or look at the global financial headlines tune into gaza report on r g. thousands of students from all over britain gather in central london to protest against education cuts and tuition fee hikes. also going up this half hour of news to run who says it will keep to its nuclear program denying claims in the u.n. nuclear watchdog latest report the suggests it's building weapons experts are worried the study is just a pretext for a preemptive attack on iraq. leaning tower of death collapses on italy's pm berlusconi has promised resignation sparks fresh market colleagues and rogue borrowing costs soaring.

here wednesday night here in moscow when i was kevin owen you watching r t in our top story thousands of student demonstrators have marched on central london venting their anger over education cuts and a tripling of jewish in fees it comes almost a year after similar protests in the heart of the british capital descended into violence so get up to speed with the latest i'm joined live by artes of bennett peace keeping across developments for us this evening by the high again the march may have reached its then but what about the protests is it still the size the organizers were hoping for and indeed did they get the message across was anyone listening in the. protests is largely died down no i'm out now at the end point this is just on the edge of the city along the financial history that only about one hundred fifty protesters left actually there hemmed in by police are no more can join the live is waiting for them to disperse they're playing music dancing. still though some of their placards out there really celebrating what in

the last half of them has been a successful protest outside because of his peak probably didn't need quite the ten thousand the organizers spent miss certainly over five thousand and they came from ole over britain from a source field as stolen and he came here to campaign against tuition fee hikes which will see university fees. hit nine thousand pounds next year that's triple what they are the moment and also education costs and i spoke to some of them earlier today is what they have to say. education cuts don't have a hill i mean this is something that we eat we really need the government to do because they're going up a whole generation of what people students are going to give us and want to pull out so that they have a listen now to basically slightly more time we're doing whatever we can we just don't see the public please stop what you're doing i'm about to change leave the government sees that money on the people rather than themselves to name it and the whole reason why this has happened is novel and that's great that funimation the

album they said i have the power over the big war as well as about security there was a worry things could turn ugly the same type of thing we witnessed a year ago all the way reports the standoff with police. there were a few minor flashpoints of the scotland yard the police chief said for the council here they did say they have been a least twenty arrests made with us mon mainly for people who started throwing sticks and bricks at one point to police but that was quickly dealt with by the police who started this procedure called kathleen where they stop any protesters from from dispersing they gather them in one place and i actually. was offensive today some thought that might escalate tensions and violence certainly after they threatened to use plastic bullets should violence escalate but it actually the protest it was carried out in for the last part in a very peaceful way to there's a saying. twenty arrests made or so and that's despite the police's threats these

plastic bullets just for the first time for a pre-planned protest in mainland u.k. earlier i spoke to chris nine from the coalition for resistance on that matter. of 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 my 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 increase that 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. last year the student protests this time last year did flare up of course hence why the police have such

a great presence these here and there's a lot of violence r.c. but that hasn't been seen this year and the police are still out in force on the streets of spite most of the protesters evaporating here as police on the street were numbered four thousand so they almost as many as the protests even that's how serious they were taking his protests and other say the students certainly got their message across the police are still here waiting to see if it does kick off again and we'll continue to keep you updated on twitter feed is r t london bureau ok ivan thanks very much because back to later threat of course leaving out his other bent there a correspondent at the scene still to come on the program tonight nato peacekeepers have used tear gas to take over a serbian barricade erected in northern kosovo as a long lasting standoff in the region between k. four forces and local search continues for many lived there the roadblocks already started to blend into the scenery more later. but the big story of the day though iran. won't back down from its nuclear program in the face of

a new sanctions so says the country's president saranda night 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 eye findings could be a pretext to an attack that is going to teach or can looked into the case. well the u.s. and france have called for a meeting of the u.n. security council to discuss the possibility of imposing a new round of sanctions on iran and washington and some european leaders ideally would one impose crippling economic sanctions that would further isolate iran but two of the permanent members of the u.n. security council russia and china have made it clear in the past that they don't want to cripple the uranium economy which would be hard on the iranian people in the first place and they say further isolating iran would be counterproductive instead wash it put forward an offer which is still on the table and that is for iran to fully cooperate on inspections to prove that what they say about the

civilian purpose of their nuclear research is true and is not a cover up of a weapons program and in return the international community would be ready to consider lifting second sanctions in stages that's the offer which is still standing but the latest report by the u.n. nuclear watchdog has very much steered pretensions around iran and israel was hinting that they are gearing towards a preemptive strike washington said all options are on the table but the spyder tough rhetoric coming from both israel and the united states many agree that washington and tel aviv are most likely to use the report as political leverage to isolate iran and possibly to put a dent in its flourishing economic relations with china here is more on what's actually in the report of the u.n. nuclear watchdog found no smoking gun but hyped up fears that 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 do so and has a lot of technology the international atomic energy agency claims to have you read

ian computer models of nuclear warheads which the watched are views as a possible indication that you ran 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 a new clue weapon i would be very scared. the call 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 precedent 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 us was adamant its evidence on iraq's weapons of mass destruction and terrorist activity was as solid as could be

satellite images of the base where saddam hussein was believed to train al qaida terrorists evidence of more vile lapse folk why a logical weapon is 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 and kill more than one 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 watched on 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 hear is a drastic unilateral action by israel with the backing of the united states that we gen on fire at a time when it is as on stable as it gets nearly as 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. pick apart some of those findings there to talk to john glazers assistant editor of the war dot com is joining us on the line from washington d.c. i believe john good seats now what can you say of the evidence cited in the report do you think it proves and is on its way to nuclear weapons. well that's what's interesting despite the media reports that are pro war and despite the saber rattling by politicians the report says no such thing it doesn't say it's on the iran's on the verge of having nuclear weapons and doesn't even say iran is nuclear

capable what it says is that past two thousand and three iran has still been doing research on the information that it would need to reach nuclear weapons and they may still be doing so but they can't prove it that's what the report says and by the way i think we need to back up and sort of pan out here and think about the context through which this report is being released the united states no one should be surprised that the notion that the iranians might have intense to to have nuclear weapons i mean the united states policy towards iran strongly influences it towards attaining a nuclear deterrent through the map of iran the united states has waged two aggressive unnecessary wars on iran's east and west coast they constantly flood the persian gulf to iran south with thousands of navy warships they fund with money in weapons you know dozens of client states around to run. and

and during the bush administration and into the obama sharif in the united states has been waging a covert war of cyberterrorism commercial sabotage and targeted assassinations of iranian nuclear scientists there's a name for that it's called international terrorism so in this context in this environment we should be surprised that iran might be getting information and needs to protect itself to run of course this country although the report politically motivated bigot said the watchdog director general bias towards the west do they have a point do you think. absolutely the mohamed el baradei the previous director general of the i stepped down in two thousand and nine and the u.s. especially in more quiet circles like we found out from wiki leaks releases of different matter cables that were classified u.s. for practically plotting that the new guy on the no is decidedly pro

western said he agrees with the u.s. on key strategic issues including the iranian nuclear issue what the i.a.e.a. does is it's an amalgamation of i'm corroborated intelligence reports primarily from the u.s. in israel and the fact that the i would collect these together and publicize them in order to sort of you know rally against against iran is just it's it's unfortunate. western pretext to isolate or attack comparisons with a rack of course then spring to mind you think the situation could eventually goes far as as what happened in iraq. it's possible but i think also if we look at what's going on in fact intelligence community in israel in the united states and even the pentagon is pretty strongly against going to war against iraq it's only

the psychotic warmongering politicians in both countries like benjamin netanyahu and many in the environment region and most leaders of congress they're the only ones that are really doing the sabbath or the saber rattling the only ones that actually are calling for him at least implying that we are to have a military strike israeli intelligence mitt yahoo accused members of really israeli intelligence of releasing leaks information about his plans to unilaterally strike iran so i think even the more sensible all parts of the military intelligence structures of both country knows that war with iran would be just a catastrophe so grazer thanks for your comments your pleasure assistant editor of war dot com. if the peacekeepers have used tear gas to take control of one of the barricades in northern kosovo built by local serbs several months ago in an

ongoing border dispute but the success for the ok for troops was short lived for a new block was put up further down the road it was just days after the head of un drew attention to the increasing number of attacks on the serbs living in northern kosovo but said talk now to alexander publishes a political analyst live on the line from serbia alexander hello good evening nato troops were deployed in the region to keep the pace and separate the conflicting sides by bulldozing barricades doesn't that mean they have taken sides yet again. oh absolutely they've been doing it for years now and they've broken their mandate actually they're doing the job of the albanian control government and prishtina and they're doing it openly in spite of their mandate from the un which is supposed to be a peacekeeping mandate is they said keep to the warring sides separated. reports the case will be using tear gas i just mentioned that against the protesters is that really fits under the whole mandate of peacekeeping absolutely not this is

this is an aggressive show of force they really are acting like an occupier instead of peacekeepers they're using tear gas they're using barbed wire and we must remember the population here the serbian population still has nunneries of fifty sixty years ago during world war two the same methods were used by nazi germany when they occupied this part of serbia it was the same thing again they gave support to the cause of all banding is than and they try to eradicate the serbs from kosovo they used barbed wire they use tear gas they used they used lots of other kinds of gas and munition a deadly force history's repeating in the balkans sixty years later but he was finally shown some recognition into the ongoing violence against the said in the region would you therefore expect any response from the world body now. you know because. we have we have russia we have china who are for respect of

international law and for respecting the u.n. mandate but we have the western states in the u.n. security council's permanent members the u.s. great britain and france will oppose any and we moved any any actually. a reversion to the real u.n. mandate but i want to say one more thing and. the audience should know this is not just about costs of war i mean clearly there is increasing chaos in the world and this is part of the larger picture and i think people should be very much aware of that and right now what we have this in kosovo and what is happening in greece those are things that must be connected in some way this is a way of actually breaking two of the major nations of the balkans in order to sort of balkans under control let me just get this live and let me just follow this so you'll try to thought there what is the can actually say what's what's happening in grace and what's not and what we're talking about just just flesh that out for us

as you see it well you see the same powers that are controlling they too are controlling what is happening in greece. they're behind the crisis in greece they're behind the crisis in iran we're seeing right now is the sawing of the new world disorder and serbia is one of the flashpoints and i would just say this that all the people that are doing all the occupy wall street and all the other streets were out west in the world right now. because of the serbs are at the forefront of this fight of the same fight that they're fighting and they must know this if they're not successful what awaits them is tear gas barbed wire tanks short use of force even deadly force so all these things are connected we cannot look at it as a local thing anymore we're looking at it as a local level way is it going to go in the immediate future do you think well the situation remains is there anything to be sorted out there. well let's say

this the priest in a government is absolutely under total western control. if the western powers wanted it to be peaceful it would be there would be peace today tomorrow so it's really up to the west if they weren't. seeing peaceful. demonstrators there would be no quarrel down there will be no conflict whatsoever if they told prishtina to stop and i would stop it's all in the hands of washington london and paris so if they want peace they will say there will be peace and peace in kosovo tamara thanks for your thoughts on the program of xander published political analyst joining us pleasure as always well our tea's correspondent lectures yes he is visited the region as well to delve deeper into the causes behind the ongoing tension this is his report. perhaps not an

obvious venue for a wedding but this serbian couple living in northern course all decided to get married at the barricades in meter it's to call up we're going to be over here and does their woodruff who invents this is all well and this is a distraction. this sort of barricades in northern kosovo have been standing for several months now for those who built them there 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 neighbors this is the famous bridge and of it's the which splits the town and the 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 are unwilling to be a 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 but. for every sand obstacle the k.

four troops ministers and more with serbs built two piles there are times when the too close this is taking place simultaneously. alibi. like you see. the. serbs say they have no choice but to continue barricading themselves in they believe a ban ians would not hesitate to wipe them off their land forcefully help they believe by k. four troops despite constant clashes even making changes and political pressure from belgrade because the serbs 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 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 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. because of all his seem different hard times even be in my bed turkey ones but stories with stude all heart tests of times and everyone and literally it's an age this land is the cradle of serb culture and state that. 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 cautious community in kosovo. it's the end of an era for italy scrabulous the silvio berlusconi declares he's throwing in the towel after a scandal ridden decade in power he's promised resignation comes with a precondition however that parliament passes a series of budget cuts to keep its sinking economy afloat a correspondent sarah firth has more on what this all means that for the embattled country. we've seen a lot of concern today that it's least related to a thing called heat to be sucked into a test spiral from which there might be a return now we saw today it's these boring calls past that seven percent threshold that's extremely significant because that was the trigger point which we saw country searches ireland portugal and greece when they passed it had to then ask for emergency bell assistance from the usa and the i.m.f. now is to say significant because it's the point at which investors have their risk

threshold and the start to look a country such as this really with a very large debts 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 who ben stop lending and that would be absolutely disastrous for a country such as italy with such an extortionate that level at the moment we see the situation developed headed extremely unprecedented rate really the year is a quite describing from one country to the next from the financial situation to a political situation because it's really has been a threat now when a prime minister berlusconi has said that he's going to step down once these budget reforms have been passed he said today he has no plans to stand for election that he said he called for elections in february and he also put the name forward angelino out that someone who is quite close to berlusconi in his government is the minister of justice now of course is on site exactly what is going to happen

because the decision about when if elections are going to be held doesn't lie with prime minister berlusconi and lies to the italian president and he's yet to come out to say exactly what his plans are whether they'll be early elections or possibly some kind of interim government. schools we need to remember is that an interim government at this point early elections is absolutely no certainty that they're going to be able to push these necessary measures through to cause such. the problem in the past they've been this is really what causes the much concern amongst the marketplace is is where if he has the political will to push through these measures and it will be very very clear today is a new government but how and when that will be formed is not going to be a quick fix solution to the very critical situation it's. a co-sponsor of furthur little problems didn't start with a crisis the country's been in a state of virtual economic stagnation ever since it joined the euro zone and for

paolo rough old founder of the policy and development sippy foundation places much the blame on e.u. trade policies. certainly what we see on the financial ground is the effects of very. strong speculative movements that is going on now for several months over the child in the economy and the state to g.d.p. ratio was unsustainable in fact the problem of easily ease of course there but the major one is no growth the absence of growth which is imposed by the policies at european level mostly by the german disease and how to handle the monitory union this is causing a total i'm balancing in the country i think we are edging towards a very dangerous area which of course will look create an impossible situation in the stock market the effect of this will be the collapse of the system but this

will create a culture in the country instead of a solution. in greece which heads the line of countries destabilizing the euro zone probably a situation. farewell speech of a nation that is now expected to formally ten days resignation he said the country's politicians finally reached an agreement about the creation of a unity government which will deal with that crisis it is addressed though he gave no indication of who his successor might be and this comes after weeks of political chaos that's put great gramma share of the euro in jeopardy. violence has erupted once again in syria with civilians reportedly coming under fire from police out of thousands took to the streets and watch and hear footage released by a group of posed to the rule of president assad allegedly shows military forces cracking down on demonstrations taking place in the northwest of the country activists say more than one hundred people have been killed in the region in the last week. to twenty eight minutes now past nine at night moscow time look at ahead

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