is not going to be a quick fix solution to the very critical situation it's the now finds itself in syria for folks have a smoke. at his correspondent in central rome thank you. take a look at some more news stories developing today nato peacekeepers abolished to dismantle one of the barricades in northern kosovo has been built by local serbs several months ago in an ongoing border dispute but the success for the k. four troops was short lived because that a new block was put up further down the road that all comes not long after the head of the un drew attention to the increasing number of attacks on serbs living in northern kosovo. into the causes behind the resistance.

that. perhaps not an old this venue for a wedding but this serbian couple living in northern course all decided to get married at the barricades and. to cool off were gathered together here and there were two who were in dance this is a well in a way to stress it. 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 i selected themselves from the case for troops but also from their unwanted neighbors this is the famous bridge in which splits the town into serbian and albanian parts it was called the bridge of friendship and 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 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 people. for every sound off the call the case for troops managed to demolish serbs built two piles there are times when the two pro sisters take place simultaneously. and. 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 even make a contingent and political pressure from belgrade because of 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 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've prevented a humanitarian catastrophe. 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 hard times even being my bird turkey ones but are more mysteries with stude all heart tests of times and everyone and make sure that scenarios this land is the cradle of serb culture and statehood. another deadlock in this balkan melting pot continues belgrade is still unwilling to resume negotiations with pristina which could put great 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. r.t. reporting from. in kosovo. technical difficulties are threatening the russian space probe heading to a martian move just out was into its mission the country space agency says they'll just have a window of a few days to try and fix the problems they're encountering now the mission was hoping to shed light on how the solar system was created bring us up to date on this one tonight peter all of. well the mission itself is only at risk depending on what kind of technical failure it is now the launch of the the full grown 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 itself 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 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 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 but all of the

exploring a bit more about the sport for twenty minutes now with union neil who's out in the driving seat to make the end of season one thousand tennis world tour finals business next honest check out of the markets reacted to the news from italy today also walls and headlines too is matt. thanks for staying with us here on r.t.i. matras a with our business bulletin well two hundred dollar a barrel oil that could be the troublesome reality for oil prices in the future according to the financial times this if the war of words between the west and iran over the country's controversial nuclear program erupts into a full scale conflict other analysts argue major powers won't allow any attack on iran as just ruction to supplies the world's third largest oil exporter would be catastrophic. even if done so you would think these would you still would have above them getting the oil out to the markets so yes she would have

a significant potential significant increase in the buys of oil and in today's markets with your business and global because you'll amid a guy has very little rules as he is that while. china is a retention a little bit because of high inflation. in the high inflation so the whole world pretty much is a difficult economic situation of on top of that you would have a very significant thing things in the price of oil would be a disaster for the global economy speaking of oil prices let's take a look at those numbers now crude prices heading down after seeing some gains earlier in the day light sweet currently trading around ninety five dollars a barrel brant at around one hundred thirteen. u.s. stocks suffering heavy you aussies after a clearing house hike the deposits necessary to trade italian government bonds and index tied securities european stock markets also lower investors digesting the news that italian prime minister silvio berlusconi may resign after parliament

approves austerity measures. here in russia markets closed deep in the red the my sex down more than three percent the r.t.s. losing more than four per cent take a look at some of the individual share moves on the my sex oil majors are raised earlier gains with rosneft losing more than two. said francisco tal considering the possibility of joining the russian company in developing an oil project in the black sea electricity producer eon russia also down the company revenues rising twenty percent in the first nine months of the year russia's biggest lender spare bank no exception to the downward trend having lost more than six per cent here's you again. from alpha capital wrapping up the day. today russian. bought the markets. minus for bursts out so safe. just like euro stalks just like doc's s. and p. futures over true are two percent so everyone is still worried about the european

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this is our to moscow our top stories tonight to ryan says it will keep to its nuclear program denying claims in the u.n. nuclear watchdog report that suggests is building weapons experts are worried though the study is just a pretext for a preemptive attack on iran. the price of education thousands of students in the streets of london amid fears a repeat of last year's riots could be on the cards. nato peacekeepers have used to take over pay directed more than kosovo as a long lasting standoff in the region between forces and local serbs continues so many live there the roadblocks already started blending into the scenery. and the leaning tower of debt collapses on a. promise resignation spot fresh market panic and.